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Resolved that the Report and Estimate be received, and the Vestry
recommended to adopt and carry out same, and at the meeting of the
Yestry on the 18th July, 1888, they endorsed the action of the Committee
and referred the matter back to the Committee to carry out and
advertise for Tenders.
On the 18th September, Mr. A. C. Bean wrote asking for the temporary
use of the site of the Old Toll House during the rebuilding of the
wharf wall at Bowden's wharf, when the Works Committee instructed
the Clerk to reply that the request could not be acceded to, as the
Yestry would require the wharf themselves. At the meeting of the
Work's Committee on the 26th September, the Clerk produced letters
from Messrs. Woodhouse and Co., solicitors, and Messrs. Capleton, Roberts
and Co., as to the fence being erected by the Yestry round the Old Toll
House site, when it was resolved that the letters be officially acknowleged
and referred to the Law and Parliamentary Committee, the latter
Committee having, on the 17th September, instructed the Surveyor
to have the posts and fence erected upon the land in accordance with
the Solicitor's advice. At a meeting of such Committee held on the 1st
October, 1888, the Clerk read letters from Messrs. Woodhouse and Co.
with reference to the fence, stating that if it was not removed within a
week they should have same, or part of it, removed. The solicitor
having stated that in his opinion the Yestry had a right to erect the
fence in question, the Surveyor was instructed to take the necessary
steps to protect the fence. On the 10th October, 1888, the Works
Committee resolved that it be a recommendation to the Law and
Parliamentary Committee that the fence at the Old Toll House Site be
re-erected and that the material which has been sanctioned by the
Vestry be deposited there for present use, which recommendation was
adopted by the Law and Parliamentary Committee on the 15th October,
and by the Vestry on the 17th October, 1888.
The Surveyor was instructed by the Works Committee, at their meeting
on October 24th, 1888, to bring up a report as to the actual cost of
unloading granite by barrows and by steam crane, the cost of a crane,
and any further particulars. On the 29th October, 1888, the Clerk
having reported to the Law and Parliamentary Committee, that the
Solicitor had been served with a writ in the Chancery Court herein at
the instance of Mr. Bowden, it was resolved to recommend the Vestry
that the Solicitor do take the necessary steps to defend the Vestry in
this action, and that the Clerk to the Vestry be instructed to request
the \ estry of Hammersmith to provide all requisite evidence showing
the title of this Yestry in the matter. This recommendation was
endorsed by the Vestry on the 31st October, 1888. On the 7th November,
1888, the Surveyor read his report re the steam crane, &c., in
which he stated that the probable cost of a 8-ton crane would be £300,
and the estimated saving of cost in unloading, £107 per annum ; and
the same was ordered to stand over until the Vestry's position had been
decided in the matter. At the Law and Parliamentary Committee held
On the 12th November, 1888, the Solicitor suggested that the Yestry
slould be recommended to at once acquire the line of foreshore from
the Thames Conservators, when it was resolved that the Solicitor at