•216 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND TAXATION INQUIRY COMMISSION (IRELAND).
Arr.
No.
15.
Belfast.
Opinion of Mr.
May, q.c.,
as totheBUck-staff and Pound Burn streams.
APPENDIX No.
15.
Extract from the Opinion of George A.
C.
May, Esq.,
q.c.,
as to the Blackstaff and Pound Burn.
With, respect to the other question of fclie nuisance occasioned by the pollution of the streams.
Sufficient powers are given by the Act of 1850 (so far as concerns the Pound Burn), and by the Sanitary Acts, but under the circumstances of this case, I clo not think these powers -would be found available.
These streams appear by general consent to have been converted into public sewers.
The seVers constructed by the Town Council run into them, and it is stated that in fact no other means exist of discharging the sewage of part of the town.
It would be very difficult to treat individuals as guilty of a nuisance, because they use these watercourses as sewers ; and with re¬ spect to the return of heated water to the streams, probably that of itself would not constitute a nuisance, but the waters being polluted are rendered additionally offensive by being heated.
However, if it could be shown that the return of heated water to the river increased the nuisance materially, I think that' might constitute a public nuisance, and be capable of being-
remedied either by indictment or otherwise.
But such an act as this does not seem to be a nuisance within the meaning of the Sanitary Acts.
Upon the whole, such a case as the present seems to fall within, the 22nd section of the Nuisances Removal Act, 1855.
The only effectual remedy would be that suggested hi the case, the construction of an intercepting sewer.
But this it seems would be attended with very con¬ siderable expense.
Upon the whole I fear the Town Council will find it very difficult, if not impossible, by legal proceeding directed against individuals, to enforce any abatement of the existing evils.
They are the result of a lon°-continued state of facts connived at by the public, and it would be very difficult to induce a jury to find a verdict against any particular individual.
I fear that the only relief to be hoped for is from particular legislation on the subject.
Geobge A.
0.
May.
App.
No.
16.
Belfast.
List of Member-, uf Town Council.
APPENDIX No.
16.
List of the Members of Council for the year 1876, and their Professions or Occupations, with
Amounts of their Valuations.
Aldermen.
Name.
James Carlisle,.
Sir John Savage, William Mullan, Bernard Hughes, John Preston, .
Henry Whitaker, Sir Robert Boag, Edward P.
Cowan, .
Thomas G.
Lindsay,.
James A.
Alexander,
Profession or Business.
Linen Manufacturer,
Do.
Wholesale Grocer, Flour Merchant and Baker, Flax Merchant, Apothecary, Knight, ....
Wholesale Wine and Spirit Mer¬ chant, ....
Warehouseman, M.D.,
....
COITNCILLOES.
Samuel Lawther, William Harvey, Robert Kelly, .
George H.
Carse, E.
H.
Thompson, Daniel Dixon, .
James Henry, .
Robert Thompson, John Caruth, .
Ship Owner and Merchant, Contractor, Solicitor, ....
Gentleman, Linen Merchant, Ship Owner and Timber Mer chant, ....
Builder, .
.
.
Linen Merchant, FloLir Merchant,
Valuation.
£ s.
*3,534 15 1,189 10 630 15 669 0 1,347 0 356 0 144 0 193 0 1,460 0 20 0
120 0 64 0 20 0 116 10 180 0 391 0 254 0 *1,880 0
96 0
Name.
John Suffern, .
Kobert Stewart, James H.
Haslett, W.
Q.
Ewart, .
W.
H.
Braddell, John Oulton, .
James Adams, .
John Greenhill, David Corbett,.
John Hamill, .
James A.
Henderson, John Rogers, .
John Browne, .
Thomas Gaffikin, George G.
Bingham, .
James Fraser, .
James Jenkins,.
R.
D.
Bates, .
William Gregg; James Hart, Thomas H.
Browne,.
COTTNCILLOnS.
Profession or Business.
Gentleman, Linen Merchant, Druggist, .
Linen Manufacturer and chant, .
Gunmaker, Flax Merchant, Baker, Grain Merchant, Wholesale Grocer and Merchant, Gentleman (since dead), Newspaper Proprietor, Wire Merchant, Timber Merchant, Linen Merchant, Commission Merchant, Provision Merchant, .
Gentleman, Solicitor, .
.
Iron Merchant, Textile Manufacturer, Timber Merchant, .
Mer-
Spirit
Valuation.
£ s.
150 0 130 0 228 0 3,567 10 103 0 202 0 560 0 145 0 254 0 740 0 245 0 223 J 866 5 192 0 88 0 70 10 48 0 47 0 592 0 43 0 599 0 £21,258 15 Forty Members give an average of £531 9s.
id.
each.
* Limited Liability Company.
Apr.
No.
17.
Trim.
Names of Towa Commissioners.
APPENDIX No.
17.
Names of Town Commissioners for Trim for the year 1876, with their Qualifications and
Occupations.
d.
John Francis O'Reilly, Chairman, Doctor of Medicine, : John Bracken, Baker, .
, .
James Blake, Grazier and Cattle Exporter, .
John Gogarty, Grocer and Spirit Merchant, .
Patrick Gelsinan, Grocer and Spirit Dealer,.
29 0 0 15 0 0 13 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0
£ Thomas Kennedy, Miller and Grazier, .
60 Harcourt Lightburae, Sub-Sheriff and Attomey-at-Law, .
.
,20 Patrick Malone, Civil Engineer, .
23 James Pkinkett, Hardware and Spirit Merchant, .
.
.
.17
s.
0 d.
£ s.
0 and 15 10
d.
0 0 0
0 " ?
1 0 „
5 0
0 0 0 0 2 0 0
