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sum payable by instalments, at different periods or otherwise, which has
been held to be, under the present section.
25.—That land should be rated to lighting rates at only one-fourth of
the amount at which houses and other property are rated, as with respect
to sewerage expenses, and so whether the same be situate in a parish in
which the Act of 3rd and 4th William TV., cap. 90, was in force or not at
the time of passing the Metropolis Act, and that it be made clear what is
intended by the words " three times greater."
26.—That the principle of the 181st section be adhered to, with reference
to the debts of the late Commissioners of Sewers, but that where it
shall appear to the Metropolitan Board that any such debt or liability shall
have been incurred in respect of sewerage works, which are available for any
larger area than the district on which such debt was chargeable at the time
of the expiration of the Metropolitan Sewers Act, the Metropolitan Board
shall have power to charge any such extended area (being within the limita
of the Metropolis) with the payment of such proportion of so much of such
debt as shall then remain unpaid as the said Board may think fit.
27.—That the order of the Metropolitan Board shall, under section 183,
be sufficient sanction for a loan, and a certified extract from the minutes
of the Board be sufficient evidence of such order.
28.—That sections 11 and 194 be so qualified that a greater number of
Auditors should never be appointed for a parish not divided into wards
than for one which is so divided, such parishes being both in the same
district.
29.—That in the power to Auditors, contained in section 195, to allow
and disallow the accounts and items therein, no question shall be raised as
to whether any particular item is or not properly incurred " in the execution
of the Act."
30.—That the powers of the Auditors, under section 197, should be
more clearly defined, and extend to parish officers accounts' (other than
Poor Law), which would appear, from the last sentence of the 8th section,
not to be comprised in their powers.
31.—That section 199 may be extended to all charities under the controul
or in the gift of a rector, churchwardens, or other parish officers.
32.—That in every case in which the amount of costs is to be ascertained,
under section 225, it should not be competent to the Justices to
enquire into any other question than whether the amount sought to be recovered
has been expended by the Vestry or District Board, and so expended
in the bona fide execution of the Act.
33.—That the Act of 20 and 21 Victoria, chapter 43, be extended to all
cases in which the power of appeal to Quarter Sessions is given under this
section.
34.—That it shall be lawful for the Vestries and District Boards to
apportion the expense of the drainage of private premises between the
tenant, leaseholder, and freeholder thereof, according to the nature and
extent of the interest therein.
35.—That so much of the Parish of Beckenham as lies between Lewisham
and Penge, and on the north-west side of the Pool River, be included
in the Lewisham District, and for all the purposes of the Act, be considered
as part of the Hamlet of Penge.