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Title: Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea [1860-1]
Author: Lahee, Charles
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FIFTH REPORT
OF THE
Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea,
IN THE
COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX,
APPOINTED UNDER THE
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT, 1855.
* * * * *
1860–1.
* * * * *
_Ordered to be printed September_ 24_th_, 1861.
* * * * *
LONDON:
C. & F. BELL, MACHINE PRINTERS,
(_By Appointment to the Vestry of Chelsea_),
133, KING’S ROAD.
* * * * *
1861.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of 2–26
Chelsea.
NO. APPENDIX.
1. List of Vestrymen, Auditors, and Officers, with 28–36
Plans and Descriptions of the Wards
2. Return of Members’ Attendances . . . _facing 36
page_
3. List of Parish Officers elected at Easter, 1860, 37
and of the Overseers previously nominated for
selection
4. List of Committees and Sub-Committees 38–41
5. Names and Places of Abode of the Clergy and 42–46
other Parochial Officers
6. Salaries, &c.—Return asked for by the Committee 47
of Works and for General Purposes
7. General Works and Revenue 48–49
8. Surveyor’s Return of General Works, and of Works 50
remain in progress
9. Chelsea Bridge Road 51–55
10. Lighting—Petition and Memorial 56
11. Dust, Ashes, &c.—Regulations for their Removal 57–59
12. Return of Proceedings taken for the Removal of 60
Nuisances, and for the Sanitary Improvement of
the Parish
13. List of Slaughter Houses in the Parish Licensed 61
October, 1860
14. Sewers Works and Revenue 62
15. Surveyor’s Return of Sewerage Works 63
16. The late Hans Town Commission 64
17. The late Chelsea Improvement Commission 64
18. Vestry Hall 65–76
19. Metropolis Local Management Act—Suggestions for 77–103
its Amendment
20. Chelsea Charities 104–106
21. Cremorne Gardens 107
22. “The Lots” 108–109
23. Chelsea Hospital Grounds 110–111
24. Thames Embankment—Petition in favour of the 112
“London Coal and Wine Dues Continuance Bill”
25. Horse Ride in Kensington Gardens—Petition to the 112
Queen
26. Local Magistracy—Correspondence with the Lord 113
Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex
27. Parochial Assessments Bill—Petition against 114
28. Houses and Population in 1851 and 1861 compared; 115
with some other Statistics
29. Enfranchisement of the Parish of Chelsea 116, 117
30. Water Companies’ Accounts 118, 119
31. An Account in Abstract of Receipt and 120–123
Expenditure
32. Establishment Charges 124
33. Reports of the Auditors, 1860 and 1861 125, 126
34. Interest Account 127
35. A Statement of all Arrears of Rates, &c. 128
36. A Statement of all Moneys excepting Rates, &c. 129
37. A Statement of all Mortgages, &c. 130
38. A Statement of all other Debts and Liabilities 131, 132
39. Balance Sheet 133
40. A Statement of the Amount of all Contracts, &c. 134, 136
41. Bye Laws 137–140
FIFTH REPORT
OF THE
Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea,
_For the Year ended March_ 25_th_, 1861.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND ESTABLISHMENT ARRANGEMENTS.
The result of the ward elections on the 29th of May, 1860, was to effect
the following changes in the constitution of the board:—
RETIRING MEMBERS.
Mr. BOWERS Mr. LEETE Mr. THIRST
,, BURTON ,, OSBORN ,, TILL
,, BUTT ,, PITT ,, WAIN
,, CARTER ,, PORTER ,, WATKINS
,, COMPTON ,, RABBITS WHITEHEAD
,, CURRY ,, E. RICHARDS ,, R. WOOD, and
,, GABLE ,, G. W. RICHARDS ,, YAPP.
,, JACKSON
MEMBERS RE-ELECTED.
Mr. BUTT Mr. LEETE Mr. THIRST
,, COMPTON ,, OSBORN ,, TILL, and
,, GABLE ,, RABBITS WAIN.
NEW MEMBERS.
Mr. BADCOCK Mr. GURNEY Mr. PARKER
,, BLAZDELL ,, HULSE ,, ROOPE
,, DELANY ,, LAWRENCE ,, WALKER, and
,, DOUBELL ,, OXFORD ,, L. E. WOOD.
,, FOY
Descriptions, with plans, of the several wards, with the names and
addresses of the members of the vestry representing them, of the auditors
of the accounts, and of the officers, as required by the Act to be given
in each report, will be found in the Appendix No. 1 (pages 28 to 36).
At Easter, 1860, the usual election of churchwardens, sidesmen, church
trustees, and auditors of the church trustees’ accounts took place; their
names and addresses, together with those of the persons previously
nominated as fit to serve the office of overseers of the poor, and
submitted for the choice of the magistrates in special sessions, will be
found in the Appendix No. 3, (page 37).
The vestry on Easter Tuesday also elected John Moore Segar, son of John
Moore Segar deceased, for admission into the parochial charity school,
pursuant to the will of the late John Chamberlayne, Esquire.
The return usually ordered by the board previous to the annual election,
showing the attendances of each member, is reprinted in the Appendix No.
2 (and faces page 36); but as the period embraced in that return does not
entirely correspond with the parochial year, the tabular arrangement
commenced in the last report is continued:—
From March Vestry Committee Evening Average
25th to Meetings. Meetings. Committees. Attendances
March 25th. At
Vestries.
1856–7 50 52 nil 23
1857–8 53 59 31 23
1858–9 45 85 37 27
1859–60 45 92 32 25
1860–1 44 109 74 28
A list of the members who have served upon the various committees, and
sub-committees, during the year, is given in the Appendix No. 4 (pages 38
to 41); and the list annually issued by the vestry clerk, containing the
names and places of abode of the parochial clergy and lay officers,
immediately follows it. Appendix No. 5 (pages 42 to 46).
In November, 1860, in consequence of the numerous additional matters
connected with the new building, into which the vestry had now removed,
requiring the hall-keeper’s attention, the clerk reported that the
messenger’s duties were not satisfactorily performed, and the subject
being referred to one of the standing committees for consideration, a
youth was appointed upon their recommendation at ten shillings per week
to commence with.
During this year the vestry have contemplated some alterations in the
salaries of the officers, and upon the application of Mr. J. E. Salway,
one of the office clerks, for increased remuneration, in December, 1860,
referred the whole question of their duties and salaries to the committee
of works and for general purposes for consideration. That committee for
the purpose of comparison, and in order to have some data before them
upon which to form a satisfactory opinion, requested Mr. Tite, M.P., to
move the House of Commons for a return from each vestry and district
board in the metropolis, of its population; number of houses; extent of
its area; aggregate length of its streets; and the value of property, as
assessed to live county rate, and the poor rate. The committee wished
this return also to show the number of meetings held during the year,
whether of the full board or of committees, or sub-committees; as well as
the names and salaries of the officers, with particulars of any other
benefits enjoyed by them: and that this information might be tabularly
arranged in the order of the amount of population of each place. See
Appendix No. 6 (page 47).
Mr. Tite however replied that Sir John Shelley had moved for such a
return, referring to one similar to that printed at page 69 in the second
report, but as the return moved for by Sir John Shelley differed from
that suggested by the committee, in several important particulars, the
vestry requested Mr. Tite to obtain the introduction into it of the
additional information.
The act for regulating the supply of gas to the metropolis rendered it
necessary that the vestry should consider the appointment of a Gas
Examiner; and having themselves determined to put in operation in this
parish the act for preventing the adulteration of articles of food and
drink by appointing an Analyst; a committee was appointed in March, 1861,
to confer with Dr. Barclay as to his acceptance of the latter office, and
the terms upon which he would undertake its duties, having regard to his
diminished duties as medical officer of health. This Committee was
amalgamated with one appointed subsequently, and specially, to consider
the duties and salary of the medical officer of health, to whom was
referred also, the question of the appointment of the gas examiner.
In consequence of the heavy amount of the solicitors’ (Messrs. Lee and
Pemberton) bill for the year 1859–60, which included the greater part of
the law charges in the actions brought against the vestry by the London
Gas Light Company and Mr. Hornsby, the contractor, those gentlemen
suggested in the following letter to the vestry clerk that they should be
taxed:—
44, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C., London,
18th May, 1860.
Dear Sir, We have given the subject of our Mr. Pemberton’s
conversation with you respecting our bill of costs, mature
consideration, and feeling the delicate position in which the vestry
are placed as trustees accountable to their constituents, we would
suggest that for the future all our bills be referred to Mr. Richard
Dax, of the Temple, barrister at law, for taxation, and to certify
the amount properly payable to us. This course is adopted by the
Great Western and North Western railway companies, the Oxford,
Worcester and Wolverhampton railway company, the Shrewsbury railway
company, the Metropolitan railway company now in course of formation,
all of whom refer their solicitors’ bills to Mr. Dax for the
satisfaction of the shareholders, and we believe it to be the
practice with nearly all railway and other large companies; should
the vestry resolve to do so, we shall feel great pleasure in
submitting our bills to Mr. Dax, and being bound by his certificate,
as it is extremely distasteful to us that any doubt should exist in
the minds of the vestry as to the propriety or amount of any item
charged by us, which however there almost necessarily must be, from
the technical manner in which solicitors are obliged to make out
their bills. We ought to add, that we have no sort of personal
acquaintance with Mr. Dax, who is the son of the late Master of the
Exchequer, and a well known author and authority on the subject of
solicitors’ costs. Should the vestry adopt our suggestion, we must
ask to be allowed to make out the bills now before them, afresh, as
they are not framed for taxation, and that in future, our bills
should be delivered half-yearly and paid within a short time after
they have been certified, and we remain, dear Sir, your’s faithfully,
LEE & PEMBERTON.
The vestry, having accepted the proposal, returned the bills to the
solicitors as desired, and requested Mr. Finch, a solicitor and a member
of the vestry, to attend the taxation. This, after a strong protest from
the solicitors, he did; and the accounts amounting to £914. 3s. 5d., as
originally delivered, were settled by Mr. Dax at £998. 8s. 7d., including
the costs of taxation.
The law costs for the present year have been submitted to the same
process, and have been certified by Mr. Dax to be correct at the amount
at which they were sent in,—viz., £177. 1s. 6d.
Mr. Miles having been elected to preside at eighty-three meetings, out of
the one hundred and fifty-three held during the year, his services as
chairman were again acknowledged by a vote of thanks on the twenty-first
of May. The thanks of the vestry have been also given during the year to
Mr. Perry on the eighth of May, for his exertions as delegate at the
metropolitan and county association for the equalization of the poor
rates; and to Mr. Foy on the fourth of December, for the tasteful way in
which the decorations of the vestry hall, on the occasion of the
inauguration dinner were carried out by him.
GENERAL WORKS.
Appendix No. 7 (pages 48–49), represents the cost, during the past year
under the several sub-heads of paving, lighting, watering, cleansing,
&c., and the provision made for meeting the same, by orders upon the
board of guardians.
The surveyor’s return upon this subject forms Appendix No. 8 (page 50).
PAVING.
The cost of the item of paving during the past year, exceeding the
estimate by four hundred and fifty pounds, has been unusually
heavy,—viz., £3042 2s. 10d., after allowing for the sum chargeable to the
several public companies and others for works executed for them. This is
about twelve hundred and fifty pounds more than the cost of the same item
of expenditure in the year 1856–7, after making the same allowances;
upwards of four hundred pounds more than in 1857–8, eight hundred pounds
more than in 1858–9, and six hundred pounds more than last year. It has
been occasioned mainly by the purchase of the following materials, and by
works executed in the places hereinafter named:—
Broken Granite for Roads £1558 7 10
Flints for ditto 238 3 1
Gravel for ditto 137 0 6
Lombard and Duke Street . . . Works executed 177 15 9
by Contractors for Masons’ Work
Hans Street . . . ditto 29 9 0
Queen’s Road East . . . ditto 30 1 6
Lower Sloane Street . . . ditto 13 9 5
Green’s Row . . . ditto 170 10 1
Ann’s Place, Milman’s Row . . . ditto 27 13 9
George Street . . . ditto 260 18 5
Moore Street . . . ditto 19 1 3
King Street . . . ditto 10 10 10
Milman’s Row . . . ditto 10 0 0
King’s Road—_various parts_ . . . ditto 49 1 2
Halsey Street . . . ditto 13 15 0
Walton Street . . . ditto 17 7 9
Sloane Street . . . ditto 17 10 6
Queen’s Road West . . . ditto 24 8 7
Caversham Street . . . ditto 57 4 1
Robert Street . . . ditto 34 3 3
Stone sent to the Depôt . . . ditto 36 5 9
In the last report it was stated that the question at issue between the
Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c., and the vestry, as to the
taking charge and maintenance of the Chelsea Bridge Road, was in an
unsatisfactory state, and the position of that question was stated in the
appendix to the fourth report (No. 9), at pages 45 to 52, up to the
receipt of Mr. Austin’s letter of the 27th June, 1860. The proceedings
since that date will be found in the Appendix to this report, No. 9
(pages 51 to 55).
LIGHTINGS
The Metropolis Gas Act received the royal assent on the 28th August,
1860: it contains fifty-seven clauses, many of them most important for
the protection of public and private consumers. By the twenty-seventh
section of the act (23 & 24 Vic., cap. 125) the vestry are required to
provide apparatus for testing the illuminating power and purity of the
gas, and to appoint a competent person as examiner; and by the same
section the gas companies are required to erect, at a distance not less
than one thousand yards from their works, experimental meters with the
necessary apparatus for testing the illuminating power of the gas
supplied. In alleged compliance with this requirement the London Gas
light company have appointed a testing station at the house No. 73,
Besborough Street, Pimlico.
Mr. Hughes {8} observes with reference to this twenty-seventh section,—
“There was some discussion as to the propriety of making the
requirements of this clause compulsory instead of merely permissive.
After the fullest consideration however, it was thought essential,
with the view of avoiding discussions in vestries, and especially
with the view of counteracting the underhand and secret influence
which the gas companies exert in many vestries and district boards,
to make the clause compulsory. There are many instances on record,
where powers are given to local authorities, and yet these powers,
although highly important to the public interests, have never
hitherto been exercised. Hence an additional reason for positively
requiring them to provide apparatus, &c., for testing the gas, and to
appoint and pay an inspector for the purpose. It is true that no
time is fixed within which the apparatus is to be provided and the
inspector appointed, but I apprehend it will be competent for any
ratepayer to compel, by mandamus, the performance of this duty by any
vestry or district board, within a reasonable time.
“The second section of the clause imposes an obligation on the gas
companies—namely, that each of them shall within six months erect at
the prescribed distance from their works, an experimental meter and
other apparatus for testing the illuminating power of the gas.
“Now these two obligations, the one on the local authorities of the
metropolis, and the other on the gas companies, must not be
confounded, because they are perfectly distinct, and the one is not
to be a substitute for the other. In the first place each local
authority in the metropolis—_i.e._, each vestry and district board,
about thirty-eight in number, constituted under the Metropolis Local
Management Act, is to erect its own apparatus, and appoint its own
inspector; and from future clauses it appears that the act
contemplates a continuous and regular succession of testing by this
inspector, both for purity and illuminating power. The evidence of
this inspector however as to any defects in the gas, will not be
conclusive until his report has been confirmed by testing the gas at
the prescribed distance of 1000 yards from the works. Hence the
necessity for the obligation on the company. The next clause will
better explain the mode of proceeding by the inspector, whenever he
finds the gas to be below the prescribed standard of illuminating
power. With reference to purity there is nothing about testing for
this at the distance of 1000 yards, and therefore the test for this
may be made wherever the inspector pleases.
“With respect to the number of separate places for testing the gas,
inasmuch as there are thirteen companies included within the act, and
each must provide a testing house 1000 yards distant from their
works, there must evidently be not less than thirteen of these. {9}
But if each local authority also erects a separate one at some
central part of its district, thirty-eight of these will be
necessary. A power is afterwards given for two or more local
authorities to combine, and then the number will probably be somewhat
diminished.
“All this necessity for a duplicate set of testing establishments is
rendered essential by the absurd requirement of the act as to testing
the gas at 1000 yards distance from the works. Now as the erection
of this apparatus by the companies and the establishment of a
permanent testing place away from their works will be very expensive
to the companies, it is just possible they may be very glad to be
relieved from this expense, and may consent to the testing at the
establishment of the local authority being sufficient evidence of the
illuminating power as well as the purity of the gas. This is the
more probable as it must be perfectly well known to the companies—at
least to their engineers—that so far as the company is concerned the
gas may just as well be tested in the centre of any district
supplied, as at the limited distance of 1000 yards from the works.”
Under the provisions of the fiftieth section of this act, the duty is
imposed upon the Metropolitan Board of Works of raising the costs and
charges incident to its passing; and that board have accordingly levied
under their precepts upon the several vestries and district boards, the
necessary amounts for meeting the claims received.
The accounts sent in by the various parties were submitted to the proper
officer of the House of Commons for taxation with the following result:—
Accounts sent in. Amount Certified by Costs Allowed. Board to Pay.
Taxing Officer.
£ _s._ _d._ £ _s._ _d._ £ _s._ _d._ £ _s._ _d._
Mr. Dangerfield 89 19 6 62 6 0 3 11 8 65 17 8
Mr. Wyatt 3666 0 4 3033 18 10 None. 3033 18 10
Mr. Beal . . . £2685 13 6 1272 13 6 676 11 7 None. 676 11 7
Less paid by Mr. Wyatt .
. . 1413 0 0
5022 13 4
House Fees on Taxation to be paid by Dyson & Co., (as Parliamentary Agents) 42 0 0
3818 8 1
The proportion of the above with which this parish is debited by the
precept of 1861 is £106 16s. 5d., but that proportion is based upon the
amount of the accounts as sent in; as reduced by taxation it will only be
£81 12s. 8d. But as the vestry has already contributed two hundred
pounds to Mr. Beal in answer to his various appeals, and expended upwards
of twenty pounds in making experiments as suggested by him, they will
have a large sum to receive back
In November, 1860, a proposal was made by the vestry of St. James’,
Westminster, to recognize the services of Messrs. Beal and Hughes
throughout the enquiry into the supply of gas to the metropolis, and the
passing of the recent measure by raising some fitting testimonial, and a
committee of that vestry having been appointed to carry it out, Messrs.
Hall and Perry were deputed to confer with them as to the best mode of
doing so.
The Bill to amend the Metropolis Gas Act, {11} introduced by the
government into parliament for transferring to the metropolitan board of
works, so far as regards the metropolis, the powers conferred by the acts
for regulating measures used in the sale of gas (22 & 23 Vic., cap. 66,
and 23 & 24 Vic., cap. 146) upon the justices of the peace, of appointing
inspectors of meters, having received the royal assent (24 & 25 Vict.,
cap. 79), it will be the duty of that board to take the necessary steps
for carrying it into execution. To aid in accomplishing this transfer,
the vestry on the tenth July, 1860, expressed their opinion that the
appointment of inspectors of meters in the metropolis would be best
placed in the hands of the metropolitan board of works, and petitioned
parliament and memorialised the justices of the peace upon the subject.
See Appendix No. 10 (page 56).
The number of public lamps in the parish on the 25th March, 1861, was as
follows—
Lighted by the London Gas Company 696
,, Western ditto at Kensal Town 30
726
WATERING AND SCAVENGERS.
The following tabular statement shows the cost of these two services for
the last five years:—
From March to March. Watering. Cleansing. Total.
1856–7 £1109 5 10 £1977 19 4 £3087 5 2
1857–8 709 13 8 1563 9 3 2273 2 11
1858–9 941 4 0 1143 15 0 2084 19 0
1859–60 1192 1 2 1218 18 5 2410 19 7
1860–1 1126 0 7 1145 12 6 2271 13 1
The contractors were fined £40 10s. for neglect during the year.
IMPROVING.
The principal charges under this head are for works over the Ranelagh
sewer at Sloane Square in rebuilding the south wall; and in fencing the
enclosure opposite Royal Avenue Terrace.
REMOVING NUISANCES.
The removal of the dust, ashes and refuse from the houses of the
inhabitants, and the public courts and alleys during this year has cost
£311 2s. An alteration in the form of the contract as to the mode of
executing the works by which the parish is divided into daily districts,
was made during this year, which has very greatly lessened the public
inconvenience, and consequently the number of complaints. See Appendix
No. 11 (page 57).
SANITARY MEASURES.
The return of the proceedings taken by the vestry under the metropolis
local management act and the nuisances removal act, as required by the
former statute to be published, will be found in the Appendix No. 12
(page 60).
Forty-seven slaughter houses in the parish were licensed by the
magistrates in October, 1860, not one having been opposed by the vestry.
A list of them is given in the Appendix No. 13 (page 61).
The tenant of No. 3, Queen’s Road East, having been detected in
slaughtering upon his premises which were not licensed for that purpose,
the attention of the board was called to the subject, but as it appeared
that he had been acting under the impression that the premises were
licensed, in place of other proceedings, a letter of warning was written
to him, and the offence was discontinued.
The notices of the vestry having been neglected by Mr. Peter Augustus
Halahan, owner of Nos. 1 to 10, Wickham Place, application was made under
the nuisances removal act to the magistrate and his orders obtained for
the execution of the necessary works; these orders being also neglected
and nothing being done at the expiration of the time allowed, the clerk
was instructed to apply for the enforcement of the penalties provided by
the twenty-seventh section. The defendant was fined thirty-six shillings
and costs, and in default of payment was committed to prison.
A manuscript copy of all the reports made to the vestry by the medical
officer of health during the year is sent to the metropolitan board of
works with a copy of this report.
GENERAL RATES.
The orders issued by the vestry, and the rates made by the overseers (the
board of guardians) thereunder during the year, have been as follows:—
Date and Amount of Order issued by the Vestry. Date and Amount of Rateable Value of Gross Amount of
Rate issued by the Property charged. Rate.
Guardians.
1860, Mar. 13, £4800 Mar. 28, 6d. in £ £213,443 10 0 £5336 1 9
,, Oct. 23, 5600 Oct. 31, 7d. in £ 219,477 10 0 6401 8 6½
SEWERAGE WORKS.
Again no general sewers rate for local purposes having been made during
the year, there is a deficit upon this account, of one hundred and
fifty-five pounds nineteen shillings and one penny.
In the Appendix No. 14 (page 62), and No. 15 (page 63), will be found
statements giving particulars of a similar kind to those given under the
head of General Works.
The orders issued by the vestry for special sewers rates during the year,
and the rates made by the board of guardians in consequence, have been as
follows:—
Date and Amount of Order Date and Amount Rateable Value of Gross Amount of
issued by the Vestry. of Rate made by Property charged. Rate.
the Guardians.
Sept. 25 £24 11 10 Nov. 21 4d. in £1772 0 0 £29 10 8
£
,, 4 4 6 ,, 9d. in 120 0 0 4 10 0
£
,, 4 19 2 ,, 7d. in 168 10 0 4 18 3½
£
,, 4 16 6 ,, 3½d. in 412 0 0 6 0 2
£
,, 1 13 9 ,, 2d. in 325 0 0 2 14 2
£
APPLICATIONS.
During the period between the 26th March, 1860, and the 25th March, 1861,
the vestry have adjudicated upon forty-six applications for directions
upon the subject of house drainage, twenty-three of which had reference
to the drainage of twenty-five houses already built, and twenty-three to
forty-three intended houses and the new barracks at Pimlico; they have
also brought under the cognisance of the Commissioners of Police, the
dangerous condition of forty-five buildings, and have decided upon
seventeen miscellaneous applications. Of the applications so made,
fifty-nine have been granted, and four negatived.
Eight buildings have been commenced without previous notice to the
vestry, and their builders having been summoned before the board for
neglect, the explanations given by them, or their apologies, have in most
cases been considered satisfactory. Fourteen proposals have been made to
build before the general frontage line, and one hundred and three
obstructions and offences upon the public highway have been dealt with by
the Board.
THE LATE HANS TOWN COMMISSION, AND THE LATE CHELSEA IMPROVEMENT
COMMISSION.
Nos. 16 and 17 in the Appendix (page 64), explain the alteration which
these debts have undergone during the year.
No special rate has been necessary upon the Hans Town district, during
the past twelvemonth, but the order and rate made for the reduction of
the debt upon the remainder of the parish has been as follows:—
Date and Amount of Date and Amount of Rateable Value of Gross Amount of Rate.
Order issued by Vestry. Rate made by Property charged.
Guardians.
1860, Mar. 13 £1150 Mar. 28 2d. in £ £163,097 0 0 £1359 2 10
,, Oct. 23 920 Oct. 31 1½d. in £ 167,515 10 0 1046 19 5¼
VESTRY HALL.
The first meeting of the vestry in the new building took place on the
ninth of October, 1860, and shortly afterwards it was determined to
celebrate the public opening of the large hall with an inauguration
dinner. A committee being formed for the purpose the necessary
arrangements were made, and on the thirtieth of November one hundred and
twenty of the most influential parishioners, presided over by Viscount
Chelsea, with the county members as their guests, commemorated the
completion of a building, which it may be permitted the vestry to hope,
will be of service to the ratepayers and the parish. The report and
balance sheet of the dinner committee is printed in the Appendix No. 18
(pages 65–66).
After the dinner the first public use of the hall was given gratuitously
on three days to the Chelsea, Brompton, and Belgrave Dispensary, and by
means of an oratorio, “The Creation,” on one day; a lecture by the Rev.
J. B. Owen, of St. Jude’s Church, on another; and a concert on a third
day, that useful local charity realised nearly one hundred pounds.
Having obtained a license for public music and dancing, the applications
for the hire of the hall were soon found to be so numerous that a
committee was appointed to regulate the letting, and they drew up the
scale of charges which was approved by the vestry, and will be found at
page 67. A debtor and creditor account in connexion with the letting of
the hall will be also found at pages 68–69.
One of the most important applications referred to the letting committee
was from the proposed Literary and Scientific Institution, that the suite
of rooms on the east side of the building might be set apart for their
use. The letting committee made a special report upon the subject, to
the vestry on the eighteenth December, and a deputation from the council
of the institution, consisting of the Rev. F. Blunt, Messrs. McCullagh,
Lawrance and Mead, with Mr. Bull, the honorary secretary, had an
interview with the vestry. The report which is printed at page 70, read
in connection with the following resolution which was passed by the
vestry, will explain the nature of the engagement subsisting between the
two bodies:—“Resolved, that the suite of rooms upon the ground floor
(east side) including the lighting and warming of the same, and the use
of the Hall for forty nights during the year, including the lighting,
warming, and cleaning of the same, be let to the council of the
Institution for £50 per annum, payable half-yearly, from Christmas next.
The tenancy to be subject to six months’ notice of determination by
either party at any time.” A debtor and creditor account for one winter
quarter will be found at page 74.
Upon the application of the vestry, Sir R. Mayne, the chief commissioner
of police, appointed a standing for ten cabs at the King’s Road end of
Robert Street, exactly opposite the hall; but unfortunately the
post-office authorities were unable to comply with their request that a
pillar letter box might be placed near to the hall.
The vestry hall buildings are insured in the Union Assurance Office for
six thousand pounds; and the fixtures, fittings, and furniture, in the
Manchester Fire Assurance Office for seven hundred pounds.
Ten thousand pounds, the sum originally borrowed, not having been
sufficient to complete the building together with the fitting and
furnishing, an application was made to the metropolitan board of works
for their sanction to a further loan of two thousand pounds; and as it
was necessary to accompany that application with a statement of the
entire estimated cost, and to fortify it with a memorial from the vestry,
those documents, as they contain much matter of interest, are printed at
pages 75 and 72–73.
COUNTER’S CREEK DISTRICT.
Since the last report the sum assessed by the metropolitan board of works
upon this portion of the parish has been, for the year 1861, four hundred
and seventy-nine pounds, eleven shillings and eleven pence; but the
vestry have abstained from issuing their order to the board of guardians
for its collection. They have, however, in consequence of the receipt of
the following letter, upon the recommendation of the Finance Committee,
paid the amount for 1858:—
Metropolitan Board of Works,
1, Greek Street, Soho, W.,
17th October, 1860,
Dear Sir,—I am directed by the metropolitan board of works to
acquaint you that they have directed their attention to the subject
of the amounts outstanding on their precepts issued to the vestries
and district boards of the metropolis, and they desire me to apprize
you for the information of the vestry of Chelsea, that having been
unsuccessful in their attempt to carry a measure through Parliament
in the past session for conferring upon the board the necessary
powers to deal with the question of the redistribution of the
Counter’s Creek charges, they have had under consideration the
subject of the payment of the amount due from the vestry on the
precept for the ordinary expenses of the board for the year 1858,
being the sum of £447 4_s._ 2_d._ payment of which was, as you will
recollect, allowed to stand over until the re-apportionments of the
debts of the Commissioners of Sewers had been discussed in
Parliament. The board now feel that the time has arrived when it is
necessary that they should adopt measures for obtaining payments of
the amounts outstanding, and after an attentive consideration of the
facts of the case, and having regard to the arrangement with the
vestry in reference to the parish contributing to the cost of the
Counter’s Creek diversion sewer, the conclusion they have arrived at
as to the most convenient course to be adopted is, that the board
should proceed to appoint persons to make a rate on the parish in
default, for the amount due on the precept, and in the event of the
vestry continuing their objection to the payment, that some ratepayer
should then raise the question of the liability of the parish by an
appeal against the rate, on which a special case might be reserved
for the opinion of the Court of Queen’s Bench. I am directed to add
that the Board have deferred further proceedings in the matter for a
fortnight from the date of their last meeting, the 12th instant, in
order to afford the vestry an opportunity of paying the amount in
question should they think proper so to do; and meanwhile I am to
request that you will be good enough to lay this letter before the
vestry, and to favor me with a reply with the least possible delay.
I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, JOHN POLLARD, Clerk of the Board.
The amount assessed for 1859, four hundred and fifty-six pounds, nine
shillings and one penny, was paid by order of the board on the sixth
December, 1859, before any portion of it was received from the board of
guardians.
January, 1861, the metropolitan board were very pressing for payment of
the amount for 1860 (five hundred and eighteen pounds, nineteen
shillings, and one penny), threatening immediate proceedings if it were
not made before the 25th of that month; the vestry, however, appealed
through Mr Tite against this undue pressure, contrasting with it, the
treatment received by the vestry of Kensington, who were in arrear many,
if not all, of their instalments, and eventually the metropolitan board
consented to receive the amount of the precept for their ordinary
expenses of 1860 less this sum which was included in it. Thus it is that
the sums assessed for the first four years have been collected in the
district, and paid to the metropolitan board; but for the two last, 1860
and 1861, they have not been paid to the metropolitan board, nor have any
steps been taken to collect the money in the district.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.
The estimate upon which the sums were originally proposed to be raised by
the metropolitan board of works for the services of the year ending the
thirty-first of December, 1860, gives the following particulars as
applicable to this parish:—
£ _s._ _d._
Sewerage and Drainage 1168 17 1
Metropolis Improvements 411 5 2
General Purposes, viz.:—
Salaries, Wages, &c. 271 16 8
Printing, Stationery, &c. 45 14 6
Rent, Taxes, &c. 23 9 0
Repayment of Loans, &c., special:—
Principal 283 12 5
Interest 272 17 5
Ditto ditto, general:—
Clergy Mutual, £140,000 255 15 2
Bank of England, £400,000 351 14 10
Clergy Mutual, £42,000 31 16 1
Contingencies 40 0 11
£3156 19 3
This estimate, however, having been printed and sent to the various
vestries and district boards, underwent considerable discussion and some
modifications, the principal of which latter, were, that instead of
including the whole cost of the new buildings in Spring Gardens in the
precepts for 1860, it was determined to spread it over three years; an
item of £20,000 for deodorization was reduced to £10,000; the amount for
special charges was reduced by £5,000; and the sum of £2,000 was
substituted for £5,000 for minor improvements. These alterations, with a
credit of £364 10s. 10d. (the remaining portion of the £3053 16s. 3d.
adverted to in former reports), had the effect of diminishing the amount
required from this parish to £2239 10s. 9d., and it was thus apportioned
by the precept dated 11th May, 1860:—
£ _s._ _d._
The Whole Parish 1004 13 3
The Counters Creek District 518 19 1
The Ranelagh District 715 18 5
£2239 10 9
In September, the third precept for the Main Drainage rate was received,
amounting to £2928 2s.; and in the following February the ordinary
precept for 1861, £2580 1s. 4d.; therefore within the period comprised in
this report this parish has been required to provide for metropolitan
purposes the large sum of £7,747 14s. 1d.
The orders made by the vestry in pursuance of these precepts, and the
rates made by the board of guardians thereunder, are shewn in the
following table:—
Date and amount of Order of Vestry. Date and amount of Rate Rateable value of Gross amount of
made by Guardians. property charged. Rate.
WHOLE PARISH.
1860, July 2 £1004 13 3 Oct. 3rd ¼d. in the £ £219,477 10 0 £228 8 9⅜
1861, Apr. 9 £1499 12 6 May 1st. 2d. in the £ £220,927 0 0 £1839 3 8
RANELAGH DISTRICT.
1860, July 2 £715 18 5 Oct. 3rd 1d in the £ £184,992 0 0 £770 9 1½
1861, Apr. 9 £600 16 11 May 1st 1d. in the £ £186,421 0 0 £776 3 10
MAIN DRAINAGE.—WHOLE PARISH.
1860, Oct. 23 £2300 0 0 Oct. 31 3d. in the £ £219,477 10 0 £2741 5 3¾
The metropolitan board of works early in February of the present year
determined to re-introduce into parliament the bill for amending the
Metropolis Local Management Act, containing the same provisions as were
in the bill of last session, with the exception of the introduction of
certain clauses for the re-apportionment of the Rock Loan; but in
consequence of the strong opposition to those clauses, the board deemed
it expedient to withdraw them from the bill, and to embody them in a
separate bill, and the two bills were accordingly introduced into the
House of Commons. The first of them, after great delays, passed through
the House of Commons on the nineteenth of July, 1861, and was read a
first time in the House of Lords on the twenty-second of that month, but
in consequence of the advanced period of the session, it was found
impossible to procure its passage through the required stages in order to
its becoming law this year. The bill No. 2, having relation to the Rock
Loan, being strongly opposed by certain members of the House of Commons,
was withdrawn.
With respect to the abortive bill of 1860, the solicitors of the
metropolitan board reported: “We think it will be nearly correct to
estimate the expense to the board, exclusive of printing, &c. by the
printers of the board, and expenses of that kind, at about £1650.” It is
to be hoped that the failure of 1861 will be somewhat less costly.
