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land in Rosebery Avenue, as a site for the New
Vestry Hall, the latter to be repaid as to £3,700 in
56 years, and as to £2,500 in five years or less, on
the disposal of the site of the present offices.
Appointment of a Vestry Clerk.—Consequent
upon the decease of Mr. Robert Paget, it
became the duty of the Vestry to appoint a new
Vestry Clerk. The matter was referred to a
Committee of the whole Vestry for consideration,
with the result that Mr. Robert Ernest Paget, the
First Assistant Clerk, who had been in the Vestry's
service for over twenty-two years, was, on the 21st
July, appointed Vestry Clerk, at a salary of £500
per annum, such salary to be inclusive of any salary
or emolument that may be awarded to him by the
Guardians or Governors of the Poor or any other
Parochial Authority (with the exceptions of the
Trustees of the Church and the Overseers), subject
also to the payment by him to the credit of the
General Rate of the fees derived from the rate summonses,
and hitherto received by the Vestry Clerk,
he being required to devote the whole of his time
to the Vestry with the exception of the Boards
above-mentioned.
Office Staff.—The Vestry followed the precedent
of the appointment of the Vestry Clerk, by
promoting the remaining assistant clerks to the
higher positions, with an increase of salary in each
case, details of which will be found in the appendix
No. 2. The vacancy thus occasioned in the office
of junior clerk has not been filled up, the report of
the Finance Committee on the subject being as
follows:—
The Committee have also considered the question of filling up the
vacancy which will now occur in the office of Junior Clerk. They
have consulted the Vestry Clerk thereon, who has expressed an