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Trade Refuse.
The Vestry are not required to remove trade refuse (which is
defined by the Act to mean the refuse of any trade, manufacture, or
business, or any building materials) except upon payment of a
reasonable sum for such removal.
They, therefore, beg to give notice that they are prepared to
undertake such removal at a charge of 3s. 6d. per load, 1s. 9d. per
half load, and 1s. per quarter load, forty bushels being considered
one load, and no smaller charge than 1s. being made. The Vestry,
however, reserve the right to vary this charge in exceptional cases.
Manure.
The Vestry for the future decline to remove Cow dung.
They are prepared to remove Stable Manure from stables of not
more than two horses, provided the occupiers signify their consent in
writing, which consent shall not be withdrawn or revoked without
one month's previous notice to the Vestry.
Any communication or complaint on any of the above matters
should be addressed to the undersigned.
By Order,
Vestry Hall, Clerkenwell, Robert Paget, Vestry Clerk.
December, 1891.
The Act, as before stated, provides that any
employe demanding a fee for removing dust shall be
liable to a fine. Receiving a fee is not prohibited,
but the Vestry felt that, to put an effectual stop to
the system which probably pressed heavily on the
poorer inhabitants and resulted in those who gave
the largest gratuity being best attended to, it was
necessary to take further steps.
They therefore increased the dustmen's wages by
5s. per week, and prohibited them, under pain of
dismissal, from receiving any gratuity.
Building Acts Consolidation Bill.—In August,
1891, the Vestry received from the Local Government
Board a draft of a Bill which had been prepared
for the purpose of consolidating the enactments
relating to the construction and use of buildings in
London, the Board asking for any observations or