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the provisions of the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888
to an application made by the Brush Electrical Engineering
Company to the Board of Trade for a Provisional Order for
the supply of electricity within the District, in accordance
with notice received by the Board in June previously The
Order has since been granted and confirmed by Parliament
the scheme being intituled "The Southwark Electric Lighting
Order, 1891." The area of supply is that of the parishes of
St. Saviour and Christchurch, constituting the District. The
Company or their assignees (a) are, by the terms of the Order,
under obligation to lay distributing mains in the following
streets and places within two years after the commencement
of the same, viz., Blackfriars Road (north of Southwark
Street), Southwark Street (west of Holland Street), and
Holland Street. The Brash is the second Company who have
obtained powers for the supply of electricity in St. Saviour's,
an Order having boon granted for that purpose to the London
Electric Supply Corporation, Limited, in the year 1889, and
considerable Progress has been made by them with the laying
of the mains St tutary notices have lately been received
from two other Companies of their intention to apply for Provisional
Orders, viz., The County of London Electric Lighting
Company, Limited, and the Camberwell and Islington
Electric Light and Power Supply, Limited.
In October, also, on receipt of a letter from Mr. Blundell
Maple, M.P., advocating an extension of the system of work-
men's trains. the Board I caused a communication to bead-
dressed to the South Eastern Railway Company, and the
London Chatham and Dover Railway Company, the two
Companies having running powers in the district, expressing
approval of the suggestion, and a hope that they might be
able, consistently with their own interests and those of the
public at large, to comply therewith. Later on, the Board,
at the request of Mr. Maple, adopted the following Petition .
14 In the House of Commons,
" Session 1891.
"Cheap Trains (London) Bill.
"Petition in favour.
"To the honorable the Commons of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.
"The humble Petition of the Board of Works for the
District of St. Saviour, Southwark, in the County
of London, under their common Seal:
"That your petitioners believe that it is expedient to
afford greater facilities for the residence of London work-
(a) The Board has lately sanctioned the transfer of this undertaking pursuant to
section 61 of the Order to a Company to be forword under the title of the " City
of London Electric Lighting Company Limited.