The vestry of Chelsea have at various times responded to the invitation
of the metropolitan board for suggestions during the preparation of the
several bills for amending the Metropolis Local Management Act; for
convenience of reference, their labours in this respect will be found in
the Appendix No. 19, (pages 77 to 103).
CHELSEA CHARITIES.
On the twenty-second of May, 1860, upon the motion of Mr. Finch, a
committee, consisting of the rector (the Rev. A. G. W. Blunt), the
churchwardens (Dr. Diplock and Mr. Collier), three past churchwardens
(Messrs. Hall, Perry, and Leete), and Messrs. Whitehead, Jones, Miles,
Brown, Rabbits, E. O. Symons, Till, and Finch, was appointed to enquire
into the charities of the parish, the present particulars of the several
properties, and the application of the respective annual proceeds
thereof, and to report thereon. At the same time, the vestry clerk
reported that, at the request of the rector, he was making arrangements
preliminary to the appointment of new trustees, and laid before the
vestry the following letter from Mr. Druce:
Mr. Lahee,
Dear Sir, Doubtless you are aware that the information contained in
last Saturday’s “Chelsea Times” {20} was provided by me, as far as
concerned the Chelsea charities.
The article of this morning {20} would lead me to suppose that it was
taken to be the opinion of the writer of such information that under
present circumstances it would be to the advantage of the parish that
the vestry clerk should be a solicitor; nothing can be more foreign
to my opinion, and without compliment, I think the office is now in
very good hands. In the wicked old tory times on Easter Tuesday, a
man might blow out the steam of discontent, and tell a few truths
profitable to the parish to hear; now a few highly honourable and
sensible parishioners ‘make things pleasant’ in a comfortable room in
a house in the King’s Road. The money of the parish charities is not
properly looked after; for many months I have been trying to get the
late rector to put matters to rights, but without avail. Being
therefore left sole trustee for some portion, and knowing more than
most, about the parish school and trust funds, I thought I was the
proper person to light the match. Should the vestry appoint the
committee on charity affairs, I shall be happy to attend their
summons to give them any information in my power: and I think they
ought to have a committee, both on this subject and that of the
church trustees, and at least chronicle the exact state of facts;
for, seriously speaking, we owe ‘liberal opinions’ no small grudge
for shutting up Easter Tuesday. I do not recollect that in your
charity report {21} you mentioned the large sums belonging to the
charity schools, if you did, the vestry ought to have seen that the
trustees were dying out. From my experience of the working of the
parish charities, schools, &c., I am quite convinced that the vestry
should annually qualify themselves to issue a report on all charity
money. I have never found anything to make me think otherwise than
favourably of the honesty of all dealings with the charity money, but
I have found abundant reason to rest satisfied, that without some lay
assistance and watchfulness, all matters get into disorder,
especially where there are any accounts to keep. This letter is at
your service, and may be used as you think fit. I am, dear sir,
always yours very faithfully, WM. DRUCE. Swan Wharf, Chelsea, 14th
April, 1860.
The committee, favoured occasionally with the assistance of Mr. Druce,
and strengthened by the addition to it of Messrs. Butt, Tipper, and
Callow, have met upon numerous occasions, and are carefully pursuing
their enquiry.
CREMORNE GARDENS.
It will be recollected that towards the close of the season of 1858, the
vestry thought it necessary to remind Mr. Simpson, the proprietor of
Cremorne Gardens, of the arrangement made with them as to the conduct of
his gardens, particularly as to the hour of closing; and that Mr.
Simpson’s reply, although dated the 16th of August, was not received in
sufficient time to be considered until the meeting on the fifth of
October, when it was thought to be unsatisfactory. Last year the vestry
again moved in the matter, by reminding him of these promises, and
requesting to know before Monday, the tenth of September, whether it was
his intention to comply with their wishes and those of the parish, by
closing the gardens at twelve o’clock at night. No reply having been
received from Mr. Simpson at the meeting of the board on the eleventh of
September, it was moved by Mr. Delany that the report of the second of
November, 1857, which the vestry had refrained from making public in
consequence of the pledge on the part of the proprietor, that the gardens
should be closed as near to midnight as possible, and that in other
respects he would meet the wishes of the vestry, and the comfort of the
inhabitants, should be printed for the use of the vestry. The chairman,
however, having ruled that this motion was irregular, it was referred to
the committee of works and for general purposes to consider the whole
question, particularly with reference to the effect, a change in the
proprietorship, from an individual to a company, might have in increasing
the annoyance of the parishioners; and the report of the committee was
presented on the twenty-fifth of September.
That report, which is printed at page 107, recommended the publication of
the report of 1857, and the presentation of a petition to the licensing
magistrates that the hour of closing might be made twelve o’clock at
night, as was the case with other public gardens. A memorial from
forty-four owners of property and ratepayers residing near the gardens,
urging the vestry to act, was presented at the same time the report was
under consideration.
The vestry then decided, by a majority of 17 to 6, to present the
petition, but to withold the publication of the report of 1857; and the
solicitor being in attendance with a form of petition, which was
approved, the seal was affixed to it at once, and it was duly presented.
On the ninth of October, however, a day or two before the licensing day,
a communication was received from the solicitors, which induced the
board, on a division, by a majority of twenty-eight to eight, to pass the
following resolution:—
Resolved, that having regard to the communication now made by the
solicitors, from which it appears that the necessary evidence in
support of the petition cannot be obtained upon the present occasion,
the solicitors be instructed not to incur any further expense in the
matter, on the understanding that if the gardens should be kept open
after twelve at night, and the nuisance, annoyance, and injury to the
parishioners continue, this board, will in sufficient time next year
consider the necessary steps to be taken effectually to oppose the
application for the renewal of the license in 1861.
“THE LOTS.”
“The Lots,” a parcel of land so called lying on the banks of the river
{23a} in front of Ashburnham House, comprises about four acres, and is
the meadow ground formerly allotted to Sir Arthur Gorges by the Lord of
the Manor, in lieu of his right of common. {23b} These are, and have
been for centuries, the Chelsea Lammas Lands, and have hitherto been
accustomed to be opened on the twelfth of August, being the first day of
the month according to the Old Style. The graziers, butchers, and
others, with their cattle, used formerly to assemble in the lane leading
to “The Lots” on the eve of Lammas, and when the clock had struck twelve
they entered upon the meadow.
From the report of a committee, printed at page 108, appointed by the
vestry in the year 1834 to investigate the state of these town meadows,
when it was necessary _vi et armis_ to reassert the invaded privileges of
the inhabitants, it appears that “‘The Lots’ are Lammas land, and have
been for ages appurtenant to the manor of Chelsea. The Lord of the Manor
possesses the right of letting the land on lease for the spring and
autumn quarters, beginning with March and ending in August; and the
inhabitants at large enjoy the privilege of turning in their cattle from
August till February, being the autumn and winter quarters.” Railways,
however, and acts of parliament for smoothing down difficulties in their
way, have sprung up since those pastoral clays; and the Lord of the Manor
having sold his freehold to a railway company, the clerk called the
attention of the vestry, on the 8th of May, 1860, to the following
advertisement:—
West London Extension Railway Company.—Notice is hereby given, that a
Meeting of the Householders, Inhabitants, and Land-owners of the
Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, and other
persons interested in the Lammas Lands called “The Lots,” in the said
Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, will be held at the house of Mr. John
Sparks Alexander situate in Cremorne Road, in the said parish, and
known by the name or sign of the ‘King’s Arms,’ on Wednesday, the 9th
day of May next, at Eleven o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose
of appointing a Committee to treat with the Company for the
compensation to be paid by them for the extinction of the Lammas and
other Commonable Rights, in or over certain land called ‘The Lots’ in
the said parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, and which is required by the
Company for the purposes of the ‘West London Extension Railway. Act,
1859.’—Dated the 27th day of April, 1860.—EDWARD BELLAMY, Secretary
of the Company.
A meeting took place consequently on the 9th of May, at which the
following resolution was passed:—
Resolved, that Messrs. William Hall (church warden), John Perry,
James Miles, George Wevell Richards, and William Whitehead, being
five of the persons entitled to Lammas or other Commonable Rights
over or in the piece of land called ‘The Lots Meadow,’ otherwise
‘Chelsea Lot Mead,’ situate in the parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, in
the County of Middlesex, and containing by admeasurement three acres,
two roods, and thirty perches, or thereabouts, and marked or referred
to in the map or plan, and in the book of reference of the West
London Extension Railway, deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for
the said County of Middlesex, by the number 10 in the said parish of
St. Luke, Chelsea, shall be, and they are accordingly, in pursuance
of the provisions of the ‘Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,’
appointed to be a Committee having all such powers as by the ‘Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845’ are conferred upon Committees of
like description, to treat with the West London Extension Railway
Company for the compensation to be paid for the extinction of all
Lammas or other Commonable Rights over or in the said piece of land.
The important question of the boundaries of the parish has occupied
considerable attention during the past year, and has been the subject of
a reference to a sub-committee of the committee of works and for general
purposes, who have still the subject under consideration.
Various memorials and petitions have been presented during the year, to
which, as they sufficiently elucidate the subjects of them, and are
printed in the appendix (Nos. 23 to 27) no further allusion need be made
here.
The “Public Indicator” erected in Sloane Square by permission of the
board in May, 1860, was removed in the fallowing March, in consequence of
the failure of the proprietors to light it at night, and to provide the
promised clock. It is retained in the custody of the vestry, under a
clause in the agreement, as a lien for the expenses of its removal and
making good the paving.
Plans, books of reference, and parliamentary notices of the “London,
Buckinghamshire, and West Midland Railway” (whose intended terminus was
in the Pavilion grounds), and of “The London Tramway and Dispatch
Company,” were deposited with the Vestry, but both of their bills were
unsuccessful. Mr. Train also made an application to the vestry for
permission to lay down his tramways in Sloane Street and the King’s Road,
but its consideration has been adjourned _sine die._
On the twenty-ninth of January, 1861, Mr. Finch laid before the Board a
copy of a “Bill to Transfer the Seats in Parliament forfeited by the
Borough of St. Albans to the proposed Borough of Chelsea and Kensington,”
which Viscount Enfield, M.P. for Middlesex had given notice of his
intention to introduce in the House of Commons. Immediately the
Government {25} brought in their “Bill for the Appropriation of the Seats
Vacated by the Disfranchisement of the Boroughs of Sudbury and Saint
Albans,” which contained the following clause: “The parishes of Chelsea
and Kensington in the county of Middlesex shall, for the purposes of this
act, together form a borough, to be called the borough of Chelsea, and
such borough shall, from and after the said first day of November, 1861,
return one member to serve in parliament.”
An influential deputation from both parishes, accompanied by the two
county members, had an interview with Lord Palmerston on the fifth of
March, on the subject of the bill, and laid before his lordship various
statistical information (see appendix No. 29). But on a division in the
House of Commons on the tenth of June, the clause was rejected by a
majority of two hundred and seventy-five to one hundred and seventy-two.
Mr. Tite thus reported the circumstance to the board:—
42, Lowndes Square,
Tuesday Morning, 1 o’clock.
My dear Mr. Lahee,—I never was so taken by surprise as by the
division I have just left. The Government Bill was affirmed by two
large majorities, but when we came to the Chelsea question, to my
astonishment we were beaten by one hundred and three. The house was
excessively impatient, and would hardly listen to anything; but it
appeared to me Sir James Graham, whom they would hear, said all that
could be said on the subject. I was also astonished at some of those
I saw voting against us. I will send you the division list as soon
as I get it. The impression in the House _just now_ was that the
bill would be withdrawn, so in happier times we may have another
chance.—Yours very truly,
WILLIAM TITE.
P.S.—Rather sharp work for M.P.’s yesterday. I was on a committee
from 12 to 4, in the House from 5 to just now; to-day we begin again
at 12, I suppose until 2 o’clock Wednesday morning.
* * * * *
By order of the Vestry,
CHARLES LAHEE,
_Vestry Clerk_.
APPENDIX No. 1.
LIST OF VESTRYMEN, AUDITORS, AND OFFICERS,
WITH PLANS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE WARDS.
_No._ 1, _or Stanley Ward_.
All such parts of the said Parish of Chelsea as lie on the south side of
the boundary line dividing the said parish from the parish of St. Mary
Abbott’s, Kensington, in the Fulham-road, and on the west side of a line
drawn from the point of the said boundary line in the Fulham-road,
opposite the middle of Upper Church-street, in a southerly direction,
along the middle of Upper Church-street, and along the middle of
Church-street, to the south end thereof, and thence in the same direction
to the southern boundary of the said Parish of Chelsea, in the river
Thames.
VESTRYMEN.
Breun, John Cowan, 6, Lower Sloane-street.
Delany, James, 3, Albion Place, Fulham-road.
Foy, William, 46, Paultons-square.
Gable, Isaac Cosson, 2, Belle Vue.
Garner, Thomas Betts, sen., Mason’s-place, Fulham-road.
Hall, William, 22, Paultons-square.
Perry, John, 7, Danvers-street.
Tipper, William, 7, Odell’s-place, Fulham-road.
Wood, William, “Adam and Eve,” Duke-street.
AUDITOR.
D’Oyle, Henry, 190, Sloane-street.
PLAN OF NO. 1, OR STANLEY WARD.
[Picture: Plan of Stanley Ward, Chelsea, 1860]
_No._ 2, _or Church Ward_.
All such parts of the said Parish of Chelsea as are bounded as
follows:—that is to say: Bounded on the north-west side by the boundary
line dividing the said Parish of Chelsea from the said parish of St. Mary
Abbott’s, Kensington, in the Fulham-road, from the point thereof opposite
the middle of Upper Church-street to the point thereof opposite the
middle of Marlborough-road; bounded towards the north-east, and partly
towards the south-east, by a line commencing at the last-mentioned point,
and drawn south-east along the middle of Marlborough-road to the point
thereof opposite the middle of Whitehead’s-grove, then turning south-west
along the middle of Whitehead’s-grove to the centre of the south-east end
of College-street, thence turning south-east across College-place, to and
along the middle of Markham-street to the middle of King’s-road, and
turning north-east along King’s-road, to the point thereof opposite the
middle of Smith-street, thence turning south-east along the middle of
Smith-street to the south eastern end thereof, and thence along the
middle of the Royal Hospital Creek to the river Thames, and in the same
direction to the southern boundary of the said Parish of Chelsea, at a
point in the river Thames; bounded on the south by the southern boundary
of the said Parish in the river Thames, from the point thereof lastly
above mentioned to the boundary line of Ward No. 1; and bounded towards
the west by the eastern boundary of Ward No. 1 hereinbefore described.
VESTRYMEN,
Alexander, John Sparks, “King’s Arms,” Cremorne-road.
Blazdell, Alexander, 25, Manor-street.
Callow, John, 41, Queen’s-road West.
Carter, Charles, “Red House,” College-street.
Dancocks, Samuel Sharman, Fulham-road.
Doubell, William, 144, King’s-road.
Finch, William Newton, 181, King’s-road.
Goss, William John, “Duke’s Head,” Queen-street.
Hulse, Robert, 40, Radnor-street.
Hunt, Henry, New King’s-road.
Lawrence, William, 141, King’s-road.
Miles, James, 180, King’s-road.
Osborn, William, 8, Queen-street.
Oxford, Henry, 40, Riley-street.
Parker, Edward, 21, Paultons-square.
Robson, Joseph, 24, Smith’s-terrace.
Symons, Thomas, Alpha House, Fulham-road.
Todd, John, Stanley House, Milner-street.
AUDITOR.
Mead, George Edward, 2, Durham-place.
PLAN OF NO. 2, OR CHURCH WARD.
[Picture: Plan of Church Ward, Chelsea, 1860]
_No._ 3, _or Hans Town Ward_.
All parts of the said Parish of Chelsea, not included in Wards No. 1 and
No. 2, hereinbefore mentioned, or in Ward No. 4, hereinafter mentioned
and described.
VESTRYMEN.
Badcock, John, 19, Smith-street.
Birch, Abel Francis Faulkner, 14, Sloane-street.
Butt, John, 1, Bayley’s-place.
Chelsea, Viscount, 28, Lowndes-street.
Collier, Caleb, 209, Sloane-street.
Compton, James, 1, Smith-street.
Fisher, John, 60, Cadogan-place.
Gurney, George Edward, “The Earl of Cadogan,” 1, Marlborough-road.
Handover, William, Kensal New Town.
Hopwood, Owen Thomas, 195, Sloane-street.
Jones, Benjamin William, 81, Cadogan-place.
Rope, Robert Northern, 49, Sloane-street.
Shelton, Richard, 22, Halsey-street.
Symons, Elias Octavius, 3, Exeter-street.
Till, John, “The Australian,” Milner-street.
Tite, William, M.P., 42, Lowndes Square.
Thirst, Edward, 11, Halsey-terrace.
Todd, George, Stanley House, Milner-street.
Walker, Thomas Humble, 6, Wellington-square.
Williams, William, Kensal New Town.
Wood, Lancelot Edward, 28A, College-street.
AUDITOR.
Rhind, William, 189, Sloane-street.
PLAN OF NO. 3, OR HANS TOWN WARD.
[Picture: Plan of Hans Town Ward, Chelsea, 1860]
_No._ 4, _or Royal Hospital Ward_.
All such parts of the said Parish of Chelsea as are bounded as
follows;—that is to say: Bounded towards the north-west by a line
commencing at the intersection of the central line of College-street with
the central line of Whitehead’s-grove, and drawn in a north-east
direction along the middle of Whitehead’s-grove to and along the middle
of Cadogan-street, to and along the middle of Halsey-terrace, to and
along the middle of Cadogan-terrace, crossing Sloane-street, to and along
the middle of Ellis-street, to and along the party-wall between the
public-house known as “The Woodman” public-house, to the south, and No.
12, D’Oyley-street, to the north, and thence in the same direction to the
eastern boundary of the said Parish; bounded towards the east by the
eastern boundary of the said Parish, from the point wherein the
north-western boundary line of the said Ward No. 4, hereinbefore
described, meets the same, to the south point of the said eastern
boundary in the river Thames; bounded towards the south by the south
boundary of the said Parish in the river Thames, from the point lastly
hereinbefore mentioned to the boundary of Ward No. 2; bounded towards the
south-west by the north-east boundary of Ward No. 2 from the point lastly
hereinbefore mentioned, to the said point of intersection of the central
line of College-street with the central line of Whitehead’s-grove.
VESTRYMEN.
Dunkley, Thomas, 18, Lower Sloane-street.
Fuge, George Frederick, 13, Sloane-square.
Leete, John Hurstwaite, 143, Sloane-street.
Livingston, Alexander, 8, King’s-road.
Mowels, Samuel Alfred, 142, Sloane-street.
Rabbits, William, 20, Sloane-square.
Roberts, William, 25, Lower Sloane-street.
Roope, Charles, jun., 144, Sloane-street.
Sansum, William, 132, King’s-road.
Smith, George Baxter, 35, King’s-road.
Wain, George, 2, King’s-road.
Wright, John, 8, Queen’s-road East.
AUDITOR.
Crisp, James, 170, King’s-road.
PLAN OF NO. 4, OR ROYAL HOSPITAL WARD.
[Picture: Plan of Royal Hospital Ward, Chelsea, 1860]
APPENDIX No. 2.—A RETURN
OFFICERS OF THE VESTRY.
_Member of Metropolitan Board of W. Tite, Esq., M.P., 42,
Works_ Lowndes-square.
_Treasurer_ Charles Hopkinson, Esq., 3,
Regent-street.
_Solicitors_ Messrs. Lee & Pemberton, 44,
Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
_Vestry Clerk_ Charles Lahee, Vestry Hall,
King’s-road.
_Clerk’s Assistants_ J. Eisdell Salway, J. Nichol,
Vestry Hall.
_Medical Officer of Health_ Andrew Whyte Barclay, M.D., 23A,
Bruton-street, Berkeley-square,
and Vestry Hall.
_Surveyor_ Joseph Pattison, Vestry Hall.
_Inspector of Nuisances_ Ealand Alder, Vestry Hall.
_Hall Keeper_ W. Maddy, Vestry Hall.
_Office Messenger_ W. Holland.
* * * * *
VESTRYMEN. Date of Date of Vestry Committee Total Works and for
{36} Election. expiration of Meetings. Meetings. Attendance. General
term of Purposes.
office, or of
resignation.
_No._ 1, _or Stanley Ward_.
Mr. Breun, 1859 1862 41 39 80 Sept. 1860
Lower
Sloane-street
,, Delany, 1860 1863 9 4 13 Sept. 1860
Albion-place,
Fulham-road
,, Foy, 1860 1863 42 34 76 July, 1860
Paultons-
square
,, Gable, 1860 1863 14 15 29 June, 1860
Belle Vue
,, Garner, 1858 1861 5 ... 5
Mason’s-place,
Fulham-road
,, Hall, 1858 1861 47 102 149 June, 1858
Paultons-
square
,, Perry, 1859 1862 45 98 143 June, 1859
Danvers-street
,, G. W. 1857 1860 5 6 11 June, 1857
Richards,
Danvers-street
,, Tipper, 1858 1861 19 4 23 ...
Odell’s-place,
Fulham-road
,, W. Wood, 1859 1862 8 1 9 ...
Duke-street
_No._ 2, _or Church Ward_.
Mr. Alexander, 1859 1862 4 2 6 ...
Cremorne-road
,, Blazdell, 1860 1863 44 70 114 June, 1860
Manor-street
,, Callow, 1858 1861 20 17 37 June, 1858
Queen’s-road
West
,, Carter, 1858 1861 4 ... 4
College street
,, Dancocks, 1859 1862 21 ... 21
Fulham-road
,, Doubell, 1860 1863 18 1 19 ...
King’s-road
,, Finch, 1859 1862 35 84 119 Sept. 1859
King’s-road
,, Goss, 1859 1862 19 ... 19
Queen-street
,, Hulse, 1860 1863 8 7 15 July, 1860
Radnor-street
,, Hunt, New 1859 1862 37 9 46 ...
King’s-road
,, Lawrence, 1860 1863 39 40 79 June, 1860
King’s-road
,, Miles, 1858 1861 26 40 66 June, 1858
King’s-road
,, Osborn, 1860 1863 40 26 66 June, 1860
Queen-street
,, Oxford, 1860 1863 24 15 39 June, 1860
Riley-street
,, Parker, 1860 1861 41 26 67 June, 1860
Paultons-
square
,, Robson, 1859 1862 33 19 52 June, 1859
Smith-terrace
,, T. Symons, 1858 1861 7 ... 7
Fulham-road
,, J. Todd, 1858 1861 20 11 31 June, 1858
Milner-street
,, Whitehead, 1858 1860 ... 1 1 June, 1858
Whitehead’s-
grove
,, Yapp, 1857 1860 4 2 6 June, 1857
Oakley-street
_No._ 3, _or Hans Town Ward_.
Mr. Badcock, 1860 1863 27 8 35 June, 1860
Smith-street
,, Birch, 1858 1861 25 9 34 June, 1860
Sloane-street
,, Butt, 1860 1863 8 1 9 ...
Bailey’s-place
,, Collier, 1859 1862 29 31 60 June, 1859
Sloane-street
,, Compton, 1860 1863 31 22 53 June, 1860
Smith-street
,, Fisher, 1859 1862 25 16 41 ...
Cadogan-place
,, Gurney, 1860 1863 30 6 36 ...
Marlborough-
road
,, Handover, 1858 1861 1 ... 1 ...
Kensal New
Town
,, Hopwood, 1858 1861 23 ... 23
Sloane-street
,, Jones, 1859 1862 20 9 29 June, 1859
Cadogan-place
,, Rope, 1859 1862 10 ... 10
Sloane-street
,, Shelton, 1859 1862 33 20 53 June, 1859
Halsey-street
,, E. O. 1858 1861 30 31 61 June, 1858
Symons,
Exeter-street
,, Thirst, 1860 1861 27 17 44 June, 1860
Halsey-terrace
,, Till, 1860 1863 24 15 39 ...
Milner-street
,, Tite, 1859 1862 3 1 4 June, 1859
Lowndes-square
,, G. Todd, 1858 1861 8 1 9 June, 1858
Milner-street
,, Walker, 1860 1863 19 12 31 June, 1860
Wellington-
square
,, Williams, 1858 1861 17 ... 17
Kensal New
Town
,, L. E. Wood, 1860 1863 23 14 37 June, 1860
College-street
,, R. Wood, 1857 1860 3 ... 3
Whitehead’s-
grove
_No._ 4, or _Royal Hospital Ward_.
Mr. Dunkley, 1859 1862 26 11 37 Sept. 1860
Lower
Sloane-street
,, Fuge, 1858 1861 5 ... 5
Sloane-square
,, Leete, 1860 1863 29 34 63 June, 1860
Sloane-square
,, Livingston, 1859 1862 30 33 63 June, 1859
King’s-road
,, Mowels, 1858 1861 9 ... 9
Sloane-street
,, Rabbits, 1860 1863 11 19 30 June, 1860
Sloane-square
,, Roberts, 1858 1861 8 5 13 June, 1860
Lower
Sloane-street
,, Roope, 1860 1863 11 ... 11
Sloane-street
,, Sansum, 1859 1862 23 17 40 June, 1859
King’s-road
,, Smith, 1858 1861 6 ... 6
King’s-road
,, Wain, 1860 1863 18 ... 18
King’s-road
,, Wright, 1859 1862 23 12 35 June, 1859
Queen’s-road
East
_Ex-Officio Members of the Vestry_.
_Rector_, Rev. ... ... 4 2 6 ...
A. Gerald W.
Blunt, M.A.
_Churchwarden_ ... ... 11 12 23 ...
Diplock, M.D.
1309 1031 2340
_Churchwarden_ HALL, _Churchwarden_ COLLIER: Elected respectively for
Wards No. 1. and 3.
VESTRYMEN. Finance. Fire Engines, Contract with Chelsea Letting, &c. Inauguration Mr. Dover’s Metropolitan Food Re-Naming Contracts for West London Proposed Asylum Wall. Chelsea Vestry Hall Chelsea Space over Line of Vestry Hall Cremorne Vestry Hall, Mr. Ayrton’s Smith
Staff, & London Gas Charities. The Hall. Dinner. Charges Local Analysis. Streets and Masons’ and Extension Roads to Embankment, First Stone. Embankment Ranelagh Frontage Lighting, Gardens. completing Motion, and Terrace,
Escapes. Company. against the Management Numbering Bricklayers’ Railway. Fulham and Draft and Proposed Sewer and King’s Road, Fitting and the Building Mr. Tite’s Investigation
Metropolitan Act Amendment Houses. Works. Kensington. Petition to Pimlico and Boundaries. and Limerston Furnishing. Fitting and Amendment of Clerk’s
Board of Bill No. 1, Parliament. West London Road Furnishing. Bill. and
Words. to draw Junction Drainage. Surveyor’s
Clauses and Railway. Reports.
Amendments
Mr. Breun, June, 1859 May, 1860
Lower
Sloane-street
,, Delany, June, 1860 Sept. 1860
Albion-place,
Fulham-road
,, Foy, June, 1859 Jan. 1861 Sept. 1860 Feb. 1861
Paultons-
square
,, Gable, Nov. 1859
Belle Vue
,, Garner,
Mason’s-place,
Fulham-road
,, Hall, June, 1858 Mar. 1859 Oct. 1859 May, 1860 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861 Apr. 1861 Mar. 1861 Sept. 1859 Sept. 1859 Jan. 1859 Nov. 1859 Nov. 1859 Dec. 1859 May, 1860 Apr. 1860 June, 1860 Sept. 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861 Feb. 1861
Paultons-
square
,, Perry, May, 1859 Oct. 1859 May, 1860 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 Mar. 1861 Mar. 1861 July, 1859 July, 1859 Sept. 1859 Sept. 1859 Sept. 1859 Nov. 1859 Nov. 1859 Dec. 1859 Jan. 1860 Apr. 1860 June, 1860 Sept. 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861 Feb. 1861
Danvers-street
,, G. W. Nov. 1859
Richards,
Danvers-street
,, Tipper, June, 1860 Jan. 1861
Odell’s-place,
Fulham-road
,, W. Wood, June, 1859
Duke-street
Mr. Alexander, June, 1859 Feb. 1861
Cremorne-road
,, Blazdell, June, 1860 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 July, 1859 Jan. 1859 Apr. 1860
Manor-street
,, Callow, Mar. 1859 Dec. 1860
Queen’s-road
West
,, Carter,
College street
,, Dancocks, June, 1860
Fulham-road
,, Doubell, June, 1859
King’s-road
,, Finch, Oct. 1859 May, 1860 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861 Mar. 1861 Mar. 1861 Sept. 1859
King’s-road
,, Goss,
Queen-street
,, Hulse, June, 1860 Sept. 1860 Jan. 1861
Radnor-street
,, Hunt, New June, 1859 July, 1860 Sept. 1860
King’s-road
,, Lawrence, June, 1860 Jan. 1861 Apr. 1861 Sept. 1860 Jan. 1861
King’s-road
,, Miles, June, 1858 Oct. 1859 May, 1860 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 Sept. 1859 Sept. 1859 Jan. 1859 Nov. 1859 Dec. 1859 Jan. 1860 Apr. 1860 June, 1860 Sept. 1860 Oct. 1860
King’s-road
,, Osborn, Feb. 1861
Queen-street
,, Oxford, June, 1860
Riley-street
,, Parker,
Paultons-
square
,, Robson, Sept. 1860 Feb. 1861
Smith-terrace
,, T. Symons,
Fulham-road
,, J. Todd, June, 1858 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1861 July, 1859 Nov. 1859 Dec. 1859 Apr. 1860 June, 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861
Milner-street
,, Whitehead, Nov. 1859
Whitehead’s-
grove
,, Yapp, Nov. 1859
Oakley-street
Mr. Badcock,
Smith-street
,, Birch, June, 1858
Sloane-street
,, Butt, June, 1860 June, 1860
Bailey’s-place
,, Collier, June, 1859 May, 1859 May, 1860 May, 1860
Sloane-street
,, Compton,
Smith-street
,, Fisher, June, 1859 Oct. 1859 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861
Cadogan-place
,, Gurney, June, 1860
Marlborough-
road
,, Handover,
Kensal New
Town
,, Hopwood,
Sloane-street
,, Jones, May, 1860 Jan. 1861 Mar. 1861
Cadogan-place
,, Rope, Sept. 1860
Sloane-street
,, Shelton, July, 1859 Dec. 1859
Halsey-street
,, E. O. Feb. 1859 May, 1860 July, 1859 July, 1859 July 1859 Dec. 1859 Jan. 1860 Apr. 1860 June, 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861
Symons,
Exeter-street
,, Thirst, Jan. 1861
Halsey-terrace
,, Till, June, 1860 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 Mar. 1861
Milner-street
,, Tite, Oct. 1859
Lowndes-square
,, G. Todd, Nov. 1859 Dec. 1859
Milner-street
,, Walker, June, 1860
Wellington-
square
,, Williams,
Kensal New
Town
,, L. E. Wood,
College-street
,, R. Wood,
Whitehead’s-
grove
Mr. Dunkley, June, 1859
Lower
Sloane-street
,, Fuge,
Sloane-square
,, Leete, June, 1860 May, 1860 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861 Mar. 1861 Nov. 1859
Sloane-square
,, Livingston, June, 1859 Oct. 1859 Apr. 1861 Nov. 1859 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861
King’s-road
,, Mowels, Jan. 1861 Feb. 1861
Sloane-street
,, Rabbits, June, 1860 Oct. 1860 Oct. 1860 Jan. 1861 Mar. 1861 Mar. 1861 Nov. 1859 June, 1860 Sept. 1860
Sloane-square
,, Roberts, Mar. 1859
Lower
Sloane-street
,, Roope,
Sloane-street
,, Sansum, Feb. 1861
King’s-road
,, Smith,
King’s-road
,, Wain,
King’s-road
,, Wright,
Queen’s-road
East
_Rector_, Rev. May, 1860
A. Gerald W.
Blunt, M.A.
_Churchwarden_ May, 1859 May, 1860 Nov. 1859 May, 1860
Diplock, M.D.
APPENDIX No. 3.
A LIST OF THE PARISH OFFICERS
_Appointed at Easter_, 1860.
_Churchwardens_.
Thomas B. Diplock, M.D., 1, Sidney-street.
Mr. Caleb Collier, 209, Sloane-street.
_Sidesmen_.
Mr. Edward Richards, 23, Danvers-street.
,, William Osborn, Woolhouse Cottage, Queen-street.
_Church Trustees_.
Mr. Samuel Sharman Dancocks, Fulham-road.
,, John Fisher, 60, Cadogan-place.
,, George Wain, 2, King’s-road.
,, Alexander Livingston, 8, King’s-road.
,, John Sparks Alexander, “King’s Arms,” Cremorne-road.
_Auditors of the Church Trustees_’ _Accounts_.
Mr. William Newton Finch, 181, King’s-road.
,, Elias Octavius Symons, 3, Exeter-street.
,, James Miles, 180, King’s-road.
_Nominated for Selection as Overseers of the Poor_, _March_ 26, 1860.
Mr. Thomas Watkins, 2, Hollywood, Fulham-road. {37}
,, Samuel Alfred Mowels, 142, Sloane-street. {37}
,, Alexander Blazdell, 25, Manor-street. {37}
,, Samuel Sharman Dancocks, Fulham-road.
,, George Baxter Smith, 35, King’s-road.
,, Peter Yapp, 200, Sloane-street.
,, Owen Thomas Hopwood, 195, Sloane-street.
,, John Grant, 38, King’s-road.
,, Henry D’Oyle, 190, Sloane-street.
,, James Griffin, 1, Orford-street.
,, Edward Richards, 23, Danvers-street.
,, Henry Hunt, 16, New King’s-road.
,, John Perry, jun., 145, Sloane-street.
APPENDIX No. 4.
LIST OF COMMITTEES.
WORKS AND GENERAL PURPOSES.
Name Ward No.
Badcock Mr. 3
Birch — 3
Blazdell — 2
Breun — 1
Callow — 2
Chelsea Viscount 3
Collier Mr. 3
Compton — 3
Delany — 1
Dunkley — 4
Finch — 2
Foy — 1
Gable — 1
Hall — 1
Hulse — 2
Jones — 3
Lawrence — 2
Leete — 4
Livingston — 4
Miles — 2
Osborn — 2
Oxford — 2
Parker — 2
Perry — 1
Rabbits — 4
Roberts — 4
Robson — 2
Sansum — 4
Shelton — 3
E. O. Symons — 3
Thirst — 3
Tite, M.P. — 3
G. Todd — 3
J. Todd — 2
Walker 3
L. E. Wood — 3
Wright — 4
FINANCE
Name Ward No.
