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Hay market is borne equally between this Vestry and the
Vestry of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. This accounts for the
½-latnp just referred to.
The ordinary street lamps consume oft. of gas per hour,
and are lighted, extinguished, and cleaned by the Gas Company,
at an inclusive sum of £2 19s. 4d. per lamp per
annum. As regards the refuge lamps, payment is made
according to the consumption of gas as registered by meter.
The total expenditure for street lighting during the past
year amounted to £2,965 6s. 4d., as compared with
£2,668 17s. lid. for the previous twelve months. This sum
is exclusive of maintenance, repairs and new lamp-posts,
lanterns and fittings, which involved further payments
amounting to £2S1 14s. ll½d.
PRIVATE LAMPS.
The Vestry some years since decided not to permit the
erection of Private Lamps except upon the following
conditions:—
1. That no part of such Lamps shall be less than 10 feet in
height from the public footway.
2. That no such Lamps shall in any case project further than
the inside of the kerb bounding the footway.
8. That all such Lamps shall be entirely free from writing or any
trade devices, except in such cases as Medical Men, Post
Offices, Sweeps, Fire Engines, or other positions where they
would be a public guide in cases of emergency.
4. That no such Lamp shall be suspended by ball and socket
joint only.
5. That no Lamps on posts be agreed to unless they are kept
lighted the whole night.
6. That a sketch of the proposed Lamps with their dimensions,
and of any intended inscription thereon, be submitted with
the application to the Vestry for approval.