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Payment of Jurors.
Polling Arrangements (London).
Poor Law Officers Superannuation.
Rating of Machinery.
Street Noises.
Vehicles (Lights).
The Vestry have taken action with regard to certain of
these Bills, as follows:—
Petitioned in favour of, or otherwise supported, the
Burials Bill; Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill;
Vehicles (Lights); Street Noises Bill.
Petitioned against, or otherwise opposed, Elections
(Second Ballot and Returning Officers' Expenses Bill), and
the London Sea Water Supply Bill, the latter for the insertion
of clauses.
LONDON SEA WATER SUPPLY BILL.
This Bill was introduced into Parliament for the purpose
of empowering a Company to supply sea water to London
for public and private purposes. The Company contemplate
obtaining their supply of sea water at Lancing,
between Brighton and Worthing, where a Pumping Station
will be erected, and constructing a large reservoir on
Steyning Hill, immediately behind Lancing, from whence
the water will flow by gravitation into London. It is proposed
to carry the main into St. James's, at the eastern end
of Pall Mall, continuing the main along Pall Mall, and
along a portion of St. James's Street. While not adverse
to the principle embodied in the Bill, the Vestry were
strongly of opinion that the interests of the ratepayers and
parishioners were not sufficiently protected, and they