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). LIGHTINGS The Metropolis Gas Act received the royal assent on the 28th August, 1860: it contains fifty-seven clauses, many of them most important for the protection of public and private consumers. By the twenty-seventh section of the act (23 & 24 Vic., cap. 125) the vestry are required to provide apparatus for testing the illuminating power and purity of the gas, and to appoint a competent person as examiner; and by the same section the gas companies are required to erect, at a distance not less than one thousand yards from their works, experimental meters with the necessary apparatus for testing the illuminating power of the gas supplied. In alleged compliance with this requirement the London Gas light company have appointed a testing station at the house No. 73, Besborough Street, Pimlico. Mr. Hughes {8} observes with reference to this twenty-seventh section,—