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Metropolitan This Bill has been drafted by the Metropolitan Board
Board of Works
Local Manage-
ment,&c. of Works and relates to the Metropolis, and is to
remedy defects found to exist in carrying out the
Metropolitan Management Acts, it contains powers to alter
Parish Wards, to give time between the nomination of Vestrymen
and Polling day, to make up qualification for Vestrymen
where owner pays rates for different premises, to the
Local Authority to temporarily repair any new thoroughfare,
pending dedication, so as make it passable for the inhabitants.
This proviso is inserted in consequence of the decision of the
Court of Appeal in the case of the Vestry of Camberwell v. Hunt
for Alleyn Park paving, reported on pages 154 to 157 of last
year's Report. The Bill also proposes to give power to the
Board to lend the first cost of paving a New Street (at present
there is no power to lend or borrow) where the cost is spread
over a period, another clause prohibits the taking out of
gravel and sand in the middle of a New Street and filling
up with rubbish, owing to which practice gas and water pipes have
subsided and caused explosions, flooding, and other damage, a
penalty is imposed for contravention of buildings not within the
rules of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The Vestry of
Kensington convened a conference upon this Bill at which Messrs.
Middlemass, Wallace, and Phillips were appointed Delegates by
this Vestry. This Bill has now been dropped.
Personal pro- This Bill was introduced by Mr. E. Robertson, and
perty, exemp-
tion from sale. backed by other Members, for the purpose of exempting
Personal Property (to a limited value) from seizure and sale
under legal process, representations were made by the Vestry of
Islington, that a clause should be inserted that the Bill should
not apply to any execution or process for the recovery of Poor
or Parochial Rates, Mr. Robertson has agreed to accept such
amendment. This has now been dropped.