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" of London) drawn from high-water mark on the bank of the River
" Thames at the boundary line between the parishes of Teddington and
" Twickenham in the County of Middlesex to high-water mark on the
" Surrey bank of the River immediately opposite the first-mentioned
" point, and extend down both sides of the River Thames to an imaginary
" straight line (in this Act referred to as the seaward limit of the Port of
" London) drawn from the pilot mark at the entrance of Havengore
" Creek, in the County of Essex, to the Land's End at Warden Point in
" the Isle of Sheppey, in the County of Kent, and shall include all islands,
" rivers, streams, creeks, waters, watercourses, channels, harbours, docks,
" and places within the before-mentioned limits contained, and all places
" which under any Act of Parliament are deemed to be within the Port
" of London, but shall not include any part of the River Medway above
" the seaward limit of the jurisdiction of the Conservators of the River
" Medway, or any part of the River Swale, or any part of the River Lee
" or Bow Creek within the jurisdiction of the Lee Conservancy Board, or
" any part of the Grand Junction Canal."
The Port Sanitary Committee felt very strongly that those clauses relating
to the pollution of the River Thames should be administered by the Port
Sanitary Authority, and not by the Port Authority, which is purely a trading
concern.
Their views were strongly represented before a Joint Committee of the
House of Lords and Commons, and the Lord Mayor and your Medical Officer
of Health gave evidence in respect thereto.
The Board of Trade were not unwilling that these clauses should be
administered by the Port Sanitary Authority, but the proposal was strongly
opposed, amongst others, by the London County Council, who wished the
sewage outfall at Barking and Crossness to be excluded from any supervision
under the Act, and the representations of the Port of London Sanitary
Authority failed to obtain effect.
Clause 29. (1) The Port Authority shall, if so required by the
Secretary of State, provide and maintain to the satisfaction of the
Secretary of State accommodation for the reception of alien passengers
conditionally disembarked for the purpose of inspection, appeals, or
otherwise, under the Aliens Act, 1905.
(2) On such accommodation being provided, the Port Authority may,
with the consent of the Secretary of State, make bye-laws imposing on
immigrant ships within the meaning of that Act entering the Port of
London tolls in respect of such accommodation, and requiring the conditional
disembarkation at the place so provided of such Alien passengers
from immigrant ships as the Secretary of State may by order direct,
either generally or as regards any special ships.