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the clause authorizing the use in the streets, on the trams or rails, of
locomotives propelled by steam, the Vestry withdrew the petition, and
the Bill passed.
INCREASE IN NUMBER OF VESTRYMEN.
In April, application was made to the Metropolitan Board of "Works
for an order to increase the number of Vestrymen returned by the East
Ward from 9 to 15 ; and the number returned by the North Ward from
9 to 12. The Board made an order accordingly. The East, West, and
South Wards now return 15 members each, and the North Ward 12,
making a total of 57 elected members for the whole Parish.
PARISH BOUNDARIES.
The Septennial perambulation of the Parish Bounds was made this year.
In consequence of the progress of buildings at the East and South-Eastern
part of the Parish, and of alterations made along the boundaries elsewhere,
fresh boundary marks hud to be placed at various places, and
tablets substituted for stones in others. To facilitate the perambulation,
the Churchwardens, with the Surveyor and Collectors, made a preliminary
survey of the Bounds where any difficulty—caused by new
buildings, or by removal, or unauthorized change of the boundary
marks—existed.
A dispute as to Boundary is pending with Mile End. The Churchwardens
of this Parish agreed to meet the Churchwardens and Overseers
of Mile End to go over the disputed Boundaries, and went accordingly
with the Clerk, the Surveyor, and the Collectors of the East and South
Wards. At the meeting it was referred to the Surveyor of this Parish
and to Mr. Knight, the Surveyor of Mile End, to define the real boundary
line. After examining the old maps and the boundaries, the two
Surveyors did not differ, and a plan was prepared and approved by both,
shewing the exact line, but the Churchwardens and Overseers of Mile
End refused to be bound by the report of the Surveyors. The Surveyors
had adopted tho line of the old ditch as the boundary, and the correctness
of doing so is not disputed, except with regard to two houses ; and with
egard to that part, the Clerk to the Vestry of Mile End says, the line