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will be seen that Imperial taxation amounts to about £2 per head
per annum. The Metropolitan Board taxed and otherwise
received from the people last year at the rate of about 8s. per
head, and did not decrease its loans. The Metropolitan Board
has in three years spent £196,268 1s. 4d. in endeavouring to
deodorise London Sewage, this expenditure being, according to an
eminent expert, almost useless.
Your suppliants in Common Vestry assembled on the 17th
day of August, 1887, unanimously passed the following resolution:—
Moved by Mr. Teather, seconded by Mr. Foskett, and
Resolved:—'That an humble Address be presented to Her Most
Gracious Majesty, praying that a Royal Commission be
appointed to enquire into the alleged wrong doings of certain
Officials and Members of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
in the administration of the affairs of that Board, and that
all other of the Metropolitan Vestries, and the District Boards,
be invited to join in such Address.'
Your suppliants in exercise of one of the dearest rights of
Englishmen, and as representing upwards of two hundred thousands
of your Most Gracious Majesty's loyal, dutiful, and loving
subjects, approach your Most Gracious Majesty and throne direct,
praying that for the protection of the innocent from numerous
slanders, and for the searching out of the guilty if any there be,
Your Most Gracious Majesty may be pleased to command that a
Royal Commission be appointed, with all usual powers, to consider
and enquire into the matters referred to in this most humble
address, or arising out of the administration of the Metropolitan
Board.
Given under the Corporate Seal of the Yestry of St. Giles,
Camberwell, in Vestry assembled this 30th day of August, 1887."