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Highways, Sewers, and Lighting Committee.
1. To superintend all matters relating to paving, road-making, the
construction of sewers and drains, lighting, the erection of lamp-posts
and lanterns, drinking fountains, and urinals, the naming of streets, and
the numbering of houses, and all other work of a similar kind over
which the Council has any control.
2. To superintend the cleansing and watering of the roads and
footpaths; and to have the management of the depots, wharves, stables,
workshops, horses, carts, and plant of the department.
3 To have the care and maintenance of all open spaces and
trees belonging to or under the control of the Council; and to have the
control of the lopping of trees which overhang the public roads or
footpaths.
4. To recommend the execution of the necessary works and
repairs relating to the matters under its management.
5. To recommend the purchase and hire of horses, carts, vans, and
harness, and the purchase of forage and litter.
6. To deal with encroachments, projections, and obstructions on
the highways; to see that none of the highways be diverted or closed,
and that proper hoardings and fences be constructed where necessary.
7. To supervise the granting of licences for the erection of hoardings
on the public footway and advertising thereon.
8. To receive the reports of the Surveyors, to view localities, to
consider all applications, notices and complaints relating to matters
under its management, and to give such directions thereon as it may
deem necessary.
9. To prepare the estimates of income and expenditure for works
and matters under its management.
10. To consider the report of the Surveyors with reference to
amounts due on account of any contract in course of execution, to
examine and certify all accounts relating to works under its management,
and to submit the same to the Finance Committee.
11. To have the care and maintenance of boundary marks, and
to order the erection of new ones where required.
12. To consider building and drain notices, plans of sewers, and
communications respecting buildings, sewers, and proposed new streets,