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Metropolis Local Management Acts. This is a very important case,
because if I am right it applies to all railway stations in England. If
I am wrong, it does not. Will you yourselves draw the case ? If you
cannot agree, come to me, and I will settle it.
Extract from "The Times," Monetary, July 6th, 1903.
At Marylebone recently, Mr. Curtis Bennett had before him the
case of the Hampstead Borough Council v. Tennant. The latter, it will
be remembered, traded as Isaac Tennant & Co., builders, of Grange
Road, Willesden Green, and had to answer seven summonses in respect
to certain sanitary work done by them at the Finchley Road Station of
the Metropolitan Railway. It was urged that the Railway Company
were not amenable to the Local Authority ; but the Magistrate decided
against them, and consented to state a case. The facts were given very
fully in The Times of June 16th. An intimation was now given that
the Company were content to accept the Magistrate's ruling, and that
the case would not be proceeded with.
New Drainage Bye-laws.
In my annual report for the year 1901 I drew your attention to
the fact that the Metropolis Local Management Amendment (Bye-laws)
Act, 1899, which had been promoted by the London County Council,
had become law.
On the 20th of August, 1903, the Local Government Board gave
their assent to the Bye-laws which the London County Council framed
under the additional powers given by that Act.
All persons about to construct, re-construct, or alter the pipes,
drains, or other means of communicating with sewers, or the traps and
apparatus connected therewith, are required to deposit in duplicate with
the Sanitary Authority of the district such plans, sections, and particulars
of the proposed construction, re-construction, or alteration as
may be necessary for the purpose of ascertaining whether such construction,
re-construction, or alteration is in accordance with the Statutory
provisions relative thereto, and with the Bye-laws made under section 202
of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855.