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 LONDON STATUTES.
 
 LONDON STATUTES. 
 
 A COLLECTION OF PUBLIC ACTS IIELATIXG 8PKCIAJJA' 
 TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF LONDON AND OF 
 LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS AFFECTING THE PO\^'ERS 
 AND DUTIES OF THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL 
 
 FROM 1750 TO 1907. 
 
 I'REI'AUKD rNDKR THE DTilECTlON OF 
 
 THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE OF 
 THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL 
 
 BV 
 
 G. L. GOMME, 
 
 €LERK OF THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. 
 
 AND 
 
 SEAGER BEHRY, 
 
 SOLICITOR TO THE COUNCIL. 
 
 VOL I.— 1750 to 1888. 
 
 1907.
 
 
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 Preface . 
 
 Chronological Table 
 ^ Table of Statutes 
 Statutes 
 . Appendix 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
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 ADDENDA et COIUUGENDA. 
 
 VOL. I. 
 Page 
 
 81, s. 1 of 10 Geo. 4, c. 44, is repealed from the word "although," line 11, p. xi, to 
 
 the words " for any county," line K^, p. 81, by the Justices of the Peace Act 
 
 1!)06, s. 5 (2). 
 106, s. 7 of 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 48, is repealed l)y 7 Edw. 7. c. 55, s. 6, 
 142, 2 k '^ Vict. c. 47, s. 60, add, "as regards London " after " rep." (line 6), and add 
 
 after " 142 " (line 7), "and paragniph (4) is wholly repealed by the Removal of 
 
 Offensive Matter Act 1906." 
 162, at end of s. 2 of 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, add, " See also 7 Edw. 7, c. 55, ss. 3 and G (2)." 
 16it, at end of s. 29 of 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, add, " See 7 Edw. 7, c. 55, s. 4."' 
 183, add to footnote, to 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28, " See also 4 Edw. 7, c. ccxliv. s. 47, and 
 
 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxv. s. 79." 
 241, 255, on ss. 171 and 242 of 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, to "Commissioners of Sewers 
 
 of the City of London," add a footnote, " Now the Mayor, Commonalty, and 
 
 Citizens of the City of London. See the City of London Sewers Act 1897." 
 287, 290, ss. 7—12, 25—34, 37, 40, and 41 of 23 & 24 Vict. c. 125, are repealed by 
 
 5 Edw. 7, c. civ. s. 20. 
 399, after '• Citizens of " in the first footnote insert " the City of." 
 438, s. 41 of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, is repealed from " within " (line 21) to " is 
 
 received " (line 24) by 5 Edw. 7, c. cxliii. s. 24 (2). 
 442, at end of s. 5 of 32 cfc 33 Vict. c. 115, add, " See 7 Edw. 7, c. 55, s. 3." 
 444, at end of note on s, 9 (3) of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 115, add, " and 7 Edw. 7, c. 55, s. 1." 
 
 461, at end of s. 17 of 34 &35 Vict. c. cxxix. add, " See also 6 Edw. 7, c. cl, s. 17 (3)." 
 
 462, ss. 20&32of 34&35Vict. c. cxxix. arerepealedbyGEdw. 7, c. cl. ss. 20 and 21 (1). 
 462, add to note on s. 31 of 34 & 35 Vict. c. cxxix., " and 6 Edw. 7, c. cl. s. 23." 
 480, ss. 57 and 58 of 35 & 36 Vict. c. clxiii. are repealed by 6 Edw. 7, c. cl. s. 21 (1). 
 518, the whole Act (40 & 41 Vict. c. 35) is repealed by 6 Edw. 7, c. 25, s. 23. 
 
 558, add footnote to 42 ic 43 Vict. c. cxcviii., " See also 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxv. part vi." 
 577—583, the whole Act (44 & 45 Vict. c. 34) is repealed by 6 Edw. 7, c. 25, s. 23. 
 668, add a footnote, "See Appendix," to "Disused Burial Grounds Act 1884" in 
 
 s. 56 of 48 & 49 Vict. c. clxvii. 
 69*;— ()98, the whole Act (50 & 51 Vict. c. 32), except so much of s. 4 as amends the 
 
 Disused Burial Grounds Act 1884, is repealed by 6 Edw. 7, c. 25, s. 23. 
 697, line 11, add note, " See Appendix," on "the Disused Burial Grounds Act 1884." 
 730, line 16, the words "other than the oath respecting the qualification by estate " 
 
 in s. 2 (5) (b) of 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, are repealed bv the Justices of the Peace 
 
 Act 1906, s. 5 (2). 
 753, in the footnote to s. 57 (3) of 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, for "six months" read "six 
 
 weeks." 
 759, at the end of s. 69 of 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, add, » See also 7 Edw. 7, c. 43, s. 3." 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 831, at the end of s. 29 of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 78, add, " See also 7 Edw. 7, c. clxiv. 
 s. 36." 
 
 837, at the end of the footnote on s. 46 of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 78, add, " And 7 Edw. 7, 
 
 c. clxiv. s. 38." 
 
 838, at the end of the note on s. 48 of 33 i: 34 Vict. c. 78, add, '• And 7 Edw. 7, 
 
 c. 55, s. 5." 
 906, on 48 & 49 Vict. c. 34, add a footnote, " See 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxi. s. 13." 
 1051, on part ii. of 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, aid a footnote, " See 7 Edw. 7. c. 43. ss. 1, 
 
 10, and 15." 
 1051, add to note on s. 2 of 2 Edw. 7, v. 42, " And 7 Edw. 7, c. 43, s. 4."
 
 Addenda et Corrigenda. 
 
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 1052. on part iii. of 2 Edw. 7. c. 42, add a footnote, " See 7 Edw. 7, c. 43, ss. 1, 10, 
 
 11, and 13." 
 1058, add to note on s. 17 of 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, " See 7 Edw. 7, c. 43, s. 6.'" 
 1058, at the end of the note on s. is of 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, add, "and see 7 Edw. 7. 
 c. 43, s. r>." 
 
 1058, add to note on s. lit of 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, •' See 7 E<lw. 7, c. 43, ss. 3, 4 (2), and 8." 
 
 1059, the words " ordinarily re.sident in tlie area of the Council " in s. 23 (2) of 2 
 
 Edw. 7, 0. 42. are repealed by 7 Edw. 7, c. 43, s. 12. 
 
 VOL. II. 
 
 13—14, the whole Act (53 & 54 Yict. c.'lo) is repealed l)y 6 Edw. 7, c. 25, s. 23. 
 62, add to s. 48 of 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, a note, " See 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxv. s. 78." 
 127, add as a footnote to part iv. oE 54 & 55 Vict, c. ccvi., -'This part of this Act 
 
 is amended by 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxv. part viii." 
 137, add a.s a footnote to part vi. of 55 & 56 Vict. c. ccxxxviii., " This part of this 
 
 Act is amended by 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxv. part viii." 
 274, at the end of the note on s. 44 of 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxvii., for " the Workmen's 
 
 Compensation Acts 1807 and 1900," substitute '• the Workmen's Compensation 
 
 Act 1906."' 
 '1%1, at the end of s. 7 of .59 .t 60 Vict. c. li., add, " See 7 Edw. 7, c. clxiv. s. 38." 
 354, the proviso to s. 2 (1) of 62 >.^; 63 Vict. c. 14, is repealed by 7 Edw. 7, c. 33, 
 
 s. 1 (2). 
 411, at the end of .s. 12 of 63 ^: 64 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. add, " See also 7 Edw. 7, 
 
 c. clxiv. s. 37." 
 439, at the end of s. 42 of 63 cV 64 Vict. c. cclxx., add, " See also 7 Edw. 7, 
 
 c. clxiv. s. 38." 
 449, at the end of s. 12 of 1 Edw. 7, c. cclxxi., add, " and also 7 Edw. 7, c. 
 
 clxiv. s. 39." 
 
 468, at the end of s. 15 (6) of 2 Edw. 7, c. 41, add, " Rep. in part 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxi. 
 
 s. 34. Remainder spent." 
 
 469, the words " within three years after the appointed day" in s. 15 (7) of 2 Edw. 7, 
 
 c. 41, are repealed by 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxi. s. 34. 
 483, add to footnote on 2 Edw. 7, c. xxxvi, " and 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxv. s. 77." 
 496, add to footnote on part ix. of 2 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii., "and 7 Edw. 7, c. 
 
 clxxv. s. 79."
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 It is now nearly ten years since several of the governing bodies 
 of London r('])r('S(Mited to tlie London County Council the advisa- 
 bility of codifying and consolidating the Acts relating to the local 
 government of London. 
 
 Mr. G H. Uadford, M.P., who was tlien Chairman of the Parlia- 
 mentary Committee of the Council, took a keen interest in these re- 
 ])resentations, and the Council on the 3rd July 190U, on his motion, 
 referred the matter to the General Purposes Committee, and several 
 conferences were held between the two Committees on this reference. 
 
 The Committees came to the conclusion that, before codification 
 of the London statutes was attempted, the public and private Acts 
 relating to London local government should be so collated as 
 to show the existing law : and they were also impressed with the 
 fact that the many jirivate Acts of the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works and of the ('ouncil were not accessible in a convenient form. 
 
 The Council accordingly, on 4th February 19u2, decided, on the 
 recommendation of the General Purposes Committee, that the 
 public and private Acts oi' Parliament relating to the work of 
 the ( 'ouncil should be collated and printed. The preparation of 
 the work was placed under the direction of the Parliamentary 
 Committee, and carried out by the Clerk of the Council in the 
 Parliamentary branch of his dei)artment, under the direct super- 
 vision of Mr. Seao^er Berrv, then Parliamentarv Officer. 
 
 To decide exactly what Acts the work should comprise 
 involved long and careful consideration, and it was ultimately 
 decided that all ])nblic Acts relating specially to the adminis- 
 trative county of London, and all local and personal Acts 
 affecting the j)owers and duties of the Council, should be included 
 therein ; but that, generally speaking, Acts relating to railways, 
 gas, water, electricity, markets, docks, canals, tramways, ecclesi- 
 astical matters, and charities, and Acts which were special to the 
 citv of London, should be omitted on the urounds that manv of 
 these matters would be more conveniently dealt with in separate 
 works, if so desired, and that their inclusion in the present work 
 would make it too voluminous. 
 
 The Committee had r1ie advantage of the presence on the 
 
 V
 
 vi Preface. 
 
 sub-committee who supervised the work of Lord Welby, G.C.B. 
 (a member of the Statute T^aw Revision Committee), Sir Melvill 
 Beaehcroft, Mr. G. H. Radford, M.P., and Mr. T. B. Napier, M.P. 
 
 Mr. Albert Gray, K.(\ (another member of the Statute Law 
 Revision Committee), at the Committee's reipiest kindly ^ave them 
 some valuable sus'ijestions as to the form the volumes should take. 
 
 The general principle on which the volumes have been compiled 
 is, followino- the method adopted in the Revised Statutes, to omit 
 from the reprint of the Acts all repealed, obsolete, and super- 
 seded j)rovisions, inserting- a note as to what these provisions 
 were, and how they come to be repealed, obsolete, or superseded 
 as the case may be. Parts of Acts, however, descriptive of public 
 works, such as street improvements and Thames tunnels, have 
 been printed in extenso, as future reference to them may often 
 be necessary, although the works have been completed. 
 
 For brevitv's sake the enacting words of each Act liave been 
 omitted and sections which mio'ht be termed " common form " 
 sections, and which are fre([uently identical or nearly identical in 
 series of Acts of the same character, have not been on each occasion 
 reproduced, but there is set against the number of each section a 
 brief note of the subject matter, with a reference to the preceding- 
 identical or nearly identical section, and showing in the latter 
 case the slight difference of wording. 
 
 For the same reason the Council's Money Acts, each of which 
 is in turn almost entirely superseded by the Money Act of the 
 following year, have been printed in a very condensed form. 
 
 During the preparation of the work it Ijecame evident that 
 there were many Acts which did not strictly come within its 
 original scope, but which were frequently referred to in the iVcts 
 being dealt with, and it was, therefore, decided to add a short 
 Appendix, containing the i)rincipal Acts referred to in the Acts 
 primarily included ; and it is believed that this Appendix adds 
 considerably to the value of the volumes. It was also thought 
 that it would be of assista,nce to add, as has been done, a 
 Chronological Table of the Statutes specially relating to London 
 which were j)assed from 1700 to 1007 (inclusive), with notes 
 showing repeals and amendments of such Acts. 
 
 It is desired to acknowledge the valuable help obtained from 
 well-known books of reference, such as Chitty's Statutes, the 
 Revised Statutes, Mr. Macmorran's "Local Government Acts," 
 Mr. John Hunt's " London Local Government," Messrs. Michael 
 and Will's "Gas and Water Acts," and the "Law of Public 
 Education," by Messrs. Edwardes Jones and Sykes.
 
 Preface. vif 
 
 The work has l^een upwards of rive years in preparation — a 
 period wliich may not be considered excessive, having regard to its 
 magnitude, and to the fact that it lias had to be mainly pro- 
 duced in sucli spare time as couhl be devoted to it by a busy 
 staff, who, indeed, have gladly given up many hours of their 
 own time in order to further its progress. 
 
 During this pei'iod there have been, as might be expected, 
 rej)eals of matter wliich was already in print. These repeals are 
 dealt with in the table of Acldc.iula et (.'oniyenda, which appears 
 in the })reliminary pages of the iirst volume. 
 
 Although every care has been taken to make the work as 
 accurate jis possible, it can hardly be expected that no errors have 
 crept into it. 
 
 The Clerk of the Council desires to say that he will ])e grateful 
 to any readers who may be good enough to communicate to him 
 errors which they may discover. 
 
 It is believed tliat these volumes, with the aid of the Index 
 (which has been a mutter of special consideration), may, at any rate, 
 serve the purpose of placing before members of the Council, and 
 any of the public who may be interested in such matters, a great 
 deal of the law relating to London, particularly the law contained 
 in private Acts, in a more accessible and convenient form than 
 they have hitherto been able to find it. 
 
 It is hoped that, if this work is found to be of value, it may be 
 practicable to keep it up to date by the issue of annual volumes, 
 which would include notes of any future repeals and amendments of 
 the Acts contained in this work. 
 
 Mr. 0. T. Williams, B.A. (Lond.), of the .Aliddle Temple, Barrister- 
 at-Law, has assisted most materially in the preparation of the work. 
 Mr. Seager Ikrry, on his appointment as Solicitor to the Council, 
 continued to edit and superintend the volumes and to see them 
 through the press. 
 
 G. L. GOMME, Cle>-k of the Coztncil. 
 SEAGEIl EEERY, Solicitor to the Council. 
 
 CocNTY Hall, SruiNO Gardkns, 
 3Ut October 1907.
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL 'IWIUJ^ OV S'lWri'^rES KELATIXG 
 SPECIALLY TO LONJ)ON PROM 3 700 T(J 11)07 
 
 Note. — The repeals, etc. of Acts set out in this work are noted thereon and are not noted 
 in this table. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and cliaiiter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 12 & 13 Will. 3 
 
 
 
 
 (1700-1) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 7 
 
 British Museum (C o t t o n i a n 
 Library). 
 
 
 
 c. 13 
 
 Greanwicii Hospital. 
 
 
 
 c. 20 (Priv.) 
 
 City of London (transfer of certain 
 lands). 
 
 
 
 c. 26 (Priv.) 
 
 Road from Chancery Lane to 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields. 
 
 
 
 1 Ann ( 1 702) 
 
 
 
 
 sess. 1, c. 26 
 
 Port of London. 
 
 
 
 c. 46 (Priv.) 
 
 Suffolk Place, Soutlnvark (im- 
 provements). 
 
 
 
 Sess. 2, c. 6 
 
 Escapes from Queen's Bench and 
 
 Rep. in part 50 & 51 Vict. 
 
 c. 59 
 
 
 Fleet Prisons 
 
 (S.L.R.); 51 & 52 Vict. c. 3 (S 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 61. 
 
 .L.R.); 
 
 c. 12 
 
 St. Paul's Catliedral, London. 
 
 
 
 c. 7 (Priv.) 
 
 Road from Chancery Lane to 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields. 
 
 
 
 c. 21 (Priv.) 
 
 St. Martin-in-the-Fields (poor, 
 etc. ). 
 
 
 
 2 & 3 Ann 
 
 
 
 
 (1703) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 31 (Priv.) 
 
 Lincoln's Tim Fields (building 
 leases). 
 
 
 
 4 Ann (1705) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 24 
 
 Thames watermen . . 
 
 Rep. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. ixxv. 
 
 
 5 Ann (170(1) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 9 
 
 Escapes from Queen's Bencli and 
 
 Rep. in part 50 & 51 Vict. 
 
 c. 55 ; 
 
 
 Fleet Prisons 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 5il (S.L.R.). 
 
 
 c. 12 
 
 Enlartrintr the passage to New 
 Palace Yard througli tlie Gate- 
 house. 
 
 
 
 c. 30 
 
 Britisli Museum. 
 
 
 
 c. 26 (Priv.). 
 
 C'lielsea College. 
 
 
 
 6 .\nn( 1706-7) 
 
 
 
 
 c. Hi 
 
 City of London (brokers) . . 
 
 Rep. in part 57 Geo. 3, c. Ix. 
 
 ; 30 ct 
 
 
 
 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.) ; 50 & 51 Vict. 
 
 
 
 c. 59 (S.L.R. ). 
 
 
 7 Ann (1708) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 6 
 
 Smithfield Ma,rk.>t 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L 
 
 R.). 
 
 c. It 
 
 City of London (Commissioners 
 of Sewers). 
 
 
 
 c. 20 
 
 ]\Iiddlesex Registry 
 
 Rep. in part 24 & 25 Vict. 
 
 c. 95 ; 
 
 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.) 
 
 ; 54 & 
 
 
 
 55 \'ict. c. 64 ; remainder 
 
 rep. 63 
 
 
 
 & 64 Vict. c. 26. 
 
 
 9 Ann (1710) 
 
 
 
 
 c... 
 
 Building oi ."iO clun-ches in London 
 and Westminster (duties on coal). 
 
 
 
 c. 26 
 
 Thames fishery 
 
 Rep. 31 ct 32 Vict. c. 45. 
 
 
 c. 16 (Priv.) 
 
 Stepney Church (advowson). 
 

 
 Chronoloqical Table of Statutes relating speciaAl'/ 
 'to London from 1700 to 1U07. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 9 Ann (1710) 
 
 {cont.) 
 
 c. 27 (Priv.) 
 
 Vesting of certain land adjoining 
 Piccadilly in trustees, to dis- 
 charge a debt to the Cro%vn. 
 
 
 
 
 10 Ann (1711) 
 c. 11 
 
 c. 17 
 
 Building of .50 churches in London 
 and Westminster (extension of 
 time). 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Rep. 
 
 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 34. 
 
 
 12 Ann (1712) 
 c. 17 
 
 Building of .50 churches in London 
 and Westminster (vesting portion 
 of the Strand in the Commis- 
 
 
 
 
 c. 1 (Priv.) 
 Sess. 2, c. 17 
 
 sioners). 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (repairing 
 
 highway) . . 
 Thames navigation 
 
 Rep. 29 Geo. 3, c. 96 (Priv.). 
 Rep. in part 34 & 35 Vict. c. 59 
 (S.L.R.). 
 
 1 Geo. 1. sess. 2 
 (17U-(i) 
 c. 18 
 
 Billingsgate ^larket 
 
 Rep. 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. c. 45. 
 
 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 57 
 
 c. 25 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 37 (Priv.) 
 
 3 Geo. 1 
 (1716-7) 
 
 c. 4 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 5 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 14 (Priv.) 
 
 4 Geo. 1 
 (1717-8) 
 
 c. 5 
 
 c. 14 
 
 c. 4 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 5 (Priv.) 
 
 5 Geo. I 
 
 (1718-9) 
 c. 26 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. e. 39 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 Rep. 29 Geo. 3, c. 96 (Priv.), 
 
 ^linisters of the 50 new chiu"ches in 
 
 London and Westminster. 
 Hackney coaches (London and 
 
 Westminster) 
 Repairing the higliways between 
 
 Tybui'n and L^xbridge 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (repairing 
 
 highway) . . 
 
 Repairing the highways between 
 Highgate and Hampstead. 
 
 St. Alary, Rotherhithe (parish 
 church). 
 
 Kensington (repairing highways). 
 
 St. Michael, Cornhill (parish 
 
 church). 
 Building of 50 new chm-ches in 
 
 London and Westminster. I 
 
 Amending the roads from the City \ 
 
 of London to East Grin.stead and 
 
 to Kingston . . . . • • r Rep. 25 Geo. 3, c. 1 1 7. 
 
 Repairing the highways from Kent 
 
 Street to Lewisham . . . . ;J 
 
 Keeping of gimpowder (London 
 I and Westminster) . . . . Rep. 1 1 Geo. 3, c. 35. 
 
 c. 14 (Priv.) City of London (agi-eement with 
 the governors of the schools 
 founded by Erasmus Smith). 
 
 6 Geo. 1 
 (1719-20) 
 c. 6 
 
 c. 26 
 
 c. 30 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 32 (Priv.) 
 
 Carriage of meal (London and Rep. in part 11 Geo. 3, c. 51 ; 5 & 6' 
 
 Westminster) . . . . . . Will. 4, c. 50. 
 
 Repairing the highways from Kent 
 
 Street to Lewisham . . . . Rep. 25 Geo. 3, c. 117. 
 
 Manor of Fiilham (exchange of 
 
 lands). 
 St. Alartin-in-the-Fields (rebuild- Rep. Westminster Order in Council* 
 ing church) . . . . . . ! 1901.
 
 ('hroiiologicaL 'L'ahh' oj -Stdtates rrlatint/ .sjjf^cialli/ 
 "to London j'roiii 17<J0 to IUOT'. 
 
 XI 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 7 Geo. 1 
 (1720-1) 
 c. 13 
 
 c. 26 
 c. 32 
 
 S Geo. 1 
 
 (1721-2) 
 
 cc. 3 and 5 
 
 c. 26 
 
 c. 29 
 c. 30 
 
 c. 31 
 
 9 Geo. 1 
 (1722-3) 
 
 c. 28 
 
 10 Geo. 1 
 (1723-4) 
 
 c. 6 
 c. 13 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. 20 
 
 c. 4 (Priv.) 
 
 e. 5 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 8 (Priv.) 
 
 1 1 Geo. 1 
 (1724-5) 
 
 c. IS 
 
 c. 22 
 c. 23 
 c. 28 
 
 12 Geo. 1 
 (1725-6) 
 
 c. 17 
 
 c. 25 
 
 c. 35 I 
 
 c. 36 ! 
 
 c. 37 
 
 • c. 39 ' 
 
 c. 10 (Priv.) 
 
 13 Geo. 1 
 (1726-7) 
 
 c. 35 
 
 I Geo. 2, sess. 2 
 (1727-8) 
 c. 15 
 
 c. 18 
 
 Journeymen tailors (London) 
 
 Marylebone Road . . 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (repair- 
 ing liighvvay) 
 
 Repairing the highways between 
 Higligato and Hampstead. 
 
 City of Westminster (supply of 
 water). 
 
 Cliarterhouse. 
 
 Wliitechapel (repairing road to 
 Shenfield) . . 
 
 All Saints', Barking (vesting Wool- 
 key in the City of London). 
 
 The mint in Southwark 
 
 Kensington (repairing highways). 
 
 Repairing the roads from South- 
 wark to East Grinstead and to 
 Kingston, etc. 
 
 Examination of drugs (London) . . 
 
 St. ]\Iartin-in-the-Fields (parish 
 churcli). 
 
 St. I3otolph's, Bishopsgate 
 
 (parish church). 
 
 St. Clement Danes (power to grant 
 leases). 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4. c. 129 ; 38 & 39 Vict. 
 
 c. 86. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. 29 Geo. 3, c. 96 (Priv.). 
 
 Discontinued 29 & 30 Vict. c. 105. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 25 Geo. 3, c. 11 7. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Elections within the City of 
 London 
 
 Shelters in Wapping, Stepnej-, 
 
 etc. . . 
 Keeping of gunpowder (London 
 
 and Westminster) 
 Mischiefs by fire (London and 
 
 Westminster) 
 
 Repairing the highways between 
 
 Ty1)urn and Uxbridge 
 St. James's Square. 
 Brickmaking (London) 
 Fulliam and Putney Bridge 
 Repairing roads in Kensington, 
 
 Chelsea, and Fulham. 
 St. Mary-lo-Strand. 
 Spring Garden, Great and Little 
 
 Spittlefields (brickmaking). 
 
 St. Katherine Cree (Christ) Churcli, 
 London (parish church). 
 
 Westminster (Xew Church, Mill- 
 bank) 
 Fulham and Putney Bridge 
 
 Rep. in part 19 Geo. 2, c. 8 ; 19 & 20 
 Vict. c. 94 ; 34 & 35 Vict. c. 48 ; 50 <fc 
 51 Vict. c. xiii. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 1 1 Geo. 3, c. 35. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 26 it 27 Vict. c. ccxi. 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. 26 & 27 Vict. c. ccxi.
 
 Xll 
 
 Clironological liable of Statutes relating specially 
 'to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 2 Geo. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 (1728- 
 
 9) 
 
 
 
 c. 7 
 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Rep. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 34. 
 
 c. 10 
 
 
 Hamlet of Spitalfields to be a 
 
 Rep. Stepnev Order in Council 
 
 
 
 distinct parisli 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. 11 
 
 
 Westminster (paving and cleans- 
 
 
 
 
 ing) 
 
 Expired. 
 
 c. 14 
 
 
 St. Leonards, Shoreditch (repair- 
 
 
 
 
 ing roads) . . 
 
 Rep. 29 Geo. 3, c. xcvi. 
 
 c. 15 
 
 
 Brickmaking (London) 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 2G 
 
 
 Thames watermen . . 
 
 Rep. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, e. Ixxv. 
 
 c. 30 
 
 
 Hamlet of Wapping to be a dis- 
 
 
 
 
 tinct parish 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. 32 
 
 
 Warden of the Fleet Prison 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 3 Geo. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 (1729- 
 
 30) 
 
 
 
 c. 3 
 
 
 St. Mary, Stratford, Bow (mainten- 
 ance of minister). 
 
 
 c. 17 
 
 
 Hamlet of Limehouse and part of 
 the hamlet of Ratcliffe to be a 
 
 
 
 
 distinct parish 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 <-,. 19 
 
 
 New Cliurch. Bloomsbury Market ; 
 and rebuilding of St. Giles-in-the- 
 Fields. 
 
 
 c. 33 
 
 
 St. Nicholas, Deptford, to be a 
 
 Rep. Deptford and Gi-eenwich Orders 
 
 
 
 distinct parish 
 
 in CoLmcil 1901. 
 
 4 Geo. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 (1730- 
 
 1) 
 
 
 
 c. 24 
 
 
 Thames watermen . . 
 
 Rep. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. Ixxv. 
 
 c. 30 
 
 
 Coal trade in the river Thames . . 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 33 
 
 
 Postage (London, Westminster and 
 
 
 
 
 Southwark) 
 
 Rep. 7 Will. 4, and 1 Vict. c. 32. 
 
 c. 34 
 
 
 Repairing the road from Fulham 
 
 
 
 
 to Hammersmith . . 
 
 Expired 
 
 5 Geo. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 (1731- 
 
 2I 
 
 
 
 c. 4 
 
 
 Woolwich (rebuilding of parish 
 chvu-ch). 
 
 
 c. 20 
 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 8 (P] 
 
 -iv.) 
 
 Hyde Park (vesting the conduits, 
 springs and water in the Crown). 
 
 
 c. 10 (F 
 
 riv. ) 
 
 Paddington (enlai'gement of the 
 churchyard). 
 
 
 6 Geo. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 (17.32- 
 
 3) 
 
 
 
 c. 8 
 
 
 St. George the MartjT, Southwark 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 (rebuilding of parish church) 
 
 Rep. Bermondsev Order in Council 
 
 c. 11 
 
 
 Horslj'down, Southwark (new 
 
 1901. 
 
 
 
 chiu-ch) 
 
 c. 21 
 
 
 Old Street (new church) . . 
 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Coimeil 1901. 
 
 c. 22 
 
 
 Fleet Ditch (filling up part of the 
 channel). 
 
 
 c. 25 
 
 
 Application of surplus of fund for 
 building 50 new churches in 
 
 
 
 
 London and Westminster 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 29 
 
 
 Lastage and ballastage in the 
 
 
 
 
 Thames 
 
 Rep. 45 Geo. 3, c. xcviii. 
 
 8 Geo 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 (1734- 
 
 -5) 
 
 
 
 c. 8 
 
 
 Repairing of Oxford Street 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 c. 15 
 
 
 St. James and St. George, Han- 
 
 
 
 
 over Square (nightly watch and 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 
 
 beadles) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. 26 
 
 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields (rate for in- 
 
 
 
 
 closing) 
 
 Rep. in part 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxv. 
 
 c. 27 
 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (rebuild- 
 ing parish church). 

 
 Chronological Table of Stafutea relatiny ajjccialbj 
 to Loiu/oH from 1700 to 19<)7. 
 
 XIU 
 
 Year 
 and 
 
 , statute 
 chapter. 
 
 8 Geo. 2 
 (1734-5) {cont.) 
 c. 28 
 
 0. 
 
 ■2i) 
 
 (!■ 
 
 0. 
 
 Joo. 2 
 ■.•}.5-()) 
 
 8 
 
 c. 
 
 13 
 
 e. 
 
 17 
 
 e. 
 
 1!) 
 
 c. 
 
 20 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 29 
 39 
 
 10 Geo. 2 
 (1736-7) 
 e. 1.5 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 16 
 18 
 
 c. 
 
 22 
 
 c. 
 
 23 
 
 c. 
 
 25 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 31 
 36 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Repairinp highways between 
 
 Highgato iuul Hainpstoad. 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Hop. in part 1(3 Goo. 3, c 24 ; 4 & 5 
 Will. 4, e. 34 ; 10 & 11 V^ict. c. 21. 
 
 St. Martin-in-the-Fields (nightly i"^ 
 watch and beadles) 
 
 St. Paul, Covent Garden (nightly 
 watch and beadlos) 
 
 St. Margaret and St. John (nightly 
 watch and beadles) 
 
 St. Anne (nightly watch and 
 Vjeadles) 
 
 City of London (better hghting the 
 streets). 
 
 Westminster Bridge 
 
 Repairing highways between High- 
 gate and Hampstead. 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 ^ 1901. 
 
 ; 
 
 Rep. 10 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 Red Lion Square (paving, watch- 
 ing, etc.) . . 
 
 Westminster Bridge 
 
 St. Olave, Southwark (rebuilding 
 of church). 
 
 City of London (nightly watch and 
 beadles) 
 
 Repairing roads (Westminster 
 Ferry to Xew Cross) 
 
 St. Andrew, Holborn (nightly 
 watch and beadles) 
 
 Thames watermen . . 
 
 Repairing roads (Whitechapel to 
 
 Shenfield) 
 
 c. iy(Priv.) St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary 
 Woolchurch. 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council I'.tOl 
 Rep. 10 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 Rep. 1 1 Geo. 3, c. 29. 
 
 Rep. 25 Geo. 3, c. 11 7. 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council 19(>1. 
 Rep. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. Ix.xv. 
 
 Discontinued 29 & 30 Vict. c. 105. 
 
 1 1 Geo. 2 
 
 (1737-8) 
 c. 12 
 
 c. 13 
 
 c. 15 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 •>r» 
 
 c. 
 
 29 
 
 
 e. 
 
 30 
 
 
 c. 
 
 35 
 
 
 c. 
 
 36 
 
 
 12 
 
 Geo 
 
 2 
 
 (1 
 
 738- 
 
 9) 
 
 c. 
 
 9 
 
 
 c. 
 
 17 
 
 
 c. 
 
 32 
 
 
 0. 
 
 33 
 
 
 13 Geo. 2 
 
 (1 
 
 739- 
 
 -40) 
 
 c. 
 
 16 
 
 
 ExiDired. See 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116. 
 
 Lastage and balltxstage in the 
 Thames 
 
 St. 3Iary, Rotherhithe (rebuilding 
 of chiu'cli). 
 
 Sale of coal (Port of London). 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditcli (rebuild- 
 ing of church). 
 
 Westminster Bridge 
 
 KingslandRotul and Hackney Roads Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. c.xii. 
 
 Greenwidi Hospital. I 
 
 Christ Church (niglitly watch and | 
 beadles) . . . . ' . . . . Rep. 12 Geo. 3, c. 38. 
 
 Repairing rotuls (Westminster 
 
 Rep. U) & 17 Vict. c. 4Ji. 
 
 Ferry to New Cross) 
 
 Woolwich Cluircli. 
 
 St. Catliarine Coleman, Fenchurch 
 
 Street (rebuilding of the new 
 
 church). 
 New River Company 
 \\'estminster Bridge 
 
 Rep. 25 Geo. 3, c. 117. 
 
 Westminster Bridge 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 Rep. IG & 17 Vict, c- 46.
 
 XIV 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating speciallg 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 14 Geo. 2 
 
 
 
 
 (1740-1) 
 
 
 
 , 
 
 c. 10 
 
 Recovery of small debts in London 
 
 Rep. 
 
 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. xciv. 
 
 c. 16 
 
 Repairing roads in Kensington, 
 Chelsea and Fulliam. 
 
 
 
 c. 27 
 
 St. Botolph-withovU-Aldgate (re- 
 building of chiu'ch). 
 
 
 
 0. 40 
 
 Westminster Bridge 
 
 Rep. 
 
 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 15 Geo. 2 
 
 
 
 
 (1741-2) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 9 
 
 Tyburn and Ux bridge Roads 
 
 Rep. 
 
 7 Geo. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 
 c. 12 
 
 St. Catharine Coleman, Fenchurch 
 Street (rebuilding of church). 
 
 
 
 c. 26 
 
 Westminster Bridge 
 
 Rep. 
 
 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 c. 32 
 
 Keeping of gimpowder (London 
 
 
 
 
 and Westminster) 
 
 Rep. 
 
 1 1 Geo. 3, c. 35. 
 
 16 Geo. 2 
 
 
 
 
 < 1742-3) 
 
 
 
 
 e. 6 
 
 Charterhouse Square (paving, 
 watching, etc.). 
 
 
 
 c. 9 
 
 St. Botolph-without-Aldgate (re- 
 lief of the poor). 
 
 
 
 c. 12 
 
 London and Westminster (repeal 
 of beer and ale duties). 
 
 
 
 c. 28 
 
 Hamlet of Bethnal Green (to be a 
 
 Rep. 
 
 Bethnal Green Order in Council 
 
 
 distinct parish) 
 
 1901. 
 
 17 Geo. 2 
 
 
 
 
 (1743-4) 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 c. 29 
 
 City of London (better lighting the 
 
 
 
 
 streets) 
 
 Rep. 
 
 1 1 Geo. 3, c. 29. 
 
 c. 32 
 
 W'estminster Bridge 
 
 Rep. 
 
 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 c. 41 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (rejDairing 
 
 
 
 
 roads) 
 
 Rep. 
 
 29 Geo. 3, c. xcvi. 
 
 18 Geo. 2 
 
 
 
 
 <1744-5) 
 
 
 
 
 
 c. 15 
 
 •c. 21 
 
 c. 29 
 c. 31 
 c. 33 
 
 39 Geo. 2 
 (1745-6) 
 c. 8 
 
 c. 15 
 
 c. 35 
 
 20 Geo. 2 
 (1746-7) 
 
 0. 24 
 
 c. 29 
 
 c. 33 
 
 21 Geo. 2 
 (1747-8) 
 
 c. 29 
 
 c. 32 
 
 22 Geo. 2 
 (1748-9) 
 c. 31 
 
 Surgeons and barbers of London . . Rep. in part 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 
 
 (S.L.R.). 
 Lastage and ballastage in the 
 
 Thames Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Westminster Bridge . . . . | Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 Greenwich Hospital . . . . ' Rep. 4 & 5 WiU. 4, c. 34. 
 
 London and Westminster (to pre- Rep., except as to th© city of Loxidon, 
 
 vent the misbehaviour of drivers) 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50. 
 
 Common Council of the City of ' 
 
 London (Election and Procedure) Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. e. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 Bethnal Green (parish church and 
 
 poor relief). 
 London and Westminster (vend 
 
 and delivery of coal). 
 
 Greenwich Hospital . . . . Rep. 27 & 28 Vict. c. 23. 
 
 St. James, Westminster (enlarge- 
 ment of churchj-ard) . . . . Rep. Westminster Orderin Council 1901. 
 
 St. Andrew, Holbom (additional 
 burying-ground) . . . . . . i Rep. Holborn Order in Council 1901. 
 
 City of London (reHef of orphans). 
 City of London (mystery of mer- 
 cers). 
 
 St. John, Southwark (new road 
 from new street) . . . . . . j Spent.
 
 Chronological Tahle of St'itutcH vHnt'iiKj apeciullg 
 'to Loiiiloii I'lOiii 17<ii) to lit')?; 
 
 XV 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chai)ter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 22 Geo. 2 
 
 (1748-9) {con<.) 
 
 c. 47 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Recovery of small debts in South- 
 wark 
 
 c. 49 
 c. 50 
 
 c.-21(Priv 
 
 23 Geo. 2 
 < 1749-50) 
 
 c. 10 
 
 c. 14 
 c. IS 
 
 c. 26 
 
 c. 27 
 
 c. 30 
 
 c. 33 
 
 c. 35 
 
 c. 36 
 
 24 Geo. 2 
 (1750-1) 
 
 c. S 
 c. 14 
 
 c. 15 
 
 c. 26 
 
 c. 27 
 c. 40 
 
 c. 42 
 
 c. 43 
 
 c. 48 
 c. 58 
 
 25 Geo. 2 
 (1751-2) 
 
 c. 7 
 
 c. 11 
 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 30 
 c. 36 
 
 c. 42 
 c. 51 
 
 26 Geo. 2 
 
 (1753) 
 _ 1 ."» 
 
 Fi.shinarkot, \\'estminster 
 
 Rep. in part 46 Geo. 3, c. Ixxxvii., 
 and 4 Geo. 4, c. cxxiii. ; and see 9 
 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (repair of ! Rep. Shoreditch Order in Council 
 
 highways) 1901. 
 
 Greenwich Hospital . . . . Rep. in part 16 Geo. 3, c. 24. 
 
 .) London House, St. James's Square. 
 
 Expired. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 . Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 
 Repairing the road from Fulham 
 
 to Hanunersmith . . 
 Site for a market at Westiiiiustor. 
 I St. Jolin, Southwark (lighting 
 i and watching). 
 London and Westminster (vend 
 
 and delivery of coal) 
 Recovery of small debts within 
 
 \N'estminster 
 Recovery of small debts within 
 
 Tower Hamlets 
 
 Recovery of small debts in the 
 ' county court of Middlesex 
 St. Martin-in-the-Fields (relief of Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 the poor, etc.) .. .. .. 1901 
 
 St. George the Martyr, Southwark 
 
 (Stipend of rector) . . . . Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. cxxxii. 
 
 Thames navigation . . . . Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 City of London (mystery of 
 
 Mercers). 
 St. Mary, Islington (rebuilding 
 
 of church). 
 St. Mattliew, Bethnal Green 
 
 (lighting and cleansing) . . . . , Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. xxxiv. 
 
 GoldenSquare(paving,lighting,etc.) Rep. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. xliv. 
 St. Mary le bon (to be under the 
 
 inspection of the head office of I 
 
 Excise) !Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Recovery of small debts within i 
 
 Westminster 
 City of London (prevention of 
 
 mischief by drivers). 
 City of London (Lord Mayor). 
 Making and maintenance of roads 
 
 in Lambeth, Newington, South- 
 wark, Bermondsey, and Lewisham. 
 
 City of London (mystery of Mer- 
 cers). 
 
 East Greenwich (right to bury 
 under the church). 
 
 St. ^Margaret and St. John, West- Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 minster (relief of the poor) . . 1901. 
 
 Citj' of London (Lord Mayor). 
 
 Disorderly Houses . . .." .. Rep. in part 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 
 
 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 
 c. 12 
 
 Repairing roads in Southwark, 
 St. Mary, Newington 
 
 Port of London (Customs) 
 
 Rep. 25 Geo. 3. c. 117. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.).
 
 XVI 
 
 Chroiioloylcal Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and cliapter. 
 
 26 Geo. 2 
 (1753) {cont.) 
 
 c. 22 
 
 c. 43 
 
 c. 55 
 
 c. 80 
 
 c. 87 
 c. 94 
 
 c. 97 
 
 c. 98 
 
 c. 100 
 c. 101 
 
 27 Geo. 2 
 (1753-4) 
 
 c. 16 
 c. 17 
 
 c. 25 
 
 c. 38 
 
 c. 40 
 
 28 Geo. 2 
 (1754-5) 
 
 c. 1 
 c. 9 
 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 37 
 
 c. 43 
 
 Sess. 2 
 c. 3 
 
 29 Geo. 2 
 (17.5.5-6) 
 c. 25 
 c. 38 
 c. 39 
 c. 40 
 c. 41 
 c. 42 
 
 c. 43 
 c. 44 
 c. 53 
 
 c. 63 
 c. 86 
 
 c. 87 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 British Museum (purchase of 
 Sloane and Harleian collection) . . 
 
 Paddington (enlargement of the 
 churcliyard). 
 
 Kingsland Road and Hackney 
 Road 
 
 Repairing roads between High- 
 gate and Hampstead. 
 
 Repairing Old Street, etc. . . 
 
 St. Botolpli without Aldersgate 
 (repair of chvirch). 
 
 St. George's, Hanover Square 
 (relief of the poor). 
 
 Christchurcli. Middlesex (erecting 
 a workhouse, and the relief of 
 the poor) . . 
 
 East Greenwich (I'elief of the poor). 
 
 New street from King Street to 
 Delahay Street, Westminster. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. in part 
 (S.L.R.). 
 
 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4x. c, clii. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. xliii. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. .59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 British Museum. 
 
 Marshalsea (appointment of 
 
 Marshal) 
 St. Luke, Middlesex (cleansing, 
 
 watching, etc). . . . . . . Rep. 33 Geo. 3, c. Ixxxiii. 
 
 St. Nicholas, Deptford (relief of the Rep. 44 Geo. 3, c. liii. ; and Deptford 
 
 poor, etc. ) .. .. .. .. ! Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Commercial Road (extension, etc.). Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 c. 88 
 
 Chelsea Hospital . . 
 
 Forbidding the holding of any 
 
 market in High Street, South- 
 
 wark. 
 St. Savioiu', Southwark (Borough 
 
 Market). 
 St. Bartholomew the Great (nightly 
 
 watch and beadles). 
 Thames ferry (Ratcliff and Rother- 
 
 hithe). 
 
 British Museum (vesting Montague 
 House in trustees). 
 
 Westminster (government) 
 
 Westminster Bridge 
 
 We.stminster Fish Market 
 
 London Bridge. 
 
 Hackney Road 
 
 St. Mary, Newington Butts (en- 
 largement of cemetery). 
 
 Bethnal Green Road. 
 
 Old Street Road (repair of, etc.). . . 
 
 St. ^lary le Bone (nightly watch 
 and beadles) 
 
 Kensington (relief of the poor). 
 
 Blackfriars Bridge. 
 
 St. Jolin Wapping. St. Paul Shad- 
 well, Hamlet of Radcliffe. St. 
 Ann Limehouse, and Well Close 
 (niglitly watch and beadles, etc.). 
 
 Marylebone Road . . 
 
 Rep. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 4. 
 
 Rep. Court of Burgesses Scheme 190 
 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 Rep. 8 Geo. 3, c. 46. 
 
 Rep. 50 Geo. 3. cc. Ixxxiii. and ccviii. 
 aiad Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. ex.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutea relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 xvii 
 
 Yeas, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 29 Geo. 2 
 (1755-0) (cont.) 
 
 c. 89 
 
 c. 90 
 
 30 Geo. 2 
 (1756-7) 
 
 c. 21 
 
 c. 22 
 
 c. 31 
 
 c. 34 
 c. 42 
 
 c. 59 
 
 31 Geo. 2 
 (1757-8) 
 
 c. 4 
 c. 7 
 c. 17 
 c. 20 
 c. 23 
 c. 25 
 
 c. 29 
 c. 35 
 
 c. 36 
 
 c. 40 
 c. 45 
 
 c. 76 
 
 32 Geo. 2 
 (1758-9) 
 
 c. 6 
 
 c. 16 
 
 c. 27 
 c. 49 
 
 33 Geo. 2 
 (1759-60) 
 
 c. 19 
 
 c. 27 
 
 c. 30 
 
 c. 4(Priv.) 
 
 1 Geo. 3 
 (1760-1) 
 
 c 26 
 
 2 Geo. 3 
 (1761-2) 
 
 c. 15 
 
 c. 21 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 St. John Wapping (rebuilding 
 
 parish church). 
 York Buildings and Water Gate, 
 
 St. Martin in the Field.s . . 
 
 Fishery (Thames and Medway) . , 
 
 London and Westminster (to pro- 
 vent the misbehaviour of drivers) 
 
 Borough Market, St. Saviour, 
 Southwark. 
 
 Westminster Bridge 
 
 St. Luke, Middlesex (poor rates, 
 etc. ) 
 
 Lea Bridge (Jeremy's Ferry, etc.) 
 
 Somerset House . . . . ^ 
 
 Somerset House . . . , t 
 
 Westminster (government) 
 London Bridge. 
 
 Brixton (recovery of small debts) 
 Westminster (market for corn and 
 
 grain). 
 Making of bread 
 Vend and delivery of coal (London 
 
 and Westminster) . . 
 The new passage from Charing 
 
 Cross to St. James's Park 
 Hay and straw 
 Bermoudsey (poor rates) . . 
 
 Thames navigation (relief of the 
 coal-heavers) 
 
 Recovery of small debts (South- 
 wark, Bermondsey, Lambeth, etc.) 
 
 Lastage and ballastage in the 
 Thames 
 
 Vend and delivery of coal (London 
 and Westminster) 
 
 Norton Folgate (lighting, cleans- 
 ing, etc). . . 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Sale of fish (London and West- 
 minster) 
 
 Widening of streets in the City of 
 London 
 
 Charterhou.se (power to grant 
 building Jetxses). 
 
 fcJ . J _ri J 
 City Road . . 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 56 & 57 Vict. c. Ixxi. 
 
 Rep., so far as relates to the Thames, 
 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 Rep. (except as to City of London) 
 
 5 & 6 WiU. 4, c. 50. 
 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 Rep. 48 G«o. 3, c. xcvii. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. Court of Burgesses Scheme 1901. 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. (except ss. 10 and 11) :?0 ^v 31 
 
 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 36 Geo. 3, c. 88. 
 Rep. Bermondsev Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 3, c. 53. 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 
 Rep. 45 Greo. 3, c. xcviii. 
 
 Expired. 
 
 Rep. 50 Geo. 3, c. v. 
 
 Rep. 27 & 28 Vict. c. 23. 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 45. 
 Rep. 1 1 Geo. 3, c. 29. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. Ixi. 
 
 Supply of fish (London and West- Rep. in part 42 Geo. 3, c. Ixxxviii. ; 
 
 minster) .. .. .. .. 31 ife 32 Vict. c. 45; 51 Vict. c. 3 
 
 I (S.L.R.) 
 Westminster, St. Andrew's, Hoi- Rep. Holborn and Westminster Orders 
 
 born, etc. (paving, cleansing, and in Council 1901. 
 
 hghting, etc.) . . . . . . | 
 
 b
 
 XVIU 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating speciall;/ 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and cliapter. 
 
 2 Geo. 3 
 (1761-2) ^cont.) 
 
 c. 28 
 c. 30 
 c. 58 
 
 3 Geo. 3 
 (1762-3) 
 
 c. 16 
 0. 23 
 
 c. 37 
 c. 40 
 c. 50 
 
 c. 53 
 
 c. 58 
 
 4 Geo. 3 
 (1763-4) 
 
 c. 14 
 
 c. 39 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Thefts upon the Thames . . 
 London Bridge. 
 
 St. James, Westminster (poor re- 
 lief) 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Westminster, St. Andrew's, Hol- 
 born (paving, cleansing, and light- 
 ing, etc.) 
 
 Repairing road from Highgate to 
 Hampstead. 
 
 St. Matthew, Bethnal Green (poor) 
 
 Land in Paddington (vested in the 
 Rector, etc., of St. George, Hanover 
 Square) 
 
 St. Mary, Whitechapel (poor, light- 
 ing, etc.) 
 
 Whitechapel (repairing and watch- 
 ing roads). 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Regulation of buildings 
 Westminster and St. Andrew's, 
 Holborn 
 c. 43 j St. John, Hackney (poor) 
 
 c. 50 The mystery of Mercers in the 
 
 City of London. 
 c. 54 Lambeth, Southwark, Bermondsey 
 
 and Lewisham (repair of roads). 
 c. 55 St. Clement Danes (watching and 
 
 the poor) 
 c. 48 (Priv.) Empowering Lord Spencer to 
 make leases of the manors of 
 Battersea and Wandsworth. 
 
 5 Geo. 3 
 (1765) 
 0. 8 
 
 c. 13 
 
 c. 50 
 
 c. 55 
 
 c. 91 
 
 c. 103 
 
 6 Geo. 3 
 (1766) 
 c. 6 
 
 c. 24 
 
 c. 26 
 
 c. 30 
 
 c. 'ih 
 
 >f 
 c. 37 
 c. 54 
 
 Recovery of small debts (Black- 
 heath, etc.) 
 
 Westminster (tolls for paving, etc., 
 squares and streets) 
 
 Westminster and St. Andrew's, 
 Holborn 
 
 Allhallows in the Wall (rebuilding 
 rectory, etc.). 
 
 St. Christopher (City), and widen- 
 ing certain streets. 
 
 Commercial Road . . 
 
 Recovery of small debts (Black- 
 heath, etc.) 
 
 Bermondsey and Southwark 
 (paving, lighting, etc.) 
 
 Paving, etc., streets in the city of 
 London 
 
 Widening of streets in the city of 
 London. 
 
 Vend and delivery of coal (London 
 and Westminster) 
 
 Regulation of buildings 
 
 St. George, Hanover Square (re- 
 pairing' roads) 
 
 Rep. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47. 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 Rep. Holborn and Westminster Or- 
 ders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Bethnal Green Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. in part Westminster Order in 
 Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 46 Geo. 3, c. Ixxxix. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. Holborn and Westminster Or- 
 ders in Covmcil 1901. 
 Rep. Hackney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 
 Expired. 
 
 Rep. Holborn and Westminster Or- 
 ders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 Rep. Bermondsey and Southwark 
 Orders in Council. 
 
 Rep. 11 Geo. 3, c. 29. 
 
 Expired. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. in part 23 Geo. 3, cc. 43 and 90 ; 
 
 53 Geo. 3, c. xxxviii. ; 59 Geo. 3, 
 
 c. xxiii.
 
 Ghronoloyicai 'ruble of Statutes relating specialli/ 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 XIX 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 6 Geo. 3 
 (1706) {cont.) 
 
 c. 64 
 c. 66 
 c. 74 
 c. 75 
 c. 100 
 
 c. 38 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 56 (Priv.) 
 
 7 Geo. 3(1767) 
 c. 18 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 32 
 
 c. 37 
 
 c. 44 
 
 (ss. 11-20) 
 
 c. 64 
 
 c. 74 
 
 c. 85 
 
 c. 88 
 
 c. 101 
 
 c. 102 
 c. 105 
 
 8 Geo. 3(1768) 
 c. 17 
 c. 21 
 
 o. 32 
 
 c. 33 
 c. 46 
 c. 32 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 34 (Priv.) 
 
 9G«o. 3(1769) 
 c. 13 
 
 c. 22 
 
 c. 23 
 c. 31 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 St. Botolph, Aldgate (poor). 
 
 Battersea Bridge. 
 
 St. Mary, Whitochapel (poor) 
 
 Allhallo\v.s in th(» Wall. 
 
 St. Andrew, ilolborn and St. 
 George the Martyr (poor, cleans- 
 ing, lighting, etc.). . 
 
 Enipoworiiig the Dean and Chap- 
 ter of Canterbury to grant leases 
 of their estate in St. Olave, 
 Southwark. 
 
 Berkley Square (inclosing, paving, 
 etc.). 
 
 British Museum. 
 
 Admeasurement of coals in the 
 
 city of London. 
 New passage to the House of 
 
 Commons from St. Margaret's 
 
 Lane to Old Palace Yard. 
 Blackfriars Bridge (rebuilding of 
 
 Newgate and repairing the Royal 
 
 Exchange). 
 Hackney carriages and coaches . . 
 
 Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, and 
 Deptford Roads . . 
 
 St. Mary, Rotherhithe (completion 
 of church) . . 
 
 St. Botolph, Aldgate, and Precinct 
 of St. Katharine (paving, cleans- 
 ing, lighting, etc.) 
 
 Repairing road from Kensington 
 to Brentford 
 
 Repairing roads in Kensington, 
 Chelsea and Fulham 
 
 Tyburn and Uxbridge roads 
 
 Bethnal Green road. 
 
 Journeymen tailors (London) 
 
 Paving, cleansing, etc., streets in 
 the citj' of London 
 
 Excise office on Gresham College 
 site. 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (paving, 
 etc., streets). 
 
 St. Marylebone (lighting, paving, 
 etc. ) 
 
 Vesting the manor of Abbots, 
 Kensington, in trust to sell to 
 Lord Holland. 
 
 Empowering the granting of build- 
 ing leases of the demesne lands of 
 the Manor of Barnesbury, Isling- 
 ton. 
 
 St. "Martin le Grand (cleaning, 
 watching, etc.). 
 
 St. Botolph, Aldgate, and precinct 
 of St. Katliarino (paving, cleans- 
 ing, lighting, etc.). . 
 
 St. Bartholomew the Great (light- 
 ing, paving, etc.). 
 
 Magdalen Hospital. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. in part 16 & 17 Vict. c. cxli. 
 
 Rep. 39 Geo. 3, c. xli. 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 3, c. 44; 33 Vict, 
 c. 99. 
 
 Semble spent. 
 
 Semble spent. 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. xxxviii. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. 35 Geo. 3, c. 142. 
 Rep. 7 Greo. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 129. 
 Rep. 11 Geo. 3, c. 29. 
 
 Rep. 35 Geo. 3, c. 73. 1 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, o xxx^i
 
 XX 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 170U to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 9 Geo. 3 
 (1769) {cont. 
 
 c. 89 
 
 c 61 (Pnv.) 
 
 10 Geo. 3 
 (1770) 
 c. 2.^ 
 
 c. 29 
 
 c. 32 
 c. 44 
 
 (ss. 4-9) 
 c. 63 
 
 c. 56 
 c. 75 
 
 c 79 
 
 c. 60 
 
 c, \\^ 
 c. Ilk 
 
 c. 72 (Priv.) 
 
 U Gc 3 
 (1771) 
 c. 10 
 
 e. 12 
 
 c. 15 
 
 c '7 
 
 0. 21 
 c. 22 
 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 24 
 c. 26 
 c. 29 
 c. .'" 
 
 c ."4 
 
 c '?^ 
 
 c. 45 
 
 c 46 
 
 c. 51 
 c. r4 
 
 c. 59 
 
 12 Geo. 3 
 (1772) 
 c. 17 
 
 Making a road from Blackfriars 
 Bridge to Newington Butts 
 
 Empowering the Prebendary of 
 St. Paul to lease for 99 years the 
 prebenderal estate of Halliwell 
 and Finsbury. 
 
 St. Mary le Bone (paving, cleans- 
 ing, lighting, etc. ) 
 
 Recovery of small debts (Black- 
 heath, etc.) 
 
 New office of Excise, London | 
 
 Hackney coaches . . . . I 
 
 Thames River (relief of coal- 
 heavers). 
 St. Paul, Shadwell (poor) . . 
 St. Martin-in-the-Fields (building 
 
 a workhouse) 
 St. Andrew, Holborn (purchase of 
 
 a workhouse). 
 Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden and 
 
 Ely Rents (building a workhouse). 
 St. Clement Danes (poor). 
 St. Marylebone (new parish 
 
 church) 
 Certain commons in Newington 
 
 Butts (disposing of same for the 
 
 benefit of the poor) 
 
 Morden College 
 
 St. Mary, Wliitechapel (paving, 
 
 etc.) 
 St. Mary, Whitechapel (paving, 
 
 etc.) 
 South wark (paving, etc.) . . 
 
 Wapping Street (paving, etc.) 
 
 Westminster (paving, cleansing, 
 lighting, etc.) 
 
 Rosemary Lane (paving, etc.) 
 
 Hackney coaches . . 
 
 London Bridge. 
 
 City of London (paving, etc.) 
 
 St. John, Clerkenwell (paving, 
 watching, etc.). 
 
 Inclosing and embanking parts of 
 the Thames 
 
 Keeping, etc., of gunpowder 
 (London and Westminster) 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 Old Street, St. Luke (lighting 
 watching, etc.) 
 
 Lastago and ballastage (Thames). . 
 
 Haydon Square, New Square (pav- 
 ing, etc. ) . . 
 
 St. Pancras (shutting up certain 
 
 footpaths). 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Semble spent. 
 
 Rep. 35 Geo. 3, c. 73.] 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 50 Geo. 3, c. ccviii. 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Coioncil 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 51 Geo. 3, c. oli. 
 
 Rep. Southwark 
 1901. 
 
 Order m Council 
 
 ■ Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 'xli. 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey and Southwark 
 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. Holborn and Westminster Orders 
 
 in Council 1901. 
 Rep. in part 16 & 17 Vict. c. cxli. 
 Rep. 1 & 2 W-\l. 4, c. 22. 
 
 Rep. 11 & 12 Vict, r clxiii. 
 
 Rep. in part 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxi. ; 
 38 & 39 Vict. c. clxxix. 
 
 Rep. 12 Geo. 3, c. 61. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. 50 Geo. 3, c. cxlix. 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 St. Mary, Islington (lighting and 
 watching) , . . , . . . . j Rep. 
 
 5 Geo. 4, c. cxxv.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1U07. 
 
 XXI 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 12 Geo. 3 
 
 (1772) (cont. 
 c. 34 
 
 c. 38 
 
 c. 40 
 
 c. 42 
 c. 43 
 c. 61 
 
 c. 65 
 
 c. 68 
 c. 69 
 
 Tc. 73 
 fc. 79 
 "c. 99 
 c. 102 
 
 13 Geo. 3 
 (1773) 
 
 c. 48 
 
 c. 53 
 
 14 Geo. 3 
 (1774) 
 
 c. 14 
 
 c. 24 
 
 c. 29 
 
 c. 30 
 
 c. 43 
 
 c. 52 
 
 c. 62 
 
 c. 75 
 
 c. 78 
 c. 87 
 c. 90 
 
 c. 91 
 c. 93 
 
 c. 95 
 
 c. 108 
 
 c. 116 
 
 15 Geo. 3 
 (1775) 
 c. 11 
 c. 21 
 
 Repeals, eto. 
 
 St. Martin in the Fields (building 
 
 a workhouse) 
 Christchurch (paving, lighting, 
 
 etc. ) . . 
 St. Marylobone (new parish 
 
 church) 
 Crown lands (Savoy). 
 Ely House, Holborn (Crown lands). 
 Keeping, etc., of gunpowder (Lon- 
 don and Westminster) . . 
 Hangman's Acre, St. George's 
 
 Fields (extinguishing the right 
 
 of common). 
 St. Sepulchre (poor, paving, 
 
 watcliing, etc.) 
 St. Pancras, west of Tottenham 
 
 Coiu-t Road (paving, lighting, 
 
 watching, etc.) 
 MetropoHtan buildings 
 St. Botolph, Bisliopsgate (poor) 
 Old Street Road . . 
 St. Mary, Whitechapel (poor) 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rop. in part 16 & 1" Vict. c. cxli. 
 
 Rep. 51 Geo. 3, c. cli. 
 
 Rep. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 139. 
 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. 14 Geo. 3, c. 78. 
 Rep. 35 Geo. 3, c. 61. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 Rep. in part 46 Geo. 3, c. Ixxxix. 
 
 St. Marylebone (paving, lighting, | 
 
 etc.) . . Rep. 35 Geo. 3, c. 73. 
 
 St. Matthew, Bethnal Greon (poor) Rep. Bethnal Green Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 
 (new parish 
 (paving, 
 
 Manor of Clapham 
 church) 
 
 St. James, Clerkenwell 
 lighting, etc.) 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (relief of 
 the poor) . . 
 
 Old Artillery Ground (workhouse, 
 paving, etc.) 
 
 Court of Chancery (rebuilding of j 
 oflSces in Lincoln's Inn) . . . . [ 
 
 Grosvenor Square (paving, light- 
 ing, etc.) . . . . . . . • I 
 
 St. Giles in the Fields and St. I 
 George, Bloorasbury (poor). 
 
 St. Saviour, Southwark (new work- 
 house, etc.). 
 
 Fires in London. 
 
 Driving of cattle. Metropolis 
 
 City of Westminster (nightly watch 
 and beadles) 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 Lewisham (rebuilding parish 
 church). 
 
 Battensea (rebuilding parish 
 chiu-ch, etc.). 
 
 St. Giles in the Fields and St. 
 George, Bloomsbiu-y (poor). 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch. and St. 
 Mary, Stoke Xewington (repair- 
 ing roads, lighting, etc.). . . 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 St. Marylebone (relief of the poor) 
 
 Rep. W'andsworth Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 53 Geo. 3, c. cxii. 
 Rep. Stepnev Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 91. 
 
 Rep. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. xliii. 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. Holborn and Westminster 
 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. Shoreditch and Stoke Xewington 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 Rep. 35 Geo. 3, c. 73.
 
 XXll 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specialbj 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 15 Geo. 3 
 
 (1775) (cont.) 
 
 c. 22 
 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 33 
 
 c. 43 
 
 c. 50 
 
 c. 54 
 
 c. 55 
 c. 56 
 
 c. 57 
 c. 58 
 
 16 Geo. 3 
 (1776) 
 
 c. 13 
 c. 15 
 
 c. 24 
 c. 26 
 
 c. 31 
 c. 60 
 
 c. 76 
 
 17 Geo. 3 
 (1777) 
 
 c. 5 
 c. 13 
 c. 18 
 c. 22 
 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 60 
 
 c. 63 
 
 c. 64 
 
 c. 66 
 
 18 Geo. 3 
 (1778) 
 
 c. 10 
 c. 29 
 c. 37 
 
 c. 48 
 
 c. 49 
 
 c. 50 
 
 c. 51 
 
 c. 66 
 c. 67 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Lincoln's Inn (vesting part of in 
 the Accountant General of the 
 Court of Chancery) 
 
 St. James, Clerkenwell (building 
 a workhouse) 
 
 Buckingham House (vesting in the 
 Crown) 
 
 Hamlet of Highgate (lighting, 
 watching, etc. ). 
 
 St. Paul, Co vent Garden (building 
 a workhouse) 
 
 St. Paul, Shadwell (paving, light- 
 ing, etc.) . . 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (poor) . . 
 
 Lincoln's Inn (Chancery offices) . . 
 
 Piccadilly (watering of). 
 Hampstead (lighting, watching, 
 etc. ) 
 
 Drury Lane, Royal Theatre. 
 
 St. George, Middlesex (poor, light- 
 ing, watching, etc. ) 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Camberwell and Peckham (light- 
 ing, watching) 
 
 Theatre Royal, Co vent Garden. 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and Nor- 
 ton Folgate. 
 
 Highgate and Hampstead roads . . 
 
 St. Mary, Islington (poor relief) . . 
 
 Admeasurements of coal. 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 Wapping Street and Ratcliff High- 
 way (paving, etc.) 
 
 St. ^lary, Newington (paving and 
 lighting). 
 
 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch 
 
 St. James, Clerkenwell (paving, 
 
 lighting, etc. ) 
 St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington 
 
 (poor) 
 St. Dunstan, Stepney (nightly 
 
 watch). 
 
 Lea Bridge (Jeremy's Ferry) 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 St. Mary, Wliitechapel (paving, 
 etc.) 
 
 The Orphans Fund and Newgate 
 Gaol. 
 
 The Orphans Fund and St. George 
 and St. John, Wapping. 
 
 The Orphans Fund and Good- 
 man's Fields. 
 
 The Orphans Fund and South- 
 wark. 
 
 Halliwell and Finsbury drainage 
 
 New Sessions House and the Or- 
 phans Fund. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. in part 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 
 
 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. Finsburv Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. in part 20 Geo. 3, c. 40. 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. Ixviii. 
 
 Rep. 50 Geo. 3, c. ccviii. 
 Rep. 53 Geo. 3, c. cxii. 
 Rep. in part 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 
 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. Hampstead Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 46 Geo. 3, c. Ixxvii. 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 25. 
 Rep. Camberwell Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. ex. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. cxxv. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Shoreditch Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. Finsbiu-y Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. Kensington Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. cxli. 
 
 Rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from ITOU to 1007. 
 
 XX 111 
 
 Yoar, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 18 Goo. 3 
 (1778) (cont.) 
 
 c. 71 
 
 c. 72 
 c. 73 
 
 c. 74 
 
 c. 77 
 
 c. 78 
 
 c. 80 
 
 c.32(Priv. 
 
 19 Geo. 3 
 (1779) 
 c. 68 
 
 c. 120 
 
 20 Geo. 3 
 (1780) 
 c. 15 
 
 c. 40 
 c. 48 
 
 c. 63 
 
 c. 64 
 
 c. 66 
 
 21 Geo. 3 
 (1781) 
 c. 1 
 c. 34 
 
 c. 67 
 c. 71 
 
 c. 73 
 
 c. 100 
 22 Geo. 3 
 (1782) 
 c. 35 
 c. 43 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 c. 44 
 
 c. 56 
 
 c. 65 
 
 c. 77 
 
 c. 84 
 
 New street from Moorfields to 
 Bishopsgate Street. 
 
 Westinin.st(<r Sessions Hou.se. 
 
 St. Butolph without Aldersgate 
 (paving). 
 
 Christchurch, Middlesex (work- 
 hou.se) 
 
 Norton Folgato and St. Leonard, 
 Shoroditch (pa\'ing). 
 
 The Orphans Fund and Bishops- 
 gate Street. 
 
 St. Mary, Whitechapel (widening 
 streets) 
 )l Manor of Lambeth. 
 
 Recovery of small debts (Tower 
 
 Hamlets) . . 
 Kilburn Road 
 
 St. Marylebone (new parish 
 church). 
 
 Completion of Somerset House . . 
 
 Goswell Street (lighting, watching, 
 etc.) 
 
 Indemnity, suppression of riots 
 (London, AVestminster, andSouth- 
 wark) 
 
 Release of prisoners by riots (pro- 
 tection of the sheriff and gaok'^rs 
 in the gaols in Middlesex, Surrey, 
 and the city of London . . 
 
 Stepney and St. IMary, White- 
 chapel (poor, paving, etc.) 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in (Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 10 & 17 Vict. c. cxii. 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxHi. 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 t 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 190L 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. 
 
 101 (S.L.R.). 
 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Destruction of prison by rioters . . 
 
 Admeasurement of coals (West- 
 minster, St. Giles, St. Marylebone, 
 and St. Andrew, Holborn) 
 
 Driving of cattle, Middlesex 
 
 St. Christopher le Stocks and St. 
 Margaret, Lotlihury. 
 
 Manors of Stepney and Hackney 
 (court of record). 
 
 New Cross roads . . . . . . Rep. 42 Geo. 3, c. Ixiii 
 
 St. John. Wapping(poorreliof, etc.) Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 The Orjiliuns Fund and a new road ^ 
 
 from Spitalfields to Bishopsgate 
 
 Street. 
 St. Margaret and St. Jolin the Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 Evangelist, Westminster (light- IHOl. 
 
 ing, etc.) .. 
 St. Luke, Middlesex (new work- 
 house, etc. ) 
 New streets from the Strand. 
 The City Corporation and the ! 
 
 Hospitals of St. Bartliolomew, i 
 
 Bethlehem, Bridewell, and St. I 
 
 Thomas. 
 St. George, Hanover Square (light- Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 ing, paving, etc.) .. .. .. , 1901. 
 
 Rep. 48 Geo. 3, c. xcvii.
 
 XXIV 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 22 Geo. 3 
 (1782) (cont.) 
 
 c. 85 
 c. 86 
 c. 87 
 
 c. 115 
 
 c. 14 (Priv.) 
 
 23 Gfeo. 3 
 (1783) 
 
 c. 8 
 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 27 
 
 c. 31 
 
 c. 32 
 c. 42 
 
 c. 43 
 
 c. 44 
 
 c. 46 
 
 c. 89 
 
 c. 89 
 
 c. 91 
 
 c. 102 
 c. 110 
 
 c. 30 (Priv.) 
 
 24 Geo. 3 
 (1784) 
 
 c. 60 
 
 25 Geo. 3 
 (1785) 
 
 c. 18 
 c. 23 
 
 c. 45 
 
 c. 77 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in. Council 1901. 
 
 Portman Square. 
 
 St. John, Wapping (paving, etc. ) . . 
 
 St. Anne, Middlesex, and Hamlet 
 
 of Ratcliffe (paving, etc.) . . Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Hackney Road . . . . . . Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 New street from the Strand to 
 
 Stanhope Street. 
 
 Lastage and ballastage in the 
 
 Thames. 
 Prisoners in the King's Bench and 
 
 Southwark 
 Bridewell Hospital and St. Ann, 
 j Blackfriars. 
 
 j St. Mary, Rotherhithe (lighting, 
 '■ paving, etc.) 
 
 St. John, Wapping (poor) . . 
 ■ St. Paul, Covent Garden (paving, 
 . Kghting, etc.) 
 
 ' St. Anne and St. Martin in the 
 I Fields (lighting, paving, etc.) 
 St. James, ClerkenweU (workhouse, 
 
 etc.) 
 Fenchurch Street and Old Jewry 
 
 (widening of). 
 St. Clement Danes (lighting, pav- 
 ing, etc.) 
 St. Martin in the Fields (Hghting, 
 pavdng, etc.) 
 St. Mary, WTiitechapel (paving, 
 etc.) 
 City Road . . 
 Marlylebone Road and Oxford 
 
 Road 
 Dean of St. Paiol's and Doctors 
 Commons. 
 
 Rep. Southwark Orderin Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 \ 
 
 I Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 l' 1901. 
 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Cotmcil 1901. 
 
 I Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 r 1901. 
 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Viet. c. cxli. 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. Ixi. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxUi. 
 
 Christchurch, Middlesex (poor) . . Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 0. 
 
 86 
 
 c. 
 
 88 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 89 
 96 
 
 c. 
 
 97 
 
 c. 
 
 117 
 
 c. 
 
 124 
 
 Newgate Gaol Delivery Sessions. 
 
 St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey 
 (paving, etc. ) . . 
 
 Imprisonment of debtors (London, 
 Middlesex, and Southwark), (re- 
 ducing the time of). 
 
 Fires prevention (MetropoUs) 
 
 St. Katharine, near the Tower of 
 London (Hghting, etc.) 
 Clapham (lighting and watching) . . 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and Nor- 
 ton Folgate. 
 j Rebuilding of the Poultry and 
 ! Wood Street Compters. 
 I Borough of Southwark (repairing 
 I of roads) . . 
 
 I Road from Whitechapel to Shen- 
 I field 
 
 Rep. 4 & WiU. 4, c. xcv. 
 
 Rep. in part 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 
 (S.L.R.) ; 50 & 51 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.); 
 51 Vict. c. 3 (S.L.R. ). 
 
 Rep. 54 Geo. 3, c. ccxx. 
 
 Rep. Wandsworth Order in Cotmcil 
 
 1901. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 42 Geo. 3, c. Ixxvi. 
 Semble spent.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to liJiJ?. 
 
 XXV 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 26 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1786) 
 
 
 
 c. 14 
 
 Admoasuroiiioiit of coals between 
 
 
 
 Putney and Rotherhithe 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 
 c. 37 
 
 Blackfriars Bridge. 
 
 
 c. 54 
 
 Land Tax (St. Clomont Danes and 
 
 
 
 St. Mary lo Strand) 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 83 
 
 Admeasurornont of coals between 
 Tower Dock and Limoliouse Hole. 
 
 
 c. 102 
 
 Westminster (tolls to Commissioners 
 
 
 
 of Paving) 
 
 Spent. 
 
 c. 103 
 
 Land tax (East Smithfiold) 
 
 1 
 
 c. 105 
 
 Land tax (Broad Street and the 
 
 - Rep. .34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 
 Tower) 
 
 c. 108 
 
 Adrneasuroinent of coals (West- 
 
 
 
 minster, etc.) 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 
 c. 112 
 
 St. Margaret and St. John, West- 
 
 
 
 minster (watchmen, patrols, and 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 
 beadles) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. 114 
 
 St. John, Southwark (poor) 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey Order in Covuacil 
 1901. 
 
 c. 120 
 
 The Clink, Southwark (paving, etc.) 
 
 Rep. 52 Geo. 3, c. xiv. 
 
 c. 131 
 
 Roads in Lambeth, Southwark, and 
 
 
 
 Bermondsey 
 
 Rep. 3 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 27 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1787) 
 
 
 
 c. 52 
 
 Camberwell (lighting and watch- 
 
 Rep. CamberweU Order in Council 
 
 
 ing) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. 54 
 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (additional 
 
 
 
 workhouse for St. George, Han- 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 
 over Square) 
 
 1901. 
 
 [28 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1788) 
 
 
 
 c. 10 
 
 St. James, Clerkonwell (new 
 
 
 
 church, etc. ) 
 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. 51 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 c. 60 
 
 Christchurch, Middlesex (paving. 
 
 
 
 lighting, etc.) 
 
 Rep. in part 16 & 17 Vict. c. cxli. 
 
 c. 62 
 
 St. Peter le Poor (rebuilding parish 
 church). 
 
 
 c. 68 
 
 St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey and Southwark 
 
 
 (paving, etc.) 
 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 c. 74 
 
 Paddington (rebuilding parish 
 church). 
 
 
 c. 83 
 
 St. Paul, Covent Garden (repair of 
 
 
 
 church) 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. Ixviii. 
 
 29jGeo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1789) 
 
 
 
 c. 5 
 
 IManchester Square. 
 
 
 c. 30 
 
 St. Paul, Co\ont Garden (repair of 
 
 
 
 chiu'ch) 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. Ixviii. 
 
 c. 38 
 
 New street from Fleet Street to 
 Temple Street. 
 
 
 c. 47 
 
 St. James, Westminster (addi- 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Coimcil 
 
 
 tional burial ground) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. 71 
 
 St. Pancras (paving, hghting, etc.) 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 c. 75 
 
 St. George, Hanover Square (poor) 
 
 Rep. 7 Goo. 4, cc. Iviii. and cxxi. 
 
 c. 82 
 
 Old Street Road 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 c. 96 
 
 Stamford Hill Road 
 
 Rep. 35 Geo. 3, c. lix. 
 
 30 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1790) 
 
 
 
 c. 53 
 
 St. Andrew, Holborn, and the city 
 
 
 
 of Westminster (paving, lighting. 
 
 Rep. Holborn and Westminster Or- 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 ders in Council 1901. 
 
 c. 54 
 
 Westminster Fish Market . . 
 
 Rep. 3 1 & 32 Vict. c. 45.
 
 XXVI 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially/ 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, ofcc. 
 
 30 Geo. 3 
 
 (1790) {cont.) 
 
 c. 69 
 
 c. 70 
 
 c. 71 
 
 c. 76 
 
 c. 80 
 
 31 Geo. 3 
 (1791) 
 
 c. 18 
 
 c. 19 
 
 c. 61 
 
 c. 90 
 c. 110 
 
 c. 124 
 
 32 Geo. 3 
 (1792) 
 
 c. 39 
 
 c. 53 
 c. 62 
 
 c. 64 
 
 c. 66 
 
 33 Geo. 3 
 (1793) 
 
 c. 43 
 c. 75 
 
 c. 82 
 
 c. 83 
 
 c. 87 
 
 c. 88 
 
 34 Geo. 3 
 (1794) 
 
 c. 65 
 c. 96 
 
 c. 131 
 c. 60 (Priv.) 
 
 35 Geo. 3 
 
 (1795) 
 
 c. 43 
 
 c. 45 
 
 c. 61 
 
 c. 70 
 c. 73 
 
 St. James, Clerkenwell (new church, ' 
 
 etc.) . . . . . . Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 
 St. James, Westminster (addition- ; R.ep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 al burial ground) . . . . . . j 1901. 
 
 St. Jolin, Hackney (new church, 
 
 etc.) . . . . . . . . Rep. Hackney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Hans Town, CheLsea (repairing 
 
 streets). 
 Streatham (workhouse, etc.) 
 
 St. Pancras (paving, etc. ) . . 
 
 Rep. Wandsworth Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 1901. 
 St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey Rep. Bermondsey Order in Council 
 
 (poor) . . . . . . 1901. 
 
 Upper Ground Street, Christchurch, 
 
 South wark (paving, lighting, etc.). 
 Finsbury Square . . . . . . Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 
 St. John, Southwark (new road 
 
 from Xew Street). . . . . . Spent. 
 
 Repairing roads from Kensington 
 
 to Hounslow . . . . . . I Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 St. Botolph without Aldersgate 
 
 (parish church, etc.). 
 Justices of the Peace (Metropolis) 
 Bond Street (as to removal of the 
 
 stand of hackney carriages). 
 St. Bride (repairing parish church, 
 
 etc.). 
 St. Pancras (additional burying 
 
 ground). 
 
 Rep. 42 Geo. 3, c. 76. 
 
 Paddington (parish church). 
 City of London (drains, paving, 
 
 etc., streets) 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. xxiv. 
 
 Rep. 11 & 12 Vict. c. clxiii. 
 
 Haydon Square and New Sqiiare, 
 
 etc. 
 St. Luke,, Middlesex (lighting, 
 
 watching, etc.). . . 
 St. Mary, Islington (enlarging 
 
 the cemetery). 
 St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, and 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch 
 
 Thames watermen . . 
 
 St. Pancras, St. George the Martyr, 
 
 St. George, Bloomsbury, and the 
 
 Foundling Hospital 
 Tyburn and Uxbridge Road 
 Emanuel Hospital. 
 
 Grand Junction Canal. 
 Finsbury Square. 
 St. Botolph, Bishopsgate (work- 
 house, etc.). 
 St. John, Hackney (new church). 
 St. Marylebone (poor) 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 190L 
 Rep. 50 Geo. 3, c. cxUx. 
 
 Rep. Bethnal Green and Shoreditch 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. Ixxv. 
 
 Rep. Holborn and St. 
 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 
 Pancras 
 
 Rep. St. Marylebone Order in 
 Council 1901.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relafi/uj .sjjeciall'/ 
 to London from 1700 to 1007. 
 
 xxvii 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 35 Geo. 3. 
 (1795) {cont.) 
 
 c. 74 
 c. 84 
 
 c. 104 
 c. 106 
 c. 126 
 c. 131 
 
 c. 134 
 
 c. 142 
 c. 147 
 
 c. 83 (Priv.) 
 
 36 Geo. 3 
 (1796) 
 c. 61 
 
 ;. 65 
 
 c. 75 
 c. 88 
 c. 89 
 c. 92 
 c. 103 
 
 c. 118 
 c. 127 
 
 37 Geo. 3 
 (1797) 
 c. 25 
 
 c. 75 
 c. 79 
 c. 80 
 
 c. 87 
 c. 98 
 
 c. 128 
 
 38 Geo. 3 
 
 (1798) 
 
 C. XXV 
 
 c. xxxiii 
 c. xxxiv 
 
 c. Iv 
 
 c. Ivi 
 
 c. Ix 
 c. Ixi 
 
 39 Geo. 3 
 (1799) 
 
 c. 73, ss. 2 
 c. 82 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Kensington (repair of footways). 
 Lastage and halla-stage in the 
 
 Thames 
 Christ's Hospital. 
 Thames navigation 
 Temple Bar (widening approaclies). 
 New Bridge, Blackfriars (new 
 
 sewer). 
 Road from Kensington to Houns- 
 
 low 
 Kensington Road . . 
 St. 3hiry, IsHngton (poor and 
 
 repairing roads) 
 Paddington (enabling Bishop of 
 
 London to grant building leases). 
 
 of coal (West- 
 Garden (re- 
 
 Admeasurement 
 
 minster, etc.) 
 St. Paul, Covent 
 
 building church) , 
 Metropolitan Justices 
 Hay and straw (^Metropolis). 
 Land tax (city of Westminster) . . 
 London militia 
 St. Martin Outwich, Threadneedle 
 
 Street, etc. (rebuilding parish 
 
 church). 
 Billing.sgate Fish Market . , 
 New street from Petticoat Lane to 
 
 \^'hite Street. 
 
 Militia (Tower Hamlets) 
 
 Tower Hamlets Jlilitia 
 Cliristchurch, ^liddlesex (poor, etc.) 
 St. Pancras (Douglity Estate, 
 
 paving, etc.) 
 Great Tower Hill (paving, etc.) . . 
 Assize and making of bread, 
 
 London . . . . . . . . j 
 
 Land tax (Westminster Hall) . . \ 
 
 New road from Southwark to 
 
 Dockhead . . 
 Grand Junction Canal. 
 St. Sepulclire, City of London 
 
 (poor, etc.). 
 Assize and making of broad, 
 
 London 
 Admetisurement of coals, city of 
 
 London 
 Little Tower Hill (new sewer). 
 Temple Bar (widening approaches). 
 
 British ^luseum 
 
 ^lilitia of tlio city of London 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. 14 & 15 Vict, c. cxvi. 
 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 
 
 4, c. cxlii. 
 4, c. clvii. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. cxxv. 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 
 Rep. 42 Geo. 
 
 4, c. Ixviii. 
 3, c. 76. 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 
 Rep. 1 Geo. 4, c. 100. 
 
 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 45. 
 
 Rep. in part 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 
 (S.L.R.); 35 & 36 Vict. c. 63 
 (S.L.R.); 38 & 39 Vict. c. 69; 
 45 & 46 Vict. c. 49; 50 & 51 
 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.) ; 51 Vict. c. 3, 
 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R. ). 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Coimcil 1901. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Counci} 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 55 Geo. 3, c. xcix. 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep. 55 Geo. 3, c. xcix. 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 1 Geo. 4, c. 100.
 
 xxvm 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relatinq specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 39 Geo. 3 
 (1799) {cont.) 
 c. iv. 
 c. xiii. 
 c. xxiii. 
 c. xli. 
 
 c. Iviii. 
 
 c. Ixix. 
 c. Ixxiv. 
 
 c. Ixxxi. 
 
 c. Ixxxii. 
 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3 
 (1799-1800) 
 c. 47 
 c. 74 
 
 c. 87 
 c. 97 
 
 C. XXXV. 
 
 c. xlii. 
 c. xlvii. 
 
 0. xlix. 
 
 c. 1. 
 c. Ix. 
 c. civ. 
 
 c. ex. 
 41 Geo. 3 
 <G.B.) (1800) 
 c. 13 
 41 Geo. 3 
 (U.K.) (1801) 
 c. 99 
 
 c. ix. 
 c. xxxi. 
 c. xxxiii. 
 
 c. xl. 
 c. Ixxi. 
 c. cxxvii. 
 c. cxxix. 
 c. cxxxi. 
 
 42 Geo. 3 
 (1801-2) 
 
 c. 19 
 
 c. 76 
 
 c. 78 
 
 c. 89 
 
 c. xiii. 
 
 c. xvi. 
 c. xxviii. 
 c. xlix. 
 c. Ixiii, 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 St. Bride, Fleet Street (poor relief) 
 l^lburn Road 
 
 Lea Bridge (Jeremy's Ferry, etc. ) . . 
 St. Andrew, Holbom (poor rates, 
 
 etc.) 
 Rates of porterage by innkeepers 
 
 (London, Westminster, and South- 
 
 wark). 
 Port of London 
 New street from the Haymarket 
 
 to Charles Street, St. James 
 
 Square. 
 St. Mary Woolnoth (lands for 
 
 lectureship). 
 Westminster Sessions House. 
 
 Hackney coaches, etc. (London) . . 
 Price and assize of bread (London 
 
 and environs) 
 Depredation on the River Thames 
 London Flovir Company. 
 St. John, Hampstead (poor) 
 
 Temple Bar (widening approaches). 
 
 Port of London (making docks, 
 etc.) 
 
 St. Pancras : Bedford estate (pav- 
 ing, lighting, etc.) 
 
 Russell Square. 
 
 Female Orphan Asylum. 
 
 Recovery of small debts ; Courts 
 of Requests (city of London) 
 
 Commercial Road . . 
 
 ! Rep. 7 Gteo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 W^ill. 4. c. 22. 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. Hampstead Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cx\'i. 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Houses of Parliament 
 
 Bounties on fish (London and 
 
 Westminster) 
 Tooting (repair of roads) . . 
 Grand Surrey Canal 
 An Act for making a railway from 
 
 Wandsworth to Croydon. 
 Highgate and Hampstead roads . . 
 Grand Junction Canal. 
 Croydon and Deptford Canal. 
 Harrow Road 
 St. Pancras (Southampton Estate 
 
 Improvements) 
 
 W^estminster Fish Market . . 
 
 Metropolitan pohce magistrates . . 
 
 Hackney coaches (Metropolis) 
 
 Lands for ordnance survey (Wool- 
 wich). 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (paving, 
 repairing, etc., certain footways) 
 
 Hackney Road 
 
 St. Mary, Ishngton (poor) 
 
 Port of London 
 
 New Cross roads 
 
 Rep. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. xciv. 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 Rep. in part 46 Geo. 3, c. 
 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 45. 
 
 Rep. 2 Vict. c. iv. 
 
 Rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. cxxxi v. 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. ex. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. xci. 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order 
 1901. 
 
 in Council 
 
 Rep. 
 Rep. 
 Rep. 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. c. 45. 
 
 35 & 36 Vict. c. 63 (S.L.R.). 
 
 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 22. 
 
 Rep. Shoreditch Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. cxxv. 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxxv.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relatirxf Hjjecialli/ 
 to London 'from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 XXIX 
 
 Yeax, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 42 Geo. 3 
 (1801-2) (con<.) 
 
 c. Ixxii. 
 
 c. Ixxiii. 
 c. Ixxvi. 
 c. Ixxvii. 
 c. Ixxxviii. 
 
 c. Ixxxix. 
 
 c. ci. 
 c. cxiii. 
 
 43 Geo. 3 
 
 (1802-3) 
 c. 35 
 
 c. 65 
 
 c. 101 
 c. 115 
 c. 125 
 c. 132 
 
 c. viii. 
 c. X. 
 
 c. xi. 
 
 c. xvi. 
 
 C. XX. 
 
 c. Ixvi. 
 
 c. Ixviii. 
 c. xcviii. 
 c. cvi. 
 
 c. cxxiv. 
 
 c. cxxvi. 
 c. cxxxi. 
 c. cxxxii. 
 
 c. cxxxiv. 
 c. cxxxix. 
 
 c. cxliii. 
 
 44 Geo. 3 
 
 (1804) 
 c. 61 
 c. 96 
 
 c. 100 
 c. 107 
 
 C. }1. 
 
 c. vii. 
 c. xxvii. 
 c. xxxvii. 
 c. xlvii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 St. Anne's, Westminster (church 
 and vestry) 
 
 Temple Bar (widening approaches). 
 
 Southwark (repairing roads) 
 
 Tyburn and Uxbridge roads 
 
 Supply of fish (London and West- 
 minster) 
 
 Vend and delivery of coals (London 
 and Westminster) 
 
 Commercial Road . . 
 
 Port of London and West India 
 Dock 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 9 Groo. 4, c. cxx. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. Ixxv. 
 
 Rep. 9 & 10 V^ict. c. cccxlvi. 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. Hi. 
 
 c. liii. 
 
 Lands for Ordnance service (Wool 
 wich) 
 
 Lands for Ordnance service (Charl 
 ton). 
 
 Militia (city of London) . . 
 
 Exciseable goods on the Thames . . 
 
 Militia (city of London) . . 
 
 Port of London (warehousing of 
 goods) 
 
 Grand Junction Canal. 
 
 Kensington Square, etc. (paving, 
 lighting, etc.) 
 
 Chelsea (Hans Town) improve- 
 ments. 
 
 Brentford Road 
 
 St. Giles-in-the-Fields (burial 
 ground) 
 
 Road from Whitechapel to Shen- 
 field . . . . 
 
 City Road . . 
 
 New River water. 
 
 Hides and skins (London and 
 Westminster) 
 
 Port of London (purchase of 
 quays) 
 
 East India Docks . . 
 
 Deptford Creek Bridge. 
 
 Bermondsey (Long Lane) im- 
 provements 
 
 Coal Market (city of London) 
 
 I St. Pancras (Southampton estate) 
 impro\ements 
 
 St. Jolm, Hackney (church and 
 tower). 
 
 Westminster Sessions House 
 
 Defence of the realm (city of 
 London) 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Compensation for lands at Wool- 
 wich and Charlton purchased for 
 ordnance ser\ice . . 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Port of London 
 
 Temple Bar (widening approaches). 
 
 Commercial Road (extension of). . 
 
 St. Pancras (poor ; new work- 
 house) 
 
 St. Nicholas, Deptford (paving, 
 lighting, etc. ) 
 
 Rep. 46 Geo. 3, c. 144. 
 
 Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 63 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 63 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 4 Geo. 4, c. 24. 
 
 Rep. 14 & 15 Vict. c. cxvi. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 Rep. (except s. 12) 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. Ixx. 
 
 Semble spent. 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. Ixi. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. 57. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. xcv. 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey, Deptford, and 
 Greonwicli Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. in part 46 Geo. 3, c. 89. 
 
 Rep. 46 Geo. 3, c. 144. 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. \ 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. lii. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 Rep. 45 Geo. 3, c. xcix. 
 Rep. Greenwich Order in Council 
 1901.
 
 XXX 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes rela.ting specially 
 ' to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 i 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 44 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1804) f,cont.) 
 
 
 
 c. Ivii. 
 
 St. Mary, Stratford, Bow (poor 
 
 
 
 rates) 
 
 Rep. Poplar Order in Council 1901. 
 
 o. Ixxx. 
 
 Harrow Road (repairing of) 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 c Ixxxii. 
 
 Coal Market (city of London) 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 
 c. Ixxxiv. 
 
 Poultry Compter Debtors' Prison. 
 
 
 e. Ixxxv. 
 
 St. Martin-in-the-Fields (additional 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 
 burial ground) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. Ixxxvi. 
 
 Southwark (paving, etc.) . . 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey and Southwark 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 c. Ixxxix. 
 
 Relief of certain incumbents in the 
 city of London. 
 
 
 c. 63(Priv.) 
 
 Paddington (enabling Bishop of 
 London to grant building leases). 
 
 
 45 Geo 3 
 
 
 
 (1805) 
 
 
 
 c. 64 
 
 Bounties on fish (London and 
 
 
 
 Westminster) 
 
 Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 63 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 115 
 
 Houses of Parliament 
 
 Rep. in part 46 Geo. 3, c. 89, 
 
 c. 127 
 
 British Museum (Townleian Col- 
 lection). 
 
 
 e. 128 
 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London 
 
 
 
 and Westminster . . 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 
 c. ii. 
 
 Coal IMarket (city of London). 
 
 
 c. vi. 
 
 Bethnal Green Road. 
 
 
 c. xxiii. 
 
 Assize and making of bread 
 
 Rep. 55 Geo. 3, c. xcix. 
 
 c. Iviii. 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 
 c. Ixiii. 
 
 Port of London 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 c. Ixiv. 
 
 Billingsgate Market 
 
 Rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. cccxlvi. 
 
 c. Ixviii. 
 
 Grand Junction Canal. 
 
 
 c. Ixix. 
 
 Lee River na\-igation. 
 
 
 c. xc\dii. 
 
 Thames lastage and ballastage . . 
 
 Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. hdi. 
 
 c. xcix. 
 
 St. Pancras (poor ; new work- 
 
 
 
 houses, etc. ) 
 
 Rep. 59 Geo. 3, c. xxxix. 
 
 c. cxiii. 
 
 Paddington (enabling Bishop of 
 London to grant building leases). 
 
 
 c. cxv. 
 
 St. Mary, Newington (confirming 
 certain leases by Dean and 
 Chapter of Canterbury). 
 
 
 c. cxvii. 
 
 Thames Tunnel (from St. ilary. 
 
 
 
 Rotherhithe) 
 
 Lapsed. 
 
 c. cxix. 
 
 Water supply (St. Giles, Camber- 
 
 
 
 well, and St. Mary's, Lambeth) . . 
 
 Rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixix. 
 
 46 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1806) 
 
 
 
 c. 82 
 
 Port of London (fees) 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 
 c. 89 
 
 Houses of Parliament. 
 
 
 c. 100 
 c. 101 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 Chest of Greenwich 
 
 j Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 
 c. 104 
 
 Bringing of coals to London and 
 
 
 
 Westmirxster 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 
 c. 118 
 
 London quays. 
 
 
 c. 144 
 
 Defence of the realm (city of 
 
 
 
 London) 
 
 Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 63 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. i. 
 
 St. Mary's, Islington (lighting, 
 
 
 
 watching, etc.) 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. cxxv. 
 
 c. xv-i. 
 
 St. Sepulchre, city of London 
 (poor, etc.). 
 
 
 c. xxxii. 
 
 Coal (weight and delivery), Rother- 
 
 
 
 hithe and Egham . . 
 
 Rep. 47 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 
 c. Ivii. 
 
 Lambeth (Rush Common). 
 
 
 c. lix. 
 
 Port of London. 
 
 
 c. Ixxvi. 
 
 Rred Lion Square (paving, watch- 
 
 
 
 ing, etc.) 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council 1901.
 
 Chronoloyical Table of Statutes ndatiiuj specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1007. 
 
 XXXI 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subjoct matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 46 Geo. 3 
 (180G) {cont.) 
 
 c. Ixxvii. 
 
 c. Ixxxvii. 
 
 c. Ixxxviii. 
 c. Ixxxix. 
 
 c. xc. 
 
 c. cxiii. 
 c. cxix. 
 c. cxxiv. 
 
 c. cxxv. 
 c. cxxxii. 
 c. cxxxiv. 
 c. cxliv. 
 
 47 Geo. 3 
 (1806-7) 
 c. 34 
 
 c. 37 
 c. 51 
 c. 52 
 c. iv. 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 c. xxviii. 
 c. xxxviii. 
 
 Sess. 2. 1807 
 c. 36 
 c. 42 
 c. GO 
 
 C V. 
 
 C. XXX. 
 
 c. xxxi. 
 
 c. xxxviii. 
 
 c. Ixvii. 
 c. Ixviii. 
 
 c. Ixxii. 
 c. Ixxx. 
 c. cxi. 
 
 c. cxv. 
 
 c. cxxxu. 
 
 48 Geo. 3 
 
 (1808) 
 c. 9 
 
 c 87 
 c. 95 
 
 St. George, Middlesex (cleaning. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 lighting, etc.) 
 
 Southwark (recovery of small 
 debts) '- Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 9.5. 
 
 Brixton (recovery of small debts) I 
 
 St. Mary, Whitechapel (cleaning, 
 lighting, etc.) .. .. .. Rep. Stepnoy Order in Council 1901. 
 
 St. Marylebone (paving, lighting, Rop. St. Marylobmie Order in Council 
 etc.) , 1901. 
 
 East India Dock . . . . . . Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. xcv. 
 
 West Middlesex Waterworks . . See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 St. Marylebone (additional ceme- 
 tery) . . . . . . . . ! Rep. 51 Geo. 3, c. cli. 
 
 Commercial Road . . . . . . ' Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 Port of London. 
 
 Bloomsbury Square. 
 
 Philanthropic Society (Incorpora- 
 tion of). 
 
 136 
 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London 
 
 Depredations on the Thames 
 
 Port of London (abolition of fees) 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Recovery of small debts (Black- 
 heath, etc.) 
 
 Westminster (Commissioners of 
 Sewers). 
 
 Bridewell Hospital. 
 
 Westminster, St. Giles-in-the- 
 Fields, St. George, Bloomsbury, 
 and Holborn (paving, cleaning, 
 etc.) 
 
 ! British Museum. 
 
 Police Magistrates (Metropolis) . . 
 
 Purchase of quays in Port of 
 London 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Christchurcli, Middle.sex (poor 
 relief) 
 
 City Canal (Isle of Dogs) . . 
 
 St. Botolpli, Aldgate, etc., Precinct 
 of St. Katharine (paving, cleans- 
 ing, lighting, etc.) 
 
 Westminster (Sessions House). 
 
 Delivery of coals (London and 
 Westminster) 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 
 Grand Surrey Canal 
 
 Woolwich (poor relief, burial 
 ground, market) . . 
 
 Lambeth, Newington, St. George, 
 Southwark, Bermondsey, and 
 Christchurch (repairing roads) . . 
 
 St. George tlie Martyr. Southwark 
 (maintenance of the Rector) 
 
 Port of London (Surveyor of Sub- 
 sidies) 
 
 Hackney coach fares 
 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London 
 and Westminster . . 
 
 jNIilitia of Tower Hamlets . . 
 
 I Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 97 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 
 Rep. Holborn, Stepney, and Westmin- 
 ster Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 51 Geo. 3, c. 119. 
 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901, 
 Rep. 57 & oS Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. Ixxvi. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. cxxxiv. 
 
 Rep. Woolwich Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 3 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 Rep. Southwark Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101. 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 22. 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 
 Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 97 (S.L.R.).
 
 XXXll 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London Jrorn 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 
 and 
 
 chapter. 
 
 48 Geo. 3 
 
 (1808) {cont.) 
 c. 137 
 
 c. 
 
 \Tii. 
 
 c 
 
 ix. 
 
 c. 
 
 xviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixx. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 lxxx\-i. 
 
 c. 
 
 xc\Ti. 
 
 e. 
 
 xcix. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlii. 
 
 c. 
 
 1 
 cxivi. 
 
 49 Geo. 3 
 
 ( 
 c. 
 
 1809) 
 123 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxx\-iii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlii. 
 
 c. 
 
 elv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ch"i. 
 
 c. 
 
 chii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxx\-i. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxci. 
 
 c. 
 
 88(Priv.) 
 
 50 
 
 Geo. 3 
 
 (1810) 
 c. 6 ^ 
 
 c. 
 
 22 
 
 c. 
 
 110 
 
 c. 
 
 119 
 
 c. 
 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 xix. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xliii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xUv. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxi. 1 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxiv. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Houses of Parliament. 
 
 East London Water Company . . 
 
 St. Sa%"iour, Southwark (poor rates, 
 
 etc.) 
 
 Croydon and Deptford Canal. 
 
 St. Mary, Xewington (poor rates, 
 
 etc. ) 
 Sale of bread 
 Hides and skins 
 St. Pancras (forming, paving, etc., 
 
 new streets) 
 St. Luke (poor, etc.). 
 Grand Siurey Canal 
 Marylebone Road . . 
 Dulwich College. 
 Paddington (enabling Bishop of 
 
 London to grant building leases). 
 Woolwich (water supply and a 
 
 market-hoiise) 
 
 Chelsea Hospital 
 
 St. Anne, Limehouse (poor rates) 
 Temple Bar (widening approaches). 
 St. Clement Danes (nightly watch, 
 
 etc. ) 
 Xew Cross roads 
 Vauxhall Bridge 
 
 Thames (lastage and ballastage) . . 
 London Docks 
 "Westminster (supply of water) ; 
 
 Chelsea Waterworks 
 Bla<;'kfriars Bridge (Sunday tolls). 
 Commercial Road, etc. 
 St. ilarj' Magdalen, Bermondsey 
 
 (poor, etc. ) 
 Great Dover Street 
 Kent Waterworks . . 
 
 Waterloo Bridge. 
 
 St. Mary, Woolwich (enabling 
 Rector to grant building leases). 
 
 Lambeth (leases by Duchj^ of 
 
 Cornwall). 
 Purchase of quays (Port of London) 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London 
 Houses of Parliament. 
 Xorton Folgate ZManor (lighting, 
 
 watching, etc. ) . . 
 St. Mary, Lambeth (poor relief 
 
 rates) 
 \A'estminster (Commissioners of 
 
 Paving). I 
 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (burial ground) 
 Paddington (enlarging chiirchyard). 
 St. George the Martyr, Southwark 
 
 (poor, etc.) 
 St. John, Hampstead (burial 
 
 ground). I 
 
 Building regulations (London and ' 
 
 Westminster) . . . . . . 
 
 Hamlet of Ratcliffe (lighting, etc.). 
 Liberty of the Rolls (Ughting, etc.) 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 Rep. Southwark Order in CouncD 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. .54 Geo. 3, e. cxiii. 
 
 Rep. 55 Geo. 3, c. xcix. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. 57. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. cxxxiv. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. Woolwich Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 27 & 28 Vict. c. 23. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 1902. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxxv. 
 Rep. in part 21 & 22 Vict. c. xxxii. 
 Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. h-ii. 
 Rep. 9 Gteo. 4, c. cx\-i. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 Rep. Bermondsev Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. cxiii. 
 Rep. in part 25 & 26 Vict. c. xliv. ; 
 and see 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. Lambeth Order in Coimcil 1901. 
 
 Rep. Chelsea Order in Counca 1901. 
 
 Rep. Southwark Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 84. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep.WestminsterOrderinCouncil 1901.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 11)1)7. 
 
 XX XI 11 
 
 Year, statute 
 £ind chapter. 
 
 50 Geo. 3 
 
 (1810) (cont.) 
 c. Ixxxviii. 
 c. cxxxi. 
 
 c. cxxxii. 
 c. cxlvii. 
 
 c. cxlix. 
 c. cl. 
 c. cli. 
 c. clxiii. 
 c. clxiv. 
 c. clxx. 
 
 c. cxc. 
 c. cxci. 
 
 c. cxcviii. 
 c. cciv. 
 c. ccvii. 
 c. ccviii. 
 c. ccix. 
 
 c. ccxiv. 
 61 Geo. 3 
 
 (1811) 
 c. 24 
 c. 29 
 0. 84 
 
 c. 104 
 
 c. 105 
 
 c. 116 
 
 c. 119 
 
 c. 126 
 
 c. xi. 
 c. xiii. 
 c. xxxii. 
 
 c. xlii. 
 c. xlix. 
 c. Ixiv. 
 
 c. Ixvi. 
 c. cvii. 
 
 c. cxxv. 
 c. cxxxiv. 
 
 c. cxlv. 
 
 c. cl. 
 
 0. cli. 
 
 c. 
 
 cliii. 
 
 c. 
 
 civ. 
 
 c. 
 
 chd. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxv 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Highgate Archway RoikI . . 
 
 Alilo End Old Town (poor rates, 
 
 worklioiisos, otc.) . . 
 West Mickllesex VVaterworks 
 St. Pancras (Lucas Estate) 
 
 St. Luke, Middlesex (lighting, etc.) 
 
 Holloway Waterworks. 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Gas Light & Coke Company 
 
 High Court of Chancery Buildings. 
 
 St. Pancras (Harrison Estate) 
 
 St. John, Hackney (poor relief, etc.) 
 St. George's Fields (extinguishing 
 
 rights of common). 
 Bethlom Hospital. 
 Thames navigation 
 Commercial Docks. 
 St. Paul, Shadwell (lighting, etc.) 
 St. Botolph without Aldgate (poor 
 
 rates, etc.) 
 Driu-y Lane Theatre 
 
 Clearance of vessels, London 
 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London 
 
 Parliamentary elections (corn and 
 coal meters of the city of London) 
 
 Chelsea Hospital 
 
 Royal Naval Asylum, Greenwich 
 
 Tower bui'ial ground. 
 
 Justices of the Peace (Metropolis) 
 
 \\'estminster (parliamentary elec- 
 tions) 
 
 Croydon and Deptford Canal. 
 
 Kensington Road . . 
 
 Christchurch, Surrey (poor rates 
 and relief) . . 
 
 Commercial Road, etc. 
 
 London Docks 
 
 St. Mary le Strand (paving, etc.). . . 
 
 Commercial Docks . . 
 Clapham (poor rates, etc.) 
 
 Bromley St. Leonard (poor rates) 
 St. Mary, Islington (chapel of ease, 
 etc. ) 
 Kent Waterworks . . 
 
 Covent Garden (precinct made 
 
 parochial). 
 St. jMary lo Bone (new parish 
 
 church, etc.) 
 St. Botolph without Aldgate (poor 
 
 rates) 
 St. Pancras (Brewers Company 
 
 Estate) 
 Kentish To\\ni Junction Road 
 Southwark Bridge. 
 Grand Jmiction Waterworks 
 Grand Surrey Canal 
 East Coimty Dock. 
 Great Dover Street 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. 47 & 48 Vict. c. xxi. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rof). Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. cvi. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. Hackney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. in part 52 Geo. 3, c. xix. 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 
 ) 
 [ 
 
 Rep. 54 Geo. 3, c. 86. 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. 
 
 Rep. 6 Greo. 4, c. clvii. 
 
 Rep. SouthwarkOrder in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 
 Rep. in part Westminster Order in 
 
 Council 1901. 
 Rep. 27 Vict. c. xxxi. 
 Rep. Wandsworth Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. Poplar Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. cxxv. 
 Rep. in part 25 & 26 Vict. c. xliv. ; 
 and see 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. St. Marylebone Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. c. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7. c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. cxxxiv. 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. cxiii.
 
 XXXIV 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 
 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 51 Geo. 3 
 
 
 1811) (coni.) 
 
 
 c. cxcix. 
 
 Woolwich Ferry. 
 
 c. cciii. 
 
 Temple Bar (widening of ap- 
 
 
 proaches). 
 
 c. ccx. 
 
 St. ^lary, Wliitechapel (Charity 
 
 
 Schools). 
 
 c. ccxx. 
 
 Road from Kent Road to Deptford, 
 
 
 etc. 
 
 52 Geo. 3 
 
 
 (1812). 
 
 
 c. 44 
 
 Penitentiary Houses (London and 
 
 
 Middlesex) . . 
 
 c. 49 
 
 Purchase of London quays 
 
 c. 109 
 
 Chelsea Hospital 
 
 c. 123 
 
 Prince's Meadows, Lambeth (leases 
 
 
 by Duchy of Cornwall). 
 
 c. 132 
 
 Chelsea Hospital . . 
 
 c. \'iii. 
 
 Old Street Road 
 
 c. xiv. 
 
 The Clink, Southwark (paving. 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 c. xix. 
 
 Drury Lane Theatre. 
 
 c. xlvi. 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 c. xlviii. 
 
 Westminster (Commissioners of 
 
 
 Sewers). 
 
 c. Ixxiv. 
 
 St. Pancras (Tottenham Court 
 
 
 Road) 
 
 c, Ixxv. 
 
 St. John, Wapping (poor, paving, 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 c. xcvii. 
 
 St. Mary, Woolwich (enabling 
 
 
 Rector to grant building leases). 
 
 c. cxi. 
 
 St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey ; 
 
 
 St. Mary, Newington 
 
 c. cxii. 
 
 Battersea (hghting, etc., certain 
 
 
 roads) 
 
 c. cxiv. 
 
 London Docks 
 
 c. cxx. 
 
 Kentish Town Junction Road . . 
 
 c. cxl. 
 
 Grand Junction Canal. 
 
 c. cxKa. 
 
 Highgate Archway Company 
 
 c. cxlvii. 
 
 Vauxhall Bridge 
 
 c. cxlviii. 
 
 Greenwich and Isle of Dogs Ferry 
 
 c. cxlix. 
 
 Street from Tower Hill to Upper 
 
 
 East Smithfield . , 
 
 c. ciiv. 
 
 New North Road . . 
 
 c. cLxxxiii. 
 
 Blackfriars Bridge. 
 
 c. cxciii. 
 
 Marylebone and Paddington 
 
 
 (enabling Bishop of London to 
 
 
 purchase certain waters and 
 
 
 springs). 
 
 c. cxcv. 
 
 Regent's Canal. 
 
 c. cxcvii. 
 
 St. Mary, Lambeth (watching and 
 
 
 lighting, etc.) 
 
 c. cxcviii 
 
 Road from Kent Road to Dept- 
 
 
 ford, etc. 
 
 c. ccv. 
 
 St. Paul, Shadwell (enabling Dean 
 
 
 of St. Paul to grant building 
 
 
 leases). 
 
 c. ccix. 
 
 New debtors' prison (city of 
 
 
 London). 
 
 c. ccx. 
 
 Moorfields (enabling City Corpora- 
 
 
 tion to grant building leases). 
 
 c. ccxi. 
 
 St. George's Fields. 
 
 63 Geo. 3 
 
 
 (1813) 
 
 
 c. 113 
 
 King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshal - 
 
 
 sea Prisons (poor prisoners' relief) 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 26. 
 
 Rep. in part 2 & 3 WiU. 4, c. 66. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. 16. 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxhi. 
 Rep. Southwark Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey and Southwark 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. in part 9 & 10 Vict. c. cccl. 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 Rep. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. c. 
 
 Rep. 47 & 48 Vict. c. xxi. 
 
 Rep. in part 21 & 22 Vict. c. xxxii. 
 
 Superseded 46 & 47 Vict. c. clxxvii. 
 
 Rep. Stepnev Order in Coimcil 1901. 
 Rep. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. Ixxxv. 
 
 Rep. Lambeth Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 12.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907, 
 
 XXXV 
 
 Year, statute 
 
 
 and cliapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 53 Geo. 3 
 
 
 (1813) (cont.) 
 
 
 c. 121 
 
 Regent Street 
 
 c. 132 
 
 Tower Hamlets Militia . . . . 
 
 c. 135 
 
 Bringing of coal, etc., to London. . 
 
 c. 152 
 
 Westminster elections . . . . ' 
 
 c. 162 
 
 Penitentiary house (London and 
 
 
 Middlesex) 
 
 c. xxi. 
 
 St. Mary, Islington (poor relief, 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 c. xxxii. 
 
 Regent's Canal. 
 
 c. xxxvi. 
 
 West Middlesex Waterworks 
 
 c. xxxvii. 
 
 Mile End New Town (poor) 
 
 c. xxxviii. 
 
 Picctulilly and Park Lane 
 
 c. xlix. 
 
 Kentish Town (Prebendary lands). 
 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 St. Marylobone and St. Pancras 
 
 
 (street improvements) 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 Covent Garden Market 
 
 c. Ixxii. 
 
 Street from Tower Hill to Upper 
 
 
 East Smithfield 
 
 c. 'xxxiv. 
 
 Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall 
 
 
 (paving, etc.) . . . . . . 
 
 3. Ixxxv. 
 
 St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington ! 
 
 
 (burying ground). I 
 
 c. Ixxxvi. 
 
 Clapham (chapel of ease) . . . . 
 
 c. Ixxxvii. 
 
 Southwark Bridge. 
 
 c. xc. 
 
 Road from Kensington to Houns- 
 
 
 low 
 
 c. oxii. 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch (poor 
 
 
 relief, etc. ) 
 
 c. cxiii. 
 
 St. Matthew, Bethnal Green (pav- 
 
 
 ing, etc.) . . ( 
 
 c. cxvi. 
 
 St. George the Martyr and St. 
 
 
 Bride (relief of debtors in prison — 
 
 
 repeal). 
 
 c."clv. 
 
 South London Waterworks 
 
 c. clxii. 
 
 St. Giles, Camberwell (poor rate. 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 c. clxiii. 
 
 St. Marylebone (paving, watching, 
 
 
 etc. ) 
 
 c. clxv. 
 
 Marylebone Road. 
 
 c. clxxxiv. 
 
 Waterloo Bridge. 
 
 c. cxc. 
 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (leases of Chelsea 
 
 
 Common). 
 
 c. cxci 
 
 St. Giles, Camberwell (leases of 
 
 
 glebe). 
 
 54 Geo. 3 
 
 
 (1814) 
 
 
 c. 17 
 
 City of London Militia 
 
 c. 37 
 
 Police Magistrate (Metropolis) 
 
 c. 38 
 
 City of London Militia 
 
 c. 45 
 
 Purchase of legal quays (Port of 
 
 
 London) 
 
 c. 86 
 
 Chelsea Hospital . . 
 
 c. 93 
 
 Greenwicli Hospital 
 
 c. 110 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 c. 147 
 
 Hackney coiu;hes (London and 
 
 ■ 
 
 Westminster) 
 
 c. 154 
 
 Houses of Parliament. 
 
 c. 187 
 
 Depredations on the Thames 
 
 C. V. 
 
 Bryanston Square. 
 
 c. vi. 
 
 Dorset Square. 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 Montagu Square. 
 
 c. xl. 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. in part 56 Geo. 3, c. 128 ; 5 Geo. 
 
 4, c. 100. 
 Rep. 30 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.) ; 
 
 45 & 46 Vict. c. 49. 
 
 '- Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. cxxv. 
 
 See 2 Ed%v. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxxi. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. 100. 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxiii. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Poplar Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Wandsworth Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxiii. 
 
 Rep. 21 & 22 Vict. c. cxxxii. 
 Rep. Betlinal Green Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixix. 
 
 Rep. Camberwell Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. St. Marylebone Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R. ). 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 118. 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Viot. c. 91 (S.L.R.) 
 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep. 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 5a 
 Rep. 27 & 28 Vict. c. 23. 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 20. 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 22. 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. USt 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi
 
 XXXVl 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 £uid chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 54 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1814) {cont.) 
 
 
 
 c. xli. 
 
 St. George, Middlesex 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. xliii. 
 
 Lewisham (poor, etc.) 
 
 Rep. Lewisham Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. cxii. 
 
 Lambeth (enlarging churchyard, 
 
 etc.). 
 St. Mary, Newington (poor rates. 
 
 
 c. cxiii. 
 
 Rep. Southwark Order in Council 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. cxv. 
 
 St. Mary, Newington (King's Place 
 
 
 
 IVIarket, etc. ) 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. 57. 
 
 c. cxvi. 
 
 Gas Light & Coke Company 
 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. cvi. 
 
 c. cxviii. 
 
 Faculty of Physics (meetings with- 
 in Westminster). 
 
 
 c. cxxviii. 
 
 Stoke Newington (Prebendary 
 land). 
 
 
 c. cxxxii. 
 
 Westminster Bridge Commissioners 
 
 
 
 (vesting lands in). . 
 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 0. clxxi. 
 
 Greenwich and Isle of Dogs Ferry. 
 
 
 c. clxxiii. 
 
 St. Pancras (paving, etc., certain 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 
 
 streets) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. cxciv. 
 
 St. Ann, Limehouse (paving. 
 
 
 
 watching, etc.) 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Coiincil 1901. 
 
 c. ccix. 
 
 Tybiu"n and Uxbridge Roads 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 
 c. ccxiii. 
 
 St. Giles, Camberwell (Ughting, 
 
 Rep. Camberwell Order in Council 
 
 
 watching, etc.) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. ccxiv. 
 
 St. Botolph without Aldgate (pav- 
 
 
 
 ing, hghting, etc.) 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. ccxix. 
 
 Halliwell and Finsbury drainage . . 
 
 Rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. 
 
 c. ccxx. 
 
 Precinct of St. Katherine (paving. 
 
 
 
 etc. ) 
 
 Rep. in part 55 Geo. 3, c. Ixviii. 
 
 c. ccxxiii. 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 c. ccxxviii. 
 
 East India Docks . . 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. xcv. 
 
 c. ocxxix. 
 
 St. Pancras (Calthorpe Estate) . . 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 c. ccxxxiii. 
 
 Hackney Road 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 55 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1815) 
 
 
 
 c. 1 
 c. 56 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 Greenwich Hospital . , 
 
 1 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 
 c. 125 
 
 Chelsea Hospital . . 
 
 Rep. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 70. 
 
 c. 133 
 
 Chelsea and Greenwich Hospital. . 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 
 c. 175 
 
 Bringing of coal to London, etc. . . 
 
 Rep. 36 «fe 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. iii. 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 
 c. iv. 
 
 Tooting (repair of roads) . . 
 
 Rep. 2 Vict. c. iv. 
 
 c. xviii. 
 
 Woolwich Ferry 
 
 Rep. in part 56 Geo. 3, c. xxvii. 
 
 0. XXV. 
 
 St. Pancras (Southampton Estate) 
 
 \ Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 
 c. Iviii. 
 
 Kentish Town (paving, etc.) 
 
 ; 1901. 
 
 c. lix. 
 
 Stamford Hill Road 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 c. Ixviii. 
 
 Precinct of St. Katharine (paving, 
 etc.). 
 
 
 c. Ixxvi. 
 
 St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey . . 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey, Deptford, and 
 Greenwich Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 c. Ixxviii. 
 
 Caledonian Asylum. 
 
 
 c. Ixxxix. 
 
 Commercial Road . . 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 c. xci. 
 
 Cheapside and St. Martin's le Grand 
 improvements. 
 
 
 c. xciii. 
 
 Guildhall. 
 
 
 c. xcviii. 
 
 New debtors' prison (city of 
 London). 
 
 
 c. xcix. 
 
 Sale of bread (City of London) . . 
 
 Rep. 3 Geo. 4, c. cvi. 
 
 56 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 (1816) 
 
 
 
 c. 35 
 
 Port of London (collection of 
 
 
 
 tonnage duty) 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 
 c. 63 
 
 Millhank Penitentiary 
 
 Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 26. 
 
 c. 99 
 
 British Museum (Elgin collection). 
 
 
 c. 124 
 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. o. 91 (S.L.R.).
 
 Chronological Tahle of Statutes relatiiKj apeciallij 
 
 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 XXXVll 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 56 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 
 (1816) (,cont.) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 128 
 
 Marylebono Park (pavinp, etc.) .. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. 100. 
 
 
 c. iv. 
 
 Grand Junction Waterworks 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c 41.; 
 
 
 c. xi. 
 
 Southwark Bridge. 
 
 
 
 c. xiii. 
 
 Surrey Theatre (exten.sion of time) 
 
 Spent. 
 
 
 C. XX. 
 
 Highland Society of London (in- 
 corporation). 
 
 
 
 c. xxi. 
 
 Vend and dehvery of coals 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 
 
 c. xxvii. 
 
 Woolwich Ferry. 
 
 
 
 c. xxviii. 
 
 St. Geor^je the Martyr (altering 
 parish church). 
 
 
 
 c. xxxix. 
 
 St. Pancras (i\&\\ parish church) . . 
 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. clx. 
 
 
 c. xlv. 
 
 Street from Tower Hill to Upper 
 
 
 
 
 East Smithfield 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. liv. 
 
 St. James, Westminster (poor 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in 
 
 Council 
 
 
 relief) 
 
 1901. 
 
 
 c. Iv. 
 
 St. Saviour, Southwark (Paris 
 
 
 
 
 Garden Manor) 
 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. xi. 
 
 
 c. Ivi. 
 
 St. George the Martyr, Southwark 
 
 Rep. Southwark Order in 
 
 Council 
 
 
 (enlarging churchyard) . . 
 
 1901. 
 
 
 c. Ixiii. 
 
 Waterloo Bridge. 
 
 
 
 c. Ixxxii. 
 
 St. Pancras (paving, lighting, etc.) 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in 
 1901. 
 
 Council 
 
 c. Ixxxiv. 
 
 High Court of Chancery buildings. 
 
 
 
 c. Ixxxv. 
 
 Regent's Canal. 
 
 
 
 c. Ixxxvii. 
 
 Gas Light & Coke Company 
 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. cvi. 
 
 
 67 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 
 (1817) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 24 
 
 Regent Street improvements. 
 
 
 
 c. 54 
 
 Millbank Road. 
 
 
 
 c. 77 
 
 Chelsea Hospital . . 
 
 Rep. 2 & 3 WiU. 4, c. 53. 
 
 
 c. 97 
 
 Regent Street 
 
 Rep. in part 10 Geo. 4, c. 50. 
 
 
 c. 98 
 
 St. Marylebono Rectory. 
 
 
 
 c. 114 
 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London. . 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.) 
 
 c. 116 
 
 Port of London (shipping horses) . . 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 
 
 c. 127 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Rep. 27 & 28 Vict. c. 23. 
 
 
 c. i. 
 
 Vend and delivery of coal 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 St. Olave, Southwark (new rectory, 
 etc.). 
 Kentish Town (lighting and watch- 
 
 
 
 c. xiv. 
 
 
 
 
 ing) 
 
 Rep. 4 & 5 Vict. c. Ixvii. 
 
 
 c. xxiii. 
 
 City of London Gas Light & Coke 
 
 
 
 
 Company 
 
 Rep. 22 & 23 Vict. c. lii. 
 
 
 c. xxix. 
 
 Metropolitan paving. 
 
 
 
 c. xxxiv. 
 
 Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall. 
 
 
 
 C. XXXV. 
 
 Christchurch, Surrey (enlarging 
 
 
 
 
 churchyard) 
 
 Rep. Southwark Order in 
 1901. 
 
 Council 
 
 c. xl. 
 
 Land coal meters (Westminster) . . 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. Ixxvi. 
 
 
 c. xlviii. 
 
 Christchurch (Old Paris Garden 
 
 Rep. Southwark Order in 
 
 Council 
 
 
 Lane) 
 
 1901. 
 
 
 c. Ix. 
 
 Ganger of the city of London. 
 
 
 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 1 Commercial Docks. 
 
 
 
 c. Ixxii. 
 
 St. Paul, Shadwell (rebuilding 
 
 
 
 
 church, etc.) 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Coi'icil 1901. 
 
 c. Ixxiii. 
 
 St. John, Wapping (workhouse, etc.] 
 
 
 
 c. Ixxvi. 
 
 Royal Naval Asylum. 
 
 
 
 68 Geo. 3 
 
 
 
 
 (1818) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 62 
 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London . . 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 74 
 
 Chelsea Hospital . . 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. 16. 
 
 
 c. xvi. 
 
 Grand Junction Canal. 
 
 
 
 c. xxviii. 
 
 Waterloo Bridge. 
 
 
 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 
 
 c. Ixviii. 
 
 Sovithwark Bridge. 
 
 
 
 0. Ixxvi. 
 
 Southwark (repairing roads) 
 
 Rep. 9 Gceo. 4, c. cxx, 

 
 xxxvm 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes i^elating specially 
 to London from. 17U0 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 luid chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 58 Geo. 3 
 (1818) {cont.) 
 
 c. Ixxviii. 
 
 c. 2 (Priv.) 
 c. 22 (Priv.) 
 
 59 Geo. 3 
 (1819) 
 
 c. 2 
 
 c. 36 
 c. 64 
 c. 79 
 c. 136 
 c. xi. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 c. 
 
 XV. 
 
 c. 
 
 XX. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXIU. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxix 
 
 c. 
 
 xhdi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXI. 
 
 c 
 
 cxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxx. 
 
 c. cxxvu 
 0.45 (Priv.) 
 
 60 Geo. 3 & 
 1 Geo. 4 
 (1819-20) 
 c. i. 
 c. iii. 
 1 Geo. 4 
 
 (1820) 
 c. 54 
 c. 66 
 c. 100 
 c. 106 
 0. iv. 
 c. xli. 
 
 c. xlii. 
 
 c. xlix. 
 c. lix. 
 c. Ix. 
 
 1 & 2 Geo. 4 
 (1821) 
 c. 45 
 
 Greenwich and Woolwich Lower 
 
 Road 
 St. Martin's Alnihouses (disposal 
 
 of). 
 St. Paul's School (acquisition of 
 
 land). 
 
 Westminster (parliamentary elec- 
 tions) 
 
 Making and sale of bread (London) 
 
 Warden of the Fleet Prison 
 
 Bringing of coal, etc., to London . . 
 
 Millbank Penitentiary 
 
 St. George the MartjT (improving 
 churchyard). 
 
 St. John, Wapping (workhouse). 
 
 Gas Light and Coke Company . . 
 
 Bermondsey (Long Lane) 
 
 St. James, Westminster (paving, 
 etc. ) 
 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (new church, 
 etc.) 
 
 St. Pancras (select vestry) 
 
 Kilburn Road . . . . 
 
 Regent's Canal. 
 
 St. Giles and St. George, Blooms- 
 bury (paving, etc.) 
 
 Harrow Road 
 
 Grand Junction Canal and 
 Regent's Canal. 
 
 Westminster and Holbom and 
 Middle Row 
 
 Edwardes Square, etc., Kensing- 
 ton 
 
 Sale of bread (city of London, 
 etc.) 
 
 London House, St. James Square 
 (rebuildinp; of). 
 
 Sale of bread 
 
 Jeremy's Ferry (bridge at) 
 
 Bringing of coals, etc., to London 
 Police Magistrates (Metropolis) . . 
 Militia (city of London) . , 
 Greenwich Hospital (Uvings). 
 Sale of bread 
 St. Mary, Newington (two new 
 
 churches). 
 St. Mary, Rotherhithe 
 
 Southwark Bridge. 
 
 St. Dunstan (city of London). 
 
 Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 
 
 Westminster improvements. 
 
 Rep. 5 Geo. 4, c. Ivi. 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 
 I Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 26. 
 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. cvi. 
 
 Rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. clxxvii. 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. in part Chelsea Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 
 1901 ; in part revived by St. Pancras 
 
 (Supplemental) Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. Holbom Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. xci. 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Cou,ncil 1901. 
 Rep. in part 14 & 15 Vict. c. cxvi. 
 Rep. 3 Geo. 4, c. cvi. 
 
 Rep. 3 Geo. 4, c. cvi. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 } Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 3 Geo. 4, c. cvi. 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey Order in Council 
 1901.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from ITOO to 1007. 
 
 XX XIX 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 1 & 2 Geo. 4 
 (1821) (,cont.) 
 
 c. 50 
 
 c. 52 
 
 c. 89 
 
 c. 98 
 
 c. 118 
 
 c. xxi. 
 
 c. xxiv. 
 c. xliii. 
 c. li. 
 
 c. lii. 
 
 c. Iv. 
 
 c. Ixvii. 
 
 c. Ixix. 
 
 c. Ixxii. 
 c. Ixxiv. 
 c. Ixxvii. 
 c. ex. 
 c. cxii. 
 c. cxvii, 
 
 0. cxxiii. 
 
 3 Geo. 4 
 (1822) 
 c. 55 
 c. 57 
 c. 58 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 c. Ixxxi. 
 
 c. Ixxxii. 
 
 c. Ixxxiv. 
 
 0. cvi. 
 
 c. cvii. 
 
 c. cix. 
 
 c. cxi. 
 c. cxii. 
 
 c. cxiii. 
 c. cxiv. 
 
 4 Geo. 4 
 (1823) 
 c. 50 
 
 c. 
 
 IV. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixx. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 Ixxv. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Making and sale of bread (London). 
 Hay market and Regent Street. 
 Wharves (city of London). 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 Police Magistrates (Metropolis) . . 
 St. Marylebone (building of four 
 
 churches) . . 
 St. Pancras (new parish church) . . 
 Regent's Canal. 
 South London Gas Light & Coke 
 
 Company. 
 
 Road (lighting with 
 
 Lambeth (Rush 
 
 Wliitechapel 
 gas). 
 
 Manor of 
 Common). 
 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (poor and high- 
 way rates) 
 
 Brentford Gas Company (Hammer- 
 smith, Kensington, etc.) . . 
 
 Mile End Old Town (lighting, etc.) 
 
 Poplar Gas Light Company 
 
 London Institution. 
 
 Highgato and Hampstead Roads . . 
 
 Hackney Road 
 
 Imperial Gas Light & Coke Com- 
 pany 
 
 Thames lastage and ballastage . . 
 
 Police Magistrates (Metropolis) . . 
 
 Chelsea Hospital 
 
 Westminster improvements (Par- 
 liament Street). 
 
 Greenwich (new church). 
 
 Somers Town, St. Pancras (paving, 
 etc. ) 
 
 Camden Town, St. Pancras (light- 
 ing, etc.) . . 
 
 St. Marylebone (poor relief, etc.) . . 
 
 Sale of bread (city of London) 
 (Repealing Act). 
 
 County rates assessment (Middle- 
 sex). 
 
 Waterworks at London Bridge 
 (removal of) 
 
 Thames lastage and ballastage. 
 
 Bormondsey, Lambeth, and Newing- 
 ton (ligliting, etc.) 
 
 The Orphans Fund. 
 
 Caledonian Asylum. 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. St. Marylebone Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. clx. 
 
 Rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. cxliii."] 
 
 Rep. 21 & 22 Vict. c. xliv. 
 
 Rep. Stepnev Order in Council 1901. 
 
 See 13 & 14 Vict. c. Ixxxii. 
 
 j- Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. 17 & 18 Vict. c. Iv. 
 Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. Ivii. 
 
 Rep. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 19. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. 16. 
 
 ; Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 ' 1901. 
 
 Rep. St. Marylebone Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey, Lambeth, and 
 Southwark Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 London Bridge. 
 
 Portman Square (amendment). 
 
 St. Matthew, Bethnal Green (select Rep. Betluial Green Order in Council 
 
 vestry, etc.) .. .. .. 1901. 
 
 St. Paul, Shadwell (rebuilding ' 
 
 church, etc.) j Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Greenwich (lighting, watching, I Rep. Greenwich Order in Council 
 
 etc. ) 
 
 Woolwich Gas Light Company. 
 St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey 
 1 (lighting, etc. ) 
 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. clxxvii.
 
 xl 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 4 Geo. 4 
 
 
 
 (1823) {cont.) 
 
 
 
 c. Lxxxiv. 
 
 Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, and 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey, Deptford, and 
 
 
 Deptford Roads . . 
 
 Greenwich Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 c. xci. 
 
 Bermondsey (repairing highways, 
 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 Rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. clxxvii. 
 
 c. xcv. 
 
 Imperial Gas Light & Coke Co. . . 
 
 Rep. 17 & 18 Vict. c. Iv. 
 
 c. xcviii. 
 
 RatcUff Gas Light & Coke Com- 
 
 
 
 pany . . . . . . . . 
 
 Rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. xii. 
 
 c. cxiv. 
 
 Citj- of London (drains, paving, etc. ) 
 
 Rep. 11 & 12 Vict. c. clxiii. 
 
 c. cxvi. 
 
 Southwark Bridge. 
 
 
 c. cxviii. 
 
 St. Andrew, Holborn (extinguish- 
 ing tithes, etc.). 
 
 
 c. cxix. 
 
 Gas Light and Coke Company . . 
 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. cvi. 
 
 c. cxxiii. 
 
 Southwark (small debts recovery) 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 
 c. cxxiv. 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. 
 
 c. cxxv. 
 
 Licensing alehouses (Middlesex). 
 
 
 c. 18 (Priv.) 
 
 Philanthrophic Society (purchase 
 of lands). 
 
 , 
 
 5 Geo. 4 
 
 
 
 (1824) 
 
 
 
 c. 39 
 
 British Museum. 
 
 
 c. 43 
 
 Duties on coal brought to London 
 
 Rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105. 
 
 c. 50 
 
 Price and assize of bread (London) 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 60 
 
 British Museum (Knight's Col- 
 lection). 
 
 
 c. 75 
 
 St. Pancras (Excise) 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 100 
 
 Regent's Park and Regent Street. 
 
 
 c. 107 
 
 Chelsea Hospital . . 
 
 Rep. 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 53. 
 
 C. V. 
 
 Female Orphan Asylum. 
 
 
 c. xlvii. 
 
 Hertford Union Canal (Bow to 
 Bethnal Green). 
 
 
 c. Ivi. 
 
 Greenwich and Woolwich Lower 
 
 
 
 Road 
 
 Expired. 
 
 c. Lxi. 
 c. Lsv. 
 
 City Road 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxhi. 
 
 Kensington Canal (Counter's 
 
 
 
 Creek). 
 
 
 c. Ixx. 
 
 St. Pancras (Battle Bridge- Fields) 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 c. Ixxiv. 
 
 St. John, Southwark (poor rates) 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 c. Ixxviii. 
 
 Phoenix Gas Light & Coke Co. 
 
 See Order in Council (1880) made 
 imder 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxix. 
 
 c. cviii. 
 
 Brompton Square, Kensington . . 
 
 Rep. 14 & 15 Vict. c. cxAi. 
 
 c. cxii. 
 
 Hammersmith Suspension Bridge. 
 
 
 c. cxxiii. 
 
 Thames navigation 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 c. cxxv. 
 
 St. Mary, Ishngton (poor, etc.) . . 
 
 Rep. Islington Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. cxxvi. 
 
 Paddington (paving, etc.) 
 
 Rep. Paddington Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 c. cxxxviii. 
 
 Road from Hampstead Road to 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 
 
 North Road, HoUoway . . 
 
 ' 1901. 
 
 0. cxliv. 
 
 Commercial Road, etc. 
 
 Rep. 9 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 c. cxlvii. 
 
 Coal market (city of London). 
 
 
 c. cli. 
 
 Fleet Market (removal of). 
 
 
 c. civ. 
 
 Southwark Bridge. 
 
 
 c. clvi. 
 
 Thames Tunnel (Wapping to Roth- 
 
 
 
 erhithe) 
 
 Rep. in part 29 Vict, c xx. 
 
