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authority ; and any ditU'rence between that authority and the surveyor of 
highways should be decided by the central authority. 
Special powers should be given to central authorities to deal with canals 
and railways which interfere with the drainage of towns and districts and with 
water sujiply. 
Individual ratepayers should be enabled to lodge a formal complaint of 
nuisance with the inspector or acknowledged representative of the executive 
authority, who should be obliged to re])resent it at once to such authority ; 
and if no notice be taken of the complaint within a fortnight of the time of 
making it, the complainant should be authorised to make direct application 
to the central authority, who should then depute their own officer to in- 
vestigate it. 
The code should vender the executive authorities liable to penalties for 
neglect of duty as severe as those against private individuals who fail to 
remove a nuisance after notice to do so. It should also make the inspectors 
themselves liable to a small fine for neglect of complaint, if convicted before 
justices of such neglect ; and all parties who are reported by the central 
authority to have made an unjustifiable complaint should be made liable to a 
small fine, to be collected by the rate-collector, and recoverable in the same 
way as parochial rates. 
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