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separate tenement, and would prevent persons supplied with
water other than by measure from fixing tubes or hose to the
pipes for the purpose of washing horses or carriages or for watering
gardens, washing pavements, etc. The Bill would also
authorise the Board to supply, repair, or alter pipes, water
closets, apparatus and receptacles permitted by their regulations,
and to repair injury to or defect in communication pipes and to
recover the cost from the person requiring the same.
69. The Council presented a petition against the Bill, dealing
with the following matters :—
(а) Depth and position in which conduits or pipes will be laid ; provisions
for the protection of the roads and sewers of the Council; for
providing that the proposed new road in this Borough shall be formed,
sewered, paved and lighted to the satisfaction of this Council; that no
posts or wires or aqueducts, etc., be placed upon or over any highway in
the Borough.
(b) The words "watering gardens or" to be deleted from Clause 61,.
which would prevent the fixing of tubes or hose to service pipes.
(c) That the charge for the supply and maintenance of meters be
per cent. of the cost of the meter ; and that the London County Council be
the authority for testing meters.
(d) Water Board to be liable for damage to highway caused by the
bursting of mains or pipes. .
(e) Clause 68 (power to supply cisterns, baths, water closets, appar
atus, etc.) to be amended so that the Board shall comply with the requirements
of the Public Health (London) Act and Bve-laws.
70. The Council was also represented at a Conference of
City and Metropolitan Borough Councils with reference to this
and the Charges Bill, and upon considering the resolutions passed
at the Conference was of opinion that the power to supply
materials should not be conferred upon the Water Board, and
that the provisions requiring separate tenements in the same
house to be supplied by separate pipes were objectionable and
unnecessary.
71. The clause relating to the formation of a new road at
Streatham having been withdrawn, the question of garden watering
and meter rents, dealt with by the Charges, etc., Bill, and
the Council being satisfied with the arrangements made by the