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Board had not arrived at any decision in the matter. In the
following November, however, the Local Government
Board issued their Order transferring to the Vestry
from and after the 31st December, 1895, the powers,
duties and liabilities of the authority for the execution of
the Baths and Washhouses Acts in the Parish. The Vestry
having referred the matter to their Parliamentary Bills and
General Purposes Committee to consider the steps to be
taken for bringing this Order into effect, the Committee submitted
a detailed report on the subject which was approved
and adopted by the Vestry. The effect of this report was,
briefly, that the management and control of the Baths and
Washhouses was to be vested in a Committee to be styled
the Public Baths and Washhouses Committee, with practically
similar powers to the old Commissioners, with the
exception that all matters dealt with by the Committee
have now to be reported to the Vestry, and no works,
repairs, &c., the estimate of which exceeds the sum of £50
can be ordered without the previous sanction of the
Vestry. The new Committee are required to submit a report
annually in the month of April showing the receipts, expenditure,
number of bathers, washers, etc., and the general
proceedings of the Committee during the preceding twelve
months. The Staff in the employ of the Commissioners
became transferred, under the Order, to the Vestry.
The formal transfer of the properties, documents,
keys, &c., of the Commissioners to the Vestry was effected
at a meeting arranged between the Chairman of the Vestry,
the Chairman of the Baths Commissioners, the Vestry
Clerk and the Clerk to the Commissioners, when the
various balances in the hands of the bankers were checked
by the Vestry Clerk and duly transferred to the credit
of the Vestry. It is only fair to the late Commissioners
to remark that the Baths and Washhouses have been