On Tuesday last, a third vestry meeting of the parishioners
of St. Nicholas, Nottingham, was called, for the purpose of granting a church- rate. The first was discovered to have been illegal, because notice had not been stuck on the church door ; and the second was void through the name of the proposer of the amendment not being found on the rate-book. A rate of ninepence in the pound was proposed ; which was met by a motion for adjournment to the 22d August 1834. The Reverend W. J. Butler, the Rector and chairman, before putting the motion, stated that such postponement was a virtual refusal to pay, and rendered the parties liable to the censures of the Spiritual Court. The question of adjournment was again carried by a vast majority ; and a poll was demanded by the mover of the original proposition. At a quarter past twelve, the numbers were—for the rate, 44; against it, 99; majority, 55. There being a scarcity of voters, the Rector declared his intention of adjourning the meeting to the following morning. His power to adjourn the meeting was denied, and he vacated his seat. The poll then proceeded. Many poor people paid up their rates in order to entitle them to vote against all future rates ; and the motion for ad- journment was finally carried, by 123 to 50.
At an adjourned meeting for the purpose of considering the pro- priety of granting a rate for repairing the church at Hinckley, an amendment was proposed and seconded, that, as two of the preceding Churchwardens bad not produced their accounts, although an adjourned meeting had been held for the purpose, the meeting be adjourned to that day twelve months. The Chairman (the Reverend Mr. Brown) refused to put the amendment ; upon which a motion, " that no rate be granted," was carried by a large majority. The amendment for an ad- journment of the meeting for twelve months was next put, and carried in a similar way.—Coventry Herald.
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