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10. Your Petitioners' parish has a population of 40,215 and an area of 754 acers with a
rateable value of £216,469 and your Peititioners submit thet the severnce of the parishes of
Saint Olave and Saint Thomas Southwark and Sait John Horselydown from the Saint Olave
Poor law Union and from the Metropolitan Police District and their inclusion within the existing
City as proposed by the Bill will Materially and unfairly odd to the turdens of your Pertitioners'
11. Your Petitioners allege thet no good and substantial reason exists for the inclusion of
the added area within the existing city and they submit thet if the Bill were allowed to pass into
law it would prove alike injurious to and oppressive on year Petitioners and to the inhabitants
of their parish generally by subjecting them to rates to a heavy and unfair and burdensome
amount and your Pertistoners further submit thet if the Bill do pass provisions shook be
inserted therein indemnifying them and the inhabitants of their parish from all loss and damage
which might be caused to and sustained by them by reason of the the servance of his Saint Olaves
Disrict from the Saint Olavre Poor Law Union as proposed by the Bill.
It. Year Petitioners are advised and believe thet the Bill is promoted in the interest of
the Corporation of London so as to extend the rateable area of the existing City and thet there
as no public demand whatever for the inclusion of the added area within the existing City and
year Petitioners respertfully submit thet the provisions of the Bill are each as ought not to
receive the sunction of your Honourable House.
13. There are divers claunsers and provisions in the Bill to which your Petitioners object
and which ought to be omitted amended or altered and there are other clauses provisions
which ought to be introduced into the Bill for the protection of the property rights powers
privilages and interets now treated in or conferred by law upon your Petitioners.
14. That the preamble of the Bill is untrue and incapable of proof.
YOUR PETITIONERS therefore humbly pray year Honourable House thet
the Bill may not be allowed to pass into law as it now Hands and thet
they may be heard by themaelves their Counsel agents and witnesses before
the Committee of year Honourable House to whom the Bill may be refferred
against the preamble and clauses thereof and (If the Bill do Pass) is support
of the insertion therein of other clauses and provisions for their protection
or thet they may have such other relief is the premises as to your Honourable
House shall seem meet.
The Common Seal of the Vestry of the Parish of
Rotherhithe in the administrative County of
London affored by Order this Tenth day of
(Signed) JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to Vestry.