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and hop une.
officials, erected by the taxpayers, to be discatly responsible to the Government.
To his I objected, urging that The Board should consist of three officials only, dircetly resporrible to the govern= ment, for the canitation of the City, and that the introduction of the elective cœment would weaken the efficiency of the Board without securing any responding advantage.
cm :
We have already had experience in the working of the existing
Board that the presence of official Mimbers, outooted by officials, and powerless for executive purposes, bas merely pivutted in an overflow of debate and waste
of valuable time.
but I object to the proposal for - official exected Members chiefly be= cause, while they would in all cases be outrosed and powerless, their prese at the Board and the sauction given
presence
by their votes when in accord with
Hair
colleagues, would in come de- ree bessen the responsibility of the officials, who might.
gree
let even such to shil- ter theuwelves behind the unofficial
vote when some.
grave blunder had
-perhaps been perpetrated.
tou: C.P. Crater.
I am re Sr. C. R. Belilios,
by