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Fairs, Exhibitions, and other like matters within
the District: (c) To purchase compulsorily
land for official buildings, and to erect such
buildings: (d) To borrow for the purpose of
these buildings and for other improvements on
the security of the rates: (e) To promote and
oppose Bills in Parliament, and to prosecute and
defend legal proceedings necessary for the
promotion or protection of the interests of the
inhabitants of the District: (f) To exercise
such powers as may from time to time be conferred
upon it by Parliament or by any
Government Department.
16. That the power of electing Churchwardens or
other Church Officials be not vested in the District Council,
but in the Parishioners generally in open Vestry, to be
convened under Sturges Bourne's Act, and that Overseers
of the Poor cease to be appointed.
17. That the District Council be constituted a Local
Authority under The Technical Instruction Act, 1889.
18. That the following Bodies shall make rates calculated
at so much in the pound on the whole rateable value
of the Metropolis, and shall entrust the collection thereof to
the District Council:—
(a) The Guardians of the Poor, (6) The Metropolitan
Asylums Board, (c) The County
Council: (d) The School Board, (e) The
Commissioners of Police (until the force is
placed under County Council).