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London
Water Bill.
58.—This Bill was amended so that each of the Metropolitan
Borough Councils should have one representative
on the Water Board. The repayment of the capital is
to be extended to a period of 100 years and provision is made for
the introduction of a scheme for the equalisation of the charges
for water. At a Meeting of the Council on the 4th February last
Councillor J. Lidiard was appointed this Council's representative
on the Board.
Licensing.
59.—The Council petitioned in favour of this Bill, which proposed
to amend the law relating to the sale of intoxicating
liquor and to cases of drunkenness, and to provide
for the registration of clubs. The Bill passed and came into
operation on the 1st day of January, 1903.
London County
Council
(General
Powers) Bill.
60.—This Bill proposed (inter alia) to extend the time limited,
by the Council's Act of 1898 for the widening of York
Road, Battersea and Wandsworth, until the 12th
August, 1905; to empower Borough Councils to provide
accommodation for retail street vendors and to erect buildings
or shelters and for that purpose to use any land belonging to
them or to purchase or lease land, and to borrow money for the
purpose,—any place, building, or shelter so provided to be opened
for public use as a retail market upon such terms and such regulations
as the Borough Council with the approval of the Local
Government Board might prescribe; to prohibit any unlicensed
premises being used for receiving horses for slaughter or dead
horses; to empower the County Council to make bye-laws as to
the conveyance of dead horses through streets, the enforcement
of such bye-laws to rest with Borough Councils, provided that in
case of default by a Borough Council the bye-laws might be
enforced by the County Council, who should be entitled to recover
from the Borough Council in default the expenses incurred; to
repeal section 6 of the South Metropolitan Gas Act, 1900, relating
to the description of burner for testing illuminating power; to
empower Borough Councils supplying electrical energy to expend
money upon the wiring and fitting, and supplying with wires,
fittings, and apparatus, the premises of their consumers or prospective
consumers, and to make such charge therefor as they may
think fit, the Borough Councils to be empowered to borrow money