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with regard to the second instalment not yet dealt with, the Finance Committee would be
prepared to favourably consider a further application for the sanction and loan of that amount,
and that the application should be made about a month before the money was required.
The Vestry instructed the Clerk to take up the first instalment of the loan upon the
terms mentioned on receipt of the money to place the same on deposit with the London
and Midland Bank at an agreed rate, and to make application to the Council for the
second instalment when required.
The first instalment of the loan was taken up on 6th February, 1895, and placed on
deposit with the London and Midland Bank, at a minimum rate of interest of 1^ per cent.
Upon the recommendation of the Works Committee, the Vestry resolved, with the view
of providing increased accommodation in the Hall, to substitute columns for the partitions
forming the corridor, thus giving space for 150 more persons, and that to still further enlarge
the Hall, instructed the Clerk to apply to the London County Council for their sanction to
extend the frontage line in Moodkee Street to the line of the forecourts in that street.
With reference to the extension of the frontage line in Moodkee Street, on the 6th
November, 1894, the Vestry passed the following resolution:—
"That in the event of the application of the Vestry to bring out the frontage
line of the proposed Town Hall, etc., to the line of the forecourts in Moodkee
Street being granted, the Vestry will agree to give up all the land between the
front of the building in the Lower Boad and the footpath there for the use of
the public, and that the Clerk be and he is hereby instructed to at once address
a letter to Mr. Williams, L.C.C., to that effect."
And on the 6th December, 1894, a letter was received from Messrs. Murray and Foster,
enclosing form they had just received from the Council, giving them the first official
intimation that the Council had granted their application on behalf of the Vestry for the
line of frontage for the Town Hall, etc., and stating that the building lines in Moodkee Street
would therefore be in line with the adjoining forecourts, and the building lines in Lower Boad
and Neptune Street the same as those shown on the original block plan sent them by the
Vestry, and also stating that they were now ready to fix the exact depths for the foundations