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the House of Lords, and passed after amendments, and, as amended,
provided that in the industrial portion of the area prescribed in the
Bill energy could not be supplied by the Company (except to authorised
undertakers or to the proprietors of any railway, tramway waterworks,
dock, canal, or Government departments), in the area of supply of any
authorised distributors except with the consent of those distributors,
whose consent was not to be unreasonably withheld. In the nonindustrial
area, the provisions of the Bill were not to be exercised
except for the purpose of supplying energy to undertakers, proprietors
of railways, &c., or to any persons for power whose premises are
situated partly within and partly without the industrial portion of the
area. The Company were not to charge more than 1½d. per unit, but
might refuse to supply consumers if they thought they could not be
supplied remuneratively at that price. The dividend was not to be
greater than 8 per cent., unless the average price received by the
Company was less than ¾d. per unit, when the dividend might be
increased ¼ per cent. for every 1¼ per cent. reduction of price below ¾d.
58. This Borough not being in the industrial area, the Council
presented a petition against the Bill, but after communicating with
the Company and conferring with the Council's solicitor as to the
probability of the Bill being amended so as to include the Borough in
the industrial area, the Council decided not to proceed further with its
opposition. The Bill passed the House of Lords, and was read a
second time in the House of Commons, but was not Passed.
County of
London
Electric
Supply
Company.
59. This Bill would authorise the Company to acquire additional
land adjoining the Creek, Wandsworth, and to erect
thereon additional buildings and works, to supply
electrical energy in bulk to authorised undertakers in
the City and other parts of London, and to connect their areas of
supply and the generating stations at Wandsworth and Finsbury one
with another, and would require the Company to supply authorised
undertakers with electrical energy at such points as they may reasonably
require. The Company having inserted clauses in the Bill limiting the
proposed building line on the land to be acquired adjoining the Creek,
Wandsworth, to the line of the camp sheeting there, and prohibiting
the Company enclosing any portion of the foreshore, and providing
that the Creek shall be flushed not less frequently than at present, the
Council withdrew its opposition to the Bill. The Committee of the
House of Lords struck out of the Bill the provisions relating to the
supply in bulk and the coupling up of the generating stations. A