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"The Board has had under consideration your letter of the 14th
February last, referring to the previous correspondence between the Board
and the Vestry of Kensington, with respect to certain recommendations
made by a Committee of the Vestry for amendment of the Metropolis
Local Management Acts, and expressing the hope of the Vestry that some
or all of the proposed amendments may be inserted in one of the Board's
Bills now before Parliament, or that the Vestry may be informed of the
Board's objections to the proposals.
"In reply, I am directed to inform you, that the Board, while fully
recognizing the importance of the suggestions contained in the ably
prepared documents transmitted with your former letter, regrets that, in
view of the wide range of subjects which are sought to be dealt with, it
is not prepared at the present time to promote legislation in the direction
indicated."
COMMITTEE FOR CARRYING OUT THE
NUISANCES REMOVAL ACTS.
With the view of accelerating proceedings in cases of
nuisance, your Vestry decided, in February, 1885, to appoint the
Works, Sanitary, and General Purposes Committee, to be a Committee
to receive notices, take proceedings, and in all respects
execute the Nuisances Removal Act, for England, 1855, and all
Amending Acts. The Committee meets for the purposes of the
Acts once a week, and Notices are issued upon the immediate
authority of the Committee, which in due course reports its proceedings
to your Vestry. Summonses continue to be heard by the
Justices sitting in Petty Sessions at the Vestry Hall. In my last
Annual Report, I remarked that it was " much to be desired that
the Justices should place sanitary cases at the top, instead of,
as heretofore, at the bottom of their agenda, so that the several
Inspectors might be set free at a reasonable hour to go about
their ordinary work. Sanitary cases rarely occupy much of the
time of the Court, but on many occasions all of the Inspectors
have been detained till 1 or 2 p.m., waiting for their cases to be
called on. As a rule the Justices meet once a month only. A
fortnightly meeting for the hearing of sanitary cases would be
very useful." I am happy to state that the Justices have lately
arranged to meet weekly for the purpose of dealing with sanitary