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OLD fvORKHOUSE PREMISES, LIVERPOOL ROAD.
In January last a communication was received from the Guardians
of the Poor, stating that they had been called upon to provide a
Register Office for the parish, and asking the Vestry to agree to
a piece of the old workhouse land leased by the Guardians to the
Vestry and fronting the Liverpool Road being utilized for the purpose.
The Guardians further proposed to assign a portion of the yard at the
rear of the premises to the Vestry, and to allow the latter body to use
the rest of the yard during their pleasure.
The offer of the Guardians was accepted by the Vestry on the
recommendation of its General Purposes Committee, and the necessary
legal documents are now in course of preparation.
CHURCHWARDENS' EXPENDITURE.
The question of the Churchwardens' expenditure evoked considerable
attention in the Vestry in the year 1874 when certain
resolutions were passed, and in consequence of proceedings then taken
(the Vestry being advised that certain items which had theretofore been
paid for out of the rates could not be enforced) the Churchwardens'
rate was discontinued, and such items as were considered legal were
thenceforth included in the General Rate.
Early in 1890 the Accounts Committee submitted a report to
the Vestry, a copy of which will be found in the Appendix, calling
attention to some items of expenditure in the previous Churchwardens'
Accounts and to certain contemplated expenditure, the legality of
which the Committee doubted, and recommending that, until such
doubts 'were cleared up by Counsel's opinion, the resolutions passed
by the Vestry in 1874, copies of which are included in the report,
should be rescinded. It will be seen from the report that the
Committee also recommended the Vestry to rescind the resolution
passed on the 3rd January, as to the wall surrounding the Chapelof-Ease
grounds, which is referred to on page 49, and directed a
special meeting of the Vestry to be convened for the purpose.