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[8 Edw. 7.] Metropolitan Sewers and Drains.
A Bill to amend the Metropolis Management Acts with respect
to Sewers and Drains.
Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:—
1. In and for the purposes of the Metropolis Management
Acts, 1855 to 1899, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
or any Act or Acts amending the same, the word "drain" shall
be deemed to include any sewer or drain, whether constructed
before or after the passing of this Act, with which two or more
houses, buildings, or premises are, at the date of the passing of
this Act, or may at any time thereafter be connected, or which
is used or capable of being or intended to be used for the conveyance
of the drainage of such houses, buildings, or premises
directly or indirectly to any sewer which has been approved as
such by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, the Metropolitan
Board of Works, or the London County Council, but
shall not include any sewer so approved as aforesaid.
2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis Management
Amendment Act, 1908, and shall be construed as one with the
Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts amending the
same.
On the back of the Bill appear the following names:—Mr. Dickinson,
Sir William Bull, Mr. Bowles, Sir William Collins, Mr. Crooks, Mr. Timothy
Davies, Sir George Far dell, Mr. Claude Hay, Sir Henry Kimber, Earl
Percy, Sir Albert Spicer, and Mr. Waterlow.
The Boroughs represented are St. Pancras, Hammersmith, Lambeth
Woolwich, Fulham, Paddington, Shoreditch, Wandsworth, Kensington,
Hackney and Islington.
Position of the Bill.
The Bill was down for second reading every night in the last Session
of Parliament from the 12th October to 21st December, but was not
reached. The Bill has therefore been before the House since March 5th,