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Metropolitan Board of Works, your Committee also sent
copies of the Petition for the use of Sir James McGarel
Hogg, M.P., the Chairman of the Board, in the event of
the matter coming again before the House of Commons.
On the 6th of August it was reported to the Vestry that
the gift of the land was approved by the House of Lords,
and that the Bill would duly receive the Royal Assent. The
Vestry took the opportunity of according their cordial thanks
to Francis Peek, Esq., a Governor of Dulwich College, who
had rendered most important assistance in giving valuable
evidence in support of the Bill, and by his zeal and influence
had contributed to the successful passing of the measure.
The Metropolitan Board of Works have already taken
steps to lay out the Park, but to enable them to do so it
became necessary to stop up or divert certain public pathways
crossing the Park, and it was reported to the Vestry
that an arrangement had been made by the Board to obtain
statutory powers authorising them to re-convey to the
Governors of the College about 1¾ acres of the land for the
Park. The Vestry took energetic action to oppose such
powers being conferred on the Board, and ultimately fresh
arrangements were made so that the whole of the land was
-secured for the public for their use and enjoyment for ever.
Bill in Parliament.— ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
AT THE METROPOLITAN
BOARD OF WORKS.
The Mteropolis Management Acts Amendment Bill was
originally promoted by the Lewisham District Board of Works
with the object of obtaining increastd representation at the
Metropolitan Board of Works for the Vestries and District
Boards of Paddington, Camberwell, Kensington, Wandsworth,
and Hackney, and separate representation for the