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I cant recollect any.

To examine the condition of ground floors - we will 13 169 put it that way. Have you ever known them, at any of

those informal meetings receive an order from the President in your presence to open up floors ?

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In any particular case, do you mean ↑

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No. In blooks, whers curtain things have occurred, where they suspected the floors were not in good

condition ?

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I cannot say.

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Now, before a floor can be opened, have you not to give

an order for it ?

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I have power to authorie an Inspector.

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Who else has power ?

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The Secretary of the Board.

Has the P. C. M. 0. power, too?

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I think not.

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Then you know of no ɑase, at one of those meetings, which orders ave been given to an Inspector, to open

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up floors, and examine them ?

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I cant recollect.

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And would it be illegal for an Inspector to open up any

of those floors, unless he had an order from you ↑

I am doubtful about that, because of the working of

section 23.

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That is to enter and inspect

- not to opan up.

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It is under Bye Law 1, page 196.

Under that Bye Law,

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you give authority to a Sanitary Inspector to open up

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In writing, signed by the Secretary, or the M. 0. H. 13177

Has anyone else besides you two officers got that

power?

I think not, but I wish to amplify what I have said. come little while ago, it was decided that Sanitary