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The following Bills have been before Parliament this Session,
and have been considered by the Parliamentary Committee.
Great Eastern Railway—Metropolitan Station and Railway.
This Bill was opposed by the Vestry, but has passed both Houses
of Parliament.
County Voters' Rejistration Rill.
This Bill alters the law with regard to the Registration of County
Voters, and the powers and duties of Revising Barristers. The Vestry
do not oppose this Bill.
Jung's Cross, Limehouse and Eastern Counties Railway.
(Withdrawn January 1865).
Church Rates Commutation.
(Thrown out on a Division, May lltli, 1865).
Metropolitan Sewage and Essex Reclamation Bill.
The Vestry did not oppose this Bill. (Passed 19th June, 1865).
East London Railway (Thames Tunnel Line).
This Bill purposes to make a main line of railway from the parish
of Bethnal Green, in the County of Middlesex, to Saint Paul, Deptford,
in the County of Surrey, by a junction with the main line of the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, and a Branch
line to the City, (No. 2 in the Bill), to commence in the City of
London at or near Liverpool-street, and to terminate in the parish of
Whitechapel by a junction with the main line.
The branch line to the City will pass through a portion of Shoreditch
parish, by crossing Commercial-street, Upper Blossom-street,
High-street, Shoreditch, and Worship-street.
The Vestry have succeeded in obtaining the insertion of Clauses
in this Bill, for protecting the interests of this parish, as follows :
1.—Company to restore sewers, drains, &c.
2.—Sewers, drains, &c., to be under the control of the Vestry.