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support of the application that in the meantime
the bye-law was defeated, and it might be many
months before the County Council had modified the
bye-law.
The Court, however thought that the adjournment
was convenient and reasonable, and dismissed
the application with costs.
Messrs. Cook & Co. subsequently applied to the
Council for an alteration of the bye-law, but were
unsuccessful; the Magistrate then convicted the
defendants and imposed a penalty of 10s.
Streets partly situate in other Parishes.—The
particulars below mentioned show the Orders which
have been made from time to time under sec. 140
of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855,
and the agreements which are in force with other
Local Authorities with regard to streets partly in
this parish and partly in the adjoining parishes.
An Agreement, dated November, 1861, between the Vestries of
Clerkenwell and St. Fancras, by which the entire width of
Bagnigge Wells Road, now King's Cross Road, from the west
side of Vernon Street to Baker Street is to be watered, cleansed
and kept in repair by Clerkenwell; and the entire width from
Vernon Street to Pentonville Road, and of Pentonville Road
from the junction with King's Cross Road to the boundary
between the Parishes of St. Pancras and Islington is to be
watered, cleansed and kept in repair by St. Pancras.
An Agreement, dated August, 1864, by which Clerkenwell maintains
and repairs the whole of Goswell Road, in the Parish of
Islington, and that portion of the City Road lying between the
Obelisk and the Angel Hotel to the line formed by the then
granite paving, and also the roadway in Sermon Lane;
Islington maintaining and repairing Liverpool Road from
Sermon Lane to High Street, and High Street between Upper
Street and the granite paving line above referred to.
An Order of the Metropolitan Board of Works of 6th February, 1885,
placing the carriageway of Goswell Road, to the north of Seward
Street, entirely under the management of Clerkenwell, and to
the south of Seward Street entirely under the management of
St. Luke.