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any way disqualified will be reduced from £50 to £20
or less. Some difference of opinion however prevails
as to whether the clause 46 can be held to apply to
District Boards of Works, inasmuch as by sub-section 9
it is to apply in the case of any authority u'hose members
are elected in accordance with the Act, and seeing that
the mode of election of Members of District Boards is
unaltered. If it do not apply there will be absolutely
no disqualification of the kinds referred to for Members
of a District Board of Works.
Sect. 31 (2).—A curious anomaly will result from the
conditional repeal of section 41 of the Metropolis Local
Management Act. That section, which inter alia
provides that the Chairman of any meeting, in case of
an equality of votes on any question, shall have a
second or casting vote, is to apply only in case of the
absence of the annually elected Chairman; consequently
such Chairman will not be able to give a second or
casting vote, but any temporary occupant of the chair
will have the power to do so.
Sect. 33.—The Local Government Board may, on the
application of the Council of any Urban District, make
an order conferring on the Vestry, or other representative
body within the District, the duty of appointing
Overseers and the powers, duties or liabilities of a
Parish Council, as mentioned in the Act.
ELECTION OF MEMBERS.
The Annual Election of Members of the Board by the
constituent Vestries, took place at the usual period, viz., the first
Wednesday in June, as provided by Sect. 36 of the Metropolis
Local Management Act, 1855, the time and mode of such
elections being, as above stated, unaltered by the new Act.
ELECTION OF CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD AND COMMITTEES.
In accordance with the requirement of Sect. 31, that a District
Board of Works shall, at its first meeting after the annual
election of members, elect a Chairman for the year, the Board,
on the 18th of June last, proceeded to elect a Chairman. The
voting was by ballot, and the result was declared to be as
follows:—
For Mr. Frederick Baxter 17 votes.
For Mr. Henry J. Coles 7 „