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would be useless. They further requested to be
informed whether the Company were prepared,
either to make regulations or to employ other
means of effectually preventing the evil in question.
In reply to this communication the Committee
were informed that it was no longer the
intention of the Company to make any bye-law
for the regulation of the loading of the barges as
before suggested, but that they had it in contemplation
to take other steps which they believe would
be more efficacious.
In August, a deputation of the Sanitary
Committee, with the Medical Officer, attended the
Board of Directors to call their attention to the
nuisance arising from the accumulation of manure
on their wharf, known as No. 16, near the Bishop's
Road Bridge, and to the necessity of putting a
stop to all such accumulation, by insisting on the
immediate transfer of the manure from the
collecting carts directly, without depositing it on
the wharves at all. The Board consented to take
the matter into their consideration, and accordingly
gave notice to those dealers in manure who carried
on business on their wharf, that in future they
would be subject to a fine of 1s. for every ton of
manure allowed to remain more than twenty-four
hours on the bank.* At the same time regulations
* This regulation has been since enforced, but has proved
ineffectual. During the last week (July 18th) the Company have
absolutely forbidden the deposit of manure on their premises.