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complaints were made by residents, who were under the
impression that it was obligatory on the Company to keep
the Parade in repair, and the Company were advised that
no sort of obligation to maintain the road rested with them,
and desired to bring the matter under the courteous and
direct notice of the Vestry, seeing that the whole length except
a small portion of the road, was in this Parish, and
asking that repairs might be effected as promptly as
possible, the season being so far advanced.
The Vestry Clerk and Surveyor, by direction of the
General Purposes Committee, reported inter alia that
the Crystal Palace Company had always repaired the
widened and diverted road from its formation to the present
time, a period of 37 years. They did not feel justified in
advising the Committee to take upon themselves such a
responsibility and incur such an expense as now sought by
the Company to be imposed on the Vestry, but they
advised the Vestry that an offer should be made to the
Company to pave the said road under the 105th Section of
the Metropolis Local Management Act, and to apportion
the expense one-half on the Company and the remainder on
the owners abutting the other side of the road. Thus the
owners, who had hitherto escaped contribution towards the
repair of the road would have to bear their proportion of
the expense and be the means of relieving the Crystal Palace
Company.
The resolution of the Vestry having been communicated
to the Solicitors of the Crystal Palace Company much
correspondence ensued, the Company again calling upon the
Vestry to do such work, and threatened proceedings if their
request was not complied with.