 6 Geo. 4 
 
 
 
 (1825) 
 
 
 
 c. 21 
 
 Justice of the Peace (Metropolis) 
 
 Rep. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 19. 
 
 c. 26 
 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 
 c. 38 
 
 Road from Regent's Park to Pall 
 Mall. 
 
 
 c. 77 
 
 Buckingham Palace 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 50. 
 
 c. 124 
 
 St. Marylebone (district rectories) 
 
 Rep. St. Marylebone Order in Council 
 
 r 
 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. xxxi. 
 
 Vauxhall Bridge. 
 
 See 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxix.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes rehithiq Hpecialhj 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 xli 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 6 Geo. 4 
 (1825) (con<.) 
 c. Ivi. 
 c. Ivii. 
 
 c. Ixiv. 
 
 c. cv. 
 
 c. cxviii. 
 c. cxix. 
 c. cxxxiv. 
 
 c. clvi. 
 
 c. clvii. 
 c. clx. 
 c. clxxv. 
 
 c. clxxvi. 
 
 c. cxcv. 
 
 c. 18 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 28 (Priv.) 
 c. 45 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 46 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 47 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 48 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 49 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 50 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 51 (Priv.) 
 
 c. 58 (Priv.) 
 
 7 Geo. 4 (1826) 
 c. 16 
 c. 35 
 c. 40 
 c. 77 
 c. 78 
 
 C. XXXV. 
 
 c. xlii. 
 c. liv. 
 
 c. Iv. 
 c. Iviii. 
 
 c. Ix. 
 c. Ixiii. 
 
 c. Ixviii. 
 c. Ixxvi. 
 c. xc. 
 c. xci. 
 c. xcvi. 
 c. civ. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (new cliurch) . . 
 St. Mary, Stratford Bow (burial 
 
 ground) 
 East Country Docks 
 
 St. Katharine's Dock 
 
 South London Docks. 
 
 Collier Dock (Isle of Dogs) 
 
 St. John, Westminster (paving, etc.) 
 
 Road from HoUoway to Battle 
 
 Bridge Road 
 Kensington Road . . 
 Fulham Road. 
 St. Andrew, Holborn (poor rates, 
 
 etc.) 
 St. Botolph without Bishopsgate 
 
 (tithes). 
 St. Dunstan-in-the-East. 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (leasing of glebe 
 
 lands). 
 Christ's Hospital. 
 Paddington (enabling Bishop of 
 
 London to grant leases). 
 St. Thomas Hospital (confirming 
 
 leases). 
 Lambeth (building licences by 
 
 Archbishop of Canterbury). 
 Christ's Hospital (confirming 
 
 leases). 
 Bridewell Hospital (confirming 
 
 leases) 
 Bethlem Hospital (confirming 
 
 leases) 
 St. Bartholomew Hospital (con- 
 firming leases). 
 Greenwich Hospital (Brixton's 
 
 Estate). 
 
 Chelsea Hospital. 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 London Bridge 
 
 Regent Street (Ciirlton Gardens). 
 Houses of Parliament (street im- 
 provements). 
 Camberwell New Road 
 
 Westminster Bridewell. 
 
 St. Giles, Cripplegate (extinguish- 
 ing tithes). 
 
 New corn exchange, Mark Lane. 
 
 St. George, Hanover Square, and 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (paving, light- 
 ing, etc. ) 
 
 Bolvidere Road Bridge, Lambeth. 
 
 All Saints, Wands wortli (poor 
 rates) 
 
 School for the Indigent Blind. 
 
 Tyburn and Uxbridge Roads 
 
 Marylebone and Finchley Roads 
 
 Harrow Road 
 
 Kensington Canal (Counters Creek) 
 
 St. Mary JMagdalen, Bermondsey 
 (additional church) 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. Chelsea Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Poplar Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 27 Vict. c. xxxi.; and see 14 & 15 
 
 Vict. c. xliii. 
 Rep. in part 27 & 28 Vict. c. 
 
 clxxviii. 
 
 Powers not exercised. 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 11 & 12 Vict. c. xlviii. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council 1901 
 
 Rep. 1 Edw. 7, c. cxcix. 
 Rep. 1 Edw. 7, c. ccxxxix. 
 
 Rep. 10 Geo. 4, c. 26. 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. Camberwell, Lambeth, and 
 South wark Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Chelsea and Westminster Orders 
 in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. Wandsworth Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 Rep. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 73. 
 Rep. 7 Geo. 4, c. cxlii. 
 
 Rep. 48 & 49 Vict. c. cxvi.
 
 xlii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1007. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 7 Geo. 4 
 (1826) (cont.) 
 c. cxiii. 
 
 c. cxiv. 
 c.cxvi. 
 
 c. cxxi. 
 
 c. cxxv. 
 c. cxl. 
 
 c. cxlii. 
 
 c. 22(Priv.) 
 
 c. 25(Priv.) 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. Kensington Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 c. 46(Priv.) 
 7 & 8 Geo. 4 
 
 (1 
 c. 
 
 826-7) 
 33 
 
 c. 
 
 xxin. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxm. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlix. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxir. 
 
 c. 
 
 xci. 
 
 c. 
 
 cviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 54 (Priv.) 
 
 9 Geo. 4(1828) 
 c. 9 
 
 c. 
 
 64 
 
 c. 
 
 70 
 
 c. 
 
 xliii. 
 
 c. 
 
 lii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcv. 
 
 c 
 
 ciii. 
 
 c 
 
 cxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxii. 
 
 c 
 
 cxin. 
 
 c 
 
 . cxvi. 
 
 c 
 
 cxx. 
 
 c 
 
 45 (Priv.) 
 
 lOGeo. 4(1829) 
 c. 25 
 
 c 
 
 .26 
 
 c 
 
 . 44 
 
 c 
 
 45 
 
 c 
 
 . 59 
 
 c 
 
 . 61 
 
 St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington 
 
 (poor, etc.) 
 St. Bride, Fleet Street (poor relief). 
 St. Botolph without Aldersgate 
 
 (extinguishing tithes). 
 St. George, Hanover Square (pav- Rep. Westminster Order in Coimcil 
 
 ing, etc.) I 1901. 
 
 New Cross roads. . . . . . . ! Expired. 
 
 Grand Junction Waterworks and 
 
 Canal 
 Turnpike roads north of the 
 
 Thames 
 St. Paul, Shadwell (parsonage 
 
 house). 
 Hampstead and St. Marylebone 
 
 (Eton College lands). i 
 
 St. Mary, Lambeth (Pedlar's Acre) Rep. Lambeth Order in Coiuicil 1901. 
 
 Rep. in part 19 & 20 Vict. c. cxvi. 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 115. 
 
 Millbank Penitentiary 
 
 St. John, Horslydown (further 
 
 provision for rector). 
 London Bridge. 
 Westminster Commissioners of 
 
 Sewers (Sun Court, Curzon 
 
 Street). 
 Camberwell New Road 
 
 Golden Square, St. James, West- 
 minster. 
 Kentish Town, St. Pancras 
 Thames watermen and lightermen 
 St. Marylebone and St. Pancras 
 
 (boundaries) 
 St. John, Hampstead (chiu-ch 
 
 accommodation) 
 Bow Bridge and Channelsea Bridge 
 Fulham (enabling Bishop of 
 
 London to grant building licences). 
 
 Sessions of the Peace, Westminster 
 
 Regent Street and Houses of Parlia- 
 ment. 
 
 Regent Street, etc. 
 
 East Greenwich (poor relief) 
 
 Hammersmith Suspension Bridge. 
 
 Thames Tunnel 
 
 East India Docks. 
 
 North End and Hammersmith 
 Roads. 
 
 Southwark Bridge (southern ap- 
 proach). 
 
 Commercial Road . . » . 
 
 Covent Garden Market. 
 
 London Docks. 
 
 Southwark and Highgate Roads. 
 
 Walcott and Hayle's Charities. 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 Greenwich Hospital (out pensions) 
 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 
 Justices of the Peace (Metropolis) 
 
 Metropolitan turnpikes 
 
 Regent Street, etc. 
 
 Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. 0. 26. 
 
 Rep. Camberwell, Lambeth, and 
 Southwark Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. in part 22 & 23 Vict. c. cxxxiii. 
 Rep. St. Marvlebone Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 Rep. in part Hampstead Order in 
 
 Council 1901. 
 Rep. 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxx. 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. Greenwich Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 29 Vict. c. xx. 
 
 Rep. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 73. 
 
 Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 115.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes rehit'uKj .sjjccialli/ 
 to London from 1700 to I'JUT. 
 
 xliii 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 10 Geo. 4 
 
 
 
 (1829) {cont.) 
 
 
 
 c. i. 
 
 St. Katharine's Dock 
 
 Rep. 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 St. Mary, Stratford Bow (vestry, 
 
 1 
 
 
 etc. ) 
 
 i Rep. Poplar Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. xii. 
 
 Imperial Gas Light & Coke Com- 
 
 
 
 pany 
 
 Rep. 17 & 18 Vict. c. Iv. 
 
 c. xxxi. 
 
 St. Clement Danes, St. Mary le 
 Strand, and I'recinct of Savoy 
 (redemption of land tax). 
 
 
 c. xxxii. 
 
 St. Andrew, Holborn, etc. (poor) . . 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. Ixvii. 
 
 West India Dock . . 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. Iii. 
 
 c. Ixviii. 
 
 St. Paul, Co vent Garden . . 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 c. xcvi. 
 
 St. Dunstan in the West (new 
 church). 
 
 
 c. ci. 
 
 St. James, Clerkenwell (paving, 
 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. cxiii. 
 
 Great Dover Street 
 
 Discontinued 24 & 25 Vict. c. 64. 
 
 c. cxvi. 
 
 Chancery Inrolment Office. 
 
 
 c. cxvii. 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c 41. 
 
 c. cxviii. 
 
 Independent Gas Light & Coke 
 Company. 
 
 
 c. cxix. 
 
 St. Saviour, Southwark (market). 
 
 
 c. cxxiv. 
 
 Port of London 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 c. cxxvii. 
 
 Britisli Gas Light Company 
 
 Rep. 15 & 16 Vict. c. civ. 
 
 c. cxxviii. 
 
 Southwark (lighting, etc., certain 
 
 
 
 streets) 
 
 Rep. Southwark Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. cxxix. 
 
 St. Mary, Lambeth (lighting, etc.). 
 
 Rep. Lambeth Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. cxxx. 
 
 City Canal (Isle of Dogs) . . 
 
 Rep. 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. Iii. 
 
 c. cxxxi. 
 
 St. Mary, Rotherhithe (poor rate) 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 c. cxxxvi. 
 
 London Bridge approaches. 
 
 
 c. 6{Priv.) 
 
 Lambeth I'alace (repairing, etc.). 
 
 
 c. 28 (Priv.) 
 
 York Buildings Waterworks (dis- 
 solution of company). 
 
 " 
 
 c. 43 (Priv.) 
 
 London Workhouse. 
 
 
 c. 45 (Priv.) 
 
 Dean, etc., of St. Paul to grant 
 building leases. 
 
 ■ 
 
 c. 46 (Priv.) 
 
 Dean, etc., of St. Paul to grant 
 building leases. 
 
 
 c. 49 (Priv.) 
 
 St. IMary, Newington Butts 
 (glebe lands). 
 
 
 11 Geo. 4 & 
 
 
 
 1 Will. 4 (1830) 
 
 
 
 c. 14 
 
 Hay and straw (Metropolis). 
 
 
 c. 41 
 
 Chelsea Hospital (pensions). 
 
 
 c. 59 
 
 Marylebone Chapel 
 
 Rep. in part 4 Edw. 7, c. xlvi.. and 5 
 Edw. 7, c. vii. 
 
 C. X. 
 
 St. Giles in the Fields and St. 
 
 
 
 George, Bloomsbury 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. xiii. 
 
 St. Katharine's Docks 
 
 Rep. in part 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 
 c. xlv. 
 
 Great Dover Street, Trinity Square, 
 
 Rep Southwark Order in Council 
 
 
 etc. 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. Ixiv. 
 
 London Bridge approaches. 
 
 
 c. Ixx. 
 
 Hungerford Market Co. (incorpora- 
 
 
 
 tion of) 
 
 See '>,% & 24 Vict. c. cxlvii. 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 Portman Market, St. Marylebone. 
 
 
 c. cxxxii. 
 
 St. Gtwrge Bloomsbury (prohibit- 
 ing liurying in a chapel of ease 
 intended to be built). 
 
 
 c. 44 (Priv.) 
 
 New Ri\ er water . . 
 
 See^2 Edw. 7, c 41. 
 
 c. 48 (Priv.) 
 
 Roan's Charity, Greenwich. 
 
 
 1 Will. 4 
 
 
 
 (1830-1) 
 
 
 
 c. iii. 
 
 London Bridge approaches. 
 
 
 c. xix. 
 
 School for the Indigent Blind. 

 
 xliv 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London fro7n 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 1 Will. 4 
 
 (1830-1) (con<.) 
 
 c. xxii. 
 
 1 & 2 Will. 4 
 
 (1831) 
 c. 1 
 c. 22 
 c. 29 
 c. 50 
 c. iii. 
 
 c. Iii. 
 c. bcxvi. 
 
 2 & 3 WiU. 4 
 (1831-2) 
 
 c. 3 
 c. 46 
 c. 53 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 c. 
 
 56 
 
 c. 
 
 66 
 
 c. 
 
 xiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixv. 
 
 ' c. 
 
 Ixvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ex. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiii. 
 
 3 & 4 
 
 Will. 4 
 
 (1833) 
 
 c. 
 
 8 
 
 c. 
 
 9 
 
 0. 
 
 19 
 
 c. 
 
 29 
 
 c. 
 
 48 
 
 c. 
 
 65 
 
 c. 
 
 66 
 
 c. 
 
 81 
 
 c. 
 
 89 
 
 c. 
 
 X xxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 ex. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 4(Priv.) 
 
 4 & 5 Will. 4 
 
 (1834) 
 
 c. 
 
 20 
 
 c. 
 
 21 
 
 c. 
 
 32 
 
 c. 
 
 34 
 
 c. 
 
 36 
 
 St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey 
 (Crypt and tower of the addi- 
 tional church) 
 
 Buckingham House 
 London hackney carriages. 
 Wellington Street and Bow Street. 
 Fresh Wharf, London. 
 Grosvenor Chapel, St. George, 
 
 Hanover Square. 
 West India Docks. 
 Vend and delivery of coal. 
 
 Rep. 48 & 49 Vict. c. cxvi. 
 
 Rep. 37 & 58 Vict. c. 35 (S.L.R.), 
 
 Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Buckingham Palace 
 
 British Museum. 
 
 Chelsea Hospital (Army prize 
 
 money). 
 Regent Street and Regent's Park. 
 London quays. 
 
 St. Luke, Old Street (watching, etc.) Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 London Bridge approaches. 
 
 St. IMary, Islington (Ecclesiastical 
 
 burdens) 
 St. Katharine's Dock 
 Tower Hamlets (Recovery of small 
 
 debts) 
 St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. 
 
 George the Mart\T 
 General cemetery (Metropolis). 
 Portman Market. 
 
 Rep. Islington Order in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 
 Semble rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council 1901. 
 
 London quays. 
 
 Seamen's Hospital Society (Incor- 
 poration of) 
 
 Police Magistrates (Metropolis) . . 
 
 Chelsea Hospital. 
 
 London Hackney Carriages. 
 
 Woolwich Dockyard. 
 
 Duties of package, etc., Corporation 
 of London 
 
 Buckingham Palace 
 
 Metropolitan Police 
 
 St. Giles, Camber well (Poor rates) 
 
 London & Birmingham Railway 
 
 London & Greenwich Railway . . 
 
 New North Road . . 
 
 Kentish Town junction road 
 
 Serjeants' Inn and St. Dunstan in 
 the West. 
 
 St. George's Fund Society (Troopers 
 Fund), dissolution of. 
 
 Blackfriars Bridge. 
 
 Thames Tunnel 
 
 Sir J. Soane's Museum. 
 
 Sale of fish . . 
 
 Hay and straw (Metropolis). 
 Port of London (Tonnage rates) . . 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 Central Criminal Court (Jurisdic- 
 tion). 
 
 Rep. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 71. 
 
 - Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 67. 
 
 Rep. CamberwellOrderin Councill901. 
 
 Rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. cciv. 
 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. 
 
 Rep. 12 & 13 Vict. c. Ixvi. 
 
 Discontinued 28 & 29 Vict. c. 107. 
 
 Rep. in part 29 Vict. c. xx. 
 
 Rep. 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. c. 45. 
 
 Rep. 
 Rep. 
 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. 44.
 
 Chronological Table of Statufes relating speciallg 
 to London from 1700 to 19<j7. 
 
 X 
 
 Iv 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 4 & 5 Will. 4 
 (1834) {cont.) 
 
 c. 96 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 c. xiii. 
 
 c. xxxviii, 
 
 c. xlv. 
 c. Iviii. 
 
 c. Ixxv. 
 
 c. Ixxvii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcv. 
 
 c. 35 (Priv.) 
 5 & 6 Will. 4 
 
 (1835) 
 c. 35 
 
 c. 
 
 X. 
 
 c. 
 
 xiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xliii. j 
 
 c. 
 
 xliv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ivi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cvii. 
 
 1 
 
 c. 
 
 cxi. 
 
 6 & 7 Will. 4 
 
 (183G) 
 c. 24 
 
 c. 
 
 50 1 
 
 c. 
 
 vii. 
 
 c. 
 
 XX. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixviii. 1 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ciii. 
 
 c. 
 
 civ. 
 
 c. 
 
 cvi. 
 
 c 
 
 cxxi. 
 
 c 
 
 cxxiii. 
 
 c 
 
 . cxxviii. 
 
 c 
 
 cxxix. 
 
 Bayswater sewer . . . . . . 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks 
 London Bridge approaches 
 St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park 
 Comer. 1 
 
 South London Market, Southwark. 
 St. George, Hanover Square, and 
 St. Luke, Chelsea . . . . . . j 
 
 St. Paul, Hammersmith (constitu- 
 tion as a separate parish). 
 Office of constable in the city of 
 
 London. 
 South London Waterworks 
 Southwark Water Company 
 London & Southampton Railway 
 Bow and Channelsea Bridges. 
 St. Mary ^lagdalon, Bermondsey 
 
 (paving, etc.) 
 City of London School. 
 
 Chelsea Hospital. 
 
 London & Croydon Railway 
 
 Deptford Pier. 
 
 St. Margaret, etc., Westminster ; 
 Saffron Hill, etc. (paving, cleans- 
 ing, etc. ) . . 
 
 Avenue Road, St. Marylebone . . 
 
 Grosvenor Square. 
 
 East India Docks. 
 
 London and Birmingham Railway 
 
 Recovery of small debts (City of 
 London) 
 
 Grand Junction Waterworks 
 
 Registrar'soffiee.Court of Chancery. 
 I Great Western Railway (London 
 to Bristol). 
 
 Cattle Market, Islington . . 
 
 St. Ann's Chapel, Wandsworth 
 (Confirmation of marriages). 
 
 Horse patrol (Metropolis) 
 
 Middlesex Hospital (Incorporation 
 of subscribers). 
 
 Westminster Hospital (Incorpora- 
 tion of governors). 
 
 St. Katharine's Dock. 
 
 Great Western Railway. 
 
 Deptford Pier Junction Railway. 
 
 Hungerford ^larket Company 
 ; ICing Street, Greenwich . . 
 
 South Eastern Railway. 
 
 Birmingham, Bristol & Thames 
 Junction Railway (West London 
 Railway) . . 
 
 Northern & Etxstern Railway 
 (London and Cambridge) 
 
 London Grand Junction Railway. 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway 
 
 London & Croydon Railway 
 
 Commercial Railwav (London and 
 Blackwall).. 
 
 Greenwich I'ior. 
 
 South Metropolitan Cemetery. 
 
 Superseded 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. 
 Rep. 11 & 12 Vict. c. vii. 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep. Chelsea and Westminster 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 } Rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixix. 
 See 2 & 3 Vict. c. xxviii. 
 
 Rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. clxxvii. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 Rep. Holborn, Lambeth and West- 
 minster Orders in Council 1901. 
 Rep. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 73. 
 
 Rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. cciv. 
 
 Semble rep. 10 & II Vict. c. Ixxi. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 17 & 18 Vict. c. Ixiii. 
 
 Rep. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47. 
 
 See 23 & 24 Vict. c. cxlvii. 
 I Semble spent. 
 
 See 3 & 4 Vict. c. cv. 
 
 See 7 & 8 Vict. c. xx. 
 
 See 25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiiL 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c.
 
 xlvi 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 6 & 7 WiU. 4 
 (1836) {.cont.) 
 c. exxxiii. 
 
 c. cxxxiv. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxx\-i. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxvu. 
 
 c.24(Priv.) 
 7 Will. 4 & 1 
 Vict. (1837) 
 c. 13 
 c. 36, s. 8 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 37 
 
 46 
 
 77 
 
 1. 
 
 hd. 
 
 Ixiv. 
 
 Ixxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xci. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcu. 
 
 e. 
 
 xciu. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 exxxiii. 
 
 I & 2 Vict. 
 (1837-8) 
 c. 7 
 c. 75 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 79 
 89 
 94 
 
 c. 
 
 IV. 
 
 0. 
 
 ix. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Uv. 
 Lxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 Ixxxiii. ' 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 01. 
 
 2 & 3 Vict. 
 (1839) 
 c. 10 
 c. 47 
 c. 71 
 
 Hungerford Bridge . . . . . See 22 & 23 Vict. c. Ixxxi. and 23 if 
 
 I 24 Vict. c. cxlvii. 
 
 Bridge from Chtirch Street, Lam- 
 beth, to Market Street, Westmin- , 
 ster . . . . . . . . I Expired. See 24 & 25 Vict. c. cx\Ti. 
 
 London Cemetery Company. 
 
 Westminster (Recovery of small Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 debts) 1901. 
 
 Christ's Hospital (Confirming lease). 
 
 3Iillbank Penitentiary 
 
 Post Office offences (St. Martin le 
 
 Grand). 
 Justice of the Peace (Metropolis) . . 
 Record Office. 
 Central Criminal Court. 
 London & Greenwich Railway 
 Greenwich Pier. 
 
 London & Birmingham Railway . . 
 London & Southampton Railway . . 
 Great Western Railway. 
 Great Western Railway. 
 South Eastern Railway. 
 South London Market, Southwark. 
 London & Brighton Railway 
 London & Greenwich Railway 
 
 (Deptford Creek tolls) . . 
 Grand Colher Docks 
 West of London & Westminster 
 
 Cemetery Company. 
 Commercial Railway (London and 
 
 Blackwall) 
 
 Houses of Parliament. 
 
 Fires prevention (Metropohs) 
 
 Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 26. 
 
 Rep. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 71. 
 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. 
 
 Rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. cciv. 
 See 2 & 3 Vict. c. xxNdi. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. 
 Powers not exercised. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict, c. c. 
 
 Rep. in part 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 
 (S.L.R.) ; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 57 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Hackney carriages (Metropohs) . . Rep. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86. 
 
 Chelsea Hospital (Drouly Fund). 
 
 Public Record Office. 
 
 London & Greenwich Railway 
 (Extension of time) 
 
 East & West India Docks (Amal- 
 gamation). 
 
 London & Croydon Railway 
 
 Lee (new church). 
 
 Bridge from Chin-ch Street, Lam- 
 beth, to ilarket Street, West- 
 minster 
 
 Refuge for the Destitute (Incor- 
 poration). 
 
 St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics 
 (Incorporation). 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway 
 
 New street from Holbom Bridge 
 to Clerkenwell Green. 
 
 Royal Exchange (City of London.) 
 
 Vend and delivery of coal (London 
 and Westminster) 
 
 British Museum. 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 Metropolitan Police Courts. 
 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 Expired. See 24 & 25 Vict. c. cxvii. 
 
 See 25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii 
 
 Expired.
 
 Chronological Table of StoAufes relating specialb/ 
 to London from 17»)0 to 10<)7. 
 
 xlvii 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 2 & 3 Viot. 
 (1839) {cont.) 
 
 c. 80 
 
 c. iv. 
 
 c. V. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 c. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xviii. 1 
 
 c. 
 
 XIX. 1 
 
 c. 
 
 xxvn. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxvm. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 xlii. 
 Ixxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcv. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cvii. ' 
 20(Priv.) 
 27(Priv.) 
 
 3 & 4 Vict. 
 (1840) 
 c. 84 
 c. 87 
 
 c. 
 
 Vll. 
 
 c 
 c 
 
 xlvi. 
 1. 
 
 c 
 c 
 
 . lii. 
 
 . Ixxxvi. 
 
 c 
 
 . cv. 
 
 c 
 
 cxii. 
 
 c 
 
 cxxvii. 
 
 c 
 
 cxxviu. 1 
 
 c 
 
 cxxix. 
 
 c 
 
 . cxxxi. 
 
 4 & 5 Vict. 
 
 New tlioroughfares (Metropolis). 
 
 Tooting (Repairing roadn). 
 
 General Cemetery Company (Metro- 
 polis). 
 
 Xew Cross roads. 
 
 London & Croydon Railway 
 
 London & Greenwich Railway . . 
 
 Great Western Railway. 
 
 London & South Western Railway. 
 
 London & Birmingham Railway . . 
 
 South Eastern Railway. 
 
 Deptford Pier Junction Railway. 
 
 Northern & Eastern Railway 
 
 Northern & Eastern Railway 
 (Station at Shoroditch) . , 
 
 City of London Police. 
 
 Commercial Railwav (London and 
 Blackwall). . 
 
 London Bridge approaches 
 
 Bethlem Hospital (Sale of land). 
 
 St. George's Fields (Sale of land). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Courts. 
 New thoroughfares (Metropolis). 
 St. Mary, Rotherhithe (Burying 
 
 ground, etc.). 
 South Eastern Railway. 
 Thames Tunnel Company (Revival 
 
 of powers) . . 
 Northern & Eastern Railway 
 Royal Naval School. 
 West London Railway 
 New street from Farringdon Street 
 
 to Clerkenwell Green. 
 London & Greenwich Railway . . 
 London & Greenwich Railway 
 
 (Station at Southwark) 
 London & Croydon Railway 
 Coal and wine duties (Port of 
 
 London) 
 
 See 
 See 
 
 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. 
 
 Rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. cciv. 
 
 See 7 & 8 Vict. c. xx. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 Spent. 
 
 c. 12 
 c. 27 
 c. 40. 
 0. xii. 
 c. xiv. 
 0. xvii. 
 c. xxiv. 
 c. xxxix. 
 
 c. xlii. 
 0. Ixiii. 
 
 0. Ixv. 
 c. Ixvii. 
 
 c. 25(Priv.) 
 
 C.41 (Priv.) 
 
 5 Vict. (1841) 
 c. 1 
 
 ! New thoroughfares (Metropolis) . . 
 i York House and Victoria Park. 
 New thoroughfares (^Metropolis) . . 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 Eastern Counties Railway 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (Poor laws) 
 Northern & Eastern Railway 
 London & South Western Rail- 
 way. 
 Northern & Eastern Railway 
 City of London & Tower Ham- 
 lets Cemetery Co. 
 St. Pancras (Southampton Estate) 
 Kentish Town, west side (Paving, 
 etc.) 
 
 Westminster (Dean enabled to 
 grant building lejises). 
 Fishmongers' Company (Feoffees of 
 St. Mildred, Bread Street). 
 
 Crown lands, Kensington. 
 
 See 29 & 30 Vict. c. xx. 
 See 7 & 8 Vict. c. xx. 
 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. clvi. 
 
 - See 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 Expired. 
 
 Rep. in part 5 & 6 Vict. c. 64. 
 
 Rep. in part 14 & 15 Vict. c. 42. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. xx. 
 ! See 25 & 20 Vict. c. ccxxiii. 
 ■ Rep. Chelsea Order in Council 1901. 
 
 See 7 & 8 Vict. c. xx. 
 
 See 7 «& 8 Vict. c. xx. 
 
 I Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 
 : 1901.
 
 xlviii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from ITUO to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 1 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 5 & 6 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1842) 
 
 
 
 c. 19 
 
 New opening to Hyde Park. 
 
 
 c. 20 
 
 ' Victoria Park. 
 
 
 c. 22 
 
 Queen's Bench, Fleet and ilar- 
 
 
 
 shalsea Prisons 
 
 S. 8 rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 12. 
 
 c. 29 
 
 Pentonville Prison. 
 
 
 c. 64 
 
 London Bridge approaches. 
 
 
 c. 70 
 
 Chelsea Hospital . . 
 
 Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.R.) 
 
 c. 78 
 
 Primrose Hill, London (Exchange 
 of land between the Crown and 
 Eton College). 
 
 
 c. iii. 
 
 South Eastern Railway. 
 
 
 C. X. 
 
 St. Pancras (Prohibiting burying 
 in a church). 
 
 
 c. xxxiv. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 c. xxxvi. 
 
 Equitable Gas Light Company 
 
 
 
 (Incorporation) 
 
 See 34 & 35 Vict. c. Ixxv. 
 
 c. xlv. 
 
 Xew Cross roads. 
 
 
 c. xhdi. 
 
 Opening a street to ClerkenweU 
 Green. 
 
 
 c. xlviii. 
 
 Ely Place and Ely ilews (Paving, 
 
 Rep. in part Holbom Order in Council 
 
 
 etc.) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c.l. 
 
 Camberwell . . 
 
 Rep. Camberwell Order in Coxincil 
 1901. 
 
 c. li. 
 
 St. Pancras (Southampton Estate) 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order inCouncil 1901. 
 
 c. Ixxix. 
 
 South ^letropolitan Gas Light & 
 Coke Company. 
 
 
 c. xcvii. 
 
 Deptford Pier. 
 
 
 c. ci. 
 
 London Bridge approaches, etc. 
 
 
 c. cii. 
 
 London & Greenwich Railway . . 
 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. 
 
 c. cvii. 
 
 Clink district, Southwark. 
 
 
 c.ll(Priv.) 
 
 Cass's Charity. 
 
 
 c. 12 
 
 Charterhouse. 
 
 
 6 & 7 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1843) 
 
 
 
 c. 2 
 
 Vend and delivery of coal (London 
 
 
 
 and Westminster) 
 
 Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.R. ). 
 
 c. 19 
 
 Thatched House Court and Little 
 St. James Street. 
 
 
 c. 26 
 
 Millbank Penitentiary 
 
 Rep. 55 & 50 Vict. c. 1. 
 
 c. 31 
 
 Chelsea Hospital (Drouly bequest). 
 
 
 0. 86 
 
 London hackney carriages. 
 
 
 c 95 
 
 Chelsea Hospital (Outpensioners) . . 
 
 Rep. 30&31 Vict. c. 110. 
 
 c. xix. 
 
 Hungerford Bridge . . 
 
 See 22 & 23 Vict, c. Ixxxi. and 23 & 
 24 Vict. c. cxh-ii. 
 
 ■ c. xxvii. 
 
 London & Brighton Railway 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 c. xxviii. 
 
 Northern & Eastern Railway 
 
 See 7 & 8 Vict. c. xx. 
 
 c. xxxiii. 
 
 St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington (Nor- 
 
 
 
 land Estate) 
 
 Rep. 14 & 15 Vict. c. cxvi. 
 
 c. xxxiv. 
 
 Bethnal Green and Shoreditch 
 
 Rep. Bethnal Green and Shoreditch 
 
 
 (paving, etc.) 
 
 Orders in Coxxacil 1901. 
 
 c. xxxvi. 
 
 London Cemetery Company. 
 
 
 c. \w\\. 
 
 Thames lastage and ballastage. 
 
 
 c. Ix. 
 
 Kentish Town (paving, etc.) 
 
 Rep. St. Pancras Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 South Eastern and London & 
 Croydon Railways (Bricklayers' 
 
 
 
 Arms Station, etc.) 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 c. xc. 
 
 Infant Orphan Asylum. 
 
 
 c. ci. 
 
 Coalwhippers (Port of London) . . 
 
 Expired. 
 
 0. cviii. 
 
 Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, and 
 
 
 
 Deptford roads 
 
 Discontinued 28 & 29 Vict. c. 107. 
 
 7 & 8 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1844) 
 
 
 
 c. 1 
 
 New thoroughfares (Metropolis) . . ; 
 
 Rep. in part 14 & 15 Vict. c. 42, s. 3. 
 
 c. 2 
 
 Central Criminal Court ( jurisdic- | 
 
 
 tion).
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specialbj 
 to London from 1700 to 1007. 
 
 xlix 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 7 & 8 Vict. 
 (1844) {cont.) 
 
 c. (50 
 c. 71 
 c. 84 
 c. 88 
 
 C. XX. 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 c. Ixxxvi. 
 
 c. xcv. 
 c.30(Priv.) 
 
 8 & 9 Viet. 
 
 (1845) 
 c. 22 
 
 c. 86 
 
 c. 99 
 
 c. 101 
 
 0. 104 
 c. i. 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 c. xiii. 
 c. xvii. 
 
 0. xxi. 
 c. xxii. 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXXl. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxliii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxvii. 
 
 c 
 
 clxxviii 
 
 c 
 
 clxxx. 
 
 c 
 
 clxxxvi 
 
 c 
 
 oxcvi. 
 
 c 
 
 . cciii. 
 
 Trafalgar Square. 
 
 Middlesex Sessions 
 
 Metropolitan buildings 
 
 Widening Piccadilly. 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway (Leasing 
 of Northern and Eixstern Railway). 
 
 Eastern Counties & Thames 
 Junction Railway 
 
 London & South Western Rail- 
 way (Nine Elms). 
 
 London Gas Light Company 
 
 Bishop of London and Grand 
 Junction Canal. 
 
 Greenwich Hospital (Widening 
 
 Fisher Lane). 
 Tonnage rates (Port of London) . . 
 
 Millbank and Kensington (Crown 
 lands). 
 
 Vend and deliv-ery of coals (London 
 and Westminster) 
 
 Darby Court, Westminster. 
 
 Thames navigation (City of Lon- 
 don) 
 
 London Orphan Asylum (Incor- 
 poration). 
 
 Southwark(AbolishingSunday tolls) 
 
 New street from Holborn Bridge 
 to Clerkenwell Green. 
 
 Battersea (Poor rates) 
 
 Royal Naval School. 
 
 Charing Cross Bridge Company . . 
 
 Southwark and Vauxhall Water 
 Company . . 
 
 West of London & Westminster 
 Cemetery Company. 
 
 Free Watermen and Lightermen's 
 Asylum. 
 
 London & Greenwich Railway 
 (Leasing of, to S.E. Railway). 
 
 Etistern Counties & Thames 
 I Junction Railway (North Wool- 
 wich Railway, etc.) 
 
 London & Brighton Railway 
 
 Richmond Railway (Richmond to 
 ! Battersea) . . 
 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (paving, etc.) . . 
 
 West London Railway (Lease to 
 L. & N.W. Railway). 
 
 London & South Western Rail- 
 way (Extension to Waterloo). 
 
 Bermondsey (paving, etc.) 
 
 Westininstor improvements. 
 
 St. Matthew, Bethnal Green (Gar- 
 den pennies, etc.) 
 
 London & Greenwich Railway 
 (Widening of) 
 
 London & Croydon Railway 
 (Widening of) 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 (Stepnej-) . . 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. ccclxvii. 
 
 Rep. 15 & 16 Vict. c. Ixxxii. 
 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107; 17 & 
 18 Vict. c. 120; 57 & 58 Vict. 
 c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii 
 
 Rep. Battersea Order in Council 1901. 
 
 See 22 & 23 Vict. c. Ixxi. and 23 & 
 24 Vict. c. cxlvii. 
 
 See2Edw. 7, c 41. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. ccclxvii. 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cxxxi. 
 
 Rep. Chelsea Order in Coimcil 1901. 
 
 Rep. Bermondsey Order in Council 1001. 
 
 Rep. Bethnal Green Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 See 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixxx. and 28 & 29 
 Vict. c. c.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 17U0 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 9 & 10 Vict. 
 (1846) 
 c. 5 
 c. 9 
 
 0. 10 
 c. 24 
 c. 34 
 
 c. 36 
 
 c. 38 
 c. 39 
 c. xxii. 
 c. xliii. 
 
 cc. Ixviii. 
 & Ixix. 
 c. Ixxi. 
 c. cxxxi. 
 
 c. clii. 
 
 c. cciv. 
 c. ccxxxiv. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclxxxiii 
 
 c. 
 
 cccv. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cccxlvi. 
 cccl. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccclxvii 
 
 0. 
 
 ccclxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxci. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxcvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxcviii 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxcix. 
 
 10& 11 Vict. 
 (1847) 
 c. 4 
 
 c. 
 
 5 
 
 c. 
 
 Ho 
 
 c 
 
 'xxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 r 
 
 xxxviii. 
 liii. 
 
 c 
 
 Iv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixx. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Metropolitan buildings 
 
 Chelsea & Greenwich Hospitals 
 
 (out-pensioners) . . 
 Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals 
 Central Criminal Court. 
 Commercial Street (Spitalfields to 
 
 Shoreditch). 
 Coalwhippers (Port of London) . . 
 Battersea Park 
 
 Chelsea Bridge and Embankment. 
 Coal market (City of London). 
 Royal Asylum of the St. Ann's 
 
 Society. 
 
 London & Brighton Railway 
 
 Great Northern Raihvay . 
 
 Richmond Railway (Richmond to 
 Battersea), (Sale to L. & S.W.). 
 
 London & Birmingham Railway 
 (Stations in London). 
 
 London & North Western Railway. 
 
 London & Croydon Railway 
 (Deptford branch) 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway (Stations 
 in London). 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 (Widening of). 
 
 London & Brighton Railway 
 (Wandsworth branch) 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway Company (amalgamation 
 of London & Brighton and Lon- 
 don & Croydon Companies). 
 
 South Eastern Railway (Line to 
 Woolwich and Gravesend). 
 
 Billingsgate Market. 
 
 Battersea, Clapham, and Lambeth 
 (Lighting, etc.) 
 
 Eastern Counties and Thames 
 Junction Railway. 
 
 West London Railway 
 
 London & South Western Rail- 
 way (London Bridge extension). 
 
 East & West India Docks and 
 Birmingham Junction Railway 
 (North London Railway). 
 
 The Metropolitan Sewage Manure 
 Company . . 
 
 Legal quays. Port of London 
 (Regulation of). 
 
 Chelsea Hospital (Poundage on 
 
 pension) 
 Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals 
 
 (Out-pensioners) . . 
 London Bridge Approaches Fund. 
 Bridge House Estates (City of 
 
 London). 
 Metropolitan Sewage Manure Co. 
 Commercial Gas Light & Coke 
 
 Company (Incorporation) 
 London Sewage Chemical Manure 
 
 Company . . 
 Westminster sewers. 
 
 Rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 122. 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 110. 
 Rep. 19 & 20 Vict. c. 15. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. in part 14 & 15 Vict. c. 77. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 See 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclxxxiii. 
 
 Rep. Battersea, Lambeth, and Wands- 
 worth Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 See 25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii. 
 
 Semble expired. 
 
 Rep. in part 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 
 (S.L.R.); 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 110. 
 
 Semble expired. 
 
 Rep. 15 & 16 Vict. c. civ. 
 
 Semble, powers not exercisea.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specialh/ 
 to London front 1700 to 1907. 
 
 li 
 
 Year, statute 
 tind chapter. 
 
 10& 11 Vict. 
 (1847) (cont.) 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 c. Ixxxviii. 
 
 c. xci. 
 c. civ. 
 
 c. cxxxi. 
 
 0. cxliii. 
 c. cxlvi. 
 c. clvi. 
 
 c. clvii. 
 
 c. cc. 
 c. ccxi. 
 c. ccxxx. 
 
 o. ccxliv. 
 o. cclxxvi. 
 
 o. cclxxx. 
 c. cclxxxvii. 
 c. 28 (Priv.) 
 
 U & 12 Vict. 
 
 (1848) 
 c. 7 
 
 c. 50 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 84 
 
 102 
 
 103 
 
 104 
 
 112 
 
 c. 
 
 124 
 
 c. 
 
 Vll. 
 
 c. 
 
 XVll. 
 
 0. 
 
 XVIU. 
 
 0. 
 
 xc. 
 
 c. 
 
 ex. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clii. 
 clxii. 
 
 0. 
 
 clxiii. 
 
 c 
 
 13 (Priv.) 
 
 12 
 
 c 
 c 
 
 & 13 Vict. 
 (1849) 
 28 
 93 
 
 c 
 c 
 c 
 
 xxxvu. 
 
 xlvii. 
 
 U. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 City of London (Recovery of small 
 dol:)ts) 
 
 London & South Western Rail- 
 way (Widening). 
 
 West London Railway. 
 
 South Eastern Rly. (North Kent 
 and Bricklayers' Arms Junction) 
 
 Westminster improvements 
 
 (amendment) . . . . . . 
 
 Great Northern Railway. 
 
 Great Northern Railway. 
 
 North Woolwich Railway (East & 
 West India Docks) . . 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway (London 
 and Stratford stations) . . 
 
 Legal quays (Port of London). 
 
 Lincoln's Inn 
 
 South Eastern Railway (London 
 Bridge Station) 
 
 Wandsworth to London Railway. 
 
 London Bridge station (L.B. & S.C. 
 Railway and S.E. Railway). 
 
 Cannon Street (widening of). 
 
 Great Northern Railway. 
 
 Dean of Westminster (Sale and ex- 
 change of lands in Paddington, 
 and St. George's, Hanover Square). 
 
 Queen's Bench, Fleet and Marshal- 
 sea Prisons 
 
 Regent's Quadrant (Removal of 
 colonnade). 
 
 Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals . . 
 
 Battersea Park. 
 
 Royal Military Asylum 
 
 Millbank Prison 
 
 Metropolitan Commissioners of 
 Sewers 
 
 London Bridge Approaches Fund. 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks 
 
 Magdalen Hospital. 
 
 Sufferance wharves (Port of London) , 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 
 Orphan Working School (Incor- 
 poration). 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 
 London & South Western Rail- 
 way (London Bridge). 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway (New Cross station). 
 
 City of London (Recovery of debts) 
 
 Clerkenwell Inaprovement Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 City of London (Commissioners of 
 Sewers). 
 
 St. Mary, Woolwich (Sale of glebe 
 lands, etc.). 
 
 Greenwich Markets 
 Metropolitan Sewers 
 London Gas Light Company 
 Southwark and Highgate Roads 
 Charing Cross Bridge. 
 
 Semble rep. 15 & 16 Vict. c. Ixxxvii. 
 
 See 54 & 55 Vict. c. cxlii. 
 
 See 16 «fe 17 Vict. c. cxvii. 
 
 See 25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii. 
 
 Rep. Holborn Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 110, s. 20. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 1. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 Semble rep. 15 «fc 16 Vict. c. IxxviL 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 15 & 16 Vict. c. lixxii. 
 Expired.
 
 lii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 12 & 13 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1849) {cont.) 
 
 
 
 e. lx^^. 
 
 New Xorth Road. 
 
 
 c. Ixxiii. 
 
 London and Blackwall Railway . . 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 c. lxx\-i. 
 
 Commercial Road, etc. 
 
 Rep. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 73. 
 
 c. Ixxx. 
 
 Hospital for Consumption (Incor- 
 poration, etc.). 
 
 
 c. xciv. 
 
 City of London (Elections, etc.) . . 
 
 Rep. in part 50 & 51 Vict. c. xiii. 
 
 13 & 14 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1850) 
 
 
 
 0. 7 
 
 London hackney carriages. 
 
 
 c. 24 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 
 c. 52 
 
 Metropolitan Interments . . 
 
 Rep. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 85. 
 
 c. 78 
 
 Marlborough House. 
 
 
 c. 103 
 
 London Bridge Approaches Fund. 
 
 
 c. 109 
 
 Commercial Street. 
 
 
 C. XXX. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway (Use 
 
 
 
 of Eastern Counties Railway) . . 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 c. xxxi. 
 
 London & South Western Ry. 
 
 
 c. xxxii. 
 
 Xew Xorth Road. 
 
 
 c. xxxvi. 
 
 East & West India Docks and 
 Birmingham Junction Railway 
 (Xorth London Railway). 
 
 
 c.Ii. 
 
 Victoria (London) Dock . . 
 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. cxxxi. 
 
 c. K-i. 
 
 Cannon Street Improvement. 
 
 
 c. lix. 
 
 Kent Waterworks . . 
 
 Rep. in part 25 & 26 Vict. c. xliv. ; 
 and see 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 c. Ixxxii. 
 
 Poplar Gas Light Company (Sale to 
 Commercial Gas Company). 
 
 
 c. Ixxxv. 
 
 Road from Kennington Road to 
 Highgate. 
 
 
 c. cii. 
 
 Westminster Improvements 
 
 See 54 & 55 Vict. c. cxlii. 
 
 c. ciii. 
 
 Marylebone and Finchley Roads . . 
 
 Rep. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 73. 
 
 c. civ. 
 
 St. Michael's Church, Chester 
 Square. 
 
 
 c. cvii. 
 
 St. Gabriel's Chiu-ch, Pimlico. 
 
 
 c. cix. 
 
 Lee River navigation. 
 
 
 c. cxii. 
 
 Westminster Bridge (Temporary). . 
 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 c. 7 (Priv.) 
 
 St. Thomas's Hospital (Confirm- 
 ing leases). 
 
 
 c. 10(Priv.) 
 
 City of London Orphan School. 
 
 
 14 & 15 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1851) 
 
 
 
 c. 28 
 
 Common lodging houses. 
 
 
 c. 42 
 
 London Bridge Approaches Fund. 
 
 
 c. 43 
 
 Hainault Forest. 
 
 
 c. 46 
 
 Victoria Park 
 
 Rep. in part 55 & 56 Viet. c. 19 
 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 61 
 
 Metropolitan cattle market 
 
 Rep. 20 & 21 Vict. c. cxxxv. 
 
 c. 75 
 
 Metropolitan sewers 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 0. 77 
 
 Battersea Park 
 
 Rep in part 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 78 
 
 Coalwhippers (Port of London) . . 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 89 
 
 MetropoUtan Interments . . 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 
 0.95 
 
 Regent's Park and Houses of 
 Parliament. 
 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 \\'alworth Common Inclosure 
 
 Rep. Southwark Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. xix. 
 
 Bridge over the Greenwich to 
 Woolwich Road. 
 
 
 c. xxviii. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 
 -See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 C. XXX. 
 
 (Haydon Square) 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 
 
 (Branch lines) 
 
 c. xxxii. 
 
 Regent's Canal. 
 
 
 c. xliii. 
 
 Commercial Dock (Purchase of 
 
 
 
 East Country Dock) 
 
 Rep. 27 Vict. c. xxxi. 
 
 0. xlv. 
 
 Great Northern Railway (London 
 station). 

 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating speciallg 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 liii 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 14 & 15 Vict. 
 (1851) (cont.) 
 
 c. Ixix. 
 
 o. xci. 
 
 c. c. 
 
 c. oxvl. 
 
 c. cxx. 
 
 c. cxxxviii. 
 
 c. cxliv. 
 c. cxlvi. 
 
 c. 2 (Priv.) 
 c. 3 1 
 
 c. 14(Priv.) 
 
 c. 15(Priv.) 
 c.l8(Priv.) 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 15 & 16 Vict. 
 (1852) 
 c. 29 
 c. 40 
 
 c. 64 
 
 c. 69, s. 4 
 
 c. 70 
 c. 71 
 c. 78 
 c. 84 
 c. 85 
 c. vii. 
 c. xxxiii. 
 
 c. xlii. 
 
 c. Ixxii. 
 
 c. Ixxvii. 
 
 c. Ixxxii. 
 c. Ixxxiv. 
 c. cxlix. 
 
 c. civ. 
 
 c. clvi. 
 c. clvii. 
 c. clviii. 
 c. clix. 
 c. clx. 
 c. clxiv. 
 16& 17 Vict. 
 (1853) 
 c. 1 
 c. 9 
 
 c 18 
 c. 33 
 c. 41 
 
 Great Central Gas Consumers Co. 
 
 City of London Sowers Act (Amend- 
 ment). 
 
 North & South Western Junction 
 Railway 
 
 St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington . . 
 
 Clerkenwell Improvement Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 King's College and King's College 
 Hospital. 
 
 Charing Cross Bridge. 
 
 Vend and delivery of coal (London 
 and Westminster). 
 
 Christ's Hospital. 
 
 St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 
 
 Dean, etc., of Westminster (Build- 
 ing powers). 
 
 Oakley Square Church, St. Pancras. 
 
 Dean, etc. , of Christ Church, Oxford 
 (Empowered to grant building 
 leases in Kentish Town). 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 35 & 36 Vict. c. xxiii. 
 
 Kennington Common. 
 
 Gresham College, and Somerset 
 House. 
 
 Metropolitan sewers 
 
 Local Board of Woolwich (First 
 Election of) 
 
 HoUoway Prison. 
 
 Thames Embankment. 
 
 Buckingham Palace. 
 
 Metropolis water. 
 
 Burial. 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway (East & 
 West India Docks branch) 
 
 Deptford Gas Light and Coke Com- 
 pany (Incorporation of ) . . 
 
 Improvements in the city of 
 London. 
 
 City of London (Recovery of 
 small debts) 
 
 London Gas Light Company. 
 
 London, Tilbury & Southend Rly. 
 
 London Necropolis & National 
 Mausoleum Company. 
 
 British Gas Light Company (Trans- 
 fer to Commercial Gas Company). 
 
 Chelsea Waterworks 
 
 Grand Jimction Waterworks 
 
 South wark & Vauxhall Water Co. 
 
 West Middlesex Waterworks 
 
 New River Waterworks . . 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 
 Bills and notes (Metropolis) 
 Inland Revenue Commissioners 
 
 empowered to dispose of property 
 
 in the city of London. 
 Metropolitan Improvements. 
 London Hackney Carriages. 
 Common Lodging Houses. 
 
 Rep. 
 Rep. 
 Council 
 
 16 & 17 Vict. c. Ixix. 
 
 in part Kensington Order in 
 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 Spent. . 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii. 
 
 See 18 & 19 Vict. c. clxxxvi. 
 
 Semble rep. 15 & 16 Vict. c. Ixxvii. 
 
 I See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. in part 18 & 19 Vict. c. xxiv. 
 
 I See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. clxvi. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.).
 
 liv 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to VM)1. 
 
 Year 
 
 , statute 
 
 and 
 
 chapter. 
 
 16 & 
 
 17 Vict. 
 
 (1S53) (cont.) 
 
 c 
 
 44 
 
 c 
 
 46 
 
 c. 
 
 47 
 
 c. 
 
 52 
 
 c. 
 
 87 
 
 c. 
 
 125 
 
 c. 
 
 127 
 
 c 
 
 128 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixix. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcvii. 
 
 c. c. 
 
 o. cvi. 
 0. ex. 
 
 c. cxvi. 
 
 c. cxvii. 
 
 c. cxxxi. 
 c. cxli. 
 
 c. clxvi. 
 c. clxxvi. 
 c. clxxx. 
 
 c. clxxxvi. 
 c. ccxv. 
 
 c. ccxxu. 
 c. ccxxv. 
 
 & 18 Vict. 
 (1854) 
 c. 33 
 c. 61 
 c. 70 
 
 c. 93 
 c. Ill 
 c. 114 
 c. xxxix. 
 c. Iv. 
 
 c. Ixi. 
 
 c. Ixiii. 
 
 c. Ixv. 
 c. Ixxii. 
 c. Ixxx. 
 
 c. Ixxxix. 
 0. xciv. 
 
 c. cvii. 
 c. cxli. 
 
 c. cliii. 
 
 0. cliv. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Buckingham Palace. 
 
 Westminster Bridge. 
 
 Battersea Park. 
 
 Commercial Street . . 
 
 Thames Embankment. 
 
 Metropolitan Sewers 
 
 London Hackney Carriages (No. 2), 
 
 Smoke abatement (London) 
 
 North & Sovith Western Junction 
 Bail way (Hammersmith) 
 
 East & West India Docks and 
 Birmingham Junction Railway 
 (North London Railway). 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway (London Bridge station). 
 
 London Docks 
 
 London & North Western Rail- 
 way (Haydon Square). 
 
 South Eastern Railway (London 
 Bridge station). 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway (purchase 
 of North Woolwich line) . . 
 
 Victoria (London) Docks . . 
 
 St. Mary, Whitechapel 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 Westminster Improvements 
 West End of London & Crystal 
 Palace Railway . . 
 North Metropolitan Railway 
 Westminster Association for im- 
 proving the Dwellings of theWork- 
 ing Classes (Incorporation of). 
 Hampstead Junction Railway . . 
 St. Margaret and St. John, West- 
 minster 
 
 Public Statues (Metropolis). 
 Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea . . 
 Marylebone chapels 
 
 Somerset House. 
 Metropolitan sewers 
 University of London 
 New River Waterworks . . 
 Imperial Gas Light and Coke Com- 
 pany (Consolidation of Acts) 
 London Brighton & South Coast 
 
 Railway (London stations, etc.). 
 Islington Cattle Market (Repealing 
 
 Act). 
 East London Waterworks 
 New River Company 
 North London Railway (Cattle 
 
 Market station). 
 North Woolwich Sewers. 
 Surrey Consumers Gas Light and 
 
 Coke Company 
 Exhibition of 1851 Commissioners. 
 North & South Western Jiuiction 
 
 Railway 
 Eastern Counties Railway (Bethnal 
 
 Green station) 
 Canaden Town Cemetery. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Semble^spent. 
 
 Rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76. 
 
 See 34 & 35 Vict. c. cxcii. 
 
 Rep. in part 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 
 See 25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii. 
 
 Rep. in part 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 
 Rep. in part Stepney Order in Council 
 
 1901. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 See 54 & 55 Vict. c. cxUi. 
 
 See 23 & 24 Vict. c. clxxiv. 
 Rep. 17 & 18 Vict. c. ccxxi. 
 
 See 26 & 27 Vict. c. ccxvii. 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. in part 4 Edw. 7, c. xlvi. ; and 
 5 Edw. 7, c. vii. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. in part 38 & 39Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 See Order in Council (1876) made 
 under 3 1 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. 
 
 I See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See Order in Council (1879) made 
 under 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxix. 
 
 See 34 & 35 Vict, c, cxcii. 
 See' 25 &' 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii.
 
 Chronological Table of ^Statutes relating speciallg 
 to London from 1700 to 1007. 
 
 Iv 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 17 & 18 Vict. 
 (1854) {cont.) 
 
 c. clxix. 
 c. cci. 
 
 c. cciv. 
 0. ccv. 
 
 c. ccxiii. 
 c. ccxxi. 
 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 (18r>5) 
 
 c. 30 
 c. 95 
 c. 120 
 c. 122 
 c. ii. 
 
 c. xii. 
 
 c. xxi. 
 
 c. xxiv. 
 
 c. xxvi. 
 
 c. Ixvii. 
 c. xc. 
 c. cii. 
 c. exxxiv. 
 c. cxlv. 
 c. clix. 
 c. clxii. 
 c. clxiii. 
 
 clxix. 
 
 o. clxxxvi. 
 
 0. cxciii. 
 c. cxcv. 
 0. cxcvi. 
 
 c. cxc^iii. 
 c. ll(Priv.) 
 c. 15(Priv.) 
 19 & 20 Vict. 
 (1856) 
 c. 2 
 c. 15 
 c. 16 
 c. 29 
 c. 107 
 c. 112 
 
 c. 114 
 c. 115 
 c. i. 
 c. X. 
 C. XV. 
 
 c. li. 
 c. lii. 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 c. Ixxvi. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Middlesex Industrial School. 
 London & North Western Railteay 
 
 (Haydon Square branch line). 
 West London Railway. 
 West End of London & Clapham 
 
 & Norwood Junction Railway . . 
 Ratcliff Gas Light & Coke Co. 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan sewers 
 
 Downing Street (public offices). 
 
 Metropolis management. 
 
 Metropolitan buildings 
 
 W^oolwich, Plumstead & Charl- 
 ton Consumers Gas Company . . 
 
 Ratcliff Gas Light and Coke Com- 
 pany 
 
 Grand Junction Waterworks Com- 
 pany 
 
 South wark & Vauxhall Water 
 Company 
 
 Woolwich Equitable Gas Company 
 
 Commercial Road . . 
 
 London & BlackwtiU Railway 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Grand Surrey Canal 
 
 Royal London Militia. 
 
 Great Northern London Cemetery. 
 
 The Dagenham (Thames) Dock . . 
 
 London Necropolis and National 
 Mausoleum. 
 
 West London & Crystal Palace 
 Railway 
 
 Deptford Gas Light and Coke Com- 
 pany (Transfer). 
 
 Westminster improvements 
 
 Westminster Land Company. 
 
 New River Company and East 
 London Waterworks 
 
 Westminster Terminus Railway . . 
 
 Harvist's Estate, Islington. 
 
 Marshall's Charity Estate. 
 
 Metropolitan police. 
 
 Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals 
 
 Central Criminal Court. 
 
 National Gallery. 
 
 Smoke abatement (^Metropolis) . . 
 
 Metropolis Management (amend- 
 ment). 
 
 Hay and straw. 
 
 Bishops of London and Durham . . 
 
 London Docks 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks Company . . 
 
 Eastern Counties & London & 
 Blackwall Railway 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway 
 
 Hampstead Junction Railway 
 
 The Wandsworth & I'utney Gas 
 Light & Coke Company. 
 
 Eastern Counties and London & 
 Blackwall Railways 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. 19 & 20 Vict. c. cxxx. 
 See 38 & 39 Vict. c. cc. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. 
 See Order in Council (1884) made 
 under 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxix. 
 
 See 38 & 39 Vict. c. cc. 
 
 - See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See Order in Coimcil (1884)Lmade 
 
 under 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxix. 
 Rep. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 73. 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 See 27 & 28 Vict. c. xxxi. 
 
 See 33 & 34 Vict. c. clvii. 
 
 See 23 & 24 Vict, c. clxxiv. 
 
 See 54 & 55 Vict. c. cxcii. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7. c. 41. 
 Abandoned 20 & 21 Vict, c. c. 
 
 Rep. 47 & 48 Vict. cc. 44 and 55. 
 
 Rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 70. 
 
 Rep. 38 & .39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 See 2 Edw. 7. c. 41. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 See 25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii. 
 See 26 & 27 Vict. c. ccxvii. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c.
 
 Ivi 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 I Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 19 & 20 Vict. 
 (1856) [cont.) 
 c. Ixxxvii. 
 
 0. cv. 
 
 c. cix. 
 c. eyiwi. 
 c. cxxx. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 20 Vict 
 
 . (1857) 
 
 c. 
 
 19 
 
 20 & 2 
 
 1 Vict. 
 
 (1857) 1 
 
 c. 
 
 35 
 
 c. 
 
 64 
 
 c. 
 
 67 
 
 c. 
 
 84 
 
 C. ] 
 
 LX. 
 
 C. 
 
 xxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlii. 
 
 C. 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxiii. 
 
 0. 
 
 Ixxxix, 
 
 C. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxliii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cl. 
 
 c. 
 
 clvii. 
 
 21 & 22 Vict. 
 
 (1858) 
 
 c. 
 
 18 
 
 c. 
 
 21 
 
 c. 
 
 36 
 
 c. 
 
 37 
 
 c. 
 
 66 
 
 c. 
 
 104 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxviii. 
 
 c 
 
 xli. 
 
 c. 
 
 civ. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlv. 
 
 c. 
 
 3 (Priv) 
 
 22 Vict. (1859) 
 
 c 
 
 . 8 
 
 c. 19 
 
 West End of London and Crystal 
 Palace Railway 
 Wimbledon & Croydon Railway 
 
 (leasing to L.B. & S.C. Railway). 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 Grand Junction Waterworks Co. . . 
 West End of London & Clapham 
 
 & Norwood Junction Railway . . 
 
 Extra-parocliial places. 
 
 Burial (city of London). 
 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 
 Buckingham Palace. 
 
 Dulwich College. 
 
 Meriton's and Hogen's Sufferance 
 
 Wharves. 
 Islington Parish Act. 
 New River Company . . 
 
 London Gas Light Company 
 
 Victoria (London) Dock Company 
 
 Coal duties (London, etc.) drawback 
 
 Westminster Terminus Railway 
 Extension (Abandonment). 
 
 Covent Garden approach, etc. , com- 
 munication. 
 
 St. Mary, Islington (Lighting, etc.). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Victoria Docks Gas Company 
 
 Metropolitan Cattle Market. 
 
 West End of London and Crystal 
 Palace Railway . . 
 
 Thames Conservancy 
 
 Finsbury Park. 
 
 Sheriff's Court, Mayor's Court (City 
 of London). 
 
 Chelsea Hospital. 
 
 Chelsea Hospital. 
 
 Exhibition of 1851 Commissioners 
 
 Hainault Forest. 
 
 Chelsea Bridge and Embankment. 
 
 Metropolis Management (Amend- 
 ment). 
 
 Vauxhall Bridge. 
 
 London Dock Company . . 
 
 Victoria Park approach. 
 
 Port of London (Sufferance 
 Wharves). 
 
 West End of London & Crystal 
 Palace Railway . . 
 
 Victoria Station & Pimlico Rly. . . 
 
 Crystal Palace District Gas Co. . . 
 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch . . 
 
 West End of London & Clapham & 
 NorwoodRailway (Abandonment). 
 Westminster Palace Hotel. 
 
 Westminster and Southwark 
 
 County Courts 
 Downing Street (Public Offices). 
 
 See 23 & 24 Vict. c. clxxiv. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 Abandoned 21 & 22 Vict. c. cxlv. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See Order in Council (1883) made 
 
 under 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. 
 Rep. in part 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep. Islington Order in Council 190' 
 See 33 & 34 Vict. c. cxxi. 
 
 See 23 & 24 Vict. c. clxxiv. 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. in part 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 
 See 23 & 24 Vict. c. clxxiv. 
 See 24 & 25 Vict. c. Ixxxi. 
 See 4 Edw. 7, c. xci. 
 Rep. Shoreditch Order in Council, 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 51 & 52 Vict. c. 43.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating speciallg 
 to London from ITUO to 1907. 
 
 Ivii 
 
 Year 
 and 
 
 statute 
 chapter. 
 
 22 Vict. (1859) 
 (cont.) 
 c. xxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 0. 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 22 & 23 Vict. 
 (1859) 
 0. 58 
 
 c. 
 
 1. 
 
 c. 
 
 XI u. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 XX. 
 
 lii. 
 
 c. 
 
 liv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xevii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxu. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxiv. 
 
 C. CXXXVll. 
 
 23 & 24 Vict. 
 (1860) 
 0. 43 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 52 
 
 125 
 
 135 
 
 142 
 
 146 
 
 c. 
 
 1. 
 
 c. 
 
 xiv. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 lii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Iviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixvii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiv. 
 Ixxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cix. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cxxiii. 
 cxlvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxiv. 1 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxciu. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXCVll. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Victoria Dock. 
 Commercial Dock. 
 Great Northern Railway (commu- 
 nication with N.L. Railway). 
 
 Westminster Bridge. 
 
 West Loiulou Railway. 
 
 Hampstoad Junction Railway 
 
 Greenwich & South Eastern Docks. 
 
 City of London Gas Light & Coke 
 Company . . 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Rly. 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway. 
 
 Charing Cross Railway (Hunger- 
 ford Bridge) 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Victoria Station &; Pimlico Rail- 
 way 
 
 Kensington station and North & 
 South London Junction Railway 
 
 Watermen and Lightermen 
 (Amendment). 
 
 West London Extension Railway. 
 
 The Pneumatic Despatch Co., Ltd. 
 
 Archbishop Tenison's Charity, 
 Westminster. 
 
 Metropolitan Buildings 
 
 Gas (Metropolis). 
 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 
 Union of Benefices (Metropolis). 
 
 Sale of gas. 
 
 West Middlesex Waterworks 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 Commercial Dock. 
 
 Midland Railway (London traffic). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Midland Railway (St. Pancras 
 Station). 
 
 Grand Surrey Docks and Canal . . 
 
 London Hydraulic Power Co., Ltd. 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway (Balham Hill branch). 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 
 Hungerford Market and Charing 
 Cross Bridge Companies (Transfer 
 of undertakings) . . 
 
 Great Northern and Metropolitan 
 Railways (Communication at 
 King's Cross station). 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway. 
 
 West End of London & Crystal 
 Palace Railwaj- (Dissolution of 
 company and transfer of under- 
 taking to L.C. & D. Railway). 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Rail- 
 way (IMotropolitaii Extensions). 
 
 New Square, Lincoln's Inn. 
 
 Smithfield ^larket. 
 
 London Railway Depot and store- 
 houses 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. (in part) 27 & 28 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 
 See 26 & 27 Vict. c. cxvu. 
 
 See Order in Council (1870) made 
 under 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. 
 
 See 23 & 24 Vict. c. cxlvii. and 26 & 27 
 Vict. c. CKv. 
 
 See 24 & 25 Vict. c. l.xxxi. 
 See 35 & 36 Vict. c. 80. 
 
 Semble spent. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 27 & 28 Vict. c. xxxi. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 See 26 & 27 Vict. c. cxv. 
 
 Rep. 25 & 26 Vict. c. Ivii.
 
 Iviii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London Jrom 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 24 & 25 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1861) 
 
 
 
 c. 12 
 
 Queen's Prison 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 33 
 
 Public offices (Downing Street). 
 
 
 c. 42 
 
 London Coal and Wine duties . . 
 
 Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 51 
 
 Metropolitan Police (Pensions). 
 
 
 c. 78 
 
 Annoyance Jurors (Westminster). 
 
 
 c. 79 
 
 Metropolitan Gas. 
 
 
 c. 87 
 
 Metropolitan Buildings . . 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. 
 
 c. 88 
 
 St. James' Park and Downing St. 
 
 
 e. 124 
 
 Metropolitan Police (Receiver). 
 
 
 c. xii. 
 
 South Eastern and Charing Cross 
 
 
 
 Railways . . 
 
 See 26 & 27 Vict. c. cxv. 
 
 c. lii. 
 
 Newgate Market (Abolition of). 
 
 
 c. Ixxxi. 
 
 Victoria Station & Pimlico Rail- 
 
 
 c. xciii. 
 
 way. 
 Charing Cross Railway 
 
 See 26 & 27 Vict. c. cxv. 
 
 c. cxvii. 
 
 Lambeth Bridge Company. 
 
 
 0. exxv. 
 
 Thames Haven Dock (Abandon- 
 ment). 
 
 
 c. cxxvi. 
 
 Westminster Improvements 
 
 See 54 & 55 Vict. c. cxhi. 
 
 c. cxxxii. 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 
 c. cxxxiii. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 
 c. cli. 
 
 Grand Junction Waterworks Co. . . 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7. c 41. 
 
 c. clxiv. 
 
 Hammersmith & City Railway . . 
 
 See 30 & 31 Vict. c. cl. 
 
 c. cxci. 
 
 South-Eastern Railway. 
 
 
 c. cxcvi. 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 
 c. ccxvi. 
 
 Victoria Docks Gas Company 
 
 See 33 & 34 Vict. c. cxxi. 
 
 c. ccxxxiii. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 
 c. ccxxxiv. 
 
 West London Extension Railway. 
 
 
 c. ccxl. 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Rly. 
 
 
 25 & 26 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1862) 
 
 
 
 c. 9 
 
 Sir J. Soane's Museum 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 74 
 
 St. James s Park and Downing St. 
 
 
 c. 93 
 
 Thames Embankment. 
 
 
 c. 102 
 
 Metropolis Management (Amend- 
 ment). 
 
 
 c. 104 
 
 Queen's Prison (Discontinuance of). 
 
 
 c. ii. 
 
 Woolwich, Plumstead & Charlton 
 
 See Order in Council (1884) made 
 
 
 Consumers Gas Company 
 
 imder 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxix. 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 
 c. viii. 
 
 London, Tilbiiry & Southend Rly. 
 
 
 c. xxii. 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 
 ) See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 c. xliv. 
 
 Kent Waterworks Company 
 
 / 
 
 c. xlvi. 
 
 Edgware, Highgate & London Rly. 
 
 See 30 & 31 Vict. c. cxxxi. 
 
 c. Ivii. 
 
 London Railway Depot and store- 
 house (Abandonment). 
 
 
 c. Iviii. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 
 c. Ixviii. 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway (London Bridge and 
 Bricklayers' Arms stations). 
 
 
 c. Ixx. 
 
 St. Giles in the Fields (disused 
 burial ground). 
 
 
 c. Ixxviii. 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway (new lines in London). 
 
 
 c. cxliv. 
 
 Crystal Palace & South London 
 
 
 
 Junction Railway 
 
 See 38 & 39 Vict. c. cxxxix 
 
 c. clxxiv. 
 
 Metropolitan Meat and Poultry 
 Market. 
 
 
 c. cxcii. 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Railway. 
 
 
 c. cc. 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Junction 
 
 
 
 Railway 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. cii. 
 
 c. ccxiii. 
 
 Dagenham (Thames) Dock 
 
 See 33 & 34 Vict. c. clxii. 
 
 c. ccxv. 
 
 Kensington station and North & 
 
 
 
 South London Junction Railway 
 
 See 35 & 36 Vict. c. 80.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating Apecialbj 
 ' to London from 17i)U to 1UI»7. 
 
 lix 
 
 Year, 
 
 statute 
 
 and 
 
 chapter. 
 
 25 & 
 
 26 Vict. 
 
 (1862) {cont.) 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 26 & 
 
 4(Priv.) 
 27 Vict. 
 
 (1863) 
 c. 2 
 
 c. 
 
 13 
 
 c. 
 
 36 
 
 c. 
 
 45 
 
 c. 
 
 46 
 
 c. 
 
 67 
 
 c. 
 
 68 
 
 c. 
 
 75 
 
 c. 
 
 78 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 xc. 
 
 c. 
 
 ci. 
 
 0. 
 
 CXV. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxviii. 
 
 27 & 
 
 28 Vict. 
 
 (1864) 
 c. 51 
 
 c. 
 
 55 
 
 c. 
 
 60 
 
 c. 
 
 61 
 
 c. 
 
 83 
 
 c. 
 
 88 
 
 c. 
 
 111 
 
 c. 
 
 113 
 
 c. 
 
 116 
 
 c. 
 
 iv. 
 
 e. 
 
 viii. 
 
 c. 
 
 XV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxix. 
 
 Charing Cross Rly. (City terminus) 
 Great Eastern Railway. 
 St. Thomas Hospital 
 
 Bills and Notes (Metropolis) 
 Town gardens (Protection). 
 London diocese. 
 Metropolis Improvement Act. 
 London Coal and Wine duties . . 
 Greenwich Hospital 
 Metropolitan Main Drainage 
 Thames Embankment. 
 Metropolitan Turnpikes . . 
 Surrey Consumers Gas Company 
 
 Queen's Road, Battersea. 
 
 Blackfriars Bridge. 
 
 London, Tilbury & Southend, 
 Eastern Counties, and London & 
 Blackwall Railway Companies. 
 
 Midland Railway Company. 
 
 L. & S.W. Railway. 
 
 St. Luke's (Vestry Hall and Guar- 
 dians' Offices) 
 
 Charing Cross Railway Company. 
 
 L.B. & S.C. Railway (Extensions 
 in London, etc.). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Hammersmith & City Railway . . 
 
 L.C. & D. Railway. 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Junc- 
 tion Railway 
 
 City of London Traffic Regulations. 
 
 West London Extension Railway. 
 
 Putney Bridge Company . . 
 
 Hampstead Junction Railway 
 (Transfer to L. & N.W. Rly.). 
 
 L.B. & S.C. Railway (Mitcham 
 and Tooting). 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway (Victoria station, etc.). 
 
 West London Wharves c^ Ware- 
 houses Company. 
 
 India Office site (Downing Street). 
 Metropolitan Police (Street Music). 
 College of Physicians (Pall Mall East) 
 Thames Embankment 
 Provisional Order Confirmation 
 
 (Woolwich, etc.). 
 Westminster Bridge (Regulation of 
 
 Traffic). 
 Cranbourne Street. 
 Thames Conservancy 
 Metropolitan houseless poor. 
 Southwark Park. 
 Southwark & Vauxhall Water 
 
 Company . . 
 Metropolitan Meat and Poultry 
 
 Market. 
 Edgware, Highgate & London Rly. 
 
 (Alexandra Park Extension) 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 26 & 27 Vict. c. cxv. 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 
 Rep. 28 & 29 Vict. c. 
 Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 
 
 14 (S.L.R.). 
 
 89. 
 
 102. 
 
 Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 115. 
 See Order in Council (1879) made 
 under 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxix. 
 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 
 See 30 & 31 Vict, c. c. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. cli. 
 
 See 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. and 44 <fe 
 45 Vict. c. cxcii. 
 
 Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7. c. 41. 
 
 See 30 & 31 Vict. c. cxxxi.
 
 Ix 
 
 Chronological Table of' Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907, 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 27 & 28 Vict. 
 (1864) {cont.) 
 c. xxxi. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 hai. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxx. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cxxxv. 
 cxli. 
 cxlvi. 
 clxii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clxvi. 
 clxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcu. 
 
 c. 
 
 ecu. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXXXVll. 
 
 c.ccxxxviii. 
 c. ccxl^-i. 
 0. cclv. 
 c. cclx. 
 c. cclxviii. 
 0, cclxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxci. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccciii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxxu. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxxiu. 
 
 c. cccxxv. 
 28 :& 29 Vict. 
 ■^ (1865) 
 c. 19 
 c. 31 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Commercial and Grand Surrey 
 Docks (Amalgamation). 
 
 Chelsea Waterworks Company . . 
 
 Greenwich and South Eastern 
 Docks. 
 
 London Necropolis and National 
 Mausoleum. 
 
 Holborn Viaduct. 
 
 Crystal Palace & South London 
 Railway 
 
 Pneumatic Despatch Company . . 
 
 Great Northern Railway (Arrange- 
 ment with Great Eastern Railway) 
 
 North & South Western Junction 
 Railway 
 
 Thames Embankment (Amendment) 
 
 South London Market. 
 
 Kent Waterworks Company 
 
 Independent Gas Light & Coke Co. 
 
 London & South Western Railway. 
 London & St. Katharine Docks . . 
 Charing Cross Railway 
 Great Northern Railway (King's 
 
 Cross station, etc.). 
 Watford & Edgware Junction Rly. 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Rail- 
 way (City Undertaking). 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway . . 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Junction 
 Railway . . 
 
 London & North Western Railway 
 (Willesden to Hammersmith). 
 
 liidland Railway (Branch Une in 
 St. Pancras). 
 
 Albert Bridge. 
 
 West London Wharves & Ware- 
 houses Company. 
 
 Wandsworth Bridge. 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 MUlwall Canal Company. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 London (City) Tithes. 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Railway (Battersea lines). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway (Netting 
 Hill and Brompton). 
 
 Metropolitan & St. John's Wood 
 Railway 
 
 Great Western Railway (Transfer of 
 Hammersmith & City Railway). 
 
 Great Eastern Railway (MetropoU- 
 tan station and railways). 
 
 L.B. & S.C. Railways (Metropolitan 
 extensions, etc.). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 North Western & Charing Cross 
 Railway . . 
 
 Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon Rly. 
 
 Metropolis (drainage) 
 Downing Street. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 38 & 39 Vict. c. cxxxix. 
 Semble spent. 
 
 See 34 & 35 Vict. c. cxcii. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 See Order in Council (1876) made 
 vmder 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. 
 
 See 63 & 64 Vict. c. cxi. 
 See 26 & 27 Vict. c. cxv. 
 
 See 30 & 31 Vict. c. cxxxi. and 33 & 34 
 Vict. c. Ixxi. 
 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. c. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. cli. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. xciv. 
 
 See 29 & 30 Vict. c. cccxi. 
 See 28 & 29 Vict. c. cclxxiii. 
 
 Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102.
 
 Chronological 'Fahle of Statutes relating specialhj 
 ' to London from 170U to lUul 
 
 Ixi 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 28 & 29 Vict. 
 (1865) i^cont.) 
 
 c. 32 
 
 c. 34 
 
 c. 48 
 
 c. 49 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. 
 
 87 
 
 c. 
 
 89 
 
 c. 
 
 90 
 
 c. 
 
 lU. 
 
 c. 
 
 xiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 c. 
 
 li. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxix 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 0. 
 
 ci. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxvi. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxviu. 
 
 e. 
 
 CXXl. 
 
 c. cli. 
 
 c. clxxviii. 
 
 c. clxxxvii. 
 
 0. cxci. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 c. CXCll. 
 
 c. cxcvi. 
 c. ccviii. 
 c. ccxxv. 
 
 c. ccxliii. 
 
 c. cclviii. 
 c. cclxii. 
 c. cclxix. 
 
 c. cclxxiii. 
 
 c. cccx. 
 
 c. ccclxv. 
 c. ccclxxii, 
 
 29 & 30 Vict. 
 (1866) 
 0. 21 
 c. 31 
 c. 63 
 c. 83 
 c. 89 
 c. 90 
 
 India Offices Site and approaches. 
 
 MetropoHtan houseless poor. 
 
 Courts of Justice Building. 
 
 Courts of Justice Concentration 
 
 (Site). 
 General Post Office (Additional site). 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 Metropolitan Fire Brigade. 
 
 Whitechapel & Holborn Improve- 
 ment. 
 
 South Metropolitan Gas Light & 
 Coke Company. 
 
 East & West India Dock Co. 
 
 Met. & St. John's Wood Railway . , 
 
 East London Railway 
 
 London, Brighton & South Coast 
 Rly. (Metropolitan extensions.etc). 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 School for the Indigent Blind. 
 
 London & South Western (Kens- 
 ington & Richmond) Railway. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 (Lease to Great Eastern Railway). 
 
 Hammersmith & City Railway 
 (Transfer to G.W.R. & Met. Rly.) 
 
 London, Blackwall & Millwall 
 Extension Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 G.E.Rly. (Met. extension, etc.). 
 
 Metropolis Sewage and Essex re- 
 clamation . . 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Junction 
 Railway 
 
 Westminster Improvement and 
 Incumbered Estate 
 
 Edgware, Highgate & London 
 Railway (Junction with Totten- 
 ham & Hampstead Railway) . . 
 
 Fulham Railway. 
 
 Southwark Bridge. 
 
 Metropolitan Market. 
 
 St. Clement Danes Improvement . , 
 
 S.E.R. (Greenwich & Woolwich, 
 etc.). 
 
 Waterloo & Whitehall Railway . . 
 
 Hyde Park Gate Estate. 
 
 London. Chatham & Dover Rail- 
 way (Various Powers). 
 
 Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon 
 Railway (Transfer of). 
 
 North London, Highgate & Alex- 
 andra Park Railway. 
 
 Regent's Canal (Limohouse Basin). 
 
 West London Wharves & Ware- 
 houses. 
 
 See 51 & 52 Vict. c. cxliii. 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. xciv. 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi. 
 
 See 30 & 31 Vict. c. cl. 
 
 Downing Street. 
 
 Superannuation (Metropolis). 
 j Courts of Justice. 
 I National Gallery (Enlargement). 
 I Thames Navigation 
 I Siuaitarv Act 
 
 Semble lapsed. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. cli. 
 
 See 54 & 55 Vict. c. cxlii. 
 
 See 30 & 31 Vict. c. cxxxi. 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Semble abandoned. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 Rep. (in part) 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76.
 
 Ixii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes r-elating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 29 & 30 Vict. 
 (1866) {cont.) 
 
 c. 122 
 
 c. ii. 
 
 c. vi. 
 
 C. XX 
 
 c. xlvi. 
 c. Iv. 
 
 c. evii. 
 c. cxxii. 
 
 c. cxxx. 
 c. cl. 
 c. clx. 
 c. clxxv. 
 
 c. clxxvii. 
 
 c. clxxviii. 
 
 c. clxxx. 
 
 c. ccvi. 
 
 c. ccxxx. 
 c. cclxix. 
 c. cclxxv. 
 
 0. cclxxx. 
 
 0. cclxxxvii. 
 
 c. ccxcix. 
 c. cccxi. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCCXIV. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCCXXXl. 
 
 1 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cccxxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 0. 
 
 CCCXXXVll 
 
 ccclu. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccclxiii. 
 
 30 & 31 Vict 
 (1867) 
 c. 6 
 c. 38 
 c. 39 
 c. 40 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 41 
 
 110 
 
 134 
 
 c. 
 
 1. 
 
 c. 
 
 lU. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 V. 
 
 Iv. 
 
 Ixxviii. 
 Ixxx. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxv. 
 Ixxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xci. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Metropolitan Coinmoiis. 
 Columbia Market, Bethnal Green. 
 West Middlesex Waterworks 
 Thames Tunnel Co. (Dissolution of) 
 Dagenham (Thames) Dock 
 London Gas Light Company 
 
 Met. & St. John's Wood Railway 
 
 Greenwich and Woolwich Turn- 
 pike lower road 
 
 Magdalen Hospital. 
 
 Kensington Improvement. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Junction 
 Railway 
 
 Deptford and Isle of Dogs Subway. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 East London Railway 
 
 Edgware, Highgate & London 
 Railway (Barnet Extension) . . 
 
 New River Company 
 
 Soiith London Market Company. 
 
 Wandsworth & Putney Gas Light 
 & Coke Company. 
 
 Metropolis sewage and Essex re- 
 clamation . . 
 
 Great Eastern Railway (Alexandra 
 Palace & Park Railways). 
 
 North Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 N.W. & Charing Cross Railway (Ar- 
 rangements with L. & N.W. & S.E. 
 Railways). 
 
 East London Eastern Extension 
 Railway. 
 
 Millwall Canal Company. 
 
 St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Work- 
 house and Offices) 
 
 Putney & Fulham Bridge Company 
 
 Hounslow & Metropolitan Railway 
 Belgravia Road Company. 
 Imperial Gas Light & Coke Company 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Railway 
 (Ludgate station). 
 
 Metropolitan Poor. 
 
 Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. 
 
 Metropolitan Police (Receiver). 
 
 Houses of Parliament and Embank- 
 ment. 
 
 National Gallery (Enlargement of) 
 
 Chelsea Outpensioners 
 
 Metropolitan Streets. 
 
 City of London (Elections, etc.) . . 
 
 Blackfriars and Southwark Bridges. 
 
 Southwark & Vauxhall Water Co. 
 
 Holborn Viaduct. 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 Greenwich and S.E. Docks. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 North Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 City of London Street Impro\o- 
 ments. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 33 & 34 Vict. c. clxii. 
 
 See Order in Council (1883) made 
 
 \inder 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. xciv. 
 
 Rep. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 73. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi. 
 
 See 30 & 31 Vict. c. cxxxi. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c 41. 
 
 Semble lapsed. 
 
 Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. xlv. 
 
 See 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix., and 44 & 
 
 45 Vict. c. cxcii. 
 Dissolved, See 43 & 44 Vict. c. cxc. 
 
 See Order in Council (1876) made 
 under 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. 
 
 Rep. 45 & 46 Vict. c. 48. 
 
 Rep. in part 50 & 51 Vict. c. xiii. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially ^■^• 
 
 to London jrora 17U0 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 30& 31 Vict. 
 (1867) {cont.) 
 c. ci. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 c. 
 
 CIX. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXXXl. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cl. 
 
 c. 
 
 clviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCl. 
 
 c. ecu. 
 c. 8 (Priv.) 
 31 & 32 Vict. 
 
 (1868) 
 c. 5 
 
 c. 
 
 8 
 
 c. 
 
 17 
 
 c. 
 
 43 
 
 c. 
 
 46 (ss. 4, 5) 
 
 c. 
 
 67 
 
 c. 
 
 106 
 
 c. 
 
 122 
 
 (ss. 9, 11,35) 
 
 0. 
 
 127 
 
 c. 
 
 iv. 
 
 c. 
 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 vii. 
 
 c. 
 
 viii. 
 
 c. 
 
 XV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xliv. 
 
 c. 
 
 1. 
 
 0. 
 
 Ixxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 ci. 
 
 c. 
 
 cvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cix. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxix. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cliv. 
 
 0. 
 
 clx. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxix. 
 
 32 & 33 Vict. 
 
 
 (1869) 
 
 c. 
 
 44 
 
 c. 
 
 63 
 
 0. 
 
 67 
 
 c. 
 
 82 
 
 Thames Navigation Act 1S6G 
 
 (Extension) 
 G.E.R. (Lines in the Metropolis). 
 Edgware, Highgate & London Rly 
 
 (Transfer of, to G.X.R.) and W at- 
 
 ford & Edgware Junction Rly. . . 
 East London Waterworks (Thames 
 
 supply) 
 
 East London Waterworks . . 
 Hammersmith & City Company 
 
 (Dissolution). 
 St. Clement Danes Improvement 
 
 Act, 1865 (Extension) 
 Waterloo & Whitehall Railway . . 
 Wandsworth Bridge. 
 Fulham Railway. 
 Charterhouse. 
 
 Metropolitan Streets Act (Amend- 
 ment). 
 London ^lusoum Site. 
 London Coal and Wine duties . . 
 Thames Embankment 
 Boundary Act. 
 Police Rate. 
 Metropolitan Fairs. 
 
 Poor Law (Amendment). 
 
 St. Mary, Somerset (City of London). 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 Grand Junction Waterworks 
 
 Marylebone (Stingo Lane) Im- 
 provement. 
 
 Thames Subway, Tower Hill. 
 
 St. Saviour, Southwark . . 
 
 St. Luke, King's Cross (New parish). 
 
 St. Mary, LamV)eth (Market). 
 
 North & S.W. Jiuiction Railway. . 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Sub- 
 ways) 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Railway. 
 
 Gas Light & Coke Company. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Thames Embankment (North and 
 south). 
 
 Kent Waterworks . . 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway. 
 
 City of London Gas. 
 
 Thames Embankment (Chelsea). 
 
 ^let. & St. John's Wood Railway . . 
 
 River Lee Improvement. 
 
 St. Pancras (Ecclesiastical regula- 
 tions). 
 
 East London Railway 
 
 Lambeth Market. 
 
 Waterloo & Whitehall Railway . . 
 
 Belgravia Road Company. 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 Metropolitan poor (Amendment). 
 Valuation (Metropolis). 
 Metropolitan Buildings 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 See 33 & 34 Vict. c. Ixxi. 
 
 i 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. Westminster 
 
 1901. 
 Semble abandoned. 
 
 Order in Council 
 
 Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. xi. 
 
 See 34 & 35 Vict. c. excii. 
 
 Superseded 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccii. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. ch. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. xciv. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi, 
 Semble abandoned. 
 
 JRep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii.
 
 Ixiv 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 32 & 33 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1869) (cont.) 
 
 
 
 c. 95 
 
 Millbank Prison 
 
 Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. i. 
 
 c. 102 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (loans). 
 
 
 c. 107 
 
 Metropolitan commons (Amend- 
 ment). 
 
 
 c. 115 
 
 Metropolitan Public carriage 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 c. i. 
 
 West Middlesex Waterworks. 
 
 
 c. iii. 
 
 London Xecropolis & National 
 Mausoleum Company. 
 
 
 c. iv. 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 c. \-iii. 
 
 St. Giles Without, Cripplegate. 
 
 
 c. xii. 
 
 Great Tower Hill Improvements . . 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1901. 
 
 c. xis. 
 
 Kew and other Bridges. 
 
 
 C. XX. 
 
 Holborn Viaduct. 
 
 
 c. XXI ii. 
 
 University College, London. 
 
 
 C. XXX. 
 
 Subways (City of London). 
 
 
 C. XXXV. 
 
 Hounslow & Metropohtan Railway 
 
 Dissolved. See 43 & 44 Vict. c. cxc. 
 
 c. xliv. 
 
 Albert Bridge. 
 
 
 c. xlv. 
 
 St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Work- 
 house fund). 
 
 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 
 c. Ixvii. 
 
 All Saints', Bishopsgate, etc. 
 
 
 C. 1X1 X. 
 
 Harrow, Edgware & London 
 
 
 
 Railway 
 
 Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. cvi. 
 
 c. lxx\ai. 
 
 St. James's Chapel, Hampstead 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 
 Road 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. Ixxxix. 
 
 Great Eastern Railway (Metro- 
 politan undertaking). 
 
 
 c. xc. 
 
 St. ^lary, Xewington (Cure of 
 Souls). 
 
 
 c xciv. 
 
 Metropohtan Street Tramways Co. 
 
 
 c. xcv. 
 
 Pimlico, Peckham & Greenwich 
 Street Tramways Company. 
 
 
 c. xcix. 
 
 Crystal Palace & South London 
 
 
 
 Junction Railway 
 
 See 38 & 39 Vict. c. cxxxix. 
 
 c. ci. 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 i 
 
 c. cxxviii. 
 
 Imperial Gas Light & Coke Com- 
 
 See Order in. Coimcil (1876) made 
 
 
 pany 
 
 vmder 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. 
 
 c. cxxx. 
 
 South Metropohtan Gas Light & 
 Coke Company. 
 
 
 c. cxxxiv. 
 
 Park Lane Improvement. 
 
 
 c. cxxx\'i. 
 
 Metropohtan Railway. 
 
 
 c. civ. 
 
 Belgravia and South Kensington 
 New Road. 
 
 
 c. clvii. 
 
 St. Luke, Chelsea (Market). 
 
 
 33 & 34 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1870) 
 
 
 
 c. 18 
 
 Metropolitan poor (Amendment). 
 
 
 c. 24 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Loans). 
 
 
 c. 60 
 
 City of London Brokers . . 
 
 Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.R.). 
 
 c. 75 
 
 Education. 
 
 
 c. 78 
 
 Tramways. 
 
 
 c. 100 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 
 C. XV. 
 
 Female Orphan Asylum. 
 
 
 C. XX. 
 
 MiUwaU Canal Company. 
 
 
 c. xxxix. 
 
 North Metropohtan Railway. 
 
 
 c. xlvii. 
 
 Metropohtan & St. John's Wood 
 
 
 
 Railway 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict, c. xciv. 
 
 c. Iii. 
 
 G.E. Railway (Metropolitan hnes). 
 
 
 c. Iv. 
 
 East London Railway. 
 
 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway. 
 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 Watford & Edgware Junction 
 Railway (Abandonment). 
 
 
 c. xcii. 
 
 Thames Embankment (north). 

 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 19(JV. 
 
 Ixv 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 33 & 34 Vict. 
 (1870) (,cont.) 
 
 c. xciv. 
 
 c. ciii. 
 
 c. cix 
 
 c. cxvii. 
 
 c. cxxi. 
 c. cxxiv. 
 c. cxxv. 
 c. cxlix. 
 c. clxii. 
 c. clxvii. 
 
 c. clxxi. 
 
 c. clxxii. 
 
 c. clxxiii. 
 
 c. clxxiv. 
 
 34 & 35 Vict. 
 (1871) 
 c. 15 
 c. 35 
 
 0. 39 
 
 c. 47 
 
 c. 
 
 57 
 
 c. 
 
 93 
 
 0. 
 
 113 
 
 c. 
 
 HI. 
 
 c. 
 
 IV. 
 
 c. 
 
 Vll. 
 
 c. 
 
 Xll. 
 
 c 
 
 xlvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 liv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Iv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ivii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixiii. 
 
 0. 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxiii. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXXXVlll 
 
 c. 
 
 cl. 
 
 c. 
 
 clii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXCll. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccm. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 Metropolitan Railway ('I'owor Hill). 
 Tottenham & Hannpstead Junc- 
 tion Railway 
 St. Olave and St. John, Southwark 
 
 Victoria Docks Gas Co. (Transfer). 
 Southwark Subway. 
 Wands %vorth Bridge. 
 Thames Conservancy 
 Dagonham (Thames Dock). 
 Pimlioo, Peckham & Greenwich 
 
 Street Tramways Company. 
 London Street Tram ways Company. 
 North Metropolitan Tramways Co. 
 Metropolitan Street Tramways Co. 
 Pimlico, Peckham & Greenwich 
 
 Street Tramways Company. 
 
 Metropolitan Poor. 
 Metropolitan Police Court (Build- 
 ings) 
 
 Metropolitan buildings (Deptford 
 Cattle Market) 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (loans). 
 
 Courts of Justice (Additional site). 
 
 Epping Forest. 
 
 ^letropolis Water. 
 
 City of London Court. 
 
 South Eastern Ry. (Greenwich line). 
 
 Tower Subway Company. 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Leadenhall Market 
 
 Billingsgate Market. 
 
 Metropolitan Commons (Black- 
 heath). 
 
 Metropolitan Commons (Shepherd's 
 Bush). 
 
 Albert Bridge Company. 
 
 Gas Light and Coke Company. 
 
 Hampstead Heath. 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks 
 
 Wharves & Warehouses Steam 
 Powers & Hydraulic Pressure Co. 
 
 Bethlem Hospital. 
 
 Hornsey Local Board (Drainage). 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Rail- 
 way (Holbom Viaduct station). 
 
 East London Railway 
 
 Columbia Market (Bethnal Green). 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways Co. 
 
 Wandsworth Common. 
 
 North & South Western Junction 
 Railway (lease of, to London & 
 North - Western, Midland, and 
 North London Railway Co's). 
 
 Harrow, Edgware & London Rly . . 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Junc- 
 tion Railway 
 
 London Central Railway. . . 
 
 London & Aylesbury Railway . . 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. c i. 
 Rep. Bermondsey Order in Council 
 1901. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.); 56 
 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.R.); 60 & 61 
 Vict. c. 26. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict, c.ccxiii. s. 215. 
 
 Rep. 42 & 43 Vict. c. cii. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi. 
 
 Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. cvi. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. cli. 
 Abandoned 38 & 39 Vict. c. 
 See 35 & 36 Vict. c. cxcviL 
 
 cxiv.
 
 Ixvi 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 c. 
 
 40 
 
 c. 
 
 55 
 
 c. 
 
 VI. 
 
 c. 
 
 vii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxiii 
 
 c. 
 
 xlv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Iv. 
 
 c. Ixxviii. 
 c. Ixxxv. 
 
 c. Ixxxvi. 
 
 c. cxovii. 
 c. c. 
 
 Year, 
 
 statute 
 
 and 
 
 chapter. 
 
 35 & 36 Vict. 
 
 (1872) 
 
 c. 
 
 43 
 
 c. 
 
 53 
 
 c. 
 
 67 
 
 c. 
 
 80 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 95 
 iii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. xxiu. 
 
 c. xxiv. 
 
 c. xxvii. 
 
 c. xxix. 
 
 c. xxxvi. 
 c. xliii. 
 
 c. xlix. 
 
 c. Iviii. 
 c. Ixv. 
 
 c. Ixvi. 
 c. Ixxxi. 
 
 c. Ixxxii. 
 c. c. 
 
 c. cxxxvii. 
 c el. 
 c. cliii. 
 
 c. cliv. 
 c. clix. 
 c. clxiii. 
 c. clxxx. 
 c. cxc. 
 
 c. cxcii. 
 
 c. cxcvii. 
 
 Se""* 37 Vict, 
 
 ^(1873) 
 
 c. 4 
 
 c. 5 
 
 c. 8 
 
 Metropolitan Tramways . . 
 Victoria Park. 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 Kensington Station and Xorth & 
 
 South London Junction Railway 
 Epping Forest. 
 
 Southwark & Vauxhall Water Co. . . 
 Gas Light & Coke Company. 
 Great Eastern Railwaj'. 
 St. Clement Danes (Improvements). 
 Trinity Church (Gray's Irm Road) 
 
 Schools. 
 Corn Exchange, Mark Lane. 
 MetropoUtan Commons (Hackney 
 
 Commons). 
 Metropolis (Kilburn and Harrow) 
 
 roads, 
 ^letropolitan Railway. 
 Education Department Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 Thames Embankment (Xorth). 
 Holborn Valley and Farringdon 
 
 Market. 
 Newport Market, St. Ann, Soho, etc. 
 Metage on grain ( AboUtion of), Port 
 
 of London. 
 Temple Subway Company. 
 Southwark Bridge Company. 
 South Eastern Railway (Greenwich, 
 
 etc., lines). 
 Lambe's Chapel, Cripplegate, 
 Brighton & London Sea Water Co. 
 Metropolitan street improvements. 
 Pneumatic Despatch Company . . 
 Metropolitan & South-Westem 
 
 Junction Railway. 
 South Kensington Railway station 
 
 and Royal Albert Hall Railway. 
 London & Aylesbury Railway 
 
 (transfer of portion to London & 
 
 North-Western Railway). 
 
 King's College, London. 
 Epping Forest Commission 
 Income Tax assessment and asses- 
 sors (Metropolis) . . 
 Thames Embankment land. 
 University of London. 
 St. Marylebone Vestry (Surplus 
 
 lands). 
 Thames Embankment (South). 
 Education Department Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 Grand Junction Waterworks 
 Pimlico, Peckham & Greenwich 
 
 Street Tramways. 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 Southall and Shepherd's Bush 
 
 Tramways. 
 Metropolitan Commons (Tooting 
 
 Bee). 
 Albert Bridge. 
 Cliaring Cross and Victoria Ena- 
 
 bankniant Approach. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). 
 See 2 Edw 7, c. 41. 
 
 Semble spent. 
 
 Spent. 
 
 Rep, 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to J 907. 
 
 lx\ai 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 36 & 37 Vict. 
 
 (1873) {cont.) 
 
 c. cxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXXXl. 
 
 . c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 CXXXlll. 
 
 cxlvi. 
 cxlix. 
 clxi. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clxiii. 
 clxvi. 
 clxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXCl. 
 
 c. 
 
 »CC1V. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxiv. 
 
 0. 
 
 ccxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxviu. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxi. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 CCXXlll. 
 
 ccxlvii. 
 
 37 & 38 Vict. 
 (1874) 
 c. 7 
 c. 58 
 c. 67 
 c. 89 
 
 c. 
 
 ii. 
 
 c. 
 
 vii. 
 
 c. 
 
 x. 
 
 0. 
 
 xxi. 
 
 0. 
 
 xxxu. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 xlv. 
 
 li. 
 
 lix. 
 
 c. 
 
 0. 
 
 Ixxv. 
 Ixxxii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxiv. 
 Ixxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxix. 
 
 0. 
 
 xcvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 XCVll. 
 
 c. 
 
 cvi. 
 
 c 
 
 cxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxviii. 
 
 c 
 
 cxliii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlix. 
 
 c 
 c 
 
 clxxxiii 
 clxxxiv 
 
 c 
 
 cxcix. 
 
 Subject nuittor. 
 
 Repealw, etc. 
 
 Gas Light & Coke Company. 
 Metropolitan District Railway . . 
 Columbia Market, Bethnal Green. 
 London Central Railway . . 
 London & Aylesbury Railway . . 
 London & South-Western Railway 
 
 (Railways in Battersea). 
 London & Blackwall Railway. 
 Wandsworth Bridge. 
 Belgrave Market, Chelsea. 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 London & Blackwall Railway. 
 London Tramways Company. 
 Education Department Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 London Street Tramways. 
 Beckenham Sewerage. 
 London Street Tramways. 
 Metropolitan Street Tramways. 
 Metropolitan & St. John's Wood 
 
 Railway 
 
 Middlesex Sessions 
 Expenses of Police (Metropolis) . . 
 Slaughter-houses (Metropolis) 
 Sanitary Law Amendment (London' 
 
 City of London Police Force 
 (superannuation). 
 
 East London Railway 
 
 Leicester Square. 
 
 Kew and other Bridges. 
 
 Hammersmith Extension Railway 
 (transfer to Met. District Rly.). 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway. 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 East & West India Dock . . 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 Cadogan and Hans Place Improve- 
 ments. 
 
 London Central Railway . . 
 
 North and South Woolwich Sub- 
 way . . 
 
 Local Government Board Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation 
 (South Hornsey) .. 
 
 Lee Conservancy Act. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Fins- 
 bury Park). 
 
 Harrow, Edgwaro & London 
 Railway (Abandonment). 
 
 Crystal Palace & South London 
 Junction Railway 
 
 Great Eastern Railway (Alexandra 
 Palace & Park Railways). 
 
 London & South-Western Railway 
 (Waterloo terminus, etc.). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 London Street Tramways. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 Metropolitan Inner Circle Railway 
 
 See 37 & 38 Vict. c. cxxxi. 
 
 Abandoned. See 38 & 39 Vict. c. cxiv. 
 See 35 & 36 Vict. c. cxcviL 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. xciv. 
 
 Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). 
 Rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76. 
 Rep. (except ss. 46 & 49) 38 & 39 
 Vict. c. 55, and 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi. 
 
 See 51 & 52 Vict. c. cxliii. 
 
 Abandoned 38 & 39 Vict. o. cxiv. 
 
 Semble abandoned. 
 
 Rep. St(ike Xewington Order in 
 Council 1901. 
 
 See 38 & 39 Vict. c. cxxxix. 
 
 Abandoned. See 44 & 45 Vict, c Iv.
 
 Ixviii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 38 & 39 Vict. 
 (1875) 
 c. 3 
 c. 6 
 0. 21 
 c. 28 
 
 c. 
 
 33 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 34 
 
 48 
 55 
 65 
 
 c. 
 
 m. 
 
 0. 
 
 IV. 
 
 0. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlvi. 
 Ux. 
 
 i c. 
 
 Ixi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cviu. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiv. 
 
 0. 
 
 cx\aii. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 cliii. 
 clxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 0. 
 
 clxxvii. 
 clxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cc. 
 
 c. 
 
 ecu. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccvi. 
 
 c. ccviu. 
 39 & 40 Vict. 
 (1876) 
 c. 3 
 c. 14 
 c. 55 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 57 
 61 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 xxxvii. 
 
 lii. 
 
 Uv. 
 
 0. 
 
 Ivi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxvi 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cl. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Magistrates. 
 
 Epping Forest Commissioners. 
 
 Public Entertainments. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Staff (Super- 
 annuation). 
 
 Metropolis Management Acts 
 (Amendment) 
 
 Diocese of London, etc. 
 
 Police expenses (Metropolis) 
 
 Public Health. 
 
 MetropolitanBoardofWorks( Loans). 
 
 Columbia Market, Bethnal Green. 
 
 Commissioners of Sewers (City of 
 London). 
 
 Metropolitan Cattle Market. 
 
 Metropolitan Meat and Poultry 
 Market. 
 
 East London Railway 
 
 St. Pancras and St. Giles-in-the- 
 Fields (Disused Burial grounds). .] 
 
 St. Paul's Cathedral. 
 
 Middlesex Industrial Schools Act 
 (Amendment ) . 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Chelsea Waterworks 
 
 London Central Railway (Abandon- 
 ment). 
 
 Chelsea Hospital. 
 
 Crystal Palace & South London 
 Junction Railway (Transfer to 
 London, Chatham & Dover Rail- 
 way Company). 
 
 London & St. Katharine Docks. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Chelsea Bridge. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Various Powers). 
 
 Sion College. 
 
 Commercial Gas Company. 
 
 Metropolitan & South-Western 
 Junction Railway. 
 
 Regent's Canal & Dock Company. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Epping Forest Commissioners 
 
 Chelsea Hospital 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Loans). 
 Central Criminal Court. 
 Divided Parishes and Poor Law 
 
 (Amendment). 
 Thames Tunnel (East London Rly.) 
 East London Railway 
 London & BlackwaU Railway. 
 Royal Albert HaU. 
 Metropolis (Kilbum and Harrow) 
 
 Roads. 
 Metropolitan Board of W^orks 
 
 (various powers). 
 Shepherd's Bush & Priory Road, 
 
 Acton, Tramway. 
 
 Obsolete. 
 
 Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.R.). 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi. 
 ss. 21 & 22 rep. St. Pancras Order 
 in Council 1901. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R ). 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London fro in 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Ixix 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 39 & 40 Vict. 
 (1876) (emit.) 
 
 c. cc. 
 
 0. ccxiii. 
 
 c. ccxx. 
 
 c. ccxxv. 
 c. ccxxvi. 
 c. ccxxix. 
 
 c. ccxxxviii. 
 c. ccxxxix. 
 
 0. ccxliii. 
 
 40 & 41 Vict, 
 
 (1877) 
 0. 35 
 0. 52 
 
 c. 55 
 c. 58 
 o. vii. 
 c. viii. 
 c. Ixiii. 
 
 o. Ixiv. 
 
 c. Ixxxv. 
 c. xcix. 
 c. c. 
 
 c. ciii. 
 
 c. civ. 
 
 o. cxi. 
 0. cxxxiii. 
 
 c. cxlv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cci. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxiv. 
 
 0. 
 
 ccxxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxxv. 
 
 0. 
 
 ccxxxix. 
 
 41 & 42 Vict 
 
 (1878) 
 c. 4 
 
 c. 
 
 29 
 
 c. 
 
 32 
 
 c. 
 c 
 
 36 
 37 
 
 c 
 c 
 
 55 
 71 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Metropolis ( Whitechapel and Lime- 
 
 houso) Iinprovomonts. 
 Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon 
 
 Railway. 
 Bridges and Roads (Bow and 
 
 Stratford) 
 
 Gas Light & Coke Company. 
 Metropolitan Inner Circle Railway 
 South Metropolitan Gas Light & 
 
 Coke Company. 
 Bow Street Police Court. 
 Education Department Provisional i 
 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 London, Essex & Kent Coast Railway Rep 
 
 Spent so far as relating to London. 
 Abandoned. See 44 <fe 45 Vict. c. Iv. 
 
 40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxix. 
 
 Metropolitan Open Spaces 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Money). 
 Public Record Office. 
 Police expenses 
 Metage on Grain. 
 Metropolitan Board of Works. 
 London & Blackwall Railway 
 
 (Limehouse extension). 
 Millwall & Greenwich Subway 
 
 Company . . 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 Metropolis Toll Bridges. 
 Improvements Provisional Order 
 
 Confirmation (City of London). 
 Improvements Provisional Order 
 
 Confirmation (Whitechapel). 
 Education Department Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 Metropolis (Great Wild Street) 
 
 improvement. 
 Woolwich, Plumstead & Charlton 
 
 Consumers Gas Company. 
 East London Railway 
 South-Eastern Railway. 
 Limehouse & Rothorhithe Subway. 
 Metropolitan commons. 
 Kent Waterworks Company 
 London Street Tramways Company. 
 Brighton & London Sea Water 
 
 Supply. 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 Metropolitan street Improvements. 
 London, Essex & Kent Coast 
 
 Junction Railway (abandonment). 
 
 Polling hours (Metropolitan elec- 
 tions) 
 
 Monuments (Metropolis) : Cleo- 
 patra's Needle. 
 
 Metropolis Management & Build- 
 ing Acts Amendment. 
 
 Police expenses 
 
 ^Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money). 
 
 British Museum. 
 
 Metropolitan Commons. 
 
 Rep. 6 Edw. 7, c. 25. 
 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Semble lapsed, 
 ccxxiv. 
 
 See 60 & 61 Vict. o. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi 
 Semble lapsed. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 48 & 49 Vict. c. 10. 
 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.).
 
 Ixx 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 
 and 
 
 chapter. 
 
 41 & 42 Vict. 
 
 (18 
 
 78) [cont.) 
 
 c. 
 
 xii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cliv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxx-iii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxi. 
 
 42 & 43 Vict. 
 
 
 (1879) 
 
 c. 
 
 1 
 
 c. 
 
 18 
 
 c. 
 
 68 
 
 0. 
 
 69 
 
 c. 
 
 73 
 
 c. 
 
 vi. 
 
 c. 
 
 vii. 
 
 c 
 
 X. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Hx. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 xciii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ex. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxivii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clx. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxciii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cci. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Serle Street and Cook's Court 
 improvement. 
 
 London & St. Katharine Docks. 
 
 EducationDepartment Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Metropolis (Bowman's Buildings, 
 Marylebone, and Essex Road, Is- 
 lington) Improvement Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Open spaces (City of London). 
 
 Grand Junction Waterworks 
 
 Plumstead Common. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Cromwell Road (Kensington) 
 Bridge. 
 
 South-Eastem Railway (Extension 
 of time for works at Bennondsey). 
 
 Epping Forest. 
 
 Thames Conservancy 
 
 Metropolitan Inner Circle 
 
 See 2Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxx\-ii. 
 Abandoned. See 44 & 45 Vict. c. 
 
 C. CCXIX. 
 
 Central Criminal Court. 
 
 Racecourses Licensing. 
 
 Met. Board of Works (Indemnity) 
 
 Met. Board of Works (Money). 
 
 Commissioners of Woods (Thames 
 piers). 
 
 Grand Junction Waterworks 
 
 North & South Woolwich Subway 
 
 New River Company 
 
 St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 
 
 St. Pancras (Loans). 
 
 East London Railway 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Citv of London School. 
 
 Millwall Docks. 
 
 London, Deptford & Greenwich 
 Tramways. 
 
 Metropolis Improvements Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolis (Whitechapel and Lime- 
 house) Improvements. 
 
 Christchurch, Newgate Street 
 (Tithes). 
 
 Leadenhall Market. 
 
 Great Northern Railway (Arrango- 
 mentswith Great Eastern Railway). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Wormwood Scrubs. 
 
 East & West India Dock Company 
 
 Commutation of Tithes in the 
 City of London. 
 
 London Bridge. 
 
 London Street Tramways. 
 
 North London Suburban Tram- 
 ways. 
 
 South London Tramways. 
 
 Thames River Prevention of Floods. 
 
 Metropolitan and Metropolitan 
 District Railways. 
 
 Knightsbridge and other Crown 
 lands. 
 
 Iv. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict c. 56 (S.L.R.). 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Semble lapsed. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. clxxxi. 
 
 See 51 & 52 Vict. c. cxliii.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to Loudon, from 170(J to 19(J7. 
 
 Ixxi 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 43 & 44 Vict. 
 (1880) 
 c. 25 
 
 0. 29 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 c. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxi. 
 
 0. 
 
 lix. 
 
 c. Ixxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 XCIV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcvii. 
 
 0. 
 
 CVl. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 0. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxiv 
 
 civ. 
 
 clxvi. 
 
 clxxiii. 
 
 clxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxc. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccv. 
 
 44 & 45 Vict 
 (1881) 
 c. 7 
 c. 10 
 c. 34 
 c. 48 
 
 c. 
 
 64 
 
 c. 
 
 XVlll. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXIU. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXXlll. 
 
 c. 
 
 Iv. 
 
 c. Ixi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxvi 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxix 
 
 c. 
 
 xciii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ex. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxvn. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money). 
 
 Courts of Justice building (Amend- 
 ment) 
 
 Vestry of St. Luke's (Surplus 
 lands). 
 
 South London Triiinways. 
 
 MotropoHs (Kill)urn and Harrow) 
 Roads Act 1872 Amendment. 
 
 Trinity Hospital, Greenwich. 
 
 Local Government Hoard Provi- 
 sional Order Confirmation (Wool- 
 wich). 
 
 Wandsworth & Putney Gas Light 
 & Coke Company. 
 
 Kensington, etc., Improvements . . 
 
 South Western (London) District 
 Post Office. 
 
 London Gas Light Company 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Epping Forest. 
 
 Metropolis (High Street, Islington) 
 Improvements. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 London Tramways Company. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Woolwich & Plumstead Tramways. 
 
 Gas Light & Coke, Commercial 
 Gas, and South Metropolitan Gas 
 Companies. 
 
 Hounslow & Metropolitan Rail- 
 way (Dissolution). 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Public buildings (Do^vning Street) 
 
 Inland Revenue buildings. 
 
 Metropolitan Open Spaces 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money). 
 
 Central Criminal Court (Prisons). 
 
 Metropolitan Commons. 
 
 North «fe South Woolwich Subway. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 London & Blaokwall Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan & District Railways 
 (Abandonment of Metropolitan 
 Inner Circle Completion). 
 
 Local Governnient Board Provi- 
 sional Order Confirmation (Metro- 
 polis). 
 
 \\'est Ham (Extension of powers). 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Commissioners of Sewers (City of 
 London). 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Rly. 
 
 Woolwich & Soutli-East London 
 Tramways. 
 
 East London Railway 
 
 Supply of $ea water to London. 
 
 Aylesbury & Rickmansworth Rly. 
 
 Thames Deep ^^'ator Dock 
 
 Repeals, etc 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. Kensington OrderinCouncill901. 
 
 See Order in Council (1883) made 
 under 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. 
 
 Rep. 6 Edw. 7, c. 25. 
 
 Scmble lapsed. 
 
 See 45 & 40 Vict. c. olxxxi. 
 
 Semble lapsed.
 
 Ixxii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 44 & 45 Vict. 
 
 (1881) {cont.) 
 
 c. cxlviii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clx. 
 clxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxx. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clxxii. 
 
 clxxiii. 
 
 clxxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcu. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXCVll. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxcviii. 
 
 C. CCXll. 
 
 45 & 46 Vict. 
 (1882) 
 c. 14 
 
 c. 
 
 32 
 
 c. 
 
 33 
 
 c. 
 
 ii. 
 
 c. 
 
 IX. 
 
 c. 
 
 XIU. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXXVl. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 XXXVlll. 
 
 Ivi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixx. 
 
 c. 
 
 xc. 
 
 c. 
 
 xciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 civ. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXlll. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 CXXXVl. 
 
 cxli. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cxliv. 
 
 cxlvi. 
 
 clvii. 
 
 clxiii. 
 
 clxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXCIV. 
 
 0. 
 
 CXCVl. 
 
 c. 
 
 GOV. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCVll. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxm. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 0. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxvi. 
 ccxlvii. 
 ccxlviii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Hackney Commons). 
 East London Waterworks 
 Local Government Board Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation 
 
 (Woolwich). 
 Shepherd's Bush & Hammersmith 
 
 Tramway. 
 Education Department Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 Lea Bridge, Leyton & Waltham- 
 
 stow Tramways. 
 South Metropolitan Gas Company. 
 Southwark & Deptford Tramways. 
 South London Tramways. 
 Metropolitan bridges. 
 St. Botolph Without, Aldgate 
 
 (tithes). 
 Greenwich Dock and Railway 
 Kingston & London Railway 
 
 Metropolis Management and Build- 
 ings 
 
 Public buildings (Admiralty and 
 War Office). 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money). 
 
 London and St. Katharine's Docks. 
 
 City of London Court House, 
 
 King's College, London. 
 
 Millwall Docks. 
 
 South Metropolitan Gas Company. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Various Powers). 
 
 Highgate Hill Tramways. 
 
 East and West India Docks. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway (Transfer of 
 Metropolitan & St. John's Wood 
 Railway). 
 
 City of London markets. 
 
 Greenwich & Millwall Subway Co. 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 South London Market. 
 
 London Riverside Fish Market . . 
 
 Metropolitan & District Railways. 
 
 London Street Tramways. 
 
 East London Railway (Leasing to 
 L.B. & S.C, S.E., G.E., Midland 
 & Met. Dist. Railways). 
 
 South London Tramways. 
 
 North London Suburban Tramway. 
 
 St. Pancras (Guardians' lands). 
 
 West Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Limehouse Subway 
 
 London, Camberwell & Dulwich 
 Tramwayr^. 
 
 Greenwich Dock & Railway (Trans- 
 fer of Railway to S.E. Railway). 
 
 Metropolitan Street Improvements. 
 
 PeckhamandLewisham (New Road). 
 
 Latimer Road & Acton Railway . . 
 
 Kingston & London Railway 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 45 & 46 Vict. c. ccxix. 
 See 49 & 50 Vict. c. ex. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. e. ccxiii. 
 
 Semble lapsed. 
 
 See 1 Edw. 7. c. Ixxi. 
 
 Semble lapsed. 
 
 Abandoned. See 63 & 64 Vict. c. xcv. 
 See 49 & 50 Vict. c. ex.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 17<>0 to 1007. 
 
 Ixxiii 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 ['45 & 46 Vict. 
 
 i^<1882) {.cont.) 
 
 c. eel. 
 
 0. cclv. 
 
 c 
 c 
 
 c 
 
 cclvii. 
 
 cclix. 
 
 cclxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclxiii. 
 
 0. cclxiv. 
 46 & 47 Vict. 
 (1883) 
 0. 4 
 c. 27 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 32 
 35 
 36 
 
 c. 
 
 XI. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxiii. 
 
 o. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXVIU. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXXVl. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 xlix. 
 
 li. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxii. 
 
 0. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cxlii. 
 
 clviii. 
 
 clxiv. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clxvii. 
 clxx\4i. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clxxviii 
 elxxxvi 
 
 c. 
 
 cxci. 
 
 c. 
 
 cciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCVll. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCVlll. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXll. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Wimbledon & West Metropolitan 
 Junction Railway . . 
 
 Charing Cross & \Vatorloo Electric 
 Railway 
 
 London Southern Tramways. 
 
 Metropohtan District Railway. 
 
 Regent's Canal, City & Docks 
 Railway Company (North Metro- 
 politan Railway & Canal Co. ) 
 
 South-Eastern Railway (City of 
 London lines). 
 
 Metropolitan Outer Circle Railway 
 
 National Gallery. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money). 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 Diseases prevention (Metropolis) . . 
 
 Parochial charities (City of London) 
 
 St. Saviour (Southwark) : abolition 
 of Church rate. 
 
 Metropolitan streetimprovements . . 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 London, Tilbury & Southend 
 Railway and East & West India 
 Docks. 
 
 Hounslow & Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 East London Railway. 
 
 Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Old Kent 
 Road. 
 
 Thames Conservancy 
 
 Local Government Board Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation 
 (Lambeth) . . 
 
 Metropolis (Tench Street) Provi- 
 sional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolis (Brook Street) Provi- 
 sional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolis (Windmill Row) Pre 
 visional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolis (Trafalgar Road) Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 North London Tramways Company. 
 
 Paddington Market. 
 
 Regent's Canal, City & Docks 
 Railway 
 
 South London Tramways. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Bridges, etc.). 
 
 Metropolitan Street Improvements 
 
 Bexley Heath Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railveay 
 (Ventilators). 
 
 London, Tilbury & Southend 
 Railway. 
 
 London, Hendon & Harrow Rly. . . 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Metropohtan Outer Circle Railway I 
 
 Regent's Canal, City & Dock [ 
 Railway . . . . . . . . | 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 49 & 50 Vict. c. ex. 
 Rep. 48 & 49 Vict. c. Ixxi. 
 
 See 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxxviii. 
 Rep. 48 & 49 Vict. c. clxiii. 
 
 Rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76. 
 
 Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Spent. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 43 & 44 Vict. c. cxc. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 Rep. Lambeth Order in Council 1901. 
 
 See 55 & 55 Vict. c. clxxxviii. 
 
 Rep. 50 & 51 Vict. c. xxx\-ii. 
 Rep. 48 & 49 Vict. c. clxiii. 
 See 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxxviii.
 
 Ixxiv 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 46 & 47 Vict. 
 (1883) {cont.) 
 c. ccxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxvii. 
 
 47 & 48 Vict. 
 (1884) 
 c. 3 
 c. 5 
 c. 17 
 c. 32 
 c. 60 
 
 c. 
 
 60 
 
 c. 
 
 11. 
 
 c. 
 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 XV. 
 
 c. 
 
 XVIU. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Ivii. 
 
 Ixxii. 
 
 Ixxvi. 
 
 c. Ixxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxviii 
 
 c. 
 
 xciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcv. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 cm. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxv. 
 
 e. 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxl i. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxivii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxci. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXCll. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCl. 
 
 0. 
 
 CCXXlll. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Electric Lighting Provisional Order 
 
 (Chelsea, Greenwich) 
 Electric Lighting Provisional Order 
 
 (Bermondsey, etc.) . . 
 Electric Lighting Provisional Order 
 
 (Limehouse. Poplar, etc.) . . 
 Electric Lighting Provisional Order 
 
 (Hackney, etc.) 
 Electric Lighting Provisional Order 
 
 (Hanover Square, etc.) . . 
 Electric Lighting Provisional Order 
 
 (St George the Martyr) . . 
 Peckham & East Dulwich Tram- 
 ways. 
 
 London brokers (Relief) . . 
 
 Valuation (Metropolis) Amendment. 
 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 
 Chelsea : Royal Military Asylum. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money). 
 
 Metropolitan Asylums Board 
 
 Metropolitan commons (Streatham 
 Common). 
 
 Sion College. 
 
 London & St. Katharine's Docks. 
 
 London Hospital. 
 
 Highgate Archway Company (disso- 
 lution of). 
 
 St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington 
 
 London Tramways. 
 
 London Hydraulic Power. 
 
 Electric lighting (City of West 
 minster) 
 
 Local Government Board Provision 
 al Order Confirmation (White- 
 chapel) 
 
 Provisional Order Electric Lighting 
 (Fulham) . . 
 
 Cromwell Road Bridge, Kensington 
 
 London Street Tramways. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 West Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Local Government Board Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (St. 
 Luke) 
 
 London, Tilbury & Southend Rly. 
 
 Woolwich Equitable Gas Company. 
 
 East London Railway (White- 
 chapel Junction). 
 
 Greenwich, Lewisham & Dept- 
 ford Tramways. 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Railway. 
 
 City & Southwark Subway 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Free steam ferry (city of London). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 London Southern Tramways. 
 
 North London Tramways. 
 
 Southwark & Vauxhall Water Co. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (various powers). 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Revoked 1884. 
 Revoked 1884. 
 Revoked 1884. 
 Revoked 1884. 
 Revoked 1885. 
 Revoked 1884. 
 
 Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142. 
 
 Rep. Kensington Orderin Council 1901. 
 
 Revoked 1887. 
 
 Rep. Stepney Order in Council 1 90 1. 
 
 Revoked 1889. 
 
 Rep. Finsbury Order in Council 1901. 
 
 See 53 & 54 Vict. c. cxiv. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 17f)'» to ]*J<i7. 
 
 Ixxv 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 47 & 48 Vict. 
 (1884) [cont.) 
 
 c. ccxxv. 
 
 c. ccxxviii, 
 
 c. ccxxix. 
 c. ccxliv. 
 
 c. ccxlvii. 
 
 c. cclix. 
 48 & 49 Vict. 
 (1885) 
 c. 18 
 c. 33 
 
 34 
 38 
 42 
 
 45 
 50 
 
 c. 53 
 c. 68 
 c. 76 
 
 C. XXV. 
 
 o. xxvi. 
 c. xlv. 
 c. xlix. 
 0. Hi. 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 0. Ixxiv. 
 c. Ixxviii. 
 c. Ixxxvi. 
 c. Ixxxix. 
 c. xcix. 
 
 c. c. 
 
 c. cxiii. 
 c. cxiv. 
 c. cxv. 
 c. cxvi. 
 
 c. cxxxviii 
 c. cxliv. 
 c. clx. 
 c. clxiii. 
 
 c. clxvii. 
 
 c. clxxxix. 
 
 c. excv. 
 c. cxcix. 
 
 49 & 50 Vict. 
 (1886) 
 c. 11 
 c. 22 
 c. 44 
 
 c. ii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 ^Metropolitan Railway. 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (bridges). 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 Lea Bridge, Leyton & Waltham- 
 
 stow Tramways. 
 Wimbledon & West Metropolitan 
 
 Junction Railway 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan streets. 
 
 Metropolis management (amend- 
 ment). 
 
 Water rate definition- 
 School Boards 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 Post Ofifice sites (London, etc.). 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (money). 
 
 Public Health 
 
 Metropolitan Police StafI (Super- 
 annuation). 
 
 Thames Preservation 
 
 East & West India Docks. 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 East London Railway. 
 
 London Riverside Fish Market . . 
 
 City of London School for Girls 
 (Ward's). 
 
 Charing Cross & ^^^aterloo Electric 
 Railway (Abandonment). 
 
 Columbia Market. 
 
 Latimer Road & Acton Railway . . 
 
 London, Tilburj' & Southend Rly. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Metropolis (Hughes Fields, Dept- 
 ford) Provisional Order. 
 
 Metropolis (Tabard Street, New- 
 ington) Provisional Order. 
 
 Limehouse Subway. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway. 
 
 London Street Tramways. 
 
 St. James's, Boi-mondsey (Church 
 and Burial ground). 
 
 Regent's Canal, City & Docks Rly. 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 Greenwich & Millwall Subway. 
 
 Metropolitan Outer Circle Railway 
 ( abandonment ) . 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (various powers). 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Tower Bridge. 
 
 Peckham and East Dulwich Tram- 
 ways. 
 
 Metropolitan Police compensation 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 Metropolittm Board of Works 
 
 (Money). 
 Open spaces (City of London). 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 49 & 50 Vict. c. ex. 
 
 2 rep. 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 24. 
 
 Extended to Woolwich 54 & 55 Vict, 
 c. 76. 8. 102. 
 
 Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 See 1 Edw. 7, c. Ixxi. 
 
 Abandoned 63 <fe 64 Vict. c. xcv. 
 
 Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).
 
 Ixxvi 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 
 and chapter. 
 
 49 & 50 Vict. 
 
 (18S6) {cont.) 
 
 C. Vlll. 
 
 C. XXVI. 
 
 0. liii. 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 c. Ixxxii. 
 
 c. Ixxxv. 
 
 c. lxxx\'ii. 
 
 C. CIV. 
 
 c. cix. 
 
 0. ex. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. CXll. 
 
 50 Vict. 
 (1886) 
 c. ii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xviii. 
 
 c. xxxix. 
 c. xli. 
 c. xlii. 
 50 & 51 Vict. 
 (1887) 
 c. 17. 
 
 c. 
 
 31 
 
 0. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 32 
 34 
 
 45 
 
 c. 
 
 IV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xu. 
 
 c. 
 
 XIU. 
 
 c. 
 
 XX\'ll. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXX vu 
 
 c. 
 c 
 
 Ii. 
 
 Ixiii. 
 
 c 
 
 Ixxx. 
 
 c 
 
 xciv. 
 
 c 
 
 ci. 
 
 Repeals, etc 
 
 London Central Markets. 
 
 East & West India Dock. 
 
 Westminster Abbey (Restoration 
 of). 
 
 Lambeth W^aterworks 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 
 Southwark & Vauxhall Water Co. 
 
 Bexley Heath Railway. 
 
 Harrow Road & Paddington 
 Tramways. 
 
 Lee River Purification. 
 
 Kingston & London & Wimbledon 
 & West Metropolitan Junction 
 Railway (Transfer of, to London 
 & South -Western Railway Co.). 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Various Powers). 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (Chelsea). 
 
 North London Tramways. 
 
 Hampstead Heath (Enlargement). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Metropolis management (Batter 
 sea and Westminster). 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Money). 
 
 Open Spaces 
 
 London Parks and Works. 
 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 
 London Street Tramways. 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 City of London ballot. 
 
 Millwall Dock. 
 
 London, Hendon & Harrow 
 Railway (Abandonment). 
 
 Regent's Canal, City & Docks Rly. 
 
 Hyde Park Corner (Streets Main- 
 tenance). 
 
 Bexley Heath Railway. 
 
 Chelsea Waterworks 
 
 Metropolis (Cable Street, Shadwell) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolis (Shelton Street, St. 
 Giles) Provisional Order Confirma- 
 tion. 
 c. cv. London & Southwark Subway 
 
 c. cvi. Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (various powers). 
 
 c. cxx. Education Department Provisional 
 
 p Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 c. cxxxv. St. Pancras loans (Amendment). 
 
 c. cxxxvi. Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 c. cxxxvii. Clissold Park (Stoke Newington). 
 
 c. clvi. Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 c. clxv. East London Railway. 
 
 c. clxxii. Thames Tunnel (Blackwall). 
 
 c. clxxxiii. Peckham & East Dulwich Tram- 
 ways. 
 
 See2Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 c. cu. 
 
 Rep. in part 6 Edw. 7, c. 25. 
 
 See 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxxvi i. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 53 & 54 Vict. 
 7, c. clxxiii. 
 
 c. cxiv. and 3 Edw.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating speciallg 
 to London from 17U0 to 19<J7. 
 
 Ixxvii 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 60 & 51 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1887) {cont.) 
 
 
 
 c. clxxxiv. 
 
 Westminster (Parliament Street, 
 etc.) Improvements. 
 
 
 c. clxxxvii 
 
 Bankruptcy Offices (Site). 
 
 
 c. cxcvi. 
 
 (Provisional Order) West Metro- 
 politan Tramways. 
 
 
 51 ^- r2 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1888) 
 
 
 
 c. 6 
 
 Metropolitan Board (Commission) 
 
 Spent. 
 
 c. 11 
 
 Westminster Abbey. 
 
 
 c. 40 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (money). 
 
 
 c. 41 
 
 Local Government. 
 
 
 c. 52 
 
 Public Health (Buildings in Streets) 
 
 Extended to Woolwich 54 & 55 Vict, 
 c. 7G, s. 102. 
 
 c. iii. 
 
 Columbia Market (Extension of 
 time). 
 
 
 c. vi. 
 
 Kent Waterworks . , 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 c. xxxii. 
 
 Metropolis (Whitechapel and Lime- 
 house) Provisional Order Con- 
 firmation. 
 
 
 c. xxxviii. 
 
 City of London fire inquests. 
 
 
 c. Ivi. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 
 c. Ivii. 
 
 Thames Tunnel (Blackwall). 
 
 
 c. Ix. 
 
 Bexley Heath Railway. 
 
 
 c. Ixviii. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway. 
 
 
 c. Ixix. 
 
 St. Botolph Without, Aldgate (Tithe 
 rate). 
 
 
 c. Ixxviii. 
 
 London Street Tramways (Ex- 
 tension). 
 
 
 c. xciv. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 
 
 
 Law) (Kensington) 
 
 Rep. Kensington Order in Council 1 9')\ 
 
 c. cxii. 
 
 Latimer Road & Acton Railway . . 
 
 Abandoned. See 63 & 64 Vict. c. xcv. 
 
 c. cxxii. 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 
 c. cxxxv. 
 
 London Sea Water Supply. 
 
 
 c. cxxxviii. 
 
 Horse Guards Avenue. 
 
 
 c. cxliii. 
 
 London & St. Katharine and East 
 & West India Docks. 
 
 
 c. cxliv. 
 
 London Tramways Company. 
 
 
 c. cxlviii. 
 
 Kensington Square improvements. 
 
 
 c. cli. 
 
 Harapstead Heath Enlargement 
 (Amendment). 
 
 
 0. clvi. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Various Powers). 
 
 
 c. clviii. 
 
 London, Tilbury & Southend 
 Railway. 
 
 
 0. clxv. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 
 c. clxxi. 
 
 Green \vich & Mill wall Subway. 
 
 
 c. clxxiv. 
 
 Raleigh Park (Brixton). 
 
 
 c. clxxviii. 
 
 Vauxhall Park. 
 
 
 c. clxxxiv. 
 
 Metropolitan Outer Circle Railway 
 
 Abandoned 58 & 59 Vict. c. vi 
 
 c. clxxxvi. 
 
 South-Etistern Metropohtan Tram- 
 ways. 
 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1889) 
 
 
 
 c. 17 
 
 London Coal Duties Abolition. 
 
 
 c. 25 
 
 National Portrait Gallery. 
 
 
 c. 61 
 
 London Council (Money). 
 
 
 c. vii. 
 
 London MydrauHc Power. 
 
 
 C. XX. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 
 c. xxvii. 
 
 London, Chatham & Dover Rly. 
 
 
 c. xlv. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 

 
 Ixxviii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 a.nd chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. 
 
 » 
 
 
 (1889) {cont.) 
 
 
 
 c. liii. 
 
 INIetropolitan Railway. 
 
 
 c. xcviii. 
 
 London & North- Western Railway. 
 
 
 c. cxviii. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 
 
 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 
 Rep. Westminster Order in Council 
 
 
 Law) 
 
 1901. 
 
 c. cxxiv. 
 
 London Tramways Company. 
 
 
 c. exxvi. 
 
 Shortlands & Nunhead Railway . . 
 
 See 59 & 60 Vict. c. cc. 
 
 c. cxxvii. 
 
 City of London Police (Superannu- 
 ation). 
 
 
 c. cxlvii. 
 
 Metropolitan Improvements. 
 
 
 c. cxlviii. 
 
 Southwark & Deptford Tramways. 
 
 
 0. cxlix. 
 
 Corporation of London (Tower 
 Bridge). 
 
 ■ 
 
 c. clviii. 
 
 Lea Bridge, Leyton & Wal- 
 thamstow Tramways. 
 
 
 c. clix. 
 
 South Eastern Railway. 
 
 
 c. clxxiii. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 
 c. clxxviii. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 2). 
 
 
 c. clxxix. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 3). 
 
 
 c. clxxx. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 4). 
 
 
 c. clxxxi. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 5). 
 
 
 c. cxcvi. 
 
 Metropolitan Electric Lighting. 
 
 
 c. ccii. 
 
 West Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 
 c. ceix. 
 
 Post Office (Sites). 
 
 
 53 & 54 Vict. 
 
 
 
 (1890) 
 
 
 
 c. 15 
 
 Open spaces 
 
 Rep. 6 Edw. 7, c. 25. 
 
 c. 41 
 
 London County Council (money). 
 
 
 c. 54 
 
 Metropolis Management Amend- 
 ment. 
 
 
 c. 66 
 
 Metropolis Management Amend- 
 ment. 
 
 
 c. iii. 
 
