deposit bill

Henry Mitchell, the senior of the two stewards, passed swiftly from table to table, depositing bills.

They added, however, that they would continue to oppose mandatory bottle deposit bills because, they said, such laws had put heavy burdens on retailers and wholesalers and had not been very effective.

The spur came about as a consequence of the intense rivalry between the two railway companies which in 1864 had led to both simultaneously depositing bills before Parliament for competing routes across the south-east.

The GWR subsequently looked to expand beyond Oxford by depositing bills for the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and the Oxford and Rugby Railway which would take it into the heart of the Midlands.