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That the Vestry also consider it desirable to reaffirm
their resolution in favour of the Electoral
Areas of the School Board being assimilated to the
Electoral Areas for Parliamentary and County
Council purposes, as tending to promote greater
interest in the elections, and a more thorough touch
between the members and their constituents.
On the invitation of the St. Pancras Yestry the
Yestry appointed delegates to a Conference on the
27th January, on the subject of an alteration of the
Electoral Areas. The Conference passed resolutions
in favour of the Parliamentary Divisions being the
electoral divisions of the School Board, of the
abolition of the cumulative vote, and of vacancies
on the School Board being filled up by the ratepayers
instead of by members of the School Board,
and also asked the Education Department to receive
a deputation on the subject; but Sir W. Hart Dyke
replied that, having regard to the improbability of
any legislation in connection with the matter being
proceeded with in the forthcoming session, and to
the time that must elapse before another School
Board Election takes place, he did not think any
useful purpose would be served by receiving a deputation
at that moment.
Proposed Purchase of Tramways by the
London County Council.—The County Council
on the 19th March, 1891, approved the principle of
the purchase of a portion of the system of the
London Streets Tramways Company, which would
in the year 1891 come within the operation of sec.
43 of the Company's Act, 1870, which empowers
the Council within six months after the expiration
of twenty-one years from the passing of the Act to
purchase the undertaking upon terms of paying the
then value, exclusive of any allowance for past or