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Bridge Expenses.
"These arise under the operation of the Metropolis Toll Bridges' Act of
1877 (40 and 41 Vic., cap. 99.)
By Sec. 26, the Board may borrow money not exceeding £1,500,000,
to compensate the owners of Toll Bridges crossing the river Thames, in the
metropolitan area, for relinquishing their rights in the bridges, and thereupon
the bridges are thrown open free of toll. The expense of maintaining
the bridges and the roads over them, and of compensating officers, also
devolves upon the Board; but the counties of Middlesex and Surrey will
pay towards the Board's expenses the sum of £1200 a year each respectively
from the date of the free opening of all the bridges used for horse and
carriage traffic.
By Sec. 16, bridges in a division are to be opened free simultaneously,
and the divisions are—1st, Waterloo and the foot-bridges at Charing Cross
and Cannon Street; 2nd, Lambeth, Vauxhall, Chelsea, Albert and Battersea;
3rd, Wandsworth, Fulham or Putney, and Hammersmith.
By Sec. 29, "Bridge Expenses" are to be raised as a General, not a
Sewers Rate.