such bye laws, and in case of a continuing offence a further penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for each day after notice of the offence from the board or vestry: Provided always, that under every such bye law it shall be lawful for the justices before whom any penalty imposed thereby is sought to be recovered to order the whole or part only of such penalty to be paid, or to remit the whole penalty: Penalty: Provided also, that no bye laws shall be repugnant to the laws of _England_ or to the provisions of this Act; and that no bye law shall be of any force or effect unless and until the same be submitted to and confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the board or vestry: Provided also, that no penalty shall be imposed by any such bye law unless the same be approved by one of Her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State. CCL. The word “drain” shall mean _To consider whether the word and include any drain of and used “drain” should be made to include for the drainage of one building any drain_, _for draining any only, or premises within the same group or block of houses_, _by a curtilage, and made merely for combined operation_, _under the the purpose of communicating with authority of any former a cesspool or other like Commissioners of Sewers_. receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed, _and shall also include any drain for draining any group or block of houses by a combined operation under the order of any vestry or district board_. * * * * * _Suggestions made to the Metropolitan Board of Works_, _for the Amendment of the Metropolis Local Management Act_, 1855, 18_th and_ 19_th Vict._, _cap._ 120. _Printed by order of the Board_, _on the_ 24_th of April_, 1860. * * * * * NOTE.—The following suggestions, for convenience of reference, have been arranged under three heads: 1. _Observations upon the Act_, 18_th &_ 19_th Vict._, _cap._ 120, _not included in the Amendment Bill_. 2. _Observations upon the Bill prepared and forwarded by the Metropolitan Board of Works_, _on the_ 29_th May_, 1858. 3. _Proposed New Clauses_, _and Suggestions for the same_. * * * * * 1.—OBSERVATIONS UPON THE ACT, 18th and 19th VICT., CAP. 120, NOT INCLUDED IN THE AMENDMENT BILL. The provisions of the 83rd, 121st, 122nd, and 123rd sections of this Act, to be made to extend to the person causing the offences to be committed. In section 109, gas companies to be prevented from taking up mains of pipes except for the purpose of substituting new pipes for old, unless by permission of vestries or district boards. In section 119, to introduce the words, “projecting blind, blind iron, blind frame, reflecting shop lamps, gas reflectors,” or part thereof, below six feet six inches from the pavement.