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The Vestry
OF
The United Parish of Margaret and St. John
the Ebangelist, Westminster.
ANNUAL REPORT
For the year ended Lady-day, 1893.
EVERY effort to excite the interest of the parishioners
in the proceedings of the Vestry by means of their
Annual Reports having failed, the Vestry do not feel called
upon to present more than the briefest possible summary of
their proceedings as the report required by the statute.
The considerations which induced them to curtail the cost
of printing were recited in the last issue, wherein it was
stated that the average sale during each of the last four
years had been less than eight copies. In the twelve
months ended at Lady-day last only eleven copies were
purchased, although the 8,800 ratepayers had been individually
informed, as in previous years, by a memorandum
od the rate demand-notes, that copies were obtainable on
payment of two-pence each.
THE WARD ELECTIONS.
Besides the thirty-two vacancies caused by the effluxion
of time, one remained unfilled from the preceding election,
one was caused by death, and two by resignation. The
elections took place on 25th May, 1892, and on the following
day, when a poll was taken in Ward No. 3, of St. John's.
A seat remained vacant in this ward after the election in
consequence of a resignation having been received too late.
Twenty-three retiring members were returned to their
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