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PARLIAMENTARY SCHEMES.
The only Schemes for the Parliamentary Session of 1880, of which notices
were given to the Vestry, were as follows:—
1. A Bill for continuing the existing Tramway lines on Brixton Hill from
Water Lane to Telford Avenue. Certain conditions and stipulations were
required by the Vestry and were assented to by the Company, the necessary
alterations were made in the Bill during its progress through the House of
Commons, and the Bill afterwards passed through both Houses.
2. The South Eastern Railway Company introduced a Bill to give them
power to widen their Railway from Waterloo Bridge Road to Charing Cross.
The Vestry presented a Petition against the Bill, asking that proper
provisions should be inserted in the Bill to give the local Authorities
authority as to the construction and maintenance of the bridges aud other
works and for the payment of rates by the Company in respect of property
destroyed until the new line and works should be completed and brought
into rating. The Company opposed the locus standi of the Vestry before
the Court of Referees, but the Court deeided against the Company, aud
allowed the Vestry to appear and be heard on their Petition.
The Bill did not come on before the Committee of the House of Commons
prior to the end of the Parochial year.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
Although several Electric Lighting Companies gave notice of an intention
to apply for Paliamentary Powers to supply the whole or parts of the Parish
of Lambeth with Electric Light, under the Electric Lighting Acts, only two
Companies, viz. the London Electric Supply Corporation and the Metropolitan
Electric Supply Company, Limited, actually deposited Draft Orders under
the Act. In both cases the proposed area comprised the entire parish ; the
Vestry decided in January, 1889, that the Vestry itself would not apply for
a License or Order, but would oppose both Companies, with the view to
obtain from one or other Company clauses to carry out the three main points
considered by the Vestry to be essential, and such other protective clauses
and provisions as might be deemed necessary in the interests of the Parish.
The three main points desired by the Vestry were as follows:—
(1.) That the Company should he bound to lay down mains and supply
electricity in certain trunk streets within a definite time to be settled
by the Order, and in side streets when required either by the Vestry
or by a specified number of Owners or Occupiers in such streets, and