ing Charles Farncomb and Wm Draper assessors for the outbounds of the parish.
At the next meeting (Aug 30th) it was resolved that the following names be placed on the Jury List:- John Hutchinson, Wm. Mantel Eldridge, Chas. Farncomb, Rich. Lamb, jun., Wm. Draper, Robt Eldridge, Edw. Farncomb and John Murray.
At the meeting on Sept. 28th it was carried by resolution “That the meeting approve of the basis of rating proposed by H. Jones, Esq., appointed by her Majesty’s Justice of the Peace for the Eastern Division of Sussex, wherein the county part of the parish is to be rated at £1170 as its proportion of a general county rate.”
The meeting of Nov. 14th consisted of only five persons, who passed a poor-rate at 6d. and a highway rate at 2d.
St. Mary Magdalen Vestries.
As was the case with the St. Leonards parish meetings, those of the Magdalen parish were also augmented to the unusual number of twelve by the proceedings in the matter of providing a cemetery.
At the first meeting, however, on March 1st, when 9 parishioners signed the vestry-book, the only business was that of passing a poor-rate of 4d. the third rate during the twelve months.
On the 19th of March – same date as that on which the St. Leonards meeting was held – a resolution re the Magdalen Charity land, was passed in words identical with those of the St. Leonards parishioners. On that occasion Mr. W. P. Beecham presided.
At the next meeting, with Mr. S. Putland in the chair, the persons named for overseers were Wm. Hunter, Jas. Ball, Thos. Burgess, Jos. Hadden Job, and Thos. Ranger. Messrs. Yarroll and Carey were appointed assessors and Mr. W. P. Beecham vestry clerk.
The meeting on the 27th of April, was on the same evening as that of the St. Leonards meeting, and was for the same purpose – namely, to receive the report of the Burial Board. Mr. A. Burton was in the chair, and the resolution passed was also worded like the one passed at the St. Leonards meeting. It was in effect that the two parishes unite for the purpose of a cemetery; that 12 acres of the charity land be purchased; and that any other parish be permitted to join. Twenty-five of the parishioners present signed the minute book.
On May the third, another meeting was held - this time at the Albert Inn, and presided over by the Rev. W. W. Hume, whilst at the same time a St. Leonards vestry was being held at the Railway Terminus Inn, presided over by the Rev. J. A. Hatchard. The Magdalen meeting was a crowded one, and the one resolution -
