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BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
XXII. Electric Lighting.
The Vestry having agreed to conditionally withdraw
its opposition to the application of the
Metropolitan Electric Supply Company (Limited)
for a Provisional Order for lighting the Parish,
appointed and authorised Col. C. H. Barchard, C.B.,
Col. H. F. Blair, R.E., together with the Vestry
Clerk and Surveyor, to deal with any points arising
on the form of the Provisional Order, and to agree
to same with such alterations as the Board of Trade
might approve.
On the approval of the Provisional Order an
agreement was entered into between the Vestry and
the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company (305
V.M.) setting forth the scale of charges for the
supply of Electrical Energy, and the Company is
now engaged in laying distributing mains and wires
in the streets set forth in the Paddington Electric
Lighting Order.
XXIII. Measures before Parliament.
Amongst the Bills introduced into Parliament
during the year, the following have received attention
by the Vestry.
Central London Railway.
Housing of the Working Classes.
Customs and Inland Revenue.
Infectious Diseases Prevention.