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bade the roofs already shingled to remain so after the 1st 
of October 1845, and prescribed that no outside ends or 
sides, being of wood, should remain so after the 1st of 
October 1850. Proprietors who had been suffered to have 
shingled roofs, and the sides and ends of their houses built 
of wood must have felt it u grievance to be compelled to 
remove the same or to replace them, after a lapse of 5 and 
10 years, by uninflammable materials. I suggest that, for 
the purpose of any building Ordinance, the town be divided 
into two sections, viz. : the town properly so called, and the 
suburbs ; the town to be comprised between the Dry Biver, 
Bichmond-street, the sea and New-street, the rest being 
held as suburbs. After the passing of the Ordinance, no 
new house should be built of inflammable materials, either 
in town or suburbs ; no house built of or roofed with in- 
flammable materials could undergo repairs within the town, 
but should be re-built according to law ; but repairing 
could be permitted in the suburbs, provided however that 
the cost of repairs would not amount to one-third of the 
estimated value of the house. The town would thus gra- 
dually improve and there would be no just subject for com- 
plaint. Sometime in the year 1856 Governor Elliott had 
appointed a Committee to prepare suggestions regarding 
the construction of houses and the regulations of lodging 
houses. The report of the Committee, signed by all the 
members, was subsequently submitted to the General Board 
of Health for their consideration and approved by them with 
some slight alterations. In case it were deemed expedient 
to pass a new building Ordinance, it would be well to take 
notice of that report. 
The 46th clause of the Police Ordinance enacts that ali- 
mentary substances which have become stale and unwhole- 
