By our old foes—
Rough Joe and Doctor Molly.
As a great amount of talk and contention has of late been indulged in by all classes of ratepayers, in reference to the proceedings of the Dudley Town Council; more especially about the Deep Drainage, and the Public Baths, &c., it may not be out of place in preserving a record of the names of those gentlemen and ratepayers who, in 1864, appended their names to the largest requisition ever signed in this town, “for the purpose of considering the desirability of presenting a petition to the Queen in Council, praying Her Majesty to grant a Charter of Incorporation to this Borough.”
INCORPORATION OF THE BOROUGH.
TO SAMUEL RUDGE, Esq., MAYOR OF DUDLEY.
We, the undersigned, Ratepayers and Inhabitants of the Parish of Dudley, respectfully request you to convene a PUBLIC MEETING, for the purpose of considering the desirability of presenting a Petition to the Queen in Council, praying Her Majesty to grant a Charter of Incorporation to this Borough.
James C. Browne, D.C.L., vicar
Alexander George Davies, M.A., incumbent of St. James’s
John Davies, M.A., incumbent of St. Edmund’s
E. H. L. Noott, B.A., incumbent of St. John’s, Dudley