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the marked improvement in the lighting of the district will
give general satisfaction,
The Gaslight and Coke Company having, as reported
last year, applied to the gas referees to prescribe and certify
the mode of ascertaining the quantity of gas consumed by
the public lamps, the following notification was issued by
the referees, viz.:
"Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square.
"Supply of Gas for Public Lighting by Measurement.
"notification by the metropolitan gas referees.
"Whereas the Gas Light and Coke Company have
under the powers of section 38 of the City of London Gas
Act, 1868, required that the gas for public lighting within
the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, shall be supplied
by measurement, and have further required the Referees to
prescribe and certify the mode of ascertaining the quantity
of gas consumed by the public lamps in the said parish.
"We therefore in compliance with this requisition do
prescribe and certify as follows:—
"1. The gas shall be measured by a meter to be attached
to every twelfth public lamp, and the average consumption
of the whole of the lamps to which meters are attached, shall
be taken to represent the consumption of each public lamp
supplied.
"2. The meters shall be wet meters, of the best and
most improved construction, and made by makers of
acknowledged reputation.
"3. The meters shall work, when new, with such friction