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1892-3.
REPORT
of the
finane, law 8. parliamentary Committee
TO THE VESTRY.
Your Committee has to report on the following matters
considered during the past year, and has to submit the
Accounts duly audited.
Elections. Nos.
4 and 5 Wards.
The following letters with reference to the
Vestry Election for Nos. 4 and 5 Wards Avere considered :—
(i.) Dated June 7th, 1893., from Mr. C. Benfield, of 8,
Trafalgar Square, protesting against election cards having
been counted as votes at No. 4 Ward Election in May last,
and asking that the result of that Election be based on the
legal papers only.
(ii.) Dated June 14, 1892, from Messrs. Fleck and
Wilson, 128a, Queen's Road, complaining of the action of
the Presiding Officer at No. 5 Ward Election, in refusing to
accept Election Cards as voting papers, and stating that the
Presiding Officer abandoned the position he had taken up by
allowing to be counted some few of such Election Cards,
which, notwithstanding his decision, had been placed in the
ballot boxes, and protesting against the returns.