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seven years, on terms somewhat similar to the last. Fresh contracts
have also been entered into for three years in respect of
paviors' work, masons' work, cleansing, and collection of dust,
and for the season in respect of watering the roads.
Mr. Woods'
tenancy.
The Board have let to Mr. Woods for a term of three years,
under agreement, at the yearly rent of £6, a small piece of
ground in Green Street, adjoining the Infant School; the same
having been given up to the Board by the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company on the formation of their line of railway.
Purchase of
Stone.
In October last the Board received an offer from Messrs.
Mowlem & Co. to dispose of the carriage-way pavement which
they were about to remove from London Bridge, at the price of
7s. 6d. per superficial yard (including dressing, re-laying, and
grouting), and finding the stone to be in good condition and not
much reduced in thickness, the Board considered the offer an
advantageous one and agreed to purchase the stone; and,
shortly afterwards they paved with it Church Street and Great
Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, both of which streets were
previously macadamized. Subsequently they received an offer
from Messrs. Mowlem, and contracted also to purchase a quantity
of similar stone from the Holborn Valley Works, at the same
price per yard, and this has been laid in the Southwark Bridge
Road on the approach to the bridge, in continuation of the
pavemeut which was laid in the year 1868. The contract price
for new granite cubes of a like description was considerably more
than the price named.
Blackfriars
Road.
The Board have also determined to pave, with new granite
cubes, the portion of the Blackfriars Road from where the existing
pavement terminates, near the bridge, to Church Street, at an
estimated expense of £2,000; and they are in treaty with the
Provident Clerks' Life Assurance Association for an advance of
the money at 4¾ per cent. interest and re-payment of principal in
ten years by equal annual instalments.
Metropolitan
Streets Act,
1867.
By Order of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, " The
portion of the Blackfriars Road from Charlotte Street to the
bridge being within the ' General Limits' of the ' Metropolitan
Streets Act, 1867,' is to be deemed to be within the ‘ Special
Limits’ of the Act."
The effect of this order is, inter alia, to render illegal the removal
of dust from the houses in the portion of the Blackfriars
Road referred to, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., and
also the loading and unloading of coal, and removal of casks by
means of ropes, chains, &c., between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Wellington Street, Borough, High Street, Duke Street, and
Tooley Street, have, by a former order, been brought within the
" Special Limits " of the Act.