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body, or from among the Justices of the Peace for Middlesex or
Westminster, or other "creditable inhabitants" of the Parish, such
persons, together with the Churchwardens or Overseers of the
Poor, to be called Governors and Directors of the Poor. This Board
formerly exercised extensive powers, of which they have from time
to time been relieved by subsequent legislation, and their principal
functions are at present confined to paying from the Poor Rate,
various sums upon the precept of the Guardians and other
Authorities.
On the 29th March, 1883, the Vestry appointed twenty-one
inhabitants of the Parish to act as Governors and Directors of the
Poor, in accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned
Act of Parliament, and a list of the gentlemen so appointed is
given on page 11.
A statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board will
be found on page 114.
ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL AND BURIAL GROUND.
The London and North Western Railway Company having
promoted a Bill in Parliament for obtaining power (among other
matters) to acquire the disused Burial Ground in Hampstead Road,
belonging to this Parish, considerable opposition was manifested to
the scheme. The ground is vested by a special Act of Parliament
in the Rector and Churchwardens, and placed under the management
of ten Trustees, eight of whom are elected by the Vestry, and two,
the Rector and the Senior Churchwarden, are ex officio. Some
negotiations had taken place between the Trustees and the Railway
Company before the matter was brought under the notice of the
Vestry, the Trustees having in the interests of the Parish entered
into an agreement with the Company, by which the extent of land
to be taken by the latter was limited to two-thirds of the Burial
Ground, although the whole ground was scheduled in the Parliamentary
Notices relating to the Bill. The Vestry did not consider
this arrangement altogether satisfactory, and accordingly convened
a public meeting of the parishioners to consider the whole subject.