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Committee. These statistics showed a total of
5,050 vehicles on the first clay and 4,857 on the
second, besides 307 horses on the first and 250 on
the second, and in addition a police return of
accidents during the five years ending October 31st
was also submitted. In March, 1891, the Improvements
Committee recommended that Old Street, at
its junction with Goswell Road, and the east side
of Goswell Road, up to Willow Walk, should be
widened, and the Vestry informed the Council of
their regret that they had not seen their way to
include the widening of the western side of Goswell
Road in their proposal, and expressed the hope that
the matter might be reconsidered. The Council,
however, negatived the recommendation of their
Committee, and informed the Vestry that, while
recognizing the desirableness of the widening of Old
Street and of other street improvements in London,
they felt unable to take any measures for the
purpose until an alteration shall have been made in
the incidence of local taxation.
London Owners Improvement Rate or Charge
Bill.—The alteration in the incidence of local taxation
sought by the London County Council before
they deal with the above and similar improvements,
was brought before Parliament by the London
Owners Improvement Rate or Charge Bill, and the
following extract from the annual report of the
Parliamentary Committee of the Council gives the
object of the measure, and the way in which it was
dealt with in Parliament:—
(5 ) London Owners Improvement Rate or Charge Bill.
We have already in our report on the London Improvements Bill
quoted the resolution of the Council of the 8th November, (see footnote)
with regard to a incidence of a moiety of the oost of the Strand
and Tower-bridge improvements, and the preparation of a separate