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offer to carry out the examination of the accounts of the
Vestries and of the late Board of Works, to 25th March,
1888, for £58.
In the exercise of the authority conferred upon the Committee
by the Vestry on the 14th November, 1888, they
prepared and submitted under the Seal of the Vestry a
series of representations to Sir Thomas Chambers, Q.C.,
&c , &c., Recorder of London, and Returning Officer for the
London County Council Election, with the object of obtaining
the business relating to the Election of County Councillors
for Westminster being conducted at the Town Hall.
In response to the request, Sir Thomas Chambers received
a Sub-Committee, consisting of Mr. Churchwarden J. K.
Aston, Mr. Churchwarden C. C. Piper, Mr. Overseer Z. King,
Mr. Overseer F. Rose, and Mr. Baker, Chairman of the Town
Hall Management, as a Deputation, attended by the vestry
clerk, on the 6th December, when Sir Thomas Chambers
handed to the vestry clerk a document appointing him
Deputy Returning Officer for the Electoral Division of
Westminster, and expressed his full concurrence in the
representations made on behalf of the Vestry, which he
hoped would be fully carried into effect as the result of the
appointment then made.
Upon the receipt of the renewal notices in respect of the
premium on the guarantee policies of Mr. Aldin and Mr. T.
E. K. White the Committee had their attention called to
the practice of some of the offices of reducing the
rate of premium in cases where the policies had been
in existence for periods of five years and upwards, and of
reducing the rate where collective policies are taken for
two or more officers. The Committee thereupon caused
enquiries to be made of the Guarantee Society, and of the
Employer's Liability Assurance Corporation, and received
offers which represented a reduction upon the present rates of
£4 10s. per annum by the first named office and of £12 10s.
per annum by the latter. The Committee therefore, caused