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Hackney Carriage Standing, St. John Street
Road.—The Commissioner of Police appointed
a standing for three hackney carriages in St. John
Street Road, opposite the "Angel" Hotel.
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, &c.—
The Vestry had under consideration the advisability
of insuring against accidents which may
happen to the Vestry's employees in the discharge
of their various duties, and they accepted the offer
of the Law Accident Insurance Society, Limited,
to insure the Vestry against liability under the
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, the Employers'
Liability Act, 1880, Common Law without
limitation, and Lord Campbell's Act, for the sum of
£12,000 per annum, at the rate of 5s. per cent.
Library Rate.—The Vestry requested the
Solicitors to advise them whether they still have
power to make a Library Rate of a lesser sum than
1d. in the pound, or whether there is anything in
the Order transferring the powers from the Commissioners
to the Vestry which makes it imperative
at all times to make a rate of 1d. in the pound.
Their advice was that the Vestry still have such
power under section 18, sub-section 2 (1) of the
Public Libraries Act, 1892, and that there is
nothing in the order of the Local Government
Board transferring the duties from the Commissioners
to the Vestry, or in the Local Government
Act of 1898, which, in their opinion, takes away or
interferes with this power, and that one of the
officials at the offices of the Local Government
Board whom they saw upon the subject took the
same view.
Combined Drainage.— Sewers and Drains Bill.—
Upon the receipt of a letter from the Holborn Board