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believed to be the increasing number of abandoned wires.
It was therefore with some degree of satisfaction that the
Vestry regarded the passing of the London Overhead Wires
Act, 1891, by which the London County Council were
authorised to make bye-laws and the several local authorities
were empowered to enforce the same.
Late in December the Vestry received a draft code of
bye-laws made by the Council under the Act referred to,
with an intimation that representations relating to the
same were to be made to the Board of Trade not later than
the 22nd January (subsequently extended at the request of
the Vestry until the 22nd February). The Vestry carefully
considered the proposed bye-laws and approved generally
of their provisions, subject to a few suggested amendments,
the most important of which were directed to prohibiting
the attachment of wires to chimneys or other parts of
buildings under any circumstances and to the efficient
protection of iron or steel wires and supports from
oxydation or rust.
METROPOLITAN BUILDING ACTS.
Early in the autumn the Vestry had before them a letter
from the President of the Local Government Board,
enclosing a print of a draft Bill for consolidating the law
relating to the construction and use of buildings in London,
and requesting to be furnished with the observations of the
Vestry thereon.
The existing law is almost entirely administered by the
London County Council and District Surveyors appointed
by them, and comes only incidentally under the notice of
the local authority. It appeared to the Vestry that