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REPORT.
1. The Board, in making its first Annual Report, in pursuance
of the 198th Section of the "Metropolis Local Management Act,"
desires to draw attention to the large expenditure of time and
labour, necessarily involved in the preliminary arrangements for
enabling it effectually to conduct the public business. These
arrangements comprised the choice and fitting up of Offices; the
selection and appointment of Officers: the preparation of Bye
Laws for regulating the business and proceedings of the Board,
the business and duties of the several Committees, and the duties
of the various Officers; for the regulation of House Drainage, &c.:
the ascertaining the outstanding Assets and Liabilities of the late
Paving Commissioners, and the Trustees of Tothill Fields; arranging
the mode of keeping the Accounts of the Board, and many
other similar matters.
2. "With a view to acquire a perfect acquaintance with all the
circumstances of the District placed under its control, the Board
has also expended much time and labour in making careful general
surveys of the whole of the Parishes, looking carefully into all
matters connected with the Sewerage, House Drainage, Paving,
Lighting, Cleansing, Scavenging, Street Watering, and other public
and sanitary arrangements of the several localities visited ; and,
still further to facilitate its proceedings, the Board has caused to
be prepared by the Surveyor a Return showing the name of each
street or place in the District, the length of each street and place,
the superficial contents of carriage-way paved, the superficial
contents of carriage-way not paved, the superficial contents of
footway paved, the superficial contents of footway not paved; also
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