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of these Members the Council, being convinced that the whole
of the property required for the widening suggested by the
Borough Council, viz.:—to 54 feet where it could be done without
interfering with buildings, could be acquired for a sum not
exceeding the sum proposed to be expended by the County Council,
viz.:—£12,000, decided to undertake the acquisition thereof
for the sum named upon the County Council agreeing to contribute
two-thirds of the cost. This Council also agreed to the
space between the rails and the kerb being less than the statutory
width where necessary to allow of a double line, and to
maintain so much of the roadway as is between the kerb and the
tramway margins upon the County Council paving such portion
of the roadway with wood and the footpaths with artificial stone
and granite kerb.
59. Subsequently an agreement was entered into providing
that the Borough Council should acquire the whole of the property
required for the widening of the part of York Road in question,
the County Council to pay two-thirds of the cost thereof,
not exceeding £8,000; the County Council to reconstruct so much
of the tramway as consists of single lines as double lines with the
exception of the portion between Ferrier Street and Wandsworth
railway station, which is to be reconstructed as an interlaced line,
the Borough Council consenting to the space between the outer
rails of the double line of tramway between the western end of
the railway bridge and Bridgend Road and the kerb being less
than the statutory width of 9 feet 6 inches, and to the narrowing
of the footpaths along certain portions of the thoroughfare; the
County Council to carry out certain paving works at an estimated
cost of £5,400, the Borough Council contributing onethird,
not exceeding £1,800, in respect of such works; the County
Council to carry out other paving works at an estimated cost of
£3,350, the Borough Council contributing one-fourth the cost
thereof, not exceeding the sum of £838; the Borough Council to
relieve the County Council of its obligation to maintain the whole
of the carriageway affected by the work except the tramway
tracks and a margin of 18 inches on each side of the outer rails;
the whole of the carriageway except the part between the tramway
rails, which is to be paved with Aberdeen granite setts, to
be paved with wood and the whole of the footpaths with artificial
stone.