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These applications were referred by you to a Special
Committee of your Board to consider and report upon, and
011 the recommendation of that Committee, your Board
resolved to oppose the various Orders before the Board
of Trade, with the view of obtaining such amendments in
the same as were considered advisable; this course was
adopted, and after considerable negotiations with the Companies
and the Board of Trade, and after a "Local Enquiry,"
held by an inspector appointed by that Board, it resulted
in Provisional Orders being granted by the Board of Trade
to enable two of the said companies, viz., The Metropolitan
Brush Electric Light Company, Limited, and the
Pilseu Joel and General Electric Light Company, Limited,
to light certain areas within the St. Giles District, and the
other two companies referred to withdrawing their Orders.
These Provisional Orders require confirmation by the
Legislature, and will then become law.
Drinking Fountain, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
The Drinking Fountain presented to the Metropolitan
Drinking Fountains Association by Mrs. Philip Twells was
erected, by permission of the Board, at the south-east
angle of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and was opened to the use
of the public on the 21st August, 1882.
Contracts.
The following is a list of the Contracts entered into by
the Board and now in force :—