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Opposed by representations to the Right Hon. W. H.
Smith, M.P.—Metropolis Local Government Bill, which
proposed to create twelve municipalities outside the City, and
a Central Municipal Council, but did not attempt to remove
existing anomalies or abolish effete authorities, and did not
provide clearly for rating and other local duties; Parliamentary
and Municipal Electors (Registration), and
Parliamentary Elections, both of which Bills aimed at
establishing manhood franchise without any ratepaying or
taxation qualification; Parliamentary Elections (Returning
Officers' Expenses), which would throw the cost of elections
on to the local rates; Personal Property (exemption from
sale), which would have prevented the execution of distress
warrants for rates in certain cases; Sanitary Registration of
Buildings, which would subject schools, colleges, hospitals,
asylums, hotels, and lodging houses to special sanitary
inspection and registration; and Vestrymen's Qualification,
which proposed to abolish the rating qualification for
Vestrymen.
Alterations suggested.—Electric Lighting Act (1882)
Amendment, the clauses relating to overhead electric lighting
wires appeared to place installations which had been
carried on outside the Act on more favourable terms than
undertakings under the Act, and the Vestry suggested to the
Board of Trade that the clause should be altered so as to
provide for all such wires to be carried underground except
where such a course is impracticable; Metropolitan Board o
Works (Local Management, &c.), one clause in which would
allow the owner of rateable property to add the assessment
thereof to the assessment of property in his own occupation
to make up the rating qualification for Vestryman, and to
this proposal the Vestry objected; another clause proposed to