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St. Sabiour's District Board of Works.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD
FOR THE YEAR 1876-77,
AND
REPORTS
OF
THE MEDICAL OFFICER, ANALYST,
AND SURVEYOR;
Also Accounts in Abstract of the Receipts and Expenditure of
the Board during the same period.
Printed in accordance with section 198 of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, (18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120,) and ordered to be
circulated among the Inhabitants of the District.
In accordance with notice given in November last, the Metro-
Thames Ri???
(Preventi
of Floods
Bill.
politan Board of "Works introduced into Parliament a Bill for
preventing inundations, shortly intituled "The Thames River
(Prevention of Floods) Bill." It was described as one to amend
the Metropolis Local Management Act, so far as related to the
protection of the Metropolis from floods and inundations caused by
the overflow of the River Thames; and proposed to empower the
Metropolitan Board of Works, by any general or special order
issued by them, to require the Vestry of any parish, or the Board
of "Works for any district within the limits of the Metropolis, to
execute any works which the Metropolitan Board might deem
necessary or expedient for effectually protecting such parish or
district from floods or inundations caused by overflow of the river.
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