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compelled to resort to some one of the modes adopted elsewhere.
In any view of the case it appeared to the Committee necessary
that the consideration of that subject should embrace the question
of house dust and street refuse, and that it would be best dealt
with by a Standing Committee, the jurisdiction of which should
extend to both dust and refuse. By this re-arrangement the
Sewers and Sanitary Committee would be relieved of that part of
their functions which included the removal of dust, and the
General Purposes Committee of their duties of collecting the
amounts due upon precepts from the owners of new streets, and
of the administration of cleansing and watering the streets, and
of disposing of the refuse. In every other respect the Sewers and
General Purposes Committees would continue to discharge the
duties assigned to each by the Bye-Laws. The Sewers and
Sanitary Committee would retain their jurisdiction over sewerage
and drainage, nuisances, adulteration, and the public health
generally; the General Purposes Committee its jurisdiction in
paving and lighting, and the supervision of the streets and roads
except as to cleaning and watering, and the decision as to when a
new street shall be ' taken to,' and an apportionment of the cost
made, but their functions would be suspended, as to that new
street, while the Finance Committee collects the amounts due
from the owners, and until two thirds, or such other proportion
of the cost as the Vestry may order, is collected. When the
amount received is reported and agreed to by the Vestry, the
General Purposes Committee would take the necessary steps to
execute the work.
By these means it was believed that an equal amount of
importance and responsibility would be given to each of the four
Standing Committees, so that each of the 84 elected Vestrymen
would feel that the work assigned to him in his Committee gave
him the same position as any of his colleagues. Your Committee
therefore recommended that the Finance Committee in the future
should be composed of 18 members three from each Ward, while