A.D. 1877.

(Abingdon, &c.)

SCHEDULE OF ORDERS.

1. ABINGDON GAS.-Order empowering the Abingdon Gaslight and Coke Company, Limited, to maintain and continue Gasworks and to manufacture and supply Gas in the Parishes of St. Helen and St. Nicholas within the Borough of Abingdon, and in such part of the Parish of St. Helen as is 5 without the Municipal Borough but within the area of the Parliamentary Borough of Abingdon, all in the County of Berks.

2. CRANLEIGH GAS.-Order empowering the Cranleigh Gas and Coke Company, Limited, to maintain and continue Gasworks and to manufacture Gas in the Parish of Cranleigh, otherwise Cranley, and to supply 10 Gas in that Parish and in certain adjoining Parishes, in the County of Surrey.

3. HORSHAM GAS.-Order empowering the Horsham Gas Company, Limited, to maintain and continue Gasworks and to manufacture and supply Gas in the Parish of Horsham, in the County of Sussex.

4. MANSFIELD GAS.-Order empowering the Mansfield Gaslight Company to raise additional Capital.

5. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME GAS.-Order empowering the Newcastleunder-Lyme Gaslight Company to raise additional Capital.

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6. NORTH CAMP AND FARNBORO' DISTRICT GAS.-Order empowering the 20 North Camp and Farnboro' District Gas Company, Limited, to construct and maintain Gasworks and to make and supply Gas in the Parishes of Farnboro' and Ash, and the Chapelry of Frimley, in the Counties of Southampton and Surrey.

7. SOUTHBANK AND NORMAN BY GAS.-Order conferring further powers 25 for the construction of Gasworks and for the manufacture and supply of Gas on the Southbank and Normanby Gaslight and Coke Company, Limited.

(Abingdon, &c.)

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ABINGDON GAS.

Order empowering the Abingdon Gaslight and Coke Company, Limited, to maintain and continue Gasworks and to manufacture and supply Gas in the Parishes of St. Helen and St. Nicholas within the Borough of Abingdon, and in such part of the Parish of St. Helen as is without the Municipal Borough but within the area of the Parliamentary Borough of Abingdon, all in the County of Berks.

A.D. 1877.

1. This Order may be cited as "The Abingdon Gas Order, 1877."

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Short title.

of Acts.

2. The provisions of "The Lands Clauses Acts" (except with respect to the Incorporation purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, and with respect to the entry on lands by the Promoters,) of "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847," and of "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871," are hereby incorporated with this Order, except where the same are expressly varied by this Order; 15 and the said provisions of the said Gasworks Clauses Acts shall apply as well to the mains, pipes, and works of the Undertakers laid down or constructed before the passing of the Act confirming this Order, and situate within the limits of supply as defined by this Order, as to any mains, pipes, or works which may be laid down or constructed under the authority of 20 this Order.

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3. The several words and expressions to which by the Acts in whole or Interpretation. in part incorporated with this Order, and by "The Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870," meanings are assigned, have in this Order the same respective meanings.

Order.

4. The limits within which the provisions of this Order shall be in force Limits of and have effect (in this Order referred to as "the limits of supply") shall be the area of the Municipal Borough of Abingdon, together with so much of the Parish of St. Helen, Abingdon, without the said Municipal Borough as is included within the limits of the Parliamentary Borough of 30 Abingdon.

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Undertakers.

takers.

5. The Abingdon Gas Light and Coke Company, Limited, shall be the The UnderUndertakers for the purposes of this Order, and are in this Order referred to as "the Undertakers."

6. The share capital of the Undertakers shall for the purposes of their gas Capital. undertaking consist of the original share capital, amounting to ten thousand pounds, already raised by the Undertakers, and of additional share capital to be issued subject to the provisions of this Order not exceeding ten thousand pounds, and the original and additional share capital of the Undertakers shall 40 not for such purposes exceed twenty thousand pounds, unless the Undertakers

(Abingdon, &c.)

