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(g) In reply to the Vestry reference of February
14th, 1890, with regard to the control of the
Vestry's Books and other documents, and their
inspection by Ratepayers, the Committee has
not deemed it desirable to recommend any
departure from the present practice, but the
practice itself is more elaborately set forth
in the new By-Law (45 Appendix B).
The most notable departure from the present
practice of the Vestry which the Committee has thought
fit to recommend is the appointment of a "Works" Committee,
combining in itself the duties at present performed
by the Highways, Sewers and Buildings, Lighting and
Dusting and Slopping Committees. In taking this step
the Committee has been guided not only by the practice
of the majority of the other Metropolitan Vestries and
District Boards, but bv what it believes to be the
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predominant feeling of the Vestry, viz., that the appointment
of such a Committee will tend to economy, efficiency
and dispatch of business.
Other points to which the Committee directs particular
attention as being departures from the present practice of
the Vestry and dealt with in Appendix B are—
(a) The printing of the Minutes of the Vestry
(By-Law 13)
(b) The regulation of Questions (By-Law 16).
(c) Provisions for the closure (By-Laws 18 & 23).
(d) Provision for the appointment of Special
mittees and other bodies (By-Law 31).
(e) A By-Law (No. 32) to provide against the
struction of business.
(/) A By-Law (No. 48) to ensure open tenders.
With these exceptions it is not necessary to deal in
detail with the By-Laws as revised by your Committee
and now submitted.