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CONTENTS.
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Forms of Notice for Building and Applications for Drainage iv.
Division of Lewisham into Wards—Appointment and Number of
Vestrymen—" Lewisham District"—Board of Works—Persons
Appointed—Auditors of Accounts 1—3
Jurisdiction of the Board—Highways—Drainage—Nuisances 3—4
Meetings—Attendance of Members—Officers—Duties—Persons
Appointed—Scavenger—Offices—Corporate Seal 4—8
Highways—Accounts of the Lewisham Highway Board—of the
Surveyor of Highways, Penge—Compensation to Clerk and
Surveyor to Highway Board—Contracts for Cartage—Road
Scrapings—Road Material—Private Eoads undertaken by
the Board—Highway Improvements—Encroachments—Bailway
Interference—Terms Arranged—" Regular Line of
Building"—General Orders 8—14
Watering Blackheath 14—15
Lighting—Lewisham—Sydenham 15—17
Sewerage—Works by the Commissioners of Sewers—Debt—
Sewers Contemplated and Constructed by the Board of Works
—Difficulty as to Penge Drainage—Stanstead Lane Sewer,
why executed—Litigation as to Rushey Green Sewers 17—22
Drainage and Sanitary Matters—Powers in reference to same—
Contracts for carrying out the Works—Case in Penge—
Number of Houses Drained into Sewers—Nuisances 22—26
Expenses—How Sums Raised for—Apportionment of—Loan for
Sewerage Works—Application of 26—27
Admission of the Press and Ratepayers to Meetings of the Board 27—28
Accounts of Receipts and Expenditure—Liabilities and Assets—
Summary of Contracts 29—31
Names and Addresses of Members and Officers 32
Appendix—Award for Division of Lewisham into Wards and
Appointment of Vestrymen 33—34
Abstract of the Judgment in the Suit of Stainton v. the Metropolitan
and Lewisham District Boards of Works 35—37
Medical Officer's Reports 38—83
Appendix II—Particulars of Precept issued by the Metropolitan
Board of Works on the Lewisham District 84