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St Martin-in-the-Fields 1864

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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of persons to he so nominated to be given by the Vestry
or Vestries submitting the particular list or lists, in
such manner and so often as the same Commissioners
shall consider necessary or desirable. Such Commissioners,
upon being satisfied of the sufficiency of the
respective lists, shall, by order under their seal, appoint
from such respective lists two persons from each of the
respective parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and St.
George Hanover Square, and four persons from each of
the respective parishes of St. Clement Danes, St. James
Westminster, and St. Paul Covent Garden, to be the
first Trustees for the purposes of this scheme.
3. One of the persons to be appointed Trustees
from each parish other than the respective Incumbents,
shall, without reference to the disqualifications stated
in the fourth clause of this scheme, go out of office by
rotation every third year, but shall be eligible for
election. The first retirement in the case of the
Trustees appointed from the parishes of St. Martin-inthe-fields,
and St. George Hanover Square, respectively,
and the first, second and third retirements in the
case of the Trustees appointed from the other parishes
shall be by lot.
One of the
Trustees to
go out of
office every
third year.
4. Upon the death, resignation, refusing, declining
or becoming incapable to act, or ceasing to act for one
year, of any Trustee, or on his compounding with his
creditors, becoming bankrupt, ceasing to be a resident
householder within the parish from which he shall have
been appointed, or retiring from the office under the
third clause of this scheme, the Vestry of the parish
from which he shall have been appointed shall forthwith
submit to the Charity Commissioners a list containing
the names of two persons for each such vacancy;
and such Commissioners shall have the same power ot
requiring every or any such list to be revised or altered,
and of directing public notice to be given ot the same,
as are contained in the second clause of this scheme, with
Disqualification
of
Trustees.