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On the 13th January the Vestry received a letter
from the Commissioners stating that they proposed
that 54 should be the number of Councillors for the
new Borough, which would be divided pro rata
amongst the parishes, according to their rateable
value and population, such division being: Clerkenwell
30, St. Luke 21, other parishes 3; and asking
to be informed of any observations the Vestry may
have to offer thereon. The Vestry expressed its
entire satisfaction with the proposals of the Commissioners,
but the Vestry of St. Luke objected,
and an inquiry was therefore ordered to be held
at the Clerkenwell Town Hall on the 26th March,
1900, by the Assistant Commissioner, Mr. T. R.
Colquhoun Dill.
(As the result of such enquiry the Commissioners'
proposals were adhered to.)
Widening Goswell Road between Upper Ashby
Street and Clerkenwell Road.—For some years
past the Vestry has urged the County Council to
undertake the widening of Goswell Road between
Upper Ashby Street and Clerkenwell Road. In
March a letter was received from the Clerk to the
Council inquiring on behalf of the Improvements
Committee whether, in the event of their agreeing
to recommend the Council to undertake this improvement,
together with the widening of St. John
Street, the Vestry of Clerkenwell will give an
undertaking that they will, as the road authority,
place no obstacle in the way of the construction of
tramways in St. John Street, or the doubling of the
existing lines in Goswell Road, as the case may be,
or in the way of the construction of junctions and
extensions in connection with the Council's tramways
in other parts of the parish; and also asking