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The Commissioners immediately entered upon their
duties under the Act and called for information upon a
variety of matters which it was necessary for them to take
into consideration. One of the first of these was what
adjustments of boundaries of the areas mentioned in the
Schedule to the Act were expedient for simplification or
convenience of administration. The St. Giles District is
surrounded on the west and north by St. Pancras; on the
east by the Holborn District, and on the south by the
Liberty of the Rolls and St. Clement Danes, and on the
west by St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
*On the 8th August, 1899, the principal Officers of the
Board presented a Report showing those portions of the
District in which there were houses or property which
were partly within and partly without the District,
together with suggestions for adjustment on all sides.
This Report was unanimously adopted by the Board and
(with the maps therein referred to) transmitted to the Commissioners.
Communications passed between the Clerk to
the Board and the Commissioners, and interviews with
Sir Hugh Owen took place, in the course of which
modifications of these suggestions were put forward;
negotiations were opened up with the authorities of the
adjoining Parishes with a view, if possible, of giving
effect to the recommendations of the Commissioners that
joint representations as to adjustments of boundaries
should, wherever practicable, take place. After much
negotiation, this was only found practicable in one case, viz.,
with the Vestry of St. Pancras, where an agreed adjustment
was arrived at, the boundary of the Parish of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields being extended northwards along the
middle of Tottenham Court Road to the middle of Francis