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This Board, at the suggestion of the Phoenix Gas Company,
has sanctioned the placing experimentally of improved gas lights
at the Sanctuary on the southern approach to London Bridge,
and at the crossing near Duke Street, similar to those in the
Waterloo Road. The estimated cost of the one at the Sanctuary
is £33 10s. per annum.
Improved
Lighting.
Fresh Contracts for Sewer and Drainage work, Pavior and
Masons' work, and Cleansing, Dusting, and Watering, have been
entered into, as will be seen on reference to the list of Contracts
at page 39, post, the former Contracts having expired.
Contracts.
This Board, as mentioned in the last Annual Report, resolved
to co-operate with St. George's Vestry in a joint application to
the Metropolitan Board of Works for the adoption of a transverse
in lieu of a longitudinal boundary line at the junction of the two
parishes in the Southwark Bridge Road, for the purposes of paving,
watering, and cleansing, pursuant to Section 140 of the Metropolis
Local Management Act, and an order to that effect has since
been received.
Boundary Liil
Southwark I
Bridge Hoail
Precepts have been issued by this Board during the year 1878-9
for amounts required to meet the estimated local expenditure,
and the charges of the Metropolitan Board of Works and School
Board for London, as under, viz. :—
Precepts.