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opinion that the unused portion of the tramlines in Lancaster street
should be used for relieving the tramway traffic in London road.
CHARITIES COMMITTEE.
In April, 1899, a communication was received from the Charity
Commissioners enclosing an Order for the amalgamation of several of
the Charities in this parish, and giving certain directions for the
Scheme to be advertised and published.
The Scheme directed that the Board of Trustees should consist
of 13 persons, being one ex-officio Trustee (the Rector), five
Co-optative Trustees, and seven representative Trustees. The
representative Trustees were to be appointed by the Vestry and were
to consist of—
Three ratepayers or residents in No. 1 Ward.
Two ,, „ No. 2 Ward.
Two ,, ,, No. 3 Ward.
The appointment to be made for a term of four years.
At a meeting of the Vestry on the 2nd May, 1899, the following
were elected as representative Trustees:—
No. 1 Ward—Mr. T. Hunter, L.C.C., Miss A. E. Busk, and Mr.
T. Haynes, J.P.
No. 2 Ward—Mr. A. Hawkins and Mr. J. M. Hale.
No. 3 Ward—Mr. R. R. Fulton and Mr. G. K. Sheppard, and at
the following meeting of the Vestry, Messrs. Hunter,
Hawkins and Fulton were chosen by lot to go out of Office
at the end of two years.
The Vestry Clerk was subsequently permitted to accept the
office as Clerk to the Board of Trustees.
Two of the principal Charities, Humphrey Williams' (Kent
Street) Charity and Simmonds Charity, were not included in the
Scheme, and as the property of the former Charity consisted only of
a small estate in Tabard Street and St. Stephen's Square,
Southwark, and the latter of a small farm at Tilbury, on the
suggestion of the Charity Commissioners and of the Trustees of the
former Charity, the question of amalgamating the two chanties was