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accident, Major Cardew advised that the drawing-in boxes
should be thoroughly ventilated, and, in order that sparks
should not be produced from the mains in these boxes,
that the mains should be bound together with bare copper
or iron wire passing round both mains throughout the whole
extent where they are not lying in contact with the iron
pipe. From a copy of further correspondence in December
it appeared that the Board were requiring these suggestions
to be adopted.
Caroline Place,
Knightsbridge. .
Caroline riace, Upon £25 being paid for the paving removed,
Knightsbndge. ygave their consent in January before
the Justices to the closing of Caroline Place as a thoroughfare,
under the Act 57 Geo. III., cap. 29.
St. Margaret's
Passage. ^
st Margaret's February the Vestry received an offer
Passage. mac[e on behalf of the Army and Navy Cooperative
and Auxiliary Societies, to surrender a strip of
ground for the purpose of widening Cobourg Row thirty
feet, in consideration of the Vestry consenting to the closing
of St. Margaret s Passage, the Societies being owners in fee
simple of the land on both sides of the passage with the
exception of Spencer Buildings. As the area of the Passage
3was more than twice that of the forecourts proposed to be
ceded, the Vestry stipulated that the expense of making up
the roadway should also be borne by the applicants, and,
this being agreed to, the necessary consent under the 57
'
Geo. III., cap. 29 was given, and confirmed at a special
meeting, when a motion to revoke the consent was negatived
by 21 votes to 17.
Contracts.
In conformity with the provisions of the
Contracts.
192nd Section of the Metropolis Local Management
Act, a statement of all contracts entered into and in
force during the year was prepared and submitted to the
Auditors at their investigation of the Vestry's accounts. A
copy of this statement is incorporated with this report as
an Appendix (No. 16), for the information of the ratepayers.