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the nature of the work to be done and the street intended to be
broken up and disturbed, to the Sutveyor of the St. Saviour's
Board and left for him at his office, plans, sections and other
necessary particulars of the construction of such widenings.
2. The Company shall repay to the St. Saviour's Board the cost of
any extra lamps, including the expense of lighting and maintaining
the same, which may, in the opinion of the St. Saviour's
Board, be reasonably necessary for lighting any road or street
crossed by such widenings after the completion thereof, and the
Company shall save harmless the St. Saviour's Board against
all and every expense to be occasioned thereby, and such work
shall be done to the reasonable satisfaction of the Surveyor of
the St. Saviour's Board at the cost, charges and expenses in all
respects of the Company.
3. If any dispute or difference of opinion shall arise between the
Company and the St. Saviour's Board touching the reasonableness
of any of the requirements of any Surveyor acting for the St.
Saviour's Board, such dispute or difference of opinion shall be
referred to the arbitration of an engineer to be appointed by the
Board of Trade, in manner provided by the Railway Companies'
Arbitration Act, 1859."
CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY EXTENSIONS.
Notice was also received in December last from the
City and South London Railway Company (underground) of
their intention to apply to Parliament for an extension of the
time limited by their Act of 1893, and which expires on the
24th August, 1896, and a bill for giving effect thereto was
deposited in due course. On careful examination of such
bill, however, it was found that it not only provided for an
extension of the time for the compulsory purchase of lands,
viz., until the 24th August, 1898, and for the construction of
the additional lines of railway until the 24th August, 1901,
but that it virtually repealed Section 17 of the said Act of 1893,
and authorised the Company to make and maintain during the
progress of the works shafts or openings from the surface of any
land or street in the Parish of St. Saviour, without limit as
to the number of shafts or to the amount of obstruction which
might be occasioned thereby. It was therefore resolved to
present a petition against the bill. Subsequently it was
ascertained that the Company could not construct the railway
without having one shaft in the vicinity of the Borough High
Street, and, after a considerable amount of negotiation, the
following clause was agreed to and now forms part of the bill:—
Clause 13.-"With reference to so much of the works by this Act
authorised as will be made in or under the District of the Board of Works
for the Saint Saviour's District (in this Section called 'the District'),
and for the protection of the Board of Works for the Saint Saviour's