§ LORD EUSTACE CECILsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If it is his intention to introduce, during this Session, a Bill to consolidate the various existing Sanitary Acts, or to reconcile the conflicting Clauses in some of them, especially with reference to the powers and duties of governing bodies of Special Drainage Districts, formed by order of the Secretary of State under the Acts of 1867 and 1868?
MR. BRUCE, in reply, said, it was not his intention this Session to introduce a Bill to consolidate the Sanitary Acts, although he quite admitted that the subject was one worthy the attention of the Government. In answer to the latter part of the Question, he hoped to be able to bring in a short Bill promoting the union of districts for sanitary purposes, so as to solve the doubts and difficulties which surrounded that part of the question.