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All of them. There is no distinction. An officer is

liable to reprimṇand if he departs in any way from the

Ordinanes, however ridiculous the olause may be. I once

built a latrine, - the house abutted against a cliff,

and there was no overlooking, and instead of putting in

a window, I put in a door, two feat from the bottom and

six feet from the top; I was refused a certificate for

that, because it was not in accordance with the

Ordinance.

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It was a far more sanitary thing you did, than if you

had complied with the Ordinance ?

Yes.

And these things are a daily practice? There are inb4

almost any number of variations in the size of houses,

and the width and size of streets?

An officer of the Government cannot give you any

relief, without laying himself open to comsure, and it

is perfectly natural that they should not take the

tesponsibility.

If your igen is adopted, and the Department is self:8165–

contained, and it has its om Executive Engineer, you

think that that Executive Engineer should havə

discretionary powers for small work of that sort ?

Of course, or else there should be a Board, by which

such questions should be handed over to a Sub

Committee to be dealt with in a common sense way.

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of course, as you know, the present procedure is that

the Sanitary Board has a Meeting once a fortnight,

and those questions may have to stand over

Cameror 14 days,

and then have to go to the Executive Engineer, and

probably hang over for another week ↑

It seems to me it should be something in the way of a

business way of dealing. Now, I think it is probable

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