I am directed by the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c., to acquaint you, for the information of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, that he has given instructions for the closing of Chelsea Hospital Grounds at the same hours as the gates in Battersea Park, as requested in their Memorial which accompanied your letter to this Board, dated the 2nd instant, upon the understanding that some slight modification of the rule may be adopted if any practical inconvenience to the authorities of the Hospital should be found to result from the proposed alteration.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Alfred Austin,
Secretary.
Chas. Lahee, Esq.
APPENDIX No. 24.
THAMES EMBANKMENT.
To the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled.
The Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex,
Sheweth,
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.