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Injunction if it were granted; that the plaintiffs,
under the Public Health Act, had the power to
take proceedings against the owner of the cesspool,
and that the Court would not compel the Vestry to
do what it was in the power of the Friern Barnet
Local Board to do for themselves; and upon the
Vestry giving an undertaking not to permit the
attachment of the drainage of further houses to the
surface water drain in question, the action was dismissed,
without costs.
The question of the maintenance of Colney Hatch
Lane has engaged the attention of the Vestry
during the year to a considerable extent. It will
be remembered that the Hornsey Local Board
made up the footway on their side, at the same time
widening it to such an extent as to leave very little
of the roadway in their Parish, and that they had
then required a new basis of payment if they were
to continue to keep the road in repair, the Vestry
reimbursing them the expense of the Clerkenwell
portion. It was ultimately agreed that the roadway
should be made up by the Hornsey Local
Board, payment being made by the Vestry
according to the proportion of the total area in this
Parish. Towards the close of the year, some of the
inhabitants of Clerkenwell detached and Hornsey
forwarded a petition to the Local Government
Board calling attention to the state of the road, and
the general question of the want of drainage, and
urged the Local Government Board to use its
powers for joining Clerkenwell detached to Hornsey,
and they have intimated their intention to hold the
necessary enquiry.