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ference was held on the 29th March, St. Giles District
Board not being represented, when the following
resolutions were passed, the Holborn
District Board of Works dissenting: —
1.—That in the opinion of this Conference, one of the
new Borough Councils under the London Government Bill
1899, should include the parishes in the Holborn Poor Law
Union and St. Giles' District Board of Works, all of which
at present form the Parliamentary Borough of Finsbury.
2.—That the Special Committee represented at this Conference
recommend their respective Vestries and the
Holborn and St. Giles' District Boards to support the first
Resolution as above.
3.—That copies of the Resolutions be sent to the Vestries
concerned and the Holborn and St. Giles' Board of Works,
and to the three members representing the Borough of
Finsbury.
The Vestry, however, did not acquiesce in the
resolutions arrived at by the Conference, but passed
a resolution to petition the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour
in favour of joining Clerkenwell and St. Luke
together as one municipality. Such petition is as
follows: —
LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL, 1899.
The Humble Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of St. James
and St. John, Clerkenwell, for the amalgamation of the
Vestries of Clerkenwell and St. Luke as a Metropolitan
Borough.
To the Rt. Hon. A. J. BALFOUR, P.C., M.P., First Lord
of the Treasury.
Sheweth:
That your Memorialists represent a Parish having a population
of 66,216, and a rateable value of £430,851, equal to that
of many large and important provincial towns.
That your Memorialists deeply regret that Clerkenwell has
not been included in the first schedule of the Bill as an area