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Second reading, Wednesday, March 15th.
Your Committee resolved:—That this Vestry support
this Bill.
The Vestry approved this Bill.
Introduced by Sir J. Blundell Maple.
The object of this Bill is to remove some of the
difficulties in the housing of the working classes by making
provision for cheaper means of communication between
London and the outer suburbs.
The legislature, by the Cheap Trains Act, 1883, 46
and 47 Vic., cap. 34, requires railway companies to provide
proper and sufficient workmen's trains at such fares and at
such times between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. as may appear to the
Board of Trade to be reasonable.
This Bill is confined to companies having a terminus
in London, and its object is to fix for passengers by all
workmen's trains arriving at the terminus before 8 a.m.
from any station within 20 miles of the terminus, a maximum
return fare, not exceeding 5 miles, 2d.; exceeding 5
and not exceeding 10 miles, 4d.; exceeding 10 and not
exceeding 15 miles, 6d.; exceeding 15 and not exceeding 20
miles, 8d.
Your Committee resolved:—That the Vestry support
this Bill.
This recommendation was approved by the Vestry.
Committed to a Select Committee.
Brought in by Mr. Bolton.
Section 1 of this Bill provides that if consent to assign
or underlet be required it is not to be unreasonably withheld.
Cheap Trains
(London) Bill.
Leasehold Law
Amendment Bill