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CHRIST CHURCH, SURREY,
April 9, ISIS.
AT a VESTRY holden as above, pursuant to
sootier, to take into further consideration two Rills
now pending in Parliament—the one " For the Regulation
of Parish Vestries," the other " For the Amendment of
the Laws for the Relief of the Poor ;*
JOSEPH HARItISS, Esq. Churchwarden, in the Chair:
the Vestry Clerk read the said two Bills, clause by clause,
and the same having beta severally taken into eunsiileration,
the following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to, ♦is.

'Tat the Bill now before Psrlianient, eniitleil" A Bill fur
the Regokstion of Parish Vestries," is consiilereil by this
Vestry an anenustitutiensl attempt to infringe on the rights

of every parishioner paying rates, and is calculated in its
operations to produce jealousy, discontent, and litigation;
and, at the same time, to obstruct the privileges of the best-
informed and most useful climes in parish affairs.
That giving a plurality of votes to those rated at 1001.
and upwards, is likely to create parochial monopoly and
certatu discontent; to take the poor out of Ike hands of
their natural guardians, and place thin ender the direction
of those who, not nufrespicutly, consider themselves of tut)
much consequence to do their ditties in parish Committees,
ur attend to the minutia of parish affairs.
That a 404. vote being deemed in law snlfieient to return
a Knight of the Shire to serve in Parliament, this Vestry
deem it a matter of coustitntional right, sanctioned by the
law of the land, that every hums keeper paying parish rates
should be eulitled to au equal voice in the distribistiou
thereof.

That until it can be proved that wealth confers an in-
crease of intellectual endowment in propurtiou to its accu-
mulation, the attempt to establish such a principle in Eng-
land must be considered its an insult to our understandings,
and appears calculated to bring into practice, in this free
country, principles which are only acted upon in despotic
Shies.

That the Bill now before Pat fitment, entitled " A Bill
for the Anieuilment of the Laws fur the Relief of the Pour,"
embraces scarcely any thing useful that is nut already
adopted by this and other parishes; and that Select Yes.
tries, smiler any form, which nisy prevent a parishioner
train being a party in mein himself, are considered oppres-
sive and iiimeireerary.
That this Vestry wool.' cheerfully adopt any measures the
Legislature thought likely to improve the Poor Laws ge-
sweetly ; but, at the same time, feel satisiiril, that no partial
Migration to au opelent few can have any desirable effect on
the object, to be relieved, or in any shape tend to lightest
the hurdlers of parochical mistime.
That a Petition Via forthwith presented to the House of
Conimous 'pima the said Bills, praying that the same may
out NMI r 1414 a law.
'Clot the Members of the County of Surrey be respect-
fnlly requested to present the said Petition, and support the
objects thereof.
That Copies thereof be also seat to the Member, of the
Cities of Loudon and Westminster, and the Rannoch of
Southwark, and that they be respectfully requested to sup-
port the objet is elm:rest
That the Thanks of this Vestry be given to Mr. Mercer
and Mr. Ball, for the trouble they have taken its bringiug
toroari the foregoing Resolution..
That the locerseili Resolution. be advertised in Toe
BRITISH PRESS, The Times, Morning Chronicle, and Morn-
ing AMertiser Newspapers.
That the Theuks of this Vestry by given to the Chairman.
for his lib:: aul impartial conduct in the Chair this day.
J. G. MEYNOTT, Vestry Clerk.

Lord Congas presented Vetitions against the
Leather Tax, front the Tanners, Currier.. and Con-
sumers of Leather, in Catitri bury and Bromley.
Lord HOLLAND presented similar Petitions from
York, Nottingham, and King's Lynn, in Norfolk.
He stated, that he had purposed to present these
Petitions to the House on Monday hist, but had
unfortunately arrived at the House about two mi-
nutes too late. In consequence of a recent deci-
sion in another place, it might be thought unnecea.
vary now to offer the Petitions to their Lordships;
but he thought it expedient that they should lie on
the table, for the purpose of showing the senti-
ments entertained by the people of the exceavive
taxation with which they are burdeoed, and their
sense of this oppressive tax in particular. He
trusted they would be borne in mind by those who
would be called on to vote large sums of money fir
expensive establishments, and purposes compare•
Lively useless—for ostentetiossi monuments—or
►ven the proposed building of new churches on an
expensive scale. They who, in the present circum-
stances of the country, thought proper to red
-
wend such expenses, ought to be provided with
strong arguments in favour of them. The ammonia
of this odious and oppressive USX was not greater
than the charge incurred by the pageant of an es-
tablishment at Windsor, which afforded no grati-
fication to any one, and war neither serviceable our
honourable to the country.
The Petitions were theta severally read, ■nd laid
on the table.