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4. It is, however, material to notice that the 54th section of
the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, imposing certain disqualifications
on Members of District Boards (e.g., on those interested
in contracts with such Boards) and certain penalties on persons
who act as members when disqualified is repealed (L.G.A., 1894,
s. 89 and Schedule II.). The new Act contains elaborate provisions
(Sec. 46) as to disqualification. These apply to Members
and Auditors of London Vestries, but it is not at all clear that
euch provisions apply to Members of District Boards.
Chairman.
5. District Boards will cease to elect a Chairman at every
meeting;. They must, at their first meeting after the annual
election of members, elect a "Chairman for the year." Only
in his absence will it be necessary to electa Chairman for a
meeting. The "Chairman for the year" will not have a second
or casting vote; but the Chairman elected for a particular
meeting (in the absence of the Chairman for the year) will still
have such casting vote (L.G.A., 1894, s. 31 (2), M.M.A., 1855,
s. 41). The Chairman for the year will (unless a woman or
personally disqualified by any Act) be, by virtue of his office, a
Justice of the Peace for the County of London; but before
acting as such justice he must, if he has not already done so,
take the oath required by law to be taken by a justice, other
than the oath respecting the qualification by estate (L.G.A.,
1894, s. s. 31 (2), 22).
Auditors.
6. The new Act alters the qualifications and disqualifications
of Auditors, as in the case of Members, but otherwise leaves the
mode and time of election of Auditors by District Boards
unaltered. Three such Auditors, will therefore in the month of