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caused by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with
regard to the raising of loans for the cost of capital
expenditure incurred in connection with the collection
and disposal of house and street refuse. This Board
supported the Bill, which passed through Parliament
without opposition.
Local Government
(England and Wales
Hill, 1894.
The President of the Local Government
Board having given notice when this Bill
was in Committee of his intention to move the insertion
of a clause, the effect of which would be to apply to
Yestries in London, and so far as respects the qualification
of persons to be elected, to Members of District
Boards in London, the provisions of the Bill with
respect to the qualification of the electors and to the
mode of conducting the election, the Board petitioned
against the Bill and requested the Members of
Parliament for this District to oppose the insertion
of the proposed clause. The Board also communicated
with the Vestries and District Boards in the Metropolis
with the view of similar steps being taken by them in
the matter. The clause was added to the Bill by the
House of Commons and the Board then petitioned the
House of Lords against it, urging that legislation
affecting the constitution of Yestries and District
Boards should be by means of a special Bill for the
creation of District Councils, and that such Bill should
deal with all local administrative affairs in the
Metropolis. The provisions in question, which were
opposed by several other Metropolitan local authorities,
were thrown out by the House of Lords, but the House of
Commons insisted upon these and some other provisions
which had been struck out, and eventually the Bill Mas
passed retaining them. As might have been anticipated
the hurried introduction of these provisions into a
Bill which was not intended to deal with London
municipal government has created many anomalies and