Government of Bengal Legislative Department - The Calcutta Improvement Bill 1911

A clause 16.—(v) the omission 1'i-rim claus.-s (3) and (4) of the proposed section.t.'4 A of the Laud (4 Acquisition Act of the words " in the opinion of the Tribunal."--The Corporation consider that the defetive state of the house from a sanitary point of view and its unfitness for human habitation should be raised at an earlier stage i e. when the Collector is adjudicating upon the m [...] 6.- ONE of the main objects of the Bill is by the opening up of congested areas the demolition of buildings and the laying out and altering of streets to reduce the overcrowding that exists in the northern division of the city. [...] The President the Chairman of the Corporation the nominated Commissioners and even the nominees of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce represent what the bulk of the people at least regard as others interests. [...] Under these circumstances your Memorialists respectfully submit that the responsibility for the present condition of the city so far as it meets with official disapproval rests largely with the Government itself and that it is therefore unjust on the part of the framers of the Bill to throw the consequences of past administrative neglect upon the comparatively innocent heads of the present inh [...] This outlook becomes the more serious in view of the fact that under sections 110 and 111 of the Bill the Corporation is to be burdened with all the liabilities of the Board in the event of that body failing to mike the payments and investments therein mentioned; and to crown all it is provided by section 195 (2) b that upon the final dissolution of the Board all liabilities which may then be