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20 MAY, 1891. 43
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 considered an application of 22nd
ultimo, from Mr. R. H. Hale, for permission to erect a
hanging lamp on the outside of No. 233, Mile End Road,
ten feet above the footway, and resolved to recommend—That
the application be acceded to provided such lamp be fixed
to the satisfaction of your Surveyor, and the proper person
gives an undertaking to remove such lamp when called upon
by your Board so to do.
(2) That your Committee pursuant to the reference of your
Board inspected John's Place and resolved to recommend—
That proceedings be taken against the owner or owners of
the Barrows, &c. in John's Place for causing an obstruction
or nuisance to the highway.
(3) That your Committee considered a letter of 17th March last,
from the Secretary of the Industral Co-operative Society,
Limited, 436 and 438, Commercial Road, asking the Vestry
to alter the pavement near their premises, and resolved to
recommend—That the Vestry make the alteration suggested
if the Society will pay £3, the estimated cost of the work.
(4) That your Committee having inspected Rutland Street
resolved to recommend—That the channels of such street
between Bedford Street and Sidney Street, be paved with
Tees Scoriæ Blocks, the estimated cost being £15.
(5) That your Committee having considered various communications
from different persons on the subject of Sidney
Square, the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association having
offered to lay out as a Recreation Ground, the Solicitors of
Hawkins' Estate sent a Draft Agreement for your Board to
become yearly tenants, and to maintain such Square as a
public Recreation Ground.
Your Committee resolved to recommend—That your Board
do not entertain the matter, the Square being in the opinion
of your Committee too small for such a purpose.
(6) That your Clerk read letter as follows:
"London County Council,
"Spring Gardens, S.W.
"Case No. 211. "9th May, 1891.
"Gentlemen,
"Mr. A. Buskin of 15 Arbour Square, (which
"he describes as Arbour Square, W., Commercial Road
"East), complains of the inconvenience arising from the
"repetition of the name "Arbour," and he suggests that
"West Arbour Street, and East Arbour Street, should
"both be renamed Arbour Square, and numbered
"accordingly or that the two streets should be called by
"some other than their present names; and the Council