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recited at considerable length two years ago, in the ThirtySecond
(and last) Annual Report of the Board of Works
for the Westminster District, at pp. -9 to 35.
After so recent a recital nothing more need be said here
than that the union of the two parishes of St. Margaret
and St. John the Evangelist for purposes of civil administration,
which took place in 1752, was confirmed in
1855, and was rendered more complete by the Amending
Act of 1887, by which it was declared that the two parishes
were henceforth to be considered as "one parish." The
word "parish" as hereafter used is therefore intended
to refer to the entire area over which the powers of the
Vestry extend, including the detached ward or "hamlet"
of Knightsbridge.
For the information of the parishioners, and in conformity
with the requirements of the 198th section of the
principal Act governing. its proceedings, the Vestry
has to publish an epitome of its proceedings during the
twelve months ended on the 25th March, 1890, being the
second year of the administration of the Vestry as incorporated
by the Act of 1887, the thirty-fourth year under
the Metropolis Local Management Act of 1855, and the
three hundred and fifth* (at least) year of its existence.
The epitome is supplemented by the reports of the medical
officer of health and the surveyor, together with copies of
the financial statements as certified by the auditors, and
numerous statistical tables and summaries relating to the
business of the year.
THE WARD ELECTIONS.
After the publication of the statutory notices, the elections
in the six Wards into which the parish is divided, to
fill the vacancies caused by one-third of the members going
* The earliest "minute book" of the Vestry dates from 1585. The exact
date of the constitution of the Vestry cannot be ascertained with certainty;
it was probably between 1561 and 1585.