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102 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
To alter, amend, and extend or repeal all or
some of the powers and provisions of certain Acts
(local and personal).
London Hydraulic Power Company.
I submit the following paragraph from "The
Gas Journal " of the 26th of December, 1899:—
"The directors of the London Hydraulic Power
Company are preparing a Hill for next session
which, if sanctioned, will enable them to extend
their operations into any part of the Metropolis
without the consent of the local authorities. By
their Act, 1884, the Company are placed under an
obligation to obtain tho consent of the then Metropolitan
Board of Works, and the Vestry or District
Board, before any pipes can be brought within the
jurisdiction of these bodies. We learn that it is
proposed to repeal the Act so far as it relates to
the powers vested in these bodies."
I may add the Company have only been permitted
to lay mains in this Parish by first obtaining
the Vestry's sanction, and under a special agreement.
Generally.
All the foregoing schemes, with the exception of
the London County Council (General Powers) Bill,