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based upon the average expenditure on the Open Space for the preceding
three years; the grant to be subject to a certificate of the
Council's officials that the expense has been incurred and the work
properly carried out.
South Eastern
and London,
Ghatham, and
Dover Railway.
A Bill was promoted by the South Eastern Eailway Company
and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company,
for the amalgamation of the two Companies by means of a
joint committee to manage the whole system.
It was felt generally throughout the Metropolis that the effect of
such- an amalgamation would, by destroying competition, tend to
increase tariffs on the two lines. A number of Authorities accordingly
determined to petition against the Bill, and on the 21st
February, 1899, the Vestry also decided to present a petition against
the measure. The Bill has not yet come before a Parliamentary
Committee.
On the recommendation of the General Purposes Committee, the
Yestry expressed the following opinions on the under-mentioned
matters:—
Shops Bill,
1898.
On the suggestion of the Vestry of Limehouse, the Vestry
passed a resolution concurring with the views of that
Authority that the Bill should not become Law.
L. C. C. Parliamentary
Agent.
On the suggestion of the Yestry of St. Mary, Battersea, the
Yestry concurred in the opinion that the London County
Council should have the whole services of their Parliamentary
Agent.
Combined
Drainage.
A Bill was promoted by a conference of Metropolitan Local
Authorities which met from time to time at the Holborn Town Hall,
for the purpose of drafting a measure calculated to relieve
the Metropolitan Authorities from the burden thrown
upon them by recent decisions, of repairing what are in fact private
drains as public sewers. The Bill proposed to alter the definition of
the word "drain" in the Metropolis Management Acts, so as to
include any drain, the construction of which as a sewer has not been