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the Public Libraries' Acts are to be assumed by the Council as
debts, liabilities, and expenses of, and are to be charged upon
and borne by the Borough as a whole.
4. As from the 31st March, 1902, all the properties which
shall on that date be vested in the Borough Council for the
purposes of the Burial Acts and the income arising in respect
of such properties are to be held, received and applied to the use
and for the benefit of the Parishes of Wandsworth, Clapham,
Putney, and Streatham as a single district, and all the debts,
liabilities, and expenses of the Borough Council on that date
for the purposes of the Burial Acts are to be assumed by the
Council as the debts, liabilities, and expenses of, and are to be
charged upon and borne by, the said Parishes of Wandsworth,
Clapham, Putney, and Streatham as a single district.
County
Boundary at
Tooting.
5.—When the order for the formation of the Borough was under
consideration the London County Council, with the
concurrence of the late Wandsworth District Board,
made application to the Local Government Board
for a Provisional Order providing that the boundary of the County
of London at Tooting should be along the south side of the Tooting,
Merton and Wimbledon Railway, between Mitcham Road and
Tooting Junction at one end, and the extreme boundary of the
County of London west of Lambeth cemetery at the other, and
that the areas to the north and south of this boundary line should
be transferred to the Counties of London and Surrey respectively.
The Local Government Board considered it was undesirable to
proceed with the matter then as the suggested alteration would
affect the boundary of a municipal borough formed under the
London Government Act. In December last the London County
Council again made application to the Local Government Board for
the suggested order, and this Council having approved of the proposal,
a public inquiry into the matter was held by a Local Government
Board Inspector at which this Council was represented in
support of the Order being made. The matter is still under the
consideration of the Local Government Board.
Mayor.
6.—On the gth November, 1901, Councillor William John Lancaster,
J.P., was unanimously elected Mayor.
7.-—The Council presented to Councillor John Lidiard, First
Mayor of the Borough, a framed illuminated address, as follows,
viz.:—