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aud tbo erection of now ones, the Board making good any damage that
may he done to the property belonging to the Corporation abutting on
or adjacent to the said Steps.
"Yours faithfully,
"JOHN A. BRAND,
"W. H. Atkisns, Esq., "Comptroller.
"St. Saviour's District Board,
"Emerson Street, Bankside, S.E."
The Board thereupon assumed the responsibility of restoring
the Steps and caused them to be rebuilt of iron, at a cost, including
the removal of the old Steps, of about £212.
In April, a ballot was taken for Auditors to audit the Accounts,
of the Board for the financial year 1892-98, with the result that
the following were elected by the highest number of votes, viz :
Mr. Aubrev Hyman
%, willianRoots , St. Saviour.
Mr. John Dyer Field - Christchurch.
The Accounts were duly audited by the two last named Auditors
on the 25th May, and a copy of the certificate signed by them
will be found on pages 58 and 59.
The City of London Electric Lighting Company, Limited,
having purchase d the freehold of the whole of Pitt's Place, Bankside,
and of the west side of Martagon Place (formerly William's
Court or Place) adjoining, for the erection of a generating
station on the site, applied to the Board for its sanction to an
application being made to the Justices, pursuant to the provisions
of the Highway Act, 1885, for closing it as a highway; and, in
June last the Board gave its consent, subject to the Company
making, at their own expense, the application to the Justices,
and undertaking to provide as much accommodation for the
working classes to be displaced as will correspond with the
number of houses to be pulled down, and limiting the height of the
buildings to be erected to three floors. The matter is in hand,
and an application will, it is expected, shortly be made to the
Justices.
In the last Annual Report an abstract was given, in one of the
appendices, of the Acts of Parliament under and by virtue of
which the Boards of Works for St. Saviour and St. Olave were
entitled to the reversion in fee simple of the Arches under the
southern approaches to London Bridge, together with the
ground and soil on which the same were built, and all right and
property in the same respectively, as successors to the Commissioners
for the West Division of Borough Pavements, whose
duties came to an end on the 31st December, 1855, in consequence
of the passing of the Metropolis Local Management Act. The
reversion took effect on the 5th April, last, and the freehold is
now vested in the two Boards, in proportions which have yet to
be determined, the rent-charge of £22 upon the Arches, which
Auditors.
Pitt's Place.
Arches,
London
Bridge.