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At the meeting of the Vestry held on the 13th January 1890 the Clerk
read the following letter from the Local Government Board enclosing
Order removing Mr. C. J. Foakes from the offices of Vestry Clerk and
Assistant Overseer.
Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W.
17th December, 1889.
I am directed by the Local Government Board, with reference to the
enquiry recently held by two of their Inspectors into the conduct of the Vestry
Clerk and Assistant Overseer of the Parish of Fulham, to state that the
Board, having fully considered the depositions at the Enquiry, have arrived
at the conclusion that Mr. Foakes is unfit to hold the offices of Vestry
Clerk and Assistant Overseer for the Parish, and they have, therefore,
issued an Order, a copy of which is enclosed, removing him from these offices!
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) S. B. PROVIS,
Assistant Secretary.
Copy of Order.
16th December, 1889.
Dismissal of Vestry Clerk and Assistant Overseer.
Fulham Union.—Parish of Fulham.
To the Guardians of the Poor of the Fulham "Union, in the County of
London;
To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Fulham, in the said Union;
To the Vestry of the said Parish of Fulham;
To Charles James Foakes, Vestry Clerk and Assistant Overseer for
the said Parish;
And to all others whom it may concern.
We, the Local Government Board, hereby declare that we deem the
said Charles James Foakes unfit for the offices of Vestry Clerk and Assistant
Overseer for the said Parish of Fulham; and, in pursuance of the powers
given to us by the Statutes in that behalf, we hereby remove him from the
said offices, and order him to cease to exercise and discharge the powers
and duties thereof.
Given under the seal of office of the Local Government Board,
this sixteenth day of December, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-nine.
(Signed) CHAS. J. RITCHIE,
(Signed) S. B. Provis, President.
Assistant Secretary.
It was moved by Mr. Cornwall, seconded by Mr. Weatherley,
That the above letter and order, together with the question as to the
expenses of the Enquiry be referred to the Special Committee. Carried.