Note.—The following suggestions, for convenience of reference, have been arranged under three heads:
1. Observations upon the Act, 18th & 19th Vict., cap. 120, not included in the Amendment Bill.
2. Observations upon the Bill prepared and forwarded by the Metropolitan Board of Works, on the 29th May, 1858.
3. Proposed New Clauses, and Suggestions for the same.
1.—OBSERVATIONS UPON THE ACT, 18th and 19th VICT., CAP. 120, NOT INCLUDED IN THE AMENDMENT BILL.
The provisions of the 83rd, 121st, 122nd, and 123rd sections of this Act, to be made to extend to the person causing the offences to be committed.
In section 109, gas companies to be prevented from taking up mains of pipes except for the purpose of substituting new pipes for old, unless by permission of vestries or district boards.
In section 119, to introduce the words, “projecting blind, blind iron, blind frame, reflecting shop lamps, gas reflectors,” or part thereof, below six feet six inches from the pavement.
That an independent paid auditor or auditors should be appointed to audit the accounts of all the vestries and district boards throughout the metropolis, as well as of the Metropolitan Board of Works. That power should be given to vestries and district boards, to put streets, which have never been properly formed, into a proper state of repair, and to rate the owners and occupiers of the property abutting on such streets for the expense of putting the same into a proper state of repair, the future maintenance thereof to devolve upon the vestry or board.
That power should be given to compel the owners or occupiers of property abutting on streets, to erect such fences as may be necessary for the protection of the public.