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The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook

Note 248 — Chapter XXXII · BORROWING UNDER THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.

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The Local Government Board have held a steam roller, a steam fire-engine, a disinfecting apparatus, and lamp columns to be permanent works.

[249] For asphalte pavements twelve years have been allowed.

[250] “Details may be drawn to any scale larger than the dimensions named. Engraved or lithographed diagrams, if clear and distinct, will be accepted. A new plan of any town or district cannot be used for main sewering, water supply, gas supply, pavements, footwalks, and other purposes without spoiling it; consequently it had better be retained as a standard and be zincographed, there may then be copies for all local purposes. The zinc plates to be the property of the local authority.”

[251] Vide ‘Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain,’ vol. i. p. 116.

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