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Appendix "A."
DUTIES OF COMMITTERS.
Finance Committee.
i. To carry out the provisions of Sec. 8 (3) and Sec. 9 (1) of
the London Government Act, 1899, relating to the Finance Com
mittee of a Metropolitan Borough Council, viz.:—
" 8 (3.) Every Borough Council shall from time to time ap"
point a Finance Committee for regulating and controlling the
" finance of the Council; and no order for payment of any sum
' whether on account of capital or income, shall be made by a
" Borough Council except in pursuance of a resolution of the
" Council passed on the recommendation of the Finance Com•'
mittee ; and any costs, debt, or liability exceeding fifty pounds
" shall not be incurred except upon a resolution of the Council
" passed on an estimate submitted by the Finance Committee.
" The notice of the meeting at which any resolution for the pay"
ment of any sum by the Borough Council (otherwise than for
" ordinary periodical payments) or any resolution for incurring any
" costs, debt, or liability exceeding fifty pounds will be proposed,
" shall state the amount of the said sum, costs, debt, or liability,
" and the purpose for which they are to be paid or incurred.
" Provided that the foregoing provisions shall not apply to pay"
meats made in pursuance of a precept from another authority."
"9. (1.) All payments to and by the Borough Council shall
" be made to and by the Borough Treasurer, and all payments by
" the Council shall, unless made in pursuance of the specific re"
quirement of an Act of Parliament, or of an order of a com"
petent court be made in pursuance of an Order of the Council,
" signed by three members of the Finance Committee present at
" the meeting of the Council, and countersigned by the Town
" Clerk, and the same order may include several payments.
" Moreover, all cheques for payment of moneys issued in pursu"
ance of any such order shall be countersigned by the Town
" Clerk, or by a deputy approved by the Council."
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