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shortly be completed. The cost fur the year amounted to
£253 la. 1d. In accordance with the directions of your
Vestry the old wood paving was given away to a number (85)
of poor parishioners.
LICENSES
Have been granted for the erection of ninety-one hoardings
and scaffolds for the purposes of re-building, alterations,
Licensc has also been given in thirty-eight cases to open the
roadway to repair water pipes, or for similar purposes. The
cost of making good these openings is charged to the person
taking out the liccnce.
COAL PLATES.
During the past twelve months one hundred and forty-six
coal plates were cut into the paving.
STREET NAMES.
The sum of £5 18s. has been expended in purchasing and
fixing street name-plates, principally for altering the names of
Cambridge Street and Little Windmill Street to Lexington
Street, and Blenheim Street to Ramilies Street.
LIGHTING.
Three "Lambeth" lamps of eighty candle power have
been fixed at tlie refuges in Regent Street by Argyll Place,
New Burlington Street, and Air Street; and six "Victoria"
lamps, with a large light, placed at Piccadilly Circus
by your Vestry, in addition to fifteen others of the
same pattern erected by the Metropolitan Board of Works.
In December the burners in the lamps in Regent Street and
Waterloo Place were altered so as to consume 4 c. ft. of cannel
gas each per hour, instead of 2½c. It. as formerly. There Have
also been several other minor alterations to the lamps in various
parts of the parish. The cost of repairing the refuge lamps