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BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
XXV. Parochial Accounts.
The recommendations of the Special Committee
appointed to consider which of the recommendations
of the Parochial Accounts Committee could be
carried out with the present establishment and
without incurring any extra expenditure, were considered
by the Vestry, and certain alterations of a
minor character were made in the method of presenting
the accounts. To organize and equip an entirely
new Financial Department would have involved
considerable outlay, without conferring upon the
parish a corresponding advantage.
XXVI. Representation of Wards.
A Memorial from Ratepayers having been presented
to the London County Council calling attention
to the inequality which existed in the representation
to the Wards of the Parish, an inquiry was instituted,
with the result that an Order was passed by the
London County Council re-arranging the representation,
without however altering the total number of
the Yestry, a step which would have been attended
with great inconvenience and expense owing to the
limited character of the present Board Room
accommodation. A copy of the Order is as follows:—
To the Vestry of the Parish of Paddington and
all whom it may concern.
Whereas the Parish of Paddington, in the County
of London, mentioned in Schedule (A), Part II. of