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(b) That domestic purposes include water for gardens not exceeding
an area of one-eighth of an acre, and that gardens exceeding one-eighth of
an acre be supplied with water by meter.
(c) That there be one uniform rate for all rateable values up to £150
and a lower rate in respect of all rateable values exceeding £150, the
higher rate to be charged on the first £150 of any rateable value.
(d) That the Water Board should have power to make special arrangements
with regard to large properties using very little water.
(e) That in exceptional cases the Water Board should supply water by
meter if required by consumers.
(f) That the charge for supplying and maintaining meters be 7½ per
cent. of the cost of the meter; and that the London County Council be the
authority for testing meters.
(g) That the limit of size of baths exempted from additional charge be
extended from 50 gallons as proposed to 80 gallons.
67. The Bill was considered by a joint Parliamentary Committee
and, as amended by them, provided that in the case of
premises occupied for the purposes of trade or business assessed
at more than £300 per annum, the Board may make a rebate of
not less than 20 nor more than 30 per cent. ; and that the charge
for a supply by meter should be from 7d. to is. per 1,000 gallons.
The Bill also fixed the charges for the hire, etc., of meters, and
provided that domestic supplies were to include baths of a
capacity of 80 gallons and to exclude watering gardens by means
of any outside tap or any hose, tube, pipe, sprinkler or other like
apparatus. The Bill received the Royal Assent on the 28th
August, 1907.
68. This Bill proposed to authorise the Water Board to carry
out certain works, amongst which were the construction
of conduits or lines of pipes in the
southern part of the Streatham Ward, and a new
road between Leonard Road and Greyhound Lane, and for the
purpose of one of the conduits to make connections and attachments
to the bridge carrying Greyhound Lane over the London
Brighton & South Coast Railway. The Bill also proposed
to authorise the Board to take part of Streatham Common,
amounting to 1 acre 2 roods 18 poles, and to construct and
maintain telegraphs for communication with works, to require aseparate
supply pipe to be laid from the main pipe into each
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