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Hyde Park Corner Roads—Continued.
the cost of their maintenance. By a letter dated 4th July,
the Vestry were informed by the Commissioners of Works
that the Government would during the then present Session
introduce a Bill for the purpose of enabling the Metropolitan
Board to determine by what parish or parishes the
maintenance of the roads should be borne. On the 23rd
August, 1883, the clerk reported that the Bill of the Government
had been withdrawn. At the invitation of the
Vestry of St. George, Hanover Square, a conference between
the Parliamentary Committees of both Vestries took
place on the 12th November, 1883, when the Parliamentary
Committee of St. George's stated that they intended to
recommend their Vestry to pay two-thirds of the annual
cost of maintenance of the roads on the understanding that
this Vestry would take the remaining one-third of cost;
this recommendation, however, the Vestry of St. George
declined to adopt. On the 14th March, 1884, an exactly
similar Bill to that withdrawn was introduced by the
Government, and on the 20th March, 1884, it was resolved
that this Vestry should combine with the Vestry of St.
George, Hanover Square, to throw the cost of the roads
upon the Metropolitan Board, and in the event of failure
that the cost should be divided between the two parishes
in the proportions previously stated.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
By a notice, dated 24th December, 1883, and duly published
in the London Gazette, the Local Government Board
declared that the enactment contained in Section 35 of the
Sanitary Act, 1886 (as extended by the 47th Section of