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MAINTENANCE OF DISTURNPIKED ROADS.
In my last Annual Report I stated that the Board hid
concurred in the suggestion of the London County Council that
when the award of the arbitrator with regard to the maintenance
of the Finchley and Edgware Roads became known, it might be
found unnecessary to incur the expense of arbitration in reference
to the amount to be paid by the Council in respect to the maintenance
of the Disturnpiked Roads in this District. Considerable
delay took place in the issue of the award referred to, and on the
2nd Dcccmber the Board resolved:—"That application be made to
"the London County Council for a contribution on account of all
"works,not being paving, carried out by the Board in respect of the
"Disturnpiked Roads in the District during the years 1889 and
"1890, without prejudice to the general question of the payment
"by the Council for the repairs and maintenance of such roads,
"and that the sum of £ t,000 for each of the years mentioned be
"suggested to the Council."
In reply to the application made in accordance with surh
resolution the Solicitor of the Council wrote that if the Board
would accept without prejudice and on account of the cost of
maintenance and repairs, &c, of main roads the sum of £450 for
the year ending Lady-day 1890, and £450 for the year ending
Lady-day 1891, the Highways Committee would recommend the
Council to draw a cheque for those amounts on account. The
Board agreed thereto, and the sum of £900 was received from
the Council in due course.
LONDON BUILDING LAW (CONSOLIDATION) BILL.
In September a letter was received from the Local Government
Board, with draft of a Bill for the purpose of consolidating
the enactments relating to the construction and use of buildings
in London, and requesting to be furnished with any observations
or suggestions which the Board desired to offer thereon. The
draft Bill was considered by the Works Committee, and the
Board was represented at a Conference upon the subject convened
by the Vestry of St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, at which
certain resolutions were passed, copies thereof being forwarded
to the Local Government Board. Ultimately the Local
Government Board was informed as follows:—