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Public Libraries Act.
At a meeting of the Vestry held 2nd October, 1894, Messrs. Robert Leishman Stuart,
Ralph Westall Walker, and James Wigginton, were elected Commissioners for Public
Libraries and Museums in this Parish for the ensuing three years.
The names of the Commissioners are as follows (the same being divided into three
classes as provided by the Act):
1st Class.—Offices to be vacated October, 1895: Mr. George Mabbs, Mr. Edward James
Talbot, and Mr. Samuel Brownfield.
2nd Class—Offices to be vacated October, 1896: The Rev. Canon Beck, M.A., J.P.,
(Chairman), Mr. Charles Jollands Thompson, and Mr. Francis Thomas
Talbot.
3rd Class—Offices to be vacated October, 1897: Mr. Robert Leishman Stuart (ViceChairman),
Mr. Ralph Westall Walker, and Mr. Francis John Bisley (in the
room of Mr. James Wigginton, deceased).
Clerk,
JAMES JOHN STOKES.
Librarian,
WILLIAM MARILLIER.
At a meeting of the Vestry held 5th March, 1895, a letter from the Commissioners of
Public Libraries was read communicating a vacancy on that Board caused by the death of
Mr. Thomas William Clarke, a Commissioner of the 1st class, and
At the following meeting of the Yestry held 19th March, Mr. Edward James Talbot was
duly elected a Commissioner in the place of the said Mr. Thomas William Clarke, deceased.
A vacancy existed in the Offices of the 3rd Class, caused by the death of Mr. James
Wigginton, on the 7th March, 1895, but subsequent to the 25th March, 1895, Mr. Francis
John Bisley was elected to fill the vacancy.