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NEW STREETS.
With reference to the New Streets Accounts, during the nast
year, there has been received the sum of £19,747 6s. 2d. on account
of Apportionments made The amounts still due by contributors
are—on old Roads, transferred to this Vestry by the late District
Board of Works, the sum of 4130 11s. 10d. and oJthe
to by this v estry during the past six years the sum of £15,075 6s 2d
making the total due on New Streets to be £15, 205 18s. 0d.'' "
Statements of New Streets Account in detail will be found at the
end of the Accounts.
Since the incorporation of the Vestry of Fulham, in March, 1886,
there have been sealed 236 original apportionments for "New Streets''
Paving and Sewering works, amounting to £129,856 6s. 5d., of this
number, eighteen have been declared bad and irrecoverable through
sundry causes, by the magistrates, and the apportionments thereon
amounting to £11,228 14s. 2d., have been rescinded, and where money
had been paid by contributors, it was refunded in full, of this number
eight have been re-apportioned, and works proceeded with.
Of the 224 good apportionments, the works have been completed
in 182 cases, with the result that the estimate was exceeded in 45
cases, necessitating the sealing of additional apportionments to the
amount of £2,949 4s. 0d., while in 124 cases the estimate was more
than sufficient and allowed a return to be made to the owners of
£12,251 3s. 1d., and in the remaining 13 cases, the estimate just
covered the actual cost of the works.
To show the magnitude of the New Streets work, and that the
property of the Fulham Parish is not held by a few individuals, I may
mention that the details of the numerous apportionments, &c.,
necessitated the opening of some 5,000 ledger accounts, entailing a
large amount of clerical labour.
LABOUR, &c—WAGES ACCOUNT.
The Parishioners will form some idea of the rapid development
of the Parish by the comparative statement of the Labour Wages
Accounts for 1886 and that of 1893.
On the 27th day of January, 1886, the Vestry passed the following
resolution, on the recommendation of the Works Committee.
"That in order to efficiently carry out the works required in the
making, maintaining, and cleansing of the streets and sewers in the
Parish, a staff of Artisans and Labourers be employed as follows:—