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Torr) made certain comments on the report, and the
Vestry's remarks thereon are summarised in the followingabstract
of a report of the Parliamentary Bills Committee :—
(1) That the Vestry do not consider it desirable or necessary to
authorise the London County Council to alter the areas of local jurisdiction
; or (2) to arbitrate between District Councils, or to command
the performance of duties by the local body, the desire of the Vestry
being to create a healthy local opinion ; or (3) to delegate any power
to the local body, which should be established for purely local
functions defined by statute. (4) That the Vestry's scheme does not
propose to interfere with the City of London, which might, however,
be constituted a district for a District Council. (5) That the mere
question of number of members of the District Council is not material.
(6) That the District Council would have all the powers to establish
libraries, &c., now possessed by Commissioners, and to establish
gymnasia, possessed by the Commissioners for Public Baths. (7) That
the provision of mortuaries and Coroner's Court Houses is dealt with
by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. (8) That the School Board
and Asylums Board are not local bodies and their work does not come
within the scope of the Vestry's scheme. (9) That although representation
of the District Councils on the County Council is not provided
for by the scheme, the Vestry are not unmindful that some
such plan would be extremely useful in welding together County and
Local administration, and (10) That the Vestry's scheme is an outline
only, and is not intended to be complete in all its details.
SCHOOL BOARD FOR LONDON.
The continuous growth in the expenditure of the
School Board, out of all proportion to the increase in its
work, has naturally attracted the attention of the Vestry
in common with other local rating authorities during the
year.
In view of the approaching election, the Vestry circulated,
among the parishioners, early in the year, a statement
in which the expenditure of the Board was critically
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