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Board for London, and also into the present incidence of the Rate levied to
meet the expenses incurred in the administration of the Elementary
Education Acts in the Metropolis.
2. (a) That, in the opinion of this Conference, the present School Board Divisions are
inconvenient, and the Parliamentary Boroughs as set out in the Redistribution
of Seats Act, 1885, should be substituted therefor.
(b) That the Register to be employed for School Board purposes should be the
Register of Parochial Electors as defined by the Local Government
Act, 1894.
3. That a copy of the resolutions passed by this Conference be communicated to the
Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President and Vice-President
of the Committee of Council on Education, the School Board for London, and the
Vestries and District Boards of the Metropolis, and that the Prime Minister be asked
to receive a Deputation from this Conference to support the representations contained
in the said resolutions.
On 21st January, 1896, the Vestry had before them a letter from the Town Clerk,
Borough of "West Ham, transmitting draft of a petition intended to be presented to
Parliament with regard to the School Board Bate, and asking this Vestry should they
agree with the views contained therein, to be good enough to seal a petition on the lines
of the said draft, and present same to Parliament, and request their local Member to
support any Bill which might be introduced into the House to give effect to the prayer of
the petition.
Resolved That the Vestry support the action taken by the Corporation of West Ham,
and seal a similar petition to Parliament.
The following is a copy of the petition of the Vestry:—
To the Honourable the
Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
in Parliament assembled.
The Humble Petition ot the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe in the
administrative County of London, under their Common Seal.