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property and liabilities. Particulars of the property
and liabilities of the several parishes were prepared,
and a Joint Committee, consisting of representatives of
each of the Representative Bodies, appointed to consider
the matter. At a subsequent meeting of each of
the Representative Bodies it was decided that, having
regard to the shares of the said respective parishes in
the property and liabilities of the several authorities
transferred to the Council and to all the circumstances
of the case, the following adjustment should be made of
the said property and liabilities, viz:—
As from the 9th day of November, 1900, all the properties which
on or immediately prior to the Board of Works for the Wandsworth
District ceasing to exist were vested in the said Board of Works, or in
any other Body, or in any persons or person for the benefit of any of
the said Parishes, and which by virtue of the said Act passed to and
became the property of the Council (except the properties hereafter
referred to) are to be held by the Council to the use and for the benefit
of the Borough as a whole, and that all the liabilities of the said Board
of Works in respect of each and every of the said Parishes, and of every
such other body or person as aforesaid for and on behalf of each and
every of the said Parishes (except the liabilities hereafter referred to)
are to be assumed by the Council as the liabilities of and are to be
charged upon and borne by the Borough as a whole. The several
properties which on or immediately before the said 9th day of
November, 1900, were vested in or were under the control of the
Commissioners for Baths and Wash-houses, Commissioners for Public
Libraries, and Burial Boards, in and for each or any of the said several
Parishes, and all the separate liabilities of such Commissioners and
Boards, or of such respective Parishes in respect thereof, on the same
date are as to such last-mentioned properties to be held by the Council
to the use and for the benefit of such Parishes respectively, and are as
to such liabilities to be an exclusive charge upon such Parishes
respectively.
The Borough Council concurred in the foregoing
decision, and an agreement to the like effect was entered
into between the respective Representative Bodies and
the Council. This agreement is now under the consideration
of the London Government Act Commissioners,
whose approval is necessary.