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The Vestry decided that such Memorandum should be
printed, and that the Overseers should be requested to
circulate the same with the Demand Note for rates. This
was done accordingly.
The Special Committee also considered a letter from
Mr. Washington Lyon, as to the action of the Kent Water
Company, in regard to the opening up of public roads and
pathways for the constant supply.
It was ascertained that under the present arrangements
in force, each owner or occupier has to make a separate
application for a license to open the ground, and pay into
the Vestry a deposit of 20s. before the required work could
be put in hand, and the balance (if any) of the costs of
repairs, was returned to the owners.
The Committee found that the practice of the Kent
Water Company was different to that of either the Lambeth,
Southwark and Vauxhall, or South Metropolitan Gas
Company, who make an exclusive charge to the owners for
this purpose, and the Vestry execute the work and charge
cost of same to the respective Companies, thus relieving the
owners from the trouble of attending the Vestry Hall, and
the payment of deposits.
The Surveyor at the direction of the Committee subsequently
had an interview with the Secretary and Engineer
of the Kent Water Company, and came to the following
arrangement, of which the Vestry approve.
Kent Company That to obviate the annoyance and loss of
Constant
Supply, time which has hitherto been caused by the
existing arrangement, viz., that of the Ratepayers traversing