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VACATION OF OFFICE.
11. That the following persons shall vacate office as Councillors:—
(a) Councillors ceasing to retain the qualification.
(b) Councillors who shall become Bankrupt or enter into a Composition
whether statutory or otherwise with their Creditors.
(c) Councillors accepting office under, or being interested in Contracts
with the Council (excepting Shareholders in Companies having
such Contracts).
(d) Councillors convicted during their term of office of felony.
(e) Councillors convicted under any Act administered by the District
Council twice of any like offence.
(f) Councillors who (except with the permission of the Council)
continuously absent themselves from discharge of their duties for
more than three months.
CHAIRMAN.
12. The District Council shall elect a Chairman and Deputy-Chairman from
among the members of their own body, and such elections shall take place
annually at the first meeting after the first election of Councillors and as near as
may be on the same day in subsequent years.
POWERS OF COUNCIL.
13. That there be transferred to the District Council the following powers
and responsibilities of the Vestry:—
(a) As a Board of Works constituted by the Metropolis Management
Acts with the entire control of the roads and footpaths, lighting,
drainage and removal of dust and ashes and all powers incidental
to this control.
(b) As the Sanitary Authority under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891.
(c) As the Local Authority under Part II. of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1890.
(d) As the Overseers under the Local Acts of the Parish, with power
to assess all rateable property in the District, to prepare Valuation
Lists, to estimate the expenditure necessary for various purposes,
to make all rates, collect and recover the same and excuse from
payment those whom they think entitled on the ground of
poverty, and with power under the Poor Rate Assessment and
Collection Act, 1869, to compound with the owners for payment
in certain cases should it be deemed advisable