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Compare the figures with the totals presented on the papers of
the Court, and they will be found to agree, so that the details on the
petition in question must be included among those entered on the
minutes.
It is also interesting to know that in the General Purposes Committee
minute book, at a meeting held July 13th, 1848, is the following
entry, which also relates to Oriental Terrace
"Tower Hamlets, since 23RD June, 1848.
That Mr. Gladstone be informed that the Surveyor
will point out the necesssry steps to be taken to relieve
his premises in Oriental Place, Grundy Street, Poplar,
but that the remedy must be effected at his own
expense."
This will bear out what I have stated above, that individual cases
sometimes are mentioned in the minutes, and which minute is found
indexed under the heading of the particular locality in question ; but
as a rule these single cases do not relate to the sanctioning of the
petitions, which are brought up in batches and sanctioned in the
manner previously stated.
The Committee will see that the expense of maintaining the combined
drain (no small item) of the 12 houses in Oriental Terrace will
fall upon the owner, and not on the ratepayers.
I have heard casually that one local authority is so disgusted that
whenever "Sewer or Drain" comes up it does the work at once at
the expense of the ratepayers. It is possible that they searched the
minutes and papers during the period of the 3rd Commission —
October, 1849, to 1851. This present special report must be read
with my special report to the Board dated 8th June, 1895, in order
to understand how the work was possibly done in the period of the
3rd Commission.
"oriental
place,
poplar.