Alexander Mr. 1
Birch — 3
Blazdell — 2
Breun — 1
Butt — 3
Collier — 1
Delany — 1
Doubell — 2
Dunkley — 4
Finch — 2
Fisher — 3
Foy — 1
Gurney — 3
Hall — 1
Hulse — 2
Hunt — 2
Lawrence — 2
Leete — 4
Livingston 4
Miles — 2
E. O. Symons — 3
J. Todd — 2
Walker — 3
W. Wood — 1
FIRE ENGINES, STAFF, AND ESCAPES.
Name Ward No.
Callow Mr. 2
Collier — 3
Diplock Dr. _Churchwarden_.
Hall Mr. 1
Perry — 1
Roberts — 4
CONTRACT WITH LONDON GAS COMPANY.
Name Ward No.
Finch Mr. 2
Fisher — 3
Hall — 1
Livingston — 4
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
Tite, M.P. — 3
J. Todd — 2
PARISH CHARITIES.
Name Ward No.
Breun Mr. 1
Blunt Rev. _The Rector_.
Butt Mr. 3
Callow — 2
Collier — 3
Dipock Dr. _Churchwarden_.
Finch Mr. 2
Hall — 1
Jones — 3
Leete — 4
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
Rabbits — 4
E. O. Symons — 3
Till — 3
Tipper — 1
LETTING, ETC., THE HALL.
Name Ward No.
Blazdell Mr. 2
Finch — 2
Fisher — 3
Hall — 1
Leete — 4
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
Rabbits — 4
Till — 3
INAUGURATION DINNER.
Name Ward No.
Blazdell Mr. 2
Finch — 2
Fisher — 3
Hall — 1
Leete — 4
Miles — 2
Parry — 1
Rabbits — 4
Till — 3
MR. DOVER’S CHARGES AGAINST THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.
Name Ward No.
Finch Mr. 2
Fisher — 3
Foy — 1
Hall — 1
Jones — 3
Lawrence — 2
Leete — 4
Rabbits — 4
Tipper — 1
J. Todd — 2
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENT BILL,
NO. 1, TO DRAW CLAUSES AND AMENDMENTS.
Name Ward No.
Finch Mr. 2
Hall — 1
Jones — 3
Lawrence — 2
Livingston — 4
Perry — 1
Rabbits — 4
FOOD ANALYST
Name Ward No.
Finch Mr. 2
Hall — 1
Leete — 4
Perry — 1
Rabbits — 4
Till — 3
ASYLUM WALL.
Name Ward No.
Callow Mr. 2
Finch — 2
Hall — 1
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
E. O. Symons — 3
RE-NAMING STREETS AMP NUMBERING HOUSES.
Perry Mr. No. 1 Ward.
E. O. Symons Mr. No. 3 Ward.
CONTRACTS FOR MASON’S AND BRICKLAYER’S WORKS.
Name Ward No.
Callow Mr. 2
Perry — 1
Shelton — 3
E. O. Symons — 3
J. Todd — 2
WEST LONDON EXTENSION RAILWAY.
Name Ward No.
Hall Mr. 1
Perry — 1
Miles — 2
PROPOSED ROADS TO FULHAM AND KENSINGTON.
Name Ward No.
Hall Mr. 1
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
CHELSEA EMBANKMENT, DRAFT PETITION TO PARLIAMENT.
Name Ward No.
Gable Mr. 1
Hall — 1
Perry — 1
VESTRY HALL FIRST STONE.
Name Ward No.
Diplock Dr. _Churchwarden_.
Hall Mr. 1
Livingston .. 4
Miles .. 2
Perry .. 1
Tite .. 3
J. Todd .. 2
CHELSEA EMBANKMENT AND PROPOSED PIMLICO AND WEST LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Name Ward No.
Hall Mr. 1
Miles .. 2
Perry .. 1
Shelton .. 3
E. O. Symons .. 3
Tite, M.P. .. 3
J. Todd .. 2
SPACE OVER RANELAGH SEWER, AND BOUNDARIES.
Name Ward No.
Collier Mr. 3
Diplock Dr. _Churchwarden_.
Hall Mr. 1
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
E. O. Symons — 3
Thirst — 3
LINE OF FRONTAGE, KING’S ROAD; AND LIMERSTON STREET DRAINAGE.
Name Ward No.
Callow Mr. 2
Hall — 1
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
G. W. Richard — _Churchwarden_
E. O. Symons — 3
J. Todd — 2
VESTRY HALL, LIGHTING, FITTING, AND FURNISHING.
Name Ward No.
Hall Mr. 1
Hulse — 2
Miles — 2
Oxford — 2
Perry — 1
Rabbits — 4
E. O. Symons — 3
J. Todd — 2
CREMORNE GARDENS.
Name Ward No.
Delany Mr. 1
Finch — 2
Foy — 1
Hall — 1
Hulse — 2
Jones — 3
Lawrence — 2
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
Rabbits — 4
VESTRY HALL, COMPLETING THE BUILDING, FITTING, AND FURNISHING.
Name Ward No.
Hall Mr. 1
Leete — 4
Miles — 2
Perry — 1
E. O. Symons — 3
MR. AYRTON’S MOTION, AND MR. TITE’s AMENDMENT BILL.
Name Ward No.
Blazdell Mr. 2
Finch — 2
Foy — 1
Hall — l
Jones — 3
Lawrence — 2
Leete — 4
Livingston — 4
Perry — 1
E. O. Symons — 3
SMITH TERRACE, INVESTIGATION OF CLERK’S AND SURVEYOR’S REPORTS.
Name Ward No.
Hall Mr. 1
Livingston — 4
Osborn — 2
Perry — 1
Sansum — 4
APPENDIX No. 5.
The Names and Places of Abode of the Rector, Incumbent of the Parish
Chapel, Curates, Treasurers of the Charity Schools, Churchwardens,
Sidesmen, Church Trustees, Representative Member of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, Vestryman, Auditors and Officers under the Metropolis
Local Management Act, Guardians of the Poor, Overseers, Relieving
Officers, Medical Officers, Superintendent Registrar and Registrars of
Births Deaths and Marriages, Vestry Clerk, Deputy Parish Clerk,
Constables, Beadles, Engine Keepers, Fire Escape Conductors, Turncocks,
Collectors of the different Rates and Taxes of the Parish, District
Inspector of Gas Light Company, and District Surveyors.
* * * * *
RECTOR.
Blunt, The Rev. A. Gerald W., M.A., Rectory, Church-street.
INCUMBENT OF THE PARISH CHAPEL.
Davies, The Rev. R. H., B.A. Oakley-street.
CURATES.
Blunt, The Rev. R. Frederick L., A.K.C., Rectory, Church-street.
Hart, The Rev. W. H., M.A.
Pirkis, Rev. D., Clerk in Orders, Selwood Place, Queen’s Elm,
Fulham-road.
TREASURER OF THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS.
Lawrance, W., Esq., Sion Villa, King’s-road.
TREASURER OF THE INFANT SCHOOL.
Cornell, S., Esq., 16, Whitehead’s Grove.
CHURCHWARDENS.
Diplock, Thos. B., M.D., 1, Sydney-street.
Collier, Mr. C., 209, Sloane-street.
SIDESMEN.
Richards, Mr. E., Danvers-street.
Osborn, Mr. W., Queen-street.
CHURCH TRUSTEES.
Rector, The; for the time being.
Churchwardens, The; for the time being.
Alexander, Mr. John Sparks, King’s Arms, Cremorne-road.
Barker, Mr. J., Cadogan-place.
Barnes, Mr. A. B., King’s-road.
Battcock, Mr. George, Markham-house, King’s-road.
Bayley, Mr. Abel, 6, Lowndes-square.
Birch, Mr. A. F. F., 14, Sloane-street.
Boggett, Mr. William, 3, Lindsey-row.
Burnell, Mr. H., Cheyne-walk.
Brookfield, Mr. R., Sloane-street.
Crabb, Mr. W. B., 42, Halsey-street.
Coleridge, Rev. D., St. Mark’s College.
Comyns, Mr. H. King’s-road.
Coton, Mr. William, Sloane-street.
Christie, Mr. W., Poole’s-lane.
Dancocks, Mr. Samuel, Fulham-road.
Diplock, Thomas B., M.D., 1, Sydney-st.
Druce, Mr. W., Cheyne-walk.
Dickenson, Mr. W. R., Lowndes-street.
Fisher, Mr. J., 60, Cadogan-place.
Forbes, Mr. James A., Sloane-square.
Garner, Mr. Thos. Betts, Little Chelsea.
Gascoigne, Major-General, Lowndes-sq.
Gouldsmith, Mr. W. S., Pont-street.
Hall, Mr. William, Lombard-street.
Hopwood, Mr. Owen Thos., Sloane-street.
Keen, Mr. Thomas, King’s-road.
Larner, Mr. Henry, King’s-road.
Lee, Mr. John Benjamin, Cadogan-place.
Leete, Mr. John Hurstwaite, Sloane-street.
Lenthall, Mr. Henry, 11, Oakley-street.
Livingston, Mr. Alexander, King’s-road.
Lock, Mr. Robert Frederick, Cupola House, Church-street.
Marks, Mr. R. W., Hollywood-place.
Morgan, Mr. J. G., Church-street.
North, Mr. W. R., Green’s-row.
Pitt, Mr. J., Cheyne-walk.
Rabbits, Mr. William, 20, Sloane-square.
Roberts, Mr. William, 25, Lower Sloane-st.
Rush, Mr. William, 6, Sydney-street.
Sanneman, Mr. R. W., 13, Cheyne-walk.
Slocock, Mr. E., Belle Vue.
Stanesby, Mr. John Tatam, 179, Sloane-st.
Symons, Mr. T., Fulham-road.
Till, Mr. John, Milner-street.
Todd, Mr. Geo., Stanley House, Milner-st.
Veitch, Mr. James, Exotic Nursery, King’s-road West.
Wain, Mr. George, 2, King’s-road.
Wallgrave, Mr. C. W., King’s-road.
Warre, Mr. J. A., Lowndes-square.
Watkins, Mr. Thomas, Hollywood House, Little Chelsea.
Whitfield, Mr. Thomas, 210, Sloane-st.
Whitmore, Mr. John, 124, Sloane-street.
Wilson, The Rev. John, D.D., Durham House, Smith-street.
Wilson, The Rev. R., D.D., Gough House.
Wood, Mr. John, 1, Holles-place.
_Clerk to the Board_,—Cornell, Mr. Samuel, 16, Whitehead’s Grove.
_Auditors_.
Finch, Mr. William Newton, King’s-road.
Miles, Mr. James, 180, King’s-road.
Symons, Mr. Elias Octavius, 3, Exeter-st.
THE VESTRY.
_Representative Member of Metropolitan Board of Works_.
Tite, William, Esq., M.P., 42, Lowndes-square.
_Vestrymen_.
Incumbent, The; for the time being.
Churchwardens, The; for the time being.
_No._ 1,—_or Stanley Ward_.
Breun, Mr. John Cowan, 6, Lower Sloane-st.
Delany, Mr. James, 3, Albion-place.
Foy, Mr. W., 40, Paultons-square.
Gable, Mr. Isaac Cosson, 2, Belle Vue.
Garner, Mr. Thomas Betts, Little Chelsea.
Hall, Mr. William, 22, Paultons-square.
Perry, Mr. John, 7, Danvers street.
Tipper, Mr. William, 7, Odell’s-place.
Wood, Mr. William, Duke-street.
_Auditor_,—D’Oyle, Mr. Henry, 190, Sloane-street.
_No._ 2,—_or Church Ward_.
Alexander, Mr., John Sparks, King’s Arms, Cremorne road.
Blazdell, Mr. Alexander, 25, Manor-street.
Callow, Mr. John, Queen’s-road West.
Carter, Mr. C., College street.
Dancocks, Mr. Samuel, Fulham-road.
Doubell, Mr. William, 144, King’s-road.
Finch, Mr. Wm. Newton, 181, King’s-rd.
Goss, Mr. Wm. Jno., Duke’s Head, Queen-st.
Hulse, Mr. Robert, 40, Radnor-street.
Hunt, Mr. Henry, New King’s-road.
Lawrence, Mr. William, 141, King’s-road.
Miles, Mr. James, 180, King’s-road.
Osborn, Mr. William, 8, Queen-street.
Oxford, Mr. Henry, 10, Riley-street.
Parker, Mr. Edward, 21, Paultons-square.
Robson, Mr. Joseph, 24, Smith-terrace.
Symons, Mr. T., Alpha House Fulham-road.
Todd, Mr. J. 12, Great Cheyne-row.
_Auditor_,—Mead, Mr. George Edward, 2, Durham-place.
_No._ 3,—_or Hans Town Ward_.
Badcock, Mr. John, 19, Smith-street.
Birch, Mr., A. F. F., 14, Sloane-street.
Butt, Mr. J., 1, Bailey’s-place, Marlboro’-road.
Chelsea, The Viscount, Lowndes-street.
Collier, Mr. Caleb, 209, Sloane-street.
Compton, Mr. James, 1, Smith-street.
Fisher, John, Esq., 60. Cadogan-place.
Gurney, Mr. George Edward, 1, Marlborough-road.
Handover, Mr. W., Kensal New Town.
Hopwood, Mr. O. T., 195, Sloane-street.
Jones, Benj. Wm., Esq. 81, Cadogan-place.
Rope, Mr. R. N., 49, Sloane-street.
Shelton, Mr. Richard, 20, Halsey-street.
Symons, Mr. E. O., Exeter-street.
Till, Mr. John, Milner-street.
Tite, William, Esq., M.P., Lowndes-sq.
Thirst, Mr. Edward, Halsey-terrace.
Todd, George, Esq., Stanley House, Milner-street.
Walker, Thomas Humble, Esq., 6, Wellington-square.
Williams, Mr. William, Kensal New Town.
Wood, Mr. Lancelot Edw., 28A, College-st.
_Auditor_,—Rhind, Mr. William, 189, Sloane-street.
_No._ 4,—_or Royal Hospital Ward_.
Dunkley, Mr. T, 18, Lower Sloane-street.
Fuge, Mr. George F., 13, Sloane-square.
Leete, Mr. John H., Sloane-street.
Livingston, Mr. Alexander, King’s-road.
Mowels, Mr. S. A., 142, Sloane-street.
Rabbits, Mr. William, 20, Sloane-square.
Roberts, Mr. William, Lower Sloane-st.
Roope, Mr. Chas., jun., 144, Sloane-street.
Sansum, Mr. William, King’s-road.
Smith, Mr. G. B., 35, King’s-road.
Wain, Mr. George, 2, King’s-road.
Wright, Mr. John, 8, Queen’s-road East.
_Auditor_.—Crisp, Mr. James, 170, King’s-road.
_Treasurer_,—Hopkinson, C., Esq., 3, Regent-street.
_Solicitors_,—Lee & Pemberton, Messrs. 44, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
_Clerk to the Board_,—Lahee, Mr. Charles, Manor House, King’s-road.
_Surveyor_,—Pattison, Mr. Joseph, 252, King’s-road.
_Medical Officer of Health_,—Barclay, Dr. A. W., 23A, Bruton-street,
Berkeley-square.
_Inspector of Nuisances_,—Alder, Mr. Ealand, 10, Orford-place.
_Messenger_,—Maddy, Mr. W., 12, Lower Sloane-street.
GUARDIANS OF THE POOR.
Archbutt, Samuel, Esq., Ovington-sq.
Barkworth, Rev. Shadwell Morley, M.A., 7, St. Leonard’s-terrace.
Birch, Mr. Abel F. F., 14, Sloane-street.
Collier, Mr. Caleb, 209, Sloane-street.
Fisher, John, Esq., 60, Cadogan-place.
Garner, Mr. T. B., Little Chelsea.
Hall, Mr. W., 22, Paultons-square.
Harrison, Mr. J. N., Upper Church-street.
Jones, Benjamin Wm. Esq., 81, Cadogan-pl.
Livingston, Mr. Alexander, 8, King’s-road.
Miles, Mr. James, 180, King’s-road.
Osborn, Mr. William, 8, Queen-street
Perry, Mr. John, 7, Danvers-street.
Richards, Mr. G. W. 29, Danvers-street.
Sansum, Mr. W. H., 132, King’s-road.
Shelton, Mr. Richard, 22, Halsey-street.
Symons, Mr. T., Alpha House, Fulham-rd.
Thirst, Mr. Edward, 11, Halsey-terrace.
Walker, Thomas Humble, Esq., 6, Wellington square.
Yapp, Mr. George, 83, Oakley-street.
_Clerk to the Board_,—Diggens, Mr. W. L. Office—Chelsea Workhouse.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Slocombe, Mr. T., Halsey-terrace.
Wing, Mr. C., 10, College-terrace.
Watkins, Mr. T., Hollywood, West Brompton.
Mowels, Mr. Sam. Alfred, 142, Sloane-st.
RELIEVING OFFICERS.
Rodger, William, (_South District_) 36, Upper Manor-street.
Tubbs, William Thomas, (_North District_) 266, King’s-road.
MEDICAL OFFICERS.
Ward, Dr. Martindale, Markham-square.
Keen, Mr. Thomas, 209, King’s-road.
Dickinson, Mr. Thos., 8, Halsey-terrace.
Scatliff, Dr. John Parr, 132, Sloane-street.
Brown, Mr. George, Kensal Green.
MEDICAL OFFICERS FOR VACCINATION.
Ward, Dr. Martindale, Markham-square.
Keen, Mr. Thomas, 209, King’s-road.
Godrich, Mr. Francis, Little Chelsea.
Dickinson, Mr. Thomas, 8, Halsey-terrace.
Scatliff, Dr. John Parr, 132, Sloane-street.
Brown, Mr. George, Kensal Green.
SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRAR.
Diggens, Mr. W. L. Office—Chelsea Workhouse.
REGISTRARS OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
Long, Mr. Charles S., 4, Rayner-place.
Larner, Mr. William, 240, King’s-road.
Smith, Mr. William Clifford, (_and of Marriages_) Exeter-place,
Sloane-street.
VESTRY CLERK.
Lahee, Mr. Charles, Manor House, King’s-road.
DEPUTY PARISH CLERK.
Sherrell, Mr. James. 14, King-street.
CONSTABLES.—_Appointed_ 1858.
Burks, James, 7, Millmans-row.
Butler, Benjamin, King’s-road.
Butler, Thomas, King’s-road.
Cobb, Joseph, jun., 20, Queen’s road West
Ellenor, Thomas, 2 Queen’s-road East.
Griffin, James, 1, Orford-street, Marlborough-road.
Hall, William, 3, Bretten-terrace.
Halliwell, Robert, 35, Robert-terrace.
Lawrence, William, King’s-road.
Temple, Charles, 13, College-street.
BEADLES, BEING SWORN CONSTABLES.
Nelson, Richard, 2, Marlborough-square.
Kirk, Robert, 10, Whitehead’s Grove.
ENGINE KEEPERS.
Piggott, William, 1, Arthur-street, _Superintendent_.
Greaves, Charley 4, Duke-street.
Adams, Henry, 14A, Symons-street.
FIRE ESCAPE CONDUCTORS.
_Oakley-square Station_,—Fowler, Geo., (No. 68), 30, Cumberland-st.,
Marlborough-rd.
_Sloane-square Station_,—McCulloch, Thos., (No. 70), 2, Symons-street,
Sloane-square.
_Pelham Crescent Station_,—Whatley, Fredk., (No. 21), 7,
Devonshire-place, Park-walk.
_Knightsbridge Green Station_,—Davenport, Hen., (No. 6), 19, Prince’s
pl., Notting-hill.
TURNCOCKS AND THEIR ASSISTANTS.
Cramp, Thomas, 11, Upper North-street.
Rice, Thomas, 11, College-place.
Shuttleworth, James, 15, Millman’s-row.
Allen, William, jun., 39, Cumberland-st.
Clark, Ezra, 6, St. Mark’s-rd., Fulham-rd.
Ireland, John, 4, Draycott-street, Cadogan-terrace.
Tilbrook, Rob., 3, Chapel-pl., Brompton.
COLLECTORS OF LAND, ASSESSED, AND PROPERTY TAXES.
Ludlow, Mr. William, Queen’s-road West.
Oughton, Mr. Henry, 10, Cadogan-terrace.
Oughton, Mr. Thomas, 8, Blizard’s-place, Fulham-road.
COLLECTORS OF POOR’S RATE AND THE RATES UNDER THE METROPOLIS LOCAL
MANAGEMENT ACT.
Basely, Mr. Edward, 47, Paultons-square.
Mayers, Mr. William Thomas, Sydney-House, Queen-street.
Symons, Mr. Charles, 10, Robert-terrace.
Oughton, Mr. Thomas, 8, Blizard’s-place, Fulham-road.
COLLECTORS OF THE CHURCH RATE.
Sandeford, Mr. John, 27, Upper Manor-st.
Symons, Mr. Charles, 10, Robert-terrace.
Oughton, Mr. Thomas, 8, Blizard’s-place, Fulham-road.
COLLECTORS OF THE WATER RATES.
Day, Mr. William, 2, Beaufort-street.
Briscoe, Mr. W. C., 9, Parkside, Knightsbridge.
DISTRICT INSPECTOR OF GAS WORKS.
Cripps, Mr. James, 192, King’s-road, S.W.
DISTRICT SURVEYORS.
Beachcroft, Mr. Samuel, 10, Robert-terrace, Chelsea.
Beachcroft, Mr. Charles, 2, Horbury-terrace, Notting-hill.
* * * * *
_The Fire Engines and Ladders_ are kept at the Old Church, by the
Waterside; at the Workhouse, Arthur-street, King’s-road; and at the Depot
in Draycott-place. In case of Fire give immediate notice to the Engine
Keepers, Charles Greaves, 4, Duke-street, Chelsea, near the Old Church;
Henry Adams, 14A, Symons-street, Sloane-square; Chief Station, at the
Workhouse, Arthur-street, King’s-road. William Piggott, Superintendent,
1, Arthur-street, King’s-road.
The nearest _Fire Escapes_ are stationed at Oakley-square, Sloane-square,
Pelham-crescent, and Knightsbridge Green.
CHELSEA WATER WORKS OFFICE, 103, Victoria-street, Westminster.
_Secretary_,—A. Gill, Esq.
LONDON GAS LIGHT COMPANY’S OFFICE, 26, Southampton-street, Strand, W.C.
_Secretary_,—J. R. Hinde, Esq.
June, 1860.
CHARLES LAHEE, _Vestry Clerk_.
APPENDIX No. 6.
SALARIES, &c.
_Return asked for by the Committee of Works and for General Purposes_.
* * * * *
EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE OF WORKS, &c., FEB. 5TH, 1861.
Resolved that Mr. Tite be requested to move the House of Commons for a
Return from each Vestry and District Board elected under the provisions
of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, setting forth:—
1. The Population in each Parish or District in 1851.
2. The Number of Houses.
3. The Superficial Area.
4. The Length of Streets, &c.
5. The Value of the Property as Assessed to the County Rate.
6. The sum on which the Rates are Assessed for the Relief of the Poor.
7. The number of Vestry or Board Meetings held during the last year.
8. The number of Committee and Sub-Committee Meetings during the same
period.
Also the names of all Officers employed under such Vestry or Board
setting forth the Offices they severally hold, with the amount of Salary,
Fees, Perquisites, Value of House Rent, and other Benefits enjoyed by
such Officers under any General or Local Act, or otherwise; stating also
if any of such Officers hold other appointments than under such Vestry or
District Board, and if so, the nature of them; or whether any of them are
in business or practice for themselves. This Return to be tabularly
arranged as follows:—
A.—Clerk to the Vestry or Board.
1 _and Seq._—Clerks or Assistants in the Clerk’s Department.
B.—Surveyor.
1 _and Seq._—Clerks or Assistants in the Surveyor’s Department.
C.—Medical Officer of Health.
D.—Inspector of Nuisances.
1 _and Seq._—Clerks or Assistants in the Health Department.
And that an Abstract of these Returns may be prepared and tabularly
arranged in the order of the amount of Population in such Parish or
District respectively.
APPENDIX No. 7
CHARGES UNDER THE HEAD OF “GENERAL WORKS.”
_March_ 25_th_, 1860, _to March_ 25_th_, 1861.
_Page_ _Ledger_ £ _s._ _d._
To Balance 214 19 0½
217. To Sundries as per Journal, viz.:—
Paving, viz., Roads.—Materials & Contract
Works 2516 11 8
Labour 326 1 9
Sundries 72 0 2
2914 13 7
Footways.—Materials & Contract
Works 549 6 11
Labour 124 16 0
Sundries 8 15 4
682 18 3
Cartage of Materials 295 16 0
3893 7 10
Lighting. Gas Consumed 3765 8 8
New Lights 17 7 11
Repairs 51 7 7
Law, &c., Charges 296 16 4
Gas Enquiry 150 0 0
4281 0 6
Watering. Contracts 863 12 10
Labour 0 0 0
Sundries 151 2 9
Law Charges 111 5 0
1126 0 7
Cleansing. Contracts 556 3 5
Labour 568 12 4
Sundries 20 16 9
1145 12 6
Improving 58 12 2
Removing Nuisance 311 2 0
Rents 89 11 4
Sanitary Works 1 6 8
Sundries 137 16 2
Interest 537 13 2
Establishment for Share of Charges under that head 1242 13 11
13039 15 10
REVENUE UNDER THE HEAD OF “GENERAL WORKS.”
_March_ 25_th_, 1860, _to March_ 25_th_, 1861.
_Page_ _Ledger_ £ _s._ _d._
217. By Precept dated 17th March, 1857 surplus 5 18 10
30th March, 1858 do. 53 14 11
15th March, 1859 do. 267 3 3
13th Septem. 1859 do. 50 12 11
28th Septem. 1858 do. 164 12 6
18th Decem., 1857 do. 15 18 8
13th March, 1860
due June 24th 2400 0 0
September 29th 2400 0 0
4800 0 0
23rd October, 1860
due December 24th 2800 0 0
March 24th, 1861 2800 0 0
5600 0 0
10958 1 1
By Incidental Sources
Works executed for Public Companies and others 851 5 0
Lighting 830 3 10
Watering (Fines) 11 0 0
Cleansing (do.) 29 10 0
Removing Nuisances (do.) 6 0 0
Rents 58 0 0
Sanitary Works 1 17 6
Sales 3 8 6
Incidentals 10 13 1
1801 17 11
By Balance 279 16 10
£13039 15 10
APPENDIX No. 8.
SURVEYOR’S RETURN OF GENERAL WORKS.
MATERIALS. 2461 tons of broken granite used in repairing roads.
918 yards of flints ditto
444 ,, of gravel raised and used from Green’s Row.
270 ,, ,, used at Kensal New Town.
119 ,, ,, used at Kilburn Lane.
244 ,, of hogging raised and used from Poole’s Lane.
PAVING.—The north footway of Green’s Row widened, the curb fixed in a
straight line, and the channels on both sides of road paved. A new
crossing laid down in Church Street, opposite Paultons Street. A gravel
footway formed in Ann’s Place, Millman’s Row, and edged with curb. A new
crossing laid down at the east end of Turk’s Row, and one across Walton
Street, opposite Stanley Street. The north footway of Little Cheyne Row
paved to the extent of the premises at the north-east corner. The
footway and channel opposite Oakley Terrace, Upper Cheyne Row, taken up
and re-laid. The footways of George Street widened, paved, and regulated
throughout, and the channels also, with new crossings where necessary.
The crossing in Sloane Square (eastward of late the site of the
Indicator) re-laid and increased in width. The paving of footway in
Manor Gardens taken up and re-laid. New crossings laid down at the north
end of Halsey and Moore Streets. The footway on the south side of Walton
Street, by the entrance of St. Saviour’s Church, paved, and a crossing
laid down in the roadway opposite such entrance. Some of the crossings
in Sloane Street, and also those in Cadogan Place, re-laid, and increased
in width. The north footway of the Queen’s Road West, from opposite
Calthorpe Place to Paradise Street, taken up, the paving re-faced and
re-laid. The paving of footway in Calthorpe Place taken up and re-laid.
The paved footway of Exeter Buildings taken up and re-laid. The west
footway of Millman’s Row completed and edged with curb, and the channel
paved.
LIGHTING.—Three additional lights.
WATERING.—No alteration from system adopted last year.
CLEANSING.—No alteration from system adopted last year, except at Kensal
New Town, this description of work being now done by contract.
IMPROVING.—The Roadway of Green’s Row raised throughout, and the south
end of Hemus Terrace also raised to meet the required level of Green’s
Row.
SANITARY WORKS.—At No. 12, Lower North Street, the interior of the house
cleansed and whitewashed, including walls, floors, partitions, and
ceilings, and a water supply laid on to the closet from the water butt on
the premises of No. 11.
* * * * *
SURVEYOR’S RETURN OF WORKS REMAINING IN PROGRESS.
Raising the roadway of Whiteland’s Lane, opposite Cheltenham Terrace.
APPENDIX No. 9.
CHELSEA BRIDGE ROAD.
CORRESPONDENCE SINCE LAST REPORT.
801.
_From A. Austin_, _Esq._, _to the Vestry Clerk_.
Office of Works, &c., S.W.,
5th March, 1861.
Sir,—The attention of the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c.,
having been drawn to the bad state of that portion of the road, leading
from Lower Sloane-street to the New Suspension Bridge, which is in the
parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, I am directed by him to request that you
will move the Vestry of that parish to cause immediate measures to be
taken for putting the above mentioned portion of the said road into a
proper state of repair.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
ALFRED AUSTIN,
C. Lahee, Esq.
Secretary.
* * * * *
_The Vestry Clerk to A. Austin_, _Esq._
7th March, 1861.
Sir,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
5th instant, by direction of the First Commissioner, requesting that the
portion of the Chelsea Bridge Road in this parish may be properly
repaired, and to inform you that it will be laid before the Vestry on
Tuesday next, the 12th instant.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
A. Austin, Esq., Secretary,
Office of Works, &c., 11, Whitehall Place, S.W.
* * * * *
_From G. Russell_, _Esq._, _to the Vestry Clerk_.
1344.
Office of Works, &c., S.W.,
6th April, 1861.
Sir,—With reference to the Board’s letter of the 5th ultimo, and your
reply of the 7th ult., respecting the state of the portion of the Chelsea
Bridge Road, in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, I am directed by the
First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c., to send you, herewith,
copies of a letter of yesterday’s date, and of its enclosure from the
Commissioners of Metropolitan Police on the subject of that road, and to
request that you will lay the same before the Vestry.
I am, Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
GEORGE RUSSELL,
Assistant Secretary.
C. Lahee, Esq.
* * * * *
_Copy of the Enclosures last referred to_.
Metropolitan Police Office, Whitehall Place,
April 5th, 1861.
Sir,—I feel it my duty to transmit the enclosed report from the
Superintendent B Division of Police, relative to the state of the
carriage road leading to the New Chelsea Bridge.
I am, &c.,
(Signed) WM. C. HARRIS,
Assistant Commissioner.
A. Austin, Esq.
* * * * *
4th April, 1861.
I beg to report that that part of the carriage road leading to Chelsea
New Bridge which is within the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, is in a very
dirty state and full of ruts; it is very dangerous, and quite unfit for
public traffic. This road was formed by the Board of Works, and has not
yet been taken charge of by the parish of St. Luke. There has been some
correspondence between the parish and the Board, but nothing definite has
been come to.
(Signed) G. M. GIBBS,
Superintendent.
* * * * *
_The Vestry Clerk_, _to A. Austin_, _Esq._
April 8th, 1861.
CHELSEA BRIDGE ROAD.
Sir,—The Vestry of this parish will meet to-morrow, when I shall have the
honor to lay before them your letter of the 6th instant.
Your letter of the 5th ultimo, was placed before the Vestry held on the
12th ultimo, and then referred to the Committee of Works and for General
Purposes, by whom it is still under consideration.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
A. Austin, Esq., Secretary,
Office of Works, &c., 11, Whitehall Place, S.W.
* * * * *
_The Chief Commissioner of Police_, _to the Vestry Clerk_.
Metropolitan Police Office, Whitehall Place,
April 9th, 1861.
Sir,—The enclosed report from the Superintendent of the B Division is
transmitted for the information of the Vestry of the parish of Chelsea,
that they may give such directions thereon, as they consider proper.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
RICHD. MAYNE.
The Vestry Clerk, Chelsea.
* * * * *
_The Enclosure above referred to_.
METROPOLITAN POLICE.
B Division, Special Report.
9th April, 1861.
In reference to my report of the 4th instant, respecting the state of the
carriage road leading to the New Chelsea Bridge, I omitted to state that
a portionof the road, viz., from Queen’s-road East to the
Commercial-road, a distance of 374 yards, is without gas lamps, or light
of any kind at night, rendering it a very dangerous thoroughfare, and
affording great facility for depredations to be committed. I also beg to
mention that Her Majesty, when in town, frequently passes along this road
on her way to the new park at Battersea.
G. M. GIBBS,
Superintendent.
* * * * *
April 10th, 1861.
CHELSEA BRIDGE ROAD.
Sir,—In acknowledging the receipt of your communication of the 9th inst.
I beg to inform you that the subject to which it relates will be brought
before the Vestry at its next meeting.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Sir R. Mayne, Chief Commissioner of Police.
* * * * *
_Vestry Clerk to A. Austin_, _Esq._
April 26th, 1861.
CHELSEA BRIDGE ROAD.
Sir,—Your letters of the 5th ultimo, and 6th instant, the former
requesting that the portion of the road leading to Chelsea Bridge, in
this parish, may be immediately put into a proper state of repair, and
the latter transmitting a report of the Police to the First Commissioner
of Her Majesty’s Works, &c., upon the same subject, having been referred
by the Vestry to their Committee of Works and for General Purposes, have,
together with the former correspondence, and proceedings in this matter,
received their careful consideration.
In addition to the above mentioned two letters, the Committee also had
before them a letter from Sir Richard Mayne, dated the 9th instant,
enclosing a further report from Superintendent Gibbs, omitted from his
former report above alluded to.
