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are placed under the exclusive management of the Vestries of
St. James and St. George, Hanover Square respectively, throughout
the entire width thereof, instead of according to the actual
Parish boundary, viz.:— Regent Street, Piccadilly, Burlington
Gardens, St. James's Street, and Park Place. No payment is
made by either Vestry to the other under this order, the exchange
of area being regarded as an equivalent. An arrangement has
been made with the Vestry of St. Martin-in-the-Fields for the
apportionment of Coventry Street, as regards cleansing and paving,
the boundary line being somewhat irregular; and by a similar
understanding with the Board of Works for the Strand District, the
Vestry cleanse and maintain the whole width of Wardour Street as
far north as Little Pulteney Street, and the District Board cleanse
and maintain the remainder of the thoroughfare, instead of each
authority taking the whole length of the street, half width,
according to the boundary.
PAVING AND DRAINAGE WORKS.
Wood pavement has been laid during the year in the carriageways
of Regent Street (south end), Waterloo Place, Pall Mall (east end),
and Air Street (from Regent Street to Piccadilly), the total area
thus paved being 9,419 square yards, and the ccst of the work
amounting to £5,513 16s. 0d. The work was executed by the
Asphaltic Wood Pavement Company, according to specification
and conditions put up to public tender. The whole cost of the
work will be defrayed from current rates. Nearly all the leading
thoroughfares in the Parish are now paved with wood.
Some applications have been made for an extension of wood
paving during the past year, and as regards the south end of
St. James's Street, the Vestry have agreed to entertain the matter,
on the residents concerned contributing one moiety of the cost.
The consideration of other cases has been indefinitely deferred, but
probably a further area of wood paving will be laid during the year
1883-84.
The Vestry have decided to pave the carriageways of Silver
Street and Beak Street, and also Smith's Court, with asphalte, in