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Re-arrangement
of Wards.
Section 19:— The Council may, from time
to time, upon the application in writing of the Vestry or of
not less than 500 rated householders of a parish within the
County of London, by order under their seal re-arrange the
wards in such parish, and determine the number, extent,
limits, and boundary lines of the new wards, but so, nevertheless,
that no ward shall contain less than 500 rated
householders, and that the whole number of wards shall
not exceed eight, and the Council shall in making any such
re-arrangement apportion among the several wards the
number of Vestrymen to be elected for such Parish, and
shall in assigning the number of Vestrymen to each ward
have regard as far as practicable as well to the number of
persons rated to the relief of the poor in each ward, as to
the aggregate amount of the sums at which all such persons
are rated, and the number of Vestrymen assigned to each
ward shall be a number divisable by three, and a copy of
the order shall be transmitted to a Secretary of State for
his approval, and also to the Vestry Clerk of the Parish to
which such re-arrangement and apportionment relates, and
the said order shall within seven days after such transmission
be published by the Council in the "London
Gazette," and at the expiration of not less than two calendar
months the said Secretary of State shall, if he approve of
the same, publish the said order again with his approval
affixed thereto in the "London Gazette," but if the said
Secretary of State disapprove of the proposed re-arrangement
into wards or apportionment of Vestrymen, then he
shall, subject however to all the above limitations, make such
other order as to the re-arrangement or apportionment as
in his judgment shall be more conducive to a fair representation
in the Vestry of the interests of the ratepayers of the