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Gas and Water Companies, still continue inconvenient
to the public. The number of trenches reinstated is
2,865, and the cost of such work by the Vestry, and
paid for by the Companies is £780 17s. 8d.
Buildings, New Streets, Sewers, and Drains.
In the course of the year, buildings of various
classes have been erected, comprising 1 Board School,
4 large warehouses, 12 stables, and 294 dwelling
houses. The notices for these erections, as required
by the 76th Section of the Metropolis Management
Act, 1855, were received from the builders, and the
Orders of Vestry respecting the depth to which the
foundations of such buildings should be laid have
been served upon the applicants. Copies of the
Orders, together with the Notices, are kept in this
Department at the Vestry Hall for future reference.
Plans for the formation of seven new streets, 40
feet wide, have been sanctioned by the Metropolitan
Board of Works, and are named Bravington (2)
Coomassie, Ashmore, Portnall, Marban, and Fordingley
Roads.
In the undermentioned new streets two thousand
three hundred and eighty-six feet run of
3ft. 9in. x 2ft. 6in. sewers, one brick thick, have
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