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It is, however, expected that the orders in several
other cases (including those for the Burdett and Commercial
Roads) will shortly be received.
The Auditor of the accounts of the Metropolitan
Board of Works having disallowed certain items, charged
for the expenses of constructing seats on the occasion
of the Public Thanksgiving for the recovery of H.R.H.
the Prince of Wales, proceedings were commenced
against members of that Board individually, for the
recovery of the amounts disallowed. The matter
having been brought to the notice of the Vestry, they
gave it their most careful consideration, and came to
the conclusion that the Metropolitan Board had only
acted as befitted a great public body on such occasion,
and accordingly condemned the proceedings against
the members as absolutely unnecessary, and agreed to
indemnify Mr. Newton, the representative of the Vestry
at the Metropolitan Board, against any loss therefrom.
Pursuant to the resolutions mentioned in their last
report, the Vestry apportioned among the owners of
property in the several new streets therein mentioned
the costs of paving the same, and they have great
pleasure in saying that they received the whole of the
amounts and had in three cases only to take proceedings
to recover them.
The Tramways have again proved a source of considerable
trouble, but after much delay and correspondence
the Company instructed the Contractor of
the Vestry to repave, at the same time as he executed
the Vestry's work, the whole of that part of the road
outside the rails which the Company have to maintain.
The work, consequently, now assumes a more uniform
appearance, and it is hoped that the effect of the whole
work having been done together, will be that the road