This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... and report. The other members of Sub-Committee were Bailies Robert. Johnston and Mossman, and Dean of Guild M'Gibbon. These three gentlemen could not concur in the views of the Corporation's water representatives. In the report issued by them to the Town Council (April 1, 1863), they practically complain of scant ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... and report. The other members of Sub-Committee were Bailies Robert. Johnston and Mossman, and Dean of Guild M'Gibbon. These three gentlemen could not concur in the views of the Corporation's water representatives. In the report issued by them to the Town Council (April 1, 1863), they practically complain of scant courtesy on the part of the Directors of the Water Company, and they also point out several matters of which they could not approve. One of these was that the public were deprived of the use of the Canal water for secondary purposes, a privilege which the Water Company had previously acquired under the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company's Consolidation Act, and to which the citizens of Edinburgh were not in any way parties. They differed from the Water Company in their extended views regarding the checking of waste, and also in their estimates of the quantity of water used A PARLIAMENTARY STRUGGLE. 95 It is proper to observe, in this connection, that the reason alleged by the Company for their Bill was the 210th clause of the General Police Act, which provided for the introduction of sinks and waterclosets into houses, and thus made it necessary to provide a greater supply of water, to meet the increased demand and the wants of the inhabitants for a great length of time. The Town Council was in harmony with the majority of the Sub-Committee; and having ascertained the opinion of the public, so far as practicable in the circumstances, by a public meeting, and with the cooperation of the Town Councils of Leith and Portobello, as well as of the Merchant Company and the Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh, they felt it their duty to oppose the Bill, more especially as the Directors of the Water Company had systematically refused to meet with the Sub-C...
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