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(II.)-That the Vestry object to the stopping up of any Rights of Way.
On 19th January, 1897, the Committee further reported, with reference to the Bill,
receipt on 6th January, l897, of a circular letter dated 7th December, 1896, from the
Solicitor to the Hill asking to be informed whether the Vestry assented to, dissented from, or
remained neutral in respect to the Bill:- that, inter alia, it was proposed in the Bill to
"They may construction or provide a footway in the parishes of Saint Mary, Rotherhithe, and
Saint Paul, Deptford, between a point nearly opposite Bracton Road or thereabouts eastward of
the centre of the Deptfond Wharf Branch of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway
meassured in an easterly direction,"
for the obligation of the Company contained in Clause 9 of their Act of 1896 to provide a
substituted footpath for the existing footway commencing on the south side of the
Company's Railway at a point 230 yards or thereabouts eastward of the bridge carrying the
Railway over the Rotherhithe New Road, and continuing eastward along the south side of
the Greenwich Railway to a point nearly opposite Bracton Road, passing thence through an
arch of the Viaduct at that point and there continuing eastward along the northern aide of
the Greenwich Railway and over the East London Railway and the London, Brighton and
South Coast Railway to Trundley's Road near the Grand Surrey Canal.
Resolved— upon the recommendation of the Committee—
(1) —That to obtain a focus standi the Vestry formally dissent from the undertaking.
(2)—That the Vestry require the Company to insert in their Bill a clause protecting
the Rotherhithe Vestry in connection with the undermentioned matters.—
(a)—Tbe Company shall substitute girder for arch bridges at Raymouth Road
and Southwark Park Road, and line the abutments thereof with white
glased bricks, to the satisification of the Vestry.
(b)-The Company shall not commence the construction of any of the works
mentioned in the Bill, appertaining to the Parish of Rotherhithe, nor