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To the Metropolitan Board of Works :
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, in the County of
Surrey,
8HEWETH :
That your Memorialists Parish is united with the Parishes of St. John, Horselydown,
St. Olave, and St. Thomas, Southwark forming the District of St. Olave,
Southwark, for the purpose of electing from time to time a Member of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, as provided by section 47 of the Metropolis Local Management Act,
1855, and as included in Schedule "B" to that Act.
That your Memorialists' Parish has greatly increased in size and rateable value
since the passing of the said Act in 1855, the gross rateable value at that time being
£83,575 15s. and the net rateable value £64,672 15s., while at the present time the
gross rateable value is £230,366 and the net rateable value £186,816, thus showing an
increase on the gross of £146,790 5s. and in the net of £122,143 5s. and the said
parish is still increasing.
That during the past ten years, a large area of ground situate within your
Memorialists' parish, formerly used as Market Garden Ground, has been converted into
building land and numerous Streets have been formed and laid out, and many hundreds
of houses erected thereon, the population being nearly double what it was at the taking
of the census in 1851.
That under these circumstances your Memorialists consider that the time has
arrived when the said parish should have a separate Representative at your Honourable
Board.
That your Memorialists therefore pray your Honourable Board will be pleased in
the event of a Bill being introduced into Parliament for the amendment of the Metropolis
local Management Act, to obtain the insertion therein of a clause, giving power
to increase the number of Representatives to your Honourable Board, and for enabling
your Memorialists to elect their separate Representative thereto.
And your Memorialists will ever pray, &c.
(Signed)
HAWKS & STOKES, (L.S.)
Clerks.
The Memorial was referred by the Board to their Works and General Purposes
Committee for consideration and report.
On the invitation of the Vestry of St. James's, Westminster, this Vestry in July,
1878, appointed the following gentlemen, viz.: Messrs. Edward James Talbot, Francis
John Bisley, Reuben Henry Williams, Junior, Ralph Wentall Walker, Lawrence
Stevens, Richard Brownly and Henry Hayward, as a Deputation to assist the Vestry