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carried out upon the terms as above stated, there will have to be
returned to the Vestry a sum representing in Consols at the time of
the transfers £2,550. The Vestry has also paid to the Drapers'
Company towards the allowance to pensioners (late inmates of
Harwar's Almshouses), as per agreement, £150, for one year,
Michaelmas, 1879, to Michaelmas, 1880. There will be a further
sum to pay, perhaps £30, to Christmas next; but the exact amount
will depend upon matters not yet quite determined.
The Metropolitan Board has agreed to contribute one-half the
net cost of this improvement, such contribution not to exceed the
sum of £2,000. This matter as to total cost and contribution
is not finally settled.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.
During the last year the Vestry has effected two improvements
of a somewhat small, still of an important, character. First, the
removal of the forecourt of No. 7, Curtain Road, at a total cost,
including compensation to owners, professioual charges, paving, &c.,
of £222 15s. 4d.; and second, the rounding of the corner of the
Chapel yard at the junction of Mintern Street and New North
Road—total cost, £182 15s. 5d.; towards which the Tramway
Company, whose lines pass the corner, paid £50. It is expected
that the Metropolitan Board will contribute one-half of the cost
of both these improvements.
DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND COLUMN, GREAT EASTERN
STREET AND OLD STREET.
In the last Annual Report reference was made to a subject
which was then under the consideration of the Improvement Committee—the
erection of a Drinking Fountain and Column, at the
junction of Great Eastern Street and Old Street. Since then the
Committee submitted to the Vestry a proposal which has been
adopted. It has been decided to erect a pedestal and column, to be
of polished grey and red Scotch granite, with bronze capital and