 Colimabia Market Railways 
 (Abandonment). 
 
 
 c. viii. 
 
 Royal Naval Schools (New Cross) 
 (Disused Chapel Site). 
 
 
 c. ix. 
 
 South London Polyteclmic In- 
 stitutes (Borough Road Site). 
 
 
 c. xxiv. 
 
 London Tramways Company. 
 
 
 c. xlvi. 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 
 c. xlix. 
 
 Cadogan and Hans Place Estate. 
 
 
 c. Ixxvii. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 
 c. cii. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 
 c. cxiv. 
 
 City & South London Railway. 
 
 
 c. cxxviii. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 
 c. clviii. 
 
 Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway 
 (Midland & L.T. & S. Railway). 
 
 
 c. clxxxii. 
 
 Lea Bridge, Leyton & Waltham- 
 stow Tramways. 
 
 
 c. cxciv. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 
 
 
 tion (No. 9). 
 
 Revoked 1892. 
 
 c. excviii. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 12). 
 
 
 c. cc. 
 
 Regent's Canal, City & Docks Rly. 
 
 See 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxxviii. 
 
 c. ccv. 
 
 Westminster (Parliament Street) 
 improvements. 
 
 
 c. ccxviii. 
 
 Bexley Heath Railway. 
 
 
 c. ccxxviii. 
 
 North West Central Railway. 
 
 Abandoned 56 & 57 Vict. c. Ixxxviii.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specialbj 
 to London from 1700 to 19(J7. 
 
 Ixxix 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 53 & 54 Vict. 
 (1890) (cont.) 
 c. ccxxxix. 
 
 c. ccxliii. 
 
 c. ccxlvii. 
 
 1^64 & 55 Vict. 
 (1891) 
 c. 62. 
 c. 76. 
 c. xxiv. 
 
 0. liii. 
 
 c. Ix. 
 
 c. Ixv. 
 
 Subjoct matter. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxvii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Ixxviii. 
 Ixxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXVlll. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cxxxu. 
 cxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cli. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxvii 
 
 c. 
 
 cxei. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccv. 
 
 0. 
 
 ccvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxii. 
 
 65 & 56 Vict. 
 ( 1892) 
 
 0. 1 
 0. 34 
 
 c. 
 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 xliii. 
 
 c 
 
 xlix. 
 
 o 
 
 li. 
 
 c 
 
 . liv. 
 
 c 
 c 
 
 . Ixxvii. 
 . Ixxxii. 
 
 c 
 
 . cxxx. 
 
 c 
 
 . cxxxi. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (Xo. 15). 
 
 London County Councnl (General 
 Powers). 
 
 London Streets (Reino\al of 
 Gates). 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 Public Hoiilth (London). 
 
 Metrop(jlitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolis (Shelton Street, St. Giles) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation. 
 
 London (Boundary Street, Bothnal 
 Green) Provisional Order Con- 
 firmation. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Con- 
 firmation (No. 9) 
 
 Latimer Road & Acton Railway . . 
 
 Thames Deep Water Dock. 
 
 London Overhead Wires. 
 
 London Sky Signs . . 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Southwark & Vauxhall water 
 
 West Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Westminster Improvement Com- 
 missioners (Winding Up). 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Harrow Road & Paddington 
 Tramways. 
 
 Metropolitan Outer Circle Railway. 
 
 Hanover Chapel (Regent Street). 
 
 Central London Railway. 
 
 Tottenham and Wood Green 
 sewerage. 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 London, Doptford & Greenwich 
 Tramways. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Con- 
 firmation (No. 10) 
 
 Millbank Prison. 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 East and West India Dock. 
 
 Borough Market (Southwark). 
 
 Railway Rates and Charges (No. 5) 
 (East London Railway, etc.) Order 
 Confirmation. 
 
 Railway Rates and Charges (No. 5) 
 (Tottenham and Hampstead Rail- 
 way) Order Confirmation. 
 
 Railway Rates and Charges (No. 13) 
 (Metropolitan Railway, etc.) Order 
 Confirmation. 
 
 Railway Rates and Charges (No. 16) 
 (North London Railway) Order 
 Confirination. 
 
 Corporation of London (Loans). 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 London Water. 
 
 London & India Docks. 
 
 Revoked 1892. 
 Abandoned 63 & 
 
 64 Vict. c. xcv. 
 
 Rep. 57 <fe 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Abandoned 58 & 59 Vict, c, vi. 
 
 Rep. in part 55 & 56 Vict. c. 
 and revoked 1893. 
 
 ccxxvu.
 
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 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 55 & 56 Vict. 
 
 (1892) {.cont.) 
 
 c. cxlviii. 
 
 c. clx. 
 
 c. clxxxviii, 
 
 c. ccviii. 
 
 c. ccxviii. 
 
 c. ccxx. 
 
 c. ccxxvii. 
 
 c. ccxxxvu. 
 c. ccxxxviii. 
 
 c. ccxli. 
 
 c. ccxlii. 
 
 56 & 57 Vict. 
 
 (1893) 
 
 c. 47 
 
 c. 55 
 
 c. 
 
 61 
 
 c. 
 
 73 
 
 c. 
 
 I. 
 
 c. 
 
 iv. 
 
 c. 
 
 IX. 
 
 c. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxii 
 
 c. 
 
 xl. 
 
 c. xli. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xciii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxvii 
 
 c. 
 
 clxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxvii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Wostminstei- (Parliament Street, 
 etc.) Improvements. 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Regent's Canal, City & Doclis 
 Railway (Change of Name). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 6) (Hampstead, Lam- 
 beth, etc.). 
 
 Electric Lighting Order Confirma- 
 tion (No. 5) (Southwark and 
 Wandsworth). 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 Central London Railway. 
 
 Great Northern & City Railway. 
 
 Public Health (London) Act 1891 
 Amendment. K« ! 
 
 Metropohs Management (Plum- 
 stead and Hackney). 
 
 Public Authorities Protection. 
 
 Local Government. 
 
 Manchester, Sheffield & Lincoln- 
 shire Railway (Extension to 
 London) 
 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. 
 
 London & Blackwall Railway. 
 
 St. George the Martyr, Southwark 
 (Rector's rate) 
 
 Kensington, Knightsbridge and 
 Chelsea Electric Lighting. 
 
 Post Office (sites). 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 3) (Hackney, Hammer- 
 smith and Poplar). 
 
 Harrow Road & Paddington 
 Tramways. 
 
 West Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 London Hydraiihc Power Com- 
 pany. 
 
 London streets (Removal of Gates, 
 Bars, etc.). 
 
 Paddington Recreation Groixnd. 
 
 London Open Spaces. 
 
 Thames Watermen and Lightermen 
 
 City of London electric lighting. 
 
 London & South- Western Railway. 
 
 North West Central Railway 
 (Abandonment). 
 
 Corporation of London (Tower 
 Bridge) (Extension of Time). 
 
 Electric Lighting Order Confirma- 
 tion (No. 6) (Islington). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Latimer Road & Acton Railway . . 
 
 Metropolitan Outer Circle Railway 
 
 Eexley Heath Railway. 
 
 Waterloo & City Railway. 
 
 See 60 & 61 Vict. c. Uv. 
 
 Rep. Southwark Order in Council 1901. 
 
 Abandoned 63 & 64 Vict. c. xcv. 
 Abandoned 58 & 59 Vict. c. vi.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Ixxxi 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 66 & 57 Vict. 
 (1893) (cont.) 
 c. cxci. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxcii. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxcvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 coil. 
 
 c. 
 
 cciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCVll. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXl. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXll. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxi. 
 
 0. 
 
 ccxxvii. 
 
 67 & 58 Vict. 
 (1894) 
 c. 34 
 c. 53 
 
 c. 
 
 Vll. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Ivii. 
 Ixvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 
 0. 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxviii. 
 
 0. 
 0. 
 0. 
 
 c. 
 
 0. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxii. 
 
 clxii. 
 
 clxiii. 
 
 clxiv. 
 
 clxv. 
 
 clxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxvii. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cciii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. ccxii. 
 
 0. ccxiii. 
 0. ccxv. 
 c. ccxvi. 
 
 68 & 59 Vict. 
 (1895) 
 c. 12 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 (Jrdor Confirmation (No. 2). 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 London County Council (Subways). 
 
 West Ham Corporation. 
 
 City & South London Railway. 
 
 London County Council (Monoy). 
 
 London, Deptford & Greenwich 
 Tramways. 
 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 stead Railway. 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 Canal Tolls and Charges (Grand 
 Junction Canal) Order Confirma- 
 tion. 
 
 British Museum (Purchase of Land). 
 
 London (Equalisation of Rates). 
 
 City of London Police (superannua- 
 tion). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Central London Railway. 
 
 Surrey Commercial Dock. 
 
 Harrow Road and Paddington 
 Tramways. 
 
 Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway 
 (Mid. & L.T. & S. joint Une). 
 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 stead Railway. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (No. 
 12) (London, etc.). 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 Law). 
 
 London Tramways Company. 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 Southwark and Vauxhall Water . . 
 
 West Middlesex Waterworks 
 
 London Covmty Council (Improve- 
 ments). 
 
 Thames Conservancy. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Canal Tolls and Charges (No. 5) 
 (Regent's Canal) Order Confirma- 
 tion. 
 
 Canal Rates, Tolls and Charges 
 (No. 11) (Grand Canal) Order Con- 
 firmation. 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 London Streets and Buildings. 
 
 Ealing & South Harrow Railway. 
 
 London, Walthamstow & Epping 
 Forest Railway . . 
 
 Metropolitan Police (Receiver). 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Abandoned 63 & 64 Vict. c. ccLii. 
 
 /
 
 Ixxxii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating speciallg 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 68 & 59 Vict. 
 (1895) {cont.) 
 
 c. V. 
 
 C. VI. 
 
 c. xix. 
 
 c. xxxii. 
 
 c. Ixv. 
 
 c. xciii. 
 
 c. xcv. 
 
 c. c. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxu. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxvn. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxx. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cxl. 
 cl. 
 
 cliii. 
 
 Sess. 2 
 c. 5 
 
 c. 
 
 Ul. 
 
 59 & 60 Vict 
 (1896) 
 c. 23 
 c. 27 
 c. 55 
 
 c. 
 
 1. 
 
 c. 
 
 lU. 
 
 c. 
 
 ix. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxviu. 
 
 c, 
 c. 
 c 
 c 
 c. 
 
 xxxvi. 
 li. 
 
 liv. 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 
 Ixxvi. 
 
 c 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxix. 
 
 c. 
 c 
 c 
 
 clvii. 
 
 clviii. 
 
 clxxiii. 
 
 c 
 
 cLxxxi. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 London (Boundary Street, Bethnal 
 
 Green) Provisional Order Con- 
 firmation. 
 Metropolitan Outer Circle Rail- 
 way (Abandonment). 
 
 City & South London Railway. 
 
 London Street Tramways. 
 
 iletropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 \dsional Order Confirmation 
 (Hoiasing of the Working Classes) 
 (Limehouse). 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 %'isional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 Law) (St. George-in-the-East). 
 
 Tramways Orders Confirmation 
 (No. 1) (London United Tram- 
 ways). 
 
 Great Northern & City Railway. 
 
 London County Council (Greneral 
 Powers). 
 
 London Covmty Coimcil (Vauxhall 
 Bridge). 
 
 London Covmty Council (Tower 
 Bridge southern approach). 
 
 London Coiuity Council (Money). 
 
 Latimer Road & Acton Railway . . 
 
 London, Walthamstow & Epping 
 Forest Railway . . 
 
 PubUc oflioes (Acquisition of Site). 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Public Offices (Westminster) site. 
 
 London Cab. 
 
 Quarter Sessions (London). 
 
 ^Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (Xotting Hill). 
 
 MiUwall Dock. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 Law) (St. Matthew, Bethnal 
 Green). 
 
 Metropolitan Market. 
 
 London County Tramways. 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks 
 
 Chelsea Waterworks 
 
 Local Govenunent Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (poor 
 law) (Xo. 2) (Whitechapel). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 5) (Battersea, Camber- 
 well and St. Sa\dour's). 
 
 MetropoUtan District Railway. 
 London Sea Water Supply. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Kensington (James Street irea) 
 improvements. 
 
 Abandoned 63 & 64 Vict. c. xcv. 
 Abandoned 63 & 64 Vict. c. cclii. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to Umj7. 
 
 Ixxxiii 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 69 & 60 Vict. 
 
 (189G) {cont.) 
 
 c. clxxxiv. 
 
 c. clxxxviii 
 
 c. clxxxix. 
 
 C. C2. 
 
 0. ccviii. 
 c. ccxi. 
 
 
 
 CCXIV. 
 
 c 
 
 ccxxv. 
 
 0. 
 
 ccxxvi. 
 
 0. 
 
 CCXXVll. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 CCXXIX. 
 
 ccxli. 
 
 c. 
 
 0. 
 
 ccxlvii. 
 cclii. 
 
 60 & 61 Vict 
 (1897) 
 c. 14 
 c. 25 
 c. 26 
 c. 27 
 c. 29 
 c. 42 
 
 c. 
 
 45 
 
 c. 
 
 56 
 
 0. 
 
 1. 
 
 c. 
 
 ii. 
 
 c. 
 
 iii. 
 
 c. 
 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 liv. 
 
 c. 
 
 lix. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcvii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cxxxiu. 
 cxlvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxv. 
 
 0. 
 
 clxvi. 
 
 o. 
 
 cxc. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcui. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXCVlll. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXXll. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 North Metropohtan Railway and 
 
 Canal. 
 London County Council (General 
 
 Powers). 
 London Tramways Company. 
 Shortlands & Nunhead Railway 
 
 (Transfer to L.C. & D. Railway). 
 Strand improvement. 
 London County Council (Vaux- 
 
 hall Bridge Tramway). 
 London County Council (Money). 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 Soutli Metropohtan Gas. 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. 
 New River Company 
 Staines Reservoirs. 
 Willesden Sewerage. 
 City & South London Railway. 
 
 Metropohtan Police Courts. 
 
 Patent Office (Extension). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Covu-ts. 
 
 Public offices (WhitehaH) Site. 
 
 Poor Law. 
 
 Metropohtan Pohce (Borrowing 
 Powers). 
 
 Archdeaconry of London (Addi- 
 tional endowment). 
 
 ^Metropolis Water. 
 
 London (Borough Road, South- 
 wark) Pro visional Order Confirma- 
 tion. 
 
 London (Churchway, St. Pancras) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 South Metropohtan Gas, 
 
 Charing Cross, Eu.ston & Hamp- 
 stead Railway. 
 
 Manchester, Sheffield & Lincoln- 
 shire Railway (Change of Name). 
 
 London (Clare Market, Strand) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 Law) 
 
 Tower Subway. 
 
 City of London Sewers. 
 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 9). 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Con- 
 firmation (No. 11). 
 
 London (Green Street, South war k) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation. 
 
 Post Office (sites) (London, etc.). 
 
 North London Railway. 
 
 Brompton & Piccadilly Circus RIy. 
 
 Great Nortliern & City Railway. 
 
 East London ^Vatorworks 
 
 London County Council (iloney). 
 
 New River Company 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. Southwark and 
 Orders in Council 1901. 
 
 Westminster 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. cclix. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 Ixxxiv 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 €knd. chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 60 & 61 Vict. 
 1897) (cont.) 
 
 c. ccxxiv. 
 
 c. ccxxxix. 
 c. ccxlii. 
 
 c. ccxliv. 
 
 c. ccxlvii. 
 
 c. ccl. 
 
 c. cell. 
 
 c. cclii. 
 
 0. cclvi. 
 c. ccKai. 
 
 61 & 62 Vict. 
 
 (1898) 
 c. 5 
 c. 12 
 c. 16 
 0. 24 
 c. 31 
 c. 45 
 c. 62 
 c. vi. 
 c. xi. 
 c. xiii. 
 
 c. li. 
 
 c. Ix. 
 c. Ixii. 
 
 c. Ixxvi. 
 
 C. 0. 
 
 c. 
 
 CIV. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXVl. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxliii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxci. 
 
 c. 
 
 cc. 
 
 c. 
 
 cciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxxiu.. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclxi. 
 
 Thames Tunnel (Greenwich to 
 Milhvall). 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 London County Council (improve- 
 ments). 
 
 Southwark and Vauxhall Water . . 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Highgate Woods Preservation. 
 
 Watford, Edgware & London 
 Railway. 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 Harrow & Uxbridge Railway 
 
 WTiitechapel & Bow Railway. 
 
 Public buildings (Expenses). 
 
 Public Record Office. 
 
 Canals protection (London). 
 
 Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Courts. 
 
 Metropolitan Poor. 
 
 University of London. 
 
 Guy's Hospital. 
 
 City & South London Railway. 
 
 St. Matthew, Bethnal Green 
 (Church Rate Abolition). 
 
 Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford. 
 
 City & Brixton Railway . . 
 
 London, Walthamstow & Epping 
 Forest Railway 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 Law) 
 
 Staines Reservoirs. . 
 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 stead Railway. 
 
 Southwark and Vauxhall Water. . 
 
 St. Thomas and St. Saviour, South- 
 wark. 
 
 London Building Act (1894) 
 Amendment. 
 
 London County Council (Acton 
 Sewage). 
 
 Gas Light & Coke Company 
 (Capital Consolidation). 
 
 London, Tilbury & Southend Rly. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 St. Marylebone (Church Rate Aboli- 
 tion). 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 13) (Holbom and St. 
 Giles). 
 
 Education Department Pro\'isional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 India Office (Store Depot). 
 
 London Coiinty Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 London County Coiincil (Money). 
 
 Chelsea Electricity Supply. 
 
 MetropoUtan Electric Supply Co. 
 
 London United Tramways. 
 
 Whitechapel & Bow Railway. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 4L 
 
 See 62 & 63 Vict. c. cclxviL 
 
 See 3 Edw. 7, c. clxxiiL 
 Abandoned 63 & 64 Vict. c. cclii. 
 
 Rep. Lambeth Order in Council 1901. 
 See 2 Edw, 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1007. 
 
 Ix.xx^ 
 
 Yeax, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. 
 (1899) 
 c. 7 
 c. 14 
 c. 15 
 
 c. 24 
 c. 26 
 
 C. XVUl. 
 
 c. xxvu. 
 
 c. 1. 
 c. Ixvi. 
 
 c. Ixvii. 
 
 c. Ixxxiii. 
 
 c. Ixxxviii. 
 
 c. xci. 
 
 c. xciv. 
 
 c. xcvi. 
 
 c. cxvi. 
 
 c. cxviii. 
 
 c. cxl. 
 
 c. clxiii. 
 c. clxviii. 
 
 c. clxxxv. 
 
 c. CXCll. 
 
 0. cxciv. 
 
 C. CClll. 
 
 c. ccxxxvii. 
 
 0. ccxxxviii. 
 0. ccxlvii. 
 0. ccxlix. 
 
 c. ccl. 
 c. cclxi. 
 c. cclxii. 
 c. cclxiv. 
 
 c. cclxvi. 
 
 c. cclxvii. 
 c. cclxxv. 
 
 c. cclxxvi. 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. 
 (1900) 
 c. 19 
 c. 29 
 
 0. V. 
 
 C. X. 
 
 c. xxi. 
 
 c. xxxvii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Metropolis Water. 
 
 London Government. 
 
 Metropolis Management Acts 
 
 Amendment (Byelaws). 
 University of London. 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 Surrey Commercial Dock. 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. » 
 
 London Hospital. 
 Grosvenor Chapel. 
 Church of Emmanuel, West End, 
 
 Hampstead. 
 Kensington & Notting Hill Elec- 
 tric Lighting Company. 
 Central Electric Supply Company. 
 West Middlesex Waterworks 
 St. James & Pall IMall Electric 
 
 Light Company. 
 Great Central Railway. 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 Law) (St. Mary, Newington, and 
 Greenwich) . . . . . . 
 
 Electric Ligliting Order Confirma- 
 tion (No. 3) (Bermondsey). 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confir- 
 mation (No. 15) (Bethnal Green, 
 Greenwich and Lewisham). 
 Millwall Dock. 
 
 South-Eastern & London, Chatham 
 & Dover Rlys. (Working Union). 
 Central London Railway. 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. 
 London United Tramways. 
 Great Northern & Strand Railway. 
 London County Council (General 
 
 Powers). 
 London County Council (Money). 
 City & Brixton Railway . . 
 London, Walthamstow & Epping 
 
 Forest Railway 
 West Metropolitan Railway 
 North West London Railway. 
 Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Rly. 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 stead Railway. 
 London County Council (Improve- 
 ments). 
 Harrow & Uxbridge Railway. 
 Electric Lighting Order Confirma- 
 tion (No. 20) (City of London). 
 Education Department Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 Land Registry (New Buildings). 
 London County Council (Electors' 
 
 Qualifications). 
 City & Soutli London Railway. 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 
 stejul Railway. 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation. 
 Central London Railwaj'. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See2Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Rep. in 
 Council 
 
 part 
 1901. 
 
 Southwark Order in 
 
 See 2 Edw. 
 
 c. ccxxxv. 
 
 See 3 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii. 
 
 Abandoned 63 & 64 Vict. 
 Abandoned 4 Edw. 7, 0. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. cclix. 
 
 0. 
 XX 
 
 cclii.
 
 Ixxxvi 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. 
 
 t 
 
 
 
 (1900) [cont.) 
 
 
 
 
 c. xlv. 
 
 Great Central Railway. 
 
 
 
 c. Ixxxviii. 
 
 City of London Electric Lighting. 
 
 
 
 c. xcv. 
 
 Latimer Road & Acton Railway 
 (Abandonment). 
 
 
 
 c. ex. 
 
 Great Eastern Railway. 
 
 
 
 c. cxi. 
 
 London and India Docks Amalga- 
 mation. 
 
 
 
 c. cxviii. 
 
 Regent's Canal and Dock. 
 
 
 
 c. exxvii. 
 
 Whitechapel & Bow Railway. 
 
 
 
 c. cxli. 
 
 Lambeth Waterworks ' . . 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 
 c. cxlvi. 
 
 London Sea Water Supply. 
 
 
 
 c. cxlvii. 
 
 South Eastern Metropolitan Tram- 
 ways. 
 
 
 
 c. clxii. 
 
 South Metropolitan Gas. 
 
 
 
 c. clxxxiv. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 
 
 
 
 Law) (St. Mary Magdalene, Ber- 
 
 Rep. Bermondsoy Order in 
 
 Council 
 
 
 mondsey) . . 
 
 1901. 
 
 
 c. clxxxvi. 
 
 London (Clerkenwell and Holborn) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation. 
 
 
 
 clxxxvii. 
 
 London (Poplar) Provisional Order 
 Confirmation. 
 
 
 
 c. clxxxviii. 
 
 London (St. Luke) Pro\asional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 
 
 c. clxxxix. 
 
 London (Southwark) Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 
 
 c. cxcvii. 
 
 Education Board Provisional Or- 
 der Confirmation (London). 
 
 
 
 c. ccii. 
 
 London (St. Marylebone) Pro- 
 visional Order Coiifirmation. 
 
 
 
 c. ccvi. 
 
 Post Office (sites) (London, etc.). 
 
 
 
 c. ccvai. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Con- 
 firmation (Xo. 10) (Battersea and 
 Stepney). 
 
 
 
 c. ccxii. 
 
 East London Waterworks 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c 41. 
 
 
 c. ccxvi. 
 
 London Coimty Council (Money). 
 
 
 
 c. ccxix. 
 
 Thames Tunnel (Rotherhithe and 
 Ratchf?). 
 
 
 
 c. ccxxv. 
 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. 
 
 
 
 c. ccxxvii. 
 
 Charing Cross & Strand Elec- 
 tricity Supply Corporation. 
 
 
 
 c. ccxxviii. 
 
 City of London (Various Powers). 
 
 
 
 c. ccxxxviii. 
 
 London County Tramways (Elec- 
 trical Power). 
 
 
 
 c. ccxliv. 
 
 Wandsworth & Putney Gas. 
 
 
 
 c. cclii. 
 
 London, Walthamstow & Epping 
 Forest Railway (Abandonment). 
 
 
 
 c. ccvi. 
 
 South-Eastem and London, Chat- 
 ham & Dover Railways. 
 
 
 
 c. cclxviii. 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 
 
 c. cclxix. 
 
 London County Council (Improve- 
 ments). 
 
 
 
 c. cclxx. 
 
 London County Tramways. 
 
 
 
 0. cclxxi. 
 
 London United Tramways. 
 
 
 
 c. cclxxii. 
 
 Metropolis Gas (Prepayment Meter). 
 
 
 
 c. cclxxiii. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 
 
 c. cclxxvi. 
 
 North ^Metropolitan Electric Power 
 Supply. 
 
 
 
 1 Edw. 7 
 
 
 
 
 (1901) 
 
 
 
 
 c. 16 
 
 National Gallery (Purchase of 
 Adjacent Land). 
 
 
 
 C. XV. 
 
 London Bridge Widening. 
 
 
 
 c. xvii. 
 
 Thames Deep Water Dock. 
 

 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 17UU to 1007. 
 
 Ixxxvii 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 1 Edw. 7 
 (1901) {cont.) 
 c. xviii. 
 
 c. xliv. 
 
 c. xc. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cviji. 
 
 c. 
 
 ex VI. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXVll. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXXVl 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixvi. 
 Ixxi. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Ixxviii. 
 Ixxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xc. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxv. 
 
 0. 
 
 cxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXXXll. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxvu. 
 
 0. 
 
 clv^i. 
 
 0. 
 
 clxxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccv. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXlll. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXX. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXXVll. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxxviii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 ccxxxiv. 
 
 cclx. 
 
 cclxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclxxii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 cclxxv. 
 cclxxviii. 
 
 2 
 
 { 
 
 c 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Edw. 7 
 1902) 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 41 
 
 c. 
 
 XV. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxu. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXXVl. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixv. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxv. 
 
 School for Orphans of Freemen 
 of the City of London. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 Law) (St. Giles, Camberwell). 
 
 City & South London Railway. 
 
 London Riverside Fish Market 
 (Transfer to Corporation of 
 London). 
 
 Netting Hill Electric Lighting. 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 Great Eastern Railway. 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Junc- 
 tion Railway 
 
 St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Staines Reservoirs (Amendment) . . 
 
 Electric Lighting Order Confirma- 
 tion (No. 1) (St. Marylebone). 
 
 Metropolitan Pohce Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 12) (Lewisham, etc.). 
 
 South Metropolitan Gas. 
 
 Bridewell Hospital. 
 
 Central London Railway. 
 
 Christ's Hospital (London). 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 London & India Docks Company 
 (New Works). 
 
 Metropolitan Electric Supply. 
 
 Bethlem Hospital. 
 
 London United Tramways. 
 
 London County Council (Tram- 
 ways and Improvements) 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers ). 
 
 City & Brixton Railway . . 
 
 Education Board Provisional Order 
 Confirmation (London). 
 
 British Museum. 
 
 Labour bureaux (London). 
 
 Metropolis water. 
 
 Grand Jimction Waterworlfs 
 
 Great Eastern Railway. 
 
 School Board for London (Super- 
 annuation Scheme). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 London Government Scheme 
 (borough of Southwark) Con- 
 firmation. 
 
 London Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (Poor 
 Law) (Metropolitan .iVsylum Dis- 
 trict). 
 
 London (Poplar) Provisional Order 
 Confirmation. 
 
 South Metropolitan Gas. 
 
 City of London (Pubhc Health). 
 
 Kent Waterworks . . , . 
 
 Great Northern (No. 2) (Leasing 
 to G.N. & City Railway). 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. cli. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 3 Edw. 7, c.^clxxiii. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 Ixxxviii 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 170U to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 2 Edw. 7 
 (1902) {cont.) 
 c. cxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXXXIV. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 CXXX1X. 
 
 cxlv. 
 cU. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clvi. 
 
 clxiv. 
 
 clxv. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clxx. 
 
 clxxii. 
 
 clxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXCll. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCVll. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxx. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXXll. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 ccxxxv. 
 ccxliii. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 ccxlvii. 
 
 cclv. 
 
 cclvi. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 c. 
 
 cclvii. 
 cclviii. 
 cclix. 
 
 3 Edw. 7 
 (1903) 
 c. 17 
 c. 24 
 c. 41 
 
 c. 
 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 Vll. 
 
 c. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 xvu. 
 
 xli. 
 
 xlii. 
 
 xliii. 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Cl. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxvi. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Kent Electric Power. 
 
 Commercial Gas. 
 
 Great Central Railway. 
 
 Imperial Institute (Transfer). 
 
 Central London Railway. 
 
 Tottenham & Hampstead Junc- 
 tion Railway (Transfer to Midland 
 and Great Eastern Railway). 
 
 North MetropoUtan Electric Power. 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 City of London (Spitalfields 
 Market). 
 
 North Metropolitan Tramways. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 London County Council (G^eneral 
 Powers). 
 
 Whitechapel & Bow Railway. 
 
 Local Governtnent Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation 
 (No. 6) (Bethnal Green, Stoke 
 Newington and Woolwich). 
 
 Post Office (sites) (London). 
 
 Electric Lighting Orders Confirma- 
 tion (No. 8) (Bermondsey, Stoke 
 Newington and Woolwich). 
 
 Education Board Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (London). 
 
 London County Council (Sub- 
 ways and Tramways). 
 
 London County Council (Tram- 
 ways and Improvements). 
 
 MetropoUtan District Railway. 
 
 Great Northern & City Railway. 
 
 Great Northern & Strand Railway 
 
 London & India Docks Com- 
 pany (Various Powers). 
 
 London United Tramways. 
 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. 
 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 stead Railway. 
 
 Edgware and Hampstead Railway. 
 
 North West London Railway. 
 
 Brompton & Piccadilly Circus 
 Railway (Change of Name). 
 
 Metropolitan Streets. 
 
 Education (London). 
 
 Public Buildings (Expenses). 
 
 Great Northern & City Railway. 
 
 Stoke Newington Borough Council. 
 
 All Saints', Poplar (rate aboUtion). 
 
 London Hydraulic Power. 
 
 Gas Light & Coke Company. 
 
 Commercial Gas. 
 
 Great Eastern Railway. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (No. 
 16) (Counties of London and 
 Surrey). 
 
 King's College, London. 
 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 .stead Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 See 2 Edw. 7, c. oclix.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating speciallg 
 to London from 17U0 to 1007. 
 
 Ixxxix 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 3 Edw. 7 
 (1903) (cont.) 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 c. cxliv 
 
 c. cl. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clvi. 
 clxi. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 clxii. 
 clxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxvii 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxc. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxci. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXVl. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxix. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 ccxxx. 
 
 ccli. 
 
 cclxiii. 
 
 4 
 
 ( 
 
 c. 
 
 Edw. 7 
 1904) 
 
 2 
 
 c. 
 
 13 
 
 c. 
 
 via. 
 
 c. 
 
 XX. 
 
 o. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 xli. 
 xlvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xlviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Iviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixi. 
 
 c. Ixiii. 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 c. Ixxxii. 
 
 c. Ixxxvii. 
 c. xci. 
 c. xciii. 
 
 c. xcvii. 
 c. ex. 
 
 <5. cxii. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Local Government Board'.s Pro- 
 visional Order Confinniition (No. 
 5) (Hainpstead, Holburii and 
 Lambeth). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provi.sional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Education Board Provisional Order 
 Confirmation (London). 
 
 Post Office (Sites) (London, etc.). 
 
 St. Philip (Regent Stroot) Chapel. 
 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. 
 
 Blackhoath & Greenwich Dis- 
 trict Electric Liglat Company. 
 
 City & South London Railway. 
 
 Woolwich Borough Council. 
 
 Great Northern, Piccadilly & 
 Brompton Railway. 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 Watford & Edgware Railway. 
 
 Harrow Road & Paddington 
 Tramways. 
 
 London LTnited Tramways, 
 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Rail- 
 way. 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 London County Council (Tram- 
 ways and Improvements). 
 
 Patent Office (Extension). 
 
 Great Central Railway. 
 
 North Metropolitan Electric Power 
 Supply. 
 
 Metropolitan Improvements 
 (funds). 
 
 London Electric Lighting Areas. 
 
 Great Northern & City Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan Railwaj*. 
 
 West Metropolitan Railway 
 (abandonment). 
 
 St. JMarylobone Electric Lighting. 
 
 Marylebone Chapels (St. James, 
 Westmoreland Street). 
 
 New River Company. 
 
 St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation 
 (No 2) (Southwark, etc.). 
 
 Harrow Road & Paddington 
 Tramways. 
 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Rail- 
 way. 
 
 Saint Mary Woolnoth Chiu-ch. 
 
 South Suburban Gas. 
 
 City of London (Central Criminal 
 Court House). 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 stead Railway. 
 
 Education Board Provisional 
 Order Confirmation (Loudon).
 
 xc 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 
 and chapter. 
 
 4 Edw. 7 
 
 (1904) (cont.) 
 
 c. 
 
 CXXXll. 
 
 c. 
 
 cliv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxcviu. 
 
 c. 
 
 ecu. 
 
 c. 
 
 colli. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccix. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXVlll. 
 
 c. 
 
 CCXXXl. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxliv. 
 
 5 
 
 Edw. 7 
 
 
 (1905) 
 
 c. 
 
 Vll. 
 
 c. 
 
 xvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxviu. 
 
 c. 
 
 1. 
 
 c. 
 
 lii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 Ixxxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 xci. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 ciii. 
 
 C. CIV. 
 
 C. cxxxvi. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxli. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxUii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxlvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 civ. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxvii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxviii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxix. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxvi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxviii 
 
 e. 
 
 clxxxix. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Canal Rates and Charges (Regent's 
 Canal) Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Post Office (sites) (London, etc.). 
 
 London United Tramways. 
 
 Surrey Commercial Dock. 
 
 Thames River Steamboat Service. 
 
 King's College Hospital. 
 
 London & India Docks. 
 
 London County Council (Tramways 
 and Improvements). 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 Marylebone Chapels (St. Paul, 
 Great Portland Street, and St. 
 Peter, Vere Street). 
 Chelsea Electricity Supply Com- 
 pany. 
 South Suburban Gas. 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 South Metropolitan Gas. 
 London United Tramways. 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Confirmation (Poor Law) 
 (Hammersmith and Poplar). 
 Electric Lighting Order Confii-ma- 
 
 tion (No. 3) (Woolwich). 
 University College, London (Trans- 
 fer). 
 Stepney Borough Council (Super- 
 annuation). 
 Education Board Provisional Or- 
 der Confirmation (London No. 1). 
 Education Board Provisional Or- 
 der Confirmation (London No. 2). 
 Metropolitan & Great Central 
 
 Railway Companies. 
 Whitechapel & Bow Railway. 
 London County Council (Money). 
 Metropolitan Electric Supply Com- 
 pany (Acton district). 
 London Gas. 
 
 Woolwich Borough Council. 
 Great Northern, Piccadilly & 
 
 Brompton Railway. 
 Metropolitan Electric Tramways. 
 Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp- 
 
 stead Railway. 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. 
 Edgware & Hampstead Railway. 
 County of London Electric Supply 
 
 Company. 
 North Metropolitan Electric Power 
 
 Supply. 
 Central Electric Supply Com- 
 pany. 
 
 London Government Scheme (Lon- 
 don and Middlesex Adjustment) 
 Confirmation. 
 London Government Scheme 
 (Hackney and Edmonton Unions 
 Adjvistment) Confirmation.
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London j'rom 17U0 to 19U7. 
 
 xci 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Bepeals, etc. 
 
 .■5 Edvv. 7 
 (1905) {.cont.) 
 c. cxcviii. 
 c. cc. 
 
 c. ccm. 
 c. ccvi. 
 
 c. ccviii. 
 c. ccix. 
 
 () Edw. 7 
 
 (190(5) 
 c. 6 
 c. 25 
 c. 45 
 c. vi. 
 
 c. vii. 
 c. xi. 
 
 c. xxiii. 
 
 c. Iv. 
 
 c. Ixxi. 
 
 c. Ixxxvi. 
 
 c. Ixxxvii. 
 
 c. Ixxxviii. 
 
 c. cxviii. 
 
 c. cxxiv. 
 
 c. exxv. 
 
 c. exxvi. 
 
 c. el. 
 
 c. cli. 
 c. clix. 
 c. clxxv. 
 
 0. clxxx, 
 
 c. clxxxi. 
 
 c. clxxxvii. 
 
 c. cxci. 
 c. cxcii. 
 0. cxciii. 
 c. cxciv. 
 c. cxcv. 
 c. cciv. 
 7 Edw. 7 
 
 (1907) 
 c. 55 
 c. x. 
 c. xvii. 
 0. xxxii. 
 
 c. xlvi. 
 
 c. xlviii. 
 
 0. Ix. 
 
 Thames Conser\'ancy. 
 
 Metropolitan Electric Supply Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Acton Sewage. 
 
 London County Coiuicil (General 
 Powers). 
 
 North East London Railway. 
 
 London Building Acts (Amend- 
 ment). 
 
 Metropolitan Police (Commission). 
 
 Open Spaces. 
 
 Removal of Offensive Matter. 
 
 Bethnal Green Borough Council 
 (Superannuation). 
 
 Millwall Dock. 
 
 North INIotropolitan Tramways 
 (winding up). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Metropolitan District Railway. 
 
 Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 County Office (Site) (London). 
 
 Metropolitan Water Board. 
 
 North East London Railway. 
 
 Post Office (Sites). 
 
 Local Government Board's Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation (St. 
 Pancras). 
 
 London Government Act Adjust- 
 ment Scheme Confirmation. 
 
 Education Board Provision Or- 
 der Confirmation (London No. 1). 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers). 
 
 London United Tramways. 
 
 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. 
 
 St. John's (Westminster) Improve 
 ment. 
 
 Corporation of London (Black- 
 friars and other bridges). 
 
 London County Council (Tramways 
 and Improvements). 
 
 London Squares and Enclosures 
 (Preservation). 
 
 Hackney Electricity. 
 
 Hampstead Garden Suburb. 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 North West London Railway. 
 
 St. Pancras Electricity. 
 
 Metropolitan Electric Supply Co. 
 
 London Cab & Stage Carriages. 
 
 North-East London Railway. 
 
 Mitcham & Wimbledon District Gas. 
 
 South-Eastern and London, Chat- 
 ham & Dover Railways. 
 
 London Government Scheme 
 (Southwark Borough Market). 
 
 Metropolitan Police Provisional 
 Order Confirmation. 
 
 Education Board Provisional Order 
 Confirmation (London No. 2).
 
 XCll 
 
 Chronological Table of Statutes relating specially 
 to London from 1700 to 1907. 
 
 Year, statute 
 and chapter. 
 
 (19C 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 Edw. 7 
 7) {cont.) 
 Ixxvi. 
 Ixxxiii. 
 lxx\-ii. 
 
 c. 
 
 xciv. 
 
 c. 
 
 xcv-iii. 
 
 c. 
 
 CXll. 
 
 c. 
 
 cx\-ii. 
 
 c. 
 
 cxxxu. 
 
 c. 
 c. 
 c. 
 
 CXXXVIU. 
 
 cxl. 
 clxiii. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxTfi. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxiv. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxv. 
 
 Subject matter. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Great Northern & City Railway. 
 
 Central London Railway. 
 
 London & North-Westem Railway. 
 
 Kensington Borough Council (Su- 
 perannuation). 
 
 North ]Metropolitan Electric Supply 
 
 Education Board Provisional Order 
 Confirmation (London No. 1). 
 
 Tramways Orders Confirmation. 
 
 Post Office Sites. 
 
 London County Council (Money). 
 
 City of London (Union of Parishes), 
 
 Local Government Board Pro- 
 visional Order (No. 13) (Alteration 
 of Boundary). 
 
 London County Council (Tramways 
 & Improvements). 
 
 Metropolitan Water Board (Charges, 
 etc.). 
 
 Metropolitan Water Board (Various 
 
 Powers). 
 
 London Coimty Council (General 
 
 Powers). 
 
 1
 
 TABLE OF STATUTES 
 INCLUDED IN THIS AVORK. 
 
 17Geo. 2,c. 37,8. 2 . 
 25 Geo. 2, c. 36 
 14 Geo. 3, c. 78 
 36 Geo. 3, c. 88 
 43 Geo. 3, c. cxxxi. . 
 46 Geo. 3, c. Ivii. 
 49 Geo. 3, c. cxci. 
 53 Geo. 3, c. clxxxiv. 
 
 56 Geo. 3, c. Ixiii. 
 
 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. . 
 
 58 Geo. 3, c. xxviii. . 
 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. Iv. 
 3 Geo. 4, c. cvi. 
 
 5 Geo. 4, c. cxii. 
 
 9 Geo. 4, c. Hi. 
 
 10 Geo. 4, 0. 44 
 1 & 2 Will. 4, 0. 22 . 
 1 & 2 Will. 4, 0. Ixxvi 
 
 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 48 
 
 4 Will. 4, c. 21 
 4 Will. 4, c. 76, 8. 109 
 
 G & 7 Will. 4, c. cxxviii 
 
 7 Will. 4, c. Ivi. 
 1 Vict. c. 36 
 
 1 Vict. c. cxx. 
 
 2 & 3 Vict. 0. 47 
 
 2 & 3 Vict. c. 7 1 
 
 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84 
 
 6 & 7 Vict. c. 68 
 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86 
 
 8 & 9 Vict. c. 20, 8. 114 
 
 9 & 10 Vict. c. 39 
 
 13 & 14 Vict. c. 7 
 
 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28 
 14 & 15 Vict. c. cxlvi 
 
 15 & 
 15 & 
 15 & 
 15 & 
 
 15 & 
 
 16 & 
 16 & 
 16 & 
 16 & 
 
 16 & 
 
 17 & 
 
 17 & 
 
 18 & 
 
 18 & 
 
 19 & 
 19 & 
 
 19 & 
 
 20 & 
 20 & 
 20 & 
 
 16 Vict. 
 16 Vict. 
 16 Vict. 
 16 Vict. 
 
 16 Vict. 
 
 17 Vict. 
 17 Vict. 
 17 Vict. 
 17 Vict. 
 
 17 Vict. 
 
 18 Vict. 
 
 18 Vict. 
 
 19 Vict. 
 
 19 Vict. 
 
 20 Vict. 
 20 Vict. 
 
 20 Vict. 
 
 21 Vict. 
 21 Vict. 
 21 Vict. 
 
 c. 71 
 c. 81 
 c. 84 
 0. 85 
 c. clvi. 
 c 33 
 c. 41 
 c. 46 
 c. 87 
 c. 127 
 c. 33 
 c. clxix 
 c. 120 
 c. 120, 
 c. 2 
 c. 112 
 c. 114 
 c. 19, s 
 c. 64 . 
 c. cxv. 
 
 62 
 
 Poor Rate Act . . 
 
 Disorderly Houses Act 
 
 Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act 
 
 Hay and Straw Act 
 
 Deptford Creek Bridge Act 
 
 Rush Common Act 
 
 Waterloo Bridge Act . . 
 
 Waterloo Bridge Act . . 
 
 Waterloo Bridge Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Paving Act 
 
 Waterloo Bridge Act . . 
 
 Rush Common Act 
 
 Sale of Bread (Metropolis) Act 
 
 Hammersmith Bridge Act 
 
 Hammersmith Bridge Act 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 
 
 London Hackney Carriage Act 
 
 Vend and Delivery of Coal Act 
 
 London Hackney Carriages Act 
 
 Hay and Straw Act 
 
 Poor Law Amendment Act 
 
 Greenwich Pier Act 
 
 Greenwich Pier Act 
 
 Post Offices (Offences) Act 
 
 London & Greenwich Railway Co.'s Act 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 
 
 Metropolitan Police Courts Act 
 
 Metropolitan Police Courts Act 
 
 Theatres Act 
 
 London Hackney Carriages Act 
 
 Railways Clauses Consolidation Act . . 
 
 Thames Embankment and Chelsea Bridge Act 
 
 London Hackney Carriages Act 
 
 Common Lodging Houses Act 
 
 Coal Duties (London and Westminster, etc.) 
 
 Act 
 
 Thames Embankment Act 
 
 County Rates Act 
 
 Metropolis Water Act . . 
 
 Burial Act 
 
 Chelsea Waterworks Act 
 
 London Hackney Carriage Act 
 
 Conimon Lodging Houses Act 
 
 Westminster Bridge Act 
 
 Thames Embankment Act 
 
 London Hackney Carriage (No. 2) Act 
 
 Public Statues (Metropolis) Act 
 
 ]\Iiddlesex Industrial Schools Act 
 
 Metropolis Management Act . . 
 
 Metropolis Management Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 
 
 Metrop(ilis Management Amendment Act 
 
 Hay and Straw Act 
 
 Extra-parochial Places Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 
 
 Covent Garden Approach, etc. Act . . 
 
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 81& 
 
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 4 
 
 12 
 
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 18 
 
 21 
 
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 23 
 
 63 
 
 66 
 
 68 
 
 76 
 
 79 
 
 80 
 
 94 
 
 103 
 
 105 
 
 106 
 
 814 
 
 107 
 
 123 
 
 127 
 
 128 
 
 129 
 
 146 
 
 158 
 
 799 
 
 162 
 
 50 
 
 176 
 
 181 
 
 183 
 
 184 
 185 
 802 
 809 
 186 
 , 63 
 , 193 
 198 
 199 
 203 
 205 
 206 
 208 
 214 
 967 
 269 
 270 
 272 
 241 
 273
 
 XCVl 
 
 1882 
 1882 
 1882 
 
 1882 
 
 1883 
 1883 
 
 1883 
 
 1883 
 
 1883 
 
 1883 
 
 1883 
 
 1884 
 1884 
 1884 
 1884 
 1884 
 1884 
 
 1884 
 1885 
 1885 
 1885 
 1885 
 1885 
 1885 
 
 1885 
 
 1885 
 
 1886 
 1886 
 1886 
 1886 
 
 1886 
 1887 
 
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 1887 
 1887 
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 1887 
 
 1887 
 
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 1889 
 
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 1889 
 1889 
 1889 
 
 Table of Statutes included in this Work. 
 
 45 & 46 Vict. c. 50 . 
 45 & 46 Vict. c. 56, s. 
 45 & 46 Vict. e. \\n.. . 
 
 32 
 
 45 & 46 Vict. c. ccxxii. 
 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. 27 . . 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. xciv. 
 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. xcv. 
 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. xcvi. 
 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. xcvii. 
 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. clxxvii. 
 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. clxxviii. 
 
 47 & 48 Vict. c. 5 . . 
 47 & 48 Vict. c. 17 . . 
 47 & 48 Vict. c. 50 . . 
 47 & 48 Vict. c. 72 . . 
 47 & 48 Vict. c. ii. . . 
 47 & 48 Vict. c. ccxxiii. 
 
 47 & 48 Vict. c. ecxxviii. 
 
 48 & 49 Vict. c. 18, s. 2 
 48 & 49 Vict. c. 33 . . 
 48 & 49 Vict. c. 34 . . 
 48 & 49 Vict, c. 50 . . 
 48 & 49 Vict. c. 68 . . 
 48 & 49 Vict. 0. xcix. 
 
 48 & 49 Vict. CO. . . 
 
 48 & 49 Vict. c. clxvii. 
 
 49 & 50 Vict. c. 22 . . 
 49 & 50 Vict. c. 44 . . 
 49 & 50 Vict. c. 48, s. 21 
 
 49 & 50 Vict. c. cxii. 
 
 50 Vict. c. xli. 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 17 . . 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 31 . . 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 32, s. 4 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 34 . . 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 45 . . 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 72, s. 3 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. ci. . . 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. cii. . . 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. . . 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 
 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 
 
 cxxxvu. 
 clxxii. 
 10 .. 
 
 40 .. 
 
 41 .. 
 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. xxxii. 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. cU. . . 
 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. clvi. 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. c. 17 . . 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. c. 21, ss. 16, 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. c. 56 . . 
 52 & 53 Vict. c. 61 . . 
 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63 . . 
 52 & 53 Vict. c. cxxvi. s. 
 
 32 
 
 19 
 
 Municipal Corporations Act . . 
 
 Electric Lighting Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Various 
 Powers) Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Street Improvements Act 1877 
 (Amendment) Act 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act 
 
 Metropolis (Tench Street, etc.) Provisional 
 Order Confirmation Act 
 
 Metropolis (Brook Street, Limehouse) Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation Act 
 
 Metropolis (Windmill Row, etc.) Provisional 
 Order Confirmiation Act 
 
 Metropolis (Trafalgar Road, Greenwich) Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation Act . . ; 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Bridges, etc.) 
 Act 
 
 Metropolitan Street Improvements Act 
 
 Valuation (Metropolis) Amendment Act 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act . . 
 
 Disused Biu-ial Grounds Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Various 
 Powers) Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Bridges) Act 
 
 Metropolitan Streets Act 
 
 Metropolis Management Amendment Act . . 
 
 Water Rate Definition Act 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Police Staff Superannuation Act 
 
 Metropolis (Hughes Fields) Provisional 
 Order Confirmation Act 
 
 Metropolis (Tabard Street) Provisional Order 
 Confirmation Act 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Various 
 Powers) Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act . . 
 
 Medical Act 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Various 
 Powers) Act . . 
 
 Hampstead Heath Enlargement Act 
 
 Metropolis Management (Battersea and 
 Westminster) Act 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act . . 
 
 Open Spaces Act 
 
 London Parks and Works Act 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 
 
 Local Authorities (Expenses) Act 
 
 Metropolis (Cable Street, Shadwell) Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation Act . . 
 
 Metropolis (Shelton Street, St. Giles) Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation Act 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Various 
 Powers) Act . . 
 
 Clissold Park (Stoke Newington) Act 
 
 Thames Tunnel (Blackwall) Act 
 
 Coimty Electors Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act . . 
 
 Local Government Act 
 
 Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation Act 
 
 Hampstead Heath Enlargement (Amend- 
 ment) Act 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Various 
 
 Powers) Act . . 
 London Coal Duties Abolition Act , . 
 
 Weights and Measm-es Act 
 
 Poor Law Act . . 
 
 London Council (Money) Act 
 
 Interpretation Act 
 
 Shortlands & Nunhead Railway Act 
 
 Vol. Page 
 
 i. 875 
 ii. 415 
 
 i. 605 
 
 i. 613 
 i. 615 
 
 i. 617 
 
 i. 617 
 
 i. 61& 
 
 i. 618 
 
 i. 619 
 i. 627 
 i. 634 
 i. 635 
 i. 636 
 i. 906 
 i. 638 
 
 i. 641 
 i. 646 
 i. 377 
 i. 649 
 i. 906 
 i. 650 
 i. 656 
 
 i. 657 
 
 i. 65& 
 
 i. 658 
 
 i. 670 
 
 i. 675 
 
 ii. 86 
 
 i. 677 
 
 i. 687 
 
 i. 689 
 
 i. 692 
 
 i. 697 
 
 i. 698 
 
 i. 70O 
 
 i. 86a 
 
 i. 701 
 
 i. 702 
 
 i. 702 
 
 i. 711 
 
 i. 714 
 
 i. 907 
 
 i. 726 
 
 i. 729' 
 
 i. 78a 
 
 i. 785 
 
 i. 784 
 
 ii. 1 
 
 / i. 69, 
 
 t 160 
 
 ii. 5 
 
 ii. 6 
 
 i. 912 
 
 i. 791 
 
 I
 
 'Table of Statutes included in this Worh. 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. c. cxlvii. 
 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. 41 .. 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. 54 . . 
 
 53 & 
 
 54 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 (U) .. 
 
 53 & 
 
 54 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 70 .. 
 
 53 & 
 
 54 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxliii. 
 
 53 & 
 
 54 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxlvii 
 
 54 & 
 
 55 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 (Vl .. 
 
 54 & 
 
 55 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 63 .. 
 
 54 & 
 
 55 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 ()8 .. 
 
 54 & 
 
 55 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 70 .. 
 
 54 & 
 
 55 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 liii. .. 
 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. Ix. . . 
 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. Ixxvii. 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. ccv. 
 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. ccvi. 
 
 55 & 5(5 Vict. c. cxxx. 
 
 55 & 50 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. 
 
 55 & 50 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. 
 50 & 57 V^ict. c. 47 . . 
 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 55 . . 
 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 01 . . 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. Ixvi. 
 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. Ixxi. 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccii. 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. cciv. 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxi. 
 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. 
 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. 53 . . 
 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73 . . 
 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. 55, s. 1 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. 00, s. 214 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. cxxiv-. 
 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxiii. 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxv\ 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. 
 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. 
 
 58 & 59 Vict. c. 12 . . 
 58 & 59 Vict. c. V. . . 
 
 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxvii. 
 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxix. 
 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxx. 
 
 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxl. 
 
 59 & 60 Vict. c. 16, ss. 2, 5, 6 
 59 & 60 Vict. c. 27 . . 
 59 & 60 Vict. c. 36, ss. 1,8 
 
 59 & 60 Vict. 
 
 c 
 
 55 .. 
 
 59 & 00 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 59 .. 
 
 59 & 00 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 li. .. 
 
 59 & 00 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 clxxxviii 
 
 59 & 00 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxi. 
 
 59 & 60 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 ccxiv. 
 
 59 & 60 Vict. 
 
 c 
 
 ccxlvii. 
 
 00 & 01 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 14 .. 
 
 60 & 01 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 20 .. 
 
 60 & 61 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 29, s. 2 
 
 60 & 61 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 42 .. 
 
 60 & 61 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 50 . . 
 
 60 & 01 Vict. 
 
 c 
 
 i. 
 
 60 & 01 Vict. c. ii. 
 60 & 61 Vict. c. lix. 
 
 Metropolitan Improvements Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 Metropolis >Ianagement Act 1862 Amend- 
 ment Act 1890 
 
 Metropolis Management Amendment Act 1890 
 
 Hou.'<ing of tlic Working Classes Act 
 
 London Council (General Powers) Act 
 
 London Streets (Removal of Gates) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 Highways and Bridges Act 
 
 Coimty Councils (Elections) Act 
 
 Pul)lic Health (London) Act . . 
 
 Metropolis (Shelton Street, St. Giles) Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation Act 
 
 London (Houndary Street, Bethnal Green) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation Act 
 
 London Overhead Wires Act . . 
 
 Tottenham and Wood Green Sewerage Act . . 
 
 London Coimcil (General Powers) Act 
 
 London Water Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 
 Public Health (London) Amendment Act . . 
 
 Metropolis Management (Plumstead and 
 Hackney) Act 
 
 Public Authorities Protection Act 
 
 London Streets (Removal of Gates, Bars, etc.) 
 Act 
 
 London Open Spaces Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Subways) Act 
 
 West Ham Corporation Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 
 London (Equalisation of Rates) Act 
 
 Local Government Act 
 
 Housing of the Working Classes Act 
 
 Merchant Shipping Act 
 
 Local Government Board's Provisional Order 
 Confirmation (No. 12) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Improvements) Act . . 
 
 Thames Conserv'ancy Act 
 
 Thames (General Powers) Act 
 
 London Building Act . . 
 
 Metropolitan Police (Receiver) Act . . 
 
 London (Boundary Street, Bethnal Green) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation Act 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Vauxhall Bridge) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Tower Bridge Soutliern Approach) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 Agricultural Rates Act 
 
 London Cab Act 
 
 Locomotives on Highways Act 
 
 Quarter Sessions (London) Act 
 Baths and Washhouses Act . . 
 London Coimty Tramways Act 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 L.C.C. (Vauxhall Bridge Tramways) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 Willesden Sewerage Act 
 
 ]Mt'tr(ij)()litan Police Courts (Holidaj's) Act . . 
 
 Mi'tropolitau Police Courts 
 
 Poor Law Act . . 
 
 ^letropolitan Police (Borrowing Powers) Act 
 
 Metropolis Water Act . . 
 
 London (Bt)rough Road, Southwark) Provis- 
 
 sional Order Cunlirmation Act 
 London (Cluirchway, St. Pancras) Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation Act 
 London (Clare Market, Strand) Provisional 
 
 Order Confirmation Act 
 
 XCVll 
 
 Vol Page 
 
 ii. 10 
 
 ii. 14 
 
 10 
 
 18 
 
 921 
 
 21 
 
 35 
 
 37 
 
 960 
 
 960 
 
 40 
 
 ii. 107 
 
 11. 
 ii. 
 ii. 
 ii. 
 i. 
 ii. 
 ii. 
 ii. 
 
 107 
 108 
 113 
 117 
 901 
 132 
 134 
 138 
 
 ii. 139 
 i. 962 
 
 ii. 141 
 
 ii. 145 
 
 ii. 152 
 
 ii. 158 
 
 ii. 160 
 
 ii. 162 
 
 ii. 168 
 
 i. 963 
 
 i. 936 
 
 i. 978 
 
 ii. 170 
 ii. 172 
 ii. 173 
 i. 979 
 ii. 182 
 ii. 187 
 ii. 270 
 
 ii. 270 
 ii. 271 
 ii. 275 
 ii. 280 
 ii. 292 
 
 ^i. 428. 
 
 1 739 
 ii. 293 
 
 ( i. 306, 
 
 I 739 
 ii. 294 
 ii. 295 
 ii. 295 
 ii. 299 
 ii. 302 
 ii. 306 
 ii. 311 
 ii. 314 
 ii. 315 
 i. 366 
 ii. 317 
 i. 1038 
 
 ii. 317 
 
 ii. 317 
 
 ii. 318
 
 XCVlll 
 
 Table of Statutes included in this Work. 
 
 1897 
 
 60 & 61 Vict. c. clxv. 
 
 1897 
 
 ' 60 & 61 Vict. c. ccxx. 
 
 1897 
 
 i 60 & 61 Vict. c. ccxxiv. 
 
 1897 
 
 1 60 & 61 Vict. c. ccxlii. 
 
 1897 
 
 60 & 61 Vict. c. cclii. 
 
 1898 
 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. 16 . . 
 
 1898 
 
 61 & 62 Vict c. 31 .. 
 
 1898 
 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. 45 . . 
 
 1898 
 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. cxxx\ii. 
 
 1898 
 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. cxliii. 
 
 189S 
 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. 
 
 1898 
 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxii. 
 
 1899 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14 . . 
 
 1899 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 15 . . 
 
 1899 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 26 . . 
 
 1899 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 30, s. 21 
 
 1899 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. . . 
 
 1899 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. . . 
 
 1899 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. cclxvi. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. 13 . . 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. 29 . . 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. 59 . . 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. clxxxvi. . . 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. clxxxvii. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. clxxxviii. . . 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. clxxxix. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. ccii. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. ccxvi. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. ccxix. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. . . 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. cclxviii. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. cclxix. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. cclxx. 
 
 1900 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. cclxxii. 
 
 1901 
 
 1 Edw. 7, c. 22, ss. 101, 
 
 
 153(3) 
 
 1901 
 
 1 Edw. 7, c. Ixxxvii. 
 
 1901 
 
 1 Edw. 7, c. cclxxi. . . 
 
 1901 
 
 1 Edw. 7, c. cclxxii. . . 
 
 1902 
 
 2 Edw. 7, c. 13 
 
 1902 
 
 2 Edw. 7, c. 41 
 
 1902 
 
 2 Edw. 7, c. 42 
 
 1902 
 
 2 Edw. 7, c. xxxvi. . . 
 
 1902 
 
 2 Edw. 7, c. clxiv. 
 
 1902 
 
 2 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii. . . 
 
 1902 
 
 2 Edw. 7, c. ccxviii. . . 
 
 1902 
 
 2 Edw. 7, c. ccxix. . . 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 9 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 14 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, e. 15 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 17 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 24 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 39 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. Ixxxi. . . 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. clxxxvii. 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. ccxviii. . . 
 
 1903 
 
 3 Edw. 7, c. ccxix. . . 
 
 1904 
 
 4 Edw. 7, c. 13 
 
 1904 
 
 4 Edw. 7, c. xcvii. 
 
 1904 
 
 4 Edw. 7, c. cxii. 
 
 London (Green Street, Southwark) Pro- 
 visional Order Confii-mation Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 Thames Tunnel (Greenwich to Millwall) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Improvements) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 
 Canals Protection (London) Act 
 
 Metropolitan Police Coiorts Act 
 
 MetropoUtan Poor Act 
 
 London Building Act 1894 (Amendment) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Acton Sewerage) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 London Government Act 
 
 ]Metropolis Management Acts Amendment 
 (Byehiws) Act 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 
 
 Commons Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Improvements) Act . . 
 
 County Councils (Elections) Amendment Act 
 
 L.C.C. Electors Qualification Act 
 
 Housing of the Working Classes Act . . 
 
 London (Clerkenwell and Holborn) Pro- 
 visional Order Confirmation Act . . 
 
 London (Poplar) Provisional Order Confirma- 
 tion Act 
 
 London (St. Luke) Provisional Order Con- 
 firmation Act 
 
 London (Southwark) Provisional Order Con- 
 firmation Act 
 
 London (St. Marylebone) Provisional Order 
 Confirmation Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 Thames Tunnel (Rotherhithe and Ratcliff) 
 Act 
 
 London County Tramways (Electrical 
 Powers) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Improvements) Act . . 
 
 London County Tramways Act 
 
 Metropolis Gas (Prepayment Meter) Act 
 
 Factory and Workshop Act . . \ 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Tramways and Improvements) Act' 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . ./ 
 
 Labour Bureaux (London) Act 
 
 Metropolis Water Act . . 
 
 Education Act 
 
 School Board for London (Superannuation 
 Scheme) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Subways and Tramways) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Tramways and Improvements) Act . . 
 
 County Councils (Bills in Parliament) Act . . 
 
 Borough Funds Act 
 
 Local Government (Transfer of Powers) Act 
 
 Metropolitan Streets Act 
 
 Education (London) Act 
 
 Housing of the Working Classes Act . . 
 
 Local Government Board's Provisional Order 
 Confirmation (No. 16) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Tramways and Improvements) Act . . 
 
 London Electric Lighting Areas Act . . 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 Education Board Provisional Order Con- 
 firmation (London) Act 
 
 Vol Page 
 
 ii. 319 
 ii. 319 
 ii. 323 
 ii. 326 
 ii. 331 
 ii. 337 
 ii. 338 
 ii. 339 
 ii. 339 
 ii. 341 
 ii. 344 
 ii. 352 
 ii. 354 
 
 ii. 372 
 ii. 373 
 i. 359 
 ii. 374 
 ii. 380 
 ii. 383 
 
 i. 1040 
 ii. 390 
 
 i. 1040 
 
 ii. 391 
 
 ii. 391 
 
 ii. 392 
 
 ii. 392 
 
 ii. 393 
 ii. 393 
 
 ii. 395 
 
 ii. 406 
 ii. 417 
 ii. 421 
 ii. 432 
 ii. 440 
 ii. 80. 
 246 
 ii. 442 
 
 i. 1042, 
 ii. 444 
 
 i. 1047, 
 ii. 454 
 ii. 460 
 ii. 461 
 
 i. 1051 
 
 ii. 483 
 ii. 489 
 n. 492 
 ii. 499 
 ii. 503 
 i. 1066 
 i. 1067 
 i. 1070 
 n. 513 
 ii. 514 
 i. 1071 
 
 11. 516 
 ii. 524 
 ii. 533 
 ii. 536 
 ii. 559 
 ii. 562 
 
 ii. 567
 
 Table of Statutes included in thin Work, 
 
 1904 
 1904 
 1904 
 1905 
 1905 
 
 1905 
 
 1905 
 1905 
 1905 
 
 4 Edw. 1, c. cciii. 
 4 Edw. 7, c. ccxxxi. . 
 
 4 Edw. 7, c. ccxiiv. . 
 
 5 Edw. 7, c. 2-2 
 5 Edw. 7, c. ciii. 
 
 5. Edw. 7, c. civ. 
 
 5 Edw. 7, c. cxliii. . 
 
 5 Edw. 7, c. civ. 
 
 5 Edw. 7, c. clxxxvii 
 
 190.") r> Edw. 7, c. cxcviii. 
 1905 5 Edw. 7, c. cciii. 
 1905 5 Edw. 7, c. ccvi. 
 
 1905 5 Edw, 7, c. ccix. 
 1900 j « Edw. 7, c. 12, s. 2 
 1900 Edw. 7. c. 25 
 
 1 906 i Edw. 7, c. xi. 
 
 1906 
 1906 
 
 6 Edw. 7, c. Ixxxvi. 
 6 Edw. 7, c. cxxv. 
 
 1906 6 Edw. 7, c. cxxvi. 
 
 1906 
 1906 
 1906 
 
 1906 
 1907 
 
 1907 
 1907 
 1907 
 
 1907 
 
 1907 
 1907 
 
 1907 
 
 1907 
 1907 
 
 6 Edw. 7, c. cl. 
 6 Edw. 7, c. clxxxi 
 6 Edw. 7, c. clxxxvii 
 
 6 Edw. 7, c. cxciii. 
 
 7 Edw. 7, c. 33 
 
 7 Edw. 7, c. 43 
 7 Edw. 7, c. 55 
 7 Edw. 7, c. Ix. 
 
 7 Edw. 7, c. cxii. 
 
 7 Edw. 7, c. cxxxviii 
 7 Edw. 7, c. clxiii. 
 
 7 Edw. 7. c. clxiv. 
 
 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxi. 
 7 Edw. 7, c. clxxv. 
 
 Thames Riv(?r Steanihoat .Service Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Tramways and Improvements) Act . 
 
 L.C.C. (Gioneral Powers) Act . . 
 
 Public Work.s Loans Act 
 
 Education Board Provisional Order Con 
 
 firmat ion (London No. 1) Act 
 Education Board Provisional Order Con 
 
 firmation (London No. 2) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 London Gas Act 
 
 London Government Scheme (London and 
 
 Mi(lill('s«!x .Adjustment) Cimfirmati(jn Act 
 Thames Conservancy Act 
 Acton Sewage Act 
 L.C.C. (Gen(!ral Powers) Act . . 
 London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 
 IVIuncipal Corporations Amendment Act 
 Open Spaces Act 
 North Metropolitan Tramways (Winding up) 
 
 Act 
 
 County Office Site (London) Act 
 
 London Government Act Adjustment 
 
 Schemes Confirmation Act . . 
 Education Board Provisional Order Con 
 
 firmation (London No. 1) Act 
 L.C.C. (General Powers) Act . . 
 L.C.C. (Tramways and Improvements) Aci 
 London Squares and Enclosures (Preserva 
 
 tion) Act 
 
 L.C.C. (Money) Act 
 
 Qualification of Women (County and Borougi 
 
 Councils) Act 
 Education (Administrative Provisions) Act . 
 London Cab and Stage Carriage Act . . 
 Education Board Provisional Order Con 
 
 firmation (London No. 2) Act 
 Education Board Provisional Order Con 
 
 firmation (London No. 1) Act 
 London Coiuity Council (Money) Act 
 Local Government Board Provisional Order 
 
 Confirmation (No. 13) Act . . 
 London County Council (Tramways and Im 
 
 provements) Act 
 Metropolitan Water Board (Charges, etc.) Act 
 London County Council (General Powers) Act 
 
 XCIX 
 
 Vol. Page 
 
 ii. 568 
 ii. 580 
 
 ii. 598 
 i. 1070 
 
 ii. 607 
 
 ii. r)()8 
 ii. 609 
 ii. (ill 
 
 I ii. 616 
 i. 1076 
 i. 620 
 i. ()29 
 i. 649 
 i. 878 
 ii. 664 
 
 I ii. 672 
 ii. 681 
 
 ii. 686 
 
 ii 
 
 694 
 
 ii 
 
 695 
 
 ii. 
 
 706 
 
 ii. 
 
 728 
 
 ii 
 
 736 
 
 i. 
 
 1078 
 
 i. 
 
 1079 
 
 ii. 
 
 739 
 
 ii. 
 
 741 
 
 ii. 
 
 742 
 
 ii. 
 
 743 
 
 ii. 
 
 746 
 
 ii. 
 
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 LONDON STATUTES 
 
 (Being a Collection of Public Acts relating specially to the Ad- 
 ministrative County of London, and of Local and Personal Acts 
 
 affecting the I'OWEKS AND DUTIES OF THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL) 
 
 FROM 1750 TO 1907 
 
 25 GEORGE II. A.D. 1751. 
 
 CHAPTER 36. 
 
 An Act for the hetter preventing Thefts and Robberies, 
 and for regulating places of public entertainment, 
 and punishing persons keeping disorderly houses. 
 
 1. [^Persons adcertising reward with no questions asked, for 
 return of things stolen^ etc., and the printer of such advertisement, 
 to forfeit biJl. Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.). See 
 the' Larceny Act 1861, .«. 102.] 
 
 2. And whereas the multitude of places of entertainment for the Unlicensed 
 lower sort of j)eople is another great cause of thefts and robberies places of 
 
 as they are thereby tempted to spend their small substance in fj[inment ^^' 
 
 riotous pk'asures, and in consequence are put on unlawful methods deemed 
 
 of su])i)lying their wants and renewing their pleasures: In order, |^^^so^<i^rly 
 
 therefore, to prevent the said temptation to thefts and rt)bberies, 
 
 and to correct as far as may be the habit of idleness which is become 
 
 too general over the whole kingdom, and is productive of much 
 
 mischief and inconvenience : Be it enacted bv theanthoritv aforesaid, 
 
 That from and after the first day of December one thousand seven 
 
 hundred and lifty-two any house, room, garden, or other place 
 
 kept for ])nblic dancing, music, or other pnblic entertainment of 
 
 the like kind, in the cities of London and Westminster, or within 
 
 twenty miles thereof, without a licence had for that purpose from 
 
 the last ])receding Michaelmas C^)narter Sessions of the Peace to be 
 
 holden for the county, city, riding, liberty, or division in which 
 
 such house, room, garden, or other place, is situate, (who are 
 
 hereby authorized and emjiowered to grant such licences as they in 
 
 their discretion shall think pro])er). signified under the hands and 
 
 seals of fonr or more of the Justices there assembled, shall be 
 
 deemed a disorderly house or place ; and every such licence shall be 
 
 signed and sealed by the said Justices in open Court, and afterwards 
 
 be ]>ublicly read by tiie Clerk of the Peace, together with the names 
 
 of the Justices subscribing the same ; and no such licence shall be 
 
 granted at any adjourned Sessions, nor shall any fee or reward be Constables 
 
 taken for any such licence; and it shall and may be lawful to "i^J enter 
 
 and for anv constable or other ])erson, beino; thereunto authorized '?"!.\^r^^!!nH 
 
 1 *i ,. ii> 'TT--%r- « pel^On!^ lOUUU. 
 
 oy warrant under the hand and seal of one or more of His Majesty s therein.
 
 [Chap. 36.] 
 
 The Disorderly Houses Act 1751. [25 Geo. 2.]' 
 
 Person 
 keeping the 
 same to 
 forfeit lOOZ. 
 
 Licensed 
 places to have 
 an inscription 
 over them : 
 
 and not be 
 open before 
 five in the 
 evenine. 
 
 On breach of 
 either of the 
 said con- 
 ditions the 
 licence to be 
 revoked. 
 
 The theatres 
 and other 
 places li- 
 censed by the 
 Crown or 
 Lord Cham- 
 berlain ex- 
 cepted out of 
 this Act. 
 
 Indictment 
 not removable 
 by certiorari 
 into any other 
 Court. 
 
 Justices of the Peace of the county, city, riding, division, or 
 liberty where such house or place shall be situate, to enter such 
 house or place, and to seize every person who shall be found therein, 
 in order that thev mav be dealt with accordinc^ to law ; and every 
 person keeping such house, room, garden, or other place, without 
 such licence as aforesaid, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred 
 pounds to such person as will sue for the same, and be otherwise 
 punishable as the law directs in cases of disorderly houses. [Jiep. 
 as regards Middlesex hy the Music and Dancing Licences (^Middlesex) 
 Act, \^. 2.] 
 
 3. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid, That, in order to give public notice what places 
 are licensed pursuant to this Act, there shall be affixed and kept up 
 in some notorious place over the door or entrance of every such house, 
 room, garden, or other place kept for any of the said purposes, and 
 so licensed as aforesaid, an inscription in large capital letters in the 
 words following : videlieif. LICENSED PURSUANT TO ACT 
 OF PARLIAMENT OF' THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF KING 
 GEORGE THE SECOND ; and that no such house, room, 
 garden, or other place, kejit for any of the said purposes, although 
 licensed as aforesaid, shall be open for any of the said purposes 
 before the hour of five in the afternoon ; and that the affixing and 
 keeping up of such inscription as aforesaid, and the said limitation 
 or restriction in point of time, shall be inserted and made conditions 
 of every such licence ; and in case of any breach of either of the 
 said conditions such licence shall be forfeited, and shall be revoked 
 by the Justices of Peace in their next General or Quarter Sessions, 
 and shall not be renewed, nor shall any new licence be granted to 
 the same person or persons, or any other person on his or their or 
 any of tlieir behalf, or for their use or benefit, directly or indirectly, 
 for keeping any such house, room, garden, or other place for any of 
 the purposes aforesaid. [An^e/fde(7 SS & 39 J^icf. c. 21, s. 1. Rep. 
 as regards Middlesex by the Music and Dancing Licences {Middlesex) 
 Act iS94, 6-. 2.] 
 
 4. Provided always. That nothing in this Act contained shall 
 extend or be construed to extend to the Theatres Royal in Drury 
 Lane and Covent Garden, or the theatre commonly called the King's 
 Theatre, in the Haymarket, or any of them, nor to such performances 
 and public entertainments as are or shall be lawfully exercised and 
 carried on under or by virtue of letters patents, or licence of the 
 Crown, or the licence of the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's 
 Household, anything herein contained notwithstanding. 
 
 5 — 8. [^'U to keeping bawdy, gaming ^ or other disorderly houses. 
 JSot special to I^ondon.^ 
 
 9. \_Evidence may he given for or against the defendant by an 
 inhabitant. Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 50 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 10. And . . . no indictment which shall at any time after 
 the said first day of June be preferred against any person for 
 keeping a bawdy house, gaming house, or other disorderly house, 
 shall be removed by any writ of certiorari into any other Court, but 
 such indictment shall be heard, tried, and finally determined at the 
 same General or Quarter Session or Assizes where such indictment 
 shall have been preferred (unless the Court shall think proper, upon 
 cause shown, to adjourn the same), any such writ or allowance 
 thereof notwithstanding. [Fart omitted rep. 51 Vict. c. 3 (S.L.R.).'\
 
 [14 Geo. 3.] The Fires Prevention {Metropolis) Act 1774. [Chap. 78. | 
 
 11 — 12. \_Profieciitors expenses — Rogues and Kuyabonds. Rep. 
 30 it :n Vict. c. 59 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 13. And . . . any person entitled to any of the forfeitnres by Recovery of 
 this Act im])Osed may sue for the same by action of debt in any of *^^''^^'*"''^*^' 
 His Majesty's ( Joiirts of Record at Westminster, in wliicli it shall be 
 sniHcient to declare that the defendant is indebted t(j tin; plaintilf in 
 
 the sum of bein^- forfeited by an Act, intituled '' An 
 
 Act for the better preventing thefts and robberies, and for regulating 
 j)laces of public entertainment, and j)imishing persons keeping dis- 
 orderly houses " ; and the plaintiff, if he recover in any sucii action, 
 shall iiave his full costs. ^ Full costs. 
 
 14. Provided, That no action shall be brought by virtue of this Limitation 
 Act unless the same shall be commenced within the space of six °^ '"^^"'""• 
 calendar months after the offence committed. 
 
 15. l_Act to he in force three years. Rep. 30 & 31 Met. c. 50 
 
 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 14 GEORGE III. A.D. 1774. 
 
 CHAPTER 78. 
 
 An Act . . . for the more effectually preventing Mischief.s 
 by fike within the cities of london and westminster 
 AND THE Liberties thereof, and other the Parishes, 
 Precincts, and Places within the Weekly Bills of 
 Mortality, the Parishes of Saint Mary-le-Bon, Padding- 
 ton, Saint Pancras and Saint Luke at Chelsea, in the 
 County of Middlesex. . . . 
 [ Whole Act, except ss. 83, 86, rep. 28 k 29 Vict. c. OD, .s. :u.] 
 
 83. And in order to deter and hinder ill-minded persons from ^loney in- 
 wilfullv setting tlieir house or houses or other buildings on tire "'"'"^ ^" 
 
 •i.\ " • i-' ■ ■ i. i.\ I 4.1 • 11 houses burnt ; 
 
 With a view of gaining to tiiemselves tlie insurance money, wiierehy i,ow to be 
 the lives and fortunes of many families may be lost or endangered : applied. 
 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That it shall and 
 may be lawful to and for the respective governors or directors of 
 the several insurance offices for insuring houses or other buildings 
 against loss by fire, and they are hereby authorized and re(|uired, 
 upon the request of any person or persons interested in ov entitled 
 unto any house or houses or other buildings which may hereafter 
 be burnt down, demolished or damaged liy fire, or u])on any grounds 
 of suspicion that the owner or owners, occui)ier or occupiers, or 
 other person or persons who shall have insured such house or houses 
 or other buildings have been guilty of fraud, or of wilfully setting 
 their house or houses or other l)uildinti-s on fire, to cause the in- 
 surauce money to be laid out and expended, as far as the same will 
 go, towards rebuilding, reinstating or repairing such house or 
 houses or other buildings so burnt down, demolished ov damaged 
 by fire, unless the party or parties idaiming such insurance money 
 shall, within sixty days next after his, her or their claim is 
 adjusted, give a sufficient security to the governors or directors of 
 the insurance office where such house or houses or other l)uildings 
 are insured, that the same insurance money shall be laid out and 
 expended as aforesaid, or unless the said insurance money shall 
 be in that time settled and disposed of to and amongst all the
 
 4 [Chap. 88.] The Hay and Straw Act 1796. [36 Geo. 3.] 
 
 contending parties, to the satisfaction and approbation of such 
 governors or directors of such insurance office respectively. 
 
 No action to 86. And . . . no action, suit or process whatever shall be had, 
 the^p^rson maintained or prosecuted against any person in whose house, chamber, 
 where the fire stable, barn or other building, or on whose estate any fire shall, 
 accidentally after the said twentj'-fourth day of June,* accidentally begin, nor 
 shall any recompense be made by such person for any damage 
 suifered thereby, any law, usage or custom to the contrary not- 
 withstanding; and in such case, if any action be brought, the 
 defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the 
 special matter in evidence at any trial thereupon to be had . . . : 
 Provided that no contract or agreement made between landlord and 
 tenant shall be hereby defeated or made void. \_Farts omitted {as 
 to trehle costs) rep. hif the Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842, 
 ss. 1, 3 ; 24 & 25 Vict. ^.101 (S.L.R.) ; and 61 Vict. c. 3 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 besins. 
 
 36 GEORGE III. A.D. 1796. 
 
 CHAPTER 88. 
 
 An Act to regulate the buying and selling of Hay and Straw ; 
 and for repealing so much of two acts, made in the 
 Second Year of the Reign of King William and Queen 
 Mary, and in the Thirty-First Year of the Reign of 
 King George the Second, as relate to the buying and 
 selling of Hay and Straw, within the Limits therein 
 mentioned. [lith Ma// 1796.] 
 
 \_Prea7nble.'] 
 
 So much of 1. So much of an Act, made in the second year of the reign of 
 
 2 Will, and King William and Queen Mary, intituled, An Act for paving and 
 
 cap^^8 ^^'^^' ^' cleansing the streets in the cities of London and Westminster, 
 
 and suburbs and liberties thereof, and out parishes in the county 
 
 of Middlesex, and in the borough of Southwark, and other places 
 
 within tlie weekly bills of mortality, in the county of Surrey, and 
 
 and of 31 Geo. for regulating the markets therein mentioned ; and also so much of 
 
 relates to h^^ an Act, made in the thirty-first year of the reign of King George 
 
 and straw, the Second, intituled. An Act to ascertain the weight of trusses of 
 
 repealed from straw, and to punish deceit in tlie sale of hay and straw in trusses, 
 
 in London, and within the weekly bills of mortality, and within the 
 
 distance of thirty miles thereof ; and to prevent common salesmen 
 
 of hay and straw from liuying the same on their own account, to 
 
 sell again ; and also to restrain salesmen, brokers, or factors in 
 
 cattle, from buying on their own account, to sell again, any live 
 
 cattle in London, or within the weekly bills of mortality, or which 
 
 are driving up thereto, as relates to hay and straw, shall, from and 
 
 after the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred 
 
 and ninety-six, be, and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 No hay or 2. And . . . That no hay or straw whatever shall be sold in any 
 
 Od^ t° \"^ market or place within the cities of London or Westminster, or the 
 certain limits weekly bills of mortality, or within thirty miles thereof, other than 
 except in what is made up in bundles or trusses ; and if any person shall sell 
 trusses, on ^j^y ]^;^y qj, straw, other tlian what is made up in bundles or trusses, 
 pena \o .s. ^j|-i,jj, ||-,g cities or limits aforesaid, every person so offending, and 
 
 * Le. 24th June 1774. 
 
 24th June 
 ]79fj 
 
 !
 
 [36 Geo. :}.] The Ha>/ and .Straw Act 1790. [(jhap. 8«.] 5 
 
 beinu: convicted thereof, shall for every sach offeuce forfeit and pay 
 the snm of twenty shillings. 
 
 3. And . . . That each and every bundle or truss of hay sold in Weight of 
 any market or phicc within tlie cities or limits aforesaid, l)etween trusses, 
 the last day of Anunst in any year and the first day of Jnne in the 
 siicceedintr year, shall contain and be of the full weight of fifty-six 
 ])onnds at least ; and that every bundle or truss of hay sold within 
 the cities or limits aforesaid, between the first day of June and the 
 last day of August in any year, being new hay, of the summer's 
 growth of tiiat year, shall be and contain the full weight of sixty 
 pounds, and being old hay of any former year's growth, the weight 
 of fifty-six pounds, as aforesaid ; and that each and every bundle 
 or truss of straw sold witliin the cities or limits aforesaid, shall 
 contain and be of the full weight of thirty-six pounds ; and that 
 every load of hay or straw shall contain thirty-six bundles or 
 trusses ; and if any hay shall be sold within the cities or limits Penalty for 
 aforesaid, whereof any bundle or truss shall be of less weight than selling trusses 
 aforesaid, every ])erson so selling sliall forfeit for every such truss \/q\Xx 
 or bundle of hay, not beiug the full weight aforesaid, any sum not 
 exceeding the sum of five shillings, nor less than two shillings and but not to ex- 
 sixpence, and for every such truss or bundle of straw the sum of one tend to a de- 
 shilling : Provided always, that no person shall be convicted in the fi^ient truss 
 penalty aforesaid, for selling any bundle or truss of hay or straw sqj^ tT^he^ ^ 
 deficient in weight as aforesaiil, where a load or any other or less .same person, 
 (juantity is sold at the same time to the same person, if the number '^ *^^ whole 
 of bundles or trusses so sold shall amount upon the whole to the a^^age ° "^ 
 average weiglit required as aforesaid. weight. 
 
 4. And . . . That every person who shall sell, within the cities or Penalty for 
 limits aforesaid, between the first day of June and the last day of !^^^°^ "^^ 
 December in any year, any hay of the growth of that year as or °^^ *^" 
 for hay of the growth of any former year, shall forfeit and pay for 
 
 each and every bundle or truss of hay so sold, the sum of two 
 shillings and sixpence. 
 
 5. And . . . That each and every load, bundle, or truss of hay Hay or straw 
 or straw, wliich shall be sold in the cities or limits aforesaid, shall to be of one 
 be made up with such hay or straw only as the same appears to be ** 
 
 by the outside of every such load, bundle, or truss ; and that such 
 hav or straw onlv, and not anv inferior hav or straw, shall be 
 deemed and taken to be the hay or straw which is to make up the 
 weight of every bundle or truss ; and every person who shall sell I'^n^it.^ for 
 within the cities or limits aforesaid any load, bimdle, or truss of mixed. ^ 
 hay or straw, which shall in the inside thereof be of inferior goodness 
 from what the outside shall a})i)ear to be, shall forfeit and pay any 
 sum not exceeding five shillings, nor less than two shillings and 
 sixpence, for every such bundle or truss of hay, and the sum of one 
 shilling for every such bundle or truss of straw. 
 
 6. And . . . That the ])air of bands with which any bundle or Penalty for 
 truss of hay shall be bound shall not exceed the weight of ^^e ^^^-Vk"? ^X 
 pounds, upon ])ain that every person who shall sell any bundle or exceeding 51b. 
 truss of hay with bands of a greater weight, shall for every such weight, 
 offence forfeit and })ay the sum of one shilling, and also the further 
 
 sum of one shilling for each and every pound weight that every such 
 pair of bands shall weigh over and above the weight of five pounds. 
 
 7. And . . . That if any person employed to bind hay or straw, Penalty on 
 shall not bind np and make the same into bundles or trusses of Persons
 
 6 [Chap. 88.] The Hay and Straw Act 1 796. [36 Geo. 3.] 
 
 binding hay sucb weight as is directed by this Act, every person so offending 
 iT iftTiusses ^^I'^l^ forfeit and pay the sum of sixpence for every bundle or truss 
 of hay or straw not being of such weight. 
 
 Penalty on 8. And . . . That no common salesman, factor, or agent, within 
 
 salesmen buy- ^j^g cities or limits aforesaid, shall buy and sell, on his own account, 
 
 inl on their 0^" ^f any person or persons in trust for him, any hay or straw 
 
 own account, whatsoever, or any grass of any kind or description, growing or 
 
 hay or straw, making into hay, on jmin of forfeiting for each and every fifty-six 
 
 hav^^" " pounds weight of hay so bought and sold five shillings, and for 
 
 each and every thirty-six ])ounds weight of straw so bought and 
 
 sold two shillings ; and also for each and every acre of such grass 
 
 growing or making into hay, so bought and sold, a sum of money 
 
 not exceeding five pounds, nor less than fifty shillings. 
 
 Salesmen 9. And . . . That every common salesman, factor, or agent, for 
 
 within / days ^^^^ gg^j^ ^i^ j^^^y ^^ straw, within the cities or limits aforesaid, shall, 
 
 to sf*nfl to t'lip .' / J I 
 
 within seven davs next after the sale of everv load or other quantity 
 
 owner an ac- 
 
 count of the of hay or straw, send to the person or persons on whose account 
 pLace, time, ^]jg same shall have been sold, a just and true account under his 
 hay or straw hand, of the |)lace where, time when, and the price for which 
 sold, and of the saiiie was sold, and also the name and place of abode of the 
 the purchaser, purchasers thereof, on pain of forfeiting for every neglect or 
 on pena . . omission a sum of money not exceeding twenty shillings, nor less 
 than ten shillings. 
 
 A register to 10. And . . . That in every market for the sale of hay or straw 
 be kept in within the cities or limits aforesaid, there shall be kept a publick 
 markets for ]jook or register for entering and registering therein an account of 
 of hay and all hay and straw which shall be, from time to time, sold in any 
 straw, which such market ; and that in and for the city of London, such book or 
 shall be open j-gaister shall be kept by the clerk or toll gatherer for the time 
 
 1 or insoGCtioii x »/ o 
 
 ■ being, ap})()inted ])y the Lord Mayor, Commonalty, and citizens in 
 the said city ; and that in and for every other such market within 
 the city of Westminster and limits aforesaid, such book or register 
 shall be kept by the clerk or toll gatherer appointed within their 
 several jurisdictions, and that before six of the clock in the evening 
 on the day of the sale of any hay or straw, exceeding four trusses 
 in one quantity, within the cities or limits aforesaid in any market, 
 and within seven days after any such sale in the said cities and 
 limits out of any market, there shall be made by the seller thereof, 
 a true and faithful entry in the book or register of the market in 
 which such hay or straw shall be sold, or where the same shall be 
 sold out of any market, in the book or register of the market nearest 
 to the place of sale, distinguishing the true names and places of 
 abode of the persons so selling, and for whom sold, and by whom 
 and on whose account the same shall have been bought, and the 
 place where sold, and the true price paid or agreed to be paid for 
 the same, which entry shall be subscribed by each seller of hay or 
 straw, for which entry shall be paid to the keeper of the book or 
 register the sum of one penny ; and that every such book or register 
 shall be kept at some convenient place in every such market for 
 the sale of hay and straw within the cities and limits aforesaid, and 
 shall at all times between the hours of nine of the clock in the 
 morning and six of the clock in the evening of each and every 
 day (Sunday excepted) be open for the inspection of every person 
 applying to inspect the same, paying for every such inspection the 
 sum of one penny j and in case any seller of hay or straw shall omit
 
 [36 Geo. 3.] The Ua,j and Sfraiv Act 1700. [Chap. 88.] 7 
 
 to make the })roj)er entry required by this Act, or the keeper of Penalty for 
 any book or ro";ister for tlie piir])Oses aforesaid, shall knowingfly 'J'^' "^^'^''^^ 
 suffer any untrue entry to be made or signed tlierein, or shall refuse making un- 
 to permit such book or register to be inspected by any jx-rson true entry, or 
 
 applying, and tendering payment of the fee for such ins])ection, f'^'' ''®^"^'"^, 
 ^ V 11 e\ I I c 1-U1 -^ ,' inspection of 
 
 every such seller ot hay or straw, or keeper oi such book or register, retjister. 
 
 so offending, shall on conviction for every such offence forfeit and pay 
 
 a sum of money n(jt exceeding live [)ouu(ls, nor less than ten shillings, 
 
 11. Provided also, . . . That nothing in this Act contained shall Act not to 
 oblige any person to register any hay or straw which he shall deliver extend to hay 
 
 in the cities or limits aforesaid, on special contract or agreement, !f ,^^fi^!!'^' 
 Till 1 ii'iiiii 1 iiverefi on 
 
 but such hay and straw only whicii shall be sent to any market or special con- 
 place within the said cities and limits to be there sold, and which tract, 
 shall be accordingly there sold, shall l)e registered as before is 
 directed ; any tiling in this Act before contained to the contrary 
 thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 
 
 12. Provided always, . . . That no clerk or toll gatherer, or his Penalty on 
 deputy, within the cities and limits aforesaid, shall buy or sell, or '^1^''^ '^r toU 
 be concerned in the buying or selling of hay or straw within the f'''^''®'^^'' I^"-^' 
 cities or limits aforesaid, under the ])enalty of two shillings and hay or straw, 
 sixpence for every bundle or truss of hay so bought or sold by him, 
 
 or in the buying or selling of which he shall be so concerned, and of 
 one shilling for every such bundle or truss of straw. 
 
 13. And . . . Tliat there sha,ll be provided by every clerk or toll scales and 
 gatherer within the cities or limits aforesaid, and kept at the office weights to be 
 of the clerk of every hay market within the said cities or limits, as ci^V^'^/th 
 also at the watch house of each and every ])arish within the limits Market's 
 thereof, by the churchwardens and overseers of such parishes re- "Office, and at 
 spectively, proper scales and weights, or engines for the weighing '^®P^"^^ 
 all hay and straw which shall be required to be weighed ; and 
 
 such clerk or toll gatherer of the hay market, or his deputy, and the Hay weighers, 
 constable or headborough of the parish or place where such scales, 
 weights, and engines shall l)e kept, are hereby appointed hay 
 weighers within their respective parishes and places: and if any ^ „ , 
 
 doubt shall at any time arise, whether any hay or straw sold in the or straw may 
 cities or limits aforesaid, is not of the weight the same ought to be, cause it to be 
 then it shall be lawful for the buver thereof, his servant or agent, T^'^^^^ *^° 
 
 fc* ^-^ ' I lolivGrv 
 
 on the delivery of any such hay or straw at the abode, yard, or loft 
 
 of the buyer, or other jilace where the same shall be agreed by the 
 
 seller to be delivered, to cause the same to be weighed in the 
 
 presence of the seller, or his servant or agent ; and if, on the same ^. ,. , 
 1 . . o ' ' Directions lor 
 
 being so weighed, the buyer or seller of any such hay or straw, his weighing it in 
 
 servant or agent, shall be dissatisfied with any such weighing, case of dis- 
 
 it shall be lawful for any such buyer, his servant or agent, if satisfaction. 
 
 the hay be delivered within a parish where there is any hay 
 
 market, with all convenient speed, to a})ply to the clerk or toll 
 
 gatherer, or his deputy, of such market, and if the hay be 
 
 delivered in any other parish within the cities or limits aforesaid, 
 
 to apply to the hay weigher nearest to the place where any such 
 
 hay or straw shall be delivered to weigh the same, and on any 
 
 such a])plicution being made, such clerk or toll gatherer, or his 
 
 de{)uty, or other hay weigher who shall be applied to, shall with 
 
 all convenient speed come to the place where such hay or straw 
 
 shall be within the limits aforesaid, and shall there weigh such 
 
 hay or straw as shall be complained of, and the weight thereof,
 
 8 [Chap. 88.] • The Ha;/ and Straw Act 1796. [36 Geo. 3.] 
 
 which shall he ascertained by any such clerk or toll gatherer, 
 or his deputy, or other hay weigher, shall be conclusive to all 
 parties ; but in case the clerk or toll gatherer of any market, or 
 his deputy, shall not, upon such application as aforesaid, come 
 with all convenient speed to the place where such hay or straw 
 shall be delivered, it shall be lawful for the buyer, his servant 
 or agent, to a])ply for the purposes aforesaid to such other hay 
 weigher as shall be nearest to the j)lace where any such hay or 
 straw shall be delivered : and the person who shall require any such 
 clerk, toll gatherer, or his deputy, or other hay weigher, to attend 
 and weigh any such hay or straw, shall pay or tender to such 
 hay weigher the sum of three shillings for a load, or in proportion 
 for a greater or less quantity, before he shall be obliged to go 
 to weio-h anv such hav or straw ; and if the hav or straw which 
 shall be so weighed shall not be of the due weight the same ought 
 to be, then the sum so paid shall be forthwith repaid to him by the 
 Tenaltv for seller of such hav or straw ; and if any clerk or toll gatherer, 
 not providing g]^^-jj,p|^^g^j.jgj^ or overseer, within the limits aforesaid, shall omit to 
 weio-hts, or provide and keejj proper scales and weights, or engines, for the 
 for neglecting weighing of hay or straw, or if any clerk, toll gatherer, or his 
 •^^ ^'^'^^ ^^^^ deputy, or other hay weigher, shall neglect or refuse to weigh 
 any hay or straw when required, at any seasonable time in the day 
 time, and so as the sum aforesaid shall have been paid or tendered, 
 every such person offending therein, shall for every such offence 
 forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five i:»ounds, nor less 
 than ten shillings. 
 No penalty to 14. Provided always, . . . That no person shall incur any penalty 
 be incurred f^j. gelling any hay or straw of less weight or worse quality than the 
 orVtraw^not^ Same ought to be, unless such hay or straw shall be weighed either 
 weight, or of at or before the delivery, with the privity of the buyer, his servant 
 bad quality, q^. ^geut, or Complained of in respect of the quality thereof at the 
 weiehed at time and place at which the same shall be agreed to be delivered by 
 or before the seller, in the presence of such seller, his servant or agent, 
 delivery, etc. unless such seller, his servant or agent, on request made, or on 
 notice given to him or them to attend to see such hay or straw 
 so weighed, shall refuse or neglect to attend to see the same so 
 weighed ; any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in 
 anywise notwithstanding. 
 Hours at 15. And . . . That the markets for sale of hav and straw, within 
 
 which mar- ^.hc cities and limits aforesaid, shall end at three of the clock in the 
 of which ^^' ' afternoon of every market day between Lady Day and Michaelmas, 
 notice-shall and at two of the clock in the afternoon of every market day 
 be given by between Michaclmas and Lady Day, and that notices thereof shall 
 on peii^rtv^ ' ^^ given by the clerk or toll gatherer, or his deputy, in the several 
 markets or places for the sale of hay and straw within the cities 
 and limits aforesaid, by ringing on the usual market days a large 
 hand bell round each respective market or place for the sale of 
 hay or straw, one hour before the expiration of the times above- 
 mentioned, and again at the expiration of the hours above-mentioned, 
 on pain of forfeiting for everv sucli offence a sum of money not 
 exceeding ten shillings, nor less than five shillings ; and every 
 Penalty for person who shall sell any hay or straw in any market within the 
 selling after cities or limits aforesaid, after the hours aforesaid, shall forfeit 
 market houre;. fQj. every bundle or truss of hay so sold the sum of sixpence, 
 and for every bundle or truss of straw so sold the sum of three- 
 pence. \_A7nended 4 & 5 Win. 4, c. 21.]
 
 [36 Geo. 3.] The lla>, ,i„(l .Stran- Act ITUfi. [Chap. 88.] 9 
 
 16. And . . . That if any person having the care or direction of ^'enaity for 
 anv wagfron, wain, or cart, used for the i)urpose of brinj'inj' hay or ''^^*^'"& ''^y 
 
 ,' 7 II ^ Ii A • • 1 i. 1 ^' ^1 carts remain 
 
 straw, shall sutler the same to remani ni any market or j)lace lor the in hay mar- 
 sale of liay and straw within the cities and limits aforesaid, on kotsaftt-rcer- 
 the usual market days from Lady Day to Michaelmas, after five of ^^'n hours, 
 the clock in the afternoon, and from Michaelmas to Lady Day 
 after three of the clock in the afternoon, in any year, every person 
 so offending shall forfeit for every snch waggon, wain, or cart, so 
 left as aforesaid, a sum of money not exceeding twenty shillings, 
 nor less than five shillings. \_Aineiulc(l 4 k. 5 \Vm. 4, c. 21.] 
 
 17. And . . . That if any person having the care or direction of Penalty for 
 any waggon, wain, or cart, in any market or place for the sale of hay P«=r™iit'ng 
 or straw within the cities or limits aforesaid, shall ])ermit or suffer jng^hay m-^* 
 the horse or horses drawing the same to feed and remain in any such straw to re- 
 market or place for the space of fifteen minutes, dnring the iiours "lain in a_ 
 allowed for sale of hay or straw, under any })retence whatsoever, mfnufes dnr- 
 every person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and ing market 
 ])ay a sum of money not exceeding twenty sliillings, nor less than bo"rs. 
 five shillino-s 
 
 •o^«- 
 
 18. And . . . That no person whatsoever shall buy and sell again Penalty for 
 any hay or straw, that shall or may be conveying by land or water ^Hv °^ ^°'^. 
 carriage for the purpose of selling within the cities or limits aforesaid, hW or s^aw, 
 and that every jterson so offending shall forfeit for every truss of conveying to 
 hay or stray so bought and sold the sum of five shillings ; and no be sold within 
 person shall buy any hay or straw in any market or place for the the Act, or 
 sale of hay or straw, for the ])urpose of selling again in any such buying in a 
 market or other place within the cities or limits aforesaid : and °^^'"^.^f P^^? 
 every person so offending shall, for every truss of hay or straw so therein. ^^^^° 
 bought, forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings : Provided always, 
 
 that no person selling hay or straw by retail at their own premises, 
 in any less quantity than five trusses as aforesaid, shall be liable 
 to such last mentioned penalty. 
 
 19. And . . . That if any person within the cities or limits Penalty for 
 aforesaid shall, after having purchased for, or sent in or delivered charging 
 
 to any person, by whom or on whose account he may have been so ^n,aUy^^id, 
 
 employed to jjurchase any hay or straw, charge or demand a greater 
 
 })rice than what was really and truly paid or agreed to be paid for any 
 
 such hay or straw, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay 
 
 the sum of five shillings for every bundle or truss of hav or straw 
 
 so purchased, sent in, or deliv^ered. 
 
 20. And . , . That if any person shall sell any quantity of hay or Penalty for 
 straw within the cities or limits aforesaid, and shall al'terwards send qJ"//^"!"^ 
 in or deliver, or tender to the buyer thereof, as and for the hay or the commo- 
 straw so sold, any other hay or straw in ])art or in whole, every dity sold, 
 person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings 
 
 for every bundle or truss of hay, and the sum of five shillings 
 for every bundle or truss of straw so sent in, delivered, or tendered 
 as aforesaid. 
 
 21. And . . . That if any i)erson shall knowingly and fraudulently Penalty for 
 mix, or put, or cause to be mixed, or j)ut, any water, or any sand, fraudulently 
 earth, or any other matter or thing, in any bundle or truss 'of hay JJ'gYghf.^"^ 
 or straw, with an intent to increase the weight thereof, and shall 
 afterwards sell, send in, and deliver the same, or any part thereof, 
 
 within the cities or limits aforesaid ; or if any person shall sell any 
 quantity of hay or straw, within the cities or limits aforesaid, and
 
 10 
 
 [Chap. 88.] The Hay and Straw Act 1796. [36 Geo. 3.] 
 
 Penalty for 
 delivei'ing 
 less than the 
 number of 
 trusses sold. 
 
 Penalty for 
 not bringing 
 hay or straw, 
 exposed and 
 not sold, to 
 the market 
 place on the 
 ensuing mar- 
 ket dav. etc. 
 
 Penaky for 
 giving or re- 
 ceiving false 
 receipts of 
 the price of 
 hay or straw 
 sold. 
 
 shall afterwards mix, or put, or cause to be mixed, or put, iu the 
 bundles or trusses of such hay or straw, water, sand, earth, or any 
 other matter or thing, with an intent to increase the weight thereof, 
 or any part thereof, and shall afterwards send in, or deliver, or 
 tender to the buyer thereof, any such hay or straw, every person so 
 offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings for every 
 bundle or truss of hay, and the sum of five shillings for every bundle 
 or truss of straw so sent in, delivered, or tendered as aforesaid. 
 
 22. And . . . That if any person selling any hay or straw, in any 
 market or place within the cities or limits aforesaid, shall deliver 
 to, or tender to or for, or on account of, the buyer thereof, a less 
 number of bundles and trusses of hay or straw, as or for the true 
 number bought and sold, or if the driver of the waggon, wain, or 
 cart, in which such hay or straw shall be, for the purpose of being 
 delivered according to such sale, shall secrete, keep back, or withhold, 
 any part of the said hay or straw, or shall deliver a less number of 
 bundles or trusses to the buyer, such driver or person selling, 
 knowing the same so delivered not to be the true number bought, 
 or which ought to be delivered according to such sale, every driver 
 or person selling so offending, shall forfeit and i)ay the sum of five 
 pounds for every bundle or truss of hay or straw so secreted, kept 
 back, withheld, or not delivered ; and in default of immediate pay- 
 ment of any such penalty by any such driver, on conviction before 
 any Justice of the Peace in whose jurisdiction the offence shall have 
 been committed, such driver or person selling, shall be forthwith 
 sent, by warrant under the hand and seal of such Justice, to the 
 House of Correction, or other prison within the jurisdiction of such 
 Justice, there to remain and be kept to hard labour. . . . [Part 
 omitted (as to period of imprisonment') rep. hy the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 23. And . . . That if any person or persons, after having brought 
 or received any hay or straw for sale, or exposed any hay or straw 
 to sale on a market day, in any market or place for sale of hay or 
 straw within the cities or limits aforesaid, which shall not be sold, 
 shall thereupon lodge the same in any place near to such market or 
 place as aforesaid, and shall not, if the same be not before that time 
 sold, bring and expose the said hay or straw for sale in such market 
 or place, by eleven of the clock in the forenoon of the next ensuing 
 market day, or if any person lodging any hay or straw as aforesaid, 
 which shall be brought to any place for the purpose of sale on a bye 
 day or a day between the usual market days, shall not, if the same 
 be not before that time sold, bring and expose all such hay or 
 straw for sale in such market near to where the same was lodged, 
 on the following market day by the same hour as aforesaid, or as 
 soon after as the weather will permit without endangering the 
 spoiling or injuring the same, every person so offending shall forfeit 
 and pay for every such offence any sum of money not exceeding five 
 pounds, nor less than forty shillings. 
 
 24. And . . . That if any person who shall have been concerned 
 in buying or selling any hay or straw within the cities or limits 
 aforesaid, shall give, take, or receive, any false or untrue receipt, 
 ticket, or memorandum, of the price of any hay or straw so sold or 
 bought as aforesaid, expressive of a greater or less price than what 
 the same was really and truly sold for or bought, every person so 
 offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not 
 
 \
 
 [36 Geo. 3.] The Ikuj ami iSlnuv Act WMi. [Chai-. 88.] 11 
 
 exceeding tea pounds, nor less than Hve pounds, upon complaint 
 being made to any Justice of the Pcaci; within whose jurisdiction the 
 offence slnill have been comnjitt('<l, at any time within six calendai- 
 months after such olfence committed, any thin*:- hereinaftei- contained 
 tothecontrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding : Provided always, 
 that if any person offending in either of the cases aforesaid shall, with- 
 in the said space of six calendar months, give information of and 
 prosecute to conviction any other jterson so offending, such informer 
 sluill be indenmilicd from the ])enalty hereinbefore mentioned. 
 
 25. Provided always, . . . That no person shall be prosecuted for i-imitation of 
 any of the before-mentioned offences, except where it has been or prosecutions, 
 shall be herein otherwise expressed, unless information of any such 
 
 offence l)e given to the projicr magistrate, within fourteen days next 
 after the commission of such offence. 
 
 26. And, for the more speedy recovery of all and every forfeiture itecovery of 
 which shall W incurred under this Act, and for the disposing thereof, f<-""feitures. 
 be it further enacted, Tliat on complaint or information being made 
 
 to any Justice of the Peace of any offence committed against this 
 Act witliin th(^ jurisdiction of such Justice, such Justice is hereby 
 required and authorized ... to proceed to hear and determine the 
 matter of the said complaint, by the oath or oaths of any one or 
 more credible witness or witnesses, and to convict the respective 
 offender, and to award and adjudge the respective penalties imposed 
 by this Act to be paid by sucli offender, together with the reasonable 
 costs and cliarges attending such conviction. . . . \_Part)i omitted 
 (as to smnmons and distress) rep. hi/ the Saimnart/ Jurisdiction 
 Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 27. Provided always, . . . That when and as often as it shall Salesmen 
 hap])eu that any salesman or salesmen shall in manner aforesaid 1*6^^'^^^^'''^^'^^^^ 
 convicted of any offence against this Act, and thereby become suhject exhibit com-" 
 to the payment of any of the penalties before mentioned, it shall be plaint against 
 
 lawful for anv such salesman to exhibit his complaint or information employer be- 
 ,,,?'. ,, i- 1 1 fore a Justice, 
 
 against the larmer or other 2)ersou, tor wliom or on whose account who may de- 
 he shall have sold the hay or straw, (on account of which such ^ermine the 
 salesman or salesmen shall have been so convicted), before some ™^"^'"- 
 Justice of the Peace within tlie jurisdiction in which such hay or 
 straw shall have been so sold ; and such Justice is hereby required 
 to summon such farmer or otlier ])erson, and also any witness or 
 witnesses, to ai){)('a-r before him the said Justice, on a day to be 
 appointed and named in the said summons, (not less than seven days 
 after the issuing of such summons), although such farmer or other 
 person against whom such infornuition shall be laid, may happen to 
 reside out of the county, city, borough, division, or liberty, in which 
 such hay or straw may have been so sold ; and on its being made 
 appear to the said Justice on oath, that such summons was duly 
 served upon, or left at the usual place of abode of the party sum- 
 moned, then every such Justice is herel)y authorized and reifuircd 
 to proceed to hear and determine the matter of the said complaint 
 or information, in like manner as is hereinbefore i)rovided and 
 directed, for hearing of complaints against salesmen ; and if it shall 
 appear to the satisfaction of such Justii-e that such salesman shall 
 not have been guilty of or privy to any frauil or deceit in the 
 premises, but that such fraud or deceit was im]tutal)le to such farmer 
 or other person so complained against as aforesaid, then such 
 Justice is hereby authorized and required to award to such salesman.
 
 12 [Chap, cxxxi.] The Deptford Creek Bridge Act 1803. [43 Geo. 3.] 
 
 the amonnt of the penalty so by him paid as aforesaid, together 
 with full costs and charges, as well those occasioned by the com- 
 plaint against him, as by such subsequent complaint against such 
 farmer or other person ; such costs and charges to be first ascer- 
 tained and allowed by such Justice, and to adjudge the said farmer 
 or other person, the owner of the said hay or straw, to pay the 
 same ; and the said Justice is hereby authorized and required, by 
 Complaint to warrant under his hand and seal, to cause the same to be levied in 
 be made with- like manner as penalties and forfeitures are by this Act directed to 
 
 in 14 days j^g levied and recovered. 
 
 after convic- 
 
 tionofasales- 28. . . . Provided nevertheless, that every such complaint or 
 
 man; and if information shall be made within fourteen days after the conviction 
 
 Justice^mav ^ ^^ '^^^ Salesman as aforesaid, and not afterwards. . . . \_Parts 
 
 awardcoststo o??if'tted (as to warrant of distress and, frivolous complaint) rep. 
 
 the employer, ^y fke S'rmtiHir;/ Jurisdiction Act 1884, .S'. 4.] 
 
 Appeal may 29. Provided always, . . . That if any person convicted of any offence 
 
 be made to punishable by this Act, shall think him, her, or themselves aggrieved 
 
 cT.^ r^"J"^*^'^ bv the iudgement or determination of anv such Justice as aforesaid, 
 cessions. ./Je^ i-i ' it- i 
 
 such person may appeal against the same to the Justices at the 
 
 General or General Quarter Sessions of the Peace . . . ; and the 
 
 Justices of the Peace at such General or General Quarter Sessions 
 
 of the Peace, are hereby authorized and required, on every such 
 
 appeal being made, finally to hear and determine the matter of 
 
 every such appeal, and to make such order, and to award such costs 
 
 therein, as they in their discretion shall seem meet : and which said 
 
 order and determination shall l)e final and conclusive to all parties, 
 
 and no certiorari shall be allowed to remove any such proceedings 
 
 or determination. [Part omitted (as to procedure) rejj. by the 
 
 Sunnnary Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 ^^T^th*^ ^° ^^' "^^^^^ • ■ • "^^^^ every penalty and forfeiture l)y this Act imposed 
 secutor. shall, when recovered, go and be paid to the person or persons who 
 
 shall prosecute to conviction any offender or offenders against this Act. 
 31. [Limitation of actions — Costs. Rep. by the Public Authorities 
 
 Protection Act 1893, 6-. 2.*] 
 
 43 GEORGE III. A.D. 1803. 
 
 CHAPTER CXXXI. 
 
 t An Act foe building a Bridge over the River Ravensborne, 
 AT or near its Mouth or Outlet into the River Thames, in 
 THE County of Kent, and foe making and maintaining 
 Proeee Approaches theeeto. [27M July 18u3.] 
 
 [Preamble.~\ 
 1. [Incorporation of the Deptford Creek Bridge Company. Spent. 
 See 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 15.] 
 Bridge to be 2. ... It shall be lawful for the said Company, and they 
 are hereby authorized and empowered, at their own proper costs 
 and charges, by their agents, officers, workmen, and others, to 
 build a bridge across or over the said River Ravensborne, 
 at or near its mouth or outlet aforesaid, from the western bank 
 or shore thereof, between the River Thames and a certain i)lace 
 
 * See Appendix. 
 
 t See also 1 Vict. c. cxx. ; 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. ; and 44 & 45 Vict. c. cxcii. 
 
 built.
 
 [43 Geo. 3.] The Deptfoni Creek lhi</,/t' Act 18u3. [Chap, cxxxi.] 13 
 
 on the said western bank (»r shore called the Copperas Dock, 
 in the j)arish of Saint Paul Deptford aibresaid, to the oj)posite 
 shore, in tiie j)arish of p]ast (ircL'invich aforesaid, in sncli a sitnation 
 as l»y the said ('()m])any sliall he thon^iit most advisalde : and to 
 dig and make ])ro})er foundations in the said river, and on the hinds 
 and grounds lying and l)eing on each side thereof, for the piers and 
 abutments of the said bridge, and to cut and level the banks of the 
 said river, in such manner as thev shall tiiink necessarv for building 
 the said bridge ; and to cut, remove, take, and carry away, all trees, 
 roots of trees, beds of gravel, sand, mud, or any other imj)ediment 
 whatsoever, which may in anywise liinder the erecting and complet- 
 ing the said l)ridge, and to turn, widen, alter, or enlarge any and 
 every present foot, bridle, or horse road or roads, or way or ways, 
 or highway or highways leading, or which may lead to the said 
 bridge, within the distance of half a mile therefrom ; and to make 
 all such new or other roads or ways to and from the said bridge, as 
 the said (V)mj)any may think proper, to facilitate the approach to 
 the same from ( "hurch Street, in the parishes of Saint Nicholas and 
 Saint Paul Deptford aforesaid, and from Church Street in the 
 parish of Greenwich aforesaid, each being at the distance of one 
 (jnarter of a mile or thereabouts from the said River Ravensborne ; 
 and to do, perform, and execute all such other matters and things 
 as the said Com])any shall think requisite and necessary, useful or 
 convenient, for erecting, and building, maintaining and supporting, 
 the said intended bridge or the approaches thereto, and the passage 
 over and under the same ; and to land on either side of the said 
 River Ravensborne, within the distance of one quarter of a mile of 
 the scite or intended scite of the said bridge, all materials and other 
 things to be used in and about the said bridge, roads, and ways, and 
 there to work and use the same, thev the said Com])anv making such 
 satisfaction as hereinafter mentioned, to the respective owners and 
 occupiers of all such lauds, grounds, tenements and hereditaments as 
 shall be taken or made use of for the said purposes or any of them. 
 
 3. Provided alwavs, . . . That everv new road or wav to be Directions for 
 made by virtue of this Act, within the parishes of Saint Nicholas roads. 
 
 and Saint Paul Deptford aforesaid, or either of them, sliall be 
 made southward of a certain street in the said parish uf Saint 
 Nicholas, called the Stowage, and northward of a right line to 
 be drawn from Church Street on the north side of the New 
 Trinity Almshouses, in the pari^h of Saint Paul De}»tford to the 
 ( opperas Dock aforesaid ; and that every new roail or way to be 
 made by virtue of this Act, in the parish of Greenwich aforesaid, 
 shall be made northward of a rigiit line to be drawn from the 
 Coi)peras Dock aforesaid, to the east end of a street or way called 
 Skelton's Lane in the said parish of Greenwich. 
 
 4. [^1^ to construction of bridge. Spent.'] 
 
 5. \^Jiri(lge not to be a countg bridge and as to rating thereof. 
 Supemeded 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. .s, 10 ; and 58 k 50 Vict, 
 c. cxxvii. s. 46.] 
 
 6. ... No ship, lighter, or other vessel, having any fixed or xo vessel 
 standing mast or sail, sliall be navigated, passed, or warped, under ^^itii fi.xed 
 or through the said bridge at any" other time or times than at unj^r^i,^^*^ 
 flood tide, or when the water shall be flowing or running from bridge, but on 
 the River Thames into the said River Ravensborne ; and in flood tide, 
 case any such ship, lighter, or vessel, shall be navigated, passed,
 
 14 
 
 [Chap, cxxxi.] The Depf/ord Creek Bridge Act 1803. [43 Geo. 3.] 
 
 Vessel hav- 
 ing lowered 
 their masts 
 may pass 
 under the 
 bridge on ebb 
 tide. 
 
 Bridge not to 
 be moved 
 after high 
 water. 
 
 Company to 
 fix marks to 
 denote high 
 water. 
 
 Company 
 mark the 
 depth of 
 water at the 
 bridge, etc. 
 
 or warped, under or through the said bridge at any other time 
 or season than as aforesaid, the owners or owner of every such 
 ship, lighter, or vessel shall for every offence forfeit and pay the 
 sum of ten pounds, one moiety thereof shall be paid to the 
 informer or informers, and the other moiety thereof shall belong to 
 the said Company : and the said owners or owner shall moreover be 
 answerable and liable to make satisfaction to the said Company, for 
 anv damao'e or iniurv that shall or mav be done to the said bridge or 
 any part thereof, by any such ship, lighter, or vessel, and every other 
 damao-e and loss which the said Comrjanv mav sustain therefrom. 
 
 7. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend 
 to prevent any ship, lighter, or vessel, having a moveable mast or 
 masts, and having lowered the same with the sail or sails thereto 
 belonging, from being navigated, passed, or warped under the said 
 bridge upon ebb tide, or when the water shall be running out of the 
 said River Ravensborne into the River Thames, so that there be 
 sufficient depth of water for the purpose as hereinafter mentioned, 
 and the said ship, lighter, or vessel can safely pass under the said. 
 Ijridge or through any arch or arches thereof without doing any 
 damage to the said bridge, or arch or arches. 
 
 8. Provided also. That nothing herein contained shall extend, or 
 be construed to extend, so as to oblige or compel the said Company, 
 or their servants, or any of them, to open or remove any such 
 draw-bridge or swing-bridge at any time or times for the passage of 
 ships, lighters, or other vessels whatsoever, after the water has 
 ceased flowing from the River Thames into the said River Ravens- 
 borne, or after the height or top of what is commonly called flood tide. 
 
 9. ... In order to prevent any doubt respecting the time for 
 the passage of ships, lighters, or vessels with a fixed or standing 
 mast or masts, sail or sails, through the said draw-bridge or 
 swing-bridge, and for the better information of the navigators 
 thereof, it shall and may be lawful for tlie said Company to 
 note or mark, or to affix any mark or note upon the said bridge 
 or the pier or piers, posts or piles, or other conspicuous part 
 parts thereof, denoting the time or period when the water from the 
 River Thames shall have ceased flowing into the said River Ravens- 
 borne, or the height or top of what is commonly called flood tide 
 as aforesaid, at which time or period the tide or water flowing or 
 running from the River Thames, as aforesaid, shall be taken and 
 adjudged to have ceased : and thereafter no ship, lighter, or vessel 
 as aforesaid, with any fixed or standing mast or masts, sail or sails, 
 shall be navigated, passed, or warped through the said bridge, until 
 the next return of tide, on forfeiture of the said penalty and making 
 such payment as aforesaid : Provided, that no such mark or note 
 shall extend to stop) the navigation of such ships, lighters, or vessels 
 sooner than twenty minutes before the ceasing of the flowing of the 
 tide in the River Thames to the height generally known by the 
 name of or called high water mark. 
 
 10. . . 
 
 0"5 
 
 or 
 
 . . For the information of any and every person navi- 
 any ship, lighter, barge, boat, or other vessel under the 
 said bridge hereby authorized to be made, or through any arch or 
 arches thereof, it shall and may be lawful for the said Company 
 to order and direct, or cause to be placed or made some mark or 
 marks, note or notes upon the piers, posts, or piles of the said 
 bridge, and the arch and arches thereof, or any of them, to denote 
 
 gating
 
 [43. Geo. 3.] , The l)cptfor(l Creek Bridge Act lbU3. [Chap, cxxxi.] 15 
 
 the depth of water at or under the said liridge and the arch 
 and arches thereof respectively ; and in case the owner, navigator, 
 or other ])ersoii liaving the care; of any ship, lighter, l)!irfre, hoat, or 
 other vessel sliull pass or attempt to pass the same under or through 
 the said draw-bridge or swing-hridge, or any arch or arches of the 
 said bridge so authorized to be made as aforesaid, unless the draft 
 of water of the same respectively, shall be full six indies above or 
 clear of the bed or channel of the said River Uavensljorne, at or 
 under the said bridge or the arch or arches thereof, or the said 
 draw-bridge or swing-bridge tlirougli which the said ship, lighter, 
 barge, boat, or other vessel shall i)ass, or attem])t to be passed 
 according to such mark or marks, note or notes, lie or they shall for 
 every such offence, f(»rfeit and j)ay the sum of ten pounds, one moiety 
 thereof shall be paid to the informer or informers, and the other 
 moiety shall belong to the said Comjiany ; and the owners or owner 
 of such ship, lighter, l)arge, boat, or vessel shall moreover be answer- 
 able and liable to make satisfaction to the said Company for any 
 damage or injury d(jne to the said bridge, or to any arch or arches 
 thereof, or to the said draw-bridge or swing-bridge, and for every other 
 damage or loss which the said Company may sustain therefrom. 
 
 11 — 37. [^i*' to acquisition of land — Assessment of compensation 
 — Application of purchase monet/s, etc. — Purchase and cesting in 
 Company of Green anch Sumkuj Ferry and every other ferry over the 
 River Rave^isborne, and provisions as to cesser of ferries. Spent7\ 
 
 38. \No annoyance to he made on bridge or roads. Semble super- 
 seded .57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. s. (55 ; the High/cays Act 1835, s. 72 ; 
 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 54 ; 45 Vict. c. Ivi. s. 41 ; and. 55 tt 56 Vict, 
 c. ccxxxviii. s. 40, etc?\ 
 
 39 — 41. \_Erection of Hoards — Fower to Company to cut drainSy 
 etc. — Company'' s surveyor to remove annoyances. Semble superseded 
 18 k V.) Vict. c. 120, s. 122 ; and see note on s. 38, supra.'] 
 
 42 — 69. \_Capital powers and financial jjrovisions — Vesting of 
 bridge and streets in Company, and as to tolls. Spent and 
 superseded (as to tolls) 40 & 41 ]^ict. c. xcix. s. 16.] 
 
 70. . . . The master or owner, or owners of every barge, boat, ship, Masters and 
 or vessel, which shall jiass u])on the said river under and through the "^^"^f^v^u, 
 said bridge, shall be and is hereby made answerable and responsible, fordama^i-e 
 and liable to make satisfaction to tlie said Comj)any for any damage *l<'nt' to the 
 or injury that shall or may be done to the said bridge, or any part '^^"'o®- 
 thereof, by any such barge, boat, ship, or vessel respectively. 
 
 71. \_Fenaltyfor wilfully damaging bridge. Superseded 18 tfc 19 
 Vict. c. 120, s. 20(), and the Malicious Damage Act 1861, ss. 33, 51.] 
 
 72. ... In case the said bridge shall at any time become When bridge 
 impassable or unsafe for travellers or carriages, the said ( ^ompany itupassabie a 
 shall and are hereby required to cause the same to be forthwith p^^ided ^ 
 rebuilt or repaired and made safe and commodious for the passage 
 
 of travellers, cattle, and carriages, and in the mean time until the 
 said bridge shall be so rebuilt or rejjaired, and made safe and 
 commodious, it shall be lawful for the said Company, and they are 
 hereby required during all such time as the said bridge shall be 
 impassable or unsafe as aforesaid, to provide a proper anil convenient 
 ferry for the passage of travellers, cattle, and carriages over the 
 said river as near to the said bridge as convenientlv mav be. . . . 
 [^Fart omitted {as to tolls) superseded 40 it 41 17c"/. c. xcix. s. l<i. 
 See also 44 k 45 Vict. c. cxcii. .s-. 31.]
 
 16 [Chap, cxxxi.] The Deptford Creek Bridge Act 1803. [43 Geo. 3.1 
 
 73 — 86. [_As to Directors and Meetings of Company — Calls on 
 shares — Officers^ accounts, etc. Spent ; and see 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. 
 ss. 15, 16.] 
 
 Tower for 87. . . . The Directors of the said Company shall have full 
 
 lighting power and authority to cause such and so many lamps to be erected 
 
 bridge and upon or near the said l)ridge, roads, streets, or ways before men- 
 tioned, or any of them, or any part thereof, as they shall think 
 proper, and to fix any of such lamps, and the posts and irons 
 thereof, in, upon, or against the walls of any houses or other 
 buildings, in, upon, or against such other places, and to be altered, 
 taken down, or removed, in such manner as to them shall seem 
 fit, and to cause such lamps, or any of them, to be lighted at such 
 seasons of the year, in such evening, and in such hours of the 
 evening, and to be kept burning for so many hours as to them 
 shall seem necessary and proper. . . . \_Part omitted (as to ivilfal 
 damage to lamps^ etc.) superseded 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 206. 
 See also 45 Vict. c. Ivi. s. 41.] 
 
 88 — 89. \_Guarding and watching bridge. Superseded 10 Geo. A^., 
 c. 44, s. 4.] 
 
 90. \_Poiver to Company to make bye-laics. Spent. See 45 Vict, 
 c. Ivi. s. 41.] 
 
 91. {^Breaking up roads by Water Companies. Superseded by 
 the Waterworks Clauses Act 1847, ss. 30 — 34 ; and see 18 & 19 
 Vict. c. 120, ss. 109, 110.] 
 
 92 — 95. [-1-5 to recovery of penalties, etc. Superseded, by the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts^ 
 
 Appeal given 96. ... If any person or persons shall think himself, herself, 
 to the Quarter or themselves aggrieved bv any order or judgement made or yiven 
 sessions. ^^^ pursuance of any rule, bye-law, or order of the said Company, 
 or by any order, judgement, or determination of any Justice or 
 Justices of the Peace relating to any matter or thing in this Act 
 mentioned or contained, such person or persons may appeal to the 
 Justices of the Peace or Maoistrates at anA' Sessions of the Peace 
 to be holden for the county or place wherein the cause shall 
 arise. . . . \_Part omitted (as to procedure on appeal) superseded, 
 by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts ; see also the Quarter Sessions 
 Act 1849, s. 1.]' 
 
 Proceedings 97. • . . No couviction, Order, judgement, or other proceeding 
 not to be touchino- or concernin«- any of the matters or things bv this Act 
 want of form authorized or required, shall be quashed or vacated for want 
 of form only, or be removed or removeable by certiorari or 
 any other writ or process whatsoever, into any of His Majesty's 
 Courts of Record at Westminster, any law or statute to the contrary 
 notwithstanding. \_Part omitted (as to distress) superseded by the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts7\ 
 
 98- \_For securing transient offenders. Semble spent. See also 
 the Highways Act 1835, s. 79, and 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 63.] 
 
 99. \_Justices may act although proprieto?-s. Spent. See 40 & 41 
 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 100. [Punishment for false evidence. Superseded by the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Acts?\ 
 
 101. Limitation of Actions. Rep. in part by the Limitations of 
 
 ll
 
 [46 Geo. 3.] The Rush Common Act 1800. [Chap. Ivii.] 
 
 Actions ami Costs Act \H\'Z. ilcmr. suj)crse.ih'(l. by tin- Public 
 Authorities Protection Act 1893.*] 
 102. \_.\rf to be judiciali;/ noticed.'] 
 
 Schedule. \_Description of lands to be taken. Spent.] 
 
 46 GEORGE III. A.D. 1806. 
 
 CHAPTER I. VII. 
 
 An Act for enclosing Lands in the Manor of Lamhkth, in 
 THE County of Surrey. [23/v/ Maij 180G.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that there are within the manor of 
 Lambeth in the count;/ of Su/-rey certain common lands containing/ 
 tivo hundred acres and iipicards, that the A7'chbishop of Canterbur;/ 
 in right of his archie /nsco/ial see is Lord of the Manor., that Edward 
 Lord Thurloir William Cole and divers other persons icere the 
 Owners of lands or tenements, parcel or held of the said manor and 
 in respect of ivhich they claim common of pasture in the said common 
 lands and recites that the said Archbishop in 7-ight of his said see 
 is seized of divers /roods and wood ground.^ in the said manor 
 containing two hundred acres and u/j wards and of the ground a)td soil 
 thereof and of all timber and other trees wood and underwood therein, 
 and that the said Edivard Lord Thurlow William Cole and divers 
 other persons as owners of tenements held of the said manor claim 
 rights of common of pasture over the said woods or wood grounds 
 and of taking bushes etc. and certain wood therefrom for fireu-ood 
 and that the said common lands and icood grounds if divided and 
 enclosed might be greatly improved?^ 
 
 17. Provided always and be it further enacted That no hnildings No building 
 or erections above the surface of the earth shall at any time here- ^° ^.^ ^J^^*''®'^ 
 after be erected upon the narrow strip of waste land lying in front parts of the 
 of Brixton Place or upon the common called Rush Common within land to be 
 the distance of one hundred and fifty feet from the turnpike road ciiclo>ed. 
 leading from London to Croydon being the boundary thereof on 
 the one side or within the distance of two hundred feet from the 
 old enclosures being the boundaries thereof on the east and south 
 sides nor shall any such erections or liuildings be erected ujion 
 any other of the said common lands or wood grounds intended to be 
 divided or enclosed by this Act within the distance of one hundred 
 feet in front of any messuage or dwelling house already erected 
 upon any land adjoining thereto without tiie consent in writing of 
 the owner or owners of such last mentioned messua":e or dwellins: 
 house and his or their lessee or lessees respectively, and in case 
 any such buildings or erections shall at any time or times hereafter 
 be built contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act it shall 
 be lawful for any j)erson or jjcrsons who shall be injured or atfected 
 thereby to remove or abate the same or otherwise to proceed against 
 the person or persons so offending in like manner as in case of 
 nuisance. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \_The remainder of the Act contains usual Enclosure Act provisions, 
 appointing Enrlosure Commissioners and hn/ing down the procedure 
 for enclosing the lands.] 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 18 [Chap, cxci.] The Waterloo Bridge Act ISOO. [49 Geo. 3.] 
 
 49 GEORGE III. A.D. 1809. 
 
 CHAPTER CXCI. 
 
 An Act foe building a Bridge over the River Thames, from 
 THE Precinct of the Savoy, or near thereunto, in the 
 County of Middlesex, to the Opposite Shore ; and fob 
 making Convenient Roads and Avenues to communicate 
 therewith, in the County of Surrey. [20M June 1809.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that it tcill he of achantage not ordy 
 to the inhabitant a of the city of Westminster and pa.rts adjacent, 
 and of the parish of Saint Mary Larnbeth in the county of Surrey, 
 but to many other of His Majesty's subjects, and the public in gerveral, 
 if a bridge were erected ocer the Rizer Thames, from some pa.rt of 
 the Precinct of the Savoy, or nea/r or adjoining thereunto, in the 
 county of }[iddlesex, to the opposite shore at or near <'uper\s Bridge 
 in the said jjarish of Saint Mary Lambeth in. the soAd county of 
 Surrey : OMd if convenient roaAs and a/cenues tcere made to com- 
 municate therewith from a certain road leading from the east end of 
 WestmiJister Bridge to the Stones End in Blackman Street, in the 
 parish of Saint (jeorge, in the borough of Southwarh. near a certain 
 jjlace called The Obelisk in Saint George'' s Fields, in the parish, of 
 Saint George Southwarh, and from a certain other place called 
 Oakley Street, in the jyar/^-;^ of Saint Mary Lambeth, both in the 
 said county of Surrey, and from a certain other pjla.ce called 
 Stamford. Street, in the parisJi of Christchurch, in the county of 
 Surrey, to the Westminster Road near Westminster Bridge, in the 
 parish of Saint Mary Lambeth aforesaid^ 
 
 1 — 40. [Incorporation of the Strand Bridge Company ivith 
 ajxthorized ca.jntal of £500,000 — Financial procisions and Com- 
 pany's procedure. Spent. See 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 To make 41. . . • Tliere shall be constructed at the north end of the 
 
 landing said hridge one, and on the south end two, convenient stone stairs 
 
 places. Qj. plying jjlaces, for the use of the watermen and wherrymen 
 
 rowing upon the said river of Thames from Windsor in the 
 county of Berks, to Gravesend in the county of Kent, and that 
 the said watermen and wherrymen shall have the free use of the 
 said stairs, in the same manner as they have of the stairs 
 and plying places at Westminster Bridge and Blackfriars 
 Bridge, and which said stairs and plying places shall from time 
 to time and at all times hereafter be upheld, maintained, and 
 kept in good, proper, and substantial repair, at the costs, 
 charges, and expences of the said Company of Proprietors and their 
 successors. 
 
 42 — 44. [Construction of bridge. Spent.'] 
 Company may 45. And whereas it may happen that the said bridge, after it shall 
 make a ferry j^ave been completed and used, may receive such damage by 
 hrid^ii^^^ Unforeseen accidents, that the passage thereof may for a time 
 accidents become dangerous and impracticable : be it therefore enacted. That 
 happen. when and as often as it shall so happen, it shall and may be lawful 
 
 to and for the said Company of Proprietors or their committee, 
 or any five or more of them, or such person or persons as they
 
 [40 Geo. 3.] Tlw Waterloo BruUje Act l^suD. [Chap. cxcL] 19 
 
 shall or may a])i)oiat for tliat purpose, from time to time as often 
 as occasion shall require, to provide a proper and convenient ferry or 
 ferries across the said Kivcr Thames, or otherwise to erect or build 
 a tcmpoi-ary bridge; at some ])lace or places near to the scite of the 
 ^aid bridge : . . . Provided always, that such ferry or ferries or 
 temporary bridj!;e shall continue for such terra only as shall be 
 necessary for repairing and rebuilding the said bridge, and until the 
 passage over the same shall cease to be dangerous or impraeticalde 
 as aforesaid, and no longer : Provided also, that the said ( 'om])any 
 of Proprietors or their committee and successors, shall from time 
 to time and at all times hereafter, when and as often as occasion 
 shall re(inire (in case the said bridge shall become dangerous and 
 imj)racticable, and a ferry or I'erries j)rovided or a temporary l^ridge 
 erected as aforesaid) be comi)elled to employ for the working 
 and navigating the said ferry or ferries, the free watermen and 
 wherrymen rowing and working on the said river of Thames from 
 Windsor in tlie county of Berks to Gravesend in tlie county of 
 Kent ; and that the said free watermen and wherrymen shall 
 have the sole right of conveying foot passengers across the said 
 river, and no other j)erson or persons whomsoever ; anything herein 
 contained to the contrary notwithstanding. \_Part omitted (as to 
 tolls) su^evaeded 4iJ & 41 Vict. c. xcix. ,s. 10.] 
 
