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St. Saviour's District Board of Works.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD
FOR THE YEAR 1883-84,
BY
THE CLERK, SURVEYOR, MEDICAL OFFICER,
AND ANALYST;
Also Account in Abstract of Sums received and expended by
the Board during the same period.
Printed in accordance with Section 198 of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, (18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120,) and ordered to be
circulated among the Inhabitants of the District.
The South London Tramway Company's Bill, 1883, (mentioned
in the last Annual Report of this Board,) to which Bill the consent
of this Board as the road authority within the meaning of the
Tramways Act, 1870, had been given, subject to certain terms
and conditions which were embodied in an agreement entered into
by the Company, the object of which Bill was to sanction the
laying down of tramway lines and the running of cars along the
western portion of Southwark Street, Stamford Street, and York
Road, Lambeth, in order to complete the system in that direction,
was, after it had passed the House of Commons, rejected by the
Committee of the Lords, to whom the same was referred. The
Company in December last issued notice of a fresh application to
Parliament, but did not proceed with it.
South London
Tramways.
In November, 1883, plans with sections, book of reference, &c.
were deposited with the Clerk of the Board of a scheme for the
construction of a Subway, described as follows in the Gasette
Notice:—"A Subway, commencing in the Parish of St. Mary,
London (City
and
Southwark
Subway.