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BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON,
referred to as the borough) under the name of the metropolitan
borough of Paddington subject to the adjustment of boundaries
therein mentioned and a Council for the borough is established
and incorporated.
And whereas by section two of the London Government Act
1899 it is amongst other things enacted that an Oder in Council
under that Act shall fix the number of councillors, and fix the
number and boundaries of the wards, and shall assign the
number of councillors to each ward, that number being divisible
by three, and regard being had to the rateable value as well
as to the population of the wards, and that the number of
aldermen shall be one sixth of the number of councillors, and
the total number of aldermen and councillors for each borough
shall not exceed seventy.
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her
Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority committed to Her
by the London Government Act 1899, and of all other powers
enabling Her in that behalf, for the purposes aforesaid, is pleased
to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:—
1. The number of councillors of the borough shall be sixty.
2. The borough shall be divided into eight wards having the
names set out in the Schedule to this Order, and having the
boundaries described in that Schedule and to each of the said
wards there shall be assigned the number of councillors specified
in that Schedule.
3. This Order may be cited as the Borough of Paddington
(Councillors and Wards) Order in Council 1900.
A. W. Fitzroy.
SCHEDULE.
Borough of Paddington.
Name of Ward-Lancaster Gate East Ward.
Boundaries of Ward.—That part of the borough bounded on
the west by a line drawn from the borough boundary at a point