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cause ways and passages to be made into and between the
Arches or parts of Arches under the several Approaches to the
said Bridge, in order to make and preserve convenient ways
and communications to and between the same Arches and parts
thereof respectively: and it was enacted that all the covenants
conditions and provisions, which should be inserted in the
leases or demises thereof respecting such ways and passages,
and the right of using the same, should be valid and effectual
and should and might be enforced by the Commissioners or
3 persons in whom the said Arches or parts thereof should
become vested by virtue of the said Act, 2nd Will. IV., or in
any other manner.
By Indenture under the common seal of the City of London,
bearing date the 29th October, 1834, made between the Mayor
and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London of the
one part, and the Commissioners appointed for putting in
execution the sevral Acts of Parliament made and passed for
paving the streets and lanes within the Town and Borough of
Southwark, and certain parts adjacent in the County of Surrey,
and for cleansing, lighting and watching the same, and also the
courts, yards, alleys and passages adjoining thereto, and for
preventing annoyances therein so far as the same related
to the West Division in such Acts mentioned, of the other
part, the said Mayor, &c., in pursuance of and in obedience to
the said Art, 2nd Will. IV., did charge and make subject so
much of each and every of the said several Arches as was
coloured red in the plan drawn in the margin thereof, and
therein numbered from 1 to 22, both inclusive (see copy plan,
opposite page 20), to and with the payment of the yearly rent
or sum of 20s. for each of the said Arches respectively, unto
the said Commissioners and their successors, for the term of
61 years and one day, from the 3rd day of April, 1832, and to
be paid on the 3rd April, in every year, without deduction or
abatement.
The Commissioners referred to were those appointed under
the Act, 6th Geo. III., known as the "Southwark Pavement
Act." The area under their jurisdiction comprised the ancient
Borough of Southwark and certain parts adjacent thereto, the
same being for the purposes of the Act, separated into two
divisions, viz. : the West Division and the East Division, t e
first consisting of the Parishes of St. George-the-Martyr, st.
Saviour (except the Clink or Bishop of Winchester s Liberty),
St. Mary Newington, and so much of the High Street of the
said Borough as was in the Parish of St. Olave, and the East
Division comprising the other parts of the said Parish of
St. Olave, the Parishes of St. John and St. Thomas, and parts
of the Parish of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey. On the
coming into force of the Metropolis Local Managemen