The cost of the item of paving during the past year, exceeding the
estimate by four hundred and fifty pounds, has been unusually
heavy,—viz., £3042 2s. 10d., after allowing for the sum chargeable to the
several public companies and others for works executed for them. This is
about twelve hundred and fifty pounds more than the cost of the same item
of expenditure in the year 1856–7, after making the same allowances;
upwards of four hundred pounds more than in 1857–8, eight hundred pounds
more than in 1858–9, and six hundred pounds more than last year. It has
been occasioned mainly by the purchase of the following materials, and by
works executed in the places hereinafter named:—
Broken Granite for Roads £1558 7 10
Flints for ditto 238 3 1
Gravel for ditto 137 0 6
Lombard and Duke Street . . . Works executed 177 15 9
by Contractors for Masons’ Work
Hans Street . . . ditto 29 9 0
Queen’s Road East . . . ditto 30 1 6
Lower Sloane Street . . . ditto 13 9 5
Green’s Row . . . ditto 170 10 1
Ann’s Place, Milman’s Row . . . ditto 27 13 9
George Street . . . ditto 260 18 5
Moore Street . . . ditto 19 1 3
King Street . . . ditto 10 10 10
Milman’s Row . . . ditto 10 0 0
King’s Road—_various parts_ . . . ditto 49 1 2
Halsey Street . . . ditto 13 15 0
Walton Street . . . ditto 17 7 9
Sloane Street . . . ditto 17 10 6
Queen’s Road West . . . ditto 24 8 7
Caversham Street . . . ditto 57 4 1
Robert Street . . . ditto 34 3 3
Stone sent to the Depôt . . . ditto 36 5 9
In the last report it was stated that the question at issue between the
Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c., and the vestry, as to the
taking charge and maintenance of the Chelsea Bridge Road, was in an
unsatisfactory state, and the position of that question was stated in the
appendix to the fourth report (No. 9), at pages 45 to 52, up to the
receipt of Mr. Austin’s letter of the 27th June, 1860. The proceedings
since that date will be found in the Appendix to this report, No. 9
(pages 51 to 55).