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Wood Paving—continued.
south, east and west sides), Cockspur Street, Whitehall (part
of), and Charing Cross. The works have been carried out by
the Company at a cost of £15,063 65. 6d. The Vestry also
entered into a contract with Messrs. Mowlem & Co., for
relaying wood pavement in the Strand (originally laid by
the Asphaltic Wood Pavement Company in liquidation):
this work has been executed at a cost of £3,141 3.9. To
meet (in part) the necessary expenditure, a mortgage of
the General Rates of the Parish was effected with the
Metropolitan Board of Works for £14,200, the interest
payable on the same being at the rate of 3½ per cent per
annum, the principal being repayable within five years by
equal instalments of £2,840 per annum. The granite blocks
displaced by the wood paving were sold to Mr. J. S. Gabriel
for the sum of £2,608 4s.
HYDE PARK CORNER ROADS.
Counsel's opinion was submitted to the Vestry at their
Meeting on the 3rd May, 1883, as to their liability for the
maintenance of the above roads, and a letter (26th April),
from Her Majesty's Commissioners of Works requiring the
Vestry to take to the roads on and after the 1st May, 1883,
was considered, when it was resolved that the Commissioners
should be informed that at the then present time the
Vestry were advised that 110 liability attached to them in
respect of the same. On the 25th May, 1883, the Commissioners
wrote to the Metropolitan Board of Works
stating that this Vestry had declined to take over the
roads, and suggesting that they should be treated as a
Metropolitan improvement and that the Board should bear