 46. [Comijensationio the Comparn/ of Watermen and Wherrymen. 
 
 Spent.^ 
 
 47. \_Power to build, and maintain the bridge. Spent in part. 
 Remr. superseded 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 16.] 
 
 48. \No house except toll house to be erected on bridge. Spent.~\ 
 
 49. And whereas, in order to have a proper and convenient access 
 to the said bridge on the Surrey side of the said liiver Thames, it 
 
 will be necessary to make divers new roads and avenues from the Companvmay 
 
 said bridge to divers places in the parishes of Saint George South- make roads. 
 
 wark, Christ Church, and Saint Mary Lambeth, in the said county 
 
 of Surrev : be it further enacted, That it shall and mav be lawful 
 
 to and for the said Company of Proprietors to set out and make a 
 
 road from the said bridge to the road leading from the east end 
 
 of Westminster Bridge to the Stones End in Blackman Street in 
 
 the parish of Saint George in the borough of Southwark, near a 
 
 certain place called The Obelisk in Saint George's Fields in the 
 
 said j)arish of Saint George Southwark in the said county of Surrey ; 
 
 and also set out and make another road from the said bridge to 
 
 a certain other place called Oakley Street, in the said parish of 
 
 Saint Mary Lambeth, in the said county of Surrey ; and also to set 
 
 out and make another road from a certain street called Stamford 
 
 Street in the said ])arish of Christ Ciiurch, in the said county of 
 
 Surrey, into the said tirst-mentioned road, and to continue the same 
 
 across the said first-mentioned road into a certain road called the 
 
 Westminster ]?oad, in the said parish of Saint ^lary Ltimbotii, in 
 
 such manner as they the said Company of Proprietors shall deem 
 
 proper and expedient, they the said Company of Proprietors first 
 
 making satisfaction to the owner or owners of such lands, houses, 
 
 tenements, and hereditaments, as they may require for the making 
 
 and constructing the said roads in manner hereinafter directed, 
 
 in respect of the owners of other lands, houses, tenements, and 
 
 hereditaments. . . . [^Part omitted {as to repair of roads) superseded 
 
 40 \ 41 Vict. c. xcix. X. 1(3.]
 
 20 [Chap, cxci.] The Waterloo Bridge Act 1809. [49 Geo. 3.] 
 
 50 — 63. \_As to compensation — Powers to alter pavement of pjart 
 of the Strand — To take lands and, to sell lands not wanted — 
 Apjplication of purchase money. Spent.~\ 
 
 64, 65. [Saving rights of the Crown, Dean and Chapjter of 
 Westminster, and the High Steward, High Bailiff' and Burgesses 
 of West minster. ~\ 
 
 66 — 86. \_Saving i-ights of Commissioners of Seicers of Surrey 
 and Kent, Messi^s. Phelps ^^ Company, and the German Reformed 
 Protestant Chapel — Compjensation for rates in St. Mary-le-Strand 
 and St. Clement Danes — Provisions as to acquisition of lands, and. 
 assessment of compensation- — Poicer to Duchy of Lancaster to sell 
 kinds, etc. — As to embanking the Thames from the east of the bridge 
 to the then embankment of Somerset House, and compensation to the 
 tenants of the Duchy of Lancaster. Spent. Superseded, {as to 
 Comynissioners of Sewers) 11 & 12 Vict. c. 112.* See noiv 18 & 19 
 Vict. c. 120 s. l"35,] 
 
 87. {Saving riglits of the Sovereign in respect of the Duchy of 
 Lancaster.^ 
 
 88. \^Bridge Aveime to be sixty feet from Somerset House. Spent.'] 
 
 89 — 100. \Powers for Duchiy of Cornwall to sell lands, and. for 
 Comp)any to exchange certain lands with the Duke of Cornwall — 
 General p)romsions as to taking of lands, recording verdicts, paymeiit 
 of purchase money for lands taken. Spent.] 
 
 101—116. [As to tolls. Superseded 41) & 41 Vict. c. xcix. 6-. 16.] 
 
 117 — 121. \_Authorizing Company to allow Water Companies to 
 lay pipes upon or over the bridge and to take payments — To take 
 witfwuX payment gravel, etc., for making or repairing authorized 
 works, from rivers, brooks, moors, wastes, or commons — Bridge 
 and roads not to he liable to parocldal rates, and saving rights of 
 trustees of certain roads. Spent or semble obsolete.] 
 
 122 — 131. [_For removing annoyances — L^oppjing trees — Penalties 
 on throwing rubbish and on trailing timber on the roads — Transient 
 offenders — Penalties for damaging milestones, watch-houses, lamps, 
 etc., ajid for assaulting officers, etc., and for destroying ivorks. 
 Semble superseded .57 Geo. 3, .:'. xxix. s. 65 ; the Lliqliways Act 
 1835, ss. 65, 72 & 79 ; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, ss. 54, 60 & 63; 18 k 19 
 Vict. c. 120,5. 206; the Malicious Damage Act 1861, 55. 33, 34, 
 51 & 52 ; 45 Vict. c. Ivi. s. 41 ; and 55 k 56 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. 
 s. 40.] 
 
 132. [_LIalf the bridge deemed to be in Middlesex and hialf in 
 Surrey. Supjerseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41,] 
 
 133 — 145. \_Ap])lication of tolls— Provisions as to Commissioners 
 — Repair of bridge and revival of tolls, and Company s books to he 
 evidence. Superseded \^ k 41 Vict. c. xcix. 5. 16.] 
 
 147. \_Saving rights of Mayor and Corporation of L^ondon as 
 Conservators of Thames. Superseded 57 k 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.f] 
 
 148, 149. [^Penalties and forfeitures. Spent ; and see the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Acts.] 
 
 Allowing an ]^50. [,l.s- to appjcals to Quarter Sessions. Spent.] 
 
 appeal. 
 
 * Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R). 
 f See Appendix.
 
 [53 Geo. 3.] The Waterloo Bridge Act 1813. [Chap, clxxxiv.] 21 
 
 151 — 153. \_Sanimoniii(j icitiifn.'iefi — Form of conviction and dis- 
 tress. Sn/jerficded hi/ the Su7nmari/ Jurisdiction Acts."] 
 
 154, 155. [ Tender of amends — Notice and limitation of actions. 
 Rep. in part bij the Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842. 
 Remr. superseded bj/ the Public Authorities Protection Act l>:i03.*] 
 
 156. [^Act to be judicially noticed.'] 
 
 Schedule. [^Description of lands to be taken. Spent.] 
 
 53 GEORGE III. A.D. 1813. 
 
 CHAPTER CLXXXIV. 
 
 An Act for altering, enlarging, and extending the Powers 
 OK AN Act of His tursent Majesty, for ruilding a Bridge 
 OVER the River Thames, at the Precinct of the Savoy, 
 
 OR near thereunto ; AND MAKING RoADS AND A VENUES TO 
 COMMUNICATP] THEREWITH, IN THE COUNTIES OF MIDDLESEX 
 
 AND Surrey. \2nd Jub/ I'^Vi.'] 
 
 [Preamble recites 49 Geo. 3, c. cxci.] 
 
 1 — 20. [Powers for Compamj to alter the approach to the north foot 
 of the said bridge from the Strand, as shoini on plans deposited 
 ivith the Clerks of the Peace for Middleseu: and Surrey, and to take 
 premises described in the schedule to the Act — As to correcting 
 books of reference — Variation of 4'.i Geo. 3, c. cxci. s. 58 — 
 Financial promsions — Compensation to Jesus College, Oxford — 
 Bridge to be completed before roads begun — Amendment of 
 49 Geo. 3, c. cxci. s. 42 — As to building and opening of bridge 
 for foot passengers before completion — Resale to the City of 
 London of lands not ivanted. Spent.] 
 
 21. [Company not to obstruct Narrow Wall, in the parish of 
 St. Mary Lambeth. Rep. 50 Geo. 3, c. Ixiii. s. 1.] 
 
 22 — 26. [No houses except toll houses to be erected on bridge or 
 roads — Fou'er to lease tolls — ^1*' to rates in St. Mary-le-Strand — 
 Explaining 49 Geo. 3, c. cxci. s. 88 — Tolls on the new roads. 
 Spent in part. Remr. superseded 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. 6\ 10.] 
 
 27. ... It shall aud may be lawful for the said Com])aiiy to ^g ^^ ij^jj^jj 
 make and oonstrnct two stone stairs or ]ilyino^ ])laces at each end of places, 
 the saitl brid.ue. 
 
 28 — 31. [Repeal of certain exemptions from toll — Wiriation of 
 49 Geo. 3, c. cxci. s. 79, as to compensation for lands taken and 
 as to expenses of purcltases. Spent.] 
 
 32, 33. [Nen- Commissioners appointed — Extending 49 Geo. 3, 
 c. cxci. to this Act.] 
 
 34. [Act to be judicially noticed.] 
 
 Schedule, [description of lands to be taken. Spent.] 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 22 
 
 CHAr. Ixiii.] The Wafrrloo Bridge Act 181G. [56 Geo. 3.] 
 
 56 GEORGE III. A.D. 1816. 
 
 Eoad to be 
 stopped up 
 how to be 
 disposed of. 
 
 Power to 
 make a new 
 road, and 
 take lands. 
 
 CHAPTER LXIII. 
 
 An Act foe altering and enlarging the Powers of Two Acts 
 OF His present Majesty, for building a Bridge over the 
 llivER Thames, from the Precinct of the Savoy, or near 
 thereunto, in the County of Middlesex, to the Opposite 
 Shore ; and for making Convenient Eoads and Avenues 
 to communicate therewith in the County of Surrey, and 
 
 ALSO for making A NeW RoAD IN LIEU OF PaRT OF THE POAD 
 
 OR Street called Narrow Wall, in the said County of 
 Surrey, and for making an Archway over Part of such 
 New Road ; and for denominating the said Bridge the 
 Waterloo Bridge. [2^\th June 1816.] 
 
 \JPreamhlc recites 49 Geo. 3, c. cxci. and 53 Geo. 3, c. clxxxiv.] 
 1, 2. \_Bepeal of 53 Geo. 3, c. clxxxiv. as to obstructing Narrow 
 Wall, Lambeth. Power to stop up j^d'i^f of Narrow Wall. Spent.'] 
 
 3. . . . When and so soon as that part of the said road or way 
 called Narrow Wall, hereinbefore described, shall be stopped up 
 by virtue of the provisions of this Act in resjiect thereof, that part 
 of the same which will lie on the west side of the intended road 
 from the said bridge to the Obelisk shall be and become vested 
 in his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and shall be thence- 
 forth ])art and parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, 
 but subject to be occupied by the lessees of the adjoining lands 
 until the expiration of their leases, and that part of the same 
 which shall lie on the south side of so much of the wharf called 
 Hearne's Wharf as lies eastward of the said brido-e shall be and 
 become vested in the said Archbishop, and shall be thenceforth part 
 and parcel of the possessions of the said see, but subject as aforesaid, 
 and also with, under, and subject to all such and the same powers 
 and provisions as the same would have been subject to under or bj' 
 virtue of the said recited Acts or either of them in case the same 
 had been included in the schedule to the said first-recited Act, and 
 that i^art of the same which shall lie on the site of the said intended 
 road from the said bridge to the Obelisk, and on the south side 
 of the wharf belonging to the Com])any, formerly the property of 
 Jervoise CUerke Jervoise, shall thenceforth be and become vested in 
 the said Company, and the residue thereof shall be conveyed by the 
 said Company to and become vested in His Royal Highness the 
 Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall, and shall thenceforth be part 
 and parcel of the estate of the Duchy of Cornwall called Prince's 
 Meadows, pursuant to the provisions of this Act. 
 
 4. . . . The said Company of Proprietors shall have full power 
 and authority, by virtue of this Act, to make and construct (in lieu 
 of that part of the said street or way called Narrow Wall by this 
 Act authorized to be stopped up) a road or way of the width of 
 thirty feet and no more, from or from near to a certain road 
 called the Commercial Road, at or near where the said road 
 adjoins the said street or way called Narrow Wall, on the 
 eastern side of the intended road leading from the said bridge to 
 the Obelisk in Saint George's Fields, to or near that part of the 
 said street or way called Narrow ^Vall, on the western side of the 
 said intended road from the said bridge to the Obelisk aforesaid,
 
 [.j7 Geo. 3.] T/>f Mftropolitan Paving Act 1817. [Chap, xxix.] 23 
 
 which adjoins or is near to the western part of said house, slaughter- 
 house, and yard in the occupation of Alexander Everard, in manner 
 described and delineated in the map or plan hereinafter men- 
 tioned. . . . \_Rfmaiii(lt'r of section authorizes Compamj to take 
 lands described in the schedule to this Act for the purposes of this 
 Act and the recited Acts. Spent. "j 
 
 5 — 15. [Plans showing intended new road to he deposited n:ith 
 the Clerk of the Peace for Surreg — Mistakes in the schedule not to 
 a feet the purposes of the Act — Compensation for lands taken — 
 Exchange of lands with the Duchy of Cornwall — Powers to the 
 Duchj to grant leases — Further provisions as to lands to be taken. 
 Power to make an archway over the intended new road. Spent. 1 
 
 16 — 20. \_Tolls and Plnancial provisions. Spent in part. T*emr. 
 superseded 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 21. \_Savinq riqhts of certain Commissioners of Seicers. Super- 
 seded U & 12 V'icf. ^.'112.* See now 18 & 19 Vict. c. 12i), 6-. 135.] 
 
 22. And whereas the said bridge when completed will be a work The bridge 
 of great stability and magnificence, and such works are adapted to to be called 
 transmit to posterity tlie remembrance of great and glorious achieve- i^^q Brid^e^." 
 ments : And whereas the said Company are desirous that a desig- and the Cora- 
 nation shall be given to the said bridge which shall be a lasting P^"^'*^^^ 
 record of the brilliant and decisive victory achieved by His Majesty's companv of 
 forces, in conjunction with those of his allies, on the eighteenth day i'roprietbr.s of 
 of June one thousand eight hundred and fifteen : Be it therefore ^J'*? ^^aterloo 
 further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the said '" ^^' 
 bridge shall be called and denominated the "Waterloo Bridge, and 
 
 shall cease to be called l)v the name of the Strand Bridge : and the 
 said Company shall also, from and after the passing of this Act, be 
 called by the name and style of " The Company of Proprietors of the 
 "Waterloo Bridge." . . . \_Part omitted gives certain usual Company 
 powers as to purchasing and holding lands in the name of the 
 Company. Superseded 4i) & 41 I'ict. c. xcix.] 
 
 23 — 26. [Additional Commissioners appointed ; 49 Geo. 3, c. cxci. 
 and 53 Geo. 3, c. clxxxiv., and this Act to be construed as one Act, 
 and this Act to be judicially noticed.] 
 
 Schedule. [Description of lands to be taken. Spent.] 
 
 bl GEORGE III. A.D. 1817. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 t Ax Act for better paving, improving, and regulating the 
 Streets of the Metropolis, and removing and preventing 
 Nuisances and Obstructions therein. [KSth June 1817.] 
 
 [Pi'eamble.] 
 
 1. This Act and the provisions herein contained shall extend to Act to extend 
 all streets and public j)laces which are now paved, or which may *^.^^! *^^^®^* 
 be hereafter paved, within the cities of London and Westminster Metn^poHs 
 and borough of Southwark, and any other parts of the Metropolis and the bills 
 which are included within the weeklv bills of mortalitv, and to all •^'f mortalitv, 
 
 * Rep. 38 k. 39 Vict. c. 66(S.L.E.). 
 
 t This Act is coiiimoulv called " Michael Angelo Taylor's Act," and is extended by 
 25 &: 26 Vict. c. 102. s. 73.
 
 24 
 
 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Pacing Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 and Pancras 
 aud ^lary- 
 le-bone. 
 
 Certain 
 housekeepers 
 in anv part 
 of the 
 Metropolis 
 may give 
 notice to 
 surveyors of 
 any danger- 
 ous or very 
 defective 
 pavement, 
 and shall 
 require the 
 reparation 
 thereof. 
 
 Surveyors or 
 commission- 
 ers shall 
 cause such 
 dangerous or 
 defective 
 pavement to 
 be repaired. 
 
 streets and public places which are now paved, or which may be 
 hereafter paved, within the parishes of Saint Pancras and Saint 
 Mary-le-bone in the said county of Middlesex, excejrt only any parts 
 thereof which may be hereinafter particularly excepted. 
 
 2 — 5. {_As to surzeyorii. Superseded 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 06.] 
 
 6. . . . In case any person being the occupier of an inhabited 
 dwelling house, situate in any parish or place also within the jurisdic- 
 tion of this Act, and rated to the relief of the poor of such parish or 
 place wherein such dwelling house shall be situate, at the sum of fifty 
 pounds at the least, for and in respect of such dwelling house, or in 
 case any two persons being the occupiers of two several inhabited 
 dwelling houses situate in any parish or place, parishes or places 
 also within the jurisdiction of this Act, and each of whom shall be 
 rated to the relief of the poor of sucli parish or place, parishes or 
 places, wherein such dwelling houses shall be respectively situate, 
 at the sum of twenty-five pounds at the least, for and in respect of 
 their said respective dwelling houses, shall think that the pavement 
 of any street or pul)lic place in any parochial or other district 
 within the jurisdiction of this Act, or any jjart of such pavement, 
 is in a state dangerous to jjassengers, or so very defective as to 
 occasion serious inconvenience to passengers and carriages, then and 
 in every such case it shall and may be lawful to and for such one 
 person alone, or for such two persons jointly, to prepare a notice, 
 signed with his or their respective hand or hands, setting forth the 
 number of his or their respective dwelling house or dwelling houses, 
 and the street or public place, or streets or public places, wherein 
 such dwelling house or dwellins: houses is or are situate, and 
 describing the j^art of the pavements of any street or public place 
 which he or they consider to be then dangerous to passengers, or 
 so very defective as to occasion serious inconvenience to passengers 
 aud carriages, and also requiring the reparation thereof, and to 
 address such notice to any person being a surveyor for the time 
 being of the pavements of aud within the parochial or other district 
 wherein the part of any street or 2)ublic place shall be situate, the 
 pavement whereof shall then be dangerous to passengers, or so very 
 defective as aforesaid, and to give such notice to any such surveyor, 
 or to leave the same for him at the dwelling house or oflfice within 
 such parochial or other district, inscribed on the boards to be from 
 time to time set up by the commissioners or trustees or other 
 persons having the control of the ])avements of and within such 
 parochial or other district, pursuant to the directions of this Act. 
 
 7. . . . Every person from time to time hereafter being the sur- 
 veyor of the pavements of any parochial or other district within the 
 jurisdiction of this Act, to whom shall be given or for whom sliall 
 be left a notice, signed and prepared as before directed, of the 
 dangerous or very defective state as aforesaid of any part of the 
 pavement of any street or public place in the parochial or other 
 district in and for which he shall then be a surveyor of pavements, 
 shall forthwith inspect the part of the pavement described in such 
 notice given to or left for him : aud if the same or any part thereof 
 shall really be in a state dangerous to passengers, or so very 
 defective as to occasion serious inconvenience to i:)assengers and 
 carriages, and if the costs and charges of and about the repairing 
 of such dangerous or very defective pavement will not exceed the 
 sum of two pounds, he shall cause such |)avement to be effectually
 
 [57 Geo. 3.] Ue Metropolitan Pa ciny Act \>i\':. [Chai-. xxix.] 25 
 
 re])aired within three days after the day whereon such notice shall 
 have been given to or left for him as aforesaid ; and if the costs 
 and charges of and about the repairing of such pavement will exceed 
 the sum of two jionnds, but will not exceed tlie sum of ten pounds, 
 then he siiull cause such dangerous or very defective pavement to 
 be effectually repaired within seven days after the day whereon such 
 notice shall have been given to or left for him as aforesaid ; and 
 in either of such cases, sucli surveyor may and shall cause such 
 pavements to be so effectually repaired by antl of his own autliority, 
 and without any order or direction from the commissioners or 
 trustees or other persons having the control of the pavements of 
 the parochial or other district wherein he shall be ap])ointed to 
 act : and the costs and charges of such effectual reparation shall be 
 ])aid by such commissioners or trustees or other ])ersons having the 
 control of the pavements of the parochial or other district wherein 
 such dangerous or very defective pavement may be situate ; but if 
 it shall ap]>ear to the said surveyor, upon the insjjection of the 
 pavements described in any notice to be given to or left for him as 
 aforesaid, that the same is really in a state dangerous to passengers, 
 or so very defective as to occasion serious inconvenience to passen- 
 gers and carriages, and that the costs and cliarges of and about the 
 effectual reparation of such })art of the said pavements as may then 
 be in a state dangerous to passengers, or so very defective as to 
 occasion serious inconvenience to passengers and carriages, will 
 exceed the sum of ten ])Ounds, then and in every such case the said 
 surveyor shall deliver a copy of the notice given to or left for him 
 as aforesaid, to the clerk or clerks or other proper officer of the 
 commissioners or trustees or other persons having the control of 
 the pavements of such jiarochial or other district, within three days 
 after such notice shall have been given to or left for him as 
 aforesaid, and shall in writing recpiire such clerk or clerks, or 
 other proper officer, duly to summon a general meeting of the 
 commissioners or trustees or other persons having the control of 
 the ])avements of such parochial or other district, according to the 
 usual custom of such clerk or clerks or other ])roper otlicer. or to 
 the directions of the local Act or Acts of Parliament under or by 
 virtue whereof sucli commissioners or trustees, or other j)ersons 
 having the control of the pavements of and in such i)arochial or 
 other district, shall be a])])ointed : and that such clerk or clerks, or 
 other i)roper officer, witliin two days after he shall receive such 
 notice and requisition from the said surveyor, shall summon or 
 cause to be summoned a general meeting of the said commissioners 
 or trustees, or other j)crsotis liaving the control of the ])avements of 
 and in such ])arochial or other district, to be held wiihin four days 
 then next, for the ])urpose of considering the notice given to or left 
 for the surveyor appointed by them as aforesaid : and that the said 
 commissioners or trustees, or other j)ersons having the control of 
 the jtavements of such ])arocliial or other district, or a suthcient 
 number of them for the transaction of Imsiness, according to the 
 provisions of the local Act or Acts of Parliament under or hy virtue 
 of whicli they are or shall be appointed, shall assemble at their 
 usual place of meeting pursuant to such summons, and shall then 
 and there consider such notice so given to or left for the said 
 surveyor of the pavements of such parochial or other district ; and 
 if such part of the paveiuent described in such notice, or any 
 part thereof, shall really be in a state dangerous to passengers, or
 
 26 
 
 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1S17. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 Justices on 
 neglect may 
 summon sur- 
 veyors, and 
 order the 
 repair. 
 
 SO very defective as to occasion serious inconvenience to passengers 
 and carriages, then sncli commissioners or trustees or other persons 
 shall then and there direct the effectnal reparation of such part of 
 the ])avements mentioned in the said notice as may be dangerous 
 to passengers, or so very defective as aforesaid, and shall cause the 
 same and every part thereof to be so effectually repaired at their costs 
 and charges, within twenty-eight days then next, if the charges of 
 and about so effectually repairing the same will not in their judg- 
 ment exceed the sum of fifty pounds, and within six weeks then 
 next if the charges of and about so effectually repairing the same 
 will in their judgment exceed the said sum of fifty pounds. 
 
 8. ... If at any time or times hereafter the pavement of any street 
 or public place within the jurisdiction of this Act, being in a state 
 dangerous to passengers, or so very defective as to occasion serious 
 inconvenience to passengers and carriages, whereof a notice, prepared 
 and signed as hereinbefore is directed, shall have been given to 
 or left for any person being a surveyor of the pavements of the 
 parochial or other district wherein the pavement so dangerous to 
 passengers, or so very defective as aforesaid, may be situate, shall 
 not be sufficiently repaired within the times hereinbefore appointed 
 for the reparation thereof, (that is to say) within three days from 
 the dav whereon the said notice shall have been a-iven or left as 
 aforesaid, if the costs and charges of and about such repair would 
 not exceed the sum of two pounds, and within seven days from the 
 dav whereon the said notice shall have been ""iven or left as afore- 
 said, if the costs and charges of and about such repair would not 
 exceed the sum of ten pounds, and within twenty-eight days from 
 the day whereon the said notice shall have been given or left as 
 aforesaid, if the costs and charges of and about such repair would 
 not exceed the sum of fifty pounds, and within six weeks next after 
 the said notice shall have been aiven or left as aforesaid, if the 
 costs and charges of and about such repair would exceed the sum of 
 fifty pounds, then it shall and may be lawful to and for the person 
 or persons by whom any notice signed as hereinbefore is directed 
 shall have been given or left as aforesaid, to apply and complain 
 to any two Justices of the Peace acting for the city, borough, or 
 county wherein the pavement of the street or public place described 
 in the notice so given or left as aforesaid shall be situate, and that 
 upon proof upon oath, by one or more credible witness or witnesses, 
 that a notice, prepared and signed as hereinbefore is directed, had 
 been given to or left for a person appointed and notified to be a 
 surveyor of the pavements of such parochial or other district wherein 
 the pavement described in such notice may be situate, and according 
 to the directions of this Act, and that the part of the pavements in 
 any street or public place described in such notice, and being in a 
 state dangerous to passengers, or so very defective as to occasion 
 serious inconvenience to passengers and carriages, had not been 
 sufficiently repaired within the time hereinbefore limited by this 
 Act, according to the costs and charges which must be incurred in 
 and about such reparation ; then such Justices of the Peace, by a 
 summons under their hands, shall require the said person, being 
 ax)pointed and notified to be a surveyor of the pavements for the 
 parochial or other district wherein the pavement of any street or 
 public place dangerous to passengers, or so very defective as afore- 
 said, shall be situate, to or for whom the said notice, prepared and 
 signed as aforesaid, shall have been given or left, according to the
 
 [57 Geo. 3.] I1>e Metropolitnn I'arirKj Act 1^17. [rHAP. xxix.] 27 
 
 tlireetioiis of this Act, to appear before them the said Justices, at 
 a place and time to be mentioned in snch summons (and the time 
 being- twenty-fonr hours at the least after the said summons shall 
 have been given to the said surveyor, or shall liavc Ix'en left for 
 him at his dweliiug house or (•fficc witliin the ])arochial or other 
 district the pavement whereof he shall l)e ai»pointed to survey, 
 inscribed on the boards hereinbefore directed to be set up in every 
 parochial and other district within the jurisdiction of this Act), and 
 then and there to show cause why the ])avement described in the 
 said notice hath not been sufficiently repaired according to sucli 
 notice within the times hereinbefore ])y tliis Act limited, according 
 to the expense which must be incurred in and about such re})air; 
 and that if the said surveyor, or some ])orsoii authorized by him, 
 shall not attend before the said Justices at the time and jdace 
 mentioned in such summons, or if he or such other person authorized 
 by him shall then and there attend, and shall not show to them the 
 said Justices a sufficient cause or sufficient causes why the said 
 l)avement described in the said notice given to or left for the said 
 surveyor as liereinl)efore is directed, and every part thereof, have 
 not been sufficiently repaired according to such notice, then and 
 upon proof upon oath by two or more credible witnesses that the 
 pavement described in the said notice is then dangerous to ])assen- 
 gers, or so very defective as aforesaid, and that the same is situate 
 within the parochial or other district for which the said surveyor 
 shall have been appointed and notified as appointed to act, it shall 
 and may be lawful to and for the said Justices, by order under their 
 hands and seals, to order and direct that the said surveyor shall 
 pay to the person or persons by whom the said notice shall have 
 been signed as aforesaid, such sum of money as he or they shall 
 have legally expended for the costs and charges of such summons 
 and order, and which said sum of money so l»y the said Justices 
 ordered to be ])aid bv the said survevor shall and mav be recovered 
 in the same manner in which any other forfeitures and penalties are 
 hereinafter directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act ; and the 
 said Justices shall also then and there, by an order under their hands 
 and seals, order the said surveyor to sufficiently repair or cause to 
 be repaired all the pavements described in the said notice being in 
 a state dangerous to passengers, or so very defective as aforesaid, 
 and being in the j)arochial or other district wherein he the said 
 surveyor shall have l)een appointed to act as surveyor of the ])ave- 
 ment, within three days then next if the costs and charges of and 
 about such repair will not exceed the sum of two pounds, and within 
 seven days then next if the costs and charges of and about the said 
 repair will not exceed the sum of ten j)ounds. and within twenty- 
 eight days then next if the costs and charges of and about such 
 repair will exceed the sum of ten pounds but will not exceed the 
 sum of fifty pounds, and wirliin six weeks then next if the costs 
 and charges of and about sucli repair will exceed the sum of fifty 
 pounds ; and the said order of the said two Justices of the Peace, 
 within twenty-four hours after the same shall be made, shall be 
 given to the said surveyor, or left for him at his dwelling house or 
 office within the parish or other district the pavement whereof he 
 shall be appointed to survey, inscribed on the said boards herein- 
 before directed to be set up, and shall be obeyed and performed 
 by him ; and he the said surveyor shall sufficiently repair the said 
 pavements, or cause the same to be sufficiently repaired, within the
 
 28 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1817. [o7 Geo. 3.] 
 
 time to be directed Lv the said order, at the costs and charfjes of 
 the commissioners or trustees or other persons having the control 
 of the pavements of that parochial or other district wherein the 
 pavements shall be situate which by such order shall be so ordered 
 to be repaired ; but if the said surveyor, or any person authorized 
 by him, shall attend before the said Justices at the time and place 
 mentioned in such summons, and shall show to the said Justices 
 that such notice was not ])repared and signed and given or left 
 according to the directions of this Act, or that the pavement described 
 in such notice was not in a state dangerous to })assengers, or was 
 not in a state so very defective as to occasion serious inconvenience 
 to passengers and carriages, either at the time of the delivery of 
 such notice, or at the time of the application of the person or persons 
 signing such notice to such Justices, or shall then and there show 
 to such Justices such other cause or causes as they shall deem 
 sufficient why the said pavements have not been repaired according 
 to such notice, then and in any or either of the said cases the said 
 Justices shall dismiss the said complaint of the ])erson or persons 
 by whom the said notice shall have been signed as aforesaid, and by 
 an order under their hands and seals shall declare that such person 
 or persons having signed the said notice, and having made the 
 application and com])laint to them the said Justices, hath or have 
 forfeited the sum of forty shillings, and shall direct the same sum of 
 forty shillings to be paid by him or them to the said surveyor 
 or other person authorized by him, then attending before the said 
 Justices, for his own use and benefit ; and such sum of forty 
 shillings so forfeited shall be recovered in the manner in which other 
 forfeitures and penalties are hereinafter directed to be recovered by 
 virtue of this Act : Provided always, and be it hereby also enacted, 
 that if it shall appear to the said Justices of the Peace that the 
 costs and charges of and about the repair of any pavement so by 
 them ordered to be repaired as aforesaid will exceed the sum of 
 fifty pounds, or that such reparation cannot be probably comjjleted 
 within six weeks then next, then and in such case, or under any 
 other special circumstances, it shall and may be lawful to and for 
 the said Justices to extend any of the times for completing the 
 repair of any such pavement to some other time beyond the period 
 of six weeks, or beyond the other periods mentioned by this Act, 
 at their discretion, and so that such repair be completed with all the 
 expedition which the extent of sucli repair and such special circum- 
 stances in the judgment of the said Justices of the Peace, will permit. 
 Surveyors 9. ... If any person from time to time hereafter, being the sur- 
 
 neglecting to veyor of the pavements of any i)arochial or other district within the 
 attend on jurisdiction of this Act, and being summoned by any two Justices 
 disobeying 0^ the Peace as hereinbefore is directed, shall refuse or neglect, 
 their orders, either personally or by some person authorized by him to attend 
 ''^^,^^^11^^'?^'^ ' before such Justices at the time and place to be mentioned in such 
 disqualified summons, or shall refuse or neglect to ])erform and obey any order 
 on a third which may be legally made by such two Justices of the Peace, under 
 offence. their hands and seals, as hereinbefore is directed, and which shall 
 
 direct, according to the provisions of this Act, the reparation of any 
 pavements dangerous to any passengers, or so very defective as to 
 occasion serious inconvenience to passengers and carriages in any 
 streets or public places within the parochial or other district for 
 which he shall he appointed to act as a surveyor of the pavements, 
 and to perform and obey the same within the time specified therein
 
 [07 Geo. :5.] The MotmiioUtan Pacing Act \s\~, '"(."hap. xxix.] 29 
 
 (he having notice thereof as hereinbefore is directed, and not being 
 prevented from the observance and performance of snch order by 
 frost or other unavoidable circumstances, or by the neglect or 
 proceedings of any water or gas conijiany, or commissioners of 
 sewers), tlicn and in such case the said person being the surveyor 
 as aforesaid shall forfeit and ])ay for such refusal or neglect any 
 sum not exceeding ten jHjunds for the first offence, and a sum not 
 exceeding twenty pounds for tin; second offence, and a sum not 
 exceeding thirty ])oiinds for every third offence, to be recovered in 
 such manner as other penalties or forfeitures are by this Act herein- 
 after directed to be recovered, and to be paid, when recovered, to 
 the churchwardens or overseers of the })Oor of the parisji or district 
 wherein any such dangerous or defective pavement shiiU be situate, 
 and to be by them aj)j)lied to and for the use of the jioor of such 
 parish or district, and in aid of the rates for the relief of the poor 
 of such parish or district, and to no other person or persons an(l for 
 no otlu'r use or ])urpose whatsoever ; and sui-h ])erson who shall be 
 guilty of such third offence shall thereafter become dis(pialified from 
 acting in tiie said office of a surveyor of the pavements in the same 
 or in any other parochial or other district within the jurisdiction 
 of this Act, and from be'ng reap]H)inted or appointed tiu'reto, and 
 from acting therein, either gratuitously or otherwise, or under any 
 pretence whatsoever, unless he shall so act under the direction 
 and by the command of the commissioners, trustees, or other j)ersons 
 by whom he shall have Ijeen appointed : Provided always, that all 
 costs, charges, and expenses which such ])erson, being the surveyor 
 of the ])avements of any parochial or other district, shall incur or 
 expend in and about the observance and performance of any such 
 order made by the said two Justices of the Peace as aforesaid for 
 the rejiaration of the pavements in such parochial or other district, 
 being dangerous to passengers or very defective as aforesaid, as 
 hereinbefore is directed, or which he shall incur or be put unto in 
 consequence of his refusal or neglect to perform and obey any such 
 order bv the directions in writiu"" of the commissioners or trustees 
 or other persons having the control of the pavements of the parochial 
 or other district for which he may be appointed to act, shall be 
 forthwith ])aid or reimbursed to him by such commissioners or 
 trustees or other })ersons, out of the monies which they shall then 
 possess, or shall first thereafter receive, by virtue or on account 
 of any rates or assessments thentofore or thereafter made, for and 
 towards the expenses of the paving or reparation of the pavement 
 of such parochial or other district, or otherwise, by virtue of any 
 local Act or Acts of Parliament, or by virtue of this Act. 
 
 10. \_Xotice of the appointment of surceyor to be gicen to irate?' 
 and gas companies and commissioners of sewers. Superseded 18 
 k\'d^Vict.c.\2i),s.m.'] 
 
 11 — 12. {^Ih-eaking up streets by gas and water companies, 
 commissioners of sewers, etc. Super.seded 18 »i: 19 Vict. c. 120, 
 s. 109.1 
 
 13. ... It shall and may be lawful to and for any person appointed rians of pipes 
 to act as a surveyor of the pavements in any i)arochial or other district ^"'^ sewers 
 within the jurisdiction of this Act, and to and for any otiier j)erson or examined by 
 persons appointed by the commissioners or trustees, or otlier persons surveyors of 
 having the control of the pavements of any such parochial or other pavement, 
 district, when he shall be directed so to do by the commissioners or 
 trustees or other persons by whom he or they shall be appointed to
 
 30 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 act, from time to time and at any times between the hours of ten of 
 the clock in the forenoon and of four of the clock in the afternoon of 
 any day not being a Sunday or holiday appointed by law, at the 
 office or counting-house of any water or gas light company, any 
 of whose pipes for the conveyance of water or of inflammable air or 
 gas shall then be laid beneath the surface of any of the streets or 
 public places within each of such parochial or other districts, the 
 pavements whereof shall be under the control of such several com- 
 missioners or trustees, or other persons, or for which any such 
 surveyor shall be appointed to act, and at the office of any com- 
 missioners of sewers then having jurisdiction over the common and 
 public drains and sewers within every such parochial or other district, 
 to examine and inspect any and every map or plan, or draft or survey, 
 or delineation or description of all and every the main of pipes and 
 pipes belonging to any of such water or gas light companies, then 
 possessed by them, or being in their custody or power, and any and 
 every map or ])lan, or draft or survey, delineation or description, of 
 the common or public drains or sewers being within such parochial 
 or other district, and under the jurisdiction of such commissioners 
 of sewers, then possessed by them, or being in their custody or 
 power, he such surveyor for the time being, or such other person or 
 jjersons appointed by the said commissioners or trustees, or other 
 persons having the control of the pavements in any such parochial 
 or other district, having given to a clerk or secretary of any such 
 company or commissioners of sewers, or having left at the office or 
 counting-house of such company or commissioners of sewers, two 
 days previous notice in writing of his or their intention to attend at 
 the office or counting-house of such companies or commissioners of 
 sewers, for the purpose aforesaid ; and that the secretary or clerk, 
 or some other officer of such comjjany or commissioners of sewers, 
 shall then and theiie produce and show, or cause to be produced and 
 shown, unto such surveyor or other person or persons, all and every 
 the maps, plans, drafts, surveys, delineations, and descriptions afore- 
 said, in the custody or power of the said company or commissioners 
 of sewers, and shall permit him or them then and there to take 
 extracts therefnjm, or copies thereof, or of and from any of them, or 
 any part of any of them so far as may relate to the mains of pipes 
 or pipes, and to the public or common sewers or drains which shall 
 be laid or be beneath the surface of the streets or public places 
 within the parochial or other district for which such surveyor of 
 pavements, or other person or persons appointed by any such com- 
 missioners or trustees, or other persons having the control of pave- 
 ments, shall be deputed or directed to act. 
 Officers of 14. . . . All and every the secretaries or clerks, surveyors or 
 
 companies, inspectors, and the several and respective turncocks employed or 
 etc. to notify appointed, or hereafter being employed or appointed by all and every 
 and places^ the water and gas light companies, any of whose pipes shall be laid 
 of abode to beneath the surface of any street or public place in any parochial or 
 surveyors of other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, and also all and 
 pa\emen s. gygpy ^]^g (-lerk and clerks, secretary and secretaries appointed or 
 being hereafter appointed by any commissioners of sewers whose 
 jurisdiction shall extend over the common or public drains or sewers 
 within every such parochial or other district, within forty days next 
 after the passing of this Act, or within the space of five days next 
 after he or they shall be hereafter severally appointed to such several 
 offices, situations, or employments, shall give notice in writing to-
 
 [57 Geo. 3.] The MtHropoUta// P(i.rin<j Act 1^17. [Chai-. xxix,] 31 
 
 each and every of the clerk or clerks to th(; commissioners or 
 trustees, or other persons having tlie control of the pavements, or 
 to the surveyor and surv(!yors of the ])!ivements of each ])arocliial or 
 other district, bciieatii the surface of the streets or })uhlic places 
 wherein the mains or ])ipes of such coni})any, or any of them, shall 
 be laid, or there shall he any coiiiiiion or piildic drains or sewers 
 within the jurisdiction of such commissioners of sewers, of his, 
 their, and every of their Christian and surnames and place or places 
 of abode, and of the comj)any or commissioners of sewers, by whom 
 he or they is or are, or hath or have been so appointed or employed, 
 and also of the place which is ap])ointed as the office or countin;^:- 
 house of the said company or commissioners of sewers ; and that 
 in case any such person or j)ersons shall neglect to give such notice 
 within the respective times aforesaid, every such person or persons 
 so offending in either of the said cases shall forfeit and pay the sum 
 often ])ounds, to be recovered in the same manner in which other 
 penalties and forfeitures are hereafter directed to be recovered by 
 virtue of this Act. 
 
 15. . . . \V'hen and so often as it shall a})pear to any person ap- Surveyor may 
 j)ointed to act as a surveyor of pavements in any parochial or other require repair 
 district within the jurisdiction of tliis Act, that any pipe or ])ii)es, driinf Nvhen 
 stopcock, l)lug, or other thing belonging to any water or gas light com- defective, 
 pany, or that any public sewer beneath the surface of the pavement 
 of any street or public })lace within such ])arochial or other district, 
 be broken or damaged, it shall be lawful for such surveyor, and he is Notice to be 
 hereby reipiired to give immediate notice, signed by himself, to the ^i^'^n to 
 company or commissioners of sewers to whom it may appear to ^'-'P^^'* '^'^^™- 
 him that such pipe or stopcock, plug, or other thing, or sewer, doth 
 or may belong, by either giving such notice to a clerk or secretary, 
 or to a turncock of such company, or to a clerk or secretary of such 
 commissioners of sewers, or to some or one of them, or by leaving 
 the same at the place or ])laces of abode of some or one of them, or 
 at the office or counting-house of such company or commissioners 
 of sewers, and shall re<|uire that such pipe, stopcock, l)lug, or other 
 thing, or sewer, be examined, and, if needful, that such pipe, stop- 
 cock, plug, or other thing be repaired, altered, amended, or renewed, 
 and such sewer be repaired by such company, or commissioners of 
 sewers ; and that within forty-eight hours after such notice shall be 
 so given or left as aforesaid, the said company or commissioners of 
 sewers, to or for whom, or to or for whose officer or servant such 
 notice shall have been given or left as aforesaid, shall cause to be 
 taken uj) the pavement of the street or public j)lace beneath which 
 the ]n])(', stopcock, i)lug, or other defective thing, or sewer, shall be, 
 and shall cause the ground to be opened, and shall also cause the 
 said pipe, stopcock, plug, or other thing to be substantially repaired, 
 altered, amended, or renewed, or the said sewer to be examined, and, 
 if necessary, to be substantially repaired, and the ground ])roi)erly 
 tilled in with hard rubbish or other good materials, and rammed 
 down, within forty-eight hours next after such notice shall be given 
 or left as aforesaid, or with all convenient expedition, in the judg- 
 ment of the commissioners, trustees, or other i)ersons having the 
 control of the pavements in the parochial or other district wherein 
 such pavement, street, or public place shall be situate, and to their 
 satisfaction, or the satisfaction of any three or more of them: and 
 also within twelve hours after such pipe, stopcock, plug, or other 
 thing shall be so substantially repaired, altered, amended, or renewed,
 
 32 
 
 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1817. [57 Geo, 3.] 
 
 Penalty on 
 company to 
 whom the 
 pipes belong 
 for not 
 repairing 
 them, and 
 giving notice 
 thereof to the 
 pavior ; 
 
 and if such 
 request 
 should not be 
 made to the 
 proper par- 
 ties, subse- 
 quent infor- 
 mation shall 
 be given to 
 them. 
 
 or such sewer shall be so substantially repaired, and the ground 
 above the same shall be so filled in and rammed down, the said 
 company or commissioners of sewers shall cause notice thereof, 
 signed by the clerk or secretary to such company or commissioners 
 of sewers, to be given to the said surveyor of pavements, or to the 
 pavior or paviors or other persons then employed or appointed by 
 the commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the control 
 of the pavements in such parochial or other district, to pave and 
 repair the pavements within such j)arochial or other district, as the 
 said commissioners or trustees or other persons for the time being 
 may from time to time direct, that such examination, and, if neces- 
 sary, such reparation, alteration, amendment, or renewal, hath been 
 made pursuant to such notice of the surveyor of pavements, and that 
 the ground hath been refilled and rammed down, that the pavement 
 in such street or public place may be forthwith relaid in the manner 
 directed by this Act ; and in case the water or gas company, or 
 commissioners of sewers, to or for whom such notice of the surveyor 
 of pavements shall have been given or left as aforesaid, and to whom 
 such pipe, stopcock, plug, or other thing, or sewer, referred to in 
 such notice shall belong, shall neglect to cause the same to be 
 repaired, altered or amended, or renewed, as the case may be, and 
 the ground to be filled in and rammed down to the satisfaction of 
 the said commissioners, trustees, or other persons having the control 
 of the pavements in such parochial or other district, or any three or 
 more of them, within the time hereinbefore limited and appointed 
 for those purposes, or shall neglect to give or cause to be given 
 notice thereof as aforesaid to the said surveyor of the pavements, or 
 to the pavior or paviors, or other persons employed or appointed by 
 the commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the control 
 of the pavements in such parochial or other district, to pave and 
 repair the pavement within such parochial or other district ; then 
 the said company or commissioners of sewers shall for the first 
 neglect and offence forfeit and pay the sum of five pounds, and for 
 the second neglect and offence shall forfeit and shall pay the sum of 
 eight pounds, and for the third and every subsequent neglect and 
 offence shall forfeit and shall pay the sum of ten pounds, to be 
 recovered in the same manner in which other penalties and forfeitures 
 are directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act. 
 
 16. Provided always, . . . that in case it shall happen and it shall 
 be discovered, after any pavement in any street or public place shall 
 have been taken up, and the ground shall have been opened, that 
 any pipe, stopcock, plug, or other thing, beneath the surface of the 
 pavement of any street or public place, which shall have appeared 
 to any surveyor of pavements to require to be repaired, altered, 
 amended, or renewed, shall not belong to the water or gas company 
 to or for whom such notice for the reparation, alteration, amendment, 
 or renewal thereof as aforesaid shall have been given or left as is 
 hereinbefore directed bv the said survevor, but to some other water 
 or gas company, or to some other persons, then such company to 
 or for whom the said notice of the said surveyor of pavements shall 
 have been given or left, within twenty-four hours after the notice 
 from the said surveyor of pavements shall have been given or left 
 as aforesaid, shall cause a notice signed by the secretary or clerk, to 
 be given in the same manner hereinbefore directed as to the service 
 of the original notice to the company or other persons to whom 
 the pipe, stopcock, plug, or other thing shall appear to belong, which
 
 [57 Gko. :i] The Metropolitan Pacing Art 1817. [( 'hai*. xxix.] 33 
 
 did uppear to (lie said surveyor of |)av('mL'nt.s to rei[uire rcjnLratioii, 
 altenitioii, anunidmciit, or renewal, and shall thereby re([uire them 
 to obey and jjerform and (!omi)ly witli the said original notice iVom 
 the said surveyor of ])av(Mnents, instead of the company to whom 
 such orif^inal notice had been given ; and that such company or 
 oth(;r persons to wliom sucli i)ipe, stoj)Co(^k, l)big, or other thing, 
 shall belong, shall reimburse and pay on demand to the first- 
 mentioned C()m])any to or for whom the orig;inal notice may have 
 been given or left, tlie reasonal)le costs and charges which they shall 
 have incuried in and abt)Ut taking up the pavements and o])ening 
 the ground, and shall obey, execute, and perform the said original 
 notice of the said surveyor, and the directions of this Act relating 
 thereto, in such and the same manner, and within such and the same 
 time, in all respects, as if the said original notice fi-om the said 
 surveyor liad been given to them ; and they shall be liable to and 
 shall incur the same penalties and forfeitures on neglect so to do, as 
 they ought to have done, or would have been liable to, and would 
 have incurred, if the said original notice had been given to them in 
 manner l)elbr(> directed ; and that the company by whom the pave- 
 ments shall be first taken up and the ground shall be opened, who 
 shall neglect to give the notices hereby re(iuired to the comi)any to 
 whom the pipe, stoi)cock, ])liig, or other thing, which shall ap])ear 
 to the surveyor of the pavements to require rej)aration, alteration, 
 amendment or renewal, shall appear to belong, in manner lierein- 
 before directed, shall for the first neglect and otfence forfeit and pay 
 the sum of five pounds, and for the second neglect and offence shall 
 forfeit and shall pay the sum of eight ])0unds, and for the third and 
 every subsequent neglect and offence shall forfeit and pay the sum 
 often pounds, to be recovered in the same manner in which other 
 penalties and forfeitures are hereinafter directed to be recovered by 
 virtue of this Act. 
 
 17. . . . Whenever after the passing of this Act any water or Kcpairs ami 
 gas light company, or commissioners of sewers, pursuant to the works by 
 provisions hereinbefore contained, shall take up or cause to be taken etc.To'br' 
 up any })avement of any street or jjublic place in any parochial or c.xeciitedwith 
 other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, or shall place in allcomenient 
 any street or public place, any pipes, or other materials and things, *'^^ ' 
 for the purpose of executing any works beneath the surface of any 
 street or public place, or otherwise, all and every such works shall 
 be executed and completed within such reasonable time as the com- 
 missioners or trustees, or any other persons having the control of the 
 pavements of the streets and j)ublic i)laces in such })arochial or other 
 district, or any three or more of them, shall from time to time and 
 at any time direct and ai)])oint ; and also, that all sui'h pipes or 
 other materials and things shall be and remain on the surface of 
 any such street or pul)lic place, and of any streets and ])ublic j)laces 
 in any parochial or other district, for no longer })eriod than shall be 
 unavoidably necessary in the judgment of the said commissioners 
 or trustees, or other ]iersons having the control of the pavements in 
 such parochial or other district, or any three or more of them : and 
 also that the same pipes or other materials and things shall be from 
 time to time and at all times removed and taken away off and from 
 the surface of any and every street or public place by the water or 
 gas light company, or commissioners of sewers, or by the otHcers 
 or servants of the company, or commissioners of sewers, by whom 
 or bv whose order, or bv whose otffcers or servants, or for whose 
 
 3
 
 34 
 
 [Chap, xxix.] The Metroj)olitan Pacing Act 1H17. [57 Geo. 3,] 
 
 Rubbish and 
 obstructions 
 occasioned in 
 streets by tlie 
 repairs of 
 pipes, etc. to 
 be speedily 
 removed. 
 
 offices or works, all or any such pipes or other materials or things 
 shall have been brought to and placed on the surface of such streets 
 or public places, or any of them, and at their costs and charges, 
 within forty-eight hours after such company or commissioners of 
 sewers shall have been required to remuye and take away the same 
 by the commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the 
 control of the pavements in any such parochial or other district, 
 or any three or more of them, by a notice signed by three or more 
 of such commissioners or trustees or other persons, and given to 
 such comjmny or commissioners of sewers, or left for them at the 
 dwelling house or place of abode of any secretary or clerk or turn- 
 cock em})loyed by such company, or of a clerk or secretary to such 
 commissioners of sewers, or at the office or counting house of such 
 company or commissioners of sewers ; and that in case any com- 
 pany or commissioners of sewers shall at any time or times neglect 
 to comply with any and every such notice, and to obey all and every 
 the directions which the said Commissioners or Trustees or other 
 persons having the control of the pavements in any parochial or 
 other district, or any of them, are by this Act authorized and em- 
 powered to give, then and in every or any such case such company 
 or commissioners of sewers shall for the first neglect and offence 
 forfeit and shall pay the sum of five pounds, and for the second 
 neglect and offence shall forfeit and shall pay the sum of eight 
 pounds, and for the third and every subsequent neglect and offence 
 shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds, to be recovered in the 
 same manner in which other penalties and forfeitures are directed to 
 be recovered by virtue of this Act. 
 
 18. . . . All dirt, gravel, filth, rubbish, and other things, which 
 any time or times after the passing of this Act, shall be placed, 
 collected, or occasioned by or by means of any water or gas light 
 comjjauy, or commissioners of sewers, or of any repairs or others 
 works executed and performed or intended to be executed and 
 performed by their officers or servants, or by their orders or direc- 
 tions, or on their account, in any streets or public places in any 
 parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, by the 
 taking up of the pavement of such streets or public places, or any of 
 them, or by opening the ground beneath the surface of such streets 
 or public places, or by the execution of the works of any water or 
 gas light company 
 consequent thereon 
 commissioners or trustees or other persons having the control of 
 the pavements of the streets and public jilaces in any such parochial 
 or other district, or any three or more of them, shall be from time 
 to time and at all times collected and removed and carried away, bv 
 or at the cost and charges of such company or commissioners of 
 sewers, with all practicable expedition, and to the satisfaction of 
 such commissioners or trustees or other persons having the control 
 of the pavements in such parochial or other district, or any three or 
 more of them ; and that such company or commissioners of sewers 
 shall especially so do whenever they shall be required so to do by 
 any notice from such commissioners or trustees or other persons 
 having the control of the pavements in such parochial or other 
 district, or any three of them, or from any surveyor of the pave- 
 ments a])2)ointed by them, signed by them or him, and given to 
 such company or commissioners of sewers, or left for them at the 
 dwelling house or place of abode of any secretary or clerk or 
 
 or otherwise, or which shall be m anywise 
 or incidental thereto, in the judgment of the
 
 [57 Geo. ;}.] The Metro i)oli tan. Parituj Act l^lT. [Chai-. xxix.] 35 
 
 turncock em])l()y{'d ])y such comiJany or commissioners of sewers, or 
 at any office or countinji; house ol" siicli company, or of any clerk or 
 secretary to any such commissioners of sewers ; and that in case 
 any such company or commissioners of sewers shall neglect to 
 collect, carry away, and remove, or cause to be collected, carried 
 away, and removed, from all and every such streets and i)ublic 
 l)laces, all such dirt, graved, filth, rubljish, and otlier tilings wliatso- 
 ever, within twenty-four hours after any such notice shall be from 
 time to time given or left as aforesaid, to the satisfactif)u of such 
 commissioners or trustees, or other persons by whom any such 
 notice shall be signed, then the said company or commissioners of 
 sewers shall for every such neglect and offence forfeit and shall 
 pay the sum of five pounds, to be recovered and applied in the same 
 manner in wliich other penalties and forfeitures are hereinafter 
 directed to be recovered and aj>})Iied by virtue of this Act. 
 
 19. \_Ba)'s, tcatchmen, and other securities are to be provided during 
 repairs of pavements^ to prevent accidents. Superseded 18 & 19 
 Vict.c. 120,55. 110 & 111.] 
 
 20. ... In case at any time or times hereafter any pavement in any Breaches in 
 streets or public places in any j)arochial or other district within the ^ay^iTe^'"'^"* 
 jurisdiction of this Act shall, by the breaking or falling-in or decay inclosed. 
 
 of any sewer or drain, cesspool or watercourse, or any pipe or pipes, 
 stoj)COck, plug, or other thing, become broken or irregular so as to 
 be dangerous or hazardous to passengers or carriages, it shall and 
 raav be lawful to and for anv survevor of the pavements for anv 
 such parochial or other district to cause and direct such part of 
 the pavements of any streets or public places as he shall deem so 
 dangerous or hazardous to be forthwith inclosed, in such manner, 
 by sucii persons, and with such materials as he may direct, and as 
 may be needful to prevent such danger and hazard to passengers or 
 carriages ; and that the costs and chai'ges incurred thereabouts shall 
 be ascertained and determined by him, and shall be paid and dis- 
 charged by the commissioners of sewers, water or gas company, 
 or other person or persons to whom the sewer or drain, cesspool or 
 watercourse, pipe or pipes, stopcock, ping, or other thing so broken, 
 fallen in, or decayed, and by the breach, falling-in, or decay whereof 
 such breach or irregularity of the pavements as aforesaid may have 
 been occasioned, and shall and may be certified to them or him, and 
 be paid by them or him within the time, and shall and may be 
 recovered from them or him in such and the same manner as is by 
 this Act directed, limited, and authorized as to any monies to become 
 due from any persons whomsoever for the costs and charges of 
 repairing or })aving or re{)aving any pavements of any streets or 
 public places by the commissioners or trustees or other ])erson 
 having the control of the pavements in any streets or public places 
 in any parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act. 
 
 21. ... No water company whose mains or pipes shall be laid stan.i cocks 
 beneath the surface of any street or public place in any parochial or [Jjlst^^'re"""" 
 other district within the jurisdiction of this Act. shall place or set late.i 
 u]), or cause to be placed or set up, any stand cock or pump, or 
 other instrument, machine, or thing, for the supply of water in 
 times of frost or otherwise, in any public street or place within the 
 jurisdiction of this Act, which shall be furnished with any other 
 than a metal cock and spout, to be to the satisfaction of the surveyor 
 of the pavements for such parochial or other district for the time
 
 36 
 
 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 Works 
 
 neglected by 
 companies, 
 etc. may be 
 executed by 
 surveyors of 
 pavements. 
 
 being ; and that any water company who shall set up or cause to 
 he set up any other stand cock, pump, or other instrument, machine, 
 or thing, furnished with any other than a metal cock and spout, in 
 any street or public place, and whicli shall not be to the satisfaction 
 of the surveyor of the pavements for such parochial or other district, 
 shall forfeit and shall pay for every such offence the sum of twenty 
 shillings, to be recovered in the same manner in which other penalties 
 and forfeitures are hereinafter directed to be recovered by virtue of 
 this Act. 
 
 22. ... In case any water or gas light company or commissioners 
 of sewers, at any time or times after the passing of this Act, shall 
 neglect to take up the pavement in any street or public place in 
 any parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act ; 
 or to open any ground beneath the surface of such street or public 
 place ; or substantially to repair, alter, amend, or renew any pipe, 
 plug, stopcock, or other thing, or any public sewer, as the case may 
 l3e ; or to give the notices required by this Act to any other com- 
 pany, or to any paviors, surveyors of pavements, or other persons ; 
 or to remove or take away any j)ipes or other materials or things 
 from any street or public place ; or to collect and carry away or 
 remove all dirt, gravel, filth, rubbish, and other things, from any 
 street or public place : or to place and continue posts, rails, bars, 
 or ropes, lanthorns and watchmen, in any street or public place ; or 
 to do and execute all and every such works and things, and all or 
 any other works and things directed and required by this Act to 
 be done and executed by any such company or commissioners of 
 sewers, and pursuant to any notice given or left as herein directed 
 l)y any commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the 
 control of the pavements in the streets or public places within any 
 parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, or by 
 the surveyors of pavements, or other officers or persons appointed 
 by them or otherwise, and to their res})ective satisfaction, and within 
 the several times and j^eriods specified and directed by this Act ; 
 then and in every or any of such cases, and at all times afterwards, 
 it shall and may be lawful to and for any surveyor of the pavement 
 of the parochial or other district wherein the street or public place 
 shall be situate as to which any such neglect shall occur, and all 
 and every such surveyors are hereby empowered and required, 
 forthwith to cause all and every such several works, matters, and 
 things which shall not be executed and performed by every such 
 company or commissioners of sewers, or which shall not be well, 
 substantially, and eff'ectually executed and performed to his or their 
 satisfaction, or to the satisfaction of the commissioners or trustees, 
 or other persons by whom he or they shall be appointed, within the 
 times and periods limited by this Act to be well and eftectually 
 performed to his or their satisfaction, or to the satisfaction of such 
 commissioners or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, as herein pro- 
 vided, at the costs and charges of such company or commissioners 
 of sewers who shall have so neglected well, substantially, and 
 effectually to perform and execute the same, and every of them, and 
 every part thereof ; and that such costs and charges and every of 
 them shall be reimbursed and paid by any and every such company 
 or commissioners of sewers to such surveyor or surveyors of pave- 
 ments, or to the person or persons employed by him or them to 
 perform and execute any or every of such works, or to the com- 
 missioners or trustees, or other persons having the control of the
 
 [o7 Gko. '.].'] T/ie Metropolitan Pudiig Act 1817. [Chap, xxix.] 37 
 
 pavements of the ])arochial or other district within which such 
 works shall be performed and executed, or to their treasurer, or to 
 snch other person or persons as sucli commissioners or trustees or 
 other ])ersons shall from time to time appoint to receive the same: 
 and that the amount of such costs and charges, and of the monies so 
 to be paid, being- directed by the said commissioners or trustees or 
 other ])ersons, shall be ascertained and notified, and certified and 
 recovered (over and above all and every the {)enalties and forfeitures 
 which may be incuiTod fur any snch neglect by virtue of this Act) 
 in the same manner in which anv costs and charges whicii mav be 
 incurred, and any monies which may become due, for and about and 
 in respect of the relaying or repairin*^ of any ])avements hereafter 
 broken or taken uj) in any streets or public j)laces by or by the 
 direction or on account of any company, commissioners of sewers, 
 or other persons, are to be as(-ertained and notified and certified, and 
 may be recovered by virtue of this Act. 
 
 23. [/'ai'ements taken '//j hy compames, etc. to be relaid b;/ 
 commisfiioners of pavements. Superseded 18 & 19 Vict. c. 12<J, 
 ss. 110 Si 114; and 2i3 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 82.] 
 
 24 — 30. [^Ratinq for purpo.ses of Act. Sapemeded 62 & 6:i Vict, 
 c. 14, s. lU.] 
 
 31. . . . Every rate or assessment which at any time or times here- itates of pre- 
 after shall be made, laid or assessed by virtue of this Act or by virtue ™i^^bassadors 
 of any local Act or Acts of Parliament, for or towards the paving or payable by 
 repairing the pavements of the streets or public ])]aces in any landlords, 
 parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, and 
 
 either exclusively or jointly with or for any other objects or purposes, 
 for or in respect of any messuage or hereditament whicli any ambas- 
 sador, envoy, resident agent, or other public minister of any foreign 
 prince or state, or the servant of any such ambassador, envoy, 
 resident agent, or other public minister, or any other person who 
 may not be liable by law to i)ay such rate or assessment, now doth 
 or hereafter shall inhabit, shall be paid by and recoverable from the 
 landlord or owner of every such messuage or hereditament who shall 
 be liable and compellable to the payment thereof : and the same 
 shall be recovered from such landlord or owner in such and the 
 same manner as the other rates or assessments made by virtue of 
 this Act, or by virtue of any local Acts or Acts of Parliament, for 
 or towards the paving or repairing the pavements of the streets or 
 public places in any parochial or other district within the jurisdiction 
 of this Act, either exclusively or jointly with or for any other object 
 or purposes, may be recovered from any other owner or occupier of 
 any messuages or hereditaments, either by virtue of this Act or of 
 any such local Act or Acts. 
 
 32. \_E)npty houses koto rateable. Superseded 62 & 63 Met. 
 c. 14, 6-. lU.j 
 
 33. \_Rates may be recovered/or small houses let at small rents., 
 or to weekly or monthly lodgers. Superseded by the Poor Rate 
 Assessment and Collection Act 1860, s. 3.*] 
 
 34. Provided alwavs, . . . that nothing in this Act contained shall Agreements 
 1 11 i' 1 -11 1-1 between 
 
 be construed, deemed, or taken to im])eaoh, alter, or make void any landlords 
 
 agreement made between any landlord and tenant, in any lease now and tenants 
 granted or hereafter to be granted, pursuant to any contract or ^^ eacTed 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 38 
 
 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 Pavements 
 not to be 
 removed 
 without per- 
 mission. 
 
 agreement now existing ; anything in this Act contained to the 
 contrary thereof notwithstanding. 
 
 35 — 51. \_Levy and recover// of rates. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict. 
 c. 14, s. 10.] 
 
 52. \_Com7nissioners, etc. may pare streets within their districts, 
 jMving materials being vested in them. Superseded 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120, ss. 98 & 10.5 ; 2.5 & 26 Vict. c. 102, ss. 77, 80 & 81 ; and 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. 54, s. 1.] 
 
 53. . - . No person or persons shall take or break up, or cause to be 
 taken or l)roken np, any pavement in any street or public place in 
 any j)arochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, or 
 make any alteration therein, under any pretence whatsoever, without 
 the consent of the commissioners or trustees, or other persons 
 having the control of the pavements in such parochial or other 
 district, or their surveyor or surveyors of the pavements for the 
 time being, first obtained and certified under the hand or hands of 
 their clerk or clerks, or survevor or survevors for the time being; ; 
 and that all and every person and persons to whom such consent 
 shall be granted shall be subject and liable to all the provisions in 
 this Act contained in respect to the water and gaslight companies 
 and the commissioners of sewers, as to the reparation of the pave- 
 ments, and as to the removal of all rubbish and other obstructions, 
 and as to the provision of bars, watchmen, and other securities, and 
 to all penalties by this Act imposed on the l)reach of any of such 
 provisions respectively, and to such other conditions and regulations 
 as the said commissioners or trustees, or other persons consenting 
 as aforesaid, shall stipulate and direct, and shall obey and perform 
 the same and every of them ; and that in case any person or persons 
 (except water and gaslight companies and the commissioners of 
 sewers, and who are to conform to the particular provisions of this 
 Act relating to them,) shall take or break up, or cause to be taken 
 or broken up, or shall wilfully damage any pavement in any streets 
 or ])ublic ])laces, or shall make or cause to be made any alteration 
 therein, without such consent as aforesaid, certified as aforesaid, 
 then any and every such person or persons in every such case so 
 offending shall for each and every such offence forfeit and pay a 
 sum not being less than five pounds nor exceeding ten pounds, and 
 also for each and every square foot of such pavement exceeding one 
 foot so taken or broken up or altered, or so wilfully damaged, shall 
 forfeit and pay any sum not being less than five pounds nor exceed- 
 ing ten pounds, to be recovered in the same manner in which other 
 penalties and forfeitures are hereinafter directed to be recovered bv 
 virtue of this Act. [See also 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 109.] 
 
 54 — 56. \_Survei/ and repair of pavements, sewers., ami grates. 
 JSote to s. 52 supra applies.'] 
 
 Private drains 57. . . . Whenever from time to time or at any time hereafter it shall 
 appear to the commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the 
 control of the pavements of the streets and public places in any 
 parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, or to 
 anv two or more of them, or to their survevor or survevors for the 
 time being, or any of them, that any private drain, sewer, . . . 
 gutter, or watercourse, running beneath or above or communicating 
 with auA- other drain or sewer beneath anv of the ])avements of anv 
 of the streets or public places in any such parochial or other district, 
 doth require to be repaired, amended, altered, emptied, or cleansed, 
 
 also to be 
 cleansed.
 
 [57 GfX). :i] I'/ir M,ii(>f)olit(iii t'di-iiKj Act \^\1. [Chai'. xxix.] 159 
 
 it shall and may be lawful to and for tlie said commissioners or 
 trustees, or other persons haviuf^ the control of snch pavements as 
 aforesaid, or any two or more of them, or their surveyor or sur- 
 veyors as aforesaid f(ir the time beinji:, or any of them, to tjive or 
 cause U) be given a notice or notices under their liands, or under the 
 hand or hands of sucli survevor or survevors of ])avements for the 
 time being, to or for the owner or owners or for the occupier or 
 occupiers of all or any messuages, houses, lands, or other lieredita- 
 ments, to whom such drain, sewer, . . . gutter, or watercourse shall 
 belong, or by whom the same shall be used or enjoyed, or from 
 whose messuages, houses, lands, or hereditaments any such drain, 
 sewer, gutter, or watercourse shall proceed or flow, or wherewith the 
 same . . . shall communicate, well and sufficiently to repair, 
 amend, alter, empty, or cleanse the same and every part thereof; 
 and in case any such owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, within 
 three days after any such notice shall be given or left as aforesaid, 
 shall not well and effectually repair, amend, alter, empty, or cleanse 
 any such drain or sewer and every part thereof, pursuant to such 
 notice, and t(j the satisfaction of the said commissioners or trustees, 
 or other persons as aforesaid, or of their surveyor or surveyors for 
 the time being, then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said 
 commissioners or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, or for their 
 surveyor or surveyors for the time being, to direct such drain, sewer, 
 . . . gutter, or watercourse to be repaired, amended, altered, 
 emptied, or cleansed with such materials and in such manner as 
 they or he may direct, and by such person or persons as they or he 
 may from time to time appoint, and that the amount of the charges 
 and expenses incurred thereabouts, and also of taking up, relaying, 
 or repairing any pavements in any streets or public places which 
 may for those pur])oses or any of them be taken up, shall be ascer- 
 tained and determined by such surveyor or surveyors of jiavements 
 as aforesaid, and shall be certified by him or them to such owner or 
 owners, occupier or occupiers, and shall be paid by him or them 
 within the same time, and may be recovered, with the same penalties 
 in case of nonpayment, in such and the same manner, and by such 
 and the same jjroceedings, as are by this Act authorized and directed 
 for the ascertaining and determining, certifying and recovering any 
 monies to become due and to be recovered from any persons whom- 
 soever, for the costs and charges of re})airing or j)aving or repaving 
 any pavements of any streets or ])ublic places by the commissioners 
 or trustees or other persons having the control of the pavements in 
 any streets or i)ublic places in any parochial or other district within 
 the jurisdiction of this Act. \_Parts omitted (as to cesspools) rep. 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. 7(), s. 142.] \ 
 
 58. . . . The said commissioners or trustees, or other persons having I'usts maybe 
 the control of the i)avements of the streets and public places in any frected for 
 parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, may tion^o7*the^' 
 cause })osts of wood, stone, or iron to be set uji near or adjoining pavements 
 the foot pavements in such part or parts of all or any of the streets -'."'^ proveu- 
 or public places within their respective })arochial or other districts acddents 
 as they shall judge necessary, and also shall and may set up posts 
 and rails near or adjoining to any vacant ground, or other exposed 
 or dangerous place, abutting uj>on or adjoining to any of the streets 
 or public places in such parochial or other district, in case they shall 
 think proper so to do, for preventing accidents or casualties ; and if 
 any person or persons shall wilfully or carelessly knock down, break.
 
 40 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1«17. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 damage, or injure such posts or rails, or any of them, every person 
 so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum 
 not being less than forty shillings nor exceeding ten pounds, and 
 shall also make a full satisfaction (to be ascertained by the Justice 
 before whom such offender or offenders shall be convicted) to such 
 commissioners, trustees, or other person or persons having the 
 control of the pavements in the parochial or other district within 
 which the offence shall be committed, for the damage so done, and 
 that such penalty and satisfaction shall be recovered in the same 
 manner in which penalties and forfeitures are hereinafter directed to 
 be recovered by virtue of this Act. 
 
 59 — 61. \^8catenginq and removal of dust, etc. fiep. i)4: & 65 Vict, 
 c. 76, .s. 142.] 
 Dirt not to be 62. . . . No scavenger, raker, or cleanser, or any other person, 
 swept into sball sweep, rake, or place any of the slop, mud, dirt, dust, rubbish, 
 sewer. ashes, filth, or soil, found or being in any streets or public places in 
 
 any parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, or 
 any other slop, mud, dirt, dust, rubbish, ashes, filth, soil, or other 
 articles or things, over any grate or grates placed above or com- 
 municating with any common or public drain or sewer, or into any 
 common or public drain or sewer ; and that any and every scavenger, 
 raker, or cleanser, or any other person or persons who shall so 
 offend, shall for every such offence forfeit and shall pay the sum of 
 five pounds, to be recovered in the same manner in which other 
 penalties and forfeitures are hereinafter directed to be recovered by 
 virtue of this Act. ^See also 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 205 ; and 57 & 
 58 Vict. c. ccxii. ss. 8 — 17.] 
 
 63. \_Footways to he swept daily during frost and snow. Rep. 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142.] 
 V. ;.„v,,.„o 64. ... If anv person or persons shall, in any street or public place 
 
 and annoT- m any parocnial or other district withm the Jurisdiction of this Act, 
 ances from at any time or times liereafter, beat or dust any carpet or carpets ; 
 beating car- . ^^^^\\ ^[Y\Ye any carriage or carriages, for the purpose of breakins:, 
 
 pets, breaking . . •- . o c • l i ^ ' 
 
 horses, exercising, or trying horses ; or shall ride any horse, mare, or 
 
 flrivingbar- geldiug, for the purpose of exercising, airing, trying, showing, or 
 rows and exposing such horse, mare, or gelding for sale (otherwise than by 
 pavements, passing through such streets or other public places) ; ... or shall 
 and throwing run, roll, drive, draw, or place, or cause, permit, or suffer to be run, 
 r 1/t d^*^ rolled, driven, drawn, or placed upon any of the said footway pave- 
 ments of any street or public place in any parochial or other district 
 within the jurisdiction of this Act, any waggon, cart, dray, sledge, or 
 other carriage, or any wheel, wheelbarrow, handbarrow, or truck, or 
 any hogshead, cask, or barrel ; or shall wilfully ride, lead, or drive any 
 horse, ass, mule, or other beast, upon any of the footway ])avements 
 aforesaid, then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful to 
 and for any Justice of the Peace for the city, borough, or county 
 wherein any such parochial or other district may be situate, and he 
 is hereby required, upon complaint to him made upon oath or affir- 
 mation of one or more credible witness or witnesses, to issue a 
 summons rerpiiring such offender or offenders to a])pear before him, 
 at such time and place as shall be in such summons specified ; or 
 it shall and may l)e lawful to and for any person or persons 
 whomsoever, who siiall see any such offence committed, if he or 
 they shall think proper, to seize, and also for any other person 
 or persons to assist in seizing such offender or offenders by the 
 authority of this Act, and by such authority, and without any other
 
 [57 Gko. :5.] The MHroiJoUt'iH I'nruxj Art \i^\l. [Chap. xxix.J 41 
 
 authority or warrant whatsoever, to convey such offender or 
 offenders before some Justice of the Peace for the city, borough, 
 or county wherein any such ])aro(!hial or other district may be 
 situate; and uj)on the ])arty or parties a|)|)earin<2; in pursuanco of 
 such summons, or not appearing after having been so summoned, 
 or being brought before such Justice when so seized or otherwise, 
 he the said Justice shall proceed to examine upon oatii or affirma- 
 tion any witness or witnesses who shall appear or be j)roduc('d to 
 give evidence touching such offence : and if the Jjarty or parties 
 accused shall be convicted of any or either of the offences aforesaid, 
 upon his or their own confession, oi- u{)on the oath or affirmation of 
 one or more credible witness or witnesses as aforesaid, then and in 
 every such case tlie jx-rson or jjcrsons so convicted shall forfeit and 
 j)ay a sum not less than forty shillings nor cxeeetling five pounds 
 for each and every offence ; and that one moiety of every such 
 ])enalty shall be paid to the informer or informers, or to the i)erson 
 or j)ersons who shall aji])rehend such offender or offenders; and the 
 other moiety thereof shall be paid to the treasurer or treasurers of 
 the commissioners, ti'ustees, or other persons having the control of 
 the pavements in the streets or public places in the parochial or 
 other district wherein any such oft'ence or oftences shall have been 
 committed, \ Part omitted rep. 54 k 55 Vict. c. 70, .5. 142. See 
 also 'Z k 3 Vict. c. 47, .s. Go.] 
 
 65. . . . If any person or persons at any time or times hereafter shall Annoyances 
 set or j)lace, or cause or permit to be set or placed by any servant or 5a"sket!f and 
 person em])loyed by him, her, or them, or otherwise, any stall board, wares and 
 chopjjing block, show board on hinges or otherwise, basket, wares, other matters 
 merchandise, casks, or goods of auy kind whatsoever; or shall hoop, anri pun^sji'. 
 place, wash, or cleanse, or cause to be hooped, washed, or cleansed, able on 
 any pipe, barrel, cask, or vessel, in or ui)on or over any part of the renewal after 
 carriage or foot ways in any streets or j)ublic places in any parochial "iTsut-^ij^ 
 
 arti- 
 
 or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act ; or shall set out, cles may be 
 lay, or place or cause or procure, permit or suffer to be set out, laid, seized and 
 or placed, any coach, cart, wain, waggon, dray, wheelbarrow, hand- ®° " 
 barrow, sledge, truck, or other carriage uj)oii any of the said carriage- 
 ways (except such coaches, chariots, and chairs as have been or 
 shall be hereafter licensed by the commissioners for regulating and 
 licensing hackney coaches, chariots, and chairs, and which stand for 
 hire according to the statutes and byelaws made for those purposes), 
 and also except for the necessary time of loading or unloading any 
 cart, wain, waggon, dray, sledge, truck, or other carriage, or taking 
 up or setting down any fare, or waiting for passengers when actually 
 hired or harnessing or unliarnessing the horses from any coach, 
 cart, wain, waggon, dray, sledge, truck, or other carriage ; or if any 
 person or persons shall set or i)lace, or cause to be set or placed, 
 in or upon or over any of the said carriage or foot ways, any timber, 
 stones, bricks, lime, or other materials or things for building what- 
 soever (unless the same shall be enclosed as in and by any local Act 
 or Acts of Parliament, or by this Act, or some of them, may be 
 directed), or any other matters or things whatsoever ; or shall hang 
 out or ex})ose, or cause or jjcrmit to be hung out or exposed, any 
 meat or oftal, or other matter or thing whatsoever, from any house 
 or houses, or other buildings or j)remises belonging to or occu})ied 
 by him, her, or them, over any part of either of sueh pavements, or 
 over any area or areas of any houses or other buildings or premises ; 
 or shall place or put out, or cause or permit to be placed or put out,
 
 42 [Chap, xxix.] Thp Metropolitan Paving Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 any garden or other pots (except the same shall be perfectly secured 
 from falling to the satisfaction of the commissioners or trustees or 
 other persons having the control of the pavements in any such 
 parochial or other district, or of their surveyor of the pavements for 
 the time being), or any other matter or thing, from and on the out- 
 side of the front or any other part of any house or houses, or other 
 buildings or premises, over or next unto any such street or public place, 
 and shall not immediately remove all or any such matters or things, 
 being thereunto required by any surveyor or surveyors of pavements, 
 or by any other person or persons employed or appointed by the 
 commissioners, trustees, or other persons having the control of the 
 pavements in any parochial or other district, and whether the same 
 shall have been so set or placed, exposed or put out by himself, 
 herself, or themselves personally, or by any of his, her, or their 
 servants, or by any person or persons employed by him, her, or 
 them, and shall not continue and keep the same so removed ; or if 
 any person or persons, having in ])ursuance of any such requisition 
 or requisitions as aforesaid, removed or caused to be removed any 
 such stall board, show board, chopping block, basket, wares, mer- 
 chandise, casks, goods, coach, cart, wain, waggon, dray, wheel- 
 barrow, handbarrow, sledge, truck, carriage, timber, stones, bricks, 
 lime, meat, offal, garden pots, or other matters or things, shall at 
 any time thereafter again set, lay, or place, expose or put out, or 
 cause, procure, permit or suffer to be again set, laid, or placed, 
 exposed or put out, the same or any of them, or any other stall 
 board, show board, chojipiug block, basket, wares, merchandise, 
 goods, coach, cart, wain, waggon, dray, wheelbarrow, handbarrow, 
 sledge, truck, timber, stones, bricks, lime, meat, offal, garden 
 pots, or other matters or things whatsoever (save and except 
 as aforesaid), in or upon or over any of the carriage or foot ways of 
 or next unto any streets or public places within the same parochial 
 or other district as aforesaid, then and in every such case it shall 
 and may be lawful to and for any Justice of the Peace for the city, 
 borough, or county wherein the said parochial or other district may 
 be situate, and he is hereby required, upon complaint to him made 
 by any one or more credible witness or witnesses upon oath, to issue 
 a summons requiring the person orpersons accused of such offence, 
 or the owner or owners of the goods, materials, meat, offal, garden 
 pots, matters or things, or of the coaches, carts, waggons, drays, 
 wheelbarrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, or other carriages, 
 which shall be so set or placed, exposed or set out, or the master 
 or masters of the person or persons by whose servants, or by the 
 person or persons employed by whom, such offence shall have been 
 committed, to appear before him, or before any other Justice of the 
 Peace for the same city, borough, or county, as shall be then or 
 there present, at such time and place as shall be in such summons 
 specified, and then and there to proceed to examine upon oath or 
 affirmation any witness or witnesses who shall appear or be pro- 
 duced to give evidence touching such offence ; and if the person or 
 persons so offending shall be convicted of any or either of the 
 offences aforesaid, upon his, her, or their own confession, or upon 
 the oath or affirmation of one.'or more credible witness or witnesses 
 as aforesaid, he, she, or they who shall be so convicted, and the 
 owner or owners of such goods, materials, meat, offal, garden pots, 
 matters or things, or of the coaches, carts, waggons, drays, wheel- 
 barrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, or other carriages which
 
 [o7 Geo. :].] The Mali i>i)oUt<ii> Pnrinfj Act \y<\1. [(Jhav. xxix.] 43 
 
 shall be so set or placed, exposed or set ont as aforesaid, and the 
 master or masters, employer or era])loyers of the person or persons 
 so offending, sliall forfeit and pay for the first offence the sum of 
 forty shilliiiiTs, and for the second and every snhseqnent offence any 
 sum not exceeding hve pounds ; and that such respective penalties 
 shall be paid to the treasurer or treasurers of the commissioners, 
 trustees, or other persons having the control of the pavements in 
 the streets or ])ubli(' places in the [larochial or other district wherein 
 any such offence shall have been coniinitted, or to such other person 
 or persons as they shall direct and a]ipoint ; and also, that not only 
 shall such penalties become payable and to be recovered, but that it 
 shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons appointed 
 or to be a])pointcd l)y the said commissioners or trustees or other 
 persons as aforesaid for that purpose, without any warrant or other 
 authority than this Act, to seize any such stall board, show board, 
 choj)ping block, basket, wares, merchandise, casks, goods, coach, 
 cart, wain, waggon, dray, wheelbarrow, handbarrow, sledge, truck, 
 or other carriage, together with the horse or horses, ass or asses, 
 mule or mules, if any shall be thereunto belonging, with the 
 harness, gear, and accoutrements thereof, or any such timber or 
 other materials, or other matters or things aforesaid, or any of 
 them ; and in case any of the wares, goods, and merchandises so 
 seized shall be ])erishable, or shall be articles of food, then the same 
 shall be immediately forfeited, and such person or persons who shall 
 seize the same shall deliver the same or cause the same to be 
 delivered to the cliurchwardens or overseers of the poor, or to some 
 of them, or to the master of any workhouse situate in the said 
 parochial or other district, or of the parish whereunto such district 
 shall belong ; and the same shall and may be given and distributed 
 by him or them unto one or among any one or more of the poor 
 inhabitants of the said parochial or other district, or of such 
 workhouse, to and for his or their benefit ; but otherwise such 
 person or persons shall cause the stall board, basket, cask, goods, 
 coach, cart, wain, waggon, dray, wheelbarrow, handbarrow, sledge, 
 truck, or otlier carriage, horse or liorses, asses or mules, or any 
 materials and things so seized to be removed to any place appointed 
 for the reception thereof in any such parochial or other district, if 
 any such there be, and otherwise to such place or places as he or 
 they shall judge convenient, giving parole or written notice of such 
 place or places whereunto the same shall be removed unto the 
 owner, driver, or other person having any interest in the goods, 
 coach, cart, Avain, waggon, dray, wheelbarrow, handbarrow, sledge, 
 truck, or other carriages, horses, asses, mules, materials, or other 
 things so seized or removed, if he, she, or they shall be then and 
 there present ; and tiie same shall be there kept and detained until 
 such owner, driver, or other person interested therein as aforesaid 
 shall cause to be paid the said penalty, together with the charges 
 for taking or removing the same, and of keeping such horse or 
 horses, asses or mules, if any : and in case the goods, carriage, 
 horses, materials, or other things so removed (not being perishable 
 or articles of food) shall not be claimed, and the said penalty and 
 charges be paid, within five days next after such removal thereof, 
 then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful to and for 
 the said commissioners or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, 
 or tlieir surveyor of the pavements, or any other person to be 
 appointed by the said commissioners or trustees or other persons as
 
 44 
 
 [C'hap. xxix,] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 For the re- 
 moval of 
 nuisances and 
 annoyances, 
 a repetition 
 of notices 
 unnecessary. 
 
 aforesaid, to order the same to be appraised and sold ; and the over- 
 pins of the money arising- by such sale shall be returned to the 
 owner or owners thereof, if he or they shall have given such notice 
 as aforesaid, after deducting' the said penalty, and such costs, 
 charges, and expenses attending such seizing, removing, keeping, 
 appraising, and selling the same, as the said commissioners or 
 trustees or other persons as aforesaid, or any surveyor of the 
 pavements in any parocliial or other district, shall ascertain and 
 allow, 
 
 66. ... In all cases where by this Act, or by any local Act or Acts 
 of Parliament relating to any parochial or other district within the 
 jurisdiction of this Act, it may be directed, required, and provided 
 that any person or persons setting or placing any stall board, 
 chopping block, basket, wares, merchandise, pipe, barrel, cask, or 
 vessel, goods, timber, stones, bricks, lime, or any other materials, 
 matters, or things, or causing or procuring the same or any of them 
 to be set or i)laced upon any of the carriage or foot pavements or 
 otherwise, contrary to the regulations herein or in any such local 
 Act or Acts contained, in any of the streets or public places within 
 the jurisdiction of this Act, or that any person or persons driving or 
 placing any coach, cart, waggon, dray, wheelbarrow, handbarrow, 
 sledge, track, or other carriage in or upon or over any of the foot 
 pavements in any streets or places within the jurisdiction of this 
 Act, or causing or procuring the same to be so driven or placed, 
 shall have notice and be required to remove the same previous to 
 such person or persons being subject or liable to the penalty or 
 penalties imposed by virtue of such local Act or Acts or of this Act, 
 and to the seizure, forfeiture, appropriation, appraisement, or sale of 
 any such goods, materials, matters, and other things, coaches, carts, 
 waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, or other 
 carriages, in manner directed by such local Act or Acts or by this Act, 
 then if any person or persons shall set or place any goods, materials, 
 matters, or other things, or shall set, place, or drive any coaches, 
 carts, waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, 
 or other carriages upon or over the said pavements, or any of them, 
 or any part thereof, at any time or times subsequent to his, her, or 
 their having received such notice, or having been required to remove 
 the same, or any other goods, materials, matters, or things, or any 
 other coaches, carts, waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, 
 sledges, trucks, or other carriages from off the said pavements or 
 any of them, or shall cause or permit the same or any of them to be 
 set or placed or driven by his or their servants, or by any person or 
 persons employed by him or them ; in any and every such case it 
 shall not be necessary or requisite that any person or persons, seeing 
 such offence or offences committed again, should require the removal 
 of the said goods, materials, matters, or things, or coaches, carts, 
 waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, or 
 other carriages ; but the same or any of them, being so again set, 
 placed, or driven in, upon, or over the said pavements or any of 
 them, or any part thereof, contrary to the directions of any such 
 local Act or Acts of Parliament, or of this Act, shall and may be 
 seized, forfeited, removed, applied, detained, appraised, and sold, in 
 manner herein provided as to any other goods, materials, matters, 
 or things, or coaches, carts, waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, hand- 
 barrows, sledges, trucks, or other carriages, which shall not be 
 removed on a requisition or notice being given so to do as herein-
 
 [57 Geo. ;>.] The Metropolitan I'drimj Act 1^1 7. [Chai'. xxix.] 45 
 
 before provided ; and the person or persons so committing the said 
 offence or offences, and tlie owner or owners of the goods, materials, 
 matters, or other things, or coaches, carts, waggons, drays, wheel- 
 barrows, handbarrows, sledges, fi'ncks, or other carriages which 
 shall be so j)la(X'd or (h'iven, and the master or masters, emplctyer 
 or employers of the person or ])ei'sons so offending, shall be sul)ject 
 and liable to the same ])enalty or penalties, forfeitnres, proceedings, 
 charges, and pnnishments, as if such person or jx'i'sons offending 
 had neglectecl or refused to remove the said goods, materials, 
 matters, or other things, or coaches, carts, waggons, drays, wheel- 
 barrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, oi' otliei' carriages, when 
 retpiired so to do, under and by virtue of any local Act or Acts of 
 Parliament, or of this Act, and although the said notices or re([ui- 
 sitions shall not have been repeated or again given to the person 
 or persons committing or directing or permitting such offence or 
 offences, or any of them ; anything in this Act or in any local or 
 other Act or Acts of ParliamcMit to the contrary thei-eof in anywise 
 notwithstanding. 
 
 67, 68. \_IIog-iit>/es and kee/jini/ of stcine. Rep. o4 & .");") Vint, 
 c. 76, s. 142.J 
 
 69. . . . If any person or persons at any time or times hereafter shall Lime not to 
 sift, screen, or slack, or cause to be sifted, screened, or slacked, any t>^* slacked in 
 lime in any street or public place in any ])arochial or other district 
 
 within the jurisdiction of this Act, or shall cause the same to be so 
 done, without the consent of the commissioners or trustees or other 
 persons having the control of the pavements in tlie streets or public 
 places in such parochial or other district, or of their surveyor or 
 surveyors of i)avemeuts for the time being, and without also pre- 
 viously erecting a hoard or inclosure, with the licence of the surveyor 
 or surveyors of the pavements in any such parochial or other district 
 first obtained, as directed in any local Act or Acts of Parliament 
 relating to any such parochial or other district, or in this Act, and 
 which hoard oi' inclosure shall inclose all such lime when and as it 
 shall be sifted, screened, or slacked : then he, she, or they shall 
 forfeit and ])ay for every such offence a sum not being less than 
 forty shillings nor exceeding five pounds, to be recovered in the 
 same manner in which other penalties are hereafter directed to be 
 recovered by virtue of this Act. [-SVt (ilso 2 A: 3 I let. c 47, ■■<. (Jo (1).] 
 
 70. . . . If at any time or times hereafter the owner or owners, Entrances to 
 occupier or occupiers, of any house, huilding, or premises, in any ^^^'j^^^ ^°*^ 
 parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, having be' covered 
 any iron or wooden rails or bars over the areas or openings to any and secured, 
 kitchens or cellars or other j)art or parts of his or their house, 
 building, or premises, beneath the surface of the foot pavements of 
 
 any streets or public })laces in any such parochial or other district, 
 or having any doorway or entrance into the basement or cellar story 
 thereof, shall not either k(>ep tlie same, or the walls of such kitchens 
 or cellars, in sutlicient and good re])air, or safely and securely guard 
 and constantly keep the same securely guarded by a rail ov rails, or 
 cover the same over with a strong flap or traj)-door, according to 
 the nature of the case, and to the satisfaction of the commissioners 
 or trustees or other persons having the control of the pavements in 
 such parochial or other district, or of the surveyor or surveyors of 
 the pavements in any such parochial or other district for the time 
 being, or of any inspectors or other officers or persons appointed by
 
 46 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Parinfi Act L^IT. [57 Geo. 3.J 
 
 the said commissioners, trustees, oi- other persons as aforesaid, or 
 Some of them, and so as to prevent danger to persons passing and 
 repassing ; or if any such occupier or occupiers do or shall leave 
 open, or not sufHciently and substantially cover and keep covered 
 and secured to such satisfaction as aforesaid, any coal or other hole, 
 funnel, trap-door, or cellar-flap, ])elonging to or connected with his, 
 her, or their respective houses, buildings, or premises (save and 
 except only during such reasonable time as any coals, wood, casks, 
 or other things shall be putting down or taking out of any such 
 vault or basement story, or during such reasonable time as the 
 flap, trap-door, or covering thereof shall be altering, repairing, or 
 amending) ; or if such owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, shall 
 not repair, and from time to time keep in good and substantial 
 repair to the satisfaction of the said commissioners or trustees or 
 other persons, or of the said surveyor or surveyors, inspectors, 
 or other persons appointed by the said commissioners or trustees or 
 other persons as aforesaid, all and every or any such iron or wooden 
 rails, guard rails, flaps, trap-doors, and other covering ; then and in 
 every such case the person or persons neglecting so to do shall for 
 every or any such offence forfeit and pay any sum not being less 
 than forty shillings nor exceeding five pounds, to be recovered in 
 such and the same manner in which other penalties are hereafter 
 directed to be recovered by virtue of tliis Act ; and that in any or 
 either of such cases of neglect, it shall and may be also lawful to 
 and for any two or more of the said commissioners or trustees, or 
 other persons as aforesaid, and without the authority of any public 
 or general meeting, or for their surveyor or surveyors of the pave- 
 ments for the time being, or for their inspectors, or for any other 
 person by such commissioners or trustees or other persons appointed 
 as aforesaid, to cause all and every sucli door-ways, entrances, holes, 
 and funnels to be well and securely covered over and guarded, and 
 all iron or wooden rails, or guard rails, flaps, trap-doors, or cover- 
 ings, to be well and substantially repaired or renewed, by such 
 person or persons as they shall think proper to employ, and with 
 such materials and in such manner as tliey or he may direct, and 
 that all the costs, charges, and expenses attending the same be 
 ascertained and certified by the surveyor or surveyors of the pave- 
 ments, in any such parochial or other district, and shall be l3orne 
 and paid by the owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, or other 
 person or persons so neglecting to repair and make good the same 
 in manner aforesaid ; and that if such costs, charges, and expenses 
 shall not be so paid by such person or persons to the said surveyor 
 or surveyors, or to such other person or persons as he or they shall 
 or may appoint to receive the same within twenty-four hours after 
 an account of the costs, charges, and expenses so ascertained and 
 certified shall have been given to or left for such person or persons, 
 at or on such houses, buildings, or premises, then double the amount 
 of the sum so certified shall become due and payable from such 
 person or persons, over and above the other penalties hereby 
 imposed, and shall and may be recovered and levied in such and 
 the same manner in which any other penalties are hereinafter 
 directed to be recovered, or in which any monies may be recovered 
 from any water or gaslight companies, or any other persons, for or 
 on account of any costs and charges of relaying any pavements, by 
 virtue of any local Act or Acts of Parliament relating to such 
 parochial or other districts, or of this Act.
 
 [57 Geo. 3.] The. Xfctropolitan I'arimi Act \>^\~i. [( "hai-. xxix.] 47 
 
 71. ... If at auy time or times hereafter any person or persons Holes exca- 
 shall (liti: or make or cause to be (liiij or made any hole, or leave or vate<i for 
 cause to be left any hole before any vacant ground, or before or behind [ncluse*!' ^ 
 or on the side of any house or other tenement or bnildintr er(;cte(l or 
 beini;' erected or about to be erected in and adjoining to any street 
 or public place formed or to be formed or forming in any jjarochial 
 or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, for the purjjoses 
 of nuiking any vault or vaults, or the foundation or foundations to 
 such houses or other buildings, or for any other ])urpose whatsoever, 
 and shall not forth wit ii inclose the same in a good and sulficient 
 manner, to the satisfaction mI" the surveyor or surveyors of the 
 ])avements for the time; being to the commissioners or trustees or 
 other j)ersons having the control of the pavements in such ])arochial 
 or other district, or shall keep up or cause to be kept up and con- 
 tinued any such inclosure for any time which shall be longer than 
 shall be absolutely necessary in the opinionlof the said commissioners 
 or trustees or other persons as aforesaid, or of their surveyor (jr 
 surveyors of pavements for the time being, or shall not, when there- 
 unto reipiired by such surveyor or surveyors, or either of them, well 
 and sufficiently fence or inclose any such hole or holes, or area or 
 areas, or space or spaces opened or left open, and intended for an 
 area or areas, foundation or foundations, or for any other purpose 
 whatsoever, in the front of or behind or on the side of such vacant 
 ground, house, or other tenement or building in and adjoining to 
 any such street or public place formed or to be formed or forming, 
 within six hours alter he or tiiey shall be required so to do by the 
 said surveyor or surveyors of pavement, and in tlie manner and with 
 such materials as he or they shall direct, and to his or their satis- 
 faction, then and in every or any such case he or they so ofiending 
 shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, and for every such 
 refusal or neglect, any sum not being less than forty shillings nor 
 exceeding five pounds, to be recovered in the same manner in which 
 other penalties are hereinafter directed to be recovered by virtue of 
 this Act. 
 
 72. \_EiiC7-oachments and projections to be regulated. Superseded 
 lS.t 11) Mct.r. 120, .s. 110.] 
 
 73, 74. \_Sloj) to be carried only in covered carts — Certain 
 nuisances Jinable. Rep, 04 & ^^ Vict. c. 76, s. 142.] 
 
 75. . . . No person or persons whomsoever shall erect, i)Iace, set fjoards to be 
 up, or build, in any street or other public place in any parochial or crecte<t. but 
 other district within the jurisdiction of this Act at any time or "o* without 
 times hereafter, any hoard or scatfolding, or place or erect auy posts, ^*^^" 
 bars, rails, boards, or other thing, by way of inclosure, for the 
 purpose of making mortar, or of dei)ositing or sifting, screening or 
 slacking any bricks, stone, lime, sand, or any other materials for 
 building or repairing any house or other tenement or erection, or 
 for other works, or for any other ])urj)0se, without leave or licence 
 tirst had and obtained untler the hand ov hands of the surveyt)r or 
 surveyors for the time being of the j)avements of such parochial or 
 other district, who is and are hereby recpiired to grant the same 
 fortliwith for the purpose of making mortar, and depositing or 
 sitting, screening or slacking any bricks, stone, lime, sand, or any 
 other materials for building or repairing any house or other tenement 
 or erection, specifying therein the length of time for which the same 
 when so erected or set up may be continued, and giving such other
 
 48 
 
 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paring Act 181 T. \iu Geo. 3.] 
 
 Courts may 
 be stopped 
 up with the 
 approbation 
 of two or 
 more justices, 
 and with the 
 consent of 
 the owners of 
 contiguous 
 property. 
 
 directions respecting the same as he or they may think necessary 
 on being paid by every person so applying for such licence the snm 
 of two shillings and sixpence ; and that if any person or persons 
 shall erect, place, sot up or build, or cause or permit to be erected, 
 placed, set up, or built, any such hoard or scaifolding or any in- 
 closure, posts, bars, or rails, or any other matter or thing for the 
 purposes aforesaid, or for any other purpose, without the leave or 
 licence, signed as aforesaid, of the said surveyor or surveyors of the 
 pavements so had and obtained, or shall erect, set up, or build the 
 same, or cause or permit the same to be set up or erected in any 
 other manner, or to be continued for any longer time than shall be 
 allowed or expressed in such licence, then and in either of the said 
 cases such })erson or persons, or the person or persons by whom he 
 or they shall or may be employed, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 
 ten shillings for every day that the same shall have been and shall 
 be set up and continued ; and also that it shall and may be lawful 
 for the said commissioners or trustees or other persons having the 
 control of the pavements of such parochial or other district, or for 
 the said surveyor or surveyors of the pavements for the time being, 
 to cause the same to be pulled down and removed, and the same 
 and all the materials thereof, and of every part thereof, to be kept 
 and detained until such person or persons shall and do pay to the 
 said surveyor or surveyors of the pavements, or to the jjcrson or 
 persons in whose custody the same shall be, all the penalties 
 incurred by such person or persons, together with the charges of 
 pulling down, removing, and keeping the same, to be ascertained 
 and determined by the said surveyor or surveyors ; and in case the 
 same shall not be claimed, and the said penalties and charges afore- 
 said shall not be paid within the space of five days next after the 
 pulling down and removal thereof, then it shall and may be lawful 
 to and for the said commissioners or trustees, or other persons as 
 aforesaid, or for their surveyor or surveyors of the pavements, to 
 order or cause the same to be appraised and sold ; and the money 
 arising therefrom, after deducting all the said charges, shall be paid 
 to the treasurer or treasurers of the said commissioners or trustees 
 or other persons as aforesaid, or to such other person or persons as 
 thev from time to time shall or mav direct or appoint. \_See 18 & 19 
 Vik. c. 12U, ss. 121—123.] 
 
 76. \_Commissioners tnay direct streets to be distinguished and 
 houses to be numbered. Superseded 57 &, 58 176-^. c. ccxiii. 
 ss. 32—38.] 
 
 77, 78. \_Streets mag be watered if three-fourths oj inhabitoMs so 
 request^ and, special rates assessed tJierefor. Superseded 18 & 19 
 Vict. c. 120, ss. 00, 116, (t loS ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 11.] 
 
 79. And whereas there are in certain parochial or other districts 
 within the jurisdiction of this Act certain courts, alleys, and places 
 whicli, without inconvenience to the public, might be discontinued 
 and stopped up, and which, from their private and confined situa- 
 tion, and by being harbours or receptacles for filth and rubbish, are 
 noisome and offensive : Be it therefore further enacted. That if upon 
 the view of any two or more of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace 
 for the city, borough, or county wherein such court, alley, or place 
 may be situate, it shall to them appear that any such court, alley, 
 or place is become unnecessary, and may, without inconvenience to 
 the public, or to the owners of houses or tenements adjoining thereto,
 
 [57 Geo. 3.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1.^17. [('hap. xxix.] 49 
 
 be discoutimicd and stoijped up, tlau] and in .such case it shall and 
 may be lawful to and for such Justices, by and with the consent of 
 the commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the control 
 of the ])uv(Mn<'iits of the streets and ])uhlic ]ila(;es in such pai'ochial 
 or other district, testified h\ wi-itinu' under tlie hand of tiie clerk or 
 clerks to such commissioners or trustees, or other persons as afore- 
 said for the time l)ein<j;', and by and with the consent of the owner 
 and owners of the houses, lands, or tenements a<ljoiuing to four 
 parts in five in the length of any such court, alley, or ])hice, testified 
 by writing under his. hei', oi- theii- iuuid or hands, at any Special 
 Session to be holden I'nr that juii pose, by order under the hands and 
 seals of such Justices, to discontinue and sto{) up any and every 
 such coui't, alley, or ])lace ; and all such courts, alleys, and places, 
 or such jiruportion tliereof as may adjoin to the houses or tenements 
 of such person who shall have so consented, shall be discontinued 
 and stoj)])ed up accordingly, subject to appeal as hereinafter is 
 mentioned : Trovided always, that nothing hei'ein contained shall 
 extend oi' l>e construed to extend so as to authorize the discon- 
 tinuing or sto])ping up any court, alley, or place, or any part or 
 parts thereof, whereby or in consequence whereof any house, tene- 
 ment, or land shall be so inclosed (unless with such consent as 
 aforesaid), that the owner or owners thei'eof shall be pi-evented from 
 passing i'reely to and repassing freely from such iiouse, tenement, 
 or land. 
 
 80. . . . For the improvement of the streets and public places in Streets may 
 tlie j)ar()chial or other districts witliin the jurisdiction of this Act, and 'je widened 
 for the public advantage, it shall and juay be lawful to and for the ^^.|'^i^™]j[°Jji|. 
 commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the control of of owners, 
 the pavements of any parochial or other district, from time to time, 
 and at all times hereafter, to altei', widen, turn, or extend any of the 
 streets or other ])ublic ])laces within any such ])arochial or other district 
 (except turnpike I'oads), and to lengthen and continue or open the 
 same from the sides or ends of any streets or public places within 
 any parochial or other district, into any other street or public place 
 within such or any other parochial or other district, and to raise, 
 level, lower, drain, ballast, gravel, or pave such new ])art or parts 
 of any such streets or public places so altered, widened, extended, 
 opened, or lengthened as aforesaid ; and that if any houses, walls, 
 buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or any part thereof, 
 shall be adjudged by the said commissioners or trustees, or other 
 persons as aforesaid, to project into, obstruct, or prevent them from 
 so altering, turning, widening, extending, lengthening, continuing, 
 or opeuing the said streets or public places within the said ])arochuil 
 or other district, and that the ])ossession, occu])ation, and jnirchase 
 of such houses, walls, buildings, lauds, tenements, or lieredita- 
 ments will be necessary for that purpose, it shall and may be lawful 
 to and for the said commissioners or trustees, or other persons as 
 aforesaid, and they shall have full })ower and authority, to treat, 
 contract, and agree, or to em})loy any person or persons to treat, 
 contract, and agree with the several owner or owners, occupier or 
 occupiers of all such houses, walls, buildings, lands, and heredita- 
 ments, of whatsoever nature, tenure, kind, or quality, for the 
 purposes aforesaid, and to pay for the same such sum and sums 
 of money as shall be agreed upou by the said commissioners or 
 trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, and the owner or owners, 
 occupier or occupiers thereof, out of the money to arise and be raised 
 
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 50 [Chap xxix.] The Metropolitan Pamng Act \>^\~. [57 Geo. 3,] 
 
 and to be received by tbem, either by virtue of any local Act or 
 Acts of Parliament relating to such parochial or other districts, 
 or of this Act, and to pull down, use, sell, or dispose of such houses, 
 walls, and buildings, and the materials thereof,- and lay the sites 
 thereof, and also such other lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or 
 so much thereof as they the said commissioners or trustees, or other 
 persons as aforesaid, shall think proper into the said streets or 
 other public places; and all such new parts of snch streets or public 
 23laces, and the owners and occupiers of houses and Imildings, 
 messuages, and other hereditaments therein and adjoining thereto, 
 shall be subject and liable to all the rates, assessments, powers, 
 provisions, orders, clauses, and things to be made by virtue of or 
 contained in any local Act or Acts of Parliament relating to such 
 parochial or other district, or by virtue of or contained in this Act, 
 in the same manner as the present streets and public places included 
 in any such local Act or Acts, or within the jurisdiction of this 
 Act, and the owners and occupiers of houses or bniklings and 
 messuages or other hereditaments therein and adjoining thereto. 
 Corporate or 81. . . . It shall and may be lawful for all liodies politic, 
 bodifs a\id Corporate, or collegiate, corporations aggregate or sole, tenants for life 
 incapacitated or in tail, OF Others having a partial or qualified interest or estate 
 persons en- in any houses, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, husbands, 
 a le to .>e . fgjj^g^ covert, guardians, trustees, and feofiees in trnst for charities 
 or other purposes, committees, executors, or administrators, and 
 all other persons whomsoever, not only on behalf of themselves, 
 and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, and suc- 
 cessors, but also on behalf of all persons entitled in reversion 
 or remainder expectant on an estate tail, and on behalf of all 
 persons entitled in reversion or remainder expectant on an estate 
 for life, or other less estate, or by way of executory devise, in 
 case such persons shall be incapacitated or decline to treat, and 
 on behalf of their respective wives and cestuique trusts, whether 
 infants, issue unborn, lunatics, idiots, femes covert, or others, and 
 for all and every other person or persons whomsoever who are 
 and shall be seised, possessed of, or interested in any such houses, 
 lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to treat and agree with the said 
 commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the control of 
 the pavements in the streets or public places in any parochial or 
 other district within the jurisdiction of this Act as aforesaid, for 
 the absolute sale thereof, and to sell and convey to the said com- 
 missioners or trustees, or other ])ersons as aforesaid, by feoliment, 
 lease and release, or bargain and sale, by deed indented and enrolled 
 in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, for such 
 valuable consideration as shall be bond fde agreed upon for such 
 houses, lauds, tenements, or hereditaments as shall be adjudged 
 necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid : and that all 
 contracts, agreements, sales, or conveyances which shall be bond 
 Jide made for the purpose aforesaid shall be good and effectual in 
 the law to all intents and purposes : anything to the contrary 
 thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 
 When parties 82. ... If any body or bodies i^olitic, corjwrate, or collegiate, or 
 refuse or are ^uy Other person or persons seised or possessed of or interested 
 tr'^t ^etc a ^^ ^^Y ^^^'^ honses, buildings, lauds, tenements, or hereditaments 
 prece'pt to be as aforesaid, shall refuse to treat or agree, or shall not agree, 
 issued for qf by reason of absence or disability cannot agree with the 
 a^urv,'^'^ ^^" ^^^^ commissioners or trustees or other persons having the
 
 [o7 Geo. 3.] The Metropolitan Pacim/ Act I'slT. [(Jhat. xxix.] 51 
 
 control of the pavements of any streets or ])iiblic jilaces in any 
 parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of tl)is Act, or 
 with any jx'rson or persons authori/-ed by them, for the sale and 
 conveyance oi'tiieir respective (^states and interest therein, or cannot 
 be found or known, or shall not produce and evince a clear title to 
 the premises they are in possession of, or to the interest they claim 
 therein, to the satisfaction of the said commissioners or trustees or 
 otiier persons as aforesaid, or of the pei'son or ])('rsons so authorized 
 by them, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the said 
 commissioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid, and they 
 are hereby required to issue a warrant or warrants, ])r('C('pt or 
 precepts, directed to tlie sheriff or sheriffs, or ])ailitf or other proper 
 officer of the city, borough, or county wlierein the j)remises shall 
 respectively lie or be, who is hereby authoriiced, directed, and 
 required accordingly to impannel, summon, and return a com- 
 petent number of substantial and disinterested persons (pialified 
 to serve on juries, not less than fortv-eight nor more than seventv- 
 two ; and out of such persons so to be imi)annelled, summoned, and 
 returned, a jury of twelve men shall be drawn by some indifferent 
 person to be by the said commissioners or trustees or other persons 
 as aforesaid apjjointed, in such mnnner as juries for the trial of 
 issues joined in His Majesty's Courts at Westminster are by an Act 
 made in the third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George 
 the Second, intituled "An Act for the better Regulation of Juries," who are to be 
 are directed to be drawn; which ])ersons so to be impannelled, '^rawn as 
 summoned, and returned as aforesaid are hereby re(iuired to come '\S^' '' '^' ~^' 
 and appear before the Justices of the Peace for the city, borough, or 
 county wherein the premises shall lie or be, at some Court of General 
 or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden in and for the same city, 
 borough, or county, or at some adjournment thereof, as in sucli warrant 
 or warrants, j)recept or precepts, shall be directed and ap])ointed, and 
 to attend such Court of General or Quarter Sessions from day to 
 day until discharged by the said court : and all parties concerned jnrymen may 
 sliall and may have their lawful challenges against any of the said bechallengeci. 
 jurymen, but shall not be at liberty to ciuillenge the array ; and the 
 said Justices are hereby authorized and empowered, by precept or 
 precepts, from time to time as occasion shall re(|uire, to call before 
 them all and every person and persons wdiomsoever who shall 
 be thought proper and necessary to be examined as a witness or 
 witnesses on his, her, or their oath or oaths, touching or concerning 
 the premises ; and the said Justices, if they think ht, shall an(l .iu.stices, on 
 may, on the application of either i)arty, likewise authorize the said tj^e appHca- 
 jury to view the place or places or premises in (piestion, in such *,'.|^" "^'^ '^'"l^'^'^ 
 manner as they shall direct; and the said Justices shall have power direct a view 
 to adjourn such court from day to day as occasion shall require, and of tl^e 
 to command such jury, witnesses, :ind parties to atten^l until all P'^^'^'^es. 
 such affairs for which they were summoneil shall be concluded : and 
 the said jury upon their oaths (which oaths, as also the oaths of 'my to assess 
 such person or persons as shall be called upon to give evidence, ^^^''^/'''^"^ °" 
 the said Justices are hereby empowered and required to administer) ' 
 shall in(piire of the value of such houses, buildings, lands, tene- 
 ments, or hereditaments, and of the proportionable value of the 
 respective estates and interest of all and every person and jjcrsous 
 seised or possessed thereof, or interested therein, or of or in any part 
 or jnirfs thereof, and shall assess and award the sum or sums of 
 money to be paiil to such person or persons, party or parties respec-
 
 52 [CHAr. xxix.] The Metropolitan Paving Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 tively, for the purchase of such houses, buildings, lands, tenements, 
 or hereditaments, and of such respective estates and interest therein, 
 and also for good-will, improvements, or any injury or damage 
 whatsoever that may affect any such person or persons, party or 
 parties, either as leaseholders or tenants at will, provided that such 
 good-will shall be estimated by what, in the opinion of such jury, 
 the same would have been worth in case the improvements intended 
 by this Act had not been in eontem])lation : and the said Justices 
 shall and may give judgment for such sum or sums of money so 
 Verdict of the to be assessed; which verdict or verdicts, and the judgment and 
 jury, etc. to judgments, determination and determinations thereupon, (notice in 
 
 be final, lire- ■?• i • • * ii ■ i. j. ^ ^ • • 
 
 vious notice writing being given to the person or persons interested or claiming 
 being given SO to be, at least fourteen days before tlie time of the meeting of 
 to the parties i\^q ^^\(\ Jnstices as aforesaid and jury, by leaving such notice at the 
 in eres ec . dwelling house of such person and persons, or at his, her, or their 
 last usual place or places of abode, or with some tenant or occupier 
 of the premises respectively intended to be valued), shall be binding 
 and conclusive to all intents and purposes whatsoever against all 
 bodies politic, corporate, and collegiate, and all and every person 
 and persons claiming any estate, right, title, trust, use, or interest 
 in, to, or out of such houses, buildings, lands, tenements, or 
 hereditaments and premises in possession, reversion, remainder, 
 or expectancy, as well infants and issne unborn, lunatics, idiots, 
 and femes covert, and persons under any other legal incapacity or 
 disability, as all other cestuique trusts, their, his, and her heirs, 
 successors, executors, and administrators, and against all otlier 
 persons whomsoever ; and the said verdicts, judgments, and deter- 
 minations, and all other proceedings of the said Justices and juries, 
 so to be made, given, and pronounced as aforesaid, shall be fairly 
 written on j)archment. and signed by the clerk of the peace for the 
 time being of the city, borough, or county wherein the premises 
 If the sum shall respectively lie or be ; and in case it shall so liappen that the 
 assessed shall ^^^^ qj. j^^^^^g ^f monev SO to be assessed and awarded in consequence 
 the sum ot such refusal to treat and agree as aforesaid, as the value of such 
 
 offered, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or as such 
 
 proportional value as aforesaid, and as the recompense and satis- 
 faction to be made for the injury or damage sustained as before 
 mentioned respectively, shall not exceed the sum or sums of money 
 wjiich the said commissioners or trustees, or other persons as 
 aforesaid, or any person or persons authorized by them, shall have 
 previously offered to pay as and for such value, recompense, and 
 
 the costs of satisfaction, then and in everv such case all the reasonable costs, 
 such assess- -. i r. " • i • ^ ^ i 
 
 ment. etc. to charges, and expenses of causing and procuring such valne and 
 
 be paid by recom])ense to be assessed and awarded as aforesaid, and also 
 
 such body assessing and awarding the same, shall l)e Ijorne and paid by the 
 
 po 1 ic, e c. |jQ,|y ^j. jjodies politic, corporate, or collegiate, or other person or 
 
 persons so seised or possessed of or interested in such houses, 
 
 buildings, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and so refusing to 
 
 treat and agree as before mentioned respectively ; and the said 
 
 and the com- commissioners or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, are 
 
 missioners, hereby authorized and empowered to deduct and retain the said 
 
 retai™^he costs, charges, and ex})enses out of the sum or sums of money so 
 
 .same out of to be assessed or awarded as aforesaid, or out of any part thereof: 
 
 the sum so Provided always, that in all cases w^here anv person or persons shall 
 
 by reason of absence have been prevented from treating about such 
 
 recompense or satisfaction as aforesaid, such costs and charges shall
 
 [57 Geo. 3.] '1%' Metropolitan Pacing Act 1817. [Chat, xxix.] 53 
 
 be borne and ]iaiil by the said commissioners or trustees, or other 
 persons as aforesaid, in manner aforesaid, 
 
 83. . . . The said Justices sliall liave power from time to time Ju'^tices em- 
 
 to impose anv reasonable fine, not cxceedinf; the sum of twcntv P^^^''-''e<l to 
 
 1 ' , 1 •/!■ I -i-ii- 1-1 i 1 • ■ iriirxjse fines 
 
 pounds, on sucli sheriri or hailiti, or his dej)Uty or deputies, for non- 
 bailiffs or agents respectively, making default in the premises, attendance, 
 and oil any of the persons who shall be summoned and returned 
 on any such jury or juiies, and shall not ajtpear, without suffi(;ient 
 excuse, or a})pcarin;;" shall refuse to be sworn on tin; said jury or 
 juries, or being so sworn shall not give his or their verdict ; and 
 also on any person or persons who shall be summoned to give 
 evidence toucliiiig any of the matters aforesaid, and shall not attend, 
 or attending shall refuse to be sworn, or to affirm, or who shall 
 refuse to give his, her, or their evidence, and on any person or 
 persons who shall in anv other manner wilfullv neiilect his, her, 
 
 ,.■1, *', */ ~ /" 
 
 or their duty in the premises, contrary to the true intent and 
 meaning of this Act ; and from time to time to levy such fine or 
 fines, by order of the said Justices, by distress and sale of the 
 offender's goods and chattels, together with the reasonable charges 
 of every such distress and sale, returning the over])lus (if any) to 
 the owner or owners ; and that a coj)y of the order of the said 
 Justices, signed by the clerk of the peace for the time being of the 
 city, borough, or county wherein the premises shall lie or be, as 
 the case shall require, shall res})ectively be sufficient authority to 
 the person or persons therein to be appointed, and to every other 
 person acting or aiding and assisting therein, to make such distress 
 and sale; and all such fines shall be paid to the treasurer or 
 treasurers of the commissioners or trustees, or other persons as 
 aforesaid having the control of the pavements in the parochial 
 or other district wherein such premises shall lie or be, or to such 
 other person or persons as they may respectively from time to time 
 a])})oint. 
 
 84. ... If any money shall be agreed or awarded to be paid for Application 
 any lands, buildings, tenements, or hereditaments, or for any other °/ V"™P®°' 
 matter, right, or interest, of what nature or kind soever, purchased, excerdiL^^"^^ 
 taken, or used by virtue of the powers of this Act for the purpose 20o/. 
 thereof, which shall belong to any corporation, feme covert, infant, 
 lunatic, or person or persons under any other disability or incapacity, 
 sucii money shall, in case the same shall amount to the sum of 
 two hundred j)Ounds, with all convenient speed be paid into the 
 Bank of England in the name and with the i)rivity of the Accountant 
 General of the High Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account 
 there ex parte, the said commissioners or trustees, or other persons 
 having the control of the pavements of the streets or public places 
 in the parochial or other districts within the jurisdiction of this Act, 
 wherein such lands, buildings, tenements, or hereditaments, shall be 
 or lie as aforesaid, together with the name or names of such person 
 or j)ersons as the said commissioners or trustees or other persons as 
 aforesaid, by writing signeil by them, shall direct and appoint, to 
 the intent that such money shall be applied, under the direction and 
 with the approbation of the said Court, to be signified by an order 
 made upon a ])etition to be preferrecl in a summary way by the 
 person or persons who would have been entitled to the rents and 
 profits of the said lands, buihliiigs, tenements, or hereditaments, in 
 the purchase of land tax, or discharge of any debt or debts, or such 
 other incumbrance or part thereof as the said Court shall authorize
 
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 Application 
 where the 
 compensa- 
 tion does not 
 exceed 200L 
 nor less than 
 201. 
 
 Application 
 where the 
 money is less 
 than 201. 
 
 to Le paid, afFocting the same lands, buildings, tenements, or 
 hereditaments, or affecting other lands, buildings, tenements, 
 or hereditaments standing settled therewith to the same or the 
 like uses, intents, or purposes : or where such money shall not be 
 so applied, then the same shall be laid out and invested, under the 
 like direction and approbation of the said Court, in the ])urchase 
 of other messuages, lands, buildings, tenements, or hereditaments, 
 which shall be conveyed and settled to, for, and upon such and the 
 like uses, trusts, intents, and purposes, and in the same manner, 
 as the messuages, lands, buiklings, tenements, and hereditaments 
 which shall be so purchased, taken, or used as aforesaid stood 
 settled or limited, or such of them as at the time of making such 
 conveyance and settlement shall be existing undetermined and 
 capable of taking effect ; and in the meantime and until such pur- 
 chase shall be made, the said money shall, by order of the Court 
 of Chancery, upon application thereto, be invested by the said 
 Accountant General, in his name, in the purchase of Three 
 Pounds per Centum <_'onsolidated or Three Pounds per Centum 
 iieduced Bank Annuities ; and in the meantime and until the said 
 Bank Annuities shall be ordered by the said Court to be sold for 
 the purposes aforesaid, the dividends and annual produce of the said 
 Consolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities shall from time to time be 
 jjaid, by order of the said Court, to the person or persons who would 
 for the time being liave been entitled to the rents and profits of 
 the said lands, buildings, tenements, and hereditaments so hereby 
 directed to be purchased, in case such purchase or settlement 
 were made. 
 
 85. Provided always . . . that if any money so agreed or awarded 
 to be paid for any lands, buildings, tenements, or hereditaments, 
 or for any other matter, right, or interest, of what nature or kind 
 soever, purchased, taken, or used for the purposes aforesaid, and 
 belonging to any corporation, or to any person or persons under 
 disability or incapacity as aforesaid, shall be less than the sum of 
 two hundred pounds, and shall exceed the sum of twenty pounds, 
 then and in all such cases the same shall, at the option of the 
 person or persons for the time being entitled to the rents and 
 profits of the hereditaments so purchased, taken, or used, or of 
 his, her, or their guardian or guardians, committee or committees, 
 in case of infancy or lunacy, to be signified in writing under their 
 respective hands, to be paid into the bank in the name and with 
 the privity of the said Accountant General of the High Court of 
 Chancery, and be placed to his account as aforesaid, in order to be 
 applied in manner hereinbefore directed ; or otherwise the same 
 shall be paid, at the like optic»n, to two trustees, to be nominated 
 by the person or persons making such ojition, and ajDproved of by 
 the said commissioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid 
 (such nomination and approbation to be signified in writing under 
 the hands of the nominating and approvino- ])arties), in order that 
 such j)rincipal money, and the dividends arising thereon, may be 
 applied in any manner hereinbefore directed, so far as the case may 
 be applicable, without obtaining or being required to obtain the 
 direction or approbation of the Court of Chancery. 
 
 86. Piovided also, . . . that where such money so agreed or awarded 
 to be paid as next before mentioned shall be less than twenty 
 pounds, then and in all such cases the same shall l)e aj^plied to the 
 use of the person or persons who would for the time being have
 
 [57 Geo. 3.J The MelropoUfan Vaciny Act 1817. [Ciiai'. xxix.] 55 
 
 been entitled to the rents and jirofits of the hereditaments and 
 premises so pnrehased, taken, or used for the purposes of this Act, 
 in sucli manner as the said commissioners or trustees, or othor 
 persons as aforesaid, shall think lit : or in (;ase of infancy or lunacy, 
 then to his, her, or their guardian or guardians, committee or com- 
 mittees, to and for the use and benefit of such person or persons so 
 entitled r('si)ectively. 
 
 87. . . . U])oii ])ayment of any sum or sums so agreed or awarrled to On payment 
 
 the party or jiarties to whom the same shall be so awarded, or upon '-»f the pur- 
 
 the deposit of the same in the Bank of Entrland in maimer bv this !;''''*!?; "jl'^^^ 
 
 A T 1 / 1 1 \ 1 -111 ■ 1 premises to 
 
 Act directed (as the (tase may be), the said lands, tenements, and vest in com- 
 
 hereditaments, in respect wliei-eol' the same shall have been so ])aid missioners, 
 
 or deposited as aforesaid, shall vest in the commissioners or trustees ^^^' 
 
 or other persons as aforesaid for the time being, in manner and foi- 
 
 the purposes aforesaid, who shall be deemed in law to be in the 
 
 actual possession thereof, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, 
 
 freed and discharged from all former and other estates, rights, titles, 
 
 interests, claims, and demands whatsoever, 
 
 88. Provided always, . . . that where any question shall arise touch- Where any 
 ing the title of any person to any money to be paid into the Bank of 1"^^*'^°'? 
 England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant General touchhig the 
 of the Court of Chancei-y, in pursuance of this Act, for the jiurchase title to money 
 of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any estate, right, or ^j^ '^^ P^i'^- 
 interest in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments to be purchased who^shalTbe 
 in })ursuance of this Act, or to any bank annuities to be ])urchased in possession 
 with a,ny such mf)ney, or the dividends or interest of any such bank of the lands, 
 annuities, the person or persons wdio shall have been in possession of tjjyg of such 
 such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, at the time of such pur- purchase, 
 chase, and all persons claiming under such person or persons, or under ^^^^^ ^ 
 
 the possession of such person or persons, shall be deemed and taken en^^jtied 
 to have been lawfully entitled to such lands, tenements, or heredita- thereto 
 ments accordino- to such possession, until the contrarv shall be ^ifcording 
 shown to the satisfaction of the said Court of Chancery ; and the possession, 
 dividends or interest of the bank annuities to be purchased with unless, etc. 
 such money, and also the capital of such bank annuities, shall be 
 paid, a])plied, and dis])osed of accordingly, unless it shall be made 
 api)ear to the said Court that such possession was a wrongful pos- 
 session, and that some other person or persons was or were lawfully 
 entitled to such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or to some 
 estate or interest therein. 
 
 89. Provided also, . . . that where by reason of any disability or The Court 
 incapacity of the person or ])ersons or corporation entitled to any of Chancery 
 lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to be purchased, or ])urchased "aJouaWe 
 under the authority of this Act, the purchase money for the same expenses of 
 sliall be retpiired to be ])aid into the Court of Chancery, and to be p""^^'*?^* '<* 
 applied in the purchase of other lands, tenements, or hereditaments, the comm'is- 
 to be settled to the like uses in pursuance of this Act, it shall be sioners, etc. 
 lawful for the said Court of Chancery to order the expenses of all 
 purchases from time to time to be made in ])ursnance of this Act, 
 
 or so much of such expenses as the said Court shall deem reasonable, 
 to be paid by the said commissioners or trustees or other })ersons as 
 aforesaid, who shall from time to time pay such sums of money for 
 such purposes as the said Court shall direct. 
 
 90. . . . Every tenant at will or lessee for a year, or any other Tenants at 
 person or persons in possession of any such houses, buildings, lands, ^^' '^ ^'
 
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 deliver pos- 
 session on 
 six months 
 notice. 
 
 Mortgagees, 
 on tender 
 of principa] 
 and interest 
 to convey. 
 
 tenements, and hereditaments, or any part thereof, which shall be 
 purchased by virtue and for the purposes of this Act, and who shall 
 have no greater interest in the premises than as tenant at will or 
 lessee for a year, or from year to year, shall deliver up the possession 
 of snch premises to the said commissioners or trustees, or other 
 persons as aforesaid having the control of the pavements in the 
 streets or public places in the parochial or other division within the 
 jurisdiction of this Act, wherein such houses, buildings, lands, tene- 
 ments, and hereditaments, or to such person or persons as the said 
 commissioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid shall appoint 
 to take possession of the same, upon having six calendar months 
 notice to quit such possession from the said commissioners or trustees 
 or other persons as aforesaid, or from the person or persons so 
 authorized by them ; and such person or persons in possession shall 
 at the end of the said six calendar months, whether such notice be 
 given with reference to the time or times of such tenants holding 
 or not, or so soon as he, she, or they shall be required, peaceably 
 and quietly deliver up the possession of the said premises to the 
 said commissioners or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid or the 
 person or persons authorized by the said commissioners or trustees 
 or other persons as aforesaid to take possession thereof ; and in case 
 any such tenant should be compelled to quit before the expiration 
 of his or her term in any such premises, then and in such case the 
 said commissioners or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, shall 
 and they are hereby required to make satisfaction and compensation 
 for the loss or damage which he or she shall or mav sustain therebv ; 
 and in case any difference or dispute shall arise as to the amount 
 of such satisfaction or compensation, the same shall or may be 
 determined, settled, and ascertained by a jury, in such and the like 
 manner as the sum or sums of money to be paid for the purchase 
 of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, is herein directed to 
 be determined, settled, and ascertained ; and that in case any such 
 person or persons so in possession as aforesaid shall refuse to give 
 such possession as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for 
 the said commissioners or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, to 
 issue their precept or precepts to the sheriff or sheriffs, or bailiff, 
 or other proper officer of the city, borough, or county wherein such 
 parochial or other district shall be situate, to deliver possession of 
 the said premises to such person or persons as shall in such precept 
 or precepts be nominated to receive the same ; and the said sheriff 
 or sheriffs or bailiff, and every other proper officer, is herel)y author- 
 ized and required to deliver such jjossessiou accordingly of the said 
 premises, and to levy such costs as shall accrue from the issuing 
 and execution of such precei)t or precepts on the person or persons 
 80 refusing to give possession as aforesaid, by distress and sale of 
 his, her, or their goods. 
 
 91. ... All and every person and persons who shall have any 
 mortgage or mortgages on such houses, buildings, lauds, tenements, 
 and hereditaments, not being in possession thereof by virtue of such 
 mortgage or mortgages, shall on the tender of the principal money 
 and interest due thereon, together with the amount of six calendar 
 months interest on the said principal, by the said commissioners or 
 trustees, or other persons having the control of the pavements in 
 the streets or public places in such parochial or other district within 
 the jurisdiction of this Act, wherein the said houses, buildings, 
 lands, tenements, and hereditaments shall lie or be as aforesaid,
 
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 or Ijy sucli ])erson or persons as they shall ujijMiinr, immediately 
 convey, assign, and transfer such mortgage or mortgages to the said 
 commissioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid, or to such 
 ])ers()n or ])('rsons as they sluill appoint ; or in ease such mortgagee 
 or mortgagees shall hav(! notice in writing from the said com- 
 missioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid, or from such 
 person or persons as they shall a])j)oint, tliat tliey will pay olf and 
 discliarge the princiy)al money and interest which shall Ix' due on 
 the said mortgage or mortgages at the end or expiration of six 
 calendar montlis, to be coraj)uted from the day of giving such notice, 
 that then at the end of the said six calendar months, on payment 
 of the j)rinci]ial and interest so due, such mortga<;ee or mortgagees 
 shall convey, assign, and transfer his, her, or their interest in the 
 j)remises to tlie said commissioners or trustees or otiier persons as 
 aforesaid, or to such person or persons as shall l)e appointed in trust 
 for them ; and in case the mortgagee or mortgagees shall refuse On refusal, 
 to convev and assign as aforesaid on such tender or iiavment, tliat ^°'-'^'"^^* *^ 
 then all interest on every such mortgage shall from tlienceforth 
 cease and determine. 
 
 92. Provided always, . . . that in case the sum due uj)on any such The mort- 
 mortgage or mortgages, with all interest due thereon, shall amount f^vt'^L'^"/ 
 
 1111/11 * 1 *1 L V Lie l-luill 1 
 
 to more tluin the real value or the j)remises, to be ascertained asmoretiian 
 directed by this Act, then the said commissioners or trustees or the real value 
 other persons as aforesaid shall not be liable to pay to the mort- °^ '^'^^™'^®^- 
 gagee or mortgagees more than such real value of such premises, so 
 ascertained as aforesaid. 
 
 93. . . . The conveyance of any such estate or interest of any feme Bargfains and 
 covert to tlie said commissioners or trustees or other persons as ^^'f ^ "^^ ^^^^ 
 aforesaid for the time l)eing, or any five or more of them, <>r any fines and 
 person or persons in trust for them, by indenture or indentures of recoveries, 
 bargain and sale, sealed and delivered by such feme covert in the 
 presence of and attested by two credil)le witnesses, and duly acknow- 
 ledged, and to be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery within 
 
 six calendar months after the making thereof, shall as effectually 
 and absolutely convey the estate and interest of such feme covert 
 in the ])remises as any tine or fines, recovery or recoveries, would 
 or could do, if levied or suffered thereof in due form of law ; and 
 further, that all bargains and sales whatsoever to be made of anv 
 such houses, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, as 
 shall be jnirchased by the commissioners or trustees or other persons 
 as aforesaid for th(; time being, by virtue and for the pur])0ses of 
 this Act, and enrolled as aforesaid, shall Inive tiie like force, effect, 
 and operation in law, to all intents and })urposes, as any tine or 
 fines, recovery or recoveries whatsoever would have had if levied or 
 suiFered by the Ijargainer or bargainers, or any })erson or persons 
 seised of or entitled to any estate or interest in the premises in trust 
 for such bargainer or bargainers, in any manner or form whatsoever. 
 
 94. . . . Upon j)ayment of the principal money and interest due Upon pay- 
 on anv mortgage as aforesaid into the I)ank of England, at the cuil 'V*;"^ ;^^y"°" 
 
 n ' ^ ^ y~ '^ ^ n ii • • i~ ■ _i* CI pill (1(1 CI 
 
 01 SIX calendar months irom the dav ot giving such notice as atore- intorest into 
 said, for the use of the mortgagee or mortgagees, the cashier or the bunk, 
 cashiers of the bank shall give a receipt or receijus for the said vesUnTh? 
 money, in like manner as is hereinbefore directed in cases of other commission- 
 payments into the bank : and thereupon all the estate, right, title, ers, etc. 
 interest, use, trust, property, claim, and demand o'i the saiil mort-
 
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 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Paring x\ct 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 Monies to 
 be paid or 
 tendered 
 before any 
 use made of 
 the premises. 
 
 Estates mav 
 be sold, the 
 persons of 
 whom they 
 were bought 
 having the 
 first offer. 
 
 gagee or mortgagees, aud of all and every person or persons in 
 trust for him, her, or them, shall vest in the said commissioners or 
 trustees or other persons as aforesaid, and they shall be deemed 
 to be in the actual possession of the premises comprised in such 
 mortgage or mortgages, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. 
 
