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for the purpose of enabling the Companies to prepare their
replies to the complaints. Similar enquiries have subsequently
been held in other parts of London. The Board
did all in their power to assist in the distribution of water
by letting on hire to the Companies their water carts and
vans, which were filled at standpipes and the water
delivered at the houses of residents in the district.
Amalgamation of the
City and County of
London.
The Commissioners appointed under the
Royal Warrants of 27th March and 5th
April, 1893, to consider the proper conditions under which
the amalgamation of the City and County of London
could be effected, and to make specific and practical proposals
for that purpose, issued their report on the 7th of
August last. The recommendations contained in the
report would in effect merge the City Corporation in the
London County Council, retaining for the new body the
name of the former—"The Mayor and Commonalty and
Citizens of London." Eight representatives would be
elected by the City (termed in the report the Old City J
to the new Corporation, and one additional alderman
would be appointed. The City Police, now under the
control of the Corporation, would be fused with the Metropolitan
Police. The local authority for the City
(proposed to be called "The Mayor and Council of the
Old City") would be similar to the local authority for
the other districts in London, but would have in addition
the management of city charities and trusts and the
property belonging thereto. The Commissioners express
the opinion "that everything possible should be done to
"maintain the strength, authority, and dignity of the local
"bodies of London, and that in the partition of functions
"between the Corporation of London and local authority
"the former should be relieved of all administrative
"details for which its intervention is not really necessary,
"and the latter should be entrusted with every duty they
"can conveniently discharge. In the case of doubt our