Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Appointed Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855: 1860-1Lahee, 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
Lahee, Charles
Chelsea (London, England) -- History -- 19th century; Chelsea (London, England) -- Politics and government
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.
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