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wherever they believed information could be reliably
obtained.
" These enquiries, extensive as they have been, have
not, to the present time, enabled them to make a definite
Report, or to advise the adoption of any particular system
of destruction, or new means of dust disposal.
"Nevertheless, from the information which has been
already obtained, it warrants them, in their judgment, to
recommend the extension of such enquiries and investigations,
and in which view they hope to be supported by your
Committee.
" Previously, however, to seeking such extended powers,
your Committee have deemed it expedient to report to you
their doings to the present time, and to lay before you the
information already obtained, which they believe you will
agree with them requires to be much supplemented before
any definite plan can be determined upon. Your Committee
therefore now lay before you an epitome of the several
Reports which your Surveyor has from time to time made
to them on this important subject, and, which they believe,
will be found most useful to the end in view. These full
Reports of the Surveyor contain considerable detailed
information, not included in this epitome, but which in the
future will no doubt be found of much use to the Committee
in their consideration of this subject; for the present, therefore,
we lay before you the digest only of such Reports.
"All of which is submitted on behalf of the Committee.
THOMAS FOSTER,
Chairman.
" February 8th 1887.