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Metropolis Roads Bill.
Transfer of charges of parts of the roads from the Commissioners of
the Metropolis Roads to the Parishes in which those parts are situate,
and abolition of tolls thereon.
A memorial was presented to the Metropolitan Board, requesting
them to represent to Parliament, the great additional burthens that would
be thrown on the Parish should the Bill pass, and suggesting the Hackney
Carriage Tax should be placed under their controul, as a fund to repair
the roads, with power to borrow money, pave the roads, &c.
This Bill is still under the consideration of Parliament.
Saint Lukes Workhouse and Vestry Hall Bill.
This Bill sought permission to transfer the land within the boundary
wall of St. Luke's Workhouse, from the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch,
in which it is now situate, to the Parish of St. Luke, and to build
a Vestry Hall and buildings thereon.
The Vestry petitioned against this Bill, and opposed it before a
Committee of the House of Commons, and the clause which proposed
that the lands and premises occupied by the Guardians of St. Luke, and
now forming part of the Parish of Shoreditch, should be transferred to
and form part of the parish of St. Luke, was agreed by both parishes
should be expunged, and a clause introduced to authorize the Parish of
Saint Luke, to erect a Yestry Hall, Offices, &c., within the Parish of St.
Leonard, Shoreditch.
This Bill was also opposed by the Metropolitan Board with regard
to the line of frontage in the City Road, and after some alteration passed.
London Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Bill.
The Vestry petitioned the House of Commons to place the Coal and
Wine Duties under the controul of the Metropolitan Board of Works, to
carry out certain improvements in the Metropolis.
Metropolitan and City of London Police Amalgamation Bill.
The Vestry petitioned Parliament against this Bill; but the Bill was
subsequently withdrawn in conscquence of some irregularity in the
ceedings of the promoters.