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till an adjourned session, when, having complied with
the requirements the licenses were granted.
The contract for removal of dust, &c., shews a considerable
increase in price, compared with previous
years, being £1134 to be paid by the Vestry, but it is
hoped that increased efficiency will be the result.
Having regard to the known source of evil which
dust-bins are, if not emptied frequently, the Vestry
hope that the ratepayers generally will carefully see
that this is done.
Any complaint on the subject should be made at the
Vestry Hall, when it will receive immediate attention.
The Vestry Hall and Offices underwent a thorough
cleansing during the rising of the Vestry in August.
On the 10th August last the Metropolitan Board of
Works formally handed over the Stepney Green Recreation
Ground to the custody of the Vestry.
In pursuance of the original terms agreed upon, the
Vestry have entered into a deed of covenant to keep
the ground in repair, and as a recreation ground in
perpetuity.
The proceedings of the School Board for London
have received great attention from the Vestry, as they
materially affect the ratepayers. A feeling that that
Board were spending the money of the ratepayers
very lavishly, without carrying out the objects for which
they were called into existence (namely, the educating
of the lowest class of children) gained, with few exceptions,
general credence throughout the metropolis,
and the Vestry, coinciding in those views, addressed a
remonstrance to the School Board on subject.
Most of the other Boards in the metropolis having also
done this, and one parish having absolutely refused to
pay the precept until compelled so to do, it is hoped
that the School Board will give attention to the wishes
of the ratepayers as thus expressed.
It should bo mentioned, that the Vestry have no
power to deal directly with any of the educational
questions involved, but only with the expenditure of