The Committee having reported their annexed resolution, and the Vestry
having approved of the same, I am directed to request that you will lay
the same before the First Commissioner.
Resolved,—That the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c., be
informed that the Committee agree with him as to the bad state of that
portion of the road leading to Chelsea Bridge, lying in this parish,
which is probably owing to the manner in which it was originally made up,
and to the works which have been lately executed there; and as the First
Commissioner is aware of the difference of opinion which exists as to the
legal obligations of his department on the one hand, and of the Vestry of
Chelsea on the other, with respect to this portion of the road, he be
again urged, as he was twelve months ago, to concur with the Vestry in
adopting some inexpensive and expeditious mode of bringing the questions
in difference before a competent tribunal for final decision.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
A. Austin, Esq., Office of Works, &c., Whitehall Place, S.W.
* * * * *
_Vestry Clerk to Sir Richard Mayne_, _Chief Commissioner of Police_.
April 26th, 1861.
CHELSEA BRIDGE ROAD.
Sir,—Referring to your letter and enclosure of the 9th instant, I am
directed to transmit you copy of a letter sent for submission to the
Right Honourable the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Sir R. Mayne, &c., &c., Chief Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard.
(A copy of the last letter was enclosed).
* * * * *
_A. Austin_, _Esq._, _to the Vestry Clerk_.
1672
Office of Works, &c., S.W.
1st May, 1861.
Sir,—I am directed by the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c.,
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, containing
a copy of a resolution of the Vestry of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea,
respecting the portion of the road leading to Chelsea Bridge, which is in
that parish, and I am to state that the Board must deny that the bad
state of the road is ‘owing to the manner in which it was originally made
up,’ that with regard to ‘the works lately executed there,’ if, as the
Board presume, the Vestry allude to the formation of a sewer, those works
were not done by, or with the consent of this department; and that
although the Board are advised that the parish are liable to the repair
and maintenance of the road, and have no claim on the Board in respect
thereof, they are willing, with a view of avoiding expense to both
parties, to consider any proposition which the Vestry may submit to them
for having the matter settled by a competent tribunal.
I am Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
ALFRED AUSTIN,
Secretary.
Chas, Lahee, Esq.
* * * * *
_The Vestry Clerk to A. Austin_, _Esq._
May 24, 1861.
CHELSEA BRIDGE ROAD.
Sir,—Referring to your letter of the 1st instant, I am directed to send
you copy of a resolution of the Committee of Works and for General
Purposes, which has been subsequently approved by the Vestry.
Resolved,—That this Committee recommend the Vestry to reply to the letter
from the Office of Works, &c., that the Board are still willing to agree
to the proposition made by this Vestry to the First Commissioner of Her
Majesty’s Works, &c., in February, 1860, for the purpose of having the
question decided by a court of competent jurisdiction at the smallest
expense, and with the least delay.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE.
Vestry Clerk.
A. Austin, Esq., Secretary, Office of Works, &c., Whitehall, S.W.
* * * * *
_A. Austin_, _Esq._, _to the Vestry Clerk_.
Office of Works, &c., S.W.,
31st May, 1861.
Sir,—I am directed by the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c.,
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th instant,
transmitting copy of a resolution of the Committee of Works and General
Purposes of St. Luke, Chelsea, approved by the Vestry in regard to the
portion of the Chelsea Bridge Road, in that parish, and I am to state
that this Board are advised by counsel that a mandamus against the
parochial authorities will be the proper course to be adopted to compel
the performance by the latter of the duties which the legislature has
imposed upon them with respect to the road in question; but that if the
parochial authorities think that the matter in dispute can be more
speedily and satisfactorily settled, and at less expense by means of a
special case, and will be good enough to transmit to this Board the draft
of such a case, it shall receive immediate attention; the bad state of
the road makes it, however, not merely desirable but necessary, that the
opinion of a court of competent jurisdiction should be obtained as soon
as possible.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
ALFRED AUSTIN,
Secretary.
C. Lahee, Esq.
APPENDIX No. 10
LIGHTING.
_To the Justices for the County of Middlesex_.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of
Middlesex,
SHEWETH,
That an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine, intituled ‘An Act for Regulating Measures used in
the Sales of Gas.’
By that Act provision was made for securing to every consumer of gas
throughout the kingdom an accurate instrument of measurement for the gas
he had to pay for, which was most grievously required by the community,
and the means appointed for applying the benefits of that Act to the very
large body of gas consumers in the county of Middlesex, is that the
justices of the county should appoint an inspector or inspectors, and
determine the number of copies of the model gasholders to be stamped at
the Exchequer Office for the use of such inspectors.
In the Session of one thousand eight hundred and sixty another Act was
passed, intituled ‘An Act to amend the Act for Regulating Measures used
in the Sales of Gas,’ whereby the time for the previous Act to take
effect, with respect to the appointment of inspectors and some other
matters, was extended, and it was provided that the previous Act should
not come into operation in any county in England until the magistrates of
such county, in quarter sessions, should have resolved to bring such
county under the operation of the Act.
Your memorialists are informed that the magistrates or justices of
Middlesex have not only failed to take any steps whatever towards giving
the metropolis the benefit of correct measurement of gas, but have
absolutely refused to do so.
By the Amendment Act making the application of the law optional in
counties as contradistinguished from boroughs it was only intended to
relieve rural districts, where little or no gas is consumed, from the
expense of having inspectors in those districts, but there is nothing in
the Amendment Act to make it optional in boroughs; and your memorialists
do not call upon the justices of Middlesex to enforce it in the rural
districts, but in the densely populated metropolitan boroughs, and some
parishes.
If the justices do nevertheless consider that the option of bringing the
Act into operation in the metropolitan boroughs rests with them, the
public necessity for it is so great that they are bound in the
conscientious discharge of their magisterial duty to do all that is
necessary for that purpose.
Your memorialists therefore respectfully suggest and fervently hope that
your Worships will immediately proceed to carry into effect the said Act
within the boroughs of Marylebone, Finsbury, Tower Hamlets, Lambeth,
Southwark, and City of Westminster, and parishes not included in any
parliamentary borough, such as St. Luke, Chelsea, Hammersmith, and
Kensington.
Given under the common seal of the said Vestry, this 21st day of May,
1861,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
APPENDIX No. 11.
DUST, ASHES, &c.
The Inhabitants are informed that the following arrangements have been
made by the Vestry for the removal of their refuse. The carts will
attend every week on the day named below in the streets comprised in the
area thereafter written:—
_Monday_.—The area comprised within the Kensington Canal, Fulham-road;
Park-walk and Milman’s-row; and the river. Together with the district of
Kensal Town, viz.:
Chapel-street. Little Davis’-place. _Kensal New Town_.
Chelsea-villas. Limerston-street. Bott’s-cottages.
Cremorne-road. Lott’s-lane. Cottage-place.
Davis’-place. Maude-grove. East-row.
Devonshire-cottages. Milman’s-row. Great
Western-cottages.
Edith-grove. New King’s-road. Harrow-road (part of)
Gertrude-street. Poole’s-lane. Kensal-road.
Gunter’s-grove. Riley-street. Middle-row.
Hobury-street. _St. Mark’s School_. Plough-lane.
Hob-lane. Victoria-grove. South-row.
Lackland-place. Winterton-place. Trinity-square.
Lackland-cottages. World’s-end-passage. West-row.
_Tuesday_.—The area comprised within Park-walk and Milman’s row; the
river; Church-street; and the Fulham-road. Together with the King’s-road
from end to end, viz.:
Ann’s-place. Duke-street. Park-terrace
Cottages.
Beaufort-street. King’s-road (East to Paultons-square.
West).
Camera-street. Lindsey-row. Paultons-street.
Camera-square. Little Camera-place. Rance’s-place.
Camera-gardens. Little Camera Street. Sun-court.
Camera Place. Lombard-street. The Vale.
Caroline-buildings. Mason’s-grove. Waterloo-place.
Church-street. Park-lane. White Hart-court.
Danvers-street. Park-road.
_Wednesday_.—The area comprised within Church-street; the river; the
Fulham-road; and Manor, Robert, and Sydney-streets, viz.:
Arthur-street. Jones’s-cottages. Oakley-crescent
North.
Barossa-place. Justice-walk. Phene-street.
Bond-street (from Lawrence-street. Read’s-place.
Sydney-street to
Arthur-st.)
Britten-street. Little Cheyne-row. South-parade.
Caledonia-street. Lordship-place. Stewart’s-grove.
Charles-street. Lordship-yard. _The Workhouse_.
Cheyne-walk (part of) Manor-gardens. Trafalgar-square.
Cheyne-row. Manor-street. Upper Cheyne-row.
Cook’s-ground. Margaretta-terrace. Wellington-street
(West part of)
Crooked Usage Oakley-street. York-mews.
Garden-grove. Oakley-square.
Grove-cottages. Oakley-crescent
South.
_Thursday_.—The area comprised within Manor, Robert, and Sydney-streets;
the Fulham-road; and College, Markham, and Smith-streets, to the river,
via.:
Albert-cottages. Eden-place. Pond-terrace.
Alpha-place. Elizabeth-street. Pratt’s-buildings.
Batcock’s-buildings. Godfrey-street. Queen’s-road West.
Bedford-terrace. Jubilee-place. Queen-street.
Blenheim-street. Kimbolton-cottages. Radnor-street.
Bond-street (to Kimbolton-row. Robinson-street.
Sydney-st.)
Brewer-street. King-street. Rouse’s-gardens.
Bury-street. Little Russell-street.
Blenheim-street.
Calthorpe-place. Little _School of
College-street. Discipline_
(Queen’s-road West).
Caversham-street. Leader street. Shawfield-street.
Christ Manor-buildings. Smith-terrace.
Church-terrace.
_Chelsea Hospital_. Marlborough-court. Steer’s-buildings.
Cheyne-walk (part of) Marlborough-place. Swan-walk.
Collingwood-street. Marlborough-street. Upper Manor-street.
Durham-street. Marlborough-square. Wellesley-grove.
Durham-terrace. Orms’s-place. Wellington-street
(East part)
Eatly’s-buildings. Paradise-walk. Wellington-buildings.
East-street. Paradise-street.
Eborall-place. Pond-place.
_Friday_.—The area comprised between Smith-street and the Eastern
Boundary; and the river; and the line of Whitehead’s-grove,
Cadogan-street, and Ellis-street, to the Eastern Boundary; viz.:
Anderson-street. George-place. _Royal Military
Asylum_.
Blacklands-street. George-street. Sloane square.
Blacklands-lane. Grove-place. Sloane terrace.
Blacklands-terrace. Green’s-row. South street
Bolton’s-gardens. Hemus-terrace. Symons street.
Bosbury’s-yard. Hooper’s-court, Lower Terrace court.
Symons-street.
Buck’s-place. John-street. Three Crowns court.
Bywater-street. Keppel-street South. Turk’s row.
Cadogan-terrace. Keppel-terrace. Union street.
Cadogan-street. Lawrence-yard. Union place.
Charles-street. Little Smith-street. Upper George street.
Chelsea Bridge-road. Little George-street. Victoria yard.
Chelsea-market. Lincoln-street. Walker’s cottages.
Chelsea-market-mews. Lower George-street. Walpole street
College-place. Lower Symons-street. Whitelands.
Coulson-street. Lower Sloane-street. _Whitelands School_.
Cumberland-place. Marlborough-rd. (from Whitelands lane.
Coulson-st. to
Cadogan-st.)
D’Oyley-street (to Markham-square. Whitehead’s grove.
No. 13 inclusive).
Dove-court. Mermaid-yard. White Lion street.
Draycott-place. Morby’s-yard. Wilderness row.
Draycott-street. New-road (from Wellington square.
Sloane-sq. to
Cadogan-terrace).
Draycott-terrace. New-court. Wood’s buildings,
George st.
Earl-street. Pavilion place.
Ellis-street. Queen’s road East.
Evans’-buildings. Rose and Crown court
Franklin’s-row. Royal Avenue terrace.
_Saturday_.—The area comprised between the Eastern Boundary and
College-street; and between the Fulham-road and the line of
Whitehead’s-grove, Cadogan-street, and Ellis-street; viz.:
Albert place. Hans street. Moore street.
Bull’s gardens. Hans place. New road (from
Cadogan terrace to
North st.)
Cadogan place. Harriett street. North street.
Caroline place. Harriett mews. Oakham street.
Charles street (part Hasker street. Orford street.
of)
Charlotte street. Henry street. Pavilion street.
Cross street. Hooper’s court, North Pentagon place.
st.
Cottage place. Ives street. Pont street.
Cumberland street. _Industrial Home for Princes street.
Girls_, 106, Sloane
street.
D’Oyley street (from James street. Regent street.
No. 14 to Little
Cadogan pl.)
Elizabeth place. Keppel street (from Richard’s place.
Whitehead’s grove,
Northward).
Elizabeth street. Little Cadogan place. Sloane street (from
Ellis st. to
Knightsbridge.)
Exeter buildings. Little Keppel street. Smith street.
Exeter place. Little Orford street Stanley street.
Exeter street. Lower North street. Walton place.
First street. Lowndes square. Walton street.
Francis street. Lowndes street (part William street (part
of) of)
Green street. Marlborough road William mews.
(from Cadogan street
to Fulham road).
Halsey street Milner street Wickham place.
Halsey terrace. Wood street.
_Ham Town School of York street.
Industry_, 103,
Sloane st.
Each dustman will wear a badge bearing a number, and in case of
impropriety of conduct on the part of any of the men employed, notice,
with particulars of the circumstances, should be sent to this office.
Vestry Hall, King’s-road, October, 1860.
(By order),
CHARLES LAHEE, Vestry Clerk.
APPENDIX No. 12.
_Return of Proceedings taken by the Vestry of Chelsea for the Removal of
Nuisances_, _and for the improvement of the Sanitary condition of the
Parish of Chelsea_, _from March_ 25_th_, 1860, _to March_ 25_th_, 1861.
* * * * *
PRESENTMENTS made by the Medical Officer of Health,
State of Houses. Yards & Water Supply. Drains & Nuisances. Ventilation. Overcrowding Slaughter Miscellaneous.
Cellars. Privies. Houses.
28 18 17 123 118 — — 14 61
COMPLAINTS made by Inhabitants, &c.
— — 11 59 36 — — — —
PROCEEDINGS TAKEN.
1st Notices 2nd Notices Works executed Compulsory
issued. issued. in default. Proceedings.
358 84 2 25
APPENDIX No. 13.
LIST OF SLAUGHTER HOUSES IN THE PARISH,
Licensed October, 1860.
_No._ _Name_. _Situation of Slaughter House_.
1. Henry Flack At the rear of 137, King’s road.
2. James Robert Pollard Britten mews.
3. John Grant At the rear of 38, King’s road.
4. Thomas Symons ,, Alpha House, Fulham road.
5. Thomas Betts Garner ,, 1, Mason’s place.
6. Matthew Reynolds ,, his house, Kensal town.
7. Samuel Dancocks ,, 4, Hollis place.
8. Joseph Cobb, jun. ,, 20, Queen’s road West.
9. William Henry Vickers ,, 3, Duke street,
10. Joseph Cobb ,, 52, King’s road.
11. Henry Morris ,, 42, Queen’s road West.
12. Thomas Cook ,, 50, Sloane square.
13. Robert Slater Crooked Usage, Arthur street.
14. George Ward Little Blenheim street.
15. William Frost At the rear of 2, Maynard place.
16. Joseph & Nathl. Phillips ,, 54, King’s road.
17. Charles Foster ,, 2, Albert place, Marlborough
road.
18. William Lee ,, 7, Manor street.
19. Alexander Colman ,, 5, Upper Church street.
20. Richard Jordan ,, his house, Kensal town.
21. Richard Hack ,, 28, Queen’s road West.
22. James Buckingham ,, 48, Walton street.
23. James Buckingham ,, 6, Marlborough road.
24. James William Hall ,, 386, King’s road.
25. George William Squires ,, 337, King’s road.
26. Henry Francis White ,, 347, King’s road.
27. Edmund Miller ,, 76, Queen’s road West.
28. Thomas Slocombe ,, 13, Halsey terrace.
29. James Wright ,, 9, Milner street.
30. Thomas Poulter ,, his house, Kensal town.
31. James Wannell ,, 8, Leader street.
32. Benjamin Smith ,, 67, King’s road.
33. Richard Coumbe. ,, 3, Odell’s place
34. John Britten ,, 2, Sloane street.
35. John English ,, 96, King’s road.
36. Walter Hughes ,, his house, Albion place, West
Brompton.
37. Daniel Rothwell ,, his house, 3, Victoria pl.,
West Brompton.
38. John Michael Weidner ,, 2, Duke street.
39. Thomas Spencer ,, 1, Bailey’s place.
40. William Jelly ,, 22, Church street.
41. Samuel Drage ,, 48, Cheyne-walk.
42. Charles E. Holmes ,, 12, Manor street.
43. Henry Thomas Feltham ,, 2, Marlborough road.
44. John Mason ,, 4, Queen street.
45. Richard Wellicome ,, 1 Bishop’s place, Fulham road.
46. Joshua Iggulden ,, 9, Marlborough road.
47. George Mumford ,, 2, Green street, Marlborough
road.
APPENDIX No. 14.
CHARGES UNDER THE HEAD OF “SEWERS WORKS.”
_March_ 25_th_, 1860, _to March_ 25_th_, 1861.
Page Ledger £ s. d.
219. To Sundries as per Journal, page 74.
Construction of Sewers 149 6 5
Private Drains 31 14 1
Gullies 56 10 9
Cleansing Sewers:—
Flushing 3 11 0
Day Work, 118 18 2
&c.
122 9 2
Incidentals 47 17 1
Cartage and Horsehire 9 15 9
Establishment for Share of Charges 428 11 4
under that Head
£846 4 7
REVENUE UNDER THE HEAD OF “SEWERS WORKS.”
_March_ 25_th_, 1860, _to March_ 25_th_, 1861.
Page Ledger £ s. d.
219. By Balance 589 2 6
Order to Overseers, dated 28th 30 10 0
September, 1858—Surplus
Ditto ditto March, 1856 ditto 5 3 0
Incidental Sources—viz.:
Private 49 17 6
Drains
Ditto 15 12 6
Gullies
65 10 0
By Balance 155 19 1
£846 4 7
APPENDIX No. 15.
SURVEYOR’S RETURN OF SEWERAGE WORKS.
Sewers constructed. Not any.
Private Drains. Twenty-eight connected with
sewers, upon application of the
owners.
Repairs and Alterations to Three new Gullies connected with
Gullies. brick sewers in Markham-square,
and one connected with the pipe
sewer in College-place.
Repairs and Alterations to The open Sewer adjoining the
Sewers. footway on the south side of the
Harrow-road, westward of the
eastern boundary, covered over,
and a public nuisance abolished.
Gullies cleansed. Two hundred and eighty-six.
Private Cesspools emptied. Not any.
Sewers flushed with water Seventeen—equal to one mile six
furlongs.
Brick Sewers cleansed by manual Twenty-three—equal to three miles
labour seven furlongs.
Side entrances constructed One at the south end of Little
Cadogan-place.
Ventilators added to Sewer One.
APPENDIX No. 16.
STATEMENT SHOWING THE BALANCE RESPECTING THE LATE CHELSEA IMPROVEMENT
COMMISSION.
_On the_ 25_th day of March_, 1861.
Page Ledger £ s. d.
153. To Compensation to late Officer 144 0 0
271. Share of Expenditure under the head 7 4 0
of “Establishment,” being 5 per cent.
on £144
Balance 248 19 3
£400 3 3
* * * * *
210. By Balance 376 17 6
293. Precept dated 2 4 5
March 30, 1858,
Surplus
294. Ditto Sept. 28, 19 0 2
1858, ditto
294. Ditto Dec. 18, 2 1 2
1857, ditto
23 5 9
£400 3 3
APPENDIX No. 17.
STATEMENT RESPECTING THE LATE CHELSEA IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION.
_On the_ 25_th day of March_, 1861.
Page Ledger. £ s. d.
199. To Balance 18531 8 6
92. Compensation to late Officer 20 0 0
241. Interest on the above Balance at 4¼ per cent. 696 7 6
271. Establishment for share of Expenses under that 35 16 0
head, being 5 per cent. on £716 7s. 6d.
£19,288 12 0
By Precepts, viz.:
293. Dated Mar. 15, 1859, 4 6 6
Surplus
295. ,, Sept. 13, 1859, ditto 5 14 6
294. ,, Sept. 28, 1858, ditto 37 9 9
294. ,, Dec. 18, 1857, ditto 24 5 9
298. ,, Mar. 13, 1860, ditto 1150 0 0
306. ,, Oct. 23, 1860, ditto 920 0 0
2162 10 8
Cash on account of Rate due Oct., 1854, and 3 10 0
April, 1855, on 2, Durham-place
Balance, viz., Debt due to the Vestry 17117 11 4
£19,283 12 0
APPENDIX No. 18.
THE VESTRY HALL.
REPORT OF THE DINNER COMMITTEE.
Vestry Hall, January 15th, 1861.
_To the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea_.
Gentlemen,—We, the subscribers hereto, members of your committee
appointed to carry out the arrangements for giving proper effect to your
resolution of the 23rd October last, to inaugurate the opening of this
hall with a public dinner, have the pleasure to present the following
brief account of our stewardship.
As so many of you were present upon the occasion, it is almost
superfluous to say more than that it was attended by one hundred and
twenty persons, many of them the most influential in the parish, and that
it passed off, we hope and believe, to the general satisfaction of the
guests.
We annex a financial statement for your information, from which it
appears that the receipts from the sale of tickets were £113 8s., and the
cost of the dinner and wines £113 12s., the two amounts as nearly as
possible balancing each other.
The incidental expenses, for music, printing, toastmaster, a supper for
the workmen, &c., amounted to £26 10s. 9d., which by the kind feeling of
Mr. Pitt, of Cheyne-walk, has been reduced to the balance of £21 14s.
9d., a sum which we now ask at your hands.
Respectfully submitted,
JAS. MILES,
WILLIAM RABBITS,
JOHN H. LEETE,
JOHN TILL,
W. HALL,
J. PERRY,
W. NEWTON FINCH.
INAUGURATION DINNER, NOVEMBER 30, 1860.
_Treasurer’s Account_.
To Donation from J. Pitt, Esq. £5 0 0
Tickets sold at £1 1s. each 180 113 8 0
Free Tickets,—viz.:
Chairman and County 3
Members
Dr. Pettigrew—paid 1
by Mr. Michels
Mr. Lahee 1
,, Pattisson 1
,, Diggens 1
The Press—viz.;
Times 1
Morning Advertiser 1
West Middlesex 1
Advertiser
West London Times 1
Telegraph 1
No. of Diners 120
Amount due to Treasurer 21 14 9
* * * * *
Mr. Michels, as Account £113 12 0
Messrs. Bell, printers, ditto 6 16 6
Mr. Hance, ditto ditto 4 1 0
Music—viz.:
Instrumental 2 2 0
Band
Vocalists, &c.:
Mr. Carter 2 2 0
,, Bruton 1 11 6
,, Evans 1 1 0
,, Nunn 0 15 0
,, Smeaton 0 15 0
,, Vaughan 0 15 0
Hire of Piano 1 3 0
and Men
10 4 6
Travelling and other Expenses making 1 0 3
Arrangements
Supper for the Workmen 1 0 0
Bell Ringers 1 1 0
Toastmaster 1 11 6
Policemen (2) 0 6 0
Bill Sticker 0 10 0
26 10 9
£140 2 9
TERMS OF LETTING THE HALL,
A. B.
1. For at meeting on With Platform, The same with
public or parochial Side Entrances, Central Entrance
questions on the and one or both in addition.
requisition to the Ante-rooms.
Vestry of not less No charge.
than twenty No charge
ratepayers, to which
parishioners are
admitted free, and at
which no collection
is made
2. For a meeting by £0 10 0 £0 10 0
daylight called by
any religious,
educational,
charitable, or other
society, as a means
of extending its
operations, or
increasing its funds
3. The same by gaslight 1 0 0 1 10 0
4. For a concert, 2 0 0 2 10 0
lecture, or other
like purpose, in aid
of the funds of any
local charity or
society
5. The same with 3 0 0 3 10 0
orchestra
6. For ordinary 4 0 0 5 0 0
concerts, lectures,
&c.
6_a_. For ditto given by 2 0 0 2 10 0
educational
establishments and
schools, when tickets
are not sold
7. The same with 5 0 0 6 0 0
orchestra
8. For a ball 10 0 0 12 0 0
CONDITIONS OF LETTING.
1. All applications for the use of the hall to be addressed to the
Vestry Clerk, at the Hall, who will promptly obtain a decision upon them.
2. The charges to be paid at the time of engaging the room. The Vestry
will not consider the room engaged until payment is made to the Vestry
Clerk. No receipts are valid that are not on printed forms.
3. The nine members of the Letting Committee reserve to themselves, or
their deputies, and for the Vestry Clerk, the right of entry to all parts
of the Hall, at all times.
4. The admission to be at the east and west entrances only, except the
terms include the use of the central entrance.
5. Should any damage be done to the building or furniture, the expense
of making the same good to be defrayed by the person whose name is
mentioned upon the printed receipt.
6. No announcement to be made until the date mentioned on the printed
receipt.
The foregoing terms and conditions may be modified under peculiar
circumstances; and applications not embraced within them will be matter
of special arrangement.
I, — the undersigned, agree to the foregoing conditions with respect
— on the —
Dated this — day of — 18—
Signature —
* * * * *
M.B. of Coms. No. 2, Fol. 40. No external decorations, flags, or emblems
will be permitted without the consent of the Letting Committee.
M.B. of Coms. Fo. 62. One or more policemen will be engaged at the
expense of the applicants to preserve order.
_Dr._
Ledger Folio £ _s._ _d._
1860. 313.
Dec. 31. To London Gas Company 4 14 0
for Gas consumed to date
1861. Mar. 25. Ditto ditto 7 11 3
12 5 3
Druce & Son for Coke 3 3 8
Hall-keeper for Cleansing 6 15 6
Police Attendant 0 6 0
Balance carried to credit of Establishment 78 8 1
£100 18 6
_Cr._
1860. 305. By Cash from Sundries for Hire of Hall:— £ _s._ _d._
Nov. 11 Madame De Vaucheran 4 0 0
Dec. 3 Mr. Harrison 1 10 0
,, 3. Mr. Anscombe 1 10 0
,, 7. Mr. J. H. Young 1 10 0
,, 8. Rev. Mr. McCarthy 1 0 0
,, 14. South-West London l 0 0
Protestant Institute
,, 17. Madame De Vaucheran 1 0 0
,, 20. Mr. Delany 10 0 0
,, 20. South-West London 1 0 0
Protestant Institute
,, 20. Ditto . . . ditto 1 0 0
,, 31. Mr. Delany 2 0 0
1861.
Jan. 4. Mr. Norfolk 2 10 0
,, 7. Rev. R. H. Davies 1 10 0
,, 8. South-West London 1 0 0
Protestant Institute
,, 9. Mr. Johnson 6 0 0
,, 10. South-West London 1 0 0
Protestant Institute
,, 10. Ditto . . . ditto 1 0 0
,, 16. Mr. Tuck 12 0 0
,, 19. Mr. Gusterson 1 10 0
,, 28. Young Men’s Christian 2 0 0
Association
,, 29. Mr. Price 1 10 0
Feb. 1. Mr. Tomlin 4 0 0
,, 12. South-West London 1 0 0
Protestant Institute
,, 15. Rev. Mr. Morley 2 0 0
,, 21. Miss Couves 5 0 0
,, 28. Christ Church Schools 7 10 0
Mar. 6. National Protestant 1 10 0
Society
,, 6. Mr. Walgrave 1 10 0
,, 8. Mr. Carter 6 0 0
,, 12. Mr. West 4 0 0
,, 15. South-West London 1 10 0
Protestant Institute
,, 20. Mr. Johnson 6 0 0
,, 20. Mr. Pearman 1 10 0
,, 25. Mr. Pamphilon 0 10 0
97 10 0
,, 25. By the Chelsea Literary 1 17 6
and Scientific
Institution for
proportion of Cost of
Lighting the Large Hall
for one quarter
Warming the same ditto 0 6 0
Cleaning the same ditto 1 5 0
3 8 6
£100 18 6
REPORT OF THE LETTING COMMITTEE RESPECTING THE CHELSEA LITERARY AND
SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.
Committee Room, Vestry Hall,
18th, December; 1860.
_To the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea_.
GENTLEMEN,—
We the undersigned of your Committee, for Letting, &c., the Hall, beg to
present this further Report with respect to the application of the
Honorary Secretaries of the proposed Literary and Scientific Institution,
which you referred to us from the Committee of Works and for General
Purposes, on the 16th October (1).
On the 20th of October Mr. Bull attended us and explained his views, and
followed up that interview with a letter, which was before us on the 19th
November, in which, on behalf of the Council, he thanked the Vestry for
the liberal manner in which they received the application for setting
apart a suite of rooms, with the use of the Hall, for the purposes of the
intended Institution. The letter proceeded:—
The Council sincerely rejoice in the view taken by the Vestry of the
utility and benefit of such an institution to the whole body of
ratepayers, and whilst they would desire to fix their home in the new
Vestry Hall as a central point for their members, they do not for one
moment expect that any of the necessary expenses incidental to the
use and occupation of the rooms and hall should fall upon the
ratepayers, but the Council will most readily be prepared to pay
every such charge arising from the lighting, warming, or cleansing of
the same.
The Council are anxious to make the Institution a credit and a
benefit to the whole body of parishioners, and by fixing a low rate
of subscription, to enable every person, however humble his position,
to become a member, should he have the inclination to avail himself
of its privileges. The rate of subscription to a large proportion of
the members would not exceed 3d. per week, the highest being one
guinea per annum.
In reply we informed Mr. Bull “that we were of opinion that £30 per annum
(being the interest upon £1000) would be a fair sum, alike equitable to
the members of the Institution and the ratepayers, to be paid as rent for
the suite of rooms and the use of the hall one evening in the week, the
Institution themselves bearing the incidental expenses of lighting,
warming, and cleansing the same, as stated in his note. That if the
council agree to those terms, and will make a proposal to that effect, we
would lay it before the Vestry for their approval.”
The Council then addressed to us the following letter, to which we have
given the most attentive consideration:—
“19, Walpole Street, Chelsea,
December 3, 1860.
To the Committee of the New Vestry Hall, Chelsea,—Gentlemen,—We beg
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st instant, and to
thank you for allowing our Council the use of your room for their
weekly meetings.
The Council have taken into consideration the proposal of the Vestry
Committee for letting them the suite of rooms and use of the hall for
£30 per annum, as a rent for the same, besides paying all expenses
incurred for cleansing, warming, and lighting.
The Council are apprehensive that this proposal may prove a stumbling
block to their future progress!
The object of the promoters of the Institution was, to establish a
Literary and Scientific Society so comprehensive in its objects, and
at the same time so accessible to all classes, that it might possess
almost all the advantages of a free library, without its
inconveniences.
To accomplish this desirable end, the Council fixed a low rate of
subscription, so that the industrious mechanic might share the
advantages of the Institution, in common with all the other classes
of the inhabitants.
In order however to meet the views of the Vestry Committee, so far as
the faithful carrying out of the above purpose will permit, and also
to expedite the arrangement between the Vestry and the Council, the
following resolution was agreed to at a special meeting of the
Council on Thursday evening last, the Rev. Frederick Blunt in the
chair:—
“Resolved,—That in answer to the letter of the Vestry Committee of
the 21st instant, the following proposal be submitted in lieu of that
contained their letter:—
“‘That the sum of £40 per annum be offered to the Vestry Committee as
the utmost that the Council can give consistently with the avowed
objects of the Institution, this sum to include the use and
occupation of the three rooms, with conveniences, on the ground floor
of the building, and use of the large hall once a week, together with
all expenses incurred for lighting and warming, the Council taking
upon themselves to keep in order the three rooms, leaving the
cleansing of the large hall in the hands of the Vestry.’
“The Council trust that the Vestry will take an enlarged and liberal
view of this proposition; and whilst the stated rent of £30 per annum
would be of infinitesimal value to the ratepayers, this sum, in
addition to the other charges, would prove a heavy burden on the
funds of the Institution, if it did not altogether put an end to its
future proceedings.—We are, Gentlemen, your obedient servants, Thos.
Bull, Markham R. Evans, Hon. Secs.”
We find that the cost of lighting, warming, and cleansing the hall and
anterooms, and of warming and lighting the suite of rooms, will reach, on
a moderate estimate, £38 19s. (say £40) per annum, and we continue of
opinion that if the Vestry undertake these expenses, the Institution
should pay in addition, for the reasons above stated, £30 per annum as
rent.
We understand that an influential deputation will attend you this day
upon the subject. We therefore, as the application is for the permanent
occupation of a portion of these premises, leave the ultimate decision of
the question respectfully in your hands.
Respectfully submitted,
BLAZDELL W. NEWTON FINCH
WILLIAM RABBITS W. HALL
J. H. LEETE J. PERRY.
ESTIMATE LAID BEFORE THE FINANCE COMMITTEE ON THE 21ST FEBRUARY, 1861, BY
THE VESTRY CLERK, OF THE TOTAL PROBABLE COST OF THE VESTRY HALL
BUILDINGS, INCLUDING THE FITTINGS AND FURNITURE.
£ _s._ _d._
SITE—Purchase of 1920 0 0
the Leasehold
Interest of Nos. 5,
6, and 7, Manor
Terrace
Mr. Graham for 25 0 0
Possession
Mr. Walgrave, 280 0 0
Purchase-money of
the Leasehold
Interest of the
Garden at the rear
Cost of the 400 0 0
Freehold, invested
in Three per Cent.
