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sel's Opinion, were accordingly reduced in accordance with your
recommendation, and I have the honor to congratulate the
Vestry on its views as to the meaning and intention of the 47th
Clause of the Act being ultimately supported by Counsel's
Opinion and adopted by the Assessment Committee of the Union,
which will remedy what has hitherto operated as an injustice to
some of the ratepayers, and a great inconvenience to the Vestry
as the rating authority of the Parish.
I have the honor to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
ROBERT PAGET,
Vestry Clerk.
A letter was also received from Mr. J. W. Hill, Clerk to the
Assessment Committee, stating that in future the Committee
would act upon the opinion of Mr. Poland, now given.
So well satisfied were the Vestry with this result that they
were pleased to pass a unanimous vote of thanks to the Vestry
Clerk for his persistent and successful exertions in the matter.
Tramway Schemes.—The Schemes before the Vestry
in November for the ensuing Session were the Steep Grade
Tramway Company's Scheme, proposing to lay tramways up
Pentonville Hill, to be worked by mechanical power; the London
Street Tramway Company's Scheme, also proposing to lay tramways
up Pentonville Road, uniting their line at King's Cross
with that of the North Metropolitan at the "Angel;" and the
North Metropolitan Tramway Company's Scheme, proposing to
lay tramways in Clerkenwell Road, from Goswell Road westward
to Bloomsbury. Upon the Companies agreeing to pay
the Vestry the present value of the paving taken to by them, the
Vestry gave its consent to each of the Schemes, but no results
were arrived at within the period comprised in this Report.*
*The Steep Grade and Clerkenwell Road Schemes subsequently
proved unsuccessful in Parliament, but the London Street Tramway
Scheme up Pentonville Hill was successful