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a petition both to the House of Lords and the House of Commons
against any alteration in the Bill. The Bill was passed without
amendment and received Royal Assent on the and August, 1907.
74. This Bill proposed to authorise the Common Council of
Municipal the City of London, Metropolitan Borough Councils,
Milk Depots.and the Council of any Municipal Borough or
Urban District with a population of 50,000 or more, to establish
and maintain depots for the sale of milk specially prepared for
consumption by infants, to purchase and prepare milk, and provide
such laboratories, plant, and other things, and to exercise such
powers and duties as may be necessary for the purpose. This
Council presented a petition against the Bill, which did not reach
second reading.
75. This Bill provided that at every election of a County
Councillor for the County of London, and at every
London Muni- ,
cipal Elections election of a Borough Councillor, the poll should be
(Hours of Poll).
from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. This Council presented a
petition against the Bill, which was not proceeded with.
76. This Bill was introduced in the Session of 1907, and proPublic
Health vided that a person should not be appointed a
Officers. Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Inspector
unless he was qualified in the manner prescribed by the Bill, and
that Medical Officers of Health or Sanitary Inspectors should not
be appointed for a limited period, and should be removable only
subject to an appeal to the Local Government Board. The Council
presented a petition against the measure. The Bill was not proceeded
with, and a Bill to the same effect has been introduced in
the present Session against which the Council also presented a
petition. This Bill was also dropped. Similar provisions as to the
qualifications of Medical Officers of Health and Sanitary
Inspectors are already in force in London.
77. In the last annual report it was stated that on this Bill
Butter and coming before the House of Commons a new clause
Margarine. was jnserted extending the powers contained in the
Margarine Act, 1887, so as to enable Inspectors of Weights and
Measures to take samples of Margarine, and that this Council,
deeming it inexpedient that such powers should be conferred on
Inspectors of Weights and Measures, petitioned the House of