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1873. the loss both of life and property which must inevitably
have resulted from such an event, without entering into
the merits of the question at issue, placed at the disposal
of the Company supplying the Hamlet with gas,
the services of such of the men in the Vestry's employ
as could be spared. The offer was gratefully acknowledged,
but the Company were enabled to do without
the proffered aid.
General,
continued.
Gas strike
1874. Order of Metropolitan Board of Works received placing
part of. the Commercial Road in the parish of Limehouse
under their control, and placing part of the same
road in this Hamlet under the control of the Limehouse
Board. The boundary line ran in a diagonal way
across the road which rendered the doing of repairs
difficult. The division now runs at right angles across
the road.
Order re
Commercial
Road
maintenance.
1875. On the nth of July, 1874, a very violent thunderstorm
burst over the metropolis, inflicting very considerable
damage, as the sewers were insufficient to carry off the
immense volume of water which fell.
Thunderstorms.
Vestry empowered the Assessment Committee to appear
as respondents in an appeal to the General Assessment
Sessions by the School Board for London against the
rating of the Board Schools in Essex Street, Johnson
Street, St. Paul's Road, and Gloucester Street.
The aggregate of the rateable values in the list
was £1960 0 0
The School Board desired it reduced to 659 16 8
which would be a reduction of . £1300 3 4
School
Board
Schools
Assess
ment.
The Sessions upheld the Rating and dismissed the appeal
with costs.
The principle thus laid down fixed the mode of assessing
schools for the whole metropolis.
1876. Order made by Metropolitan Board of Works for placing
portion of Medway Road in the parish of Bethnal Green
under the control of this Vestry and parts in this Hamlet
under the Vestry of Bethnal Green, so that each parish
might be able to repair the whole width of the road.
Order re
maintenance
of
Medway
Road.
Auditors declined to pass a sum of £125 paid to Assessment
Committee without vouchers for items being produced,
and would not take the receipt of the clerk.
Disallowance
by
Auditors.
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