View report page

REPORT, 18P3-91.
27
exclusive of roads and paths, are to be reserved,
and not appropriated for games. The management
of the Recreation Ground is vested in a Committee
consisting of 15 members, as under:—
Paddington 9
St. Marylebone 3
Hampstead 2
Willesden 1
The Committee of Management, the members of
which retire from office at the end of three years,
exercise control over the Ground so far as relates to
the letting thereof, and for securing to the contributing
Parishes a fair consideration of their rights of
user; but the management of the Ground, as well
as the control of the finances, receipts, and expenditure,
is subject exclusively to the direction of the
Yestry of Paddington, and is solely vested in them.
Any vacancy on the Committee occasioned by
death or resignation may be filled up by the Vestry
or Local Board affected there by, and the person
appointed to fill such vacancy will hold office so long
as the person he succeeds would have done. The
provisions of Section 6 of the Metropolitan Open
Spaces Act, 1881, as to Bye-laws, extend to and
apply to the Recreation Ground, and such Bye-laws
may be made and enforced by the Local Authority.
The above-mentioned open space, situate as it is
in a densely-populated neighbourhood, provides
healthful recreation for a hard-worked section of the
c 2