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of Mary Ann Place, Union Street, a narrow court or passage
on the north side of that thoroughfare; offering to pay the
Board a rent of £10 per annum for the use and occupation of
the same, and also offering to bear half the expense of making
the necessary application to the Court of Quarter Sessions for the
closing of the passage. The proposal was considered by the
Paving and General Purposes Committee, who, being of opinion
that the place was a nuisance and of little use as a highway,
agreed to recommend the Board to sanction the application,
provided the Company consented to pay £15 per annum. The
matter remained in abeyance until the early part of this year,
when the Company forwarded the draft of an agreement complying
with the terms suggested. Such agreement has since
been entered into, and a magistrates' order for the closing of the
place was obtained on the 23rd of July last, but the matter will
have to come before the Court in October next.
CHRISTCHURCH BURIAL GROUND.
The negotiations for the taking over and dedication to the
use of the public of the Christchurch Burial Ground were
referred to in the last Annual Report. Suffice it to state that
the ground having been duly conveyed to and vested in the
Board according to the terms of the arrangement made with
the Trustees of Marshall's Charity, the Vestry of Christchurch
and the Rector, the ground was formally opened as a recreation
ground on Saturday, the 16th June last, by the Bishop of
Rochester, and is now under the care, management and control
of the Board.
CONFERENCE PAVING, &c.
The London County Council having resolved to convene a
Conference of representatives of local authorities on London
street traffic and matters cognate thereto, and invited the Board
to appoint delegates, the Board referred the matter to the
Paving and General Purposes Committee with power to act.
The Committee accordingly appointed two of its members, viz.,
Mr. R. W. Bowers, J.P., and Mr. F. C. Southwell as such
delegates, together with the Clerk and the Surveyor. The
Conference met at the County Hall, Spring Gardens, on the
29th June, and questions of the removal of house refuse,
cleansing and watering of streets, naming and numbering of
streets and houses, street noises and other matters were discussed.
As the result of the first meeting of such Conference
a committee was formed, consisting of a delegate from each of