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REPORT,
This Report of the Vestry for the year ending the 25th March,
889, is prepared on a similar plan to that of last year.
It is an abstact of the minutes.
Where the Report of the Finance Committee only contained
recommendations for the payment of Cheques nothing more is
said than that the Report was adopted.
Every Report of the Sanitary Committee contained recommendations
with regard to the confirmation of orders as to
drainage and for the execution of sanitary works. It is not
necessary to repeat them therefore, but a reference to Schedules
I and II hereto gives information with regard thereto.
58 Members present.
Contracts sealed with—
(1) Mr. Stevens for supply of Horses, Carts and Drivers.
(2) Messrs. Penny and Hull for Printing.
A Poor Rate of 7d. in the £ for the quarter approved.
The report of the Finance Committee recommended—
(1) Calls for rates as under—
£17800 0 0 for General Purposes.
1730 0 0 for Lighting.
1375 0 0 for Sewers.
12829 3 II for Metropolitan Consolidated Rate.
(2) That the Tender of Messrs. Powell & Co. for Stationery
should be accepted.
The report was adopted and precepts sealed.
Mr. W. S. Upton and Mr. R. Hirst elected senior and junior
Churchwardens respectively.
Messrs. R. Kemp, C. Birks, J. Loftus, G. Padfield, F. N.
Charrington, J. L. Dale, A. Lloyd, W. Chandler, J. Seigenberg,
J. T. Calton, H. Tippett, J. Pearson, and T. Richardson, were
nominated as Overseers, and their names were ordered to be
submitted to the Magistrate in the order given.
Votes of thanks were passed to Messrs. A. Prevost (the retiring
Churchwarden), R. Hirst and R. Scriven (the late Overseers),
and ordered to be engrossed and presented in the ordinary way.
Mr. B. Cundick re-elected Collector at a salary of £250.
Mr. John Milton re-elected Beadle at a salary of £170.
Mr. John Stevens re-elected Parish Constable at a salary of
£10.
Date of
Vestry
Meeting.
1888.
April 3.
(Easter
Tuesday)