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tramway in that portion of the thoroughfare. It appears
however that a part of the carriage-way of Rye Lane
between Choumert Road and High Street has been widened
by the setting back of the footways, and it has been
represented to the Council that the Vestry of Camberwell
has passed a resolution, under seal, that the widening
of Rye Lane between the points above referred to has been
carried out to the satisfaction of the Vestry. That he had
been directed by the Highways Committee of the Council
to ask whether the Vestry accepts this widening of the
carriage-way of a part of Rye Lane by means of reducing
the width of the footways as a sufficient compliance with
the requirements of the Section of the Act above referred
that no part of Tramway No. 1 of this Act authorised shall
be constructed unless and until Rye Lane shall have been
widened to the satisfaction of the local and road authorities
within whose district it is situate."
Your Committee recommended:—"That the Vestry
Clerk be instructed to inform the Council that the plan of
the tramway deposited in Parliament and the book of
reference thereto in 1884, on the introduction of the Bill,
does not show any widening of Rye Lane between High
Street, Peckham, and Choumert Road, inasmuch as the
widening only commenced in such plan between Choumert
Road and Sternhall Lane. The Vestry consider that the
intent and meaning of the Act of Parliament had been
carried out in reference to that part of Rye Lane, and gave
its sanction to the Tramway being made from High Street
to Choumert Road, having regard to the great advantage a
Tramway would be to the inhabitants of East Dulwich."
The Company have entered into an agreement under