Mr. Ellis' tender for the economic & profitable utilisation of the metropolitan sewage.

  • Ellis, Thomas.
Date:
[1863]
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Credit: Mr. Ellis' tender for the economic & profitable utilisation of the metropolitan sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOB, THE ECONOMIC & PEOEITABLE UTILISATION OE THE METROPOLITAN SEWAGE, 76, Warwick Square, Belgravia, 9th July, 1868. To John Pollard, Esq., Clerk to the Metropolitan Board of Works. Sir, In the Appendix to this communication, marked No. 1, you will find a copy of a letter from the eminent firm of Leed’s solicitors, the Messrs. Payne, Eddison, and Ford, from which the Board will learn that a sum of £60,000 is ready to be lodged in Bank, to the credit of my local trustees, so soon as a conditional concession of the Sewage shall be granted to me ; as a fund to cover all preliminary expenses of establishing a Company to carry out my plan for the economic and profitable utilisation of the Metropolitan Sewage. This is, of course, enormously in excess of what will be required, but should the Board consider necessary, further proof of my ability to carry out successfully my own plans for the economic and profitable utilisation of the Sewage, I beg to suggest that an additional stipulation can be added to the con¬ ditional concession, to the effect that I shall not take any steps to advertise my Company until the Metropolitan Board of Works have first approved of my Board of Directors, and that half-a- million sterling of the capital of my Company has been subscribed for. In the Appendix marked No. 2, you will find a copy of a letter lately received by me from Baron Liebig, from which the Board will see that my plan for the economic utilisation of the Sewage, receives the entire approval and support of the greatest authority in the w?orld, upon agricultural chemistry.