Consols, producing
£427 2s. 1d
Messrs. Lee & 272 2 2
Pemberton Law
Charges
Ditto for Mr. 13 0 0
Brooks’ ditto
2910 2 2
BUILDING—Messrs. 87 1 0
Willis & Cowley,
Excavations
Mr. J. Corbett, 10 12 2
Drainage Works
Messrs. Piper & 5630 0 0
Son, Contract
Extras (See Mr. 1492 10 2
Pocock’s
Certificate)
Omissions (See Mr. 315 4 6
Pocock’s
Certificate)
1177 5 8
Further Works, 100 0 0
January 28,1861
6907 5 8
7004 18 10
FITTING—Messrs Piper & Son, see ditto 565 0 5
Messrs. Weeks & Co., Hot Water Apparatus 220 15 0
(say)
Messrs. Buckley & Beach, Lighting (ditto) 180 7 6
Messrs. Fuller Brothers, Blinds 36 10 0
Messrs. Toby and Son, Sundries 25 18 10
1028 11 9
FURNISHING—Mr. Chapman, Seats, Chairs, 266 16 0
&c., (say)
Mr. Dawes, Tables (ditto) 72 2 0
M. Bosson, 500 Rush Chairs 37 10 0
Mr. Jackson, Looking Glasses, &c. 6 17 6
Mr. Davis, Mats 16 16 4
Messrs. Smith & Baber, Matting, &c., 50 0 0
(say)
Sundries (ditto) 50 0 0
500 1 10
SUNDRIES—Architect and Clerk of the Works 427 0 0
(say)
Premiums for Designs and Exhibition of 81 14 0
same
Watson & Son, Loan Charges 26 17 6
Piper & Son, First Stone 24 1 10
Pocock ditto 5 15 0
Vestry Clerk ditto 25 13 3
Rev. Mr. Huelin, Compensation 25 0 0
616 1 7
£12059 16 2
Abstract of the Foregoing.
Cost of Site £2910 2 2
,, Building 7004 18 10
,, Fitting 1028 11 9
,, Furnishing 500 1 10
,, Sundries 616 1 7
£12059 16 2
_Cr._
By Proceeds of Sale of 187 18 6
Old Houses
,, Dividends on 24 12 1
Consols
212 10 7
Net Estimated Cost £11847 5 7
I think the divisions in the foregoing account are proper and sufficient.
W. NEWTON FINCH, 181, King’s-road.
WM. HALL.
February 22, 1861.
CHELSEA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION
_Dr._
Ledger Folio £ s. d.
1860. 311.
Dec. 31. To London Gas 0 14 6
Company for Gas
supplied to
date
1861. Mar. 25. Ditto ditto 5 7 6
6 2 0
3 3 8
,, 25. W. Druce & Son, 3 3 8
for Coke
,, 25. 313. Proportion of 1 17 6
Cost of
Lighting the
Large Hall,
quarter of £7
10s., from
Christmas to
Lady-day, 1861
,, 25. Ditto of 0 6 0
Warming the
same, quarter
of £1 4s. per
annum
,, 25. Ditto of 1 5 0
Cleaning the
same, quarter
of £5 per annum
£12 14 2
_Cr._
1861. Mar. 25. By Mr. T. L. Bull, Honorary 12 10 0
Secretary, for Quarter’s Rent to
date
,, 25. Balance carried down 0 4 2
£12 14 2
MEMORIAL _re_ ADDITIONAL LOAN OF £2000.
_To the Honorable the Chairman and Members of the Metropolitan Board of
Works_.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex.
SHEWETH,
That the Parish of Chelsea is very extensive and populous.
That it comprises about 9000 houses, is nearly 800 acres in extent, and
contains a population of about 70,000 persons.
That the matters of public concern to so large a number of inhabitants
are necessarily very numerous and weighty.
That by the 92nd section of the Metropolis Local Management Act, your
memorialists are authorized to defray expenses, as well for paving,
lighting, watering, cleansing, or improving the parish, as for those
public concerns; by the 150th section they are enabled to erect a
building for parish purposes; and by the 183rd section they are
permitted, with the sanction of your Honourable Board, to borrow any sums
of money necessary for defraying such expenses.
That with reference to the purposes for which a building so erected may
be used, Mr. Toulmin Smith is of opinion that “under these words, (public
concerns of any parish, or of the inhabitants thereof) it will become
matter of obligation on the Vestry in the case of a single parish, and on
the District Board in the case of parishes combined in a district, to
provide for the expenses of public meetings, and those other similar
matters touching ‘public concerns’ which are now done irregularly and
illegimately. * * * The words in the section are imperative,—these
expenses ‘shall be defrayed accordingly.’” Again, “the most economical
course will always be to make such a building a part of the erection for
the offices, &c., of the board, as has already been done in the case of
St. Pancras Vestry Hall, and in some other cases in the Metropolis.”
That acting within the discretion thus vested in them your memoralists
have erected a Vestry Hall, which is suitable in every respect for the
purposes of your memorialists, and for the before-mentioned public
concerns of the inhabitants.
That as evidence that the large room was much required in this parish,
and is fully appreciated by the inhabitants, your memorialists do state
that since its opening on the 30th November last, seventy meetings of
various kinds have taken place therein, which may be thus
classified:—Religious and Moral, twenty-seven; Intellectual, twenty;
Social, Political, and to encourage the Volunteer movement, twenty-three.
That for nineteen of these meetings the use of the room has been given
absolutely without charge, and for the others a scale of payment has been
arranged by your Memorialists, which is in their opinion equitable and
fair—and which has been submitted to your Finance Committee.
That the building erected by your Memorialists is plain and substantial
in its character; the plan of it having been submitted to, and approved
by, your Honourable Board before it was commenced, (which original plan
has not been departed from in any substantial particular) and will cost
(excluding the cost of the site) the, not unreasonable, sum of Seven
Thousand pounds; being the original contract sum of £5630, and the
remainder for extra and additional works, which your Memorialists fear
are inevitable in all such undertakings.
That particulars in full detail of the estimated cost of the site,
building, fittings, furniture and sundries, have been laid before your
Finance Committee, by your Memorialists, amounting in the whole to about,
£12,000.
That your Memorialists are of opinion that the most equitable manner of
defraying the said expenses both for the present and future Ratepayers is
by means of a loan, repayable with interest in twenty years, thus
rendering the sanction of your Honorable Board requisite.
That the Large Hall is intended to be used for purposes of the Vestry,
and in fact is now about to be so used for the election of Vestrymen
under the Act.
That although a portion of the premises is now temporarily made use of as
Reading Rooms, as stated in the letter of your Memorialists to your
Finance Committee, those rooms will most probably be required for the Gas
Examiner under the Metropolis Gas Act, and the analyst under the Act for
the Prevention of the Adulteration of Food and Drink of last session.
That your Memorialists under the 150th Section of the Metropolis Local
Management Act deem the whole of the buildings necessary and expedient,
and under the 92nd section such buildings are fully authorized inasmuch
as they are clearly used for the public concerns of their Parish and the
inhabitants thereof.
That no further or additional rate, than was contemplated at the time the
original loan of £10,000, was sanctioned by your Honorable Board, will be
required.
That the following objects may be mentioned as showing the necessity of
the Vestry Hall:—A place of meeting for the local magistrates in petty
sessions; a place for the public discussion of important local public
questions, as the Embankment of the River at Chelsea, the Enfranchisement
of the District, the Removal of the Asylum Wall in the King’s Road, and
the Equalization of the Poor Rates.
That with reference to the remarks of your Finance Committee in their
report that their inquiries have satisfied them that the building has not
been erected exclusively for the purposes of the Vestry, but for other
objects not contemplated by the Metropolis Local Management Act, your
Memorialists submit that under the Act referred to, it is not
imperatively necessary that buildings of this description should be
erected exclusively for the purposes of the Vestry; and that the building
erected by your memorialists has not been erected for any object not
contemplated by the said Act.
Your Memorialists therefore pray that, as they, and the inhabitants of
the Parish represented by them, are of opinion that the expenses of the
said Vestry Hall, &c., are in relation to the regulation, government, or
public concerns of this Parish, and of the inhabitants thereof, and that
the sum of £12,000 is necessary for defraying such expenses; and that
such expenses will be best defrayed by a loan upon the credit of the
rates, your Honorable Board will not deem it expedient to refuse your
sanction to the additional loan of £2,000 already applied for.
Given under the common seal of the said Vestry, this 10th day of May,
1861
(Signed) CHARLES LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
APPENDIX No. 19.
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT.
_Suggestions for its Amendment_.
Offices,—Manor House, King’s Road, S.W.
25th March, 1858.
Sir,—In connexion with the subjoined letter, I have been directed to
transmit for your consideration as a member of the Committee of Works and
for General Purposes, certain general heads for amendment. Of the
meeting for the discussion of the same, and of any others which may
appear to you desirable, you will be specially advised.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
* * * * *
Metropolitan Board of Works,
1, Greek Street, Soho, 9th January, 1858.
Dear Sir,—I beg to apprise you, for the information of the Vestry of
Chelsea, that the Metropolitan Board of Works are now engaged in
considering what amendments it may be expedient to introduce into the
Metropolis Local Management Act, in the present session of parliament,
and will be prepared to receive from the Vestry any suggestions they may
desire to offer in reference to those provisions of the Act which relate
to the duties and powers of vestries and district boards. If the Vestry
should deem it proper to offer any suggestions, and you will be good
enough, at your early convenience, to transmit to me the draft of any
amended clause or clauses which may be proposed, I will immediately bring
the subject under the notice of this Board.
I am, dear Sir,
Yours very faithfully,
E. H. WOOLRYCH,
Clerk of the Board.
Chas. Lahee, Esq.,
Manor House, King’s Road,
Chelsea.
* * * * *
CLAUSES IN ACT 18 & 19 Vict. cap. GENERAL HEADS FOR AMENDMENT.
120.
XI. For every parish mentioned _The system of accounts being
in either of the Schedules (A) necessarily intricate_, _and the
and (B) to this Act there shall scope of the powers of the Vestry
be elected such number as to incur legal debts inaccurately
hereinafter mentioned _of the defined_, _the duties of the
ratepayers_ of the parish who auditors are very responsible_.
have signified in writing their
assent to serve to be auditors of _To consider whether a system of
accounts, which auditors shall be paid auditors_, _not being of
so elected at the same times and necessity ratepayers_, _such as
in the same manner as members of that in practice under the Poor
the vestry; and the number of Laws_, _is desirable_, _with the
ratepayers so to be elected necessary powers for enforcing
auditors in any parish not their disallowances_.
divided into wards under this Act
shall be five, and the number of
ratepayers so to be elected
auditors in any parish which is
divided into wards shall be the
same as the number of wards, one
auditor being elected in each
ward: Provided always, that where
the number of wards into which
any parish is divided exceeds
five, the vestry of such parish
shall at their first meeting
after the election of auditors as
aforesaid, in any year, elect by
ballot from among such auditors
five of them, and the five
persons so elected by ballot
shall be the auditors for such
parish exclusively of any other
person or persons who may have
been elected an auditor or
auditors for such parish under
the provisions herein contained;
and a list of the five persons so
elected by the vestry shall be
forthwith published by the
churchwardens in the parish as
herein provided: Provided also,
that no person shall be eligible
to fill the office of auditor of
accounts who is not qualified to
fill the office of Vestryman for
the parish; but no person shall
be eligible to fill the office of
auditor who is a member of the
vestry; and if any person be
chosen to be both a member of the
vestry and auditor of accounts,
he shall be incapable of acting
as a vestryman.
XII. The auditors first elected _There appears to be no reason
under this Act in any parish as why the annual election might not
aforesaid shall go out of office be fixed for the_ 1_st of May_
at the time appointed for the (sec. 7); _the audit cannot
election of vestrymen and commence until the_ 1_st of May_
auditors in the year one thousand (sec. 195), _it may therefore
eight hundred and fifty-seven, happen that the auditors go out
and _the auditors then elected of office before they can
and to be thereafter elected commence their audit_.
shall go out of office at the
election of vestrymen and
auditors in the year next
following their election_.
XVI. On the day of election of _How are the churchwardens to
vestrymen and auditors in any know officially from the chairman
parish under this Act the of the ward meetings who are
parishioners then rated to the elected_? _and_, _in the case of
relief of the poor in the parish, persons elected to supply
or, where the parish is divided vacancies caused otherwise than
into wards under this Act, in the by effluxion of time_, (sec. 9),
ward thereof for which the _in whose places_?
election is holden, and who are
desirous of voting, shall meet at _Where there is a poll_, _the
the place appointed for such inspectors certify to the
election, and shall then and chairmen_, (sec. 22,) _and the
there nominate two ratepayers of chairmen should be required to
the parish, or (if the parish be certify under their hands to the
divided into wards) of the ward churchwardens_, _in a similar
for which the election is holden, way_. _Where there is no poll_,
as fit and proper persons to be _they should certify in
inspectors of votes; and the accordance with their
churchwardens, or, in the case of declaration_.
a ward election, such one of the
churchwardens as is present
thereat, or, where one of the
churchwardens is not present, the
person appointed by them to
preside thereat, shall,
immediately after such nomination
as aforesaid by the parishioners,
nominate two other such
ratepayers to be such inspectors;
and after such nominations the
said parishioners shall elect
such persons duly qualified as
may be there proposed for the
offices of vestrymen and auditors
or auditor: _and the chairman at
such meeting shall declare the
names of the parishioners who
have been elected by a majority
of votes at such meeting_:
Provided nevertheless, that no
person shall be entitled to join
or vote in any such election for
any parish, or any ward of any
parish, or be deemed a ratepayer
thereof, or be entitled to do any
act as such under this Act,
unless he have been rated in such
parish to the relief of the poor
for one year next before the
election, and have paid all
parochial rates, taxes, and
assessments due from him at the
time of so voting or acting,
except such as have been made or
become due within six months
immediately preceding such voting
or acting.
XXII. _The inspectors shall_, _By whom should this list be
immediately after they have prepared and published_? (see
decided upon whom the aforesaid sec. 26). _If by the
elections have fallen, _deliver churchwardens an official copy
to_ the churchwardens, or to one should be sent to the vestry_.
of them, or other, _the person
presiding at the election_, a
list of the persons chosen by the
parishioners to act as vestrymen
and auditors or an auditor of
accounts; _and the said list_,
_or a copy thereof_, _shall be
published in the parish as herein
provided_.
XXX. _At every meeting_ of any _To consider whether a permanent
vestry under this Act, in the chairman is desirable_.
absence of the persons authorised
by law or custom to take the
chair, _the members present shall
elect a chairman for the
occasion_ before proceeding to
other business, and the chairman,
in case of an equality of votes
on any question, shall have a
second or casting vote.
LV. Any member of the _How is the fact of such
Metropolitan Board of Works, or resignation to become officially
of any vestry elected for any known to the vestry_? _either a
parish mentioned in Schedule (A) notice of such resignation should
or (B) to this Act, or of the be sent by the churchwardens to
Board of Works for any district, the clerk of the vestry_, _or the
may at any time resign his resignation should be sent to him
office, such resignation of any in addition to the
member of the Metropolitan Board churchwardens_.
of Works to be notified in
writing signed by such member to
chairman of such board, _and such
resignation of any vestryman_ or
member of any such district board
_to be notified in writing signed
by such vestryman_ or member _to
the churchwardens of the parish
for which he was elected_.
LXIX. The vestry of every parish _Instead of the words_ “_as may
mentioned in Schedule (A) to this be necessary_,” _to employ the
Act, and the Board of Works for terms made use of in sec._ 135,
every district mentioned in “_as they may from time to time
Schedule (B) to this Act, shall think necessary_.”
(subject to the powers by this
Act vested in the Metropolitan
Board of Works) from time to time
repair and maintain the sewers
under this Act vested in them, or
such of them as shall not be
discontinued, closed up, or
destroyed under the powers herein
contained, and shall cause to be
made, repaired, and maintained
such sewers and works, or such
diversions or alterations of
sewers and works _as may be
necessary_ for effectually
draining their parish or
district.
LXXX. Where any sewer in any of _This section would appear not to
the parishes mentioned in either reach those sewers in Schedule
of the Schedules (A) and (B) to D_, _which are vested in the
this Act, into which any drain Metropolitan Board of Works_,
shall be made or branched, has _and have been built by private
been built since the third day of persons_, _under the
_September_, one thousand eight circumstances particularised
hundred and thirteen, and before therein_.
the commencement of this Act, at
the expense of any person or body _If equitable in the one case_,
other than any commissioners of _it would appear to be so in the
sewers, _the vestry_ or district other_.
board _in whom such sewer is
vested_ may order such sum as
they may deem just to be paid and
contributed by the owner of the
house to which such drain belongs
towards the expense of the
construction of such sewer, which
sum shall, on the receipt thereof
by such vestry or board, be paid
over to the person or body
aforesaid, and such vestry or
board may, if they see fit, order
and accept payment of such sum,
with interest after a rate not
exceeding five pounds for the
hundred by the year, by
instalments, within any period
not exceeding twenty years.
CV. In case the owners of the _It has been held_ (_and the
houses forming the greater part decision upon appeal was not
of any _new street_ laid out or reversed_) _that the words_ “_new
made, or hereafter to be laid out street_,” (section 105), _mean a
or made, which is not paved to street formed since the
the satisfaction of the vestry or commencement of this Act_: _the
district board of the parish or effect of this decision will be
district in which such street is to leave in an unsatisfactory_,
situate, be desirous of having _perhaps a dangerous state_,
the same paved, as hereinafter _many streets used by the
mentioned, or if such vestry or public_, _but which have not been
board deem it necessary or formally taken in charge by the
expedient that the same should be various parishes in which they
so paved, then and in either of are situated_.
such cases such vestry or board
shall well and sufficiently pave _Perhaps a power to vestries and
the same, either throughout the district boards to close up as
whole breadth of the carriage way thoroughfares such streets might
and footpaths thereof, or any be advisable_.
part of such breadth, and from
time to time keep such pavement
in good and sufficient repair;
and the owners of the houses
forming such street shall, on
demand, pay to such vestry or
board the amount of the estimated
expenses of providing and laying
such pavement, (such amount to be
determined by the surveyor for
the time being of the vestry or
board;) and in case such
estimated expenses exceed the
actual expenses of such paving,
then the difference between such
estimated expenses and such
actual expenses shall be repaid
by the said vestry or board to
the owners of houses by whom the
said sum of money has been paid;
and in case the said estimated
expenses be less than the actual
expenses of such paving, then the
owners of the said houses shall,
on demand, pay to the said vestry
or board such further sum of
money as, together with the sum
already paid, amounts to such
actual expenses.
CVI. The vestry or district
board of any parish or district
may, if they think fit, by notice
in writing put up in any part of
any street in their parish or
district, not being a highway,
declare their intention of
repairing the same under this
Act, and thereupon the same shall
be from time to time repaired by
them under the authority of this
Act: Provided always, that no
street shall be repaired as last
aforesaid unless such notice in
writing be also given to all
persons interested in such
street, or if within one month
after notice in writing has been
put up or given as last aforesaid
any person interested in such
street, or the person
representing or entitled to
represent any person interested
as aforesaid, by notice in
writing to the vestry or board
object thereto.
CVIII. It shall be lawful for
every vestry and district board
from time to time to place any
posts, fences, and rails on the
sides of any footways or
carriageways in their parish or
district, for the purposes of
safety, and to prevent any
carriage or cattle from going on
the same, and also to place any
posts or other erections in any
carriage-way so as to make the
crossings thereof less dangerous
for foot passengers, and also
from time to time to repair and
renew any such posts, rails or
fences, or to remove the same, or
any other obstruction or
encroachment on any carriageway
or footway.
CXIX. If any porch, shed, _To consider the propriety of
projecting window, step, cellar introducing the words_,
door or window, or steps leading “_projecting blind_, _blind
into any cellar or otherwise, frame_, _or part thereof_.”
lamp, lamp post, lamp iron, sign,
sign post, sign iron, snowboard,
window shutter, wall, gate,
fence, or opening, or any other
projection or obstruction placed
or made against or in front of
any house or building after the
commencement of this Act, shall
be an annoyance, in consequence
of the same projecting into or
being made in or endangering or
rendering less commodious the
passage along any street in their
parish or district, it shall be
lawful for the vestry or district
board to give notice in writing
to the owner or occupier of such
house or building to remove such
projection or obstruction, or to
alter the same, in such manner as
the vestry or board think fit,
&c.
CXXX. Every vestry and district _Section_ 250 _gives the
board shall cause the several following as the meaning of the
_streets_ within their parish or word_ “_street_” _any or part of
district to be well and any highway_, _road_, _bridge_,
sufficiently lighted, and for _lane_, _footway_, _square_,
that purpose shall maintain, or _court_, _alley_, _passage_,
set up and maintain, a sufficient _whether a thoroughfare or not_.
number of lamps in every such
street, and shall cause the same _There should be some limit to
to be lighted with gas or the obligation to light_.
otherwise, and to continue
lighted at and during such times
as such vestry or board may think
fit, necessary, or proper; and
public lamps, and the lamp posts
and lamp irons and fittings
thereof, to be provided by any
vestry or district board, shall
vest in such vestry or board.
CCII. The Metropolitan Board of _The attention of the
Works and every district board Metropolitan Board has been drawn
and vestry respectively may from to their powers under this
time to time make, alter and section_, _and they have passed
repeal bye laws for all or any of the following resolution upon the
the purposes following; (that is subject_, _in that_ “_it is not
to say), for regulating the practicable for this Board to lay
business and proceedings at their down any uniform body of
meetings and of committees regulations for regulating the
appointed by them, the plans and levels of sites for
appointment and removal of their buildings and for the
officers and servants, and the construction of house drainage_,
duties, conduct, and remuneration _properly adapted to the peculiar
of such officers and servants; circumstances of each district_;
_and the said Metropolitan Board _and that the Vestry of Chelsea
may also from time to time make_, be so informed._”
_alter_, _and repeal bye laws for
regulating the plans_, _level_, _No doubt uniformity is
_width_, _surface inclination_, desirable_; _but regulation of
_and the material of the pavement some kind_, _for the guidance of
and roadway of new streets and the officers_, _is necessary_.
roads_, _and the plans and level
of sites for building_, _and for _The power of making such bye
regulating the dimensions_, laws should lie in the body for
_form_, _and mode of whom its exercise is
construction_, _and the keeping_, practicable_.
_cleansing_, _and repairing of
the pipes_, _drains_, _and other
means of communicating with
sewers_, _and the traps and
apparatus connected therewith_;
_for the emptying_, _cleansing_,
_closing and filling up of
cesspools and privies_; _and for
other works of cleansing_, _and
of removing and disposing of
refuse_, _and for regulating the
form of appeal and mode of
proceeding thereon_; _and
generally for carrying into
effect the purposes of this Act_:
and every such board and vestry
may thereby impose such
reasonable penalties as they
think fit, not exceeding forty
shillings, for each breach of
such bye laws, and in case of a
continuing offence a further
penalty not exceeding twenty
shillings for each day after
notice of the offence from the
board or vestry: Provided always,
that under every such bye law it
shall be lawful for the justices
before whom any penalty imposed
thereby is sought to be recovered
to order the whole or part only
of such penalty to be paid, or to
remit the whole penalty: Penalty:
Provided also, that no bye laws
shall be repugnant to the laws of
_England_ or to the provisions of
this Act; and that no bye law
shall be of any force or effect
unless and until the same be
submitted to and confirmed at a
subsequent meeting of the board
or vestry: Provided also, that no
penalty shall be imposed by any
such bye law unless the same be
approved by one of Her Majesty’s
principal Secretaries of State.
CCL. The word “drain” shall mean _To consider whether the word
and include any drain of and used “drain” should be made to include
for the drainage of one building any drain_, _for draining any
only, or premises within the same group or block of houses_, _by a
curtilage, and made merely for combined operation_, _under the
the purpose of communicating with authority of any former
a cesspool or other like Commissioners of Sewers_.
receptacle for drainage, or with
a sewer into which the drainage
of two or more buildings or
premises occupied by different
persons is conveyed, _and shall
also include any drain for
draining any group or block of
houses by a combined operation
under the order of any vestry or
district board_.
* * * * *
_Suggestions made to the Metropolitan Board of Works_, _for the Amendment
of the Metropolis Local Management Act_, 1855, 18_th and_ 19_th Vict._,
_cap._ 120. _Printed by order of the Board_, _on the_ 24_th of April_,
1860.
* * * * *
NOTE.—The following suggestions, for convenience of reference, have been
arranged under three heads:
1. _Observations upon the Act_, 18_th &_ 19_th Vict._, _cap._ 120, _not
included in the Amendment Bill_.
2. _Observations upon the Bill prepared and forwarded by the
Metropolitan Board of Works_, _on the_ 29_th May_, 1858.
3. _Proposed New Clauses_, _and Suggestions for the same_.
* * * * *
1.—OBSERVATIONS UPON THE ACT, 18th and 19th VICT., CAP. 120, NOT INCLUDED
IN THE AMENDMENT BILL.
The provisions of the 83rd, 121st, 122nd, and 123rd sections of this Act,
to be made to extend to the person causing the offences to be committed.
In section 109, gas companies to be prevented from taking up mains of
pipes except for the purpose of substituting new pipes for old, unless by
permission of vestries or district boards.
In section 119, to introduce the words, “projecting blind, blind iron,
blind frame, reflecting shop lamps, gas reflectors,” or part thereof,
below six feet six inches from the pavement.
That an independent paid auditor or auditors should be appointed to audit
the accounts of all the vestries and district boards throughout the
metropolis, as well as of the Metropolitan Board of Works. That power
should be given to vestries and district boards, to put streets, which
have never been properly formed, into a proper state of repair, and to
rate the owners and occupiers of the property abutting on such streets
for the expense of putting the same into a proper state of repair, the
future maintenance thereof to devolve upon the vestry or board.
That power should be given to compel the owners or occupiers of property
abutting on streets, to erect such fences as may be necessary for the
protection of the public.
2.—OBSERVATIONS UPON THE BILL PREPARED AND FORWARDED BY THE METROPOLITAN
BOARD OF WORKS, on the 29th MAY, 1858.
_It must be recollected that this Bill was not proceeded with_, _and is
not the same as that now_ (_April_, 1860), _under consideration_, _nor as
that introduced by Mr. Tite_, _in the House of Commons_, _in August_,
1859.
CLAUSES IN BILL. OBSERVATIONS.
III. The inspectors of votes _The committee consider that in
directed to be appointed under case of division amongst the
the first recited Act, shall, inspectors_, _the umpire should
before commencing the duties of be chosen by lot_.
their office under the said Act,
appoint by writing under their
hands an umpire; and in case of
any dispute or disagreement
between the said inspectors, as
to any matter which they are by
the said Act required to
determine, such matter shall be
decided by the said umpire, and
his decision in relation thereto
shall be final and conclusive.
V. Any vestryman who during six _The committee would have
successive months shall not have preferred three months as the
attended the meetings of the limit_; _but that attendance at
vestry of which he is a member, any committee should count_.
shall, upon the expiration of _They think also that leave of
such six months, cease to be a absence might be given in certain
member of such vestry, and the cases_.
vacancy occasioned by his so
ceasing to be a member, shall be
filled up at the next annual
election.
XVII. In case any sewer shall be _Suppose a street cut through
constructed by any vestry or market garden ground_, _upon
district board in a street in which a small sewers rate has
which no sewer existed previously been paid_, _are the houses and
to such construction, and in and land to be free from payment
on which no sewers rate had been under this section_.
levied previously to 1st January,
1856, the expense of constructing
such sewer, including the cost of
gullies, side entrances, and
other incidental charges and
expenses, shall be borne and
defrayed by the owners of the
houses situate in such street,
and of the land bounding or
abutting on such street
respectively, in proportion to
the length of frontage of the
houses or land belonging to them
or any of them, and such expenses
shall be apportioned by the
vestry or district board, and the
amount charged upon or in respect
of each house or premises shall
be paid by instalments within
such period as the vestry or
district board shall determine,
not exceeding seven years, and
shall be recoverable from the
present or any future owner of
the said house or premises in
manner hereinafter provided.
XXI. The 77th section of the _The committee consider that this
said Act is hereby repealed, and section should be made to apply
in lieu thereof be it enacted, also to any person causing the
that no person shall make or works to be executed_.
branch any sewer or dram, or make
any opening into any sewer vested
in the Metropolitan Board of
Works, or in any vestry or
district board, without the
previous consent in writing of
such board or vestry: provided
that it shall be lawful for any
person, with such consent, at his
own expense, to make or branch
any drain into any sewer vested
in any such board or vestry, or
authorized to be made by them, or
either of them, under the first
recited Act, or this Act, such
drain being of such size and
conditions, and branched into
such sewer in such manner and
form of communication, in all
respects as the board or vestry
shall direct or appoint; and in
case any person, without such
consent, make or branch any sewer
or drain, or make any opening
into any of the sewers vested in
any board or vestry, or
authorized to be made by them as
aforesaid; or if any person make
or branch any drain of a
different construction, size, or
conditions, or in another manner
or form of communication than
shall be directed or appointed by
the said board or vestry, every
person so offending shall, for
every such offence, forfeit a sum
not exceeding fifty pounds; and
the said board or vestry may, if
they shall see fit, execute the
necessary works for making the
drain conformable to their
directions, at the expense of the
person making such drain, or
causing the same to be made, such
expenses to be recovered in a
manner hereinafter provided.
XXX. The vestry of every parish, _make_, _lengthen_, _continue_,
and the district board of every _extend_
district, shall, with the
previous consent in writing of
the Metropolitan Board of Works,
have power within their
respective parish or district, to
widen, alter, or improve any
street, road, or way, for
facilitating passage and traffic;
or to contribute and join with
the Metropolitan Board, or with
any other body or persons, in any
such improvements; and to take by
agreement or by gift any land,
rights in land, or property, for
the purposes aforesaid, or any of
them, on such terms and
conditions as they may think fit.
XXXIV. So much or the 141st _The committee think the
section of the first recited Act numbering should be also
as provides that it shall be transferred to vestries_, _&c._
lawful for the Metropolitan Board
of Works, from time to time, to
cause to be painted or affixed on
a conspicuous part of some house
or building at or near each end,
corner, or entrance of every
street in the Metropolis the name
of such street, and that the said
board may, where more than one
street in the Metropolis is
called by the same name, alter
the name of any or all such
streets, except one, to any other
name which to such board may seem
fit, and which may be approved by
the Commissioners of Her
Majesty’s Works and Public
Buildings, is hereby repealed,
and in lieu thereof be it
enacted, that vestries and
district boards shall and may,
within the limits of their
respective jurisdiction, from
time to time cause to be painted
or affixed on a conspicuous part
of some house or building at or
near each end, corner, or
entrance of every street in then
parish or district the name of
such street, and renew such name,
whenever it may be obliterated or
defaced; and the Metropolitan
Board of Works may alter the name
or names of any street, or of any
place or row of houses, or in any
line of road, to any other name
or names which to such board may
seem convenient and proper, and
which may be approved by the
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s
Works and Public Buildings.
XXXVI. The 143rd section of the _The committee think it would be
first recited Act is hereby advisable to introduce after the
repealed, and in lieu thereof be word_ “building,” _the words_,
it enacted, that no building [_or ‘_wall_, _gate_, _fence_, _pier_,
erection whether temporary or _or other projection_,’_ and that
permanent_] shall without the the application should be made
consent in writing of the and the consent conveyed through
Metropolitan Board of Works be vestries_, _&c._
erected [_or made_] beyond the
general line of buildings, in any
street, place, or row of houses
in which the same is situate, in
case the distance of such line of
buildings from the highway does
not exceed thirty feet, or within
thirty feet, of the highway where
the distance of the line of
buildings therefrom amounts to or
exceeds thirty feet,
notwithstanding there being
gardens or vacant spaces between
the line of buildings and the
highway; and in case any building
be erected contrary to this
enactment, it shall be lawful for
the Metropolitan Board of Works
to cause the same to be
demolished, and the materials
thereof to be removed to a
convenient place, or to cause
such building to be set back (as
the case may require), and to
recover the expenses incurred by
them in so doing from the owner
of the premises, in manner
hereinafter provided.
XXXVII. The 157th section of the _See remark as to sec._ 21.
first recited Act is hereby
repealed, and in lieu thereof be
it enacted, that the Metropolitan
Board of Works, and any vestry or
district board, may, where
necessary for the purpose of
executing any work authorized by
this Act, open and break up any
turnpike road, under and subject
to the restrictions and
provisions hereinafter contained;
that is to say, seven days’
previous notice, with a full
description of any intended
works, shall be left at the
office of the Commissioners or
trustees of the road; and the
party doing the works shall cause
all openings in the road to be
effectually secured and fenced,
and affix, and maintain lights
during the night near to the
place where the ground is open,
so as to prevent accidents: and
the said commissioners or
trustees are hereby absolved from
all liability in respect of any
accident arising in consequence
of such works; and the party
doing the works shall restore
every road so opened or broken up
to its original state as to
surface and materials, and in
order to meet the future expenses
consequent on the subsidence of
materials newly filled in, shall
pay to such commissioners or
trustees, on demand, such sum as
they shall require for such
purpose, not exceeding one
shilling for every superficial
square yard, and, so far as the
works affect the same, shall make
good all drainage, paving of
water channels, kerbs of
footpaths, and other matters and
things connected with the
maintenance of the road; and in
default the surveyor of the said
commissioners or trustees may
cause the necessary work to be
done; and in all cases of expense
incurred by any such surveyor, on
the default of the party doing
the works, such party shall pay
such expense to the commissioners
or trustees, on demand.
XLIII. The Metropolitan Board _These powers to be extended to
may order any person on their vestries and district boards_.
behalf from time to time to C. of Wks. M.B. Vol. 2. Fo.
inspect any of the rates for the 51.
relief of the poor in any parish
or place within the limits of the
said Act, and every district
board may order any person on
their behalf to inspect any rate
for the relief of the poor in the
parishes in their district, or
either of them, and the books in
which are contained the
assessments by which the same are
made, and to take copies thereof,
or any part or parts thereof, or
extracts therefrom respectively.
And it shall be lawful for the
said Metropolitan Board and
district boards respectively by
order in writing to require the
vestry clerk, overseer,
collector, or other person having
the custody or control of such
rate or books as aforesaid of any
parish or place to furnish within
such period, not being less than
seven days, as shall be limited
in such order, a true copy of
such rate book, or of such part
or parts of the rate book in his
or their custody, as shall be
specified in such order, on
payment or tender for such copy
at the rate of sixpence for every
twenty-four names (inclusive of
all the particulars in the
several columns of the rate, so
far as such particulars have
reference to such names
respectively); and such copy
shall be examined and signed by
such vestry clerk, overseer,
collector or other person, and
shall be verified by his solemn
declaration, if the said
metropolitan or district board
shall require the same, which
solemn declaration any justice of
the peace, or commissioner duly
authorized, is hereby authorized
to administer; and any person
having the custody or control of
such rates or books as aforesaid
respectively, who shall refuse or
neglect at all reasonable times,
to produce the same respectively
to such persons so authorized as
aforesaid, and permit him to
inspect the same, and to take
copies thereof or extracts
therefrom as he shall think fit,
or who shall refuse or neglect to
make and deliver to such person
such copy or extract, or to make
such solemn declaration as
aforesaid, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding ten pounds
for every such offence, and to a
further continuing penalty of ten
pounds for each and every day
during which the said offence
shall be continued.
