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There are also 181 registered voters for the County of
Middlesex in respect of property situate wholly or in part in
the parish of St. James.
By the Elementary Education Act, 1870, the Parish is
included in the Westminster Division of the School Board for
London. Five members of the School Board are elected b\
the ratepayers of the Division.
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Water Supply.—Four companies supply the Parish with
water, the approximate boundaries of their respective districts
being as follow:—
1. Chelsea Water Works Company (Chief Office, 35,
Commercial Road, Pimlico). So much of the Parish as lies
to the south of the centre of Pall Mali and Cleveland Row.
This Company was incorporated by Royal Charter in the year
1722.
2. New River Company (Chief Office, Clerkenwell, E.C.).
So much of the Parish as lies to the east of a line running at
the back of the east side of Poland Street, Lexington Street,
Great Windmill Street, and along the centre of the Haymarket.
This Company was incorporated by Royal Charter
in the year 1619.
3. Grand Junction Waterworks Company (Chief Office,
05, South Morton Street). So much of the Parish as lies to
the west of the district supplied by the New River Water
Company and the north of the centre of Pall Mall. 1 his
company was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1811.
4. West Middlesex Waterworks Company (Chief Office.
19, Marylebone Road). So much of Oxford Street as is
situate within the Parish. This Company was incorporated
by Act of Parliament in the year 1800.
The charges authorised by the various Acts of Parliament
relating to the several above-mentioned Companies are almost
identical, the scale being as follows:—
Where the annual value of the dwelling-house or other
place does not exceed £200, a rate not exceeding 4 per cent.