View report page

MEMORANDUM.
In some of the previous Reports it has been stated how
the Collection of the Poor Rate came to devolve upon the
Vestry, viz., by the operation of the Metropolitan Poor Act,
1807, and the consequent abolition of the Board of
Guardians or Governors of the Poor under the Local Act,
in January, 1868. This question having, however, been again
raised in 1871, Counsel's Opinion was taken thereon, by which
it appeared that the operation of the above Act had transferred
the Relief of the Poor to the Guardians constituted
under the now Poor Law, but had not affected the powers
and duties of the former Hoard as regards the Collection of
the Poor Rate. The Vestry therefore, on the making of the
next Rate for the Relief of the Poor, in November, 1871,
handed over the collection of same to the local Guardians or
Governors, whose meetings (which had ceased since January,
1808,) were revived for the purpose, and who will therefore
account for the PoorRate in future.
Such Poor Rates as were in collection by the Vestry
at this time, it was doomed convenient and expedient should
bo continued by them to the close, hence the annexed
account of Poor Rates made previous to November, 1871.
ROBERT PAGET,
Vestry Clerk.