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to meet the requirements of those districts and future
developments thereof. The Company agreed to the
insertion in the Bill of a provision compelling them
to construct the sidings at such a level as would allow
of the formation of a road beneath, and to grant an
easement to the Council in the matter, subject to
the formation of such road within twenty years. The
Bill received the Royal assent on the 26th July.
South
Metropolitan
Gas.
This Bill authorised the South Metropolitan
Gas Company to acquire by agreement the
portion of the Gas Light and Coke Company's
undertaking which is on the south side of the
River Thames. The latter Company were already
under the obligation to charge in that portion of their
district no higher price for the supply of gas than
that charged by the South Metropolitan Company.
The Bill empowered the Company to raise a millionand-a-half
additional capital as ordinary stock, bearing
a dividend of four per cent., subject to increase or
decrease as provided by the Company's Acts of last
Session. In the event of the purchase not being effected
the amount to be raised is not to exceed £750,000.
The Council decided not to take any steps in the
matter. The Bill passed through Parliament.
Sale of
Intoxicating
Liquors to
Children.
This Bill provided that every holder of a
license who sold or delivered or allowed any
person to sell or deliyer, any intoxicating
liquor to any person apparently under 16
years of age for consumption either on or off the
premises, should be liable to a penalty of forty
shillings for the first and £5 for any subsequent offence.
The Council petitioned in favour of the Bill. In the
Act as passed 14 years has been substituted
for 16 years, and intoxicating liquors delivered at the
residence or working place of the purchaser or delivered