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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 Buildings Acts.
Copies of the Report of the Law and Parliamentary Committee,
dated 8th 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 the Joint Committee, and the reports of the officers
of the Vestry, to the several Vestries and District Boards, and
met with 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
was received from the Clerk to that Board in April,
1887, couched in the following terms:—
"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.