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them the plans of the City and South London
Railway, (Islington Extension). The line, if constructed,
would only affect a small part of the
roadway in Clerkenwell at the Junction of City and
Goswell Roads, and the Vestry gave its consent to
the application.
Electric Lighting.—In June letters were received
from the Brush Electric Engineering
Company, Messrs. Sharp & Kent, 34, Victoria
Street, The County of London Electric Lighting
Company, and the Camberwell and Islington
Electric Light and Power Company, giving
statutory notice of their respective intentions to
apply to the Board of Trade for Provisional Orders
to supply electricity within the area of the Parish
of Clerkenwell.
In October a letter was received from Mr.
Sydney Morse, the Solicitor of the Brush Electrical
Engineering Company, Limited, to which last
Session a Provisional Order was granted, stating
that by the terms of the order, separate accounts were
to be kept by the undertakers, both of the capital
employed in and the revenue resulting from such
undertaking, and audited by a Public Officer, these
accounts being also intended to be used in connection
with a revision of the authorised price,
under the 33rd Clause of the order, and that it is
found in practice that these conditions can only
be satisfactorily fulfilled by a Company not interested
in any other business than the supply of
electricity from central stations; that therefore the
Brush Company having other business, had registered
a Company under the name of the County of
London Electric Lighting Company, Limited, for
the purpose of carrying out the works, under the
order granted last year to the Brush Electrical