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enabling them to construct a temporary Bridge with proper approaches
during the reconstruction of Hammersmith Bridge.—("See Parliamentary
Notice,")
Fulham Bridge.
The preliminary works in connection with the new bridge are in
a forward state. The new temporary aqueduct has been constructed
by Messrs. Appleby Brothers at a cost of £10,256 2s. 9d,
and the watermains have been laid by Messrs J. Aird & Son, for the
sum of £7429, less an amount of £l500 to be allowed by them for the
said mains when the new bridge is completed.
The formation of the Northern and Southern Abutment Dams,
and the erection of the temporary staging is in progress and the
old aqueduct is being removed.
Incidence of Local Taxation.
Delegates from the several Vestries and District Boards held a conference
as to the advisability of initiating legislation upon this
subject with the object of relieving occupiers of houses and lands
from the undue burdens they now bear for Public Elementary
Education, Poor Law Charges, Metropolitan Board of Works
Pates, and such like purposes, and Memorials to the first Lord of
the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Home Secretary,
were prepared and sealed by the Board.
(Copy Memorial.)
THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT.
Knt., M.P,, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Home Department.
The Memorial of the Board of Works for the Fulham District in the
County of Middlesex, under their Common Seal.
SHEWETH—That the heavy and continually increasing burden
of local taxation has compelled your Memorialists to give the
subject their serious consideration.
That the number of objects for which local rates are levied has
been augmented of late years.
That some of the purposes for which these rates are raised are far
from being exclusively local, but are, to a considerable extent,
national in character.
That these rates are all, without distinction, assessed only on occupied
houses and lands to the exclusion of every other kind of
property.
That your Memorialists fully recognise the liability of occupiers of
houses and lands to bear their fair share of local taxation, but
they respectfully submit that the mode now in existence of
raising money for expenditure under the Elementary Education
Acts, for the Metropolitan Board of Works Rates, for the
various objects coming under the head of poor Rates, and for
such like purposes, operates unfairly and inequitably.