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LIBRARY RATE.
To enable the Commissioners, if possible, to avail of Mr. Henry
Tate's generous offer of a Central Library at Brixton (which offer
was contingent on the abolition of the limit of the Rate to ½d.),
a requisition from the Ratepayers and Voters of the Parish was
made to ascertain the opinion of the Voters, whether the then
existing limitation of the Rate should be withdrawn. A poll of
the Parish was consequently taken, with the following result: To
the question, "Are you in favour of the existing limitation of the
Rate under the Libraries Act being removed? "the answers were
“ Yes" 9662; "No" 9288, or a majority of 374 in favour of the
limitation being removed. A demand was therefore made upon
the Overceers to the full legal limit of id. in the
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
The applications for Provisional Orders made by the London
Electric Supply Co-operation, Limited, and the Metropolitan
Electric Supply Company, Limited, were subsequently abandoned,
but orders were obtained by the other two Companies, viz., the
House to House Electric Light Supply Company for the whole of
the Parish, and the Electric Construction and Maintenance
Company. Limited, for a very small part of the Southern end of
the Parish.
BROCKWELL PARK.
The purchase of this park was completed by the London County
Council, and the site secured as an open space for the free use of
the public. The contribution of the Vestry of £20,000 was paid
to the London County Council, the money being borrowed from
the Council, to be repaid by the Vestry by fifty annual instalments
£400 each. The park, which since its acquisition by the
Council has been accessible to the public, has not yet been
formally opened.