XLV. The provisions of the 171st _These powers to be extended to
section of the first recited Act vestries and district boards_.
for enabling the clerk or other C. of Wks. M.B. Vol. 2. Fo.
person authorized by the 51.
Metropolitan Board of Works to
inspect or take copies of, or
extracts from county rates,
bases, returns, and other
documents; and the penalties by
the said enactment prescribed in
the case of neglect of permission
or refusal of inspection, or
neglect or refusal of permission
for taking copies or extracts,
are hereby extended and made
applicable to all other rates,
taxes, and assessments, whether
parliamentary, parochial, or
otherwise, within the several
parts of the metropolis, or the
other parts liable to assessment
by the said board, and the books
in which the same are contained,
and the valuations and returns
relating thereto, and the person
or persons having the custody or
control thereof.
XLVIII. The assessment of any _A form for use of vestries and
money assessed or to be assessed district boards to be also
by the Metropolitan Board of given_. C. of Wks. M.B. Vol.
Works, and the precept for 2. Fo. 51.
obtaining payment of any monies
required by the said board, may
be according to the forms
contained in Schedule A to this
Act, or to the like effect.
XLIX. Whereas the Metropolitan _The committee wish the sums
Commissioners of Sewers in the levied upon the Counter’s Creek
exercise of the powers conferred District_, _under former precepts
upon them by the Act of the 11 of Metropolitan Board_, _if not
and 12 years of Her Majesty, cap. paid by vestries_, _&c._, _to be
112, did approve and adopt returned to the ratepayer or to
certain plans for the main the person holding the receipt
drainage and sewage interception for the time being_.
of the metropolis, and certain
sewers and works included within
and forming a portion of the
plans so approved and adopted
were constructed and completed by
the said Commissioners, or by the
Metropolitan Board of Works, that
is to say, the sewers and works
known as the Counter’s Creek
Diversion Works; and whereas the
cost of the said works, amounting
to the sum of £43,721 15s., was
defrayed by monies borrowed on
certain securities, which
securities and monies are
included amongst, and form part
of the securities and monies
enumerated in Schedule B to this
Act, and the debt so incurred was
charged by the said Commissioners
upon the following sewerage
districts, viz., the Counter’s
Creek District, the Ranelagh
District, and the Fulham and
Hammersmith District, in certain
shares and proportions, and has
been apportioned by the
Metropolitan Board of Works,
pursuant to the 181st section of
the firstly recited Act, among
the several parishes or parts of
parishes which heretofore
constituted the said districts,
that is to say, Paddington;
Chelsea; St. Mary Abbotts,
Kensington; St. Margaret and St.
John the Evangelist, Westminster;
St. Peter and St. Paul,
Hammersmith; Fulham; Willesden;
St. Marylebone; St. George,
Hanover-square; Chelsea; St.
John, Hampstead; Acton, Ealing,
and Chiswick; and whereas it is
just and expedient that the cost
of and incidental to the
construction and execution of the
said sewers and works, amounting
to the sum aforesaid, should be
deemed to be, and become part of
the expenses of, and incidental
to the works directed by the
135th section of the said Act for
the better Local Management of
the Metropolis, to be made and
executed by the said board, for
preventing all or any part of the
sewage within the metropolis from
flowing or passing into the
Thames in or near the metropolis:
be it therefore enacted, that the
costs and charges of the said
works, amounting to the sum of
£43,721 15s., and the monies
borrowed for defraying the same,
shall cease to be the special
debt and obligation of the said
parishes and parts of parishes,
and that the same shall be
transferred to the metropolis at
large, including the said
parishes and parts of parishes,
in the several proportions and in
manner set forth in Schedule B to
this Act annexed, and all sums
becoming payable under or
required for the payment of any
security given for such monies,
or any part thereof, or any
interest accruing thereon, shall
be raised by the said
Metropolitan Board of Works upon
the City of London and the said
other parts of the metropolis, in
the proportion of the annual
value of the property therein, in
the same manner as other monies
raised for the expenses of and
incidental to the execution of
works for preventing the sewage
of the metropolis from flowing or
passing into the Thames in or
near the metropolis; and the said
board shall give the said
parishes, and parts of parishes,
credit for all sums which may
have been overpaid by them, or
any of them, in respect of
principal or interest on the said
security or securities (if any),
since the 1st day of January,
1856.
LV. Any person who shall take _See remark as to section_ 21.
up, remove, demolish, or
interfere with any sewer or part _tide valve_, _flap_, _side
of a sewer vested in the entrance_.
Metropolitan Board of Works, or
in any vestry or district board,
without the previous permission
in writing of such board or
vestry, or who shall wilfully
damage any sewer, bank, defence,
wall, penstock, grating, work or
thing vested in the Metropolitan
Board, or any vestry or district
board, or do any act by which the
drainage of the metropolis, or of
any parish or district or of any
part or parts thereof, may be
obstructed or injured, shall for
every such offence forfeit and
pay to the said Metropolitan
Board of Works, or to the vestry
or district board in which the
same may be vested, for every
such offence, a sum not exceeding
twenty pounds, and shall also pay
to such board or vestry all the
expenses of repairing, restoring,
reinstating, or amending any
sewer or other work or thing so
taken up, removed, demolished,
damaged, or interfered with.
LVIII. The 217th section of the _To be altered so as to give
first recited Act is hereby vestries and district boards
repealed, and in lieu thereof be power to make improvement rates_.
it enacted, that it shall be C. of Wks. M.B. Vol. 2. Fo.
lawful for any vestry or district 51.
board, at their discretion, to
require the payment of any costs
or expenses which the owner of
any premises may be liable to pay
under the said recited Act or
this Act, either from such owner
or from any person who then or at
any time thereafter occupies such
premises; and the owner shall
allow such occupier to deduct the
sums of money which he so pays
out of the rent from time to time
becoming due in respect of the
said premises, as if the same had
been actually paid to such owner
as part of such rent.
LXI. The 234th section of the _Penalties under Nuisances’
first recited Act is hereby Removal Act to be made payable to
repealed, and in lieu thereof be vestries and district boards_.
it enacted, that all penalties or C. of Wks. M.B. Vol. 2. Fo.
forfeitures payable or receivable 51.
under the said first recited Act,
or this Act, shall go and be paid
in manner hereinafter mentioned,
anything contained in the Act of
the 2nd and 3rd Vict., c. 71, or
in any other Act or Acts to the
contrary notwithstanding, that is
to say, one half shall go to the
informer, and the remainder shall
go to the vestry or district
board of the parish or district
in which the offence was
committed, or to the Metropolitan
Board of Works in case the injury
shall have been sustained by or
the offence committed in respect
of that board, or if such vestry
or district board or the
Metropolitan Board of Works be
the informers, then the whole of
the penalty recovered shall go to
them respectively, and all sums
which shall go to or be
recovered, by any board or vestry
on account of any penalty or
forfeiture, shall be paid to
their treasurer or otherwise into
such bank to their account as
they may direct, and shall be
applicable to the general
expenses of the board or vestry.
LXIII. No writ or process shall _To be given to contractors as
be sued out against or served well as to vestries_, _&c._ C.
upon, and no proceeding shall be of Wks. M.B. Vol. 2. Fo. 51.
instituted against the
Metropolitan Board of Works or
any vestry or district board, or
their clerk, or any clerks,
surveyor, or other officer or
person whomsoever, acting under
their or any of their directions,
for anything done or intended to
be done under the powers of such
board or vestry under the said
Acts, or this Act, until the
expiration of one month next
after notice in writing shall
have been delivered, as herein
provided concerning the service
of notices upon such board or
vestry, or, where the action or
proceeding shall be against such
other officer or person, shall
have been delivered to him or
left at his office or place of
abode, explicitly stating the
cause of action, or ground of the
proceeding or demand, and the
name and place of abode of the
intended plaintiff or claimant,
and of his attorney or agent in
the cause or proceeding; and upon
the trial of any action the
plaintiff shall not be permitted
to go into evidence of any cause
of action except such as is
stated in the notice so
delivered, and unless such notice
be proved the jury shall find for
the defendant: and every such
action and proceeding shall be
brought or commenced within six
months next after the accrual of
the cause of action or ground of
claim or demand, and not
afterwards, and every such action
shall be laid and tried in the
county or place where the cause
of action occurred, and not
elsewhere. And the defendant
shall in any such action be at
liberty to plead the general
issue, and give the said recited
Acts, and this Act, and all
special matter in evidence
thereunder. And it shall be
lawful for the board or vestry or
any person to whom such notice is
given as aforesaid to tender
amends to the plaintiff, his
attorney or agent, at any time
within one month after service of
such notice, and in case the same
be not accepted to plead such
tender in bar, and (by leave of
the court) with the general issue
or other plea or pleas; and if
upon issue joined upon any plea
pleaded to the whole action the
jury find generally for the
defendant, or if the plaintiff be
nonsuited or discontinued, or if
the judgment be given for the
defendant, then the defendant
shall be entitled to full costs
of suit and have judgment
accordingly. And in case amends
have not been tendered as
aforesaid, or in case the amends
tendered be insufficient, it
shall be lawful for the
defendant, by leave of the court,
at any time before trial, to pay
into court under plea such sum of
money as he may think proper, and
(by the like leave) to plead the
general issue or other plea or
pleas, any rule of court or
practice to the contrary
notwithstanding.
3.—PROPOSED NEW CLAUSES, & SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SAME
Any person who shall draw or drive any wheeled Bath or invalid chair, or
perambulator, upon any footway or curb stone, shall be liable to a
penalty not more than forty shillings.
Every person sweeping or placing, or causing to be swept or placed, any
mud, dirt, rubbish, filth, soil, saw dust, shavings, straw, or refuse
from shops, into or upon any thoroughfare, or into or upon any channel,
or gutter on the side of any street, shall be liable to a penalty not
more than forty shillings.
Every person placing or causing to be placed any dung upon any
thoroughfare, or in any stable yard or mews, except into dung pits
constructed to the satisfaction of the vestry or district board, as the
case may be, shall be liable to a penalty not more than forty shillings.
Every person who shall affix any posting bill or other paper against any
street post, lamp post, or public lamp, shall be liable to a penalty not
more than forty shillings.
Every person who shall keep pigs upon premises, after notice from a
vestry or district board to discontinue such keeping, shall be liable to
a penalty not more than five pounds.
And be it enacted, That all doors, gates, and bars, not being underground
doors, hereafter to be erected within the limits of this Act, leading to
any house, building, yard, or land, and which shall open upon or towards
any public street, not being a stable yard or mews, shall be constructed
so as to open into or towards such house, yard, building, or land; and if
any such door, gate, or bar shall be constructed so as to open in any
other manner, the person who shall have caused such door, gate, or bar to
be so constructed, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty
shillings.
And be it enacted, That if any such door, gate, or bar already erected,
shall have been so constructed as to open outwards towards or upon any
public street, it shall be lawful for the vestry or district board to
alter the same, so that no part thereof opening or when open shall
project over any public way.
And be it enacted, That when any house or building, any part of which now
projects beyond the regular line of the street, or beyond the front of
the house or building on either side thereof in any street, shall be
taken down to be rebuilt or altered, the same shall be set back to the
line of the street or the line of the adjoining house or building in such
manner as the vestry or district board shall direct for the improvement
of such street, and when the next house or building shall not adjoin the
house or building to be so taken down, but shall be separated therefrom,
then the same shall be set back to the line of such street: Provided
always, that the vestry or district board shall make full compensation to
any such owner for any loss or damage he may sustain in consequence of
his house being set back according to the provisions herein contained.
And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the vestry or district
board to allow any building to be advanced for the purpose of improving
the line of the street or place in which such building may be situate or
any building adjacent thereto.
And be it enacted, That the owner or occupier of every house or building
in or adjoining any street within the limits of this Act shall, within
twenty-one days next after service of any order of the vestry or district
board for that purpose, put up and for ever afterwards keep in good
condition, proper and sufficient pipes to carry off the water from the
roof thereof into the common drains or sewers. And be it enacted, That
when any opening is now or shall hereafter be made in the pavement or
soil of any pavement or footpaths within the limits of this Act, as an
entrance into any vault, cellar, or area, a door covering or grating
shall be made by the occupier of such vault or cellar, of iron or such
other material and in such manner as the vestry or district board shall
direct; and such door covering or grating shall from time to time be kept
in good repair by the occupier of such vault, cellar, or area, and if the
occupier of any such vault, cellar, or area, shall not within a
reasonable time make such door, covering or grating, or shall make any
such door covering or grating contrary to the directions of the vestry or
district board, or shall not keep the same when made in good repair, he
shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.
And be it enacted, That when any building materials, rubbish, or other
things shall be laid, or any hole or excavation shall be made, in any of
the streets within the limits of this Act, the person causing such
materials or other things to be so laid, or the said hole or excavation
to be made, shall at his own expense cause a sufficient light to be fixed
in a proper place upon or near the same, and continue such light every
night from sun setting to sun rising during the time such materials,
hole, or excavation, shall remain; and such person shall, at his own
expense, cause such materials or other things and such hole or
excavation, to be sufficiently fenced and inclosed until such materials
or other removed, or the hole or excavation filled up or otherwise made
secure; and in case such person shall refuse or neglect so to light,
fence, or inclose such materials or other things, or such hole or
excavation, every person so offending shall for every such offence
forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds; and in every such case of
refusal or neglect, it shall be lawful for the vestry or district board
to cause such light to be so fixed and continued during the time
aforesaid, and such materials and other things, hole or excavation, to be
sufficiently fenced and enclosed; and all charges and expenses thereof
shall be paid by the persons causing such materials or other things to be
so laid, or such hole or excavation to be so made as aforesaid.
And be it enacted, That in no case shall any such building materials or
other things, or such hole or excavation, be permitted to remain for an
unnecessary time, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds, to be paid
by the person causing such materials or other things to be laid, or such
hole or excavation to be made, for each week during which the same
building materials or such hole or excavation shall so remain: and in any
such case proof of the necessity of a continuance thereof respectively
shall be upon the person so causing such materials or other things to be
laid, or causing such hole or excavation to be made.
And be it enacted, That if any building or excavation on any land or
place contiguous to any street within the limits of this Act shall for
want of sufficient repair, protection, or inclosure, be dangerous to the
passengers along such street, the owner thereof shall be liable to a
penalty not more than five pounds.
And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the vestry or district
board during such time as any street within the limits of this Act is
being made or repaired, or during the making of any sewer or drain by the
vestry or district board, or when they shall consider it expedient to
close such street, or any part of the same, by such ways or means as they
shall think fit.
Every vestry and district board shall have full power and authority to
pave, if they think fit, any uninclosed space which may have been the
forecourt of any house or building in any street, and the same shall
thenceforward become the public highway, and whenever the fence or other
enclosure shall have been removed, it shall not be lawful for the owner
or occupier of the said house or building again to enclose the said
space.
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_From the Vestry Clerk to the Clerk of the Metropolitan Board of Works_.
December 29th, 1859.
Dear Sir,—I am directed by the Vestry of this parish to request that,
when your Board shall apply to Parliament for the further Amendment of
the Metropolis Local Management Act, a clause may be introduced, enacting
that so much of the provisions of the 67th and 68th sections of the 57th
George the III., cap. 29, being “An Act for better paving, improving, and
regulating the streets of the Metropolis, and removing and preventing
Nuisances and Obstructions therein,” as relates to the nuisance arising
from hog styes, and to the breeding, feeding, and keeping of swine, and
suffering them to stray, be extended to the following parishes and places
within the Metropolis, which were not, at the time of the passing of the
said Act, included in the Weekly Bills of Mortality: that is to
say,—Paddington; Camberwell; Chelsea; St. Mary Abbot, Kensington;
Woolwich; St. John, Hampstead; St. Paul, Deptford, including Hatcham; St.
Nicholas, Deptford; Greenwich; Clapham; Tooting Graveney; Streatham; St.
Mary, Battersea, excluding Penge; Wandsworth; Putney; including
Roehampton; St. Mary, Stoke Newington; St. Peter and St. Paul,
Hammersmith; Fulham; St. Mary, Stratford-le-Bow; and St. Leonard,
Bromley: also enacting that the penalties imposed by these sections may
be recovered in the manner provided by the 227th section of the Act for
the better Local Management of the Metropolis, 18th and 19th Vict., cap.
120.
I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
J. Pollard, Esq.,
Metropolitan Board of Works,
1, Greek Street, Soho.
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December 29th, 1859.
Dear Sir,—I am directed by this Vestry to request that when your Board
shall apply to Parliament for the further Amendment of the Metropolis
Local Management Act, 18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120, the 85th section of that
Act may be altered by the insertion after the first word “works” of words
to the following effect: viz.:—
“And in the case of combined drainage such notice may require that
each house of any block of houses drained in combination, or so many
thereof as the Vestry or Board shall see fit, shall be drained
separately into a sewer.”
I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
J. Pollard, Esq.,
Metropolitan Board of Works,
1, Greek Street, Soho.
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January 23rd, 1860.
Dear Sir,—The Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health have
brought under the consideration of this Vestry the desirability of
extending to the cow houses within the Metropolis, the system of annual
licenses, as it prevails with regard to slaughter houses, and they have
directed me to acquaint you, for the information of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, that if a proposal is made to provide for such an
extension of the law, in their forthcoming amendment Bill, this Vestry,
upon the recommendation of their Medical Officer of Health, will give
such proposal their cordial support.
I beg to send you a copy of the Report of Dr. Barclay, our Medical
Officer of Health, above alluded to.
I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
J. Pollard, Esq.,
1, Greek Street, Soho.
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_Extract from the Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry
of the Parish of Chelsea_.
22nd November, 1859.
At your last meeting I was requested to report upon a suggestion made to
this Vestry by the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of
Health, to the effect that you should unite with other vestries in the
endeavour “to procure insertion in the proposed bill for amending the
Metropolis Local Management Act, of a clause relating to the annual
licensing of Cow Houses.” I was also requested to consider the propriety
of extending the system of licensing to the keeping of pigs.
With reference to these two questions, I have to observe, that the
grounds upon which such a proposition rests are mainly two; viz.:, the
_necessity for_ such a business being carried on where it now is, and the
probability that such a business may, if carelessly conducted, be a
nuisance to the neighbourhood. For by the very fact of the license being
granted, the option of endeavouring to remove the cause of nuisance
altogether is entirely given up. This authority is accorded to the
magistrate, by the Nuisances Removal Act, but is very rarely exercised in
cases brought before the Metropolitan Police Courts, because it has
generally been held that its powers were not intended to be used for the
suppression, but only for the regulation of offensive trades.
In regard to the keeping of cows throughout the Metropolis, a necessity
exists from which, under present circumstances, we cannot escape,
because, in hot weather, neither milk nor cream can be brought from a
distance in a perfectly sweet and fresh state, and at no time of year can
good cream be obtained from milk (as I am informed) after a journey. At
the same time, cow houses badly kept in a town are liable to become a
nuisance, 1st by effluvia from the building itself; 2nd, by accumulations
of dung, and annoyances during their removal, of which we have had
several examples in this parish; 3rd, by injury to the health of the
cows, which will consequently yield a supply of unhealthy milk, or may
become the means of diseased meat being sold at the inferior butchers’
stalls. Under such circumstances, it seems not unreasonable that the
vestry should seek by conceding the necessity for their permanence and
granting a license, to place them more completely under the control of
their officers.
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_Letter from W. Tite_, _Esq._, _to the Vestry Clerk_.
My dear Sir,
* * * * *
Mr. Woolrych asks me whether the vestry can suggest a clause to meet the
case of combined drainage when it has appeared to become public drainage
by the ill advised arrangements of the late Commissioners?
This was the point on which I saw him some months since, and if the
vestry wish it, I will try what is to be done; you had better perhaps
give me a call any morning you please.
Yours truly,
WILLIAM TITE.
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_From the Vestry Clerk to W. Tite_, _Esq. M.P._
PIPE SEWERS.
January 14th, 1860.
Sir,—Not being a lawyer I speak with great diffidence on the subject of
your note of the 7th, but it appears to me that if an alteration were
made in the interpretation clause of the Local Management Act, as to the
meaning of the word “drain,” it would accomplish what we wish.
It now runs thus, “the word ‘drain’ shall mean and include any drain of
and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the
same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating with a
cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into
which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises, occupied by
different persons, is conveyed, _and shall also include any drain for
draining any group or block of houses by a combined operation_, _under
the order of any vestry or district board_.” I would suggest that the
following words be added “or under the order, sanction, or direction of
any Commissioners of Sewers, acting within the metropolis previous to the
passing of the Act for the better Local Management of the metropolis, 18
and 19 Vic. Cap. 120.”
COMBINED DRAINAGE.
PIG STY REGULATIONS.
These two matters formed the subjects of my communication to Mr. Pollard,
of the 29th ultimo, and copies of them were on the same day sent to you.
They both have reference to the amendment of the Act, and were
recommended to the vestry by Dr. Barclay, the Medical Officer of Health.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
William Tite, Esq., M.P. &c. &c.
42, Lowndes Square.
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_The Vestry Clerk to the Solicitors_.
May 2nd, 1860.
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Dear Sirs,—You may have observed that Mr. Tite introduced this Bill into
the House of Commons on Monday evening, consequently no time must be lost
in seeing him with reference to the following matters.
It is unfortunate that the Bill accompanying your letter of the 24th
ultimo was not the last reprint: however, I beg to send you a copy of the
last reprint, which you will observe differs in some particulars, and as
to the numbers of the clauses, from the former one.
With reference to your letter of the 24th ultimo, and the Bill
accompanying it, they were referred by the Vestry on that day to the
Committee of Works, and they met yesterday to consider them.
I beg to send you an extract from the Minutes with reference to them.
I am, dear Sirs,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Messrs. Lee and Pemberton,
44, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.
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_Extract from the Minutes of a Meeting of the Committee of Works and for
General Purposes_, _held in the Board Room_, _Manor House_, _Tuesday_,
_May_ 1_st_, 1860,
The Committee considered the letter of the Solicitors (Messrs. Lee and
Pemberton), dated 24th of April, respecting the Bill for the Amendment of
the Metropolis Local Management Act. The Clerk laid upon the table 12
copies of the last reprint of the Bill, and reported that the Bill had
been introduced the previous evening in the House of Commons by Mr. Tite,
M.P.
Resolved,—That this Committee _do not_ concur with the Solicitors in
their remarks upon the Bill accompanying their letter respecting the
following five clauses:—
CLAUSE 11, enacting that any Vestry or District Board may pay the
precepts of the Metropolitan Board of Works out of any money in their
possession, and reimburse themselves out of the Sewers Rate. _Remark
referred to_:—‘We think this clause very objectionable; it appears to
involve a breach of trust on the part of the Vestry. Funds raised for
one purpose should not be applied to another; and the effect is to give
the Metropolitan Board of Works a first charge on every Rate collected.
What does the Poor Law Board say to it?’
CLAUSE 13, enacting that if any Vestry, &c., neglect to pay the money
required by the precepts of the Metropolitan Board of Works, that Board
may make a rate on default, without awaiting the expiration of the period
fixed by the precept. _Remark referred to_:—‘Two months is not enough,
it should at least be four.’
CLAUSE 41, relating to the case of a Vestryman—a member of a District
Board—not attending meetings for six months. _Remark referred to_:—‘Or
committee thereof. We think this inexpedient. The member should go out
as if by rotation, and be ineligible for the vacancy so created.’
CLAUSE 60, relative to contributions to the cost of main sewers and
sewers built since January 1st, 1856, or hereafter to be built. _Remark
referred to_:—‘Leave out these words (lines 32 and 33, ‘at their
discretion’).’
CLAUSE 62, prescribing the regulations to be observed in making openings
into sewers. _Remark referred to_:—‘We think this clause is better out,
unless it is made to go further. The Vestry should have power to alter
old drains.’
_Resolved_,—That if in the opinion of the Solicitors further powers are
requisite than are contained in the above clause, they be authorized to
prepare such a clause.
_Resolved_,—That this Committee _do_ concur with the solicitors in their
remarks respecting the following ten clauses, and authorize them to
prepare clauses to give effect to their recommendations.
CLAUSE 22, relative to the recovery of moneys assessed by the
Metropolitan Board of Works on extra parochial property for payment of
debts. _Remark referred to_—‘Instead of ‘a justice’ should be ‘two
justices or a police magistrate,’ the same error occurs in other parts of
the Bill.’
CLAUSE 42, providing that owners and occupiers of land may execute
drainage works at their own expense. _Remark referred to_:—‘We think the
sewer when built should vest in the Vestry. It should be built under the
superintendence of their Surveyor; and the party applying should find
sureties for the performance of the work, under penalties, to be
recoverable as liquidated damages.’
_Resolved_,—That in the opinion of this Committee the words in line 21
‘hereinafter mentioned’ should stand, with the interlineation ‘_or_ that
any Vestry may think proper to attach.’
CLAUSE 48, prescribing the regulations to be observed on abandonment,
alteration, &c., of designs for sewers previously approved by the
Metropolitan Board of Works. _Remark referred to_:—‘And in case they do
there should be a heavy penalty recoverable by action.’
CLAUSE 66, empowering Vestries, &c., on neglect of owners, &c., to carry
out works, pursuant to orders, to proceed for the penalties, or do the
works themselves, and recover the cost. _Remark referred to_:—‘Line 27
erase ‘person or persons,’ insert ‘such owner or occupier.’ Line 37
insert ‘or occupier.’
CLAUSE 67, extending penalties to persons causing offences. _Remark
referred to_:—‘And all penalties recoverable under this Act.’
CLAUSE 69, empowering Vestries, &c., to compel supply of water to houses.
_Remark referred to_:—‘We do not think this clause will work, unless a
power be invested for making the expense a first charge; it will be
nugatory and will cause useless expense.
CLAUSE 74, empowering Vestries, &c., with sanction of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, to effect improvements within their districts, &c.
_Remark referred to_:—‘We think this clause requires remodelling. It
does not go far enough. We think the clauses for improving streets in
the Towns improvement Clauses Act should be embodied in this Act,
particularly sec. 67; and also the clauses of the Lands Clauses
Consolidation Act, enabling the Vestry to take compulsory possession of
land.’
CLAUSE 75, enacting that buildings projecting beyond the general line of
the street, where taken down to an extent exceeding one half, shall be
set back to the general line. _Remark referred to_:—‘This should be
extended to Vestries with the consent of the Metropolitan Board of
Works.’
CLAUSE 78, empowering Vestries &c. to drain and pave courts, &c. on
default of owners, in lieu of enforcing penalties. _Remark referred
to_:—‘The judgment when recovered should be a first charge on the
property, with power of sale in default of payment, on three month’s
notice affixed on the premises.’
CLAUSE 93, enacting that a Vestry or District Board may require payment
of costs or expenses from an owner or occupier, and the occupier paying
to deduct from rent. _Remark referred to_:—‘We do not think the clause
goes far enough. The Vestry to be properly protected against their
enormous outlay, should have a statutable charge upon the premises for
moneys expended by them recovered by judgment. We see no reason why the
Vestry should not have a power of sale something similar to that given to
the Commissioners of Police under the 74th section of the Metropolitan
Buildings Act, 18 & 19 Vic., cap. 122; unless this is effectually done,
the annual loss to every parish which carries out the intentions of the
Metropolis Local Management Act, must be considerable; the Act will
become a dead letter, or Vestries must be protected from loss.’
_Resolved_,—That the attention of the Solicitors be directed to the
discrepancy between the marginal note to Clause 52, and the body of the
clause.
_Resolved_,—That the Solicitors do endeavour to obtain the following
alterations:—Clause 90 in the Bill above referred to, line 29, omit the
words, ‘which may be unfit for the keeping of swine, or where the
breeding, feeding, or keeping swine may create a nuisance or be injurious
to health,’ in order to insert the words, ‘within forty yards of any
street.’
Line 31, insert after the word ‘place’ the words, ‘or in any locality,
premises, or place in such manner as to be a nuisance to other persons
residing near thereto.’
_Resolved_,—That the Solicitors and the Vestry Clerk be instructed to
arrange with Mr. Tite as to the best mode of obtaining the above
alterations in the Bill now before Parliament.
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_The Vestry Clerk to W. Tite_, _Esq._, _M.P._
April 25th, 1861.
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Sir,
I am directed to send you copy of a Petition of this Vestry to the House
of Commons respecting your Bills (Nos. 1 & 2) for Amending the Metropolis
Local Management Act, which Lord Enfield has been requested to present.
I am also to send you the four new clauses and amendments which are
referred to in the prayer of the Petition, and to request that you will
obtain the introduction of them into the Bill No. 1.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
W. Tite, Esq., M.P., &c., &c.,
42, Lowndes Square.
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_To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland in Parliament assembled_.
The Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex,
SHEWETH,
That Your Petitioners are informed and believe that two Bills, intituled
respectively “The Metropolis Local Management Act Amendment Bills, Nos. 1
& 2,” are now before your Honourable House, by the first of which relief
is proposed to be given to the late Counter’s Creek separate sewerage
district in this parish, for certain sums expended in respect of the
Counters Creek Diversion Works, and improperly charged upon the said
district in respect of the construction of sewers and works for the
general benefit of the Metropolis; and by the other it is intended to
settle upon equitable principles the parishes, districts, and parts, upon
which certain debts of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers shall
stand charged, having regard to the benefit derived by those parishes,
&c., respectively from such expenditure.
That under the Act for the Better Local Management of the Metropolis, 18
& 19 Vic., cap. 120, the Metropolitan Board of Works found themselves
unable, from the defective powers of the said Act, to give any relief to
the said Counters Creek District from payment of the charges upon it
above mentioned, and in consequence thereof a great amount of
dissatisfaction has existed in this and other districts similarly
circumstanced.
That in consequence of such and other defects in the practical working of
the Metropolis Local Management Act, the Vestries and District Boards
constituted under the said Act have instigated the Metropolitan Board to
introduce the said Bills to your Honourable House to remedy the same, and
for other purposes.
That your Petitioners being by the said Metropolis Local Management Act
constituted the authority to order the levying of the rates under the
said Act, have incurred a considerable amount of unpopularity and censure
in performing a duty which is against their own consciences, and
repulsive to the feelings of the ratepayers residing in that district.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your Honourable House that the
said Bill, with certain amendments and new clauses which your Petitioners
propose to endeavour to effect the introduction of, when in Committee may
pass into law.
And your Petitioners will ever pray.
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Given under the common seal of the said Vestry, this 23rd day of April,
1861.
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_The Four New Clauses_.
1.—In Clause 46, line four, for the words “twenty-six” substitute the
word “thirteen;” add a clause after said clause as follows:—“If any
member of the Metropolitan Board of Works shall be absent from the
meetings of the said Board for thirteen consecutive weeks, he shall
thereupon cease to be a member of the said Board; and the said
Metropolitan Board of Works shall immediately send notice of the fact to
the Vestry or District Board by which such member was elected, whereupon
which Vestry or District Board shall forthwith proceed to elect a new
member for the said Metropolitan Board in the room of the member so
ceasing to be a member as aforesaid; and such election shall be conducted
in accordance with the 44th, 45th, and 46th sections of the
firstly-recited Act, so far as the same are respectively applicable.”
2.—Provided always that in construing the 6th section of the
firstly-recited Act, in calculating the number of Poor Rate assessments
in any parish, each house, or piece or parcel of land, tenement, or
hereditament rated to the relief of the poor, shall be counted and taken
as a separate Poor Rate assessment.
3.—Notwithstanding anything in the said recited Acts or this Act to the
contrary, Be it enacted, that the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex, shall from time to time raise and levy the sums
which they may require for defraying the expenses of executing the said
Acts and this Act, and shall for that purpose make separate equal pound
rates upon their parish or part thereof, in like manner as overseers are
required to do with respect to the sums for which orders are by the
firstly-recited Act directed to be made upon them by Vestries and
District Boards; and shall in raising such sums act upon the like
principles, and have the like discretion, as provided in the
firstly-recited Act with respect to orders upon Overseers by Vestries and
District Boards, subject to the provisions of this Act, and shall for
that purpose have free access to, and be at liberty to copy or adopt any
assessment to the Poor Rate in the said parish, or any part or parts of
such assessment; and such Vestry shall have power to appoint a collector
or collectors for levying the amount of such rates, and to pay him or
them such salary, poundage, or allowance as they may deem just and
reasonable; and shall take such security from every such collector for
the due execution of his duty as they shall think reasonable and proper;
and such collector or collectors shall proceed in the same manner, and
shall have the same powers and remedies, and be subject to the same
regulations and directions with reference to the levying of such rates,
as if he or they were an overseer or overseers of the poor, and shall pay
over the amount of such rates to the said Vestry or otherwise, as such
Vestry may direct; and such collector or collectors shall, when and in
such manner as shall be required by the said Vestry, make out and deliver
a true and perfect account in writing, signed by him or them, of all
monies received by him or them, in manner provided by the 65th section of
the firstly-recited Act; and in default of his or their so paying over
such moneys, or making out and delivering such account in writing, he or
they shall be subject to the penalties mentioned and contained in the
said 65th section of the firstly-recited Act in the case of officers or
servants failing to account for moneys received; and it shall be lawful
for the said Vestry by order in writing, to require the Clerk to the
Guardians of the Poor of the said parish or other person having the
custody or control of any rate for the relief of the poor in such parish,
or of any other rate or of any book containing a copy of any such rate as
aforesaid, to furnish within such period, not being less than seven days,
as shall be limited in such order, a true copy of such rate for the
relief of the poor, or other rate or of such copy thereof, as aforesaid,
or of such part or parts of the same as shall be specified in such order,
on payment or tender for such copy at the rate of sixpence for every
twenty-four names (inclusive of all the particulars in the several
columns in the rate, so far as such particulars have reference to such
names respectively), and the said copy shall be examined by and signed by
such Clerk, or other person, and shall be verified by his solemn
declaration, if the said Vestry shall require the same, which solemn
declaration any Justice of the Peace or Commissioner duly authorized is
hereby empowered to administer, and any person having the custody or
control of such rate, or copy thereof, who shall refuse or neglect to
make and deliver to such Vestry or any person by them authorised to
receive the same, such copy or extract, or to make such solemn
declaration as aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10
for every such offence, and to a further penalty of £10 for each and
every day during which the said offence shall be continued, to be
recovered by a summary proceeding.
