That the building erected by your Memorialists is plain and substantial in its character; the plan of it having been submitted to, and approved by, your Honourable Board before it was commenced, (which original plan has not been departed from in any substantial particular) and will cost (excluding the cost of the site) the, not unreasonable, sum of Seven Thousand pounds; being the original contract sum of £5630, and the remainder for extra and additional works, which your Memorialists fear are inevitable in all such undertakings. That particulars in full detail of the estimated cost of the site, building, fittings, furniture and sundries, have been laid before your Finance Committee, by your Memorialists, amounting in the whole to about, £12,000. That your Memorialists are of opinion that the most equitable manner of defraying the said expenses both for the present and future Ratepayers is by means of a loan, repayable with interest in twenty years, thus rendering the sanction of your Honorable Board requisite. That the Large Hall is intended to be used for purposes of the Vestry, and in fact is now about to be so used for the election of Vestrymen under the Act. That although a portion of the premises is now temporarily made use of as Reading Rooms, as stated in the letter of your Memorialists to your Finance Committee, those rooms will most probably be required for the Gas Examiner under the Metropolis Gas Act, and the analyst under the Act for the Prevention of the Adulteration of Food and Drink of last session. That your Memorialists under the 150th Section of the Metropolis Local Management Act deem the whole of the buildings necessary and expedient, and under the 92nd section such buildings are fully authorized inasmuch as they are clearly used for the public concerns of their Parish and the inhabitants thereof. That no further or additional rate, than was contemplated at the time the original loan of £10,000, was sanctioned by your Honorable Board, will be required. That the following objects may be mentioned as showing the necessity of the Vestry Hall:—A place of meeting for the local magistrates in petty sessions; a place for the public discussion of important local public questions, as the Embankment of the River at Chelsea, the Enfranchisement of the District, the Removal of the Asylum Wall in the King’s Road, and the Equalization of the Poor Rates.