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the paths. This offer, after considerable deliberation was
accepted, and tenders were invited for the work, Messrs.
Mowlem & Co.'s at £523, being accepted.
Paving.—A considerable quantity of new paving has been
laid during the year, Pentonville Road, from the "Angel" to
the "Belvedere," was newly paved, and the footways relaid with
Victoria Stone. King's Cross Road, from the Union Tavern to
the Brewery, 42, King's Cross Road, was taken up, redressed,
and relaid on concrete, and made good with new. Clerkenwell
Green, the greater part of St. John's Square, Great Bath
Street, Little Bath Street, and Little Northampton Street, were
paved with the old material taken up from Pentonville Road and
King's Cross Road, which, being of the larger kind, was found
nearly as good as new for the purpose when redressed. The
cost of these works was £6,862 11s. 0d., towards which the
Vestry borrowed £6,500 of the Metropolitan Board of Works, to
cover the cost of the new work, at 3½ per cent., repayable in
20 years in equal annual instalments.
Metropolis Water Supply.—Messrs. Leaver and Brighty
were again appointed Delegates to a Conference of the Vestries
and District Boards of the Metropolis, held at the Vestry Hall,
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields to consider this subject, (referred to
last year,) and in November a copy of a Memorial proposed to
be presented to the Prime Minister by the Delegates, urging that
the question of the Metropolitan Water Supply may be legislated
upon without further delay, in the spirit of the Report of the
House of Commons, Session II, 1880, was laid before the Vestry
and approved.
Ground Rent for Pentonville Road and Penton
Place.—In June, 1881, Mr. Patrick called the attention of the
Board to the payment of £27 per annum to Colonel Penton for
Ground Rent of Pentonville Road and Penton Place as being
wrong in principle. The matter was referred to the Solicitors,
who reported that the sums of £18 for Pentonville Road, and £9
for Penton Place, were fixed when the roads were made through