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.