 95. . . . All sums of money, or other consideration, recompence 
 or satisfaction, to be paid or made pursuant to any such agreement 
 or verdict as aforesaid, or in discharge of any such mortgage, shall 
 be paid or tendered to the ])arty or parties entitled to the same, or 
 paid into the Bank of England as aforesaid, before the said com- 
 missioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid, or any person 
 or i^ersons authorized by them, shall proceed to pull down any 
 house or houses, or other erections or buildings comprised in or 
 affected by such agreement, verdict, or mortgage respectively, or to 
 use the ground for any of the purposes before mentioned in this Act. 
 
 96. ... It shall and may be lawful to and for the said com- 
 missioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid, from time to 
 time absolutely to sell and disjiose of all or any of the freehold or 
 leasehold estates, lands, houses, hereditaments, and premises which 
 shall hereafter be conveyed to them in pursuance of this Act or 
 otherwise : provided the said freehold or leasehold estates, lands, 
 houses, hereditaments, and premises so purchased are first offered 
 for sale to the respective person or persons of or from whom the 
 premises respectively were purchased by or on behalf of the said 
 commissioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid ; and if such 
 person or persons respectively shall not then and thereupon agree 
 (except with respect to and on account of the price thereof as herein- 
 after mentioned), or shall refuse (except with respect to and on 
 account of the price thereof) to jjurchase the same respectively, 
 an affidavit shall be made and sworn before a master in the High 
 Court of Chancery, or before one of His 3Iajesty's Justices of 
 the Peace for the city, borough, or county wherein such parochial 
 or other district shall be situate (who are hereby respectively 
 empowered and directed to take the same), by some jierson or 
 persons uninterested in the said freehold or leasehold estates, lands, 
 houses, hereditaments, or premises, stating that such offer was made 
 by or on the behalf of the said commissioners or trustees or other 
 persons as aforesaid, and that such offer was not then and thereupon 
 agreed to, or was refused l)y the person or persons to whom the 
 same was so offered ; and that any such affidavit shall in all Courts 
 whatsoever be sufficient evidence and proof that such offer was made 
 and was not agreed to, or was refused by the person or persons to 
 whom such offer was made, as the case may be ; and in case such 
 person or persons shall be desirous of rei^urchasing the same, and 
 he, she, or they, and the said commissioners or trustees or other 
 persons as aforesaid, shall differ and not agree with respect to the 
 price thereof, then the price or jDrices thereof shall be ascertained 
 by a jury, in the manner hereinbefore directed with respect to the 
 disputed value of premises to be purchased by the said commissioners 
 or trustees or other persons as aforesaid in pursuance of this Act ; 
 and the expense of hearing and determining such differences shall 
 be borne and paid in like manner as is hereinbefore directed with 
 respect to such purchase made by the said commissioners or trustees 
 or other persons as aforesaid {^mutatis mutandis) ; and the money 
 to arise by the sale or sales which may be made by the said com- 
 missioners or trustees or other persons as aforesaid, of such freehold 
 
 i
 
 [57 Geo. 3.] The Metropolitan I'nvimj Act \x\'. R 'hai'. \.\ix.] W.) 
 
 or leasehold estates, lunds, houses, hereditaments, and premises, 
 shall be applied by the said commissioners or trustees or other 
 persons as aforesaid to the purposes of the local Act or Acts of 
 Parliament relating" to the parochial or other division over the 
 pavements whereof they shall possess a control, or t(j the purposes 
 of this Act, but the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall not be 
 answerable or accountable ibr any misaj)plication or iion-aj)plication 
 of the money jtaid by him or them for sucli fi'eehold or leasehold 
 estates, lands, houses, hereditaments, and premises. 
 
 97—108. \_liorrowitig itoiccrs. SKjx'r.scdcd IS ct 10 Vict, c li't, 
 ss. 183, 185—191.] 
 
 109. ... It shall and may be lawful to and for the commissioners Conimission- 
 
 or trustees, or other Tiersons havinu- the control of the iiavements in ers may meet 
 ,, ^ ^ ' 1 1- I • 1 • 1 ^1 1- • , • 1 ■ '"If' iiiay liave 
 
 tne streets or j)ublic places m any pai'ochial or other district witliin offices ami 
 
 the jurisdiction of this Act, from time to time and at all times places where 
 afterwards to assemble and meet together for the execution of the -^f""*^-" o'" 
 local Act or Acts of Pai-liiinient whereby or by virtue whereof they impoundecl. 
 may have been appointed, and of this Act, within their respective 
 parocliial or other district or elsewhere, and may adjourn such 
 meetings from time to time as they shall think proper; but that 
 one such general meeting shall be held at least once in everv 
 calendar month, and that five or more of such commissioners or 
 trustees or other jjcrsous shall attend at and be necessary to con- 
 stitute every such general meeting ; and the acts, resolutions, and 
 proceedings of the majority present at such meetings shall be 
 deemed and considered to be the acts, resolutions, and proceedings 
 of such meetings ; and that such commissioners or trustees or other 
 persons as aforesaid may retain and employ and discharge and pay 
 such clerks, surveyors, inspectors, and other persons, as they from 
 time to time shall deem expedient ; and also shall and may deduct 
 and allow to themselves and to each other, and t(t their officers and 
 servants, all expenses necessarily incurred in and about the execution 
 of any local Act or Acts of Tarliament, or of this Act : and also 
 shall and may from time to time purchase or rent upon lease, for a 
 term or terms of years or otherwise, or may erect, furnish, alter or 
 improve any houses, offices, and other })laces wdiich they may deem 
 necessary or exi)edient for their places of meeting, or for the trans- 
 action of their ofHcial business, or for the deposit and safe custody 
 of their books, vouchers, and documents ; and also may purciiase or 
 rent upon lease or otherwise from time to time such place or places 
 to be called " The Green Yard," for such parochial or other district, 
 for the rece[)tion, deposit, and safe custody of any article seized and 
 removed by virtue of any local Act or Acts of Parliament, or of this 
 Act, within their res])ective j)arochial or otlier districts, or of any 
 horses, beasts, cattle, or any animals or other things which may be 
 found straying, or which shall be in or about any streets or })ublic 
 places within their respective parochial or other district, or which, 
 according to any local Act or Acts of Parliament, or to this Aet, or 
 to the C'oinmt)n or Statute Law, may be impounded ; and may 
 appoint any person or persons to inhabit and take care of such 
 houses, offices, and other places of meeting, and to have the custody 
 and care of such books, vouchers, and documents, and to take care 
 of and superintend such places of deposit as aforesaid ; and may 
 appoint the fees and charges which shall be paid ami i)ayable, ami 
 which may be demanded on or for the deposit and safe custody of 
 any such articles so seized, or of any horses, beasts, cattle, animals,
 
 60 
 
 [Chap, xxix.] The Metropolitan Pacing Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 or other things which shall be there impounded as aforesaid ; and 
 that the same fees and charges shall be so ])aid before any such 
 articles or things shall be given up or restored to any persons 
 whomsoever, or shall and may be deducted out of the proceeds of 
 any appraisement or sale of any such articles and things, and which 
 may be effected thereof under and by virtue of any local Act or Acts 
 of Parliament, or of this Act. 
 
 110 — 121. {Meetings of commissioners — Proceedings — Contracts — 
 Accounts — Actions. Superseded 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120.] 
 
 Commission- ^22. ... If any person or persons shall at any time or times here- 
 vevors not^to ^^er in any manner whatsoever wilfully obstruct, hinder, or molest 
 be obstructer! any Commissioners or trustees or any other persons having the con- 
 in perform- trol of the pavements in any streets or public places in any parochial 
 duty ° ^ ^" ^^" other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, or any surveyor 
 or surveyors of pavements, or any other officer or officers, person or 
 persons whomsoever, who are or shall be appointed or employed to 
 put in execution this Act or any local Act or Acts of Parliament by 
 the said commissioners or trustees or other persons having the 
 control of the jiavements of the streets and public places in any 
 such parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, 
 in the performance or execution of his or their duty, then every 
 person or persons so offending shall for the first offence forfeit the 
 sum of five pounds, and for the second offence the sum often pounds, 
 and for the third or any subsequent offence the sum of twenty pounds, 
 to be recovered in the same manner in which other penalties are 
 hereinafter directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act. 
 
 Justices may 
 proceed on 
 complaint of 
 commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Persons ag- 
 grieved may- 
 appeal. 
 
 123. ... In all cases where one or more Justice or Justices 
 of the Peace is or are or may be empowered by law to proceed on 
 the complaint of the commissioners or trustees, or other persons 
 having the control of the pavements in any streets or public places 
 in any parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, 
 or any of them, it shall and may be lawful for such Justice or 
 Justices of the Peace, and he or they is and are hereby required, to 
 proceed on the complaint of any one of the said commissioners or 
 trustees or other such persons, or of their surveyor or surveyors of 
 the pavements, or of their clerk or clerks for the time being, or any 
 of them, or of any person or persons whom they or any two or more 
 of them by writing under their hands shall appoint for that purpose, 
 in such and the like manner to all intents and purposes as if such 
 complaint had been made by such commissioners or trustees or 
 other such persons as aforesaid, or any or all of them. 
 
 124. \T wo commissioners mag act where a greater number is ?iot 
 required, bij ang local Act or hy this Act. Superseded. 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120.] 
 
 125—132. {Proceedings before Justices. Superseded!^ kl^ Vict, 
 c. 120 ; Metropolitan Police Acts and Summary Jurisdiction Acts.'\ 
 
 133. Provided always, . . . that if any person or persons shall think 
 himself, herself, or themselves aggrieved by any conviction or order 
 of any Justice or Justices of the Peace acting in and for any city, 
 borough, or county within the jurisdiction of this Act, for any 
 offence committed against any local Act or Acts of Parliament 
 relating to any parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of 
 this Act, or against this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for
 
 [07 Geo. ;J.] 'The Mitrojjoiitan I'ariny Act l.>17. [Chap, xxix.] 61 
 
 such i)ers()n or persons to a])peiil to the next General or Quarter 
 Sessions of the Peace. . . . \^J'art omitted (as to patiwj rates and 
 procedure on appeal) svper.^eded IS it 1'.' Vict. c. 120, s. 1>0 ; 
 {)2 ct G:{ Vict. c. 14, s. 11 ; t/ie Sammari/ Jurisdiction Acts and the 
 Quarter Sessions Act 184'J.] 
 
 134. [Justices to deliver recognizances to the clerk to the com- 
 missioners. Seinble superseded, hij the Summary Jurisdiction Acts 
 and the Quarter Sessions Act 184U.] 
 
 135. [Proceedings not to he quashed for /rant of form or removed 
 
 hg certi(>rari.'\ 
 
 136. [Limitation of art ions. ncjj. in part by the Luiutatioua of 
 Actions and Costs Act 1842. liemr. superseded by the Public 
 Authorities Protection Act 1893.*] 
 
 137. [Powers conferred on commissioners and trustees to belong 
 to vestrymen, commiftees, courts, and all other persons having the 
 control of pavements. Superseded 18 k 19 Vict. c. 12(J, .s. 90.] 
 
 138. Provided also, . . . that neitlier any Act or Acts of Parliament lo^^i raving 
 relating either exclusively to the paving or repairing the pavements Acts of Par- 
 of the streets or public places in any parochial or other district liament not 
 within tlie jurisdiction of this Act, or relating thereto jointly with repeafed 
 any other object or pur])ose, nor any clause, matter, or provision 
 
 therein contained, shall be hei-eby rejjcaled ; but that the commis- 
 sioners, trustees, or other persons by any such local Act or Acts of 
 Parliament vested with the control or su|)erintendence of the pave- 
 ment of the streets nnd pul)lic places in every sucli pjirochial or 
 other district shall rctaiu and may exercise all and every the powers 
 and authorities by all and every such local Act and Acts of Parlia- 
 ment conferred ui)on them or any of them ; and that they may from 
 time to time and at all times, either act under and ujjon all or any 
 of the j)rovisions, clauses, ])()wers, and authorities of such Act or 
 Acts of Parliament, or under any of tlie provisions, clauses, powers, 
 and authorities of this Act, as they from time to time, upon each 
 emergency or each particular occasion, may think proper and deem 
 most ex])edient; but sul)ject nevertlieless to all the provisions 
 contained in this Act as to the ;ij)pointment of surveyors of the 
 pavement in every parochial or other district, and as to the means 
 hereby provided for compelling the speedy and etfectual reparation 
 of imperfect pavement in all streets and ])ublic jihices witliin the 
 jurisdiction of this Act, and the regulation and improvement of such 
 streets, and removal and ])revention of nuisances and obstructions, 
 according to the provisions of this Act. 
 
 139—140. [Provisions of the Act not to affect the estates of the 
 Marquis Camden and Lord Somers in the parish of St. Pancras. 
 
 Semlde rep. 25 k 20 Vict. c. 102, s. 73.] 
 
 141. [Saving rights of certain commissioners of sewers. Suj/er- 
 seded 11 & 12 Vict. c. il2.t See now 18 ct"l9 Vict. c. 12o, 
 s. 13o.] 
 
 142. Provided always, . . . that nothing in this Act contained shall Nor to autho- 
 extend or be construed to extend to authori/^e the t:iking down or '"'^•^ .t'^*^" 
 remuvingany bar, gate, rail, or otlier fence fixed for ].reventing any IhorShfare 
 thoroughfare into or from any square, street, or way, without the witiunu con- 
 
 •consent of the owner of the estke or property upon wliich such bars, ^^"^ of the 
 
 ^ ^ • ^ ' owner of the 
 
 * See Appendix. estate, 
 
 t Kep. 38 & ;?9 Viot. c. 66 (S.L.R.).
 
 62 [Chap, xxix.] The MefropolUaii Faciity Act 1817. [57 Geo. 3.] 
 
 .ii'ates, rails, ov other fences, squares, streets, oi- wa3's shall be situate. 
 [^See 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 72; 53 & 54 Vict. c. {;cxlvii. ; and 
 50 & 57 Vict. c. Ixvi.] 
 
 143. \_Pro€isions of the Act not to extend to paiiahes of Saint 
 
 Mart/ Islington and Saint John Hackney. Rep. 25 k 26 Vict. 
 
 c. 102, ,s. 73.] 
 
 Certain pro- 144. [Jiecites 56 Gco. 3, c. 128,* and proceeds :] Nothing- in this 
 
 Y*^°"f \^ ^^^^ Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend or alter, 
 
 56 G. 3. abridge, repeal, or affect any of the said provisions in the said 
 
 c. 128. not to recited Act of the fifty-sixth year of the reign of His present Majesty 
 
 be affected contained, or to authorize or empower any surveyor of pavements or 
 
 • ^ ^ "^ • other person or persons, to remove or alter, or to require the removal 
 
 or alteration of any porticoes, ai'cades, or other covered ways, bow 
 
 windows, virandas, alcoves, balconies, pilaster colnmns, architectural 
 
 ornaments, or other projections which have been heretofore or shall 
 
 be hereafter authorized or permitted, by the commissioners for the 
 
 time being for executing the said recited Act, to be made in or to 
 
 any houses or other erections which shall have been or shall or may 
 
 be erected or built in any of the streets, squares, circusses, ways, 
 
 courts, ]mssages, or places com])rised within the provisions of the 
 
 said recited Act of the fift3'-sixtli year of the reign of His present 
 
 Majesty. 
 
 Houses, etc. 145. And whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it was enacted, 
 
 withm the ^\^q^^ ^^^^I^ ^f ^j^g houses, buildings, lands, and hereditaments which 
 
 Saint Mary- Were intended to be taken and used under tlie provisions and for the 
 
 le-bone, in purposes of the first Act therein recited, as are situate in the parish 
 
 the line of the Qf g^int Mary-le-bone, and also the houses and buildings to be 
 
 in Marv-ie- erected on the said lands, should for ever thereafter, in making any 
 
 bone Park, to rates or assessments for the paving, repairing, watching, lighting, 
 
 berated at a ^-^^ cleansing the several streets and other places in the said parish 
 
 t>p c Mim. ^^ Saint Mary-le-bone be charged and assessed thereto, as being 
 
 altogether and in the whole of the yearly rent or value of six 
 
 thousand and eighty-four pounds, and no more ; and that the same 
 
 should for ever thereafter be charged and assessed and rated at the 
 
 said yearly rent of six thousand and eighty -four pounds, whether 
 
 the rents or values of the same should be more or less : Be it 
 
 therefore further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be 
 
 construed or extend to alter, repeal, or annul the provisions contained 
 
 in the said recited Act of the fifty-sixth year of the reign of His 
 
 present Majesty witli i-elation thereto ; but that all such houses, 
 
 buildings, lands, and hereditaments comprised within the provisions 
 
 of the said recited Act of tlie fifty-sixth year of His present Majesty's 
 
 reign, as are situate within the said parish of Saint Mary-le-bone, 
 
 shall for all the purjjoses of this Act be charged and assessed as 
 
 being altogether and in the whole of the said yearly rent or value 
 
 of six thousand and eighty-four pounds, and no more ; and that the 
 
 said sum of six thousand and eighty-four pounds shall at all times 
 
 hereaftei", and for all the purjjoses of this Act, be deemed and taken 
 
 to be the annual rent or value of all such houses, buildings, lands, 
 
 and hereditaments, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary 
 
 thei-eof in anywise notwithstanding. 
 
 Not to extend 146. Ti-ovided also, . . . that nothing in this Act contained shall 
 
 to the estates j^e construed to extend to the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter 
 
 eiate^Church Westminstei', which has a pavement of its own to maintain, or to 
 
 such part or parts of the immediate close thereof which have been 
 
 * This Act was repealed by 5 (Jeo. 4, c. 100, s. 1.
 
 [08 Geo. 3.] The Waterloo lirldije Aet l^lb. [Chap, xxviii.] 03 
 
 hitherto exempt from piivin^ rates; nor to o;ive power to the of Westmin- 
 commissioners or trustees or other persons havinji^ the control of ■^j^,^'^H°"^'f"' 
 the ]»!ivem(Mits of any ])arochial or other district under the operation 
 of this Act, to {)urt-hase or to pull down any houses, walls, or 
 buildinji's, heing ])art of the said (jollegiate Church, Westminster 
 School, and the liuildinu's thereto appertainin<r, situate within the 
 ancient close of the s;ime Collegiate; Church, or in ( 'ollege Street, 
 Dean Street, Smith Sti'eet, or The Sanctuary, and wiiich are adjoin- 
 ing to Dean's Yard, or adjoining to any of the houses contiguous to 
 Dean's Yard and the yards or playgrounds belonging to the same 
 houses, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise 
 notwithstiinding. 
 
 147. S^Aet not to (tjf'ect t'in)/)ihe ro(uli>. Spent. So turnpike 
 roads note in Londonl^ 
 
 148. \_.\ct to he judiciallij notieed.'\ 
 
 58 GEORGE III. A.D. 1818. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 An Act to extend and amend the Powers of Three Acts 
 OF His present Majesty's Reign, for building The Waterloo 
 Bridge, and making Roads communicating therewith ; and 
 to authorize the Relinquishment of the repairing, lighting, 
 and watching of the Roads on the South Side of the Bridge, 
 TO THE Trustees of the Surrey New Roads, acting under 
 Two several Acts of His present Majesty's Reign, for 
 making, widening, and keeping in Repair certain Roads in 
 the several Parishes of Lambeth, Newington, Saint George 
 Southwark, Bermondsey, and Christchurch, in the County 
 of Surrey, and for watching and lighting the said Roads. 
 
 {^th Ma;/ 1818.] 
 [Preamble recites 49 Geo. 3, c. cxci. ; 53 Geo. 3, c. clxxxiv. ; 
 
 56 Geo. 3, e. Ixiii.; 26 Geo. 3, e. 131 ; and 47 Geo. 3. c. cxv.*] 
 1 — 5. [Power to Company to raise a J'lLrther 75,00U^. and jinan- 
 
 eial provisions. Spent. ^ 
 
 6 — 8. [Powers to widen, new. road towards the Obelisk — To take 
 
 further lands for the purposes of this Act and the recited Acts — 
 
 Deposit of plan of the intended road and of such lands with the 
 
 Clerk of the Peace for Surrey, and as to mistakes in books of 
 
 reference. Spent.'] 
 
 9. [Repeal of old and sab.-itituiion of new tolls. Supierscded. 
 4U A: 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 10. And whereas the said Company have built and constructed Cuper's 
 
 two sets of stairs or ])l\iiig phu-es at the Surrev end of the saiil J^"''"^,.'^*''^""^ 
 , . , , , 1 . o 1 ' to i)e iliscon- 
 
 bndge, and the same art> now used in lieu oi tlic stairs or jnace tinueil. 
 called Cuper's Stairs, otlierwise Cu[)er's Bridge Stairs [recital as to 
 y arrow WaW] ; be it therefore further enacted, that from and after the 
 passing of this Act the said stairs or jdying place called Cuper's 
 Stairs, otherwise C^i])er's Bridge Stairs, shall be shut uj) and dis- 
 continued as a public plying or landing place for watermen and 
 
 * These Acts weie repealed by 3 Geo. 4. c. cxii., which was rejioaled by the 
 Rermoiulsev, Lambeth and Soutliwark Orders in Council lyOl.made under 62 & (53 
 Vict. c. if.
 
 64 
 
 [Chap, xxviii.] Th Waterloo Bndf^e Act VslS. [58 Geo. 3.] 
 
 Company 
 may lease 
 vaults under 
 the roads. 
 
 For repair of 
 arches under 
 the road. 
 
 others navigating npon the liiver Thames ; and that it shall not 
 be lawful for any waterman or watermen to ply for hire or assemble 
 at the said stairs or plying place, nor to ply for hire or assemble 
 upon any part of the footways or roads by the said recited Acts of 
 the forty-ninth, fifty-third, and fifry-sixth years of the reign of His 
 present Majesty, or this Act, authorized to be made, but only at the 
 stairs or plying places built and constructed by the said Company, 
 and in the recesses within the footways at the ends of the said 
 Bridge. . . . [Pa/-f omitted (jjenalties on watermen obstructing 
 and using indecent language on bridge or roads). Semble obsolete. 
 See also 2 <t 3 Vict. c. 47, ss. 52, 54 (12).] 
 
 11. And whereas the said Company have made and constructed 
 certain jtarts of the roads at each end of the bridge upon arches ; be 
 it further enacted, that the said Company shall have full power and 
 authority to grant a lease or leases of the said arches, or any of 
 them, to any person or persons whomsoever, for such term or terms 
 of years, and for such considerations, in gross annual rents or other 
 compensations, and on such conditions, as to the said Company shall 
 seem meet. . . . \_Part omitted (a.s to a^p-plication of rerds) super- 
 seded 40 (t 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 12 — 15. \_Roads in Surrey jjlaced under the direction of Trustees 
 of the Surrey Xew Roads and j)oivers of such trustees. Superseded 
 is & 19 Virf. c. 12U, ,$. 96.] 
 
 16. . . . Whenever any arch or arches under the said road, 
 leading from the said bridge to the Obelisk aforesaid, shall be 
 broken down or become dilapidated or out of repair, and the said 
 Company or their lessee or lessees, or the occnpier or occupiers 
 of the said arch or arches, shall nes:lect or omit immediatelv 
 thereafter to substantially rebuild, reinstate, or rei)air the same, 
 then the clerk or surveyor for the time being of the said trustees 
 shall give notice in writing of such breaking-down, .dilapidations, 
 or want of repair, to the said Company or their clerk, or to 
 the said lessee or lessees, occnpier or occupiers of the said arch 
 or arches, immediately to rebuild, repair, or amend the same ; and 
 in case the said Company or their lessee or lessees, or the occupier 
 or occupiers of the said arch or arches, shall neglect or refuse for 
 the space of four days next after notice of such breaking-down, 
 dilapidations, or want of repair as aforesaid, to proceed in such 
 rebuilding or repair, then it shall be lawful to and for the said 
 trustees, or their surveyor or surveyors as aforesaid, to cause the 
 said arch or arches to be substantially rebuilt or repaired, as the 
 case may be, and the costs, charges, and expences to be incurred 
 thereby, together with the further sum of ten pounds by way of fine 
 or penalty, shall be paid by the said Company or their treasurer or 
 clerk, to the treasurer or treasurers of the said trustees : and in case 
 the said Company or their treasurer or clerk shall not pay such sum 
 or sums as shall be so laid out or incurred in such rebuilding or 
 repair, as the case may be, together with the said sum of ten pounds, 
 within ten days next after notice thereof shall be left at the office of 
 the said Company, or at the dwelling-house or last jilace of abode of 
 their treasurer or clerk (which notice shall be in writing signed by 
 the said treasurer or clerk to the said trustees, and annexed to or 
 written under a bill containing an account of such charges and 
 expences), it shall be lawful to and for the said trustees or any 
 seven or more of them, in the name of their treasurer or clerk, and
 
 [58 Geo. 3.] The Waterloo Bridye Act ISl^. [Chap, xxviii.] 6') 
 
 they and he are hereby respectively authorized and empovN'ered, to 
 brins: or cause to be brouj^ht anv action oi' actions aj'iiinst the said 
 •Company for the recovery of, and therein to recover, such sum or 
 sums of money as shall or may be so laid out and expended oi- 
 incurred, toj^ether with the said sum of ten ])()uuds by svay of fine 
 or penalty, and full costs of suit .... 
 
 17. Provided always, . . . that the said Comitany shall at all Company 
 times at their own costs and chart^es well and substantial Iv °^-V'5*'^^ "^' 
 
 * roi( is to 
 
 support and uphold, repair, amend, ]>res('rve, and keep the arches j.(.paij.j^j.gi^gg 
 
 under the said road from the bridge to the Obelisk aforesaid, in 
 
 thorough, sound, and complete repair, fit and proper for the safery 
 
 and due maintenance of the said road, and to the satisfaction 
 
 and approbation of the treasurei" for the time being of the trustees 
 
 for putting into execution the said recited Acts of the twenty-sixth 
 
 and forty-seventh years of the reign of His said i)resent ^Majesty : 
 
 and that it shall be lawful to and for the said Company or their 
 
 ■committee, and their agents, servants, and workmen, from time to 
 
 time, and at all times when occasion shall reijuire, to come upon any 
 
 part of the said road hereinbefore described, and so placed under the 
 
 ■controul, superintendence, and management of the said trustees as 
 
 aforesaid, after six hours previous notice, signed by their clerk, and 
 
 given to the clerk of the said trustees, of their intention to break 
 
 up the said road or any })art thereof, for the purpose of rebuilding, 
 
 repairing, putting, or keeping in repair all or any uf the said arches. 
 
 (they the said Company at their own costs and charges fencing such 
 
 part or parts of the road as shall be so broken up, and during the 
 
 rebuilding or repair of the said arclies, and reinstating the said road, 
 
 protecting and preserving the public from damage or accident, by 
 
 placing proper lights and persons to guard the same, and restoring 
 
 the said road, after such arch or arches shall be rebuilt, rei)aired, or 
 
 amended, to the same state as before such road was broken up, or 
 
 such arch or arches became dilapidated or out of repair) : and in the 
 
 breaking up of the said road, rebuilding or repairing the said arches, 
 
 and restoring the said road, all possible dihgence shall be used by the 
 
 said Company, their agents and servants. \See note on Preamble!] 
 
 18—20. [As to fo/l.^. Superaeded 4:0 & 41 \'ict. cxcix.] 
 
 21. Provided always, . . . that nothing in this Act, or in the r.uildiugsnot 
 said recited Acts made in the forty-ninth, fifty-third, and fi^"^^'- [^''it^ij'jn'j^^'^ 
 sixth years of the reign of His present Majesty contained, shall j^et of the 
 extend or be construed to extend so as to ])rohibit or prevent the roads, 
 •erection of any building or buildings by the side or sides of the roads 
 
 by the said recited Acts authorized to be made, or any part thereof, 
 so that such building or buildings be at tiie distance of five feet or 
 upwards from the side or sides of the same roads respectively, or to 
 prevent the construction of any vaults or areas below the level of the 
 said roads on the side or sides thereof; and that it shall be lawful 
 for the trustees of the said roads to authorize and empower any 
 person or persons who shall erect any house or houses on the side or 
 sides of the said roads, or any part thereof, to construct any arch or 
 arches under the said roads in front of such house or houses for the 
 purpose of making any cellar or cellars, or otherwise, save and excejit 
 under such jiarts of the said roads where arches have bet-n already 
 constructed by the said Company. \_See note on Prenmhlr.'] 
 
 22. \_fn(femnif'/ing Company for not convening tie com?nissioners 
 under 40 Geo. 3, c. cxti. Spe/it.] 
 
 5
 
 66 [Chap. Iv.] The Rush Common Act 1821. [1 & 2 Geo. 4.] 
 
 23. iSacing riqldnoj certain commissioiun'S of sewers. S'J.per.seded 
 11 (?cl2 Vict. c. il2.* See note IS k 19 Vict, c 120, .5. 135.] 
 24 — 25. {Extending •provisions of former Acts to this Act.] 
 26. [Act to he judiciall'j noticed.'] 
 
 Schedule. [^Description of lands to be taken. Spent.] 
 
 1 & 2 GEORGE IV. A.D. 1821. 
 
 CHAPTER LV. 
 
 An Act to repeal certain Parts of, and to alter and amend 
 AN Act passed in the Forty-slxth Year of the Reign of 
 His late Majesty King George the Third, for enclosing 
 Lands in the Manor of Lambeth, in the County of 
 Surrey. [TM Mag 1S2L] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) 46 (jreo. 3, c. Ivii. and that the com- 
 missioners under that Act hg their award of 'Sz-d March 1810 inter 
 alia aivarded to the Rector of the parish of St. Marg Lambeth, a piece 
 of land on Rush Common containing thirty-one perches and narnbered 
 1 642 on the map oAtached to such oAca.rd and allotted to the Archbishop* 
 of Canterburg Lord of the Manor of L.amheth in lieu of his right of 
 soil in the common lands a piece of la/nd a.t the northern extremity of 
 Po/sh Common containing one acre and ticenty-one perches numbered 
 on the said map 1641 and also adlotted to Robert Stone « certain 
 other piece of land on Rush Common containing three acres two roods 
 and fourteen perches numbered on the said. ma.p 1638, and further 
 recites that the saAd commissioners did, in ojid bg the said award, 
 set out as a carriage road or drift-wag, « roaA cafled Effra. Road of 
 the breadth of forty feet, numbered, two in the said map branching out 
 of the turnpike road leaxling from London to Croydon opposite to Acre 
 L.ojie, and. continuing in « southward direction along the eastern side 
 of Rush Common, until it communicates with the road numbered 
 three, next thereinafter described called Gross Road; and recites that 
 the said commissioners did also set out and award one other cariiage 
 roaxl or drift-way, called Middle Road, of the breoAlth of forty feet, 
 numbered, thirteen in the said map, branching out of the said road 
 called Cross Ltoad, a:nd continuing in « northjra/rd direction over 
 Rush Common for the distance of ninety rods, and then brojiching 
 westwa.rd to communicate with the turnpike road leading from London 
 to Croydon and eastward to communicate with the before described 
 road, number two ; and furtJier recites 58 deo. 3, c. 45 {An Act for 
 building a/nd promoting the building of additional churches in popu- 
 lous paj'tshcij and 59 Geo. 3, c. 134 amending the .w.me,and that 
 the inhabitants of the said parish at a meeting held in consequence of 
 the said. Act 58 Geo. 3, c. 45 had rcwlced, that the parish should, 
 build four churches or chapels and that one of such churches or 
 chapels should be ai or near Brixton, and further recites that the 
 pieces of ground, so allotted to the said Archbishop of Canterbury and 
 the Rector of the parish, together with one rood and sixteen perches 
 of the said piece of groujul allotted, to Robert Stone together w'ith the 
 dicer sions or branches of the north end of the said Middle Road and 
 such other part of the said. Middle Road as lies between the said 
 one rood a.iul sixteen perches or thereaJjouts, of the said piece of 
 
 * Repealed by 38 & 39 Yict. c. 66 (S.L.R.). 
 
 I 
 
 i
 
 [1 <fc 2 Geo. 4.] The Jimk Common Act 1821. [Chap. 1 v.] 67 
 
 ground so allotted to the said Rohert >itone^ and the said piece 
 of ground so allotted to the said Rector of the said j/arinh, renjjectrcelg 
 situate at Jirixton, have been deemed most cliqihle for the site of the 
 church or chapel so intended to be built, and of « hon-^e or place of 
 residence for the minister thereof, and for mahintf a, churchyard, or 
 cemeterg to the said intended church or chapelJ] 
 
 1. Fi-om and aftoi- the passini,^ of this Act so much and such part Repealing a 
 of the said recited Act of the forty-sixth vear of the reign of His certain part 
 said late Majesty King- George the Third, as provides tliat no ac"^?o"^ 
 buildings or erections above the surface of the earth should there- buildings, 
 after be erected upon the narrow strip of waste land lying in front 
 of Brixton Place, or upon tlio common called Tinsli Common, within 
 tlie distance of one hundred and fifty feet from the turnpike road 
 leading from London to Croydon, being the boundary thereof on the 
 one side, or within the distance of two hundred feet from the old 
 inclosures, beinji" the boundaries thereof on the east and south sides, 
 nor u})on any other of the common lands or wood grounds thereby 
 intended to be divided or inclosed, within the distance of one 
 hundred feet in front of any messuage or dwelling-house then 
 erected uj)on any land adjoining thereto, without such consent as 
 tliereiu mentioned, shall, so far as respects the said diversions or 
 branches of the; north end of the said Middle Koad, and such other 
 ])art of the said Middle Road as lies between the said allotment 
 <jf the said Rector of Lambeth, and the said one rood and sixteen 
 perches or thereabouts, of the said piece of ground so allotted to 
 the said Robert Stone, and such last-mentioned part of the said last- 
 mentioned allotment, and the whole of the said allotments of the 
 said Archbishop of (Canterbury and Rector of Lambeth, number one 
 tliousand six hundred and forty-two and one thousand six hundred 
 and forty-one, henceforth be and the same is hereby repealed and 
 made void. 
 
 2. Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act contained Not to author- 
 shall be construed to extend to give authority for any building or ^ui^jj^^^ 
 erection upon the said pieces or parcels of ground, any or either of than a church, 
 them, other than a church or chapel, and a house or place for the etc. 
 residence of the minister thereof, and the walls, fences, or other 
 inclosures of the burial ground or cemetery, and such offices, build- 
 ings, and ai)])urtenances as may be deemed requisite, suitable, or 
 convenient for the use of the said church, cemetery, and minister's 
 house and place of residence, or any or either of them. 
 
 3—4. {^Repeal of so much of 46 Geo. 3, c. Ivii. as rcf/uired adjoin- 
 ing owners and occupiers to repair the residue of Middle Road and 
 the whole of Effra Road and. the roads numbered on the map on the 
 said Award So. .5 ( Knightshill JiOad), yo. 8 (Elder Jioad), So. 1<» 
 {(Jlugland Pyoad)^ So. 11 {Beaidieu Road), (ri,d Xo. VI {(jgpsc/ 
 House Road.'] 
 
 5. . . . From and after the passing of this Act, the said KllVa That such 
 Road, and the said roads numbered five, eigiit, ten, eleven, and twelve, become ptiish 
 and the said residue of the said Middle Road, shall be and become highways, 
 common highways of the parish of .Saint Mary Lambeth aforesaid, 
 
 and be kept, repaired, and amended by the surveyor or surveyors 
 of the highways thereof as otiier parish highways. 
 
 6. \_Act to be judicially noticed.~\
 
 68 [Chap, cvi.] The Sale of Brearf {Metropolis) Act 1822. [3 Geo. 4.] 
 
 3 GEORGE IV. A.D. 1822. 
 
 CHAPTEli CYI. 
 Ay Act to repeal the Acts now in force relating to Bread 
 
 TO BE sold in the CiTY OF LoNDON AND THE LIBERTIES 
 THEREOF, AND WITHIN THE WeEKLY BiLLS OF MORTALITY, 
 
 AND Ten Miles of the Roy'al Exchange ; and to provide 
 
 OTHER KeGULATIONS FOR THE MaKING AND SaLE OF BrEAD, 
 and preventing THE ADULTERATION OF MeAL, FlOUR, AND 
 
 Bread, within the Limits aforesaid. [2'2n(l J".l>f \><'Z'Z.'\ 
 
 \_Frea-inble.'\ 
 1. \ Repeal of 55 Geo. 3, c. xcix., 59 Geo. 3, c. cxxvii.. 6o Geo. 3, 
 c. i., and 1 Geo. 4. r. iv. continued to '2S)th Sept. LS22.] 
 Bread made 2. ... It shall and may be lawful for the several bakers or 
 of the articles ggjjgj.g ^f bread within the city of London and the liberties 
 irTe^ntioned thereof, within the weekly bills of mortality, and within ten 
 may be sold, miles of the Royal Exchange, to make and sell, or offer for sale, 
 in his, her, or their shop, or deliver to his, her, or their customer or 
 customers, bread made of flour, or meal of wheat, barley, rye, oats, 
 buck wheat. Lidian corn, jjeas, beans, rice, or potatoes, or any 
 of them, and with any common salt, pure water, eggs, milk, barm, 
 leaven, potatoe, or other yeast, and mixed in such jn'oportions 
 as they shall think fit, and with no other ingredient or matter 
 whatsoever, subject to the regulations hereinafter contained. 
 
 Bakers to 3. . . . It shall and may be la'v^'ful for the several bakers or sellers 
 
 make bread of ^f bread witliin the limits aforesaid, to make and sell, or offer for sale, 
 
 size^^^^° ^^ ^^^' ^^^"; *^i" their shop, or to deliver to his, her, or their customer 
 
 or customers, bread made of such weight or size as such bakers or 
 
 sellers of bread shall think fit : anv law or usage to the contrarv 
 
 notwithstanding. 
 
 Bread to be 4. • . • Fi'om and after the commencement of this Act, all bread 
 
 sold by sold within the limits aforesaid, shall l»e sold by the several 
 
 weight, and ^^^j-g^.g f^^ sellers of bread respectivelv within the said limits bv 
 innootnei . . , | ' ,, „ i ■ i • i' 
 
 manner under weight ; and ui case any baker or seller oi bread within the 
 
 penalty not limits aforesaid shall sell, or cause to be sold, bread in any other 
 
 exceeding40«. jj^anner than l)y weight, then and in such case every such baker 
 
 or seller of bread siiall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay 
 
 anv sum not exceediuu' fortv shillinu-s, which the Mairistrate or 
 
 Magistrates, Justice or Justices, before whom such offender or 
 
 Not to extend offenders shall be convicted, shall order and direct : Provided always, 
 
 to French or ^jjj^|- nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to 
 
 or'rolls/'^^*^ ' extend to prevent or hinder any such l)aker or seller of bread from 
 
 selling bread usually sold under the denomination of French or 
 
 fancy bread, or rolls, without previously weighing the same. 
 
 Penalty on 5. . • . The several bakers or sellers cf bread respectively within 
 
 ^^^^"^th^*^"" the said limits, in the sale of bread shall use the avoirdupoise weight 
 
 weight than of sixteen ounces to the pound, according to the standard in the 
 
 avoirdupoise Exche(|uer, and the several gradations of the same for any less 
 
 weight, not quantity than a pound : and in case any such baker or seller of bread 
 
 nor less than shall at any time use any other than the avoirdupoise weight, and 
 
 40«. the several gradations of the same, he, she, or they shall, for every 
 
 such offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, 
 
 ... as the jMagistrate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices, l)efore 
 
 whom such conviction shall take place, shall from time to time
 
 [3 Geo. 4.] The Sale of Bread (Mftropolis) Act 1822. [Chap, cvi.] (;9 
 
 order and adjiidjire. S^l'art umiftcd .v(/ins)(/it/ /ii/ the Summanj 
 
 Jari.sf/icfioii -tlrAs.] 
 
 6 — 7. \_Peck loaf and d.s sidji/ttisiou.'i not to h<- .■<()ld during next 
 2 yearn — Penalt>/for Sflling a-itkin next 2 >jear.-i hnad not weighed 
 in customi'r\<i presence. >S/M'//t.'\ 
 
 8. • . . Every baker or seller of breud within the limits aforesaid, Bakers to 
 shall cause to be fixed in some conspicuous part of his, her, [V'^y*'^.!' '", 
 ())• thcii' slio]), on or neai' the counter, a l)eam and scales with beams. scales 
 jiroper weights, or other suflicient l»alance, in order that all l)read aiKl weij^hts, 
 there sold mav from time to time be weii2;hed in tlie presence '^'•*^.- ^"'^ *^ , 
 of tlie purchaser or purchasers thereof, except as aforesaid ; and etc. 
 
 in case any such liaker or seller of bread shall neglect to fix such 
 
 1)eam and scales, or other sufficient balance, in manner aforesaid, 
 
 or to ])rovide and keep for use proper beam and scales and proper 
 
 weights or l)alauce, or shall luive or use any incorrect or false 
 
 beam or scales or balance, or any false weight not being of the 
 
 weight it purports to be, according to the standard in the Exchef^ner, 
 
 then and in every such case, he, she, or tliey shall, for every such false Under a 
 
 beam and scales and balance, or false weight, forfeit and pay any penalty not 
 
 sum not exceeding five pounds, which the Magistrate or Magis- ^"'^'^^®*^^°^ ^^* 
 
 trates. Justice or Justices, before whctm such offender or offenders 
 
 shall be convicted, shall order and direct. [See also the Weights 
 
 and 2i[easures Act 1878, .>-. 25.] 
 
 9. . . . Every l)aker or seller of bread within the limits aforesaid. Bakers and 
 and every journeyman, servant, or other person employed by such '^^'^'ers of 
 liaker or seller of liread, who shall convev or carrv out bread ,Ji^L'^"l^„, 
 
 . ' •i''ii' 1 niuer persons 
 
 for sale in any cart or other cai-riage, drawn by a horse, mule, or delivering by 
 ass, shall l)e provided with, and shall constantly carry in such '^■^'^^' ^"-'t- ^o 
 cart or other carriage, a correct l)eam and scales with proper wlth^beaml 
 weights, or other sufficient balance, in order that all Ijread sold by scales, and ' 
 every such baker or seller of bread, or by his or her journeyman, ^'eiglits, etc. 
 servant, or other })erson, may from time to time ])e weighed in the breacT'^^^"^ 
 j)resence of the purchaser or purchasers thereof, except as aforesaid; 
 and in case any such baker or seller of liread, or his or her journey- 
 man, servant, or other person, shall at any time carry out or deliver 
 any liread, without lieing provided with such beam and scales with 
 pro})er weights, or other sufficient lialance, or whose weights shall 
 be deficient in their due weight according to the standard in the 
 Exchequer, or shall at any time refuse to weigh any bread })urchased 
 of him, her, or them, or delivered by liis, her, or their journeyman, 
 servant, or other person, in the presence of the person or persons 
 purchasing or receiving the same ; then and in every such case every j^-^i^j. .^ 
 such baker or seller of bread shall, for every such oifence, forfeit and penalty not 
 pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, which the Magistrate or exceeding .5^. 
 Magistrates, Justice or Justices, before whom such offender or 
 offenders shall be convicted, shall order and direct. {See the 
 Weights and .}feasu7-es Act 1889, s. 32.*] 
 
 10. . . . No baker or other person or persons who shall luake Bread not to 
 
 bread for sale within the limits aforesaid, nor any journeyman be adulte- 
 
 or other servant of anv such baker or other person, shall at rated under a 
 
 ■■■ ' jicnalty not 
 
 * S. .32 of tbe Weights and Measures Act ISSi) is as follows: "32. Nothing "^^"^^ "'^ 
 in the enactments referred to in the fourth Schedule to this Act shall render any 
 baker or seller of bread, or the journeyman, servant, or other person emjiloyed by 
 such baker or seller of bread, liable to any forfeiture <ir penalty for refu>ing to 
 weigh in the presence of the purchaser any bread conveyed or carried out in any cai t 
 or other carriage, unless he is requested so to do by or on behalf of the purchaser."' 
 The fourth f>chedule of the 18S'.) Act refers (^iiitcr alia') to :! tieo. 4, c. cvi. s. 9.
 
 "0 
 
 [Chap, cvi.] The Sale of Bread {Metropolis) Act 1822. [3 Geo. 4.] 
 
 10/. nor less 
 than 5Z. 
 
 Names of 
 offenders to 
 be published. 
 
 Corn, meal, 
 or flour not 
 to be adulte- 
 rated, nor 
 shall any 
 flour of one 
 sort of corn 
 be sold as 
 the flour of 
 any other 
 sort, on 
 penalty not 
 exceeding 
 20/. nor less 
 than ol. 
 
 Bread made 
 
 of mixed 
 meal or flour 
 to be marked 
 with a 
 Eoman M. 
 
 Penalty for 
 neglect not 
 exceedino- 
 10s. 
 
 any time or times, in the making of 1 tread for sale within such 
 limits, nse any mixture or ing-redient whatsoever in the making 
 of such l)read, other than and except as herein! tefore mentioned, 
 on any account or under any colour or pretence whatsoever, 
 upon pain that every such person, whether master or journey- 
 man, servant or other person, who shall oftend in the premises, 
 and shall be convicted of any such oft'ence, l)y the oath, or in 
 case of a Quaker, by atiirmation, of one or more credible witness 
 or witnesses, or by his, her, or their own confession, shall 
 for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten 
 pounds, ... or in default thereof shall, by warrant under the hand 
 and seal or hands nnd seals of the Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice 
 or Justices, before whom such offender shall be convicted, be appre- 
 hended and committed to the house of correction, or some prison of 
 the city, county, borough, or place where the offence shall have been 
 committed or the offender or offenders shall be apprehended, there 
 to remain, . . . unless the penalty shall be sooner paid, as any such 
 Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices, shall think fit and 
 order ; and it shall be lawful for the Magistrate or Magistrates, 
 Justice or Justices, before whom anvsuch offender or offenders shall 
 be convicted, to cause the offender's name, place of abode, and offence, 
 to be published in some newspaper which shall be printed or pub- 
 lished in or near the citv of London or the libertv of Westminster, 
 and to defray the expense of publishing the same out of the money 
 to be forfeited as last mentioned, in c;ise any shall be so forfeited, 
 paid, or recovered. \^Pa7'ts omitted (as to _fine and imprisonment) 
 superseded, b;/ the Smnmanj J tirisdirtion ActsP\ 
 
 11. ... If any person within the limits aforesaid, shall put 
 into any corn, meal, or Hour, which shrdl be ground, dressed, 
 bolted, or manufactured for sale within such limits, either at 
 the time of grinding, dressing, l)olting, or manufacturing the 
 same, or at any other time, any ingredient or mixture whatsoever, 
 not being the real and genuine produce of the corn or grain 
 which shall be so ground ; or if any person shall, within the 
 limits aforesaid, knowingly sell, or offer or expose, for sale, either 
 separately or mixed, any meal or flour of one sort of corn or grain, 
 as the meal or flour of any other sort of corn or grain, or any 
 ingredient whatsoever mixed with the meal or flour so sold or 
 offered or exposed for sale ; then and in every such case every 
 person so offending shall, u})on conviction before any one or more 
 Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices of the city, county, 
 borough, or place where such offence shnll have been committed, on 
 the oath, or in case of a Quaker by afiirmation, of one or more 
 credil^le witness or witnesses, or by his, her, or their own confession, 
 forfeit and pay, for every such offence, any sum not exceeding twenty 
 pounds. . . . \^Sot(' to section Iti ap]>lies to jxirt omitted {as to 
 antoant of penal f >/).'] 
 
 12. . . . Every person who shall make for sale, or sell or 
 expose for sale, within the limits aforesaid, any bread, made 
 wholly or parti^dly of the me.nl or flour of tiny other sort of 
 corn or grain than wheat, or of the meal or flour of any peas 
 oi- beans, shall cause all such bread to be marked with a large 
 Koman M ; and if any person shall at any time, within the limits 
 jiforesjiid, mjike or sell, or expose for sale, any such bread without 
 such mark as hereinbefore directed, then and in every such case, 
 every person so offending shall, upon conviction in manner herein-
 
 [3 Geo. 4.] The Sale of Jhraj/ {MdroiJol>.-i) Ad 1822. [Chai-. cvi.] 71 
 
 after mentioned, forfeit and pay for every itound weight of such 
 bread, and so in i»roi)ortion for any less ([uantity, wliich shall be 
 so made for sale or sold or ex])nsed for sale, without being so marked 
 as aforesaid, any sum not cxeecding ton shillings, as the Magistrate 
 or Magistrates, . Justice or Justices, before whom such conviction 
 shall take ])lace, shall from time to time order and adjudge. 
 
 13. . . . It shall l)e lawful for any Magistrate or Magistrates, M.-it,'i.strates 
 .Justice or Justices of the Peace, within the limits of ^^''^''0^5!^.*^^,,. 
 respective jurisdictions, and also for any peace officer or officers, ti,eir war- 
 authorised by warrant under the hand and seal or hands and seals rants, may 
 of anv such Magistrate or ^lagistrates, Justice or Justices (and f^'f'"'.' * 
 which warrant any such jMagistrate or Magistrates, Justice or ^i-os. aixl i£ 
 Justices, is and are hereby empowered to grant), at seasonable any adulte- 
 times in the day-time, to enter into any house, mill, '^hop, JiJ'^^'J'*^'^'^'"' 
 stall, bakehouse, boltinghouse, pastry warehouse, outhouse or (_,£. found, the 
 ground of or ]>elonging to any miller, mealman. or baker, or sanu- may be 
 other person who shall grind grain, or dress or bolt meal or Hour, ^^g^';|^g^"''f 
 or make bread for reward or sale, within the limits aforesaid, and '^'P"*^' 
 to search or examine whether any mixture or ingredient not the 
 genuine produce of the grain such meal or tlour shall import or 
 ougiit to be, shall have been mixed up with or put int<» any meal 
 or Hour in the possession of such miller, mealman, or baker, either 
 in the grinding of any grain at the mill, or in the dressing, bolting. 
 or manufacturing thereof, whereby the i)urity of any meal or flour 
 is or shall lie in anywise adulterated ; or whethei- any mixture or 
 ingredient, other than is allowed by this Act, shall have been 
 mixed np with or put into any dough or bread in the possession 
 of any such baker or other person, wherel)y any such dough or 
 bread* is or shall lie in anywise adulterated; and also to search 
 for any mixture or ingredient which may be intended to be used in 
 ■or for any such adulteration or mixture ; and if on any such search, 
 it shall appear that any such meal, flour, dough, or bread, so found, 
 shall have been so adulterated by the person in whose possession 
 it shall then be, or any mixture or ingredient shall be found, which 
 shall seem to have lieen deposited there in order to be used in the 
 iidulteration of meal, flour, or bread ; then and in every such case, 
 it shall be lawful for every such Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or 
 Justices of the Peace, or officer or officers authorized as aforesaid 
 respectively, within the limits of their respective jurisdictions, to 
 seize and take any meal, flour, dough, or bread which shall be 
 found in any such search, and deemed to have been adulterated, 
 and all ingredients and mixtures which shall be found and deemed 
 to have been used oi- intended to be used in or for any such adulte- 
 ration as aforesaid : and such jiart thereof as shall be seized by any 
 peace officer or officers authorized as aforesaid, shall, with all con- 
 venient speed after seizure, be carried to the nearest resident Magi>- 
 trate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices of the Peace, within the 
 limits of whose jurisdiction the same shall have been so seized : and 
 if any ^Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices, who shall make 
 any such seizure in pursuance of this Act, or to whom anything ^o 
 seized under the authority of this Act shall be brought, shall 
 adjudge that any such meal, flour, (h)Ugh, or bread so seized shall 
 have been adulterated by any mixture or ingredient put therein, 
 other than is allowed by 'this * Act, or shall adjudge that any ingre- 
 dient or mixture so found as aforesaid shall have been deposited or 
 kept where so found for the purpose of adulterating meal, flour, or
 
 72 [Chap, evi.] The Sale of Bread {Metropolis) Act 1822. [3 Geo. 4.] 
 
 l)read : then and in any such case, every such Magistrate or Magis- 
 trates, Justice or Justices of the Peace, is and are hereby required,, 
 within the limits of their respective jurisdictions, to dispose of the 
 same as he or they, in his or their discretion, shall from time to 
 time think jiroper. 
 Penalty on 14. . . . Every miller, mealman, or baker, within the limits 
 
 persons in aforesaid, in whose house, mill, shop, stall, bakehouse, bolting- 
 whose house, bouse, pastry warehouse, outhouse, u'round, or possession, anv 
 premisesJn!'' i"Kredient or mixture sliall be found, which shall, after due 
 predients for examination, be adjudged by any Magistrate or Magistrates, 
 the aduitera- Justice or Justices of the Peace, to have been deposited there for 
 or'bread^shall ^^^^ purpose of being used in adulterating meal, flour, or bread, 
 be found : ' shall, ou being convicted of any such offence, either by his, her, or 
 their own confession, or by the oath, or in the case of a Quaker, by 
 affirmation, of one or more credible witness or witnesses, forfeit 
 First offence ^^cl P^-.Y? ^n every such conviction, any sum of money not exceeding 
 not exceeding ten pounds . . . for the first offence ; five ponnds for the second 
 ^^^- offence, and ten pounds for every subsequent offence : or in default 
 
 of payment thereof, shall, by warrant under the hand and seal or 
 hands and seals of the Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices 
 offence U ■ before whom such offender shall be convicted, be apprehended and 
 committed to the house of correction, or some prison of the city^ 
 and 10^. for couuty, or place where the offence shall have been committed, or the 
 every sub- offender or offenders shall be apprehended, there to remain, . . . 
 sequent (nuless the penalty be sooner paid) as any such Magistrate or 
 
 ence. Magistrates, Justice or Justices, shall think fit and order ; and 
 
 it shall be lawful for the Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or 
 Names of Justices, before whom any such offender shall be convicted, to cause 
 offenders to the offender's name, place of abode, and offence, to be published in 
 epu is ed. j,Qj^g newspaper which shall be printed or jjublished in or near the 
 city of London, and to defray the expense of publishing the same 
 out of the money to be forfeited as last mentioned, in case any shall 
 be so forfeited, paid, or recovered. [Note to section 10 applies to 
 j)arts omitted {as to fine and impri.wnment)^ 
 Penalty not 15. ... If any person or persons shall wilfully obstruct or 
 exceeding lOZ. hinder any such search as hereinbefore is authorized to be 
 for obstruct- j^iade, or the seizure of any meal, flour, dough, or bread or of 
 search" autho- ^i^y ingredient or mixture which shall be fonnd on any such 
 rized by this search, and deemed to have been lodged with an intent to 
 ^^^- adulterate the purity or wholesomeness of any meal, flour, doughy 
 
 or bread, or shall wilfully oppose or resist any such search being 
 made, or the carrying away any such ingredient or mixture as 
 aforesaid, or ;iny meal, flour, dough, or bread, which shall be seized 
 as being adulterated, or as not being made pursuant to this Act, he, 
 she, or they so doing or offending in any of the cases last aforesaid^ 
 shall for every such offence, on being convicted thereof, forfeit and 
 ])ay such sum, not exceeding ten pounds, as the Magistrate or 
 Magistrates, Justice or Justices, before whom such offender or 
 Offences offenders shall be convicted, shall think fit and order : Provided 
 
 occasioned by also, that if any person making or who shall make bread for sale 
 default^of within the limits aforesaid, shall at any time make complaint to any 
 journeymen Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or .Justices of the Peace, within 
 and servants, his or their jurisdiction, and make appear to him or them, by the 
 punishecf oath, or in the case of a Quaker, by affirmation of any credible 
 witness, that any offence which such person shall have been charged 
 with, and for which he or she shall have incurred and paid any
 
 [3 Geo. 4.] The Sale of I head {Mefropolis) Art 1^22. [( "hai-. cvi.] 73 
 
 ])enalty under this Act, shall have beei) occasifjned by or throu<i:h 
 the wilful act, neglect, or default of any journeyman or other servant 
 empl()y<'(l by or under such person so making'' coniiilaint, then and 
 in any su(th case, any such i\Ia<:istrate or Maj^ist rates, Justice or 
 Justices, may and is or are hereby reiinired to issue out his or their 
 warrant, under his or tlieir hand und seal, or respective hands and 
 seals, for brinuing any such journeyman or servant before any such 
 ^lagistrate or ^lagistrates, .Justice or Justices, or any ^Magistrate or 
 .lustice of the Peace acting in and for the city, county, division, or 
 place where the offender can be found, and on any such journeyman 
 or servant being thereupon a])prehended and brought before any 
 such ]\Iagistrate or ^Magistrates, Justice or Justices, he or they, 
 within his or their respective jui-isdiction, is and are hereby autlior- 
 ized and reipiired to examine into the matter of such complaint, 
 and on proof thereof upon oath or affirmation to the satisfaction of 
 any snch Magistrate or .Magistrates, Justice or Justices of the Peace, 
 who shall liear such complaint, then any such Magistrate or ^lagis- 
 trates, Justice or Justices is and are liereby directed and authorized, 
 by any order under his or their respective hand or hands, to ad- 
 judge and order what reasonable sum of money shall be paid by any 
 such journeyman or servant to his master or mistress, as or by way 
 of recompence to him or her for the money he or she shall have 
 paid by reason of tlie wilful act, neglect, or default of any such 
 journeyman or servant ; and if any such journeyman or servant 
 sliall neglect or refuse, on his conviction, to make immediate l>ay- 
 ment of the sum of money which any such ^Magistrate or 3Iagis- 
 trates. Justice or Justices, shall order him to pay by reason of such 
 his said wilful neglect or default, then any such Magistrate or 
 jMagistrates, Justice or Justices, within his or their respective juris- 
 diction, is or are hereby authorized and required, by warrant under 
 his or their hand and seal, or hands and seals, to cause such journey- 
 man or servant to be apprehended and committed to the house of 
 correction, or some other })rison of the city, county, division, or place, 
 in which such journeyman or servant shall be ai)})reiiended oi- con- 
 victed, to be there kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding six 
 calendar months from the time of such commitment. . . . [Note 
 to section 10 applies to part omitted (as to pa;iment of penalty )7\ 
 
 16. Provided always, . . . that no master, mistress, journeyman. Bakers shall 
 or other person respectively, exercised or employed in the trade "'^'^''^'^'^ 
 or calling of a baker within the limits aforesaid, shall, on the ^n the Lord's 
 Lord's Day, or on any ])art thereof, make or bake any breatl. Day, 
 rolls, or cakes of any sort or kind ; or shall, on any other part of 
 the said day than between the hours of nine of the clock in nor sell bread, 
 the forenoon and one of the clock in the afternoon, on any pretence {J°ead''ilie.s 
 whatsoever, sell or expose to sale, or permit or suffer to be sold or etc. except ' 
 exposed to sale, any bread, rolls, or cakes, of any sort or kind : or between ccr- 
 bake or deliver, or ])evmit or suffer to be baked or delivered, any *^"" ^°'^'"*- 
 meat, pudding, pie, tart, or victuals, except as hereinafter is ex- 
 cepted, or in any other manner exercise the trade or calling of a 
 baker, or be engaged or emi)loyed in the business or occupation 
 thereof, save and except so fiir as may be necessary iu setting and 
 sui)erintending the s])onge to prepare the bread or dough for the 
 following day's baking ; and every person offending against the last- 
 mentioned regulations, or any one or more of them, or making any 
 sale or delivery hereby allowed otherwise than within the bake- 
 house or shop, and being thereof convicted before any Justice of the
 
 74 
 
 [Chap, cvi.] The Sale of Bread (Mefropolis) Act 1822. [3 Geo. 4.] 
 
 I'enalty for 
 the first 
 offence 10s., 
 for the second 
 offence 20s., 
 and for every 
 subsequent 
 offence 40.'>\ 
 
 Bakings may 
 be delivered 
 till half past 
 one on 
 Sundays. 
 
 No miller, 
 mealman, or 
 baker to act 
 as a Justice 
 of I'eace in 
 the execution 
 of this Act 
 on penalty 
 of ICW. 
 
 Penalty not 
 exceeding 
 10^. on per- 
 sons opposing 
 the execution 
 of this Act. 
 
 Piecovery and 
 application 
 of penalties 
 and for- 
 feitures. 
 
 Peace of the city, comity, or place where the offence shall be 
 committed, within six days from the commission thereof, either ni)on 
 the view of such Justice, or on confession by the party, or proof by 
 one or more credible witness or witnesses upon oath or affirmation, 
 shall for every such offence pay and nndergo the forfeiture, penalty, 
 and punishment hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say), for the 
 first offence the penalty of ten shillings ; for the second offence the 
 penalty of twenty shillings ; and for the third and every subsequent 
 offence respectively the penalty of forty shillings ; and shall more- 
 over, upon every such conviction, bear and pay the costs and 
 expences of the prosecution, such costs and expences to be assessed, 
 settled, and ascertained by the Justice convicting, and the amount 
 thereof, together with such part of the penalty as such Justice shall 
 think proper to be allowed to the prosecutor or prosecutors for loss 
 of time in instituting and following up the prosecution, at a rate not 
 exceeding three shillings per diem, and to be paid to the prosecutor 
 or prosecutors for his, her, and their own use and benefit, and the 
 residue of such penalty to be paid to such Justice, and within seven 
 days after his receipt thereof to be transmitted by him to the 
 churchwardens or overseers of the parish or ])arishes where the 
 offence shall be committed, to be aj^plied for the benefit of the poor 
 thereof ; and in case the whole amount of the penalty, and of the costs 
 and expences aforesaid, be not forthwith paid after conviction of the 
 offender or offenders, such justice shall and may, by warrant under 
 his hand and seal, direct the same to be raised and levied by distress 
 and sale of the aoods and chattels of the offender or offenders : and 
 in default or insufficiency of such distress, commit the offender or 
 offenders to the house of correction, on a first offence for the space 
 of seven days, for a second offence for tlie space of fourteen days, 
 and on a third or any subsequent offence for the space of one month, 
 unless the whole of the penalty, costs, and expences be sooner paid 
 and discharged : Provided nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for 
 every master or mistress baker, residing within the limits aforesaid, to 
 deliver to his or her customers, on the Lord's Day, any bakings until 
 half an hour past one of the clock in the afternoon of that day, without 
 incurring or being liable to any of the penalties in this Act contained. 
 
 17. Provided always, . . . that no person who shall follow 
 or be concerned in the business of a miller, mealman, or baker, 
 shall be capable of acting or shall be allowed to act as a Justice 
 of the Peace under this Act, or in putting in execution any of 
 the powers in or by this Act granted ; and if any miller, meal- 
 man, or baker shall presume so to do, he or they so offending 
 in tlie premises shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum 
 of one hundi-ed pounds, to any person or persons who will inform or 
 sue for the same, to be recovered, together with full costs of suit, in 
 any of His Majesty's Courts of liecord at Westminster. 
 
 18. ... In case any person or persons shall resist or make 
 forcible opposition against any person or persons employed in the 
 due execution of this Act, every such person offending therein shall 
 for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding ten pounds, at 
 the discretion of the Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices of 
 the Peace, before whom he or she shall be convicted of such offence. 
 
 19. . . . All penalties, forfeitures, and fines by this Act inflicted 
 or authorized to be imposed, (the manner of levying and recover- 
 ing and applying whereof is not herein otherwise directed), 
 shall upon proof and conviction of the offences respectively before
 
 p Geo. 4.] 7//^' >Sale of Ihead {M,-f,-opolis) Act lK->-j. [('hai'. cvi.] 75 
 
 any Magistrate or .Insticc ol' the Peace for the city, county, 
 or place where the offence shall have been committed as the 
 case may reiiuire), either by the confession of the party offending, 
 or by the oath (or in case of a Quaker on aftinnationy of any 
 credible witness or witnesses, (which oath or ailirmation every 
 such Magistrate or .Justice is in every such case hereby fully author- 
 ized to administer), be levied, together with the costs attending 
 the information and conviction, by distress and sale of the goods and 
 chattels of the jjarty or ])arties oll'ending, by warrant under the hand 
 and seal of such Magistrate or Justice : . . . but if uj)on the return of 
 such warrant it shall appear that no sulHcient distress can be had 
 thereupon, then it shall be lawful for any such Magistrate or Justice 
 of the Peace as aforesaid, and he is hereby authorized and required, 
 by warrant or warrants under his hand and seal, to cause such 
 offender or offenders to be committed to the common gaol or house 
 of correction of the city, county, or place where the offender shall 
 be or reside, there to remain without bail or mainprize for any time 
 not exceeding one calendar month, (save and excejit as herein other- 
 wise directed), unless such ]>enalties, forfeitures, and fines, and all 
 reasonable charges attending the same, shall be sooner ])aid and 
 satisfied ; and the monies arising by such penalties, forfeitures, and 
 fines respectively, when paid or levied, if not otherwise directed to 
 be ai)plied by this Act, shall be from time to time i)aid, one moiety 
 thereof to the informer or person suing for and recovering the same, 
 and the other moiety to the churchwardens or overseers of the poor 
 of the parish or place in which such ofience shall have been com- 
 mitted, to be by them applied and disj)Osed for the benefit of the 
 poor thereof. \_JS'ote to section lU applies to part omitted {as to 
 distress). See also 2 & 3 Vict. <?. 71, 6-. 34.] 
 
 20 — 25. \_Forms of summons, information, and conviction — Laij- 
 inq of information — Siimmonin(/ trifnesses — False evidence, perjvry. 
 Superseded Ixj the Summanj Jurisdiction Acts.'] 
 
 26. ... No order, judgment, or conviction made touching or con- Proceedings 
 eerning any of the matters in this Act contained, or of any proceed- "^JJ^g^g^f^^^ 
 ings to be had touching the conviction of any offender or offenders „." ^^ of f^^, 
 against this Act, shall be quashed for want of form, or be removed or 
 removable by certiorari, or any othei" writ or process whatsoever, into 
 
 any of His Majesty's Courts of Kecord at Westminster. . . . [^Parts 
 omitted {as to distress) s%(perseded h;/ the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.'] 
 
 27. Provided alwavs, . . . that if auv person or persons con- Api-eai 
 victed of any offence punishable l)y this Act, shall think him, ^JJ^'^JJI^'l^^^i^ 
 her, or themselves aggrieved by the judgment of the ]\lagisrrate ,ecogniz:iM-c. 
 or Magistrates, Justice or Justices, before whom he, she, or 
 
 tliey shall have been convicted, it shall be lawful for such person 
 or persons from time to time to appeal to the justices at the 
 next General or General Quarter Sessions of the Peace which shall 
 be held for the city, county, division, liberty, town, or ])lace wh.ere 
 such judgment shall have been given ; and that the execution of 
 such judgment shall in such case be suspended. . . . \_rarf omitted 
 {as to proredurc on appeal) superseded h'l the Sinnm«r>i Jurisdiction 
 Acts^^ 
 
 28. [^l.^' to appeal in case of conviction within si.c (hw/s of (Quarter 
 Sessions. Superseded b;/ the Summa?\i/ Jurisdiction Acts.] 
 
 29 30. \_Limitation of Actions— General issue ma;/ be pleaded 
 and treble costs. J\ep. in part b>/ the Limitations of Actions and
 
 76 
 
 [Chap, cxii.] The Hammersmith Bridge Act 1824. [5 Geo. 4.] 
 
 Limiting time 
 of informa- 
 tion. 
 
 Application 
 of penalties. 
 
 Coi<tii Act 1842, ss. 3, o. liemr. super. ^t'(h(f bg the Public Authorities 
 Protection Act 1803.*] 
 
 31. Provided also, . . . tliat no person shall be convicted of 
 any offence under this Act, unless the comjJaint is made within 
 forty-eight hours after the offence shall have been committed, except 
 in cases of jierjury ; and that no person who shall be prosecuted ta 
 conviction for any offence done or committed against this Act, shall 
 be liable to be prosecuted for the same oftence under any other law. 
 
 32. . . . All penalties and forfeitures by this Act inflicted^ 
 the ai)plicatiou of which is not hereinbefore directed, shall, when 
 recovered or paid, go and be disposed of in manner following ; 
 (that is to say) one moiety thereof, where any offender or 
 offenders shall be convicted, either by his, her or their con- 
 fession, or by the oath or affirmation of one or more credible 
 witness or witnesses, shall go and be paid to the person or persons- 
 who shall inform against and prosecute to conviction any such 
 otiender or oftenders ; and the other moiety thereof, or in case there 
 be no such person informing, then the whole thereof shall go and be 
 paid to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish or 
 parishes, for the use of the poor in the parish wherein such offence 
 shall be committed, in such manner as such churchwardens and 
 overseers of the poor shall iu their discretion think fit. \_See 
 2 it 3 Vict. c. 71, «. 34.] 
 
 Having rights 
 to the cities 
 of London 
 and West- 
 minster, etc. 
 
 33. Provided always. 
 
 that this Act, or anything herein 
 
 contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend in any way 
 to affect, lessen, or infringe upon the rights and privileges of 
 the city of London, or of the Worshipful ('ompany of Bakers of 
 the said city, or of the Wardmote Inquests of the said city, or of the- 
 city or liberties of Westminster, or borough of Southwark ; or any 
 right or custom of any lord or lords of any leets, or the rights of any 
 clerk or clerks of the market, in any place, which may be exercised 
 and enjoyed by them or any of them, by virtue of any charters, bye 
 laws, i^rescriptions, usages, customs, privileges, grants, or Acts of 
 Parliament ; l)ut that all such rights and privileges shall be held^ 
 exercised, and enjoyed by the parties respectively entitled thereto, 
 as fully and amply, to all inteiits and purposes, as the same were 
 held, exercised, and enjoyed before the passing of this Act ; any- 
 thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 34. {Commencement of Act {^l^dth September 1822). Spent.'] 
 
 35. \_Act to be judicially noticed.'] 
 
 5 GEORGE IV. A.D. 1824. 
 
 CHAPTER CXII. 
 
 An Act for building a Bridge over the River Thames, from 
 THE Hamlet of Hammersmith ix the County of Middlesex 
 TO the Parish of Barnes in the County of Surrey, and for 
 
 MAKING convenient RoADS AND AvENUES TO COMMUNICATE 
 
 with SUCH Bridge. \jHk June 1824.] 
 
 [Preamble.] 
 1 — 62. [Incorporation of the IPimmer smith Bridge Coitipang, 
 with a capital of 100,000^. {and. a further 2'^),^'^)0l. if necessari/) 
 — Financial provi-^ions and Companj/s procedure. Spent. See 
 4U & 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 [5 Geo. 4.] The Hammersmith liridye Act 1824. [Chap, cxii.] 77 
 
 63 — 64. {Company authorize<l to construct a hrhhfe from the 
 Lower Mall at Ilammemmith to thr op/jotiite htmh in the parish 
 of Barnes, irith convenient roads and a/jjjroaches : and in case 
 bridge becomes dangerous, to provide a temjwrfin/ hridq" or ferry 
 while repairing or rebuilding. Spent. >See 4') \' 47 Met. c. 
 €lxxvii. sH. 0, S.] 
 
 65. \l'o>rer to li'use or rent places for nKiterinls. Spent. ~\ 
 
 66. ... It shall be lawful fur the said ( 'omiiaiiy or their committee Company to 
 of management to make or cause to be made one or more proper make roa<is. 
 and commodious road or roads from the north end of the said 
 intended bridge, to communicate with the turnpike road or street 
 
 at Hammersuiitli aforesaid, and also one or more j)rojjer and 
 commodious road or roads, to make a communication between 
 the said intended bridge and the village of Barnes and the roads 
 leading from London to llichmond. . . . \_L'a)-t omitted {as to to Idnq 
 Lands for roads) spent. See also Geo. 4, c. lii. s. 0.] 
 
 67 — 70. \_l deposit of plans with the Clerks of the Peace for Middle- 
 sex and Surrey — Limits of detiation and, provisions as to tnhing 
 lands. Spent.^ 
 
 71 — 75. \_Company to invest lU,OoO/. in names of trustees before 
 purchasing lands or beginning worhs — Preserration of towing path 
 on the Thames — Consent of the Corporation of London to worhs in 
 river — Company to fence roads and erect direction posts. Spent in 
 part. I'emr. superseded 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. .y. IH ; 40 iV 47 Vict, 
 c. clxxvii. ; and 57 k 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.*] 
 
 76 105. \_As to the acquisition of lands, assessment of compen- 
 sation, and application of purchase money. Spent.'] 
 
 106 — 110. [^Power to take materials from rivers, icastes, Barnes 
 Common and tJie Thames for purposes of the Act, and to provide 
 repositories for materials. Tiep. as to Barnes Common '•• fieo. 4, 
 c. lii., s. 13, remr. semble spent ; and. see 40 & 41 Met. c. xcix. and 
 46 v^c 47 Vict. c. clxxvii.] 
 
 111. ... It shall be lawful for the said Company or their Company to 
 committee, and they are hereby empowered and reipiired, from ''-"^ ^'^"^P""- 
 time to time to cause such and so many lamj) irons or lamp 
 
 posts to be put up or affixed in, upon, or ah)ng the sides of 
 the said bridge, and in, upon, or along the sides of the said 
 roads, (save and except such parts thereof as shall have houses on 
 both sides.) and also to cause such number of lamps, of such sizes 
 and sorts, to be provided and affixed, or put up such lamp irons and 
 lamp posts, as they shall think necessary tor lighting the said bridge 
 and roads, and every or any part thereof, and to cause the said lamps 
 to be lighted as anil when they shall think proper. 
 
 112. ... It shall be lawful for the said Com])any or their com- rower to 
 mittee from time to time to contract and agree with any company of J"o"t'.»^^' f'^"" 
 pro])rietors, or with any other person or persons, to liglit the said '-- •^'"-• 
 bridge, roads, and other public places, or any of them, with gas, oil, 
 
 or otherwise, as to the said Company or committee shall from time 
 to time seem proper and ex])edient, and to provide and set up all 
 works necessary for such purj)oses. 
 
 113 — 118. \_As to laying of gas pipes on the bridge and ap- 
 proaches, preventing contamination of' water by gas, and penalties 
 for damaging gas pipes and for conveying gas wastes into any stream, 
 etc. Semble spent ; and see t/ie Gas Works Clauses Act 1847, .n*\ ID — 
 28 ; 40 it 41 Vict. c. xcix. ; and 40 \' 47 Vict. c. clxxvii. nc,-. 20, 27.] 
 
 • See Appenuix.
 
 78 
 
 [Chap, cxii.] The Hammersmith Bridge Act 1?>24. [5 Geo. 4. ] 
 
 Bridge to be 
 public upon 
 payment of 
 tolls, and 
 half in each 
 conntv. 
 
 Penalty on 
 assaulting 
 collectors, 
 etc. 
 
 Appeal. 
 
 Proceedings, 
 not to be 
 quashed for 
 want of form 
 
 119. iPacements not to he taken up tvitkout Compani/s consent. 
 Semble obsolete. See also 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. s. 53 ; 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120. .v. Iii9; 40 k 41 Vict. c. xcix. .^-. l.j, and 40 & 47 Vict, 
 c. clxxvii. s. 20.] 
 
 120. ^ Potcer to appoint icatchmen. Superseded hi ijeo. 4, c. 44, .>»•. 4.] 
 121—136. [.4.S- to tolls. Superseded 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 16.] 
 137. . . . The half of the said bridge, when built, next adjoining 
 
 to the county of Middlesex shall be deemed to be in the county of 
 of Middlesex, and part of and in the jmrish of Fulham, and the 
 other half of the said bridge adjoining to the county of Surrey shall 
 be deemed to be in the said county of Surrey, and part of and 
 i'ii the parish of Barnes. . . . [Farts omitted (as to tolls, and bridge 
 not to he a county bridge) superseded. 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix.; and 
 O'S k .jO Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 46.] 
 
 138 — 139. [(-OnipoMi/ to continue trustees of the bridge and to he 
 indictable for failure of repairs. Spent. See 40 & 41 176*^. c. xcix. 
 s. 10 ; a/nd 46 & 47 Vict. c. clxxvii.] 
 
 140. \_For prerenting wilful damage to the bridge. Super.^eded 
 18 t^c 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 2'J6, 2o7, and the Malicious J)amage Act 
 1861, .ss. 33, 34.] 
 
 141 — 142. \_Owners of cessels lioMe for dximage to bridge and 
 icorks — Masters to recocer from ser cants sums paid, for ser cants' 
 defaults. Semhle spent. See 46 & 47 Vict. c. clxxvii.] 
 
 143 — 144. \_A.-< to icatchmen. Superseded V) Geo. 4, c. 44, s. 4.1 
 
 145. ... In case any person or persons shall resist or make 
 forcible opposition against any person or persons employed in the due 
 execution of this Act, or shall assault anv survevor, engineer, or 
 agent ... in the execution of his or their office or offices, . . . 
 every such person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any 
 sum not exceeding five pounds. [Part omitted (as to collectors and 
 tolls) superseded 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. .s-. 16.] 
 
 146 — 153. [Penalties for damaging milestones, lamps, etc. — Ob- 
 structions and nuisa/nces on bridge and roads — Hedges to be cut — 
 Cattle found straying. Spent. See also 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. s. 8 ; 
 the Highways Acts 1835, ss. 66, 72, 73, and, 1864, .s-. 25 : 2 tt 3 Vict, 
 c. 47, '.5.5. 54, 60 ; 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 119, 205—207 ; 45 Vict, 
 c. Ivi. s. 41 ; ajul 55 & 56 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. s. 4U.] 
 
 154 — 161. [Recocery of penalties — Company may gice informers 
 half penalties — Collectors to give ecidence — Compelling attendance of 
 tvitnesses — TroMsient offenders — Procedure for offences and appeals 
 to Quarter Sessions. Spent in part. Retnr. superseded, by the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts and 2 & 3 Vict. c. 71, .5. 5i».] 
 
 162. Provided always, . . . that if any person or persons 
 shall think himself, herself, or themselves aggrieved by any order 
 or judgment made or given in pursuance of any rule or order of the 
 said Company, or the committee of management, or by any order, 
 judgment, or determination of any Justice or Justices, relating to 
 this Act, or any matter or thing herein contained, such person or 
 persons may appeal to the Justices of the Peace at the first or next 
 General or Quarter Sessions to be holden for the county or place 
 wherein the cause of appeal shall have arisen. . . , [Pojt omitted (as 
 to procedure on appeal) superseded liy the Summary Jurisdiction x\.ctsi\ 
 
 163. ... No proceedings to be had touching the conviction of 
 any offender or offenders against this Act, or any order made, or 
 any other matter or thing to be done or transacted in or relating to
 
 [9 Geo. 4.] The JIammeismifh Bridge Act 1828. [Chat, lii.] 79 
 
 the execution of this Act, shall he vacated or quashed for want 
 <»1' form only, or be removed or removable by certiorari, or any 
 other writ or ])ro(;ess whatsoever, into any of His Majesty's (Courts 
 of liecoi'd at Westminster (except as hereinbefore mentioned^, any 
 law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 164—165. \_'reii(fer of ainenda, notice, and limitation of action.^. 
 Ucjj. in jjurt hy the Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842; 
 remr. superseded b;j the Piddie Autlioritica Protection Act 1^03.*] 
 
 166. \_J >eelaring /chat shall he good sercice on the ('ornpawj. 
 ^pent. See 4<) & 41 Met. c. xcix.] 
 
 167. [Sat'ing the right.s of the Corporation of London a.s Con- 
 sercators of the Thames. Saperseded 67 & o8 F/i*^. c. clxxxvii.*] 
 
 168—169. \_Savin(i the rit/hts of the Commissioners of Seirers for 
 Middlescj: and Sarrei/. Superseded {as regards conntij of London.) 
 11 & 12 Vict. c. 112.t See now 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 135.] 
 
 170 171. \_Capitai to he snhscrihed before icorhs commenced, and 
 bridge to be completed infve gears. Spent.'] 
 
 172. ^Act to be jadicially noticed.'] 
 
 First and Second Schedules, {f^escription of land^ to he 
 taken. Spent I] 
 
 9 GEORGE IV. A.D. 1828. 
 
 CHAPTET^ LII. 
 
 An Act for altkuino and amending an Act passed in the Fifth 
 Year of His present Majestv, for building a Bridge over 
 THE lliVEK Thames at Hammersmith, and for making con- 
 venient Roads to communicate therewith. 
 
 \;2M Mag 1828.] 
 
 [Preamble recites 5 Geo. 4, c. cxii., and (inter alia) that tlie Company 
 ham completed the bridge by the said Act atdhorized to be made, and 
 Jiace also compdeted a road from the north end of the said bridge, 
 communicating irith the turnpike road or street at Hanunersmith, 
 and a road from the south end of the said bridge communicating with 
 the roads leading from Bichmond. to London at Barnes Common : 
 and that it is expedient that the said road leading from the north 
 end of tlie said bridge should be dicerted at the north end thereof so 
 as to communicate tcith tlie said turnpike road or street at Hammer- 
 smith in a more straight and westerly direction, and that the said 
 road from the north end of the said bridge should also be extended in 
 an easterly direction so as to communicate at Sorth End in the parish 
 of Fulliam with the road leading to London through Brampton.] 
 
 1. \_Provisions of recited Act to extend to this Act, except as 
 therein altered or repealed. Spent.] 
 
 2—5. \_I^ower to Company to raise SO,(K\Ol. further capital and 
 procisions as to raising same. Spent.] 
 
 6. . . . It shall be lawful for the said Company, or rheir committee Power to 
 of management, to make or i-ause to be made the saiil road from extend the 
 the north end of the said bridge to eommuuiente with tlie street *" * *• 
 at Hammersmitli in a straight and more westerly direction, and 
 also to extend or make one or more proper and commotlions road 
 * See Appendix. f ^ep. 3S cc 39 Vict. c. G6 (S.L.K.).
 
 80 [Chap. 44.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1829. [10 Geo. 4.] 
 
 or roads from or out of the present road at the north end of the 
 said bridge, to coramunicate at North End with the road leading to 
 London through Brompton. 
 
 7 — 11. \_J)e))Osit of pit III f> with Clerks of t/ie, Peace for Middlesex 
 and Siin'ei/ — I)eviation — Provisions as to taking lands. Spent^ 
 
 12 — 13. {Company not to he liable to repair roads made before 
 passing of former Act — Repeal of jtrovision in .5 Geo. 4, c. cxii., 
 limiting taking grarel from Barnes Common. Spent. See 40 & 41 
 Jlct. c. xcix. s. 16 ; and 46 & 47 Vict. c. clxxvii.] 
 
 14. \_Poicer to Company to lease estates pvrcliased of Mr. Hoare. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 15—22. \_As to tolls. Superseded 4(» & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 16.j 
 
 23. {Saving the rights of certain commissioners of sewers. Super- 
 seded (as to county of London')., 11 c^' 1";! Vict. c. 112.* See non- 
 18 k 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 13.5.] 
 
 24 — 25. {Form of proxies — Proceedings of committees to he 
 evidence. Spent. See 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 15.] 
 26. {Act to he judicially noticed?^ 
 
 Schedule. {TJescription of lands to he taken. SpentP[ 
 
 10 GEORGE IV. A.D. 1829. 
 
 CHAPTER 44. 
 
 An Act for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis. 
 
 {VMh June 1829.] 
 
 1. Whereas offences against property have of late increased in 
 and near the metropolis ; and the local establishments of nightly 
 watch and nightly police have been found inadequate to the pre- 
 vention and detection of crime, by reason of the frequent unfitness 
 of tlie individuals employed, the insufticiency of their number, the 
 limited sphere of their authority, and their want of connection and 
 co-c»])eration with each other : And whereas it is expedient to sub- 
 stitute a new and more efficient system of police in lieu of such 
 establishments of nightly watch and nightly police, within the 
 limits hereinafter mentioned, and to constitute an office of police, 
 which, acting under the immediate authority of one of His Majesty's 
 prioci])al Secretaries of State, shall direct and controul the whole 
 of such new system of police within those limits : Be it therefore 
 enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 
 advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 
 Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the 
 His Majesty authority of the same, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty to 
 may establish cause a new police office to be established in the city of Westminster, 
 ^ffi^^f^r\^he ^^^^ ^^^ warrant under his sign manual to appoint two fit persons as 
 metropolis Justices of the Peace of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, 
 and the sur- Essex, and Kent, and of all liberties therein, to execute the duties 
 rounding ^^ ^^ .^^ Justice of the Peace at the said office, and in all parts of those 
 may appoint several connties, and the liberties therein, together with such other 
 two persons duties as shall be hereinafter specified, or as shall be from time to 
 as Justices, to ^j^^^ directed by one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, 
 business of for the more efficient administration of the j^olice within the limits 
 the office, hereinafter mentioned ; and His Majesty may remove either of the 
 
 * Eep. 38 & 39 Vict. v. G6 (iS.L.I!.).
 
 [10 Geo. 4.] The Metro pdi fan Police Act 1820. [Chap. 44.] 81 
 
 said Justices, if lie shall see occasion so to <lo, and may, upon any "fi'ler the 
 
 vacancy in the said oftice by death, removal, or otherwise, appoint a^serVetarvof 
 
 another fit person as a Justice of the Peace of the counties of state. 
 
 Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, lOssex, and Kent, and of all liJjerties 
 
 therein, to execute the duties aforesaid, in lieu of the j)erson makin.ir 
 
 such vacancy ; and it shall be lawful for His Majesty to appoint The Justices 
 
 any person to be a Justice of the Peace by virtue of this Act, and need not have 
 
 for such person, durint,^ the continuance of liis arntointmenr, to ^"-^ ^^^^^^*^^' 
 , ,.' , ,- ,. , .• f. ,, ,, ,. ^, '' , ' . tion of estate, 
 
 •execute tlie duties ot a .Justice ot tlie Peace tor the several counties 
 
 of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, and for all liberties 
 
 therein, althoujih he may not have any such (iualification by estate 
 
 as is required by law in the case of any other person being a Justice 
 
 of the Peace for any county : Provided always, that no such person i'rovi>o. 
 
 shall act as a Justice of the Peace at any Court of General or 
 
 <^uarter Sessions, nor in any matter out of Sessions, except for the 
 
 preservation of the peace, the prevention of crimes, the detection 
 
 and committal of oftenders, and in carrying: into execution the 
 
 purposes of this Act. 
 
 2. P^very ]>erson to be appointed a Justice of the Peace by virtue Oath to be 
 of this Act shall, before he shall begin to execute the duties of his taken by the 
 office, take the following oath before some Justice or Baron of one •^"^'^'^^'*- 
 
 of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster : (that is to say,; 
 '' I A.B. do swear, that I will faithfully, impartially, and honestly, 
 according to the best of my skill and knowledge, execute all the 
 powers and duties of a Justice of the Peace, under and by virtue of 
 an Act passed in the tenth year of the reign of King (ieorge the 
 Fourth, intituled An Act for improving the police in and near the 
 metropolis." 
 
 3. [Salari/ of the Justices. Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 4. . . . The whole of the city and liberties of AVestminster, and Westminster 
 •such of the parishes, townships, precincts, and places in the counties '^"'^ P^^'^'* of 
 of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, as are enumerated in the Schedule Surrey.lnd 
 to this Act, shall be constituted, for the purposes of this Act, into Kent, to be 
 one district, to be called " The Metropolitan Police District"; ;uap"^™^.<i i"^^ 
 a sufficient number of fit and able men shall from time to time, by 1*0 beSfled 
 the directions of one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, '-The Metro- 
 be appointed as a police force for the whole of such district, who P<^litan I'olice 
 shall be sworn in by one of the said Justices to act as constables for ^^'''^"^^• 
 preserving the peace, and preventing robberies and other felonies, 
 
 and apprehending offenders against the peace ; and the men so A police force 
 sworn shall, not onlv within the said district, but also within the ^*^'" ^'?^ ^^?J® 
 ccuuities of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, and appointed, 
 within all liberties therein, have all such powers, authorities, 
 privileges, and advantages, and be liable to all such duties and 
 responsibilities, as any constable duly ai)pointed now has or hereafter 
 may have within his constablewick by virtue of the Common Law 
 of this Realm, or of any statutes made or to be made, and shall 
 obey all such lawful commands as they may from time to time 
 receive from any of the said Justices for conducting themselves in 
 the execution of their office. \See also 2 iV :> IVf/.'r. 47, -s. 4 ; ant/ 
 lOct 20 T/V-^ 6'. 2, .V. •-.'.] 
 
 5. . . . The said Justices may from time to time, subject to the The Justices, 
 
 ap})robation of one of His Majestv's principal Secretaries of State, *"!!i^,K*J°-.**'^ 
 ■f 1 1 1 1 • ■■ 1 1 11 1 T approbation 
 
 irame sucn orders and regulations as they shall deem expedient, of a Secretary 
 
 relative to the general government of the men to be appointed '^'f ^^ate, may 
 
 6
 
 82 
 
 [Chap. 44.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1829. [10 Geo. 4.] 
 
 make regula- 
 tions for the 
 management 
 of the police 
 force. 
 
 Police men 
 may be sus- 
 pended or 
 dismissed by 
 the Justices. 
 
 Penalty on 
 publicans 
 harbouring 
 police men 
 during the 
 hours of 
 duty. 
 
 Powers of 
 police. 
 
 Constables 
 attending at 
 the watch- 
 houses in the 
 night may 
 take bail by 
 recognizance 
 from persons 
 brought be- 
 fore them for 
 petty misde- 
 meanors ; 
 such recogni- 
 zance to be 
 conditioned 
 for the ap- 
 pearance of 
 the parties 
 before a 
 magistrate. 
 
 members of the police force under this Act ; the phices of their 
 residence ; the classification, rank, and particular service of the 
 several members ; their distribution and inspection ; the description 
 of arms, accoutrements, and other necessaries to be furnished to 
 them : and which of them shall be provided with horses for the 
 performance of their duty ; and all such other orders and regulations, 
 relative to the said police force, as the said Justices shall fi'om time 
 to time deem expedient for preventing neglect or abuse, and for 
 rendering such force efficient in the discharge of all its duties ; and 
 the said Justices may at any time suspend or dismiss from his 
 employment any man belonging to the said police force whom 
 they shall think remiss or negligent in the discharge of his duty, 
 or otherwise unfit for the same ; and when any man shall be so 
 dismissed, or cease to belong to the said police force, all powers 
 vested in him as a constable by virtue of this Act shall immediately 
 cease and determine. \_See also 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47 ; and 19 & 20 Vict. 
 c. 2, s. 2.] ^ _ 
 
 6. . . . If any victualler or keeper of any house, shop, room, or 
 other place for the sale of any liquors, whether spirituous or other- 
 wise, shall knowingly harbour or entertain any man belonging to 
 the said police force, or permit such man to abide or remain in his 
 house, shop, room, or other place during any part of the time 
 appointed for his being on duty, every such victualler or keeper as 
 aforesaid, being convicted thereof before any two Justices of the 
 Peace, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay such sum, not 
 exceeding five pounds, as they shall think meet. \_See also 2 & 3 
 
 Vict. c. 71, s. 14 ; and the Licensing Act ls72, s. 16.] 
 
 7. ... It shall be lawful for any man belonging to the said 
 police force, during the time of his being on duty, to apprehend all 
 loose, idle, and disorderly persons whom he shall find disturbing 
 the public peace, or whom he shall have just cause to suspect of any 
 evil designs. . . . [Part omitted (as to loiterer.^) ?-f'p. 37 & 38 T7fL 
 c. 35 (S.L.E.). See also 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 64.] 
 
 8. [^Assaults on police men. Pep. 36 & 37 Vict. <?. 91 (S.L.R.).^ 
 
 9. . . . Where any ])erson charged with any petty misdemeanor 
 shall be brought, without the warrant of a Justice of the Peace, into 
 tlie custody of any constable appointed under this Act, during his 
 attendance in the night-time at any watch-house within the metro- 
 politan police district, it shall be lawful for such constable, if he 
 shall deem it prudent, to take bail by recognizance, without any fee 
 or reward, from such ])erson, conditioned that such person shall 
 appear for examination before a Justice of the Peace, at some place 
 to be specified in the recognizance, at the hour of ten in the forenoon 
 next after such recognizance shall be taken, unless that hour shall 
 fall on a Sunday or on Christmas Day or Good Friday, and in that 
 case at the like hour on the succeeding day ; and every recognizance 
 so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the 
 same, and liable to the same proceedings for the estreating thereof, 
 as if the same had been taken before a Justice of the Peace ; and 
 the constable shall enter, in a book to be kept for that purpose in 
 every watch-house, the names, residence, and occupation of the 
 party and his surety or sureties, if any, entering into such recog- 
 nizance, together with the condition thereof, and the sums respec- 
 tively acknowledged, and shall lay the same before such Justice 
 as shall be present at the time and place when and where the 
 party is required to appear ; and if the party does not appear at the
 
 [10 Geo. 4.] The Metropolitan I'olkc Act 1820. [Chap. 44.] 83 
 
 time and jJace re(|nire(l, or witliiu one hour after, the Justice shall In (lefanit of 
 <-anse a record of the reco<,'nizance to be drawn uj), to be signed by rt^,ioTnizance 
 the constaVjle, and shall return tlie same to the next General or to be forfeited. 
 Quarter Sessions of the reace, with a certiticate at tiie back there(»f, 
 signed by such Justice, that the party has not complied with the 
 obligation therein contained ; and the Clerk of the Peace shall make 
 the like estreats and scliedules of everv sucli reco«;nizance as of 
 recognizances forfeited in tlic Sessions of the Peace; and if the Time of 
 ]»arty not appearing shall apjily, by any person on his behalf, to hearing may 
 postpone the hearing of the charge against him, and the Justice '^^ PostP"ne<^. 
 shall think fit to conscjnt thereto, the Justice shall be at liberty to 
 enlarge the recognizance to such further time as he shall aj)point; 
 and when the matter shall be lieard and determined, either by the 
 dismissal of the com{)laint, or by buiding tlie party over to answer 
 the matter tliereof at the Sessions, or otherwise, the recognizance 
 for tlie a])])earance of tlie party before a Justice shall 1)6 disc-harged 
 witliout fee or reward. \_Ri'jj. W tk ;i7 \'/ct. c. Ul {S.L.I'.), hut 
 revived 41 & 42 Viet. c. 70 {S.L.IL).'] 
 
 10. . . . It shall l)e lawful fir His Majesty to appoint a ])roper iiis Majesry 
 
 ])erson to receive all sums of monev applicable to the pur])Oses of n»ay appoint 
 
 this Act, who shall be called " The Receiver for the Metropolitan bJ'tTrre-'' 
 
 Police District ; " and His Majesty may remove any such receiver, ceiver of all 
 
 if he shall see occasion so to do, and may upon any vacancy in that monies appli- 
 
 office, bv death, removal, or otherwise, appoint another person ^q cable to the 
 1 1 " • 11 • .^ , . t K purposes or 
 
 be sucJi receiver; . . . and the receiver tor the time l)eing shall this Act, who 
 
 receive all sums of money api)licable to the purposes of this Act, ■'^hail give 
 
 and shall keep an exact and particular account thereof, and shall ^^'^""^y- 
 
 immediately pay all monies, bills, and notes by him received under 
 
 this Act into the hands of the Governor and Company <»f the Bank 
 
 of England : and the same shall be placed to an account in the The money 
 
 books of the said Governor and Companv, which shall be entitled to be placed 
 
 '' The Account of the Public Monies of the Receiver for the Metro- j,f ^^n-^^t 
 
 })olitan Police District," . . . ; and the said receiver shall draw out and drawn ' 
 
 of the bank from time to time such sums of money as may be necessary o"t by the 
 
 for the payment of the salaries, wages, and allowances to be paid as '"^'^®'^'"- 
 
 hereinafter mentioned to the persons belonging to the police force 
 
 appointed under this Act, and also for the payment of all other charges 
 
 and expences in carrying this Act into execution ; and every draft or Receivers 
 
 order for money on the Bank of England drawn by the J'eceiver [^Q^^l^^f'^.^'^ ^^ 
 
 shall be countersigned by one of the Justices* appointed under this sigmd. 
 
 Act ; and all drafts and orders so drawn and countersigned, but not 
 
 otherwise, shall be a sufficient authority to the Bank to pay the 
 
 amount thereof to the persons named in them, or to the bearers of 
 
 them. \_Fart omitted {as to qicinq aecuritij) rep. 36 cV: 37 Vict. c. 01 
 
 (S.L.R.) ; and the Police Act 189U, s. 36. See also 2 & 3 Vict, c 71, 
 
 s. 7.] 
 
 11. . . . The receiver shall account for the due api)lication of Receivers 
 all monies so to be drawn by liim out of the Bank of England, and Je^^au^Jted^ 
 shall, once in every six months, and oftener, if required by one of 
 
 His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, make out and sign a 
 full and particular account of all monies which shall have been 
 received by him under this Act, and liow much thereof hath been 
 paid by him, and for what purposes, together with proper vouchers 
 for the receipts and payments ; and such account shall be delivered, 
 for the purpose of being examined and audited, either to the com- 
 * Now the Commissioner of Police. See 19 & 20 Vict. c. 2, -s. 1, 5.
 
 84 
 
 [Chap. 44.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1829. [10 Geo. 4.J 
 
 Salary of 
 receiver. 
 
 Salaries and 
 wages of 
 police men to 
 be regulated 
 by the Secre- 
 tarj- of State. 
 
 Rewards for 
 activity, and 
 superannua- 
 tion allow- 
 ances. 
 
 Upon the re- 
 moval of the 
 receiver, his 
 successor may 
 sue for any 
 balance re- 
 maining in 
 his hands. 
 
 Mode of 
 proceeding. 
 
 Special bail. 
 
 Court may 
 refer the 
 accounts to 
 an officer or 
 arbitrator. 
 
 Mode of 
 
 proceeding 
 against the 
 representa- 
 tives of a 
 
 missioners for auditiug the public accounts of this kingdom, or to 
 any other person or persons whom such principal Secretary of State 
 may from time to time direct : and the receiver, if directed to 
 account before the said commissioners, shall be subject to the same 
 regulations and penalties in that respect as any public accountant. 
 
 12. . . . The receiver, out of the monies so received by him, . . . 
 shall from time to time pay to the persons belonging to the police 
 force appointed under this Act such salaries, wages, and allowances, 
 and at such periods, as one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of 
 State shall direct, and also any extraordinary expences which they 
 shall appear to have necessarily incurred in apprehending offenders 
 and executing the orders of either of the Justices appointed under 
 this Act, such expences being first examined and approved of by 
 one of the said Justices ; and the receiver shall likewise pay any 
 further sums which such principal Secretary of State shall direct to 
 be paid to any of the persons belonging to the said police force, as 
 a reward for extraordinary diligence or exertion, or as a compensa- 
 tion for wounds or severe injuries received in the performance of 
 their duty, or as an allowance to such of them as shall be disabled 
 by bodily injury received, or shall be worn out by length of service ; 
 and he shall also pay all other charges and expences which such 
 principal Secretary of State shall direct to be paid for carrying this 
 Act into execution. 
 
 13. \_Upon the death or removal of receiver, cash at the bank to be 
 transferred to his successor. I'ep. 36 k 37 Vict. c. 91 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 14. ... If any person having resigned or having been removed 
 from the office of receiver shall neglect, within twenty-one days after 
 notice for such purpose, to account for and pay to any succeeding 
 receiver all such sums of money as shall remain in his hands applic- 
 able to the purposes of this Act, it shall be lawful for the receiver 
 for the time being, in his own 2>roper name only, or by his name 
 and description of office, to sue for and recover the same from 
 such person, ... in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at 
 Westminster, bv action of debt : in which action it shall be 
 sufficient for such receiver to declare as for money had and 
 received to the use of such receiver for the pur[)Oses of this Act : 
 and the defendant in the action may, at the discretion of any Judge 
 of such Court, be held to special bail in such competent sum as the 
 Judge shall order ; and the Court in which the action shall be 
 brought may, at the instance of either of the parties, refer the 
 account in dispute in a summary manner to be audited by any officer 
 of the Court or other fit person, who may examine both plaintiff 
 and defendant upon oath (which oath the said referee shall have 
 power to administer), and upon the report of such referee, unless 
 either of the parties shall shew good cause to the contrary, the 
 Court may make a rule, either for the payment of such sum as upon 
 the report shall appear to l)e due, or for staying the proceedings in 
 the action, and upon such terms and conditions as to the Court shall 
 appear reasonable ; or the Court may order judgment to be entered 
 up by confession, for such sum as uj)on the report shall appear to 
 be due. [Par? omitted (as to double costs) rejj. by the Limitations of 
 Actions and Costs Act 1842.] 
 
 15. ... In case of the death of any person during the time that 
 he shall be holding the office of receiver, or after he shall have 
 resigned or been removed from such office, the receiver for the time 
 being 
 
 may, in his own proper name only, or by his name and
 
 [10 Geo. 4.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1829. [Chap. 44.J 85 
 
 description of office, sne for ;ind recover from the executors or 'deceased 
 administrators of such person deceased all such sums of money as "^^^^i^^r. 
 shall have been remainin*; in his hands applicable to the purposes 
 of this Act, by nn action of debt in any of His ^fajesty's Courts of 
 Record at Westminster ; in which action it shall be sufficient for 
 the plaintiff to declare that the deceased was indebted to the plaintiff 
 for money had and received to his use for the purposes of this Act, 
 or that the deceased died ])ossessed of money had and received for 
 the ])ur])Oses of this Act, whereby an action hath accrued to the 
 plaintiff to demand and have the same from such executors or 
 administrators ; and the like action may be brought against any 
 executors or administrators of executors or administrators : and in 
 all such actions the defendant or defendants may plead in like 
 maimer, and avail themselves of the like matters in defence, as in 
 any action founded upon simple contracts of the original testator or 
 intestate ; and the Court may refer the account in dispute to be 
 audited by any officer or person, and may proceed ujton the report 
 of such referee in like manner as is hereinbefore mentioned ; and 
 in all actions to be brought, as well as in all proceedings whatsoever Proof of the 
 to be instituted or carried on, by any receiver by virtue of this Act, receiver's 
 proof of his acting in tlio execution of the office of receiver shall be °|^"^\ j. 
 sufficient evidence of his holding such office, unless the contrary 
 shall be shewn in evidence bv the defendants in such actions, or 
 the parties against whom such proceedings shall be instituted or 
 carried on. 
 
 16. . . • The receiver for the time being shall make all such The receiver 
 contracts and disbursements as shall be necessary for purchasing ^^all contract 
 or renting any land or buildings, or for erecting, fitting np, furnish- or^buiidin^s 
 ing, or repairing any buildings, for the purposes of this Act, in such that may be 
 manner as one of His Majesty's ])rincipal Secretaries of State shall required, 
 direct ; and of all lands and buildings so to be purchased or rented, The property 
 and of the fixtures and furniture thereof, and of all goods and to be vested 
 chattels whatsoever to be from time to time held or purchased for ^^ ™' 
 
 the purposes of this Act, the property ac([uired therein shall be 
 vested in the receiver for the time being, in whom also shall be 
 vested the property of all watch-houses, watchboxes, arms, accoutre- 
 ments, and other necessaries to be given up as hereinafter men- 
 tioned ; and the receiver for the time being may, by the directions 
 of such principal Secretary of State, sell, assign, or dispose of the 
 whole or any part of any such j)roperty as aforesaid, and shall 
 execute all such lawful matters for i-arrying this Act into execution 
 as such principal Secretary of State shall from time to time direct. 
 [Rep. {as to j)olice courts) 34 k 35 Vict. c. 35,* s. 5.] 
 
 17. ... It shall be lawful for all bodies corporate, and also for corporations 
 all commissioners, vestrymen, or trustees for public purposes, and and others 
 for tenants for life or in tail, and for the husbands, guardians, trus- ^^^ii j^nd 
 tees, committees, or attornies of such of the proprietors or persons to the 
 interested in any lands or buildings ro([uired for the i)urposes of this receivi 
 Act as shall by reason of any legal disability or of absence beyond 
 the seas be incapable of acting for themselves, to contract and agree 
 with the receiver for the time being, either for the absolute sale of 
 such lands or buildings, or for a lease thereof for such period as the 
 receiver shall require, and to convey, demise, or grant the same to 
 the receiver in trust for the purposes of this Act : and all such 
 contracts, sales, conveyances, leases, and grants shall be valid and 
 
 * Rep. GO & 61 Vict. c. 26, s. 9. 
 
 vex.
 
 86 [Chap. 44.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1829. [10 Geo. 4.] 
 
 In case oE effectual ill ]aw to all intents and purposes ; and in case any body 
 *\^^^irvau*' corporate, commissioners, vestrymen, trustees, or other persons 
 shall be hereby authorized to contract on behalf of themselves or others as 
 
 assessed aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to aojree with, or bv reason of 
 
 by a .luiy. disability or absence shall be prevented from agreeing with, the 
 receiver, for the sale or lease of any land or buildings required by 
 him, or in case the proprietors or persons interested therein cannot 
 be found or known, or shall not produce and evince a clear title to 
 the land or buildings so to be purchased or rented, or to the interest 
 thev shall claim therein, to the satisfaction of the receiver, in everv 
 such case all the provisions contained in an Act passed in the fifth 
 year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled An Act for more 
 effectually paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and regulating the 
 Regent's Park, together with the new street from the Regent's Park 
 to Pall Mall, and the new streets and improvement in the neighbour- 
 hood of Parliament Street and Privy Gardens, and for maintaining 
 a convenient sewage for the same, with regard to the valuation of 
 estates and interests by a jury, the conclusive effect of the verdict 
 of the jury, and all matters preparatory to, concomitant with, and 
 consequent or contingent upon the valuation by a jury, shall, so far 
 as the same are or can be applii-able, be applied and extended to the 
 valuation of any land or buildings required for the purposes of this 
 Act, in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes as if 
 those provisions had been repeated and expressly re-enacted in this 
 Act ; and all such matters as by those provisions of the said x\ct 
 are authorized or required to be done by the Sheriff" of Middlesex 
 and by a jury of Middlesex, or by the High Bailiff' of "Westminster 
 or his deputy and by a jury of Westminster, shall under this Act 
 be done by the Sheriff and a jury of Middlesex, if the premises to 
 be valued are situate in Middlesex, and by the High Bailiff or his 
 deputy and a jury of Westminster, if the premises are situate in 
 "Westminster ; and all such matters as by those provisions of the 
 said Act are authorized or required to be done by the Sheriff' and a 
 jury of the county of Middlesex, shall, if the premises to be valued 
 are situate in any other county, be done under this Act by the 
 sheriff' of such other county and by a jury qualified to try causes at 
 jS'isi Prius in such other county ; and all such matters as by those 
 provisions of the said Act are authorized or required to be done by 
 the commissioners therein mentioned shall, uncler this Act, be done 
 by the receiver for the time being. \_Avien(led 4U & 50 Vict. c. 22.] 
 Ko Justice, 18. . . . No Justice of the Peace or receiver appointed by virtue 
 
 etc. under of this Act shall, during the continuance of such apjjointment, be 
 inPariiamenf capable of being elected or of sitting as a member of the House 
 . ' of Commons ; and no Justice, receiver, or person belonging to the 
 receiver^^^' P^^lice force appointed by virtue of this Act . . . shall, by word, 
 police man, message, writing, or in any other manner, endeavour to persuade 
 etc. appointed any elector to give, or dissuade any elector from giving, his vote 
 ^t^to^TOte ^^^ ^^^ choice of any person to be a member to serve in Parliament 
 at certain for any such county, city, or borough ; and if any such Justice, 
 elections. receiver, or person belonging to the police force shall ofiend therein, 
 T>or,„n^.. ^cu■M l*e shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, to be recovered, bv 
 any person who will sue tor the same, by action oi debt, to be 
 commenced within six calendar months after the commission of the 
 offence ; and one moiety of the sum so recovered shall be paid to 
 the informer, and the other moiety thereof to the receiver appointed 
 under this Act, to be by him added to and applied as part of the
 
 [H) Geo. 4.] The Metropolitan Police Art 1820. [Chap. 44.] 87 
 
 funds for the purposes of the police nuder this Act : Provided Proviso, 
 always, tliat notliiiiu;- in this onactracnt c<tnttiin('d shall subject any 
 such .Justice, receiver, or })erson lielonging to the police force, to 
 any penalty for any act done by him at or concerning any of the 
 said elections in the discharge of his ofHcial duty. \PaA omitted 
 {(ii< to rotiny (it elections) rrj}. hi/ the Police lUmhilitiea Removal 
 Act 1887, s. 1. Amended 2 k '.i'Vict. c. 47, .s-. 4, a/n/ 19 & 2<» \'ict. 
 
 r O o O i 
 
 Kfm fW* Oa rW. I 
 
 19 — 21. [iratc/i in each parish, etc. ^ in the metropolitan district 
 to continue until neir yolice appointed — As to watch rates already 
 ,„adr—0»fsfandiny debts. Rep. 36 L 37 Vict. c. 01 (,S'.A./2.).] 
 
 22. . . . The Justices ap])oiiited under tliis Act, subject to the Power to set 
 ai»probation of one of His Majesty's j)rincipal Secretaries of State, up watch- 
 may order such a number of watchboxes as they shall from time to ''°^^^- 
 time think fit to be placed or fixed in such parts of the highways 
 
 in any of the ])arishes, townships, precincts, and places within the 
 metropolitan j)olice district, as the said Justices shall deem most 
 convenient. \_Ameiided 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 4 ; and 10 ^ 2i» Vict. 
 
 23. ... As soon as the police to be apj)ointed under this Act The overseers 
 shall take cliarge of any parish, townsliip, ])recin('t, or place, whether ^° ^T^""-^ 
 parochial or extra-])arochial, within the ni('troj)olitan police district, fn the metro- 
 it shall be lawful tor the Justices appointed under this Act, forth- politan dis- 
 with, and so from time to time, subject to the approbation of one ^•^'[f ^^^^^^ ^ 
 of His Majesty's jtriucipal Secretaries of State, to issue a warrant lew a police 
 under their hands to the overseers of the poor of every such parish, rate upon 
 township, precinct, or place ; by which warrant they shall com- ?l^J?'''"°°l 
 mand the said overseers, out of the money collected for the relief pom.*\.ate'^; ^ 
 of the poor in such parish, townshij), precinct, or place, to pay the 
 
 amount mentioned in the warrant for the purposes of the police 
 under this Act, or to levy such amount as a part of the rate for the 
 relief of the poor in such parish, township, precinct, or place, and 
 that the overseers shall pay over the amount mentioned in the 
 warrant, to the receiver to be appointed under this Act, within forty 
 days from the delivery of such warrant to any one of the overseers : 
 Provided always, that the sum to be paid for tiie purposes of the not to exceed 
 police under this Act shall not exceed in the whole in any one year ^'^^ i^^.^^e 
 the rate of eightpence in the pound on the full and fair annual value one" ear ^"'^ 
 of all proj)orty rateable f )r the relief of the poor within such parish, according to 
 towushi]), precinct, or place, such full and fair annual value to ^^^® vahiation 
 be computed according to the last valuation for the time being ^te. 
 acted upon in assessing the county rate ; and that the warrant shall 
 specify the rate in the pound at which the sum mentioned therein 
 shall be comjjuted. \_A me tided 2 »!i: 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 4 ; 10 ct 2(> Vict, 
 c. 2, S.2', and 31 & 32 Vict. c. 67, s. 2.] 
 
 24. . • . Where any })ersons other than the overseers of the poor who to be 
 shall, by virtue of any office or appointment, be authorized and deemed over- 
 required to make and collect or cause to be collected the rate for thir^ct^*^'" 
 the relief of the poor in any ])arish, township, precinct, or place 
 within the metropolitan police district, such persons, by whatsoever 
 title they may be called, shall be deemed to be overseers of the 
 j>oor within the meaning of this Act, and to be included under and 
 denoted by the words " Overseers of the Poor." f >r all the ]>urposes 
 of this Act, as fullv as if thev were commonly called or known b\" 
 the title of Overseers of the Poor.
 
 88 
 
 [Chap. 44.] The MtfropoUfan Police Act 1829. [10 Geo. 4.] 
 
 Overseers 
 
 shall collect 
 the police 
 rate in the 
 same manner 
 as the poor 
 rate. 
 
 Overseers, on 
 nonpayment 
 of the police 
 rate, shall be 
 distrained 
 upon ; 
 
 and in default 
 of sutficient 
 distress, the 
 arrears may 
 be re-levied 
 on the parish. 
 
 In case of 
 default, etc. 
 occasional 
 overseers 
 may be 
 appointed for 
 levying the 
 police rale. 
 
 m property 
 occupied by 
 ambassadors, 
 the landlord 
 shall pay the 
 police rate. 
 
 Right of 
 inspecting 
 county rates, 
 etc. 
 
 25. . . . The overseers of the })oor of every parish, township, 
 jirecinct, or place within the metropolitan police district, to whom 
 any such warrant as aforesaid shall be issued, shall pay the amount 
 mentioned in the warrant out of any money in their hands collected 
 for the relief of the ])Oor ; and if there be no such money in their 
 hands, or an insufficient sum, they shall levy the amount required 
 as a part of the rate for tlie relief of the poor, and shall for that 
 ])urpose proceed in the same manner, and have the same })owers, 
 remedies, and privileges as for levying money for the relief of the 
 ]ioor. . . . \_Pa)-f omitted {as to receipt of receiver being a sufficient 
 discharge^ rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 124, s. 7.] 
 
 26. ... In case the amount ordered by such warrant as afore- 
 said to be paid by the overseers in any parish, township, precinct, 
 or place in the metropolitan police district, shall not be paid 
 to the receiver within the time specified for that purpose in the 
 warrant, the Justices api)ointed under this Act, upon complaint 
 thereof made to them by the receiver, may issue their warrant for 
 levying the amount, or so much thereof as may be in arrear, by 
 distress and sale of the goods of all or any of the said overseers ; 
 and in case the goods of all the overseers shall not be sufficient to 
 pay the same, the arrears thereof shall be added to the amount of 
 the next levy which shall be directed to be made in such parish, 
 townshi]), precinct, or place for the purposes of the police under 
 this Act, and shall be collected by the like methods ; and the said 
 .Justices, in case of any default or neglect of any overseer or over- 
 seers, or in any other case in which one of His Majesty's principal 
 Secretaries of State shall so direct, may appoint two or more persons 
 to act as overseers of the poor within any parish, township, precinct^ 
 or place in the metropolitan police district, for levying the money 
 for the purposes of the ])olice under this Act ; and the persons so 
 aj)pointed shall proceed in the same manner, and shall have the 
 same powers, remedies, and privileges, and shall be subject to the 
 same regulations and penalties, with reference to the levying of 
 such money, as if they had been appointed overseers of the poor by 
 virtue of any law or laws now in force. 
 
 27. . . . Where any messuages, lands, tenements, or heredita- 
 ments within the metropolitan police district shall be occupied by 
 any ambassador, agent, or other public minister of any foreign 
 prince or state, or by the servant of any such ambassador, agent, or 
 minister, or by any other person not liable by law to the payment 
 of the poor's rate, all such money as would by virtue of this Act 
 have been payable for the purposes of the police by the occupier 
 of such messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, if such 
 occupier had been rateable to the relief of the poor, shall in such 
 case be paid by and recoverable fi'om the landlord or owner thereof, 
 who shall for this purpose be deemed the occupier thereof, and shall 
 be liable to all such proceedings for nonpayment of such money as 
 any person is by law liable to for nonpayment of poor rate. 
 
 28. . . . Any Justice appointed under this Act, or any person 
 having an order for that purpose under the hand of any such .Justice, 
 may inspect any county rate made or to be made for any county^ 
 any part of which shall be situate within the metropolitan police 
 district, and may also inspect any returns concerning all or any of 
 the parishes, townships, precincts, and places, whether parochial or 
 extra-parochial in the said district, delivered or to be delivered in 
 pursuance of any of the Acts relating to county rates, and may take
 
 [10 Geo. 4.] TJu' Metropolitan Police Act 1820. [Chap. 44.] 89 
 
 copies or extracts from any such rates or returns without payment 
 of any fee or reward ; and if any jjerson iiaving the custody of any 
 such rate or return sliall wilfully neglect or refase to permit any 
 such .Justice or other person to inspect the same, or to take copies 
 or extracts from tlie same, within two days after such order shall 
 have been jirodnced and shewn to him, or a copy thereof left at his 
 usual place of abode, he shall, on conviction thereof Ijefore any two 
 Justices oi" the Peace, foi-feit and jiay for every such offence such 
 sum, not exceeding ten pounds, as they shall think meet. 
 
 29. . . . An account of all monies received and expended for the Accounts to 
 I)urf)oses of this Act, . . . shall annually be laid before both Houses J.^rUaLent'''^ 
 of Parliament, . . . and such a(;count shall specify the total sum annually, 
 charged upon and received from every parish, township, precinct, 
 
 and ]tlace for the ])urposes of this Act, the rate in the })Ound at 
 which such sum sliall have been computed, and the total annual 
 value of the entire propeity in every such pai'ish, township, precinct, 
 and place, as such total annual value shall be stated in the last 
 valuation for the time being acted u])on in assessing the county 
 rate ; and such account shall also s])ecify the different heads of 
 expenditure for the pur])oses of the ])olice, and the amount actually 
 ex})end('d under each. \_Parts oinittid (as to dates of making up and 
 presentinij accounts) rejf. 30 k 37 \'ict. c. 91 (S.L.I{.).~\ 
 
 30. . . . The respective inhabitants and occupiers of all mes- Provision for 
 suages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments in any precinct or ])lace, a-'^^essing and 
 whether ])arochial or extra-})arochial, in the metrojjolitan ])olice i^tri'ifthose^ 
 district, although such messuages, lands, tenements, and heredita- places within 
 ments may not be rated to the relief of the poor, oi- may be deemed |.''^^ metropo- 
 not to be rateable thereto, shall nevertheless be liable to contribute ^s-here there 
 to the expences of the police under this Act, as if the pro])erty so is no poor 
 inhabited or occujiied were rateable and rated to the relief of the '■^'^®- 
 
 jtoor ; and the Justices appointed under this Act may from time to 
 time, by warrant under their hands, appoint a proper person to be 
 an assessor, for the pur])ose of assessing the full and fair annual 
 value of such })roperty, and rating the same to a jtolice rate to be 
 levied under this Act : Provided always, that the sum to be levied 
 as a j)olice rate shall not exceed in the whole in any one year the 
 rate of eightpence in the pound on the full and fair annual value of 
 such proj)erty ; and such assessor shall, within forty days after the Mode of 
 delivery to him of the warrant of his a]»])ointment, make, sign, and making the 
 return to the said Justices an assessment for the ])recinct or place 
 named in such warrant ; and the assessment shall be fiiirlv written 
 in a book, and shall specify, in different columns, the names of the 
 respective inhabitants or occupiers of all messuages, lands, tene- 
 ments, and hereditaments, the full and fair annual value of the 
 same, and the amount of police rate charged on the inhabitants or 
 occupiers thereof, and, when the i)remises shall be unociuj)ied, the 
 full and fair annual value thereof to let ; and every such assessor Allowance to 
 shall be allowed for his tr()ul)le and expences such remuneration as a.-^3essor.s. 
 one of His Majesty's })rincipal Secretaries of State shall direct, and 
 the same shall be i)aid out of the amount of the police rate which 
 shall be collected after such assessment. [^Rep. insomuch as relates 
 to the ascertainiixj the ralxe of am/ hereditaments with respect to 
 the calue of which the caluation list is made conclusice so far as it 
 relates to the metropolis b;i 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 77. Part omitted 
 {recital) rep. .53 & 54 Vict. c. .51 (^.L.P.). Amended 2 A: 3 Vict, 
 c. 71, s. 4, and 19 vie 2ii Vict. c. 2, s. 2.]
 
 90 
 
 [Chap. 44.] The Metropolitan Police Act 182r^. [10 Geo. 4.J 
 
 AMien assess- 
 ment is made, 
 notice thereof 
 shall be given, 
 and all per- 
 sons included 
 in the assess- 
 ment shall 
 have liberty 
 to inspect it, 
 etc. 
 
 Penalty for 
 refusing such 
 inspection. 
 
 Collection of 
 the police 
 rate charged 
 in such 
 assessment. 
 
 Appeal 
 against 
 assessment. 
 
 31. . . . When such assessment shall have been allowed by the 
 Justices appointed under this Act, public notice of such assessment, 
 and of the place where the same may be inspected, shall be given 
 by fixing such notice on the door of the church or chapel, or some 
 other conspicuous part of the precinct or place to which such assess- 
 ment shall relate, upon the Sunday next or next but one after the 
 same shall have been so allowed ; and any person in whose custody 
 such assessment may be shall permit every inhabitant or occupier 
 of property included in such assessment to inspect the same, and 
 to make any extracts therefrom, without payment of any fee or 
 reward : and if such person shall wilfully neglect or refuse to permit 
 any such inhabitant or occupier to inspect such assessment, or to 
 make any extract therefrom, he shall, on conviction thereof before 
 any two Justices of the Peace, forfeit and pay for every such 
 offence such sum, not exceeding five pounds, as the Justices shall 
 think meet. 
 
 32. . . . The .Justices appointed under this Act shall from time 
 to time nominate one or more person or persons for levying the 
 amount of police rate charged in every such assessment, who shall 
 proceed in the same manner, and shall have the same powers, 
 remedies, and privileges, and shall be subject to the same regula- 
 tions and penalties, with reference to the levying of such police 
 rate, as if he or they were an overseer or overseers of the poor in a 
 precinct or place rated to the relief of the poor, and shall pay over 
 the amount of such police rate to the receiver to be appointed under 
 this Act, or in default thereof shall be proceeded against in the 
 same manner as overseers are by this Act to be proceeded against 
 for nonpayment. \_Ame'n(hd 32 & 33 Vict, c, 67, s. 77.] 
 
 33. Provided always, . . . that if any person, who shall have 
 paid the amount of police rate charged upon him by the assessment 
 made by an assessor appointed under this Act, shall think himself 
 aggrieved by such assessment, on the ground that such assessment 
 includes any property for which he is not rateable under this Act, 
 or that it assesses his rateable projjerty beyond its full and fair 
 annual value, or that any person or persons is or are omitted out 
 of such assessment, or that the property of any person or persons 
 is assessed below its full and fair annual value, the person so 
 aggrieved may appeal to the next Court of General or Quarter 
 Sessions which shall be holden for the county in which the cause 
 of appeal shall have arisen, not less than twenty-one days after 
 public notice of such assessment shall have been given as herein- 
 before mentioned ; provided that the j^erson so intending to appeal 
 shall give to the receiver to be appointed under this Act a notice 
 in writing of such a])peal, and of the cause and matter thereof, ten 
 clear days at the least before such Sessions ; and shall also, within 
 three days after his notice of appeal, enter into a recognizance 
 before some Justice of the Peace of the countv, with two sufficient 
 sureties, conditioned to try such appeal at the said Sessions, and to 
 abide the order of the Court thereu])on, and to pay such costs as 
 shall be by the Court awarded ; and in case such person shall appeal 
 on the ground that any person or persons is or are omitted out of 
 the assessment, or that the property of any person or persons is 
 assessed below its full and fair annual value, the party so ap})ealing 
 shall not only give such notice of appeal to the receiver, and enter 
 into such recognizance as aforesaid, but shall also give a like notice 
 of appeal to the person or persons so interested in the event of
 
 [K) Geo. 4.] The Metropohfnn Police Act 1?529. [Chai-. 44.] 91 
 
 sncli a[»|)eal as aforesaid, and shall enter into a like reco<rnizance 
 within the times hereinhetbre respectively mentioned ; and the 
 person or persons so interested shall, if he or they shall desire it, 
 be heard upon the ajtitea! : and the Justices of the Peace at such The assess- 
 8essions, or some adjournment thereof, upon due proof of the notice m^nt may be 
 having been given, and of the recognizance having been entered ^^^^"^^^',^^^,'1'^ 
 into as aforesaid, shall hear and determine the matter of the appeal apjieliant, 
 in a summary manner, and shall make such order therein, with or without alter- 
 without costs to either i»arty, as the said Justices shall think pmper ; L^^^of it'*^^'^ 
 and in case the said Justices shall think the appellant entitled 
 to relief, they shall order the assessment to be amended in such 
 manner as may l)e necessary for giving him relief, and shall also 
 order any money paid by him whicli he was not lial)le to pay to be 
 returned to him; and in case he shall have appealed on the ground 
 that any person or ])ersons is or are omitted out of the assessment, 
 the said Justices may order the name or names of such j)erson or 
 persons to be inserted in the assessment, and to be therein rated at 
 f^uch amount as they shall deem just ; and in case the aj)pellant 
 shall have appealed on the ground that the property of any person 
 or persons is assessed below its full and fair annual value, the said 
 Justices may order the amount at which such ]ierson or ]»ersons is 
 or are rated in the assessment to be altered in such manner as they 
 shall deem just ; and the proper officer of the Court shall in each 
 of the cases aforesaid forthwith amend the assessment accordingly, 
 but the assessment shall not be quashed or altered with respect 
 to any other ])ersons named therein ; and the determination of 
 the Justices at any such ^Sessions or adjournment shall be final 
 and conclusive. 
 
 34. . . . It shall be lawful for His Majesty from time to time, iiis Majesty 
 bv the advice of his Privv Council, to order that aiiv •|)arishes, "].^3' ^J^i"^- 
 townships, precincts, and places, whether })arochial or extra-[tarochial, jn Council 
 in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, of direct any' 
 which any part shall be situate within twelve miles of Charing Cross parishes with- 
 in the city of Westminster, shall, after a certain day to be named di/tance of 
 in such order, be added to and form jnirt of the metroj)olitan jiolice the metropo- 
 district, and be placed under the charge of a police to be ajipointed ^'^,^'','1^ 
 under this Act ; and all provisions hereinbefore contained with ajstrict, and 
 regard to the discontinuance of the night watch and night j)<)iice such parishes 
 appointed ])reviously to or independently of this Act, the cessation ^T','^"**^^''*^"^*^ 
 of their powers, the cessation of the jjowers for levying watch rates, subject to all 
 the giving up of watch-houses, or parts of buildings used as watch- the provisions 
 houses, watchboxes, arms, accoutrements, and other necessaries, of this Act. 
 together with the penalties for neglect or refusal in that behalf, the 
 exception as to any watch rate previously made, and the power 
 to assess and levy rates for debts previously incurred, and also all 
 provisions hereinbefore contained with regard to the levying of 
 money for the purposes of the police, the levying thereof as a part 
 of the poor's rate, the amount of such levy, the payment thereof 
 to the receiver, the i)roceedings against overseers for tlefault, the . 
 addition of arrears to the next levy, the apiiointment of jiersons 
 to act as overseers, and all provisions with regard to the assess- 
 ment of property, and the rating of the same to a ])olice rate l)y 
 assessors appointed under this Act, and with regard to the power> 
 and duties of such assessors, as well as all other matters whatsoever 
 previous to, concomitant with, or consequent or contingent upon 
 such assessment, shall apply and be enforced in every parish, town-
 
 92 [Chap. 44.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1829. [10 Geo. 4.] 
 
 sbi|). precinct, and i)lace which shall by Order in Council be added 
 to the metropolitan police district, as fully and effectually as if 
 such parish, township, precinct, or place had been originally included 
 in such district by virtue of this Act. \_Part omitted {recital) rep. 
 53 iV 54 Vict. c. 51 {S.L.R.). Amended 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 2.] 
 ^^^^^^'^ff ^ 35. . . . ]!so misnomer or inaccurate description of any parish, 
 
 the execution township, precinct, or place mentioned in the schedule to this Act, 
 of the Act. or in any Order in Council to be made as aforesaid, shall prevent or 
 in anvwise affect the execution of this Act, but . . . this Act and 
 every jiart thereof shall a])ply and be enforced in every such parish, 
 township, precinct, and place, as fully and effectually to all intents 
 and purposes as if the same had been correctly named and described 
 in such schedule or Order in Council, ])ro\aded that this same be 
 designated therein to common intent and understanding ; and united 
 parishes shall for all the pur})0ses of this Act be deemed to be 
 included under and denoted by the word " parish.*' 
 
 36. {Summons^ etc. for offences 'punishable on summary convic- 
 tion. Rep. 3(5 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (>S'.L.i?.).] 
 
 '^^''enakS 37. . . . Every sum which by any Justices of the Peace shall be 
 pena le^. .^(|jy(]g.g(| ^q j^g p.^j^j ^^^ ^.^y offence against this Act shall be paid to 
 
 the receiver appointed under this Act, to be by him added to and 
 applied as part of the funds for the purposes of the police under this 
 Act ; . . . and no Justice of the Peace shall be disabled from acting 
 in the execution of this Act by reason of his being liable to the 
 payment of any money for the maintenance of the police under this 
 Act. \Part omitted ({persons pa;/ing police rate ma)/ give evidence 
 or act as Justices) re}). 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91 (S.L.-R.). See also 
 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 77.] 
 
 38 — 39. l^Scale of imprisonment and. form of conviction. Pep. 
 30 eV 37 Vict.c. 91 {SL.R.).'] 
 
 40. [Informality in warrants^ etc. Rep. 51 e\: 52 Vict. c. 57 
 (&Z.is!.).] . 
 
 41 — 43. [Limitation of pjroceedings and actions. Rep. 36 & 37 
 Vict. c. 91 {8.L.R.).'] 
 
 44. [Act to be judicially noticed. Rep. 51 k, 52 Vict. c. 57 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. 
 
 A LIST of the Parishes, Townships, Peecincts, and Places 
 referred to by the Act as constituting '' The Metropolitan Police 
 District." 
 
 COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. 
 
 ('ity and Liberties of Westminster. 
 The parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist. 
 The parish of Saint Martin in the Fields. 
 The parish of Saint George, Hanover Square. 
 The parish of Saint .James. 
 The parish of Saint Mary le Strand, as well within the liberty of 
 
 Westminster as within the Duchy liberty. 
 The parish of Saint Clement Danes, as well within the liberty ot 
 
 Westminster as within the Duchy liberty. 
 The parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden. 
 The parish of Saint Ann in the liberty of Westminster. 
 Whitehall Gardens, whether the same be parochial or extra-parochial.
 
 [KjGeo. 4.] The Metropolitan Police Act WZ^.). [Chai-. 44.J lj3 
 
 Wliitehiill, wliether the same be ])aro(hial or extra-i»arochia!. 
 ]{ichmoii(l Ten-ace, wlu'tlici- the same be j)arn(hial or extra-paroehial. 
 The close of the Collegiate ( 'hun-h of Saint Teter. 
 
 llolhoni I >ii-l!iioti. 
 The parishes of Saint Giles in the Fields and Saint George, Bloomsbary. 
 The })!irishes of Siiint Andrew, Holborn, and Saint George the Martyr. 
 The liberty of Saffron Hill, llatton Garden, and Elv Kents. 
 The liberty of the Rolls. 
 The ])arish of Saint I'aneras. 
 The parish of Saint John, Hatupstead. 
 The parish of Saint Mary-le-bone. 
 The parish of Paddington. 
 The preeinet of the Savoy. 
 
 Finabarij L)i anion . 
 The parish of Saint Lnke. 
 The liberty of Glasshouse Yard. 
 The parish of Saint Sepulchre. 
 The parish of Saint James, Glerkenwell, including both districts of 
 
 Saint James and Saint John. 
 The parish of Saint Mary, Islington. 
 The ])arish of Saint Mary, Stoke Newington. 
 The Charter House. 
 
 To/rer Division. 
 The parish of Saint Mary, Whitechaj)el. 
 The parish of Ohristchurch. 
 The parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch. 
 The liberty of Norton Folo-ate. 
 The parish of Saint John, Hackney. 
 The parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green. 
 The hamlet of Mile End Old Town. 
 The hamlet of Mile End New Town. 
 The parish of Saint Mary, Stratford l^ow. 
 The parisli of Bromley Saint Leonard. 
 The parish of All Saints, Poplar, 
 The parish of Saint Ann, Limehouse. 
 The hamlet of Ratcliffe. 
 The i)arish of Saint Paul, Shadwell. 
 The parish of Saint George in the East. 
 The parish of Saint John, Wapping. 
 The liberty of East Smitliheld. 
 The precinct of Saint Catherine. 
 The liberty of His Majesty's Tower of London, consisting of 
 
 The liberty of the Old Artillery Ground. 
 
 The parish of Trinity, Minories. 
 
 The Old Tower precinct. 
 
 The precinct of the Tower within. 
 
 The precinct of Wellclose. 
 
 Kensington Division. 
 The parish of Kensington. 
 The parish of Saint I^uke, Chelsea. 
 The parish of Fulliam. 
 The hamlet of Hammersmith. 
 The parish of Chiswick. 
 The parish of Ealing. 
 The parish of Acton.
 
 94 
 
 [CHAr. 22.] The London Hackney Carnage Act 1831. [1 dt 2 Will. 4.] 
 
 Brentford Division. 
 The township of New Brentford. 
 