A.D. 1877. shall be authorised to raise additional share capital by Provisional Order under "The Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870," or by Act of Parliament.

New shares to be offered by auction or tender.

As to notice to be given as to sale, &c. of shares.

Shares not sold by auction or

offered to

shareholders.

7. The Undertakers shall, when any shares forming part of the additional capital by this Order authorized are to be issued, and before offering the same to the holder of any other shares or stock of the Undertakers, and whether 5 the ordinary shares or ordinary stock of the Undertakers are or is at a premium or not, offer the same for sale by public auction or by tender, in such manuer, at such times, and subject to such conditions of sale as the Undertakers shall from time to time by special resolution determine: Provided that at any such sale the reserved price put upon such shares shall not be less 10 than the nominal amount thereof, and notice of the amount of such reserved price shall be sent by the Undertakers in a sealed letter to the Board of Trade not less than twenty-four hours before the day of auction or the last day for the reception of tenders, as the case may be, and such letter may be opened after such day of auction or last day for the reception of tenders, 15 and not sooner, and provided that no priority of tender shall be allowed to any holder of shares or stock of the Undertakers.

8. The intention to sell any shares by auction or by tender under the provisions of this Order shall be communicated by the Undertakers in writing to the town clerk of the borough of Abingdon and to the secretary of the 20 Committee of the London Stock Exchange, at least twenty-eight days before the day of auction or the last day for the reception of tenders, as the case may be, and notice of such intention shall be duly advertised by the Undertakers once in each of two consecutive weeks in one or more newspapers circulating within the limits of the borough of Abingdon.

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9. When any shares have been offered for sale by auction or by tender by tender to be under the provisions of this Order, and not sold, the same shall be offered, at the reserved price put upon the same respectively for the purpose of sale by auction or tender, to the holders of the ordinary shares or ordinary stock of the Undertakers, in such manner as may be prescribed by a special resolution 30 passed by the Undertakers: Provided always, that any shares so offered, and not accepted within the time prescribed by such special resolution, shall again be offered for sale by public auction or by tender, in the manner and subject to the provisions of this Order with respect to the sale of shares forming part of the additional capital by this Order authorized. 35

Application of premium arising on

issue of shares.

Limits of divi-. dend on additional capital.

10. Any sum of money which shall arise from the issue of any shares under the provisions of this Order by way of premium, after deducting therefrom the expenses of and incident to such issue, shall not be considered as profits of the Undertakers, but shall be expended in extending or improving the works of the Undertakers, or in paying off money borrowed or owing on 40 mortgage by the Undertakers, and shall not be considered as part of the capital of the Undertakers entitled to dividend.

11. The Undertakers shall not in any year make out of their profits any larger dividend on the additional capital by this Order authorized than seven pounds in respect of every one hundred pounds actually paid up of such 45 capital as shall be issued as ordinary capital, or six pounds in respect of

(Abingdon, &c.)

every one hundred pounds actually paid of such capital as may be issued as A.D. 1877. preference capital.

Limits of money bor

12. The amount of all moneys borrowed by the Undertakers and secured by mortgage of their undertaking, shall not at any one time exceed in the rowed on 5 whole five thousand pounds.

mortgage.

Power to purtional lands.

», chase addi

13. The Undertakers may from time to time purchase by agreement, and, subject to the provisions of section five of "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871," may hold, for any of the purposes of this Order, any land not exceeding one acre, in addition to the land shown on the map deposited for the purposes of 10 this Order (in this Order referred to as "the deposited map"), and described

in the schedule to this Order annexed.

