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COUNTY COUNCIL POWER5 AND MAIN ROADS.
In January last a letter was received from the London County
Council inviting the Hoard to appoint two representatives to attend
a Conference to consider what powers now possessed by the Council
should be transferred to the Local Authorities. Messr.. Mills and
Smith were accordingly appointed, and on the 5th February Mr.
Smith made a report as to the proceedings at the Conference.
It appeared that the Conference had resolved that the maintenance
of Disturnpiked Roads should the vested in the Local
Authorities, and Mr. Smith pointed out that if the law were
altered to that effect the Hoard would no longer receive the
contribution of £1,410 per year from the Council in respect of
the cost of maintaining such roads. It was resolved that the
Chairman, together with the Clerk and Surveyor, be requested
to draw up a motion to be submitted to the next Meeting of
the Conference by the Delegates appointed by the Hoard to the
effect that no resolutions passed at the Conference respecting
the maintenance of main roads shall affect the contribution of the
County Council to the maintenance of disturnpiked roads in the
Limehouse District.
LIMEHOUSE STATION.
Several complaints having been made of the dirty condition of
Limehouse Station, and also to the want of proper accommodation
thereat. I was directed on the 19th February last to call the
attention of the Great Eastern Railway thereto.
WIDENING OF HREWHOUSE LANE. WAPPING.
On the 4th March, 1896, a letter was received from Mr. Roberts,
the Surveyor to the Governors of Bridewell Hospital, suggesting
that the Board should widen Hrewhouse Lane, Wapping, by throwing
into the public way a piece of land belonging to the Governors,
and which they were willing to surrender for the sum of £75.
After considering the matter the Hoard decided not to accept
the suggestion as Hrewhouse Lane was a by street, but that if the
Governors would throw into the public way the piece of land colored
pink on the plan for a nominal consideration the Board would
undertake to pave and maintain the sane.