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between the "Company and the Vestry, to give notice of
their intention to break open the road or footway for the
purposes of Constant Supply in the Kent Water Company's
District, the said Company have agreed in future to give
all notices on behalf of the owners or occupiers, and to pay
the Vestry a unform charge of 2s. Gd. for each opening
made, whether in road or footway, in payment for subsequent
repairs.
The Special "Water Committee who invited, and had
the advantage of the assistance of Mr. Archibald Dobbs
subsequently received from him the following letter of which
the Vestry ordered 1,000 copies to be printed, and copies
forwarded to the Members of Parliament and London
County Council for the Borough, to the Vestries and
District Boards of South London, and that the ratepayers
of this parish who were consumers of the Lambeth Water
Company should be supplied with a copy on application.
To the Chairman and Members of the Special Water Committee
of the Vestry of St. Giles, Camberwell,
34, Westbourne Park, W.
19th May, 1802,
Dear Sirs,
At the recent interview which took place in consequence
of your invitation to me to attend and give information as
to the charge of ten shillings for each bath made by the
Lambeth Water Company, and the notices as to water rates
lately issued by your Parish, a wish was expressed by some
members of your Committee to take Counsel's opinion in a
formal way on a case stated, in order to lay it before the