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APPENDIX A.
Re ARCHES, LONDON BRIDGE.
On the 3rd April, 1832, an Act of Parliament (2nd Will. IV
c. 23,) was passed, intituled "An Act to amend several Acts relating
to London Bridge and the Approaches thereto." This
Act recited the several Acts previously passed for the rebuilding
of London Bridge and improving the Approaches. It also
recited as follows That a new Bridge had been erected and
considerable progress made in completing the Approaches.
That a plan for the alteration and extension of the Approaches
had been submitted to and approved by the Lords of the
Treasury, and deposited in the office of the Town Clerk of the
City of London. That, for the purpose of carrying the plan
into execution, it would be necessary to take down and use
certain houses, tenements and hereditaments which were not
described in the schedule to the therein previously recited Acts,
and it was therefore expedient that the Mayor, Aldermen and
Citzens of the City of London, in Common Council assembled,
should be empowered to purchase or take the same. That several
dry Arches had been erected under the Approaches to the new
Bridge, and it was expedient that parts thereof should be
attached to the houses adjoining or abutting on the said
Approaches, and the residue thereof might be conveniently used
as cellars or warehouses, and sums of money raised by letting
the same and selling the rents to be reserved by the leases
thereof, which sums might be applied towards defraying the
expenses of making the said Approaches. That it was expedient
that an open space not less than 130 feet in width should be
left on the west side of the road forming the Southern Approach
to the new Bridge opposite the east end of St. Saviour's Church,
to the end that an uninterrupted view of the Church might be
preserved. That a part of the ground between the said road
and the Church had been purchased and taken by the Mayor,
Aldermen, &c., under the therein recited Act, 10 Geo. IV., and
was claimed to be the property of the Parish of St. Saviour ;
and that, by the last meutioned Act, the said Mayor, Aldermen,
&c., were empowered to grant building leases, or otherwise sell
and dispose of any ground or hereditaments not wanted for the
purposes of the Approaches by such Act authorised to be made.
It then enacted (inter alia) that it should be lawful for the
Corporation to cause spacious and convenient streets, ways,
passages and places to be made and formed for the Approaches