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Resolved that the Medical Officer be directed to apply to
a Magistrate for Summonses against the Canal Company, and also
against the Wharfingers contiguous to whose premises the insufficient
cleansing exists, in respect of the nuisance arising from the
mud and other deposits not cleansed and removed.
One summons made returnable in a week, led
an adjournment on account of the Secretary's
name being used instead of the corporate name of
the Company, The next amended summons came
on a week afterwards, and upon hearing some
statements on both sides, the Magistrate adjourned
the case for a month, to give an opportunity for
satisfying the Vestry as to the steps that should be
taken. The Vestry Solicitor attended, and has
for the present suspended proceedings, the Canal
Company meanwhile having agreed to do all that
is necessary to prevent a recurrence of any nuisance.
The new wharves in the Amberley Road are
almost equally offensive, if not dangerous to the
inhabitants in the vicinity, from the neglected way
of carrying on the manure trade, and want of better
official supervision.
The recommendation made in my Report of July
6, 1868 of appointing a Water Bailiff and adopted
by the Company, has been a complete failure,
inasmuch as he has never enforced the Bye-laws
of the local Act; nor does it appear to be the wish
of the Company that he should harrass their own
tenants by prosecutions, for not one has ever been
attempted during his period of office.