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Application has been made to the Board of Trade by the
St. James's and Pall Mall Electric Light Company for a Provisional
Order to replace the Licence under which they are
working. The Vestry entertain no objection to the Company
obtaining an Order, provided they thereby come under an
obligation to supply electricity in every part of the Parish
without distinction, and are otherwise subject to the usual
terms of a Provisional Order. A satisfactory arrangement
has been come to between the Vestry and the Company, and
the Provisional Order will probably in due course be made
by the Board of Trade and confirmed by Parliament.
STREET NAMES.
The London County Council having enquired the views of
the Vestry upon a suggestion that Old and New Bond Street
should be incorporated under the name of "Bond Street,"
the Vestry replied that it appeared to them essential to continue
the prefixes in order to prevent confusion arising with
Bond Streets in other parts of London. The Council have
apparently adopted this view, for no alteration has been made
in the name.
Only one Order relating to Street naming has been received
during the year, and that was abolishing the name of Tichborne
Street and numbering the few houses therein in Regent
Street.
STREETS PARTLY SITUATE IN OTHER
PARISHES.
An order was made by the Metropolitan Board of Works
on the 6th March, 1857, placing that portion of Oxford
Street which is situate in the Parish of St. James under the
jurisdiction of the Vestry of St. Marylebone for all the
purposes of the Metropolis Local Management Act. The cost