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16 MARCH, 1892.
the practice should not be amended so as to bring particulars
of any payments that are beyond ordinary petty cash expenditure
before the Vestry for its approval.
IV. The Report of Committee No. 2 was brought up as follows:
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Report of Committee No. 2.
For Highways, Paving, Lighting and Watering.
Wednesday, 16th March, 1892.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Thursday,
the 10th day of March, inst., there being present Messrs.
Hirst, Ockelford, J. Druitt, Loftus, and Calton.
That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
(1) That your Committee, pursuant to the reference back by
your Board, further considered as to the lighting, &c., of
private lamps, and resolved to recommend—That all persons
having private lamps on footpaths in the Hamlet, including
those 011 the northern side of Mile End Road, be called upon
to keep such lamps alight at night during the business hours
in which the particular shops are open; and that they be
informed that in case of default the Vestry will order the removal
of such lamps.
(2) That having regard to the Report of your Surveyor your
Committee resolved to recommend—That your Surveyor be
authorised to purchase shrubs for the Recreation Grounds in
the place of those destroyed by frost, the estimated cost
being £8.
(3) That your Surveyor submitted and your Committee considered
and approved an Estimate of the amounts required
for the Half-year ending Michaelmas Day next, as follows,
and which your Committee recommend for adoption by your
Board:
Fuel £41
G as 7
Hydrants 20
Labour, Roads 2400
Lime and Cement 81
Name plates 5
Oil, candles, &c. 12
Paving materials 645