Parliamentary Papers, Volume 20H.M. Stationery Office, 1860 - Bills, Legislative |
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... fact , or is it a fact , that the water of the Serpentine has of late years become fouler than it was in former times ? -No , of late years it has not ; of late years it has been better than it formerly was ; some years ago it was very ...
... fact , or is it a fact , that the water of the Serpentine has of late years become fouler than it was in former times ? -No , of late years it has not ; of late years it has been better than it formerly was ; some years ago it was very ...
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... fact , whatever may have been the advantage of improving the lake in St. James's Park , you anticipate the same advantage at least by the system you are adopting , with reference to the filtration of the water in the Ser- pentine ...
... fact , whatever may have been the advantage of improving the lake in St. James's Park , you anticipate the same advantage at least by the system you are adopting , with reference to the filtration of the water in the Ser- pentine ...
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... fact , the sand is your chief filter ? -That is the only one . 185. You anticipate no difficulty from removing that eighth of an inch in three weeks , or three - eighths of an inch , and carrying it away ; it may be carted off before ...
... fact , the sand is your chief filter ? -That is the only one . 185. You anticipate no difficulty from removing that eighth of an inch in three weeks , or three - eighths of an inch , and carrying it away ; it may be carted off before ...
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... fact to mention , which is that this water contains no mud ; it is only floating matter , and that will of course always go down the culvert with the greatest possible ease . 197. You do not apprehend any deposit of that portion of the ...
... fact to mention , which is that this water contains no mud ; it is only floating matter , and that will of course always go down the culvert with the greatest possible ease . 197. You do not apprehend any deposit of that portion of the ...
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... fact , the stage of the work that requires alteration is not yet arrived at ? It is not . - 222. In what state is the sculpture ; is it in a forward state ? —Yes ; there is a good deal done towards the sculpture ; I should think that Mr ...
... fact , the stage of the work that requires alteration is not yet arrived at ? It is not . - 222. In what state is the sculpture ; is it in a forward state ? —Yes ; there is a good deal done towards the sculpture ; I should think that Mr ...
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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.