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VESTRY AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
The number of Vestry and Committee Meetings held during
the year ended 1st May, 1888, 1s as follows:—
. 44
Finance Committee (including Meetings of Audit
Committee) 33
Sewers, &c., Committee 30
General Purposes Committee
Valuation Committee, including Sub-Committee ... 6
Town Hall Committee ditto ... 20
Parliamentary and Improvement Committee ... 5
Special Committees ... ... ... 14
lotal ... ..I * 1 < .I. i6y
RAILWAY AND LOCAL UNDERTAKINGS.
No Bill has been introduced in the present Session of a Local
character, directly affecting this Parish, except one to obtain an
extension of time for the construction of the Columbia Market
Railway. This Bill was unopposed, and an extension of time for
three years was obtained.
In respect of the powers already granted by Parliament for the
following purposes : the Regent's Canal and Docks Railway, the
Great Eastern Railway widening through Shoreditch, the Tramway
Extension from Great Eastern Street to Whitechapel, and the
widening of Plough Yard by the London and North Western
Company, little progress has been made. I am not aware that any
steps have been taken to acquire any property in Shoreditch for
the Regent's Canal Railway, and 1 have no information as regards
any progress made or contemplated with respect to the Western
section—Barbican to Paddington. The Great Eastern Railway
Company has been for some time past engaged in acquiring
property for the widening in Bishopsgate, Norton Folgate, and
Shoreditch,and active steps maybe shortly expected. The North
Metropolitan Tramways Company commenced the construction of