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The Highway Board also submitted a statement of existing contracts
entered into by them.
With Mr. Barber for the collection of the Highway Rate, at 2½ per cent. on the
amount collected.
With Mr. B. Parks for the cartage of material, at Is. per yard, or ton, per mile;
and 7s. per day for the hire of a set of one horse and harness, cart, and man.
With Mr. Wythes for 1,000 yards of gravel, from Penge, at 4s. per yard, of
which 669 remained to be delivered.
And with Mr. Colson for 300 yards of gravel, to be delivered at Forest Hill Station,
at 4s. 6d. per yard, of which 184 yards remained to be delivered.
There were also some contracts existing for the removal of road
scrapings up to the 25th March, 1856; and one with S. Forster,
Esq., for permission to dig gravel in his pits, near Rushey Green,
on payment of 1s. 6d. per yard for all gravel removed.
The Highways of Penge were under the management of a
Surveyor of Highways appointed in the usual manner in rural
districts, and giving his services gratuitously, and of a paid Deputy
Surveyor. The following is extracted from the Surveyor's Account,
from the 25th March, 1855, to the end of the year:—

In connection with the Highway Board a claim has been made,
under the 214th sect, of the Act, by Mr. Q-. F. Corbett, who was
their Clerk and Surveyor, for compensation for the loss of his office
consequent upon that Board being superseded by the Board of