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REPORT.
June, 1870.
Gentlemen,
It is again my privilege to lay before
you a summary of the various works performed in the
Hamlet under my supervision.
Paved Carriageways.
A most important work has been performed in the
Mile End Road, not at the cost, but under the immesupervision
of, the Paving Committee, and myself, as
their representative, in the shape of the North Metropolitan
Tramway, the first in London of a new system of
street tramways, and which, I think, promises to be vastly
extended throughout all the suburbs of the metropolis.
This work in itself is one of great benefit to the
Hamlet, inasmuch as the Company, who had obtained
parliamentary powers to construct the line, are bound,
by a clause of their Act, "to pave, and at all times to
keep paved, the whole of the roadway within their rails,
and 18 inches on each side thereof."
In pursuance of this clause, there have been laid
along the centre of the Mile End Road, available for
all traffic, 12,401 feet superficial yards of carriageway
paving, of the value, and therefore saving to the Vestry,
of £6231 1s. 6d.
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