 Extra-parochial Places. 
 Lincoln's Inn. 
 Gray's Inn. 
 Staple's Inn. 
 
 That part of Fnrnival's Inn in the county of Middlesex. 
 Ely Place. 
 
 KENT. 
 
 The parish of Saint Paul, Deptford. 
 The i)arish of Saint Nicholas, Deptford. 
 The parish of Greenwich. 
 
 SURREY. 
 
 The parish of Barnes. 
 
 The parish of Battersea. 
 
 The hamlet of Penge. 
 
 The parish of Bermondsey. 
 
 The ])arish of (Jamberwell. 
 
 The parish of Clapham. 
 
 The parish of Lambeth. 
 
 The parish of Newiugton. 
 
 The parish of Putney. 
 
 The parish of Rotherhithe. 
 
 The parish of Streatham. 
 
 The parish of Tooting. 
 
 The parish of Wandsworth. 
 
 The parish of Christchurch. 
 
 ( 'link liberty. 
 
 The hamlet of Hatcham in the parish of Deptford. 
 
 BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. 
 
 The parish of Saint George. 
 The parish of Saint Saviour. 
 The parish of Saint John. 
 The parish of Saint Olave, 
 The parish of Saint Thomas. 
 
 [^6- to counties of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, see 51 & 52 Vict. 
 c. 41, s. 40.] 
 
 Definition of 
 a hackney 
 carriage. 
 
 1 & 2 WILL. IV. A.D. 1831. 
 
 CHAPTER 22. 
 An Act to amend the Laws relating to Hackney Caeriages, 
 AND TO Waggons, Carts, and Drays, used in the Metro- 
 polis ; and to place the Collection of the Duties on 
 Hackney Carriages and on Hawkers and Pedlars in 
 England under the Commissioners of Stamps. 
 
 [22f/ September 1831.] 
 
 [Preamble.'] 
 1. [Hejjeal of' various provisions. Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 {S.L.R.y] 
 2 — 3. \_Fixing duties for hackney carriage licences. Rep. by the 
 Revenue Act 1869, s, 39.] 
 
 4. . . . Every carriage with two or more wheels which shall be used 
 for the purpose of standing or plying for hire in any public street or 
 road at any place within the distance of five miles from the General
 
 [1 & 2 Will. 4.] 'J7ic Loudon Jlackiicij Carruiyt: Act 1?>31. [Chap. 22.] 95 
 
 Post Office in the city of London, whatever may be the form or 
 constrnction of sncli carriage, or the number of persons which the 
 same shall be calcnlateil to convey, or the nnmlier of hors(;s by 
 wliich the same shall In- drawn, shall he deemed and taken to be a 
 hackney carriage within the meaning of this Act ; and in all pro- 
 ceedings at law or otherwise, and upon all occasions whatsoever, it 
 shall be sufficient to describe any such carriage as aforesaid by the 
 term " hackney carriage," without further or otherwise tlescrilMiig 
 the same : Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained 
 shall extend to any stage coach used for the purpose of standing or 
 ])lying for passengers to be carried for hire at separate fares, and 
 being duly licensed by the Commissioners of IStamps* Ibr that 
 purj)ose, and having thereon the proper numbered })lates re(piired 
 by law to be placed on such stage coaches. \_Si'e aiw 32 & 33 I let. 
 r. 115, .s. 4.] 
 
 5 — 17. \^l>>'t.ies, lirrnres, and rcf/i.^^trafion. Rep. hy t/<e Reronie 
 Art ISCU, 6". 31).] 
 
 18. . . . All carriages, horses, and harness, and other articles and 
 things, kept, used, or emj)loyed for the purpose of being let for hire . 
 by any person to whom any such licence as aforesaid shall be hcJeg" ^' 
 granted under the provisions of this Act, shall be subject and liable harness, etc. 
 to and chargeable with all the duties which shall from time to time ^'^^^.^® '° 
 become due and payable from or by such person for or in respect of pg^aities. 
 any such licence as aforesaid granted to him, and t<> and with all 
 ])enalties which may be im])osed u])on or incurred by such person 
 under this Act, and also to and with the costs and expences of all 
 proceedings which shall or may be had or taken for the recovery of 
 any such duties and penalties respectively ; and all such carriages, 
 horses, harness, and other articles and things may be distrained or 
 otherwise seized or taken to satisfy such duties, penalties, costs, and 
 exigences, or any part thereof respectively, in or into whose custody 
 or possession soever such carriages, horses, harness, and other 
 articles shall or may be or come, and by or under what right or 
 title soever the same shall or may be held or claimed : and in case 
 any person in or into whose custody or possession any such carriages, 
 horses, harness, or other articles shall be or come bv or under anv 
 
 7 7 V * 
 
 means or title whatsoever, shall convert the same to his owu use, or 
 sliall sell or dispose thereof for the use or benefit of any other 
 })erson, after notice given by the < 'ommissioners of tStamps, or their 
 solicitor, or by any other officer of stamp duties, that such carriages, 
 horses, harness, or other articles are subject and liable to or charge- 
 able with any of the duties, penalties, costs, and expences aforesaid, 
 every j)erson so converting or selling or disi)0siug ot" sui-h carriages, 
 horses, harness, or other articles shall be accountable to His Majesty 
 to the extent of the value of such carriages, horses, harness, or other 
 articles, for the duties, penalties, costs, and expences to or with 
 which such carriages, horses, liarness, or other articles shall be 
 snbjei't, liable, or chargeable, and the same may be sued for and 
 recovered under and by virtue of this Act as a tlebt due to His 
 ^Majesty accordingly. 
 
 19—25. \ Duties, plates, licences, etc. Rep. l»i the Revenue Act 
 18(i0, .s. 31).] 
 
 26. [Froprietors of hackney carriages to appear and produce 
 drivers. Rep. 37 k 38 I7r^ c. 35 {S.L.R).'] 
 
 * Now the Commissioner of tlio Metropolitan Police, by an order of the Home 
 Secretat-y (dated isth August IStt?), made under 32 & 33 Vict. c. llo, s. G.
 
 96 
 
 [Chap. 22.] The London Hackney Carnage Act. 1831. [1 & 2 Will. 4.] 
 
 Penalties if 
 not paid by 
 drivers to be 
 levied on 
 proprietors ; 
 
 who shall be 
 entitled to 
 recover from 
 the drivers. 
 
 27. . . . All j)ecnniary penalties and costs incurred by reason of any 
 oft'ence committed bv the driver of any hacknev carriao-e against the 
 provisions of this Act shall, unless such driver shall pay the same, 
 be levied by distress and sale of the o^oods of the proprietor of such 
 hackney carriage, and for want of sufficient distress such proprietor 
 shall be committed to the common gaol or house of correction. . . . 
 \Part omitted {as to period of imprisoronent) rep. by the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Act 1(S84, s. 4.] 
 
 28. Provided always, . . . that every such proprietor who shall pay 
 any penalty or costs incurred by reason of any such ofl'ence as afore- 
 said committed by such driver shall be entitled to recover the 
 same from such driver in a summary manner : and upon complaint 
 made in the premises before any .Justice of the Peace by the said 
 l»roprietor against the said driver, such Justice shall inquire into the 
 same, and shall cause the sum which shall appear to have been so 
 paid as aforesaid by the said proprietor to be levied by distress and 
 sale of the goods of the said driver ; and for want of sufficient 
 distress, such .Justice shall commit the said driver to the common 
 gaol or house of correction, there to remain for any time not 
 exceeding two calendar months, unless the said sum shall be sooner 
 paid : and every such im])risonmeut shall be with or without hard 
 labour, as such .Justice shall direct : Provided always, that if the 
 said driver shall have been previously convicted of the offence for 
 which the said penalty or costs shall be so as aforesaid paid by the 
 said proprietor, then such proceedings shall be had and taken 
 against the said driver upon such conviction for recovery of the 
 penalty and costs in which he shall have been convicted as might 
 have been had and taken thereon in case the said penalty or 
 costs had not been paid by the said proprietor, and upon recovery 
 thereof the sum so paid by such proprietor shall be repaid to him. 
 
 29. \_J'istices to determine disputes betiveen proprietors and their 
 drivers. Hep. 37 ck: 38 Vict. c. 3.5 (-S'.Z.i?.).] 
 
 30 — 33. \Wa.termeris licences^ etc. Rep. b'/ the Revenue Act 
 \^m, s. 39.] 
 
 34. \_Distance dricers of hackney carriaqes shall be compellable 
 to drive. Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 35. . . . Everv hacknev carriage which shall be found standing: in 
 any street or place, and having thereon any of the numbered plates 
 required by this Act to be fixed on hackney carriages, shall, unless 
 
 Hacknev 
 carriages 
 standing in 
 
 be'deemed to actually hired, be deemed to be plying for hire, although such 
 
 be plying for 
 hire, and the 
 driver thereof 
 refusing to 
 go with any 
 person liable 
 to a penalty 
 of 40*. 
 
 hacknev carriage 
 
 Compensation 
 to be made to 
 drivers impro- 
 perly sum- 
 moned for 
 refusing to 
 cany an}" 
 person. 
 
 shall not be on any standing or place usually 
 appropriated for the purpose of hackney carriages standing or 
 plving for hire; and the driver of everv such hacknev carriage 
 which shall not be actually hired shall be obliged and compellable 
 to go with any person desirous of hiring such hackney carriage ; 
 and upon the hearing of any romplaint against the driver of any 
 such hackney carriage for any such refusal, such driver shall be 
 obliged to adduce evidence of havinsr been and of being actuallv 
 hired at the time of such refusal, and in case such driver shall fail 
 to produce sufficient evidence of ha\ang been and of being so hired 
 as aforesaid, he shall forfeit forty shillings. 
 
 36. Provided alwavs, . . . that if the driver of anv hacknev 
 carriage shall in civil and explicit terms declare to any person 
 desirous to hire such hackney carriage that it is actually hired, and 
 shall afterwards, notwithstanding such reply, be summoned to 
 answer for his refusal to carry such person in his said hackney
 
 [1 & 2 Will. 4.] I'hr London llachne;j Carriage Aff 1831. [Chap. 22.] 97 
 
 ■carriage, and shall ii])Oii the hearing' of the complaint produce 
 sufficient evidence to prove that such hackney carriage was at the 
 time actually and bona fide hired, and it shall not appear that he 
 used uncivil langna'j'e, or that he inijiroperly conducted himself 
 t(^wurds tlie })arty by whoni he shall l»e so summoned, the Justice 
 before whom such complaint shall be heard shall order the person 
 who shall have summoned such driver to make to him such com- 
 pensation for his loss ol" time in attending to make his defence to 
 such complaint as such Justice shall deem reasonable, and in default 
 of jtayment thereof to commit such ])erson to prison for anytime not 
 exceeding one calendar month, unless the same shall be sooner paid. 
 
 37. ... It shall be lawful for the proprietor or driver of any Drivers may 
 hacknev carriajj^e which shall be licensed under the aufhoritv of this ply an.l shall 
 Act to stand and })ly for hire with such carriage and to drive the peiiable to 
 ■same on the Lord's dav, anv former Act or Acts to the contrarv drive on 
 notwithstanding : and that such proprietor or driver who shall so Sundays, 
 stand or ply for hire as aforesaid shall be liable and compellable 
 to do the like work on the Lord's Day as such j)roprietor or driver 
 ds by this Act liable or compellable to do on any other day of 
 the week. 
 
 38 — 40. \Jiatea and fares and metropolis dejined. AV/y. 37 Is. 38 
 Vict. c. 35 (&/../.'.).] 
 
 41. ... If any person shall refuse or omit to pay the driver of Persons re- 
 anv hacknev carriacje the sum iustlv due to him for the hire of ^"^^"^.^'^ P^y 
 such hackney carriage, or if any person shall deface or in any fare, or for 
 manner injure any such hackney carriage, it shall be lawful for any any damage, 
 Justice of the Peace, upon complaint tliereof made to him, to grant maybecom- 
 a summons, or if it shall appear to him necessary a warrant, for prison, 
 bringing before him or any other Justice such defaulter or defender, 
 
 and, upon proof of the facts made upon oath before any such Justice, 
 to award reasonable satisfaction to the })arty so com})laining for liis 
 fare or for his damages and costs, and also a reasonable compensa- 
 tion for his loss of time in attending to make and establish sucli 
 •complaint ; and upon the refusal of such defaulter or otfender to pay 
 or make such satisfaction, it shall be lawful for such .Justice to 
 •commit him to prison, there to remain for any time not exceeding 
 one calendar month, unless the amount of such satisfaction shall Ije 
 sooner paid ; and it shall also be lawful for such Justice, if he shall 
 think tit, to order such defaulter or offender to be kept to hard 
 labour during such imprisonment. 
 
 42. \_Pt'nalt;/ on drivers refusing to go or exacting more than the 
 legal fare. Bep. 37 ».\: 38 Vfct. c. 3.5 (6'.' />./?.).] 
 
 43. . . . No agreement whatever made with tlie driver of any Agreement to 
 hackney carriage for the payment of more than his proper fare, as W' ^ox% 
 the same is allowed and limited by this Act, shall be binding on fare^noTto^ 
 the person making the same, but any such person may, notwith- be binding, 
 standing any such agreement, refuse, on discharging such hackney 
 carriage, the payment of any sum beyond the pro]>er fare as allowed 
 
 and limited as aforesaid ; and in case any person shall actually j)ay sum paid 
 to the driver of any hackney carriage, whether in pursuance of any beyond the 
 such agreement or not, any sum exceeding his said proper fare, ^'^^^i^ ^e-^ 
 which shall have been demanded or required by suih driver, the covered back, 
 person paying the same shall be entitled, on complaint made 
 against such driver before any Justice of the Peace, to recover back 
 the sum paid beyond the proper fare, and moreover such driver shall
 
 98 [Chap. 22.] The London Hackney Carnage Act 1831. [1 & 2 Will. 4.] 
 
 Penalty 405. forfeit, as a penalty for such exaction, the sum of forty shillings ; 
 and in default of the repayment by sucli driver of such excess of 
 fare, or of payment of the said penalty, such Justice shall forthwith 
 commit such driver to prison, there to remain for any time not ex- 
 ceeding one calendar month, unless the said excess of fare and the 
 said penalty shall be sooner paid. 
 Driver not 44^ ... It shall be lawful for any person to re(|uire the driver of 
 
 moretlmn the ^^7 hackney carriage to drive such hackney carriage, for a stated 
 s\im agreed sum of money, a distance in the discretion of such driver, and in 
 for, although c^se such driver shall exceed the distance to which such person was 
 beVxceeded. entitled to be driven for such stated sum of money, such driver 
 shall not exact or demand more than the sum for which he was so 
 Penalty -io**. engaged to drive, upon pain to forfeit forty shillings for such offence. 
 
 Penalty for 45. . . , If the proprietor or driver of any hackuey Carriage, or if 
 
 *^^™^th^°^ti ^^^«' other person on his behalf and with his knowledge and consent, 
 sum agreed shall agree beforehand with any person hiring such hackney carriage 
 for, though to take for any job any sum less than the proper rate of fare allowed 
 less than the |^y ^j^jg ^^^^ ^wch. proprietor or driver shall not exact or demand for 
 *" his fare more than the sum agreed for, upon pain to forfeit forty 
 shillings for such offence. 
 
 46. \_2s umber oj' persotis to be carried to be painted on carriage. 
 Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Deposit to 47. . . . Where any hackney carriage shall be hired and taken to 
 
 be made for ^^^ place of public resort, or elsewhere, and the driver thereof shall 
 waiting. loe required there to wait with such hackney carriage, it shall be 
 
 lawfnl for such driver to demand and receive from the person so 
 hiring and requiring him to wait as aforesaid a reasonable sum as 
 a deposit, over and above the fare to which such driver shall be 
 entitled for driving thither, which sum so demanded and received 
 shall be accounted for by such driver when such hackney carriage 
 Penalty on shall be finally discharged ; and if any such driver who shall have 
 the driver received any such deposit as aforesaid sball refuse to wait with 
 refusing to ■<,\xq\i hackuey carriage at the place where he shall be so required to- 
 account for wait, or if such driver shall go away or shall permit such hackney 
 the deposit, carnage to be driven or taken away, without the consent of the 
 '*^*" person making such deposit, before the expiration of the time for 
 
 which the sum so deposited shall be a sufficient comjiensation, . . . 
 or if such driver on the final discharge of such hackney carriage 
 shall refuse duly to account for such deposit, every such driver so- 
 offending shall forfeit forty shillings. \_Part omitted (as to rates 
 a?id/ares) rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 (S.L.E.).'] 
 Proprietors 48. . . . The proprietor of every hackney carriage shall provide 
 *^P^^^J^¥ and place in such hackney carriage a proper check string or wire, 
 drivers to ' ^-ud shall renew the same from time to time so often as occasion 
 hold .same in shall require ; and the driver of every such hackney carriage shall, 
 their hands, dnring the time of his driving any person in such hackney carriage, 
 hold such check string or wire in his hand, so that the same may be 
 used for the accommodation of snch person ; and if the ])roprietor 
 of any snch hackney carriage shall neglect to provide and place in 
 such hackney carriage such check string or wire as aforesaid, or 
 shall neglect to renew the same when and so often as shall be 
 requisite, or if the driver of any such hackney carriage shall neglect 
 or refuse to hold such check string or wire in his hand during the 
 time aforesaid, every such proprietor and every such driver so- 
 Penalty 20s. offending respectively shall forfeit twenty shillings.
 
 [1 tt2 Will. 4.] Tlw London Jfacknrf/ Carriage Art 1831. [Chaj-. 22.] 99 
 
 49. \_]'r()jjcrti/ left in carriages. Rep. hg the Jietenue Act 18(59, 
 s. :i9.] 
 
 50. . . . If the pro])rietoi' or driver of any hackney carriaj^e which Penalty for 
 
 shall be hired shall rierniit or suffer ;mv )ierson to ride or be carried pt-rmiiting 
 \ 4. Ill • -.1 .. ii ixjrsons to 
 
 in, upon, or about sucli Jiackney carria<j;e, wit liout the express J-i.ig without 
 
 consent of the ]»erson hiring the same, such j)roprietor or driver consent of 
 
 shall forfeit twenty shillings. ^'^e '"rer, 20». 
 
 51. ... If any proprietor or driver of any hackney carriage shiill imjjroperly 
 stand or ])ly for hii-e with such h:ickiiey ciirriage or suffer the s:iuie -^^".'1'"^ with 
 to stand, across any street or coniiuon jiassage or alley, or idongsicle j^g^^jj^^'^jj ^j.^^^ 
 of any other hackney carriage, or two in a breadth, or within eight in the street; 
 feet of the curbstone of the pavement in any such street or common 
 
 passage or alley ; or if any such })ro]trietor or driver, ... or other 
 
 person, sjiall feed the horses of or belonging to any hackney 
 
 carriage in any street, road, or common passage, save only with corn 
 
 out of a bag, or with hay which he shall hold or deliver with his 
 
 hands : or if the driver of any hackney carriage shall refuse to give rcfiusing to 
 
 way if he conveniently can to any ])rivate coach or other carriage, gi^^ ^^^y ^o, 
 
 or shall obstruct or hinder the driver of any other hackney carriage hi^any'other 
 
 in taking up or setting down any person into or from such other driver ; 
 
 hackney carriage ; or if any such pro])rietor or driver shall wrong- ^^. , . . 
 
 fully, in a forcible or clandestine manner, take away the fare from him of his 
 
 any other such proprietor or driver, who, in the judgment of any fare; 
 
 dustice of the Peace before whom any complaint of such otfence 
 
 shall be heard, shall appear to be fairly entitled to such fare ; every 
 
 such proprietor, driver, ... or other person so offending shall Penalty 20.<. 
 
 forfeit twentv sliillings. [J'art.s omitted {as to water men) rep. h\ 
 
 k 02 Vict. c. oT (,S./>./A).] 
 
 52 — 54. \Standings for carriages. Rep. 51 & 52 V^ict. c. 57 
 {S.L.R.)^^ 
 
 55. . . . That if the driver of any hackney carriage shall leave Penalty for 
 such hackney carriage unattended in any street or road, or at any leaving 
 place of public resort or enterraiiiment, whether such carriage ^^hall ^^^atT^ded 
 be hired or not, it shall be lawful for any officer of police, constable, at places of 
 or other peace officer, watchman, or patrole, to drive away such Public resort, 
 hackney carriage, and to dej)0sit the same, with the horse or horses " ** 
 belonging or harnessed thereto, at some neighbouring livery stables 
 
 or other jilace of safe custody ; and such driver shall forfeit twenty 
 shillings for such offence ; and in deftiult of payment of the said 
 penalty upon conviction, and of the expences of taking and keejaug 
 the said hackney carriage and horse or horses, the same, together 
 with tlie harness belonging thereto, or any of them, shall bo sold by 
 order of the Justice before whom such conviction shall be made, and 
 after deducting from the produce of such sale the amount of the 
 said penalty and of all costs and ex})ences as well of the pro- 
 ceedings before such .Justice as of the taking, kee})ing, and sale of 
 the said hackney carriage, and of the said horse or horses and 
 harness, the surplus (if any) of the said produce shall be })aid to the 
 proprietor of such hackney carriage. 
 
 56. ... If the proprietor or driver of any hackney carriage, Proprietors, 
 or any other person haviuir the care thereof, shall liv intoxication, ^^"vers, or 
 
 \ i. 1 i? • ' 1 ■ ■ 1 .1 ■ ic I ■ watermen 
 
 or by wanton and turious driving, or l)y any other wiltul mis- misbehavmg. 
 conduct, injure or endanger any person in his life, limbs, or 
 property, or if any su(^h proprietor or driver . . . shall make use of any 
 abusive or insulting lany:uay:e, or be jrailtv of other rude behaviour,
 
 lOG 
 
 [Chap. 22.] The London Hackney Carriage Act 1831. [1 & 2 Will. 4] 
 
 Penalty, 5?. 
 
 Licence may 
 be revoked. 
 
 Justices em- 
 powered to 
 award com- 
 pensation to 
 drivers for 
 their loss of 
 time in 
 attending to 
 answer com- 
 plaints which 
 shall not be 
 substantiated 
 against them. 
 
 Names and 
 places of 
 abode of 
 owners of 
 waggons, 
 carts, etc. to 
 be painted 
 thereon. 
 
 Penalty for 
 nsing wag- 
 gons, etc. 
 
 to or towards any person whatever, or shall assault or obstruct 
 any officer of stamp duties, or any officer of police, constable, or 
 other peace officer, watchman, or patrole, in the execution of his 
 duty, every such projirietor, driver, ... or other person so offend- 
 ing in any of the several cases aforesaid, shall forfeit five pounds, 
 and in default of payment thereof he shall be committed to the 
 common gaol or house of correction ; . . . and after the conviction 
 of any such proprietor, . . . for any such offence as aforesaid, it 
 shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Stamps, if they shall think 
 fit, to revoke the licence of any such proprietor, . . . and to refuse to 
 grant him any further licence in future. \_Parts omitted (as to 
 watermen amd assistants to drivers) rep. bi/ the Summary Jurisdiction 
 Act 1884, s. 4, and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 57 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 bl. ... If any driver of a hackney carriage . . . shall be sum- 
 moned or brought before any Justice of the Peace to answer any 
 complaint or information touching or concerning any offence com- 
 mitted or alleged to have been committed bv such driver . . . against 
 the provisions of this Act, and such complaint or information shall 
 afterwards be withdrawn or quashed or dismissed, or if the defendant 
 shall be acquitted of the offence charged against him, it shall be 
 lawful for the said Justice, if he shall think fit, to order and award 
 that the complainant or informant shall pay to the said driver . . . 
 such compensation for his loss of time in attending the said Justice 
 touching or concerning such complaint or information as to the said 
 Justice shall seem reasonable ; and in default of payment of such 
 compensation, it shall be lawful for the said Justice to commit such 
 complainant or informant to prison for any time not exceeding one 
 calendar month, unless the same shall be sooner paid. [^Parts 
 omitted (as to watermen and assistants to dricers) rep. 51 & 52 
 Tirt. c. 57 (>S'.Z./i'.).] 
 
 58. \_Commissioners to give notice of revocation of licences. Rep. 
 hj the Rerentie Act 1860,'.$. 3lJ.] 
 
 59. And for preventing the misbehaviour of the drivers of waggons, 
 wains, carts, cars, drays, and other such carriages used in the metro- 
 polis and the suburbs thereof, and for the better discovery of offenders, 
 be it enacted, that the owner of every waggon, wain, cart, car, dray, or 
 other such carriage which shall be driven or used in any public 
 street or road within the distance of five miles from the General 
 Post Office in the city of London, shall before such waggon, wain, 
 cart, car, dray, or other such carriage shall be so driven or used as 
 aforesaid, paint or cause t(» be painted in words at full length, and in 
 one or more straight line or lines, upon some conspicuous place on 
 the right or off side of such waggon, wain, cart, car, dray, or other 
 such carriage, clear of the wheel or wheels thereof, or upon the right 
 or off side sliaft thereof, the true Christian name and surname and 
 place of abode of the owner or (if there be more than one) of the 
 principal owner of such waggon, wain, cart, car, dray, or other such 
 carriage, and the letters of all such words shall be painted in legible 
 and conspicuous characters of black upon a white ground or of white 
 upon a black ground, and shall be at least one inch in height, and 
 of a proper and proportionate breadth ; and all such words shall lie 
 repainted or renewed in like manner from time to time as often as 
 the same or any part thereof shall become obliterated or defaced. 
 \_Amended 6 & 7 Met. c. 86, ss. 3, 4.] 
 
 60. ... If any person shall drive or use, or cause to be driven or 
 used, in or upon any public street or road within the distance of five
 
 [1 & 2 Will. 4.] 'The London Uacknejj Carriage Act 1831. [Chap. 22.] 101 
 
 miles from the said General Post Office, any wagf^on, wain, cart, ^v^"^ which 
 
 car, drav, or other such carriaji^e upon which there shall not be dnlv ^'"ji"1'^^l , 
 
 ■ 1 "• 11-11 1 • 1 /. • 1 S ''I'd plates of 
 
 painted m sn{;h le<;ihle and conspicuons chai-acters as aloi'esaid, and abode are not 
 
 in the manner directed by tliis Act, the true r'hristian name and P-iint'-'^. jj^- 
 
 sui'name and ])hxce of abode of the owner or (il" tliere be more than 
 
 one) of the ])rincipal owner of such waggon, wain, cart, car, dray, or 
 
 other such carriage, every person so offending shall forfeit five 
 
 pounds ; and it shall be lawful for any person to take and seize such 
 
 waggon, wain, cart, car, dray, or other such carriage, and any horse 
 
 drawing the same, and to lodge the same for safe custody at some 
 
 ])ublic green yard, or some livery stables or other place of safety, 
 
 and them to detain and keej) until some one of His Majesty's Justices 
 
 of the Peace shall hear and defei'mine such offence, and until the 
 
 penalty which such offender shall be liable and adjudged to pay for 
 
 such offence, together with the costs of the proceedings for the 
 
 recovery thereof, and the expences of taking and keeping such 
 
 waggon, wain, cart, car, dray, or other carriage, and any horse 
 
 drawing the same, shall l)e fully paid and discharged ; and if, on the 
 
 conviction of any such offender, the said ])enalty, costs, and expences 
 
 shall not be forthwith paid, such waggon, wain, cart, car, dray, or 
 
 other such carriage, and the horse, so seized and taken as aforesaid, 
 
 or either of them, shall be sold under an order for that purpose, 
 
 under the hand of such Justice, directed to the constable or other 
 
 peace officer of the parish or place where any such offence shall be 
 
 committed ; and the surplus (if any) of the money arising from such 
 
 sale, after deducting thereout the amount of such ])enalty, costs, and 
 
 expences as aforesaid, together also with the costs and expences of 
 
 such sale, shall be rendered to the owner of the waggon, wain, cart, 
 
 car, dray, or other carriage or horse which shall have been so seized 
 
 and sold as aforesaid. 
 
 61. \_])".tie.s and penalties, Jtoic recocerable. Rep. hj the liexenue 
 Art 1860, ,9. 30.] 
 
 62. ... It shall be lawful for His ]Majesty's j)rincipal Secretary Before whom 
 
 of State for the Home Deimrtment, bv such orders and under such o^^e^ices shall 
 , . 1 1 1 p • • ^ ■ ^ n i • i '^^ uearcl ana 
 
 regulations as he shall from time to time think nt to make in that determined. 
 
 behalf, to direct any one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace 
 appointed or to be appointed under any Act or Acts for regulating 
 the office of a Justice of Peace in the metropolis, to attend daily 
 from the hour of eleven in the forenoon until the hour of three in 
 the afternoon, at such one of the public police offices of the metro- 
 polis, or at such other office or place as the said principal Secretary 
 of State shall appoint in that behalf, not being within the city of 
 London, for the ])ur])ose of hearing and determining offences against 
 the provisions of this Act ; and it shall be lawful for any Justice 
 of the Peace who for the time being shall be in attendance at 
 such public police office, or other office or ])lace to be appointed 
 for that purpose as aforesaid, to hear and determine all such 
 offences as aforesaid in a summary manner, wheresoever the 
 same may have been committed : Providt'd always, that it shall 
 also be lawful for any other of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, 
 having jurisdiction where any such offence as aforesaid shall be 
 committed, in like manner to hear and determine the same at any 
 place within iiis jurisdiction. 
 
 63. . . . It shall be lawful for any such Justice as aforesaid, in Mode of 
 all cases in which no other mode of proceeding is specially provided for^penakfes 
 or directed by this Act, upon information or complaint made by any
 
 102 
 
 [Chap. 22.] The London Hackney Carriage Act 1831. [1 & 2 AVill. 4.] 
 
 before a 
 Justice of the 
 Peace. 
 
 Service of 
 
 Justice's 
 
 summons. 
 
 Justice.s may 
 
 mitigate 
 
 penalties. 
 
 person of any offence against the })rovisions of tin's Act within thirty 
 days next after the commission of any snch offence, to summon the 
 party accused, and also the witnesses on either side, to appear before 
 the said Justice, or before any other Justice of the Peace, at a time 
 and place to be appointed for that purpose ; and either on the 
 appearance of the party accused, or in default thereof, it shall be 
 lawful for such Justice, or any other Justice present at the time and 
 place appointed for such appearance, to proceed to examine into the 
 matter of fact, and upon due proof made thereof, by voluntary con- 
 fession of the party, or by oath of one or more credible witness or 
 witnesses, to give judgment for the penalty or forfeiture, and on 
 nonpayment thereof, together with the costs of such proceedings, to 
 commit the offender to prison, where such commitment is specially 
 directed by this Act ; and in any case where such commitment is not 
 so specially directed, such Justice is hereby required to award and 
 issue out of his warrant for the levying of any penalty or forfeiture 
 so adjudged, together with the said costs and expences, and also the 
 costs and expences of such warrant, and of levying the same on the 
 goods of the offender, and to cause sale to be made of such goods in 
 case they shall not be redeemed within five days, rendering to the 
 party the overplus (if any) ; and where goods of such offender 
 cannot be found sufficient to answer the penalty, and all such costs 
 and expences, to commit such offender to prison, there to remain for 
 any time not exceeding two calendar months, unless such penalty 
 and all such costs and expences shall be sooner paid ; and every such 
 im])risonment shall be with or without hard labour, as such Justice 
 shall direct. . . . \_Fart omitted (a.>i to Juiitici^'s deci-vor/ to be final) 
 rep. 51 & 52 Vict. c. 57 (S.LJL) See also tJie Summanj Jurisdiction 
 Act 1879, s. 5.] 
 
 64. \JHoiD goods distrained shall be sold. Rep. 37 & 38 Vict, 
 c. 35 {S.L.R).'] 
 
 65. [_Summonses, convictions, and warrants. Hep. 37 & 38 Vict. c.Zh 
 (S.L.B.), and by the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 66 — 67. \_Tssue of ivarrants and attendance of icitnesses. Rep. 
 37 & 38 Vict. c. ^6 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 68. . . . Any summons issued by any Justice of the Peace re- 
 quiring the appearance of any defendant or of any witness or other 
 person, with reference to any information, complaint, or other pro- 
 ceeding pending for the recovery of any duty or penalty under this 
 Act, shall be deemed to be well and sufficiently served in case either 
 the summons or a copy thereof be served personally on an}' such 
 person as aforesaid, or be left at his usual or last place of abode, or 
 (in case such person be a licensed proprietor of a hackney carriage, 
 . . . ) at the place specified in any such licence as the place of abode 
 of such proprietor , . . ; and if the place so specified cannot be 
 found, or if such ])roi)rietor . . . shall not be known thereat, then 
 such summons shall be deemed to be well and sufficiently served if 
 the same or a copy thereof be fixed up in some conspicuous place in 
 the said head office for stam])s to be a])pointed for that purpose. 
 \_Rarts omitted (as to watermen) rep. 51 <fc 52 Vict. c. 57 {S.L.R.)r\ 
 
 69. \_Penalty on constable refusing to serve a summons or execute 
 a, ivarra/nt. Rep. by the Summnry Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 70. ... It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace before 
 whom any person shall be convicted of any offence against any of 
 the provisions of this Act to mitigate, as he shall think fit, any 
 penalty by this Act imposed, in cases where such Justice shall see
 
 [1 & 2 AN'iLL. 4.] I >«r/ and Delirery of Coah Act l,s31. [( "hap. Ixxvi.] 103 
 
 cause 80 to do. . . . \_Pnrt omitteiJ {an to cost>i) rep. bij the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Act 1884, a. 4.] 
 
 71. . . . All pecuniiivy penalties which shall be recovere<l before Distribution 
 any Justice of the Peace under tiie ])rovisions of this Act, except ^^ P^'*^^^'®^- 
 such as shall i)e recovered in the city of London or the borough of 
 Sonthwark, shall respectively l>e divided and distributed in manner 
 following; (that is to say,) one moiety thereof to His Majesty, and 
 
 the other moiety thereof (with full costs) to the person who shall 
 inform and prosecute for the same. \But see 2 A: 3 \'ict. c. 1\,s. 34.] 
 
 72. \Jnformants and complainants mat/ be witnesses. Bep. 37 & 38 
 Vict.c.'^^{S.L:R.)?\ 
 
 73. \_Limitation of actions, venue, etc. Rep. in part by the 
 Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842. llemr.by the Public 
 Authorities Protection Act 1893.*] 
 
 74. And in order to avoid the frequent use of divers terms and Construction 
 expressions, and to prevent any misconstruction of the terms ^■Q^l usgdln tiu^ 
 expressions used in this Act ; be it enacted, that whenever in this Act. 
 
 Act with reference to any person, animal, matter, or thing, any 
 word or words is or are used importing the singular number or the 
 masculine jjeuder onlv, vet such word or words shall be understood 
 to include several persons or animals as well as one person or animal, 
 females as well as males, bodies politic or corporate as well as indi- 
 viduals, and several matters or things as well as one matter or thing, 
 unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in 
 the subject or context repugnant to such construction. \_See also 
 the Interpretation Act 1889.] 
 
 75 — 78. {Ilaichers^ and pedlars^ duties — Commencement of Act — 
 Act mai/ be altered in present session. Rep. 37 ct 38 Vict. c. 35 
 
 {s.l.r:).'] 
 
 Schedules (A), (B), & (C). \_{As to duties, rates, and fares) rep. 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, s. 39.] 
 
 Schedule (D). [(^6- to forms of proceedings) rep. by the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 CHAPTER LXXYI. 
 
 An Act for regulating the Vend and Delivery of Coals in the 
 Cities of London and Westminster, and in certain Parts of 
 THE Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Hertford- 
 shire, Buckinghamshire, AND Berkshire. \J)th October \^'i\.'] 
 
 1. [Repeal in part of (inter alia) 9 .1/^//. c. 28.] 
 
 ■ ••••* 
 
 45. . . . If any seller or sellers of or dealer or dealers in coals ^^l^^^""'^^ 
 shall knowingly sell one sort of coals for and as a sort which ^.f^one sort, 
 they really are not, within the said Port of London, or at any of coals for 
 place witlun the cities of London and Westminster, or within the a^o'l^er. 
 distance of twenty-tive miles from the Post Office t aforesaid, 
 every such seller or sellers of or dealer or dealers in coals ^'^^^^ penalty 10/. 
 forfeit and pay for every such oticnce the sum of ten pounds 
 per ton for every ton of coals so sold, and so in proportion for any 
 smaller quantity ; and such seller or sellers of or dealer or dealers 
 in coals shall not be subject or liable to any penalty imjioseil by the 
 
 * See Appendi.x. 
 
 t I.e. tbe CJeneral Tost Office in the city of London.
 
 104 
 
 [Chap. Ixxvi,] Vend and Ddicery of Coals Act 1831. [1 & 2 Will. 4.] 
 
 * said Act of the ninth year of the reign of Queen Anne, or by an 
 3 G. 2. c. 20. * Act made in the third year of the reign of King- George the Second, 
 intituled An Act for the better regulation of the coal trade, on every 
 person who shall knowingly sell one sort of coals for and as a sort 
 which they really are not : Provided always, that no seller or sellers 
 of or dealer or dealers in coals shall be subject to such penalty for 
 or in respect of any number of tons exceeding twenty-iive tons for 
 the same offence. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 77. \_Recoi:erij and application of fines and penalties not exceeding 
 261. Superseded by 14 & 15 Vict. c. cxlvi. s. 28.] 
 
 Power to the 
 Justice to 
 give part of 
 yjenalties to 
 informers. 
 
 79. Provided always nevertheless, . . . that it shall be lawfnl 
 for any .Justice or .Justices before whom any such conviction shall 
 take place, if they or he shall think fit, to order and direct any part, 
 not exceeding one half, of such fines, penalties, and forfeitures, to 
 be paid or applied to or for the use of the informer or informers, or 
 other persons aiding or assisting in the apprehension of the offender 
 or offenders, or any of them. 
 
 Penalties 
 incurred by 
 caiTnen may 
 be recovered 
 from their 
 employers ; 
 
 who may 
 recover them 
 back. 
 
 Appeal to 
 the Quarter 
 Sessions. 
 
 Penalties 
 above 25Z., 
 how to be 
 recovered. 
 
 81. . . . Where any carman, driver, or other person employed 
 by any seller or sellers of or dealer or dealers in coals, shall have 
 been convicted of any offence against this Act, and the penalty 
 or forfeiture for the same, or any sum directed to be paid to any 
 witness, shall not be forthwith paid, the same respectively shall 
 be paid by the seller or sellers, dealer or dealers, by whom such 
 carman, driver, or other person shall have been em])loyed at the 
 time when such offence was committed . . . : Provided always, that 
 such carman, driver, or other person shall be liable to repay to such 
 seller or sellers, dealer or dealers, the amount of such penalty and 
 the costs attending the same ; and in case of nonpayment thereof, 
 upon demand, and oath, or by a Quaker or Quakers an affirmation,, 
 of the payment thereof, and that the same and the costs thereof 
 have not been repaid by such carman, driver, or person, although 
 demanded, (such oath or affirmation to be made before any .Justice 
 or .Justices of the Peace for the county, city, or place where such 
 penalty shall have been recovered,) the amount of such penalty and 
 costs shall be recovered in like manner as any penalty is directed to 
 be recovered by this Act, and shall be paid to such seller or sellers, 
 dealer or dealers respectively. \_Note to s. 77 applies to part 
 owitted {fis to recovery of penalties^. ~\ 
 
 82. ... It shall and may be lawful to and for any person or per- 
 sons so convicted by any .Justice or .Justices of the Peace, as before 
 mentioned, of any offence or offences against this Act, or against 
 any rule, order, or byelaw made in pursuance thereof, to appeal 
 to the .Justices of the Peace assembled at the next General 
 Quarter Sessions or General Sessions to be holden for the county, 
 city, or place where such conviction shall be made. . . . 
 
 • •••«•• 
 
 85. . . . All fines, penalties, or forfeitures exceeding the sum of 
 twenty-five pounds by this Act imposed for any offence or 
 offences committed against this Act shall and may be recovered 
 by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of His Majesty's 
 Courts of Record at Westminster, ... by the person or persons 
 
 * These Acts are repealed by 30 & 31 Vict, c 5S( (S.L.R.).
 
 [3 & 4 Will. 4.] The London Uachwj Carnages Act 1833. [Chap. 48.] 105 
 
 who shall inform and sne for tlic same within three calendar 
 months after the offence or offences sliall be committed ; and one 
 moiety of all such tines, ])eiialties, or forfeitures sliall he to and for 
 the use of our soverei.un lord the Kin<^, his heirs und successors, 
 and the other moiety thereof . . . sluill be to and for the use of 
 the person or jx-rsons who shall ini'orin or sue for the same. 
 
 • ■•••• 
 
 91. \^.\i-f to hr jad'ti-iallij noticed^ 
 
 SCHEDTLE. \Fan)i of oath. Spent. ~\ 
 
 \_'rhe Act ((ho rchitcti in part to the Coal K.rchange in tlw Citi/ of 
 London, to the procision of a Coal Market bij the Corporation oj the 
 City of London and. the manayement thereof. The other pjarts of the 
 Act ivhich are oynitted are either repealed hij the Limita^tiona of Actions 
 and Costs Act 1842, or .52 & 53 \'iet. <•. 17, or .superseded, by the 
 Sununary .Jiirii<diction Acts, or the Wciqlii-s and Measures Act 1n8U, 
 or ,spe/d.^ 
 
 3 & 4 WILLIAM IV. A.D. 1833. 
 
 CHAPTER 48. 
 
 An Act to amend an Act of the Second and Third Years of 
 Hts present Majesty, relating to Stage Carriages in 
 Great Britain ; and also to explain and amend an Act 
 OF THE First and Second Years of His present Majesty, 
 relating to Hackney Carriages used in the Metropolis. 
 
 [28^;/^ Au(/u.st ls33.] 
 
 \_Prea?nble recites the Stage Carriages Act 1832.] 
 
 1 — 3. Number of outside passengers — Luggage. Rep. 37 k 38 
 Vict. c. 35 (S.LJl).^ 
 
 4. ... No person shall be allowed to sit or be carried upon any No person to 
 luggage placed on the roof of any stage carriage, and not more ^^^ the "fof ^^ 
 than one })assenger or other ])erson shall be allowed to sit or be nor more than 
 carried u])on the box with the driver of any stage carriage ; and one person 
 that if any person shall sit or be carried upon any luggage placed ^^h-er on t^he 
 as aforesaid, or if more than one person besides the driver shall sit box. 
 
 or be carried uj^on the box of any stage carriage, the driver of such 
 stage carriage at tlio time when any such offence shall be committed 
 shall forfeit' five pounds. ' Penalty 5^ 
 
 5. . . . All penalties which may be incurred under the provisions Mode of 
 of this Act may be ])rosecuted for and recovered bv information or recovering 
 comj)laint l)efore a Justice of the Peace in the name of any person 
 
 who will inlbrm or com])lain in that behalf, by the same ways and 
 means and in the same manner and form as are and is provided for 
 the recovery of any penalty iiuurrtMl under the said recited Act : 
 and all clauses, regulations, and jirovisions contained in the said 
 recited Act, relating to the recovering, levying, or mitigating of the 
 penalties thereby imposed, shall be of full force and effect, and shall 
 be applied and put in execution for the recovering, levying, and 
 mitigating of the penalties by this Act imposed, as fully and 
 effectually to all intents and purposes as if such clauses, regulations,
 
 106 
 
 [Chap. 21.] 
 
 The Hay and Straw AH 1834. 
 
 [4 Will. 4.] 
 
 Application 
 of penalties. 
 
 The Act 
 1 & 2 \V. 4. 
 c. 22. not to 
 extend to 
 steam car- 
 riages. 
 
 and provisions had been repeated and specially enacted in this Act 
 with reference to the penalties by this Act imposed. 
 
 6. Provided always, . . . that all pecuniary penalties imposed by 
 or incm-red under this Act and under the said recited Act, or either 
 of them, whether the same shall be sued or prosecuted for and 
 recovered by or in the name of His Majesty's Attorney General in 
 England, or His Majesty's Advocate for Scotland, or the Solicitor 
 of Stamps, or any other officer of stamp duties in England or 
 Scotland respectively, or for the recovery of which any information 
 or complaint shall be made or any action or suit commenced by any 
 other person or j^ersons whomsoever, shall go and be applied to the 
 use of His Majesty, any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary 
 thereof notwithstanding ; and all such penalties shall be paid or 
 remitted to the Solicitor of Stamps in the manner directed by the 
 said Act, and shall be deemed to be part of His Majesty's revenue 
 arising from stamp duties, and shall accordingly be accounted for 
 and paid by the said solicitor to the Receiver General of Stamp 
 Duties : Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Commis- 
 sioners of Stamps, at their discretion, to give all or any part of any 
 such penalties as rewards to any person or persons who shall have 
 detected the offences for or in respect of which such penalties shall 
 have been incurred, or who shall have given information which mav 
 have led to the discoverv thereof or to the conviction of the offenders. 
 [See 2 & 3 Vkt. c. 71, 6-.' 4 7.] 
 
 7. And whereas an Act was passed in the first and second years 
 of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the 
 laws relating to hackney carriages, and to waggons, carts, and 
 drays, used in the metropolis . . . ; and doubts have arisen whether 
 carriages drawn or impelled by the power of steam, and used for 
 the conveyance of passengers for hire, are hackney carriages, subject 
 to the duties and regulations imposed and enacted by the said last 
 recited Act ; for removing such doubts, be it enacted and declared, 
 that nothing in the said last recited Act shall extend or be deemed 
 or construed to extend to anv carria£!:e drawn or impelled bv the 
 power of steam, or otherwise than bv animal i)Ower. \_Part omitted 
 {part of title of 1 k 2 117//. 4, c. 22) rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67 
 (S.LJt):\ 
 
 4 WILLIAM IV. A.D. 1834. 
 
 Recited pro- 
 ^•isions of 
 36 G. 3. c. 88, 
 repealed as 
 to certain 
 markets. 
 
 CHAPTER 21. 
 
 An Act foe amending certain Provisions of an Act of the 
 Thirty-sixth of George the Third, for regulating the 
 buying and selling of Hay and Straw. \\iSth Jane 1834.] 
 
 [Preamble recites sections 15 & 16 of 36 Geo. 3, c. 88, a7id recites 
 that the said recited jyrovisions /cere ivell calculated to prevent 
 obstructions and inconvenience to the public in markets held for the sale 
 of ha If and strajv in op)en or public streets or thoroughfares, but that 
 the same are unnecessa)-;/, and ma;/ become vexatious and op/j7^essive, 
 in other market.^, and ouyld therefore to be jmrtially repealed.'] 
 
 1. . . . The several provisions of the said Act of the thirty-sixth 
 year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter eighty-eight, 
 which are hereinbefore recited, shall ])e and the same are hereby
 
 [G& 7 Will. 4.] n,' Greemvich Fier Act l^i'iid. [Chap, cxxviii.] 107 
 
 repealcMl so far as rfi^ards any iiiarkft for the sale of hay, straw, 
 and clover through which there does not exist by law any public 
 ri<j:lit of way for carts and carriages; and ui)on any complaint 
 made or information laid for the recovery of penalties u])on bro:ich 
 of any of tiie said recited provisions of the said Act it shall be 
 incumbent upon the l)arty suing for such penalty to show by 
 evidence tlnit there does exist such public right of way for carts 
 and carriages through the market in which the offence shall be 
 charged to have been committed. 
 
 6 & 7 WILLIAM IV. A.D. 1836. 
 
 CHAPTER CXXVIII. 
 *An Act for making and maintaining a Pier "Wharf and 
 
 OTHER AVORKS AT GREENWICH IN THE CoUNTY OF KeNT. 
 
 [2SM J^df/ 1^30.] 
 
 [^Preamble recites (inter alia) that it ivoidd he of yreat public 
 utility, if a pier wharf or jetty tcere erected, made, and maintained 
 at Greenwich aforesaid : and that certain persons acting on behalf 
 of the subscribers to the intended undertakiny have ayreed to 
 take on lease from the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital a 
 piece of land situate at Greenwich aforesaid, whereon to construct 
 the abutment and J'onii the landiny of the said pier wharf or 
 Jetty, and the necessary tvorks belonging thereto, ivhich lease is to 
 be for a term of eighty years from the ^Ath June 1837, or from such 
 earlier period as the said pier wharf or jetty and other works shall be 
 finished and opened to the public, at the yearly rent of S,\^y),free 
 from taxes. 1 
 
 1. Sir Richard Dobson, Robert Matthew Isacke, Thomas Martyr, Company 
 Matthew James Poi)plewell, Edward "Wilkinson, Honeyman incorporated. 
 Mac({ueen Mackay, Robert Wintle limes, John Sutton, George 
 Martyr, Thomas Kinsman Bryan, Henry Mathew, (Graham Simson, 
 Thomas Calvert Morton, John Carttar, John luwotxl Langley, John 
 Smallnian Masters Clerk, Thomas Oak, Edward 15ate, "William 
 Debonaire Haggard, Edward Leman, Joseph i\Iaynard Ward, 
 Thomas l*)rockelbank, AVilliam Paine, James Colquhoun, William 
 Rrownfield the younger, Frederick Finch, "William (Jalvert, John 
 Aitchison, Thomas Oswald, James Martyr, and "William Giles, and 
 their respective successors, executors, administrators, and assigns, 
 or such of them as shall from time to time be possessed of any 
 share or shares in the undertaking hereby authorized, and also all 
 such other person or persons as shall from time to time be pos- 
 sessed of any share or shares therein, and their res])ective successors, 
 executors, administrators, and assigns, shall be and they are hereby 
 united into a comjjany for the constructing, making, maintaining, 
 and carrying out a pier wharf or jetty into the River Thames 
 at Greenwich in the county of Kent, together with ([unys. works, 
 and all other conveniences and reijuisites thereto, according to the 
 powers and authorities hereinafter contained, and shall be one body 
 politic and corporate by the name of" The Greenwich Pier Comjiany," 
 and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common 
 
 * See 4 Edw. 7. c. cciii.
 
 108 [Chap, cxxviii.] The Greenwich Pier Act 1836. [6 & 7 Will. 4.] 
 
 seal, and by that name sliall and may sue and be sued, and shall 
 have full power and authority to take a lease of the land agreed to 
 be demised by the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital as aforesaid, 
 upon the terms so as aforesaid agreed upon, or upon any other 
 terms hereafter to be agreed upon between the said Commissioners 
 and the said Company, and to renew such lease from time to time 
 and when and as often and during so long as the said Commissioners 
 shall agree to grant a renewal thereof, and also to purchase the fee 
 simple of the said land, if the said Commissioners shall agree to sell 
 the same to the said Com])any, and to hold the said land, and 
 any other lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to them the said 
 company, their successors and assigns, for the use of the said under- 
 taking, without incurring any of the forfeitures of the statutes of 
 mc»rtmain. 
 Power to 2. ... It shall be lawful for the said ( *om])any and they are 
 
 erect a pier j^ereby authorized and empowered, from and after the passing of 
 works. ^ this Act, subject to the stipulations hereinbefore referred to between 
 
 the said Company and the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, 
 to erect and make, and thenceforward to maintain, at Greenwich 
 aforesaid, a jner wharf or jetty on the south side of the River 
 Thames in the parish of Saint Alphage, Greenwich, in the county of 
 Kent, from that part of the l)ank of the said river which is situate 
 between certain public stairs or landing places in the said parish 
 called or known by the name of Garden Stairs, and certain other 
 stairs called or known by the name of Ship Stairs, according to the 
 plan deposited with tlie town clerk of the said city of London, for 
 the embarking and disembarking, landing and shipping of passengers, 
 and of horses, carriages, cattle and other live stock, and lading and. 
 unlading ships and vessels, in such manner, and subject to such 
 orders and directions, as the directors of the said Company, to be 
 appointed in the manner hereinafter mentioned, or the major part 
 of them present at any of their meetings, shall deem necessary or 
 expedient : and also to erect and make such landing places, embank- 
 ments, and other works as the said directors shall think necessary 
 and projier, for rendering the said pier wharf or jetty useful and 
 convenient for the landing and embarking of passengers and goods ; 
 and also to make avenues and approaches to the said pier wharf or 
 jetty, and other works, as the said directors shall in manner aforesaid 
 deem necessary and proper ; and also to erect and make proper and 
 convenient toll gates and houses for the collectors of the tolls to be 
 taken under the authority of this Act, upon or near to the said pier 
 wharf or jetty, avenues or approaches; and for the jiurposes, and 
 subject as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said company, their 
 servants, agents, and workmen, to dig and make proper foundations 
 in the said river and on the land adjoining, and to deepen the bed of 
 the said river in front of the said })ier wharf or jetty, and also tO' 
 alter and excavate the said public stairs or landing place called 
 Garden Stairs, and the causeway thereof, and from time to time to 
 re])air, rebuild, ])ull down, vary or alter the said works, or any of 
 them ; the works in the said river, and connected therewith, to be 
 done and performed to the satisfaction of the clerk of the works for 
 the time being employed in the Thames navigation : Provided 
 always, that no toll gate shall be erected under or by virtue of this 
 Act at any farther or greater distance from the front or river wall of 
 the said pier wharf or jetty to be constructed by virtue of this Act 
 than the space of fifty yards to the southward thereof.
 
 [6 &T Will. 4.] 'ihe Gree.mvkk Via- Act IbSO. [Chap, cxxviii.] 109 
 
 3. . . . The said pier wharf or jetty and works shall be so con- I'resent 
 s;triicted, and so kei>t and used as not to injure the stairs or steps PO'^o p'ace 
 
 1 11 1 11 1 /-t 1 v. • 111 callea «jai (len 
 
 and canseway whon altered called darden Stairs, now used by the stairs not to 
 
 watermen as a ])lyin^ ])lace, and which will be on the western side Ij*-' injurod. 
 
 of the said pier wharf or jetty, and so that the same stairs and steps 
 
 and causeway when altered may remain and be used and enjoyed as 
 
 heretofore. 
 
 4. . . . In case at any tiuic or times there shall be any accuninla- Any accumu- 
 tion of mud, sand, dirt, or other matter adjoining to the said jticr '^^ionof mud, 
 wharf or jetty, or in the neighbourhood thereof, occasioned thereby, removelT 
 which shall apj)ear to the * ]\[ayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the 
 
 city of London in ( "ommon Council assembled, or to the Lord ^Mayor 
 of the said city for the time being, as conservator of the Kiver 
 Thames, to be injurious to the navigation of the said river, then and 
 in every such case the said company shall, within thirty days after 
 notice in writing for that pnrjtose, by the * town clerk of the said city 
 ■of Jjondon, shall have l»een left at the office of the clerk of the saiil 
 Company, cause the said mud, sand, dirt, or other matter to be taken 
 away and effectually removed ; and in case the said ( "ompany shall 
 neglect or refuse to cause the said mud, sand, dii't, or other matter to 
 be removed eriectually, it shall be lawful for the said * Mayor, Alder- 
 men, and Commons, in Common Council assembled, or the said Lord 
 Mayor for the time being, to employ other persons to take away and 
 remove the same, and the said Company shall, on demand, pay to 
 the * Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the said city of London 
 all costs and charges occasioned by the removal thereof, and the 
 same may be recovered from the said ( -ompany by an action of debt 
 in any of His j\Iajesty's Courts of Law at Westminster. 
 
 5. . . . In case the said pier wharf or jetty shall not be comj)leted F.^r obviating 
 
 and tinished bv the said Com])anv within the time limited bv this '^''^"r*^'',.*'-' ^''f* 
 . , . ' , ^. V " ji 1 11 . 1 ' naviyration or 
 
 Act, or m case at any time atter the same shall have been com- the Kiver 
 
 pleted and finished it shall not be kejjt in proper repair, and shall Thames. 
 
 become a nuisance or an im]tediment to the safe navigation of the 
 
 said Kiver Thames, and the said Company shall not. within thirty 
 
 ■days after a notice in writing for that purjjose shall have been left 
 
 at the office of the clerk of the said Comj)aiiy, immediately j)roceed 
 
 to repair the said pier wharf or jetty, or shall refuse to repair the 
 
 same, and render it free from all danger to the naviiration of ships 
 
 and vessels, as the case may be, then and in either of the said cases 
 
 it shall be lawful for the said * Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in 
 
 Common Council assembled, or the said Lord ]\Iayor for the time 
 
 being, to em})loy persons to take away and remove the materials of 
 
 the said pier wharf or jetty, and to sell and employ the same for the 
 
 purposes of the improvement of the navigation of the said Jiiver 
 
 Thames. 
 
 6. . . . The said Company shall pay to the said * Mayor and Paynu-nt to 
 commonaltv and citizens of the citv of London, . . . their successors, H^" "''?^^*^ ^^ 
 collectors, or assigns for and during the continuance of the said London for 
 term of eighty years, and so long thereafter as the said pier shall cutting into 
 continue the propertv of the said Companv, their successors, or -'^'nlcommuni- 
 
 • • iCitin'' Willi 
 
 assigns, an animal rent or sum of five pounds five shillings atter ji\e Ri^.^j 
 
 the said l>aiik or wall, and shore and bed, shall be cut and dug, and Tliame>. 
 
 the communication completed, for the purposes aforesaid ; and such 
 
 annual sum is hereby charged upon and made payable by and may 
 
 * Now the Thames Conservators. See 20 x 21 Vict. c. cxlvii. since rep. by 
 57 & 5S Vict. c. clxxxvii. (See Appendix.)
 
 llu 
 
 [Chap, cxxviii.] The Greenwich Pier Act 1836. [6 <fe T AVill. 4.] 
 
 rian depo- 
 sited with 
 Clerk of the 
 Parliament 
 and the Town 
 Clerk of the 
 city of 
 London to 
 remain there, 
 and be open 
 to inspection. 
 
 Plates or 
 duties 
 directed to 
 be paid. 
 
 be reco%'ered from the said Company by action of debt in any of His 
 Majesty's Courts of Law at Westminster. . . . [Parts omitted 
 (as to acknoirled ginent for making loorks) spent \ {a.-i to jjayment hy 
 Greeracich Hospital) rep. 7 Will. 4, c. Ivi. s. 50.] 
 
 7 — 41. {^Financial provisions — As to shares, directors, and Com- 
 pany'' s procedure. See 4 Edic. 7, c. cciii. s. 6.] 
 
 41—43. [.46- to byelaics. See 18 k 19 Vict. c. 120, .s. 202, and 
 4 Eda\ 7, c. cciii. .s-. 22.] 
 
 44 — 50. \_As to comrnittpes of directors and calls on shares. 
 See 4 Edic. 7, c. cciii. s. 6.] 
 
 51. And whereas a map or plan describing the situation of the said 
 ])ier wharf or jetty and other works will be deposited in the office 
 of the Clerk of the Parliament and with the Town Clerk of the city 
 of London ; . . . the said majj or plan so to be deposited shall remain 
 with and be kept by the said clerk, and all persons interested therein 
 shall have liberty to inspect, peruse, and make copies thereof at 
 reasonable times, on payment to the said clerk of one shilling for 
 each time of inspection, and one shilling more for every hour during 
 which such inspection shall continue after the first hour, and paying 
 for every copy the sum of twenty shillings : and the said map 
 or plan, or a true copy thereof, or of so much thereof as shall relate 
 to any matter which may be in question, shall be and is hereby 
 declared to be good evidence in all courts of law and elsewhere. 
 
 52. [ Time for completion of works limited to five years. Spent.'] 
 
 53. . . . The master of every packet, boat, and other vessel 
 carrying passengers, and every other ship, vessel, boat, or other craft 
 who shall embark or disembark such passengers, or lade or unlade, 
 take on board or discharge, any goods, wares, or merchandize, at the 
 said pier wharf or jetty, shall pay to the said Company in regard 
 thereof the several rates or duties set down in figures against the 
 words applicable to the same respectively in the schedule hereunto 
 annexed. 
 
 Tolls on 
 passenger 
 
 54. • . . Every passenger who shall land from or embark in any 
 ship, packet, vessel, boat, or other craft, and every person who may 
 land at or embark from the said pier wharf or jetty, and every 
 person who shall walk on the said pier wharf or jetty, or the 
 approaches thereto, shall pay to the said company, in respect of 
 every such landing or emljarkation, and of every time of entering or 
 coming upon such pier wharf, or the approaches thereto, such sum as 
 the said directors shall direct not exceeding the sum mentioned in 
 the Schedule and set down in figures against the words respectively 
 applicable to such landing, embarkation, or walking : and the 
 money payable by or in respect of passengers shall be collected and 
 received by the master of the ship, vessel, boat, or other craft 
 carrying such passengers, before the departure of such joassengers 
 from on board such ship, packet, vessel, boat, or other craft, and 
 shall be by such master with all convenient speed paid over to the 
 collector for the time being, or other person to be appointed by the 
 Company may said directors for that purpose : Provided always, that it shall be 
 prevent per- Ja-^-fiii f^p the officers of the said companv to prevent everv person 
 
 sons irom • . » . ». j. 
 
 walking on from walking on the said pier wharl or jetty, avenues and 
 the pier with- approaches, except persons landing at or embarking from the said 
 '^f t^ir™^'^^ pier wharf or jetty, from or in any ship, boat, or vessel, and persons 
 paying the said toll or duty, or compensation for the same.
 
 [6 & 7 Will. 4.] The Greenwich Pier Act 1830. [(Jhai*. cxxviii.] Ill 
 
 55. Provided always, . . . tliat no toll shall be payable, demanded, Toll not to be 
 
 01- taken under the anthoritv of this Act, on any pretence wliatso- '^^™^"'l^^ 
 
 1.1 'pi " ^1 11 except from 
 
 ever, unless tlie person or persons Iroin whom, or the several goods persons or for 
 
 or chattels, articles, matters, or things, iu respect of which tolls goods liavin^? 
 
 shall be demanded, shall have entered or been upon some part of '^'''" "I"^"^^^ 
 
 .1 -1 • 1 *• i' y V j.\ -1 /. -^ ii pur or wlmrf. 
 
 tlie said pier wharl, or otner works oi the said ( ompany to the 
 
 northward of any toll gate by this Act authorized fo be erected, 
 
 upon the occasion of demanding sucli toll. 
 
 56. . . . No rate or duty shall be charged or chargeable for or in Exemptintr 
 respect of any soldier or sailor in His Majesty's service, while on soldiers and 
 duty, who sIkiII land from or embark in any shi]>, packet, or other jo^jg"^^ '^°™ 
 vessel within the limits aforesaid. 
 
 57. Provided always, . . . that nothing in this Act contained shall f;*-neral ex- 
 extend or be construed to extend to charge with the payment of any <^'^pt'<jn'^- 
 of the rates or duties herein or hereby imposed and made payable in 
 respect of the said jner wharf or jetty and the avenues thereto, any 
 
 person in respect of any of His ^fajesty's ships, vessels, boats, or 
 other craft, or of any otiier ship, vessel, boat, ur craft whatsoever in 
 the service of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or in the service of 
 the Board of Ordnance, or of His Majesty's Postmaster General, nor 
 of any vessel which may be seized by the officers of His Majesty's 
 Pevcnues, nor in respect of any goods, wares, or merchandize the 
 property of the Crown or under seizure, nor of any articles shipped 
 or landed for the public service, nor of any ship, transport, or 
 jtacket employed in His Majesty's service in the conveyance of any 
 officers or soldiers, or anv horses, arms, ammunition, or bairsrajre 
 belonging to them or any of them ; Imt if any j)erson shall claim 
 and take the benefit of any exem})tion as aforesaid without being 
 entitled thereto, every such person shall for every such offence 
 forfeit and ])ay the sura of forty shillings, over and above the rates 
 and duties imposed by this Act. 
 
 58. . . . It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace acting Persons liable 
 within his jurisdiction, upon the application of the treasurer, clerk, t'^ payment of 
 or any other officer of the said Company, or any of the directors, sumin^ned^^ 
 from time to time to summon and call before him, by summons, at andexamined 
 any time and })lace, any person being the owner, part owner, or "po" ^'^^''■ 
 master, or having the rule or command of any ship or vessel, or any 
 
 other person liable to pay any of the rates, duties, or sums of money 
 by this Act imposed, to examine and inquire of and concerning all 
 and every or any goods, wares, and merchandize, freight, fare, and 
 number of passengers, duty on ])assengers, or other matters or tilings 
 liable to the jiayment of any of the rates, duties, and sums of money 
 hereby imposed, and whether all and what part of such rates or 
 sums of money shall have been paid or not paid, and when and by 
 whom and to whom ; and in case any i)erson so summoned sliall 
 not appear at the time and place in the said summons mentioned, 
 without sufficient excuse, he shall forfeit and pay for every such 
 nona])])earance the sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered by the 
 said Company for tlie use of the said Company, together with costs 
 of suit ... in any court of record, ... or u])on i-onviction in a 
 summary way, in the same manner as other fines, penalties, and 
 forfeitures are by this Act directed to be recovered. 
 
 59. Provided alwavs, . . . that it shall be lawful for the said .vilowance to 
 directors and they are hereby authorized to allow masters of such "^•^'^ters for 
 ships, packets, vessels, boats, and other craft carrying passengers for accounted'for.
 
 112 
 
 [Chap, cxxviii.] The Greenwirh Pier Act 1836. [6 & 7 Will. 4.] 
 
 Company em 
 powered to 
 lease tolls. 
 
 Company em- 
 powered to 
 reduce and 
 asain to raise 
 the tolls. 
 
 List of dues 
 to be fixed on 
 conspicuous 
 places in or 
 near the pier. 
 
 Officers em- 
 powered to 
 distrain. 
 
 Penalty on 
 personsresist- 
 ing payment 
 of toll, etc. 
 
 hire, at and after a rate not exceeding one shilliDg in the ponnd upon 
 the amount of the aforesaid duty on passengers by such masters 
 respectively received and duly accounted for. 
 
 60. ... It shall be lawful for the said directors to let, lease, or 
 demise all or any of the tolls and duties hereby authorized to be 
 taken for any term of years not exceeding three years at any time, 
 for such rent, payable at such times and under such covenants as 
 they shall think fit, taking sufhcient security from the person to 
 whom such tolls shall be let, leased, or demised for payment of 
 such rent and performance of such covenants respectively. 
 
 61. . . . It shall be lawful for the said Company from time to time 
 to lower or reduce all or any of the tolls and duties hereby granted, 
 but no reduction of any such tolls or duties shall be made or take 
 place unless a majority of the proprietors present at some general 
 or special general meeting shall assent thereto ; and it shall be 
 lawful for the said Company in like manner again to raise the said 
 tolls to such sum as they shall think proper, not exceeding the 
 sums hereby authorized to be taken. 
 
 62. Provided always, . . . that the said directors shall from time 
 to time cause to be painted on boards, and affixed and stuck up and 
 continued, and renewed as often as the same sliall be obliterated or 
 defaced, upon conspicuous places in or near the pro])Osed pier wharf 
 or jetty, or the approaches thereto, in large and legible characters, a 
 list of the several rates and duties for the time being authorized to 
 be taken as herein is mentioned in respect of the said pier wharf, 
 jetty, or approaches ; and it shall not be lawful for the said directors 
 to demand and take, or cause to be demanded or taken, any of the 
 rates or duties herein authorized to be taken in respect of the said 
 pier wharf, jetty, or approaches, but during such time as the board 
 so painted as aforesaid shall remain fixed as aforesaid. 
 
 63. ... It shall be lawful for the said treasurer, collector, or any 
 other person authorized and deputed by the said directors to go on 
 board any ship or other vessel to demand, collect, and receive the 
 said rates and duties by this Act due and payable, and for non- 
 ])ayment thereof to take and distrain any goods or merchandize on 
 board of such ship or vessel or any part thereof, and the same to 
 detain and keep until he be satisfied and paid the said rates and 
 duties ; and in case of any neglect or delay in the payment of any 
 ol the said rates and duties for five days after any distress so taken 
 as aforesaid, then it shall be lawful for the treasurer, collector, and 
 receiver of the said rates and duties to cause such distress to be 
 appraised by one or more sufficient person or persons, to be nomin- 
 ated l)y any Justice of the Peace for the said * county of Kent, and 
 afterwards to sell the said distress so taken and appraised, and 
 thereout to satisfy himself, as well for and concerning the duty so 
 neglected or delayed to be paid, and for which a distress shall be 
 so taken as aforesaid, as also for his reasonable charges in the 
 taking and keeping of such distress, rendering to the master or 
 other person having the rule or command of the ship or vessel in 
 or from which such distress shall be so taken the overplus, if any 
 there shall l)e, on demand. 
 
 64. . . • In case any i)erson shall resist or make forcible opposi- 
 tion against any director or person employed in the due execution of 
 this Act, or shall assault any officer, surveyor, or agent of the said 
 Company, or any collector of tolls, in the execution of his office, or shall 
 
 * Now the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40.
 
 [rt & 7 Will. 4.] The (Inrj'nwkh Pin- Act 1836. [Chap, cxxviii.] ll:i 
 
 forcibly ])ass tlirou<j^h the toll gates or hars to be erected by virtue 
 -of this Act, without luiviiiji,- ])iii(l the ssiiiil tolls, every such person 
 shall for every such offence forfeit and ])iiy any sum not exceeding 
 five pounds. 
 
 65. And for the more effectual securing the j)aynient of the said For .securinf? 
 rates and duties, . . . the collector or comptroller and every other ^^^ paymeat 
 •officer whatsoever of His Majesty's Customs shall hereafter | ,e ^^ '■^'^^s. 
 4iuthoriz;ed, by the a]>probation of the Commissioners of His ^Majesty's 
 Customs, to refuse to give or mak(! out any coc([U('t or otiier dis- 
 charge, or take any report, outwards or inwards, for any ship, 
 
 vessel, or boat using the said j»ier wharf or jetty, until the rates and 
 duties by this Act made paya])le, according to the true intent and 
 meaning hereof, shall be paid unto the collector or other person 
 from time to time a})pointed to receive the same ; and no such ship, 
 vessel, or boat shall leave the said jiier wharf or jetty without 
 producing a ])ass from such last-mentioned collector or receiver. 
 
 66. ... If any master, owner, or other person having the rule Persons 
 
 or command of any ship, vessel, boat, or other craft, or any other ^^^^^'^^^^-^ 
 person whomsoever, shall, by any means whatsoever, at any time rates to 
 •elude or evade the payment of any rates or duties herein authorized tontinui- 
 to be taken in respect of the said pier whaif or jetty, or the tluirgeai.le. 
 approaches thereto, every person eluding or evading payment as 
 aforesaid shall forfeit and pay to the said company, in addition to 
 the said rates and duties, a sum equal to the amount of such rates 
 and duties, and shall also stand charged with and be lial>le to the 
 ■ ])ayment of such rates and duties, as well as the forfeiture incurred 
 by having eluded or evaded the payment thereof: and the same 
 shall and may be recovered from sucli master or owner or such 
 other person at any time, either by the means herein })rescribed for 
 levying the said rates and duties, and by the same method, or in 
 such manner as is herein directed for levying and recovering the 
 fines, forfeitures, and penalties imposed by this Act, and with the 
 like costs, 
 
 67. . . . If any dispute shall arise concerning the amount of the For settling 
 rates or tluties <lue, or the charges occasioned by any distress, it disputes as to 
 shall be lawful for the collector or person distraining to detain such of*r^t'"^an(i 
 distress, or the money arising from the sale thereof (as the case duties. 
 may happen), until the amount of the rates or duties due, and the 
 ■charges of seizing, distraining, keeping, or selling such distress, (as 
 
 the case shall hap})en,) shall be ascertained Ity a Justice of the 
 Peace for the said * county of Kent, who, upon ap})lication made to 
 him for that purpose, shall examine the said matter upon oath of 
 the parties or other person or persons, anil determine the amount 
 of the rates or duties due ; and it shall be lawful for such Justice 
 to assess and award such costs to be paid by either of the parties to 
 the other of them as he shall think fit and reasonable ; and in case 
 of non])ayment thereof, on demand, such costs shall and may be 
 recovered and levied liy such ways and means and in smh numner 
 as the rates, duties, and charges hereby granted and im])osed are 
 hereby apiK>inted to be rei-overed and levied. 
 
 68. ... In case the person having the rule or command of UtguLiting 
 anv shii), vessel, or other craft which shall be moored to the said '''^'l^'* o^ 
 l)ier wharf, or to any mooruig j)laces of or belonging to tlie said pier ^jj.^ 
 wharf, shall refuse or neglect to obey the orders given by the })ier 
 .master for the time being, every person so offending shall for every 
 
 * Now the county of London. See ol >.v .'>■_' Vict. c. -H. s. 4"'. 
 
 6
 
 114 
 
 [Char cxxviii.] The Greenwich Pier Act 1836. [6 & 7 Will. 4.] 
 
 I'enalty ou 
 persons 
 damaging 
 pier, etc. 
 
 Penalty foi- 
 injuring ropes 
 by which 
 vessels arc 
 moored. 
 
 Remedy in 
 case of ships 
 damaging The 
 pier, etc. 
 
 such offence forfeit aud pay to the ;^aid Company any sum not 
 exceeding ten pounds. 
 
 69. . . . Every person who shall at any time hereafter wilfully 
 or maliciously injure, demolish, or break down the said pier wharf 
 or jetty, avenues or approaches, or any of the works to he made as 
 aforesaid, or any part thereof, or the fences or buildings respectively 
 which shall be constructed in or npon or which shall l)elong to the 
 said pier wharf or jetty, avenues or approaches, or other works, or 
 any table of tolls or bye-laws affixed thereon, or shall wilfully and 
 maliciously extinguish any light used for the lighting the said pier 
 wharf or jetty, and the ships, vessels, or boats resorting to or 
 passing the same, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any 
 sum not exceeding ten pounds, and shall besides pay for or make 
 good all such damage ; and the amount of such penalty and 
 damage, in case the same shall not exceed the sum of twenty 
 pounds, shall be recoverable l)efore any two Justices of the Peace 
 for the * county of Kent, who are hereby authorized and empowered 
 to summon before them the person doing such wilful or malicious 
 damage as aforesaid, and to hear and determine the same, and 
 ascertain such damage ; which penalties shall be recovered as other 
 penalties are by this Act directed to be recovered : and the same,, 
 when hwied in manner aforesaid, shall go ;ind be paid to the 
 treasurer of the said Company, to be applied to the purposes of this 
 Act. \_See also 18 k 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 206, and the Malicious' 
 Damage Act 1861.] 
 
 70. ... If any person shall wilfully and maliciously cut, break,, 
 or in any manner destroy or injure any rope or other thing by which 
 any ship or other vessel shall be moored and fastened to the said 
 ])ier wharf, or to the mooring chains or mooring places of the said 
 Company, such person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay 
 any sum not exceeding forty shillings : Provided always, that such 
 penalty shall not in any manner preclude or bar or affect the 
 recovery of any damages in any action which may be brought for 
 any injury which may arise from cutting, breaking, destroying, or 
 injuring any such rope, chain, or any other thing as aforesaid : 
 Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall hinder or restrain 
 any pier master to be appointed in ])ursuance of this Act, or his- 
 assistant, from exercising any of the powers and autliorities vested 
 in him. 
 
 71. ... In case any ship or vessel shall be wilfully run or 
 driven either against the said pier wharf or any of the works to be 
 erected or made by virtue of this Act, so as to break, damage, or 
 injure the same, the person having the government or rule of such 
 shij) or vessel, or acting as such, shall be liable to answer and make 
 good the damage or injury done, and the same, not exceeding the 
 sum of twenty pounds, sliall and may be settled and ascertained in 
 a summary way by any Justice of the Peace for the said * county of 
 Kent ; and in case such person shall refuse to pay the sum to be- 
 awarded by the said Justice for or in respect of such damage or 
 injury, it shall be lawful for the said Justice, by warrant under his 
 hand and seal, to cause such ship or vessel to be seized and dis- 
 trained, together with the tackle, furniture, and apparel thereof,, 
 until due judgment thereof, together with the reasonable charges of 
 such seizure and distress ; and if such ship or vessel shall not be 
 redeemed within five days after the same shall have been so seized and 
 
 * Now the county of London, See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40.
 
 [f; it 7 Will. 4.] The Greenwich Pier Art 18:J0. [Chap, cxxviii.] ll'> 
 
 distrained it sliiill be; lawliil tor tlie jjcrson so s('iziM<^ and ilisti-iiininj; 
 the same to sell so much of the tackle, turnitnre, aud ai)i)arel of or 
 Vjelonging to such sliiji or vessel as shall be sufficient to make good 
 the said dauia^'e oi* injury, and all the costs an<l charges in conse- 
 (juence thereof, renderiiiii- the sur]>Ins (ii" any) to the owner or 
 master of such ship or vessel. 
 
 72. . . . The master or owner of every sliip, boat, or othcjr vessel Master an- 
 shall be and is hereby made answerable for any damage, spoil, ov swerahie for 
 mischief whicli shall be done by his ship, boat, or other vessel, bv"h^fcrew^ 
 or any of the sailoi-s, l)oatmen, or other ])ersons belonging to or aiut may re-' 
 emjdoyed in or about the same, to the said pier wharf or any of the ^''^'^ ^^^^^ 
 works in or about and belonging to the said pier wharf, the amount ^^^^ p"j\] 
 of such damage, sj)oil, or mischief to be recovered in like manner as 
 
 any penalty is in and by this Act directed to be recovered ; and in 
 case the owner of any ship, boat, or other vessel as aforesaid shall 
 be com])elled to pay any penalty, or to make satisfaction for any 
 <lamage, by reason of any wilful act or default done or committed 
 by his servants, every such servant shall be liable to repay such 
 penalty or the money i)aid for such damage to such owner, and in 
 case of nonpayment thereof u])on demand the same shall be recover- 
 able by such owner in like manner as any penalty is in and by this 
 Act directed to be recovered. 
 
 73. ... In case any person shall throw or empty into the river, To prevent 
 within thirty yards of the said proposed i)ier wharf or jetty, or the ani^oyanee-^. 
 avenues or a];)proaches thereto, any stones, rubbish, dirt, earth, 
 
 ashes, night soil, or ballast, or dig or take away from thence any 
 ])allast, shingle, stones, or other things the removal oi- taking away 
 of which may be detrimental to the i)roposed j)ier wharf or jetty, or 
 the avenues or approaches thereto, or tlie landing place, or to the 
 works to be erected as aforesaid, or do any other act, matter, or 
 thing to annoy, liinder, obstruct, or encroacli upon the same respec- 
 tively, the ])erson so oifending shall foi'feit and ])ay any sum not 
 exceeding five ])ounds ; and it shall be lawful for the said Company 
 and their officers and servants, or any of them, from time to time 
 and at all times when and as occasion shall require, to take away 
 and remove, or cause to ])e taken away and removed, any encroach- 
 ment or obstruction wliich may be necessary to be taken away and 
 removed, for tin; building, maintaining, im])roving, and regulating 
 the said pier wharf or jetty, or the approaches thereto. [_See also 
 the Ricers Poll itt ion Prevention Act 1<S76, ,s. 2.] 
 
 74. ... It shall be lawfid for the surveyors appointed or to be Power to 
 
 appointed 1)V the said directors, and such T)ersons as tliev shall remove all 
 
 f * . , - • ^ ,■ ^- ' 11 1 • .• obstructions 
 
 respectively appoint, Irom time to time to remove .ill ohstructiuns, ^^J tj^g pjg,. 
 
 annoyances, and encroachments in or upon any part of the said pier 
 
 wharf or jetty, or tlie jipproaches thereto. 
 
 75. . . . It shall be hiwful for the said directors and they are Power to 
 herebv eniixtwered to cause such aud so manv Innip irons or laini) ''^ '^'^'if,.^^ 
 posts to be put up or atnxed in, upon, or along the sides oi the siiid 
 
 pier wharf or jetty, and also, if they shall think it expedient, on the 
 approaches thereto, and also to cause such number of lamps, of 
 such sizes and sorts, to lie provideil and affixed or ])Ut uj), togetiier 
 with such lamp irons and lamj) posts as they shall think necessary, 
 for lighting the said pier wharf or jetty, and every or any jiart 
 thereof, and the approaches thereto, and to cause the said lamps to 
 be lighted as and wiieii they shall think proper.
 
 116 
 
 [Chap, cxxviii.] Th Greemvich Pier Act 1836. [6 k 7 Will. 4.] 
 
 Penalty if 
 steam packets 
 shall not 
 depart at the 
 time ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 Compensa- 
 tion for 
 damages, etc. 
 done by the 
 Company to 
 be levied by 
 distress of the 
 goods vested 
 in the 
 Company. 
 
 Damages in 
 case of a 
 dispute to be 
 settled by a 
 Justice. 
 
 For recovery 
 of penalties. 
 
 76. ... If after the time fixed for the departure of any steam 
 packet from the said pier wharf to London or other places shall 
 have expired the said vessel shall not immediately de])art beyond 
 the said parish of Greenwich, or opposite thereto, then and in everv 
 such case the owner, master, or manager of any such steam packet 
 shall for every such offence forfeit and j)ay any sum not exceeding 
 five pounds, in the discretion of the Justice or .Justices before whom 
 the complaint shall be heard and determined. 
 
 77. ... If and when and as often as any sum of money shall be 
 directed or ordered to be paid by the said Company or their directors 
 to any person as or by way of compensation or satisfaction for any 
 damage, spoil, or injury of any nature or kind whatsoever, done or 
 committed by such Company or their directors or any person acting 
 by or under their authority, or for any costs and expences relating 
 thereto, and such sum of money shall not be paid by the said Company 
 or their directors to the party entitled to receive the same within 
 ten days after demand in writing shall have been made for that 
 purpose, then and in every such case the amount of such compensation 
 or satisfaction, costs or expences, shall and may be levied and recovered 
 by distress and sale of the goods and chattels vested in the said 
 Company by virtue of this Act, or of the goods and chattels of their 
 treasurer for the time being, under a warrant to be issued for that 
 purpose by any Justice of the Peace for the said * county of Kent 
 (which warrant such -Justice is hereby authorized and required to 
 grant under his hand and seal), on application made to him f(jr that 
 purpose by the party entitled to receive such sum of money as or 
 by way of compensation or satisfaction, costs or expences, for any 
 damage, spoil, or injury as aforesaid, or for any costs or expences as 
 aforesaid ; and in case any overplus shall remain after payment of 
 such sum of money, and the costs and expences of hearing and 
 determining the matters in dispute, and also the costs and expences 
 of such distress and sale, then and in such case the overplus shall 
 be returned, on demand, to the said Company or their directors, or 
 their treasurer for the time being, as the case may be : Provided 
 always, that it shall be lawful for such treasurer to retain, out of 
 any monies which he may have received or shall receive in pursuance 
 of this Act, all such damages, costs, charges, and expences as he 
 shall have sustained or been put unto by virtue of any warrant as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 78. \_Jusfices may isauv mmmorm without any infonnation in 
 writiny. Superseded by the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848.] 
 
 79. . . . Where any damages or charges are directed or authorized 
 to be paid or recovered, in addition to any penalty for any offence in 
 this Act mentioned, the amount of such damages or charges, in case 
 of dispute, shall be settled and determined by the Justice of the 
 Peace by or before whom any offender shall be convicted of any such 
 offence, who is hereby authorized and required, on nonpayment 
 thereof, to levy such damages by distress and sale of the offender's 
 goods and chattels, in manner by this Act directed for the levying 
 of any penalties or forfeitures. 
 
 80. . . . All complaints and informations of and for offences 
 against this Act, or any rule, order, or byelaw to be made in pur- 
 suance thereof, (except in cases where the manner of hearing and 
 determining the same is herein otherwise directed,) shall and may 
 
 * Now the county of London. See .51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40.
 
 [6 & 7 Will. 4.] Th,- Greenwich Pier Art 1836. [('iiai'. cxxviii.] 117 
 
 be made before any JuHtice of tlie Peace for the county, lib<'rty, or 
 ])lace wherein the offence shall be committed . . . ; and upon con- 
 viction of any })erson such Justice sliall and may issue a warrant 
 under his hand and seal for levyin:.'' tlie ])enalty Dr forl'citure 
 l)y virfne of this Act, or of any byelaw made in pursuance 
 thereof imposed for any such offence, tojiether with the costs of 
 conviction, to be ascertained by such Justice, by distress and sale 
 of the goods and chattels of the person so convicted ; . . . 
 but if upon the return ol' such warrant it shall apjiear that no 
 sufficient distress can be had whereupon to levy the j)enalty or 
 forfeiture and costs as aforesaid, and such penalty, forl'eiture, and 
 'Costs shall not be fortliwitli ])aid, ... it sliall be lawful for sucli 
 Justice, and he is hereby authori/.cd and re'juired, by warrant undei' 
 his hand and seal to commit su(;li offender to the common gaol or 
 house of correction within the said county, there to remain for any 
 term not exceeding three calendar months, unless such ])enalty or 
 forfeiture, and all reasonable charges attending the recovery thereof, 
 shall ])(! sooner paid and satisfied ; and all such lines, penalties, and 
 forfeitures, when recovered, shall, where the a])plication is not 
 otherwise directed by this Act, be paid into the hands of the 
 treasurer of the said Company, and shall be applied and disposed of 
 towards defraying the exjiences of the said undertaking, unless such 
 fines, penalties, and forfeitures shall be incurred by the said Com- 
 })any, in which case the same shall be paid to the overseers of the 
 poor of the parish or place wherein the offence sliall be committed, 
 ' to be a])})lied by such overseers for the benefit of the i)Oor of such 
 ])arish ur place. . . . \Poj-ts oudtfcd {an to jjrocrdnre) auiH'r.Hcdcd 
 htf the Sammari/ Juvisdictioii ^c/'.s.] 
 
 81. ... It shall be lawful for any person who shall see anyForappre- 
 offence committed against the provisions of this Act, by any person pomniitment 
 destroying or doing any wilful damage to any of the works by this of offenders 
 Act authorized to be made, or otherwise, contrary to any of the in certain 
 provisions hereinbefore contained, to apprehend and detain any cases, 
 such offender without any warrant or other authority than this Act, 
 
 and to convey such offender, or cause him to be conveyed, by some 
 constable or other peace officer, before any Justice of the Peace for 
 the county or ])lace in which the offence shall be committed, who 
 shall forthwith proceed against such offender according to law, and 
 according to the provisions in this Act contained. 
 
 82. Provided alwavs, . . . that it shall be lawful lor the said i'°^^'^'" ^°'' 
 T , ,' ,- ^~ J.- •i'.ti ...1-iiii.i. 1 I direct ors to 
 directors from time to time, it they think ht, to pay and apply any ^^q^^. {„. 
 
 part of the penalties, forfeitures, and tines to or for the use of the former part of 
 
 informer or other person aiding or assisting in the api)rehensiou of P^"''^'^^- 
 
 any offender therein. 
 
 83. lFo/'//i of Conviction. Superseded bij the Summary/ Jurisdiction 
 Acts.'] 
 
 84. [Persons uaihing distress irreyularh/ not to be deemed tres- 
 fxissers. SvjH'rseded, bij the Snmmarif .Jurisdiction . \ct 1 871), s. 3i> (4).] 
 
 85. ... No proceedings to be had and taken in ])ursiiance of this !'rocee<liugs 
 Act shall be (piashed or vacated for want of f<«rm, or be moved by ,"JJJJ,^'e,^or 
 certiorari, or any other writ or process whatsoever, into any of His vaciucl for 
 Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster or elsewhere. want of fonu. 
 
 86. [Summoning icitnesses. Superseded by the •Summarf/ .furisdic- 
 
 tion Acts.\
 
 118 
 
 [Cha!>. cxxviii.] I'he Greemvich Pier Act 1836. [6 & T Will. 4.] 
 
 Appeal to 
 Quarter 
 
 Sessions. 
 
 Powers of Act 
 to be exer- 
 cised bv Com- 
 pany while in 
 possession of 
 the pier, and 
 afterwards by 
 the Com- 
 missioners of 
 Greenwich 
 Hospital. 
 
 Persons 
 
 making false 
 declarations 
 to be guilty 
 of a mis- 
 demeanour. 
 
 5 & 6 W. 4. 
 c. 62. 
 
 87 — 88. \_Ecidence. of Co7upan;fs officers — Directors matj release 
 witne.-<sr.s. See 4 JEdiv. 7, c. cciii. s. 6.] 
 
 89. . . . Any body politic, corporate, or collegiate, or any other 
 person whomsoever, thinking himself or themselves aggrieved by 
 any rnle, byelaw, or order of the said Company or their directors, 
 or by any order or judgment made or given in })ursnance thereof, 
 or by the order ancl determination of any Justice of the Peace in 
 pursuance of this Act, may. within two calendar months after such 
 order shall be made or s^iven, appeal to the Justices of the Peace at 
 their next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for 
 the county or place in which the cause of appeal shall arise. . . . 
 [Pa/V omitted (jyrocedure on (ipyenV) superseded bij the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Acts. See Sumr,iari/ Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 6, and 
 the Quarter Sessions Act 1849.] 
 
 90. \_Tender of amends. Superseded hij the Public Authorities 
 Protection Act 1893.*] 
 
 91. \_Service of notices on Compan;/. See 4 Edu:. 7, c. cciii. s. 0.] 
 
 92. . . . All and singular the powers and authorities given by 
 this Act shall and may be exercised by the said Company during all 
 such time as they shall continue the lessees, owners, and proprietors, 
 and in actual possession of the pier wharf or jetty to be erected or 
 constructed in pursuance thereof : and if and when the said Com- 
 pany shall cease to l)e such lessees, owners, or proprietors, and 
 in actual possession as aforesaid, then all and singular the powers 
 and authorities u-iven bv this Act shall belono- and be continued to 
 and exercised by the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and 
 their successors, as fully and amply in all respects, and to all 
 intents and purposes, as the same are by this Act given to the 
 said Company. \_iSee also 4 Kdu-. 7, c. cciii. s. 41.] 
 
 93. \_Liriutation of actions. Rep. by the Limitations of Actions 
 and Costs Act 1842.] 
 
 94. . . . Where iu this Act a declaration is directed to be used 
 for the })urpose of confirmation of written instruments or allegations, 
 or of the execution of deeds or other matters, the same shall be 
 made in the form prescribed in the schedule to [the Statutory 
 Declaj'ations Act 183.3], or as near thereto as the circumstances of 
 the case will admit, and shall be of the like force and effect as if 
 an affidavit or afiirmation in writing had been made : and if anv 
 declaration so made shall be false or untrue in any material par- 
 ticular the person wilfully making such false declaration shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanour. 
 
 95. \^AdmiraMy to consent to the erection of the pier before its 
 construction . Spen t.~\ 
 
 96. [Saving rights of Trinity Hou.se.'] 
 
 97. [Satiny riyld.-i of the City Corporation t «•>■ Con^ercators of 
 Tha.mesl^ 
 
 98. [Sa/ciny rights of the Watermeri s Company 7\ 
 
 99. [Saving rig/its of certain commissioners of setvers. Superseded 
 {as to count'/ of London) 11 vt 12 Vict. c. \\'2.X See now 18 & 19 
 Vict. c. 12U, s. 13.1.] 
 
 * See Appendix. 
 
 j Now the Thames Conservators. See 20 & 21 Vict. c. cxlvii., since rep. by 
 ")7 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. (See Appendix.) 
 X Kep. 3S & 3it Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.).
 
 [0& 7 Will. 4.] T/tf Grcenwhh I'h'r Art 1S30. [Chai-. cxxviii.] 
 
 119 
 
 X. 8. d. 
 
 U 2 
 
 100. {SatiiKj ri(j}itii of tin' cliurchicarfhns, overseers, etc., of 
 Greenivich muler 1> (ico. 4, <\ xliii.* and 4 <ieo. 4, r. Ixx.*] 
 
 101. . . . Wliere in this Act any word shall he used import inj,' Kules for 
 the sini;alar niimher or the masculine gender only, such word shall ^■'^"•'*"""?^'<^° 
 be construed to include several matters as well as one matter, '/g^^J^y^".! j„ 
 several persons as well as one jjerson, and females as well as males, the Act. 
 and a liody or bodies politic, coi])orate, or (•oljcjriate, corporation or 
 corporations aggregate or sole, as well as individnals, unless in any 
 
 of the cases aforesaid it be otherwise specially provided, or there be 
 something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction. 
 
 102. S^Act to bejudir/ialbj noticed.'] 
 
 The SCHEDULE referred to by the foregoing Act. 
 
 For every passenger or oth-?r person who shall land from any 
 
 ve-ssel, boat, wherry, or other miichine plying between 
 
 New Windsor in the county of Berks and Yantlet Creek 
 
 in the county of Kent, on the pier, landing places, 
 
 wharf, or other works, or embark or go on board of any 
 
 such vessel, boat, wherry, or other machine so plying as 
 
 aforesaid, from the said pier or landing 2)lace, quays, 
 
 wharfs, or works, or any part thereof, for each and every 
 
 time, not exceeding ....... 
 
 For every passenger or other person who shall land from any 
 
 vessel, boat, wherry, or other machine plying from or to 
 
 any place without the boundaries aforesaid on the pier, 
 
 landing places, wharf, or other works, or embark or go on 
 
 board of any such vessel, boat, wherry, or other machine 
 
 so plying without the said boundaries as aforesaid, from 
 
 the said pier or landing place, (juays, wharfs, or works, or 
 
 any part thereof, for each and every time, not exceeding . 
 For eveiy person who shall use the said pier or wharf for the 
 
 purpose of walking for exercise, pleasiu-e, or otherwise, per 
 
 day, not exceeding ........ 
 
 For every four-wheeled carriage, being landed or embarked 
 
 from the said pier, landing place, wharf, oi- works, not 
 
 exceeding . . . . . . . . .020 
 
 For every master of any vessel, boat, or wherry, l^eing an 
 
 inhabitant of the town of Gi'eenwich, and residing there 
 
 only, and using the said pier and other works for the 
 
 purpose only of going to or returning from his own vessel, 
 
 boat, or wherry, such annual sum as the directoi-s shall 
 
 appoint, not exceeding, per annum . . . . . 10 
 
 For every quarter of wheat, oats, rye, barley, malt, beans, 
 
 peas, tares, mustard seed, canary, and seeds of every 
 
 denomination, if landed or loaded from the pier, not ex- 
 ceeding ......... 
 
 Anchor, per hundred weight ...... 
 
 Ashes, per barrel ........ 
 
 Alum, per hundred weight ...... 
 
 Anchovies, per barrel ....... 
 
 Ale, porter, cyder, or peiry, per gallon .... 
 
 Ditto, in bottles, per dozen .... 
 
 Anchor stock, per foot run ...... 
 
 Apples and pears, per sack of three bushels 
 
 Asparagus, per basket ....... 
 
 Ditto, smaller ditto ...... 
 
 Beer, per butt ........ 
 
 per hogshead ....... 
 
 per half hogsheail ...... 
 
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 Bran oi- pollard, per eight bushels .... 
 
 Beer, table, per nine gallons ..... 
 
 Beef oi- pork, contained in any cask, per hundred weight 
 
 Barrel boards or staves, per thousand 
 
 Butt staves, per hundred, and all other staves in proportion 
 
 Battens, Petersburgh, per hundred 
 
 Boards or battens, close, per hundred 
 
 Billiard table . . . . . . . 
 
 Bedstead, mahogany, each . . . . 
 
 every other . . . . 
 
 Bricks, per thousand ..... 
 
 Barilla, per ton . . . . ; . 
 
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 Bottles, empty, per dozen .... 
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 containing goods not enumerated in .schedule, per 
 foot ..... 
 
 Ditto^ per hundred weight 
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 Ditto, smaller, each . 
 
 Ditto, empty, per dozen . 
 Beef or pork, per tierce . 
 per barrel . 
 Butter, per barrel 
 
 Butter or cheese, per hundred weight 
 Biscuit, per bag . . . . 
 
 Beans and peas, per sack 
 Bottles, full, in hampers, per dozen. 
 Brooms, hair, and mop.s, per dozen . 
 Beast or calf, each . . . . ' 
 
 Bacon, per side .... 
 Beef, per hundred weight 
 Bedding, seaman's .... 
 Currants or raisins, per hundred weight 
 Cofl'ee, per hundi^ed weight 
 
 Copper or brass, wrought or un wrought, per hundred wei 
 Chalk stones, rough or hewn, per ton 
 Corpses, each 
 Cordage, per hundred 
 Cod fish, per hundred weight . 
 Canary, or other live fancy bird 
 Clover seed, per sack 
 Calves skins, per dozen . 
 Colours, per firkin 
 Carboys, each 
 
 Coals, culm, splint, coke, or cinder, per ton 
 Chest of drawers, double 
 
 Ditto 
 Chairs, per dozen 
 Chairs, mahogany, each . 
 
 not mahogany, each 
 Chimney pots, each 
 Cabbages, per dozen 
 Carrots, per hundred 
 
 Deals, per load, containing fifty cubic feet 
 Dogs, each ... 
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 Fire wood, per cliord ..... 
 
 Feathers, per hundred weight 
 
 Foxes, each ....... 
 
 Fowls, and every other sort of poultry, per head 
 Flint stones, per ton ..... 
 
 Crlass ware, per large crate .... 
 
 per small crate .... 
 
 window, per crate ..... 
 
 Grindstones, each ...... 
 
 Grate or range, large ..... 
 
 small ..... 
 
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 Gardenstuff, per bushel or sieve 
 
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 Hops, per bag ...... 
 
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 Hams, bacon, or tongues, per hundred weight 
 Herrings, red, per barrel .... 
 
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 Horses, each ....... 
 
 Hares, pheasants, and all other game, per head 
 Hides, raw or tanned, each .... 
 
 Hogs, each ....... 
 
 Iron, per hundred weight .... 
 
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 Oranges and lemons, per chest 
 
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 Oil, train or tish, per barrel, and 
 
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 Pewter, wrought, per hundred weight 
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 Sugar, loaf, per hundred weight 
 raw, per hundred weight 
 Salt, per hundred weight 
 Spars, per score 
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 Sofas, each 
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 Slate, per ton, containing twenty-four feet cube 
 Stove, register, each 
 
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 Sedan chairs, each . 
 Salmon, per kit 
 
 Skins, goat, dog, calf, sheep, or lamb, per 
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 Shot, per bag ...... 
 
 Salt fish, per hundred Aveight . 
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 Shrimp baskets, each 
 Tallow or candles, per hundred weight 
 Tea, per quarter or che.st 
 
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 [Chak Ivi.] 
 
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 7 WILLIAM IV. A.D. 1837. 
 
 CHAPTER LVI. 
 
 An Act to alter and amend an Act of the last Session of 
 Parliament, intituled An Act for making and maintaining 
 A Pier Wharf and other Works at Greenwich in the 
 County of Kent ; and to extend the Powers of the said 
 Act. [8M Jui>t' 1837.] 
 
 [Preamble recites G & 7 Will. 4, r. cxxviii., and that it would be 
 of great public utilitij if the pier ivharj and other icorhs b;i the mid 
 recited Act authorized to be made and maintained were enlnrqed n„d 
 extended : and that the Greenwich Pier Comjntri'/ are n-HUikj ni>d 
 desirous to effect the proposed enlargement and extension.'] 
 
 1. . . . All ancPevery the powers, provisions, restrictions, limita- lowers oi 
 tious, penalties, forfeitures, rates, duties, paymeuts. exemptions, ^.x^'J,'",{e,|*^'^' 
 remedies, matters, and thinus in the said recited Act contained >ball tiii> .vct. 
 (so far as the same respectively aie ajiplicable to this Act, and nut 
 
 hereby repealed, varied, altered, or otherwise provided for.) lie as 
 good, valiil, anil effectual for carrying this Act into execution as if 
 the same had been repeated or re-enacted in this Act. 
 
 2. ... It shall l)e lawful for the said Company, and thev arei'owerto 
 hereby authorized and empowered, from anil after the passing of this *"" '^ ^^^ ^'^''
 
 124 
 
 [Chap. Ivi.] 
 
 The Greeracirk Pier Act 1837. [7 Will. 4.] 
 
 and other 
 works. 
 
 Present 
 plying places 
 
 Act, (subject to the terms, conditions, and stipulations of a certain 
 agreement bearing date the twenty-ninth day of December one 
 thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and made between the Com- 
 missioners of Greenwich Hospital of the one part, and the said 
 Company of the other part, and to the lease to be granted in 
 pursuance of such agreement,) to erect and make, and thence- 
 forward to maintain, at Greenwich aforesaid, a pier wharf on the 
 south side of the River Thames in the parish of Saint Alphage, 
 Greenwich, in the county of Kent, from that part of the bank (jf the 
 said river which is situate between certain public stairs or landing 
 places in the said parish called or known by the name of Garden 
 Stairs, and certain other stairs called or known by the name of Ship 
 Stairs, extending one hundred and seventy-five feet in length in 
 front of the bank of the said river to the same extent as the wharf 
 authorized bv the said recited Act on the west side thereof, and at 
 the eastern end one hundred and thirteen feet from the said bank, 
 according to the plan deposited with the town clerk of the city of 
 Loudon, for the emljarking and disembarkincr, landing and shipping 
 of passengers, and of horses, carriages, cattle, and other live stocky 
 and lading and unlading ships and vessels, in such manner and 
 subject to such orders and directions as the directors of the said 
 (.'ompany, to be appointed in the manner mentioned in the said 
 recited Act, or the major part of them present at any of their 
 meetings, shall deem necessary or expedient, and also to erect and 
 make such works as the said directors shall think necessary and 
 proper for rendering the said pier wharf useful and convenient for 
 the landing and embai'king of passengers and goods, and also to 
 make avenues and approaches to the said pier wharf and other 
 works, as the said directors shall in manner aforesaid deem necessary 
 and proper, and also to erect and make proper and convenient toll 
 gates and houses for the collectors of the tolls to be taken under 
 the authority of the said recited Act upon or near to the same j^ier 
 wharf, avenues, or approaches ; provided that such toll gates and 
 houses shall not be erected in front of the house called the Ship 
 Tavern there, or to the annoyance, interruption, or obstruction of 
 the said house and premises : and for the purposes and subject as 
 aforesaid it shall be lawful for the said Company, their servants, 
 agents, and workmen, to dig and make proper foundations in the 
 said river and on the land adjoining, and to deepen the bed of the 
 said river in front of the said pier wharf, and also to excavate 
 the said stairs or landing place respectively called Garden Stairs 
 and Ship Stairs, or either of them, and the causeways thereof 
 respectively, and from time to time to repair, rebuild, pull down, 
 vary, or alter the said works or any of them ; the works in the said 
 river and connected therewith to be done and performed to the 
 satisfaction of the clerk of the works for the time being employed in 
 the Thames navigation : Provided that nothing in this Act contained 
 shall alter, take away, or affect any existing right or interest of the 
 said hospital or the Commissioners thereof in, to, or over the road or 
 way leading from Romney Road to the Ship Tavern, upon a part of 
 which said road a bar has been put up and kept and maintained by 
 the said Commissioners, nor shall give any right or authority to the 
 said Company to interfere with the dock called Ship Dock near Ship 
 Stairs aforesaid. 
 
 3. . . . The said pier wharf and works shall be so constructed, 
 and so kept and used, as not to injure the stairs or steps and
 
 [7 Will. 4.] The Greemvirh Pin- Act IS^T. [Chai-. Ivi.] 125 
 
 causeways, when altered, called Garden Stairs and Ship Stairs f^ai'.«^'l '^•"■••"> 
 respectively, now used by the wateimen as plyinf< ]»laces ; and the ishiirstains 
 same staii's oi- st(']»s and causeways resjjcctivcly, when altered, not to be 
 shall reniiiiii and ma} he used und enjoyed as heretofore lor the injured, 
 accommodation of the ])ublic. 
 
 4. . . . In case at any time or times there shall he any accumnhi- An accumui^^- 
 tion of mud, sand, dirt, or other matter adjoinin^^ to tlie said jiier ^»i" etc'^/o^i^"^ 
 in the nei^jhbonrhood tliereof, occasioned thereby, which shall appear removed. 
 
 to the * Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London in 
 Common Council assembled, or to the Lord Mayor of the said city 
 for the time beinfc, as Conservator of the Rivei' Thames, to be 
 injurious to the navi^ration of the said river, tlien and in every such 
 case the said Company shall within thirty day> alter notiee in 
 writing: for that purpose by the town clerk of the said city of 
 London shall have lieen left at the office of the clerk of the said 
 ('om])any, cause tlie said mud, sand, diit, oi- other matter to lie taken 
 awav and effectually removed ; and in case the said Company shall 
 neglect or refuse to cause the said mud, sand, dirt, or other matter 
 to be removed effectually, it shall be lawful for the said * Mayor, 
 Aldermen, anil Commons, in Common ( 'onncil assembled, or the said 
 Lord Mayor for the time being, to employ ]»ersons to take away 
 and remove the same; and the said Company shall, on demand, 
 pay to the * Mayor and Commonalty and citizens of the said city of 
 London all costs and charges occasioned by the removal thereof, 
 and the same may be recovered from the said Com])any by an action 
 of debt in any of His Majesty's Courts of Law at Westminster. 
 
 5. . . . From and after the ])assing of this Act the powers and Comraence- 
 provisions herein contained may be put in execution. 
 
 6. . . . The said Com})any and their successors shall, when and Twenty feet 
 as soon as the said wharf or embankment shall have been com- °j be'^raiied 
 pleted, ai)j)ropriate and fence oft" with iion railing, between the said off in front of 
 wharf and the ])resent northern boundary of the Ship Tavern, for the ^1'^ Ship 
 whole extent thereof, a sjjace of twenty feet ; which said space of '"'^'^°- 
 twenty feet shall exclusively belong to and form an open space in 
 
 front of the said estate called the Ship Tavern, being the property of 
 the said Commissioners of (ireenwich Hospital; and that tlie said 
 Company shall not affect, take away, or diminish the free access by 
 water to the said tavern called the Ship Tavern by means of the 
 said stairs called Ship Stairs. 
 
 7 — 10. \Finaricial piovisioiis and provisions as to purchosr of 
 lands. S/jrnt.'j 
 
 11. And whereas a map or plan, describing the situation of the I'lanaudbook 
 said enlarged pier or jetty and other works, and the line of the aeposfte"'^'^ 
 avenues and approaches thereto, with a book of reference thereto with cu-rk of 
 containing the names of the owners or reputed owners and occupiers t'>f i':»riia- 
 of the houses, lands, and grounds upon or through which the same |"^,'j^ ^^ 
 are intended to be made, or which may be affected thereby, will be ins|>ection. 
 deposited in the office of the clerk of the Parliament and with the 
 town clerk of the city of London : . . . the said maj) or plan and 
 book of reference so to be deposited shall remain with and be kept 
 by the said town clerk, and all ])ersons interestt'd therein shall have 
 liberty to inspect, peruse, and make extract therefrom and copies 
 thereof at reasonable times, on payment to the said town clerk of 
 
 * Now the Thames Conservators. See 20 .*»: 21 Viit. c. cxlvii., since rep. by 
 57 & 58 Vict, c, clxxxvii. (See Appendix.)
 
 126 [Chai\ Ivi.] The Greenwich Pin- Act 1837. [7 Will. 4.] 
 
 one shilling for each time of inspection, and one shilling more for 
 every hour during which such inspection shall continue after the 
 first hour, and paying for every copy of one hundred words the sum 
 of sixpence, and so on in proportion for any greater number of 
 words ; and the said map or plan and book of reference, or true copies 
 thereof, or of so much thereof as shall relate to any matter which 
 may be in question, shall be and are hereby declared to be good 
 evidence in all courts of law and elsewhere. 
 
 12 — 15. \IJcciatioti — Time for taking lands Unutcd to two ajul 
 for completion of tcorks to fee years. Spent.'] 
 
 16 — 43. \_Error.'i in plan.^ — .by to acquisition of kinds — Assess- 
 ment oj compcnsaAion — ApplicaJion of par chase monei/s — Lands not 
 wanted to be sold tcithin secen years. Spent.'] 
 
 44. Sj^ompanys accounts and audit thereof. See 4 ILdw. 7, 
 c. cciii. 6-. 6.] 
 Keversion of 45. ... At the expiration of the said term of eighty years men- 
 t hat part of tioned in the said recited Act such part of the said pier wharf and other 
 on land held works as shall be erected on the jjiece of laud in sucli Act mentioned 
 of creenwich to have been agreed to be taken on lease from the said Commis- 
 Hospitai. sioners of Greenwich Hospital shall revert to the said Commissioners, 
 their successors and assigns, unless the said Company shall have 
 previously purchased the fee simple of such land from the said 
 Commissioners, their successors or assigns : and the other or remain- 
 ing part of the said pier wharf and other works shall continue the 
 property of the said Company, their successors and assigns. 
 Eeveision of 46. ... At the expiration of the said term (jf eighty years so 
 the portion of much of the said pier wharf as lies in front of the said tavern now 
 the pier called the Ship Tavern, and between the said tavern and the river, 
 
 of the Ship shall 1 jecome and continue to be the property of the said Commissioners 
 Tavern. of Greenwich Hospital, in lieu of any compensation being paid by 
 
 the said < 'ompany to the said Commissioners as the freeholders and 
 lessors of the said tavern, for the interest of the said Commissioners 
 in the present river frontage to the said tavern, which under the 
 provisions of this Act will be taken and used in making the said 
 I)ier wharf. 
 The Hospital 47. ... If such part of the said pier wharf and other works as 
 and the Com- shall be erected on the said piece of land so agreed to be taken on 
 exerciTe^the ^^ase from the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital as afore- 
 jiowersof the Said shall revert to such Commissioners, their successors or assigns, 
 Acts as to the as provided by the immediately preceding clause, then all and 
 pier Veione- Singular the powers and authorities given by the said recited Act 
 ing to them and this Act shall in respect and to the extent of that jiart of the 
 respectively, said pier wharf and other works which shall so revert to the said 
 Commissioners, their successors and assigns, but no further or 
 otherwise, belong and be continued to and exercised by the said 
 Commissioners and their successors, as fully and amply, in all 
 respects and to all intents and purposes, as the same are by the said 
 recited Act and this Act given to the said Company ; but nevertheless 
 all and singular the powers and authorities given by the said recited 
 Act and this Act shall, in respect and to the extent of the other or 
 remaining part of the said pier wharf and other works, continue to 
 belong to and be exercised by the said Company, their successors 
 and assigns, as fully and amply, in all respects and to ail intents 
 and purposes, as if no such revertor to the said Commissioners, 
 their successors or assigns, had taken place. 
 48. SJDefcierocies in rates during works. Spent.']
 
 [1 Vict.] The Post Ujice {O/fmas) Act ISaT. [( hai-. :}<;.] I'JT 
 
 49. . . . Where in this Act any word sliall be used imj)ortin<r the Rules for the 
 sin^nUar niiml)er or the niiiscnline ji^ender only, siicli word shall ipterpreta- 
 be construed to include several matters as well as one matter, ^^^ '"^ ^''*^ 
 several persons as well as one ])erson, and females as well as males, 
 
 and body or bodies jtolitic, corporate, or collegiate, corporation or 
 corjiorations aggregate or sole, as well as individuals, unless in any 
 of the cases aforesaid it be otherwise specially ])rovided, or tln^re be 
 something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction. 
 
 50. . . . So much and such jjart of the said recited Act as enacts Certain part 
 that after the pier Avharf or jetty therein mentioned shall have ^^ A^^ °^ '*■'*'' 
 ceased to ])e the ])ro[)erty of the said C!ompany, their successors or repealed, 
 assigns, then the Commissioners of (jrecnwich ITospital and their 
 successors shall pay to the Mayor and Commonalty and citizens of 
 
 the city of London, their successors, collectors, or assigns, for ever, 
 an annual rent or sum of five pounds and five shillings, shall l)e 
 and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 51. \_Sacing fights of His Majcst^/.'] 
 
 52. \_Saving rights of' the Gitg Corporation * as Consi'rcators of 
 Thames. ~\ 
 
 53. [^Saving rights of the Trinity I/ousr.'] 
 
 54. [-\et to he judiciallg noticecl7\ 
 
 Schedule. \_lAinds to he taken. Spent^ 
 
 1 VICTORIA. A.D. 1837. 
 
 CHAPTER 36. 
 
 An Act for consolidating the Laws relative to Offences 
 
 AGAINST the PoST OfFICE OF THE UnITED KiNGDOM, AND FOR 
 REGULATING THE JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE PoST OfFICE 
 
 Laws, and for explaining certain Terms and Expressions 
 
 EMPLOYED IN THOSE LaWS. \\2th Juhj 1837.] 
 
 8. And to prevent obstructions opposite the General Post Office No hackney 
 in London, ... no hackney carriage shall stand or ply for hire carriage to 
 opposite the Gonerfil Post Office in Saint Martin's-le-Grand, London, opposite tlfe 
 ... or any part thereof . . . , and . . . every driver, or any person General Post 
 having the management of any hackney carriage, who shall permit ^^^c^ i° 
 the same to stand or ply for hire opposite . . . the said Post Dubiui'! ^^ 
 Office shall forfeit for every such offence five pounds ; and for 
 the purposes of this provision every carriage with two or more Definition of 
 wheels, whatever may be the form or construction of such carriage, hackney 
 or the number of persons which the same shall be calculated to ^^i["|)ftij 
 convey, or the number of horses by which the same shall be drawn, meaning of 
 shall be a hacknev carriage within the meaninu' of this Act, and this Act. 
 in all proceedings at law or otherwise, and upon all occasions what- 
 soever, it shall be sufficient to describe it by the term hackney 
 carriage ; and every hawker, newsvender, or idle or disorderly ^q hawker, 
 person, who shall stoj) or loiter on tlie ffagway or pavement ne\vsven<ier, 
 opposite the General Post Office in Saint ^Martin's-le-lirand, Loiuhni, <^^c- to stop 
 ... or any part thereof . • . , shall forfeit for every sucii olfcnce ^vement, 
 five pounds. on penalty 
 
 \_The other parts of the Act do not relate speciallg to London.^ *^^ ^'• 
 
 * Now the Thames Conservators. See 20 M l'1 Vict. c. cxlvii., since rep. by 57 Ac 58 
 Vict. e. clxxxvii. (See Appendix.)
 
 128 
 
 [Chap, cxx.] London ^' Greenwich Railway Co's Act 1837. [1 Vict.] 
 
 Eailsvay 
 
 Company to 
 give com- 
 pensation 
 to Deptford 
 Creek Bridge 
 Company for 
 loss of tolls. 
 
 Eecoverj' 
 of compen- 
 sation from 
 Eailway 
 Company. 
 
 CHAPTER CXX. 
 
 Azs Act to enable the London and Greenwich Railway 
 Company to take certain Tolls for Passengers, Cattle, 
 AND Carriages crossing the River Ravensborne. in pir- 
 
 SUANCE OF AN AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO WITH " ThE DePTFORD 
 
 Creek Bridge Company." [15^// July 1837.] 
 
 \_Preamble recites 3 117//. 4, c, xlvi.* and A^ Geo. 3, c. cxxxi.] 
 
 1 — 5. [^.s- to tolls, etc. S/iperseded 40 & 41 }'ict. c. xcix. 
 8S. 16, 23.] 
 
 6. \WeiglitK, of tcaggons on bridge. Superseded 55 k 50 Yict. 
 c. ccxxxviii. .v, 4(».] 
 
 7. [As to tolls. Sote on ss. 1 — 5 applies.^ 
 
 8. \_Rej)eal of so much of 3 Will. 4, c. xlvi. as provides for com- 
 pensation to the Deptford Creek Bridge Company.'] 
 
 9. . . . The said Railway Company shall from henceforth and 
 for ever hereafter yearly and every year pay to the said Deptford 
 Creek Bridge Company so much money as shall be the difference 
 between the sum at which the Deptford Creek Bridge Company 
 shall annually let the tolls taken by them under and by virtue of 
 the said Act of the forty-third year of the reign of His said Majesty 
 King George the Third and the sum of two thousand three hundred 
 and twenty-five pounds, such difference to be paid by four equal 
 quarterly payments on the twenty-fifth day of March, the twenty- 
 fourth day of June, the twenty-ninth day of {September, and the 
 twenty-fiftli day of December in every year, the first payment 
 thereof to be made on such of the said days as shall first and next 
 happen after the passing of this Act. [See also 40 & 41 Vict, 
 c. xcix. .s'. 23.] 
 
 10. . . . The said comijensation, recompence, or allowance to be 
 made and paid to the said Deptford Creek Bridge Company as 
 hereinbefore mentioned shall be a charge upon the said portion of 
 the said bridge, and upon all and singular the rates, tolls, and other 
 sums arising by virtue of this Act, and shall be paid by the 
 treasurer of the said Railway Company ; and in case the same or 
 any quarterly payment thereof or any part thereof shall be behind 
 or unpaid by the space of thirty days next after demand thereof in 
 writing shall have been made or given to the said Railway Com- 
 pany or to the treasurer of the said Railway Company, or left at the 
 office of the said Railway Company by the clerk to the Deptford 
 Creek Bridge Company, or by any person on his behalf or on behalf 
 of the said Company, then and in such case, and from time to time 
 as often as the same shall happen, it shall be lawful for any two or 
 more Justices of the Peace acting within their respective jurisdic- 
 tions, and not being interested in the matter in question, and they 
 are hereby required (on request to them made by or on behalf of 
 the Deptford Creek Bridge Company), by an order under the hands 
 of such Justices, to appoint some person to receive the whole of the 
 said rates, tolls, or sums arising under or by virtue of this Act, and 
 the money so to be received by such person is hereby declared to be 
 
 * The Act 3 Will. 4, c. xlvi. authorised the construction of a railway from London 
 to Greenwicli, and {inter alia} provided for the payment by the Eailway Company to 
 the Deptford Creek Bridge Company of the difference between the amount at which 
 the Bridge Company should annually let the tolls derived from the bridge and the 
 sum of £2,000. as compensation for loss of tolls caused by the railway.
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1«39. [Chai-. 47.] 129 
 
 so mnch money received ])y or to the nse of the Dejjtford (Jreek 
 ]iri(I<!;e CoiniKuiy until siicli conifx'nsatiou, recommence, or ailowunce, 
 or so much thereof as shall he then due, to.irether with the costs 
 and char^^es of recoveriiii,^ and receiving the rates, toHs, or sums, 
 shall l)e fully satisfied and j)aid ; and after snch com])ensation, 
 recomi)cnce, or allowance, costs and charges, shall have been fully 
 }>aid and satisfied, the power and authority of such receiver shall 
 cease and determine, or otherwise the said Dej)tford Creek Bridge 
 Company shall or may bring or cause to be brought any action of 
 debt or Rjjecial action on the case, or other action, in any of Her 
 Majesty's Courts of liocord at Westminster against the saidHailway 
 Company for the recovery of such compensation, recomjicnce, or 
 allowance so in arrear, and shall recover the same, together with 
 full costs of suit : Provided always, that nothing herein contained 
 shall j)rejudiee the right vested in the said liailway Company by 
 the said recited Act of requiring that the tolls payable to the 
 Deptford Creek Bridge Company should be let by public tender 
 or bidding. 
 
 11. [^Bridge not to be built contrary to provisions of '6 Will. 4, 
 r. xlvi. Spent.'] 
 
 12. \_Expenses of Act. Spent.'] 
 
 13. [_Act to be judicially noticed^] 
 
 2 & 3 VICTORIA. A.D. 1839. 
 
 uce 
 
 CHAPTER 47. 
 
 An Act fok further improving the Police in and near the 
 Metropolis. \\lth August 1839.] 
 
 \_Preamble {which recites 10 Geo. 4, c. 44) and s. 1 {as to appoint- 
 ing constables to courts leet) rep. 53 k 54 Vict. c. 51 {S.L.K.).] 
 
 2. \_Recital of 10 Geo. 4, c. 44.] It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, Parts of I'a- 
 by the advice of Her Privv Council, to order that anv place which "shes may 
 is part of the Central Criminal Court district,* except the city of J'l^/p^if ^"^ 
 London and liberties thereof, and such places as are or may be included district, 
 in any Act already passed or to be passed in this ISession of Parlia- 
 ment, intituled " x\n Act for regulating the Police in the City of 
 London," and also that any part of any parish, township, precinct, 
 or place which is not more than fifteen miles distant from Ciiaring 
 Cross in a straight line may be added to and form part of the metro- 
 politan police district, although the whole of such parish, township, 
 })lace, or precinct may not be added thereunto ; and all the])rovisious 
 of this Act, and of the said Act as amended by this Act, shall extend 
 and apply to the })arishes, townships, ])recincts, or ])laces, or the 
 ])arts thereof, so res])ectively atlded ; and in case no sej)arate rate 
 shall be levied for the relief of the poor in any place or part so 
 added, the ])olice rate shall be assessed and levied therein in like 
 manner as in extra-])arochial ])laces within the metropolitan police 
 district hi which no rate is levied for the relief of the poor. \_l'art 
 omitted (recital of \^ Geo. '\,c.-^A) rep. 53 & 54 Vict.c.b\ (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 3. \_Farishes so added to be within 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. b9.t Jii'p. 37 
 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.R).] 
 
 * See the Central Criminal Court Act 1S34. 
 t Rep. 31 Sz 32 Vict. c. 07, s. 4.
 
 130 
 
 [Chap. 47.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Eepeal of 
 6 & 7 \V. 4. 
 c. 50. with 
 a certain 
 limitation. 
 
 Metropo- 
 litan police 
 constables 
 to act on 
 the Eiver 
 "Thames, etc. 
 
 Sum re- 
 quired to de- 
 fray charges 
 of Thames 
 police, 
 horse 
 patrol, etc. 
 
 Constables 
 may be 
 sworn to act 
 for the 
 palaces. 
 
 Additional 
 constables 
 may be ap- 
 pointed at 
 the cost of 
 individuals. 
 
 4. ... It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint the Justices 
 appointed and to be appointed under the said Act of the tenth year 
 of the reign of King George the Fourth to be Justices of the Peace 
 for the counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, although they 
 may not be (|ualified by estate ; and the said Justices shall be 
 empowered to act as Justices in the last-mentioned counties as 
 fully as in any other part of the metropolitan police district, and 
 not further or otherwise, and shall be styled " The Commissioners 
 of Police of the Metropolis." \_Part omitted {recital of Q k 7 Will. 4, 
 c. 60) rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.R.).^ 
 
 5. The constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force shall 
 have all the powers and privileges of a constable in the counties 
 of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, and upon the River Thames 
 within or adjoining to the several counties of Middlesex, Surrey, 
 Berkshire, Essex, and Kent, and within or adjoining to the city of 
 London and the liberties thereof, and in and on the several creeks, 
 inlets, and waters, docks, wharfs, quays, and landing })laces, thereto 
 adjacent, and shall act therein and thereupon, as fully as in any 
 part of the metropolitan police district. 
 
 6. It shall be lawful for the . . . Treasury, by warrant . . . , to 
 direct the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain 
 and Ireland to the receiver of the metropolitan police district of a 
 yearly sum, not greater than twenty thousand pounds, free of all 
 rates, taxes, and impositions, for defraying the increased charge of 
 the establishment of the Metropolitan Police Force by reason of that 
 force being required to j^erform the duties heretofore performed by 
 the horse patrol and by the surveyors and constables of the Thames 
 police. . . . \_Amend ed by the Consolidated Fund Cliarges Act X'^^Al^ 
 s. 1. Farts omitted (as to Lord High Treasurer and sujjerannuation 
 allotvances) rep. 37 k 38 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.R.) and 53 & 54 Vict, 
 c. 51 (6'.Z.it'.).] 
 
 7. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to administer to 
 any constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force an oath 
 to execute the office of constable within the royal palaces of Her 
 Majesty and ten miles thereof; and every constable who shall be 
 so sworn shall have the powers and privileges of a constable within 
 the said royal palaces and ten miles thereof. 
 
 8. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Police, if they 
 shall think fit, on the application of any person or persons showing 
 the necessity thereof, to appoint and swear any additional number 
 of constables to keep the peace at any place within the metropolitan 
 police district, at the charge of the person or persons by whom the 
 application shall be made, but subject to the orders of the said 
 Coaimissioners, and for such time as they shall think fit ; and every 
 such constable shall have all the powers, privileges, and duties of 
 other constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force : Pro- 
 vided always, that it shall be lawful for the person or persons on 
 whose application such appointment shall have been made, upon 
 giving one calendar month's notice in writing to the Commissioners, 
 to require that the constables so appointed shall be discontinued, 
 and thereupon the Commissioners shall discontinue such additional 
 constables ; and all monies received on account of any such additional 
 constables shall be paid to the receiver of the Metropolitan Police, 
 and shall be accounted for by him in like manner as other monies 
 receivable bv him.
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1-^39. [Chap. 47.] 131 
 
 9. In addition to the returns relatin<i: to the Metropolitan Police A. statement 
 which b}' former Acts are required to he laid aiiniiully hefore 1^^^''^^ p"™' 
 Parliament, there shall also he laid annually before both Houses of sons belong- 
 Parliameiit, to<^ether with such returns, a statement of the total '[^p.^'^ •^be 
 number of persons belon*(in<2: to the Metropolitan Police Force on the t.j'be^nna^ 
 first day ot January of the year in wiiich each return is laid before ally laid be- 
 Piirliament, <listin,u-uishiii<^ the number of ])ersoiis in each class or f'^^^ Parliu- 
 rank of such force, with the salaries and allou'ances enjoyed Ijj ™^"'- 
 each class. 
 
 10. [^Exemption from turnpike tolU. Spent. No turnpike roads 
 in London^ 
 
 11. The said Commissioners of Police shall take care that a rolice con 
 sulHcient numlier of constables belon<:in<^ to the ]Metro})olitan Police ■'•tables t.. 
 Force shall be in attendance upon every Magistrate sitting at any Magistrates, 
 police court within the limits of the metropolitan police district, 
 
 and at every other criminal court holden within the said district, 
 for the purpose of executing such summonses and warrants as may 
 be directed to them. \_See also the. Count y Voters Rtyi.st ration Art 
 1865, s. 16.] 
 
 12. All summonses and warrants to be issued in any criminal Summonses 
 proceeding within tlie metropolitan ])olice district, or by any Magi.s- ^ntrfncn- 
 trate within the said district, shall be served and executed by a minal pro- 
 <;onstable of the Metro})olitan Police Force, and bv none other. \_See cecdings to 
 the Customs Consolidation Act 1876, 5. 227.] " bythem*^*^ 
 
 13. When any warrant shall be directed or delivered to any of How war- 
 the said constables, unless it be necessary for the due execution rants issued 
 thereof that such warrant be executed without delay, the constable [^j|^°abfes 
 ■shall deliver the same to the suj)erintendent or other his superior may be exe- 
 •officer belonging to the ^Metropolitan Police Force, who shall ajjjioint, cuted. 
 
 by indorsement thereon, one or more constables to execute the 
 same ; and every constable whose name shall be so indorsed shall 
 have the same ])Owers, i)rivileges, and protections for and in the 
 execution of such warrant as if the same had been originally directed 
 to him or them by name. [^See also 2 & 3 Virt. c 71. .s-. 17 et. seq.'] 
 
 14. Every constable who shall be guilty of any neglect or viola- Penalty on 
 ttion of dutv in his office of constable shall be I'iable ro a })enaltv constables 
 not more than ten pounds, the amount of which penalty may be of duty, 
 deducted from any salary then due to such oftender, or, in the 
 ■discretion of the Magistrate, may be imi)risoned, with or without 
 
 hard labour, for auv time not more than one calendar month. 
 
 15. No constable belonging to the ]\Ietropolitan Police Force shall Constables 
 be at liberty to resign his olHce, or to withdraw himself from the not jo resign 
 duties thereof, unless expressly allowed so to do, in writing, by [^i!ive"^or 
 the superintendent under whom he may be i)laced, or unless he notice, 
 shall give to such su])eriiiteiident one calendar month's notice ot 
 
 his intention ; and every constable who shall so resign or witlidraw 
 Jiimself without such leave or notice siiall be liable to forfeit all 
 arrears of pay then due to him or to a penalty not more than live 
 2)0unds. 
 
 16. Every constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force Constables 
 who shall be dismissed from or shall cease to hold ami ^'■'^^'^'<-"i=^^ deiheTup ^ 
 his office, and who shall not forthwith deliver over all clothing, accoutre- 
 accoutrements, appointments, and other necessaries which may have ments. 
 been supplied to him for the execution of his duty, to the super- 
 intendent, or to sucii person and at such time and place as shall be
 
 132 
 
 [Chap. 47.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1830. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Penalty for 
 unlawful 
 possession 
 of accoutre- 
 ments, or 
 for assuming 
 the dress of 
 constables. 
 
 Penalty for 
 assaults on 
 metropo- 
 litan police. 
 
 Persons re- 
 ceiving ship 
 stores from 
 seamen, etc. 
 
 Cutting 
 ropes, 
 cables, etc. 
 
 Wilfully 
 letting fall 
 articles into 
 the Thames 
 
 directed by the said superintendent, shall be liable to imprisonment, 
 with or without hard labour, for any time not exceeding one 
 calendar month : and it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace 
 to issue his warrant to search for and seize to the use of Her 
 Majesty all the clothinof, accoutrements, appointments, and other 
 necessaries which shall not be so delivered over, wherever the same 
 may be found. 
 
 17. Every person, not being a constable of the Metropolitan 
 Police Force, who shall have in his possession any article being 
 part of the clothing, accoutrements, or appointments supplied to 
 any such constable, and who shall not be able satisfactorily to 
 account for his possession thereof, or who shall put on the dress 
 or take the name, designation, or character of any person appointed 
 as such constable, for the purpose of thereby obtaining admission 
 into any house or other place, or of doing or procuring to be done 
 any act which such person would not be entitled to do or procure 
 to be done of his own authority, or for any other unlawful purpose, 
 shall, in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable 
 for such offence, be liable to a jienalty not more than ten pounds. 
 
 18. Every person who shall assault or resist any person belonging 
 to the Metro])olitan Police Force in the execution of his duty, or 
 who shall aid or incite any person so to assault or resist, shall for 
 every such offence be liable to a penalty not more than five pounds, 
 or, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom he shall be 
 convicted, may be imprisoned for any time not more than one 
 calendar month. [^See 24 & 25 Vict. c. 51, 6-. 3,] 
 
 19. {Employment in the police not to prevent receiving half pay. 
 Rep. hij the Superannuation Act 1887, s. 14.] 
 
 20. {Increased salary to the Commissioners of Police. Rep. 37 & 
 38 Vict. c. 96 (5'.iv.i?.y.] 
 
 21. {Commissioners^ surgeon^ receiver^ and clerks to he within 
 the ^Superannuation Act 1834. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 28, s. 4.] 
 
 22 — 23. {Superannuation Fund and rates of allowance. Rep» 
 h;j the Police Act 1890, s. 36.] 
 
 24. {Repeal of 2 Geo. 3, c. 28. Rep. 37 k 38 Vict. c. 96 (>S'.Z./i'.).] 
 
 25. {Certain boats subject to 1 k^ Geo. 4,6-. Ixxv.* Rep. 38 & 39 
 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 26. Every person who within the metropolitan police district 
 shall knowingly take in exchange from any seaman or other person, 
 not being the owner or master of any vessel, any thing belonging 
 to any vessel lying in the Hiver Thames or in any of the docks or . 
 creeks adjacent thereto, or any part of the cargo of any such vessel, 
 or any stores or articles in charge of the owner or master of any 
 such vessel, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 27. Every person who shall unlawfully cut, damage, or destroy 
 any of the ropes, cables, cordage, tackle, headfasts, or other the 
 furniture of or belonging to any ship, boat, or vessel, lying in the 
 Kiver Thames or in any of the docks or creeks adjacent thereto, 
 with intent to steal or otherwise unlawfully obtain the same or any 
 part thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 28. It shall be lawful for any constable to take into custody 
 every person who, for the purpose of preventing the seizure or dis- 
 covery of any materials, furniture, stores, or merchandize belonging 
 * Eep. by the Thames Watermen and Lightermen's Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. Ixxxiii.).
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] I'he Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [Chap. 47.] 133 
 
 to or having })een part of the cargo of any sliiji, boat, or vessel '^r into a 
 lying in the River Thames or the docks or creeks adjacent tliereto, ^^j^," f^^u.lu 
 or of any other articles unlawfully obtained from any snch ship or lent inten- 
 vessel, shall wilfully let fall or throw into the river, or in any other t'o" 
 mnnnor convey away from any ship, boat, or vessel, wharf, (piav, or 
 landing place, any such article, or who shall be accessory to any 
 such olfeiice, and also to seize and detain any boat in which such 
 person shall be found <»r out of which any article shall be so let fall, 
 thrown, or conveyed away ; and every such jterson shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 29. Every ])erson who, for the })nrpose of protecting or preventing Framing a 
 anything whatsoever from being seized within the metropolitan ^^"^^ Ig^J °^ 
 police district on susi)icion of its being stolen or otherwise unlawfully escape 
 ■obtained, or of preventing the same from being i)roduced or made detection, 
 to serve as evidence concerning any felony or misdemeanor com- 
 mitted or supposed to be committed within the metropolitan ])olicQ 
 •district, shall frame or cause to be framed any bill of parcels 
 containing any false statement in regard to the name or abode of 
 
 any alleged vendor, the (piantity or quality of any such thing, the 
 place whence or the conveyance by which the same was furnished, 
 the price agreed upon or charged for the same, or any other 
 particular, knowing such statement to be false, or who shall fraudu- 
 lently ])roduco such bill of parcels knowing the same to have been 
 fraudulently framed, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 30. Every jierson who shall be found within the metr(»politan Possessing 
 police district in or upon any canal, dock, warehouse, wharf, quay, •/^^-truments 
 or bank or on board any ship or vessel, having in his or her fuiiy pro- 
 possession any tube or other instrument for the purpose of unlaw- curing and 
 
 fully obtaining any wine, s])irits, or other liciuors, or havino: in his carrying 
 
 \ • " 1 • 1 1 1 J ^1 ^ • 1 i -1 awav wine, 
 
 or her possession any skin, bladder, or other material or utensil etc' 
 
 for the purpose of unlawfully secreting or carrying away any such 
 
 wine, spirits, or other li(pn»rs, and any person who shall attempt 
 
 unlawfully to o])tain any such wine, s])irits, or other liipiors, shall 
 
 be deemed guiltv of a misdemeanor. 
 
