QSR1921/3/2/3

Letter from the Howard Association. to Clerk of the Peace April 1921

April 1921

From: 1921 To: 1921

Letter from the Howard Association, 43 Devonshire Chambers Bishopsgate London E C 2, to the Clerk of the Peace ; headed The Magistrates' Assocation I beg to send for the consideration of your bench a copy of the report of the Provisional Committee set up by the Guildhall Conference of Magistrates on 26th October 1920. to draft the Constitution & Rules of the Magistrates Assocciation. To receive this Report of the Provisionial Committee, & to decide on future action, a second Conference of Magistrates will shortly be held, of which notice will be sent to yuo in due course. Meanwhile, I beg to say that the prelimiary expences incurred in establishing the Magistrates' Assocation, amounting to some £130, have been borne almost entirely by members of the Provisional Committee.* to meet the cost of circularising the Magistrates of England & Wales & to pay the expences of the forthcoming Magistrates conference, a further £300 will be required; & the Association possessing as yet no other source of income. I am to invite your bench to contribute towards this sum, pending such a time as the Association secures a regulr income according to the terms of its costitution. I should add that, despite the large volume of work involved in launching the Association, the only expences incurred have been for prnting, typing, stationery & postage. There have been no charges for office rent & except for a part-time typist, no salaries. Copies of this letter & enclosed may be had. Yours faithfully Cecil Leeson Hon. Sec., pro tem * Contributions towards preliminary expences have been received from the Manchester City Justices (£12 12 0) & the Pontypridd & Rhondda Justices (£6 6 0)

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London, Manchester, Pontypridd, Rhondda Valley, magistrate, Howard Association