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Officers to keep a strict supervision over the houses inhabited
by the low class foreigners, whose ways of crowding together
in large numbers are most objectionable, from both a sanitary
and a moral point of view.
Borough Members,—The Vestry desire to place on
record their obligations to the Members of Parliament for
the Borough of Finsbury, Captain Penton (Central
Division), Colonel Duncan (Holborn Division), and James
Rowlands, Esq. (Eastern Division) for the care and
attention they have always given to the interests of the
Parish. In local questions, both in and out of Parliament,
in which they could be of service, these gentlemen have
invariably taken a deep interest, and have shown a
sympathy with local wants which entitle them to the
thanks of the Vestry.
Presentation to the Vestry of the Portrait of the
Vestry Clerk.— A record of the year's proceedings would
not be complete unless it contained the following extract
from the Minutes of the Yestry of the 2nd December,
1886, as an incident of some interest in parochial work:—
"The Rev. J. H. Pose, M.A., Vicar, reported having
attended a large meeting of Subscribers and friends in that
Vestry Hall on the previous Tuesday week, and received, on
behalf of the Vestry, the very fine portrait of their esteemed
Vestry Clerk, Mr. Paget, which now hung in that Vestry
hall. It was now his pleasing duty to hand over the
picture to the Vestry as something worthy of their
acceptance, alike as a work of art, and also as a good
memento of Mr. Paget. He need not say more, as a very
full and faithful report of the presentation had already
appeared, especially in the local papers."
"Mr. Robson then presented the following address, which
was handsomely engrossed on vellum, to the Vestry Clerk,