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with the above. The object of my Board is, to see that provision is
or will be made for the exclusion of surface water, as agreed between
the late Sir Joseph Bazalgette and myself, on behalf of the Metropolitan
Board of Works and this authority.
Your faithfully,
T. De COURCY MEADE,
William Iron, Esq., Surveyor. Engineer and Surveyor.
And the plan was accordingly ordered to he prepared.
When it was ready, it was forwarded to the
London County Council, but returned by them with
the statement that it was for the Vestry to satisfy
the Hornsey Local Board upon the point, and the
tracings were accordingly sent to that Board. The
Vestry were surprised to receive a reply from them,
that they were prepared to receive any proposal
that might be submitted to them by the London
County Council, but that they did not desire to
continue a discussion which had been going on with
the Vestry for several years, and was not likely to
have any useful result.
During the year also, an Action was brought by
the Friern Barnet Local Board against the Vestry,
to restrain them from allowing the overflow of a
cesspool in Wetherell Road to discharge into the
brook which passes into the Friern Barnet district.
Judgment was given in the case by Mr. Justice
Romer on the 21st July. The injunction was refused,
on the grounds that the Vestry having consented to
the overflow of the cesspool into the surface water
drain could not revoke that consent, and were
therefore not in a position to comply with the
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