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(h) VAULTS AT MESSRS. ROTHERHAM'S PREMISES, HIGH STREET.
An application having been received from Messrs. Rotherham & Co. for leave to
construct vaults under the footway and to drain their premises into the Boundary
Street sewer—the vaults being below the level of the sewer—the Committee
recommended to the Vestry that permission should be given on condition that the
applicants should acquire no right to retain the vaults as against the Vestry, should
indemnify the Vestry against flooding from the sewer, and that the right of the
Vestry should remain to lay through the vaults such mains or wires as they should
find necessary at any time. The Vestry approving these terms an agreement was
prepared to give effect to them.
(i) PIPES ACROSS FINSBURY AVENUE.
The London and North-Western Railway Company being desirous and asking
the permission of the Vestry to lay hydraulic service pipes across Finsbury Avenue,
the Committee recommended, and the Vestry sanctioned the making as conditions of
consent the payment of an acknowledgment rent of £1 1s. per annum, and the
removal when required by the Vestry. An agreement embodying these terms was
subsequently prepared.
(j) ACCIDENT IN PITFIELD STREET.
MR. PETER LYONS' CLAIM.
The Works Committee had before them on the 5th July, 1897, a claim for
damages by one Peter Lyons for injury sustained by falling over a pile of stones
in the roadway in Pitfield Street, on the 28th January of the same year. Mr. Lyons
produced a medical certificate and stated he would accept £25 by way of
compensation. The Committee made an offer of £20 which he ultimately accepted
and the matter was settled.
(k) BRIDGE IN ANNING STREET,
As mentioned in the last Annual Report an application was received from
Messrs. Clark, Hunt & Co., for the erection of this bridge and granted subject to
certain conditions and the payment of an annual acknowledgment of £5. The matter
has been in abeyance, however, owing to the applicants, desire for an alteration in the
height of the bridge, and owing to objections raised by the London County Council.
The bridge is now practically completed and the agreement will shortly be signed.
(l) ACCIDENT IN PRINCESS ALICE PASSAGE.
The Works Committee having received from Mrs. Church, a widow, a claim for
compensation for injuries sustained through a fall over some defective pavement and
the consequent loss of eight weeks employment thereby, the Committee although
admitting no liability, decided as a matter of charity, the case being a hard one, to
recommend that the sum of £10 be paid to her which action was approved by the
Vestry on the 19th October, 1897.
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