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above referred to also considered this Bill, and were of opinion that
clause 31 should be so amended as to enable the road authorities
to attach conditions to their consent to the use of portions of
streets for shelters, and to require the removal of such sheltersif
deemed necessary, and that the provisions of clause 35 were
objectionable, and should be amended so that the attachments in
question shall not be made except with the consent and approval
of the local authority; that such consent shall not constitute a
perpetual easement; that the proposed signs shall be maintained
by the County Council, and that complete protection should be
given to the Borough Councils with regard to the maintenance and
control of lamp-posts. This Council and four other Councils appeared
before the Committee of the House of Commons in opposition to
clause 35, when the London County Council intimated that the clause
would be amended so as to provide that the County Council shall
indemnify the owner of lamps against any damage occasioned by
any attachment, and that nothing in the clause should be deemed
to require the owner to retain any lamp when not required for his
purpose. With those amendments the clause was allowed to proceed,
and the Bill received the Royal assent on the 18th August.
Coroners' Law
and Deaths
Certification
(Amendment).
3g. The object of this Bill was to amend the law relating to
Coroners and Death Certification so as to give
effect to many of the recommendations of the
Departmental Committee of 1908 and of the
Death Certification Committee of 1893. This Council petitioned
in favour of the Bill, which was, however, dropped.
London Electric
Supply.
40. The London Electric Supply Act, 1908, constituted the
London County Council the purchasing authority
(in lieu of the Borough Councils) in respect of the
undertakings of nine of the fourteen companies authorised to supply
electricity in London. Under the provisions of the present Bill
the County Council will become the purchasing authority with
respect to the undertakings of the remaining five companies, but
they will not be able to purchase the undertaking of one company
without purchasing the undertakings of all. The Council petitioned
in favour of the Bill, which received the Royal assent on the 28th
November, 1910.