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will not so quickly get out of repair as it used to do
formerly.
After several years of correspondence between the
Churchwardens and the Commissioner of Police, the
latter agreed to give up the old Watch House in the
Mile End Road, near Stepney Green, and the Churchwardens
then applied to the Vestry for authority to
sell it. The Vestry however considered that the matter
should be first enquired into, and, as advised, came to
the conclusion that it should be conveyed to or in trust
for the Vestry and not to the Churchwardens.
To this the Churchwardens demurred, and it was
therefore agreed to submit a joint case for the opinion
of Mr. (now Vice-Chancellor Sir) C. Hall, which being
in favour of the claim of the Vestry, the property was
conveyed by the Receiver of Police to Messrs. T. Moore,
F. J. Wood, W. Newton, and C. Moody, in trust for
the Vestry, and to be dealt with as they may direct.
During the year the Vestry Hall has for the first time
been assessed to the property tax, its annual value
being put at £200.
There have been 21 Vestry meetings, 90 meetings of
the Standing Committees, and 12 meetings of Special
Committees, which shew that the office of a Vestryman,
if properly attended to, requires a considerable amount
of time to be devoted to it.
The Accounts for the year ending 25th March, 1874,
have been duly audited, vouched, and allowed and the
abstract thereof, as certified by the Auditor, pursuant
to the Statute, is published with this report.
Vestry Hall,
Bancroft Road, Mile End, E,
June, 1874.