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of the working population of the Parish, and therefore
expressed to the Board their opinion that the Bill was
unnecessary, and urged upon them to withdraw it. The
Board ultimately withdrew the Bill.
CANTERBURY ROAD, OLD KENT ROAD.
The attention of the Vestry had been, for some time
past, directed to the bad condition of Canterbury Road.
It is a "new street," and has never been repaired by the
Parish. This road is partly in this parish, and partly in
the parish of St. Paul, Deptford (which is under the jurisdiction
of the Greenwich District Board of Works). The
105th section of the Metropolis Local Management Act
directs that the owners of the land abutting the street are
liable to contribute the apportioned expenses of paving
the road. Unfortunately the Statute only empowers the
Vestry to impose a rate in its own Parish, and the decision
in the Vestry of Mile End v. Guardians of Whitechapel
Union decides that an apportionment, on one side of the
road only, is invalid. Consequently, to meet this legal
difficulty, and acting under the advice of Counsel, this
Vestry and the Greenwich Board of Works, simultaneously
passed resolutions, similarly worded, to pave so much of
Canterbury Road as was in the two districts, under the
105th Section of the Metropolitan Local Management Act,
and each authority, at the same time, made similiar apportionments
on the owners on both sides of the road, with the
intention of seeking payment from the owners in their own
respective parishes. The Vestry of Camberwell met with
little, or no difficulty on their side of the road, but one of
the owners on the Deptford side refused to pay, and a
summons against him was heard before Mr. Balguy, in the