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For giving power to Vestries to borrow money for the improvement
of streets, &c.
For giving Vestries power to appoint Collectors to collect the
Rates.
Empowering Vestries to collect and remove dung, refuse, &c.,
from Cow-houses, Barns, &c.
The Vestry have not opposed this Bill.
Thames Embankment Bill.
This Bill proposes to authorise the Metropolitan Board of Works
or a Committee appointed by them, to Embank the North Side of the
River Thames, from Westminster to Blackfriars Bridge, and for making
New Streets in and near thereto, and that the cost of the construction
of such Works, shall be paid from the fund called the Thames Embankment
and Metropolis Improvement Fund, raised by the Wine and
Coal dues.
By a Return to the House of Commons, dated the 7th April, 1862
it is stated:
"The Estimated Expenditure to carry into effect the provisions
of the Thames Embankment Bill, including Compensation,
and all other expenses £1,500,000
Estimated cost of the Approaches to the
Embankment 80,000
Estimated cost of the Streets between the
Embankment, &c. 500,000
£2,080,000
Mr. Bazalgette estimates the cost of constructing the Low
Level Sewer within such Embankment at about £30,000
The Committee have had before them, and considered the
following Bills, viz.:
The Highways' Bill, (l862).
The Metropolis is exempt from the operation of this Bill.
Gardens in Towns Protection.