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application to the County Council for orders declaring certain
Highways in their respective Districts, where the through traffic is
larger and more important than the local traffic, to be main roads
under the Local Government (England and Wales) Act 1888, and
this conference is further of opinion that the County Council should
make such orders accordingly."
" (2) That in the opinion of this conference it is expedient that
the District Boards and Vestries represented should claim to retain
the powers and duties of maintaining and repairing the main roads
within their respective Districts, and that the London County
Council should contribute towards the cost of the maintenance and
repair and reasonable improvement connected with the nisiutenance
and repair of such roads.
A copy of the foregoing resolutions, and a copy of my report as
to the roads in the District which I considered should come under
the definition of main roads (and which is reform to in my last
Annual Report) were sent to the London County Council with a
request that an order might be made declaring the roads specified
in such report to be main roads.
LONDON COAL & WINE DUES.
Circular letters having been received from the Vestries of
St. George Hanover Square, St. Martin-in-the Fields, and Padding
ton, with copy resolutions passed by those bodies respectively in
favor of the continuance of these dues, the Board resolved as
follows :—"That it appears to this Board to be unwise and contrary
to the interest of the rate payers of the Metropolis that the revenue
of the London County Council should be prejudiced by the
abolition of the London Coal and Wine Dues until some substitute
has been found to supply their place; and that Her Majesty's
Government lie requested to sanction the continuance of such Duos
for a limited period."
A copy of the resolution was sent to the Rt. Hon W. H.
Smith, M P., First Lord of the Treasury.
ARTIZANS' AND LABORERS'
DWELLINGS ACTS.
On the 17th February last, the Medical Officer made Reports
to the Board under the provisions of the Artizans' and Laborers'