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6th.—That in the event of the Gas Company objecting
to the adoption of these suggestions, the Meter
system be adopted.
These resolutions were communicated to the Gas
Light and Coke Company, and The London Gas Light
Company. The former Company declined to accede to
the conditions sought to be imposed, and gave notice
under the 38 sec. of the City of London Gas Act, 1868,
of their intention to apply to the Gas Referees, to prescribe
and certify the mode of ascertaining the quantity of Gas
consumed by the public Lamps. The London Company
have offered to arrange for a reduction in the number of
lighting hours, and a proportionate reduction in the charge
per Lamp per annum.
The whole matter is now referred to a Committee for
consideration and arrangement.
Proposed Rochester Row Improvement.
The Vestry during the year joined with the Board of
Works for the Westminster District, in Memorializing the
Metropolitan Board of Works to carry out as a Metropolitan
Improvement, the Improvement of the approach
between Rochester Row and Victoria Street, either by
widening Strutton Ground, or by continuing Artillery
Row into Rochester Row, and widening the short street
known as Old Rochester Row.
The Metropolitan Board informed the Vestry, in reply,
that they saw no reason to depart from the decision
arrived at, on a previous memorial of the Westminster
Board, namely, that the Improvement is not one which
should be undertaken by the Board at the cost of the
Metropolis at large: but that it is a local Improvement,