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saloon, to lie on the table; (2) that they had adjourned the question of the
telephone for the present; and (3) that they repudiate all liability in the
matter of ancient lights, re 10 and 12, Cedar Road; which report was
adopted by the Vestry. On the 2nd October, 1889,.the Vestry authorised
the acting Clerk to invite tenders from various firms for supplying a clock
for the Town Hall, and sealed the agreements, with the Chelsea Water
Works Company, for the general water supply (by meter) at the Town Hall,
and for the supply of the eleven fire hydrants at £1 Is. each per annum, and
they empowered the Architect to have the columns and pilasters of the
large ball rendered with scagliola (imitation marble), instead of Keene's
cement. The Vestry, also, on the 16th October, 1889, instructed the Architect
to prepare a sketch of the tablet to be erected in the large hall, in
accordance with the resolution of the Vestry, of the 14th November, 1888,
and on the same day they instructed the Solicitor, to prepare a Memorial
for presentation to the Local Government Board, giving the history of the
whole matter in connection with the Town Hall, and asking the Board to
lend the Vestry the sum of £10,000, in respect of the Vestry room and
Overseers' offices. A motion to rescind the resolution of the Vestry of the
14th November, 1888, re the tablet, was, at a special meeting of the Vestry,
held on the 30th October, 1889, lost, only 7 members voting for it, and at
another special meeting held on the 13th November, 1.889, a motion to rescind
the resolution of the Vestry of the 14th November, 1888, so far as it referred
to the names to be placed on the Tablet, and to substitute in lieu thereof,
"that the names on the tablet to be placed in the Vestry Hall, be restricted
to the names and official designations of the Chairman of the Vestry, the
Chairman of the Town Hall Committee, and the Architect and Builder,"
was lost, only 6 members voting for it. On the recommendation of the
Town Hall Committee, the Vestry, on the 13th November, 1889, instructed
the Solicitor to prepare a Memorial to the London County Council, setting
forth fully the position of the Vestry with reference to the Town Hall, and
asking them to sanction the borrowing, by, and to lend, the Vestry the sum
of £10,000; and also referred the notice of action by Mr. Chas. Tough, in
respect to Nos. 10 and 12, Cedar Road, with reference to light and air, to
the Town Hall and Law and Parliamentary Committees. At the meeting
of the Vestry held on the 11th December, 1889, the following report was
received from the Law and Parliamentary Committee,
That having considered the following report from the Solicitor, viz.
Jackson and Othees v. Fulham Vestey and Wall.
Upon the hearing of the Summons issued on behalf of the defendants
that the plaintiffs might be ordered to pay the costs of this action, e
plaintiffs, by their Counsel, stated that they did not un ers an
ninth paragraph of defendant's statement of defence, and thereupon