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proceeding to legislate on the subject, some enquiry should be
made and principle adopted applicable to the whole Metropolis,
so that no Parish should be without at least two representatives.
The petition of the Vestry was to that effect but ultimately
the bill was passed giving increased representation to several
parishes besides those originally included therein.
The question of cleansing the Hamlet, and disposing of the
refuse has received the most careful consideration, and the
Vestry have taken steps which they hope will for some time
at all events, enable them to deal with it.
Dusting &
Cleansing.
In the first place they have again hired, as yearly tenants, at
£9o per annum rent, the wharf adjoining Devon Wharf in
Emmott Street.
In the next place they have purchased for £1000 about 20
acres of land at Edmonton, abutting upon the Lea Navigation,
and have had a portion of it embanked so that the flood water
is kept out and the rubbish enabled to be burnt.
The Vestry, therefore, are now in a position to put the refuse
into barges from the Wharf and take it to Edmonton direct.
This mode of course will involve considerable expense but
looking at almost entire impossibility of disposing of the rubbish
near the Hamlet, it appeared the most economical.
The Vestry borrowed the amount required to purchase the
land.
A portion of the and held of the Carpenters Co. having been
filled in, an arrangement has been come to for giving up that
portion to the Company at a proportionate reduction of the rent.
The following statement gives the names of the persons who
have supplied the corn and fodder for the Vestry's horses and
the prices paid:—
Date.
Tenders accepted.
Clover,
1st cut.
Meadow
Hay.
Wheat
Straw.
Oat
Straw.
Oats
per qr.
Beans,
per qr.
1885.
April 22
M. J. Mumford
99/-
88/-
30/-
32/-
—
—
22
E. Rathbone & Son
—
-
-
—
22/-
July 1
E. Rathbone & Son
-
-
-
—
20/10
29
M. J. Mumford
94/-
84/-
32/-
34/-
—
Oct. 7
E. Rathbone & Son
-
-
-
—
20/-
Nov. 4
E. Rathbone & Son
—
-
-
-
18/6
38/-
4
Gingell & Co.
92/-
77/-
32/-
32/-
—
1886.
Jan. 6
E. Rathbone & Son
-
-
-
—
18/-
35/-
Mar. 3
Gingell & Co.
92/-
75/-
31/-
32/-
-
—
17
E. Rathbone & Son
—
-
-
—
19/6
—
17
G. T. Bowyer
—
-
—
—
—
35/6
Keep of
Horses.
In January last the Vestry received a notice from the
Commercial Gas Co. stating that after the 1st April, the price
tor gas supplied to the public lamps would be reduced from
£3: 16: 0 to £3: 12: 6 per lamp per annum.
Lighting
the Public
Lamps.