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18th and 19th Vic., cap. 120, sec. 57, the Chairman declared the
same to be lost. Another Special Meeting was held on the 22nd
July, when a motion to rescind the resolution of 14th May, was put
and negatived.
On the 5th November, a letter was road from the County
Council, stating that the Council was of opinion that the widening
of the west end of Ben Jonson Road was an improvement which, if
effected, should be carried out by the local authorities as opportunity
offered for acquiring the property on advantageous terms, and that
should the local authorities be prepared at any time to take that
course the Counril would consider favorably an application for a
contribution towards the cost.
On the 11th February, a Special Meeting of the Works Committee
took place, when I submitted a plan for the Improvement
shewing the widening to take place on the North side, and I reported
that the cost of the acquisition of the various properties had been
estimated by Mr. Knight, the Surveyor of Mile End, and myself at
the sum of £4,000, and that the Vestry of Mile End had agreed to
contribute one-fourth of the expense. The Committee decided to
recommend that in conjunction with the Vestry of Mile End Old
Town an application bo made to the London County Council to
contribute one-half of the expense of the proposed Improvement in
accordance with the plan I had prepared, and that in the event of
the Council agreeing thereto arrangements be made with the Mile
End Vestry for carrying out the Improvement Upon the recommendation
being submitted to the Board, however, it was ruled that
a motion for the adoption thereof could not be put as the beforementioned
resolution of 14th May had not been rescinded, but a
Special Meeting was held on the 4th March, and a motion for the
revision thereof being then put and carried, the recommendation of
the Committee was approved and adopted at the ordinary Meeting
held subsequently on the same day.
BROAD STREET.
On the 8th October, the Works Committee reported that they
had considered the reference to them by the Roard of the question
of the formation of a new road from Dorset Street to Broad Street,
and having made an inspection of the locality were of opinion that
inasmuch as the suggested new road would take a considerable
portion of the School Board for London premises and also valuable
land belonging to Messrs. Holt & Co., it would be impossible to