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(minus advertisements), properly watched and lighted, insisted upon to enclose the
works during their progress. By a further clause the Company seek to obtain
consent "to enter into agreements with public authorities for, or with respect to
the construction or maintenance of the intended railway, works, &c.' as
hereinbefore suggested. This proposal should be supported and amplified.
Power is sought, "To authorize the Company to purchase by compulsion or
agreement, lands, houses, and other property and easements, in, under, or over the
same, and notwithstanding the 92nd Section, or any other section of the ' Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,' or any Act amending the same, to appropriate and
use a part only of any such premises," without being compelled, to acquire the
whole."
The Company should be opposed in regard to this apparently inequitable
proposal.
Power is asked for, "To alter, amend, extend, and if need be to repeal the
provision or some of the provisions of ' The Metropolis Local Management Acts,
1855 and 1856,' 'The Local Government Act, 1888,' and other specified Acts.
This intention should be carefully noted by the responsible officers, and, if
deemed advisable, opposed.
As in this scheme it is intended to remove 83 separate premises, including 75
dwelling houses and 2 lodging houses (tabulated hereafter), precautions should be
taken, as suggested in the previous scheme, to have accommodation provided for a
large proportion of the inhabitants to be disturbed (altogether probably exceeding
1,000), before the removal of their dwellings.