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by the change, the safe delivery of letters, parcels, &c., will
be much facilitated.
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 Metropolis 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
thoroughfares 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 Yestry to
the other under this Order, the exchange of area being
regarded as an equivalent.
An Order was made by the Metropolitan Board of Works
on the 21st December, 1883, placing so much of the carriageway
of Wardour Street as lies south of Meard's Court under
the exclusive management of the Vestry for the purposes of
cleansing and maintenance, and the remainder of the street
under the exclusive management, for the same purposes, of
the Strand District Board.
An arrangement made some years since with the Vestry
of St. Martin-in-the-Fields for the apportionment of
Coventry Street as regards the cleansing and paving, in