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Meetings were held, and as a result, letters were addressed to
the Hackney District Board and to the Vestry of Bethnal Green,
urging them to join with this Board in a combined opposition to the
scheme, and also to the "Whitechapel and Poplar District Boards
and the Vestries of Mile End Old Town, and St. George in-the-East,
pointing out the advantages which would accrue from such combined
opposition, and the expediency of their taking part in the same.
The Poplar District Board, and the Vestry of Mile End Old
Town, decided to be separately represented before the Committee of
the House of Commons, to which the Bill, introduced by the Metropolitan
Board for obtaining power to construct the Tunnel had
been referred, and the Hackney District Board, and the Bethnal
Green Vestry, postponed their decision until the settlement of the
question of the legality of their incurring any expanse in connection
with the opposition.
This was the position of affairs at Lady-Day, 188-1, the time to
which this Report extends.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
CHARLES DUNCH,
Surveyor of the Board.