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to the Board as an open space, when it was resolved that the letter
be sent to the Trustees of the late District Board to carry out the
conditions under the Deed of Conveyance and to apportion such
liability. On the 16th February, 1887, the Works Committee
again viewed the meadow, when it was resolved to recommend the
Vestry that the same be levelled in accordance with the requirements
of the Thames Floods Prevention Act, and on the 2nd
March, 1887, the Vestry endorsed the resolution of the Committee.
On the 9th of March, 1887, the Clerk read to the Works Committee
a letter he had received from the Trustees of the late
District Board, forwarding copy of an order from the Secretary of
State vesting the Bishop's meadow in the Vestry of the parish of
Fulham, when it was resolved to recommend the Vestry that the
Surveyor do communicate with the Conservators of the River
Thames asking them to define the frontage line, and that the Surveyor
do prepare and present at the meeting of this Committee, to
be held on the 6th day of April, 1887, a plan, and estimate for the
construction of a River wall and fence, and laying out the ground,.
which recommendation was passed by the Vestry at their meeting
on the 16th March, 1887.
On the 6th April, 1887, the Surveyor produced to the Works
Committee plan of River wall and fence for laying out the grounds,
when he was ordered to proceed with the work. At the meeting
of the Vestry on the 27th April, 1887, the Law and Parliamentary
Committee reported having instructed the Clerk to write to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners in reply to their letter that the Committee
were of opinion that the removal of the surface of the
meadow was calculated to create a nuisance; that they would
advise the continuing of the filling of the present ditch with slop;
and, that as soon as the line of frontage has been defined by the
Thames Conservators, the Vestry would undertake to keep the
meadow at its proper level in conformity with the agreement with
the late District Board; which report was adopted. On the 4th
May, 1887, the Clerk produced to the Works Committee (1) a
letter from the Conservators of the River Thames forwarding
tracing showing the line of frontage at Bishop's meadow which
they would be prepared to consider, and (2) a letter from the
solicitors to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, stating that they
would consent to no further importation of dust, slop, or other
rubbish of any kind on the meadow, that they left the