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80 OFFENSIVE OR INJURIOUS TRADES.
tions shall be conducted with the least possible
amount of inconvenience to the neighbourhood; and
which should enable you to enforce penalties in case
of every nuisance arising in such operations, unless
it should be distinctly shown on the part of the proprietor,
that every practicable measure for abatement
of the inconvenience had been constantly and
thoroughly employed.
I would beg to express my conviction that your
possession of the authority with which such a clause
would invest you, would very largely increase your
powers of utility, in respect of many acknowledged
grievances hitherto beyond your control; and the
influence of your example, in the achievement of this
great municipal purpose, would, I doubt not, speedily
lead to the adoption of general measures throughout
the metropolis, for the total suppression of smoke,
and for the mitigation of other nuisances which now
exist around your territory no less than within it.