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The Decease and Retirement of Members.
Mr. Joseph Lough, of No. 69, Great Queen Street, for
some years an active member of the Board, died in the
month of February last. The Board received the intelligence
of his decease with sincere regret, and offered their
sympathy with his widow and family.
The Board also have to regret the retirement of George
Evelyn Cower, Esq., of Tavistock Street, Bedford Square,
by reason of declining health. Mr. Cower was a very
intelligent and active member for several years past, and
his withdrawal is in consequence much felt.
Railway Bills of the present Session.
The Plans and Notices deposited with this Board were—
1st. The Central Metropolitan Railway, from the Metropolitan
Railway, King's Cross Station, through Southampton
Row, Great Queen Street, Long Acre, and Parliament
Street, to the Victoria Railway Station.
2nd. The Mid-Metropolitan Railway, from Uxbridge
Road to the Minories, through Holborn and Oxford
Street.
The Bill of the first-mentioned Company was petitioned
against by 26 owners and occupiers on the line, and
amongst them by this Board, and was rejected on the
second reading in the House of Commons without a
division.
The other Company, viz., the Mid-Metropolitan Railway,
fell through, owing to the promoters failing to make
the usual Parliamentary deposit.