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dent and Council to receive a deputation on the
subject.
The Council of the Academy replied, however,
that their decision was unanimously arrived at
after very careful deliberation, and that they were
unable to comply with the request of the Yestry to
give the subject any further consideration, and they
therefore declined to receive the Deputation.
New Street from Gray's Inn Road to Saint
John Street Road.—The Report last year closed
with the record of the reception of a letter from the
Metropolitan Board of Works that the portion of
the new street, which will be between Mount
Pleasant and St. John Street Road, will be made of
the width of 60 feet instead of 50 feet. The Yestry
appointed a Deputation to wait upon the Members
of Parliament for Finsbury and South Islington
with reference to the further proposed delay in
carrying out the work, but in the first place
instructed the Deputation to wait upon the London
County Council to urge that the thoroughfare
should also be made 60 feet wide between Mount
Pleasant and the Holborn Town Hall, and invited
the co-operation of the Holborn District Board of
Works in the matter, to which the District Board
consented.
Mr. F. A. Ford, one of the representatives of the
Parish at the London County Council, being present
at the Yestry Meeting on the 6th June, was asked
to urge the County Council to proceed with the
formation of the new street as speedily as possible,
in view of the great annoyance and injury to the
interests of the inhabitants along the line of route,
in consequence of the great delay which has taken
place in carrying out this desirable improvement.