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(b) PRIVATE BILLS.
The following Private Bills affected the District of the
Board, and the subjoined particulars will therefore be
interesting.
HAMPSTEAD, ST. PANCRAS AND CHARING CROSS RAILWAY.
This was a scheme for providing a railway from Hampstead
to Charing Cross; it proposed, so far as the Board's District
was concerned, to run beneath Tottenham Court Road and
Charing Cross Road.
The question of electric and cable railways in the Metropolis
received special attention at the hands of a joint committee
of both Houses of Parliament, who in a report made
certain recommendations.
After the consideration of this report the Bill was read a
second time and referred to a Select Committee, but up to
the time of writing this report no progress has been made
with it.*
NORTH METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS EXTENSION.
The North Metropolitan Tramways Company were desirous
of extending their Tramway from Theobald's Road
along Vernon Place, Bloomsbury Square, Hart Street and
into Bury Street, to a terminus adjoining New Oxford
Street. A very influentially signed memorial protesting
against the scheme was presented to the Board, and having
regard to all the circumstances of the case the Board decided
to refuse its consent, and the Promoters were therefore
unable to comply with the standing orders of the
House of Commons, and were obliged to strike their proposals
out of the Bill.
* The Bill has, in consequence of the dissolution of Parliament, been
deferred to the next Session of Parliament.
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