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Total amount of Loans Borrowed from Metropolitan
Board of Works £29000 0 0
Amount paid off 10366 0 0
£18634 0 0
Public Libraries (England) Acts, 1855 to 1890.
At a Meeting of the Vestry held 17th March, 1891, Messrs. George Mabbs, Lawrence
Stevens and Henry Hayward were balloted to retire this year as Commissioners for this
Parish under the Public Libraries (England) Acts, and Messrs. George Mabbs, Thomas
William Clarke, and Samuel Brownfield were elected Commissioners in their place.
The names of the Commissioners are as follows, viz.:—The Rev. Edward Josselyn
Beck (Chairman), Mr. John Bulmer (Vice-Chairman), and Messrs. Robert Leishman Stuart,
Edmund Bumney Smith, John Beeson, Henry Lovell Bartlett, George Mabbs, Thomas
"William Clarke, and Samuel Brownfield.
The Library Buildings have been erected in the Lower Boad upon the site of
Biches Place, and were opened to the public on the 1st October, 1890, by the Bight
Hon. Sir John Lubbock, M.P.
Miscellaneous.
Notice of Motion having been duly given to that effect, it was resolved that Bye
Law No. 9 of the Vestry's Bye Laws be altered and varied by the word "three" being
omitted therefrom, and the word "four" being substituted in lieu thereof. The said
Bye Law as amended now stands as follows, viz.:—
"That no deputation be received at any Meeting of the Vestry unless four
clear days' previous notice, in writing, be left at the Vestry Office of the
intention of such deputation to appear thereat, such notice to be signed by
one or more members of the deputation, and to specify the object thereof,"