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Extract from Minutes of 2nd August, 1889.
That the By-Laws Committee be instructed to take into consideration
the duties of the Accounts Committee, with a view of revising
the same, and incorporating the following among their duties.
(а) To ascertain and report at each Ordinary Meeting of the
Vestry, the amount of cash in hand.
(б) To examine and report the accounts they have passed and
certified as correct, and recommend for payment.
(0) To examine the rate books when made up and balanced,
and to report the amount of rates out-standing, the
amount received during the quarter, and the amount
of arrears and defaulters, and generally to superintend
all matters connected with the collection of rates.
(d) To report the estimates of all rates to be made by the
Vestry, for the consideration of the Vestry, and the
periods within which such rates should be collected.
(e) Annually to report to the Vestry, all the various liabilities,
including contracts not completed, and assets of the
Vestry, and also to make a schedule of all mortgages
and prospective liabilities, and lay the same before the
Vestry.
(/*) To advise the Vestry on all matters of finance, especially
those matters relating to rates and rateable value of
the Parish.
(g) To pay all cheques for amounts ordered for payment by
the Vestry, the cheques shall be drawn by the Vestry
Clerk, or Vestry Clerks, and placed before the Finance
Committee for signature.
(/i) Three members of the Committee shall sign the cheques
payable by the Treasurer, and ordered by the Vestry,
and such cheques shall be countersigned by the Clerk,
as provided by By-Law 14, and shall be paid to the
creditors of the Vestry in such way as the Finance
Committee may direct. All cheques shall be crossed
"and Co." and payable "to order" where practicable.
(1) To carry out all financial or other operations, or orders
delegated to it by the Vestry.
(?) To enquire annually into the securities of all Officers, and
report thereon to the Vestry, setting forth any change
which may have taken place since the last inspection.
(k) To cause to be printed annually and circulated among the
Vestrymen an abstract of accounts, duly audited, as