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subway fit Air Street, and at this point the limits of deviation
include the footways and one house in Piccadilly
(Cording's). The footways and carriageways of Air Street,
as far as the north side of No. 3, Air Street, and Nos.
1, 2 & 3, Air Street. The residents and ratepayers in
Piccadilly and the vicinity presented a petition to the
Vestry asking them to oppose the scheme on general
grounds, and having regard to this Memorial and to the
desirability of obtaining the insertion of certain clauses
safeguarding the interests of the parishioners and protecting
the property of the Parish, and requiring the insertion of a
clause compelling the Company to pay rates on property
taken by them on the existing rateable value, until such
time as the undertaking of the Company shall be brought
into rating, the Vestry decided to present a petition against
the Bill and oppose the same by Counsel. The Vestry, in
common with other authorities, accordingly opposed the
Bill, by Counsel, before the Committee of the House of
Commons, to which it was referred, but the Committee
found the preamble of the Bill proved.
CITY AND WEST END RAILWAY BILL.
This Bill also received the attention of the Vestry, the
proposal being to construct an underground railway from
Hammersmith to the City of London, passing under the
carriageways of Piccadilly and Coventry Street in this
Parish. The scheme took in the limits of deviation the
whole of the carriageways of those thoroughfares, and it
was proposed to construct a station at Lemon Tree Yard,
the property proposed to be acquired extending from the
Criterion to the East side of the Haymarket, exclusive of
footway, and from Piccadilly to Jermyn Street, including