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unemployed of the Metropolis, but they urged upon
the Government and the Metropolitan Board of
Works the desirability of pressing forward their
public works already decided upon to provide such
employment. On the 3rd November a deputation
of the Federation attended the Vestry and called
attention to the number of destitute persons in the
parish who are out of employment, and urged the
necessity of providing work to relieve same
immediately. In reply it was suggested that it
would be desirable that the Deputation should give
a list of the bona-fide unemployed residing in the
parish and the nature of their usual employment,
with a statement of the time during which they
have been unemployed. They undertook to do
this as far as possible, but no further communication
was received from them.
The Vestry also received letters from various
Vestries arid District Boards in favour of the prevention
of wholesale immigration of destitute
foreigners into this country, and they sent a communication
to the President of the Local Government
Board in support of the proposal.
Planting of Trees.—The Vestry, on the 24th
February, 1888, received an offer from the Metropolitan
Public Gardens Association, to plant trees
in Penton Street and Clerkenwell Green if the
Vestry would undertake the charge of the trees and
guards when all is completed; which offer the
Vestry accepted with thanks. They, however, received
a letter on the 23rd April that the work
would be carried out in the autumn, as the year
was too far advanced to plant trees with success.
Wilmington and Northampton Squares.—
As foreshadowed in the last Report, the Vestry
took over these Enclosures as open spaces for the