Power of entry for Postmaster

General.

Compensation by Commissioners to Postmaster General, and penalty.

Provisions to remain in force for one year and to the end of

the then next session of Parliament.

Expenses of
Act.

(c) The engineer and other officers and servants and workmen of Her Majesty's Postmaster General may at and for all reasonable times enter on and into and remain on any of the highways, lands, and works of the Commissioners for the purpose of examining, repairing, altering, or removing, any telegraph post, wire, tube, apparatus, or work, the property of the Postmaster General being thereon:

(D) The Commissioners shall from time to time make full compensation to Her Majesty's Postmaster General for any expense, loss, or damage which he is put to or sustains by reason of the Commissioners, by any work or thing executed or done by them, interfering with any telegraph post, wire, tube, apparatus, or work of the Postmaster General, and if at any time any such work or thing causes an interruption of or impediment to postal telegraphic communication the Commissioners shall, in addition to making compensation as aforesaid, be liable to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds for every twenty-four hours during which that interruption or impediment continues, and the amount of any such expense, loss, damage, or forfeiture shall be a debt due from the Commissioners to the Crown, and be recoverable accordingly with costs, or the same may be recovered with costs on behalf of the Postmaster General as a penalty is recoverable from the Commissioners:

(E) Inasmuch as it is contemplated to introduce a general measure for the better protection of the national telegraphs, and to enlarge the powers of the Postmaster General in relation thereto, this section shall only remain in force for one year from the date of the passing of this Act, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament.1

1 The provisions of this section have been superseded by the provisions of "The Telegraph Act, 1878" (41 and 42 Vict., c. 76.)

XXV. All costs, charges, and expenses of and incident to the preparing for, obtaining, and passing this Act, or otherwise in relation thereto, shall be paid by the Commissioners out of the rates to be levied, or the money to be borrowed under the authority of the recited Acts and this Act.

The SCHEDULES referred to in the foregoing Act.

Mortgage No.

SCHEDULE (A).

Form of Mortgage.

£

By virtue of "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Act, 1855," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1859," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1860," ," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1865," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1866," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1873," and the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1877," we, the magistrates and council of the City of Glasgow, as Commissioners appointed and acting under the said Acts, in consideration of the principal sum of (specify amount), paid by (name and designation of mortgagee) to the treasurer to the said Commissioners for the purposes of the said Acts, do hereby grant and assign to the said (name of mortgagee), and his executors, administrators, and assigns (or as the case may be), the several rates and charges to be levied and charged by them under the authority of the said Acts, or any of them, to hold to the said mortgagee and his foresaids until the said principal sum and the whole interest due thereon shall be fully paid and satisfied; and it is hereby stipulated that the said principal sum shall be repayable on the (date), or shall thereafter in virtue hereof remain as a loan to the said Commissioners until the expiration of a further term of years, and at such rate of interest as shall be specified in a minute or minutes to be endorsed hereon and signed by the said mortgagee or his foresaids, and by the treasurer to the said Commissioners, and which minutes are hereby declared and shall be held to be valid and binding though they may be neither holograph of the said mortgagee or his foresaids, nor tested, and for and in respect of interest on the said principal sum to the said date of repayment first above-mentioned (being at the rate of

per centum per annum), the said Commissioners shall pay the several sums contained in the (state number) interest warrants bearing the number and date hereof and delivered herewith, and that at the several times mentioned in such warrants, upon delivery of the same respectively, and such delivery shall be a sufficient receipt and discharge to the

said Commissioners for the contents of such warrants: Declaring that the said mortgagee and his foresaids shall not be entitled to make, and that the said Commissioners shall not be bound to recognise or register any partial assignation of these presents, or of the sums of money, principal or interest, herein contained, and that the said Commissioners shall not be liable for any expenses that may be incurred by the said mortgagee or his foresaids for or in relation to the preparation, revision, adjustment, or execution of this mortgage, or of any discharge, renunciation, release, assignation, or minute of postponement or renewal thereof.

In witness whereof (testing clause according to the form of the law of Scotland).

VIII.

AN

ACT

To authorise the Commissioners of the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks to construct additional Works; and for other purposes.

42 VICTORIA, CAP. 40.

[Royal Assent 23rd May, 1879.]

WHEREAS by the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Act, 1855, the Magistrates and Council of the City of Glasgow (hereinafter called "the Commissioners") were appointed Commissioners for carrying into effect the purposes of the said Act, and were authorised to purchase and acquire the Glasgow Waterworks and the Gorbals Gravitation Waterworks, and to introduce an additional supply of water from Loch Katrine, and to supply with water the said city and suburbs thereof, and districts and places adjacent:

And whereas the Commissioners purchased and acquired the undertakings of the Glasgow Waterworks Company and the Gorbals Gravitation Water Company; and the whole waterworks, property, rights, and privileges of the said Companies were transferred to and vested in the Commis

sioners:

And whereas further powers were granted to the Commissioners by the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1859, the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1860, the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1865, the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1866, the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1873, and the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1877:

And whereas by the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1866, (hereinafter called "the Act of 1866,") the Commissioners were authorised to construct the reservoirs, pumping station, and conduits or main pipes therein described for the purpose of supplying water for trading, manufacturing, and other purposes to the owners, lessees, and occupiers of manufactories and other works, and various

provisions were inserted in connection with the supply of water so to be granted:

And whereas by the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1873, (hereinafter called "the Act of 1873,") the time limited by the Act of 1866 for the construction of the works thereby authorised, with the exception of a portion of the said works which was authorised to be abandoned, was extended:

And whereas the Commissioners were by the Act of 1866 authorised to borrow on mortgage a sum not exceeding in the whole one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, in addition to the sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds which they had been previously authorised to borrow, and by the Act of 1877 they were authorised to borrow an additional sum of four hundred and fifty thousand pounds:

And whereas the Commissioners have executed all the works specified in and authorised by the Act of 1866, except a portion of the work fifthly specified in the said Act, and therein described as "a conduit or main pipe commencing at "the west side of the reservoir for low-level district, and terminating at or near the point where the centre line of Crown Street intersects the centre line of Govan Street in "the city of Glasgow," the said work having only been constructed from the point described as the commencement thereof to a point on the north side of the river Clyde, and from the south side of the said river to a point between York Street and Waddell Street:

And whereas the Commissioners, on the 31st day of July and 1st day of August, 1876, entered into a contract for the construction of a conduit or main pipe to be laid under the river Clyde (being a portion of the said conduit or main pipe fifthly authorised by the Act of 1866) to connect the works lastly described as having been constructed on the north and south sides of the river, the said contract providing that the work should be completed by the 3rd day of November, 1876, (within the extended period limited by the Act of 1873 for the completion of the said conduit or main pipe,) but the same has not been completed in terms of the said contract, and the time limited by the Act of 1873 for the completion thereof has expired:

And whereas the Commissioners have expended on the works authorised by the Act of 1866, so far as constructed, a sum of ninety thousand eight hundred pounds, but until the connexion between the north and south sides of the river is completed the Commissioners will be unable to give the supply of water provided by that Act to the parties on the south side of the said river, or to enforce the provisions