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that on the breach by the Company of this condition the Order should
be cancelled.
(2.) That the cost of laying all mains in the public streets should be
borne by tho Company.
(3.) That all wires should be laid underground unless with the consent of
tho Vestry.
Tho Board of Trade appointed Major Marindin to hold an enquiry into
all the Electric Lighting Schemes for London, and postponed the consideration
of all tho Draft Orders until the Report of Major Marindin had been made.
The Enquiry was appointed to commence on the 3rd April, 1889, at the
Westminster Town Hall.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.
Under tho provisions of the Local Government Act, 1888 (51 and 52
Vict., Chapter 41), as from tho 1st April, 1889, or such earlier day as tho
Local Government Board might order, all the powers and duties of the
Metropolitan Board of AVorks created by the Metropolis Management Act,
1855, were to bo transferred to tho London County Council, to be elected
under the Act of 1888. By an order of the Local Government Board, dated
the 19th March, 1889, the 21st March, 1889, was appointed as the day for
the transfer to take effect, and on that day the Metropolitan Board ceased to
exist, and the London County Council took over its duties and held its first
Meeting.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
In February, 1889, Messrs. Caine, Lawrence, and Gent-Davis Commisisiouers
retired by ballot; Messrs. Caine and Lawrence were re-elected, and
Captain Charles "William Andrew was elected in the place of Mr. Gent-Davis.
The following Gentlemen are now the Commissioners to carry out the
powers of tho Act:—
The lion, and Rev. Canon Pelham, George Howlett, Esq.
Rector of Lambeth, Chairman Edwin Lawrence, Esq.
Captain Charles William Andrew Horace Brooks Marshall, Esq., J.P.
IMark H. Beaufoy, Esq., M.P. Evan Spicer, Esq.
W. S. Caine, Esq., M.P. William Stiff, Esq.