Parliamentary Papers, Volume 11

Front Cover
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 27 - Act, to build, or buy, or hire, and to use, maintain, and work, or to enter into arrangements for using, maintaining, or working steam vessels for the purpose of carrying on a communication between any towns or ports, and to take tolls in respect of such steam vessels...
Page iii - Commissioners are empowered to enforce the Payment of the Arrears of Interest, or the Arrears of Principal and Interest, due to them, by the Appointment of a Receiver, then, if within Thirty Days after the Interest accruing upon any such Mortgage or Assignation in Security has become payable, and, after Demand thereof in Writing, the same be not paid, the Mortgagee or...
Page vii - ... for the conveyance of goods and passengers, or to apply any portion of their capital or revenue to other objects, distinct from the undertaking of a railway company, unless the committee on the bill report that such a restriction...
Page 27 - ... then and in every such case tolls shall be at all times charged to all persons equally, and after the same rate in respect of passengers conveyed in a like vessel passing between the same places under like circumstances ; and no reduction or advance in the tolls shall be made in favour of or against any person using the steam vessels in consequence of his having travelled or being about to travel on the whole or any part of the company's railway, or not having travelled or not being about to...
Page iv - ... to the Matter so referred any such Arbitrator shall have the like Authority and Jurisdiction as the Board of Trade has under this Act, and his Determination shall have the same Effect as a Determination of the Board of Trade under this Act.
Page 159 - ... gas shall in no case join two or more gas pipes together previous to their being laid in the trench, but shall lay each pipe as near as may be in its place in the trench...
Page i - REPORT. THE SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to join with a Committee of the Lords to consider the best method of dealing with the RAILWAY SCHEMES proposed to be sanctioned within the limits of the METROPOLIS...
Page 27 - ... the steam vessels ; and where an aggregate sum is charged by the company for conveyance of a passenger by a steam vessel and on the railway, the ticket shall have the amount of toll charged for conveyance by the steam vessel distinguished from the amount charged for conveyance on the railway.
Page viii - But at the same time the English Parliament recognized that for the public advantage it is desirable that a railway should yield a reasonable return to its investors. 7 When a railway pays little or no dividend on its capital, it has been feared that working expenses may be cut down injuriously, with the resulting disadvantages of insufficient or inefficient service. Then again, the embarrassment of one company in failing to...
Page 159 - Simpson quoted an instance where, in a length of 1000 yards of iron pipes 2 inches in diameter, there had been a loss of 357 cubic feet of gas in 24 hours. By perseverance in repairing the escapes, the porous spots and other defects in the metal of the pipes, the leakage had been reduced in three years to about 13 cubic feet in 24 hours. Mr. Lowe said, that although in the early stages of gas-lighting, the pipes laid in the streets might not have been proved, such was not now the case; at present...

Bibliographic information