Excerpt from St. Pancras: Being Antiquarian, Topographical, and Biographical Memoranda, Relating to the Extensive Metropolitan Parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex; With Some Account of the Parish From Its Foundation The parish is computed to contain square acres of land, and its circuit twenty-one miles. So extensive a district is divided for municipal purposes into eight wards, and the whole governed by a vestry. The vestrymen are elected by the ratepayers, of either sex, for a period of three years one-third of the number passing out of office annually, but are eligible for re election. Two churchwardens and forty guardians of the poor are annually elected on Easter Monday by the assembled vestrymen. The burial board of the parish is constituted of nine ratepayers, three of whom are also annually elected for three years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.