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recovered, with the costs incurred, from the owner, or from the
occupier for the time being, in the same manner as water rates
may by law be recovered. In the event of the supply being
cut off the company will be liable to a penalty not exceeding
£o for each day during which the water shall remain cut off.
The Bill was read a second time on 25th July, 1887, and
received the Royal Assent on the 8th of August.
Mertopolitan Opan Spaces Act (1881) Extension BIll
This was a Bill introduced for extending to Urban
Sanitary Districts the facilities provided for making
available the open spaces and burial grounds in the Metropolis
for the use of the inhabitants for exercise and recreation.
It was passed in April, 1887.
corner^New This Bill, which was rejected last year, was restreets)
Bill, introduced, and sought again to throw upon
Metropolitan ratepayers generally a portion of the cost of
maintaining the streets at Hyde Park Corner. The Vestry,
on the 2nd March last, decided to petition against the Bill,
considering that such cost should be met, in the usual
way, by the parish in which the streets in question were
situated. The Bill was amended, as desired by this and
several other Local Authorities of the Metropolis, and, as
altered, received the Royal Assent on the 5th July, 1887.
BILLS IN PARLIAMENT (PRIVATE).
The Private Bills, introduced into Parliament this
session, affecting this Parish, will be found dealt with in
the Surveyor's Report on pages 15 to 19, and are as
follows :—
West London Extension and Surrey Commercial Docks
Railway.
Peckham and East Dulwich Tramways Bill.