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Companies, should be assisted by the Vestry with
Public Funds in his opposition to the Companies."
Ownerless
Land.
The Vestry approved of the following resolution
of the Board of Works for the Limehouse
District:—
"That having regard to the fact that there are in the
district several plots of land, with or without
houses thereon, for which no owners can be found,
and which are used for such purposes as to cause
them to be nuisances to the neighbourhood, the
London County Council be asked to obtain Parliamentary
powers to enable the Local Authority
to take possession of such land and houses for the
benefit of the Ratepayers."'
Snow Removal
from Footways.
The Vestry received from the Vestry of
Paddington the following copy of resolutions
passed at the Conference on this subject held on Wednesday,
27th April last:—
"That this Conference is of opinion that Sect 29 of the
Public Health Act, 1 Si) 1, which directs the
Sanitary Authorities to cleanse the footways,
should be amended so as not to include the removal
of Snow, the Conference believing that
Snow Removal from footways can be more readily,
economically, and efficiently carried out by occupiers
than by Sanitary Authorities, and that,
moreover, the Removal of Snow should be made
compulsory on occupiers under a recoverable
penalty, and in cases of unoccupied property, tene-