That there is now pending before your Honorable House a Bill entitled “A
Bill to continue the Duties on Coal and Wine by the Corporation of
London.”
That the provisions of the said Bill appear to your petitioners to be
pre-eminently calculated to accomplish a great object—viz., the
Embankment of the River Thames, and to provide a low level north sewer
within the same.
That the inhabitants of the kingdom, and particularly of the metropolis,
are greatly interested in the accomplishment of these measures.
That unless this Bill is passed into a law there will be no means of
embanking the Thames, except by an increase of taxation of the
inhabitants of the metropolis, who are already so heavily taxed by the
Main Drainage Rate, and the Sewers and other rates under the various acts
of parliament recently passed for public improvements, and for sanitary
purposes, that they are unable to bear any additional burthen.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Honorable House that the said
Bill may pass into law.
And your petitioners will pray, &c.
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
Given under the common seal of the said Vestry, this thirteenth day of
April, 1861.
APPENDIX No. 25.
HORSE RIDE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.
_To the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty_.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of
Middlesex,