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But it may be contended by the Memorialists that after the Pro- -clamation of the 3rd.September 1894 and the complete cessation of the Plague the necessity for retaining possession of these houses and enforcing these conditions came to a tern. By no means. The Government did not think it right or proper to revoke the Bye-Laws under which the Permanent Commit- -tee were acting or to repeal Ordinance 5 of 1894. The porers of the Com- -mittee remained in full force and vigour and, with their powers, their duties and responsibilities, and their duties are not merely to combat the plague when present among us, but to prevent its recurrence if possible. The members of the Committee bonestly believe that to bave given up these houses unconditionally to their owners would have teen to have facilitated the return of the plague and provided it with suitable lodging on its
reappearance.
The Committee have now they believe dealt with every portion of the Memorial which directly affects them or calls for notice at their bands It is no portion of their business to discuss, or to express an opinion as to the propriety or expediency of allowing the owners of houses closed by the Sanitary Board, as being, for various reasons unfit in their then state for human habitation, compensation on whole or in part for any losses they may have suffered. That is a question for the Government and for the Legis- -lature. The Committee respectfully sucmit that they were within their rights in taking possession and closing the houses in question. That is admitted. They further submit that they had the right, the houses being duly certified to be unfit for human habitation, to refuse to make any order for their re-occupation except on conditions that provided for their being made haritable, and that the conditions they imposed were reasonable in
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