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owner and not the occupier of the premises ; the unpaid
water rate is to become a prior charge on the premises, and
may be recovered from the tenant to the amount of rent due
or becoming due after notice has been served upon him to
pay such water rate.
Before the passing of this Act, tbe main remedy open to
the Water Companies to recover water rates from defaulting
nonresident owners of tenement houses, was the simple
expedient of discontinuing the supply of water. This course,
however, was open to a double objection : firstly, tenants
who had paid their rent were deprived of that for which they
had constructively paid; and secondly, a tenement house
deprived of water might speedily become a focus of disease.
The Vestry therefore cordially supported the principle of the
above mentioned Act each session it was before Parliament,
and are glad that it has now become law.
CONVEYANCE OF OFFENSIVE SUBSTANCES
THROUGH THE STREETS.
Upon the receipt of a letter from the Metropolitan Board
of Works, enquiring whether any nuisance had been found to
arise in this parish from the conveyance of offensive
substances through the streets, and what remedy, if any, had
been found to effectually deal therewith, the Vestry put
themselves in communication with some of the largest
of the ratepayers whose business necessitates the frequent
removal of offensive material, with a view to ascertaining
whether any practical objection exists to the general
adoption of a plan, which is already at work to some extent
in the Parish, of placing such substances in portable covered
receptacles, such receptacles to be removed with their
contents bodily, and replaced by empty receptacles of the
same character. The Vestry were gratified to find that this