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In fact this Company would run all the risk of the demand being insufficent
to pay expenses and interest on capital expended in your District and if result
were successful your Vestry would have the full right to take it over so soon as the
success of the undertaking was assured
In conclusion, we desire to pint out that the grant of an Order to us would
not prevent your obtaining an Order yourselves at any time should you see fit to
apply to the Board of Trade for it, an we beg to assure too thai is making
application for your district at bars every intention of earning oat the work at
the earliest possible dale and of undertaking the apply within your district This
being the care, we trust you trill again refer the matter to your lighting Committee,
and that they may favour ably report upon oar application.
Your faithfully,
The County of London and Brush Provincial
Electric Lighting Company, Limited.
(Signed) H. B. KESWICK.
The Clark also reported that plans had bean deposited at the Vestry Offices, shoving
the area to which the proposed Provisional Order related.
The Vestry Resolved—That the resolution of the Committee be approved and
no further action be taken.
Employees (Aged and Infirm).
On 1st December, 1896 the General Purposes and Works Committee reported having
considered a report of the Surveyor as to the illness, etc., of the Sweepers in the Vestry's
employ as under:—
"I have to report that Sweeper Dumbleton returned work on September 15th and
with the exertion of one day has continued to come, but he is, in my opinion unable
to properly perform his duties: also that Edward Atkinson aged 72, who has been
employed since 1879, has been away for the past II weeks suffering from chronic ???
Some of the other sweepers on account of old age and infirmity and physically ???
of performing the duties requied of them and I have to ask you to kindly consider the
question with a view to something being done.
And having bad submitted to them by the Clark a list of replies as to the practice obtained
in other Panabre of the Metropolis which ??? as follows:-