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parts by the London County Council, the Middlesex County
Council, the Hornsey Local Board, and the Vestry of
Islington. In the event of the London Street Tramways
Company constructing certain Tramways authorised by the
London Street Tramways (Extensions) Act, 1888, they will
be required to pay towards the cost of the Improvement the
sum of £3,000.
On the completion of this improvement the Archway is
to be maintained and repaired by the Council as a County
Bridge at the joint expense, in equal shares, of the Council
and the Middlesex Council.
The Wood Lane (Hammersmith) Improvement is estimated
to cost £5,000, of which the Vestry of Hammersmith
is to contribute one half.
Clause 6 would enable the Council to purchase certain
lands in various parishes for the purpose of the Metropolitan
Fire Brigade, Weights and Measures Offices, and Coroner's
Courts and Mortuaries, but as none of the sites in question
are situate in this Parish, there is no need to mention
them in detail.
Clause 43 proposes to empower the Council to purchase
and take the garden in Lincoln's Inn Fields as an open space
for the use of the public. The garden is at present maintained
by Trustees under an Act passed in the eighth year of
the reign of King George II., who are empowered to levy
rates upon the owners and occupiers of certain houses
therein specified to defray the cost of maintenance &c. The
garden is presumably to be transferred to and vested in the
Council in consideration of the abolition or concession of the
said rates authorised to be levied by the Act of George II.