The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-23 00:00:00

182 10 0

57,105 ... 713 16 3

I Making a total of £14,524,797 £181,559 19 3

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said if the re-assessment had been
made year by'year the amount would be much greater than
it was now. A few years ago the assessment of the city was
£900,000, ant,l'now it was £1,411,000, or about 50 per cent.
greater than it was at that time. Whenever there had been
an opportunity of increasing the assessment the city bad
done it. Ho therefore thought the city had dono its duty,
and bad done a great deal more than the county had.
Mr. HEALFY maintained that the county had done its
duty also, and that the assessment was increasing there as
well as in the city.

Mr. NEWTON thought they had nothing to congratulate
themselves upon the assessment being very high. The only
result of that would be that the rates would enable the
board to pay off the money they had borrowed for the very
large works it had undertaken a few years earlier than it
would have been in the ordinary course, so that the present
ratepayers would bo paying the whole cost of those great
works.

The CHAIRMAN reminded Mr. Newton that they had only
a certain amount to raise, and when thelouso property in-
creased the rate would be reduced.

Mr. NEWTON said, from his experience, each person paid
as much when the assessment had increased as he did be-
fore.

Mr. FREEMAN said there was a suspicion against the city
of London that they did not do their duty, and he thought
it would be better if they had removed it. lie suggested
that the most satisfactory mode would be to have an uniform
system of rating.
The motion was carried unanimously, and the precepts
were ordered to be issued.
THAMES EMBANKMENT, NORTH.

Mr. DAZALGETTE7 the engineer to the board, brought up
his monthly report. It stated that during the seven weeks
.ending the 20th inst. 19,711 cubic yards of filling-in mate-
rial had been supplied to No. 1 contract from the land and
'23,778 from the river. None . bad been supplied to No. 2
contract. The quantity supplied from the first weekly re-
turn was—to No. I contract, 96,207 cubic yards from the
land, and 152,844 from the river; to No. 2 the quantities
supplied were 6,861 cubic yards from the land, and 10,176
front the river.

THAMES EMBANKMENT, MAIN DRAINAGE, &C., WORKS-

ACCIDENTS.

Mr. VAZALGETTE reported that two fatal accidents had
occurred at the Thames Embankment works to men who
had been working at the cranes, and in each case verdicts
of "Manslaughter" bad been returned. He also reported
that on the 14th inst. three men were overcome by foul air
in the sewer in Blackman-street, one of whom was able to
get out before he became insensible, but the other two were
rescued by two persons—the one named Butter (a carpen-
ter) and the other Evans (a watchmaker)—who risked their
own lives to save those of the workmen. He recommended
that the Main Drainage Committee should consider whether
the board would give those men any acknowledgment for
their gallantry.
The report was approved.

The CHAIRMAN said he regretted to have to inform the
board that a water company was making an attempt to
break up the new street that the board had made in South-
wark for the purpose of laying down pipes. They had con-
structed a subway at vast expense, and it was greatly to be
regretted that the street should be broken up, instead of
the company carrying up their pipes through the subway.

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The street, if once broken up, would never be so sound and
level again. He was very sorry the board had not the power
of compelling them to make use of the subway.
Mr. BIDGOOD asked whether they could not get an in-
junction against the company.
The CHAIRMAN said they could not. The company had
statutory powers, and the Court of Chancery could not
interfere with them.
The routinue business was then dispoeed of, and the
Court adjourned.