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The duties of this Committee which occupied much of
the time at their ordinary meetings were the examination
and checking of the Vestry's account books, and the contractors'
and other creditors' accounts, the payment of
instalments under precepts, of wages and salaries, and
generally the supervision of the financial business of the
Vestry.
The Committee, towards the end of the financial year,
gave their close attention to the preparation of the estimates
of the sums required from the ratepayers for the relief
of the poor (including the expenses of the recently created
London County Council vice the Metropolitan Board of
Works), the School Board for London, and the requirements
of the parish for paving, lighting, street cleansing and sewering,
as well as for meeting the wants of the Library Commissioners
in the maintenance of the Free Public Library.
The Committee were authorised to invest the sum of
£615, bequeathed by the late Mr. Barlow for the maintenance
of public urinals, £631 11s. 7d. of new 2¾ per cent.
Consols being purchased.
A scheme for the consolidation of the parochial charities
was forwarded to the Vestry by the Charity Commission
on the 19th December, 1888. The Finance Committee were
authorised to make such representations thereon as they
might deem expedient. The Committee reported their
proceedings upon the draft scheme and the amendments
which they had proposed to the Charity Commission, to the
Vestry at its meeting on 27th February, 1889, their action
receiving the approval of the Vestry by 34 votes to 8.
In order to give effect to the resolution of the Vestries
on the 26th July, 1886, as to the examination of the accounts
by chartered accountants, the Committee enquired of
Messrs. E. Moore & Son as to the terms upon which they
would perform the service upon the specification approved by
the Vestries on December 22nd, 1884, and accepted their