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The funds necessary to defray the expenses were collected,
and a small balance was left in hand.
The Vestry are very proud to think that, notwithstanding the
prevailing bad times, two appeals for money, in less than a
a year, should have been so liberally responded to.
The Meetings have been as under:—
MEETINGS.
YEARS.
1883-1.
1881-5.
1885-0.
1886-7.
Veatry
22
21
22
22
Standing Committees
100
93
94
109
Special ,,
10
10
9
5
TOTAL
132
121
125
136
Deaths &
Resignations.
Member
at the
Metropolitan
Board of
Works.
Churchwardens
and
Overseers
The largest attendance at any Vestry Meeting was 77, the
smallest 34, and the average over 48.
During the year, the Rev. J. F. Kitto, the Rector of Stepney,
was appointed to the living of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and
ceased, therefore, to be an ex-officio Member of the Vestry.
The Rev. Edwin Hoskins has been appointed in the place of
Mr. Kitto. Mr. Schafer resigned his seat on the Vestry,
and death removed Messrs Botterill and Carrociero.
The term for which Mr. Robert Jones was appointed the
representative of the Vestry at the Metropolitan Board of
Works, having expired at June last, that gentleman declined to
be again put in nomination, and Francis John Wood, Esq., one
of the members of the Vestry, was appointed in his place.
Mr. Jones explained to the Vestry that his reasons for retiring
were, that the calls upon his time, if he were properly to carry
out his duties, were more than he now felt he could give.
Mr. Jones had served the parish in a most able manner for
many years, first as a Vestry-man, and then as the Member at
the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the Vestry felt that
some recognition of his valuable services should be given,
and they unanimously voted a resolution of thanks, and ordered
it to be engrossed on vellum, and framed, and presented to
Mr. Jones.
Mr. Jones had a practical knowledge of many of the most
important subjects with which the Metropolitan Board of Works
has so frequently to deal, and the Vestry feel sure that his
retirement is a loss not only to the parish which he represented,
but also to the Metropolis in general.
At the Meeting on Easter Tuesday, Messrs. J. D. Kemp and
Alfred Prvost were elected Churchwardens. Messrs. A. E.
Wood, 1. Cook, Rowland Hirst, and Robert Scriven were
nominated Overseers.
Meetings.