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name of Holborn by applying it, not only to the Parliamentary
Borough but also to the County Council Electoral
Division and in other ways, that it was more appropriate
for the purpose. Into the details of the evidence given at
the Inquiry it is not necessary to enter here; suffice it to
say that the Commissioners came to the conclusion that
the name of the Borough should be Holborn.
The question of boundaries having been decided, the
next question, which involved consideration, was the
constitution of Wards and the allocation of Councillors
for the Borough of Holborn, and on this subject the
Commissioners themselves prepared a scheme by which
they proposed to allot to the St. Giles group of Parishes,
including Lincoln's Inn, 24 Councillors, and to the Holborn
group of Parishes, including Cray's Inn, Staple Inn, and
Furnivals Inn, 18 Councillors. The Board of Works for
the Holborn District did not approve of this proposal, nor
of the inclusion of Lincoln's Inn as part of a Ward of
St. Giles, but they suggested that Lincoln's Inn with Gray's
Inn, Furnivals Inn, and Staple Inn, should be formed into
a Ward by themselves, or that Lincoln's Inn should become
part of a Ward of St. Andrew's, to which Parish it was at
the time attached for the purpose of Parliamentary Elections,
and that the number of Councillors to be allotted to
St. Giles Parishes should be decreased with a corresponding
increase of representatives to the Holborn
Parishes.
After consideration of the proposals of the Board of
Works for the Holborn District it was the opinion of the
Board of Works for the St. Giles District that no argument
had been put forward sufficiently to justify the Commissioners
in departing from their conclusion. In order to