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except the North Metropolitan, and so much of the Columbia Market
scheme, as proposed certain widenings and a connecting line of tramway
with the Groat Eastern Railway, not within the Parish of Shoreditch.
The North Metropolitan scheme, as passed by the House of Commons,
authorised lines from Threadneedlo Street, through Shoreditch,
Hackney Road and Kingsland Road, to Clapton and Stamford Hill;
from Shoreditch Church to Goswell Street, through Old Street Road;
and from the City Road, to the Green Lanes, via East Road, New North
Road and Bridport Place, and several other lines in other Parishes.
Through a misapprehension as regards standing orders, the Vestry
did not appear in the House of Commons against these Bills, but the
Improvement Committee and the officers were in constant negotiation
with the promoters. Terms as to compensation for use of pavement
were made by other parishes and the promoters, which the Parish of
Shoreditch, with certain modifications, also demanded. It was, however,
found necessary to appear against tho Bill in the House of Lords, the
result of whioh was that terms were then arranged ; they are, That the
Company shall pay to tho Yestry tho sum of 9/- per yard, superficial,
for tho pavement to be occupied by the Tramway, to bo taken as seventeen
feet wide for doublo line, and eight feet for single line, to pave the
macadam roads to a certain width, and to pay tho cost of asphalting a
portion of Old Street Road, for tho stipulated width, if tho same is so
pavod by the Vestry. I estimate that tho money payments to be made
by the Company to the Vestry, will bo £7500, and the value of New
Paving nearly £3000. I should observe, that the Lords' Committee
rejected that part of tho schemo, which proposed to carry the line from
Shoreditch Church to Threadneedlo Street. Tho Bill, as amended, has
received tho Royal aasent.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.
During tho year two improvements in the Parish have been effected ;
one, the Shepherdess Walk improvement, by the Metropolitan Board,
and the other, tho Huntingdon Street, by the Vestry, aided by a contribution
from tho Metropolitan Board.