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NEW STREETS.
With reference to the New Streets Accounts, during the past year, there
has been received the sum of £27,359 16s. 9d. on account of Apportionments
made. The amounts still due by contributors are—On old Roads, transferred
to this Vestry by the late District Board of Works, the sum of £207 l1s. 4d.,
and on the Streets taken to by this Vestry during the past six years the
sum of £18,915 l1s. 1d., making the total due on New Streets to be
£19,123 2s. 5d. On pages Nos. 114-123 will be found statements of New
Streets Account in detail.
Since the incorporation of the Vestry of Fulham, in March 1886, there
have been sealed 200 original apportionments for "New Streets" Paving
and Sewering works amounting to £112,462 2s. 9d., of this number, fifteen
have been declared bad and irrecoverable through sundry causes, by the
magistrates, and the apportionments thereon amounting to £10,395 1s.,
have been rescinded, and where money had been paid by contributors, it
was refunded in full, of this number eight have been re-apportioned, and
works prodeeded with.
Of the 191 good apportionments, the works have been completed in
146 cases, with the result that the estimate was exceeded in 31 cases,
necessitating the sealing of additional apportionment to the amount of
£1,390 l1s. l1d., while in 102 cases the estimate was more than sufficient
and allowed a return to be made to the owners of £11,355 2s. 6d., and in
the remaining 13 cases, the estimate just covered the actual cost of
the works.
To show the magnitude of the New Streets work, and that the property
of the Fulham Parish is not held by a few individuals. I may mention that
the details of the numerous apportionments, etc., necessitated the opening
of nearly 5,000 ledger accounts, entailing a large amount of clerical labour.
LABOUR, &c.—WAGES ACCOUNT.
The Parishioners will form some idea of the rapid development of the
Parish by the comparative statement of the Labour Wages Accounts for
1886 and that of 1892.
On the 27th day of January, 1886, the Vestry passed the following
resolution, on the recommendation of the Works Committee:—
" That in order to efficiently carry out the works required in the making,
maintaining, and cleansing of the street and sewers in the Parish, a staff of
Artisans and Labourers be employed as follows:—