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send delegates to a Conference on the question of the rating of
ground values.
Four Members of the Vestry were accordingly appointed to
attend the Conference, which was held at the Westminster Palace
Hotel, on the 8th December, 1898. The delegates subsequently
reported that resolutions were adopted at the Conference in favour of
the rating of ground values, and a Petition was presented to
Parliament by the Vestry embodying the decisions of the Conference.
london government.
The question of the reform of London Government, so far as the
various Local Authorities are concerned, having become ripe fur discussion
by reason of the declaration of the intention of the Government
to introduce a measure dealing with the question, in the
succeeding Session of Parliament, a conference was convened by the
Vestry of Islington in October, 1898, to consider the whole subject.
Representatives of the Yestry were appointed and many of the
recommendations agreed to by the Conference, have been subsequently
adopted by the Government.
On the 1st November, a letter was received from the St.
Saviour's Vestry, stating that a Conference would be held on the
2nd inst., respecting the question of the full Incorporation of the
Ward of Bridge Without. Delegates were appointed by the Vestry
to the Conference with a view of watching the proceedings and to
report the result to the Vestry. At the conference certain resolutions
were drafted which it was agreed should be submitted by the Representatives
of each Vestry to their respective Authorities. The
resolutions were reported to the Vestry on the 15th November, 1898,
when a Special Committee was appointed to consider and report on
the whole subject of the Government of London so far as it affected
this parish.
The Committee, however, after carefully considering the proposals
of the two Conferences above referred to, were unable to agree upon
any suggestions laid before them and a Special Meeting of the Vestry
in Committee was accordingly convened to further consider the
matter for the 20th December, 1898, but in view of the fact that the