1. A piece or parcel of land belonging or reputed to belong to Ralph Jackson,
bounded on the north by the existing gasworks of the Undertakers, on the
south and west by other lands belonging or reputed to belong to the said Ralph 5
Jackson, and on the east by the road leading from Normanby to Southbank,
and containing by admeasurement four thousand seven hundred and eighty-one
square yards or thereabouts.

2. A triangular piece of land belonging or reputed to belong to the said
Ralph Jackson abutting on the west side of the first-mentioned piece of land, 10
bounded on the north by the railway siding now forming part of the works of
the Undertakers, and on the south-east and west by other lands belonging or
reputed to belong to the said Ralph Jackson, containing by admeasurement
four hundred square yards or thereabouts, and which is intended to be used
for the purpose of a siding only, and not for the manufacture or storage of gas 15
or residual products.

(Brotton, &c.) [H.L.]

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BILL

INTITULED

An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the A.D. 1877.
Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities
Act, 1870, relating to Brotton Gas, Guisbrough Gas, Brid-
port Water, Burgess Hill Water, Ruthin Water, and
Pickering Gas and Water.

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HEREAS under the authority of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, the Board of Trade have made the several Provisional Orders set out in the schedule to this Act annexed:

5 And whereas a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the authority of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, is not of any validity or force whatever until the confirmation thereof by Act of Parliament:

And whereas it is expedient that the several Provisional Orders 10 made by the Board of Trade under the authority of the said Act, and set out in the schedule to this Act, be confirmed by Act of Parliament:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and 15 Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as The Gas and Water Orders Con- Short title. firmation (Brotton, &c.) Act, 1877.

2. The several Orders set out in the schedule to this Act shall Confirmation of Orders in 25 be and the same are hereby confirmed; and all the provisions schedule. thereof, in manner and form as they are set out in the said schedule, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, have full validity and force.

A.D. 1877.

(Brotton, &c.)

SCHEDULE OF ORDERS.

1. GAS ORDERS.

1. BROTTON GAS.-Order conferring powers for the maintenance and con-
tinuance of gasworks, and for the manufacture and supply of gas in
the township of Brotton, in the parish of Brotton, in the North Riding 5
of the county of York.

2. GUISBROUGH GAS.-Order conferring powers for the maintenance and
continuance of gasworks, and for the manufacture and supply of gas,
within the parish of Guisbrough, in the North Riding of the county
of York.

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2. WATER ORDERS.

3. BRIDPORT WATER.-Order empowering the Bridport Waterworks
Company to raise additional capital.

4. BURGESS HILL WATER.-Order empowering the Burgess Hill and
Saint John's Common Water Company, Limited, to construct and 15
maintain waterworks, and to supply water in the parish of Hurstpier –
point, in the connty of Sussex.

5. RUTHIN WATER.-Order empowering the Ruthin Water Company to
raise additional capital.

3. GAS AND WATER ORDER.

6. PICKERING GAS AND WATER.-Order empowering the Pickering Gas
and Water Company, Limited, to construct and maintain gasworks
and waterworks, and to make and supply gas and to supply water
within the township of Pickering, in the county of York.

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(Brotton, &c.)

A.D. 1877.

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BROTTON GAS.

Order conferring powers for the maintenance and continuance of
Gasworks, and for the manufacture and supply of Gas in the
Township of Brotton, in the Parish of Brotton, in the North
Riding of the County of York.

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

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, 10 1847," and of "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871," are hereby incorporated with this Order, except where the same are expressly varied by this Order; 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 15 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 this Order.

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

20 Facilities Act, 1870," meanings are assigned, have in this Order the same respective meanings.

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") Order. shall be the township of Brotton, in the parish of Brotton, in the north 25 riding of the county of York.

Undertakers.

5. The Brotton Gas Light and Coke Company, Limited, formerly called The UnderThe Brotton and Lofthouse Gas Light and Coke Company, Limited, shall be takers. the Undertakers for the purposes of this Order, and are in this Order referred

30 to as "the Undertakers."

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6. The share capital of the Undertakers shall not exceed fifteen thousand Capital. pounds, unless the Undertakers 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.

chase lands by agreement.

7. The Undertakers may from time to time purchase by agreement and, Power to pursubject 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 five acres, in addition to the land shown on the map deposited for the purposes of this Order, and described in the schedule to this Order 40 annexed.

A.D. 1877.

Undertakers
may maintain
and continue

gasworks on
lands described
in schedule,
and may make
and sell gas,
&c.

Differences

with railway and other companies.

Quality of gas.

Price of gas.

Pressure of gas.

Test meter.

(Brotton, &c.)

Maintenance and Continuance of Gasworks, Manufacture and Sale of Gas,
Coke, and Residual Products.

8. The Undertakers on the lands shown on the map deposited for the
purposes of this Order, and described in the schedule to this Order annexed,
may maintain and continue, and from time to time alter and enlarge, their
existing gasworks and works connected therewith, and may construct and
enlarge retorts, gas-holders, receivers, purifiers, meters, apparatus, and works
for the manufacture and storing of gas, and of coke and other residual pro-
ducts obtained in the manufacture of gas, and matters producible therefrom;
and they may, subject to the provisions of this Order, make gas, and supply
and sell the same within the 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.

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9. If any difference arise between the Undertakers and any railway, canal, 15 or other company whose lands or works the Undertakers have power to cross, 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 the same, the same shall be settled by an engineer to be appointed by the Board of Trade 20 at the request of either party.

Quality of Gas.

10. The quality of gas supplied by the Undertakers shall, with respect to its illuminating power, be such as to produce a light equal in intensity to the light produced by fourteen sperm candles, and shall in all respects be in 25 accordance with the provisions of "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871."

Price of Gas.

11. The price to be charged by the Undertakers for gas supplied by them to consumers shall not exceed six shillings and sixpence per one thousand cubic feet.

Pressure of Gas.

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12. 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, 35 at the main as near as may be to the junction therewith of the service pipe supplying such consumer.

Testing of Gas.

13. The Undertakers shall, within six months after passing of the Act confirming this Order, cause to be provided at their works a testing place, with 40 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 a 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 under 45