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which shall enquire into all questions of Finance, Law, and
Parliamentary business, exercise general supervision over
the staff at the Vestry Hall, except those under the direction
of the Health Department, collect Paving expenses for New
Streets, and shall from time to time report thereon to the
Vestry.
That no alteration be made in the Educational
Endowments Committee.
That the By-laws of the Vestry be re-numbered
accordingly.
That the Vestry at its next Meeting do proceed to the
Election of Members of the three Standing Committees to
commence their duties forthwith and serve until re-election
in the month of June next.
vestry v Neall The Vestry Clerk reported that the Action
brought by Mr. Neall against the Vestry and
Mr. Myring the Contractor, to recover Compensation for
trespass in cutting off the drain of his house. No. 24, De
Crespigny Park (being a combined drainage for Mr. Neall's
and the adjoining house, No. 26), to which the Vestry
pleaded leave and license had been heard before Mr.
Justice Grantham and a Jury. The trial occupied the
whole of the day. The Judge summed up strongly in favour
of the Vestry and Mr. Myring; the Jury, however, after an
absence of upwards of an hour and a half, awarded the
Plaintiff ten pounds damages as against the Vestry; and as
to Mr. Myring, they found that the five pounds which had
been paid into Court by him for the removal of a water
pipe was sufficient. The Verdict, therefore, was for Mr.
Myring, with costs, to be taxed on the increased scale, and