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North Metropolitan Tramway Company.—The
following report, with reference to Tramway Scheme
in 1871, was laid before the Vestry on the 7th
December, 1882:—
" Vestry Hall, Cleekenwell,
58, Rosoman Street, E.G.
December 7th, 1882.
Gentlemen,
North Metropolitan Tramways.
You will all remember the correspondence which
took place some time ago between myself and the
above Company, extending over some years, as set
forth in the Green Book, printed and circulated by
order of the Board in 1881, with reference to a cheque
obtained of the Company by me for £1,200, and
which I therefore need not recapitulate hero.
You will also remember what took place here, at
the Committee of Works, and at the Vestry, according
to your printed Minutes, when the cheque question was
sought to bo made a condition of consent to the then
proposed scheme, but which report was rejected by
the Board, who preferred to deal with the question
then before them upon its merits alone, without
reference to anything that had taken place before, and
gave their decision accordingly.
Notwithstanding the events of the early part of
1880, as recorded in the Green Book, which resulted
in the cheque being withdrawn, I never despaired of
recovering it by a little judicious management, and
kept up the negotiation accordingly.
On application being made for consent last year, and
a suggestion being made that tho cheque bo made a
condition of consent, which I felt to be repugnant to