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The Vestry of St. George and the Whitechapel District Board have been
requested to appoint Committees to confer with this Board upon the subject.
TRAMWAYS.
Notices have been given, and plans deposited, for the construction of
certain Tramways, to be called the Commercial Road (East) Tramways, and
also others to be called the North Metropolitan Tramways. This matter
was referred to the Works and Survey Committee, who determined that it was
expedient to oppose the Commercial Road (East) Tramway, it being a single
line of tramway, and support the North Metropolitan Tramway, it being a
double line of tramway.
I accordingly entered into communication with the Engineer to the North
Metropolitan Tramways Company, with the Trustees of the Commercial
Road, and with the Surveyors of the adj oining districts, through which the
tramway would pass, with a view to the insertion in the Bill of such
clauses as were necessary for the protection of the roads and traffic, and the
rights of the Board. It has been found expedient for the Board to formally
consent to the construction of the double line of tramway in the district, but
such consent has been given under reservation of, and without prejudice to,
the rights of the Board to stipulate for the insertion in the Act, or provisional
Order, authorizing such tramways, of all such clauses as they may
think necessary for the due protection of the roads and to prevent unnecessary
obstruction to the traffic therein, the Company having given to
the Board an undertaking in writing that the resolution of the Board should
not prejudice or affect their rights.
EAST LONDON RAILWAY BILL.
Notices have been given, and plans deposited by the East London Railway
Company, for power to authorize certain deviations from the original plans
and sections