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28 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
to the Yestry for Electrical Energy supplied to all
buildings belonging to the Yestry, the lighting of
which is paid for out of the Rates, has been
reduced from 7^d. to 7d. per Board of Trade unit.
Col. Barchard and Col. Blair have also been successful
in compelling the Metropolitan Electric Supply
Company to keep separate accounts of undertakings
authorised by different Provisional Orders, notwithstanding
the application of the Company in question
to the Board of Trade to be relieved from such
obligation. The Vestry expressed satisfaction at
the steps taken by Col. Barchard and Col. Blair.
XXIX. Electric Lighting Vestry Hall.
It having been decided to light the Yestry
Hall by means of Electricity, tenders were invited,
and that of Mr. Conolly, of 42, Hampstead Road,
was accepted. A conversazione in commemoration
of the installation was held in the Vestry Hall
premises on the 10th December last. (See also
page 85.)
XXX. Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which
came into operation on the 1st of January, 1892,
has cast upon the Vestry as the Sanitary Authority
additional duties and responsibilities. This important
measure is in the main a consolidating Act, and