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Shoreditch lent its aid willingly for the promotion of the desired object.
Some difficulties have arisen respecting the purchase of a small portion
of ground belonging to the Trustees of Lady Lumley's Almshouses, or
to the Trustees of the Bishopsgate Charities, which have prevented the
completion of the work, but which it is hoped will speedily be surmounted.
The street is now in a fair way for opening, and will be as soon as
negociations between the Vestry and the Metropolitan Board respecting
the paving of the foot and carriageways are completed, and the works
carried out.
THE TOWN HALL.
During the year ending Lady-day, the public hall has been occupied
for lectures, meetings, concerts, and other entertainments 156 times,
and the council chamber 15 times, the receipts for which amounted to
£637 1s. 2d. It might be questioned whether the resources of the hall
are as sufficiently developed as they might be, and the full encouragement
is given to so convenient a place of assembly as it merits. But this I
leave to the judgment of the Vestry and its Committee.
LAW PROCEEDINGS.
The law proceedings of the Vestry during the past year, so far as I
am aware, have been limited. A disputed claim for rent for a portion
of an estate in the City Road, for land occupied by the City Road, and
the subject of an alleged agreement between the late Commissioners of
Turnpike Roads and the owners of the estate in question was decided in
favor of the claimants; but as no costs were given, it is clear that the
Court were of opinion that it was a proper question to be raised.
A long appeal has been pending between the London and North
Western Railway and the Parish in respect to the Goods Station at
Broad Street. As points of law were raised, the parties agreed to submit
a special case to the Court of Queen's Bench, but the special case could
not be agreed upon, and the actions of the Company's Agent were so
unsatisfactory, that the Vestry at length resolved to abide by the
ordinary remedy, and by the appeal at the Quarter Sessions. Steps
have been taken with this object, and it is to be hoped that the matter
in dispute may be speedily settled, as the amount claimed by the parish
for rates, &c., unpaid, amounts to thousands of pounds.