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District, viz. :—(1) As to the points of commencement and
termination of such portions of the roads as are in this District;
(2) As to the materials of which they are formed ; (3) As to their
present condition ; and (4) The annual cost of maintenance. As
requested by the Hoard I prepared a Report embodying such
information, and a copy thereof was seat to the County Council.
On the 26th June, 1889, a resolution was passed to the
following effect: "That the Hoard do claim to retain the powers and
duties of maintaining and repairing the main roads in the District disturnpiked
since 1870, viz.: The Commereial Road, a portion of the
East India Dock Road and of the West India Dock Road, and the
Horseferry Branch Road, and that the London County Council be
applied to for an annual payment towards the cost of the maintenance
and Repairs and reasonable improvement of such roads, the annual
payment to be based on the present estimated cost of maintenance,
including renewal.'
A copy of such resolution was sent to the Council, and a
formal claim made in accordance therewith.
On the 15th February, 1890, the Council wrote that, upon
receiving a report by it's Engineer, at required by the Act, that the
roads had been properly maintained and repaired, they would be
prepared to pay towards the cost of such maintenance, Ac., in the
year 1889 90, the sum of £487, being the0 same as that paid to
the Hoard by the Government in respect of each of the two
preceding years. The offer was considered by the Hoard, and I
reported that 1 estimated the cost of the maintenance, Ac., at
£2,600 per annum, and it was thereupon decided to inform the
Council that in the opinion of the Hoard the sum offered was
inadequate, and the Hoard therefore declined to accept it and called
upon the Council to undertake the repair and maintenance of the
Disturnpiked Roads in the District as from 31st March, 1890.
MAINTENANCE OF MAIN ROADS.
A Conference of Delegates appointed by the Poplar, W liitechapel,
and Limehouse District Hoards, and tho Vestries of Mile
End Old Town, Bethual Green, and St. George-in-the-East, took
place in April and May, 1889, and the following resolutions were
passed :—
" (1) That in the opinion of this Conference the District Boards
and Vestries of the East of the Metropolis should make immediate