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In several instances the Board have been called upon to build
Sewers which they have thought ought, like the above, to be constructed
at the expense of the owners of the property to be peculiarly
benefitted. They have, therefore, declined to undertake them,
unless the cost be contributed by the owners. Of this class are
Sewers required for the drainage of Grote's Buildings, Eliot Yale,
and the adjacent property, the Paragon Mews, Montpelier Place,
Bath Place, &c., Abion Terrace, Sydenham, &c. &c. In all these
cases the necessity for Sewers is fully admitted, the only question
being whether they should be constructed at private or the public
expense.
The legal proceedings instituted against the Board by the representatives
of the late Mr. Stainton, with a view to compel the reconstruction
of the Sewers at Rushey Green, so as to restore the
water on their premises, having terminated in the dismissal of the
bill, an application was made, in March, 1857, to this Board and
the Metropolitan Board of Works, for compensation for the injury
done to the property, with a suggestion for the appointment of an
arbitrator to assess the damage and determine how it should be
borne between this and the Metropolitan Board of Works; a proposal
which was declined by each Board, as its acceptance would
have excluded them from contesting the right of the parties
* This Sewer was originally intended (see First Report, page 19), to have been a
12 inch pipe, and constructed by the Board. Such intention was, however, departed
from, as it was found only to receive the drainage of three or four premises.
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