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Resolved-(Mr. Vice-Chairman Bisley: Mr. P. T. Talbot)—That the same be
spproved and adopted, and the Common Seal of the Vestry affixed thereto.
The Bill area down for second reading for 22nd March, 1897, but was eventually put off
far six months.
Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill.
A copy of this Bill is contained in last year's Report.
On 7th April, 1896, the Vestry Resolved to present a petition in favour of the Bill.
The following is a copy of such petition:-
To the Honourable the Common of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland in Parliament Assembled.
The Patition of the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe in the administrative County
of Loadon, under their Common Seal.
Shemeth:-
That the said Parish contains a population of about 40,000, with a rateable Value of
£216, and an and of 754 acres.
That your Pertitioner are the Sanitary and Sewers Authority of the said Pariah.
That alarge portion of the rateable bereditaments in the said Parish an found on
examination to the be drained into the public sewers, by what is known as a "combined
operation."
That many of such combined drains were constructed prior to the year 1855, as private
drains, wish the ??? and and approval, there is every ??? to believe, of the late
Comminsinors of Sewers, best thet the records of the Commissioners are either lost or in such
??? as to render is impossible to trace such ???.
That ??? each drains were constructed as private drains with the ??? of your
??? the Metropolis Management Acts cause into operations, best thet the
importance of a formal ??? and being them recognised, such ??? was, is many cause,
??? by the "affeared" ??? above the agriculture of the Surveyer to year
???, ??? of such drains.