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to the effect that, in their opinion, the whole question of the production
and supply of Electricity for the purposes contemplated by
the Act was in too crude and elementary a condition to justify the
Board in embarking in an undertaking of the kind, and recommended
that no action should be taken in the matter. The Board
concurred in this view, and further resolved not to offer any
opposition to the application of the Brush Company for a Provisional
Order.
In compliance with such application, the Board of Trade have
lately issued a Provisional Order, authorising the Company to erect
and maintain Electric Lines and Works for the supply of Electricity
within this district, and the same now awaits confirmation by
Parliament.
If passed, the Company, will be under obligation to lay down
wires in the Borough High Street within two years from the date
of the commencement of the Order, and in Blackfriars Road and
Southwark Street within the same period, on the requisition of
this Board as the local authority. They will also be enabled, with
the consent of the Board of Trade, at any time after the commencement
of the Order, to include other streets within the area of
supply.
Hydraulic
Power
Company.
In the year 1871, the Wharves and Warehouses Steam Power
and Hydraulic Pressure Company obtained an Act of Parliament
for the establishment of a system of applying motive power by
hydraulic pressure to waterside and land cranes used for the purpose
of raising and loading goods, and for working dock gates and other
machinery. The Company have lately commenced to carry out
the works authorised by their Act, and have laid down hydraulic
pipes in Holland Street, Bankside, Sumner Street, and other
localities. Their powers to break up streets are similar to those
of Gas and Water Companies.
Steamboat
Piers.
In October last this Board memorialized the Thames Conservancy
Board and the London Steamboat Company for the establishment
of Steamboat Piers between London Bridge and Lambeth Bridge on
the Surrey side of the river, and for a service of Boats to call at
Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges; but, although the Company
would have been willing, the Conservators declined, alleging, in
justification of their refusal, that the piers which formerly stood