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tion of sulphur that would remain in the gas by the disuse of lime
purification pending the Company obtaining the authority of Parliament
to secure the same relief as had been given to the other
Gas Companies. On the 25th October last the Council decided that
until further order proceedings should not be taken in respect of
any forfeiture to which the Company may become liable by reason
of the presence in the gas supplied by them of sulphur impurities
other than sulphuretted hydrogen.
78. Neither of the present Bills provided for testings of the
nature prescribed by section 5 of the London Gas Act and the
Council petitioned against the Bill with the view of obtaining the
insertion of provisions similar to those in that section. The
Company agreed to insert the provisions asked for, and gave an
undertaking to permit the Council's Gas Examiner to make testings
one hour earlier than the hours prescribed in Section 29 of
the Gas Works' Clauses Act, 1871, and also to give the Council
six hours' notice before any of the Company's officers or servants
go to the testing place for the purpose of clearing the pipes connected
with the apparatus or renewing the pipes or apparatus, and
the Council's petition was thereupon withdrawn.
79. The Wandsworth and Putney Gas (Removal of Sulphur
Restrictions) Bill was afterwards dropped, and the provisions
asked for by this Council have been inserted in the Gas Companies
(Removal of Sulphur Restrictions) Bill, which passed and
received the Royal assent on the 20th July, 1906.
80. A report by the Council's gas examiner as to the result
of his testings of the gas supplied by the Wandsworth and Putney
and Mitcham Gas Companies is printed in Appendix B.
Unemployed
"Workmen.
81. This Bill, which was introduced by the President of the
Local Government Board, proposed to establish—
(1) a local body for every municipal borough in
London consisting of Members of Borough Councils and Boards
of Guardians, and (2) a Central Body for the whole of the County
consisting of members of the local bodies and of the County
Council, together in each case with a number of co-opted Members
to the number of not more than one-fourth of the total
number of each body.
82. The Bill provided that the Local Body should make itself
acquainted with the conditions of labour within their area and