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the exclusive care, management, control and jurisdiction of
Camber well Vestry, the expense thereof to be borne equally
by the Greenwich District Board of Works and this Vestry,
this Agreement to be a continuation of an Award dated the
31st July, 1885. This Agreement has been extended by an
order of the London County Council to the above effect.
MAIN ROADS.
At a Conference of Delegates from Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis, held at the Town Hall, Chelsea,
the following resolutions were passed with regard to maintaining
and repairing of the Main Roads within their
respective Districts:—
"That in the opinion of this Conference, the Vestries and
District Boards of the Metropolis should make application
to the County Council for orders declaring those highways
in their respective districts, which are means of communication
between different districts, or thoroughfares to railway
stations, or which are used largely by metropolitan traffic,
as opposed to local traffic, to be main roads under the Highways
and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, and the
Local Government (England and Wales) Act, 1888, and the
Conference is farther of opinion that the County Council
should make such orders accordingly."
"Resolved unanimously:—That in the opinion of this
Conference, the Vestries and Districts Boards of the Metropolis
should claim to retain the powers and duties of maintaining
and repairing main roads within their districts."
Whereupon your Committee instructed the Surveyor