The Water Supply and Sewerage of Country Mansions & Estates; A Course of Lectures Delivered to the Students of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirence

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. 1901. Excerpt: ... COST OF WORKS, METHOD OF OBTAINING LOAN, TERMS FOR REPAYMENT, Etc. I will now briefly discuss the question of outlay, and explain how the somewhat heavy expensewhich is, and must always be, inevitably connected with works of improvement, may be best met. Of course the expenditure involved may vary from a few hundreds to several thousands of pounds; and in the latter case a landowner may be put to considerable inconvenience if he has himself to find the requisite money in a lump sum down. The legislature have, however, stepped in beneficially, and in consequence there are several Acts of Parliament by which he is enabled to effect a loan on advantageous terms, not only for works of water supply in relation to his mansion and. estate, but for the sewerage works connected with his residence. All these Acts are administered by the Board of Agriculture, whose offices are in St. James's Square, London. With regard to the sewerage and sewage disposal of a residence, the Limited Owners' Residences Acts (1875) enable an. owner, whether tenant for life, or owner in fee, to borrow money, and to charge the estate with the outlay necessary to complete all these works, provided that the total sum expended, together with all expenses incidental to obtaining the loan as well as professional charges, does not exceed two years' net rental from the estate mortgaged; that is to say, his clear income after the payment of all charges previously created. With regard to water supply, by the adoption of the Improvement of Land Acts, an owner may not only charge his property with the cost of all outlay, but, under the same charge, he may supply his neighbours--in other words, if a squire owns twothirds of the houses in a village, he can supply the remaining one-third with water, ...