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(d) If any dispute or difference of opinion shall arise between the Company and the
Vestry touching the reasonableness of any of the requirements of the Surveyor acting
for the Vestry, such dispute or difference of opinion shall be referred to the arbitration
of an Engineer, to be appointed by the Board of Trade in manner provided by the
Railway Companies' Arbitration Act, 1859, and for the purposes of any such arbitration
the Yestry shall be deemed to be a railway company.
(e) The Company shall, on demand, pay to the Yestry all the costs, charges, and
expenses which they may reasonably incur by reason of the Company's works, including
the cost of the inspection of plans and superintendence of any works affecting any
public road or sewer within the Parish of Rotherhithe.
(f) The Company shall also repay the Vestry the cost of any extra lamps, including
the expense of lighting and maintaining the same, which may, in the opinion of the
Yestry, be reasonably necessary for lighting any road, street, or place crossed by the
Railways Nos. 1 and 3 by this Act authorised after the completion thereof.
(g) The Company shall upon acquiring any property liable to be assessed to the
Sewers and Paving and General Purposes Rates in the Parish of Rotherhithe under
the powers of this Act or under the powers of any former Act until the work shall be
completed and assessed to such rates, make good to the Vestry of Rotherhithe the deficiency
in the several assessments for Sewers and Paving and General Purposes Rates
by reason of such property having been taken or used for the purpose of such works
in the same way as the Company are liable to make good the deficiency in the several
assessments for Land Tax and Poor Rate under the 133rd Section of the Lands Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845.
(h) The abutments of the bridge over White Post Lane, or any others constructed
under the provisions of this Act over public highways within the jurisdiction of the
Rotherhithe Vestry, shall have a clear span of not less than 40 feet, and shall be faced
on the highway side with glazed bricks of a kind and quality to be approved by the said
Surveyor to the Vestry, up to the springing of the arch or the underside of the girders
(as the case may be), and the crowns of the arches or the undersides of the girders
shall be properly whitened at least once in every six months.