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St Martin-in-the-Fields 1886
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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SCHOOL BOARD FOR LONDON.
A comparative statement of the amounts of the above Board's
Precepts for the last 10 years is hereunder shown.
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887*
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
]
7,552
8,082
9,284
9,507
9,587
11,386
L3,802
14,930
17,187
8,175
*Isote. — The Board's Precept for the half-year ending Michaelmas, 1887,
has, up to the present, only been issued.
Election Expenses.— A letter was, on the 1st April, 1886,
submitted from the Education Department stating that a return of
the cost of the last election had been ordered by Parliament, and
that it might be inspected at the Office of the School Board.
Scheduling of Sites at Long Acre and Duke's Court.—
On the 1st April, 1886, a letter was submitted from the Board stating
they had decided not to proceed with the Scheduling of the above
Sites.
On the 28tli October, 1886, it was resolved that the Education
Department be requested to introduce a Bill to provide for the
filling up of casual vacancies by direct election by ratepayers of the
divisions in which such vacancies have occurred, instead of by the
Board itself.
On the 17th March, 1887, it was resolved that in the opinion of
the Vestry succeeding generations should be made chargeable to a
greater extent with the cost of the freeholds, school-buildings, and
other permanent works of the Board, and in order to that end, that
payments to the sinking fund should be extended from 50 to 100
years; and that it is desirable that the Board be authorised to
obtain Parliamentary powers to issue 3 per cent. Stock; or that the
Metropolitan Board be required to advance loans to the School Board
on the same terms at which the Stock is taken up by the public,
and copies of the resolution were ordered to be forwarded to the
Education Department, Metropolitan Members of Parliament, the
Corporation of the City of London, the Metropolitan Board of
Works, and the Vestries and District Boards, and that they
severally be requested to urge the School Board representatives to
support the same.
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