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Your Committee resolved :—That no action be taken.
Action of Committee approved by the Vestry on
22nd February, 1893.
Section 27. The gas supplied by the Company shall
not contain more than thirty grains of sulphur in any form
in 100 cubic feet of gas.
Section 29 provides that they may, at any time,
submit to the Board of Trade, for their approval or
otherwise, a scheme for the amalgamation of their undertaking
with that of any Metropolitan Gas Company on the
south side of the Thames, subject to the regulations by the
City of London Gas Act, 1868, notwithstanding the prohibition
of the 64th Section of the South Metropolitan
Gas Company's Act, 1876. It is as follows:—
" The Company may, at any time, after the
passing of this Act, amalgamate its undertaking with
that of any other Gas Company supplying gas in the
Metropolis on the South side of the Thames, except
the Crystal Palace District Gas Company, provided
that the conditions and restrictions contained in the
' City of London Gas Act, 1868,' under the head of
' amalgamation,' shall apply to such amalgamation,
and the said sections shall be deemed to be incorporated
with this Act, and the term 'the Companies,'
in the 18th Section of the said Act, shall be deemed
to apply to the Company and to any other Company
or Companies, except as aforesaid, with whom such
amalgamation is sought, provided that the said Section
18 shall be read as though there were no limitation of
time therein."