4.—That in place of the 109th Clause, the following be inserted:—“The two
hundred and thirty-fourth section of the firstly-recited Act is hereby
repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted, that all penalties or
forfeitures payable or recoverable under the firstly-recited Act, or this
Act, and all penalties or forfeitures recovered by any Vestry or District
Board acting as the local authority for the execution within their
respective parish or district of ‘The Nuisances Removal Act for England,
1855,’ shall go and be paid in manner hereinafter mentioned, anything
contained in an Act made and passed in the session holden in the Second
and Third years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter seventy-one,
or in any other Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding;—that is to
say, shall go to the Vestry or District Board of the parish or district
in which the offence was committed, or to the Metropolitan Board of Works
in case the injury shall have been sustained by, or the offence committed
in respect of that Board; and all sums which shall go to or be recovered
by any Board or Vestry on account of any penalty or forfeiture, shall be
paid to their treasurer, or into such bank to their account as they may
direct, and shall be applicable towards the general expenses of such
Board or Vestry.”
APPENDIX No. 20.
CHELSEA CHARITIES.
_The Articles in the_ West Middlesex Advertiser _referred to in Mr.
Druce’s letter at page_ 20, _in the Report_.
April 7, 1860.
The peculiar position in which the parish of St. Luke’s, Chelsea, at the
present moment stands, induces every one interested to prevent by every
possible means the occurrence of future discord arising from what may in
after years be difficult to correct. Probably for many years, no period
has ever existed in which the parish of Chelsea has been more dependent
on the wise action of its patrons, property holders, and inhabitants in
general than at the present moment. Circumstances having afforded us
opportunities of acquiring much knowledge of its affairs generally, and
deeming that the kindest act would be to communicate some portions of
that knowledge to our fellow-parishioners, we venture to intrude the
following matters on their attention. Our readers are aware of the
movement made with reference to the assessments, but they may also know
from personal experience, the great difficulty of the question, and from
having been for some years, careful observers of the actions of many of
those gentleman who bestow so much of their time and ability on parochial
affairs, we are thoroughly convinced, that such matters are carefully and
honestly administered; and although the watchful check of the ratepayers
and other Societies is very beneficial, we doubt whether much good would
arise from any material change. The attention of the Vestry, and the
separation to some extent of church matters from the general interests of
the parish, has deprived its officers of the advantage of a “legal vestry
clerk,” and thus the local authorities in whom are vested many of its
charities have lost their best and proper adviser, and many of the
charity interests are not in such a state as they should be in a
well-ordered parish; for instance, the sums of money belonging to the St.
Luke’s, Chelsea, parochial school stand thus—
£764 13s. 4d., the gift of Earl Cadogan, stands in the name of Lee
Jortin, Esq., and others, some of whom have passed away, and Mr. Jortin,
is not so strong in health as his friends would wish him.
£692 2s. 4d., the gift of Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Bryan, stands in the name of
the Rev. Chas. Kingsley and Philip Burrard, both dead.
£100 the gift of Mr. P. Burrard, stands in the name of the Rev. C.
Kingsley and Mr. Walker, both dead.
£450 the gift of Mrs. MacPherson,
£445 14s. 7d., the gift of Charles Walker, Esq., stand in the name of the
Rev. Charles Kingsley and Mr. W. Druce. Thus supposing the first to be
in safe trust, the two next are without any trustees, and the two last,
in the name of one individual, which is not as it should be.
Again, Chamberlain’s Charity is for educating boys in the parochial
school, and then apprenticing them; the Vestry elects the boys, and the
parochial officers ought to do the rest, but the money is placed in the
Savings’ Bank, and there we suppose it rests; there is a sum of money
also lying at the parish bankers to the credit of the Chelsea charities,
which we much suspect belongs to this charity, this sum has been lying
unused for many years: it is also the duty of the parochial officers to
see that the money paid for the benefit of the school children under Mr.
Flood’s gift is properly applied: the treasurer of the schools cannot be
expected to apprentice the children, so this money also finds its way
into the Savings’ Bank. It is in these cases that the loss of the legal
Vestry Clerk is felt, as from the nature of the present Vestry, and the
limitation as to powers of interference with church matters, renders the
assistance of the able Clerk of the Vestry, as now constituted, of no
avail. The question also of the Church Trustees is in a very peculiar
state; there is great uncertainty as to their powers. A most careful
examination of the conflicting clauses of the Act creates great doubt as
to whether the power of the Trustees to make a rate does actually expire
at the present period, as is generally believed. If their powers of
rating do expire, they will find themselves with an important trust to
carry out without the means of performing their trust. We think it would
tend much to the well-being of the parish generally if the Vestry, on
Easter Tuesday, were to appoint a committee to inquire and report on the
course it may be desirable to pursue with respect to the Church Trust.
It must be the wish of everyone that the power to rate should cease
absolutely, and that we should never again hear of a church rate in the
parish of Chelsea. Possibly a short Act of Parliament, annulling the
present Board of Trustees, and putting an end to the Act, would be the
best mode of proceeding; thus leaving the Rector and Incumbent of the
churches and the Church Officers to take charge of their own interests,
taking the revenue of the church and making the best of it; the removal
of the expense of the Board of Trustees, and a moderate contribution of
the congregations towards the expense of what may be called church
luxuries would meet the necessity of the case. Without great care and
consideration this matter may become a troublesome and annoying parochial
question. The old Rector has passed away, a new one has been appointed;
let us not forget that, amidst the doctrinal disquisition and rubrical
eccentricities of which we have heard so much, we have enjoyed, under the
former, a quarter of a century of religious peace, and let us hope that
the wise actions of the new one may tend to increase the affectionate
feeling so many of us hold for the memory of his father and grandfather.
_Saturday_, _April_ 14, 1860.
Though the name of Mr. LOVELAND is always spoken of with the greatest
respect as the former vestry clerk of this parish, yet we by no means
wish to infer the necessity of a legal gentleman filling that office. We
believe that it could not be in better hands than it is, and we have felt
it to be our duty, on more occasions than one, to express our warm
approbation of the conduct of Mr. LAHEE. Litigation will arise in every
parish, and may be promoted to a very great extent by the appointment of
attorneys, and even if it were not so they would get the credit and the
obloquy, and therefore should not be placed in so unenviable a position.
Mr. Toulmin Smith says, ‘It may be safely stated, that it will be usually
the wisest course not to appoint a person of the legal profession to the
office of vestry clerk. It is quite unnecessary to the discharge of any
of his duties that he should be of that profession; while his being so
has a tendency to encourage a narrow technical mode of dealing with the
duties of the parish, and very often indeed lead to litigation, for which
there is no real occasion whatever.
‘Every parish should, however, have some known and confidential
professional man of the neighbourhood, to whom it should refer on
occasions needing professional action or advice.’
Again, in Brady and Mahon’s work on Parochial Law and Taxation it is
said, ‘A custom has prevailed of late years of appointing attorneys as
vestry clerks. The numberless statutes by which parochial affairs are
now regulated, give something like a satisfaction to this practice, and
the conflicting decision of the courts of law on parish cases, would lead
to a belief that none but a lawyer could be qualified for the office.
But whatever may be the cause, the fact appears to be unquestionable that
such appointments have tended greatly to the increase of parochial
expenditure; for the professional gentlemen thus selected as vestry
clerks, however unjust it may be to attribute to them obliquity, foul
play or evil designs very naturally carry with them into office a sort of
_esprit du corps_ which leads to appeals to quarter sessions, vexatious
removals, litigious contests, journies half over the kingdom, the
inevitable consequence of which is an enormous annual expenditure,
amounting, it is said, to something like one third of the total poor
rates!’
With such statements as these emanating from lawyers it would be absurd
to argue for the continuance of a practice fraught with such imminent
danger to the pockets of the parishioners.
APPENDIX No. 21.
CREMORNE GARDENS.
_Report of the Committee of Works and for General Purposes_.
Board Room, Manor House, September 24th, 1860.
To the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea.
Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned, of your Committee of Works and for
General Purposes, beg to present the following special report upon the
resolution passed by you on the 11th instant (25):—
“That the Committee of Works be requested to consider the whole
question relating to Cremorne Gardens as to past proceedings, present
injury and annoyance to the parishioners, and the probable increase
of such damage and nuisance in consequence of the proposed change
from one proprietor to a company; to report thereon, and the course
they would recommend to be adopted to mitigate, and, if necessary,
put an end to the evil.”
With reference to the first portion of the enquiry we have had laid
before us, the whole record of your former proceedings, with the evidence
taken before the licensing magistrates in 1857, which we have attentively
considered; and we are of opinion that the second report presented by the
Committee at that time contains much that is valuable, and only requires
to obtain due publicity to have a great effect in diminution of the evils
to which it adverts—evils which the unfavourable weather during the past
season has prevented from becoming so intolerable as during the seasons
of 1858 and 1859, but which the return of a hot summer, and the intended
change from the direct responsibility attaching to one proprietorship to
the infinitesimally reduced responsibility of the individual shareholders
in a public company would, in the opinion of your Committee, largely
increase.
Nor, it is to be feared, would these evils be confined as heretofore to
the summer months, for the prospectus of the new company offers the bait
to shareholders that the gardens may be made profitable during the winter
also.
Having regard therefore to the magnitude of the question with which we
have to deal, and the advice of a sub-committee appointed by us to
consult the solicitors as to the course to be pursued, we recommend that
the report before alluded to, be printed and circulated, and that a
petition be presented forthwith to the licensing magistrates, praying
that the hour of closing Cremorne Gardens may be made twelve o’clock at
night, as has been the case with other public gardens, and that the
solicitors be instructed to take all necessary steps in that behalf.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. HALL, Chairman.
W. NEWTON FINCH.
ALEXR. BLAZDELL.
W. LAWRENCE.
WILLIAM FOY.
J. COWAN BREUN.
HENRY OXFORD.
WM. SANSUM.
APPENDIX No. 22.
_Report of a Committee appointed to investigate the State of the Town
Meadows called_ “_The Lotts_,” _April_ 18_th_, 1834.
“We have seen the land, and behold it is very good.”—Judges xviii. 9.
Mr. Chairman,—Agreeably to the Resolution passed at the last Board
relative to the appointment of a Committee to go and view the meadow-land
called “the Lotts,” I have now to inform you, Sir, and the Committee at
large, that we proceeded thither on Friday morning, and upon arrival, we
found the gates locked up; we, however, procured the key of the adjoining
lands which communicate with “the Lotts,” of a woman who lives in the
late Mr. Brown’s cottage.
After proceeding to the western extremity of the meadow, we found that a
large bank had been thrown up at the time of the cutting of the canal,
and that by this means perhaps one fourth part of the land had been lost,
or taken away to widen the canal; but we were of opinion that this bank
might be gradually levelled and sloped down on the meadow below, so as to
elevate it, and render it free from inundation, and thus make it more fit
for any kind of cultivation or pasture. And we were all moreover
unanimously of opinion, that it would be highly desirable to obtain
re-possession of this valuable piece of land for the use of the
parishioners.
No determination, however, as to the means by which this most desirable
object could be effected was formed on this occasion, and I am humbly of
opinion that the Committee must continue their earnest endeavours, in
order to obtain all possible evidence upon this difficult and complicated
case. It seems proper to observe, in this stage of the business, that
“the Lotts” are Lammas Land, and have been for ages appurtenant to the
Manor of Chelsea. The Lord of the Manor possesses the right of letting
the land on lease, for the Spring and Summer quarters, beginning with
March and ending in August; and the inhabitants at large enjoy the
privilege of turning in their cattle from August till February, being the
Autumn and Winter quarters. This state of appropriation continued till
the year 1825 or 1826, when the Directors of the Kensington Canal Company
took unlawful possession of them for their own use, immediately upon the
completion of their Canal; and they have illegally detained them ever
since, and have let them successively to several persons, and received
rent for the same. It now, therefore, becomes a question, by what
authority they have shut out the ancient inhabitants, landowners, and
householders from their undoubted privilege of turning in their cattle to
graze, a privilege which they have uninterruptedly enjoyed for a
succession of ages, and which they are confident has never been on their
part either invalidated or annulled.
It must not, however, be concealed on this occasion, that it has been
confidently reported from many quarters that money was offered to the
parishioners for the surrender of their rights to these lands, by the
Directors of the Canal Company; and that money was accepted by the
Churchwardens of that time; for their Act of Parliament specially
declares that the Churchwardens, Overseers, and four Freeholders
appointed in Vestry, only shall receive and be accountable for all monies
paid for land under this act.
But after the most diligent enquiry relative to any money transactions,
or to the execution of any bond, or deed, or lease, or assignment, we
have the affirmation in writing of one of the then Churchwardens, denying
the receipt of any money, or compensation whatever; and as this
Churchwarden is a man of probity, we are, of course, bound to place every
degree of confidence in his averment. It is also necessary to mention,
that the Directors of the Kensington Canal Company have become bankrupt
since the completion of the Canal, and that any legal proceedings on our
part to endeavour to obtain any money from them, either as compensation
for damages done to the lands, or for rent, would only involve the parish
in useless expense.
Your Committee, therefore, after a most careful and diligent
investigation, are of opinion that it would be prudent to wait patiently
until the twelfth day of August next, and on that day those inhabitants
who have been accustomed to turn in their cattle to graze, should proceed
thither with some horses and cows, preceded by the Parish Beadle, Rector,
Churchwardens, Overseers, and such Members of the Parochial Committee,
and other inhabitants, as may think proper, and if upon their arrival
they find the gates locked up, they be ordered to break them open, and
turn in their cattle as they have been accustomed to do from time
immemorial.
In conclusion, permit me to apologize to you, Sir, for the length of this
Report, and humbly to hope that the extreme importance of the case
affecting the ancient and undoubted privileges of the inhabitants of this
Parish will form a sufficient apology; and finally, permit me to hope,
Sir, that you and every other Member of this Committee will cordially and
zealously assist me in my earnest endeavours to obtain the re-possession
of these lands.
_Resolved_, unanimously, that the thanks of the Committee be given to Mr.
Faulkner for his able Report, and that it be entered in the Minute Book,
and printed and circulated throughout the Parish.
J. W. LOCKWOOD, Chairman.
Chelsea Board Room, April 22, 1834.
APPENDIX No. 23.
CHELSEA HOSPITAL GROUNDS.
_To the Right Honourable William Cowper_, _M.P._, _Chief Commissioner of
Her Majesty’s Works and Public Buildings_.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex,
SHEWETH,
That your Memorialists are sensible of, and grateful for, the benefit
which has resulted to their parish and to the public from the
improvements which have of late years been made in the grounds of the
Royal Hospital, and from their having been thrown open for the recreation
and resort of the crowded neighbouring population.
That by the present regulations, the grounds are closed during the months
of May, June, July, and August, at eight o’clock in the evening.
That an extension of the time of closing the gardens, particularly on
Sunday evenings, would, in the opinion of your Memorialists, be much
esteemed by their frequenters; and as evidence that this would be so, a
correspondent of your Memorialists writes: “An extension of the time of
closing the Royal Hospital Grounds to the same hours as Battersea Park,
would be accepted as a great boon by all classes, more especially on the
Sunday evenings in the hot weather, as, though the grounds are opened on
Sundays at two o’clock in the afternoon, they are not generally much
attended till after tea, which makes it half-past six o’clock, or even
seven, before the mass of visitors arrive (according to the distance they
have to come, as many come from London by the steamboats), and at a
quarter to eight o’clock in the very height of summer, they begin to
clear the grounds, and at eight o’clock precisely they are finally
closed.
It is naturally felt to be a great hardship to be so turned out when the
sun is shining brightly on a warm summer evening, and when, though
comparatively early, still too late to go anywhere else (except
Cremorne), and the consequences may at once be seen by the fact of the
public houses and beer shops in the neighbourhood being immediately
filled, a state of things much to be deplored.
Persons attending a place of worship are of course quite precluded from
taking a walk round the grounds when they come out, and before they go
home, the grounds being closed so early.
The comforts and rest of the inmates of the Royal Hospital need not be
interfered with, as the public could be shut off the central part at a
certain hour, if thought desirable, and all might leave the grounds by
the eastern and western entrances; and if the additional hour’s duty be
thought too much for the pensioners, three or four policemen additional,
or other attendants, could be provided at a very small additional
expense.
Your Memorialists therefore respectfully request that you will consider
the foregoing, and give directions that the regulations for closing the
said grounds may be assimilated to those of Battersea Park.
And your Memorialists will ever pray.
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Given under the common seal of the said Vestry, this 17th day of July,
1860.
* * * * *
_From A. Austin_, _Esq._, _Office of Works_, _&c._, _to the Vestry
Clerk_.
3537.
Office of Works, &c.
23rd August, 1860.
Sir,
I am directed by the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c., to
acquaint you, for the information of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea,
that he has given instructions for the closing of Chelsea Hospital
Grounds at the same hours as the gates in Battersea Park, as requested in
their Memorial which accompanied your letter to this Board, dated the 2nd
instant, upon the understanding that some slight modification of the rule
may be adopted if any practical inconvenience to the authorities of the
Hospital should be found to result from the proposed alteration.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
ALFRED AUSTIN,
Secretary.
Chas. Lahee, Esq.
APPENDIX No. 24.
THAMES EMBANKMENT.
_To the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament
assembled_.
The Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of
Middlesex,
SHEWETH,
That there is now pending before your Honorable House a Bill entitled “A
Bill to continue the Duties on Coal and Wine by the Corporation of
London.”
That the provisions of the said Bill appear to your petitioners to be
pre-eminently calculated to accomplish a great object—viz., the
Embankment of the River Thames, and to provide a low level north sewer
within the same.
That the inhabitants of the kingdom, and particularly of the metropolis,
are greatly interested in the accomplishment of these measures.
That unless this Bill is passed into a law there will be no means of
embanking the Thames, except by an increase of taxation of the
inhabitants of the metropolis, who are already so heavily taxed by the
Main Drainage Rate, and the Sewers and other rates under the various acts
of parliament recently passed for public improvements, and for sanitary
purposes, that they are unable to bear any additional burthen.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Honorable House that the said
Bill may pass into law.
And your petitioners will pray, &c.
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Given under the common seal of the said Vestry, this thirteenth day of
April, 1861.
APPENDIX No. 25.
HORSE RIDE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.
_To the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty_.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of
Middlesex,
HUMBLY SHEWETH,
That the Vestry aforesaid, believing that the admission of the riding
public into Kensington Gardens, however it may conduce to the recreation
of equestrians, is inconsistent with the comfort and the safety of the
public in general who visit the gardens, and that the riding public have
already great and numerous facilities for horse exercise, pray that your
Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct that the Royal Gardens may
be restored to their former and long established state, and that
pedestrians only may be admitted thereto, as heretofore.
And your Majesty’s memorialists will ever pray.
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Given under the common seal of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, this
fourth day of August, 1860.
APPENDIX No. 26.
LOCAL MAGISTRACY.
_The Vestry Clerk to the Lord Lieutenant_.
13th February, 1861.
My Lord Marquis,—I am instructed by this Vestry to transmit to your
Lordship a copy of a resolution passed by them at a late meeting.
Resolved,—That the parish of Chelsea, having been deprived of the
services as Magistrates of three gentlemen by death, and another being
about to retire from parochial duties, it is important for the interest
of the parish, that other gentlemen should be appointed in their place,
therefore, that the vestry memorialize the Lord Lieutenant of the county
for the appointment of some gentlemen who will act for the parish in that
capacity.
I have the honor to be, my Lord Marquis,
Your Lordship’s most obedient and very humble servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
The most Honorable the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C., &c. &c. &c.,
20, Arlington-street, Piccadilly.
* * * * *
_The Lord Lieutenant to the Vestry Clerk_.
London, February 13th, 1861.
Sir,—In answer to the memorial of the Vestry of the parish of St. Luke,
Chelsea, requesting that magistrates may be appointed to discharge the
parochial duties of the above mentioned parish, I have the honor to
inform you that I do not find it stated as one of the Divisions of the
County in which Petty Sessions are appointed to be held by the Court of
Quarter Sessions.
I remain
Your obedient Servant,
GASCOYNE SALISBURY.
To the Vestry Clerk,
St. Luke’s, Chelsea.
APPENDIX No. 27.
PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENTS BILL.
_To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland in Parliament assembled_.
The petition of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex,
SHEWETH,
1. That a Bill has been introduced into your honourable House,
intituled, “A Bill to Amend the Law relating to Parochial Assessments in
England.”
2. That your Petitioners view with much alarm many of the provisions of
the said Bill.
3. That your Petitioners humbly submit that the present law on the
subject is based upon sound principles, and has in the main been found to
be efficient in its operation.
4. That your Petitioners believe that the present law gives all
necessary protection to those who suffer from the evils resulting from
unjust and unequal assessments.
5. That the present assessors, namely the Board of Guardians of the Poor
of this Parish, are in consequence of their appointment by the
parishioners, directly amenable to the voice of public opinion.
6. That by the present Bill it is proposed, that in by far the greater
number of cases, the assessors should be appointed for life, by, and from
amongst the Crown appointed Magistrates of the County.
7. That your Petitioners believe that the levying and the disbursing of
County Rates by a Board wholly irresponsible to the ratepayers, is a
source of general dissatisfaction throughout the country, dissatisfaction
which will be greatly increased when the large additional powers
contemplated in the Bill are conferred upon the Board.
8. That the right at present possessed by the ratepayers of appeal to
the General Quarter Sessions against the original assessment, is by the
said Bill taken away, except in the few cases in which some principle of
rating may be involved.
9. That the evils which it is alleged have arisen under the present law,
may in the opinion of your Petitioners, be remedied by a far less
cumbrous and costly machinery than that proposed by the said Bill.
10. That the said Bill will, if it pass into law, give unprecedented and
unconstitutional powers to the Assessment Boards created under it.
11. Your Petitioners, for the foregoing reasons therefore, humbly pray
that the said Bill may not pass into law.
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Given under the common seal of the said Vestry, his twelfth day of March,
1861.
APPENDIX No. 28.
HOUSES AND POPULATION in Superintendent Registrar’s District, on March
31st, 1851, and on April 8th, 1861.
CHELSEA.
Inhabited Houses. Population Increase or Decrease Excess of
Enumerated. in the Number of Registered
Persons between 1851 Births over
and 1861. Registered
Deaths in ten
years.
1851. 1861. 1851. 1861. Increase. Decrease. 1851–61.
7591 8318 56,538 63,423 6885 — 4302
SOME OTHER STATISTICS OF CHELSEA.
Date of Census. POPULATION. Inhabited Houses By how many Families. Uninhabited Persons Persons Persons not
Houses. employed in employed in employed in
Agriculture. Trade. Agriculture or
Trade.
Males. Females Total.
1801. 4651 6953 11604 1637 2746 128 183 1069 10,352
Families Families Other Families Houses
chiefly chiefly not employed Buildings.
employed in employed in in the two
Agriculture. Trade, preceding
Manufacturers, Classes.
and
Handicraft.
1811. 7737 10525 18262 2430 3968 107 168 2217 1583 207
1821. 11623 15237 26860 3602 5829 138 275 2979 2575 146
1831. 14536 17835 32371 4635 8032 349 87 3985 3960 44
1841. 17663 22516 40179 5648 No Return. 178 Returns not continued in these Forms. 100
1851. 25475 31063 56538 7591 No Returns for Parishes. 264 Ditto 98
APPENDIX No. 29.
ENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE PARISH OF CHELSEA.
_Statistics laid before Lord Palmerston on the_ 5_th March_, 1861.
The united parishes of Chelsea and Kensington, according to the census in
1851, contained a population of upwards of 100,000 persons; and they are
now rated under Schedule A to the income and property tax, at £693,860.
Of the total number of cities and boroughs in the United Kingdom,
returning members to parliament, fifteen only are rated higher to the
income and property tax than Chelsea and Kensington, while 240 are rated
at a less amount.
There is no un-enfranchised town in the United Kingdom containing half
the population, or assessed at half the amount of property under Schedule
A; and it is therefore respectfully contended that the inhabitants of
Chelsea and Kensington have a paramount claim to any new borough
representation that may be created by the legislature.
CHELSEA. KENSINGTON. TOTAL.
Miles of Streets 21 35 56
{116a}
Houses Rated 8,252 8,700 16,952
Estimated Rental £338,239 319,586 £657,825
{116b}
County Assessment. £234,248 £319,924 £554,172
{116c}
Property and Income
Tax:—
Schedule A {116d} £269,876 £423,984 £693,860
Schedule B £720 £2,781 3,501
Schedule D £141,887 £200,526 342,413
£1,039,774
Population—Census 1851 56,538 44,053 100,591
Annual Increase at 4 75,000 59,500 134,500
per cent. {116e}
Persons Rated at £10 5,342 3,793 9,135
and under £50 {116f}
£50 and upwards 700 2,176 2,876
£10 and upwards 6,042 5,969 12,011
County Electors 679 955 1,634
_Representation of Scotland compared with that of the Metropolis_.
Population, 1851. Property Rated under Members.
Schedule A.
Scotland 2,862,000 £4,636,755 53
Metropolis 2,869,000 £18,625,296 16
_To the Honorable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland in Parliament assembled_.
The Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex,
SHEWETH,
That your Petitioners having had under consideration a Bill about to be
introduced into your honorable House by Viscount Enfield, to transfer the
two seats formerly possessed by the Borough of St. Albans, in the County
of Hertford, to the Parishes of St. Luke, Chelsea, and St. Mary, Abbott’s
Kennington, respectfully represent—
That the claims of the Parish represented by your Petitioners for direct
and separate representation in Parliament are based _inter alia_ upon its
wealth, population, intelligence, and extent.
That the estimated annual value of the house property in the Parish is
about £315,000.
That the Parish of Chelsea extends from the City of Westminster to
Fulham, and contained at the census of 1851, 56,538 inhabitants, and
8,252 houses.
That since the census of 1851, the number of inhabitants has largely
increased, and may be now estimated at 75,000: the number of houses has
also become augmented in like proportion.
That the number of rated householders, according to the last return, was
4,542, and of persons rated, 5,014; but of this number about 700 only
enjoy the Parliamentary franchise.
That the Parish represented by your Petitioners occupies an area of 771
acres, and contains upwards of 21 miles of streets.
That the rateable value of property in the Parish, as assessed to the
County Rate, is £234,248; to the Poor Rate, £213,115; and to the Property
Tax, £267,897.
That the persons qualified to serve on juries in the Parish now number
1233.
That there are 23 churches and chapels, and 46 public schools of popular
education in the Parish, besides several public reading rooms and places
for mutual instruction.
Your Petitioners therefore pray your honorable House that the Bill of
Viscount Enfield for transferring the two seats formerly possessed by the
Borough of St. Albans, in the County of Hertford, to the Parishes of St.
Luke, Chelsea, and St. Mary, Abbott’s Kennington, may pass into law.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Given under the Common Seal of the said Vestry, this twelfth day of
February, 1861.
APPENDIX No. 30.
WATER COMPANIES’ ACCOUNTS.
CHELSEA
Account of Receipt and Expenditure of all Rates or other Monies levied
under the Chelsea Water Works Act, 1852, from 25th March, 1859, to 25th
March, 1860.
RECEIPT.
£ s. d.
Water Rents 53350 5 2
Sundry Receipts 171 0 0
£53521 5 2
(Signed) W. Geo. Brett,
_Governor_.
EXPENDITURE. £ _s._ _d._
Management, Office Expenses, Law Charges, 6471 4 2
&c.
Rates and Taxes 3566 16 0
Working Expenses 10883 9 11
Interest on Loans 6342 2 2
Dividends on New Share Capital at 4½ per 20223 1 4
cent. and on Old Share Capital at 3 per
cent.
Balance 6034 11 7
£53521 5 2
(Signed) J. Boustead,
John Deedes,
Henry Hyde,
_Auditors_.
ALBERT GILL, _Secretary_.
* * * * *
WEST MIDDLESEX WATER WORKS.
An Account of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 30th
September, 1860.
RECEIPTS. £ _s._ _d._
Balance in Treasurer’s hands 30th 421 2 3
September, 1859
Water Rental for Ordinary Domestic 81024 6 6
Supplies, High Services, Trades, Street
Watering, &c.
Treasurer’s Loans, on 10000 0 0
account of New Works,
Borrowed
Repaid on account 3000 0 0
7000 0 0
£88445 8 9
(Signed) William Tite,
Lionel Booth,
William Carpmael,
_Auditors_.
Chas. L. Boileau,
_Chairman_.
EXPENDITURE. £ _s._ _d._
Dividends 55320 0 0
Current 6772 8 11
Expenses:—
Directors,
Auditors, Officers,
Collectors,
Superannuation
Coal, Workmen’s 11784 17 8
Wages, Engine-house
Charges, Repairs,
&c.
Rents, Rates, and 5336 6 10
Taxes
Parliamentary and 1200 0 0
Law Charges
Interest on Loans 473 2 0
25566 15 5
Exchequer Bills, 13294 2 6
bought
Ditto ditto, sold 13275 1 6
19 1 0
New Works on 7376 9 3
account of New
Mains, Engines,
Filter Beds, &c.
Balance in 163 3 1
Treasurer’s hands,
30th September,
1860
£88445 8 9
I hereby certify that the above is a correct copy,
W. H. WHIFFIN, _Secretary_.
APPENDIX No. 31
THE VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF CHELSEA IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
_An Account in abstract_, _shewing the Receipt and Expenditure of the
said Vestry_, _under the Metropolis Local Management Act_, 1855, _for the
year ending on the_ 25_th day of_ March, 1861, _under the several
distinct heads of Receipt and Expenditure with a Statement of the
allowance of the Auditors_. _Pursuant to the_ 196_th Section of the_
18_th and 19th Vict._, _cap._ 120.
RECEIPTS. £ _s._ _d._
Cash Balance in Treasurer’s hands 2542 8 7
Rates—
Order of the Vestry to the 5 3 0
Guardians of the Poor, dated March
18th, 1856, surplus
Do. dated 17th March, 1857, 31 8 7
surplus
Do. do. 17th March, 1857, surplus 5 18 10
Do. do. December 18th, 1857, 42 5 7
surplus
Do. do. March 30th, 1858, surplus 76 13 6
Do. do. September 28th, 1858, 251 12 5
surplus
Do. do. January 11th, 1859, 337 19 2
surplus
Do. do. February 1st, 1859, 85 5 6
surplus
Do. do. March 15th, 1859 321 9 9
Do. do. September 13th, 1859, 180 16 0
surplus
Do. do. September 13th, 1859, 241 10 7
surplus
Do. do. September 13th, 1859 2526 7 5
Do. do. March 24th, 1860 39 5 11
Do. do. October 23rd, 1860 2670 0 0
Do. do. March 13th, 1860 5780 0 0
Do. on account of Chelsea 3 10 0
Improvement Commission arrear,
1854, 1855, on No. 2, Durham Place
12599 6 3
Incidentals, General:—
Lighting 14 10 3
Works executed for Public 617 2 11
Companies and others
Sundries 4 8 6
Sanitary Works 27 19 5
Rents 44 0 0
768 1 1
Metropolitan Board of Works:—
Order of the Vestry dated 13th September, 1859—
“Ranelagh” District 204 19 8
“Counter’s Creek” ditto 256 9 1
461 8 9
Ditto dated 13th Sept., 1859, _re_ Main 2928 2 0
Drainage, amount thereof
Ditto dated 2nd July, 1860, for £1720 1444 3 0
11s. 8d. on account thereof
4833 13 9
Carried forward 20683 9 8
PAYMENTS.
General Works:—
Paving Roads,
Materials 2118 17 7
Labor 316 1 9
Sundries 97 9 6
2532 8 10
Footways,
Materials 570 12 8
Labor 124 16 0
Sundries 6 19 2
702 7 10
Cartage of Materials 258 18 1
3493 14 9
Lighting,
Gas consumed 3668 13 5
New Lights 22 8 0
Repairs 49 8 3
Gas Enquiry 150 0 0
Law Expenses 871 2 1
4761 11 9
Watering,
Contracts 853 16 1
Sundries 89 5 5
Law Expenses 111 5 0
1054 6 6
Cleansing,
Contracts 518 19 10
Labor 567 12 4
Sundries 20 0 9
1106 12 11
Improving 58 16 2
Removing Nuisances 326 15 0
Sanitary Works 4 3 2
Rents 57 18 8
Sundries 122 6 8
10986 5 7
Deduct from Surveyor’s Disbursements for Labor charged above the sum paid 1 14 3
10984 11 4
Metropolitan Board of Works:—
Precept dated 12th August, 1859, and payable 30th April, 1860, for Main 2928 2 0
Drainage, amount thereof
Precept dated 31st December, 1858, and payable March 25th, 1859, amount of 447 4 2
Counter’s Creek portion thereof
Precept dated 11th May, 1860, and payable 29th Sept., 1860, cash on account 1720 11 8
5095 17 10
Carried forward 16080 9 2
Amount brought forward 20683 9 8
Incidentals—Sewers, viz.
Contribution towards Alteration of Ranelagh Sewer Bridge 5 0 0
Block Flaps 2 12 2
7 12 2
Establishment—Incidentals:—
Stamps for Contracts repaid 7 0 0
Sundries 0 2 0
Inspector’s Costs repaid 0 18 0
Hire of Hall 99 5 0
107 5 0
Mr. Ludlow, amount returned as overcharged on Taxes, June, 1859 0 8 4
Deposits for House Drains, &c. 306 14 10
Interest on Deposit account 106 19 1
Error by Treasurer in Pass Book, per contra. 4 17 11
Treasurer, for amount of “Deposit account” 7000 0 0
£28,217 7 0
Amount brought forward 16080 9 2
Sewers Works
Construction of Sewers and Gullies 149 6 5
Private Drain Mouths 19 3 8
Cleansing Sewers and Gullies 55 14 1
Day Work 118 8 2
Incidentals 33 18 4
Cartage and Horsehire 9 15 9
386 16 5
Establishment
Salaries
C. Lahee, Clerk 250 0 0
Dr. A. W. Barclay, Medical Officer 150 0 0
J. Pattison, Surveyor 250 0 0
J. E. Salway, Office Clerk 78 0 0
J. Nicol, do. 78 0 0
W. Holland, Office Messenger 3 10 0
E. Alder, Inspector of Nuisances 130 0 0
W. Maddy, Hall-keeper 70 4 0
1009 14 0
Rent, Taxes, &c. 81 1 1
Office Cleaning, &c. 20 7 0
Books, Stationery, and Printing 229 8 5
Stamps for Contracts 9 6 0
Law Charges 358 18 4
Sundries 119 16 0
Inspector’s Costs 1 10 0
Expenses of Committees and Officers 79 1 3
,, of Coffee Room 26 9 11
,, of cleaning the Hall 2 10 6
1938 2 6
Charges on Local Rates,—Hans Town,
Compensation to late Officer 144 0 0
Chelsea, do. do. 20 0 0
164 0 0
Income and Assessed Taxes 71 6 1
Deposits for House Drains, &c., returned 41 16 2
Error by Treasurer in Pass Book, per contra. 4 17 11
Interest on Loans 1245 16 0
Repayment of Loans 1900 0 0
Vestry Hall 5593 5 4
Balance in Treasurer’s hands 790 17 5
£28,217 7 0
The Account of which the foregoing is an Abstract has been audited and
allowed by us, except {123} as therein referred to, and we have signed
the same in token thereof, pursuant to the 195th Section of the
Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, 18 & 19 Vict., cap. 120.
