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65. The Council approved of the provisions of the Bill, which
passed the House of Commons. The Clauses relating to the payment
of fees to medical practitioners were withdrawn from the Bill, and
those as to the proposed ambulance service were struck out by the
Committee of the House of Lords. The Bill as amended received the
Royal assent on the 4th August, 1906.
London CountyBuildings.
66. This Bill authorised the County Council, for the purpose
of erecting a hall, offices, and buildings for the
conduct of the business of that Council, to purchase
lands in the Borough of Lambeth, bounded on the north
by lands belonging to the Council and used as a Works Department,
on the east by Belvedere Road, on the south by Westminster
Bridge Road and Westminster Bridge, and the approaches
thereto, and on the west by the river Thames (including
a portion of the bank, foreshore and bed of that river). The Bill
also proposed to authorise the Council to make and maintain an
embankment wall and an embankment on the foreshore of the
River Thames, limited the period for the compulsory purchase of
lands to three years, and the period for the completion of the
works to seven years, and authorised the County Council to
expend on capital account for the purposes of the Act not exceeding
six hundred and fifty-five thousand pounds.
67. This Council made no order with regard to the Bill, which
has passed both Houses and received the Royal assent on the 20th
July, 1906.
London Squares
and Enclosures
(Preservation).
68. This Bill is to the same effect as the Bill under the same
title referred to in the last Annual Report. The
number of enclosures included in the schedule to
the present Bill is, however, considerably less than
in last year's Bill, viz.:—72 instead of 542. The schedule includes
the following enclosures in this Borough, viz.:—
West Hill Road, Wandsworth — Triangular garden enclosure
bounded on the north partly by the roadway of part of West Hill Road
and partly by the roadway of part of Wimbledon Park Road, on the
south-east by the roadway of other part of Wimbledon Park Road, and on
the south-west by other part of the roadway of West Hill Road.
West Hill Road, Wandsworth—Triangular enclosed space bounded
on the north-west by a portion of Avenue Road, on the north-east by the
roadway of West Hill Road, and on the south by the roadway of Viewfield"
Road.