at both meetings was precisely the same. To put it briefly, the Burial Board of the two parishes were authorised to spend a sum not exceeding £4,500 in providing and laying out the ground, building chapels, etc. and to oppose the Town Council should the latter petition the Queen in Council for powers to provide a cemetery that should include the two western parishes.
Another crowded meeting was held on May 10th, with the Rev. W. W. Hume in the chair. It was then resolved that John Austin, Nelson Andrews, Samuel Woodgate, Benj. Bickle, J. Beck & Geo. Johnson be appointed to act with the existing Burial Board. The Magdalen meetings were naturally more numerously attended than those of St. Leonards, in consequence of the former being a larger community, though a smaller area. The Magdalen parish not only supplied ground for more than half of the St. Leonards town, but also extended eastward from the Victoria Hotel within the limits of that town to White-rock place, where now is the Palace Hotel. Hence the greater number of inhabitants eligible to attend the parish meetings; hence, also the above addition to the Burial Board elected from parishioners both from St. Leonards within and St. Leonards without.
The next meeting was on the 25th of May for the appointment of an assistant overseer, the fixing of salary and the amount of bond. There were five candidates – namely, John Ward, S. H. Willard, Wm. Novis, Wm. Neve and Wm. Walter. A poll was demanded, and the result was the election of Mr. John Ward, on the 26th of May at a commission of 6½d in the £ for collecting the poor-rates.
At a meeting on July 26th, after figuring a poor-rate at 5d., it was resolved that the assessors and collectors be required to find sureties.
A meeting on the 31st of July was adjourned to the 13th of December, and again adjourned till the 18th, when the only business transacted was the passing a poor-rate at 6d. Twelve parishioners were then present, and Mr. S. Putland
Municipal Officers
The annual election of municipal officers took place on the 1st of March and resulted as follows:- Assessors for the West Ward, Mr. Samuel Chester, East Ascent, and Mr. Anthony Harvey, East Hill. Assessors for the East Ward, Mr. Charles Pope Hutchings and Mr. Jas. Reeves. Assessors of the borough to revise the Burgess Lists, Mr. Wm. Birch, Mews Road, St. Leonards, and Mr. John Howell, White Rock, Hastings. Auditors of the borough, Mr. Eli West Stubbs, Halloway place, and Mr. Robt. Burchell, Bedford place.
Refutations of Slanderous Reports of Disease and Deaths
The Local Health.
During the summer, reports were ill-naturedly – not to say maliciously – circulated in Eastbourne, Brighton and other places (the same reports having reached London) that -
