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tain circumstances, parental rights over the children of pauper
parents, should be extended so far as to confer similar rights over
the children of habitual vagrants.
Generally.
(18.) That, in order to give practical effect to the foregoing
Resolutions, this Conference is in favour of uniting with the
County Councils Association, the Association of Municipal
Corporations, the Association of Metropolitan Borough Councils,
the Magistracy, and the Association of Poor Law Unions of
England and Wales for the following purposes, viz.:—(a) To enlist
the sympathy and co-operation of members of Parliament; (b) to
appoint representatives to wait on the Local Government Board;
(c) to give evidence before the Inter-Departmental Committee of
the Government on the Vagrancy Question; (d) to take such
other measures as may be thought desirable in support of the
Resolutions arrived at by the Conference.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL GENERAL POWERS
BILL, 1904.
This Bill, in its sanitary portion, contains several proposals
likely to be of great benefit to London generally, many of these
proposals being inserted in the Bill on the request of various
Borough Councils. The County Council however, in their wisdom,
saw fit to incorporate a clause practically giving them the power of
acting both as judge and advocate, when considering as to the
default or otherwise of the various Metropolitan Borough Councils.
This clause was particularly objected to by several Councils, including
Greenwich, and the Parliamentary Committee saw fit to
alter this control section to the power of control given by Section