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Districts, or leave them with nothing to do excepting
in ecclesiastical matters. Where Vestries already
appoint "Commissioners" under any of the "Adoptive
Acts" herein-after mentioned (D) this power, and
such control as the Vestries already exercise over
such Commissioners, seem to be thus transferable to
District Boards. But the Act cannot, of course, be
also intended to authorize the Local Government
Board to empower District Boards to elect their own
members, although such a power seems now a strange
legal possibility.]
C Powers may also be given to District Boards to
maintain and repair closed churchyards (where the
cost is paid out of rates) and exercise other nonecclesiastical
powers (if any) of churchwardens
(s. 6 (l b).
D Power may also be given to District Boards to carry
out when hereafter adopted in any parish in the
District, certain "Adoptive Acts," including the
Baths and Wash-houses Acts 1846—82, the Burials
Act 1852—8-5, and the Public Libraries Act 1892
(s. (7).
E To provide and acquire buildings for public offices,
and for meetings, and land for such buildings, and tc
provide public walks and recreation grounds, or to
contribute to the support of public walks, or pleasure
grounds, and to acquire land for any other purposes
for which a parish Council is authorized to acquire
it. This may be done either by agreement with
owners of land or (by authority of the London County
Council confirmed by the Local Goverment Board)