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Expenditor

A disburser especially one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers

Flusher

A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water

Certiorari

convictions by magistrates, orders of removal of paupers, and of poor's rates, also orders made by commissioners of sewers and other commissioners, town councils, and railway companies, for the purpose of being examined and 'quashed,' if contrary

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Infrastructure

2(f)] Means the underlying framework of a system; esp., public services and facilities (such as highways, schools, bridges, sewers, and water systems) needed to support commerce as well as economic and residential development, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th

Public health

general population under the following heads: Port health authorities, building from the sanitary point of view, sewage and sewers, drains and cesspools, filthy or verminuous premises or persons, public conveniences, nuisances, offensive trades, smoke, water supply (works,

Rate

contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area. Proportional or

Scots

Scots, assessments by commissioners of sewers. See SCOT AND LOT VOTERS. Derived from or pertaining to Scotland. The term 'Scots' is universal in Scotland

Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847

numbering houses,' 'improving line of streets,' etc., 'ruinous and dangerous buildings,' and 'precautions during construction an repair of sewers, streets, and houses,' are 'for the purpose of regulating such matters in urban districts.' See also the Public

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