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printing of the Vestry Minutes, the regulation of questions, the
appointment of Special Committees and other bodies, the closure,
preventing the obstruction of business, and for ensuring open tendering,
all of which will it is hoped tend towards efficiency and dispatch of
business.
WORKS COMMITTEE AND THE DIVISION OF THE
PARISH INTO DISTRICTS.
The Works Committee created under the By-Laws just referred
to suggested some important changes prominent among which were
the appointment of one Surveyor-in-chief, the division of the Parish
into three districts for the regulation and control of its highways,
sewers and lighting, and the appointment of a Sub-Committee and
Assistant Surveyor for the immediate control of the work in each
district. The districts are as follows:—the northern comprising the
ward of Upper Holloway, the south-eastern comprising Highbury,
Canonbury, St. Peters and part of St. Mary's Ward, and the southwestern
comprising Lower Holloway, Thornhill, Barnsbury and the
remaining portion of St. Mary's Ward. This change, the necessity for
which had been some time felt, should certainly tend to greater
efficiency.
PRINTING OF VESTRY MINUTES.
Another important feature connected with the revision was the
introduction of a By-Law (No. 13) which provided that the minutes
of each meeting of the Vestry should be printed and a copy thereof
sent to each Vestryman with the notice of the next ordinary meeting.
Although a somewhat costly innovation, the advantage to members
of the Vestry and to the staff of having in their own hands for reference
a printed record of the proceedings, and the saving of time which was
formerly occupied in reading the minutes, may be said to justify the
expenditure.