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THE FOLLOWING BILLS HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE
PARLIAMENT THIS SESSION AND HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED
BY THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE:
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North London Hallway, (Branch to the City).
Passed the Lords, with an additional clause, compelling the Company
to run a cheap train once a day.
North London Railway, (Widening).
Thames Embankment.
To enable a Company to embank the River Thames from Westminster
Bridge to Black friars Bridge, (Middlesex side), and to form a
Railway, a Main Sewer, and also a Road and approaches.
Church Rates, (Bill to Abolish).
Highways, (Not to interfere with the Metropolis).
London Tramway and Dispatch Company.
(This Bill docs not effect Shoreditch).
Universal Private Telegraph Company.
For the purpose of providing Telegraphic communications for Public
Institutions, Railway, Police, and Fire Engine Stations,
Read the second time in the House of Commons, on February
19th, 1861.
Parochial Assessments Bill.
This Bill introduced by the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
proposes to appoint an Assessment Board from the Justices
of the Peace, who are to have the entire control of the Assessments
in the several parishes, without allowing the parishioners
any power to appeal, (except on a point of law). The Committee
considered this Bill arbitrary, unjust, very expensive, without the
least benefit to the Ratepayers.
A Petition against the Bill was presented to the House of
Commons, February, 1861.