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Commons (Metropolis) Bill.
Revising Barristers Qualifications Bill.
Railways Clauses Bill.
Representation of the People Bill.
Elective Franchise Bill.
Superannuation ( Officers Metropolitan Vestries and District Boards. J
Church Rates Commutation Bill.
As to the Care and Maintenance of the Fire Engines of
the Parish.
By the Act of the 28th Victoria, cap. 90, the duty of extinguishing
fires and protecting life and property in case of fire, and the care
and maintenance of the Fire Engines, &c., for the metropolis, was
entrusted to the Metropolitan Board of Works, from the 1st. January,
1866, and the Board not having completed the necessary arragements
for the carrying out the Act of Parliament, requested the Vestry to take
upon themselves the care of the Engines, Station, &c., until the 1st.
July, 1866.
The Vestry upon such application took upon themselves the
care of the Engines, &c., appointed an Engineer at £2 2s. 0d. a week,
with an Assistant at £1 5s. a week; and also entered into an agreement
for a horse and driver, to horse the Engine at all times, either day
or night, at £1 per week.
The Churchwardens at the desire of the Vestry, have taken upon
themselves the payment of all expenses connected with the Fire Engines,
to be repaid by the Vestry.
The amount expended for the three months, to March 31st., is
£65 6s. 5d.