(Brotton, &c.) "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871," for the purposes of this Order, may A.D. 1877. 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 5 place vested in or under the control of any local or road authority. Miscellaneous. case of un 14. No penalty shall be incurred by the Undertakers for insufficiency of No penalty in pressure, defect of illuminating power, or for excess of impurity in the gas able supplied by them in any case in respect of which it is proved that such cause. 10 insufficiency, defect, or excess was caused by an unavoidable cause or accident. to pay interest on deposit. 15. Where any money is deposited by any person by way of security with Undertakers the Undertakers for the payment to them of all moneys which may become 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 15 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. 20 s. 140. incor 16. Section 140 of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be 8 Vict. c. 16. and is hereby incorporated with this Order; provided that, for the purpose porated. of such incorporation, the expression "the Company" in the said section shall be construed to mean the Undertakers. 17. Any mains, pipes, or other works which under the authority of this Protection of Order the Undertakers may lay down or execute under or over any railway of North-eastern Railway Comthe North-eastern Railway Company, shall be so laid down and executed and pany. 25 subsequently maintained and repaired under the direction and superintendence and to the reasonable satisfaction of the engineer for the time being of that Company, and in accordance with plans and sections previously submitted to and approved of by him. 18. Nothing in this Order contained shall alter, vary, or affect any contract 30 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 gas by the Undertakers. Saving of existing con tracts. 19. All the costs, charges, and expenses of and incidental to the applying for, Costs of Order. preparing, obtaining, and confirming this Order, and otherwise in relation 35 thereto, shall be paid by the Undertakers. SCHEDULE. GAS LANDS. A plot of land belonging to the Undertakers, bounded on the north by a street called Broadbent Street, on the east by land belonging to Christopher 40 Jackson, Esquire, on the west by the Cleveland Branch of the North Eastern Railway, and on the south by land belonging to or reputed to belong to the Reverend James Barrow. A.D. 1877. (Brotton, &c.) Short title. Incorporation of Acts. Interpretation. Limits of GUISBROUGH GAS. Order conferring powers for the maintenance and continuance of 1. This Order may be cited as "The Guisbrough Gas Order, 1877." 5 2. The provisions 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; and the said provisions shall apply as well to the mains, pipes, and works of the Undertakers laid 10 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 this Order. 3. The several words and expressions to which by the Acts incorporated 15 with this Order, and by "The Gas and Water Works 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 and have effect (in this Order referred to as "the limits of supply") shall be the parish of Guisbrough and all townships and extra-parochial places, or any 20 detached parts of townships, parishes, or extra-parochial places, lying within the boundaries of the said parish of Guisbrough in the north riding of the county of York. Undertakers. Capital. Undertakers. 5. John Hardcastle Bowman, David Baker, John Dunning, Elizabeth Duck, 25 Joseph Whitwell Pease, Henry Pease, Arthur Pease, Alfred Kitching, Elizabeth Reade, Thomas Rawling, William Thompson, Robert Thompson, Sarah Ann Thompson, Thomas McLachlan, Margaret Weatherill, Henry Savile Clarke, William Hodgson, Margaret Ayre Eden, Annie Watt, William Walter Thomson, Thomas James Thomson, Henry Newton, and George Carrick, 30 and the survivors and survivor of them, and the executors or administrators of such survivor, or their, his, or her assigns, shall be the Undertakers for the purposes of this Order, and are in this Order referred to as "the Undertakers." 6. The share capital of the Undertakers for the purposes of their gas undertaking shall not exceed fifteen thousand pounds, unless the Undertakers shall 35 be authorised to raise additional share capital by Provisional Order under "The Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870," or by Act of Parliament. (Brotton, &c.) Maintenance and Continuance of Gasworks, Manufacture and Sale of Gas, A.D. 1877. and continue lands described 7. The Undertakers, on the lands shown on the map deposited for the Undertakers purposes of this Order, and described in the schedule to this Order annexed, may maintain 5 may maintain and continue, and from time to time alter and enlarge, retorts, gasworks on gas-holders, receivers, purifiers, meters, apparatus, and works for the manu- in schedule, facture and storing of gas, and of coke and other residual products obtained and may make and sell gas, 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 10 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. 8. 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 20 Board of Trade at the request of either party. Quality of Gas. &c. Differences with railway and other com panies. 9. 