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The Sale of Food and Drugs Act will, if passed as
drawn, render nugatory many of the forms, &c., which
the Vestry have had prepared. The Vestry considered
some of the clauses so objectionable that they caused special
representation to bo made to the Home Secretary.
In addition to the public Bills before mentioned, there
have been numerous private Bills which required even
more careful attention than the public Bills, as the proceedings
in connection therewith do not receive so much
public attention.
In the Session of 1874 there was
(1) The Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion
and Eastern Extension Railway.
And in the present Session there arc
(2) Aldgato and Bow Railway.
(3) East Metropolitan Railway.
(4) Great Eastern Railway.
(5) Regents Canal and Dock.
(6) Commercial Gas Bill.
The idea of the promoters of the scheme No. 1 was
twofold, first to complete the inner circle, and secondly
to have an arm running: down the centre of the Whitechapel,
Mile End, and Bow Roads to the North London
Railway at Bow. The first part of the scheme was
passed but not the second.
The promoters of the schemes, Nos. 2 and 3, both
proposed to have a lino running down the centre of the
last-mentioned roads, but the scheme No. 2 was thrown
out on standing orders, and No. 3 was abandoned.
The Great Eastern Railway propose to provide what
has long been a great necessity, and that is a station at
Devonshire Street.
The Regents Canal and Dock Bill, so far as it affects
this Hamlet, consists in tho widening of tho canal in