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Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway
Bill.
In the Session of 1894 an Act was passed conferring
powers for the construction of a Railway from Charing
Cross to Hampstead with a branch to Euston. The time
within which the promoters were entitled to exercise their
compulsory powers having expired a Bill was introduced
for the extension of the same. From an examination of
the proposed measure there did not appear to be anything
in its provisions prejudicial to the interests of the District
and no action was therefore taken on the Bill, which has
since passed into law, but no steps have yet been taken
towards the construction of the proposed Railway.
Superannuation.—Metropolis Bill.
The question of the superannuation of Officers is one
which has always occasioned much anxiety to Local
Anthorities. By an Act passed in the year 1866 power
was conferred upon Local Authorities, if they thought fit,
to grant superannuation allowances to their Officers, but
no provision was contained in the Act requiring Officers to
contribute towards a Superannuation Fund. In the year
1896 a measure for granting compulsory rights of superannuation
to Poor Law Officers throughout the United
Kingdom received the Royal assent, and in the course of the
present session a Bill has been introduced which proposes
to amend the Act of 1866 by bringing its provisions
relating to the superannuation of Officers of Vestries and
District Boards and other Parochial Bodies into line with
those of the Poor Law Officers, by removing the uncertainty,
and at the same time by requiring Officers of such