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Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.
Two hundred and one Samples were analysed during the period ended
25th March, 1892, under the provisions of the above and amending Acts,
viz.:—
Milk 88 Sugar 3
Coffee 29 Gin 2
Mustard 5 Sweets 3
Pepper 2 Seidlitz Powders 17
Arrowroot 3 Butter 27
Demerara Sugar 7
Citrate of Magnesia 4 201
Whiskey 11
Adulterations were detected in 39 cases, viz. 16 cases of milk (the
proportion of added water being from 7 to 38 per cent), one of whiskey
(diluted to 28° under proof), 8 of coffee, 6 of butter, 7 seidlit zpowders, and
1 of Demerara sugar. Summonses in respect to these cases were
heard before the magistrates, when convictions were obtained in 35 cases,
and fines and costs inflicted amounting to £59 14s., all of which have been
recovered.
Lammas Rights.
On the 15th April, 1891, the Solicitor reported that Mr. Justice Kekewich
had stayed proceedings in all the actions—other than Harwood v. Fulham
Vestry—until the trial of that action, directing that if the decision of the
Judge in the first instance be adverse to the Vestry, then they are to
submit to judgment without prejudice to their rights of appeal, the Vestry
further undertaking in the meantime not to exercise their alleged rights.
Wharf in Town Mead and Wandsworth Bridge Road.
The Clerk to the Vestry subsequently brought to the
notice of the Law and Parliamentary Committee of the
Vestry, that certain property in Town Mead and Wandsworth Bridge
Roads (forming portion of the land over which the Vestry claims rights of
Lammas), was about to be submitted for sale by auction, they instructed
the Solicitor to attend the sale and notify, on behalf of the Vestry, that
the land is subject to Lammas rights.
Metropolitan Asylum Boards Wharf.
The Solicitor reported on 26th May, 1891, that the
Metropolitan Asylums Board had delivered a statement
of claim, claiming an injunction to restrain the Vestry from trespassing
or damaging or otherwise interfering with the lands belonging to them,
situtated in the parish of Fulham, in the County of Middlesex, and for
damage and costs; also that Harwood's Trustee had obtained an order
for the Vestry to deliver particulars of lands in Fulham of which they are,
or claim to be, possessed, also to file an affidavit stating what documents
they have in their possession, custody or power, relating to the matters in
question in the action.