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SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT BY THE
CLERK.
In view of the impending change of administration
occasioned by the passing of the London Government Act,
1809, and the report for this year being the last which the
Board will be called upon to present, I have thought it
desirable to place upon record, by way of supplement to my
ordinary report, a brief retrospect of its proceedings from the
coming into force of the Metropolis Local Management Act,
1855, under which it was constituted, until the present, and
of the conditions which prevailed at and prior to that time.
Previous to the 1st January, 1856, when the last-named
Act came into operation, the public roads, streets, lanes and
places within the St. Saviour's district were under the control
and management of three distinct bodies of Commissioners,
viz., the Commissioners for the Western Division of Borough
Pavements, the Commissioners for the Clink or Bishop of
Winchester's Libertv, and the Commissioners for Christcimrch,
Surrey, established respectively under and by virtue of the
following Acts of Parliament, namely, the Southwark Paving
Act, 6, Geo. III., the Clink Commissioners' Act, 52, Geo. III.,
and the Christchurch Commissioners' Act, 51, Geo. III. By
the first of these the control of the streets and places within
the ancient Borough of Southwark was divided into two
separate districts, the parishes of St. George-the-Martvr, St.
Saviour and St. Mary, Newington, and so much of the high
street of the said borough as was in the Parish of St. Olave
forming the western division, and the remainder of the Parish of
St. Olave, the Parishes of St. John and St. Thomas, and parts
of the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, forming the
eastern division of the said borough.
The minutes of the Clink Commission are contained in
sixteen volumes; the first meeting of that body was held on