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was afforded of repaying the sides of the road from
Penton Street to King's Cross, which were very much
out of repair, and the tender of Mr. J. J. Griffiths, the
contractor for the Tramway Company, was accepted,
and the work was therefore carried on simultaneously.
Berry Street, Hooper Street, and Baker's Row have
been laid with some of the old stone.
Parliamentary Measures.—In the Session of 1882
the public measures principally affecting the Yestry
which became law, were the Electric Lighting Act;
the Bills of Sale Act (1878) Amendment Act, in which
a clause was inserted at the instance of the rating
authorities of the Country, providing that Bills of Sale
shall be no protection against a distress for rates; and
the Poor Rate Assessment Act (1869) Amendment
Act, limiting the liability of occupiers to the period of
their occupation.
Of the measures of interest to the Yestry introduced
during the present Session the following is a brief
summary:—
The Bankruptcy Bill.—A Government measure,
and of interest chiefly from the fact that, as originally
drawn, it proposed to do away with the preferential
payment of rates from a bankrupt's estate. The rating
authorities of the Country took the matter up, with
the result that, not only has a clause similar to that
which exists in the present Act, been agreed to by
the Grand Committee on Trade, but its operation has
been expressly extended to cases of composition, upon
which point the present Act has been variously
interpreted.
[The above received the Royal Assent on the 14th Aug., 1883.]
The Infectious Diseases Notification Bill.—Providing
for the compulsory notification of cases of
infectious disease to the Sanitary authority of a district