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recent order of the Commissioners vacancies are filled up by
the Trustees themselves. The surviving Trustees appointed
by the Vestry under the former practice are Mr. F. Crane,
Mr. J. Bonthron, and Mr. W. Winnett.
The income of the Charity is applied, under an order of
the Court of Chancery, to the maintenance of 24 beds in
King's College Hospital and 16 in Charing Cross Hospital,
for the reception of poor patients from the five parishes
mentioned. The hospitals are also required to afford outtreatment
to all poor persons resident in any of the five
parishes, who may be sent by the Trustees.
A copy of the Accounts of the Charity for the year 1890
is given on page 157.
MRS. ANN NEWTON'S CHARITY.
This Charity, for the apprenticing of one poor boy of St.
James's annually from the Union School, which was
formerly administered by the Board of Governors and
Directors of the Poor, has owing to the abolition of that
Board, been placed, by an order of the Charity Commissioners,
dated the 15th August, 1890, under the management
of the Guardians of the Poor elected for this Parish.
A copy of the Accounts for the year 1890 is given on
page 160.
LE QUAINTER'S CHARITY.
The only Charity which is administered by the Vestry is
that known as Le Quainter s It arises from a bequest, in
1782, by Mr. Peter Le Quainter, formerly a resident in
Piccadilly, who directed that the income should be "equally
distributed at Christmas amongst twenty poor persons