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Your Committee then recommended that the Vestry
Clerk make application to the Company to ascertain
what steps they intended taking, having regard to this
decision.
With regard to the £3,000 Loan for the paving of the
margins in Rye Lane, which work was to have been carried
out by the Contractors to the Company, Messrs. Dick,
Kerr & Co., your Vestry Clerk had, upon hearing of the
interim injunction being granted, written to the Solicitor of
the County Council asking that the loan might be deferred
until after the trial of the action, or the decision as to the
right to construct the line, and, if necessary, that his request
might be referred to the Finance Committee.
In reply a letter was received from the AssistantSolicitor
to the Council, stating that the Finance Committee
had recommended the Council to cancel the cheque drawn
for the amount of the loan, leaving the Vestry to apply
again if, and when, they are in a position to take up
the loan.
Your Committee recommended, and the Vestry adopted
the following:—
That upon the Contractor for the London, Camberwell
and Dulwich Tramways Company being empowered, and
commencing the construction of the tram line in Rye Lane,
application be made to the London County Council to take
up the loan of £3,000 when required by the Vestry.
A letter was received in October from the Secretary
to the London, Camberwell and Dulwich Tramways Company,
regretting the decision of the Attorney-General, and