§ SIR JOHN SHELLEYasked the First Commissioner of the Board of Works al what period he expects that this bridge will be opened? also, whether it will be a toll-paying bridge, and if so, what is to be done with the tolls received after the expenses of keeping up the bridge has been defrayed?
§ SIR BENJAMIN HALLsaid, he hoped the bridge would be opened in August next. The Act of Parliament declared that it should be a toll-paying bridge, am also provided for the disposal of the toll received. They were to be applied in the first place to the maintenance of the bridge, next to paying the expenses of its construction, and lastly, if the time should ever arrive when there was a surplus, the surplus was to be paid into the fund for the purposes of metropolitan improvements.