The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-23 00:00:00

The City Remembrancer has drawn up a
which will be introduced by the corporation into
Parliament, empowering them to supply the City
with brilliant, cheap, and pure gas. The preamble
recites the expediency of a good supply of gas
to the City, the defectiveness of the present arrange-
ments, the inexpediency of extending gasworks
in populous districts, the frequency with which muni-
cipal and other bodies are empowered to supply gas,
and the existence of a suitable site for gas works at
West Ham, in Essex. The act then empowers the
corporation to take the lands in the schedule under
the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, and also em-
powers them to purchase any other lands by agree-
ment. The limit of compulsory purchase is fixed
at five years. Powers are then given to erect
gasworks, carry mains through streets, and supply
gas-fittings for consumers of the gas ; and the Gas-
works Clauses Act, 1847, is incorporated. The cor-
poration are also to provide a testing-place in the
City, where proper apparatus will be kept for test-
ing the quality of the gas supplied, and a chemical
examiner shall be appointed, who, for a fee of ls.,
shall at any time when called upon by a consumer
examine and report to him on the quality of the gas.
The following provisions are made as to the bril-
liancy and purity of the gas to be supplied :
" All gas shall be at the testing-place of such il-
luminating power as to produce from an argand
burner of the description and measurements de-
scribed, consuming not more than 5 feet of gas per
hour, a light equal to that produced by not less than
18 sperm candles of six to the pound, each burning
at the rate of 120 grains per hour.
" The argand burner shall be of the description
now known as Sugg's steatite burner with 15 holes,
and the measurements of the several parts of the
burner shall be as follows, namely, the external dia-
meter of the burner shall be one inch and one-tenth
of an inch, the internal diameter thereof shall be half
an inch, each of the 15 holes shall be 1-20th part of
an inch in diameter, the chimney shall be 7 inches
high, and the rest of the gallery which holds the
chimney shall be one inch below the top of the
burner.
" A specimen of the burner shall be deposited with
the Town Clerk of the City, and shall be open to
examination by all persons interested at all reason-
able times on payment of a fee of one shilling.
" All gas supplied by the corporation shall be at
the testing-place, provided under this act, of such
purity that the gas will not discolour turmeric paper
or paper imbued with acetate of lead, when such
paper is exposed to a current of gas issuing for one
minute from an orifice one-fourth of an inch in dia-
meter, at a pressure of not less than half an inch in
water.
" Gas supplied by the corporation shall not at the
testing place provided ander this act contain more
than 16 grains of sulphur in any form in 100 cubic
feet of gas ; the amount of sulphur therein contained
to be estimated by the process known as Dr.
Letheby's sulphur test."
It is then provided that any consumer may com-
plain to two justices of the illuminating power or
purity of the gas, and the justices may order the
removal of the cause of complaint within a reasonable
time specified ; a fine, not exceeding £5 per day, to
be inflicted so long as the order is not complied with.
The price of the gas consumed by meter shall not
exceed 3s. per 1,000 cubic feet. The corporation
shall also be bound under penalties to supply gas,
on being required to do so, to all buildings within
50 yards of the mains. Incoming tenants shall not
be required to pay the arrears of an outgoing tenant
before being supplied. The act contains numerous
minor provisions for borrowing, and the like. The
destination of any surplus that may arise after pay-
ing all debts, &c., shall be applied to the widening
of the streets of the City and the improvement
thereof, as the corporation, from time to time, may
thick proper.
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