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the Home Department, asking for a Return of all gates,
bars, rails, and posts situate on private property within
the Parish, which obstruct the free passage of vehicles
in the streets, with the authority under which the
right to them is claimed, and the regulations which
govern them, and also copy of any correspondence
which may have taken place between the Vestry and
the owners of, or persons interested in, such gates, bars,
rails, and posts, in order that the same might be laid
before the House of Commons with the view to the
removal of such obstructions.
In reply thereto attention was called to the bars in
Owen's Row and Owen Street, on the Brewers' Company's
Estate; to that in Garnault Place, on the New
River Company's Estate; and to that between Woodbridge
Street and St. James's Walk, on land lately
belonging to the Visiting Justices of the House of
Detention, but now under the control of the Prisons'
Commissioners, and a copy of the correspondence
which has taken place with the County Magistrates, in
respect of the latter bar, was forwarded.
Tramway Scheme.—The only Tramway Scheme
affecting the Parish introduced into Parliament in the
Session 1883, was that of the North Metropolitan
Tramways Company, renewing their application to
extend their system of Tramways along the Clerkenwell
and Theobald's Roads.
The Company having proposed to pay 12s. per yard
for the paving to be taken to by them, to the extent
of eighteen inches outside the rails, the Vestry gave
their assent to the Scheme, which was, however,
thrown out by the House of Commons on the second
reading.