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are also many other matters of detail, too complicated to
be included in the limits of this Report, which are also
receiving attention, and will have to be dealt with by the
Commissioners before the Act can be brought into operation.
Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899.
This Act empowers local authorities to make advances
to residents within their District for the purpose of
enabling them to acquire the ownership of the house.
No application has yet been made to the Board to
put the Act in force.
Metropolis Management Acts Amendment (Bye-laws)
Act, 1899.
This Bill was referred to in the last Annual Report,
and it was there stated that the Board had expressed
approval of the same. With slight modifications it passed
into law, but no bye-laws on the subject have yet been
made by the London County Council.
Census 1901, Great Britain, Act.
Prior to the introduction of this Measure the Board
passed a resolution as to the taking of the census of 1901,
and directed that a communication be addressed to the
President of the Local Government Board suggesting
that the time had arrived when, at all events in the
County of London, a quinquennial census should take
place instead of a decennial census, and that the census
should not be taken on the night of either Saturday or
Sunday of any week, but should be taken in the middle
of the week, as by this means the population of the