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Board on 14th March, 1888, giving their consent to the
Kensington Court Electric Lighting License subject to the
applicants depositing with the Yestry before the commencement
of the works a sufficient sum to protect the district
against loss in respect of damage to the roadways or
footways under the Vestry's jurisdiction, but so as not to
create a monopoly.
On 27th June, 1888, the Yestry gave its consent to the
transfer of the license held by the Kensington Court
Ellectric Lighting Company, to the Kensington and
Knightsbridge Electric Lighting Company, Limited, as
applied for by Messrs. Deacon, Gibson, and Medcalf, and
the Board of Trade were informed accordingly.
Later, the Vestry received a report from the Works Committee
on a letter from Messrs. Deacon, Gibson & Medcalf,
on behalf of the Kensington and Knisfhtsbridffe Electric
Lighting Company, Limited, dated 20th June, requesting
the consent of the Vestry upon their application to the
Board of Trade, for a license to lay down wires in certain
parts of the Knightsbridge Ward, and confirming an offer
made by letter, dated 12th June,in respect of the Kensington
Court Electric Lighting Company, of a contingent participation
by the Vestry, by way of reduced terms for public
lighting, in the profits of the undertaking, and gave its
consent on the merits of the application, and without
reference to the profits of the Company, for a license in
so far as it affected the Knightsbridge part of this Parish.
The Committee reported to the Vestry in October that
they had had under their consideration the statutory notices
of intention by various Companies to apply to the Board of
Trade for electric lighting licenses and provisional orders
in pursuance of the provisions of the Electric Lighting Act,
1882, referred to the Committee by the Vestry on 11th July,
1888, when the recommendation of the Committee with an