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hoped that the Board would be able to make a contribution
to the Overseers from the surplus income of the Board in
aid of the Rate for the relief of the Poor. The Board having
considered the matter and the importance of reducing the
Rates as much as possible, it was resolved that inasmuch as
there was in a surplus income at theBoard's disposal of £1,500
that that sum should be paid to the Overseers. But owing to
the heavy expenditure for the repairs hereinafter referred
to, the Board were (for the present) unable to pay to them
more than £1,000 in aid of the Rate. The Board accordingly
have paid the said sum of £1,000 to the Overseers.
Messrs. Thomas Ludlow Lassam and Henry Weedon
Woollard, who had been Members of the Board for the past
six years, ceased, by effluxion of time, to be Members, and the
Vestry, on Easter Tuesday, 1891, elected Mr. John Borland
and Mr. Frederick Elisha Crofton Brenchley to be Members.
The great decay in the stonework of the Church and
Chapels at the Cemetery rendered it imperative on the
Board to consult Mr. R. P. Whellock, their Architect, and
they directed him to report thereon, as also in respect to the
general repairs to the Cemetery, the Churches, and Lodge,
and instructed him to prepare a Specification of the work
required to be done.
The Board met specially to consider his Report, and
they directed that an advertisement should be inserted in
the "Builder," and Local Newspapers inviting Tenders for
the work to be executed
The Board received many Tenders, and after much