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local governing bodies, and placing them more in a line
with provincial Corporations. The movement emanated
from the Vestry of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster,
who invited the other local authorities to join in a
memorial to the Prime Minister and the President of the
Local Government Board. The St. James's Vestry being
heartily in accord with the suggestion, at once authorised
their Common Seal to be affixed to the memorial in common
with certain other local authorities who concurred in the
suggestion. Although the area over which the Vestry has
jurisdiction is small compared with some of the other
London parishes, the district is an exceedingly valuable and
important one, and has very strong claims in support of
retaining the autonomy which it has enjoyed for over 200
years.
CONCLUDING REMARKS.
The Vestry have not attempted in the foregoing Report
to touch upon mere routine business requiring attention
from day to day, or upon questions which are not deemed
to be of general interest, but have endeavoured to submit
to their fellow parishioners, in as clear and succinct a
manner as possible, a statement of the principles which
have guided them in the discharge of their trust, and particulars
of the present condition of the Parish.
By Order,
T. HENSMAN MUNSEY,
Vestry Clerk,