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This report, which fully supports that made by the Surveyor,
has been received, but the Tramways Company have now
remedied some of the most serious defects ; at the close of the
year the Works and General Purposes Committee still had the
matter under their consideration.
Lighting of
footpaths
on Wandsworth
Common.
The Vestry considered the question of lighting the
paths crossing Wandsworth Common, and at their
meeting on the 18th December, it was resolved to request
the County Council, who have succeeded to the duties and
responsibilities of the Metropolitan Board of Works with regard
to the Common, to light the paths where necessary. A deputation
attended the Vestry on the 12th March and submitted
resolutions passed at a public meeting of ratepayers held at St.
Michael's School Rooms, Bolingbroke Grove, and Mr. F. Higgs,
Chairman of the Meeting, addressed the Vestry, urging that the
paths referred to should be lighted. The Deputation were
informed of the action which the Vestry had taken in the matter.
The decision of the Council has not yet been communicated to
the Vestry.
Maintenance
of
main roads
under the
Highways
and Locomotives
(Amendment)
Act,
1878.
The Vestry on the 27th March considered a report
of the Works and General Purposes Committee as to
the roads which should in their opinion be declared
main roads under the provisions of the Highways and
Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, and the Local
Government (England and Wales) Act, 1888, and the
following list was submitted to the County Council on the 5th
April with a request that the roads mentioned therein should be
declared main roads, under the provisions of the Acts in question
and with a view to the Council contributing to the future
maintenance of the same ; but up to the present the Council
have not intimated their decision.