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Freeholder by the Peckham Rye Extension Committee for
this purpose, a deputation be appointed consisting of the
Extension Committee and the Vestry to attend upon the
Charity Commissioners, on Monday next, to ask for a grant
in aid of the above scheme, and that the members of Parliament,
and of the London County Council for South London,
be invited to join such Deputation. The seal of the Vestry
was affixed to the following Petition to the Charity Commissioners
:—
To the Charity Commissioners of England and
Wales.
The PETITION of the Vestry of tlie Parish of Camber,
well, in the County of London, under their common
seal,
SHEWETH,
THAT your Petitioners are the representatives of
the Parish of Camberwell, as constituted under Schedule
" A" of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855.
THAT the population of your Petitioners' Parish, and
of the Parishes and Unions of Lambeth, Newington, St.
George-the-Martyr, St. Saviour Southwark, and St. Olave,
which comprise the greater part of South London, have
increased during 10 years from 1871 to 1881, as follows :—