Parliamentary Papers, Volume 20H.M. Stationery Office, 1860 - Bills, Legislative |
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Page xi
... believe that no scheme for purifying the Serpentine will be satisfactory which does not exclude the drainage or overflow of the Ranelagh or any other sewer , and which does not provide for the removal or covering of the mud now ...
... believe that no scheme for purifying the Serpentine will be satisfactory which does not exclude the drainage or overflow of the Ranelagh or any other sewer , and which does not provide for the removal or covering of the mud now ...
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... believe that such a supply of fresh water may be obtained from the springs within or contiguous to the Serpentine from an enlargement of the water- shed of the Park and Kensington Gardens , and from other sources which have been pointed ...
... believe that such a supply of fresh water may be obtained from the springs within or contiguous to the Serpentine from an enlargement of the water- shed of the Park and Kensington Gardens , and from other sources which have been pointed ...
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... believe there are about 350 men employed on the site , besides others who are employed ; I do not know the number off the site , but taking it at 400 men , and putting them down at an average of 4 s . per day , that would be 80. per day ...
... believe there are about 350 men employed on the site , besides others who are employed ; I do not know the number off the site , but taking it at 400 men , and putting them down at an average of 4 s . per day , that would be 80. per day ...
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... believe the acreage of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens is between 600 and 700 acres ? -Yes , I believe it is . 496. Is it the fact , do you think , that a large portion of that might be drained into the Serpentine ? —I think it might ...
... believe the acreage of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens is between 600 and 700 acres ? -Yes , I believe it is . 496. Is it the fact , do you think , that a large portion of that might be drained into the Serpentine ? —I think it might ...
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... believe , 50 feet , to try the nature of the grounds . 633. Is there any danger that the sewer running so near as that , and so much under the level , would draw a good deal of the water away under the Serpentine ? -I think not at all ...
... believe , 50 feet , to try the nature of the grounds . 633. Is there any danger that the sewer running so near as that , and so much under the level , would draw a good deal of the water away under the Serpentine ? -I think not at all ...
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Page 307 - Duties, should be capitalised to pay for the greater part of the embankment scheme : the rest being supplied by a parliamentary vote. Without noticing the discussions which took place in Committee, we will at once state the decision ultimately arrived at, in the form of resolutions : — • "1. That the embankment of the north side of the Thames, from Westminster Bridge to or nearly to Southwark Bridge, would afford a desirable mode of improving the banks and bed of the river, and facilitate the...
Page 306 - Every select committee having power to send for persons, papers, and records, shall have leave to report their opinion and observations, together with the minutes of evidence taken before them, to the house...
Page xv - Report, — put, and agreed to. Question, That this Report, as amended, be the Report of the Committee to the House, — put and agreed to.
Page iii - Orders of the House, examined the matters to them referred ; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
Page 176 - For widening and improving Cannon Street, and for making a new street from the west end of Cannon Street to Queen Street, and for widening and improving Queen Street, and for effecting other improvements in the city of London.
Page 176 - An Act to extend the Time for the Purchase of Lands required for certain Branches of the North Staffordshire Railway to Newcastle-under-Lyme, Silverdale, and the Apedale Ironworks.
Page 307 - ... committees and commissioners already named. This subject we shall take up, after having noticed the recent proceedings concerning embankment schemes, and the connection of these schemes with the Great Drainage of the Metropolis. It was in May, I860, that a Committee was appointed by the House of Commons, ' To consider the best means of providing for the increasing traffic of the Metropolis, by the Embankment of the Thames.
Page 4 - The streets to be of three magnitudes ; the three principal leading straight through the city, and one or two cross streets to be at least...
Page xiv - That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the paragraph," put and negatived. Question proposed, " That the proposed words be there added.