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condition of any Telephone wire, and make orders with respect thereto,
and as to the removal, repair or alteration of any such Telephone w ire
or post, and the Board of Trade may also of their own motion from
time to time inspect, test, examine and enquire in to the condition of
any Telephone wire or post.
(8). That by clause 25 it is proposed to be enacted that the Board
of Trade may, from time to time, make, alter and repeal rules to be
observed by the local authorities and other persons whose consent is
required to any works of the Company, and by the Company for the
prevention of danger or obstruction to the public from the works of
the comp any, placed under, in, upon, over, along or across upon any
street, land or building, railway or canal, and by such rules the Board
of Trade may provide for the periodical inspection, testing and examination
of any such works, aud for the imposition and recovery of
reasonable penalties for any breach of rules not exceeding five pounds
for each offence, and in addition forty shillings for every day during
the continuance of such offence.
(9.) That your petitioners, the Board of Works for the Fulham
District, are constituted the local authority over the said District, and
vested with various powers under the Metropolis Local Management
Acts,—including the control of the streets, the public sewers, etc.
(10.) That the Fulham District comprises an area of over four
thousand acres, and your petitioners have at present under their care
and control upwards of sixty-four miles of "streets," that there are
existing very many miles of new roads or "streets," not yet under the
care and control of your petitioners, that building operations are
progressing at rapid rate in the Fulham District, aud that very shortly
there will be very many miles of streets added to those at present under
the control of your petitioners.
(11.) That your petitioners strongly object to the Bill for the
following, among other reasons:—
(i.) That the erection and suspension of Telegraph and Telephone
wires overhead, along or across any street, land or building, will
become a source of great danger to the inhabitants' of your
petitioners' district and to the public generally.
(ii.) That the erection and suspension of Telegraph and Telephone
wires overhead, along or across any street, land, or building,
and the erection of posts in the said streets, will create obstruction,
annoyance and inconvenience in the streets, and will
restrict and injuriously interfere with the free use of the said
streets by the inhabitants of your petitioners' district and by
the public generally.
(iii.) That no periodical or other testing or inspection of Telegraph
and Telephone wires can be carried out so as to ensure
the efficient protection of the inhabitants of your petitioners'
district, and of the public generally, from the dangers arising
from the erection and suspension of such overhead wires,
(iv.) That no provision is made, should the Bill pass into a law,
enabling the company to erect and suspend Telegraph or