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for such purposes as if such expenditure were for the purposes of
the Electric Lighting Acts; and to authorise Borough Councils to
expend money in providing and maintaining public clocks.
This Council approved of the provisions relating to street
markets and to the wiring of premises for electric lighting. The
last-mentioned provisions and those relating to the South Metropolitan
Gas Act, 1900, were, however, struck out of the Bill. The
Royal assent was given to the Bill on the 11th of August.
Food & Drags
Amendment.
61.—This Bill proposed to extend the provisions of the Sale
of Food and Drugs Acts relating to the sale of margarine
to the sale of butterine. "Butterine" was defined
to mean butter to which any substitute was added whereby
the amount of water was increased, but did not include margarine
as defined by the Margarine Act, 1887. This Council pointed out
that the use of the word butterine as proposed, or any word containing
the word butter, would be objectionable as it would tend
to facilitate fraud. The Bill was not proceeded with.
Patriotic Fund.
62.—This Bill proposed to dissolve the Patriotic Fund Commission
and to establish a Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation
and to transfer the properties, rights, duties
and liabilities of the Commission to the Corporation. The Corporation
is to consist of 12 members nominated by His Majesty, the
Chairman of every Council of a County, the Lord Mayors and
Mayors of every County Borough in England and Ireland, and the
Lord Provost and the Provost of every Royal, Parliamentary, or
Police Burgh in Scotland with a population of not less than 50,000,
together with 7 persons to be co-opted by the Council of the
Corporation. This Council called the attention of the Government
to the original circumstances under which the land at Wandsworth
held by the Commission was alienated and devoted to its
present purposes, and stated that in the opinion of this Council
those circumstances altogether negative the suggestion that the
land can be converted into a building estate, and in view of the
anxiety created by that suggestion the Government were asked to
make provision for a Member of this Council being placed upon
any new governing body that might hereafter be created to
administer the Patriotic Fund. Owing to the short time which