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With the view of giving effect to such resolutions this
Board at once presented Memorials to the Metropolitan Board
of Works, and on the 27th Octobcr that Board wrote intimating
that they had resolved to apply to Parliament for
the powers desired by this Board, and the Metropolitan
Board accordingly inserted a clause in their Various Powers
Bill for the purpose This Bill had made considerable progress
at the end of the year, and the Board had every reason
to hope it will have passed both Houses of Parliament before
this Report is issued.
The following is a copy of the resolution of this Board
of the loth December, 187o, above referred to:—
"Resolved unanimously, that this Board is prepared, in pursuance
of the provisions of the 11th section of the Metropolis
Management Amendment Act, 1856, to take by agreement
or gift, any piece or pieccs of land, of which the Board may
approve, on such terms and conditions as they think fit, for
the purpose of such land being either kept as an open space,
or being kept and maintained as a pleasure ground for the
public benefit of the Inhabitants of the District; and is also
prepared to authorise such expenditure as the Board may
deem necessary for the purpose of enclosing, maintaining,
planting, and otherwise improving such land."
AUDIENCES OF TIIE BOARD.
The following is the Bye-Law made bv the Board in
respect of interviews: —
"Interviews.
"I. A personal interview shall not be granted by the Board
to any person or number of persons at any Meeting of the Board
unless a written application be made at least 48 hours before the
time of Meeting, stating the object of the interview; and the
same, if granted, shall take place at a quarter after Five o'clock
in the afternoon, or at such other time as the Board may from
time to time appoint.
"II. That upon any such interview being so granted to any
person or number of persons, or to a deputation, such person or