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Therm, a hundred thousand British thermal units. A British thermal unit is the amount of heat required to raise 1 lb. of water 1 degree Fahrenheit [Gas Regulation Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 28), s. 1, sub-ss. (2) and *7)]. The Gas Undertakings Act, 1920 to 1934, provide for orders by the Board of Trade permitting gas undertakings to sell gas at a specified maximum rate per therm. See GAS....
Gas
Gas. See the (English) Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Gas.'By s. 161 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (see also (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 23), any urban authority may contract with any person for the supply of gas or other means of lighting their district, and provide lamps and other materials for such lighting; or where there is not any company or person authorized by Parliament to supply gas, may themselves undertake to supply gas to their district or such part of it as is not within the limits of supply of any such company or person. by s. 162, an urban authority for the purpose of supplying gas to their district may (with the sanction of the Board of Trade) buy, and the directors of any gas company (duly authorized as required by the Act) may sell and transfer their undertaking to such authority, on agreed terms.Originally gas was supplied to a prescribed illumi-nating standard. Later, when t...
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