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CONTENTS.
page.
Forms of Notice for Building and Applications for Drainage iv.
Members of the Board and Establishment Arrangements.—
Elections of Members—Auditors—Meetings—Alterations in
Appointments of Officers—District Surveyor 1—4
Highways.—Expenditure for Labour and Material—Cartage—
Boad Scrapings—Private Boads—New Streets—Improvements—Reinstating
Roads after Construction of Sewers—
Encroachments—New Railways—Roadside Trees—Gas and
Water Mains—Precepts and Bates for General Purposes 4—10
Watering.—Blackheath Boads—Precepts and Bates—Sydenham
Boads—Terms of Contracts 10—12
Lighting.—Lewisham Village—Avenue Boad—Precepts and
Bates—Phoenix Gas Company—Proposed Extension of Lighting.
Sydenham.—Extended Lighting—Precepts and Bates
—Proposed Extensions—Crystal Palace District Gas Company's
Act of Incorporation. Penge.—Discordant wishes of
Batepayers 12—15
Sewerage.—Sewers constructed by the Board—Blackheath Sewer
—Sewers constructed by Burial Boards and Private Individuals—Stainton—Turnpike
Boad, Lewisham Tillage—Millowners
and Kent Water Works. Penge.—Difficulties—
Ultimate Proceedings—Precepts and Bates 15—20
House Drainage and Sanitary Measures.—Contracts Determined
—Cost of Work—Houses Drained—Opposition to Authority
of Board—Nuisances Abated 20—22
Finance.—Embarrassments—Temporary Loan—Estimates for
1857—Issue of Precepts—Apportionment of Establishment
Charges—Metropolitan Precepts—Monies Baised by Mortgage
and Bate—Precepts and Bates—Debts of Commissioners of
Sewers 22—27
General Subjects.—Equalization of Poor Bates—Parks and
Metropolitan Improvements—Metropolitan Gas Supply—Apportionment
of Debts on Separate Sewerage Districts—Main
Drainage Scheme—Amendment of Metropolis Local Management
Act—Suggestions by Board—Injustice of Principle as
applied to the Lewisham District—Extension of District to
a portion of Beckenham Parish 27—30
Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure 31—33
Statement of Establishment Expenses and Apportionment thereof 34
Statement of Liabilities and Assets 35
Statement of Financial Condition of Board 36
Names and Addresses of Members of Board and their Officers 37
Appendix.—Dates at which Members go out of Office, 38—Auditors,
38—Attendance of Members, 39—Lists of Committeemen,
39 and 40—Reports of Committees as to Salaries and
Duties of Officers and Cartage, 40 to 44—Road Scraping