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face of any streets or roads in which it may be necessary or
desirable to do so in order to connect the tramways with any
generating station, and a Clause which would authorise the company
to make agreements with any other company, body, or
persons, for the supply of energy to or from the company, and
would authorise the laying down of electric lines, etc., from any
generating station from or to the tramways across or along any
road or street. The promoters agreed to a modification of these
Clauses, but the Bill was withdrawn in June, 1908.
London and District Electricity Supply, and the London Electric Supply.
60. The first of these Bills proposes to authorise a company,
with a capital of £4,500,000, to construct generating
stations and works and to supply electrical
and the London energy within the area of supply defined in the Bill,
County of London and parts of Essex,
Kent, Surrey, and Middlesex. The Bill provides that the powers
of the company for the supply of energy shall be subject to the
provision that energy shall be supplied only to authorised undertakers
and to persons requiring a supply for power.
61. The London Electric Supply Bill is promoted by fourteen
companies (including the County of London Electric Supply Company,
who are supplying electricity in this Borough), and the
preamble states that such companies have spent on their undertakings
a sum of ;£13,000,000, and that they are now precluded
from associating themselves with any other company.
62. The Bill proposed to authorise the formation of a Joint
Committee, consisting of representatives of such of the companies
as choose to join, and two Members of the London County
Council, and would authorise the transfer to the Joint Committee
of generating stations and works of London Electric Supply
Companies.
63. Clause 42 sets out the maximum price for the supply of
electrical energy, and provides for a revision of the charges after
the expiration of seven years.
This Council presented petitions against both of the abovementioned
Bills, but decided not to appear before the Parliamentary
Committee in opposition. The Bills have been read a third
time in the House of Lords and will be considered by a Committee
of the House of Commons in the Autumn Session.