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part of this Board. By the scheme in question it was proposed to
divide the area of the Metropolis, as defined by the Metropolis
Local Management Act, 1855, into nine separate Municipalities,
which, with the City of London, would then form ten for the
whole of the Metropolitan district, each of such Municipalities to
be a body corporate, consisting of a Mayor, Aldermen, and
Citizens, and with a central Representative Council to be composed
of members from each of the local Municipalities, and meeting at
the Guildhall for common purposes. The Board carefully considered
the matter, but were of opinion that the creation of ton
Municipalities, as proposed, would entail a largo addition to the
expense of administration, prove unsatisfactory in working, and
be prejudicial to the interests of the ratepayers; and the Town
Clerk was so informed in reply to his letter.
Collingwood
Street.
1 Having regard to the irregularity of the numbering of the
houses in Collingwood Street, Blackfriars Road, this Board, in
March, 1885, applied to the Metropolitan Board of Works for an
order for the renumbering of the same, and on the 29th January,
1886, an order was issued for so doing. Notices were accordingly
served by this Board in March last on the occupiers of the houses
for the renumbering, which has been carried out, and a schedule
of their names has been forwarded to the Metropolitan Board, in
order that a register thereof may be kept for the future identification
of property.
Stacking of
Firewood.
The Metropolitan Board of Works having introduced into
Parliament a Bill for the purpose of enabling them to regulate
the Stacking of Firewood in the Metropolis, the subject was
considered by this Board at an early period of the Session.
Communications were received from the Vestry of Rotherhithe
and other Parishes in which the trade is largely carried on;
likewise from an Association formed for the protection of the
interests of the trade, urging that the enforcement of regulations
of the kind contemplated by the Bill would have the effect of
closing many of the store-yards in the Metropolis, thereby curtailing
the business of firewood merchants, and be attended with
great hardships to an exceedingly numerous and poor but deserving
class of people, by depriving them of their only means of