§ "To empower the South Metropolitan Gas Company to alter the provisions as to the standard price and illuminating power of the gas supplied by the company; to construct a railway in the parish of Greenwich; and to purchase by agreement so much of the southern portion of the undertaking of the Gas Light and Coke Company as is situate in the county of London south of the Thames; and for other purposes," read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.