View report page

43
directed that the income should be "equally distributed at
Christmas amongst twenty poor persons who are, or have been,
housekeepers in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, and such as
the Rector and Churchwardens, and the other gentlemen for the
time being who shall compose the Vestry of the said Parish, shall
deem to be proper objects, and the most deserving to partake of
the same." The property of the Charity consists of £9,969 2s. 9d.
New Three per Cent. Annuities, and the following is a statement
of the amount received and expended during the past year:—
Receipts. Expenditure.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Dividends on Stock299 1 6 Cost of printing forms of
Amount received as interest ' petition and lists of
for time Dividends were applicants 6 0 3
placed on deposit 2 8 9 Amount paid to 20 poor
persons—
(£14 15s. 6d. each) 295 10 0
£301 10 3 £301 10 3
The twenty recipients were selected by the Vestry from fortyfive
applicants, after a careful investigation of each case.
A list of other endowed Charities in which the Parish is interested
is given on pages 106 to 110.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.
The Act to encourage the erection of Public Baths and Washhouses,
passed in the year 18-16, was adopted by the Vestry on the
lOtli December in the same year, and seven Commissioners were
appointed to cai-ry the Act into execution. Some difficulty arose
in securing a suitable site, and eventually some Baths and Washhouses
were erected, in the year 1850, on a piece of freehold ground
belonging to the Parish, formerly part of the Stoneyard, and the
site of No. 16, Marshall Street; the establishment was enlarged in
the year 1860 by the addition of the site of Nos. 17 and 18,
Marshall Street. The original building was erected from the designs
and under the superintendence of Mr. Pritchard Baly, C.E., at a cost,
including furniture and fittings, and subsequent enlargements, of
about £21,000 which sum was borrowed on the security of the Poor