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London, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN GAS WORKS
SUPPLY f COMPANY.
(INCORPORATION of COAIPAiIY ; POWERS to MANUFAC-
TURE GAS and SUPPLY the ETROPOLITAN GAS COMPA-
NIES, to MAKE ARRANGEMENTS with those COMPANIES,
to take LAND for WORKS, and to CONSTRUCT WORKS.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That it is intended to apply to
Parliament in the next Session for an Act for all or some of the fol-
lowing purposes :-
L To incorporate the Metropolitan Gas Works Supply Company-,
provisionally registered.
2. To enable the Company to erect and maintain Gas Works on
the Northern side of the River Thames, near Devall's House, in the
parish of Woolwich, In the county of Kent.
3. To enable the Company to make, maintain, vary, extend, en-
large, and use gas mains, pines, and other apparatus, the • main line
thereof commencing at the Gas Works, passing along or across Bow-
creek, Limehouse-cut, Bow-commen-lane, Regent's-canal, Bridge-
street, Bancroft-place, Mile-end-road, Globe-road, Green-street,
Cambridge-road, Hackney-road, Old-street-road, City-road, Pen-
tonville-hill, the New-rood, Great Portland•street, Oxford-street,
Regent-street, Conduit-street, Old Bond-street, Piccadilly, Grosve-
nor-place, Upper and Lower Eaton-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road,
Vauxhall Bridge, New Bridge-street, Upper Kennington-lane,
Vauxhall-road, Lower Kennington-lane, High-street, Landon-road,
Blackfriars-road, Blackfrlars-bridge, Bridge-street, William-street,
Water-lane, and the interm,diate lands, or some of those places and
lands, and terminating at the City Gas Works, with the following
branches from such main line.
Ist. At Bow Common-lane to the Great Central Gas Consumers
Works. 2nd. At Bridge-street, Mile-end-road, through Bancroft-
place, Johnson-street, York-place, Rhodes Well-road, White Horse-
street, Brook-street, Back-road, and John-street, to the Commercial
Gas Stations. At the junction of Hackney-road with Great
Cambridge-road, through Great Cambridge-street, Gloucester-street,
Haggerstone-lane, to the Imperial Gas Works, and the Independent
Gas Works 4th, At the junction of Old-street-road with Curtain-
road, through Worship-street and Curtain-road, to the Chatered Gas
Works. sth. At the junction of York-roadwith the City-road, through
Macclesfield-terrace, City-road, York-street, and Brick-lane, to the
Chartered Gas Works. 6th. At King's-cross, through Old St. Pan-
cras-road and Wharf-road, to the Impel:al Gas Works. 7th. Near
Trinity Church, New-road, through Portland-street, New-road,
Chapel-street, Edgware-road, Harrow-road, Brindley-street,
and Kensall Road, to the Western Gas Works. Bth. At the junction
of Grosvenor-place with Grosvenor-street West, through Grosvenor-
street West, King's road East and West, Kensington Canal, and
Factory-lane, to the Imperial Gas Works. 9th. At Vauxhall Bridge-
road near Vincent-square, through Regent-street and Horseferry-
road to the Chartered Gas Works. 10th. At Vauxhall Bridge-road
near Bessborough-street, through Bessborour h-street and place to
the Equitable Gas Works. 11th. At the junction of New Bridge-
street with High-street, Vauxhall, through High-street to the Lon-
don Gas Works. 12th. At Use junction of Devonshire-street with
Upper Kennington-lane, through Devonshire-terrace, to the Phosnix
Gas Station. 13th. Near the Elephant and Catsle, through New
Kent-road, Old Kent-roid, and the Grand Surrey Canal, to the South
Metropolitan Gas Works. 14th. At the junction of Wellington-
street with Blackfriars-road, through Friar-street and Wellington-
street to the Phoenix Gas Works. 15th. At the junction of Holland-
street with Blackfriars-road through Holland-street and Banksido to
the Phcenix Gas Works.
4. To enable the company to carry on all the business of a Gas
Light and Coke Company except the supplying of gas directly for
private consumption, and for the purposes of their business, to build,
buy, provide. hold, and use ships, steamers, and other vessels, and
to import coals,
5. To enable the company and the Victoria Dock Company
(London) to make contracts and arrangements for the use by the
company of the Victoria Docks, and to enable the company to make
and maintain works and conveniences for landing coals, and accom-
modating vessels brineing coals for tee use of the company.
6. To enable the company to supply with gas the several gas com-
panies now or hereafter established within the City of London and
the Metropolitan Police district, or supplying gas within those limits,
7. To enable the company to make with those gas companies. or
any of th-m, arrangements in the nature of an amalgamation of their
interests, &c.
8. To authorise the company to gdrantee to those gas companies,
or any or them, any dividend on their share, capital, or any interest
on their debts, or any other benefit mutually agreed on
9. To authorise those companies respectively to hold shares in the
capital of the company.
I. To authorise the nomination by those companies, or some of
them, of directors of the company.
11. To authorise the company to hold shares in the capital of
those companies respectively.
12. To authorise the nomination by the company, of directors in
those companies respectively.
13. To enable the company, and those companies, or any of
them, to make arrangements and contracts with respect to such
supply of gas.
14. To provide for the sanction by such of the companies as are
supplied with gas by the company, of the appointment and removal
of inspectors, of meters, and auditors of the company.
15. To provide for the discontinuance of the manufacture of gas by
companies supplied by the company.
16. To provida for the sale, lease, or other disposal by the com-
panies discontinuing the manufacture of gas of such (of their gas
works, lands, buildings, and plant as cease to be required.
17. To levy tolls, rates, and duties ; alter existing tolls, rates, and
duties ; confer, vary, and extinguish exemptions from payment of
tolls, rates, and duties ; and to confer, vary, and extinguish other
rights, and privileges.
18. To confer on the Home Secretary or the Board of Trade, or
some other public authority, powers of control with respect to the
execution of some of the powers of the act.
19. To incorporate with th.‘ intended act all or parts of all or
some of the following acts The Companies Clauses Consolidation
Act, 1845 ;" " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 ;" and
" The Gas Works Clauses Act, 1847,"
20. To repeal or alter all or parts of all or some of the several
Acts of Parliament relating respectively to Bow Creek Limehouse
Cut, Grand Surrey Canal, Kensington Canal, Grand Junction
Canal, Regent's Canal, Paddington Canal, Vauxhall Bridge, Black-
friars Bridge, Harrow Road, City Road, Hackney Road, Commer-
cial Road, Fulham Road, Old Pancras Road, Old North Road, New
Cross Road. surrey and Sussex Road, Metropolitan Roads, London,
Woolwich, and Blackwell Railway, Eastern Counties Railway,
North London Railway, Blackwell Railway, Victoria Docks
(London), River Thames, River Lee, Metropolitan Commissioners of
Sewers, and Commissioners of Sewers for the Havering levels, and
to the several streets, roads and other highways above mated, and
to all lands and houses to be taken or used for, or interfered with by
the works.
21. To confer on the company powers for the compulsory pur-
chase of lands and houses.
And Notice is Hereby Given, that on or before the 31st day of
December, 1853, printed copies of the BPI for the intended Act will
be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons.
T. L. MARRIOTT,
Parliamentary Agent,
I, Lancaster-place, Strand