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entrance to the Fulham Draw Dock, and the Board has agreed
to pull down a portion of the boundary walls of the dock and
build a new wall so as to widen High Street at that point, the company
agreeing to alter and improve the line of their approach
road.
Loans.—Charge upon the District.
The question of making all loans a charge upon the whole
district instead of charging each parish with the amount of loan
incurred for work done in such parish, having been carefully
considered, together with report and returns prepared by the
accountant shewing that under the former system the total
annual charges (other than district loan charges) for 1880-81 for
General and Sewers Rate together is payable thus:—
FULHAM HAMMERSMITH TOTAL
£4015 14 9 £7270 10 5 £11286 5 2,
but if made payable as district charges, each parish paying
according to its rateable value, the payment would be
FULHAM HAMMERSMITH TOTAL
£3762 1 8 £7524 3 6 £11286 5 2
shewing that Fulham would pay the sum of £253 13 1 less, and
Hammersmith that sum more. In the year 1883-84 (excluding
future loans) Fulham will pay on this principle the sum of
£467 12 2 less, and in 1887-88 £543 4 8 less, and Hammersmith
these sums more, in that year about reaching its
maximum; but in 15 years times, say 1896—97, when the heavy
charge of Fulham Sewer Loans has expired, the additional cost
to Hammersmith will have run down to £233 10 0, and will
rapidly decrease thereafter. Taking these figures into consideration,
and being of opinion that it was the intention of the
Legislature that these charges should be borne by the larger area
(except under special circumstances), the Board has ordered that
from and after the 25th March all loans shall be charged as
district expenses, to be apportioned both as to expenditure and
repayment upon each parish according to its rateable value and
assessment.
Freeing the Bridges.
On the 26th of June, 1880, their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales declared Wandsworth Bridge, Fulham
Bridge and Hammersmith Bridge to be open for ever free of toll
under the provisions of the Metropolis Toll Bridges Act, 1877.
These three bridges formed the third and last division to be
dealt with under the Act, and thus completed the work ordered
by that measure. There now exists no toll bridge over the
Thames within the Metropolitan area.