MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, At the Meeting of the Council held in the Board Room, No. 23, Kiangse Road, Shanghai, on Monday, the 22nd August, 1881, at 9 o'clock a.m, Present:—Messrs, B. R. Hearn (Chairman), Fredk. Bridge, E. Moses, J. F. Rodewald, W. C. Ward, A. G, Wood, and the Secretary.
The Minutes of the previous meeting are read, confirmed, signed by the Chairman, and pasted for publication, Cash Stutement, for week ending 20th inst., is submitted, and cheques for sundry accounts are signed, Foochow Road,—Widening between Kiangse and Honan Roads.—The following correpondence is ordered to be published Shanghai, 16th August, 1881, Dear Srr,—According to enclosed plan we will be glad to surrender to the Council the ground for pathway on the Foochow Road, by the end of current year, for the eum of Taels eight hundred and'ten. he value of the ground being Tls. 610 (Mr. Kingsmil did not allow eight feet at the corner of Honan Road), and for putting back godown wall, Tls. 200, Our tenant, Kwang Loong, does not wish to give up his portion of the ground, but we think if the Council were to pri im he will submit, and as his lease runs for eight years more, we should think it advisable to adopt such a measure, Wo remain, Dear Sir, Youre faithfully, Davin Sassoox, Sons & Ca, B Chance, Esq, Municipal Surveyor, Shanghai.
Shanghai, 23rd August, 1881.
Genres,—I have to acknowledge receipt Surveyor in reply, I'am directed to of your letter of 16th mat,, ad to
that the Council will be glad to accept your offer to surrender to them at the end of this year a strip of your lots 26 and 26a to enable therm to contiuite the pathway in the Foochow \d, between the Kiangse and Honan Toads, Lhe whole length of th trip, according to the plan which accom pa ies your letter, is 211 feet, but as your te refuses to surrender lot 26a unless he is paid th moving back his bull on it, the Council would prefer to let this part stand over until his lease expires, or until he agrees to accept some wore reseouable sum for altering the buildings The strip to be surrendered at the end of the year will therefore be 151 x4.6, for which the Council will be glad to pay you at the assessed value of Tis, 4,000 por movw, with the Can ional sum of Ti. 200 for moving back walls.
Tam, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Secretary.
To Messrs. Davi Sassoox, Soxs & Ca.
Siking Road—Agreement between Real Property Association and late Mr. £. M. Smith.—Correspondence submitted with Property Association and the Administrators to the Estate of the late Mr. E. M. Smith, regarding an alleged infringement by the latter of the agreement entered into on the 22nd April, 1875, by which they became mutually bound under a penalty of Tls. 10,000 to be paid to the Coune il, nut to build Chinese houses fronting the Siking Road. The Adminis-fate that they have only opened in a foreign house, windows looking into Toad, which they do not consider an infringement of the agreement, and the
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