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STREETS PARTLY SITUATE IN OTHER PARISHES.
An Order was made by the Metropolitan Board of Works on the
6th March, 1857, placing that portion of Oxford Street which is
situate in the Parish of St. James under the jurisdiction of the
Vestry of St. Marylebone for all the purposes of the Local
Management Act. The cost of lighting, paving, cleansing, watering,
&c., that portion of the thoroughfare is ascertained annually and
paid by the Vestry. The annual charge for this work amounts to
about £400.
By an Order of the Metropolitan Board of Works, dated the
10th August, 1866, specified sections of the following thoroughfaresare
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.
Many years since, an understanding was arrived at with the
Strand District Board of Works for the cleansing and maintenance
of Wardour Street throughout its entire width to be apportioned
between the Vestry and the Board, instead of each of these authorities
following the Parish boundary along the centre of the street and
cleansing and maintaining the portion of the street actually within
their jurisdiction. Thus the Vestry took charge of the whole width
of Wardour Street south of Little Pulteney Street, and the Board
the remainder of the street. During the past year an application
was made to the Vestry to substitute a quieter description of paving
for that then existing in the carriageway of Wardour Street, and
the Vestry thereupon suggested that the Strand Board should unite
in repaving the whole street either with wood or asphalte. The
Board, however, did not acquiesce in this proposal, and as paving