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477
Water supply for other purposes. The same Act, section
38, gives power to the Company to supply any Person or
Body within the limits of the Act with water for other than
domestic purposes at such rent, terms and conditions as shall
be agreed between the Company and the person or Body
desirous of having such supply.
Power to compel supply for certain public purposes
when desired by a Public Body is given by section 37 of
the General Act, and in the event of non-agreement, the
rent and conditions are to be settled by summary process.
Private individuals or firms desirous of having such
supply have no special summary process provided. But the
present question is not how those desirous of other than
domestic supply can obtain it, but whether the Lambeth
Company can enforce an arbitrary charge in dwelling houses
for what we maintain is and ought to be a domestic purpose.
All supplies—domestic and other than domestic—are
dealt with in these two sections.
The Lambeth Water Company add to the water rate
for domestic purposes in dwelling houses a charge of 10s.
yearly for each fixed bath. If the use of water in baths by
ratepayers in their dwelling houses is a domestic use, no
extra charge is lawful. If any extra charge for fixed baths
in dwelling houses had been intended by the Legislature
charges for fixed baths would have been specified and limited
with the charges for waterdosets in section 37.
Let us now see Avhat ground or reason the Lambeth
Company allege for making this claim, and how it is that
the public have paid it. The reason alleged is section 39.