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SCHEDULE.
DUTIES OK THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
To prepare the estimate for the Poor Kate and to ascertain the
amount necessary to be raised.
To superintend all matters connected with the collection of rates.
To examine the collectors' accounts, and from time to time to check
them with the receipts and the rate books.
To ascertain the defaulters to the rates and the deficiencies in the
collections, and to instruct the collectors with regard thereto.
To report annually to the Vestry, at one of its ordinary meetings in
April, the number of assessments under £40, and the number at £40
and upwards, upon which the February rates had been made.
To superintend the accounts, the manner of keeping the same,
and the pieparation of such abstracts and balance-sheets as may be
required.
To examine the account books, and to ascertain that all amounts
are duly paid to the credit of the Vestry.
To pay all bills, accounts, and claims.
To examine at its first meeting in October in each year the
several securities given to the Vestry under By-Law 37, and to report
thereon to the Vestry.
DUTIES OF THE GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE.
To take the entire management and supervision of the Vestry
Hall and offices, with power to order the execution of such works as it
may consider necessary without the previous sanction of the Vestry,
provided that the estimated cost shall not exceed £10.
To report on any Parliamentary Bills to which its attention may
have been directed.
To direct proceedings against keepers and owners of brothels.
To deal with cases of irregularity of attendance or default of duty
brought before it by the Vestry Clerk in accordance with By-law 35.
To make arrangements for the annual vacation of the clerks and
officers and to report the same to the A^estry.
DUTIES OF THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.
To superintend all matters relating to slaughter-houses, cow-houses,
bakehouses, diseased meat and unwholesome food.
To superintend the administration of the "Sanitary Act, 1860," as
amended by the " Sanitary Laws Amendment Act, 1874," with regard to
the registration of houses let in lodgings.