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and the Acts amending the same shall include the purposes
of this Act, and the provisions of these Acts with respect to
Committees shall apply accordingly, the following are the
provisions referred to of the Act 18 and 19 Vict. cap. 120:—
"Section 58. It shall be lawful for the Metropolitan
Board of Works and the Board of Works for any district,
and such Vestry respectively, to appoint a Committee or
Committees for, and purposes which in the discretion of the
Board or Vestry would be better regulated and managed by
means of such Committee, and at any meeting to continue,
alter, or discontinue such Committee, provided always that
the acts of every such Committee shall be submitted to the
general body of the Board or Vestry appointing such Committee
for their approval."
By-law 24 of the Vestry appointed and defined the
powers and duties of the Plant and Scavenging Committee,
and I now recommend that the Vestry be asked to pass the
following resolution, in order that your Committee may
have power to carry out their duties under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
The Committee having adopted such Report, recommended
:—
"That the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which
came into force on the 1st day of January, 1892, having
repealed certain of the provisions of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, 1855, and the Acts amending the same as
to the removal of Dust, street scavenging and cleansing,
under which your Committee act, and having also made
fresh enactments relating thereto, it is necessary and expedient
that the Vestry being the Sanitary Authority for
Camberwell under the above Act, should and do hereby