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Your Memorialists, therefore, humbly pray that your Honourable Board will be
pleased to re-consider the determination expressed in the tatter received bv your
Memorialists on the 2nd December, 1885, and that you will carry out the alterations at
the "Royal Oak," Deptford Lower-road, and Blackhorse Bridge, Deptford as
Metropolitan Inprovements. at the cost of the ISIetropolis at large.
And your Memorialists will ever pray, &c.
Sealed by order of the said Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe,
this third day of June, 1886. (Signed,) JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to the Vestry.
The Metropolitan Board of Works referred the said two Memorials to their Works
and General Purposes Committee for consideration and report.
The Vestry having had under consideration a communication received from the
Metropolitan Board of Works, suggesting an amendment of the law, with the view
of placing the demolition of buildings in or near public thoroughfares, under the
control of that Board, also a letter received from the Vestry Clerk of St. Mary,
Newington, with copy of a resolution passed by that Vestry upon the subject as
follows, viz. :—
"That the Metropolitan Board of Works be informed, in reply to their eommunica"tion,
that the Vestry have no knowledge that any accidents iiave occurred in this
"Parish from the demolition of buildings in or near public thoroughfares, and that the
"Vestry, whilst offering no objection to an amendment of the law, requiring notice to
"be given in ail cases of such demolition of buildings and the erection of hoardings for
"the protection of the public, are of opinion that such notice should be given to the
"Surveyor to the Vestry or the District Bjard, at the case may be, and not to the
"District's Surveyor as suggested, and also that the Vestry further object to either tiie
"Metropolitan Board or the District Surveyor being empowered to regulate the erection
"of hoardings or works in such cases, believing that this duty can best be carried out
"by the Local Authority for the District ; it was
Resolved, that this Vestry approve of and support the views of the Vestry of
Newington, as expressed in their said resolution, and that the Clerk be instructed to
reply to the letter of the Metropolitan Board of Works upon the subject in accordance
therewith.
The boundaries of the Parish were perambulated 011 Holy Thiusday, 3rd June, 1886,
and the Vestry granted a sum of £22 towards the expenses of such perambulation.
The Vestry in June, 1886, appointed a special Committee, consisting ot the
following gentlemen, viz. :—Messrs. John Bulmer, Lawrence Stevens, Henry Hay ward,
Walter Beasley, and Francis John Bisley, to confer with the Churchwardens and
Overseers of this Parish as to the irregularity of the amount in the pound ot the London