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2. The Board has also turned its attention to improvements
in the public thoroughfares of the District; and has caused to be
prepared, by its Surveyor, plans and estimates for four such
improvements, namely—
1. The removal of the Manor House and adjacent buildings
in Grey Coat Place.
2. The removal of the block of buildings obstructing the
entrance to William Street, from Great James Street.
3. The removal of the projecting portion of the Guard
Room to the Military Hospital in Rochester Row.
4. The opening of a public thoroughfare between the inner
and outer portions of Cottage Place, Orchard Street.
Upon mature deliberation, however, the Board has determined
not at present to incur the expense of these improvements.
3. The Board has also had under its very careful consideration
the question of establishing a Public District Slaughterhouse,
and a Public Local Market; the former with a view to
remedy the evils necessarily attending private Slaughter-houses,
and the latter with a view to give the inhabitants of this District
the advantages enjoyed by those of provincial towns, with populations
far less in number than that of the Westminster District;
and also with a view to the removal of street-stalls, which are daily
becoming more and more objectionable obstructions to the public
thoroughfares of this District.
These improvements, on financial and other grounds, the Board
has, however, also determined to postpone for the present.
4. The Board, having had reason to believe, upon the report
of the Surveyor, that the charge hitherto made by the Water
Companies for a supply of Water for Street Watering purposes,
was greatly in excess of that made to large private consumers
taking a supply by meter, authorized and directed that Officer to
obtain such information, and to make such experiments, as he
might think necessary for further informing the Board on the
subject: and the Surveyor accordingly instituted, during the
season 1856-7, a series of experiments, which, together with his