Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Appointed Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855: 1860-1

by Charles Lahee

Office of Works, &c., S.W.,
31st May, 1861.

Sir,—I am directed by the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c., to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th instant, transmitting copy of a resolution of the Committee of Works and General Purposes of St. Luke, Chelsea, approved by the Vestry in regard to the portion of the Chelsea Bridge Road, in that parish, and I am to state that this Board are advised by counsel that a mandamus against the parochial authorities will be the proper course to be adopted to compel the performance by the latter of the duties which the legislature has imposed upon them with respect to the road in question; but that if the parochial authorities think that the matter in dispute can be more speedily and satisfactorily settled, and at less expense by means of a special case, and will be good enough to transmit to this Board the draft of such a case, it shall receive immediate attention; the bad state of the road makes it, however, not merely desirable but necessary, that the opinion of a court of competent jurisdiction should be obtained as soon as possible.

I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Alfred Austin,
Secretary.

C. Lahee, Esq.

APPENDIX No. 10
LIGHTING.

To the Justices for the County of Middlesex.

The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex,

Sheweth,

That an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, intituled ‘An Act for Regulating Measures used in the Sales of Gas.’

By that Act provision was made for securing to every consumer of gas throughout the kingdom an accurate instrument of measurement for the gas he had to pay for, which was most grievously required by the community, and the means appointed for applying the benefits of that Act to the very large body of gas consumers in the county of Middlesex, is that the justices of the county should appoint an inspector or inspectors, and determine the number of copies of the model gasholders to be stamped at the Exchequer Office for the use of such inspectors.