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Petition to the House of Commons in favour of the
Bill, and requested the Borough Members to support
same, and asked the Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, First
Lord of the Treasury, to do all in his power to
ensure the passage of the Bill. The Bill duly
received the Royal Assent.
Northampton Institute.— In October, 1892, the
Rev. J. H. Rose, M.A., Vicar, suggested, with
reference to the erection of the Northampton
Institute, that a public improvement might be
effected by a portion of the Institute site being
given up for widening Ashby Street, an equivalent
being taken in Lower Charles Street; Ashby Street
being at present only 36 feet wide from house to
house, while Lower Charles Street is 60 feet. The
Vestry approved of the suggestion, and decided
that the land to the south of the railing in Lower
Charles Street, sloping down to the site of Taylor's
Row, be given up for the purposes of the Institute,
on condition of an equivalent being given on the
north side of Ashby Street, for the purpose of
widening that thoroughfare, and referred it to the
Works Committee to carry out the arrangement
when the proper time arrives.
Poor Laws.—In October the Vestry received an
invitation from the Vestry of St. George the
Martyr, Southwark, to a Conference of Guardians
and Vestrymen in the Metropolis, to take into
consideration the advisability of approaching the
President of the Local Government Board on the
question of the present Poor Law system. . The
Vestry appointed two delegates to the conference,
at which resolutions in favour of the following
objects were passed:—
(1.) "An equalisation of the Poor Rate over the whole of the
Metropolitan area."