Parliamentary Papers, Volume 20H.M. Stationery Office, 1860 - Bills, Legislative |
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... carried into exe- cution at all , nor is there any formal order yet given for it , but it is expected to be given . 216. It is merely a proposition ? -It is more than that , as it emanates from the Office of Works . This is the original ...
... carried into exe- cution at all , nor is there any formal order yet given for it , but it is expected to be given . 216. It is merely a proposition ? -It is more than that , as it emanates from the Office of Works . This is the original ...
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... carried on to a great extent the sand becomes consolidated , the fibrous matter being drawn into the interstices , and the whole operation is stopped ; therefore , we provide a very much larger area on purpose , capable of passing 50 ...
... carried on to a great extent the sand becomes consolidated , the fibrous matter being drawn into the interstices , and the whole operation is stopped ; therefore , we provide a very much larger area on purpose , capable of passing 50 ...
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... carried out at two different periods of 12 March 1869 . time , taking the upper part of the Serpentine first , from the bridge ; and that the first thing done , was to put a dam in at the bridge ; what length of time would be necessary ...
... carried out at two different periods of 12 March 1869 . time , taking the upper part of the Serpentine first , from the bridge ; and that the first thing done , was to put a dam in at the bridge ; what length of time would be necessary ...
Page 99
... carrying it out . In consequence of that , I had an order from Sir Benjamin Hali to carry out those works . 11439. But you made a report , did you not , upon that first ? -I think the report was made after those works were carried out ...
... carrying it out . In consequence of that , I had an order from Sir Benjamin Hali to carry out those works . 11439. But you made a report , did you not , upon that first ? -I think the report was made after those works were carried out ...
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... carried out . 1443. Has that been done ? —Yes , that is done ; that is there ; the 15 - inch pipe is carried across . 1444. So that the pipe was actually laid by you across the lake to the dry ground in the direction that you proposed ...
... carried out . 1443. Has that been done ? —Yes , that is done ; that is there ; the 15 - inch pipe is carried across . 1444. So that the pipe was actually laid by you across the lake to the dry ground in the direction that you proposed ...
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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.