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69. The Joint Committee of the House of Lords and House
of Commons, to whom the Bill was referred, agreed to the insertion
of a clause for the protection of Riparian Authorities with
respect to the effect of dredging by the new Port Authority.
70. This Bill is similar to one which has been introduced.
Polling under the same title in several recent years, which
Arrangment
Parliamentary proposed to transfer from the Justices to the
Boroughs). County Council the power to divide Parliamentary
Boroughs into Polling Districts. The County Council has already
the power with regard to Polling Districts for County Council
Elections, and this Council being of opinion that the division of
Polling Districts of Parliamentary Boroughs and County Council,
areas should be in the hands of one authority, petitioned in
favour of the Bill which passed and received Royal Assent on the
1st August, 1908.
71. A similar Bill to this has also been introduced during
Polling District
(County
Counoils).
several recent Sessions, and would authorise the
County Council to exercise their powers for dividing
Electoral Divisions into Polling Districts from.
time to time and as often as they think fit, and also to alter
Polling Districts. The Council petitioned in favour of the Bill,,
which also received the Royal Assent on the 1st August.
72. The subject of combined drainage continues to receive
Metropolitan
Sewers and
Drains.
the attention of the Metropolitan Borough Councils,,
and, in November last, this Council considered and
approved a draft Bill to amend the law on the subject adopted by
a Conference of representatives of the City and Metropolitan
Borough Councils, and Sir Henry Kimber, Bart., M.P., consented
to back the Bill. The Council presented a petition in favour of
the Bill, which is at present waiting the second reading in the
House of Commons.
•71. This Bill proposed to authorise the Countv Council to
Education
Board. Provisional
Order
Confirmation
(London No.1).
purchase sites for educational purposes, including
a site for a school at Merton Road, Wandsworth,,
across which there is at present a public footpath.
The Bill provided that nothing therein contained should authorise
the County Council to extinguish any public rights of way without
the usual Order of Quarter Sessions. The Council presented: