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Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your Honourable House that the Bill
may not be allowed to pass into law; but, if the Bill do pass, that a clause or clauses
may be inserted therein providing for their protection as to your Honourable House
shall seem meet.
The Common Seal of tne Vestry of the
Parish of Rotherhithe in the Administrative
County of London, affixed by Order this
twenty-first day of February, 1899, in the
presence of
E. CARR OLIVIER,
Assistant Clerk to the Vestry.
The Preamble of the Bill was not proved.
The Common
Seal of the Vestry
of the Parish ef
Rotherhithe.
London County Council (Westminster Bridge and Victoria
Embankment Tramways) Bill,
On 3rd May-, 1898, the Vestry passed a resolution approving the Bill, which empowers the
Council to extend the tramway system across Westminster Bridge and along the Victoria
Embankment.
The second reading, however, was put off for six months.
Shops Bill.
On 3rd May, 1898, the General Purposes and Works Committee reported, with reference
to a letter from the Vestry Clerk of Limehouse, stating that that Vestry had had under consideration
a Bill introduced into Parliament this Session to amend the law relating to shops,
and, being of opinion that the proposed Bill would be most injurious to the interests of the
ratepayers engaged in retail trades had passed a resolution requesting that the Parliamentary
representative of that district be urged to oppose the said Bill in Parliament, and that