View report page

48
it is essential that a temporary Bridge should be constructed for the
accommodation of such traffic before the existing Bridge is stopped
up for purpose of reconstruction or repairs.
6. The population and traffic of the metropolis as "well as of
places beyond the metropolis use the said Bridge.
7. The populations of the District of your Petitioners was in
1871 - 66,041 and in
1881 - 114,811.
8. The works proposed by the Bill in respect of Hammersmith
Bridge will be of public and local utility and advantage.
9. The Preamble of the Bill is accurate in stating the existing
Bridge is dangerous and unfit for general traffic and that it is expedient
to make the said provisions to alter and reconstruct the
same and to provide for the construction of the temporary Bridge.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that you will be
pleased to pass into a law the said Bill so far as it seeks to
reconstruct the Said Hammersmith Bridge and erect a temporary
Bridge during such reconstruction.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
Sealed by Order,
THOMAS EDWARD JONES,
Clerk to the Board.
21 st March, 1883.
2—Metropolitan Street Improvements.
This Bill is for empowering the Metropolitan Board of Works to
carry out certain improvements in the Metropolis, including the
widening of King Street East from the Broadway to Rowan road,
and Brook Green road from the Broadway to the Fire Brigade
station and other purposes. The Board resolved to petition in favor
of the Bill, and the following petition was sealed by the Board and
presented to Parliament.
In the House of Commons. Session 1883.
Metropolitan Street Improvements Bill.
Petition: in favor.
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
THE HUMBLE PETITION of the BOARD of WORKS
for the FULHAM DISTRICT under their Common Seal.
SHEWETH,-
1. A Bill promoted by the Metropolitan Board of Works is
pending before your Honorable House (herein called "the Bill")
entitled Metropolitan Street Improvements "for enabling the
Metropolitan Board of Works to make certain new streets and
street Improvements in the Metropolis and for other purposes."