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14th Section. The Company may maintain a tramway across the road No. 2.
The Company are to give 21 days' notice before making sewers with plans, and 21 days is
allowed for the approval of the Council and Vestry.
Ten years are allowed for the completion of the Works.
New dwellings to be provided before old are displaced.
Conditions of Secretary of State may be enforced by mandamus.
If the Company acquire any house or houses in contravention of the Act, they are liable to
a penalty of £500 recoverable by the Secretary of State.
The Court may reduce the penalty.
The Secretary of State may direct any inquiries by the Local Government Board under the
Public Health Act, 1875, and appoint inspectors, the Company to pay all expenses.
All buildings are to be subject to the Metropolitan Buildings and Metropolis Management
Act, 1855.
The Secretary of State may dispense with the provisions as to dwellings when houses empty
or subject. Land for dwellings to be appropriated for 25 years.
29th Section. Power to raise £350,000 additional capital.
This I think is all that the Bill generally provides for, but as I only had the Bill in the
middle of yesterday there may be matters that have escaped my attention, owing to limited time
allowed.
I am, Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
GEO. LEGG.
To the Vestry of Rotherhithe.
It was resolved upon the recommendation of the Committee—That the Committee confer
with the Directors of the Company, with the view of the extension of section 21 of the Bill, so
as to include all houses taken, and accommodation being provided for all persons displaced.
That the Clerk be instructed to take all necessary steps to protect the interests of the
Vestry, and in recovering an equivalent from the Company for loss of rates during the progress
and construction of the works, and that he be authorised to instruct Messrs. Roberts and Chubb,
Parlimentary Agents, to watch the progress of the Bill through its various stages through the
House of Commons (if necessary).