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 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 Gus. 10. The price to be charged by the Undertakers for gas supplied by Price of gas. them to consumers shall not exceed six shillings per one thousand cubic feet, and so in proportion for any less quantity supplied: Provided, never30 theless, that every fraction of one hundred feet may be charged as one hundred feet. Pressure of Gas. 11. All gas supplied by the Undertakers to any consumer of gas shall be Pressure of supplied at such pressure as to balance from midnight to sunset a column of gas. 35 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, at the main as near as may be to the junction therewith of the service pipe supplying such consumer. 40 Testing of Gas, 12. The Undertakers shall, within six months after passing of the Act Test meter. confirming this Order, cause to be provided at their works a testing place, 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 45 chimney, and if at any time the gas flame tails over the top of the glass a (Brotton, &c.) A.D. 1877. six-inch by two-inch chimney shall be used, and any gas examiner appointed 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, 5 passage, or place vested in or under the control of any local or road authority. No penalty in case of un avoidable cause. Undertakers on deposit. Miscellaneous. 13. 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 10 insufficiency, defect, or excess was caused by an unavoidable cause or accident. 14. Where any money is deposited by any person by way of security with to pay interest the Undertakers for the payment to them of all moneys which may become 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 15 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. Protection of pany. Saving of existing contracts. Costs of Order. 15. Any mains, pipes, or other works which under the authority of this Order the Undertakers may lay down or execute under or over any railway of 20 the North-eastern Railway Company, shall be so laid down and executed and subsequently maintained and repaired under the direction and superintendence and to the reasonable satisfaction of the engineer for the time being of that Company, and in accordance with plans and sections previously submitted to and approved of by him. 16. 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 gas by the Undertakers. 25 17. All the costs, charges, and expenses of and incidental to the applying 30 for, preparing, obtaining, and confirming this Order, and otherwise in relation thereto, shall be paid by the Undertakers. SCHEDULE. GAS LANDS. A piece of land now belonging to and occupied by the Undertakers, situate 35 at Guisbrough in the north riding of the county of York, containing by admeasurement half an acre or thereabouts, and bounded on the north by Fountain Street, on the east running to a point at the junction of Fountain Street with the Guisbrough branch of the North-Eastern Railway Company's goods yard, on the west partly by a right-angled continuation of Fountain Street, 40 and partly by a foundry and premises belonging to Admiral Thomas Chaloner and in the occupation of John Sutherst, and on the south by the said branch railway. (Brotton, &c.) BRIDPORT WATER. Order empowering the Bridport Waterworks Company to raise Additional Capital. A.D. 1877. 1. This Order may be cited as "The Bridport Water Order, 1877." Short title. 5 2. "The Bridport Waterworks Act, 1872," (in this Order referred to as "the Construction Act of 1872,") and this Order shall be construed together, except so far as such construction would be inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this Order. of Order. of Acts. 3. So far as the same relate to the powers conferred by this Order, the Incorporation 10 provisions of "The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," with respect to the several matters following; (that is to say,) 15 20 The distribution of the capital hereby authorised into shares; The transfer or transmission of shares; The payment of subscriptions and the means of enforcing payment of calls; The remedies of the creditors of the Company against the shareholders; The consolidation of shares into stock; The general meetings of the Company, and the exercise of the right of voting The making of dividends; The borrowing of money by the Company on mortgage or bond; The giving of notices, and the provisions for affording access to the special and Part 1 (relating to cancellation and surrender of shares), and Part 2 (relating 25 to additional capital), and Part 3 (relating to debenture stock) of "The Companies Clauses Act, 1863," "The Companies Clauses Act, 1869," and "The Waterworks Clauses Acts, 1847 and 1863," are, except where expressly varied by this Order, incorporated with and form part of this Order. For the purpose of such incorporation, the term "special Act" in the said 30 Acts shall be construed to mean this Order. 35 40 4. The Bridport Waterworks Company, incorporated by the Act of 1872, Undertakers. shall be the Undertakers for the purposes of this Order, and are in this Order referred to as "the Undertakers." Additional Capital. 5. In addition to the capital already authorised to be raised by the Under- Additional capital. takers, they may from time to time- 1. Raise any further sums not exceeding in the whole eight thousand than the full nominal amount of any such share shall be payable or paid |