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the Green and Patriot Square, being inconvenienced in carrying on
their business by the passing of the tram cars preventing the loading
and unloading of vehicles, complained to the Vestry, and suggested
the remedy was to substitute a single line of rails in the centre of the
road for the existing double line of rails. After consideration and
communications and interviews with the Engineer of the Tramway
Company, it seemed that the proposed remedy would increase the
evil; but to mitigate it the Company undertook to issue orders that
only one tram at a time should be on the lines of rails between Patriot
Square and the Green.
The experiment (which the Vestry consented last year should be
made) of using salt on the roads in case of frost or snow, has shown
that the use of salt is injurious to unpaved roads. Notice has, therefore,
been given to the General Omnibus Company to desist from
using salt on any unpaved roads, and to the Tramway Company to
desist from using salt on all roads, the parts of which beyond the
Company's paving are not paved.
ROBERT VOSS,
Vestry Clerk.