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By Clause 5 it is intended to empower the Metropolitan
Board of Works to make bye-laws for requiring any fire
place or furnace to be used in any building erected after
the passing of the Act, to be so constructed as to effectually
consume all smoke arising therefrom.
The Vestry, however, were of opinion that sufficient
powers are already invested in the police to abate nuisances
arising from smoke, and they deem it inexpedient to
interfere further with the subject at present, and they
therefore presented a petition against the Bill.
These Bills, however, are suspended owing to the dissolution
of Parliament, but will be taken up at their present
stage on the meeting of the new Parliament.
Tramway Schemes.—The following Schemes were
introduced into Parliament during the past Session : —
North Metropolitan Tramways, No. 1.—To continue
the line just laid in Clerkenwell Eoad through Theobald's
Road, &c. to Hart Street, Bloomsbury, to lay a tramway
along Gray's Inn Iioad from Holborn Town Hall to
Holborn, and to connect the existing line in Clerkenwell
Road with the tramways authorised by the London Street
Tramways (Extensions) Act, 1885, to be laid in Farringdon
Road.
The last of these projects is the only one which is in the
Parish, and the Vestry approved the Scheme, subject to the
usual undertaking on the part of the Company as to compensation
for paving taken to by them.
North Metropolitan Tramways, No. 2.—The only
portion of this Scheme which affected Clerkenwell is that
which proposed to construct a double line of tramway in
Goswell Road, in lieu of the existing single line between