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received letters from the Vestries of Islington and
Fulham, urging that in any measure to be introduced
affecting the Local Government of the Metropolis
the power to make and collect the Poor and Local
Rates should he transferred to the District Councils,
or such other bodies as it may be proposed to create
for the Local Government of the respective Parishes
or Districts comprised in the new County of London,
and that provision should be made for the Accounts
of all Local Rates being audited in the same manner
as the Poor Law Accounts. This Vestry fully
agreed as to the desirability of these suggestions
being acted upon, and they have accordingly
addressed a communication to this effect to the
Local Government Board, and to the Members of
Parliament for this Borough.
Election of Guardians of the Poor.—The Vestry
have had before them a letter from the Vestry of St.
George-the-Martyr, Southwark, forwarding resolution
inviting the Public Boards of the Metropolis
to co-operate in securing an assimilation of the
mode of electing Guardians of the Poor to that now
in use at Parliamentary and School Board Elections,
“as the present system is at once cumbrous, uncertain,
expensive and calculated to shake the
confidence of the public in a very responsible body
and their Clerk, whom the present system makes
their master.”
The Vestry agreed to co-op orate in the matter,
and asked the Vestry of St. George-the-Martyr to
indicate the method of co-operation.
Official Voting Papers at Vestry Elections.—
The Vestry received a letter from the Vestry of
Kensington in favour of the compulsory use of
Official Voting Papers at Vestry Elections, and
suggesting that communications be made to the
Local Government Board and the Metropolitan