text:  The Report is dated 1837:-- "The cost of the last five years having been L16 881 The present expense for 1837 about 2 000 The required outlay 4 000 And the cleansing for 1837 900 ------ Gives a total for six years of L23 781 "Or an annual expenditure averaging L3963; so that the future expenses of Oxford Street maintained as a Macadamized carriage-way would be about L4000 or 2s