Maintenance and Continuance of Gasworks, Manufacture and Sale of Gas,

Coke, and Residual Products.

may

maintain

lands described

14. The Undertakers on the lands shown on the deposited map, and Undertakers 15 described in the schedule to this Order annexed, may maintain and continue, and continue and from time to time alter and enlarge, retorts, gas-holders, receivers, gasworks on purifiers, meters, apparatus, and works for the manufacture and storing of in schedule, and gas, and of coke and other residual products obtained in the manufacture may make and sell gas, &c. of gas, and matters producible therefrom; and they may, subject to the 20 provisions of this Order, make gas, and supply and sell the same within the

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limits of supply, and may manufacture coal-tar, coke, pitch, asphaltum, and ammoniacal liquor, oil, and all other residual products obtained in the manufacture of gas and matters producible therefrom, and may sell and dispose of the same at the works and elsewhere.

panies.

15. If any difference arise between the Undertakers and any railway, canal, Differences with railway or other company whose lands or works the Undertakers have power to and other comcross, under the authority of this Order, for the purposes of meeting the demands for gas within the limits of supply, as to the mode of laying down, repairing, altering, or enlarging their pipes, or the facilities to be afforded for 30 the same, the same shall be settled by an engineer to be appointed by the Board of Trade at the request of either party.

Quality of Gas.

16. The quality of gas supplied by the Undertakers shall, with respect to Quality of gas. its illuminating power, be such as to produce a light equal in intensity to

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Price of Gas.

17. The price to be charged by the Undertakers for gas supplied by them Price of gas. to consumers shall not exceed six shillings and eightpence per one thousand 40 cubic feet, and so in proportion for any less quantity supplied: Provided, nevertheless, that every fraction of one hundred feet may be charged as one hundred feet.

A.D. 1877.

Pressure of gas.

Test meter.

No penalty in case of un

avoidable

cause.

Undertakers to

pay interest on deposit.

8 Vict. c. 16. s. 140. incorporated.

Saving of existing contracts.

Costs of Order.

(Abingdon, &c.)

Pressure of Gas.

18. All gas supplied by the Undertakers to any consumer of gas shall be supplied at such pressure as to balance from midnight to sunset a column of water not less than six tenths of an inch in height, and to balance from sunset to midnight a column of water not less than eight tenths of an inch in height, 5 at the main as near as may be to the junction therewith of the service pipe supplying such consumer.

Testing of Gas.

19. The Undertakers shall, within six months after passing of the Act confirming this Order, cause to be provided at their works a testing place, 10 with apparatus therein, according to the provisions of "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871;" and the burner to be used for testing the gas shall be a Sugg's London Argand, No. 1, with a six-inch by one-and-three-quarter-inch glass chimney, and if at any time the gas flame tails over the top of the glass a six-inch by two-inch chimney shall be used, and any gas examiner appointed 15 under "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871," for the purposes of this Order, may from time to time, subject to the terms of his appointment, at such testing place or elsewhere, as and when he thinks fit, test the pressure at which the gas is supplied, and for that purpose may open any street, road, passage, or place vested in or under the control of any local or road 20 authority.

Miscellaneous.

20. No penalty shall be incurred by the Undertakers for insufficiency of pressure, defect of illuminating power, or for excess of impurity in the gas supplied by them in any case in respect of which it is proved that such 25 insufficiency, defect, or excess was caused by an unavoidable cause or accident.

21. Where any money is deposited by any person by way of security with the Undertakers for the payment to them of all moneys which become may due to them by such person in respect of any supply of gas or of the purchase or hire of any meter, the Undertakers shall pay interest at the rate of five 30 pounds per centum per annum on every sum of ten shillings deposited by way of such security for every six months during which the same remains in their hands.

22. Section 140 of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be and is hereby incorporated with this Order; provided that, for the purpose 35 of such incorporation, the expression "the Company" in the said section shall be construed to mean the Undertakers.

23. Nothing in this Order contained shall alter, vary, or affect any contract or agreement duly made or any liability incurred before the passing of the Act confirming this Order with respect to the gasworks of or the supply of 40 gas by the Undertakers.

24. All the costs, charges, and expenses of and incidental to the applying for, preparing, obtaining, and cor.firming this Order, and otherwise in relation thereto, shall be paid by the Undertakers.