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until the general consumers had been reduced to 2s. 6d. per
1000. The present price paid this Company for the public
lamps is £3 2s. l0d. per lamp per annum with a discount of
£5 per cent, for prompt payment.
Highways a Locomotives Amendment Act, 1878.
The Board, (in November) received a letter from the
London County Council forwarding copies of their Bye-laws
under this Act and other Acts, relative to the licensing and
use of locomotives in the County of London, and requesting
that this Hoard would be good enough, if cases of infringement
of the Bye-laws came under their notice, to give information
thereof to the Council.
The Board directed their officers to report any such
cases of infringement, and that the request of the Council
be acceded to.
A complaint was made to the Board of the noise of
traction engines used on the highways, and in May they
passed a resolution directing that a clause be inserted in all
contracts for their works prohibiting the use of any locomotive
or traction engine for the conveyance of materials to
the works.
Improvements, Local.
The Board were in communication (in June) with the
London and Brighton Railway Company, with reference to
the Anerley railway bridge.
They were also in communication with the London
County Council with reference to an improved line of frontage
of the estate at the corner of Beckenham-road and Greenlane;
and improvements were effected, by arrangement with
the agents of the Earl of Dartmouth, in Dartmouth-row and
Morden-hill, Lewisham.
These matters will be found further referred to in the
Surveyor's report.
Local Government of the Metropolis.
The subject of the establishment of District Councils,