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the Government, asking them to introduce legislation
to give local authorities further powers of
employment, and to make grants out of the Imperial
funds to the local authorities to be spent in relief
works; and in the interests of the working men of
this country, many thousands of whom are at all
times unable to obtain employment, to take steps
to prohibit the immigration of workmen from foreign
countries, who cannot show means of support at
the port of debarkation; that the Vestry undertake
to find as much work as possible during the winter
months for parishioners of Clerkenwell of twelve
months' standing, and that the question of finding
such work be referred to the Works Committee."
All that was possible to be done was duly carried
out.
London (Equalization of Rates) Bill.—In the
Session of 1893 the Government introduced this
Bill. It proposed to make better provision for the
equalization of rates as between the different parts
of London, and provided that in every year the
London County Council should form a fund equal
to a rate of sixpence in the pound on the whole
rateable value, the contributions to this fund being
apportioned among the parishes in proportion to
their rateable value, and the grants from it being
made to the various sanitary districts in proportion
to their population, with the exception that where
the total contribution from the parishes in the
district is less than the grant apportioned to the
district the difference is to be paid out of the fund
to the sanitary authority of the district, and no
payment towards any equalization charge is to be
required from any parish in the district. Where
the contribution from a parish is less than the grant
due, the difference is to be paid out of the fund to