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to decide on the legal points raised, but agreed to sign a warrant in the
case of Mr. Pickford, pro forma, in order that the case might be taken
to a superior court for decision. In the case of the other defaulters,
they declined to sign warrants till Mr. Pickford's case was decided.
No further legal action however was taken.
The Report of the General Purposes Committee was presented to
the Vestry 011 its re-assembling after the recess, and was considerd
by it on the 23rd and 30th October, 1874, when after considerable
discussion, the resolutions now in force were adopted. As a result,
several items which had hitherto been charged to the rates ceased to be
so charged.
As has been already mentioned, the last Churchwardens' Rate was
made in 1874: the amount then collected appears to have been
sufficient to meet the needs of the Churchwardens for the year 1875-6
and 1876-7. The year 1877-8 is the first in which the expenses
incurred by the Churchwardens, pursuant to the resolutions of the
Vestry of October, 1874, were paid out of the General Rate. In that
year two requisitions were made by the senior Churchwarden; one,
accompanied by details, was for the exact amount of the expenses
incurred in the preparation of the Jury List, and this appears as a
separate item in the Vestry Accounts; the other was for a lump sum
(£150), to meet the expenses of the Churchwardens' General Account.
In the following year, 1878-9, the course of events is very
interesting. On June 3rd, 1878, three separate requisitions were
made—one for a sum of £50 towards the expenses of keeping the
Chapel-of-Ease ground in decent order: another for a sum of £50
towards keeping the Parish Churchyard in decent order, and a third
for a sum of £100 for payment on the Churchwardens' General
Account. On July 20th two separate requisitions were made—one for
a sum of £50 for keeping the Parish Churchyard in decent order, and
another for a sum of £50 for keeping the Chapel-of-Ease ground in
decent order. On November 7th, one requisition was made for a sum
of £50 for payments Churchwardens' General Account balance of
expenses preparing Jury List. On March 10th, 1879, two separate
requisitions were made—one for a sum of £50 to keep the Parish
Churchyard in decent order, and another for a sum of £50 to keep the