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recommend the Council to indemnify the Vestry
against all cost; to which proposal the Vestry acceded
and passed the following resolution: —
That for the improvement of St. John Street, and for the
public advantage, the Vestry do hereby resolve to widen
such street on the west side thereof between Albemarle
Street and Aylesbury Street, and that so much of the hereditament
No. 137, St. John Street, and known as "The
Horse and Groom" P.H., as lies between the roadway and
the red line on the plan marked "A," dated the 20th day of
September, 1897, and signed for the purposes of identification
by the Vestry Clerk (including cellars and areas does
and is hereby, pursuant to the Act 57, Geo. III., c. 29, adjudged
to project into, obstruct, or prevent the widening,
extending, continuing, or opening of St. John Street aforesaid
and that the possession or occupation or purchase thereof
will be necessary.
The Vestry also appointed the Council's valuer
and solicitor to act on their behalf.
The Council itself, however, refused to indemnify
the Vestry against costs, and the notices to treat
were therefore accordingly withdrawn
St. John Street Widening.—A deputation,
appointed by the Vestry have again waited upon the
Improvements Committee of the London County
Council and stated the Vestry's arguments that this
should be undertaken by the Council as a Metropolitan
improvement; when the Committee promised
that the representations should be duly considered.
Price of Gas. The Vestry convened a Conference
of delegates from Vestries and District Boards
north of the Thames, and within the area of supply
of the Gas Light and Coke Company, to consider the
best means of resisting the further exorbitant
charges of the company, such conference was held