 31. Every person who shall, within the metropolitan jiolice Piercing 
 district, bore, pierce, break, cut open, or otherwise injure any cask, ^^^^' "^P®"- 
 box, or j)ackage containing wine, spirits, or other lic^nors, on board ^es^etc! 
 any shi]), boat, or vessel, or in or ujion any warehouse, wharf, (piay, 
 
 or bank, with intent feloniously to steal or otherwise unlawfully 
 obtain any part of the contents thereof, or who shall unlawfully 
 drink or wilfully s])ill or allow to run to waste any part of the 
 contents thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 32. Every person who shall, within the metropolitan police P>reaking 
 district, wilfully cause to be broken, pierced, started, cut, torn, or pa'^^^es^ 
 otherwise injured, any cask, chest, bag, or other package containing t\' spill Con- 
 or prepared for containing any goods while on board of any barge, tents, 
 lighter, or other craft lying in the said river, or any dock, creek, 
 
 quay, wharf, or landing j)lace adjacent to the same, or in tiie way 
 to or from any warehouse, with intent that the contents of sucli 
 package or any part thereof may be spilled or dropped from such 
 package, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 33. Any superintendent or inspector belonging to the metro- Superinten- 
 politan ])olice force shall have itower, bv virtue of his office, to ^"^^^^ ^<^ 
 enter at all times, with such constables as he shall think necessary, may board 
 as well by night as by day, into and upon every ship, boat, or other vessels.
 
 134 
 
 [Chap. 47.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Superinten- 
 dent, etc. 
 having just 
 cause to sus- 
 pect felony 
 may enter on 
 board ves- 
 sels and take 
 up suspected 
 persons. 
 
 Unlawful 
 quantities of 
 gunpowder 
 may be 
 seized. 
 
 Penalty for 
 having on 
 board guns 
 loaded with 
 ball, or dis- 
 charging 
 guns in the 
 night. 
 
 Penalty for 
 heating com- 
 bustible 
 matters on 
 board of 
 vessels. 
 
 vessel (not being- then actually employed in Her Majesty's service) 
 lying in the said river or creeks, or in any dock or docks thereto 
 adjacent, and into every part of every such vessel, for the pur- 
 pose of inspecting and upon occasion directing the conduct of any 
 constable who may be stationed on board of any such vessel, and 
 of inspecting and observing the conduct of all other persons who 
 shall be employed on board of any such vessel in or about the 
 lading or unlading thereof, as the case may be, and for the purpose 
 of taking all such measures as may be necessary for providing 
 against lire and other accidents, and preserving peace and good 
 order on board of any such vessel, and for the effectual 2)revention 
 or detection of any felonies or misdemeanors. 
 
 34. It shall be lawful for every superintendent, inspector, or 
 Serjeant belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force having just 
 cause to suspect that anj- felony has been or is about to be com- 
 mitted in or on board of any ship, boat, or other vessel lying in the 
 said river, docks, or creeks, to enter at all times, as well by night 
 as by day, into and upon every such ship, boat, or other vessel, and 
 therein to take all necessary measures for the effectual prevention 
 or detection of all felonies which he has just cause to suspect to 
 have been or to be about to be committed in or upon the said river, 
 docks, or creeks, and to take into custody all persons suspected of 
 being concerned in such felonies, and also to take charge of all 
 property so suspected to be stolen. 
 
 35. It shall be lawful for every superintendent or inspector 
 belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force, with such constables as 
 he shall think necessary, at any time between sun-rising and sun- 
 setting, to enter any ship, boat, or vessel (except Her Majesty's 
 ships) in the said river, docks, and creeks, and to search the same 
 for unlawful quantities of gunpowder, and also to exercise the same 
 powers of seizing, removing to proper places, and detaining all such 
 unlawful quantities of gunpowder found on board any such ship, 
 boat, or vessel, and the barrels or other packages in which such 
 gunpowder shall be, as are given to persons searching for unlawful 
 quantities of gunpowder under the warrant of a Justice by virtue 
 of [the Gunpoivder Act 1772] 12 Geo. 3, c. 61.* 
 
 36. Every master or commander or other officer of any ship, 
 boat, or vessel (except Her Majesty's ships) who, while such ship 
 or vessel shall lie or be in the lliver Thames between Westminster 
 Bridge and Blackwall, kee}) any gun on board such ship, boat, or 
 vessel shotted or loaded with ball, or cause or permit to be fired 
 any gun on board such ship, boat, or vessel before sun-rising or 
 after sun-setting, shall be liable for every gun so kept shotted or 
 loaded to a j)enalty of five shillings, and for every gun so fired shall 
 be liable to a penalty of ten shillings. 
 
 37. Every master or commander or other officer of any such 
 ship, boat, or vessel, or any other person on board of the same, who, 
 while such ship, boat, or vessel shall lie in the said river between 
 Westminster Bridge and Blackwall, shall heat or melt, or cause 
 or permit to be heated or melted, on board such ship, boat, or 
 vessel, any pitch, tar, rosin, grease, tallow, oil, or other combustible 
 matter, shall for every such offence be liable to a jjenalty not more 
 than five pounds. 
 
 * 12 Geo. 8, c. 61 was repealed by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 139, which latter Act was 
 repealed and replaced by the Explosives Act 1875, ss. 73 & 86.
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The Metropolitan Folice Act 1839. [Chap. 47.] 135 
 
 38. The business and amnscraents of all fairs holden within the I'enalty on 
 metro])olitan police district shall cease at the hour of eleven in fai^s^open 
 the evening, and shall not begin earlier than the hour of six witiiin for- 
 in the morning; and if any house, room, booth, .standing, tent, ^''^^'-•n l^o"'"'^- 
 cai'avan, waggon, or other ])lace sjiall, thiring the continuance of 
 
 any such lair, be open witliin tlie hours of eleven in the evening 
 and six in the morning, for any ])nrpose of business or amusement, 
 in tlie ])lac(' where such fair sli.-ill be holden, it shall be lawful for 
 any constable to take into custody the jierson having the care or 
 management thereof, and also every jierson being therein who sliall 
 not quit the same forthwith upon being bidden by such constable 
 so to do ; and the ])erson so then having the care or management 
 of any such liouse, room, booth, standing, tent, caravan, waggon, or 
 other place siiall be liable to a penalty not more than five i)0und8, 
 and every person convicted of having been therein, and of not 
 having quitted the same forthwith upon being Ijidden by a constable 
 so to do, shall be liable to a penaltv not more than forty shillings. 
 [_See 31 & 32 Vict. c. lUO.] 
 
 39. If it shall appear to the Commissioners of Police that any J^J^'^^ro^."' 
 
 fair . . . holden within the metropolitan police district has been poutan po- 
 
 lioldon without lawful authority, or that any ftiir lawfully holden lice district 
 
 within the said district has been . . . holden for a longer period '"f/*',^. "J" 
 1 • 1-1111 1 /, • • quired into, 
 
 than IS so warranted, it shall be competent to such Commissioners 
 
 to direct one of the superintendents belonging to the Metropolitan 
 Police Force to summon the owner or occupier of the ground upon 
 which such fair is . . . holden to aj)})ear before a Magistrate at a 
 time and place to be specified in the summons, not less than eight 
 days after the service of the summons, to show his right and title 
 to hold such fair, or to hold such ftiir beyond a given period (as 
 the case may be) ; and if such owner or occupier shall not attend 
 in pursuance of such summons, or shall not show to the Magistrate 
 who shall hear the case sufficient cause to believe that such fair 
 has been lawfully holden for the whole period during which the 
 same has been . . . holden, the Magistrate shall declare in writing 
 such fair to be unlawful, either altogether or beyond a stated period 
 (as the case may be) ; and the Commissioners shall give notice 
 of such declaration by causing copies thereof to be affixed on the 
 ]>arish church and on other public places in and near the ground 
 where such fair has been . . . holden; and if, after such notices If f^^^^^a^ed 
 have been affixed for the space of six days, any attemjit shall he ^^^'^j^^ g[^ 
 made to hold such fair if it shall be declared altogether unlawful, to be re- 
 or to hold it beyond the ])rescribcd period if it shall be declared i"oved. 
 unlawful beyond a certain period, the < 'ommissiouers of I'olice may 
 ilirect anv constable to remove everv booth, standins::, and tent, and 
 every carriage of whatsoever kind conveyed to or being upon the 
 ground for the purpose of holding or continuing such fair, and to 
 take into custody every jjcrson erecting, pitching, or fixing, or 
 assisting to erect, ])itch, or fix, any such booth, standing, or tent, 
 and every person driving, accom})anying, or conveyed in every such 
 carriage, and every person resorting to such ground with any t^how 
 or instrument of gambling or amusement : and every j)erson con- 
 victed before a ^Magistrate of any of the oftences last aforesaid shall 
 be liable to a i)enalty not more than ten })0unds. \_Partii omitted 
 {the loord " ustmllt/") rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 06 (S.L.R.).^ On entering 
 
 40. Provided nevertheless, that if the owner or occupier of the into recog- 
 ground whereon any such fair has been . . . holden shall, when nizance,
 
 136 
 
 [Chap. 47.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 question as 
 to right of 
 title to fair 
 may be tried 
 in the 
 Queen's 
 Bench. 
 
 Freemen of 
 Vintners 
 Company 
 subject to 
 certain pro- 
 \nsions. 
 
 Regula- 
 tions of 
 9G. 4. c. 61.* 
 respecting 
 public 
 houses to 
 extend to 
 other houses 
 of public 
 resort. 
 
 Penalty on 
 keepers 
 of cook 
 shops, etc. 
 making in- 
 ternal com- 
 munication 
 with an ad- 
 joining pub- 
 lic house. 
 
 summoned before the Magistrate, enter into a recognizance in the 
 penal snm of two hundred pounds (which recognizance such Magis- 
 trate is hereby authorized to take) with condition to appear in the 
 Court of Queen's Bench on the first day of the then next term 
 and to answer to any information which Her Majesty's Attorney 
 or Solicitor General may exhibit against such owner or occupier 
 touching his right and title to such fair, and to abide the judgment 
 of the Court thereon, and to pay such costs as may be awarded 
 by the Court, which costs the said Court is hereby authorized to 
 award, then, notwithstanding the Magistrate may have declared 
 such fair to be unlawful, the Commissioners of Police shall forbear 
 from giving notice of such declaration, and from taking anv farther 
 measures thereon, until judgment shall be given by the said Court 
 against the right and title to such fair ; and the Magistrate taking 
 such recognizance shall forthwith transmit the same to one of Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, to the end that the same 
 may be filed in the said Court, and such farther directions may be 
 given thereon as to such Secretary of State may seem fit. \_Xote 
 to s. 39 applies^ 
 
 41. Every person who by reason of his or her freedom of the 
 mystery or craft of Vintners of the city of London, or of any 
 right or privilege of such mystery, shall claim to be entitled to sell 
 foreign wine by retail, to be drunk or consumed on the premises 
 within the metropolitan i)olice district, without licence, shall be 
 subject to all the provisions of all Acts made for the regulation of 
 persons so licensed (except those provisions which reipiire or refer 
 to the taking out of a licence either from any Justice of the Peace 
 or from the Commissioners of Excise). . . . \_Fart omitted (^pro- 
 visions in cose of offence) rep. hy the Licensing Act 1872, s. 75. 
 
 42 — 43. \_Fublic houses to be shut on Sunday mornings, and 
 publicans not to supply to persons tinder sixteen. Rep. by the 
 Licensing Act 1872, s. 75.] 
 
 44. . . . Every person who shall have or keep any house, shop, 
 room, or place of public resort within the metropolitan police 
 district, wherein provisions, liquors, or refreshments of any kind 
 shall be sold or consumed, (whether the same shall be kept or 
 retailed therein or procured elsewhere,) and who shall wilfully or 
 knowingly permit drunkenness or other disorderly conduct in such 
 house, shop, room, or place, or knowingly sufi'er any unlawful 
 games or any gaming whatsoever therein, or knowingly permit or 
 suffer ])rostitutes or persons of notoriously bad character to meet 
 together and remain therein, shall for every such ofi'ence be liable 
 to a penalty ot not more than five pounds. . . . \Farts omitted 
 {recital and, proiiso as to licensed victualler) rep. 37 & 38 Vict. 
 c. 96 {S.L.R.), and 53 & 54 Vict. c. 51 (S.L.B.). See also the 
 Licensing Act 1872, 6-. 14.] 
 
 45. Every person who shall make or use or allow to be made or used 
 any internal communication between any house, shop, room, or place 
 of public resort not licensed for the sale of wine, spirits, beer, or other 
 exciseable articles within the said district, and any house, sho]), room, 
 or place licensed for the sale ol' wine, spirits, beer, or other excise- 
 able articles, or in which wine is sold by a free Vintner, shall be liable 
 to a penalty not more than ten pounds for every day that such com- 
 munication shall be open. [See also the Licensing Act 1872, s. 9.] 
 
 * The Alehouse Act 1828.
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] Tin' \h'tropolitn„ Police Act 1839. [Chap. 47.] 137 
 
 46. It shall ])(! liiwi'nl for the said Commissioners of Police, by I'ower to 
 
 order in writiii<r, to uiithorize any superintendent belonginj; to the )!",^ej" 
 
 Metropolitan Police, with such constables as he may think neces- tiieatres, 
 
 sary, to (;nter into any house oi- room kept or used within the and take 
 
 said district for stai^eplavs or dramatic, entertainments into which *^^'y P®""- 
 1 . • • 1 • 1 1 ' p I 1 • 1 • .sons found 
 
 admission is obtained by ])ayment ot money, and which is not a there, 
 licensed theatre, at any time when the same shall be open for the 
 rece})tion of ])ersoiis n>sortin<x thereto, and to take into custody all 
 persons who sliall be Ibund therein witlujut lawful e.\cuse ; and 
 every person keeping', using, or knowingly letting any bouse or 
 other tenement for the purpose of being used as an unlicensed 
 theatre shall be liable to a penalty not more than twenty ]»ounds, 
 or in the discretion of the Magistrate may be (;ommitted to the 
 House of (Jorrectiou, with or without hard labour, for a time not 
 more than two calendar months ; and every person j)erforming or 
 being therein without lawful excuse shall be liable to a penalty nc^t 
 more than forty shillings, and a conviction under this Act for this 
 offence shall not e.xemjjt the owner, keei)er, or manager of any 
 such house, room, or tenement from any penalty or penal conse- 
 quences to which he may be liable for keeping a disorderly house, 
 or for the nuisance thereby occasioned. \J:iee also 25 (jco. 2, .v. 36, 
 •s. 'J, (Did the Theatres Act 1S43, ss. 2, 11. (See Appendix).'] 
 
 47. Every person who within the metropolitan police district riaces used 
 shall keep or use, or act in the management of any liouse, room, ^°'^x'?^^'"" 
 pit, or other place for the purpose of fighting or baiting lions, bears, cock-iight 
 badgers, cocks, dogs, or other animals, shall be liable to a ])enalty ing, etc. 
 not more than five pounds, or in the discretion of the Mairistrate 
 
 may be committed to the House of Correction, with or without 
 hard labour, for a time not more than one calendar month : and 
 it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Police, by order in 
 writing, to authorize any superintendent belonging to the Metro- 
 politan Police Force, with such constables as he shall think 
 necessary, to enter any j)remises kept or used for any of the 
 purposes aforesaid, and take into custody all j)ersons who shall 
 be found therein without lawful excuse, and every person so found 
 shall ])e liable to a })enalty not more than five shillings, and a 
 conviction under this Act of this offence shall not exempt the 
 owner, keeper, or manager of any such house, room, ])it, or place 
 from any penalty or penal conse(]uence to which he may be liable 
 for the nuisance thereby occasioned. 
 
 48. If any suj)erintendent belonging to the Metropolitan Police Commis- 
 Force shall reiwrt in writinij: to the said Commissioners that there =*>^Jners em- 
 
 1 ^ 1 J- 1 1- • 1 -..1 ■ »i powered to 
 
 are good grounds tor l)eiieving any house or room, wituin tue authorize 
 metropolitan police district, to be kept or used as a common ^upt'rinten- 
 gaming house, and if two or more householders dwelliuir within the <i.i'"ts ^f P"- 
 
 •II- 1 11 • .1 nr 1- i> 1- T-> lice to enter 
 
 said district, and not belonging to the Metropolitan Police l'"rce, ^j^miug 
 
 shall make oath in writing to be by them taken and subscribed houses. 
 
 before a iMagistrate, and annexed to the said report, which oath 
 
 every May-istrate is herebv empowered to administer and receive, 
 
 that the premises complained of by the superintendent are commonly 
 
 rejiorted and are believed by the deponents to be kept or used as 
 
 a common gaming house, it sliall be lawful for the Commissioners, 
 
 by order in writing, to authorize the superintendent to enter any 
 
 such house or room, with such constables as shall be directed by 
 
 the Commissioners to accompany him, and. if necessary, to use
 
 138 [Chap. 47.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 force for the purpose of effecting such entry, whether by breaking 
 open doors or otherwise, and to take into custody all persons who 
 shall be found therein, and to seize and destroy all tables and 
 instruments of gaming found in such house or premises, and also 
 to seize all monies and securities for money found therein ; and the 
 owner or keeper of the said gaming house, or other person having 
 the care and management thereof, and also every banker, croupier^ 
 and other person who shall act in any manner in conducting the 
 said gaming house, shall be liable to a penalty not more than one 
 hundred pounds, or, in the discretion of the Magistrate before whom 
 he shall be convicted of the offence, may be committed to the House 
 of Correction, with or without hard labour, for a time not more 
 than six calendar months ; and upon conviction of any such 
 offender all the monies and securities for monies which shall have 
 been seized as aforesaid shall be paid to the said receiver, to be 
 by him applied towards defraying the charge of the police of the 
 metropolis ; and every person found in such premises without 
 lawful excuse shall be liable to a penalty not more than five pounds r 
 Provided always, that nothing herein contained. shall prevent any 
 proceeding by indictment against the owner or keeper or other person 
 having the care or management of any gaming house ; but no person 
 shall be proceeded against by indictment and also under this Act 
 for the same offence. \_See aho the (jraming Act 1845, s. 2.] 
 
 49. [Proof of gaming for money ^ etc., not necessary. Rep. 37 & 
 38 Vict. c. 96 (SX.R.)r\ _ 
 
 Penalty on 50. Every pawnbroker within the metropolitan police district^ 
 
 recehinV^^* and every agent or servant employed by any such pawnbroker, 
 pledges from who shall purchase or receive or take any goods or chattels in pawn 
 persons or pledge of or from any person apparently under the age of sixteen 
 
 age oVi6^ years shall be liable to a penalty not more than five pounds. 
 Empowering 51. On the application of the minister or churchwardens of any 
 the Commis- church, chapel, or other jjlace of jmblic worship within the metro- 
 PoUce to re- P^litan- police district to the Commissioners of Police, it shall be 
 gniate the lawful for the said Commissioners to make orders for regulating 
 route and the route and conduct of persons who shall drive any cart or carriage, 
 persons^ °^ or who shall drive any cattle, sheep, pigs, or other animals, within 
 driving such parish or place during the hours of divine service on Sunday, 
 
 stage Christmas Day, Good Friday, or any day appointed for a public 
 
 cattie^etc ^^^^ *^^' thanksgiving, and any orders which shall be so made shall 
 during the be printed and affixed on or near the church, chapel, or place of 
 hours of public worship to which the same shall refer, and in some con- 
 
 service spicuous places leading to and contiguous thereto, and elsewhere as 
 
 the Commissioners of Police shall direct ; and every breach of any 
 such order shall be deemed a separate offence. \_See 30 & 31 Vict, 
 c. 134, *.s. 7, 11, and 12.] 
 
 Regulations 52. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Police from time 
 for prevent, to time, and as occasion shall require, to make regulations for the 
 
 mg orjstruc- ' , , , , , , ^ ' . , ® 
 
 tions in the route to be observed by ail carts, carriages, horses, and persons, 
 streets and for preventing obstruction of the streets and thoroughfares 
 
 during public ^j^hin the metropolitan police district, in all times of public 
 
 processions, . ,,.i . . . -i .'. , -l . 
 
 etc. processions, public rejoicings, or illuminations, and also to give 
 
 directions to the constables for keeping order and for preventing 
 any obstruction of the thoroughfares in the immediate neighbour- 
 hood of Her Majesty's palaces and the public offices, the High 
 Court of Parliament, the Courts of Law and Equity, the police
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1830. [Chap. 47.] 130 
 
 courts, the theatres, and other places of ])ublic resort, and in any 
 case when the streets or thor()n<rlifiires may be thronj^ed or may be 
 liable to be obstructed. \^Amen(/e</ 30 k 31 Met. c. 134, s. 24.] 
 
 53. No ])r<)])rift()r of any stajre carrias^e duly licensed to carry i'roprietors 
 
 passengers lor hire shall lie liablf to any j)enalty for any deviation "'.^^^ 
 
 from the route or line of route sjjecitied in liis licence, which the not liable to 
 
 driver of such stage carriage shall make by virtue of any regulation penalties for 
 
 or direction made or iiiven ])V the < 'ommissioners of Police. deviating 
 
 ft 11 ' 1 1 1 1 "■ 1 • 1 1 I 1 f irom route. 
 
 54. l^jvery person sliall he liable to a penalty not more tlian lorty ui- • 
 
 shillings, who, within the; limits of the metropolitan police district, of nuisances 
 shall, in any thoroughfare or public place, commit any of the by jjersons 
 following; oft'ences ; (that is to sav.) in the tho- 
 
 1. hvery ])erson wiio sliall, to the annoyance ol the inhabitants 
 
 or ])assengers, expose for show or sale, fexcejjt in a market 
 lawfully aj)pointed for that purpose,) or feed or ibdder any 
 horse or other animal, or show any caravan containing 
 any animal, or any other show or public entertainment, or 
 shoe, bleed, or farry any horse or animal, (except in cases 
 of accident,) or clean, dress, exercise, train, or i)reak any 
 horse or animal, or clean, make, or repair any part of any 
 cart or carriage, except in cases of accident where repair 
 on the spot is necessary : 
 
 2. Every person who shall turn loose any horse or cattle, or 
 
 sutler to be at larire anv unmuzzled ferocious do*', or set 
 on or urge any dog or other animal to attack, worry, or put 
 in fear any person, liorse, or other animal : 
 
 3. Every ])erson who by negligence or ill-usage in driving cattle 
 
 shall cause any mischief to be done by such cattle, or who 
 shall in anywise misbehave himself in the driving, care, 
 or management of such cattle, and also every person not 
 being hired or employed to drive such cattle who shall 
 wantonly and unlawfully pelt, drive, or hunt; any such cattle: 
 
 4. Every person having the care of any cart or carriage who 
 
 shall ride on any part thereof, on the shafts, or on any 
 horse or other animal drawing the same, without having 
 and holding the reins, or who shall be at such a distance 
 from such cart or carriage as not to have the complete 
 control over every horse or other animal drawing the same : 
 
 5. Every person who shall ride or drive furiously, or so as to 
 
 endanger the life or limb of any person, or to the common 
 danger of the passengers in any thoroughfare : * 
 
 6. Every person who shall cause any cart, public carriage, sledge, 
 
 truck, or ])arrow, with or without horses, to stand longer 
 than may be necessary for loading or unloading, or for 
 taking up or setting down passengers, except hackney 
 carriages standing for hire in any ])lace not forbiddt'u by 
 law, or who by means of any cart, carriage, sledge, truck, 
 or barrow, or any horse or other animal, shall wilfully 
 interruj)t any public crossing, or wilfully cause any 
 obstruction in any thoroughfare : * 
 
 7. Every person who shall lead or ride any horse or other 
 
 animal, or draw or drive any cart or carriage, sledge, truck, 
 or barrow, upon any footway or curbstone, or fasten any 
 horse or other animal so that it can stand across or upon 
 any footway : * 
 * See also the Plighwav Act 1835, ss. 72 and 78, and 6 i; 7 Vict. c. 86, ss. 2s and 3,3,
 
 140 [Chap. 47.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 8. Every person who shall roll or carry any cask, tab, hoop, or 
 
 wheel, or any ladder, jjlank, pole, showhoard, or placard, 
 upon any footway, except for the purpose of loading or 
 unloading any cart or carriage, or of crossing the footway : 
 
 9. Every person who, after being made acquainted with the 
 
 regulations or directions which the Commissioners of 
 Police shall have made for regulating the route of horses, 
 carts, carriages, and persons during the time of Divine 
 service, and for preventing obstructions during public 
 processions, and on other occasions herein-before specified, 
 shall wilfully disregard or not conform himself thereunto : 
 
 10. Every person who, without the consent of the owner or 
 
 occupier, shall affix any posting bill or other paper against 
 or upon any building, wall, fence, or pale, or write upon, 
 soil, deface, or mark any such building, wall, fence, or 
 pale with chalk or paint, or in any other way whatsoever, 
 or wilfully break, destroy, or damage any part of any such 
 building, wall, fence, or pale, or any fixture or appendage 
 thereunto, or any tree, shrub, or seat in any public walk, 
 park, or garden : 
 
 11. Every common prostitute or nightwalker loitering or being 
 
 in any thoroughfare or public place for the purpose of 
 prostitution or solicitation to the annoyance of the inhabi- 
 tants or passengers : 
 
 12. Every person who shall sell or distribute or ofier for sale 
 
 or distribution, or exhil)it to public view, any profane, 
 indecent, or obscene book, paper, print, drawing, painting, 
 or representation, or sing any profane, indecent, or obscene 
 song or ballad, or write or draw any indecent or obscene 
 word, figure, or representation, or use any profane, indecent, 
 or obscene lanu'uage to the annovance of the inhabitants or 
 passengers : \_See also the Indecent Achertisements Act 1889.] 
 
 13. Every person who shall use any threatening, abusive, or 
 
 insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a 
 breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace 
 may be occasioned : 
 
 14. Every person, except the guards and postmen belonging 
 
 to Her Majesty's post office in the performance of their 
 duty, who shall blow any horn or ase any other noisy 
 instrument, for the purpose of calling persons together, 
 or of announcing any show or entertainment, or for the 
 ])urpose of hawking, selling, distributing, or collecting any 
 article whatsoever, or of obtaining money or alms : * 
 
 15. Every person who shall wantonly discharge any fire-arm, 
 
 or throw or discharge any stone or other missile, to the 
 damage or danger of any person, or make any bonfire, or 
 throw or set fire to any firework : 
 
 16. Every person who shall wilfully and wantonly disturb anv 
 
 inhabitant by polling or ringing any door-bell or knocking 
 at any door without lawful excuse, or who shall wilfully 
 and unlawfully extinguish the light of any lamp : f 
 
 17. Every person who shall fly any kite or play at any game to 
 
 the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers, or who shall 
 make or use any slide upon ice or snow in any street or 
 other thoroughfare, to the common danger of the passengers. 
 
 • See also 6 .<c 7 Vict. c. 86, s. 83. f See also 18 i 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 206.
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The MctropolUufi Police Act \^'Z<J. [Chap. 47.] 141 
 
 And it shall be lawful for any constable belon^Mng to the Metropolitan 
 Police Force to take into custody, without warrant, any person who 
 shall commit any such oifence within view of any such constable. 
 
 55. No ])ersou other than jxtsous acting in oliedicnce to lawful Cannon, etc. 
 
 authority shall dischartre anv caiinijn or other fire-arm (jf greater 1?'^'',*'^ ^'^ 
 
 i • tircl nc3r 
 
 calibre than a common fowling piece within three hundred yards dwelling 
 of any dwelling house within the said district to the annoyance of houses, 
 any inhabitant tliereof, and every ])ersnn who after being warned of 
 the annoyance bv anv inhabitant siiull dischar'fc anv such tire-arm 
 shall be liable to a penalty not more than five jiounds. 
 
 56. . . . every person who within the metro])olitan j)ol ice Dog carts, 
 district shall use anv dot; for the purpose of drawinjr or heli)in£r ®'^"' P''^^^^' 
 
 *' • in \j[fc,(\ after 
 
 to draw any cart, carriage, truck, or barrow sliall be liable to a j^^ .January 
 penalty not more than forty shillings for the first offence, and not is40. 
 more than five pounds for the second or any following offence. 
 \_Parts omitted (as to commencement of Act) rep. 37 & 38 I 'ii-f. c. OG 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 57. \_iStreet musician.s to dt'part ichen deaired. Hep. and replaced 
 27 & 28 Vict. c. .55, s. 1.] 
 
 58. Every person who shall l)e found drunk in any street or Drunkards 
 public thoroughfare within the said district, and who while drunk o.^'^^y ^^ 
 shall be guilty of any riotous or indecent behaviour, and also every indecent 
 person who shall be guilty of any violent or indecent behaviour in behaviour 
 any police station house, shall be liable to a j)enalty of not more™^y?^ 
 than forty shillings for every such offence, or may be committed, '™P"^°° 
 if the Magistrate before whom he shall be convicted sliall think fit, 
 instead of inflicting on him any ])ecuniary penalty, to the House of 
 Correction for any time not more than seven days. 
 
 59. Every person who shall ride upon or cause himself to be Persons 
 carried or drawn by any carriage within the metropolitan police "*'°^.,*^^^'ti,. 
 district without the consent of the owner or driver thereof, shall out^driver's 
 be liable to a penalty not more than five shillings, or if a child consent -, 
 apparently under the age of twelve years it shall be lawful for the ^'^^^Uv* 
 Magistrate to cause such child to be detained until his parent or 
 guardian can attend for the ])urpose of havinn; such child delivered 
 
 into his care, and if such ])arent or guardian do not so attend before 
 the closing of the ])olice court for the day it shall be lawful for the 
 Magistrate to order such child to be discharged. 
 
 60. Every person who, in any street or ])ublic place within the Prohibition 
 limits of the metropolitan police district, shall be guilty of any of ^^j^^^^^^g^ 
 the following offences, shall be liable to a penalty not more than 
 
 forty shillings for every such offence ; (that is to say,) 
 
 1. Every person who in any thoroughfare shall burn, dress, or 
 
 cleanse any cork, or hoop, cleanse, fire, wash, or scald any 
 cask or tub, or hew, saw, bore, or cut any timber or stone, 
 or slack, sift, or screen any lime : 
 
 2. Every person who shall throw ov lay in any thoroughfare any 
 
 coals, stones, slates, shells, lime, bricks, timber, iron, or 
 other materials (except building materials, or rubbish 
 thereby occasioned, which shall be ])laced or inclosed so as 
 to prevent any mischief hajipening to passengers) : 
 
 3. Every person who in any thoroughfare shall beat or shake 
 
 any carpet, rug, or mat (except door mats before the hour 
 of eight in the morning), or throw or lay any dirt, litter, 
 or ashes, or any carrion, fish, offal, or rubbish, or throw or
 
 142 
 
 [Chap. 47.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Mad dogs, 
 etc. 
 
 Compensa- 
 tion for 
 hurt or da- 
 mage not 
 exceeding 
 10/. 
 
 Constables 
 may appre- 
 hend any of- 
 fender whose 
 name and 
 residence 
 are not 
 knovsTi. 
 
 cause any such thing to fall into any sewer, pipe, or drain, 
 or into any well, stream, or watercourse, pond or reservoir 
 for water \ . . : ' [See also 18 d- 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 205, anrl 
 57 k 58 Vict. c. ccxii. s. 8.] 
 
 • *•••• 
 
 [Part omitted {as to conveyance of offensive matter, keeping of swine, 
 clearising of footpaths, etc.^ rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142.] 
 
 7. Every person who shall expose anything for sale in any park 
 
 or public garden, unless with the consent of the owner or 
 other person authorized to give such consent, or upon or 
 so as to hang over any carriageway or footway, or on the 
 outside of any house or shop, or who shall set up or con- 
 tinue any pole, blind, awning, line, or any other projection 
 from any window, parapet, or other part of any house, shop, 
 or other building, so as to cause any annoyance or obstruction 
 in any thoroughfare : [See also 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 119 
 ayul 120 ; and 53 6: 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ^^ 14, and Sch..para. 29.] 
 
 8. Every person who, to the danger of passengers in any thorough- 
 
 fare, shall leave open any vault or cellar, or the entrance 
 from anv thoroughfare to anv cellar or room underground, 
 without a sufficient fence or handrail, or leave defective the 
 door, window, or other covering of any vault or cellar, or 
 who shall not sufficiently fence any area, pit, or sewer left 
 open in or adjoining to any thoroughfare, or who shall leave 
 such open area, pit, or sewer without a sufficient light after 
 sunset to warn and prevent persons from falling thereinto. 
 [See also 57 Geo. 3. c. xxix. 6-. 70.] 
 
 61. It shall be lawful for anv constable belonofino: to the Metro- 
 politan Police Force to destroy any dog or other animal reasonably 
 suspected to be in a rabid state, or which has been bitten by any dog 
 or animal reasonably suspected to be in a rabid state : and the owner 
 of any such dog or animal who shall permit the same to go at large 
 after having information or reasonable ground for believing it to be 
 in a rabid state, or to have been bitten bv anv dog," or other animal in 
 a rabid state, shall be liable to a penalty not more than five pounds. 
 
 62. Every person who, by committing any otfenee herein forbidden 
 within the said district, shall have caused any hurt or damage to 
 any person or property, may be apprehended, with or without any 
 warrant, by any constable, and if he shall not, upon demand, make 
 amends for such hurt or damage to the satisfaction of the person 
 aggrieved, he shall be detained by the constable in order to be 
 taken before a Magistrate, and upon conviction shall pay such a 
 sum, not more than ten pounds, as shall appear to the Magistrate 
 before whom he shall be convicted to be reasonable amends to the 
 person aggrieved, besides any penalty to which he may be liable 
 for the olfence, and the evidence of the person aggrieved shall be 
 admitted in proof of the offence : Provided always, that if the person 
 aggrieved shall have been the only witness examined in proof of 
 the offence the sum ordered as amends shall be paid and applied in 
 the same manner as a penalty. [See also 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, s. 28.] 
 
 63. It shall be lawful for any constable belonging to the metro- 
 politan police district, and for all persons whom he shall call to 
 his assistance, to take into custody, without a warrant, any person 
 who within view of any such constable shall offend in any manner 
 against this Act, and whose name and residence shall be unknown 
 to such constable, and cannot be ascertained by such constable.
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [Chap. 47.] 143 
 
 64. It shall be lawful for any constable belonging to the Metro- Constables 
 politan Police to take into custody, without a warrant, all loose, ™e^^*J'^/h 
 idle, and disorderly persons wlioin he shall find disturbing the out warrant 
 ])ublic peace, or wiioui lie shall have good cause to suspect of i^ certain 
 having committed or being about to commit anv felonv, misde- ^^^^^- 
 meanor, or breach of the j)eace, and all persons whom he shall 
 
 find l)etween sunset and the hour of eight in the mornins" Ivino" or 
 loitering in any highway, yard, or other place, and not giving a 
 satisfactory account of themselves. \_See also 10 Geo. 4. c. 44. s. 7.] 
 
 65. It shall be lawful for any constable belonging to the Metro- Persons 
 politan Police Force to take into custody, without warrant, any rec^ent^L^'^** 
 person who within the limits of the metropolitan police district shall -vaults may be 
 be charged by any other ])erson with committing any aggravated apprehended 
 assault, in every case in which such constable shall have good "an-ant 
 reason to believe that such assault has been committed, although 
 
 not within view of such constable, and that by reason of the recent 
 commission (if the oifence a warrant could not have been obtained 
 for the ajipreheusiou of the offender. 
 
 66. Any person found committing any offence punishable either I'ow-er to 
 upon indictment or as a misdemeanor upon summary conviction, ft^Jb^es^and 
 by virtue of this Act, may be taken into custody without a warrant persons ag- 
 by any constable, or may be apprehended by the owner of the grieved to 
 property on or with respect to which the offence shall be committed, cemin^of- 
 or by his servant or any person authorized by him, and may be fenders, 
 detained until he can be delivered into the custody of a constable 
 
 to be dealt with according to law ; and every such constable may 
 also stop, search, and detain any vessel, boat, cart, or carriage in 
 or ujion which there shall be reason to suspect that any thing stolen 
 or unlawfully obtained may be found, and also any person who 
 may be reasonably suspected of having or conveying in any manner 
 any thing stolen or unlawfully obtained : and any person to whom 
 any property shall be offered to be sold, pawned, or delivered, if 
 he shall have reasonable cause to suspect that any such offence has 
 been committed with respect to such property, or that the same or 
 any part thereof has been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained, 
 is hereby authorized, and if in his power is required, to apprehend 
 and detain, and as soon as may be to deliver such offender into the 
 custody of a constable, together with such property, to be dealt 
 with according to law. [See also 2 ^t 3 Vict. c. 71, s. 24.J 
 
 67. It shall be lawful for any constable to stop and detain, until Removing 
 due iniuiirv can be made, all carts and carriages which he shall find ^ ^^rmture to 
 employed in removing the furniture of any house or lodging between 
 
 the hours of eight in the evening and six in the followmg morning, 
 or whenever the constable shall have good grounds for believing 
 that such removal is made for the purpose of evading the payment 
 of rent. 
 
 68. \\'heuever any person having charge of any horse, cart. Horses, car- 
 carriasre, or boat, or anv other animal or thing, shall be taken into "ag^*. etc. 
 the custody of any constable under the provisions of this Act, it mav be de- 
 shall be lawful for any constable to take charge of sucii horse, cart, tained. 
 carriage, or boat, or such other animal or thing, and to de[>osit the 
 
 same in some place of safe custody, as a security for payment of 
 -any penalty to which the person havmg had charge thereof may 
 become liable, and for jiayment of any expenses which may have 
 been necessarily incurred for taking charge of and keeping the
 
 144 
 
 [Chap. 47.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Persons ap- 
 prehended 
 without 
 warrant to 
 be taken to 
 the station 
 house. 
 
 Power to 
 take recog- 
 nizances at 
 station 
 houses on 
 petty 
 charges. 
 
 Power to 
 bind over 
 persons mak- 
 ing charges. 
 
 Condition of 
 recogni- 
 zance. 
 
 Penalty for 
 offences for 
 which no 
 penalty is 
 ajjpointed. 
 
 same ; and it shall be lawful for any Magistrate before whom the 
 case shall have been heard to order such horse, cart, carriage, 
 or boat, or such other animal or thing, to be sold, for the purpose 
 of satisfying such ])enalty, and reasonable ex])enses in default of 
 payment thereof, in like manner as if the same had been subject to 
 be distrained, and had been distrained for the payment of such 
 penalty and reasonable expenses. 
 
 69. Every person taken into custody by any constable belongings 
 to the Metropolitan Police, without warrant, except persons detained 
 for the mere purpose of ascertaining their name or residence, shall 
 be forthwith delivered into the custody of the constable in charge of 
 the nearest station house, in order that such person may be secured 
 until he can be brought before a Magistrate, to be dealt with 
 according to law, or may give bail for his appearance before a 
 Magistrate, if the constable in charge shall deem it prudent to take 
 bail in the manner herein-after mentioned. 
 
 70. Whenever any person charged with any offence of which he 
 is liable to be summarily convicted before a Magistrate, or with 
 having carelessly done any hurt or damage, shall be, without the 
 warrant of a Magistrate, in the custody of any constable of the 
 Metropolitan Police in charge of any station house during the time 
 when the police courts shall be shut, it shall be lawful for such 
 constable, if he shall deem it prudent, to take the recognizance 
 ol" such person, with or without sureties, conditioned as herein-after 
 mentioned. 
 
 71. Whenever any person charged with any felony, or any 
 misdemeanor punishable by transportation, or other grave mis- 
 demeanor, shall be, without warrant, in the custody of any 
 constable of the Metropolitan Police, at any station house, during 
 the time when the police courts shall be shut, it shall be lawful 
 for the constable in charge of the station house to require the 
 persons making such charge to enter into a recognizance conditioned 
 as herein-after mentioned, and upon his or her refusal so to do it 
 shall be lawful for such constable, if he shall deem it prudent, 
 to discharge from custody the jjcrson so charged, upon his or her 
 recognizance, with or without sureties, conditioned as herein-after 
 mentioned. 
 
 72. Every recognizance so taken shall be without fee or reward^ 
 and shall be conditioned for the ap])earance of the person thereby 
 bound before a Magistrate of the district in which such station 
 house shall be situated, at his next sitting, and the time and 
 place of appearance shall be specified in the recognizance ; and the 
 constable shall enter in a book, to be kept for that purpose at 
 every such station house, the name, residence, and occupation, of 
 the l)arty, and his surety or sureties (if any) entering into such 
 recognizance, together with the condition thereof, and the sum 
 thereby acknowledged, and shall return every such recognizance to 
 the Magistrate present at the time and place when and where the 
 party is bound to appear. [_ISee also 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84, a. 8.] 
 
 73. For every misdemeanor or other offence against this Act 
 for which no special penalty is herein-before appointed, the offender 
 shall, at the discretion of the Magistrate before whom the conviction 
 shall take })lace, either be liable to a penalty not more tlian five 
 pounds, or be imprisoned for any time not more than one calendar 
 month in any gaol or house of correction within the jurisdiction of 
 such Matristrate.
 
 [2 (fc 3 Vict.] The Metro /jolitan Police Act \x':\{K [Chap. 47.] 145 
 
 74. Provided always, that n()tliiii<; lierein contained shall be Not to repeal 
 
 construed to prevent anv person from heinj; indicted for any ''^'^"^.^ ^^^^'^ 
 • 1 • .^ 1 1 ji' 1 "-111 • • 1 1 • containing 
 
 inai(;tabJo oitcnce made j)nnishal)le on summary conviction by tins penalties. 
 
 Act, or to prevent any jxTson from bein*,' liable under any other 
 
 Act or Acts to any other or hi;4her penalty or punishment than is 
 
 provided for such offence by this Act, so nevertheless that no person 
 
 be punished twice for the same offence. 
 
 75. In the construction of this Act the word " Magistrate" shall Meaning of 
 
 be taken to mean and include vw.vx .Justice of the Peace aitpointed ^''<^ ^'^/'^ 
 
 1 TIT • J !• 1 1- ' P ^ 1- .Magistrate, 
 
 to be a Magistrate oi the police courts oi the metro})()lis. . . . 
 
 \_Part omitted (as to a Justirc actiny ichcre there in no police court) 
 
 rep. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84, s. 1.] 
 
 76. Every sucli Magistrate shall be empowered summarily to Offences 
 convict any person charg(Ml with any offence against this Act, on ['r*|^y° ^^ 
 the oath of one or more witnesses or by his own confession, and to 
 award the i)enalty or punishment herein provided for sucli offence ; 
 
 and the matter of such complaint shall be heard and determined by 
 one of the Justices appointed to be a Magistrate of the police courts 
 of the metropolis at one of the said j»olice courts. . . . \_Part 
 omitted {as to tico Justices acting where there is no police court) rep. 
 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84, s. 1.]. 
 
 77. In every case of the adjudication of a pecuniary penalty or if penalty is 
 amends under this Act, and nonpavmeut thereof, it shall be lawful "«' P^i<^l ^^^ 
 for the Magistrate to commit the offender to any gaol or house may^be'^com- 
 of correction within his jurisdiction for a term not more than one mitted. 
 calendar month, where the sum to be paid shall not exceed five 
 pounds, the imprisonment to cease on payment of the sum due ; 
 
 and the costs for the recovery thereof, and so much of every such 
 pecuniary p(>nalty as shall not be awarded to the informer or other 
 })ersons who have contributed to the conviction, shall be j)aid to the 
 Receiver of the Metropolitan Police for the purposes of this Act ; 
 and the residue thereof, under the direction of the Magistrate bv 
 whom the same shall have been adjudged, shall be paid and applied 
 either to the use of the informer alone or to the use of such persons 
 as shall have contributed to the conviction of the offender, in such 
 shares and i)roportions as such Magistrate shall think fit. \_See also 
 2 & 3 ]'ict. c. 71, s. 34.] 
 
 78. In the construction of this Act, unless there be something Interpreta- 
 in the context repugnant thereunto, any word denoting the singular tion clause, 
 number of the male sex shall be taken to extenil to any number 
 
 of persons or things and to both sexes ; and all things herein 
 authorized to be done by the Commissioners of Police of the 
 iMetroitolis mav be done bv either of them. 
 
 79. This Act shall be construed as oue Act with the said Act This act^o 
 ])assed in the tenth year of the reigii of Kiuir George the Fourth ^^ V'^?^^!^^? 
 for the Improvement of Police in and near the Metrojtolis ; and c. a. 
 
 all the provisions of the said Act, except so far as is herein other- 
 wise ])rovided, shall extend to this Act, and to all things done in 
 execution of this Act. 
 
 80. [^Act mag be altered this session. l\ep. 37 c^ 3^ \'ict. c. t.»6 
 {^.L.R.).'] 
 
 10
 
 146 
 
 [Chap. 71.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 ■Continuance 
 of the police 
 courts and 
 Police Magis- 
 trates. 
 
 Her Majesty 
 in Council 
 may alter the 
 number and 
 situation of 
 the courts. 
 
 Limiting 
 number of 
 Magistrates. 
 
 Vacancies to 
 be supplied 
 by Her Ma- 
 jesty from 
 barristers. 
 
 Appoint- 
 ment of 
 clerks, 
 ushers, 
 door- 
 keepers, and 
 messengers. 
 
 CHAPTER 71. 
 
 An Act for regulating the Police Courts in the Metropolis. 
 
 \2^tk August 1839.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 53 & 54 Vict. c. 51 (.S.Z.i?.).] 
 
 1. The several police courts now established under the names of 
 the public office in Bow Street, and the police offices in the parishes 
 of Saint Margaret Westminster, Saint James Westminster, Saint 
 Mary-le-bone, Saint Andrew Holborn, Saint Leonard Shoreditch, 
 Saint Mary Whitechapel, and Saint John Wapping-, in the county 
 of Middlesex, and Saint Saviour in the county of Surrey, shall be 
 continued, and the several persons appointed to execute the duties 
 of a Justice of the Peace at the said courts shall continue to execute 
 the same there, and shall be Justices of the counties of Middlesex, 
 Surrey, Kent, Essex, and Hertfordshire, the city and liberty of 
 Westminster, and the liberty of the Tower of London, and Magis- 
 trates of the said courts, during Her Majesty's pleasure. 
 
 2. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy 
 Council, to alter the number of the police courts, and to alter the 
 number of Magistrates appointed to any of the said courts, and to 
 order such changes to be made of the places in which they shall be 
 bolden within the metropolitan police district, as shall be found 
 expedient ; and every such court shall thenceforth be holden in the 
 place in or to which it shall be so ordered to be established or 
 removed : Provided always, that there shall not at any time be more 
 than twenty-seven such Magistrates. \8ee 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84, s. 2.] 
 
 3. To supply such . . . vacancies among the Magistrates of the 
 said Courts which Her Majesty shall think fit to supply. Her Majesty 
 may appoint a sufficient number of fit persons each of whom shall 
 have practised as a barrister during at least seven years then last 
 past, or who shall have practised as a barrister for four years then 
 last past, having previously practised as a certificated special pleader 
 for three years below the bar, to be Magistrates of the said courts ; 
 and any person so appointed . . . may act as a Justice of the Peace 
 in and for the said counties and liberties, although he may not have 
 the qualification by estate required of other Justices of the Peace : 
 Provided always, that no person hereafter to be appointed to be a 
 Magistrate of the said courts shall act in his office until he shall 
 have taken and subscribed before some Justice or Baron of one of 
 Her Majesty's Courts of liecord at Westminster the oaths taken and 
 subscribed by Justices of the Peace, except the oath of qualification. 
 [Amended btj the Stipendiary Magistrates Act 1858, s. 14.* Parts 
 omitted {as to existing Magistrates) rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.K). 
 See also the Indictable Offences Act 1848, s. 31.] 
 
 4. [^Magistrates, etc., exempt from serving on juries. Rep. 
 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 5. One of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State shall fix 
 the number of clerks, ushers, door-keepers, and messengers to assist 
 
 * S. 11 of the Stipendiary Magistrates Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 73) is as follows : 
 "14. It shall be lawful lor Her Majesty to appoint any stipendiary Magistrate 
 acting for any city, town, liberty, borough or jjlace in England or Wales to be a 
 Magistrate of any one of the police courts of the metropolitan police district, although 
 sucli stipendiary Magistrate shall not have practised as a barrister during at least 
 seven years then last past, nor shall have practised as a barrister for four years then 
 last past having previously practised as a certificated special pleader for three years 
 below the bar."
 
 £2 & 3 ViCT.J The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839. [Chap. 71.] 147 
 
 ill carrying on the business of each (;t" the said courts, who shall be 
 a|)])oint('d, and may be dismissed at pleasure, by the Secretary of 
 State ; and the clerks now acting at the said several offices shall be 
 continued the clerks of the said courts during the jileasure of tlie 
 Secretary of State ; and no j)erson shall hereafter be apj)ointed chief 
 •clerk in any of tlie said courts unless he shall ])i' an attorney of one 
 of Her Majesty's superior Courts of Law at Westminster, or shall 
 have served as clerk in one or more of the said police courts or 
 offices, or as clerk to the Justices of any division or sj)e(nal or ]>etty 
 session within the metropolitan p(jlice district, during at least 
 seven years ; and no clerk in any of the said courts shall hold or 
 ihave any other office or employment whatsoever, except any office 
 or employment to wliich any such clerk has been ap]iointed before 
 the passing of this Act with the sanction of the Secretary of State : 
 and every uslier, door-keejier, and messenger a])])ointed to any of the 
 said courts shall be sworn as a constable, but shall only be em])Owered 
 to act as a constable witliin tht' said courts and the precincts thereof, 
 sinless for the protection of the Magistrates or of ])ersons resorting 
 to the court, or, in case of being sworn in as special constables, in 
 any urgent necessity in which the services of any one or more of 
 them may be specially required by an order in writing from the 
 ♦Secretary of State. [6Vv' 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84, s. 7.] 
 
 6. \_No Magistrate or officer of the courts to vote at certain elections. 
 Rep. bij the Revenue Offerers iJisabilities Removal Act 1874.] 
 
 7. The Receiver of the metropolitan police district for the time Receiver of 
 being shall be the Receiver of the said courts, and shall receive all t^an^Po^ice't 
 fees, penalties, and forfeitures and other monies applicable to the be Receiver 
 purposes of this Act, and shall ])ay quarterly the salaries, expenses, under this 
 .and charges attenduig the said courts and in carrying this Act into '^^*" 
 •execution, . . . and sliall further do all such other lawful matters and 
 
 things having relation to the business of his office, and towards 
 putting this Act into execution, as from time to time shall be directed 
 ;by one of Her Majesty's ])rincipal Secretaries of State. [Part omitteJ 
 (as to contracts and buildings) rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 35, s. 5.*] 
 
 8. All the provisions and enactments contained in an Act passed Extension of 
 in the tenth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled JJaJ^erof"*^ 
 "An Act for improving tiie Police in and near the Metro})olis," relative Receiver 
 
 to the drawing and accounting for monies whicli may come into the when act- 
 hands of the Receiver of the metropolitan \)o\\cq district for the J|Jfs"°c|®^ 
 purposes of that Act, and for auditing the accounts and taking lo g. 4. c. 44. 
 security from the said Receiver, shall be deemed to extend to the 
 said Receiver in respect to all monies which he shall receive under 
 this Act, as fully as if the same were herein enacted ; and with 
 respect to all the powers and liabilities of the said Receiver, or 
 anything to be done by or any contract to be entered into with the 
 said Receiver, the execution of this Act shall be deemed one of the 
 j)urposes of the said Act for improving the l*olice in and near 
 the Metropolis. [_See the Police Act 1890, .«<. 29.] 
 
 9. Instead of the salaries heretofore ])ayable to the said ^lagis- Salaries of 
 trates, clerks, and other officers of the said courts, and to the Receiver Keceh^T,^^^' 
 of the metropolitan police district, there sliall be jiayable out of the clerks, and 
 monies in the hands of the Receiver such salaries as Her ]\Iajesty officers, 
 shall direct, the salary to the chief Magistrate not being more than 
 
 twelve hundred pounds ; and to each of the other ]Magistrates not 
 
 * Rep. 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26, s. 0.
 
 "l48 [Chap. T1.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.} 
 
 more than twelve hundred pounds ; and to the Ileceiver not more 
 than one thousand pounds ; and to the chief clerk in each of the 
 said courts not more than five hundred pounds ; and to the second 
 clerk in each of the said courts not more than three hundred 
 pounds ; and the salaries to the other clerks and officers employed 
 in the said courts in due proportion with regard to their several 
 stations and the duties they have to perform ; and such salaries 
 shall be paid quarterly, by equal portions, on the fifth day of 
 January, the fifth day of April, the fifth day of July, and the tenth 
 day of October in every year . . . ; and in case of vacancy in any 
 of the said offices at any intermediate time, the person making the 
 vacancy, or his executors or administrators, shall be entitled to a 
 proportional part of his quarterly salary, according to the time 
 elapsed between the vacancy and the last quarterly payment. [Rep. 
 (as to amounts of salaries of chief Magistrate and Receiver, and 
 Jirst payment thereof^ 37 k, 38 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.R.), {as far as relates 
 to any Police Magistrate) 38 & 39 Vict. c. 3, s. 2, ai^d (as far as 
 relates to salaries of clerks and officers) 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26, .s-. 2. See 
 also 62 & 63 Vict. c. 26, s. 1.] 
 
 10. [If civil court for recovery of small debts established, 
 metropolitan Magistrates to take the duties thereof. Rep. 37 & 38 
 Vict. c. 96 (S.LJi).'] 
 
 11. [_Her Majesty may direct an issue from the Consolidated 
 Fund towards the expenses of this Act. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 3, s. 2.] 
 
 Time of 12. On every day, excepting Sundays, Christmas Day, Good 
 
 Friday, or any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving, one 
 
 of the said Magistrates shall attend at each of the police courts 
 
 established or to be established within the metropolitan police 
 
 district from ten of the clock in the morning until five of the clock in 
 
 the afternoon ; and every such Magistrate shall attend at such 
 
 other times as urgent necessity may require, or shall be directed by 
 
 one of Her Majesty's ])rincipal Secretaries of State ; and the 
 
 Secretary of State shall have power from time to time to direct at 
 
 which court each of the said Magistrates shall attend. [Amended 
 
 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84, s. 3. See also 60 & 61 Vict. c. 14, 6\ 1.] 
 
 Acts directed 13. Where by any law now in being, or by any Act not containing 
 
 to be done an express enactment to the contrary hereafter to be made, any act 
 
 bouring^ ' is directed or authorized to be done by any Justice or Justices of the 
 
 Justice may Peace belonging to any of the said offices, or by any Justice or 
 
 be done by Justices residing in or near or next the parish or place where any 
 
 ^^;^q Ail^f. offence or other matter cognizable before him or them shall be 
 
 S3.1Q iVldgl.V- . Ill' 1 ..-|.. -J '11 
 
 trates. committed or shall arise, the same jurisdiction may be exercised by 
 
 one of the said Magistrates in any of the said courts. 
 One Magis- 14. It shall be lawful for any one of the said Magistrates ap- 
 trate may do pointed or hereafter to be appointed to do alone any act at any of 
 directed to the Said courts, or at any place where Her Majesty shall order any 
 be done by such court to be holden within the limits of the metropolitan police 
 more than district for the time being, which by any law now in force, or by 
 one uh . ^^^^^ j^^ ^^^ containing an express enactment to the contrary here- 
 after to be made, is or shall be directed to be done by more than 
 Except at one Justice : Provided always, that none of the said Magistrates 
 ^^^^y shall be competent to act as a Justice of the Peace, either alone or 
 
 with any other Justice or Justices, in any thing which is to be done 
 at a Special or Petty Session of all the Justices acting in the 
 division, or by the Justices of any of the said counties or liberties 
 in Quarter Session assembled. 
 
 attendance 
 of Magis- 
 trates. 
 
 Sessions.
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The MetropoUtan Police Courts Art 1839. [Chap. 71.] 149 
 
 15. The said Mafjjisfrates, or so many as may be able to attend, MaKistrates 
 
 shall meet to<^ether once in everv nuarter oi' a vear at snch time and ^^ °^f^^ , 
 
 1 i- IT T»T • » ' • ■ 1 < ' • /• £. quarterly for 
 
 place as one ot ller Majesty s pnneijial (Secretaries ot State shall reporting to 
 
 a])})oint ; and the chief Ma<!:istrate shall j)reside at the said meetings, the Secre- 
 or in his absence siicli one of the said Magistrates shall ])reside as ^^''•^' '^^ ^'^^'^®- 
 shall l)e ('hoseu by the Magistrates then present ; and every one of 
 the Magistrates belonging to the said police courts shall furnish for 
 the use of such meeting a report of his proceedings in the execution 
 of this Act, and each of the said Magistrates, and also the (Jommis- 
 sioners of the Police of the i\I('tro])olis, shall fui'iiisli a rejiort of any 
 matters relating to the execution of this Act, or to the i)olice of the 
 metropolis, which they shall be desirous of bringing under the notice 
 of the Magistrates assembled at such meeting ; and the Magistrates 
 so assembled shall take every such report into consideration ; and an 
 abstract shall be made, under the direction of the Magistrates, of all 
 the said rej)orts, and also a rejjort of any matters which they, or the 
 majority of them assembled at any such meeting, shall be desirous 
 of bringing under the notice of the Secretary of State ; and the said 
 meeting may be adjourned from time to time for the ])urpose of con- 
 sidering the said report; and the . . . repoit, w'hen made, shall be 
 delivered to one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. . . . 
 \JPart omitted (as to delivery of abstract) rep. h'l the Returns to 
 Secrt'tan/ of State Art 1858,* s. 3.] 
 
 16. The Secretary of State may make such rules f(n- regulating Secretary of 
 the manner of conducting the business in the said courts, and for ^tate may 
 securing uniformity therein, as shall ap])ear to him fit to be made ; ™r^onduct- 
 and a copy of every rule made for enforcing any such regulation, in^ the 
 signed by the Secretary of State, shall be sent to each of the said business of 
 Magistrates and to the chief cJerk of eacli of the said courts ; and ^^^® courts, 
 every rule made for such purpose as aforesaid shall be observed by the 
 Magistrates, clerks, and officers of the said courts ; and a copy of all 
 
 such rules shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within six 
 weeks next alter the commencement of each session of I'arliument. 
 
 17. Every warrant to compel the appearance of any ])erson, or process in 
 warrant for the apprehension of any person charged with any offence, respect of 
 
 aris 
 
 issued bv auv of the said IMagistrates, m resi)cct of anv matter P'^^*^'^, '^"^ 
 
 " -, , • " , 1 , T, ,. T . • ^ 1 ' 1 in'jc Within 
 
 arismg witlim the metro])olitan police district, may be served or tj^;. metro- 
 executed out of the metropolitan police district by the constable or poiitan 
 constables to whom the same shall be directed, and shall have the police dis- 
 same force and effect as if the same had been originally issued or ^^t be eu- 
 subse(|uently endorsed by a Justice or Justices of the Peace having dorsed. 
 jurisdiction in the place where the same shall be served or executed. 
 [See 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 13.] 
 
 18. Every summons or warrant which after the passing of this Summons for 
 Act shall be issued bv anv Justice of the Peace of the counties of .^fjf°"*^ 
 Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, or Hertfordshire respectively, any place 
 requiring any person residing within the metropolitan police district without the 
 to aj)pear at any place without the said district to answer any informa- ,|ej^'i'n''/h^'" 
 tion or complaint touching any matter arising within the said district, Act, void. 
 shall be utterly void, except for the purpose of enforcing payment 
 of any rates or taxes levied within any jjarish or j)lace part only of 
 which is within the metro})olitan police district. \_Amended by the 
 Stipendiary Magistrates Act 1858, s. G.f] 
 
 * Rep. 8S & 39 Vict. c. CG (S.L.R.). 
 
 t S. t) of the Stipendiary Majristratos Act 1858 (21 x 22 Vict. c. 73) is as 
 follows : •' 6. So much of s. is of 2 i: 3 Vict. c. 71 as makes void (except in the cases 
 therein excepted) ' every summons or warrant issued by any Justice of the Peace of
 
 150 
 
 [Chap. 7].] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Magistrates 
 may proceed 
 by summons, 
 and if party 
 summoned 
 does not 
 appear may 
 issue warrant. 
 
 How sum- 
 mons may be 
 served. 
 
 Warrant for 
 apprehension 
 may be issued 
 without 
 summons. 
 
 Magistrates 
 may enforce 
 attendance 
 of witnesses. 
 
 Punishment 
 of persons 
 giving false 
 evidence. 
 
 Persons sus- 
 pected of 
 having or 
 conveying 
 stolen goods 
 
 19. Upon any information or complaint to be laid or made before 
 any Magistrate of the said courts of any matter which such 
 Magistrate is authorized to hear and determine summarily, the 
 Magistrate may summon the party charged, and if such party shall 
 not appear according to the tenor of the summons, any one of the 
 said Magistrates, ujion proof of the service of the summons, may 
 proceed, in all cases which are not of a criminal nature, if no 
 sufficient cause shall be shown for the nonappearance of the party, 
 to hear and determine the case in the absence of the party, and in all 
 criminal cases shall issue his warrant for apprehending and bringing 
 such party before him, or some other Magistrate, in order that the 
 said information 'or complaint may be heard and determined. 
 
 20. Every such summons may be served by delivering a copy of 
 the summons to the party, or by delivering a copy of the summons 
 to the wife or servant or some adult inmate of the family of the 
 party at his usual place of abode, and explaining the purport thereof 
 to such wife, servant, or inmate. \_See 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 12.] 
 
 21. Every such Magistrate may, without issuing any summons, 
 forthwith issue his warrant for the apprehension of any person 
 charged with any offence cognizable before him whenever good 
 grounds for so doing shall be stated on oath before him. 
 
 22. Any such Magistrate may summon any witness to appear and 
 give evidence before him upon the matter of any olfence cognizable 
 before such Magistrate with which any person shall be charged 
 before him, at a time and place appointed for hearing the informa- 
 tion or complaint, and by warrant under his hand and seal may 
 require any person to be brought before him who shall neglect or 
 refuse to appear to give evidence at the time and place appointed in 
 such summons, proof upon oath being first given of personal service 
 of the summons upon the person against whom such warrant 
 shall be granted ; and such Magistrate may commit any person 
 coming or brought before him, who shall refuse to give evidence, to- 
 any house of correction within the metropolitan police district,, 
 there to remain without bail or mainprize for any time not exceeding-^ 
 fourteen days, or until such person shall sooner submit himself to be 
 examined ; and in case of such submission the order of any such 
 Magistrate shall be a sufficient warrant for the discharge of such 
 person. 
 
 23. Every person who, upon any examination upon oath or 
 affirmation before any Magistrate acting at any one of the said 
 courts, shall wilfully and corruptly give false evidence, or shall 
 wilfully and corruptly swear or affirm any thing which shall be false^ 
 sliall be liable to the i)enalties of wilful and corrupt perjury. 
 
 24. Every person who shall be brought before any of the said 
 Magistrates charged with having in his possession or conveying in 
 any manner any thing which may be reasonably suspected of being 
 stolen or unlawfully obtained, and who shall not give an account to 
 the satisfaction of such Magistrate how he came by the same, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a penalty 
 of not more than five pounds, or, in the discretion of the Magistrate, 
 may be imprisoned in any gaol or house of correction within the 
 
 the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Es.sex, or Hertfordshire respectively, re- 
 quiring any person residing within the metropolitan police district to appear at any 
 place without the .said district to answer any information or complaint touching any 
 matter arising within the said district,' shall not apply to any such summons or 
 warrant in respect of any matter arising within any part of the said district not 
 assigned for the time being to any of the police courts of the metropolis."
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839. [Chap. 71.] 151 
 
 metropolitan police district, with or without hard labour, for any 
 time not exceeding two calendar months. \Amendcd by the Stipen- 
 diary Magistrates Art 1858, s. 7.*] 
 
 25. If information shall be <]jiven on oath to any of the said Magis- In case of 
 
 trates that there is reasonable cause for suspecting that any thing ''?^"'"°^^^°'^ 
 
 stolen or unlawfully obtained is concealed or lodged in any dwelling f/,ere is ^ 
 
 house or any other place, it shall be lawful for such Magistrate, by reasonable 
 
 s})ecial warrant under his hand directed to any constable, to cause ^^^^ ^^J 
 
 every such dwelling house or other place to ])e entered and searched tilat^any"^ 
 
 at any time of the day, or by night if ])Ower for that j)urpose be goods have 
 
 given bv such warrant ; and the said Magistrate, if it shall appear 'I'een unlaw- 
 'f 1 . "^ , -, 1 1 -.1 1 • , fully obtain- 
 
 to him necessary, may empower such constable, witli such assistance g^i and are 
 
 as mav be found necessarv, such constable having ])reviouslv made concealed. 
 
 known sncli his authoritv, to use force for the effecting of such 
 
 entry, whether by breaking open doors or otherwise, and if upon 
 
 search thereupon made any such thing shall be found, then to 
 
 convey the same before a Magistrate, or to guard the same on the 
 
 spot until the offenders are taken before a Magistrate, or otherwise 
 
 dispose thereof in some place of safety, and moreover to take into 
 
 custody and carry before the said Magistrate every person found in 
 
 such house or place who shall appear to have iDceu privy to the 
 
 deposit of any such thing, knowing or having reasonable cause 
 
 to suspect the same to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully 
 
 obtained. 
 
 26. When anv person shall be brought before anv such Magistrate Party from 
 charged with having or conveying anv thing stolen or unlawfullv '"'"'^™ stolen 
 obtained, and shall declare that he received the same from some received to 
 other person, or that he was employed as a carrier, agent, or servant be examined 
 to convey the same for some other person, such Magistrate is hereby ^ *'^® 
 authorized and required to cause every such person, and also, if 
 necessary, every former or pretended purchaser, or other person 
 through whose possession the same shall have passed, to be brought 
 
 ])efore him and examined, and to examine witnesses u})Ou oath 
 touching the same ; and if it shall a})pear to such Magistrate that 
 any person shall have had possession of such thing, and had reason- 
 able cause to believe the same to have been stolen or unlawfully 
 obtained, every such person shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and to have had possession of such thing at the time 
 and ])lace when and where the same shall have been found or 
 seized : and the possession of a carrier, agent, or servant shall be 
 deemed to be the possession of the person who shall have em}>loyed 
 such other person to convey the same, and shall be liable to a 
 jjenalty of not more than five pounds, or, in the discretion of the 
 Magistrate, may be imprisoned in any gaol or house of correction 
 within the metropolitan j)olice district, with or without hard labour, 
 for any time not exceeding three calendar months. 
 
 * S, 7 of the stipendiary I^Iagistrates Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 73) is as 
 follows : " 7. In every case in which any person shall be brought before any Police 
 Jlagistrate, or any two ^lagist rates acting within the said metropolitan police district, 
 for any place witliin which no poHce court shall have been established, for any offence 
 under s. 21 of 2 i: ?, Vict. c. 71, such Police Magistrate, or such Magistrates, acting in 
 and for such place, may hear and determine the matter, and in case of convietion maj' 
 commit the offender to be imprisoned in any gaol or house of correction in and for 
 the county, liberty or place in which such offence shall have been committed, though 
 not within the said metropolitan police district, and with or without hard labour for 
 any time not exceeding two calendar months, and in their discretion without the 
 infliction of any tine in default of payment of which such imprisonment might be 
 adjudged."
 
 152 
 
 [Chap. 71.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 order deli- 
 very of 
 goods stolen 
 or fraudu- 
 lently ob- 
 tained, and 
 in possession 
 of brokers 
 and other 
 dealers in 
 second-hand 
 property. 
 
 For remov- 
 ing doubts 
 as to order- 
 ing the 
 restoration 
 of property 
 unlawfully 
 pawned, etc. 
 
 Power to 
 award costs 
 on hearing 
 of charges. 
 
 Amends may 
 be awarded 
 for frivolous 
 informations. 
 
 Penalty on 
 common 
 informers for 
 compounding 
 informations. 
 
 27. If any goods shall be stolen or unlawfully obtained from any 
 person, or, being lawfully obtained, shall be unlawfully deposited, 
 pawned, pledged, sold, or exchanged, and complaint shall be made 
 thereof to any of the said Magistrates, and that such goods are in the 
 possession of any broker, dealer in marine stores, or other dealer in 
 second-hand property, or of any person who shall have advanced 
 money upon the credit of such goods, within the metropolitan police 
 district, it shall be lawful for such Magistrate to issue a summons 
 or warrant for the appearance of such broker or dealer, and for the 
 production of the goods, and to order such goods to be delivered up 
 to the owner thereof, either without any payment, or upon payment 
 of such sum and at such a time as the Magistrate shall think fit ; 
 and every broker or dealer who, being so ordered, shall refuse or 
 neglect to deliver up the goods, or who shall dispose of or make away 
 with the same after notice that such goods were stolen or unlawfully 
 obtained as aforesaid, shall forfeit to the owner of the goods the 
 full value thereof, to be determined by the Magistrate : Provided 
 always, that no such order shall bar any such broker or dealer from 
 recovering possession of such goods by suit or action at law from 
 the person into whose possession they may come by virtue of the 
 Magistrate's order, so that such action be commenced within six 
 calendar months next after such order shall be made. 
 
 28. ... It shall be lawful for any Magistrate to order that any 
 goods unlawfully pawned, pledged, or exchanged which shall be 
 brought before him, and the ownership of which shall be established 
 to the satisfaction of such Magistrate, shall be delivered up to the 
 owner by the party with whom they were so unlawfully pawned, 
 pledged, or exchanged, either without compensation, or with such 
 compensation to the party in question as the Magistrate may 
 think fit. [Part omitted (^recital) rep. 53 & 54 Vict. c. 51 (xS'.L./t'.).] 
 
 29 — 30. {Power to order delivery of stolen goods, etc., and sale of 
 unclaimed stolen goods. Rep. hg the Police {Property') Act lcS97. 
 See ibid. s. 2.] 
 
 31. It shall be lawful for anv Mao-istrate who shall hear and 
 determine any charge or complaint, whether or not a warrant or 
 summons shall have been issued in consequence of such charge or 
 complaint, to award such costs as to him shall seem meet, to be paid 
 to or by either of the parties to the said charge or complaint. 
 
 32. . . . In every case in which any information or complaint of any 
 offence shall be laid or made before any of the said Magistrates, and 
 shall not be further prosecuted, or in which, if further })rosecuted, it 
 shall appear to the Magistrate by whom the case shall be heard that 
 there was no sufficient ground for making the charge, the Magistrate 
 shall have power to award such amends, not more than tiie sum of 
 five pounds, to be paid by the informer to the party informed or 
 complained against, for his loss of time and expenses in the matter, 
 as to the Magistrate shall seem meet. [Part omitted {recital) rep. 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. 51 {S.L.P.). See also the Summary Jurisdiction 
 Act 1848, s. 18.] 
 
 33. In case any person shall lodge any information before any of 
 the said Magistrates for any offence alleged to have been committed 
 by which he was not personally aggrieved, and shall afterwards 
 directly or indirectly receive, without the permission of one of the 
 said Magistrates, any sum of money or other reward for compound- 
 ing, delaying, or withdrawing the information, it shall be lawful for 
 any one of the said Magistrates to issue his warrant or summons, as
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The mtropollfan Police CoarU Act 1839. [Chap. 71.] 153 
 
 he may dcfiii bost, for l)riii^nii<^ Ix'foro him the parfy charjred with 
 tlie oflciicc olsiic.h coiuixMiiKliiii;-, (hday, or withdrawal ; and it" Kuch 
 offence be proved by the confession of the party, or by the oath of 
 any credilde witness, such informer shall be liable to a penalty not 
 more than ton ])onn(ls. 
 
 34. . . . Wheru by any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed I'ower to 
 a moiety or other fixed portion of the penalty or j)enaltie8 gifare^of "^ 
 thereby imposed is or shall be directed to be i)aid to the informer, informers, 
 not bein<; the J)arty a<i,u"rieved, it shall be lawful for any one of 
 
 the said Magistrates before whom the conviction siiall be had tu 
 adjudge that no part or such ])art only of the penalty as he shall 
 think fit shall be paid to the informer. [Part omitted {recital) 
 rep. 53 & 54 Vict. c. 51 {S.L.R.). See also 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 22, s. 71.] 
 
 35. . . . Where by any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed rower to 
 a limited i)enaltv or term of imprisonment is imposed on con- "'itigate 
 viction of an ofl^ender before a Justice or Justices of the Peace, it 
 
 shall be lawfnl for any one of the said ]\Iagistrates before whom such 
 •conviction shall l>e liad to reduce or lessen such penalty or term of 
 imj)risonment in such manner as he may think fit : Provided always, proviso a.s 
 that no i)enaltv for the infringement of anv Act relating to the to Revenue 
 revenue of customs or excise, stamps or taxes, shall be reduced • 
 "by any such Magistrate below the amount or pro])ortion allowed in 
 that behalf by the Act or Acts sj)ecially relating thereunto without 
 the consent of the Commissioners of Customs or Excise or Stamps and 
 Taxes respectively. [^Part omitted (recital) rep. 53 & 54 Vict. c. 51 
 <(S.L.P.). See also fJie Snmmanj .Jurisdiction Act 1879, s. 4 et seq.~\ 
 
 36. Any one of the said Magistrates, if he shall think fit, may power to 
 remand any person for further examination, or may suffer to go at remand or 
 large any person who shall be charged before him with anv felonv ^"'''^'■&*^ P^"'- 
 or misdemeanor ui)on his personal recognizance (with or without i-eco^ni- 
 «ureties) : and every such recognizance shall be conditioned for the zances. 
 appearance of such ])erson before the same or some other of the said 
 Magistrates, for further examination, or to surrender himself to take 
 
 his trial at the Central Criminal Court, or at a Court of General or 
 <^uart('r Sessions, at a day and ])lace to be therein mentioned; and 
 the Magistrate shall be at liberty from time to time to enlarge every 
 such recognizance to such further time as he shall a])point ; and 
 every such recognizance which shall not be enlarged shall be dis- 
 ■charged, without fee or reward, when the party shall have appeared 
 according to the condition thereof: Provided always, that whenever 
 any Magistrate shall take the recognizance of any person to a))pear 
 at the Central Criminal Court, or at a Court of General or Quarter 
 Sessions, the Magistrate shall be bound to return the depositions 
 taken in the case, and to bind over the witnesses to a]ipear and give 
 •evidence, in like manner as if he had committed the party to take 
 his trial at such court. '^Amertded 3 ct 4 Met. r. 84, s. 0.] Disputes 
 
 37. All dirterences, complaints, and (lis})utes which shall ha})})en about wages 
 between any bargemen, lightermen, watermen, ballastmen (except f"r labour 
 Trinity balfastmen), coal-whip]iers, coal porters, sailors, lumpers, ^l*^.'^^^ °"^^^"^ 
 •riggers, shi[)wrights, caulkers, or other labourers who work for hire (except by 
 in or upon the Kiver Thames, or the docks, creeks, wharfs, quays, or Trinity bal- 
 places adjacent, not being in the city of London or the liberties i"f\'J?t'J'ied by 
 thereof, and the owners, masters, or commanders of vessels, or their M.asristrates, 
 agents, on the said river, or the docks or creeks thereunto adjoining, provided the 
 or the owners, wharfingers, or occupiers of such wharfs or <i'^'^.^'S, ^"™ ^" J\"^"t 
 or their agents or other employers, respecting wages or money due exceed 5/.
 
 154 
 
 [Chap. 71.] The Metropolitari Police Courts Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 order com- 
 pensation for 
 wilfnl da- 
 mage by 
 tenants. 
 
 Power to 
 deal sum- 
 marily with 
 cases of op- 
 pressive 
 distresses. 
 
 Power to 
 order deli- 
 very of 
 froods tm- 
 lawfully de- 
 tained to the 
 owner. 
 
 to such labourers for work or loss of time, whether the same persons 
 be employed for any certain time or in any other manner, may be 
 heard and determined bv any of the said Magistrates : and everv 
 snch Magistrate is hereby empowered to examine npon oath any 
 snch labourer as aforesaid, or any other witness or witnesses, touching 
 any such complaint or dispute, and to make such order for payment of 
 so much wages or money to such labourer as to the Macfistrate shall 
 seem just, proyided that the sum ordered do not exceed fiye pounds, 
 besides all reasonable costs attending the prosecution of the complaint. 
 
 38. Eyery ])erson who shall occupy or shall have occupied any 
 house or lodging within the metropolitan police district as tenant 
 thereof, and who shall wilfully or maliciously do any damage to the 
 premises, or to any furniture thereof not being the property of such 
 tenant or occupier, shall, upon complaint made to one of the said 
 Magistrates within one calendar month next after the commission 
 of the ofience or the end of the teuaucy or occupation, forfeit and 
 pay such sum of money as shall appear to the Magistrate to be 
 a reasonable compensation for the damage done, not more than 
 the sum of fifteen pounds, to be paid to the landlord or party 
 aggrieyed. [See also the Malicious Damage Act 1861, .s-. 13.] 
 
 39. On complaint made to any of the said Magistrates by any 
 person who shall, within the metropolitan police district, haye 
 occupied any house or lodging by the week or month, or whereof 
 the rent does not exceed the rate of fifteen pounds by the year, that 
 his goods haye been taken from him by an unlawful distress, or 
 that the landlord, or his Itroker or agent, has been guilty of any 
 irregularity or excess in respect of such distress, it shall be lawful 
 for such Magistrate to summon the party complained against, and 
 if upon the hearing of the matter it shall appear to the Magistrate 
 that such distress was improperly taken, or unfairly disposed of, or 
 that the charges made by the party haying distrained or having 
 attempted to distrain are contrary to law, or that the proceeds of 
 the sale of such distress haye not been duly accounted for to the 
 owner thereof, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to order 
 the distress so taken, if not sold, to be returned to the tenant on 
 payment of the rent which shall appear to be due at such time as 
 the Magistrate shall appoint, or if the distress shall haye been sold,, 
 then to order payment to the said tenant of the yalue thereof, 
 deducting thereout the rent which shall so appear to be due, such 
 yalue to be determined by the Magistrate : and such landlord or 
 party complained against, in default of compliance with any such 
 order, shall forfeit to the party aggrieyed the yalue of such distress, 
 not being greater than fifteen pounds, such yalue to be determined 
 bv the Macristrate. 
 
 40. Upon complaint made to any of the said 31agistrates by any 
 person claiming to be entitled to the property or possession of any 
 goods which are detained by any other person within the limits of 
 the metropolitan police district, the yalue of which shall not be 
 greater than fifteen pounds, and not being deeds, muniments, or 
 papers relating to any property of greater value than fifteen pounds^ 
 it shall be lawful for such Magistrate to summon the person com- 
 plained of, and to inquire into the title thereto or to the possession 
 thereof, and if it shall appear to the Magistrate that such goods 
 have been detained, without just cause, after due notice of the claim 
 made by the i)erson complaining, or that the person detaining such 
 goods has a lien or right to detain the same by way of security for
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839. [Chap. 71.] ir>,5 
 
 the payment of money, or tlie ])erformanee of any aet ])y tlie owner 
 thereof, it shall he lawful for sueh Ma;^M.strate to order tlie ^^oods to 
 1)6 delivered to the owner thereof, either alisolutely or upon tender 
 of the amount ap])earing to Ite due })y such owner (which amount 
 the Magistrate is herel>y authorized to determine), or upon jjerform- 
 ance or ujjon tender and refusal of the performance of the act for 
 the performance whereof such goods are detained as security, or if 
 such act cannot be performed, then upon tender of amends for non- 
 ])erformance thereof (the nature or amount of which amends the 
 Magistrate is liereby authorized to determine); and every person 
 who shall neglect or refuse to deliver up the goods according to such 
 order shall iforfeit to the party aggrieved the full value of such 
 goods, not greater than the sum of fifteen pounds, such value to be 
 determined by the Magistrate : Provided always, that n(» such order 
 shall bar any person from recovering possession of the goods or 
 money so delivered or forfeited, by suit or action at law, from the 
 person to whose possession such goods or money shall come by 
 virtue of such order, so that such action lie commenced within six 
 calendar months next after such order shall be made. 
 
 41. If the guardians of the j)oor of any union or ]iarisli, or the in case anv 
 churchwardens and overseers of the poor of any ])arisli, within the house be in 
 metropolitan police district, together with the medical officer for lln'whok^ome 
 any sucli parish or union, shall be of opinion, and shall certify under contUtion, 
 the hands of two or more of such guardians, churchwardens, or the Magis- 
 overseers, and also of such medical officer, that any house or part of ^^de^j.™j^J 
 any house within such union or parish is in such filthy and unwhole- same to be 
 some condition that the health of the inmates or of the public is cleansed, 
 thereby afiected or endangered, it shall be lawful for any ^lagistrate 
 
 acting within the district in which such union or parish is situate, 
 if he shall think fit, to cause notice to be affixed on the door or 
 other conspicuous part of such house, recjuiring the occupier or 
 occupiers of such house or part thereof to appear before him to 
 answer such com]»laint, or to cause the same to be cleansed within 
 seven days from the date of affixing such notice ; and if within the 
 said seven days such house or part thereof shall uot be cleansed to 
 the satisfaction of such medical officer, and if such occupier or 
 occupiers being duly summoned shall uot appear before the Magis- 
 trate, and show sufficient cause to the contrary, such Magistrate is 
 hereby empowered, on proof thereof, to issue an order under his 
 hand and seal to the guardians of the poor or the churchwardens 
 and overseers aforesaid, to cause such house or part tuereof to be 
 cleansed, at the expense of such occupier or occupiers, and to cause 
 the amount thereof to be levied, in case of nonj)ayment, by distress 
 and sale of the goods and chattels of such occu})ier or occupiers, by 
 warrant under the hand and seal of such ^Magistrate. [See also 
 04 k 55 Vict. c. 76, 6\ 2, ami 4 Edic. 7, c. ccxliv. .s. 2i».] 
 
 42. Neither any Justice of the Peace for any of the said counties, Xo otber 
 or for the city and liberty of Westminster, or liberty of the Tower of J"jt'ce shall 
 London, not being one of the said ^lagistrates, nor the clerk of any vsitTiinthe 
 such Justice, nor any person on his behalf, shall directly or iniiirectly, police 
 upon any pretence whatever, take any fee or recom])ence for any act district. 
 
 by him or them done or to be done as Justice of the Peace or clerk 
 
 as aforesaid within any ])art of the metrojiolitan j)olice district for 
 
 which a police court shall have been established under the authority 
 
 of this Act, upon pain of forfeiting the sum of one huntlred jiounds Penalty, 
 
 for every such ofieuce, one moiety thereof to the said Keceiver, to ^^^-
 
 156 
 
 [Chap. 71.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839. [2 & 3 Vict.] 
 
 Table of 
 fees to be 
 hung up. 
 
 Accounts to 
 be kept of 
 fees and 
 forfeitures 
 received and 
 delivered 
 quarterly to 
 the Receiver, 
 and the 
 amount 
 thereof paid 
 to liim. 
 
 Certain 
 penalties 
 and forfei- 
 tures reco- 
 vered to be 
 paid to the 
 Keceiver. 
 
 be applied to the purposes of this Act, and the other moiety thereof, 
 with full costs of suit, to the person who shall sue for the same iu 
 any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster ; but this 
 enactment shall not be construed to extend to any fees taken at any 
 General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or at any meetino^ of 
 Justices for the purpose of licensing alehouses, or for the purpose 
 of in([uiring into the legal settlement of any person a])plying for 
 parochial relief, and making suspended orders of removal, or to 
 any fees taken at any Special or Petty Sessions of the Justices in 
 respect of business which must be transacted at such Special or 
 Petty Sessions, or to any fees taken by any vestry clerk, or by the 
 clerk to the overseers of any parish, for the purpose of enforcing the 
 payment of any rates or taxes arising within the same parish. 
 
 43. Notwithstanding any thing herein-before contained, such fees 
 as are contained in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed may be 
 taken by any of the said Magistrates or by any Justice or Justices 
 acting in any of the said courts ; and a table of such fees shall be 
 fixed in some consjHcuous part of each of the said courts ; and it 
 shall be lawful for any of the said Magistrates to refuse to do any 
 act for which any fee shall be demandable unless such fee shall be 
 first paid ; and that if any such act shall be done, and the fee due 
 thereon shall not be jjaid, it shall be lawful for any of the said 
 Magistrates to summon the person from whom such fee shall be due, 
 and to make order for payment of the same, with the costs of the 
 proceedings, and in default of payment to levy the same, with the 
 costs of the distress, bv warrant under his hand. \_Siiperseded (as 
 to table of fees) 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26, s. 2 (2).] 
 
 44 — 45. {Proceedings before Magistrates and recovery of penalties, 
 etc., rep. by the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 46. The Magistrates at each of the said courts shall take care 
 that one of their clerks shall, in books to be provided for that 
 purpose, keep a full, true, and particular account of all fees taken 
 and received thereat, together with all penalties and fnfeitures 
 which shall have been recovered, levied, or received in pursuance 
 of any adjudication, conviction, or order had or made thereat, or any 
 process or warrant issuing therefrom, to which books of account the 
 said Receiver shall at all times have free access ; and the said 
 Magistrates shall . . . cause to be delivered to the Receiver an 
 account of all such sums received, with all proper vouchers for 
 verifying the same, and shall cause the amount of all such sums to 
 be paid to the Receiver, to be applied by him towards the expenses 
 of the said courts except fines imposed upon drunken persons, or 
 upon constables for misconduct, or for assaults upon police con- 
 stables, which shall be applied for the benefit of " The Police 
 Superannuation Fund," and except also fees for the execution of 
 summonses and warrants. . . . \Parts omitted (as to quarterly 
 accounts and application of fees) rep. 53 & 54 Vict. c. 45, s. S6,a7id 
 60 & 61 \'ict. c. 26, s. 9.] ' 
 
 47. Where by an Act or Acts any penalties or forfeitures, 
 or shares of penalties or forfeitures, are or shall hereafter be 
 made recoverable in a summarv manner before anv Justice or 
 Justices of the Peace, and by such Act or Acts respectively the 
 same are or shall be limited and made payable ... to any body 
 corporate, or to any person or i)ersons whomsoever, save the informer 
 who shall sue for the same, or any party aggrieved, in every such
 
 [2 & 3 Vict.] 'ne Metropolitan Police Courts Act lb3U. [Chai-. 7].] 157 
 
 case the same, if recovered or adjudged before any of the said 
 Ma<(istrates, shall be recovered for and adjudged to be j)aid to the 
 said Receiver for the time being, and not to any other person ; but N'ot to 
 this enactment shall not extend to any i)enalties or forfeitures p]^|^"fjj^° 
 recovered under any Act relating to the Customs, or to trade or uuder Keve- 
 navigation, and sued for by the direction of the Commissioners ofnueActs. 
 Her Majesty's Customs, wliicii shall be paid to such ])erson as the 
 said ( 'oinniissioners shall direct to receive the same. [ II'o/y/.s omitted 
 (" to llcr Majcstij or ") rejj. m k 01 Vict, c 2(i, a. U.] 
 
 48. [^Forms of information, etc. Hep. ij the Sum,mari/ .Jurisdic- 
 tion Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 49. No information, conviction, or other ])roceeding before or by Conviction, 
 any of the said Magistrates shall be quashed or set aside, or adiudged *^^^- ^^'^^^ ^^ 
 
 • 1 . Y. • ^ ^- ^ X' /• 1 11 X- • quashed for 
 
 void or msumcient, lor want ot lorm, or be removed by certiorari informality, 
 into Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench. etc. 
 
 50. In every case of summary order or conviction before any of -^PP^^^^'' 
 the said ]\Iagistrates, in which the sum or j)enalty adjudged to be Session*., 
 paid shall be more than three jjounds, or in which the penalty 
 adjudged shall be im])risonment for any time more than one calendar 
 month, any person who shall think himself aggrieved Ijy the order 
 
 or conviction may a])peal to the Justices of the Peace at the next 
 
 General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace . . . ; and it shall be lawful 
 
 for the Magistrate by whom such order or conviction shall have 
 
 been made to bind over the witnesses who shall have been examined, 
 
 in sufficient recognizances, to attend and be examined at the hearing 
 
 of such apj)eal, and that every such witness, on producing a 
 
 certificate of his being so bound, under the hand of the Magistrate, 
 
 shall be allowed compensation for his time, trouble, and expenses in 
 
 attending the appeal, which comi)ensation shall be paid, in the first 
 
 instance, by the treasurer of the county, in like manner as in cases 
 
 of misdemeanor under the provisions of an Act passed in the 
 
 seventh year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled 7 G. \. c. 04. 
 
 "An Act for improving the Administration of Criminal Justice in 
 
 England " ; and in case the ai)]>eal shall be dismissed, and the order 
 
 or conviction atfirmed, the reasonable expenses of all such witnesses 
 
 attending as aforesaid, to be ascertained by the Court, shall be 
 
 repaid to the treasurer of the county by the ai)j)ellant. \_Part 
 
 omitted {as to recognizances) rep. by the Summart/ Jurisdiction Act 
 
 18«4, s. 4.] 
 
 51. AVhen any distress shall be made for any money to be levied Distress not 
 by virtue of the'warrant of any of the saitl Magistrates, tlie distre^s '^'^^^'^f ^^^ 
 shall not be deemed unlawful, nor shall any party making the same foVm. 
 
 be deemed a trespasser, on account of any detect or want of form in 
 the information, summons, warrant of a]>prehension, conviction, 
 warrant of distress, or other j)roceeding relating therett.), nor shall 
 such party be deemed a trespasser from the beginning on account of 
 any irregularity which shall be afterwards committed by him, but 
 all persons as:*J:rieved bv such defect or irregularitv mav recover 
 full satisfaction for the sjiecial damage by an action on the case. 
 \_J\('p. {so far as relates to a conviction or order) by the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4. See also the Summan/ Jurisdiction Act 
 1879, 56\ 21, 39, a/ir/43.] 
 
 52. \_Plaintif not to recover after tender of amends. Rep. 57 & 
 58 Vict.c. m\S.LJ^.).'\
 
 158 
 
 [Chap. 84.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840, [3 & 4 Vict. 
 
 This Act 
 to be con- 
 strued with 
 10 G. 4. c. 44. 
 
 2 & 3 Vict. 
 c. 47. 
 
 Certain Pro- 
 visions of 
 this Act not 
 to extend to 
 the laws of 
 customs, 
 excise, 
 stamps, and 
 taxes, or 
 post oflice. 
 
 63. {Limitation of actions. Rep. hy the Public Authorities Protec- 
 tion Act 1893.*] 
 
 54. {Commencement of Act and repeal q/3& 4: Wm. 4, c. 19. Rep. 
 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 55. This Act and an Act passed in the tenth year of the reign of 
 King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act for improving the 
 Police in and near the Metropolis," and also an Act passed in the 
 present session of Parliament, intituled " An Act for further improv- 
 ing the Police in and near the Metropolis," shall be construed 
 together as one Act. 
 
 56. Provided always, that in any proceedings under any Act or 
 Acts relating to the customs, excise, stamps, taxes, or post office, 
 nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent any penalties 
 awarded by any one of the said Magistrates from being recovered 
 and adjudged to be paid as if this Act had not been passed, or to 
 give any appeal from any conviction under any such Act or Acts 
 where such appeal is not given by the Act or Acts specially relating 
 thereunto. 
 
 57. [Act may he amended this session. Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 
 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 Schedule (A). {Table of Fees. Superseded 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26, 
 s. 2 (2).] 
 
 Schedule (B), {Forms of Information and Conviction. Rep. 
 51 & 52 Vict. c^.^Ti (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 3 & 4 VICTORIA. A.D. 1840. 
 
 Queen in 
 Council may 
 constitute 
 police court 
 divisions, 
 and define 
 and alter 
 their extent 
 and number. 
 
 Limiting 
 number of 
 magistrates. 
 
 CHAPTER 84. 
 
 An Act for bettee defining the Pow^eks of Justices within 
 the Metropolitan Police District. {Itk August 1840.] 
 
 {Preamble, reciting 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, ss. 75, 76, rep. 53 & 54 Vict. 
 
 c. 51 {S-LM.).] 
 
 1. {Repeal ifi part of 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, ss. 75, 76. Rep. 37 & 38 
 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.Li.).'] ' 
 
 2. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, with the advice of Her 
 Privy Council, from time to time to constitute within the metro- 
 politan police district so many police court divisions as to Her 
 Majesty shall seem fit, and to define the extent thereof, and from 
 time to time to alter the number and extent of such police court 
 divisions, and to assign a division to each of the police courts 
 already established, and to establish a police court for each of 
 the other divisions : Provided always, that nothing in this Act 
 contained shall be construed to restrain the Police Magistrates 
 ai)pointed to the said courts from acting in all places within the 
 limits of their commissions as fully in all respects as if this Act had 
 not been made; and be it further provided, that there shall not be 
 more than twenty-seven Magistrates appointed to execute the duties 
 of Justices of the Peace at the said courts. {See 2 & 3 Vict. c. 11, 
 6'6'. 1 & 2.] . . 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 [3 & 4 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840. [Chap. 84.] 159 
 
 3. [Rt'cital 0/2 & ;} Vict. c. 71, s. \'Z.] . . . 8o luncL of the last- «o much of 
 recited Act as requires the daily attendance of one of the said ^ ^j s^^tq- 
 Magistnites at each of the said courts shall be taken to apply only to quires the 
 the ])olice courts now established in Bow Street, and in the parishes <^>aiiy atten- 
 of Saint Margaret AVestniinstcr, Saint James Westminster, Saint \^^\[^\^. 
 Marylcltone, Saint Andrew llolhorn, Saint Leonard Shoreditch, Saint gistrate at 
 Mary Whitechapel, and Saint dohn of Wapping, in the county of the courts 
 Middlesex, and Saint Saviour in tiie county of Surrey, and shall con- ^I^^yI^J^ ^ 
 tinue to a])))ly to the said courts, wheresoever they may from time courts 
 
 to time be holden or removed to within the metropolitan police alr^^ady 
 district. [Part omitted {as to recital) rep. 53 & 54 1 let. c. 51 (.S'. /..A'.).] estabhshed. 
 
 4. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, if she shall think fit, with I'olice Ma- 
 the advice of her Privv Council, to order that a Police Maojistrate fe'i'^trates 
 or Magistrates shall attend regularly at any police court or courts ordered to 
 hereafter to be established, either daily or on such days and times as attend at 
 Her Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, sluill order; and it shall ])e other courts, 
 lawful for Her Majesty, from time to time, with the advice aforesaid, 
 
 to alter or rescind any such order. 
 
 5. Every Order in Council, either for constituting or altering a Orders in 
 police court division, or for assigning a division to the police P"""'['.l^° 
 ■courts already established, or for establishing or removing a in the 
 police court, or for ordering the regular attendance of a Police Uazette. 
 Magistrate or Magistrates at any police court or courts, or for 
 altering or rescinding any such order, shall be published in the 
 London Gazette, and shall take effect from the time appointed for 
 
 that purpose by the said order. 
 
 6. Any two Justices of the Peace having jurisdiction within the Any two 
 metropolitan police district shall have, while sitting together ^"^"^^^5!^ ?|^^ 
 publicly in the court or room used for holding Special or Petty authority of 
 Sessions of the Peace in any part of the said district within the ^ Police 
 limits of their commission, except in the divisions to be assigned •^^^gi'^trate. 
 to the i)olice courts already established, and any two Justices of 
 
 the Peace for the citv of London and the liberties thereof, having 
 Jurisdiction within the city of London and the liberties thereof, 
 shall within the said city of London and the liberties thereof have all 
 the j)owers, j)rivileges, and duties which any one Magistrate of the 
 said police courts has while sitting in one of the said courts by 
 the two recited Acts of the last session of Parliament or either of 
 them: Provided always, that whenever a new jtoliee court shall Proviso, 
 have been established within the metropolitan police district, and 
 a division assigned to such court as aforesaid, such Justices shall 
 not act in that division, in the execution of the two said Acts or 
 either of them, elsewhere than at sucli Court : and that at every 
 police court at which the regular attendance of a Police ^Magistrate 
 shall have been ordered by Her Majesty as herein-before provided 
 the Police Magistrate while present in such Court shall act as the. 
 sole Magistrate thereof. 
 
 7. So much of the last-recited Act as provides that no clerk in Application 
 anv of the iiolice courts shall hold or have anv other office or "^^ .^''^"'^^'^^, 
 employment wliatsoever, excej)! as therein excej)ted, shall be taken employment 
 to apply only to the police courts now established. [-St'^^ »fc 3 Vict, of clerks. 
 
 c. 71, s. 5.] 
 
 8. Every recognizance taken at any station house of the Form of re- 
 Metropolitan Police Force situated in a division in which a Police cognizance,
 
 160 
 
 [Chap. 84.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840. [3 & 4 Vict.] 
 
 information, 
 and convic- 
 tion. 
 
 Extension of 
 power to en- 
 large pri- 
 soners on 
 recogni- 
 ance. 
 
 Militia bal- 
 lotting lists 
 to be made 
 out by police 
 constables. 
 
 42 G. 3. c. 90. 
 
 Penalty for 
 obtaining 
 money by 
 threatening 
 information. 
 
 Magistrate is not in daily attendance sliall be conditioned for the 
 appearance of the person thereby bound before the Magistrate or 
 Justices acting in the division, at his or their next sitting ; and 
 every such recognizance shall be returned to the Magistrate or 
 Justices present at the time and place where the party is bound 
 to appear. . . . [Fart omitted (as to forms in schedule) rep. htj 
 the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 9. Whenever any person shall be charged before any Police 
 Magistrate or before any two Justices, at any police court within 
 the metropolitan police district, with any felony or misdemeanor 
 for which he is liable to be committed to take his trial at the 
 Assizes to be holden for any of the counties of Essex, Hertford, 
 Kent, or Surrey, it shall be lawful for such Police Magistrate or for 
 such Justices, if he or they respectively shall think fit, to suffer 
 such person to go at large upon a recognizance conditioned for 
 surrendering himself to take his trial at such Assizes, in like 
 manner as such recognizance may be taken for his surrender tO' 
 take his trial at the (Jentral Criminal Court, in cases where he 
 is liable to be committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court ; 
 and every such recognizance shall be within all the provisions 
 of the last-recited Act relating to recognizances for surrendering 
 to be tried at the Central Criminal Court, \_8ee 2 & 3 Vict. 
 c. 11, s. 36.] 
 
 10. All proceedings within the metropolitan police district 
 relating to the serving of notices, and the procuring and making 
 out of the returns of the persons liable to serve in the Militia, and 
 the preparing and making out of the lists of the persons liable 
 to be ballotted for the Militia, and all other things, by an Act 
 jjassed in the forty-second year of the reign of King George the 
 Third, intituled " An Act for amending the Laws relating to the 
 Militia in England, and for augmenting the Militia," or by any other 
 Act relating to the Militia, directed to be done by the high and 
 other constables for the time being, shall be done within the said 
 district by the constables of the Metropolitan Police Force, or by 
 such of them as shall be from time to time specially appointed for 
 that purpose by the Commissioners of Police. \_Rep. (so far as it 
 relates to returns and lists under the Militia Act 1832) 37 & 38 Vict, 
 c. 96 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 11. Any person who shall obtain any sum of money or other 
 reward from any person within the metropolitan police district by 
 threatening directly or indirectly to lodge any information or make 
 any complaint before any Magistrate, Justice or Justices, for any 
 misdemeanor, or as an inducement for forbearing to lay such 
 information or make such complaint, shall, on conviction of the 
 offence before one of the Police Magistrates, or before any twO' 
 Justices of the Peace, either by his own confession or by the oath 
 of any credible witness, be liable to a penalty not more than 
 ten pounds. 
 
 12. \_Ajjpeal to the Police Magistrates from proceedings at the 
 leet concerning iceights and. measures. Not noic applicable tO' 
 London. See the Weights and Measures Act 1889, s. 16.*] 
 
 * S. 16 of the Weights and Measures Act 1889 is as follows : " 16. . . . The 
 inspectors of weights and measures appointed by the London County Council shall. 
 alone within the whole of the county of London, exclusive of the city of London,, 
 have the powers and discharge the duties of inspectors of weights and measures, 
 appointed under the principal Act. ..."
 
 [3 & 4 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840. [Chap. 84.] 161 
 
 13. Xone of the Police IMafi^istrates within tlie metropolitan Giving pos- 
 pulice district shall be re([nire(l to go npou any deserted lands, Tf'^'^" ?^ 
 tenements, or hereditaments, for the pnrpose of viewing the same premises, 
 or affixing any notices thereon, or of putting the landlord or 
 landlords, lessor or lessors into the possession thereof, under the 
 provisions of an Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of 
 
 King George the Second, intituled "An Act for the more effectnal H <J. 2. c. lit. 
 securing the Payment of Rents, and preventing Frauds by Tenants," 
 or of an Act passed in the fifty-seventh year of the reign of King 57 G. .3. c. 52. 
 George the Third, tor altering the last-recited Act, but in every 
 case within the metrojxditan poli(;e district, in which by the said 
 Acts or either of them two Justices are authorized to put the land- 
 lord or lessor into the possession of such deserted premises, it shall 
 be lawful for one of the Police ^Magistrates, upon the recpiest of the 
 lessor or landlonl, or his or her baililf or receiver, made in open 
 court, and upon proof given to the satisfaction of such Magistrate 
 of the arrear of rent and desertion of the premises by the tenant as 
 aforesaid, to issue liis warrant, directed to one of the constables of 
 the Metropolitan Police Force, requiring him to go upon and view 
 the premises, and to affix thereon the like notices as under the said 
 Acts or either of them are required to be affixed by two Justices of 
 the Peace ; and upon the return of the warrant, and upon proof 
 being given to the satisfaction of the Magistrate before whom tlie 
 warrant shall be returned that it has been duly executed, and that 
 neither the tenant nor any person on his or her behalf has appeared 
 and })aid the rent in arrear, and that there is not sufficient distress 
 upon tlio premises, it shall be lawful for such Magistrate to issue 
 his warrant to a constable of the Metropolitan Police Force, re- 
 quiring him to put the landlord or lessor into the possession of the 
 premises ; and every constable to whom any such warrant shall be 
 directed shall duly execute and return the same, subject to the 
 provisions contained in an Act passed in the last session of Par- 
 liament, intituled " An Act for further improving the Police in and 2 & 3 Vict, 
 near the Metropolis," as to the execution of warrants directed to ^' '^^' 
 constables of the Metropolitan Police Force ; and upon the execu- 
 tion of such second warrant the lease of the premises to such tenant, 
 as to any demise therein contained only, shall thenceforth be void. 
 
 14. [Horse and foot patrol and Thames Police icithin super- 
 annuation provisions. Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 15. Any two Justices of the Peace for the city of Loudon and the London Jus- 
 liberties thereof, having jurisdiction within the city of London and j,!^^^^g powers 
 the liberties thereof, shall, within the said city of London and the as metro- 
 liberties thereof, have all the powers, ]irivilegcs, and duties which poiit<»n Jus- 
 any two Justices of the Peace having jurisdiction within the metro- ""^'^" 
 politan police district have within the metropolitan police district 
 
 by virtue of this Act. 
 
 16. \_Act ma)/ be amended. Pep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.P.).'\ 
 
 Schedule. \_Forms of' information and conciction. Pep. bij the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 11
 
 162 
 
 [Chap. 86.] The London Hackney/ Carriages Act 1843. [6 & 7 Yict.] 
 
 6 & 7 VICTORIA. A.D. 1843. 
 
 Tileaning of 
 certain word; 
 used in this 
 Aqx. 
 
 Certain pro- 
 visions of 
 1 & 2 W. 4. 
 c. 22. ex- 
 tended to 
 this Act. 
 
 Title and 
 place of abode 
 of a peer of 
 the realm 
 painted on 
 any carriage, 
 etc. to be 
 deemed a 
 compliance 
 with the 
 provisions of 
 the Act. 
 
 CHAPTER 86. 
 
 Ay Act for regulating Hackney and Stage Carriages in and 
 NEAR London. \22nd AayvM 1843.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 54 & i)b Vict. c. 67 {S.L.R.)7\ 
 
 1. [Repeal qf\k2 Vict. c. 79. Bep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 06 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 2. The words herein-after mentioned, which in their usual signili- 
 cMion have a more confined or different meaning, shall in this 
 Act (except where the nature of the in"ovisions or the context of 
 the Act shall exclude such construction) be interpreted as follows ; 
 (that is to say.) the words "hackney carriage" shall include every 
 carriage (except a stage carriage,) which shall stand on hire or 
 ply for a passenger for hire at any place within the limits of the 
 city of London and the liberties thereof, and metropolitan police 
 district ; and the vrords " metropolitan stage carriage " shall include 
 every stage carriage except such as shall on every journey go to 
 or come from some town or place beyond the limits aforesaid ; and 
 the word " proprietor " shall include every person who, either alone 
 or in partnership with any other jjerson, shall keep any hackney 
 carriage or any metropolitan stage carriage, or who shall be con- 
 cerned otherwise than as a driver or attendant in employing for 
 hire any hackney carriage or any metropolitan stage carriage ; and 
 the word " conductor " shall include every director or other person, 
 except the driver, who shall attend upon the passengers in any 
 metropolitan stage carriage ; . . . and the word "passenger" shall 
 include every person carried by any hackney carriage, or by any 
 metropolitan stage carriage, except one driver, and, where there 
 shall be a conductor to such metropolitan stage carriage, one 
 conductor ; and the word " horse " shall include every mare and 
 gelding ; and every word importing the singular number only shall 
 extend and be applied to several persons and things as well as 
 to one person or thing ; and every word importing the masculine 
 gender only shall extend to a female as well as to a male. [Fa?^t 
 omitted {definition of watermen) rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.R.) 
 See also 32 & 33 Vict. c. 115, ss. 4 & 5.] 
 
 3. fSo much of an Act passed in the second year of the reign of 
 His late Majesty, intituled " An Act to amend the Laws relating 
 to Hackney Carriages, and to Waggons, Carts, and Drays used in 
 the Metropolis " ; . . . as relates to hackney carriages • . . , and 
 not hereby repealed, . . . shall extend and aj^ply to hackney 
 carriages . . . within the meaning of this Act. . . . [Farts omitted 
 (as to five miles limit, collection o/ duties, and wa.termen) rep. 37 & 38 
 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.R.), and 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 4. And whereas by the said recited Act passed in the reign of 
 his late Majesty it was enacted, that the owner of every waggon, 
 cart, car, dray, or other carriage should, before any such carriage 
 should be driven or used in any public street or road, within the 
 distance of five miles from the General Post Oflice in the city of 
 London, paint or cause to be jjainted in words at full length, and 
 in one or more straight line or lines, upon some conspicuous place 
 on the right or ofi:' side of every such carriage, clear of the wheel or 
 wheels thereof, or upon the right or ofi'-side shaft thereof, the true
 
 ^6 & 7 Vict.] The London Ilachney Carriages Act 1843. [Chap. 86.] 163 
 
 Christian name and surname; and jjlacc of abode of tlu? owner, or, 
 if tliere be more than one, of the jtrincipal (jwner of such carriage, 
 in the manner in such Act directed : in all cases where the owner 
 of any such carriage shall be a Peer of the Healm, or shall be 
 known or usually designated ])y some title of rank, it shall he 
 deemed to be a compliance with the ])rovisions of the aforesaid 
 Act that the title only and place of abode of such Peer or other 
 person shall be painted in the manner therein described upon 
 ^ny such waggon, wain, cart, or other carriage. \Sec 1 k 2 117//. 4, 
 c. 22, .s. no.] 
 
 5 — 6. \^As to registrar and other olJicers, and salaries. Rep. 
 r37 & 38 Vict. c. 90 {S.L.Ii.).'] 
 
 7. The proprietor of every metropolitan stage carriage shall keep Particulars to 
 
 • distinctly i)ainted, both on the outside and inside of the same, in ^^ painted on 
 .such a manner and in such a position as shall from time to time be .^aeeT^ 
 
 directed by the * registrar, the words '* metropolitan stage carriage," carriages. 
 
 or. 'such other words as the * registrar shall direct . . . ; and shall 
 
 also, on the inside of every such carriage, keep distinctly painted 
 in a conspicuous manner a table of fares to be demanded of pas- 
 sengers by such carriage ; and tiie fares therein specified shall 
 be deemed to be the only lawful fares, and may be recovered by 
 the driver or conductor, as in the case of hackney carriages, in a 
 .summary way, before any Justice of the Peace ; and every proprietor 
 .making default in tlie premises shall forfeit the sum of twenty 
 shillings for everv offence. \_Fart omitted {as to Stamp Office plate) 
 rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.E.).'] 
 
 8. It shall be lawful for the * registrar to grant a licence to act Registrar to 
 -as driver of hackney carriages, or as driver or as conductor of ^'"^'^^ 
 
 metropoHtan stage carriages, . . . (as the case may be,) to any 
 person who shall produce such a certilicate as shall satisfy the said 
 
 * registrar of his good behaviour and fitness for such situation 
 .respectively : Provided always, that no person shall be licensed as 
 such driver as aforesaid who is under sixteen years of age ; and in 
 every such licence shall be s])ecified the number of such licence, and 
 the proper name and surname, and place of abode, and age, and 
 a description of the person to whom such licence shall be granted 
 . . . ; and every such licence shall bear date on the day on which 
 the same shall be granted . . . ; and on every licence of a driver or 
 conductor the * registrar shall cause proper columns to be prepared, 
 in which every proprietor employing the driver or conductor named 
 in such licence shall enter his own name and address, and the days 
 ■on which such driver or conductor shall enter and shall ([uit his 
 
 service resj)octively ; and in case any of the particulars entered or 
 endorsed ui)on any licence in pursuance of this Act shall be erased 
 or defaced every such licence shall be wholly void and of none 
 effect; and the said * registrar shall, at the time of granting any At the time 
 liceni'e, deliver to the driver, conductor, ... to whom the same of granting 
 shall be granted an abstract of the laws in force i"i-'l^iti"g to such ^l^'^J^'^^^^^.^^^ 
 driver, conductor, . . . and of the penalties to which he is liable tbolaws and 
 for any misconduct, and also a metal ticket, upon which there shall a ticket to be 
 be marked or engraved his office or employment, and a number o'^^°- 
 corresponding with the number which shall be inserted in such 
 licence. \_Parts omitted {as to duration of licence, and watermen) 
 rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.h'.).'] 
 
 * Amended 13 & 14 Vict. c. 7. s, 2.
 
 164 
 
 [Chap. 86.] The London Hackney Carriages Act 1843. [6 & 7 Vicx.^ 
 
 Penalty ou 
 persons 
 acting as 
 drivers, etc. 
 without 
 licences and 
 tickets, oZ. ; 
 
 on proprietors 
 suffering 
 drivers or 
 conductors 
 so to do, 10?. 
 
 Persons 
 applying for 
 licences to 
 sign a 
 requisition 
 for the same. 
 
 9. [Stamp duty on licence. Bep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 (>S.L.i?.).] 
 
 10. It shall not be lawful for any person to act as driver of any 
 hackney carriage, or as driver or conductor of any metropolitan 
 stage carriage, whether such person shall or shall not be the 
 proprietor of such carriage, . . . within the limits of this Act, 
 unless in each case such person shall have a licence so to do, and 
 a numbered ticket granted to him under the authority of this Act, 
 and remaining in force; and every person who shall act as such 
 driver or conductor . . . without such licence and ticket, . . . and 
 also every person to whom a licence and ticket shall have been* 
 granted, who shall, except in compliance with the provisions of this- 
 Act, transfer or lend such licence, or permit any other person to- 
 use or wear such ticket, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum 
 of five pounds ; and every proprietor who shall knowingly suffer 
 any person not duly licensed undsr the authority of this Act to- 
 act as driver of any hackney carriage, or as driver or as conductor 
 of any metropolitan stage carriage, of which he shall be the pro- 
 prietor, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of ten pounds : 
 Provided always, that nothing herein-before contained shall subject 
 to any penalty any proprietor who shall employ any unlicensed 
 person to act as such driver or conductor as aforesaid for any time 
 not exceeding twenty-four hours, or any unlicensed person who shall 
 be so employed for the said time, upon proof being adduced by the 
 proprietor, to the satisfaction of the Justice of the Peace before 
 whom such proprietor, driver, or conductor shall be required to 
 attend to answer for such offences respectively, that such employ- 
 ment was occasioned by unavoidable necessity; and that every 
 proprietor who shall so employ such unlicensed driver or conductor, 
 and every such unlicensed driver or conductor, shall be subject to 
 all the powers, provisions, and proceedings of and under this Act 
 or the said recited Act of His late Majesty for any act done by such 
 driver or conductor during such employment, in like manner as if 
 such driver or conductor had been duly licensed. [Parts omitted 
 (as to watermen) rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.R.). See also 32 & 33- 
 
 Vict. c. 115, 6-. 8.] 
 
 11 — 13. [As to watermen. Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 (>S'.L.7?.).] 
 
 14. Before any such licence as aforesaid shall be granted a 
 requisition for the same, in such form as the said * registrar shall 
 from time to time appoint for that purpose, and accompanied with 
 such certificate as herein-before is required, shall be made and signed 
 by the person by whom such licence shall be required ; and in 
 every such requisition all such particulars as the * registrar shall 
 require shall be truly set forth ; and every person applying for or 
 attempting to procure any such licence who shall make or cause 
 to be made any false representation in regard to any of the said 
 particulars, or who shall endeavour to obtain a licence by any forged 
 recommendations, or who shall not truly answer all questions which 
 shall be demanded of him in relation to such application for a 
 licence, and also every person to whom reference shall be made who 
 shall, in regard to such application, wilfully and knowingly make 
 any misrepresentation, shall forfeit for every such oftence the 
 sum of five pounds ; and it shall be lawful for the * registrar to 
 proceed for recovering of such penalty before any Magistrate at 
 any time within one calendar month after the commission of 
 
 * See footnote on s. 7.
 
 [G& 7 Vict.] The I.ondon Hackney Carriages Act 1843. [Chap. 86.] 105 
 
 the offence, or during the currency of the licence so improperly 
 obtained. 
 
 15. As often as any driver or cotuUictor . . . shall chanp^e his Notice to lie 
 place of abode lie shall ^nve notice thereof in writing, signed by him, *-''^'<:" ^^ 
 
 to the said * registrar, sj)ecifying in such notice his new place of duc7o7s,Tnd 
 abode, and shall at the same time produce his licence to the said watermen of 
 •registrar, who shall endorse thereon a memorandum specifying ^"J' ^^^"^e 
 the })articulars of such change; and every driver, conductor, . . Z''^^'"''^^- 
 who shall change his place of abode, and shall neglect for two days 
 to give notice of such ciiange, and to produce his licence in order 
 that such memorandum as aforesaid may be endorsed thereon, shall 
 forfeit for every such olfence the sum of twenty shillings ; and it 
 siiall be lawful for the * registrar, or for any person employed by 
 him for that purpose, to sue for such penalty at any time during 
 the currency of such licence. . . . [Parts omitted (as to account by 
 proprietor^ ami watermen) rep. 87 <fe 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 16. The particulars of every licence which shall be granted as Particulars of 
 aforesaid shall be entered in books to be kept for that j)urpose at licences to be 
 the office of the said * registrar ; and in all courts, and before any book^lt the'' 
 Justice of the Peace, and upon all occasions whatsoever, a copy *registrar's 
 of any entry made in any such book, and certified by the person office, 
 having the cliarge tiiereof to be a true copy, shall be received 
 
 as evidence, and be deemed sufficient proof of all things therein 
 registered, without requiring the production of the said book, or of 
 any licence, or of any requisition or other document upon which 
 any such entry may be founded ; and every person applying at 
 all reasonable times shall be furnished with a certified copy of 
 the i)articulars respecting any licensed person without payment 
 of any fee. 
 
 17. Every licensed driver, conductor, . . . shall at all times Tickets to 
 during his employment, and when he shall be required to attend ^^'ivorn by 
 before any Justice of the Peace, wear his ticket conspicuously upon ^'^"'"*- 
 his breast, in such manner that the whole of the writing thereon 
 
 shall be distinctly legible ; and every driver, conductor, . . . who 
 shall act as such, or who shall attend when re(|uired before any 
 Justice of the Peace, without wearing such ticket in manner afore- 
 said, or who, when thereunto required, shall refuse to produce 
 sucb ticket for inspection, or to permit any person to note the 
 writing thereon, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of forty 
 shillings. \_Part.s omitted (as to icatcrmen) rep. 37 ct 38 Vict. c. 06 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 18. Upon the expiration of any licence granted under this Act Licences and 
 the i)erson to whom such licence shall have been granted shaIP'';''5*:*\|J' '^^ 
 deliver such licence and tlie ticket relating thereto to the said o,*i llfe*^' "'* 
 * registrar ; and every such person who, alter the expiration of tli^continu- 
 such licence, shall wilfullv neglect for three davs to deliver the 1'°'^® °^ 
 same to the said * registrar, and also every person who shall use 
 
 ■or wear or detain any ticket, without havinu" a licence in force 
 relatmg to such ticket, or who shall for the ])nrpose of deception 
 •use or wear or have any ticket resembling or intended to resemble 
 any ticket granted under tlie authority of tliis Act, shall for every 
 such offence forfeit the sum of five pounds ; and it shall be lawful 
 for the *registrar, or for any person employed by him for that 
 purpose, to prosecute any persctu so neglecting to deliver up his 
 
 * See footnote on s. 7.
 
 166 
 
 [Chap. 86.] The London Hackne;j Carriages Act 1843. [6 & 7 Vict. J 
 
 New tickets 
 to be 
 delivered 
 instead of 
 defaced or 
 lost tickets. 
 
 Forgery of 
 licence or 
 ticket, or 
 knowingly 
 uttering a 
 forged licence 
 or ticket, a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
 Proprietor to 
 retain the 
 licence of 
 drivers or 
 conductors 
 
 licence or ticket at any period within twelve calendar months after- 
 the expiration of the licence ; and it shall be lawful for any constable 
 or peace officer, or any person employed for that purpose by the 
 
 * registrar, to seize and take away any such ticket, wheresoever 
 the same may be found, in order to deliver the same to the said 
 
 * registrar, . . ;. 
 
 19. Whenever the writing on any ticket shall become obliterated 
 or defaced, so that the same shall not be distinctly legible, and 
 also whenever any ticket shall be proved to the satisfaction of the 
 said * registrar to have been lost or mislaid, the person to whom 
 the licence relating to any such ticket shall have been granted shall 
 deliver such ticket (if he shall have the same in his possession), 
 and shall produce such licence to the said *registrar, and such person 
 shall then be entitled to have a new ticket delivered to him, upon 
 payment, for the use of Her Majesty, of such sum of money, not 
 exceeding three shillings, as the * registrar shall from time to time 
 appoint : Provided always, that if any ticket which shall have been 
 proved, as aforesaid, or represented to have been lost or mislaid, 
 shall afterwards be found, the same shall forthwith be delivered 
 to the said * registrar ; and every person into whose possession any 
 such ticket, as last aforesaid, shall be or come, who shall refuse 
 or neglect for three days to deliver the same to the said * registrar, 
 and also every person licensed under the authority of this Act 
 who shall use or wear the ticket granted to him after the writing 
 thereon shall be obliterated, defaced, or obscured, so that the same 
 shall not be distinctly legible, shall for every such offence forfeit the 
 sum of forty shillings. 
 
 20. Every person who shall forge or counterfeit, or who shall 
 cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any licence or ticket 
 by this Act directed to be provided for the driver of a hackney 
 carriage, or for the driver or the conductor of a metropolitan stage 
 carriage, . . . and also every person who shall sell or exchange, or 
 expose to sale, or utter, any such forged or counterfeited licence 
 or ticket, and also every jDerson who shall knowingly and without 
 lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused) 
 have or be possessed of such forged or counterfeited licence or 
 ticket, knowing such licence or ticket to be forged or counterfeited,, 
 and also every person knowingly and wilfully aiding and abetting 
 any person in committing any such olFence as aforesaid, shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being thereof convicted, shall be 
 liable to be punished by tine or imprisonment, or by both, suck 
 imprisonment to be in the common gaol or house of correction, and 
 either with or without hard labour, as the Court shall think fit ; 
 and it shall be lawful for any person to detain any such licence or 
 ticket, or for any constable or peace officer, or any person employed 
 for that purpose by the said * registrar, to seize and take away any 
 such licence or ticket, in order that the same may be produced in 
 evidence against such offender, or be disposed of as the said * registrar 
 shall think proper. \_Part omitted {as to watermen) rep. 37 & 38 Vict., 
 c. 96 (-S'.L.it'.).] 
 
 21. Every proprietor of a hackney carriage and of every metro- 
 politan stage carriage, who shall permit or employ any licensed 
 person to act as the driver or conductor thereof, shall require to be 
 delivered to him, and shall retain in his jjossession, the licence of 
 
 * See footnote on s. 7.
 
 [(i& 7 Vict.] 77ie T.amJnn Hackm;/ Carriages Act 1^4:3. [Chap. 80.] 167 
 
 such driver or conductor while snch driver or conductor shall remain employed by 
 
 in his service ; and in all cases of complaint where the proprietor ^"'"i*"'^.. 
 
 of a hackney carriage or of a metropolitan stage carriage shall rn*^^*^of ^™ 
 
 be summoned to produce the driver or conductor of sncli carriage ''omplaint. 
 
 before a Justice of the Peace, he shall also produce the licence of 
 
 such driver or conductor, if at the time of receiving the summons 
 
 such driver or conductor shall be in his service ; an(l if any driver 
 
 or conductor comjdaincd of shall be adjndg<'d guilty of the offence 
 
 alleged against him, the Justice of the I'eace Ijefore whom he shall 
 
 be convicted shall in every case endorse upon the licence of such 
 
 driver or conductor the nature of the offence, and the amount of 
 
 the penalty inflicted ; and every proprietor who shall neglect to 
 
 require to be delivered to him, and to retain in his possession, the 
 
 licence of any driver or conductor during such j)eriod as such driver 
 
 or conductor shall remain in his service, or who shall refuse or 
 
 neglect to produce such licence as aforesaid, shall for every such 
 
 offence forfeit the sum of throe pounds. 
 
 22. It shall ])e lawful for any Justice of the Peace to hear Magistrates 
 and determine all matters of comiilaint between any proprietor of a ^letermi^"^ 
 hackney carriage or metropolitan stage carriage and the driver or disputes, 
 conductor of the same respectively, and to order payment of any 
 
 sum of money that shall ai)pcar to be due to either party for wages 
 or for the earnings in resjjcct of any such carriage, or on account of 
 any deposit of money, and to order com])ensation to the pro})rietor 
 in respect of damage or loss which shall have arisen through the 
 neglect or default of any driver or conductor to the property of his 
 employer intrusted to his care, or in respect of any sum of money 
 which such proprietor may have been lawfully ordered by a Justice 
 of the Peace to pay, and which has been actually })aid pursuant 
 to such order, on account of the negligence or wilful misconduct of 
 his driver or conductor, and to order such compensation to either 
 party in respect of any other matter of complaint between them as 
 to such Justice shall seem proper. 
 
 23. Provided always, that it shall not be lawful, either in any Agreements 
 court of law or before any Justice of the Peace, to enforce drivers^etc 
 the payment of any sum of money claimed from any driver or and pro- 
 conductor by any proprietor on account of the earnings of any P"etors to be 
 liackney carriage or metropolitan stage carriage, unless under an^"^^"^^"^' 
 agreement in writing, which shall have been signed by such driver 
 
 or conductor in the presence of a competent witness ; and no such 
 agreement shall be liable to any stamp duty. 
 
 24. When any licensed driver or conductor shall leave the service Troceedings 
 of any proprietor, such pro]irietor shall, upon demand thereof, return ^o^uceuc^^*^ 
 to him his licence : Provided always, that if the said projirietor on quitting 
 shall have any comi)laint against the said driver or conductor it service, 
 shall be lawful for such jiroprietor to retain the licence for any time 
 
 not exceeding twenty-four hours after the demand thereof, and 
 within that time to ai)ply to the i)olice court of the district in which 
 the said proprietor shall dwell, or if he shall dwell in tiie city of 
 London or the liberties thereof, then to some Justice of the said 
 city, for a summons against him ; and the said j)ro])rietor, at the 
 time of ap})lying for the summons, shall dejiosit the licence with 
 the clerk of such police court or Justice ; and in case any proprietor, 
 who, upon demand thereof, shall have refused or neglected to 
 deliver to any driver or conductor his licence, shall not within
 
 168 [Chap. 86.] The London Hackney Carriages Act 1843. [6&7 Vict.] 
 
 twenty-four honrs, exclusive of Sunday or any day on which the 
 police court shall not sit, apply for such summons, and deposit the 
 licence as aforesaid, or shall not appear to prosecute his complaint 
 at the time mentioned in the summons, it shall be lawful for such 
 driver or conductor to apply at the same police court, or to some 
 Justice as aforesaid, for a summons against such proprietor ; and 
 upon hearing and deciding the case the Justice, if he shall think 
 there was no just cause for detaining the licence, or that there has 
 been needless delay on the part of the proprietor in bringing the 
 matter to a hearing, shall have power to order the said proprietor 
 to pay such compensation to the said driver or conductor as the 
 said Justice shall think reasonable ; and payment of such com- 
 pensation shall be enforced in the same manner as any penalty may 
 be enforced under this Act by such Justice; and the Justice shall 
 cause the licence to be delivered to the said driver or conductor, 
 unless any misconduct shall be proved against him, by reason 
 whereof the Justice shall think that such licence should be revoked 
 or suspended ; and so long as any pro})rietor shall neglect to apply 
 for such summons and deposit the licence, after demand thereof, 
 any Justice of the Peace may in like manner from time to time 
 order compensation to be paid by him to the same driver or con- 
 ductor ; and no proi)rietor shall, under any pretence or by virtue 
 of any claim whatever, retain beyond the time aforesaid the licence 
 of his driver or conductor. 
 
 Licences may 25. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace before 
 suspended ^^ whom any driver, conductor, . . . shall be convicted of any oifence, 
 whether under this Act or any other Act, if such Justice in his 
 discretion shall think fit, to revoke the licence of such driver, con- 
 ductor, . . . and also any other licence which he shall hold under 
 the provisions of this Act, or to suspend the same for such time as 
 the Justice shall think proper, and for that purpose to require the 
 proprietor, driver, conductor, ... in whose possession such licence 
 and the ticket thereunto belonging shall then be to deliver up the 
 same ; and every proprietor, driver, conductor, . . . who, being so 
 required, shall refuse or neglect to deliver up such licence and any 
 such ticket, or either of them, shall forfeit, so often as he shall 
 be so required and refuse or neglect as aforesaid, the sum of five 
 pounds ; and the Justice shall forthwith send such licence and 
 ticket to the * registrar, who shall cancel such licence if it has been 
 revoked by the Justice, or, if it has been suspended, shall, at the 
 end of the time for which it shall have been suspended, re-deliver 
 such licence, with the ticket, to the person to whom it was granted. 
 \_Parts omitted {as to watermen^ rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 {S.L.R^7\ 
 
 26. \JIackney carriage plates may be seized irhere licence 
 discontinued^ etc. Rej). by the Revenue Act 1869, .s-. 39.] 
 
 No person to 27. Every driver or conductor authorized by any proprietor to 
 
 act as driver act as driver of anv hacknev carriao-e, or as driver or conductor of 
 
 carriage ^^}' metropolitan stage carriage, who shall suifer any other person 
 
 without tiie to act as driver of such hackney carriage, or as driver or conductor 
 
 consent of the of ^wch^ metropolitan stage carriage, without the consent of the 
 
 propne oi. proj)rietor thereof, and also every person, whether duly licensed or 
 
 not, who shall act as driver or as conductor of any such carriage 
 
 without the consent of the proprietor thereof, shall forfeit the sum 
 
 of forty shillings ; and every driver or conductor charged with such 
 
 * See footnote on s. 7.
 
 [6 & 7 Vict.] The London Hackney Carriages Act 1843. [Chap. 80.] 169 
 
 offenro, wlio, whon roqnired l)y a Justice of the Peace so to do, shall 
 not truly make known the name and place of ahode of the person so 
 suffered by him to act as driver or conductor without the consent 
 of the proprietor, and also the number of the ticket of such ])erson 
 (if licensed), shall be liable to a further ])enalty of forty sliillings ; 
 and it shall be lawful for any police constalde, without any warrant 
 for that ])urpose, to take into custody any person unlawfully acting 
 as a driver or as a conductor . . . , and to convey him before any 
 Justice of the Peace, to l)e dealt with according to law, and also, if 
 necessary, to take charge of the carriage and every horse in charge 
 of such ])erson, and to deposit the same in some j)lace of safe 
 custody until the same can be ai)])lied for by the ])roprietor. [^I^art 
 omitted (as to watermen) reji. 37 k 38 Vict. c. 90 {S.L.li.).~\ 
 
 28. Every driver of a hackney carriage, or driver or conductor Punishment 
 of a meti'opolitan stage carriage, who shall be guilty of wanton or ^of ^"rious 
 furious driving, or who by carelessness or wilful misbehaviour shall ^vUfui*^' ^" 
 cause any hurt or damage to any person or proj)erty being in misbehaviour. 
 any street or highway, and also every driver, conductor, . . . who 
 
 during his employment shall be drunk, or shall make use of any 
 insulting or a})usive language, or shall be guilty of any insulting 
 gesture or any misbehaviour, shall for every such offence forfeit the 
 sum of three pounds ; or it shall be lawful for the Justice before 
 whom such complaint shall be brought, if in his discretion he shall 
 think pro])er, instead of inflicting sucli ])enalty, forthwith to commit 
 the offender to prison for any period not exceeding two calendar 
 months, with or without hard labour, as the Justice shall direct ; 
 and in every case where any such hurt or damage shall have been 
 caused the Justice, upon the hearing of the complaint, may adjudge, 
 as and for compensation to any ])arty aggrieved as aforesaid, a 
 sum not exceeding ten pounds, and may order the proprietor of 
 the hackney carriage or metropolitan stage carriage, the driver 
 ■or conductor of which shall have caused such hurt or damage, 
 forthwith to pay such sum, and also such costs as shall have been 
 incurred, and payment thereof may be enforced against such ])ro- 
 })rietor as any penalty or sum of money may be recovered under and 
 by virtue of this Act ; and any sum which shall be so paid by the 
 proprietor shall in like manner be recovered in a summary way 
 before a Justice of the Peace from the driver or conductor through 
 whose default such sum shall have been paid, upon proof of the 
 payment thereof, pursuant to the order of the Justice, or it shall be 
 lawful for the Justice in the first instance to adjudge the amount 
 of such com])onsation to be paid by such driver or conductor to the 
 party aggrieved, \_rart omitted (as to watermen') rep. 37 ct 38 Mi-t. 
 c. 90 (^.L.R.). See also the Highwa)/ Act 1835, s. 78, and 2 k 3 \'ict. 
 c. 47, 6'. 54.] 
 
 29. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Police of the standings 
 Metropolis from time to time ... to make regulations for enforcini; ^"'" •^^ckney 
 
 111 1-1 1 • inn Ciirriages to 
 
 order at tlie places at which metropolitan stage carnages shall call be appointed, 
 or ply for passengers, and for fixing the time during which each 
 such carriaue shall be allowed to remain at anv such place ; and 
 . . . every driver or conductor of a metropolitan stage carnage, 
 who shall wilfully disregard or not conform himself to such regula- 
 tions, shall for every such olfence forfeit the sum of forty shillings. 
 [Parts omitted (as to standings and hackney carriage drivers) rep. 
 :il k 38 Vict.c. 90 (.s'./..i^.).]"
 
