That an independent paid auditor or auditors should be appointed to audit the accounts of all the vestries and district boards throughout the metropolis, as well as of the Metropolitan Board of Works. That power should be given to vestries and district boards, to put streets, which have never been properly formed, into a proper state of repair, and to rate the owners and occupiers of the property abutting on such streets for the expense of putting the same into a proper state of repair, the future maintenance thereof to devolve upon the vestry or board. That power should be given to compel the owners or occupiers of property abutting on streets, to erect such fences as may be necessary for the protection of the public. 2.—OBSERVATIONS UPON THE BILL PREPARED AND FORWARDED BY THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS, on the 29th MAY, 1858. _It must be recollected that this Bill was not proceeded with_, _and is not the same as that now_ (_April_, 1860), _under consideration_, _nor as that introduced by Mr. Tite_, _in the House of Commons_, _in August_, 1859. CLAUSES IN BILL. OBSERVATIONS. III. The inspectors of votes _The committee consider that in directed to be appointed under case of division amongst the the first recited Act, shall, inspectors_, _the umpire should before commencing the duties of be chosen by lot_. their office under the said Act, appoint by writing under their hands an umpire; and in case of any dispute or disagreement between the said inspectors, as to any matter which they are by the said Act required to determine, such matter shall be decided by the said umpire, and his decision in relation thereto shall be final and conclusive. V. Any vestryman who during six _The committee would have successive months shall not have preferred three months as the attended the meetings of the limit_; _but that attendance at vestry of which he is a member, any committee should count_. shall, upon the expiration of _They think also that leave of such six months, cease to be a absence might be given in certain member of such vestry, and the cases_. vacancy occasioned by his so ceasing to be a member, shall be filled up at the next annual election. XVII. In case any sewer shall be _Suppose a street cut through constructed by any vestry or market garden ground_, _upon district board in a street in which a small sewers rate has which no sewer existed previously been paid_, _are the houses and to such construction, and in and land to be free from payment on which no sewers rate had been under this section_. levied previously to 1st January, 1856, the expense of constructing such sewer, including the cost of gullies, side entrances, and other incidental charges and expenses, shall be borne and defrayed by the owners of the houses situate in such street, and of the land bounding or abutting on such street respectively, in proportion to