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Council. They ate in course of acquiring the numerous properties in
the area comprised in the Scheme. It appears to be the intention of
the Council to divide the work into throe parts, but at present it is
not decided which of the three parts shall be first proceeded with.
The purchases of many of the properties have been completed,
and the terms of purchase of many others have been settled, but
it will take up some time yet to complete the aoqilicition of the
whole area.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
The Quarterly Reports of the Public Analyst for the year
ended Lady-Dav, 1892, will be found at page 31.
HE-NAMING AND EE-NUMBERING STREETS,
LIGHTING, SEWER WORK, AND ROAD WORK.
Particulars ns to these are given in the Surveyor's Report.
FORTESCUE v. THE VESTRY.
After the judgment was delivered (a copy of which was issued
with the Report of last year), the Works Committee reported as
follows:—
With reference to the case of Fortescue v. The Vestry your
Committee report:—
That in 1888 the question as to the alleged right of persons
building shops to appropriate 10 inches of the public footways
arose, and the Vestry were then advised by the present Mr.
Justice Vaughan Williams that the right which was claimed did
not exist so as to allow of any encroachment on highways.
Shortly after a case arose in Islington Parish, and being litigated,
came before the Queen's Bench Division. In July, 1890,
Mr. Justice Hawkins and Mr. Justice Denman delivered a Judgment
upholding the contention of the Vestry of Islington, and