Statement: A municipality proposes to lay the town's new water main along Kesarbagh Street, and to do so must take four feet from the front compound of every house on the street. The cost of laying the main is to be met from the general fund, and the householders who lose the four feet are to be given nothing. Which of the following courses of action follows from the statement?

The town pays for the pipe out of a fund the town has subscribed, and Kesarbagh Street pays for the land out of its own compounds; the first cost is shared and the second is not, and nothing in the statement explains why one street should be made to subscribe twice over. Bringing the land into the estimate and paying for it puts the two costs on the same footing and lets the scheme go forward. The first option turns a point about who pays into a rule that would stop every public work ever undertaken. The second makes the imbalance worse by adding the pipe to the burden of the street that is already giving up its land. And moving the main to another street answers the objection by abandoning the alignment rather than by dealing with the cost, and there is nothing in the statement to say any other street would serve.