Folios 217-220. Draft letter from The Local Government Board to James Saunders, Clerk...

Folios 217-220. Draft letter from The Local Government Board to James Saunders, Clerk to the East Dereham Local Board in the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union referring to his letter 20 April 1885 and enclosing four copies of a provisional order which they have issued under The Gas and Waterworks Facilities Act 1870, 33 & 34 Vic c 70 and The Public Health Act 1875, 38 & 39 Vic c 55 for enabling the East Dereham Local Board to carry out a gas undertaking. They call particular attention to Article IX of the enclosed regulations in regard to provisional orders of this type, which should be complied with as soon as possible so that the introduction into parliament of the bill to confirm the order may not be delayed [not included]. The order should be published in the edition of the Dereham and Fakenham Times newspaper on 25 April 1885. A further additional fifty copies of the order will be sent in order that part IV of schedule B of the aforementioned act can be complied with.
Copy of provisional order, dated 22 April 1885 and signed by Charles W Dilke, President of the Local Government Board and Hugh Own, Secretary. It states that the East Dereham Local Board (subject to the sanction of the Local Government Board) agreed to buy, and the East Dereham Gaslight and Coke Company (Limited) have subject to a special resolution of the members being passed in manner provided by the Companies Act 1862, 25 & 26 Vic c 89, agreed to sell and transfer to the Local Board the lands, hereditaments and premises described in the annexed first schedule and the gas undertaking of the Company including all the existing gasworks, mains service pipes, meters, lamp posts, brackets, lanterns and the business of the Company but subject to all rights and easements (if any) affecting the said premises or any part thereof. Also as the Local Board are under the Public Health Act 1875, 38 & 39 Vic c 55, empowered to supply gas for the whole of their district they have applied for a provisional order authorising them to maintain and continue when the same shall be acquired by them, the gas undertaking of the Company, to construct other gasworks, to manufacture and supply gas and to borrow money for those purposes. The extensive document contains some 31 clauses. Included is: First schedule stating all those lands, buildings and works called the East Dereham Gasworks, situate in the parish of East Dereham belonging or reputed to belong to the East Dereham Gaslight and Coke Company (Limited) containing 1650 square yards, more or less and bounded on the north, south and east sides by land and hereditaments belonging or reputed to belong to Elizabeth Andrews, and on the west side by the public highway leading from the parish of East Dereham to the parish of North Elmham and called the Holt Road. Second schedule: all that piece of land situate in the parish of East Dereham containing 18150 square yards, more or less, and known as Shortlands which piece of land belongs or is reputed to belong to, or to be vested in the Reverend George Shelford Bidwell, Blanche Bidwell, Thomas Shelford Bidwell, Shelford Bidwell and John Ray and is bounded on the north, east and west sides by a private road reputed to belong to the same persons and on the south side by the railway line and property of the Great Eastern Railway Company. Third schedule: all that piece of land in East Dereham containing 2692 square yards, more or less, adjoining the piece of land described in the second schedule and being the said private road and all the piece of land in East Dereham containing 333 square yards belonging or reputed to belong to the Great Eastern Railway Company and adjoining on the west side of the said last mentioned piece of land and abutting on the public highway leading from East Dereham to the parish of Shipdham.
Annotated: 'Send a copy officially to Mr Cooper', 23 April 1885.
[Folio 221 is missing]

Paper Number: 41004/E/1885.

Poor Law Union Number: 302.

Counties: Norfolk.