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arises from the fact that the bricks themselves, and the fuel used
in burning them, are more or less charged with organic matter, of
animal and vegetable origin, derived from dust-bin refuse, the slow
frizzling of which is the immediate cause of the nuisance.
COMMITTEE FOR CARRYING OUT THE
NUISANCES REMOVAL ACTS.
With the view of accelerating proceedings in nuisance cases,
your Vestry, in February, 1885, appointed 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 meet for the purposes of the Acts once a week, and
Notices are issued upon the immediate authority of the Committee,
who in due course report their proceedings to your Vestry. Summonses
continue to be heard by the Justices, in Petty Sessions, at
the Town Hall, who now, during a considerable part of the year, sit
weekly for the transaction of Sanitary business.
The 81st Section of the Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890, gives power to the Local Authority to appoint Committees.
It reads as follows:—
" Section 81.—For the purposes of this Act, a Local Authority acting
under this Act may appoint, out of their own number, so many persons
as they may think fit, for any purposes of this Act which in the opinion
of such Authority would be better regulated and managed by means of
a committee: provided that a committee so appointed shall in no case
be authorised to borrow any money, to make any rate, or to enter into
any contract, and shall be subject to any regulations and restrictions
which may be imposed by the Authority that formed it."
I recommended the appointment of a committee for the regulation
and management of business arising under the Act, and
your Vestry delegated the necessary powers to the Works and
Sanitary Committee.
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