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Roman Catholic Schools.
Alderman Kipling St. Mary, Crescent Road and Park Place,
Clapham.
Councillor Aldridge Nightingale Square, Balham.
Councillor Radford Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton.
Councillor Allen St. Andrew, Polworth Road, Streatham.
Councillor Cresswell St. Joseph, and St. Thomas, Wandsworth.
Alderman Anderson Tooting, Mitcham Road.
62.—The subject of the appointment of Managers and Grouping
Provided Schools is under the consideration of the Council.
Thames River
Steamboat
Service Bill.
63.—This was a Bill to authorise the County Council and the
Conservators of the River Thames to enter into
agreements for the transfer to the Council of any
piers, landing places, &c., belonging to the Conservators,
to enable the County Council to require the
Greenwich Pier Company to sell their undertaking to the Council,
and to empower the County Council to contract for, provide, purchase,
or hire vessels and run a service of vessels for the conveyance
of passengers and parcels on the river Thames between the
eastern end of Chiswick Eyot and the eastern boundary of the
parish of Plumstead, and for these purposes to spend on capital
account a sum not exceeding £250,000. The Bill also provided
for any deficiency of revenue being made good out of the County
rates. This Council approved generally of the Bill, which passed
both Houses and received the Royal Assent on the 15th August,
1904.
Polling
Districts
(County
Councils).
64.—The object of this Bill was to enable County Councils
to exercise from time to time and as often as they
think fit the power of dividing electoral divisions
into polling districts for the purpose of Elections
of County Councillors and to alter any such polling districts.
This Council suggested that a clause to the effect of paragraph 12
in the Borough Councils Election Order, 1903, authorising the
Returning Officer to determine the number and situation of polling
stations should be inserted in the Bill. The suggestion, however,
was not adopted. The Bill passed the House of Lords and was
sent to the House of Commons on the 8th March last.