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To submit from time to time to the Works, &c. Committee. suifable
sites for Public Conveniences.
To report to the Works, &c., Committee offences under clause 3, section 19,
of the Sanitary Act, 1866. which relates to nuisances caused bychimneys
of manufactories, bakehouses, etc., which do not consume
their own smoke, with a view to proceedings being taken for the
abatement of the nuisance, and the enforcement of penalties in
suitable cases.
To report to the Works, &c., Committee all cases in which the requirements
of the Vestry's Notice for the periodical removal of manure or
other refuse matter from mews, stables, or other premises, are not.
complied with, so that in suitable cases proceedings may be taken for
the recovery of the penalty prescribed by section 53 of the Sanitary
Act, 1866.
11. WITH RESPECT TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE
HOME DEPARTMENT AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.
A communication should be addressed to the Home Secretary and to the
President of the Local Government Board, urging the desirability of
a consolidation of the several Sanitary and Nuisances Removal Acts,
as contemplated by the Public Health (Metropolis) Bill, 1885, and of
a consolidation of the Metropolis Management and Building Acts.
Copies of the Report of the Law and Parliamentary Committee,
dated 8t.h January, 1886, and of this Report should be forwarded with
the said communication.
12. WITH RESPECT TO THE MEMBERS REPRESENTING NORTH
AND SOUTH KENSINGTON IN PARLIAMENT.
Copies of the Reports and of the communication referred to in the previous
section should be sent to the Members for North and South Kensington,
who should be requested to take advantage of any fitting
opportunity to impress upon the Government, the desirability of consolidating
and amending the several Statutes.
The Report of the Law and Parliamentary Committee, it
may be added, was forwarded, together with the supplementary
report of t he Joint Committee, and the reports of the officers of the
Vestry, to the several Vestries and District Boards, and met willt
considerable approval. The documents were forwarded to the
Metropolitan Board of Works also, and gave rise to a correspondence
on the various matters dealt with. A communication, final
for the present, was received from the Clerk to that Board in April
of the present year, couched in the following terms:—