Sessional Papers, Volume 78H.M. Stationery Office, 1900 - Great Britain |
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3-light 31 December Account Annuities area of supply assets average Bankruptcy Beer Board of Trade Board's Provisional Orders bonised Borough British cash cent Clauses Coal Gas Coke Gas Colonies Consumption Corporation Countries Court creditors Cubic Feet Supplied Deben Debenture debtor Deeds directors District Gas ditto dles Sup Electric Lighting Order Electric Supply Company ENGLAND AND WALES-continued estimated Exports free of charge Gas Act Gas and Coke Gas and Water Gas Light Gas Orders Confir Government Board's Provisional Hectols Imperial Gallons Interest Paid JOHN MENZIES liabilities Light and Coke light meter lignite Limited Loan Meter Rent Number of Cubic Number of Persons Official Receiver Population pref Price Private Consumers Production Provisional Orders Provisional Orders Confirmation Public Lamps purchase Quantity of Coal realised shares sliding scale Spirits Standard rates STATEMENT showing sumers Supply to Public TABLE Total trustee ture Stock United Kingdom unsecured Urban District Council vendor Water Gas Wine
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Page 69 - The Court may, after it has made an order for winding up the company, summon before it any officer of the company or person known or suspected to have in his possession any of the estate or effects of the company...
Page 66 - Every conveyance or transfer of property, or charge thereon made, every payment made, every obligation incurred, and every judicial proceeding taken or suffered by any person unable to pay his debts as they become due from his own money in favour of any creditor, or any person in trust for any creditor, with a view of giving such creditor a preference over the other creditors...
Page 3 - The applicants must also deposit at the Board of Trade a published map of the district on a scale of not less than six inches to a mile, or if there is no published map, then the best map procurable, showing the boundaries of the proposed area of supply, and the...
Page 2 - ... in the office of the clerk of the peace for every county, riding, or division in England or Ireland, or in the office of the...
Page 10 - That the bankrupt has omitted to keep such books of account as are usual and proper in the business carried on by him and as sufficiently disclose his business transactions and financial position within the three years immediately preceding his bankruptcy.
Page 3 - January, and all such proofs must be completed on or before the 22nd February. Six days...
Page 85 - Strong Waters : — For every gallon computed at hydrometer proof of Spirits of any") description (except perfumed Spirits), including Naphtha or Methylic Alcohol, purified so as to be potable ; and mixtures and preparations containing Spirits...
Page 4 - Kingdom and retained for home consumption has rather more than trebled, or, per capita, a little more than doubled, the export, including coal shipped for the use of steamers engaged in the foreign trade, has grown fifteen-fold, and increased from a proportion of 6'8 per cent.
Page 5 - Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, relating to Aberystwyth, Ashton-underLyne, Halifax, Harwich, Limerick, and Maidstone.