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Petitioners invite enquiry as to the average number of attendances by the
several Governors at the Meetings of the Governing Body.
19. Your Petitioners would respectfully remind your Council that, on the
18th of May, 1886, the House of Commons resolved:—"That, in the opinion
"of this House, every Scheme of the Charity Commissioners ought to provide
"for the Majority of the Trustees or Managers being directly elected by the
"Ratepayers in the locality to which the Charity extends; "and that the
Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to enquire into the
operation of "The Endowed Schools Act, 1869," and the amending Acts,
reported inter alia as follows:—" It is essential to the welfare of Endowed
"Schools—not being of a Special character—that the sympathies of the
"localities should be enlisted by giving to the people a large share in the
"management, by representation, either direct or indirect, through elected
"bodies."
Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Council will
be pleased to do all it possibly can to cause the existing
scheme, bad as it is, to be carried out, and further to cause,
if possible, the said scheme, now in existence over eleven
years, to be amended, and which has produced results so
adverse to the educational interests of the class for whom it
was originally intended, (a) so that this magnificent Foundation,
which belongs entirely to the poor, should have its free
places assigned to the pupils of Elementary Schools, as have
been provided for in the Christ's Hospital Scheme, and (6) by
constituting a Governing Body of the said School of a representative
character, by admitting the London County
Council and the School Board for London to a share in the
government and management of the said School, by representation,
either direct or indirect, as to your Council may
seem fit.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, etc.
(Signed) JOHN S. SINCLAIB,
Chairman.
(Signed) Y. J. H.. DENSELOW,
Clerk to the Vestry of Fulham.
TRAMWAYS SCHEME.
On the 10th December, 1890, the Clerk reported to the Yestry the receipt of
the Parliamentary plans of the West London Tramways.
On the 21st January, 1891, two deputations attended before the Yestry, the
first introduced by Mr. Smythe in opposition to the proposed tramway. Mr.
Douglas Norman, Solicitor, addressing the Yestry on behalf of the deputation,
and presenting a petition signed by 41 out of 44 Frontagers in the Fulham
portion of the road; and the second deputation introduced by Mr. Cranfield,
for whom Mr. F. W. Ingram acted as spokesman, and presented a petition with
3,000 signatures in favour of the tramway; after the deputations had withdrawn, it