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quently no records for reference. I might here mention^ 
that the portion of Barrack-street opposite the N. frontage 
of the Koyal Gaol was much wider than it is at present. 
Some of the owners took it into their head that their enclo- 
sures must be brought on a line with the rest of the street,, 
and coolly encroached on the public thoroughfare, finding 
that they might be in the wrong, they applied to the Court 
of Intendant, but received no answer. They then reques- 
ted Mr. M. Sorzano to draw the street line, which he did. 
The Borough Council objected to the proceedings : on the 
7th of October 1858, however, a petition was addressed to* 
the Board pretending to explain the whole transaction. A 
Committee was thereupon appointed, who reported unfa- 
vourably : no further step was taken. And yet the streets 
adjacent to the gaol should have been made as wide as pos- 
sible, as much for free ventilation as for police purposes. 
I have already remarked that the Borough Council had 
not sufficient powers. “ If however” — to make use of the 
words of Mr. ICeate in his answer to the Mayor of the Bo- 
rough — “ the affairs of the town are to continue to be 
managed by corporations, those bodies ought to have all 
the requisite powers for exercising their functions, and 
there should be no divided authority.” I suggest that, for 
all municipal purposes, the dominion of the streets be ves- 
ted in the corporation. Sometime, in the year 1850, the 
Town Council made some regulations for the better govern- 
ment of the town ; they were disallowed in toto, because 
some of them provided for offenses already punishable un- 
der the Police Ordinance ; and because some others exceeded 
the powers of the Board, inasmuch as the dominion of the 
streets belonged to the Queen, “ I do not find, said the 
Attorney-General, that the dominion of the streets is ves- 
