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by the Vestry, subject to certain conditions, but ow^ng to objections
raised elsewhere, both bills were withdrawn.
2. The South-Eastern Railway Company applied to Parliament
for power to purchase some W harf Property, and also some
House Property, in connection with the widening of their line
leading from Waterloo Bridge Road to Charing Cross. The
Vestry considered that a clause should be inserted in the Bill,
providing that the Company should recoil]) the Parish for the
Rates of any property taken by the Company until such property
was again brought into rating by works being erected
thereon, and accordingly instructed the Clerk to present a
Petition against the Bill.
The Company objected to the locus standi of the Vestry to
oppose the Bill. The matter was heard by the Standing Order
Committee, who refused to allow the Vestry to be heard against
the Bill, on the ground that the value of the property proposed
to be taken was not sufficient to give the Vestry the right to
oppose the Bill.
3. The United Telephone Company introduced a Bill into
Parliament, asking for further powers to place wires over, along,
across, and under the Roads of the Metropolis, not being of a
less height than 15 feet from the surface of the road, without
the consent of the Road Authority : and to place and maintain
posts upon roads, and wires under roads, under certain restrictions,
with power to a joint Committee appointed by the
Road Authorities of the City and the Metropolitan Board of
Works to make Bye-laws.
A Bill of a somewhat similar character was introduced into
Parliament in the year 1885, but was not proceeded with. At
that time, a Conference of Delegates from the various Metropolitan
Vestries and District Boards was held on the 16th April,
1885, at the Lambeth Vestry Hall. This Conference was held
on the invitation of the Vestry, and resolutions were passed in