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months' hard labour, In the remaining cases the defendants were
fined sums ranging from £5 and as. costs to £20 and ^5 5s.
costs. Five other complaints were received and inquired into, but the
evidence was not sufficient to warrant proceedings being taken.
39. The Council had under consideration the question of the law
relating to disorderly houses and with the view of more effectively
dealing with the matter, sealed a joint petition to the Home Secretary
in favour of an amendment of section 13 of the Criminal Law Amendment
Act, 1885, which deals with legal proceedings in such cases.
The petition was also sealed by the Council of the City of Westminster
and by 17 other Metropolitan Borough Councils.
40. In October last the President of the Local Government Board
The U11- prepared a scheme for dealing with the Unemployed,
employed. The scheme proposed that a Joint Committee should be
established for each Metropolitan Borough, who should receive
applications for work and enquire into them, and that a Central
Committee should be formed upon which each of the Joint-Committees
and the London County Council should be represented and additional
members appointed by the Local Government Board. The Central
Committee were to gather and distribute information as to employment
and administer the funds entrusted to them and deal as far as possible
with cases of the unemployed in any Borough for whom employment
could not be found by the Joint-Committee. A Joint-Committee was
appointed for this Borough consisting of the following members of the
Borough Council and the Board of Guardians, viz.:—
The Borough Council—The Mayor (Alderman The Rev. J.
H. Anderson, M.A., J.P.), Alderman J. M. Rucker, Councillors
A. Glegg, D. Jackson, T. P. Ling, J. W. Lorden, H. W. Nightingale,
M. Robinson, and H. Somerford.
The Board of Guardians—Rev. Canon Curtis, M.A.,
Messrs. Percival Rees, S. P. Clark, Councillor J. L. Curtis,
Messrs. A. Forward, J. Holland, W. P. Mellhuish, H. Osburn,
and A. Sullivan.
The Mayor and the Rev. Canon Curtis, M.A., were appointed
the representatives on the Central Committee, and the Town Clerk
Hon. Secretary to the Joint-Committee