(5.) If the local authority do not impose a byelaw they must themselves cleanse the “footways and pavements adjoining any premises;” and this in excessively muddy weather, or after a heavy fall of snow, is no inconsiderable work. (6.) An _urban authority_ may make provision for the “temporary deposit and collection of dust, ashes and rubbish.” This involves public dust-bins being placed in suitable positions in the town, the points in connection with this work being, (a.) The most suitable sites for such accommodation. (b.) The materials and form of which they shall be constructed. Having thus stated all the heads under which the work of scavenging may be grouped, it is necessary to decide what is “house refuse;” for unless this is satisfactorily settled, considerable onus and expense will be put upon the local authority if they are to include in the removal trade, garden, and other similar refuse.[159] It may be assumed that all house refuse which it is the duty of the scavenger to remove, is really so removed by the direction of the local authority without dispute, but that the following articles, which frequently find their way into a domestic dust-bin, are not in the strict terms of the Act expected to be removed by him. (1) Plaster from walls and brick bats, (2) Large quantities of broken bottles and flower pots, (3) Clinkers and ashes from foundries and green-houses, (4) Wall paper torn from the rooms of a house, (5) Scrap tin (but not old tins which have contained meats, &c., and which, although very useless and bulky, may be fairly assumed to be house refuse), (6) All garden refuse such as grass cuttings, dead leaves, and the loppings from trees and shrubs.[160] As a matter of fact, out of ninety towns with which I communicated on this subject only thirteen of them directed the removal of both trade and garden refuse without any special extra payment being made by the householder, and this is only done when these materials are placed in the ordinary dustbin or ashpit attached to a house. Several towns, however, it appears remove such materials on special payments being made of sums varying from 1_s._ 6_d._ to 3_s._ per load. Disputes frequently arise between the men employed in scavenging and the householder on these vexed questions as to the difference between house, trade or garden refuse: a dispute often raised by the scavengers themselves, in the hope of obtaining a gratuity or reward for the clearance of a dustbin, which no doubt, legally, they are perfectly justified in refusing to empty; and in order to lessen the chance of such disputes and to attempt to settle this question, the following suggestions may be of value.