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formation of a new street in lieu of a thoroughfare to be
closed. The price to be paid by the Company was fixed at
£8,000, and so much of the burial ground as was not
acquired by the Railway Company was directed to be conveyed,
without farther consideration, to the Vestry of St.
Pancras, to be laid out and maintained by them for ever as
an open space for the use of the public.
The purchase money received from the Company was paid
into Court as directed by the Act, and is to be applied to
such ecclesiastical, parochial, and other purposes for the
benefit of the Parish of St. James as the Trustees, with the
sanction of the Vestry, may direct. With the approval of
the Vestry and the sanction of the Court, one moiety of the
purchase money has been applied to ecclesiastical purposes,
including the alteration and repair of the Parish Church,
and a grant towards the expense of repairing St. Peter's
Church, Great Windmill Street. It is proposed to devote
the other moiety to the erection of a block of dwellings for
the poor, the class which it is proposed to accommodate in
the first instance being the female piece workers employed
by West End houses. The scheme, however, is not yet
sufficiently advanced to admit of the publication of a
detailed statement.
Provision being made in another Bill of the London and
North-Western Railway Company, in the year 1884, for the
transfer of the burial ground to the Parish of St. Pancras,
the Trustees availed themselves of the opportunity, with the
sanction of the Vestry, and by consent of the Company, to
petition Parliament for the insertion in the Bill of additional
provisions extinguishing the trust, and authorising the application
of the funds in hand, including the sum reserved for
the maintenance of the ground, in the same manner as the
purchase money received under the Act of 1883. The Select
Committee dispensed with the Standing Orders of Parliament,