A Hundred Years Ago
" THE Sreeraxon," JANUARY 28m, 1833. The Committee of Delegates of the united parishes of Westminster met on Tuesday evening, at the British Coffeehouse in Cockspur
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Street, to consider of measures to procure the repeal of the House ro and Window Taxes. Mr. Browne of Regent Street was in the chair. It was agreed to call " parochial meetings throughout Westminster, in furtherance of the objects which the Committee had in view." It was stated; that some of the principal parishes in the metropolis were already in motion, and that the sixteen metropolitan members would vote for the abolition of these taxes.
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PRACTICAL WORKING or THE House OF COMMONS.—We consider it to be the unquestionable right of the people to be informed in what way their Representatives in Parliament perform their duties. We therefore proposed a plan by which a record of their Votes. Attendance, and Absence should be kept and published. No faithful representative could object to this—no careless or dishonest one would probably dare to oppose it. We therefore trust that it will be adopted at once. It is but an act of common justice to the useful and laborious servants of the public, that their merits should not bo hidden, or their services trader-valued, through ignorance.
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