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instead of at the point shewn on the deposited plan, such consent
not to prejudice the loots standi of the Board to appear Wfore the
Parliamentary Committee, for procuring the insert ion of such clauses
as the Board may think necessary for the protection of the district
Petitions were presented to the Board in favour of the scheme,
signed by employers of labour and others interested in the trade of
the Isle of Dogs, and by owners, occupiers of premises in the West
India Dock Road, and by workmen employed in the Isle of Dogs ;
and also a petition signed by a large number of Ratepayers, in the
parishes of Poplar and Linn-house. The Board approved the
recommendations of the Committee.
Subsequently a letter was received from the Secretary of the
East and West India Dock Company, to the effect that the Company
were informed that this Board had virtually given their consent
to the Bill, and also stating that by the Hill it was proposed to widen
the Company's existing bridges, which were incapable of being
widened without re-construction, and that the Company) Mould consent
to no arrangement which did not provide entirely new bridges,
and would petition against the Bill. The Dock Company were
informed in reply, that the Board had given their consent to the
Bill, only so far as it related to the Limehouso District.
The Solicitors to the Bill wrote, asking the Board to appoint a
Deputation to wait on the Metropolitan Board of Works to support
the Bill, and a Deputation was appointed, but a further letter was
received from Messrs. Sutton & Ominauney, stating that the Metropolitan
Board had refused to give their consent to the Tramways,
and asking this Board to refuse their consent to the North Metropolitan
Company's Scheme.
The Board declined to give their consent to the North Metropolitan
Company's Scheme, and passed a resolution requesting the
Poplar Board to join this Board in presenting a memorial to the
Metropolitan Board, asking them to reconsider their decision with
reference to the East London Tramways Company's Bill, and the
Poplar Board replied, that the whole of their Board would attend
as a Deputation in support of the Memorial.