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finding any minute, and this fact may be of great use to saniiary
authorities in London. It will be found that the Commissions with
their Committees were as follow :
Commission.
Dates
(Approximately).
Committee
(Powers delegated).
Papers
(How bound and Styled).
*1 30th Nov., 1047,
to
31st Dec., 1848
2 1st Jan., 1849,
to
7th Oct., 1849
3 8th Oct., 1849,
to
7th Oct., 1851
4 8th Oct., 1851,
to
23rd July, 1852
5 24th July, 1852,
to
19th July, 1854
6 20th July, 1854,
to
21st Nov., 1854
7 22nd Nov., 1854,
to
31st Dec., 1855.
Ueneral rurpose
Works
General
do.
do.
do.
do.
Court and Committee Papers
bound together and called
"Original Papers."
Papers bound separately and
styled "Court papers"
and "Works Committee
papers" respectively.
Papers bound separately and
styled " Court Papers"
and " General Committee
papers " respectively.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Sanction to the petitions, from what one gathers without going
through all the volumes, appears to be able to be found on the
minutes either of the Court or the various Committees of the 1st, 2nd,
4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Commissions, by the aid of their respective
papers; but during the 3rd Commission—October, 1849, to October,
1851— so far as one can see at present, there are no minutes which
can help as to sanctions, for there appear to be no entries in the
Court or General Committees papers as to house drainage, petitions,
only perhaps in respect to a particular contested case which might
come before the Commissioners, and then become entered on the
*It is a technical point whether this Commission comes under the head of
" Metropolitan," as I find it styled " Consolidated," but the principle for the searching
the records throughout the various commissions is the same.