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Erection of Town Hall.
The following is the Report of the Vestry Hall Committee, as submitted
to the Vestry on the 23rd January, 1865, and adopted.
REPORT of the Vestry Hall Committee of the Vestry
of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
Your Committee have to Report as follows:
That upon the purchase of the site in rear of Fuller's Hospital
being approved by the Vestry, the matter was referred back to the
Committee, "to take the necessary steps to investigate the title and
complete the purchase of the property."—" To make the Charity Trustees
an offer of £2,500 for the site of Fuller's Hospital, Old Street Road,"—
and "to consider the probable amount of money required for the purchase
of the property and the erection of a Vestry Hall, and to take the
necessary steps to apply to the Metropolitan Board for the sanction for
borrowing the same."
As to the Completion of the Purchase.
Mr. Mills, the Solicitor, has informed the Committee, that the title
to the land purchased is unobjectionable, and that the draft conveyance
has been prepared, and is now before the several parties to join in the
conveyance for their approval, and that in a very short time the purchase
may be completed.
The committee have made arrangements with the vendors that the
rents shall be collected as usual, and that matter will be arranged at the
settlement of the purchase.
As the necessary amount cannot be borrowed under the sanction of
the Metropolitan Board in time to pay the balance of purchase money,
your committee would recommend that it should be referred to the
Finance Committee, to consider if any portion of the balances standing
on the several accounts of the Vestry might not be made temporarily
available for that purpose.