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Board for that purpose, a condition be included prohibiting
the affixing of any advertisement to any such hoarding
except in any case in which a special application shall be
made to the Board for permission to affix any advertisement,
and that the same be then granted, if the Board
should so decidc, on payment of such a sum, in addition
to the usual fee for hoard license, and upon such conditions
as may then be determined ;
and notice of such regulation was publicly given by advertisement.
The Board have been called upon to take proceedings in
one case under this Act in which their authority was disregarded.
The case was heard at the Greenwich Police Court
on the 25th February last, when the defendant was fined
40s. and 2s. costs. This was the first summons taken under
the Act.
MEETINGS OF THE BOARD AND COMMITTEES.
There were in all 137 Meetings held during the year,
viz., 22 Ordinary Meetings of the Board and two Special
Meetings; 20 Meetings of the Works and General Purposes
Committee; 11 Ordinary Monthly Meetings of the Finance
Committee; and 22 Fortnightly Meetings held immediately
before the Board Meetings; 21 Meetings of the Local Committee
of Blackheath and Lewisham ; and 20 Meetings of
the Sydenham and Forest Hill; and 19 Meetings of the
Penge Local Committee.
ATTENDANCES OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
The total number of attendances of Members of the
Board at Board and regular Committee Meetings, held
between the 25th March, 1889, and the 25th March, 1890,
is given in the statement appended hereto.
By Order,
EDW. WRIGHT,
Clerk to the Board.
The Board's Offices,
Catford, s.e.,
June, 1890.