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doing from the authority or person causing or allowing the
nuisance. Under the 94th section, there is a power of appeal to
one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State as regards
the time within which the necessary works must be carried out.
In connection with this Act, I may mention that a considerable
amount of correspondence has been carried on respecting
the drainage from several houses, situate in this district, on
Stamford Hill and in Bailey Lane, which runs into a ditch in
Tottenham, and eventually into the Lea. I brought this matter
before you on two occasions during the year, in consequence of
complaints received from Mr. Slipper, and proposed on the last
occasion that a committee should be appointed to confer with
the Tottenham authorities. At that meeting it was arranged,
subject to the approval of both Boards, that a plan of the
houses should be prepared by Mr Lovegrove, and a list of the
assessments made by Mr. Ellis, and forwarded to the Tottenham
authorities, to make a basis on which a sewer rate
should be paid to them in return for permission to connect these
drains with their sewer. The conditions on our part have
been complied with, and I therefore hope that the arrangement
will be satisfactorily carried out.
A most important point respecting the cow sheds and
slaughter houses was mooted at the meeting of the magistrates
in October last, viz., how far the provisions of the Old Building
Act are now in force. It is therein provided that no such
business shall be carried on within 50 feet of a house, or 40 feet
of a public way, unless established before 1845. The Act under
which licenses are granted was passed in 1862, and might be
considered to abolish the old Act, but inasmuch as no reference
whatever was made to it, the question is still undecided. Under
these circumstances the Sanitary Committee held a special
meeting at which it was determined that in their opinion great