Excerpt from The Law of Land Drainage and Sewers: A Treatise Upon the Law Relating to Commissions of Sewers, Drainage Boards, and Other Drainage Authorities, With Notes, Forms, and an Appendix of StatutesThat the subject is well worthy of consideration is warranted by a perusal of the evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Lords in the year 1877, which reported upon the formation of Conservancy Boards, and which disclosed a considerable variety of opinion upon the working and the interpretation of the statutes relating to the law of arterial drainage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.