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than fifty thousand pounds, or annual income not less than one thousand
five hundred pounds per annum, to be payable to the Metropolitan
Board in aid of the moneys to be provided by them for the purposes
of this Act.
(6.) That by clause 11 of the Bill the Conservators may raise the
money necessary for the purpose of maintaining the recreation ground
and for defraying the establishment and other current expenses of the
Conservators under the provisions of this Act by requiring payment
of the same from the District Board.
(7.) That by clause 12 and clause 13 of the Bill powers are given to
the Corporation of London and Charitable Trustees to subscribe.
(8). That by clause 14 of the Bill the Conservators may for the purpose
of obtaining payment from the Metropolitan and District Board
respectively of the sum to be required from time to time from them
respectively, issue requisitions to the Metropolitan Board or District
Board respectively stating the sum to be paid by such Board, and requiring
such Board within the time limited by the requisition (being not
less than one calendar mouth) to pay tbe sum therein mentioned to
the Conservators or to such other persons as the Conservators may
direct.
(9.) That by clause 22 of the Bill the Conservators may take, use
and maintain in perpetuity for public recreation only not less than
one hundred and twenty-five acres, and they may appropriate the
whole or any part of the residue for private recreation purposes, and
may sell, mortgage, charge, exchange or otherwise dispose of and rearrange
tbe said lands or grant leases of tbe same or any part thereof
for such periods, on such terms and subject to such conditions as they
think fit; and may take down any of the buildings situated on such
lands, aud may sell aud dispose of the materials thereof, aud may lay
out the said lands anew and in such way and manner as they may
deem best, and may provide for tbe making of approaches in, through,
over, or to such lands, houses and buildings.
(10.) That by clause 23 the Conservators may lop timber, plant
trees, dig, turf, and gravel, drain lands, abate nuisances, enclose new
roads, erect buildings and lodges for officers, impound cattle and appoint
officers, keepers, and bailiffs.
(11.) That your Petitioners, the Board of Works for the Fulham
District, are constituted the local authority over the Parish of Fulham,
and vested with various powers under the Metropolis Local Management
Acts, and are the District Board which are by the aforesaid
clause 11 of the Bill to be required to pay for the maintenance of the
said recreation ground, and for defraying the establishment and other
current expenses of the Conservators, and your Petitioners' district
forms part of the area under the control of the Metropolitan Board of
Works and would have to coutribute towards any sum that the Conservators
may require from the said Metropolitan Board of Works.
(12.) That although your Petitioners fully recognise that the formation
of a public reception ground at Fulham would be of great
public advantage and conducive to the health and enjoyment of the