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Local Government Board appeared, and urged that
they were put to inconvenience by the existing state
of things, and that no services were rendered to
them in consideration of the rates which they paid.
The Vestry, on the other hand, showed that they
had expended on the area a sum of ,£2,770 in excess
of what they had received, the difference being
mainly for permanent improvements, and they
submitted that if the area was to be transferred to
an adjoining district, such district should recoup
the Vestry the amount in question. The representatives
of the adjoining districts objected to this
proposal. On the 30th November the Local
Government Board wrote, stating their intention
of issuing an Order to attach the outlying
portion of Clerkenwell to the Parish of Hornsey.
By sec. 2 of the Poor Law Act, 1876, under which
the enquiry was held, if one-tenth in number and
rateable value of the ratepayers gave notice in
writing of objection to the Order within three
months after copies of it have been sent to the
Overseers of the parishes affected, the Order would
become provisional only. The Vestry thought it
desirable that an expression of opinion of the
inhabitants of Clerkenwell should be, if possible,
obtained, and they called a public meeting of the
inhabitants upon the subject. On the 23rd
December the Local Government Board issued
their Order, which was to take effect on the 24th
March, 1893, unless it should in the meantime
become provisional in pursuance of the statute
above mentioned. A largely attended public
meeting was held at the Amwell Street Schools, on
the 25th January, and the following resolutions
were passed almost unanimously:—
"That this Meeting of ratepayers of Clerkenwell
hereby expresses its objection to the Order of the