View report page

53
uniformity would best be attained by making all places of worship
and the authorities in whom public open spaces are vested liable
for such charges and that the same treatment should be extended
to expenses of repairing roads under the Metropolis Management
Act, 1890, and expenses of flagging footpaths under the Metropolis
Management Act, 1862, Amendment Act, 1890, in addition
to expenses of paving new streets under the Metropolis Management
Acts, 1855 and 1862. This Bill is awaiting second reading.
84. This Bill would require the registration of movable dwellMoveable
ings, such as tents, vans, etc., used for purposes of
Dwellings. abode, and would empower the Local Government
Board to make regulations for the purposes of promoting cleanliness
and of preventing nuisances, and the Board of Education
regulations with respect to school attendance. The Council presented
a petition in favour of the Bill, which has been read a
second time in the House of Lords.
85. This Bill proposes to repeal any limitation in any Act of
Public Parliament of the expense or rate to be levied by a
Libraries. library authority; would enable County Councils to
adopt the Libraries Acts (exempting districts already rated for
library purposes from any library rate levied by a County
'Council); would exempt public libraries and other buildings provided
under the Libraries Acts from rates, and would authorise
library authorities to expend out of the library rate such money as
they deem fit for the provision of lectures or exhibits. The
Council presented a petition against the Bill, which was not read
:a second time.
86. No action was taken with regard to the other Bills aboveTnentioned.
87. The Council record with much regret the death of
Mr. farvis Maples, who was for many years a
Obituary.
representative of Putney on the Wandsworth District
Board and on the Council, and of Mr. William Dickinson,
formerly Alderman of the Borough and a Member of the late
Wandsworth District Board for the parish of Streatham.
88. A second National Conference on Infantile Mortality was
Conference, in- held in March, 1908. The Chairman of the Public
fantile Mortality. Health Committee (Councillor Anderson), Alderman