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To the Chairman and Members of the Vestry
of St. James's, Westminster.
Vestry Hall, Piccadilly,
June, 1877.
PAVING WORKS.
Reverend Sir and Gentlemen,
As year by year, various Works are executed
and existing defects made good, so the necessity for
actually new work becomes less and less, especially
in such a District as St. James's, where new
thoroughfares are so rare as to amount practically
to none at all; the principal matters that have to
be attended to are the maintenance of such works
and structures as are in the charge of the Vestry
and as these works and structures increase, and
from the material progress of the age, constant improvements
are expected, if not demanded, or even
rendered actually necessary, so the responsibility and
expense of constant supervision, maintenance and
reparation, increase in equal proportion, if not in
greater proportion, as more scientific appliances are