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Incidence of Local Taxation.—In December, the Vestry
of Kensington invited the Vestry to appoint Delegates to
consider the question of the incidence of local taxation, and
Mr. Sans and Mr. Jennings were appointed as such delegates,
and on the 16th March, Mr. Jennings laid before the Vestry
copy of a Memorial which it was proposed to be forwarded by
the local authorities to the Prime Minister and the Home
Secretary, praying that they will take the subject into their
serious consideration, and will move the Legislature at an early
date to adopt such measures as may be expedient to relieve tho
occupiers of houses and land from the undue burden they now
bear under the Elementary Education, Poor Law, and such like
Acts, by an equitable system of raising the funds for defraying
expenditure of that description.
This Vestry approved the Memorial, and a copy was forwarded
to the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary.
Disorderly Houses.—In January a Memorial was forwarded
to the Home Secretary, praying that the duty of the
suppression of disorderly houses may bo transferred from the
local authorities to the police, and a copy was forwarded to the
several local authorities in the Metropolis, and the following
replies were received:—
From the Parishes of Battersea, Bermondsey, Hammersmith,
Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Limehouse,
Saint Luke, Mile End, St. Nicholas, Deptford, and
Ratcliff, agreeing with the views of the Vestry, and
stating that Memorials to the same effect had been
forwarded to the Home Secretary.
From Stoke Newington, stating that they do not suffer from
the evil complained of.
From St. Olave's, Southwark, agreeing that the local
authority should bo relieved of the duty, but stating that
they are not prepared to say to whom such duty should
be transferred.