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Committees), who held several conferences with the Peckham
Rye Extension Scheme Committee thereon, and your Committee
reported to the Vestry, on the 11th December, 1889,
that about 52 acres should be acquired for this purpose,
and a Petition was then sealed by the Vestry, and a
Deputation appointed to wait on the Charity Commissioners,
asking them to make a sufficient contribution from the
City Parochial Charities Fund towards the purchase of
the land required. The Deputation attended before the
Charity Commissioners, and the representations of the
Deputation having been heard, the Commissioners decided
that an amended plan should be prepared, showing the
extent and boundaries of the land desired to be acquired,
and also pointed out that in similar schemes the usual
course had been for the parties interested to come before
the Commissioners with a definite programme as to the
manner in which the requisite funds are to be raised, and
the nature and extent of the contributions expected from
private individuals or from public bodies.
Edward Bond, Esq., an Assistant Charity Commissioner,
inspected the proposed site with Mr. Reynolds, the Surveyor
to the Vestry, and received from him a plan showing 52
acres of land belonging to the Homestall Farm. Mr. Bond
subsequently wrote to the Vestry that he had received such
plan and that the Commissioners required the detailed
information asked for at the interview with the Commissioners.
At a meeting of the Vestry held on the 8th January
last, just at the rising, a letter was received from A. A.
Baumann, Esq., M.P., stating that the Peckham Rye Ex tenson
Committee had applied to the London County Council