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taking, so as to open up and improve the communication
with East Dulwich, negociations have been proceeding
throughout the year, as follows:—
In July last a letter was received from the
Board of Trade enclosing a letter from the London, Camberwell
and Dulwich Tramways Company, stating that the
Company, after a General Meeting which stood adjourned
to the 13th July in order to enable the Directors to prepare
a scheme to proceed with the undertaking, failing which
the Company would be forthwith wound up and re-constructed.
Then followed another letter from the Board of
Trade enclosing copy of a further communication from the
Company, stating that the Directors were unable to come
to a decision owing to the draft agreement which had been
sent them not being altogether satisfactory.
This latter communication was before the Vestry in
August last, and nothing further was received from the
Company, but in November, your Committee being impatient
for the welfare of East Dulwich, seeing the state
ot stagnation into which this Tramway matter had fallen,
and no cars having been, as promised, put upon the lines
already laid, they again urged upon the Vestry the
necessity of directing the attention of the Board of
Trade to the matter requesting the Board to carry out the
desire of the Vestry of the 19th March, 1890, which was to
the following effect: That the Board of Trade be asked to
issue their order under the Tramways Act, 1870, declaring
the powers of the promoters of such tramway to be at an
end. This request was accordingly forwarded.