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nearly every road and street might be considered to be a
part of a thoroughfare leading to a railway station ; that
with a main road running through several parishes and
districts paved according to the will of the respective authority
in wood, asphalte, or macadam, the Council would have no
power of requiring continuity in the system of paving, and
in view also of the fact that the Council would not be able
to exercise any sort of control over the authorities to whom
they might have to grant contributions. For these reasons
the Highways Committee recommended the Council to take
steps with a view to seeking an amendment of the law.
For this information the Vestry are indebited to the agenda
papers of the Council, courteously furnished to them by
one of the members for Westminster, the Council not having
replied to the Vestry's letter which enclosed the schedule
of streets in respect of which the application was made.
Loans.
During the year the Vestry have met with some
difficulty in connection with the negotiation of
loans with the Council, but as this matter has been already
noted in the proper place, with other financial details at
page 12, there is no necessity here to do more than give the
reference.
Underground
Rooms.
A report was received from the inspector in
October that certain underground rooms were
occupied contrary to the 103rd section of the Metropolis
Local Management Act. The attention of the London
County Council was thereupon called to the fact that since
the receipt, in July, of the last report from the District
Surveyor (stating that no underground rooms occupied
separately as dwellings had been discovered since his report
in January previous), the inspectors of the Vestry had found
several cases in which such rooms, totally unfit for human
habitation, were illegally so used, and the Council were
requested to give instructions to the district surveyors in
order to ensure the strict observance of this important