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your Petitioners respectfully submit should be formed out of the present
Borough of Wandsworth will increase, and the injustice to your
Petitioners' District become greater, from year to year.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Bill may
be amended by providing that the Parliamentary
Borough of Wandsworth be formed either into two
undivided Boroughs or into two Divisions, each returning
one Member of the School Board for London,
as hereinbefore suggested.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
The Bill has not yet been read a second time.
Street Noises.
This Bill would empower occupiers or
lodgers to require itinerant musicians or
singers to desist from playing or singing in any public
place near his house or premises, under a penalty of
forty shillings or imprisonment for a period not exceeding
fourteen days. The Board have presented a
petition in favour of the Bill.
The Board decided to take no action with regard
to the other Bills above mentioned.
Local Government
of the
Metropolis.
It was announced in the Queen's speech at
the opening of Parliament this Session, that
a measure for facilitating the creation of
municipalities in the Administrative County of London
would be brought forward; but on the 10th of June
the First Lord of the Treasury stated that it would not
be introduced, and that it would be brought forward by
the Government early next Session. The Board have
had under consideration and decided to concur in a
resolution passed by the Lee District Board of Works in
favor of new Local Authorities being constituted with
Councils and Mayors for all the existing areas of the
Metropolis; and of steps being taken to carry out the
recommendations for transfer of powers from the London
County Council to Local Authorities, as adopted by