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"Resolved, that no opposition be offered to the Company's application for an
"extension of time for six months, for the appropriation and deposit of Capital."
Subsequently the Vestry received notice from the Board of Trade that the Board
had revoked the Rotherhithe Electric Lighting Order, 1883, as confirmed by the
"Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 6) Act, 1883, as from the 11th day of
August, 1884, and that such revocation was to take effect from that date.
Miscellaneous.
Upon the introduction into Parliament in the Session 1883 of the Southwark and
Vauxhall Water Bill, the Vestry presented a Petition to the House of Commons
praying for the insertion of a Clause in the said Bill to the effect that the ater
Company be compelled to charge Water-rates upon the net rateable value of houses
instead of upon the gross value thereof.
The said Bill was ultimately thrown out of the House of Commons.
On the 2nd October, 1883, the attention of the Vestry was called to the action
taken by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for the purchase of "Acorn Wharf,"
Rotherhithe Street, as a depot for the purpose of conveying Fever and Small pox
Patients from the Metropolis to Floating Hospitals on the River Thames at Long
Reach, and it was
"Resolved, that in the opinion of this Vestry, the site selected is totally unfitted
"for the purpose, as well on account of its situation as of the difficulties of access, and
"for other good reasons, and that a Deputation, consisting of the Chairman and four
"Members of the Vestry, be appointed to wait upon the President of the Local
"Government Board, to express to him the views of the Vestry on the subject, with
"the view of inducing the Local Government Board to refuse their sanction to the
"proposed purchase, and that the Members for the Borough of Southwark be invited
"to accompany such Deputation."
The following gentlemen were appointed as such Deputation, viz.:—Messrs. George
Mabbs, John Bulmer, Francis John Bisley, and Lawrence Stevens, Mr. Robert Foottit,
Churchwarden, and the Rev. Edward Josselyn Beck, Rector, the Chairman.
1 he Joint Deputation ot this Meeting and of the Guardians of St. Olave's Union
waited upon Sir Charles Dilke, the President of the Local Government Board, on the
24th October, 1883, and urged that the Board would refuse their sanction to the proposal
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board to acquire Acorn Wharf, Rotherhithe Street,
for a landing stage for the shipment of patients to the Hospital Ships at Long Reach.
The Deputation was introduced to Sir Charles Dilke by Mr. Arthur Cohen, the Member
for the Borough of Southwark, and the Deputation having been heard and a Memorial,
signed by a large number of residents in the parish, against the scheme having been
presented.
Sir Chaklrs Dilke, in his reply, pointed out the difficulties there were in procuring
a site for the purpose, and that no alternative site for the landing stage had been