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poses extended the aforesaid radius in various directions at the
request of the Company, to meet the requirements of their subscribers,
and that the Company are also carrying on an increasing
business to which the said indenture does not apply in private
wires for telephonic communication both within and without the
aforesaid radius.
That by an indenture dated the twenty-ninth day of November,
1884, between Her Majesty's Postmaster-General and the Company,
the before mentioned indenture was cancelled and determined,
and the Postmaster-General granted to the Company
(inter alia) a general license to work and use telephones and
telephonic apparatus, and provide telephonic communication
irrespective of locality or distance, in consideration of the payment
of certain Royalties, and upon terms and conditions therein
set forth.
That it is practicable for the Company by means of wires
carried above ground to take advantage of the powers and privileges
conferred by the said license, so as cheaply, expeditiously,
and without injuriously affecting any private or public rights, to
bring within speaking distance of each other localities situate one
hundred miles apart and upward.
That it is expedient that the Company be empowered to csrry
telephone wires above ground at the heights in the manner and
subject to the consents (thereinafter in the Act) prescribed subject
to the control and inspection of the Local Government Board.
That it is expedient that the Company be afforded the powers
and facilities mentioned in the said Act, with respect to the
placing and maintaining of posts and telephone wires in or upon
or under public roads, subject to the supervision and control of
road authorities and the Local Government Board, and that
powers be conferred upon the Local Government Board with
respect thereto.
(3.) That by clause 2 of the Act is proposed (inter alia) that
The term "telephone wire" means a wire or wires used for
the purpose of telephonic communication with any casing,
coating, tube, or pipe enclosing the same.
The term "post" means a post, pole, standard, stay, strut or
Other above ground contrivance for carrying, suspending
or supporting a telephone wire.
The term "work" includes telephone wires and posts.
The term "road" includes any highway and turnpike road,
railway, river, canal and towing path, and any public
bridge and county bridge, and any street, lane, footway,
square, court, ally or passage, whether a thoroughfare or
not.