Contents
Meetings and doings of the St. Leonards Commissioners — (Appointment of a Clerk; acceptance of a £16,000 loan, with which to pay off bonds; James Mann appointed custodian of Fire-engine; preparing case for Counsel’s opinion re payment of a map (ordered exclusively for Local Board of Health) — Parochial meetings — Railway and other accidents — The Magdalen Charity, carried to the Equity Court by the Rev. G. D. St. Quintin and Mr. A. Burton — The Ellsworth Charity — St. Leonards Mechanics’ Institution — The National Schools of St. Leonards and St. Mary Magdalen — Lectures and Lecturers — An awkward dilemma in draining Mr. Smith’s new houses at Stanhope Place — Rapid increase of buildings, and the question Were they all wanted? — Election meetings — Politics and Passions — Excessive heat — Previous hot summers — Meetings of the Queen’s St. Leonards Archers — Boat races — St. Mary Magdalen Church and Parsonage — Farewell Sermons — The Railway Companies memorialised for better accommodation. Miscellaneous occurrences in 1852.
The Commissioners’ Transactions
At their meeting on the 25th of March, the Commissioners appointed Mr. W. B. Young as their Clerk, at a yearly salary of £30, service to commence from that day. — Permission was granted for Mr. Smith to drain his 14 new houses at Stanhope place, into the common sewer at East Ascent, on a charge of 6d. in the pound. Mr. Smith, however, declined the Commissioners’ terms.
At the meeting on the 24th of June, it was resolved to accept the offer of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company of £16,000, as a loan at 4 per cent., the money to be employed in paying off existing bonds. The resignation of -
