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5. That 011 the completion of the bridge and approaches
the carriage and footways shall be formed and laid out,,
and shall be used by the public, and the maintenance,
repair, cleansing and lighting shall be under the
management and jurisdiction of either this Yestry
or the District Board in the like manner as other
public roads, on such terms and subject to such conditions
as may be agreed upon, or in the event of
difference as shall be settled by the Board.
The Bill passed into Law, and the Yestry received a
letter from the Metropolitan Board of Works stating that the
total estimate of the cost of the bridge and approaches (after
deducting the value of the land promised to be given without
compensation), was £13,400, and that the Board was only
willing to carry out the improvement upon condition that one
half of the cost was contributed by the Yestry and the Owners
of the land required to be given up to make the approaches, that
the promised contribution did not amount to £6,700 and asking
whether this Yestry were prepared to increase their contributions,
so as to bring the amount of promised contributions to the
required amount.
The General Purposes Committee in conference with a
Deputation of the Greenwich Board of Works, held on the 23rd
February, 1887, passed a recommendation to the Yestry, that
in the opinion of the joint Committees the cost of the bridge and
approaches should not exceed £10,000, the limit fixed by the
Resolution of the Yestry of the 20th January, 1886. This
recommendation was confirmed by the Vestry and the District
Board of Works. The resolution of the Vestry, and the increased
estimate of the Metropolitan Board of Works,created a considerable
difficulty in carrying out the work, the Metropolitan Board of
Works having only statutory power to proceed if the contribution
of the Vestry shall amount to one-half of the estimated cost of