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The V estry have received other communications relating
to School Board matters, upon which they have not seen
their way to take any effective action. These include a
letter from the Vestry of St. Nicholas, Deptford, suggesting
united action by the rating authorities either in combining
to refuse to collect the amount of the precept of the School
Board, or in promoting legislation to restrict the expenditure
of the Board, and a letter from the Vestry of St.
Anne, Westminster, suggesting the assessment of public
elementary schools at a moderate amount.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTORAL DIVISIONS.
The Vestry have more than once expressed an opinion in
favour of the assimilation of the Electoral Divisions for
Schoool Board purposes with those for Parliamentary and
County Council purposes, and therefore readily took part,
by three of their numbers, in a conference convened by the
Vestry of St. Pancras for pressing the question on the
consideration of the Government.
The suggested alteration in the Electoral Divisions
would involve the abolition of the cumulative system of
voting, but this system is confined to School Board Elections,
and there is no apparent reason why it should be
continued for the election of one only of many Boards
constituted for administrative purposes, especially as it has
not proved particularly beneficial in operation.
EVENING OPENING OF ROYAL ACADEMY.
In anticipation of the opening of the Annual Exhibition
of the Royal Academy in 1891, the Vestry concurred with
the Vestry of Clerkenwell in expressing a hope that the