Parliamentary Papers, Volume 20H.M. Stationery Office, 1860 - Bills, Legislative |
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... gallons a day , the process which restores whiteness and transparency 192 . b a day , SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE SERPENTINE . ix.
... gallons a day , the process which restores whiteness and transparency 192 . b a day , SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE SERPENTINE . ix.
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... gallons of the contents of the Serpentine every day . If you could put one million of gallons of fresh water into it , that one million being as liable , and more so , to produce this kind of vegetation , you would do only half the work ...
... gallons of the contents of the Serpentine every day . If you could put one million of gallons of fresh water into it , that one million being as liable , and more so , to produce this kind of vegetation , you would do only half the work ...
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... gallons daily ? -- No sensible current ; you cannot get a sensible current by putting any quantity of water that you ... day ; but as it is a mile in length the effect would be , if you were to put ten millions of gallons in it , to move ...
... gallons daily ? -- No sensible current ; you cannot get a sensible current by putting any quantity of water that you ... day ; but as it is a mile in length the effect would be , if you were to put ten millions of gallons in it , to move ...
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... water ? -Cer- tainly no perceptible effect . 58. I think you have stated that your filters will pass two millions of gallons per day ? -- Yes . 59. Does the water which has been once passed through your filters ever become impure again ...
... water ? -Cer- tainly no perceptible effect . 58. I think you have stated that your filters will pass two millions of gallons per day ? -- Yes . 59. Does the water which has been once passed through your filters ever become impure again ...
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... gallons a day of perfectly pure water from gravel ; it has never seen the light ; that water runs in through a sort of small bay , not larger than this table ; with such rapidity , however , are these plants generated , the moment this ...
... gallons a day of perfectly pure water from gravel ; it has never seen the light ; that water runs in through a sort of small bay , not larger than this table ; with such rapidity , however , are these plants generated , the moment this ...
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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.