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37
Liondon
Water.
19 — The Council on the 19th February last adopted the following
petition to the House of Commons with reference
to the London Water Bill, viz.:—
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN
PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
The Humble Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth,
UNDER THEIR COMMON SEAL.
SHEWETH:—
1. That the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth contains
an area of about fourteen-and-a-half square miles, a population
at the census of 1901 of 232,034, and a rateable value (April, 1902)
of ,£1,585,274.
2. That a Bill has been introduced into your Honourable
House intituled "A Bill for establishing a Water Board to manage
the Supply of Water within London and certain adjoining Districts,
for transferring to the Water Board the undertakings of the
Metropolitan Water Companies, and for other purposes connected
therewith."
3. That Clause 1 of the Bill provides that a Water Board shall
be established for the purpose of acquiring and managing the
undertakings of the Metropolitan Water Companies and generally
for supplying wa er within the area described in the Second
Schedule to the Bill; that such Water Board shall consist of a
Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and 67 Members; and that the 67
Members shall be appointed by the constituent authorities specified
in the Third Schedule to the Bill.
4. That the Third Schedule provides inter alia that the
Council of each of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Islington, Kensington,
Lambeth, St. Pancras, Stepney, and Westmins'er shall
elect two representatives to the Water Board, and that the Council
of each of the other Metropolitan Boroughs (including the Metropolitan
Borough of Wandsworth) shall each e'ect one representative
to such Board.
5. That your Petitioners are, and their predecessors, the
Board of Works for the Wandsworth District, were, in favour of
a Water Trust being formed for the purpose of purchasing the
Metropolitan Water Companies' undertakings, and of supplying
the Metropolis (or the water area included in such Companies'
powers) with water, and evidence on behalf of the said Board was
given on the 9th May, 1898, before the Commissioners appointed
to enquire into the subject of the water supply within the limits