Parliamentary Papers, Volume 20H.M. Stationery Office, 1860 - Bills, Legislative |
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... cost of above 300 7 .; but after the contract has terminated , in 1862 , the increased expense to which the Companies supplying London with drinking water have been put for its improvement , will double the cost of the amount supplied ...
... cost of above 300 7 .; but after the contract has terminated , in 1862 , the increased expense to which the Companies supplying London with drinking water have been put for its improvement , will double the cost of the amount supplied ...
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... cost of those engines and pumps ? —Yes ; the total cost will be something under 300 l . a year , including the filters and the coal and the other materials . 78. How 78. How many engines have you ; one or two & MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN ...
... cost of those engines and pumps ? —Yes ; the total cost will be something under 300 l . a year , including the filters and the coal and the other materials . 78. How 78. How many engines have you ; one or two & MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN ...
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... cost at least 25,000 , whilst the adjustment , and regulation , and levelling at the bottom , as proposed in some document forwarded to me , would cost probably 40,000 l . or 50,000 l . in addition . " That is so . Those are the figures ...
... cost at least 25,000 , whilst the adjustment , and regulation , and levelling at the bottom , as proposed in some document forwarded to me , would cost probably 40,000 l . or 50,000 l . in addition . " That is so . Those are the figures ...
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... cost up to the present day would be ? - I should think the total cost would be 8,000l . 225. And in the event of the works being suspended or totally stopped , would there be any heavy compensation ? -I cannot tell what the contractor ...
... cost up to the present day would be ? - I should think the total cost would be 8,000l . 225. And in the event of the works being suspended or totally stopped , would there be any heavy compensation ? -I cannot tell what the contractor ...
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... cost under your plan , would be for coals and everything , 300 l . a year ? —Yes ; that will be the outside . 284. Do you include in that the contract with the Chelsea Water Company ? - No. 285. That would be extra - That has nothing to ...
... cost under your plan , would be for coals and everything , 300 l . a year ? —Yes ; that will be the outside . 284. Do you include in that the contract with the Chelsea Water Company ? - No. 285. That would be extra - That has nothing to ...
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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.