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patiltamentatiy bills —Continued.
Vestrymen's Qualification.—This Bill proposes to enact that
the Vestry elected in any parish shall consist of persons rated or
assessed to the relief of the poor, and that any person shall be
capable of being elected who is rated or assessed as the occupier of
a house, lands, tenements, or hereditaments in such parish. On the
17th March, 1887, it was ordered that a Petition be presented
against the Bill.
HYDE PARK CORNER (NEW STREETS) BILL.
On the 1st April, 1886, letters were submitted from the Metropolitan
Board of Works, and the Vestry of St. George, Hanover
Square, stating that the Bill having been referred to a Parliamentary
Committee, the Conference proposed by the Vestry's Solicitors was
unnecessary and undesirable.
On the 15th April it was reported that the Select Committee of
the House of Commons had decided that so much of this parish as
is outside the present railings of the Green Park be severed from
the parish and be thrown into that of St. George, Hanover Square,
that the cost of maintenance of the new roads should be borne in
equal moieties by the Metropolitan Board of Works and the Vestry
of St. George, Hanover Square, and that the Government had
abandoned that portion of the Bill directing that any expenses for
maintenance in the past be repaid to the Commissioners of H.M.'s
Works, &c.
On the 29th April Mr. James, M.B.W., informed the Vestry that
the Metropolitan Board had determined to petition in the House of
Lords against the amended Bill of the Commons' Select Committee.
On the 13th May it was resolved to petition the House of Lords
against alterations being made in the Bill, and to appear if necessary
by Counsel to support the petition. On the 24th June it was
reported that the Bill had that day been thrown out by the Select
Committee of the Upper House.
Ihe Clerk reported on the 25th November that Gazette Notices
had been published of the intention of the Government to reintroduce
the Bill. On the 3rd February it was reported that the