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passed, and also an Act to amend the Act for regulating
measures used in the sale of Gas, which will materially
affect the future contracts between the Gas Companies
and the Vestry.
the metropolitan board of works, and the
metropolis local management act.
The Bill of last Session for amending the Metropolis
Local Management Act was withdrawn, but it has
been re-introduced into Parliament during the present
Session, and will doubtless form the subject of the next
Annual Report in case it should pass the Legislature.
embankment of the thames.
On the 13th of June last a Public Meeting was
held at Exeter Hall, at which Henry Hoare, Esq., the
senior Churchwarden of this Parish, took the Chair,
when various resolutions were passed with a view to
procure the construction of an embankment of the
Itiver Thames, and the formation of a low level sewer
within the same.
Various Meetings of Delegates from this Vestry,
and from the several other Vestries and District Boards
of Chelsea, Fulham, Hampstead, Holborn, Islington,
Kensington, St. Giles's, St. James's, St. Mary-le-bone,
St. Pancras, Strand, and Wandsworth, have since taken
place, the result of which is—
An unanimous conclusion, that the Thames Embankment
is indisputably necessary for the public
convenience, in order to provide for the increased and
increasing traffic of the Metropolis, by relieving the present
crowded thoroughfares from the serious obstructions
now existing through want of proper accommodation.
The subject of the Low Level North Sewer, within
such proposed Embankment, has also undergone much
discussion on the part of the Delegates, and the