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the cost. Copies of the resolution were forwarded to the Local
Government Board, the other District Boards and Vestries of
the Metropolis, and the Local Members of Parliament. The
London County Council was unable to obtain the withdrawal of
the sub-section, and rather than accept the clause in its altered
form, withdrew it in its entirety.
BULL ALLEY.
On the application of Mr. Charles Murrell, who had taken a
lease of Blackfriars Bridge Wharf, Upper Ground Street, the
Board consented to his raising the level of the western portion of
the ancient way situate between the River Thames and Upper
Ground Street, and known as "Bull Alley," to the level of the
adjoining premises ; subject to his paying a rent of £5 per annum
for the use of the same, and undertaking to restore the public
way to its then level, if at any time called upon so to do. An
agreement in writing was entered into accordingly.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
On the receipt, in June last, of a circular letter from the
Vestry of St. George, Hanover Square, asking the Board to
appoint delegates to attend a conference to consider the working
of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, the Board appointed the
Chairman of the Sanitary and Sewers Committee (Mr. Newton),
Mr. E. F. Rider, and the Public Analyst (Mr. Bodmer). The
conference was held at the Vestry Hall, Mount Street, Grosvenor
Square, on the 22nd of June last, and resolutions were passed
as follows:—
1. Inspectors or other duly authorised persons should be empowered to
take samples of food and drugs at any railway station, or other
place where the articles are in course of delivery by consignors or
wholesale dealers, whether within or outside of the district for
which they are appointed, which may be consigned or addressed to
any person or Company within the limits of their respective districts.
Difficulty arising out of Warranties:—
2. This Conference is of opinion that the best way of meeting the object
aimed at would be to repeal the 25th Section of the principal Act,
and to substitute therefor a provision similar to the proviso to
Section 42 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, to the effect
that where a person is charged with an offence under the principal
Act he shall be entitled upon information duly laid by him, to have
any other person, being the wholesale trader, manufacturer, or
other person from whom he purchased the article, brought before
the Court at the time of the hearing of the charge, and if he proves
to the satisfaction of the Court that he purchased it as the article
for which he sold it, and that he sold the article in the same state
in which he received it, he shall be exempt from all penalties, and
the said trader, manufacturer or other person may be summarily
convicted of the offence.