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which is to be a Borough, seeing that this Parish was recommended
by the Royal Commission of 1894 amongst areas that
were " ready for the immediate application of the proposal.'''
That in order to comply with section 1 of the Bill as to population
and rateable value, your Memorialists have very carefully
considered the question as to the Parish which could best
be joined to Clerkenwell for the purpose of making a suitable
area for a Metropolitan Borough-.
That they have resolved to petition in favour of being united
with the Parish of Saint Luke as being a Parish which has
much in common with Clerkenwell in the character of its inhabitants
and in the trades carried on therein, and as one with
which your petitioners have been closely associated for many
years in parochial life, which has resulted in a very neighbourly
and friendly spirit.
That if the prayer of your Memorialists is acceded to, the
conditions laid down in section 1 of the Bill will have been
complied with in both particulars; the united population being
107,743, and the rateable value being £815,134.
Your Memorialists therefore pray that you will include the
Parishes of Clerkenwell and St. Luke's in the first schedule
among the areas which are to be created Metropolitan Boroughs.
And your Memorialists will ever pray.
A. MILL WARD,
Chairman of the Vestry.
Signed with the Common Seal of the Vestry.
By Order,
G. RAY BROWN,
Vestry Clerk pro tem.
The Hon. W. F. B. Massey-Mainwaring, the
Member of Parliament for the Division, moved an
amendment to the Bill in the House of Commons,
viz.:—That the Parliamentary Divisions of Central
and East Finsbury be formed into a Metropolitan
Borough—which amendment was accepted and
incorporated in the First Schedule of the Bill.