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them through all their ramifications, would be so
large as to become almost impracticable. The best
efforts of the Officers however have been given to all
the matters in question. The main features of the
Paving Works have consisted in the alteration of
the Paving in Sackville Street and Duke Street,
where the previous Pitched Paving has been
removed, and McAdam substituted. Apart from
the question of cost, which is an open one, the
actual result is evidently and admittedly a success.
The Pitched paving stones have been since then
re-used in various places (as the accompanying lists
will shew) with considerable advantage to the Parish,
although the original programme for the year's
Paving Works had to be departed from.
But little can be said that will throw any additional
light on the Works that have been done, as they
are all fully described, either by the Vestry or the
Works and Improvements Committee, both before,
after, and during their execution; so that there are,
at least, a considerable number of Vestrymen who
can at any time, themselves, as is shown at every
Vestry Meeting, explain the minutest details of the
various matters with which they have been called
upon to deal.
The Vestry, and London generally, has, however,
a cause of great congratulation in the introduction
of the Wood Paving, now being laid in Gracechurch
Street, and which will be found to result in a complete
success, as it consists more in principle of