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London School Board and adopts the parliamentary divisions
for that purpose, each division to be entitled to return one
member, except that the City of London shall be entitled to
return two members. [Dropped.]
Hours of
Polling
(Extension).
This Bill provides that at all Parliamentary and
Municipal Elections the poll shall commence at
eight o'clock a.m., and be kept open until nine o'clock p.m.
[Dropped.]
Coal and Wine
Duties.
A Bill for the continnance of these duties for a
limited period has been introduced by Sir Robert
Fowler on behalf of the Corporation of London, and another
Bill by Sir Joseph Pease for the abolition of the duties.
Many communications for and against the abolition have been
received, but the Vestry adhered to their resolution to take no
action in the matter. This matter was reported upon fully in
the last Report. The Bill for the Abolition has now received
the royal assent.
Metropolis
Rating
Amendment.
The object of this Bill is to charge, as in the case
of a sewers rate, upon the freehold or inheritance of
the land within the metropolis, the capital sums now due or
hereafter to become due in respect of loans raised or hereafter
to be raised, with the previous sanction of the Treasury or of
the Local Government Board, after full investigation as to
the class and nature of the work, and exclusively applied to
carrying out permanent improvements.
The Select Committee on Metropolitan Local Government
(1866) reported, "that nearly the whole of its (the late