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and opening of the same for traffic, to all of which the
Vestry agreed, varying and altering any previous resolutions
accordingly.
The Company having obtained the above consents, the
Vestry naturally were anxious to see the fulfilment on the
Company's part of their promise to start running a service
of cars upon the existing lines from Rye Lane, Peckham, to
the Plough Tavern, Lordship Lane, and requested the Company
to inform them whether they intended to do so, and
drawing their attention to the delay in carrying out the
powers obtained by them. Receiving only a formal
acknowledgment, the Vestry subsequently passed the following
resolution:—
"That an application be made to the Board of Trade to
issue their order under the Tramways Act, 1870, declaring
the powers of the promoters of such Tramway to be at an
end. It being provided that where any such order has
been made the road authority (the Vestry) may at any time
after the expiration of two months from the date of such
order under the authority of a certificate to that effect by
the Board of Trade remove the tramway so discontinued,
and the promoters shall pay to the road authority the cost
of such removal and of the making good of the road by the
road authority, and if the promoters fail to pay such cost
within one month the road authority may sell the materials.
The Board of Trade having been in communication with
the Tramway Company in regard to the foregoing resolution,
enclosed a copy of a letter they had received from the
Company, which was as follows:—