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Which report being read the same was confirmed, and it was thereupon
resolved that no further treaty should be made with Mr. Wood or
Mr. Astell."
In 1818 the question of making a new street through
Pond Yard was revived, but nothing came of the proposal. It
is clear from the above report that Pond Yard was Crown
property held by private individuals ratione tenures, and that
any right of way now possessed by the public through the same
was acquired by user. Any further questions which might have
arisen regarding the right of way are now, it is hoped, set at rest
by the agreement recently entered into with Mr. Fortescue
described on page 20.
Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, which was
passed in the year 1855, and became operative on the 1st
January, 1856, tho metropolis, for administrative purposes,
was divided into thirty-seven districts or areas; the twentythree
larger parishes being placed under the control of vestries,
and tho smaller ones, fifty-five in number, being grouped so
as to form fourteen other districts or areas, and placed under
the control of boards of works, the parishes of Christchurch
and St. Saviour constituting the Board of Works for St.
Saviour's.
By numerous Acts subsequently passed, the powers and
duties of the Board as the local and sanitary authority for the
district have been greatly added to and increased.
Thus, the duties hitherto performed by the three Commissions
above referred to were transferred to, and became vested
in the Board of Works for the St. Saviour's District, and,
under the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts,
which were also passed in the year 1855, the Board became
the sanitary authority for the same area.
One of the principal objects of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, was the establishment of a better and more
comprehensive system of main drainage for London, and under
its provisions the Metropolitan Board of Works was constituted.
In order to form this central Board, each of the Vestries
and District Boards was required to elect a person or persons
to serve on that body, and act as its representative, the City of
London also returning three representatives. Singularly
enough—probably owing to an oversight on the part ot the