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Amount of Equalization Fund distributable to the St.
Giles District according to population, £7,970, equal to a
rate of 4.54d.
Amount to be paid by the District to Equalization Fund,
£2,552, or a sum equal to a fund of l'46d. in the pound.
The Bill was considered by the Law and Parliamentary
Committee, who recommended the Board that it should be
opposed, and a petition was presented to the House of
Commons against the Bill.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (ENGLAND AND WALES) BILL.
This Bill, as originally introduced into the House of
Commons on the 21st May, 1893, did not apply to London,
except so far as the provisions relating to the qualification
and election of Boards of Guardians; but while the Bill was
passing through Committee in the House of Commons,
amendments were inserted by which the provisions of
Part II. of the Bill were applied to the County of London,
and the qualification of Members of District Boards of
Works was assimilated with the qualification of Members
of Urban Authorities, and under the Bill District Boards
required, for the first time in their history, to annually
appoint a Chairman.
Considerable discussion ensued on the Committee stage,
in both Houses, as to these provisions in the Bill, but they
were ultimately inserted in an amended form, and the Act
received the Royal Assent on the 5th March, 1894. Its
provisions, so far as they affect the District Boards of Works,
were explained by the Local Government Board in a circular
letter of the 19th March, 1894, in which the Board pointed
out that, with the exception of the alterations as to the
qualification of Members, the election of Members of District