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the Roard could not be worse off by making the claimas the
Council could hardly go away from their offer. The Board resolved
to act upon the suggestion of Counsel and the Clerk accordingly
sent to the Council a draft agreement for submission of the matter
to the arbitration of the Local Government Board.
A letter was received from the Council dated 30th October,
1890, with copy Resolution passed by the Council as follows:-
"That the attention of the Limehouse District Board be called
"to the provisions of sub-section 5 of section 11 of the Local
"Government Act, and that it be informed that the Council is not
"satisfied by the Report of its Engineer that Commercial Road
"East, East and West India Dock Roads and Horseferry Branch
"Road, have been properly maintained and repaired, and ran rot
"therefore make any payment to the District Board towards the
"cost of the maintenance and repair of the roads; that consequently
"no question of amount has arisen for arbitration; but that if
"the District Board should de ire that the question of the Council's
"refusal to make a payment should be referred for the arbitration
"of the Local Government Board the Council will join in a submission
"to that Board upon that question as well as upon the question of
"amount should the Board consider that the Council ought, in the
"circumstances, to make a payment." The Board directed that a
letter shoud be addressed to the Council asking in what respects
the roads in question had not been properly maintained and repaired.
On the 4th February, 1891, the Clerk of the Council wrote that
the questions relative to the maintenance of the Finchley and
Edgware Roads were to be submitted for arbitration, and suggesting
that when the award of the arbitrator in that case became known it
might be found unnecessary to incur the expense of arbitration in
reference to other mads, as some arrangement might be come to on
the basis of that award, a view in which the Board concurred.
MAIN ROADS.
A letter was received from the London County Council dated
21st May, 1891, referring to the request that certain thoroughfares
in the District, mentioned in the note upon this subject in my last
year's Report, might be declared to be main roads under the provisions
of the Local Government Act 1888, sections 11 and 41 (4)
and the Highways and Locomotives Act 1878, and stating that the
Council was of opinion that there was not probable cause for such
an application and therefore declined to accede to it.