§ MR. HEYGATEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, What instructions are given to the Metropolitan Police, in order to secure the observance (in the event of a fall of snow) of the 60th section of the Act 2 and 3 Vic. c. 47, whereby a penalty "not exceeding forty shillings for each offence" is directed to be imposed on "every occupier of a house or tenement in any town within the said district who 400 shall not keep sufficiently swept and cleansed the premises occupied by him," and, in the absence of any occupier, upon "the owner thereof? "
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that the duty of enforcing the regulations for the removal of snow rested with the vestries and the district boards; and that, acting upon the instructions of those bodies, the police had been very active in calling the attention of the inhabitants of the houses to the necessity for carrying out those regulations.