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Common Lodging-houses.
Under the powers conferred upon him by the Local
Government Act, 1888, the Secretary of State for the Home
Department has made a Provisional Order transferring the
cont rol of Common Lodging-houses in the County of London,
which has hitherto under the Common Lodging-house Acts
been vested in the Commissioner of Police, to the London
County Council When the matter was under consideration
the desirability of Local Authorities being entrusted with
the supervision of Common Lodging-houses was suggested,
and a communication to that effect was addressed to the
Secretary of State, he, however, declined to give effect
to the same.
Free Library.
During the year an arrangement has been completed
between the Board and the Commissioners of Public
Libraries and Museums for the District of St. Giles, whereby
certain surplus land belonging to the Board in High Holborn
has been sold to the Commissioners for the purpose of
their erecting thereon a Public Library. The Board have
also consented to the Commissioners borrowing the necessary
sums, not exceeding in the whole £10,000, for the
purchase of the land and the erection of the buildings
thereon.
On the 3rd May, 1893, a requisition was received from a
number of county electors requiring the Board to take the
necessary steps for ascertaining the opinion of the voters as