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Paving of
Lordship Lane
Rotherhithe
New Road,
St. James'
Road, and
Canterbury
Road.
The administration of the paving section
of the Metropolis Local Management Acts has,
as usual, occupied no inconsiderable place in
your discussions, and has again, on a special
case, been brought before the superior Courts of
Law. Lordship Lane has, on the judgment of
Justices Hawkins and Field, been decided to
be a "new street," and has accordingly been
paved at the expense of the owners of property
therein. In the Rotherhithe New Road case a
similar judgment has been given, and that road
has also been paved at the expense of the owners,
but the operation of the Statue, in the case of the
St. James' Road, has been, for the present, suspended,
first on the ground that a longitudinal
apportionment—the term applied to that made
by the Vestry—was not contemplated by the
Act, inasmuch as an apportionment could only
be made on both sides, and, again, because a
portion of the road which was included in the
apportionment, was held to be an old road,
while the remaining, and greater, portion was
still open to a decision as to its being a new
street. The Vestry have accordingly amended
this resolution, and the result remains to be
seen. Canterbury Road is in the somewhat