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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
of the
Mentropolitan Borough of Wandsworth
For the Year ended 31 st March, 1902.
1.—During the year under report four elections have taken place
Casual to fillcasual vacancies caused by the resignation of
vacancies. Councillors Craik, Lee, Lucas, and Thompson. The
following gentlemen were elected to fill the vacancies, viz.:—-
Putney Ward WALKER, JOHN.
Streatham Ward dewey, Chas. hayter.
Laceby, Coulson.
Tooting Ward SWAIN, CHAS. HENRY.
2.—The following Bye-law was made by the Council, viz.:—
Non-accept- That the fine for non-acceptance or resignation
ance or
resignation of the office of Mayor, Alderman or Councillor be
of office. the sum of one pound.
3.—Questions having arisen in certain Metropolitan Boroughs
Adoptive as to the administration of the Adoptive Acts,
Acts. the London Government Act Commissioners
pared a scheme with regard to those Acts, providing that the
money raised for the various Adoptive Acts should be expended
where such Acts had been adopted and charged to such parishes
in proportion to their rateable values in the same way as
the ordinary expenses of the Council. The Baths and Wash-houses
Acts not having been adopted prior to the London Government
Act, 1899 for the parishes of Putney and Tooting, nor the Libraries
Acts for the Parish of Tooting, the Council adopted the Acts in
question for those parishes. The parish churchyard at Tooting
being still available for burials the Burial Acts cannot be adopted
for that parish at present.