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sanctioned this mode of applying the money. The moiety applicable
to ecclesiastical purposes having been paid over to the
Rector and Churchwardens upon certain definite trusts, it became
necessary to decide upon the particular secular purpose to which
the remainder of the money should be devoted, and after having
considered several proposals, the Trustees with the sanction of
the Vestry, decided to apply the same, amounting to about £4,000,
to the erection of a building for the accommodation of the
labouring poor. This fund was supplemented by the assignment
of a leasehold house known as No. 7, Ingestre Place, which had
been erected by voluntary effort in or about the year 1850, as a
model lodging house, and a sum of about £2,000 being accumulated
surplus rents derived therefrom, also by the transfer of a
further sum of nearly £80 being the unapplied balance of a fund
raised for the relief of sufferers by a fire which occurred in Little
Windmill Street in the year 1876, and by the transfer of a sum of
£200, a portion of the funds remaining in the hands of the
Trustees at the closing of the Trust in July, 1886, under the
provisions of the London and North-Western Railway Act, 1884.
The total sum thus available for the building is nearly £6,300.
The Building is erected by the authority of an Order of the High
Court of Justice (Chancery Division) made by Mr. Justice Pearson
on the 3rd day of August, 1885, the scheme being set forth
therein as follows:—
1. The funds are to be applied by the Vestry of the Parish of
St. James, Westminster (hereinafter called the Vestry) in
or towards the erection and fitting up on the land comprised
in the agreement dated the 18th May, 1885, and made
between Sir Richard Francis Sutton of the first part and
the Vestry of the Parish of St. James, Westminster, in the
County of iVIiddlesex, of the second part, of a lodging
house or lodging houses to be used together with the leasehold
messuage and premises No. 7, Ingestre Place, for the
accommodation at moderate rents of female pieceworkers
and others of the labouring classes.
2. Such lodging house or lodging houses and the premises No.
7, Ingestre Place, are to be vested in the Vestry and to be
under the control and management of the Vestry or a