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and upon the 21st April they were approved and ordered to be sealed and submitted
for the approval of the Council, such instruction being carried out four days afterwards.
The approximate estimate of cost to carry out your Surveyor's scheme, was as
follows:—
Alterations and additions required by the London County
Council £2,762 18 5
Ditto, to provide extra accommodation for the Vestry, its
Official Staff, and the Coroner 1,874 13 6
Total £4,637 11 11
The contract drawings were pushed forward to completion, and upon the 2nd
June following it was proposed to invite certain specified contractors to tender for
carrying out the work, and instructions were asked for the necessary forms of
tender, &c., to be prepared, but upon the 16th of the same month, when the
drawings were submitted complete by your Surveyor, it was proposed that
estimates be advertised for.
These recommendations were disapproved by the Vestry upon the 30th June,
and the whole scheme was referred back at the following meeting a fortnight
afterwards.
About this time, a communication having been received from the London
County Council condemning the Council Chamber as unsafe for public assemblies,
the Vestry upon the 15th September, resolved—"That the Vestry do appoint an
architect of special experience to confer with the architect of the London County
Council as to the minimum requirements, &c." And upon the 13th October
following, Charles Barry, Esq., F.S.A., whose services had been retained, was
requested to attend a special meeting of the Vestry to explain his plans, &c., the
outcome of which it is scarcely within the province of your Surveyor to deal.
DUSTING AND SCAVENGING SCHEME.
The report, dated March 11th, 1890, of a Special Committee appointed to
consider as to the dusting, scavenging and watering of the parish, to which the
Surveyor's department largely contributed, came before the Vestry upon the 12th
December following, and the 20th January, 1891.
Several schemes for new stables, &c., and alterations to existing stables at De
Beauvoir Wharf, were prepared, the Committee's printed report was dealt with by
the Vestry seriatim upon the 12th June following, and the Committee presented