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alternative plan of effecting an important widening of the
carriageway and footway at the place in question.
Encouraged by the promise of the First Commissioner to
consider a definite proposal in writing if one were submitted
to him, the Committee, in December, drew up a
scheme for setting back the wall and railings of the park.
In reply to the proposal the Committee received a letter from
H.M. Office of Works on the 31st December, disapproving of
the plan prepared by the Vestry, stating that "it would
involve the removal of several well-grown trees," but
adding that if the Vestry were disposed to submit an amended
scheme for setting back the footpath on a higher level,
from a point a little to the west of the Albert Hall, the
First Commissioner would consider whether the proposal
could be recommended to the Crown and the Government
for adoption. Upon the receipt of this letter the Committee
viewed the locality and unanimously recommended the
Vestry to adopt the suggestion of Her Majesty's Office of
Works. The scheme and the amended plan received the
approval of the Vestry, and the latter was forwarded to the
First Commissioner, whose decision had not been communicated
to the Vestry at the close of the year.
As the result of negotiations with the Surveyor of the
Metropolitan Police, the Vestry, upon the recommendation
of the Committee, agreed to surrender a piece of land at
the north end of Cannon Row, for the purposes of the new
police offices, upon the payment by the police of a sum of
£200 as a contribution towards the cost of erecting a
urinal elsewhere in the parish.
The Committee, as reported in previous years, again received
numerous complaints which compelled thein to call
the attention of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the
incapacity of the main line sewers, with a request that
some steps might speedily be taken to prevent the flooding
of basements during heavy rains. Here, as in previous
years also, the matter ended, the central board not having