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with, it being held that it should have been introduced
as a public Bill. The two other Bills have not yet
been read a second time.
London, Brighton and south cosat Raiiway This Bill provides amongst other things for
widening of the Portsmouth main line
between Mitcham Lane and Eardley Road ;
the widening of the West End and Crystal Palace line
near Cavendish Road ; and the construction of a subway
under the railway in lieu of the footbridge from Potter's
Lane to Eardley Road. The Board petitioned against
the Bill with the view of obtaining the insertion of
clauses providing for an increased size of the proposed
subway, for its being drained, faced with white glazed
bricks, lighted, and paved ; and for the prohibition of
advertisement bills or posters therein ; and conditions
with regard to the footpath between the subway and
the footbridge over the railway between Streatham and
Streatham Common Stations; also for the new bridge
over Cavendish Road being constructed as a girder
bridge, with a clear span of 40-feet, and for the reconstruction
of the existing bridge there if required by
and at the expense of the Board, and for other provisions.
After negociations with the Railway Company
the clauses were agreed, and the Board's petition
against the Bill was withdrawn.
country of London and Brush provincial Electric Lighting company Limited This Bill provided, amongst other things, for
the acquisition of property at the Causeway,
Wandsworth, the abstraction of water from
the River Wandle, and for laying cables
across the River Thames under Putney and
Wandsworth Bridges. The Bill would also confer
power on the Company to lay electric lines, &c., in no
less than 15 parishes and districts outside their areas of
supply; and would authorise the Company to have one
annual statement of accounts in respect of all their