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nally contemplated by the Act of Parliament by which you are
directed, and I trust that in my next and subsequent Annual
Reports, I shall have the satisfaction of announcing a considerable
addition of new sewerage works, but which, it is with much
regret, I am not in a position to record for the past year.
I am well aware that you have been labouring under much
uncertainty as regards the Precept of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, but now that that pecuniary difficulty has been finally
arranged, and you know the worst of the burthens which you will
have to bear, and inasmuch as a very considerable increase of
wealth will accrue to the District in consequence of the anticipated
rating of Government Property, I would humbly submit to your
consideration, that it would be desirable that a certain amount of
new sewerage works should be annually completed in the several
parishes of the District.
There are many other subjects of general importance that I
should have liked to have touched upon in this Report, but it has
already reached far beyond the limits to which it was originally
intended to have been confined; and I am also aware that I should
be trespassing on your already extended patience.
Gentlemen, I have to thank you for the calm and deliberate
consideration with which you have entertained the various propositions that I have submitted to you during the past year; and
although your sanction has not been given to the adoption of some
few of those recommendations, still I am persuaded that such a
non-compliance has arisen from a desire to confinc the expenses of
the Board within the narrowest limits, and not from any disinclination
on your part to work out those great improvements that are
actually required in this populous and increasing neighbourhood.
I remain, your obedient Servant,
HENRY N. PINK.
Crooms Hill, May 25, 1859.
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