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school board for london expenditure.
The Board is incessantly receiving letters from the
various Vestries and District Boards transmitting copies
of resolutions passed by them complaining of the continually
increasing expenditure of the School Board for
London; in March last the Finance Committee reported
receiving the precept from the School Board requiring
this district to pay the sum of ,£24,886 0s. 9d., being an
increase upon last year's precept of £3,578 5s. 10d. and
referred the matter to the Board. The Board after considerable
discussion passed the following resolution:—
"That this Board views with the utmost alarm the constantly
increasing amount of the precepts of the
School Board for London, and most earnestly
entreats the Members of such Board to take every
step in their power to arrest such increase and to
reduce their expenditure."
A copy of this resolution was forwarded to the School
Board for London and to the Members of the School
Board for Chelsea Division.
Since that time the subject has been discussed at the
invitation of the Vestry of St. James's, Westminster, at a
conference of delegates representing the Vestries and
District Boards, and the decision arrived at was that the
Metropolitan Authorities should severally petition Parliament
to appoint a Select Committee to enquire into such
expenditure, and your Board forwarded the following
petition:—
To the Honourable the Commoners of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
The Humble Petition of the Board of Works
for the Fulham District, in the County of
Middlesex, under their Common Seal.
SHEWETH that your Petitioners are required by Law to cause
to be raised the sums of money assessed from time to time
by the School Board for London upon the Fulham District
towards meeting the expenses of the said School Board.
That the attention of your Petitioners has been drawn to the