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and restoring in a proper and efficient manner the roadway and
all pavements,channels, curbs, gulleys and other things disturbed
or injured by t,he Company in the carrying out of the said works;
and all expenses incurred by the District Hoard in so doing sha»l
be a debt due from the Company to the District Board, and may
be recovered by them, with full costs of 6uit, in any Court of
competent jurisdiction.
7. Any difference which may arise under the provisions of this
Section between the District Board and the Company shall be
from time to time referred to and determined by an engineer to
be agreed upon between the District Board and the Company;
or, failing such agreement, by an engineer to be appointed, on
the application of either party, by the President for the time
being of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the cost attending
the determination shall be borne as he shall direct."
MARGARINE ACT.
It having been decided in the case of The Queen v.
Titterton, tried in the Queen's Bench Division of the High
Court of Justice, on the 7th May, 1895, before the Lord Chief
Justice and Mr. Justice Charles, that the Receiver for the
Metropolitan Police District is not entitled to the penalties
under the Margarine Act, 1887, but that the same are payable
to the prosecuting authority as in the case of fines under the
Sale of Pood and Drugs Acts, application was made to the
Southwark Police Court for the return of tho penalties recovered
since the passing of the Margarine Act by the Board's Sanitary
Inspectors, and sums, amounting to £21 10s. 0d., have been
recovered and paid over to the credit of the Board.
EMPLOYES' HOLIDAYS.
On the motion of Mr. N. W. Oviatt, the Board has taken
into consideration the question of granting to the workmen in
its employ a week's holiday in the course of each year; and,
after making inquiry as to the practice of the other Boards
and Vestries, has resolved that all men who have been in its
service for twelve months, dating from the 1st of May in any
year, and have not been absent except by permission of the
Surveyor, or from illness or other unavoidable cause, shall be
allowed a holiday accordingly, together with their ordinary
rate of pay.
SALVATION ARMY SHELTERS.
On the receipt, in August last, of a circular-letter from
the Wandsworth and Clapham Union, forwarding copy of a
resolution passed by them attributing the spread of small-pox
to Salvation Army Shelters, and expressing an opinion that the
provisions of the Common Lodging Houses Acts should be