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parliamentary Bills—continued.
over the Vestries and District Boards to the Metropolitan Municipal
Council over the Municipal Boroughs.
Under the Bill it is proposed that the Metropolitan Municipal
Council may apply to Parliament for powers for any of the following
purposes, viz.:—The regulation of hackney and stage carriages, the
amalgamation and transfer of the City and Metropolitan Police
Forces to the Council, the purchase of gas and water and any
artificial light undertakings, and improving and extending the main
drainage of the Metropolis, and the prevention of the precipitation
of sewage matter into the Thames at any point nearer than oO miles
eastward of London Bridge. In addition to the works proposed to
he transferred by the Government to the Metropolitan Board under
the Public Parks and Works (Metropolis) Bill, the powers, duties,
debts, and liabilities of Trafalgar Square, New Palace Yard, St.
Margaret's Street, Old Palace Yard, Little Abingdon Street, and
adjoining streets, all in Westminster, and Brompton Cemetery, are
proposed to be transferred to the Metropolitan Municipal Council.
On the 17th March, 1887, it was resolved that no action be taken
thereon, but that it be an instruction to the Parliamentary Committee
to watch the progress of the Bill, and to report thereon
from time to time.
Metropolis Management Acts (Amendment).—This Bill proposes
to confer further powers with respect to the subsoil of Streets,
and the laying of Mains and Pipes in the Metropolis, that the
former may not be removed without the consent in writing of the
local authorities, or on appeal, of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
and as regards the latter that any compauy or person intending to
lay, for the lirst time, mains or pipes under any street, &c., shall
give notice to the local authority, showing the position, &c., in
which the same are proposed to be laid, and in case the local
authority do not approve of the proposed positions and substitute
oihers, an appeal may be made to the Metropolitan Board of Works,
whose decision shall be final. On the 17th March, 1887, it was
resolved that no action be taken thereon.
Metropolitan Board of Works (Fire Brigade Expenses).—
on the 2ord December, 1880, it was resolved that the Metropolitan