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The views of the Vestry upon other Bills will be found
on page 75 as regards the Local Government Bills, and
the London Central (Subway) Railway, and on page 55 as
regards the Metropolitan Electric Supply Bill.
PARLIAMENTARY SCHEMES, SESSION 1889.
In the month of December the promoters of the proposed
Central London (Subway) Railway deposited with the
Vestry, in accordance with the standing orders of Parliament,
a notice (accompanied by a plan) of their intention
to apply for Parliamentary powers to authorise the construction
of the Railway. The railway would commence at the north
end of St. James's Street, and run underground along Piccadilly,
Shaftesbury Avenue, and Holborn to Holborn Circus.
The plan and the Bill to be introduced into Parliament,
together with a model prepared by the promoters, were carefully
considered by the Vestry, and having regard to the
immense disturbance to traffic and business which the construction
of the railway would cause, the exceptional
powers which the promoters sought to acquire, the long
period named for carrying out the work, the fact that the
Bill did not make it compulsory upon the Company to construct
the railway and subways for pipes and sewers according
to the model, and to other considerations, the Vestry
decided to petition against the Bill in order, at least, to
obtain a locus standi to secure the insertion of clauses in the
Bill for the protection of the parishioners, even if it were not
found necessary to oppose the progress of the Bill altogether .
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1888.
This Act, which has municipalized County Government
throughout England, received very careful consideration when