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that the seal of the Vestry be affixed to the Plans prepared
by your Surveyor in accordance with this Report, to the
Petition to the Charity Commissioners, in compliance with
their request shewing the proposed mode of raising the required
amount, and to any other document that may be
necessary.
The Seal was affixed and the Report and Plan
were presented to the Charity Commissioners, and at a
Meeting of the Vestry, held on the 5th February, 1890,
a letter was read from Mr. D. R. Fearon, Secretary to
the Charity Commissioners stating that they have had
under their consideration the proposals made at an interview
which took place at their office on the 16th December,
and the petitions from this Vestry, and stating that the
Commissioners are satisfied from the statements laid before
them, and from the report made to them by the Assistant
Commissioner, that the proposed addition would be of great
advantage to the public, and more particularly to the large
and poor population of the neighbourhood, and they propose
to appropriate to this purpose out of the surplus funds of
the City Parochial Charities a sum of £12,000 subject to the
consent of the Central Governing Body, and that they
would therfore amend their Scheme by inserting in
Schedule II. a provision for the appropriation of the sum
of £12,000 towards the enlargement of Peckham Rye.
Subsequently the Joint Committee reported to the
Vestry that they had given further consideration to
the Scheme for the Extension of Peckham Rye Common,
and their meeting had been attended by the Chairman,
Secretary, and two Members of the Peckham Rye Extension
Scheme Committee ; and recommended that a deputation