The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-22 00:00:00

Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is—intended to be
made to Parliament in the next session for an ACT for enabling the
Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London to light with gas the
streets, lanes, highways, and other public passages and places within
the city of London and the liberties thereof, and to purchase, erect,
make, and maintain works for the purposes aforesaid, and fora sup-
plying with gas the inhabitants of the said city and the liberties
thereof. And by the said Act it is intended to incorporate the said Com-
missioners, and to authorise them to lay down and maintain pipes and
mains in the several streets, lanes, highways, and other public pas-
sages and places within the said city and the liberties thereof, and
to break up the soil or pavement of such streets, lanes, highways,
and other public passages and places. And by the said Act it is in-
tended to take powers to purchase and take by agreement such
houses and lands as may be necessary for effecting the purposes
aforesaid. And it is also proposed, by such Act, to empower the
said Commissioners, by compulsion or otherwise, to purchase and
take the gasometers, manufactories, buildings, lands, mains, pipes,
apparatus, plant, and other the works and property of " The Gas
Light and Coke Company," and of "The City of London Gas Light
and Coke Company," and. of " The Commercial Gas Light and Coke
Company," and of any other company or personly furnishing or
supplying, or who may hereafter furnish or supply,gas within the
city of London, or the liberties thereof, and to vest the same and
all powers, privileges, and authorities given to, or vested in, or
enjoyed by such companies or persons, or any of them, in the said
Commissioners. And it is also proposed, by the said intended Act,
to empower the said Commissioners to contract and agree with any
existing or future gas-light company, or any other company or
persons for the supply to them, by the said Commissioners, of gas
for lighting the districts under their control, or within their re-
spective jurisdiction, and generally to authorise and empower the
said Commissioners, and such other companies and persons as
aforesaid, to enter into and carry into effect such arrangements, in
reference to all or any of the purposes aforesaid, as may be mu-
tually agreed upon between them respectively. And by the said
Act it is intended to take power to levy and collect rates or rents
for the supply of gas from all companies, or persons using or con-
suming the same, and to grant exemptions from the payment
thereof; and also to make, raise, levy, and collect rates and as- I
sessments upon the proprietors and occupiers of premises within the
city of London and the liberties thereof; and to continue, alter, or
vary any existing rates or assessments, and to make compositions
for rates or assessments in certain cases, and to confer, vary, or ex-
tinguish exemptions from the payment of rates and assessments, and
other rights and privileges. And it is also intended by the said Act
to confer upon the said Commissioners such other powers as may he
necessary for fully carrying into effect the purposes aforesaid, and to
extinguish or vary all existing rights or privileges which would
impede er interfere with the objects aforesaid, And it is also pro-
posed by the said Act to take powers to enable the said Commis-
sioners to levy and raise such sum and sums of money as may be
requisite for carrying into effect the purposes aforesaid, upon the
credit of the rates and rents to be received for the supply of gas
in the said city and the liberties thereof, and upon the credit of the
rates and assessments by the said Act authorised to bo made, raised,
levied, and collected or continued. And for the purposes aforesaid
it is proposed by the said Act to alter, amend, and enlarge, and, ifne-
colliery, to repeal the powers and provisions of the several Acts follow-
ing, or some of them, (that is to say) an Act passed in the session
of Parliament held In the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to provide for the Sanitary
Improvement of the City of London and the Liberties thereof,and for
he better cleansing, severing, paving, and lighting tho same ;" an
Act passed in the fiftieth year of the reign of King George tho Third,
intituled "An Act for granting certain powers and
authorities to a Company to be incorporated by charter,
to be called the Gas Light and Coke Company, for
making Inflammable air for the lighting of the streets of the
metropolis, and for procuring coke, oil, tar, pitch, asphaltum, am-
oil from coal, and for other purposes
Act passed in the fifty-fourth year of the
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thereto;"
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reignof King George the Third, intituled " An Act for enlarging
e Gas Light and Coke present Co-
mpany Majesty for granting
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authoritiespany ;" an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of the reign of King
tof histo the
George the Third, intituled " An Act to alter and enlarge the
of two Acts of his present Majesty, for agranting certain
powers
of King George the Third, intituled
the fifty-ninth, p.ar pf the reign
Powi-4$ le the Gas Light and Coke Company ;" Act passed in
" An Act to alter and ettlfirphrteli:
Acts •iP
o hit 'went Majesty, rs of Pie Gas Light and
f
Coke Company, and to amen
re-
lating to the said Company ;"
reign of King George the Fourth, intittlied •` An Act to enlarge the an Act passed in the fourth year of the
powers of the Gas Light and Coke Company, and '.o amend several
Company ;" an Act passed in the fifty-seventh year of the reign of
Acts passed in the reign of his late Majesty, relating to the said
Kiug George the Third, intituled " An Act for better lighting the
'streets and houses of the metropolis with gas ;" and au Act passed