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,
Humbly Sheweth,
That the Vestry aforesaid, believing that the admission of the riding public into Kensington Gardens, however it may conduce to the recreation of equestrians, is inconsistent with the comfort and the safety of the public in general who visit the gardens, and that the riding public have already great and numerous facilities for horse exercise, pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct that the Royal Gardens may be restored to their former and long established state, and that pedestrians only may be admitted thereto, as heretofore.