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Public Lighting Department,
Vestry Hall ;
June 21 st, 1877.
to the
VESTRY OF PADDINGTON.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Third Annual Report
relative to the working of this Department during the
year ending Lady-day, 1877.
It will be remembered that the Gas Company
applied to the Referees to re-consider and amend the
system of measurement for the supply of Gas to the
Public Lamps in this Parish, and the result of such
appeal, after they had collected much practical information,
and tried many experiments, was the issuing
of a modified notification on the llth August, 1876,
by which they recommended all the Lamp Cocks, when
fully open, to have a Gas-way of one twenty-fifth of a
square inch, and that all Governors should be adjusted
to come into action at a pressure of .2 of an inch of