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with the sums paid to the Superintendent and Clerk,
and as the payments were still continued we applied
(March 9th) to the Solicitor of the Vestry for an
independent opinion as to whether such payments were
legal or not, and on March 14th we received a reply
stating that the President of the Board of Trade had said
some weeks previously that if the Vestries had not sufficient
powers to act under the existing Acts, provision would
shortly be made to enable them to establish these Exchanges.
We, therefore, not having heard whether any such
powers had been granted, resolved on May 16th that a
letter should be sent to the President of the Board of Trade
with reference to the same, and also as to whether any steps
had been taken to legalise the payments made for the year
ending March 25th, 1893.
The said letter was transferred by the Board of
Trade to the Local Government Board, and on the 30th of
May a letter was received from that Board stating that no
steps had been taken to legalise the payments in question.
Under all the above circumstances we feel that no
other course is open to us but to surcharge the Vestry
in the sum of £36, being the amount wrongly paid by it
for the wages and salaries of the Superintendent and Clerk
of the Labour Exchange from the 7th February to the
25th March, 1893.
burial board.
We find that all books and Accounts kept at the
Vestry Hall and at the Cemetery are to our perfect
satisfaction.