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136 2 OCTOBER, 1891.
(2) That having regard to complaints of the present irregular
numbers of the houses in Apsley Street and Ann Street, your
Committee resolved to recommend—That application be
made to the London County Council to issue an Order for the
re-numbering and re-naming such streets, and that the whole
line of thoroughfare be called Apsley Street.
(3) That your Committee considered an application from Jane
Tohnson, for compensation for alleged accident in Old Church
Road, and resolved to recommend—That your Board deny
anv liability in the matter.
(4) That your Clerk reported, that in the case of the summons
taken out against the owners of barrows in John's Place, the
Magistrate was of opinion, that the place was one which did
not come within the provisions of the section of Michael
Angelo Taylor's Act, under which the proceedings were taken,
and that from the evidence adduced, John's Place was only a
highway for foot passengers and that the obstructions did not
seriously interfere with the traffic, he therefore adjourned the
summonses sine die with a view ol the Vestry, considering
whether they would take a case to a Superior Court on the
point of law.
Your Committee having regard to all the circumstances of
the case, resolved to recommend—That your Board take no
further proceedings in the matter.
(5) That your Clerk read letter as follows:
"The Metropolitan Public Gardens Association,
"83, Lancaster Gate, W.
"The Clerk to the
"Vestry of Mile End Old Town.
"Sir,
"One of the objects of this Association, is to en"courage
the placing of seats in public thoroughfares,
"and so far as its means allow, it has made grants of
"seats for this purpose to Local Authorities, but the
"want is by no means supplied, and London is a long
"way behind Paris, and other continental towns in this
"respect.
"I was therefore, at our last meeting, requested
"to draw your attention to the Mile End and Bow
"Roads, so far as they lie in your district, as eminently
"suitable from their great width of footways in many
"parts, for the placing of seats, at say a distance of 100
"yards apart.
In many cases roads and pavements are narrow,
and the occupiers of the adjoining houses, object to
seats in proximity to their windows. This objection
however does not apply to the wide thoroughfares to