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Sale of Food and Drugs Act.—The Vestry again
draw attention to the fact that they have made
arrangements for the analysis of private purchasers'
samples of food and drugs, and have decided that
any resident of the Parish (traders excepted) shall
be allowed, upon payment of '2s. 6d., to bring to
the Vestry any article of food or drugs purchased
or delivered in the Parish, for the purpose of being
tested by the public Analyst. Should the sample
submitted prove to be adulterated, the report will
be handed over to the Inspector of the district, with
the name and address of the seller, for the purpose
of his taking samples in conformity with the Act,
and if in that case the sample be found to be
adulterated, the 2s. 6d. deposited by the person
bringing the sample will be returned to him. The
rule has been printed on the back of the ratepapers,
but up to the present time little advantage has
been taken of the arrangement by the parishioners.
Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen.—
The Vestry in various ways participated in the
general rejoicings in celebration of the Queen's long
reign.
An illuminated Address was presented to Her
Majesty the Queen, conveying the congratulations
of the Vestry, the cost of which was defrayed by
the Members themselves. The Address was as
follows:—
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
Most Gracious Sovereign.
We, the Chairman and Members of the Vestry of the Parish
of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell, deshe most humbly to
approach your Majesty with a loyal and dutiful expression of the
joy we feel that Providence has been pleased to grant to your
Majesty a reign without parallel in English history.