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interests of the District. When the Bill came before
the Committee of the House of Commons clauses were
agreed with the promote'rs with respect to the widening
of the Greyhound Lane bridge and the approaches
thereto, and as to interference with the Board's sewers.
A clause was also agreed with the promoters and the
trustees of the Crooke Ellison estate and of the
Du Cane estate respecting the widening of the bridge
between Greyhound Lane and the parish boundary, to
the effect that the sum of £1,500 shall be paid to the
Board towards the cost of such widening, and land is
to be given up by the Company in order to form a road
which will provide a means of communication between
the two sides of the railway. The Board also endeavoured
to secure the insertion in the Bill of a
provision that until the new railway shall come into
rating the general,sewers, and lighting rates shall be paid
in respect of 44 houses which are within the limits of
deviation, but the Committee decided that there were
not sufficient special circumstances in the case to justify
them in extending the general rule of law.
City and South
London Railway.
This Bill provides for the construction of
sidings from the terminus of the authorised
line in High Street, Clapham, along Clapham Common
South Side, to a point opposite the junction of roads
leading to Wandsworth and Old Town. The promoters
having agreed to insert in the Bill the clauses which
the Board thought necessary for the protection of the
interests of the District, the opposition to the Bill was
withdrawn.
SuDerannuation
(Metropolis)
This Bill applies only to the officers of
Vestries and District Boards and other
parochial bodies included in the provisions of the Metropolis
Superannuation Act of 1866. The Act of 1866 gives
to such officers superannuation allowances subject to
the discretion of the Vestry or District Board under