G. E. MEAD,
W. RHIND,
JAMES CRISP.
APPENDIX No. 32.
CHARGES UNDER THE HEAD OF ESTABLISHMENT.
_March_ 25_th_, 1860, _to March_ 25_th_, 1861.
Folio Ledger
271. Salaries £1011 14 0
Rent, Taxes, Insurance, &c. 89 18 0
Office Expenses, Furniture, Cleaning, &c. 32 4 6
Books, Stationery, Printing, &c. 246 6 3
Sundries 98 16 9
Stamps for Contract 11 2 0
Law Charges 195 17 10
Expenses of—
Committees and 88 4 11
Officers
Coffee Room 32 12 5
120 17 4
£1806 16 8
* * * * *
271. By Hire of the Hall: Balance after £78 8 1
Payment of Expenses
Stamps for 12 15 0
Contracts
repaid
Inspector’s 1 8 4
Costs recovered
14 3 4
“General Works” 1242 13 11
“Sewers Works” 428 11 4
“Chelsea 35 16 0
Improvement
Commission”
“Hans Town 7 4 0
Commission”
1714 5 3
£1806 16 8
APPENDIX No. 33.
REPORT OF THE AUDITORS, 1860.
We, the undersigned Auditors of Accounts of the Vestry of Chelsea for the
year ending March 25, 1860, present the following report thereon:—
We feel that the accounts submitted to us are not only clear and correct
in themselves, but that they also appear to be presented in a much
simpler and more convenient form than in previous years, although there
still appears to be room for improvement in those departments which
relate to the expenditure incurred under the direction of the Surveyor.
We especially feel that some plan should be adopted for obtaining a
receipt or signature periodically from the labourers employed by him, so
as to assimilate the vouchers in the labour department, as nearly as
circumstances will allow, to those for other departments of expenditure.
We feel it to be especially important that a fuller and more intelligible
system be introduced in reference to deposits paid to the Vestry on
account of Drainage Works and Surveyor’s Licenses, in order that the
amounts actually expended in respect of such deposits may be brought to
account so soon as the works are completed, instead of, as at present,
being brought to account only when the depositor claims the return of the
balance of his deposit; thus leaving it possible that the mere neglect or
ignorance of the depositor may occasion deposit accounts to be left open
and unchecked for years, and that even where sums may be expended in
excess of such deposits, the fact may never come to the knowledge of the
Vestry Clerk, and that consequently no claim may be made on account of
such additional expenditure.
We think, further, that the book which contains a record of such deposits
might, by additional columns of reference, be brought into most useful
connexion with the accounts of the Vestry for payment of the contractors
or others by whom the works are actually executed; thus increasing the
facilities for testing the integrity and propriety of such accounts, and
affording more ready access to any information which depositors may
require in respect of expenditure incurred on their behalf.
May 22, 1860.
WM. LAWRANCE.
G. W. S. IAGO.
J. T. STANESBY.
GEO. PURDOM.
REPORT OF THE AUDITORS, 1861.
We, the undersigned, have audited the accounts of the Vestry of St. Luke,
Chelsea, for the year expiring 25th March, 1861, and allowed the same
except the item of £21 14s. 9d., charged as the deficiency on the
“Inauguration Dinner,” which after mature consideration we are of
opinion, cannot properly be charged against the Vestry funds.
We find the sum of £533 6s. 8d., amount of Precept dated 8th March, 1856,
uncollected and carried forward from year to year, and would suggest,
that such item be disposed of, by payment being enforced, or the amount
written off. There does not appear to be any examination of the amount
drawn by the Surveyor for, and that paid to, labourers, and although
attention to this has been drawn by the auditors of the last year’s
accounts, no alteration seems to have been made. We think that the
Inspector of the Roads should sign the Surveyor’s wages book each week,
in testimony of the number of men charged for, having been employed.
In conclusion, we desire to state our thorough satisfaction with the mode
in which the accounts are kept, and to express our full appreciation of
the courtesy and assistance received from Mr. Lahee during our audit of
such accounts.
To the Vestry of St. Luke, Chelsea.
G. E. MEAD,
W. RHIND,
JAMES CRISP.
APPENDIX No. 34.
INTEREST ACCOUNT.
_Dr._
1860.
June 6. To W. Soare, 24 3 4
Interest of
Loan to date
Sep. 11. Do. do. 11 19 2
Dec. 6. Do. do. 45 0 0
81 2 6
Sep. 13. J. H. France, do. 11 13 7
British 200 0 0
Empire Mutual
Life
Assurance
Society,
Half-year’s
Interest on
Loan to date
Do. to March 193 5 8
25th, 1861
393 5 8
1861.
March 25. W. Soare, Interest to date 27 12 6
London Life Association
Interest to 217 6 8
June 30, 1860
Do. Sep. 30, 203 15 0
1860
Do. Dec. 31, 203 15 0
1860
Do. Mar. 25, 190 3 4
1861
815 0 0
£1328 14 3
_Cr._
1860.
July 1. By Cash per 12 1 7
Treasurer for
Interest on
£7000, from
25th of March
to 30th of
April, at 1¾
per cent.
30th April to 38 18 7
27th June, at
3½ per cent.
27th June to 1 17 4
30th June
52 17 6
Dec. 31 Do. per do. 11 16 10
for Interest
on £7000,
July 1st to
19th, at 3¼
per cent.
£4000, July 2 2 9
19 to 25th
£3000, July 3 14 9½
25 to Aug.
8th
£2000, Aug. 8 23 6 7
to Dec. 17
£1000, Dec. 1 4 8½
17 to 31st
42 5 8
Deduct 0 16 8
Interest on
Overdrawn
Account at 3¼
per cent.
41 9 0
1861.
Jan. 4th. Do. per do. for Interest on £1000, 0 7 1
from January 1st to 4th
Chelsea Improvement Commission, for 696 7 6
Interest on Balance at this date
Balance transferred to General 537 13 2
Works and Revenue
£1328 14 3
APPENDIX No. 35.
_A Statement of all Arrears of Rates owing to the Vestry of the Parish of
Chelsea_, _in the County of Middlesex_, _on the_ 25_th day of March_,
1861, _pursuant to the_ 192_nd and_ 196_th sections of the Metropolis
Local Management Act_, 18_th and_ 19_th Vic._, _cap._ 120.
Page Ledger.
284 Order for Rates, dated 18th March, 1856, 288 6 8
Balance, General
Local, Chelsea 216 13 4
,, Hans Town 33 6 8
533 6 8
286. Order for Rates, dated July 22nd, 1856, Balance, General 288 3 8
297. Order for Special Sewers Rates, dated 17th September, 1859
Balance—Paultons Terrace 0 10 4
Heathfield Terrace 0 6 0
New King’s Road 0 3 6
0 19 10
297. Order for Special Sewers Rates, dated 25th December, 1860,
amount thereof—
Paultons Square 24 11 10
Paultons Terrace 4 4 6
Heathfield Terrace 4 19 2
Hobury Street 4 16 6
New King’s Road 1 13 9
40 5 9
298. Order for Rates, dated 13th March, 1860, General 170 0 0
306. Order for Rates, dated 23rd October, 1860,
General 3350 0 0
Local; Chelsea 500 0 0
3850 0 0
£4882 15 11
For Metropolitan Board of Works.
307. Order of the Vestry to the Guardians of the Poor, dated July
2nd, 1860
Ranelagh 285 18 5
District
Less Whole 9 9 9
Parish
overpaid
276 8 8
307. Do. do. dated October 23rd, 1860
Main Drainage, whole Parish 2300 0 0
306. Do. do. dated April 9th, 1861
The whole 1499 12 6
Parish
Ranelagh 600 16 11
District
2100 9 5
4676 18 1
£9559 14 0
Examined and Audited.
G. E. Mead,
W. Rhind,
James Crisp,
_Auditors_.
APPENDIX No. 36.
_A Statement of all Moneys_ (_excepting Rates_) _owing to the Vestry of
the Parish of Chelsea_, _in the County of Middlesex_, _on the_ 25_th day
of March_, 1861, _pursuant to the_ 192_nd and_ 196_th sections of the
Metropolis local Management Act_, 18_th and_ 19_th Vict. cap._ 120.
Page. Ledger.
21 The Westminster District Board of Works Composition for 1 0 0
Repairs top of
Sloane Street
34 H. N. Compton Rent Charge, 1 0 0
Symons Street
36 C. Bagley Damage to Lamp 4 12 1
52 West Middlesex Water Works Company Repairs to Roads 1 11 3
56 W. Dethick Do. do. 4 16 3
63 Edward Thirst Do. do. 30 16 10
66 Parish of Willesden Do. do. 30 0 0
110 Park Terrace New Sewer 11 0 10
128 Cottages, Kensal Town Sanitary Works 36 5 0
157 T. and E. Bingham Reinstating 1 9 0
Pavement
164 Hobury Street New Sewer 77 4 5
165 Paultons Square Ditto 393 8 11
166 Paultons Terrace Ditto 67 11 9
167 World’s End Passage Ditto 79 5 9
177 8, Oakham Street Sanitary Works 6 1 4
177 9, Oakham Street Ditto ditto 6 15 6
178 29, Queen’s Road West Ditto ditto 1 10 10
178 Lee and Navarino Cottages Ditto ditto 14 3 2
181 No. 1, Glebe Place Ditto ditto 19 13 1
204 New King’s Road New Sewer 26 19 11
206 23, Beaufort Street Sanitary Works 12 18 4
231 L. Robinson Ditto ditto 18 11 4
235 G. Godbolt Sand 0 8 9
244 C. Lahee To meet 50 0 0
Disbursements
248 12, North Street Sanitary Works 4 3 2
264 J. Forbes and Nephew Rent, Symons 21 0 0
Street
265 Chelsea Water Works Company Repairs to Roads 35 0 11
266 Imperial Gas Company Ditto 288 18 2
276 E. Main Sanitary Works 26 12 8
277 Kensal Ragged School Ditto ditto 10 5 10
281 T. L. Bull Rent of Literary 12 10 0
& Scientific
Institution
309 J. Pattisson Labor 2 2 5
311 Literary & Scientific Institution Cost Account 0 4 2
312 Taxes—Property, Income, and Assessed 8 8 3
£13806 9 11
Examined and Audited.
G. E. Mead,
W. Rhind,
James Crisp,
_Auditors_.
APPENDIX No. 37.
_A Statement of all Mortgages and Interest on the same_, _owing by the
Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea_, _in the County of Middlesex_, _on the_
25_th day of March_, 1861, _pursuant to the_ 192_nd and_ 196_th sections
of the Metropolis Local Management Act_, 18_th and_ 19_th Vict._, _cap._
120.
Page Ledger.
308. The London Life Association—
Principal £19000 0 0
Interest 190 3 4
19190 3 4
195. W. H. Soare, Esq.—
Principal 2000 0 0
Interest 27 12 6
2027 12 6
229. British Empire Mutual Life Assurance
Company—
Principal 9664 3 6
Interest 193 5 8
9857 9 2
£31075 5 0
Examined and Audited.
G. E. Mead,
W. Rhind,
James Crisp,
_Auditors_.
APPENDIX No. 38.
_A Statement of all other Debts and Liabilities owing by_, _and claims
upon_, _the Vestry on the same day_.
Page Ledger.
16. George Thompson Pumps £49 10 0
& Son
20. G. Barnes Smiths’ Work 10 15 4
46. W. Druce Coals and Coke 39 3 5
77. E. Holland Wheelwright 45 2 6
90. W. Davis Scavengers’ Brooms 2 12 3
92. D. Kink Compensation for 4 11 4
loss of office
96. C. Rawlings Rent of Depôt, 10 0 0
Alpha Place
104. H. Morrison Oilman’s Goods 0 5 0
116. Nicholls Repairs to Pumps 25 15 11
Brothers
124. P. Hance Stationery 1 16 1
152. T. Smith Smiths’ Work 0 15 1
153. J. S. Eisdell Compensation for 32 13 8
loss of office
154. J. Bennett Oilman’s Goods 4 7 11
154. T. Cross Removal of Dust 7 0 0
154. W. S. Johnson Printing 4 15 0
156. Dr. A. W. Salary 35 1 0
Barclay
157. C. Chapman Furniture for 68 16 6
Vestry Hall
162. Buckley & Beach Lighting the Vestry 0 5 0
Hall
163. W. H. Thomas Smiths’ Work 7 17 0
169. T. Baldock Road Flints 34 13 5
175. Western Gas Gas supplied 31 3 2
Light Company
191. E. Corbett Use of Watch Box 1 13 0
192. W. W. Pocock Architect, Vestry 219 8 3
Hall
197. J. Pattisson Salary 58 8 0
203. Parsons Cleaning Windows 2 8 0
Brothers
212. H. Curnock Gravel, and Horse 54 2 0
Hire
220. King & Howe Contractors 24 10 1
221. C. Lahee Salary 58 8 0
223. Sundries Deposits for House 192 16 9
Drains, &c.
224. E. Alder Salary 10 0 0
225. W. Maddy Ditto 7 8 0
226. J. E. Salway Ditto 6 0 0
227. J. Nicol Ditto 6 0 0
230. W. Holland Ditto 2 0 0
234. T. Barton Advertisements 18 4 4
235. Executors of J. Lacing Screen for 0 6 0
Davis Gravel
237. C. Lahee Petty Cash 54 7 3
Disbursements
238. Vestry of Composition for 5 0 8
Kensington Repairs
Carried forward £1138 19 11
Brought forward £1138 19 11
238. Metropolitan Proportion of Man’s 33 3 8
Board of Works Wages attending to
Outlets of Sewers
239. B. Watts Cleansing Urinal 0 9 3
242. J. Kealy Attendance at 2 10 0
Stoneyard
243. Nowell & Robson Contractors 436 14 0
244. Thomas Edmonds Ditto 6 15 0
245. Piper & Sons Builders 175 1 10
247. Lee & Pemberton Law Charges 177 1 6
248. H. Loxdale Advertisements, &c. 4 14 0
254. L. Levy Sewermen’s Clothes 2 9 0
255. The London Gas Gas supplied 1495 18 8
Company
256. A. Berry Rent, Symons Street 3 15 0
256. J. Fraser Ditto ditto 4 12 3
257. G. Allen Lime, &c. 2 12 9
258. Z. D. Berry Engineer 14 17 7
261. A. Emmerson Contractor 86 4 11
266. Waterlow & Sons Law Stationers 4 16 2
268. W. Butcher Advertisements, &c. 5 0 6
268. J. Crockford “Law Times” 1 10 0
268. H. J. Bradshaw Stationery 11 16 7
268. E. Thompson 8-day Dial for 6 6 0
Board Room
268. Smith & Baber Matting 34 11 7
268. Kennard & Co. Fenders, &c. 17 13 0
273. H. D. Pite Printing 6 18 6
277. G. Axton Contractor 43 9 0
278. C. Hornsby Ditto 41 13 5
308. The Estate of Rent of Symons 10 0 0
the late Sir B. Street Premises
Smith
310. Weeks & Company Heating the Vestry 219 0 0
Hall
310. Guardians of Granite 1034 13 3
the Poor
47. J. Bunting “Times” Newspaper 3 18 0
261. H. J. Hallett Carpenter 28 13 9
£5054 19 1
The Metropolitan Board of Works.
299. Precept dated 518 19 1
11th May, 1860,
“Counters
Creek” Portion
299. Precept dated 2928 2 0
28th September,
1860, _re_
“Main
Drainage,”
Amount thereof
299. Precept dated 2580 1 4
18th February,
1861, Amount
thereof
6027 2 5
£11082 1 6
Examined and Audited,
G. E. Mead,
W. Rhind,
James Crisp.
_Auditors_.
APPENDIX No. 39.
BALANCE SHEET.
_March_ 25th, 1861.
LIABILITIES.
£ _s._ _d._
To Loan Creditors 31075 5 0
General Creditors 5054 19 1
The late Hans Town Commission 248 19 3
The Metropolitan Board of Works, amount of Precepts 6027 2 5
Do. do. Rates raised by the Guardians of the Poor in 876 19 10
excess of sums named in various former Precepts
£48,283 5 7
ASSETS.
£ _s._ _d._
By the late Chelsea Improvement Commission 17117 11 4
General Debtors 1306 9 11
Guardians of the Poor:—
Arrears of Orders (Local) 4882 15 11
do. (Metropolitan Board of 4676 18 1
Works)
9559 14 0
Vestry Hall 11893 19 9
Leasehold Property 393 15 0
Furniture and Effects 52 6 0
Rolling Stock 106 3 2
Cash in Treasurer’s hands 790 17 5
Sums included in £6027 2s. 5d. per 518 19 1
contra, for the raising of which
the Vestry have not issued orders
to the Overseers
ditto. 628 2 0
ditto. 479 11 11
1626 13 0
Balance 435 16 0
£43,283 5 7
APPENDIX No. 40.
_A Statement of the amount of all Contracts entered into by the Vestry of
the Parish of Chelsea_, _in the County of Middlesex_, _during the year
ending on the_ 25_th day of March_, 1861, _pursuant to the_ 192_nd and_
196_th Sections of the Metropolis Local Management Act_, 18_th and_ 19_th
Vic._, _cap._ 120.
1860.
£ _s._ _d._
April 10. (31.) A Contract or 18 15 0
Agreement with
James A. Forbes
for the
occupation of
Manor House by
the Vestry from
Midsummer,
1860, to
Michaelmas,
1860, at a Rent
for the Quarter
of
April 13. A Contract or 30 0 0
Agreement with
the Parish of
Willesden, by
which this
Vestry agrees
to Repair so
much of Kilburn
Lane as lies in
that Parish,
for an annual
payment of
April 24. (28.) A Contract or
Agreement with
Theodore Guerin
and another,
for the former
to erect,
protect, and
keep in repair
an illuminated
public
indicator, or
ornamental
column, in
Sloane Square,
at his own
expense.
June 19. (21.) A Contract or 11 0 0
Agreement with
the Union
Assurance
Office for an
Insurance of
the Vestry Hall
Building to the
amount of
£4000, at an
annual payment
of
July 3. (18.) A Contract or
Agreement with
F. King for the
supply of
Scavengers’
Brooms, at
fixed prices,
on demand.
Expired
Christmas,
1860.
July 10. (36.) A Contract or
Agreement with
Messrs. Eastham
and Parsons to
execute the
Plumber’s Work
of the Vestry,
at fixed
prices, on
demand.—Expired
Christmas,
1860.
July 31. (14.) A Contract with
C. and F. Bell
for General
Printing, at
fixed prices,
on
demand.—Expired
Christmas,
1860.
September 25. (10.) A Contract with 200 0 0
George Axton
and his
Sureties for
the removal of
the Dust,
Ashes, &c. from
the whole
Parish, for the
sum of
Expires 29th
September,
1861.
September 14. (C. of W., M.B. vol. 3, folio A Contract with 138 0 0
51.) John Buckley
and Charles
Edward Beach to
lay on Gas,
supply and fix
Pendant and
Bracket Lights,
&c. &c., to the
whole of the
Vestry Hall
Building, for
the sum of
September 25. (11.) A. and F.
Manuelle for
the supply of
500 tons of
Broken New Blue
Guernsey
Granite, to be
delivered
before the 25th
October, 1860,
at per ton,
12s. 11d.
September 25. (12.) A Contract with
Thomas Baldock
and his
Sureties for
the supply of
Road Flints, at
a fixed price,
on demand.
Expires 29th
September,
1861.
September 25. A Contract with
Horace King and
Henry Howe and
their Sureties
to Execute
certain
specified Works
connected with
Sewerage and
Drainage, at
fixed prices,
on demand.
Expires 29th
September,
1861.
September 25. (14.) A Contract with
Joseph Nowell
and Francis
Robson and
their Sureties
for the
execution of
Masons’ and
Paviors’ Work
to the Foot and
Carriage Ways
(to supply
Materials and
Labor), at
fixed prices,
on demand.
Expires 25th
October, 1861.
October 5. (C. of W. M.B., vol. 3, folio 76.) A Contract or 36 10 0
Agreement with
Messrs. Fuller,
Brothers, for
the supply,
fixing, &c., of
Venetian Blinds
to the window
of the Vestry
Hall Building,
according to
specification,
for the sum of
October 5. (C. of W. M.B. vol. 3, folio 75.) A Contract or
Agreement with
A. D. Bosson
for the supply
of 500 Chairs,
at per Chair
1s. 6d.
October 9. (11.) A Contract with 18 15 0
C. and F. Bell
to print 500
copies of the
Annual Report
of 1859–60, for
the sum of
October 25. (C. of W. M.B., vol. 3, folio 94.) A Contract with 57 9 6
Samuel Dawes
for the supply
of a Mahogany
Table for the
Board Room, for
the sum of
And of a 7 12 6
Chairman’s
Table for
ditto, for the
sum of
October 25. (C. of W. M.B., vol. 3, folio 94.) A Contract with 120 0 0
C. Chapman for
the supply of
40 Seats for
large Hall, for
the sum of
And of four 76 16 0
dozen Chairs
for Board Room
use, for the
sum of
November 20. (8.) A Contract or
Agreement with
William Druce
and Son for the
supply from
time to time of
the best Wall’s
End Coal, at
per ton 24s.
And of the best
Gas Coke, at
per chaldron
13s.
Expires
Midsummer,
1861.
December 18. (3.) A Contract or 1 15 0
Agreement with
the Manchester
Fife Assurance
Office for an
Insurance of
the Fixtures,
Fittings, and
Furniture in
this Building,
to the amount
of £700, at an
annual payment
at Christmas of
December 18. (4.) A Contract or 16 10 0
Agreement with
the Union
Assurance
Office for an
Insurance of
the Vestry Hall
Building to the
amount of £6000
(superseding
that of June,
1860), at an
annual payment
of
December 18. (12.) A Contract or 50 0 0
Agreement with
the Council of
the Chelsea
Literary and
Scientific
Institution for
the use of a
portion of the
Vestry Hall
Building,
lighted,
warmed, &c.,
&c., at a
yearly Rent of
Terminable at
six months’
notice on
either side.
1861.
January 1. (6.) A Contract or
Agreement with
Parsons,
Brothers, to
execute
Plumbers’ Work
at fixed
prices, on
demand.
Expires
Midsummer,
1861.
January 1. (10.) A Contract with
H. D. Pite and
Son for General
Printing, at
fixed prices,
on demand.
Expires 30th
June, 1861.
January 1. (11.) A Contract or
Agreement with
W. Davis for
the supply of
Scavengers’
Brooms, at a
fixed price, on
demand.
Expires
Midsummer,
1861.
February 12. (10.) A Contract with 740 0 0
Ann Emmerson
for watering
(for the
season) the
Streets of, and
for the removal
of the Slop,
&c., from, that
portion of the
Parish North of
the King’s Road
(exclusive of
Kensal New
Town), for the
sum of
Expires March
1, 1862.
February 12. (12.) A Contract with 625 0 0
Charles Hornsby
for watering
(for the
season) the
Streets of, and
for the removal
of the Slop,
&c., from, that
portion of the
Parish South
of, and
including, the
King’s Road,
for the sum of
Expires 1st
March, 1862.
February 12. (12.) A Contract with
Ann Emmerson
for the supply
of Horses,
Carts, and
Drivers, as may
be required in
any part of the
Parish, at
fixed prices,
on demand.
Expires 1st
March, 1862.
February 12. (14.) A Contract or 26 10 0
Agreement with
Messrs.
Nicholls,
Brothers, for
Repairing, and
keeping in
Repair, the
Public Pumps,
for the sum of
Expires 1st
March, 1862.
February 26. (9.) A Contract with 90 0 0
Thomas Edmonds
for watering
the Roads of
Kensal New Town
(for the
season), and
for the removal
of Slop, &c.,
from the same
throughout the
year, for the
sum of
Expires 1st
March, 1862.
APPENDIX No. 41.
BYE LAWS.
_The Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea_, _in the County of Middlesex_.
Part I.
_For Regulating the Business Proceedings at Vestry Meetings_.
1. Two clear days’ notice of every alternate Vestry Meeting (as
hereinafter explained) shall be sent by the Vestry Clerk to each
Vestryman, at his usual or last known place of abode; and such notice
shall state the time and place of such meeting, and the business to be
transacted, so far as the same is known, in its appointed order.
Provided that whenever the period of adjournment renders two days’ notice
impracticable, notice shall be sent as early as possible.
2. Meetings of the Vestry shall be held every TUESDAY at three o’clock
in the afternoon. But the Vestrymen shall be summoned only for every
alternate Tuesday for general business. The business to be done at the
other meetings to be confined to the issuing of orders for promoting the
construction of works under the 76th Section of the Act, 18th and 19th
Vic., cap. 120; unless at any previous meeting a resolution be adopted to
make the meeting special for the discussion of a particular subject.
3. Every Vestryman, before taking part in any business at a Vestry
Meeting, shall sign his name in the Vestrymen’s Attendance Book, to be
placed at the entrance for that purpose.
4. If at the end of half an hour from the time stated in the Notice
convening the Meeting there should not be nine Vestrymen present, the
meeting shall stand adjourned until the following Tuesday, and the Clerk
shall give notice accordingly.
5. The Chairman shall be elected at the precise hour stated in the
notice, or as soon as _Nine_ Vestrymen are present; and the first
business at ordinary meetings of the Vestry shall be the reading, by the
Clerk, of the minutes of the last Meeting, the Chairman shall move their
confirmation, and if unopposed, such minutes shall be signed by the
Chairman, by the Chairman of the Meeting at which the business recorded
was done, and by one other Vestryman who was also present.
6. No motion or discussion shall be allowed upon the minutes, except as
to their accuracy, and any objection on that ground must be made by
motion, and no motion either for signing or non-signing the minutes shall
be admissable.
7. The business shall be proceeded with, after the reading of the
minutes, in the following order, viz.:—
(1.) Acts of the Committees to be submitted for the approval of the
Vestry.
(2.) Surveyor’s Report.
(3.) The Medical Officer’s Report, at or near 12 o’clock, with the
reading of the Complaints’ Book, and the Surveyor’s Return of Works
executed relative thereto.
(4.) Applications from persons in attendance.
(5.) Adjourned Questions.
(6.) Motions of which notice has been given, in their order in the
Notice Book.
(7.) Clerk’s Report.
8. The following shall be deemed motions of course, and may be moved
without notice, viz.: Motions for appointing a Chairman; for the
adjournment of any Vestry Meeting; for receiving, entering on Minutes,
adopting and carrying out, or referring back, any Report; for reading or
answering any correspondence or other documents; for hearing any
applicant or evidence; for the precedence of any particular business; for
appointing any Members of Committees; for the admission or removal of any
person or persons (not being a Vestryman or Vestrymen) to or from the
Vestry Hall; and all unopposed motions. Notice of all other motions must
be given as hereinafter provided.
9. Every Notice of Motion shall be written in a book to be kept for the
purpose, and called the “Notice of Motions Book,” by the Vestryman giving
such notice, who shall sign his name, together with the date of his
signature, which date shall be at least seven days before the time fixed
for the next meeting; and no Notice of Motion shall be altered or
withdrawn after such signature, without leave of the Board.
10. All Notices of Motion, duly entered in such Notice Book, shall be
printed in the Notice of the next ordinary Vestry Meeting, in the order
of their entry.
11. Any motion, of which notice has been given, shall be proposed by the
Vestryman who has given the notice; but in case of absence he may depute
to another Vestryman his right to move, or any other Vestryman may bring
forward such motion, or move a negative thereto.
12. Every motion and amendment must be in writing, and must be seconded
before it can be discussed or put to the vote.
13. One amendment only shall be allowed at the same time; but whenever
an amendment is lost, a further amendment may be moved.
14. In speaking in Vestry, Vestrymen are to rise, and address the Chair.
15. Any Vestryman is entitled to take the Chairman’s decision on a point
of order at any time.
16. If two or more Vestrymen rise to speak at the same time, the
Chairman shall decide to whom the priority shall be given.
17. A Vestrymen is not to speak more than once on the same motion,
amendment, or point of order, unless it be in explanation, or (by leave
of the Chairman) in answer to observations of a personal character, or on
a call from the Chairman; provided that the mover of a motion shall be
entitled to reply, but shall not introduce new matter; and any Vestrymen
having proposed or seconded a motion or amendment, shall be considered as
having spoken thereon.
18. The Chairman shall enforce such of the Bye Laws as may be necessary
for the preservation of order, and his decision upon all points of order
shall be final.
19. All questions (except where voting by ballot is provided) shall be
determined by show of hands, or division, if demanded.
20. When a division is demanded, the Chairman shall require the
Vestrymen who are in favour of the affirmative of the question to go to
the right of the Chair, and those in favour of the negative to the left;
and shall appoint four Vestrymen as tellers—two from each side of the
question.
21. Printed lists of the names of the Vestrymen, in alphabetical order,
shall be provided for the tellers, two of whom (one from the “Noes” and
one from the “Ayes”) shall tell from each side of the question, by
marking off on such lists the names of the Vestrymen on such side, who
are to pass between the tellers respectively for that purpose.
22. No Committee shall be appointed except by motion after due notice;
and whenever the Vestry shall have resolved to appoint a Committee the
names of the Members of such Committee shall be proposed by the mover of
the Committee; provided that any other Vestrymen may thereupon move the
addition, omission, or substitution of any Vestryman or Vestrymen as a
member or members of such Committee.
23. The election of all paid officers shall be by ballot; and no
candidate shall be eligible for election unless he shall have been
proposed and seconded by Members of the Vestry; nor shall there be more
than one ballot for the same office.
24. Such ballot shall be by means of folding Balloting Papers,
containing the name or (if there be more than one appointment of the same
description) names of the candidate or candidates voted for, which papers
shall be handed, by the Vestrymen voting, to the Chairman, or to some
person deputed by him, and deposited in a balloting box by the Chairman,
or such person who shall count the balloting papers, and state to the
Board the number of them.
25. Any member of the Vestry objecting to a motion of which notice has
not been given, or to the immediate consideration of a report brought up
by a Committee, may require the same to be placed on the paper for
discussion at the next meeting, unless the Vestry Clerk or Surveyor shall
state that the subject is urgent, in which case the Board shall
determine, by a show of hands, whether the same shall be immediately
considered.
26. The public are to have access to all books and minutes of the
Vestry, between the hours of 2 and 4 daily; and as soon as adequate
accommodation can be provided, the meetings of the Vestry shall be open
to the ratepayers of the Parish; and it shall be lawful for all members
of the Vestry to attend the Meetings of Committees, but not to take part
in their proceedings.
27. Special Meetings for revoking and altering resolutions and acts of
the Vestry, as required by the 57th Section, are to be convened on a
requisition to the Clerk, signed by seven members of the Vestry; but no
such Meeting shall be held unless seven day’s notice thereof shall be
given, by notice given to, or sent by post to, or delivered at, the usual
place of abode of each Vestryman, which notice shall state the time and
place of meeting, and shall specify the object thereof; and no business
shall be transacted at any Special Meeting, except such as is stated in
the notice thereof.
28. In the event of any urgent business requiring in the opinion of the
Clerk an earlier meeting of the Vestry than would take place under the
above (27th) Bye-Law, it shall be his duty to call such meeting, giving
three day’s notice; or if he shall receive a written requisition, signed
by five members, stating the object for which they wish such meeting to
be convened, it shall be equally his duty to call such meeting, at three
day’s notice, out of the usual course, but no subject shall be discussed
at such meeting, except the one stated in the requisition.
By Order,
CHARLES LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Vestry Hall, King’s Road.
* * * * *
* * * * *
C. & F. Bell, Machine Printers, King’s-road, Chelsea.
Footnotes
{8} Commentary on the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, by Samuel Hughes,
F.G.S., civil engineer.
{9} Many of the companies have two or three manufacturing stations or
distinct sites at which gas is made, and the wording of the clause will
probably require a testing apparatus to be erected within 1000 yards of
each separate work or manufacturing station.
{11} This title would appear be a misnomer; it is the “Sale of Gas Act,
1859,” that is amended.
{20} The articles referred to are re-printed in the Appendix No. 20
(page 104.)
{21} See “Third Report of the Vestry of Chelsea,” page 67. The “Charity
Report” referred to in the text is simply an extract from a book kept by
the late Mr. churchwarden Fielder, and printed by order of the vestry.
{23a} “Over against Battersea Church.”—“Old Record,” 1617.
{23b} Faulkner’s “History of Chelsea,” ed. 1829, vol. 1, p. 74.
{25} This Bill was prepared and brought in by Sir George Lewis, Viscount
Palmerston, and Lord John Russell.
{36} In the printed report Appendix 2, giving Vestry attendance etc. is
a very large, fold out table. In order to fit it better to a computer,
I’ve split it into two. Note that of the meetings, those listed to the
right _Food Analysis_ are described as sub-committees.—DP.
{37} Appointed by the Magistrates.
{116a} Report of Parish Surveyor to Vestry.
{116b} Parliamentary Return, No. 63.—page 98. 1858.
{116c} Order of Quarter Sessions, January, 1861, allowing County
Treasurer’s Account.
{116d} Mr. Laing’s Return, 1860.
{116e} Reports of Vestry: See Reports of Medical Officers.
{116f} Parliamentary Return, No. 63—page 98. 1858.
{123} The exception referred to is included in the above sum of £5593
5s. 4d., and is an item of £21 14s. 9d., which, being for a balance of a
dinner account, is disallowed.
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