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5.—That a Petition be presented to Parliament in support of
the proposed amendments; that a Deputation be appointed to
wait upon the Committee of the Privy Council on Education to
express the views of the Conference, and that the Vestries and
District Boards of the Metropolis be communicated with and
requested to present to Parliament Petitions in favour of the
proposed amendments, and to request their Parliamentary Representatives
to support such Petitions.
A letter was afterwards received from Mr. T. E.
Gibb, Vestry Clerk of St. Pancras and Hon. Secretary
of the Conference, stating that the Education
Department had replied that it was at present
premature to receive the Deputation.
A Bill with the above object has again been
introduced into Parliament, but no progress has
been made with it.
City of London Parochial Charities.—By an
Act passed in 1883, to make provision for the better
application and management of the Parochial
Charities of the City of London, the Charity Commissioners
were empowered to make Schemes for
this purpose. In the first place the Commissioners
are bound to compensate vested interests and fair
claims on moral grounds, and to maintain any
existing object within the City Parishes which the
Commissioners may think proper, legal and substantially
beneficial to the inhabitants or any class
thereof, or so as to secure to the inhabitants and to
persons employed in the Parishes the benefits of
those things which the Act specifies as good for
London at large.
The surplus fund may be applied to some or all
of the following objects:—
The promotion of the Education of the Poor, by means of
Exhibitions, Technical Instruction, Secondary Education,
Art Education, or Evening Lectures.
The establishment of, and maintenance of, Libraries or
Museums, &c., in such a way as to be useful for the Poor,
The provision of Open Spaces.