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On the 5th of November, 1878, the Vestry resolved to appoint seven Commissioners
to carry out the provisions of the said Act in this Parish, and dulyappointed
the following gentlemen as such Commissioners, viz.: Messrs. Francis
John Bisley, John Bulmer, Daniel Serle, Edward James Talbot, Edward John Cox,
Lawrence Stevens, and Thomas William Clarke.
The Vestry at the same time appointed the following gentlemen to be
Auditors of Accounts under the same Acts, viz.: Messrs. John Henry Morris and
Ralph Westall Walker.
The Commissioners on the 4th March, 1879, reported to the Vestry that they
had, subject to the approval of the Vestry, agreed to take a Lease for the term
of 99 years at the yearly Kent of £80, of the ground and premises on the North
side of gomm Road known as Augusta Lodge, in the occupation of Mr. Christopher
Case, and of the premises formerly known as Hope Cottages, but then numbered
66 and 68, Deptford Lower Road, in the occupation of Mr. Mariton, also that they
had agreed, subject as aforesaid, to purchase the Leasehold interest of Mr. H. T.
Standfast, in Augusta Lodge, namely 20 years from Christmas, 1878. Ground Kent
£17 10s. (subject to a Lease granted by him to Mr. Christopher Case, for the whole
of bis term, less three days, at a yearly Rent of £55, for the sum of £425, and to pay
all expenses of transfer, also to purchase the leasehold interest as aforesaid of
Mr. Christopher Case, in the said premises, for the sum of £500, and to pay all
expense- of transfer, and to purchase the leasehold interest of Mr. Marriton, in Nos.
66 and 68, Deptford Lower Road, aforesaid, namely, 19 years from Christmas, 1878,
Ground Rent £28 per annum, for the sum of £450, and to pay all expenses of transfer,
and that the Commissioners required to borrow the sum of £1,500 to complete the
said purchase- and to provide for the necessary expenses attendant thereon, and the
Commissioner- asked the Vestry for their approval to the proposed Contracts and for
their sanction to the borrowing from the Metropolitan Board of Works of the said
sum cf £1,500 as a first instalment of the sum they would ultimately require for
defraying the cost attending the erection of the buildings, it was
"RESOLVED that this Vestry approve of the Commissioners for Public Hatband
Wash Houses in this Parish, entering into Contracts with the several parties
above named for the purchase of their Leasehold interests in the several Premises above
mentioned and for taking the same Premise- on Lease from the Freeholders for a term
of 99 years, at the yearly Rent of £80 per annum, and further that this Vestry
hereby sanction the Commissioners borrowing at interest from the Metropolitan Board
of Work- the sum of £1,500 on security of a Mortgage of the Rates for the relief of
the Poor of this Parish such sum of £1,500 to be applied by them in payment of
the said purchase monies and of the necessary expenses attendant on the said purchases
or otherwise for the purposes of the Act to encourage the establishment of Public
Baths and Wash Houses and the several Acts amending the same, and as a first
instalment of the amount they will ultimately require to defray the Costs attendant
upon the erection of the buildings.