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The Committee recommended:—
1. That Mr. Livesey's generous offer be accepted.
2. That an appeal be immediately made by this Vestry
for aid in providing three additional Institutions.
3. That the necessary steps be taken to bring the
Libraries Act into operation, the Kate not to exceed one
halfpenny in the pound.
4. That your Committee be instructed to carry out the
foregoing Resolutions.
nomination of committees.
The Vestry at a Meeting held on the 28th March, 1888,
resolved, on the motion of Mr. R. D. Winyard, that the nomination
of the Members of the Vestry to the different Standing Committees
should be made by Wards, and that Meetings of the Members for
each Ward should be summoned by the Vestry Clerk for the purpose
of preparing such nominations. Such Meetings have this year
been held, and the Committees elected by the Vestry upon such
nominations.
metropolitan board of works.
On the 17th August last, the Vestry resolved that an humble
Address should be presented to Her Most Gracious Majesty,
praying that a Royal Commission be appointed to enquire into the
alleged wrong doing of certain Officials and Members of the
Metropolitan Board of Works in the administration of the affairs
of that Board, and that all the Metropolitan Vestries and District
Boards should be invited to join in such Address, power was also
given to the Law and Parliamentary Committee to settle the form
of Address; at a Special Meeting of the Vestry held on the 30th
August, 1888, the Seal was affixed to the following Address:—