Council Meeting – 6th October 1898
Forty-ninth Meeting of the Parish Council held in the School Room, Great Longstone,
on Thursday, October 6th, 1898.
Present:
Mr S. Johnson, Chairman.
Messrs W. R. Pilling Dixon, J. Johnson, H. A. Spanton, and C. H. Buzzard, Clerk.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
The Clerk having read a letter received from G. T. Wright Esq. re Gilder Quarry, it was resolved that the Clerk should again write referring him to the letter from the Council of August 25th, 1898.
A letter having been received from Mr Hawes, Clerk to the Rural District Council, respecting the land required for the Out-fall Works for the proposed Sewage Scheme, also a suggestion respecting the closing of a footpath running through the Estate of G. F. Marples Esq. of Thornbridge, and the diversion of two other paths on the same estate, the following two resolutions were unanimously carried, and the Clerk was ordered to forward them to Mr Hawes:
Proposed by Mr H. A. Spanton, seconded by Mr W. R. Pilling Dixon — “That this Council hereby gives its consent to the closing of the Public Footpath over High Low Meadows of Mr Marples, and will as compensation give to the Parish of Great Longstone the land required for the Out-fall Works in connection with the proposed Drainage Scheme, together with the sum of one thousand pounds (£1,000) sterling.”
December 5th, 1898
Samuel Johnson
Chairman
