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of a tentative character) had to be abandoned, through
various circumstances, at least for the present.
The Contractors are now removing the Rough Dust, as
delivered at the Wharf, into Barges, or by Railway as
specially permitted by the Committee for sanitary reasons,
under the terms and conditions of the Contract.
The subject of the removal of the Street and House
Refuse of this extensive Parish is yearly becoming more
serious, both in its magnitude of quantity and cost, and
your Committee is of opinion that the time is not far
distant when, instead of being treated as now parochially,
that it must be considered as of enlarged Municipal importance,
and dealt with accordingly. Possibly such a
suggestion at this moment may be considered somewhat
premature, in the anticipation of coming changes in the
Vestry system. It only therefore remains, for the present
to economise, as far as possible under the present arrangements,
the details of which are given in the Table shewing
the quantities collected and how disposed of, &c.
JOSEPH JOHN PHILLIPS,
Chairman.
LEONARD CHARLES SHIPTON,
V ice-Chairman.
J. C. REYNOLDS,
Surveyor,