Recommendation of General Committee as to resolutions to be adopted : 24th February, 1849.

  • London (England). Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.
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[1849]
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Credit: Recommendation of General Committee as to resolutions to be adopted : 24th February, 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Printed for use of Commissioners only.2 Metropolitan Commission of ^e\oers. The General Committee recommend to the Court to pass the following Resolutions. I.—AS TO THE BUSINESS AND PROCEEDINGS AT COURTS OF SEWER S. 1. At tlie opening of every court there shall be laid on the table the printed minutes of the preceding courts, and the papers (if any) printed subsequently to the holding of the last preceding court, and the minute books, order books, and report books of the general committee and the other committees (including sub-committees). 2. The first business at every court shall be the ordering of payments; the next, the considering of the recommendations and reports (if any) of the general committee ; the next, the considering of the recommendations and reports (if any) of the other committees ; and the next, the considering of the other reports (if any) presented to the court: but in case of emergency any business may be taken out of its regular order. % 3. It shall be competent to any one or more of the commissioners to protest against any proceeding of any court, so as notice of the intention to make such protest be given at the court at which the objection arises, and the protest, with the reasons for the same, be delivered to the order-clerk at that court, or be left for him at the principal office before four o’clock in the afternoon of the following day; and every protest so delivered shall be entered on the minutes of the court to the proceedings of which it relates; but any protest not so delivered shall not be entered on the minutes without the sanction of the next court. II.—AS TO THE APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES. 1. The appointment (already made provisionally by the court) of a general committee, consisting of all the commissioners, is confirmed. 2. The appointment (already made provisionally by the court) of three com¬ mittees, one for Finance, another for Works, and the third for Bye-laws, each to consist of not less than six commissioners, is confirmed. III.—AS TO THE POWERS OF COMMITTEES. I.—The General Committee shall (so far as is consistent with the provisions of the Act 11 and 12 Victoria, c. 112, and the bye-laws, orders and resolutions of the court for the time being in force) have full power of regulating and managing