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they deemed it unwise, at the present time, to further
increase the debts of the Metropolis for such a purpose.
The Bill has become law.
Metropolitan Streets Improvement Bill (1877).
This was a private Bill, introduced into Parliament by
the Metropolitan Board of Works, for the purpose of
enabling the Board to make certain new street improvements
within the Metropolis, the gross estimated cost of
which amounted to £4,566,040.
The Vestry, looking to the very heavy amount of the
existing debt of the Metropolis, protested against the Bill,
and also presented a Petition to Parliament against it.
The Bill has been passed.
Gaslight and Coke Company's Bill (1877).
By this Bill it was proposed to repeal Sections 30 and
51 of the Gaslight and Coke Company's Act, 1876, Section
30 imposing upon the gas referees the duty of prescribing
and certifying the maximum amount of impurity, in each
form, with which gas supplied by the Company shall be
allowed to be charged; and Section 51 imposing a forfeiture
of £50 for each station at which, on an average of three
days, the gas supplied by the Company is of less purity than
it ought to be under the Act.
The Vestry unanimously agreed to ask the Metropolitan
Board of Works to oppose this Bill, in the interests of the
Metropolis. The Metropolitan Board petitioned Parliament
against the Bill; and the Committee to which the Bill wa6
referred, reported the Preamble as not proven.