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B.—Section 70, West Ham Corporation Act, 1888, provides as
follows:—
The Corporation may from time to time make and enforce
bye-laws for all or any of the following purposes (that is to
say):-
For prescribing the times for the removal or carriage
through the streets of any fæcal or offensive or noxious matter
or liquid, whether such matter or liquid should be in course of
removal or carriage from within or without or through the
borough, and that the vessel, receptacle, cart or carriage used
therefor shall be properly constructed so as to prevent the
escape of any such matter or liquid, and for compelling the
cleansing of any place whereon such matter or liquid shall
have been dropped or spilt in such removal or carriage.
C.—The Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, Section 26,
contains a provision practically identical with the West Ham Act.
D.—Section 16 (2), Public Health London Act, 1891, reads:—
The County Council shall make bye-laws (a) for prescribing
the times for the removal or carriage by road or water of any
fæcal or offensive or noxious matter or liquid in or through
London, and providing that the carriage or vessel used therefor
shall be properly constructed and covered so as to prevent
the escape of any such matter or liquid, and so as to prevent
any nuisance arising therefrom.
Section 60 of the Metropolitan Police Act quoted above
under A is repealed (from the Metropolis) "as from the
coming into operation of any bye-law made for the like
object."
Under these powers the London County Council have