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The Bill to which these plans related, viz.:—the London,
Brighton and South Coast Railway (Various Powers) Bill, dealt
with the widening and improvement of the railway at Victoria,
Battersea, &c., and contained clauses which would, if the bill
passed into law, authorize the Company to deal with the following
matters:—
The stopping up of the footpath on the southern side of the
West London Extension Railway leading from Falcon
Road to Clapham Junction, &c.
The closing of Prested Road, St. John's Hill.
The widening of the line under St. John's Hill, the new
bridge recently constructed by the Vestry adjoining the
Royal Masonic Institution for Girls, Wandsworth
Common, and the bridge, Bellevue Road.
The acquisition of the whole of the land, houses, and
roadway situated between the existing lines of the
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Culvert
Road, and the West London Extension Railway, and
the closing of cartway entrance from Culvert Road to the
Vestry's Dust Depot.
The Bill having been duly considered, the Vestry decided to
petition against the same praying to be heard by Counsel with a
view to the insertion of clauses for the protection of the Vestry
and for the improvement of so much of the archway in Culvert
Road as belongs to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Company, to which reference has already been made on
page 29 of this report.
Revision of Bye-Laws. The Bye-Laws and Standing Orders of the Vestry
underwent revision during the period covered by this
report, and many material alterations and amendments were
made.
Wages of Workmen in the employ of the Vestry. The Vestry at their Meetings on the 12th and 19th
February, considered the question of the wages of
the workmen in their employ, and after fully debating
the matter, adopted a scale regulating the future payment of
wages.