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This circular, whatever other result it might have had,
gave rise to the following interesting correspondence
between the Elected Auditors and the School Board, which
may be allowed to speak for itself:—
School Board for London,
Victoria Embankment, W.C.,
llth December, 1891.
Sir,
I am directed by the School Board for London to forward you
a copy of a circular issued by the Vestry of St. Margaret and
St. John, Westminster.
I am further directed to request that you will take the necessary
steps to prevent the expenditure of money by the Vestry in
agitation in reference to the election of another public body.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
{Signed) G. H. CROAD,
R. E. H. Goffin, Esq., Cleric of the Board.
Auditor, Ward No. 2, St. Margaret's,
Palace Street, S.W.
The Town Hall, Caxton Street,
The Cleric to the Westminster, S.W.,
School Board for London, 15th December, 1891.
Sir,
We are duly in receipt of your letter of the 11th instant.
Without admitting your authority to address us upon the subject
of the Vestry's expenditure in relation to the issue of a circular,
or commenting on the needlessly peremptory tone of your letter,
we have agreed, being actuated by a sense of public duty, to
transmit the following observations thereon.
Under ordinary circumstances we should not have met until
the month of May, but we feel that to have held this matter over
until then might have been construed into indifference or unwillingness
on our part to look into the matter at once. We
have therefore held a special meeting.
We are quite unable to find anything tending to bias for or
against any person or party, or that the circular was used for the
purpose of "agitation," as your letter suggests. On the contrary,
it is satisfactorily established by the minutes of the Vestry
and its Finance Committee, which have been produced to us,
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