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Works, and has never been associated with
your petitioners' Parish for any purposes,
municipal, parochial, or official, and is,
moreover, naturally separated therefrom by
a range of hills, the Hamlet of Penge
commencing on the south eastern slope
thereof, and your petitioners' Parish on the
north western.
2. There is a strong feeling among the inhabitants
of your petitioners' Parish adverse
to the said amendment.
3. Your petitioners' Parish, together with the
Hamlet of Penge, would form a Borough
of unwieldy size and rambling and inconvenient
shape, and there is no direct means
of communication by railway or otherwise
between your petitioners' Parish and the
said Hamlet of Penge.
4. The Boundary Commissioners appointed
for the purposes of the said Bill, have
completed their labours in respect of the
division of your petitioners' Parish, and
your petitioners have pleasure in stating
that the result of such labours has met
with general approval among the inhabitants
of the said Parish, but the said amendment
will render the said labours futile, and
necessitate their being performed afresh.
THAT your petitioners respectfully submit that
the principle which is being adopted in respect of
the assignment of boundaries of the Boroughs to
be constituted or affected by the said Bill is plainly
set forth in the instructions issued to the Boundary
Commissioners and signed by the Right Honorable