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This was agreed to; and the memorial having been duly sealed
by both Vestries was presented to the Parks and Open Spaces
Committee of the Council by a joint deputation of ten members—
five from each Vestry—on the 6th March The decision of the
Council had not yet been given at the close of this Report
Trees—The General Purposes Committee had under consideration
the very large number of troes in the public thoroughfares of the
parish which were found in the spring and summer of 1895 to be dead
The contractor (Mr Benedict) contended that numbers of the trees
had been killed by the free use of salt by the Vestry during the
previous winter for melting snow, and sought compensation; and
the question remained at this stage at the end of the year, no
proposal being submitted to the Vestry
Penton Place Improvement—The valuation made on behalf of the
Vestry of the property required for this improvement amounted to
£823, as against the owners' claims of £1,070 On being applied
to to bear half the cost the London County Council agreed to contribute
a sum not exceeding £590, being a moiety of their estimated
gross cost of £1,180, conditionally upon the Vestry reserving a strip
of ground sufficiently wide to enable them to control the frontage to
the road, instead of throwing the whole site of No 215, Newington
Butts, into the public way as at first proposed and thus leaving a
valuable side frontage to No 213 adjoining It was further stipulated
that in the event of this strip of land not being sold at the
time of completion of the improvement the Council should, upon
such sale taking place, receive one-half of the amount realised
These terms were accepted by the Vestry on the 30th October 1895
The Clerk subsequently, in conjunction with the Vestry's solicitors,
induced the tenant and freeholders to agree to settle their various
claims for sums amounting to £818 plus £46 costs—total £864, or a
reduction of £206 on the original claims Completion of the matter
was, however, deferred until after the ensuing Lady-day, no provision
having been made in the estimates for the current year to
meet the expenditure
Union Road Improvement—This subject was again brought before
the Vestry on the 27th November 1895, by a letter from inhabitants