 170 
 
 [Chap. 86.] The London Hackney Carriages Act 1843. [6 & 7 Vict.} 
 
 Standings to 
 be in the 
 centre of 
 streets. 
 
 Hackney 
 carriages not 
 to ply oppo- 
 site General 
 Post Office. 
 
 Lord Mayor 
 and aldermen 
 to make regu- 
 lations with 
 respect to 
 carriages, 
 etc. in the 
 city and the 
 borough. 
 
 Penalty on 
 drivers of 
 hackney 
 carriages or 
 drivers or 
 conductors of 
 metropolitan 
 stage 
 
 carriages, for 
 loitering or 
 causing any 
 obstruction, 
 or plying for 
 hire by 
 making any 
 noise, etc. 
 
 Proprietors 
 may be 
 summoned to 
 appear, and 
 to produce 
 the driver or 
 conductor. 
 
 30. Xo standing shall be appointed for liackney carriages, either 
 within the metropolitan police district or within the city of London, 
 by virtue of this Act or of any other Act, except in the centre part 
 of the street, unless in the case of a street with houses only on one 
 side of such street. \See also 13 & 14 Vict. c. 7, .v. 4; 32 k 33 Vict^ 
 C-. llo, .s. 9 (2).] 
 
 31. Nothing herein or in any other Act contained shall be 
 deemed or construed to authorize anv hackneA' carriage to stand or 
 ply for hire opposite to the General Post Office in ISaint Martins le 
 Grand. London, or any part thereof. \See 1 Vicf. c. 36, 6-. ''^.] 
 
 32. It shall be lawful for the Court of Mayor and Aldermen 
 of the city of London, within the city of London and the liberties- 
 thereof, and the boroush of Southwark. to make regulations for 
 enforcing order at the places at which metropolitan stage carriages 
 shall call or ply for passengers, and for fixing the time during 
 which each such carriage shall be allowed to remain at any 
 such place ; and every driver or conductor of a metropolitan stage- 
 carriage who shall wilfnlly disregard or not conform himself to such 
 recrulations shall forfeit the sum of fortv shillings. 
 
 33. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall ply for hire- 
 elsewhere than at some standing or place appointed for that purpose, 
 or who by loitering or by any wilful misbehaviour shall cause any 
 obstruction in or upon any public street, road, or place, and also- 
 every driver or conductor of any metrojiolitan stage carriage wha 
 by loitering or any wilful misbehaviour shall cause any obstruction, 
 in or upon any public street, road, or place, or shall improperly 
 delay such carriage on any journey, or wilfully deceive any person 
 in respect to the route or destination thereof, or who shall refuse 
 to admit and carry at the lawful fare any passenger for whom there 
 is room, and to whose admission no reasonable objection is made^ 
 or who shall demand more than the legal fare for any passenger, or 
 who, for the purpose of taking U]) or setting down a passenger, or, 
 except in case of accident or other unavoidable necessity, shall stop 
 such carriage opposite to the end of any street, or upon any place- 
 where foot passengers usually cross the carriageway, or who shall 
 ply for hire or passengers by blowing a horn, or by using any other 
 noisy instrument within the limits of tlie metropolis as defined by 
 the said Act of the second year of the reign of His late Majesty,, 
 and every conductor of a metroi)olitan stage carriage who shall 
 allow any person beside himself to ride upon the steps or in the 
 place provided for him, and every driver of a hackney carriage,, 
 whether hired or unhired, allowing any jjerson besides himself, not 
 being the hirer or a person employed by such hirer, to ride on the 
 driving box, and every driver or conductor of any metropolitan stage 
 carriage who shall smoke whilst acting in such capacity after an 
 objection taken by any person riding in or upon such carriage, shall 
 for every such ofience forfeit the sum of twenty shillings. 
 
 34. [^Property lejt in stage carriages. Rep. 37 k 38 Vict. c. 96 
 (S.L.B..).'] 
 
 35. When any complaint shall be made before any Justice of the 
 Peace against the driver of any hackney carriage, or the driver or 
 the conductor of any metropolitan stage carriage, for any ofience 
 committed by him against the provisions of this Act, or of the 
 recited Act of His late Majesty, or of any order or regulations made 
 in pursuance of this Act, it shall be lawful for such Justice, if he 
 shall think proper, forthwith to summon the proprietor of such
 
 [6 & 7 Vict.] The London Jlackne;/ Carriayes Act 1843. [Chap. 86.] 171 
 
 carriage to produce before him, or such other Justice of the Peace 
 as shall be then present, the driver or conductor by whom such 
 offence was committed, to answer such com|)luint; and in case such 
 pro})rietor, after being dulv summoned, shall fail to produce the 
 di'iver or conductor, it shall be hiwfiil for tin; Justice of the Peace 
 before whom such driver ov conductor shoidd be produced (if he 
 shall think fit) to proceed, in the absenc^e of such driver or conductor, 
 to hear and determine the case in the same manner as if he had 
 been produced, and to adjudge ])ayment by the ])ro|)i-ietor (^f any 
 penalty or sum of money and costs in which the driver shall be 
 convicted; and any sum of money which shall be so ])aid by the 
 proprietor shall be recovered in a summary way from the driver or 
 conductor by whose default such sum sliall have been paid, upon 
 proof of payment thereof, pursuant to the order of the Justice, and 
 u])on jiroof of service of the notice herein-after mentioned : Provided In case of 
 always, that if the Justice of the Peace shall deem it proper, it shall {^^[^P^f'^'^^ 
 be lawful for him wlien sucli proprietor shall fail to produce his to do. 
 driver or conductor, without any satisfactory excuse to be allowed 
 by such Justice, to impose a fine of forty shillings u[)on such jiro- 
 prietor, and so from time to time as often as he shall be summoned 
 in respect of such complaint until he shall produce his driver and 
 conductor ; and every i)roprietor so summoned to produce his driver 
 or conductor shall cause to be given to such driver or conductor, or 
 to be left at the abode specified in his licence, or (if such licence 
 shall expire after the offence committed and before the hearing of 
 the complaint) at his usual place of abode, a written notice of the 
 time and place when and wliere such driver or conductor shall be 
 required to attend; and if such driver or conductor shall not attend 
 according to such notice, it shall be lawful for a Justice of the Peace 
 to issue a warrant for his apprehension, and if after such notice any 
 driver or conductor shall, without a reasonable excuse to be allowed 
 by the Justice, neglect or refuse to attend at the time and place 
 therein mentioned, or (having previously left the service of the 
 proprietor so summoned as aforesaid) shall not at the time and 
 place of his attendance produce his licence, he shall forfeit the sum 
 of fortv shillinirs, and so from time to time as often as he shall so 
 neglect or refuse. 
 
 36. It shall be lawful for any Magistrate specially appointed Magistrates 
 under the authority of the said Act of the reign of His late Majesty h^i^anT'^^^ 
 for the purpose of hearing and determining ofiences against the determine 
 provisions of that Act, or for such other Magistrate as shall be complaints. 
 in attendance at the office appointed in that behalf, to hear and 
 determine any complaint for any offence against the provisions of 
 
 this Act, or of any Act now in force or hereafter to be in force, 
 wheresoever the cause of complaint may arise within the city of 
 London or the liberties thereof, or elsewhere within the limits of 
 this Act, so far as the same shall relate to hackney carriages or to 
 metropolitan stage carriages, ... in like manner as if such ])r(i- 
 visions had been included in the aforesaid Act. [Fart omitted {as 
 to watermen) rep. ol k 38 Vict. c. 96 {^.LJi.). See also 1 & 2 
 Will. 4, c. 22, s. 62, atid 16 & 17 Vict. c. 33, s\ 18.] 
 
 37. Upon the hearing of any comitlaint made under the provisions Evidence of 
 of this Act or the recited Act passed in the reign of His late J'0'jjpij^°ant 
 Majesty, or of the orders and regulations aforesaid, it shall be '^ 
 lawfurfor the Justice of the Peace by whom the same shall be 
 
 heard to examine and take the evidence of the informant or com-
 
 172 
 
 [Chap. 86.] The London Hackney Carriages Act 1843. [6 & 7 Vict.] 
 
 Complaints 
 to be made 
 within seven 
 t1avs. 
 
 Penalties 
 may be 
 awarded to 
 be paid by 
 instalments. 
 
 In case of 
 nonpayment 
 the party 
 may be 
 imprisoned. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 In what 
 manner goods 
 distrained 
 under this 
 
 plainant in any dispute concerning the amount of fare paid or 
 demanded by either party, or in any dispute between the proprietor 
 and driver or conductor of any hackney carriage or metropolitan 
 stage carriage concerning the wages of such driver or conductor, or 
 in any comphiint of personal injury done to the complainant by the 
 driver of any hackney carriage or metropolitan stage carriage, or 
 in any case in which the informant or complainant shall be entitled 
 to no pecuniary advantage besides his costs and expenses, or, being 
 entitled to some compensation or pecuniary advantage, shall either 
 give up all claim to the same, or shall not be the only witness in 
 the case. \^See the Evidence Act 1843, 6-. 1.] 
 
 38. All complaints under the provisions of the said recited Act 
 of the reign of His late Majesty or of this Act, or of the orders and 
 regulations made in pursuance of either of them, except such as 
 shall be made by the direction of the Commissioners of Stamps and 
 Taxes, and except in cases where some other term or limitation is 
 specially provided by this Act, shall be made within seven days 
 next after the day on which the cause of complaint shall have arisen. 
 
 39. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to hear and 
 determine all complaints under the provisions of this Act or of the 
 said recited Act of the reign of His late Majesty, and to adjudge 
 the payment of any penalty or of any sum of money under either 
 of the said Acts, or of the orders and regulations made pursuant to 
 either of them, and to order payment of the same, with or without 
 costs, either immediately, or at such time and place, and by such 
 instalments, as he shall think fit ; and in case of nonpayment of 
 the sum so ordered to be ])aid, or of any one instalment thereof, to 
 adjudge the party making default to be imprisoned in the common 
 gaol or house of correction for any term not exceeding two calendar 
 months, with or without hard labour, such imprisonment to cease 
 on payment of the sum so adjudged or ordered to be paid, or to 
 issue his warrant for the levvino- of any such sum of monev, together 
 with the costs and expenses of such warrant or of levying the 
 same, on the goods of the party making default, and to cause 
 sale to be made of such goods in case they shall not be redeemed 
 within five days, rendering to the party the overplus (if any), and 
 w^here goods of such party making default cannot be found sufficient 
 to answer the penalty or sum ordered to be paid, and all such costs 
 and expenses, to commit such party to prison, there to remain for 
 any time not exceeding two calendar months, unless such penalty 
 or sum of money, and all such costs and expenses, shall be sooner 
 paid ; and every such imprisonment shall be with or without 
 hard labour as such Justice shall direct : Provided always, that no 
 im])risonment for nonpayment of any sum ordered to be paid on 
 account of wages, or the earnings of any carriage, or of any deposit 
 of money, shall be for a longer period than one calendar month, or 
 with hard labour; and all proceedings whatsoever before any Justice 
 of the Peace under any of the provisions of this Act or the recited 
 Act of the reign of His late Majesty, and the judgment of the said 
 .Justice thereon, shall be final and conclusive between the parties, 
 and shall not be quashed or vacated for want of form, and shall 
 not be removed by certiorari, or any other writ or process, into any 
 su])erior Court. [See the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1879, s. 5.] 
 
 40. In all cases where any goods or chattels distrained or other- 
 wise seized or taken under any of the provisions of this Act or the 
 recited Act of the late reign, are directed to be sold, the same shall
 
 [6 & 7 Vict.] The London Hackney Cnrriayes Act 1843. [Chap. 86.] 173 
 
 be sold by public auction, aud notice oi' the time and place of such Act shall be 
 sale shall be given to the owner of such goods or chattels, or left ^'^^'^ 
 at his usual place of abode, three days at least prior to such sale : 
 Provided always, that if the owner of any sucli goods or chattels 
 shall give his consent in writing to the sale thereof at an earlier 
 period than is by this Act or shall be ])y any such notice appointed 
 for such sale, or in any other manner than is by this Act directed, 
 it shall be lawful to sell such goods or chattels according to such 
 consent : Provided also, that if the owner of such goods or chattels 
 shall at any time before the sale thereof ])ay or tender to the jjerson 
 who by any warrant or other process shall be directed or authorized 
 to cause such goods or chattels to be sold the sum which he shall 
 by such warrant or process be directed to levy or raise by the sale 
 of such goods or chattels, together with all reasonable costs and 
 expenses incurred, no sale of such goods or chattels shall be made. 
 \^Note on s. 39 upplies.~\ 
 
 41. For the ])urpose of serving summonses and other notices Service of 
 required by this or the recited Act of His late Majesty the usual -summonses 
 place of abode of any driver, conductor, ... or of any person who, notic^es." 
 having been licensed as a driver, conductor, . . . has neglected to 
 
 return his metal ticket at the expiration of his licence, shall be 
 deemed to be the place specified in the licence ; and it shall be 
 lawful for any Justice of the Peace in all cases, upon complaint 
 being made in respect of any matter within the meaning of this or 
 of the recited Act of His late Majesty, or of the orders and regula- 
 tions made in pursuance thereof, to issue his summons to re<[uire 
 the attendance of the person comj)lained of before the said Justice, 
 or any other Justice, at a time and place to be appointed for that 
 purpose, or to issue a warrant for the apprehension of such person, 
 either in the first instance, or after the issuing and service of such 
 summons and the non-appearance of the party summoned ; and 
 every summons or other notice required by this Act shall be deemed 
 to be duly served, provided the same, or a copy thereof, shall be 
 either personally served or left at the usual place of abode of the 
 party to whom it shall be directed, or if he shall be a party licensed 
 under this or the recited Act of His late Majesty, then at the place 
 of abode specified in his licence. [^Parta omitted (as to u'ater?nen) 
 rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96 (S.L.B.).'] 
 
 42. Every person summoned as a witness to give evidence Penalty on 
 touching any matter to be heard under this Act or the recited Act witnesses 
 of His late Majesty, who shall neglect or refuse to appear at the attend or to 
 time and place for that i)urpose appointed by any Justice of the give evidence. 
 Peace, without a reasonable excuse to be allowed by such Justice, 
 
 or who shall appear but refuse to be examined or give evidence, 
 shall forfeit the sum of five pounds, [^b't'c 2 iV: 3 I'ict. c. 71, ^s\ 22.] 
 
 43. Every summons or warrant of distress which shall be had or Certain pro- 
 taken against the proprietor of a hackney carriage or metropolitan u*^''j*"|f„^° 
 stage carriage, for the default of the driver or conductor thereof, for aocor'dini: to 
 the recovery of any penalty, compensation, or costs under the pro- the forms in 
 visions of this Act, or such rules, orders, and regulations as aforesaid, ^^^ schedule, 
 may be drawn or made out according to the several forms contained 
 
 in the schedule hereunto annexed, or to the efiect thereof, with 
 such changes as the case may require ; and every order, conviction, 
 warrant, or other proceeding which shall be drawn, had, or issued 
 under the provisions of this Act or of the recited Act of the reign 
 of His late Majesty, or of such rules, orders, and regulations as
 
 174 [Chap. 86.] Tlte London Hackney Carriages Act 1843. [6 & 7 Vict.] 
 
 aforesaid, shall be good and eft'ectaal without stating the facts in 
 
 evidence, or more than the matter or oiFence in respect whereof 
 
 such order, conviction, or other proceeding as aforesaid shall have 
 
 been had, made, or issued. 
 
 Providing for 44. In every case where there shall be more than one proprietor 
 
 xP^.^ ^^^^^® of any hackney carriage or metropolitan stage carriage, it shall be 
 
 more proprie- Sufficient, in any information, summons, order, conviction, warrant, 
 
 tors than one. or any other proceeding under the provisions of this Act or of the 
 
 said recited Act of the reign of His late Majesty, to name one of 
 
 such proprietors without reference to any other or others of them, and 
 
 to describe and proceed against him as if he were sole proprietor. 
 
 Power to 45. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace by whom any 
 
 mitigate person shall be convicted of any offence under this Act, or under 
 
 l^ena les. ^^^ recited Act of His late Majesty, to lessen the penalty or term of 
 
 imprisonment in such manner as he may think fit. \See 2 & 3 Vict. 
 
 c. 71,5. 35.] 
 
 Appropriation 46. All penalties or sums of money ordered and adjudged within 
 
 of penalties, ^j^g metropolitan police district to be paid under this Act, or the 
 
 recited Act of His late Majesty, and not otherwise appropriated, shall 
 
 be payable to Her Majesty, and all penalties or sums of money ordered 
 
 and adjudged within the city of London or the liberties thereof to 
 
 be paid under this Act or the recited Act of His late Majesty, and 
 
 not otherwise appropriated, shall be payable to the Chamberlain of 
 
 the city of London, in aid of the expenses of the police of the said city. 
 
 47. iLimitation of actions. Rep. hy the Public Authorities 
 Protection Act 1893, s. 2. See AppejidixJ] 
 
 48. [Act may he amended this session. Pep. 37 & 38 Met. c. 96 
 (S.L.P.).'] 
 
 SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing Act. 
 
 No. 1.' 
 Po7'm of a Summons to the Proprietor of a Hackney Carriage or a 
 Metropolitan Stage Carriage to produce the Drirer or Conductor 
 thereof to answer a Complaint. 
 
 To H.F. of, ^V., proprietor of the hackney carrriage, num- 
 ber \or the metropolitan stage carriage, 
 number ]. 
 Whereas complaint hath been made by CD. against the driver 
 of the hackney carriage, number \or the driver or 
 conductor of the metropolitan stage carriage, number ], 
 on the day of now last past \or instant], 
 charging that the said driver [or conductor], on the 
 day of now last past \or instant], (of which said 
 carriage you were then the proprietor,) at or about the hour 
 of did \Jiere state the alleged offence^ : These are there- 
 fore to require you to produce the said driver or conductor before me, 
 or such other Magistrate as shall be present, at on 
 the day of at of the clock in 
 the noon, then and there to answer the said complaint. 
 
 day of 
 (Signed) 
 HOE '^^vT^'V.'^^Ss^ One of the Police Magistrates of the metropolis, 
 
 \fr 
 ^-rin9f\ ''^! One of Her Maiestv's Justices of the Peace 
 
 ( 2P^"^'^-^ .AyWy for •' ' ]
 
 f6 & 7 Vict.] The London Hackney Carriages Act 1843. [Chap. 86.] 175 
 
 No. 2. 
 Form of a Warrant of JJistrens for levying upon the Proprietor of 
 a Hackney Carriage or Metropolitan Stage Carriage the Penalty 
 in ivhich the Driver or Conductor thereof has been convicted. 
 
 To A.B. of, ^'c. 
 Metropolitan ] AViiEUEAS T. />., the driver of the hackney efirrinii'e, 
 Police District - number [or the driver or conductor of the 
 
 to wit. J meti'opolituu stage carriage, number ], on 
 
 the day of was duly convicted of a ceitaiu 
 
 offence, for that \_here i^tate the ojfenre'], whereby he hath l)een 
 jidjndged to forfeit the sum of over and a})Ove the sum 
 
 of foi- the costs aud charges of the informer, making 
 
 together the sum of which hath not been i)aid by the 
 
 said driver [or conductor], nor by any person on his behalf: And 
 whereas, according to the statute in that l)eluilf made, tlic said 7:'./'., 
 the j)r(>prietor of the said carriage, hath been rei^uired to pay the 
 said sum of ' which he hath neglected and refused to 
 
 do : Therefore I command you to levy the said sum of 
 by distraining the goods and chattels of the said R.F., the said 
 ])roprietor ; and if within the space of five days next after sut;h 
 distress taken the said sum of together with 
 
 the reasonable costs and charges of taking and keeping such 
 distress, shall not be paid, then I order aud direct that you shall 
 sell and dispose of the said goods and chattels which shall be so 
 distrained, taken, and seized as aforesaid, and shall levy and raise 
 thereout the said sum of and all reasonable costs 
 
 and charges of taking and keeping and selling such distress, 
 rendering the overplus (if any) to the owner of the said goods and 
 chattels ; and you are to certify to me what you shall have done 
 by virtue of this my warrant. Given under my hand and seal 
 the day of 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 One of the Police Magistrates of the metropolis, 
 
 [or 
 
 One of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace 
 for ] 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Form of W'crrrant of Commitment of the Proprietor of a Hackney 
 Carriage or Metropolitan Stage Carriage for Want of a sufficient 
 Distress tvhereon to levy the Penalty in which the Driver or 
 Conductor of such Carriage has been convicted. 
 
 To A.B. of, <fv'., and to the keeper of the common gaol [or 
 
 house of correction] at 
 
 Metropolitan "i Whereas, rj'r. [proceed as in the Form So. 2 to the 
 
 Police District - ivords " which he hath neglected autl refused to 
 
 to wit. J do," inclusive]^ : And whereas it has been duly 
 
 made to appear to me that no sufficient distress of the goods and 
 
 chattels of the said F.F., the said proprietor, can be found whereon 
 
 to levy the said sum of : 
 
 Therefore I command you the said A.B. to apprehend and take the 
 
 said /:.7\, and safely to convey him to the common gaol [<»/• 
 
 house of correction] at in the 
 
 of aud there to deliver him to the keeper thereof, 
 
 together with this warrant. Aud I do herebv command von the
 
 T7fl rr^tr^T, Qo 1 'i^f^c^ Thames Emhankment and m p irvTr -. 
 
 1 /6 [Chap. 39.] ^^^^^^^^^ ^^. .^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ [9 & 10 Vict.] 
 
 said keeper to receive into your custody in the said gaol [or house 
 of correction] him the said E.F.^ and him therein safely to keep for 
 the space of unless the said sum of 
 
 shall be sooner paid. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal the day of 
 
 (Signed) 
 One of the Police Magistrates of the metropolis^ 
 
 \or 
 One of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace 
 for ] 
 
 \_See the Smnmart/ Jurisdiction Acts 1879, s. 29, and 1884, s. 12.] 
 
 9 & 10 VICTORIA. A.D. 1846. 
 
 CHAPTER 39. 
 
 * An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, 
 to construct an embankment and roadway on the noeth 
 Shore of the River Thames from Battersea Bridge to 
 Vauxhall Bridge, and to build a Suspension Bridge over 
 THE SAID River at or near Chelsea Hospital, with suit- 
 able Approaches thereto, including a Street from Lower 
 Sloan Street to the Northern Extremity of the Bridge. 
 
 \^M August 1846.] 
 
 [Pi-eamble recites that the Commissioners appointed to inquire inta 
 and consider the most effectual means of improving the metropolis 
 and providing increased, facilities of communication between the same, 
 by their second report of 1th Mag 1845 recommended the construction 
 of an eynbankment and public road between Battersea and Vauxhall 
 Bridges; and by their ffth report of 23/r/ July 1845 the con- 
 struction of a suspension bridge across the Thames between Battersea- 
 and Va,uxhall Bridges from a point near Chelsea Hospital on the 
 north side to a point near the public house called the " Red House " 
 on the south side ; and that it is proposed in accordance with the 
 aforesaid recommendations that the Commissioners of Her Majesty'' s- 
 Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and BuikVmgs should be 
 empowered to construct such embankment, road, and bridge as afore- 
 said,, and, in order to open complete communication icith and to the 
 said roadway and bridges, to open a new street from the south end 
 of Lower Sloane Street to a point in the interuled roadway at or 
 near the northern extremity of the said interided bridge as recom- 
 mended in the said second report; and that the recomynendations 
 aforesaid, were made on the understanding that a certain p>roportion 
 of the cost of constructing such proposed embankment and. roadway 
 should be contributed by owners of or parties interested in the 
 tenements situated on the river frontage along which the said em- 
 bankment and. roadway would pass, and that certain of such parties 
 were willing to conti-ibute accordingly ; and that the said Commis- 
 sioners had caused surveys, plans, and designs to be made of the said 
 intended embankment, roadway, and street, and of the said, intended 
 bridge and the approaches thereto ; and that such surveys, planSj 
 
 * See also 15 & 16 Vic^ c. 71, and 16 & 17 Vict. c. 87.
 
 TA p imr -1 The Thames Embankment and m^.^ on i tt-t 
 
 [9 & KJ Vict.] ^^^^^^^^ ^^^. .^^^^ ^^^ 1^4g_ [Chap. 39.] 177 
 
 and designs had been ajjpi'oved b>j the i'omtnissi oners of Her 
 Ma jest]/ s Treaaury.'] 
 
 1. [^Commissioners of Her Majestfs Woods, Forest'^, Land 
 Revenues, Worh.n, and Build inys constituted a corporation by the 
 name of " The Comrnis-v. oners of Her Majesty s Woods, Forests^ 
 Land Revenues, Works, and Jiaildiiiys'" to carry Act into effect. 
 
 Spent.'] 
 
 2. [Commissioners for issuing Exchequer Bills for Public Works 
 to advance money to be secured on tolls for purposes of the Act. 
 Spent.] 
 
 3. And he it enacted, that . . . it shall he lawful for the said ^^'*^«="^ ^^e- 
 Commissioners for executing this Act to construct and complete an ^n'tdbut^ons 
 embankment and roadway along the north hank of the River Thames aro approved 
 from Battersea Bridge to Vauxhall Bridge, and it shall he lawful ^'y 'he Trea- 
 for the said ( 'ommissioners at any time ... to construct and cf>m])lete rj^^^siorTe"" 
 
 a bridge across the said river from a j)oiut near to (Jhelsea Hospital empowered 
 aforesaid to a point near the Red House aforesaid, with convenient ^^ construct 
 a])))roaches thereto, together with convenient piers, stairs, hards, y^^j^^^,^^^^^. 
 !ind landing places, and also a street from the south end of Lower and to con- ' ' 
 t^loane Street aforesaid to the northern extremity of such bridge, in •'Struct a 
 manner herein-after mentioned, and according to such surveys, plans, ^^ ^^' 
 and designs as aforesaid, and for the purposes aforesaid, or any of 
 them, to dig and make proper foundations in the said river, and in 
 the lands on each side thereof, and make dams in the said river, 
 and cut and level the hanks thereof, and cut, remove, and take away 
 all trees, roots of trees, beds of gravel, sand, or mud, or other 
 impediment whatsoever, and do and execute every other thing 
 necessary or convenient for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them ; 
 and for the pur])0se of erectiug, maintaining, and repairing tlie said 
 intended bridge, and constructing and completing such embankment 
 and roadway as aforesaid, the said last-mentioned Commissioners 
 shall have full power and authority from time to time to land on 
 either side of the said river, within five hundred yards from the site 
 of the said intended bridge, and on any part of the ground lying 
 on the north bank of the said river between Battersea Bridge and 
 Vauxhall Bridge, all materials and other things to be used in or 
 about the same, and there to work and use such materials and 
 things as they the said last-mentioned Commissioners shall think 
 proper, doing as little damage as may be, and making such satis- 
 faction as herein-after mentioned to the respective owners and 
 occupiers of the lands and hereditaments which shall be damaged 
 
 or used for the ])urposes of this Act. . . . \ Farts omitted (as to ^"^^La"^^^^ 
 r I ■ \ 7 ; 7 , - -I /. I'- .-1 trect€d (.om- 
 
 wyrgt'/;*^';^^* yf?/- contribution) superseded by lo & lo \ ict. c. / 1 , missioners 
 
 and 16 & 17 Vict. c. 87 ; and (as to maintenance of bridge a)id to keep same 
 
 approaches) by 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 10.] '" '''^^'^' 
 
 4. And be it enacted, that in case at any time or times after the wiien the 
 said intended bridge shall have been completed the ])assage over ^"''^*'' '^ . 
 the same shall become dangerous in consequence of accident or want tijg com- 
 of repair, it shall be lawful for the said last-mentioned Commis- missioners 
 siiniers durinu' such time as shall be necessary for repairing or ''"P*'^'*^'''^'^ 
 rebuilding the said bridge, to erect such temporary bridge or ])rovide temporary 
 such ferry over the said river at such ])lace or i>laces near the site of bridge, 
 the said intended bridge as they shall think proper . . . : Provided Proviso, 
 always, that such temjjorary bridge or ferry shall continue for such 
 
 time only as shall be necessary for repairing or rebuilding the said 
 
 12
 
 178 
 
 [Chap. 39.] 
 
 The Thames Embankment and 
 Chelsea Bridge Act 1846. 
 
 [9 & 10 ViCT.J 
 
 Deeds, etc. 
 not liable to 
 stamp duty. 
 
 Owners of 
 
 vessels liable 
 for damage 
 done to the 
 bridge, etc. 
 
 intended bridge, and that such temporary bridge shall be built so as 
 to impede the navigation as little as possible. [Part omitted {tolls 
 on temporary bridge or ferry) spent. See 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. 
 s. 16.] 
 
 5 — 18. [Commissio7iers may take places for depositing materials — 
 Deposit of plans at offices of Commissioners and inspection of 
 same — Demation from deposited plans — Powers to Commissioners 
 to appoint officers — As to evidence of Commissioners'' p/roceedings — 
 Poivers to make neiv and to stop up existing carriage-ways and 
 footways, to embank the Thames as ."ihowii on deposited, plans, and to 
 stop up streets — Vesting of ground of ricer embanked and. streets, 
 etc., stopp)ed up in Commissioners — Powers to stop up ways during 
 tvorks — Penalty on obstruction of ivorks — Powers to raise or lower 
 streets, to arch over and fill in drains and sewers — Saving rights 
 of Commissioners of Servers — Powers to alter water and gas pipjes — 
 Spent. See 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 16.] 
 
 19. [Groimd laid, out into streets to form part of 2Jublic roadivay.'] 
 
 20 — 56. \_As to acquisition of lands — Assessment of compensation 
 and application of purchase moneys. Spent.'] 
 
 57 — 65. [Commissioners of Woods may jjermit intended, bridge 
 to be constructed on land forming paM of Batter sea Park — Com- 
 pensation to the Watermen's Company in respect of the Sunday Ferry 
 from the Whitehouse, St. George's, Hanover Square, to the Redhouse, 
 Battersea — Powers to Commissioners to sell materials, and to grant 
 building leases — Sale of ground rents — Powers to sell Uxnds not 
 wanted — Vesting of materials in Commissioners and powers to dis- 
 pose of same — Poivers to Commissioners to bring actions. Spent.'] 
 
 66. And be it enacted, that no contract, conveyance, lease, deed, 
 or other instrument which shall be made, granted, or executed 
 under any jjowers or authorities hereby granted, nor any contracts 
 or agreements, bonds or other securities, assignments, conveyances, 
 or other deed or instrument which shall be made, entered into, or 
 executed by any person or persons to or with the said Commissioners, 
 or otherwise, for any of the purposes of this Act, shall be subject or 
 liable to any stamp duty whatever imposed by any Act now in force, 
 nor to any stamp duty to be imposed by any future Act, unless such 
 instruments be specially subjected and specifically charged in and 
 by such future Act. 
 
 67 — 68. [Powers to the Commissi oners to take sand from the bed of 
 the Thames to form embankment and bridge, to construct jjiers, etc., 
 on the sites shown on the deposited pdans or within fifty feet thereof 
 Spent?] 
 
 69 — 84. [As to tolls. Superseded. 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 16]. 
 
 85. [Penalty for wilfully damaging bridge. Superseded 18 (t 19 
 Vict. c. 120, 6'. 206, and the Malicious Damage Act 1861, ss. 33, 51.] 
 
 86. And be it enacted, that in case any damage or mischief shall 
 be done to the bridge, or to any such pier, stairs, hard, or landing 
 place as aforesaid, or any of the works thereof respectively, by any 
 ship, lighter, barge, boat, float, raft, or vessel, through the wilful 
 negligence of any person having the command of any such ship, 
 lighter, barge, boat, float, raft, or vessel, or any of the mariners or 
 persons employed therein, then and in ever)' such case the owner 
 of such ship, lighter, barge, boat, float, raft, or vessel shall be and 
 is hereby made answerable to the said Commissioners for the amount 
 or value of any such damage or mischief ; and the same, provided it 
 shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds, if not forthwith paid and
 
 [9 & 10 Vict.] ^.^^^^^^ ^^ .^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^. [Chap. 39.] 1 79 
 
 satisfied, shall and may be recovered in such manner as the penal- 
 ties and forfeitures hereby imposed are in and by this Act directed 
 to be recovered. 
 
 87. And be it enacted, that in case the owner of any such ship, Masters to 
 lighter, bartrp, boat, float, raft, or vessel shall be compelled to pay f'-'C'jver from 
 any ])enalty, or to make satisfaction for any damages, Ijy reason of ^^y' j^^^^"|^* 
 any neglect or default done or committed by his servants or mariners, puM fur their 
 or any of them, such servants or mariners, and each and every of ueglect, etc. 
 them, shall ])e liable to ])ay such penalty or d;im:iges ^with the costs 
 
 thereof) to such owner ; and in case of nonpayment upon demand 
 thereof, and oath made by such owner of the payment made by him 
 of such penalty, satisfaction, or damages, and that the same and 
 the costs thereof have not been repaiil to him Ijy such servants or 
 mariners or any of them, although demanded, (such oath to be made 
 before any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the county 
 or place where such penalty or satisfaction shall have been recovered,') 
 the amount thereof, ])rovided the same shall not exceed the sum of 
 twenty pounds, shall be recovered in the same manner as any penalty 
 is hereby directed to be recovered. 
 
 88. And be it enacted, that in case any person shall resist or i-enaity for 
 make forcible opposition against any person employed in the due assaulting 
 
 execution of this Act, or shall assault anv survevor, encrineer, or '^^ll^^'^*^"' 
 
 . I' » ' " / etc. 
 
 agent . . . m the execution of his office, . . . every such person shall 
 for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five 
 pounds. \_Part omitted (as to collector and evasion of tolls) spent.'] 
 
 89. [Penalt^j for injurij to toll houses, lamps, etc., obstructing 
 jjassenyers, etc. Su}jerseded((is to injur]/) b>j the Malicious Damaqe 
 Act 1861 ; {(IS to obi^truction) semble obsolete. See 2 k 3 Vict.j:. 47, 
 s. .54.] 
 
 90. And be it enacted, that in all cases wherein damages or Damages and 
 charges in respect of acts or offences done or committed upon or cl'^rges, in 
 relating to the said bi'idge, piers, stairs, hards, or lauding places . . . pu*tc.°to lie' 
 respectively, are by this Act directed or authorized to be paid, and settled by 
 the manner of ascertaining the amount thereof is not specified or *^'° '^"®*^^*^- 
 provided for, such amount, in case of nonpayment thereof, or of any 
 
 dispute respecting the same, shall be ascertained and determined 
 by some two or more Justices of the Peace for the county of Middle- 
 sex * . . . (sucli Justices not being interested in the matters in 
 (piestion) ; and where by this Act any such damages or charges are 
 directed to be i)aid, in addition to any penalty for any offence, the 
 amount of such damages and charges, in case of nonpayment thereof, 
 or of any dispute respecting the same, shall be settled and determined 
 by the Justices by or before whom any offender shall be convicted 
 of such offence, and such Justices respectively are hereby authorized 
 and re([uired, on nonpayment of the damages in any of the cases 
 aforesaid, to levy such damages and charges, by distress and sale 
 of the offender's goods and chattels, in manner by this Act directed 
 for the levying of any penalties or forfeiture. . . . [^Part omitted {as 
 to tolls) spent.'] 
 
 91. And be it enacted, that all penalties and forfeitures inflicted Recovery and 
 or imj)osed by this Act (the manner of levying and recovering !^^\^tk«'^'^ °^ 
 whereof is not herein otherwise particularly directed) may, in case 
 
 of nonpayment thereof, be recovered in a summary way by the 
 
 order and adjudication of some two or more Justices of the Peace 
 
 for the said county of Middlesex,* on complaint to them for that 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 117.
 
 180 
 
 [Chap. 39.] 
 
 The Thames Embankment and 
 Chelsea Bridge Act 1846. 
 
 [9 & 10 Vict.] 
 
 Persons 
 aggrieved 
 may appeal 
 to Quarter 
 Sessions. 
 
 Proceedings 
 not to be 
 quashed for 
 want of form. 
 
 Persons 
 giving false 
 evidence 
 guilty of 
 perjury. 
 
 purpose made, and afterwards be levied, as well as the costs, if any, 
 of such proceedings or nonpayment, by distress and sale of the 
 goods and chattels of the respective offenders or persons liable to 
 pay the same, by warrant under the hands and seals of such 
 Justices ; . . . all which penalties and forfeitures, not herein 
 directed to be otherwise applied, shall be paid, one half to the 
 informer, and the remainder to the said Commissioners ; . . . but 
 in case upon return of such warrant it shall appear that no sufficient 
 distress could be had whereupon to levy the said penalties or for- 
 feitures, and such costs and expenses as aforesaid, and the same 
 shall not be forthwith paid, or in case it shall appear to the satis- 
 faction of such Justices, upon the confession of the offender or 
 otherwise, that he hath not sufficient goods and chattels whereupon 
 such penalties, forfeitures, costs, and expenses could be levied if a 
 warrant of distress should be issued, (in which last-mentioned case 
 such Justices shall not be required to issue such warrant of distress,) 
 then and in either of such cases such Justices are hereby required, 
 by warrant under their hands and seals, to commit such offender to- 
 some common gaol or house of correction for the county or place 
 within their jurisdiction, there to remain for any time not exceeding^ 
 three calendar months, or until such penalty or forfeiture shall be 
 sooner paid and satisfied, together with all costs and charges 
 attending such proceedings as aforesaid, to be ascertained by such 
 Justices, or until such offender shall otherwise be discharged by due 
 course of law. \Farts omitted {as to distress) superseded, by the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts. See also the Summary Jurisdiction 
 Act 1879, 5. 5.] 
 
 92—96. Procedure for 'penalties — Transient offenders — Forms of 
 information and conviction — Poivers to Justices to administer oaths 
 — Attendance of witnesses. Spent in part ; remr. superseded by the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts7\ 
 
 97. And be it enacted, that the said Commissioners, and all 
 other corporations and persons who may think themselves aggrieved 
 by any order, judgment, or determination of any Justice of the Peace 
 relating to any matter or thing in this Act mentioned or contained,, 
 and for which no power of appeal is by this Act specially given, 
 may . . . appeal to the Justices of the Peace at any General or 
 Quarter Sessions to be held for the said county of Middlesex.* . , . 
 \Parts omitted {as to procedure on appeal) superseded by the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts7\ 
 
 98 — 101. \_Declaring what shall be good service on and by Com- 
 missioners — Proof by Commissioners of debts in bankruptcy — 
 Distress not unla/vful for want of form. Spent in part ; remr^ 
 superseded by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.'] 
 
 102. And be it enacted, that no proceeding to be had or taken 
 in pursuance of this Act shall be quashed or vacated for want of 
 form, or be removed by certiorari, or by any other writ or pro- 
 ceeding whatsoever, into any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record 
 at Westminster or elsewhere, any law or statute to the contrary 
 notwithstanding. 
 
 103. And be it enacted, that all persons who upon any examina- 
 tion to be taken by virtue of this Act shall wilfully and corruptly 
 give false evidence or otherwise forswear themselves before any jury, 
 or before any Justice of the Peace acting as such in the execution 
 of this Act, shall and may be prosecuted for the same, and upon 
 
 * Now County of London Sessions. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 42 (7).
 
 [13 & 14 Vict.] The London Hackney Carriages Act 1850. [Chap. 7.] 181 
 
 conviction thereof sliull be snliject and liable to such and the same 
 pains and penalties as persons guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury 
 are by the laws in being sul)ject and lial)Ie to. 
 
 104 — 105. \^Tender of amendH and limitations of actiona. Hep. 
 ■by the Public Aidhorities Protection Act 1893. See Appendix.'] 
 
 106. \_Sacing the rights of the Croum.'] 
 
 107. {^Saving the rights of the Corporation of the City of London.'] 
 
 108. \_Saving the rights of the Commissioners of Sewers of West- 
 minster and part of Middlesex. Superseded 11 k 12 Vict. c. 112.* 
 See noiv 18 & 19 Vict. c. 12U, s. 13.5.] 
 
 109. [^Commissioners to give ejfect to any agreements made on 
 •behalf of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, 
 
 Works, and Buildings. Spent.] 
 
 110. And be it enacted, that after the expiration of the lease ^!!^'!r^ ^'^^ 
 under wiiicli the Governor and Company of Chelsea ^Vaterworks t waterworks 
 now hold certain frontage and liiud at Thames Bank, grunted by Company to 
 the Martpiis of Westminster, it shall be lawful for the said Governor ^^^^ a cut 
 and Comi)any of Chelsea Waterworks,! provided at the expiration iu™nded^ ^^ 
 of such lease the said Governor and Company shall no longer be roadway, etc. 
 permitted to use the entrance of the cut or layby to the Grosvenor 
 
 Canal, so as to have access to their freehold property, to make a cut 
 or entrance through the said intended roadway and embankment 
 on and into their freehold land at Thames Bank aforesaid, with a 
 bridge over it, and all necessary works, the same to be subject to 
 the approval of the Commissioners for the time being for executing 
 this Act, and saving the rights of the Crown and of the Corporation 
 of the City of London ; and the said bridge and the roadway over 
 the said cut shall bekei)t in repair by and maintained at the expense 
 of the person or persons liable to the repair of the road under the 
 provisions of this Act. 
 
 Ill — 116. [Application of moneys received by the Commissioners 
 — Application of tolls — Commissioners to render accounts to the 
 Treasury — Receipts of two Commissioners to be discharges — Power 
 to contributors to charge their property with their contributions — 
 Commissioners exemptecf from personal responsibility. Spent.] 
 
 117. [Act to be judicially noticed.] 
 
 Schedule. [Description of lands to be taken. Spent.] 
 
 13 & 14 VICTORIA. A.D. 1850. 
 
 CHAPTER 7. 
 
 An Act for consolidating the Office of the Registrar of 
 Metropolitan Public Carriages with the Office of Com- 
 missioners OF Police of the Metuoi'olis, and making 
 other Provisions in regard to the consolidated Offices. 
 
 [25M. ^farch 1850.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. Q". {S.L.R.).] 
 1. [Office of Registrar of 'Metropolitan Public Carriages abolished. 
 Rep. 38 ct 30 Vict. c. m (S.L.R.).] 
 
 * This Act is repealed 88 & 3!) Vift. c, 6(5 (S.L.R.). 
 
 t Now the Metropolitan Water Boaid (2 Edw. 7, c. 41).
 
 182 [Chap. 7.] The London Hackney Carriages Act 1850. [13 & 14 ViCT.j 
 
 Duties of 2. All the jurisdiction, powers, authorities, privileges, interests, 
 
 ofece^mL- ^^^^ duties now vested in or exercised by the office of Registrar of 
 ferred to Metropolitan Public Carriages hereby abolished shall be transferred 
 Commission- to and vested in and shall hereafter be exercised by the Com- 
 ers of Police, misgioners of Police of the Metropolis, in as full and ample a 
 manner to all intents and purposes as they were vested in and 
 might have been exercised by the said Registrar of Metropolitan 
 Public Carriages. \^See 19 & 20 Vict. c. 2, s. L] 
 
 3. {Retirinq allowances to officers whose offices are abolished. 
 Rep. 54 & 5o Vict. c. 67 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 Standings 4. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Police from 
 
 for hackney time to time to appoint standings for hackney carriages at such 
 carnages to places as they shall think convenient in any street, thoroughfare, or 
 appoin e . ^j^^^g ^^ p^^j^iif, resort within the metropolitan jiolice district, any 
 law, statute, or custom to the contrary thereof notwithstanding, and 
 at their discretion to alter the same, and from time to time to make 
 regulations concerning the boundaries of the same, and the number 
 of carriages to be allowed at any such standing, and the times at 
 and during which they may stand and ply for hire at any such 
 standing, and also from time to time to make such regulations as 
 the said Commissioners shall deem proper for enforcing order at 
 every such standing, and for removing any person who shall 
 unnecessarily loiter or remain at or about any such standing ; 
 and the said Commissioners shall cause all the orders and reg'ula- 
 tions to be made by them as aforesaid to be advertised in the 
 London Gazette., and a copy thereof, signed by one of the said 
 Commissioners, to be hung up for public inspection in the office of 
 the Commissioners of Police in the city of Westminster and at each 
 of the police courts, and such copy shall be received in evidence in 
 the said courts as if it were the original of which it purports to be 
 a copy, and shall be taken to be a true copy of such original order 
 or regulation, without further proof than the signature of the said 
 Commissioner. [See 16 k 17 Vict. c. 33, s. 12.] 
 
 5. \Repeal of provisions as to ^'' standings^'' in Acts previous to 
 
 6 & IVict. c. 86. Bep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 {8.L.R.)^^ 
 
 Saving of 6. Provided always, that nothing in this Act or in the said 
 
 Bloomsbury ^\ct of the seventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty con- 
 
 46cr^3 c*^i34 tained shall alter or repeal, or be construed to alter or repeal, or 
 
 invalidate, or in anywise prejudicially affect, either wholly or in 
 
 part, an Act passed in the forty-sixth year of the reign of His 
 
 Majesty King George the Third, intituled " An Act for ornamenting 
 
 and embellishing the Centre or Area of Bloomsbury Square in the 
 
 parish of Saint George Bloomsbury in the County of Middlesex, and 
 
 for preventing Hackney Coaches standing or plying for Hire in or 
 
 near the said Square." 
 
 7. \_One Coniniissioner maij act. Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 
 
 {S.L.R.)f] 
 
 This Act 8. This Act shall be construed as one Act with the said Act 
 
 to be con- passed in the seventh year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen 
 
 6&7Vict. Victoria, intituled "An Act for regulating Hackney and Stage 
 
 c. 86. Carriages in and near London," and all the provisions of the said 
 
 Act, except so far as is herein otherwise provided, shall extend to 
 
 this Act, and to all things done in execution of this Act. 
 
 9. \_Commencement of Act, Qth April 1850. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. 
 c. m (S.L.R.).] 
 
 10. [Act maij he amended, etc. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 
 (6'.i.i?.).]
 
 [14 & 15 Vict.] The Common Lodging Houses Act 1851. [Chap. 28.] 183 
 
 14 & 15 VICTORIA. A.D. 1851. 
 
 CHAPTER L'8. 
 
 *An Act for the well-ordering of Common Lodging Houses. 
 
 [24M July 1851.] 
 
 ^Preamble rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10 (,S'./../t'.).] 
 
 1. In citing this Act for any pnr])Ose it shall be sufficient to use Short title, 
 the expression " The Common Lodgint;- Houses Act, 1851." 
 
 2. The following words and expressions in this Act liave, for the interpreta- 
 purposes and execution of this Act, the following meanings ; te';J.^g^in 
 to wit, this Act. 
 
 The word " place " includes county, riding, hundred, and other 
 division, or j)art of a county, city, borough, parish, district, and 
 other place whatsoever : 
 
 The expression '' common lodging house " includes, in any case 
 in which only a part of a liouse is used as a common lodging 
 house, the part so used of such house. 
 \_Part omitted (other dejinitions) rep. 55 & 50 Vict. c. 10 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 3 — 4. [Authorities to execute Act. — Expenses of executing Act. 
 Superseded, {as regards London) 57 & 58 Vict. c. cxxiv.] 
 
 5. The expression in this Act " the local authority " means, with Moaning of 
 respect to the purposes and execution of this Act with respect to ^.^4eYocai 
 any place, the body or person by this Act autliori/.ed to execute authority.' 
 with resj)ect to the place the several provisions of this Act. 
 
 6. \_Sotice of Act to be gii'en to the keepers of common lodging 
 houses. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 06 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 7. The local authority shall keep a register in which shall be Registers of 
 entered the names and residences of the keepers of all common J^^^™'^'^ 
 lodging houses within the jurisdiction of the local authority, and houses to 
 the situation of every such house, and the number of lodgers be kept, 
 authorized according to this Act to be received therein. [See also 
 
 2 Ediv. 7, c. clxxiii. ss. 46 — 57.] 
 
 8. [_Lodgers not to be received in common lodging houses until 
 registered. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. QQ (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 9. [Local authority mag make regulations. Rep. (as regards 
 London) 2 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii. 6". 53.] 
 
 10. [Penalties for offences against regulations. Semble super- 
 seded (as regards London') 2 Edu\ 7, c. clxxiii. *\ 53.] 
 
 11. The keeper of a common lodging house shall, when a person ^5,^^^^^^"^ *^^ 
 in such house is ill of fever or any infectious or contagious disease, lodging 
 give immediate notice thereof to the local autliority, or some officer houses to 
 of the lot'al authority, and also to the Poor Law medical officer and ^f^f^."°r'^^ 
 the Poor Law relieving officer of the union or parish in which the etc. therein 
 common lodging house stands. [See also 16 & 17 Vict. c. 41. ,s. 7, 
 
 and 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, ^'. bi).~\ 
 
 * Whole Act rep. (except so far as relates to metropolitan police district, bv the 
 Public Health Act 1875, s. 3 18, and (except so far as relates to the metropolis as defined 
 by the TubUc Health Act lS7:j) 55 & oli Vict.c. lU (S.L.R.)- A*^t amended generally 
 IG ic 17 Vict. c. 41 ; 2it .<c 30 Vict. c. iK), s. 41 ; 37 & 38 Vict. c. «9, s. 49 ; 57 A: 5S Vict, 
 c. cxxiv. ; and 2 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii., Part IX.
 
 184 
 
 As to 
 inspection 
 of common 
 lodging 
 houses. 
 
 As to 
 
 cleansing of 
 common 
 lodging 
 houses. 
 
 Penalty for 
 offences 
 against this 
 Act. 
 
 Eecoveiy of 
 penalties. 
 
 General 
 powers of 
 local autho- 
 rity, etc. 
 
 |-p 1 • -^ The Coal Duties {London ^^ Westminsfer [14 & 15 
 
 LL^HAr. cxivi J ^. ^^/j^^.^^^ Comities) Act 1851. Vict.] 
 
 12. The keeper of a common lodging house, and every other 
 person having or acting in the care or management thereof, shall, 
 at all times when required by any officer of the local authority, give 
 him free access to such house or any part thereof. 
 
 13. The keeper of a common lodging house shall thoroughly 
 cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, 
 walls, ceilings, privies, cesspools, and drains thereof, to the satis- 
 faction of and so often as shall be required by or in accordance with 
 any regulation or byelaw of the local authority, and shall well and 
 sufficiently, and to the like satisfaction, limewash the walls and 
 ceilings thereof in the first week of each of the months of 
 April and October in every year. 
 
 14. If the keeper of a common lodging house, or any other 
 person having or acting in the care or management thereof, offend 
 against any of the jirovisions of this Act, or any of the byelaws or 
 regulations made in pursuance of this Act, or if any person in any 
 common lodging house be confined to his bed for forty-eight hours 
 by fever or any infectious or contagious disease, without the keeper 
 of such house giving notice thereof as required by this Act, every 
 person so oflending shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty 
 not exceeding five pounds, and to a further penalty not exceeding 
 forty shillings for every day during which the oftence continues : 
 Provided always, that this Act shall not exempt any person from 
 any penalty or other liability to which he mav be subject irresijective 
 of this Act. {_8ee 16 & 17 ^Vict. €.41, s. 11.] 
 
 15. The clauses and provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolida- 
 tion Act, 1845, "with respect to the recovery of damages not 
 specially jirovided for, and of penalties, and to the determination 
 of any other matter referred to Justices," are for the purposes and 
 execution of this Act incorporated with this Act.* 
 
 16. The local authority, and all Justices, constables, and others, 
 shall respectively have full jurisdiction, powers, authorities, and 
 indemnities for executing the several provisions of this Act. . , . 
 \_Fart omitted (as to hours of entry) rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (/S.L.i?.).] 
 
 17. \_Act not to extend, to the city of London. Rep. 55 & 56 Vict, 
 c. 19 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 18. \_Act not to extend to Scotland.'] 
 
 Schedule. [Form of Notice under s. 6. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. 
 c. 66 (S.L.R.).-] 
 
 CHAPTER CXLYI. 
 
 An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Vend and 
 Delivery of Coals in London and Westminster, and in 
 certain Parts of the adjacent Counties ; and to allow 
 a Drawback on Coals conveyed beyond certain Limits. 
 
 [8th August 1851.] 
 
 [Preamble recites 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. Ixxvi. ; 1 & 2 Vict. c. ci. ; and 
 8c\:9 Vict. c. lOl.f] 
 
 28. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures by the before-men- 
 tioned Acts and this Act, or any of them, imposed, or which may 
 of fine^^and ^^^ imposed by virtue of any of the powers and authorities in 
 penalties not such Acts, or any of them, contained (the manner of levying and 
 
 exceeding * xhese provisions are repealed in part by the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884, 
 
 s. 4, and largely superseded by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts. 
 t 8 & 9 Vict. c. 101 is rep.' by 56 k. 57 Vict. c. 54 (8.L.R.). 
 
 As to reco- 
 very and 
 
 251
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] The Thames Emhanhment Act 1852. [Chap. 71.] 185 
 
 recoverin;^ whereof is not otherwise directed), not exceedintr twenty- 
 five ])onnds, shall be sued for within four months after the offence 
 ■committed; and all such fines, penalties, and forfeitures shall be 
 levied and recovered before any Justice, and such Justice is hereby 
 empowered and rcfjuired, upon information or complaint to him 
 made, to grant a summons or warrant to bring before any Justice 
 such offender at the time and place as shall be in such summons or 
 warrant specified ; and if, on the conviction of any offender, either 
 on his own confession or on the evidence of any one or more credible 
 witness or witnesses u])on oath (whicii oath such Justice is hereby 
 empowered to administer), such fine, penalty, or forfeiture sliall not 
 be forthwith paid, the same shall be levied by distress and sale of 
 the goods and chattels of the offender by warrant under the hand 
 and seal of any Justice . . . ; and for want of distress, or in case 
 the fine, })enalty, or forfeiture shall not be forthwith paid, it shall 
 be lawful for any Justice to commit any such offender to the common 
 gaol or house of correction for the county, city, or place where the 
 offence shall be committed, there to remain without bail or main- 
 prise for any time not exceeding six months, unless such fine, ])enalty, 
 or forfeiture, and all reasonable charges attending the recovery 
 thereof, shall be sooner paid ; and all such fines, penalties, and 
 forfeitures, when recovered, shall be paid into the hands of the 
 overseers of the i)Oor of the parish, township, or place where the 
 same shall have been incurred, for the use of the poor of such 
 parish, township, or place. [^Fart omitted (as to distress) super- 
 ceded h)j the Siimmarij Jurisdiction Acts. See also the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Act 1879, s. 5.] 
 
 \_The remainder of the Act relates to coal duties and procednri', 
 and is either repealed by 52 k 53 Vict. c. 17, or superseded b'/ the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts?[ 
 
 15 & 16 VICTORIA. A.D. 1852. 
 
 CHAPTER 71. 
 
 An Act to amend an Act of the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her 
 PRESENT Majesty for the Embankment of a Portion of the 
 PiVER Thames. [3uM June 1852.] 
 
 [Preamble recites 9 & 10 Vict. c. 39 (Jn this Act called the recited 
 Act), and that by the Croicn Lands Act 1851 the Commissioners of 
 Her Majesty s Works and Public Buildinys are noic substituted 
 for the Commissioners of Her Majesty s Woods, Forests, Laud 
 Revenues, Works, and Ihiildings for the purposes of the recited 
 Act, and that the agreements referred to in the recited Act have not 
 yet been made, and that the same cannot be carried out without 
 considerable delay, and that it is expedient that the eastern division 
 cf the said intended embankment and roadway authorized by the 
 said recited Act should be constructed and completed as speedily as 
 possible.'] 
 
 1. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Commis- 
 Works and Public Buildings forthwith, or so soon as they shall ^j?JJ.^7 °^ 
 think fit, to construct and complete so much of the embankment empowered 
 and roadwav bv the said recited Act authorized to be made as to make
 
 186 
 
 [Chap. 85.] 
 
 The Burial Act 1852. 
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] 
 
 embankment 
 before 
 
 entering into 
 certain 
 agreements 
 as directed 
 by the 
 recited Act. 
 
 extends or will extend from Vauxhall Bridge on the east to the 
 sewer which forms the western boundary of the gardens of Chelsea 
 Hospital on the west, in the manner and according to the surveys, 
 plans, and designs in the said recited Act specified, although no 
 such asrreements as are therein mentioned shall have been made 
 and entered into ; and further, all the powers and provisions in 
 the said Act applicable to the said embankment and roadway 
 thereby authorized to be made shall in all respects apply to that 
 part thereof which is hereby authorized to be made, as if the same 
 was herein repeated, except that enactment which provides that the 
 embankment and roadway is not to be executed until such agree- 
 ments as therein mentioned shall have been made and entered into, 
 and in all respects as if the said powers and provisions had been 
 given to and made applicable to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
 Works and Public Buildings, instead of the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's "Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings. 
 
 2. \_Act not to ajfect agreements air each/ entered into between Com- 
 missioners of Woods and other parties. Spent. ~\ 
 
 On repre- 
 sentation of 
 Secretary of 
 State, Her 
 Majesty in 
 Conncil may 
 order discon- 
 tinuance of 
 burials in any 
 part of the 
 metropolis. 
 
 CHAPTER 85. 
 
 An Act to amend the Laws concerning the Burial of the 
 Dead in the Metropolis. [\st July 1852.] 
 
 \_Preamhle, reciting 13 & 14 Vict. c. 52, rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 
 {S.L.R.)?!, 
 
 1. [Repeal of 13 k 14 Vict. c. 52. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 2. In case it appear to Her Majesty in Council, upon the repre- 
 sentation of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State,* 
 that for the protection of the public health burials in any part 
 or parts of the metropolis, or in any burial grounds or places of 
 biurial in the metropolis, should be wholly discontinued, or should 
 be discontinued subject to any exception or qualification, it shall be 
 lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, 
 to order that after a time mentioned in the Order burials in such 
 part or parts of the metropolis or in such burial grounds or places 
 of burial shall be discontinued wholly, or subject to any exceptions 
 or qualifications mentioned in such Order, and so from time to time 
 as circumstances may require ; provided that notice of such repre- 
 sentation, and of the time when it shall please Her Majesty to 
 order the same to be taken into consideration by the Privy Council, 
 shall be published in the Londo7i Gazette, and shall be affixed on 
 the doors of the churches or chapels of the parishes in which any 
 burial grounds or places of burial affected by such representation 
 shall be situate, or on some other conspicuous places within the 
 part or parts of the metropolis affected by such representation, one 
 calendar month ... at the least before such representation is so 
 considered : Provided always, that no such representation shall be 
 made in relation to the burial ground of any parish until ten days 
 previous notice of the intention to make such representation shall 
 have been given to the incumbent and the vestry clerk of such 
 parish. [Part omitted {as to epidemics, etc?) rep. 38 & 39 Vict, 
 c. 66 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 * The Local Government Board is substituted for a Secretary of State by the 
 Burial Act 1900, s. 4.
 
 [15 & 10 Vict.] T/ie Burial Act 1852. [Chap. 85.] 187 
 
 3. No such Order iu C'onncil as aforesaid shall be deemed to Order not 
 extend to any bnrial ground of the ])eoj)le called Quakers, or of the ^^ ^uriaf 
 persons of the Jewish persuasion, used solely for the burial of the pounds of 
 bodies of such people and ])ersoi)s res])ectively, unless the same be Quakers or 
 expressly mentioned in such Order ; and nothin<r in this Act shall '^*^'^^''^' "°^®^'' 
 
 11 •!• 11 •! i-i-i/> 1 i- expressly 
 
 prevent the burial m any such burial trround in which tor the time included, 
 being interment is not required to be discontinued of the bodies of 
 such ])eo])le and ])ersons resj)ectively ; and no such Order in Council 
 as aforesaid shall be deemed to extend to any non-jjarochial burial 
 ground being tlie proj)erty of any private person, unless the same 
 be expressly mentioned in such Order. 
 
 4. It shall not be lawful, after the time mentioned in any such Burial not to 
 Order in Council for the discontinuance of burials, to bury the dead after Order 
 in any church, cha])el, churchyard, or ])nrial place, or elsewhere, in Council 
 within the part or parts of the metropolis or iu the burial grounds fordis- 
 
 or places of burial (as the case may be) in which burials have by continuance. 
 
 any such Order been ordered to be discontinued, except as in this 
 
 Act or in such Order excepted ; and every person who shall, after 
 
 such time as aforesaid, ])ury any body, or in anywise act or assist in 
 
 the burial of any body, contrary to this enactment, shall be guilty 
 
 of a misdemeanor. 
 
 5. After the time from which burials in any place of burial of any Restriction 
 ]»arish are recjuired under this Act to be discontinued, the body of ^^[^*^^|j^j*^®j 
 any jnirishioner or inhabitant of such parish shall not be buried in inhabitants 
 any burial ground within the metropolis belonging to any other of parishes 
 ])arish within the metropolis, save where the body of any of the ^oan"]" 
 family or relatives of such parishioner or inhabitant has been whereof are 
 interred in such burial ground, and the relatives or other persons closed, 
 having the care and direction of the funeral signify a desire that on 
 
 that account the body of such parishioner or inhabitant should be 
 there interred (such burial ground not being a burial ground in 
 which burials have been ordered to be discontinued under this Act), 
 and save as herein otherwise provided ; and every ])erson having 
 the care or control of anv burial ground who knowinglv authorizes 
 or permits any burial therein contrary to this enactment shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 6. Provided always, that notwithstanding any such Order in Savins of 
 Council, where by virtue of any faculty legally granted, or by usage to'^bun-Vn 
 or otherwise, there is at the time of the passing of this Act any vaults,' etc. 
 right of interment in or under any church or chapel affected by 
 
 such Order, or iu any vault of any such church or chapel, or of 
 any churchyard or burial ground affected by such Order, and where 
 any exclusive right of interment in any such burial ground has been 
 })urchased or acquired before the passing of this Act, it shall be 
 lawful for one of Her Majesty's princi])al Secretaries of State * from 
 time to time, on ap])lication being made to him, and on being 
 satisfied that the exercise of such right will not be injurious to 
 health, to grant licence for the exercise of such right during such 
 time and subject to such conditions and restrictions as such Secre- 
 tary of State* may think fit, but such licence shall not prejudice or in 
 anywise affect the authority of the ordinary, or of any other person 
 who, if this Act had not been passed, might have prohibited or con- 
 trolled interment under such right, nor dispense with any consent 
 which would have been required, nor otherwise give to such right 
 
 * See footnote to s. 2.
 
 188 
 
 [Chap. 85.] 
 
 The Burial Act 1852. 
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] 
 
 Sa\-ing as to 
 cemeteries in 
 Schedule (B) 
 and new 
 burial 
 grounds 
 hereafter 
 approved of 
 by Secretary 
 of State. 
 
 Saving as to 
 St. Paul's 
 Cathedral 
 and West- 
 minster 
 Abbey. 
 New burial 
 grounds in 
 the metro- 
 polis to be 
 approved by 
 Secretary 
 of State. 
 
 The Com- 
 missioners 
 of Sewers of 
 the City of 
 London to 
 be a burial 
 board for the 
 parishes in 
 the city and 
 its liberties. 
 
 greater force or effect than the same would have had if this Act 
 had not been passed. 
 
 7. The provisions of this Act shall not extend to authorize the 
 discontinuance of burials, or to prevent the burial of the body of 
 any person in any of the cemeteries mentioned in the Schedule (B.) 
 to this Act, or in any burial ground or cemetery to be hereafter 
 provided with the approval of one of Her Majesty's priucij^al 
 Secretaries of State,* as herein mentioned. 
 
 8. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to prevent the 
 interment in the cathedral church of Saint Paul's London, or in the 
 collegiate church of Saint Peter's Westminster, of the body of any 
 person, where Her Majesty, by any writing under her Royal sign 
 manual, signify her pleasure that the body be so interred. 
 
 9. No new burial ground or cemetery (parochial or non- 
 parochial) shall be provided and used in the metropolis, or within 
 two miles of any part thereof, without the previous approval of one 
 of Pier Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.* 
 
 • • ■ • • • 
 
 43. The provisions herein-liefore contained for the appointment 
 of burial boards shall not apply to any parish within the limits of 
 the city of London and the liberties thereof ; but it shall be lawful 
 for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the said city, in Common 
 Council assembled, if and when they see fit so to do, to authorize 
 and direct the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London to 
 exercise for the said city and liberties all the powers and authorities 
 vested in burial boards under this Act ; and thereupon such Commis- 
 sioners shall have and exercise for and on behalf of the said city and 
 liberties all such powers and authorities as are hereby vested in the 
 burial board for any i)arish, or which might be exercised by such 
 board with the approval of the vestry ; but the expenses to be 
 incurred by such Commissioners in providing and laying out any 
 burial ground or burial grounds under this Act, and building the 
 necessary chapel or chapels therein, shall not exceed such sum as 
 the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in Common Council 
 assembled shall authorize to be expended for this purpose ; and the 
 money required for defraying the expenses incurred under this Act 
 by the said Commissioners shall be charged upon and payable out of 
 the consolidated rate authorized to be made by " the City of London 
 Sewers Act, 1S4S," or any monies applicable for defraying the 
 expenses by the said Act charged upon or payable out of such rate ; 
 and the income of any burial ground provided under this Act by such 
 Commissioners, which if such ground had been provided by a burial 
 board for any parish would be ajiplicable in aid of the rate for the 
 relief of the poor of such parish, shall be applicable in aid of the 
 said consolidated rate ; and the provisions contained in " The City 
 of London Sewers Act, ] 848," for the purpose (as therein expressed) 
 of enabling the said Commissioners to effect the purchases therein 
 authorized shall be applicable for the purpose of enabling the said 
 Commissioners to purchase land for the purposes of this Act ; and 
 the powers for and auxiliary to the sale and disposal of land given 
 or expressed to be given by " The City of London Sewers Act, 1848," 
 and " The City of London Sewers Act, 1851," with respect to land 
 purchased by the said Commissioners for any of the purposes men- 
 tioned in such last-mentioned Act, and deemed by them unnecessary 
 
 * See footnote to s. 2,
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] The Burial Act \hb2. [Chap. 85.] 189 
 
 for such purposes, shall Le applicable with respect fo any land pur- 
 chased by the said Commissioners for the purposes of this Act which 
 may not apjiear to them to he wanted for such purposes ; and all the 
 provisions of the said City of London fSewers Acts ai>plicahle to the 
 exercise of the jjowers vested in the said (.'ommissioners shall be 
 applicable to and for the jturposes of this Act, as if the powers 
 whicli under tliis Act may become vested in such Commissioners 
 had been powers vested in them under the said " City of London 
 Sewers Act, ls4-S;" provided that it shall be lawful for the said 
 Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons to appoint any incumbent or 
 incumbents of any parish or parishes within the said city or 
 liberties to act with the said Commissioners for the purposes of this 
 Act. \_See the Citj of London Savers Act 1897.] 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 45. {J^ecital of uncompleted purchase, under the Metropolitan Brompton 
 Interments Act 1850, of Brompton Cemetery hij the General Board ^^^^^P' 
 of Health.'] . . . The rights and obligations of the general board commission- 
 of health with reference to the purchase of the said cemetery * shall ers of Works 
 upon the passing of this Act become transferred to the Commissioners 
 
 of . . . Works . . . ; and in case the said cemetery shall be conveyed 
 to them by virtue of the transfer hereby made of such rights and 
 liabilities, then immediately upon such cemetery being so conveyed, . . . 
 the said cemetery shall, without any farther conveyance, become 
 vested in the said Commissioners of . . . Works . . . , in the like 
 corporate caj)acity in which any lands, tenements, or hereditaments 
 are vested in them under the Act of this last session of Parliament, 
 chapter forty-two, but subject to the rights to graves, vaults, anil 
 monuments subject to which such cemetery may have been conveyed 
 to such Commissioners or to the general board of health, as the 
 case may be, and subject to the powers and for the purposes herein- 
 after mentioned. \_Words omitted rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10 {S.L.R.j 1 
 
 46. [Recital of the Metropolitan Interments Act 1851, and pro- 
 visions as to purchase jnoney of Brompton Cemeter)/. Rep. 55 & 56 
 Vict. c. 10 {SX-R.).] 
 
 47. \_\Vinding up West of London and Westminster Cemetery Co. 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. m (S.L.R.).] 
 
 48. The said Commissioners of Works . . . shall and may, in Brompton 
 case the said Brompton Cemetery be vested in them by or under this ^^"^^Z^?,^ 
 Act, sell and dis])ose of the same or any part thereof, sul)ject to the bv direction 
 rights affecting the same, as the . . . Treasury may direct ; and in of the 
 
 the meantime, until such sale, the Secretary of State may and shall Treasury, 
 permit the same to be used for the purposes of interment, uj)on such meantime 
 terms and conditions as he shall think fit : and the residue of the used for 
 monies arising from the sale and disjiosal of the said cemetery, or any interments. 
 part thereof, and in respect of the interments therein, after defraying 
 the expenses incident to such sale and to the care and management 
 of the cemetery, until the whole thereof shall be sold and disposed 
 of, shall be paid to the i\k'troi)olitan Interments Kepayments Account 
 mentioned in the said Act of the last session of Parliament, to be 
 carried to the said Consolidated Fund. [ Words omitted rep. 55 & 56 
 
 Virt. C.I'd {S.I..R.).'] 
 
 49. Where any body is buried in any of the cemeteries mentioned Limiting the 
 in Schedule (B.) to this Act, at the expense of any union or parish, compensation 
 the fee or sum to be paid or payable on the interment of such body, j^yabie^on 
 
 * T 1 pauper 
 
 l.e. the cemetery of the West of London and Westminster Cemetery Company burials in 
 (commonly called the Brompton Cemetery). ' cemeteries.
 
 190 
 
 [Chap. 85.] 
 
 The Burial Act 1852. 
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] 
 
 Definition of 
 " the metro- 
 polis." 
 
 Saving 
 rights of 
 cemetery 
 
 companies. 
 
 or otherwise in respect thereof, to the incumbent of the parish or 
 ecclesiastical district from which such body is removed for interment, 
 shall not exceed the sum of one shilling, or where the incumbent 
 now receives in respect of the like Inirial in the ground of his parish 
 more than one shilling shall not exceed the sum so now received, 
 and in no case shall exceed two shillings and sixpence; and no other 
 fee or sum whatsoever shall be payable in respect of such interment, 
 to or for the use of any person as an officer of such parish or district, 
 or for or on behalf of such parish or district, anything in any Act 
 mentioned in the said Schedule (B.) or any other Act notwithstanding. 
 [Amended 16 & 17 Vict. c. 134, s. 7.] 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 53. For the jmrposes of this Act, the expression " the metropolis " 
 shall be construed to mean and include the cities and liberties of 
 London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the 
 parishes, precincts, townships, and places mentioned in the Schedule 
 (A.) to this Act. 
 
 54. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall 
 extend to take away, diminish, alter, or jn-ejudice any of the rights, 
 powers, or authorities vested in any of the cemetery companies 
 incorporated under the several Acts mentioned in the said Schedule 
 (B.) to this Act, but all such rights, powers, and authorities shall 
 be as good, valid, and effectual as if this Act had not passed. 
 
 SCHEDULE (A.) 
 The City of London and the liberties thereof, the Inner Temple 
 and Middle Temple, and all other places and parts of places 
 contained within the exterior boundaries of the liberties of the 
 city of London. 
 
 In Middlesex.* 
 
 The City and Liberties of Westminster. 
 
 The parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evangelist. 
 
 The parish of St. Martin in the Fields. 
 
 The parish of St. George Hanover Square. 
 
 The parish of St. James. 
 
 The parish of St. Mary-le-Strand, as well within the liberty of West- 
 minster as within the Duchy liberty. 
 
 The parish of St. Clement Danes, as well within the liberty of West- 
 minster as within the Duchy liberty. 
 
 The parish of St. Paul Covent Garden. 
 
 The parish of St. Anne Soho. 
 
 Whitehall Gardens (whether the same be parochial or extra- 
 parochial). 
 
 Whitehall (whether the same be parochial or extra-parochial). 
 
 Richmond Terrace (whether the same be j^arochial or extra- 
 parochial). 
 
 The close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. 
 
 The parishes of St. Giles in the Fields and St. George Bloomsbnry. 
 
 The parishes of St. Andrew Holborn and St. George the Martyr. 
 
 The liberty of Hatton Garden, Saifron Hill, and Ely Rents. 
 
 The liberty of the Rolls. 
 
 The parish of St. Pancras. 
 
 The parish of St. John Hampstead. 
 
 * Now in the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 40.
 
 [15 & 10 Vict.] T/u' Burial Act 185:i. [Chap. 85.] lyi 
 
 The parish of St. Maniebone. 
 
 The i)arish of Paddington. 
 
 The precinct ol'the Savoy. 
 
 The ])arisli of St. Luke. 
 
 The liberty of Glasslionse Yard. 
 
 The parish of St. Sepulchre. 
 
 The j)arish of St. James Clerkcnwell, including both districts of St. 
 
 James and St. John. 
 The ])arish of St. Mary Islington. 
 The parish of St. Mary Stoke Xewington. 
 The Charterhouse. 
 
 The ]»arish of St. Mary Whitecliapel. 
 The parish of Christchurch Sj)italtields. 
 The parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch. 
 The liberty of Norton Falgate. 
 The parisli of St. John Hackney. 
 The i)arish of St. Matthew Betlmal Green. 
 The hamlet of Mile End Old Town. 
 The hamlet of Mile End New Town. 
 The parish of St. Mary Stratford Bow. 
 The parish of Bromley St. Leonard. 
 The parish of All Saints Poplar. 
 The parish of St. Anne Limehouse. 
 The hamlet of llatcliffe. 
 The parish of St. Paul Shadwell. 
 The i)arish of St. George in the East. 
 The i)arish St. John Wapping. [sic] 
 The liberty of East Smithfield. 
 The precinct of St. Catherine. 
 The liberty of Her Majesty's Tower of London, consisting of — 
 
 The liberty of the Old Artillery Ground. 
 
 The parish of Trinity, Minories. 
 
 The Old Tower precinct. 
 
 The precinct of the Tower within. 
 
 The precinct of Wellcluse. 
 The parish of Kensington. 
 The parish of St. Luke Chelsea. 
 The })arish of Fulham. 
 The parish of Hammersmith. 
 Lincoln's Inn. 
 New Inn. 
 Gray's Inn. 
 Sta})le Lin. 
 
 That part of Eurnivars Inn in the county of Middlesex. 
 Ely Place. 
 The parish of Willesden. 
 
 In Kent.* 
 
 The parish of St. Paul Deptford. 
 The parish of St. Nicholas Dei)tford. 
 The parish of Greenwich. 
 The parish of AVoolwich. 
 The parish of Charlton. 
 The parish of Plumstead. 
 
 * Now in the County of London. Sec 51 &; 52 Vict. c. 41, i^. 40.
 
 192 [Chap. 85.] The Burial Act 1852. [15& 16 Vict.] 
 
 c, 
 
 In Surrey.* 
 The Borouo;]! of Southwark. 
 
 The parish of St. George the Martyr. 
 
 The parish of St. Saviour. 
 
 The parish of St. John Horsleydown. 
 
 The parish of St. Ohive. 
 
 The j)arish of St. Thomas. 
 
 The parish of Battersea (except the hamlet of Penge). 
 
 The parish of Bermoudsey. 
 
 The parish of Camberwell. 
 
 The parish of Clapham. 
 
 The parish of Lambeth. 
 
 The parish of Newington. 
 
 The parish of Putney. 
 
 The parish of Rotherhithe. 
 
 The parish of Streatham. 
 
 The parish of Tooting. 
 
 The parish of Wandsworth. 
 
 The parish of Christchnrch. 
 
 The Clink liberty. 
 
 The hamlet of Hatcham in the parish of Deptford. . 
 
 SCHEDULE (B.) 
 
 The several Cemeteries established under the several Acts herein- 
 after mentioned ; viz. — 
 
 2&3W. 4. An Act for establishing a general cemetery for the interment of 
 
 ^' ^^' the dead in the neighbourhood of the metropolis : 
 
 6 & 7 w. 4. An Act for establishing a cemetery for the interment of the dead 
 c. cxxix. southward of the metropolis, to be called " The South Metropolitan 
 Cemetery : " 
 
 6 & 7 w. 4 An Act for establishing cemeteries for the interment of the dead, 
 
 cxxxvi. northward, southward, and eastward of the metropolis, by a company 
 
 to be called " The London Cemetery Company : " 
 1 Vict. An Act for establishing a cemetery for the interment of the dead 
 
 c. cxxx. westward of the metropolis, by a company to be called " The West 
 
 of London and Westminster Cemetery Company : " And 
 4 & 5 Vict. An Act to establish a general cemetery for the interment of the 
 
 c. ixiii. dead, in the parishes of Saint Dunstan Stepney and Saint Leonard 
 
 Bromley in the county of Middlesex : 
 
 The Victoria Park Cemetery in the parish of Saint Matthew 
 Bethnal Green in the county of Middlesex* : And 
 
 The Abney Park Cemetery in the parish of Saint Mary Stoke 
 Xewington in the county of Middlesex.* 
 
 {The parts of the Act omitted are not special to London. See the 
 Burial Act 1853, s. 7, and the Burial Acts 1852 to 1900.] 
 
 * Now in the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40.
 
 [16 & ] : YicT.] The London Ilackneij Carnage Act 1853. [Chap. 33.] 193 
 
 16 & 17 VICTORIA. A.D. 1853. 
 
 CHAPTER 33. 
 
 An Act for thp^ better Hkcu'lation of ^Ietrorolitan Stage 
 AND Hackney Carriages, and for RROHiiirriNu the Use of 
 advertising Vehicles. [28^A Jane 1853.] 
 
 \Preamhle reij. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 1. \_CertiJicate from Commissioners necessary for obtaining 
 licence, liep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 2. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners * of Police to Commission- 
 cause an inspection to be made, as often as they deem it neces- "ay°cansr^ 
 sary, of all metropolitan stage and hackney carriages, and of the carriages, 
 horse or horses used in drawing the same, within the limits of this ^'^^- ^^ be in- 
 Act ; and if any such carriage, or the horse or horses used in jf^^^'^® j^ g" 
 drawing the same, shall at any time be in a condition unfit for conditi<m 
 ])nl)lic use, the said Commissioners shall give notice in writing "^y ••'"spend 
 accordingly to the i)roprietor thereof, which notice shall be per- J-eSsu^mp 
 sonally served on such proprietor, or delivered at his usual place Office plate. 
 of residence ; and if, after notice as aforesaid, any proprietor shall 
 
 use or let to hire such carriage as a metropolitan stage or hackney 
 carriage, or use or let to hire such horse or horses whilst in a 
 condition unfit for public use, the said Commissioners shall have 
 power to suspend, for such time as they may deem proper, the licence 
 of the proprietor of such carriage. . , . [Part omitted (as to recalling 
 plate and notice of its recall) rep. 55 k 56 Vict. c. 19 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 3. [PenaW/ for using carriage not in ft condition. Rep. 55 & 
 56 Vict. c. 19 [S.L.R.).'] 
 
 4. The proprietor or driver of any hackney carriage within the -^s to rates 
 limits of this Act shall be entitled to demand' and take for the hire be1a^kenVo°r 
 of such carriage the fares set forth in the Scliedule (A.) to this Act hatkLey 
 annexed: Provided always, that when the proj)rietor or driver of carriages, 
 any hackney carriage to be paid a fare calculated according to the 
 distance shall be required by the hirer thereof to stop such carriage 
 
 for fifteen minutes, or for any longer time, it shall be lawful for tlie 
 proprietor or driver to demand and receive from the hirer so requiring 
 him to stop a further sum (above the fare to which he shall be 
 entitled, calculated according to the distance) of sixjjence for every 
 fifteen minutes completed that he shall have been so stopped ; and 
 no projtrietor or driver shall demand or receive over and above the No back fare 
 said fare any sum, for or by way of back fare, for the return of such or demanded 
 carriage from the place at which such carriage shall be discharged. 
 
 5. . . . the driver of every hackney carriage within the limits Priver to 
 of this Act shall have with him at all times wiien plying for hire a P'^'^u"'^? 
 book or table in such form as shall be directed by tiie said Com mis- fares when 
 sioners of Police of the fares for the hire of such carriage, which required, 
 book or table the driver shall j)roduce when required for the infor- 
 mation of any person hiring or intending to hire such carriage. 
 
 \_Part omitted {table of fares to be put up inside and outside carriage) 
 rep. 55 & 56 Met. c. 19 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 6. In case of disputes as to the fare to be calculated according to ^s to settie- 
 the distance, any table or book signed by the said Commissioners t)f ™\g^j.^^'^' 
 Police shall, on proof of such signature, be deemed and taken to be distances 
 
 * Now the CommissioDer of Tolice. See 19 & 20 Vict. c. 2, s. 1. 
 
 13
 
 194 
 
 [Chap. 33.] The London Hackney Carriage Act 1853. [16 & 17 Vict.] 
 
 drivers of 
 hackney 
 carriages 
 shall be 
 required 
 .to drive. 
 
 Number of 
 persons to 
 
 conclusive evidence of all the distances therein stated to have been 
 measured by the authority of the said Commissioners of Police ; 
 and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to cause to be 
 placed or erected at the several standings for hackney carriages 
 or elsewhere within the metropolitan district, as they may deem 
 convenient, tables of distances and fares, and such other information 
 as may be useful to persons hiring such carriage. 
 As to distance ^^ Jhe driver of every hackney carriage which shall ply for hire 
 at any place within the limits of this Act shall (unless such driver 
 have a reasonable excuse, to be allowed by the Justice before 
 whom the matter shall be brought in question,) drive such hackney 
 carriage to any place to which he shall be required by the hirer 
 thereof to drive the same, not exceeding six miles from the place 
 where the same shall have been hired, or for any time not exceeding 
 one hour from the time when hired : Provided always, that when 
 any hackney carriage shall have been hired by time, the driver 
 thereof may be required to drive at any rate not exceeding four 
 miles within one hour, and if the driver of snch carriage shall be 
 required to drive more than four miles within one hour, then in 
 every such case the driver thereof shall be entitled to demand, 
 in addition to the fare regulated by time in Schedule (A.) to this 
 Act annexed, for every mile or any part thereof exceeding four miles, 
 the fare regulated by distance as set forth in the same schedule. 
 
 8. \_D river to deliver a ticket to hirer of carriage. Rep. 55 & 56 
 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 9. . . . the driver of any such hackney carriage shall, if required 
 be carried to by the hirer thereof, carry in and by such carriage the number of 
 be painted or persons painted or marked thereon, or any less number of persons. 
 hacknev^^ \P(i''f Omitted {iiumhcr of persons alloived to be carried to be painted 
 carriage. on carriage^ rep. 55 & 56 Vict. <?. 19 (^S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Asto quantity IQ. The driver of every hackney carriage within the limits of this 
 of luggage to ^g|. g}jg_]} carry in or upon such carriage a reasonable quantity of 
 without extra luggage for every person hiring such carriage without any additional 
 charge. charge, except as provided in Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed. 
 
 Property left H. The driver of every hackney carriage within the limits of 
 in hackney j-]^|j^ ^^^ wherein any jjroperty shall be left by any person shall 
 within twenty-four hours carry such property, if not sooner claimed 
 by the owner thereof, in the state in which he shall find the same, 
 to the nearest police station, and shall there deposit and leave the 
 same with the inspector or other officer on duty, upon 2)ain that 
 every such driver making any default herein shall be liable to a 
 j)enalty not more than ten pounds, or at the discretion of the Magis- 
 trate may be imprisoned for any time not exceeding one month ; 
 and the said officer with whom any such property shall be deposited 
 shall forthwith enter in a book to be kept for that purpose the 
 description of such property, and the name and address of the 
 driver who shall bring the same, and the day on which it shall 
 be brought ; and the property so entered shall be returned to the 
 person who shall prove, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of 
 Police, that the same belonged to him, such person previously paying 
 all expenses incurred, together with such reasonable sum to the 
 driver who brought the same as the said Commissioners shall award : 
 Property not Provided always, that if such property shall not be claimed by and 
 claimed to be proved to belong to some person within one year after the same 
 disposed . gj^g^jj have been deposited, the said Commissioners shall cause 
 such property to be sold or otherwise disposed of, and the proceeds 
 
 carriages to 
 be deposited 
 at the police 
 office. 
 
 Penalty on 
 driver for 
 default.
 
 [16 & 17 Vict.] The London llackmy Carriage Act 1853. [Chap. 33.] 195 
 
 thereof to be ])ai(l over to the Receiver-General of lul.uid Itevenne, 
 
 to be carried to the public account, all expenses incurred about 
 
 such property, together with such reasonable sum to the driver 
 
 who brought the same as the said (Jommissioners shall award, 
 
 being first paid thereout ; and all j)roperty left by any passenger penalty on 
 
 in any metropolitan stage carriage shall be given up to the con- refusing or 
 
 ductor of such carriage, or, if there be no conductor, to the driver, "o^'fJe^urf 
 
 •upon pain of a penalty of ten pounds, to be ])aid by any person property left 
 
 refusing or neglecting to give up any such property belonging to in stage 
 
 •another person ; and the conductor or driver of every sucli carriage ^"''"'^^®"^' 
 
 to whom any such property shall be given up, or who shall himself 
 
 find it in the carriage, shall within twenty-four hours carry the 
 
 property, if not sooner claimed l)y the owner thereof, in the state in 
 
 which he shall find the same to the nearest ])olice station, and shall 
 
 there deposit and leave the same with the inspector or other officer 
 
 •on duty, upon pain that every such driver or conductor making 
 
 default herein shall i)e liable to a penalty not more than ten 
 
 })Ounds, or at the discretion of the Magistrate may be imprisoned 
 
 for any time not exceeding one month ; and the i)roperty so deposited 
 
 by any conductor or driver shall be dealt with in the same manner 
 
 as property left in hackney carriages and deposited by the drivers 
 
 •of sucli carriages. 
 
 12. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Police from Commis- 
 time to time to appoint a sufficient number of fit men to enforce police to 
 -good order at the standings for hackney carriages, and at the appoint 
 ])laces at which metropolitan stage carriages or hackney carriages Persons to 
 shall call or ply for passengers, and at such places of })ublic resort order at 
 within the metropolitan police district as they may deem necessary ; hackney 
 and the said Commissioners may from time to time make such carnage 
 orders and regulations as they shall deem expedient, subject to the 
 .tipproval of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State given 
 
 in writing relative to the duties to be performed by such persons 
 ^and the places at which each shall act ; provided that the said (.'om- 
 missioners shall not have authority to appoint any such person to 
 act within or upon the j)reraises belonging to any railway company 
 unless with the consent of the directors of the company. \See also 
 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, .9. 29.] 
 
 13. The said Commissioners of Police, subject to the approbation ^ower to 
 -of the . . . Treasury, shall appoint wages to be paid to the said sionersrwith 
 persons appointed by them to keep good order at the standings for consent of 
 hackney carriages and at tlie places at which metropolitan stage ^'^^.^^"'"J',*^ 
 
 ■ carriages or hackney carriages shall call or ply for passengers, and suciu'e'rsons, 
 ^t such places of ])ublic resort as they may deem necessary ; and the and also to 
 said (Commissioners shall also, in such cases as they think tit, direct "^^irect water 
 the water rates and the expenses of the necessary apparatus for ^^^i^^ 
 laying on the water at the standings for hackney carriages and at 
 places where metropolitan stage carriages usually call or ply for 
 hire to be paid. [Fart omitted {the words " Commissioners of Her 
 Majestf/'s") rep. 55 c\: 50 Vict. c. 19 ( S.I..R.).'] 
 
 14. The proprietor of every metropolitan stage carriage shall ^p™''! ■*'^g-^^ 
 cause to be placed inside such carriage a lanij), in such a position metropolitan 
 and manner as shall be directed by the said Commissioners of stage 
 Police ; and the conductor, or if there be no conductor the driver, carnages, 
 of such carriage shall kee]) the said lamp properly lighted whenever 
 
 such carriage shall be used to ply for hire or carry passengers at any 
 time after sunset and before sunrise.
 
 196 
 
 [Chap. 33.] The London Hackney Carriage Act 1853. [16 & 17 Vict.] 
 
 Printed bills, 
 etc. not to 
 be put on 
 metropolitan 
 stage or 
 hackney 
 carriages, so 
 as to obstruct 
 light, etc. 
 
 Advertising 
 vehicles, etc. 
 prohibited. 
 
 Drivers and 
 conductors of 
 metropolitan 
 stage 
 carriages, 
 and drivers 
 of hackney 
 carriages, 
 liable to 
 penalties for 
 ofEences 
 herein 
 named. 
 
 Power to 
 Police Magis- 
 trates or 
 Justices of 
 the Peace to 
 hear and 
 determine 
 offences. 
 
 15. It shall not be lawful for the proprietor of any metropolitan 
 stage or hackney carriage to suffer any notice, advertisement, or 
 printed bill, or any names, letters, or numbers, to appear upon the 
 outside of any such carriage in such a manner as to obstruct the 
 light or ventilation of such carriage, or on the inside of any such 
 carriage in such position that any such notice, advertisement, or 
 printed bill shall obstruct the light or ventilation of such carriage 
 or cause annoyance to any passenger therein. 
 
 16. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry about on any 
 carriage or on horseback or on foot, in any thoroughfare or public 
 place within the limits of this Act, to the obstruction or annoyance 
 of the inhabitants or passengers, any picture, placard, notice, or 
 advertisement, whether written, printed, or painted upon or posted 
 or attached to any part of such carriage, or on any board, or 
 otherwise. \^See also 30 & 31 Vict. c. 134, s. 9.] 
 
 17. The driver or conductor of any metropolitan stage carriage, 
 or the driver of any hackney carriage, who shall respectively 
 commit any of the following offences within the limits of this Act, 
 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each 
 offence, or in default of payment to imprisonment . . . : 
 
 1. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall demand or take 
 
 more than the proper fare as set forth in Schedule (A.) to this. 
 Act annexed, or who shall refuse to admit and carry in his car- 
 riage the number of persons painted or marked on such carriage 
 or specified in the certificate granted by the said Commis- 
 sioners of Police in respect of such carriage, or who shall 
 refuse to carry by his carriage a reasonable quantity of luggage 
 for any person hiring or intending to hire such carriage : 
 
 2. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall refuse to drive 
 
 such carriage to any place within the limits of this Act, not 
 exceeding six miles, to which he shall be required to drive 
 any person hiring or intending to hire such carriage, or who 
 shall refuse to drive any such carriage for any time not 
 exceeding one hour, if so required by any person hiring 
 or intending to hire such carriage, or who shall not drive 
 the same at a reasonable and proper speed, not less than six 
 miles an hour, except in cases of unavoidable delay, or when, 
 required by the hirer thereof to drive at any slower pace : 
 
 3. Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall ply for hire 
 
 with any carriage or horse which shall be at the time unfit 
 
 for public use. . . . 
 \^Parts omitted {as to term of imprisonment^ rep. by the Summartf 
 Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4, and {as to delivery of tickets to hirers) rep^ 
 5.5 & 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 18. It shall be lawful for any one of the Police Magistrates at any 
 of the metropolitan police courts to hear and determine all offences 
 against the provisions of this Act, and also all disputes or causes of 
 complaint that may arise out of the same ; or if the offence, dispute, or 
 cause of complaint shall be committed or occur in any place not com- 
 prised within the limits of a police court district, the same may be- 
 heard and determined by two Justices of the Peace for the county ; or 
 if the offence, dispute, or cause of complaint shall be committed or occur 
 within the city of London, the same shall be heard and determined 
 by one Justiceof the Peace for the saidcity,or by a metropolitan Police- 
 Magistrate sitting at the police court in Bow Street. . . . [Fart omitted' 
 {as to disputes between hirers and drivers) rep. 59 k 60 Vict. c. 27,s.2.]j
 
 [16& 17 YiCT.] The London Hackney Carriage Act 1853. [Chap. 33.] 
 
 197 
 
 19. Foi" every ofTence aji^aiiist the provisions of this Act for wliich 
 
 no spL'ciul penalty is herein-bcfore u[)pointe(l, tiie offender siiall Ije 
 
 Iia])le to a penalty not exceedinj? forty shillings, or in default of 
 
 payment be imprisoned. . . . {^Fart omitted {as to term of im- 
 
 prison/nenf) rep. hi/ tlu: Saintnan/ Juri.sdiction Act 1884, a. 4.] 
 
 20. All things herein antliorized to be done by the said (Jomrais- 
 sioners oi' Police of the Metropolis shall be done by such one of the 
 said Commissioners as one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of 
 State shall from time to time be j)leased to appoint ; and the words 
 *' the limits of this Act " shall include every part of the metropolitan 
 police district and city of London. 
 
 21. This Act shall be construed as one Act with the Act passed 
 in the seventh year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 
 chapter eighty-six, and the Act passed in the thirteenth year of the 
 reign of Her Majesty, chapter seven ; and all the provisions of the 
 said Acts, exce{)t so far as is herein otherwise ])rovided, shall extend 
 to this Act, and to all things done in execution of this Act. 
 
 22. \_Commencement of Act. Rep. 55 & 50 Vict. c. 10 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 SCHEDULES referred to in the foregoing Act. 
 
 Rates and Fares to be paid for any Hackney Carriage hired 
 
 at any place within the limits of this Act. 
 
 SCHEDULE (A.) 
 
 Penalty for 
 offences 
 against this 
 Act for wliicL 
 no penalty is 
 appointed. 
 
 Meaning of 
 certain word.s 
 used in this 
 Act. 
 
 This Act to 
 be construed 
 with t; & 7 
 Vict. c. m. 
 and IH & 14 
 Vict. c. 7. 
 
 Description 
 
 OP 
 
 Cakriage. 
 
 With four or 
 two wheels, 
 drawn by one 
 horse. 
 
 Fare by Distance. 
 
 For any 
 Distance 
 within 
 and not 
 exceeding- 
 One Mile. 
 
 6c/. 
 
 For any 
 
 Distance exceeding 
 
 One Mile. 
 
 After the rate 
 of sixpence for 
 every mile, and 
 for any part of 
 a mile over and 
 above any num- 
 ber of miles 
 completed. 
 
 Fare by 
 Time. 
 
 For any 
 
 Time 
 
 within 
 
 and not 
 
 exceeding 
 
 One Hour. 
 
 2s. 
 
 And for 
 hackney 
 
 riage drawn 
 
 every 
 
 Ciir- 
 
 by 
 
 two horses one 
 third above the 
 rates and fares 
 herein-bef ore 
 mentioned. 
 
 The above fares to be paid according to distance or time, at the ojition of 
 the hirer, to be expressed at the commencement of the hiring ; if not 
 otherwise expressed, the fare to be paid according to distance. 
 
 Provided that no driver shall be comi)ellable to hire his carriage for 
 a fare to be paid according to time at any time after eight o'clock in the 
 evening and before six o'clock in the morning. 
 
 When more than two i)ersons shall l)e carried inside any hackney carriage, 
 one sum of (kl. is to be paid for the whole hiring in addition to the above 
 fares. Two children under ten years of age to be counted as one adult 
 person. 
 
 When more than two persons shall bo carried inside any hackney carriage 
 with more luggage than can be carried inside the carriage, a further 
 sum of twopence for every package carried outside the saiil carriage is 
 to be paid by the hirer in addition to the above fares. 
 
 [Amended 10 c^- 17 Vict. c. 127, .s*-. 13—15 ; 'iQ k 31 Vict. c. 134, 
 s. 26 ; and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 115, 6\ 9.] 
 
 Schedules (B.) and (C). [Forms of certificates as to fitness, etc., 
 of carriages. Rep. 55 «k 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).]
 
 198 
 
 [Chap. 41.] The Common Lodging Houses Act 1853. [16 & 17 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Recited Act 
 and this Act 
 to be as one. 
 
 All common 
 lodging- 
 houses to be 
 registered 
 before being 
 used, and to 
 be kept only 
 by registered 
 keepers. 
 
 Evidence of 
 register. 
 
 Power to 
 local 
 
 authority to 
 require an 
 additional 
 supply of 
 water to 
 common 
 lodging 
 houses. 
 
 As to removal 
 of sick 
 persons from 
 common 
 lodging 
 houses to 
 hospitals, etc. 
 
 CHAPTER 41. 
 
 * An Act for making further Provisions with respect to 
 
 Common Lodging Houses. \_Uh August 1853,] 
 
 [Preamble {reciting 14 & 1 5 1 let. c. 28) rep. 55 & 56 Vict.c. 1 9 (S.L.R.') ] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for any purpose as " The Common 
 Lodging Houses Act, 1853." 
 
 2. The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and this Act shall be 
 construed and executed as if they were one Act. 
 
 3. ... a person shall not keep a common lodging house or 
 receive a lodger therein until the house have been inspected and 
 approved for that purpose by some officer appointed in that behalf 
 by the local authority, and have been registered as by the recited 
 Act provided ; and a person shall not keep a common lodging house 
 unless his name as the keeper thereof be entered in the register kept 
 under the recited Act : Provided always, that when the person so 
 registered dies, his widow or any member of his family may keep 
 the house as a common lodging house for not more than four weeks 
 after his death without being registered as the keeper thereof. 
 [Part omitted (as to time J or registration) rep. 55 & 56 Vict. ^.19 
 (S.L.R.). See also the Sanitary Laio Amendment Act 1874, s. 49 
 {see Appendix) and 2 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii. s. 54.] 
 
 4. [Local authority may refuse to register houses, if keepers do not 
 produce certificate of character. Superseded 2 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii. 
 ss. 46—57]. 
 
 5. A copy of an entry made in a register kept under the recited 
 Act, certified by the person having the charge of the register to be 
 a true copy, shall be received in all courts and before all Justices 
 and on all occasions whatsoever as evidence, and be sufficient proof 
 of all things therein registered, without production of the register or 
 of any document, act, or thing on which the entry is founded ; and 
 every person applying at a reasonable time shall be furnished gratis by 
 the person having such charge with a certified copy of any such entry. 
 
 6. When it appears to the local authority that a common lodging 
 house is without a proper supply of water for the use of the lodgers, 
 and that such a supply can be furnished thereto at a reasonable 
 rate, the local authority may by notice in writing require the owner 
 or keeper of the common lodging house, within a time specified 
 therein, to obtain such supply, and to do all works necessary for that 
 purpose ; and if the notice be not complied with accordingly, the 
 local authority may remove the common lodging house from the 
 register until it be complied with. [See also 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 48.] 
 
 7. When a person in a common lodging house is ill of fever or 
 any infectious or contagious disease the local authority may cause 
 such person to be removed to an hospital or infirmary, with the 
 consent of the authorities thereof, and on the certificate of the medical 
 officer of the parish, place, or district that the disease is infectious 
 or contagious, and that the patient may be safely removed, and may, 
 so far as the local authority think requisite for preventing the spread 
 of disease, cause any clothes or bedding used by such person to be 
 disinfected or destroyed, and may, if the local authority think fit, 
 award to the owners of the clothes and bedding so disinfected or 
 destroyed reasonable compensation for the injury or destruction 
 
 * See note to 14 i: 15 Vict. c. 28.
 
 [16 & 17 YiCT.] The Westminster Bridge Act 1853. [Chap. 46.] 199 
 
 thereof, and sncli compensation shall be paid to such owners by the 
 proper officer of the parish or union in which the common lodging 
 house is situate, out of the rates applicable to the relief of the poor 
 of such parish, the amount of such com])ensation being first certified 
 in writing uj)on a list of such articles. \_^ee also 54 A: 55 Vict. c. TO, 
 ss. 55, et seq. ; and 4 FaUc. 7, c. ccxliv. ss. 19, et seq7\ 
 
 8. The keeper of a common lodging house in which beggars or Power to 
 vagrants are received to lodge, or other person having the care or from keepers 
 management thereof, shall i'rom time to time, if required by any of common 
 order of the local authority served on such keeT)er or person, }o'i&'"f^, 
 report to the local authoi'ity, or to such person or persons as the jqj. beggars 
 said local authority shall direct, every person who resorted to such and< vagrants, 
 house during the preceding day or night, and for that purpose 
 schedules shall bo furnished \)S the local authority to the persons 
 
 so ordered to i'ej)ort, which schedules they shall fill up with the 
 information required, and transmit to the local authority. 
 
 9. \Pou'er to town councils, etc., to remove causes of complaint 
 certified under Suisances Removal, etc. Act 1848. Rep. 41 & 42 
 Vict. c. 79 (5. />./?.).] 
 
 10. [Local authorities for the cit'/ of Oxford and. borouyh of 
 Cambridge. Rep. by the Public Health Act 1875, .<?. 343.] 
 
 11. The fourteenth section of the recited Act extends to offences As to offences 
 against any of the provisions of this Act, so as to render the offenders ^^^^^"^ ^ ^^ 
 liable to the penalties therein expressed, and any ])ers()n convicted of 
 
 any offence against the recited Act and this Act, or either of them, 
 may, in default of payment of the penalty imposed, be imprisoned 
 for any term not exceeding three months in the manner provided by 
 law in that behalf, \fiee the Sammaru Jurisdiction Act 1879, s. 5.] 
 
 12. Where a keeper of a common lodging house, or a person Conviction 
 having or acting in the care or management of a common lodging ^"^ ^'^'^'r 
 house, is convicted of a third offence against the recited Act and disqualify 
 this Act, or either of them, the Justices before whom the conviction persons from 
 for such third offence takes place mav, if thev think fit, adiudge ^^^P^'^g 
 that he shall not at any time within five years after the conviction, lodsing 
 
 or within such shorter period after the conviction as the Justices house. 
 think fit, keep or have or act in the care or management of a common 
 lodging house without the previous licence in writing of the local 
 authority, which licence the local authority mav withhold or mav 
 grant on such terms and conditions as they think fit. 
 
 13 — 14. [Execution of Act by Justices in Petty Sessions and 
 expenses of executing Act. Rep. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 79 {S.L.R.).~\ 
 
 CHAPTER 46. 
 
 * An Act to transfer Westminster Bridge and the Estates 
 OF "The Commissioners of Westminster Bridge" to the 
 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Build- 
 ings ; AND to enable such last-mentioned Commissioners 
 to eemove the present Bridge, and to build a new 
 Bridge on or near the Site thereof. [Ath August 1853.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that under the provisions of 9 Geo. 2, 
 
 c. 29 ; 10 Geo. 2, c. 16 ; 11 Geo. 2, c. 25 ; 12 Geo. 2, c. 33; 
 
 * This Act is amended by the Westminster Bridge Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 58), 
 which is spent.
 
 200 [Chap. 46.] The Westminster Bridge Act 1853. [16& 17 Vict.] 
 
 13 Geo. 2, c. 10 ; 14 Geo. 2, c. 40 ; 15 Geo. 2, c. 26 ; 17 Geo. 2, 
 6?. 32 ; 18 Geo. 2, c. 29 ; 29 G^e*?. 2, c. 38 ; 30 (?60. 2, c. 34 ; ^/*e 
 theji existing bridge over the Thames at Westminster {in this Act 
 called the present bridge) tvas constructed by certain Commissioners 
 appointed, for that purpose ; that by 54 Geo. 3, c. cxxxii. such 
 Commissioners tvere constituted, a body corporate by the name oj 
 " The Commissioners of Westminster Bridge " ; and, recites that by 
 13 & 14 Vict. c. cxii. certain repairs and a temporary bridge were 
 authorized but that the same tvere not carried oat, and recites 
 the purchase by such Commissioners of the Westminster Bridge 
 Estate out of the residue of moneys raised for constructing and main- 
 taining the bridge ; and that the present bridge has become insecure, 
 and. that it is necessary that a neiv bridge should be constructed, and 
 that it is expedient that the construction thereof should be entrusted 
 to the Commissioners of Her Majesty'' s Works and Public Buildings, 
 and that the present bridge with the Westminster Bridge Estate {being 
 the lands set aid in the first Schedule to this Act) should be vested in 
 them; and further recites the deposit of copies of jjlans of the neiv 
 bridge and approaches and, of an amended plan in the Parliament 
 Office of the House of Lords and in the Private Bill Office of the 
 House of Co7nmons.^ 
 
 1. [J^epeal of Acts recitexl in the Preamble. Spent.'] 
 2 — 8. \_77ie Coynmissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public 
 Buildings constituted, a corporation to execute Act — Vesting in 
 such Commissioners of the present bridge loith abuttals, stairs, 
 approaches, etc. — Commis.'ii oners of Works to hate benefit of all 
 covenants, etc., entered, into ivith the Commissioiiers of Westminster 
 Bridge — Dissolution of Commissioners of Westminster Bridge — 
 Poivers to Comynissi oners of Works to sell any premises vested in 
 them under the Act and not required for the purposes thereof, 
 including the materials of the present bridge, and to raise money 
 by mortgage, and to grant leases, and as to application of monies 
 arising under the Act. Semble spent.] 
 Power to con- 9. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
 struct bridge. Works and Public Buildings to construct a new bridge across the 
 River Thames on and adjoining to the site of the present West- 
 minster Bridge, together with all necessary and convenient piers, 
 stairs, hards, and landing places, and also the necessary and proper 
 streets, roads, and approaches to such new bridge at both ends 
 thereof, as delineated and set forth in the amended plan aforesaid, 
 including the lines of deviation as shown on the same plan, in 
 manner herein-after mentioned, and according to such plan as 
 aforesaid, and for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, to dig 
 and make proper foundations in the said river, and in the lands on 
 each side thereof, and make dams in the said river, and cut and level 
 the banks thereof, and remove and take away all beds of gravel, 
 sand, mud, or other impediment whatsoever, and do and execute every 
 other thing necessary or convenient for the purposes aforesaid or 
 any of ttiem ; and for the purpose of erecting, maintaining, and 
 repairing the said intended bridge, and constructing and completing 
 the approaches thereto, and also of keeping the present bridge in 
 repair, the said Commissioners shall have full power and authority 
 from time to time to land and deposit on either side of the said 
 river, on any part of the ground which they are hereby authorized 
 and empowered to purchase, all materials and other tilings to be 
 used in or about the same, and there to work and use such materials
 
 [IG & 17 Vict.] 7'///' Wesfminster BrUlye Act IS.")?,. [Chap. 40.] 201 
 
 and things as they shall think j)roper, before they shall have effected 
 a pnrchase of such ground, doing as little damage as may be, and 
 (in case they shall not afterwards effect such purchase) making such 
 satisfaction as horoin-afrcr nu-nfioufd to the respective owners and 
 occu])iers of the lands and liereditunients which shall be damaged 
 or used for the purposes of this Act; and such bridge, when so 
 erected, and the api)roache8 thereto, shall be kept in rejjair by the 
 said (Commissioners of Her iMajesty's Works and Pul)lic Buildings 
 out of the monies coming to them under this Act. [Sjjt'/it, .-io Jar 
 as relates to " present " bridge. As to repair of new bridge and 
 approaches, see 50 & 51 Vict. c. 34, s. 2.] 
 
 10. It shall be lawful for tlie Commissioners of Her Majesty's Landing 
 Works and Public Buildings to make and construct piers, stairs, constructed 
 and landing places at either end of the said intended bridge, or at " 
 ^ny of the piers of the said bridge. 
 
 11 — 12. [Power to Commissioners to take places for depositing 
 materials — Deposit of amended plan at the Office of Worhs. Spent.'] 
 
 13. Ss. 9, 11—18, 20, 23—56, 59, 63—67, 90—108, 113 and lin 
 ■of ^ & 10 Vict. c. 39, applied to this Act. See notes on those 
 sections which apjdy here.'] 
 
 14. If any person shall wilfully or maliciously damage or injure Punishment 
 the present bridge, or any pier, stairs, hard, or landing place °^ .Pf^^"°'* 
 belonging thereto, or shall wilfully or maliciously damage or injure fui damage. ' 
 the said intended new bridge, or any pier, stairs, hard, or landing 
 
 place, or any works, matters, or things to be constructed or pro- 
 vided under the provisions of this Act, or any part thereof 
 respectively, or shall wilfully or maliciously, and without authority 
 from the said Commissioners, remove or take away any works, matters, 
 or things thereunto res])ectively belonging, or in any way direct or 
 procure the same to be done, or shall be aiding or assisting therein, 
 whereby the said bridges or either of them, or the piers, stairs, 
 liards, or landing places, or the works, matters, or things thereof 
 respectively, may be damaged, any person so offending shall be 
 judged guilty of felony ; and every such person so offending, and 
 being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be subject to the like 
 punishments and penalties as in cases of felony ; and the Court 
 by or before whom such person shall be tried and convicted shall 
 have power and authority to cause such ]ierson to be punished in 
 like manner as felons are directed to be punished by the laws anil 
 statutes of this realm, or, in mitigation of such punishments, such 
 Court may award such sentence as the law directs in cases of petty 
 larceny. [Spent, as regards ^'present'' bridge. See the Larceng 
 Act 1861, 6-. 2 ; the Malicious Damage Act IbGl, 6\ 33 ; and 4.3 
 Vict. c. Ivi. s. 41.] 
 
 15. In case any damage or mischief shall be done to the said Owners of 
 bridges, or either of them, or to any such piers, stairs, hards, or j^^'^^j^'^j^^^^^ ® 
 landing places as aforesaid, or any of the works, matters, or things done to the 
 to be constructed or provideil untler the provisions of this Act, or bridges, etc. 
 any part thereof respectively, by any ship, lighter, barge, boat, float, 
 
 raft, or vessel, through the wilful negligence of any person having 
 the command of anv such ship, li«;hter, barixe, boat, float, raft, or 
 vessel, or any of the mariners or j)ersons em})loyed thereui, then and 
 in every such case the owner of such ship, lighter, barge, boat, float, 
 raft, or vessel shall be ami is hereby made answerable to the said 
 Commissioners for the amount of value of anv such damage or
 
 202 
 
 Masters to 
 recover from 
 their servants 
 any damages 
 paid for their 
 neglect, etc 
 
 Damages, 
 etc., in case 
 of dispute, to 
 be settled by 
 a Justice of 
 the Peace. 
 
 [Chap. 46.] The Westminster Bridge Act 1853. [16 & 17 Vict.] 
 
 mischief : and the same, provided it shall not exceed the snm of 
 twenty pounds, if not forthwith paid and satisfied, shall and may 
 be recovered in such manner as the penalties and forfeitures hereby 
 imposed are in and by this Act directed to be recovered. \_Spent,. 
 as regards " present " bridge.~\ 
 
 16. In case the owner of any such ship, lighter, barge, boat, 
 float, raft, or vessel shall be comi)elled to pay any penalty, or to 
 make satisfaction for any damages, by reason of any neglect or 
 default done or committed by his servants or mariners, or any of 
 them, such servants or mariners and each and every of them shall 
 be liable to pay such penalty or damages (with the costs thereof) to 
 such owner ; and in case of nonpayment upon demand thereof, and 
 oath made by such owner of the payment made by him of such 
 penalty, satisfaction, or damages, and that the same and the costs 
 thereof have not been repaid to him by such servants or mariners or 
 any of them, although demanded, (such oath to be made before any 
 one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the county or place 
 where such penalty or satisfaction shall have been recovered,) the 
 amount thereof, provided the same shall not exceed the sum of 
 twenty pounds, shall be recovered in the same manner as any 
 penalty is hereby directed to be recovered. 
 
 17. [^Injuries to bridge and obstruction of passengers. Semble 
 superseded 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 206, 207 : the Malicious Damage 
 Act 1861, s. 33; amd 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 54.] 
 
 18. \Ground laid into streets to form part of public roadway.'] 
 
 19 — 20. [Houses not in schedule not to be taken tvithout consent — 
 Com7nis.sioners to keep up communication between Middlesex and 
 Surrey shores till new bridge built, and to take down and remoce 
 present bridge and sell materials. Spent.'] 
 
 21. [Bridge to be part in Lambeth and part in Saint Margaret'' s^ 
 Westminster — Bridge not to be rated nor to be deemed county 
 Bridge — Commissioners to mark boundaries of counties thereon, 
 Sperd ; and .see 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 46.] 
 
 22. In all cases wherein damages or charges in respect of acts or 
 offences done or committed upon or relating to the said bridge, 
 piers, stairs, hards, or landing places are by this Act directed or 
 authorized to be paid, and the manner of ascertaining the amount 
 thereof is not s})ecified or j^rovided for, such amount, in case of 
 nonpayment thereof, or of any dispute respecting the same, shall be 
 ascertained and determined by some Justice of the Peace for the 
 said county of Surrey* or the county of Middlesex,* according to 
 the part of the bridge where the act or offence was committed (such 
 .Justice not being interested in the matters in question) ; and where 
 by this Act any such damages or charges are directed to be paid, in 
 addition to any penalty for any offence, the amount of such damages 
 and charges, in case of nonpayment thereof, or of any dispute 
 respecting the same, shall be settled and determined by the Justice 
 by or before whom any offender shall be convicted of such offence ; 
 and such .Justice is hereby authorized and required, on nonpayment 
 of the damages, in any of the cases aforesaid, to levy such damages 
 and charges by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, 
 in manner by this Act directed for the levying of any penalties or 
 forfeitures. 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40.
 
 [16 & 17 Vict.] The Thames Embankment Act 1853. [Chap. 87.] 203 
 
 23. With respect to the recovery of daraa<(es and penalties and Damages not 
 forleitures not hereby otliervvise specially provided for, all and prdvideTfor, 
 singnlar the clauses and provisions in " The Companies Clauses provisions of 
 Consolidation Act, 1845,"* relating to the recovery of damages, ** ^^.'J Vict, 
 penalties, and forfeitures, and the application thereof, shall, so far ^" '' ^^PP-^- 
 as the same are ai)plicable to damages, penalties, and forfeitures 
 imposed or made recoverable by this Act, be considered as incor- 
 porated with this Act, and for that jmrpose the said Commissioners 
 of Her Majesty's Works and I'ublic Buildings shall be considered 
 to be a company ; provided nevertheless, that it shall not be neces- 
 sary for the said Commissioners to ])ublish any list or particulars of 
 the penalties hereby imposed, as required by the said " Companies 
 Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845;" And provided also, that the share Application 
 of penalties and forfeitures which by the said Act are directed to be of penalties, 
 applied for the benefit of the poor shall in lieu thereof be paid 
 to the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's AVorks and Public 
 Buildings for the purposes of this Act. \_See 2 & ZVict. c. 71. s. 4.] 
 
 24 — 26. [Receipts of Commissioners of Works — Compensation to 
 officers of Westminster Bridge Commissioners — For the protection 
 of Mr. Simmond^s ivharf. Spent.] 
 
 27. It shall be sufficient for all i)urposes to cite this Act as " The Short title. 
 Westminster Bridge Act, 1853." 
 
 First Schedule. [Rent roll of the Commissioners of Westminster 
 Bridge at Ladij Day 1853.] 
 
 Second Schedule. [Description of lands to he taken. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER 87. 
 
 An Act to give to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works 
 and Public Buildings extended Time and further Powers 
 
 FOR COMRLETING THE EMBANKMENT OF THE RiVER THAMES 
 BETWEEN VaUXHALL AND BaTTERSEA BrIDGES, AND A NEW 
 
 Street from Lower Sloane Street in connexion therewith. 
 
 [20th August 1853.] 
 
 [Preamble recites 9 & 10 Vict. c. 39, the Crown Lands Act 1851, 
 and 15 & 16 Vict. c. 71 ; and that the Commissioners of Works had 
 altered the original plans of the embankment and roadway proposed 
 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 39 ; and that it is expedient that the Commissioners 
 should now be authorized to complete the whole of the said embank- 
 ment and roadway and new street : and that the powers by 9 & 10 
 Vict. c. 39 conferred with nference to the original plans and designs 
 and to the hereditaments comprised in the schedule to such Act shouUf 
 be extended to the amended plans and designs, and to the heredita- 
 ments comprised in the schedule of this Act.] 
 
 1. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's c^ommis- 
 Works and Public Buildings, subject as after mentioned, to con- ^j^pQ^g^p^ ^^ 
 struct and complete an embankment and roadway along the north complete the 
 bank of the River Thames from Battersea Bridge to "^'^^^-"^^i^^^l amUolIdwr'' 
 Bridge, or any part or parts of such embankment and roadway, according to 
 according to the said amended plans and designs, and also to com- the amended 
 plete such new street as in the said first-recited Act is mentioned. plans. 
 
 * Largely repealed and replaced by the Summary JuristUction Acts. See the 
 Summaiy Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.
 
 204 
 
 [Chap. 87.] The Thames Embankment Act 1853. [16 & 17 Vict.] 
 
 Penalty on 
 owners, etc 
 of certain 
 
 Powers of 2. For the purposes of this Act all the enactments of the said 
 
 extendedto ^^cited Acts, except so far as the same are varied by or inconsistent 
 this Act. with the provisions of this Act, shall be considered as herein 
 repeated, with the substitntion of the said amended plans and 
 designs for the plans and designs mentioned in the said first-recited 
 Act, and of the schedule annexed to this Act for the schedule 
 annexed to the said first-recited Act, and of the Commissioners of 
 Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings for the Commissioners 
 of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and 
 Buildings. . . . \_Part omitted {compulsory potvers to take lands 
 limited to four years') spent. ^ 
 
 3 — 8. \_Powers to construct embankment and roadway on bed and 
 shore of the Thames between Cadogan Pier and. Battersea Bridge — 
 Agreement with the Chelsea Waterivorks Company as to contri- 
 butions — Embankment and roadway^ except as authorized by Q & 10 
 Vict. c. 39, not to be commenced until such agreements as the Treasury 
 think proper are entered into — Powers to construct embankment and 
 roadway., except so much as authorized in 9 & 10 Vict. c. 39, to cease 
 unless such agreements had been entered into by \st .July 1854 — 
 Confrming an agreement tvith Thomas Cubitt. Spent.'] 
 
 9. \_As to the appropriation of certain lands between the roadway 
 and the river., and maintenance of the same, and of fences as shown 
 on apian deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for Westminster and 
 the said Commissioners.] 
 
 10. If the owner or occupier for the time being of any of the 
 lands coloured brown on the said ]3lan shall erect or permit or suffer 
 
 Tands erecting any steam engine or structure (except cranes or travellers) to be 
 steam engines erected on the said lands coloured brown on the said plan, contrary 
 theS^on*"^^^ to the provisions of this Act, then and in every such case such 
 owner or occupier shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any 
 sum not exceeding forty shillings for each and every day during 
 which such steam engine or structure shall remain on the said 
 lands or any part thereof, one moiety whereof shall be paid to the 
 informer, and the other moiety whereof shall be applied in such 
 manner as other penalties and forfeitures are by this or by the 
 firstly herein-before recited Act directed to be applied. 
 
 11. \_As to completion of a p)ortion of the embankment by Thomas 
 Cubitt within eighteen months. Spent.'] 
 
 12. It shall be lawful for the said Thomas Cabitt, with the 
 j)revious consent in writing of the Commissioners or Chief Com- 
 missioner for the time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public 
 Buildings, to convert a certain portion or certain i:)ortions of the 
 lands coloured brown on the said plan into a recess or recesses to 
 be used as a laybye or laybyes for barges and other vessels : Pro- 
 vided always, that such consent may be given subject to such 
 special stipulations and conditions for the use and maintenance of 
 such laybye or laybyes as the said Commissioners or Chief Com- 
 missioner for the time being shall from time to time order or 
 prescribe. 
 
 13. It shall be sufficient for all purposes to cite this Act as the 
 "Thames Embankment Act 1853." 
 
 Schedule. [^Description of lands to be taken. Spent.] 
 
 Thomas 
 (Jubitt, with 
 consent, 
 may make 
 laybyes for 
 vessels on 
 a portion of 
 the lands 
 coloured 
 brown on 
 the plan. 
 
 Short title.
 
 [1 6 & 1 7 Vict.] '^'^'^ ^"''^''' ^^"^tffsS'"'''"^' ^^^ '* ^^ ^^''■'''- ^ ^ ' '^ ^'^'^ 
 
 CHAPTER I-::. 
 
 An Act ... to make Provision as to thk Charge for the 
 Hire of Hackney Carriages in certain Cases. 
 
 [20M August 1853.] 
 
 [Vitle in part and preamble^ rep. 5o & 50 Vict. c. 10 (^S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1 — 12. [JJuties, licences, plates, etc. Rep. hy the Revenue Act 
 
 1809,5.39.] 1«. a mile to 
 
 ' -' be paid for 
 
 13. It shall ])C lawful for the driver of any hackney carriage every mile 
 within the limits of this Act to charge one sliillinir T'C niile for H^J'""'' ^he 
 every mile (or j)art of a mile) which he shall be re(inired to drive ference of a 
 beyond the circumference of a circle the radius of which shall be circle four 
 four miles from Charing Cross, i)rovided such carriage shall be™^^'!^'"°™ 
 discharged beyond such circumference, anything contained in the ff c^a^^age™"^^ 
 thirty-tliird chapter of an Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth be discharged 
 year of the reign of Her ])resent Majesty, or in the schedule ^.^yo"^^ ^^^"^ 
 thereto, notwithstanding. [_See also 32 & 33 Vict. c. 115, s. 9.] ference". 
 
 14. Whenever more than two persons shall be conveyed by any where more 
 hackney carriage drawn by one horse only, a sum of sixpence for ^^^° *^** 
 each ])erson above the number of two shall be paid for the whole conveyed in 
 hiring in addition to the fare now directed to be paid fur two a hackney 
 persons under the said Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth year of ';''^"^^&^ 
 the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-three ; and two horse, &d. 
 children under ten years old shall be considered as one adult in addition to 
 person for the purposes of this clause, \yote to s. 13 aijplie..'<.'] the fare to be 
 
 ^ ^ ^ ^ / y J paid for each 
 
 15. When any hackney carriage within the limits of this Act person above 
 hired for a fare to be paid according to time shall be hired or 1^!!°,^°^^^^ 
 used by the hirer thereof for any longer time than one hour, .„, 
 sixpence shall be ])aid for every fifteen minutes, or any ])ortion of carriage 
 fifteen minutes not completed, above one hour. \_Sote to s. 1 3 bired by time, 
 applies.'] ^/- ^« ^« P^^^ 
 
 rni ■ • 11 • f°^ everv 
 
 16. ihe proprietor of every hackney carriage or metropolitan fifteen 
 stage carriage licensed to ply for hire within the limits of this ™^°^^^^' o"^ 
 Act who shall withdraw his carriage from hire for two consecutive tbereo° over 
 days, or for any two days in one week, without just cause, of the hour, 
 which the Magi>trate before whom the complaint is heard shall be Proprietors 
 the judge, shall be liable to a penalty of a sum not exceeding of hackney 
 twenty shillings in respect of every carriage for each day he shall ^^jlthdrawing 
 so withdraw the same, and the licence of such proprietor shall be carriages 
 suspended or recalled and taken away at the discretion of the said from iiire 
 Commissioners of Police * : Provided alwavs.that it shall be lawful J:l?I\„ ,^„,^ 
 
 p , . . . , * . ' 1 / , • • certain time 
 
 tor such proprietor, upon giving ten days notice to the Commissioners liable toa 
 of Police, to withdraw his carriage from hire. [See also 32 k 33 penalty. 
 Vict. ss. and 15.] 
 
 17. The limits of this Act shall be deemed to be and to include " The limits 
 every part of the metroi)olitan police district and the city of °^*'^*^-^^' " 
 London; and all provisions of any former Act in force referring to ^ 
 hacknev carriages licensed under the said Act of the first and 
 
 second years of His late Majesty, or to hackney carriages kept, 
 used, employed, or let to hire within the distance of five miles 
 from the General Post Office in the city of London, or to any act, 
 matter, or thing committed or done in relation to such hackney 
 carriages within the said distance, shall ... be deemed to refer 
 
 * Now the Commissioner of Police. See 19 and 20 Vict c. 2, s. 1.
 
 206 
 
 [Chap. 33.] The Public Statues {Metropolis) Act 1854. [17 &18 Yict.] 
 
 and apply to hackney carriages licensed under this Act, or to 
 hackney carriages kept, n^ed, employed, or let to hire within the limits 
 of this Act, and to any act, matter, or thing committed or done in 
 relation to hackney carriages within the said limits, [ Words omitted 
 (^^ from and after the passing of this Act"") rep, 55 k 56 Vict. c. 19 
 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 18. \Onhj Inland Revenue or Metropolitan Police to ptrosecute 
 under Act, rep. by the Revenue Act 1869, s. 39.] 
 
 17 & 18 VICTORIA. A.D. 1854. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 Commis- 
 sioners of 
 Works may 
 erect statues 
 in any public 
 place, and 
 enclose, etc. 
 the same ; 
 
 and may al.so 
 repair public 
 statues, etc. 
 
 Commis- 
 sioners of 
 Works may 
 do all Acts 
 necessary for 
 the erection 
 or reparation 
 of public 
 statues. 
 
 CHAPTER 33. 
 
 *An Act to place Public Statues within the Metropolitan 
 Police District under the Control of the Commissioners 
 OF . . . Works. . . . [lOM July 1854.] 
 
 {Preamble and p)art of title rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 (*S'.Z.i?.).] 
 
 1. In the construction of this Act the words "metropolitan police 
 district " shall be understood to describe the district defined under 
 that name by an Act of Parliament passed in the tenth year of the 
 reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter forty- 
 four ; the words "public statue" shall be taken to include all 
 the statues mentioned in the schedule to this Act, or which may 
 hereafter be erected, either wholly in part, within any such public 
 place as after mentioned ; the words "public place" shall be taken 
 to include any street, square, court, or other like place within the 
 metropolitan police district into or upon or over which there is any 
 public right of ingress, egress, and regress, or thoroughfare. 
 
 2. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, or their workmen 
 or agents by their order, by and out of any monies appropriated or 
 to be appropriated for that purjiose by Parliament, to erect in any 
 jjublic place any statue, and to enclose the same and the pedestal 
 thereof and any surrounding space with any fence or railing in all 
 respects as they may think fit. 
 
 3. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to restore, amend, 
 or repair any public statue, and the pedestal thereof, and the fence 
 or railing surrounding the same, by and with any monies for that 
 purpose from time to time appropriated by Parliament. 
 
 4. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, or their agents 
 or workmen by their orders, to do all acts necessary for the erecting, 
 repairing, restoring, or amending any public statue, and also to enter 
 any public place for the purpose of erecting any public statue, or for 
 restoring, amending, and repairing any public statue, and the railings 
 and other fences surrounding the same, as the said Commissioners 
 shall think fit, and generally to make, do, execute, and perform all 
 such acts, works, matters, and things as shall be thought necessary 
 by the said Commissioners, or their agents, for the erection, restora- 
 tion, or repair of any public statue. 
 
 * See also the Ancient Monuments Protection Acts 1882 and 1900, and 61 & 62 
 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 60.
 
 [17 & 18 Vict.] The Pablic Statuen {Metropolis) Act 1854. [Chap. 33.] 2 07 
 
 5. No pablic statue shall ... be erected in any j)ublic place ^'o public 
 without the written assent of the said (Joraraissioners. [ Words e^^ted** ^ 
 emitted {after the passing of this Act) rep. 55 & 50 Vict. c. lit (S.L.R.).] without the 
 
 6. \Punishmenf of pemons (lama()in<j an;/ public statue. Rep. by co^^'J^is ^ ^ 
 the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act IbOl, s. 1.] sioners. 
 
 7. It shall be lawful for the owners of any statue not mentioned Owners of 
 in the schedule to this Act, but which is or may be situated within statues not 
 the metropolitan police district, with the assent in writing of the schedule may 
 . . . Treasury, to transfer such statue to the Commissioners of . . . transfer them 
 Works . . . ; and upon the completion of such transfer, the statue so '° Commis- 
 transferred shall be deemed to be a jtublic statue within the intent works, with 
 and meaning of this Act as fully and effectually as if such statue the assent of 
 had been expressly mentioned in the schedule hereto. [ VVT)/'^'.'* ^^^ ^'■^^**"'7- 
 emitted rep. 55 & 56 Met. <?. 19 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 The SCHEDULE referred to by the above Act. 
 City of Westminster, Saint Margaret and Saint John. 
 
 Statue of King James the Second in Whitehall Gardens, at the 
 rear of Whitehall Chapel. 
 
 Statue to the Kight Honourable George Canning, erected in 
 Parliament Square, facing New Palace Yard. 
 
 Saint Martin in the Fields and Saint An?ie Soho. 
 
 Equestrian Statue of King Charles the First at Charing Cross. 
 Equestrian Statue of King George the Third in Pall Mall East. 
 Equestrian Statue of King George the Fourth in Trafalgar Square. 
 Column and Statue to Viscount Nelson, Trafalgar Square. 
 Equestrian Statue to the Duke of Wellington on the Arch at 
 Hyde Park Corner. 
 
 Saint George Hanover Square. 
 
 Statue in Hyde Park in commemoration of the victories of the 
 Duke of Wellington. 
 
 Saint James\ 
 
 Statue of King George the Second in Golden Square. 
 
 Toiver Division. 
 
 Statue of the Duke of Wellington on "Tower Green." 
 
 Ilolborn Division. Sajfron Hill Liberty. Saint Clements Danes. 
 
 Statue of George the Third in the (piadrangle of Somerset House. 
 
 Saint Andreiv's Ilolborn. 
 
 Statue of Queen Anne, situate in Queen Square, Saint George 
 the Martyr. 
 
 Sai7it Marylebone. 
 
 Statue of the Duke of Kent, Park Crescent Gardens, Portland 
 Place. 
 
 County of Kent* Greenwich. 
 
 Statue to His Majesty King George the Second in the square of 
 the Royal Hospital. 
 
 Chelsea. 
 
 Statue of King Charles the Second in the grounds of Chelsea 
 Hospital. 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 and 52 Vict. c. il, s. 40.
 
 tion of terms. 
 
 onQ rpTiAT> r^lviV 1 llie Middlesex Industrial n-x lo-ir t 
 
 208 [Chap, clxix.] ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^.^^ [1 . & 18 Vict.] 
 
 CHAPTER CLXIX. 
 
 * An Act for the provision regulation and maintenance of 
 County Industrial Schools in Middlesex. 
 
 \2Ath July 1854.] 
 \_Preamble.~\ 
 
 L°lfT/^A^'_-„ !• I^ ^^6 construction of this Act the following words shall have 
 the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively unless there be 
 anything in the subject or context repugnant to such construction 
 namely — 
 
 The words " General or Quarter Sessions " shall include any 
 adjournment thereof. 
 
 • . • . . . 
 
 The word " parish " shall mean any parish townshij) vill tithing, 
 extra parochial place or place maintaining its own poor. 
 
 The word " Justice " shall mean Justice of the Peace. 
 
 The word '• guardians " shall mean gnardians governors directors 
 managers or acting gnardians entitled to act in the ordering of 
 relief to the poor out of poor rates. 
 
 The words '' industrial school " shall mean industrial school 
 provided under this Act. 
 
 \_Fart omitted {definition of '■'■ jwcenile offender'') rep. 38 & 39 Vict, 
 c. Ixxxvii, s. 2.] 
 
 2 — 3. \_Middlesex Justices to give notice before end of 1855 of 
 intention to appoint and at next General or Quarter Sessions there- 
 after to appoint a committee to provide an industrial school. Spent.~\ 
 Justices may 4^ ^he Justices of the said county at any General or Quarter 
 separate Sessions to be held after like public notice directed to be given at 
 
 female the next preceding Sessions may determine on providing a separate 
 
 ^^v^^i"*^^ county industrial school for females and may apjjoint a separate 
 committee for erecting or providing and managing such county 
 female industrial school and all the provisions herein contained for 
 erecting and providing and managing county industrial schools and 
 in any way relating thereto shall apply also to such county female 
 industrial school and the committee and management thereof. 
 
 5 — 7. \_As to annual election and meetings of Visitors. 
 Superseded by the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22, aiid 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 75 and 82.] 
 
 visitors to 8. Every committee of visitors shall appoint a clerk at such 
 
 appoint g^ salarv or remuneration as such visitors think fit and mav from time 
 
 to time if and when they think fit remove any clerk appointed by 
 them or any future clerk and in any such case or in case of the death 
 or resignation of any such clerk shall apjjoint a new clerk and the 
 clerk to any committee of visitors may also be the clerk of any 
 industrial school and any clerk to any committee of visitors shall 
 unless he sooner die resign or be removed continue in office so long 
 as such committee shall continue in office. 
 
 9 — 10. [^Committee of visitors to continue until first meeting of Jiew 
 
 committee — Vacancies in committee. Superseded b\ k 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 
 ss. 3 (vii.) and 82 ; see also ibid. s. 65.] 
 
 Whereaccom- \\, The Justices of the said county may at any General or 
 
 existln"'^ ^^ Quarter Sessions if it shall appear to them that the industrial school 
 
 industrial * ggg 51 ^ 52 vict. c. 41, ss. 3 (vii.) and 78; see also the Industrial Schools Act 
 
 school is 1JJ66 and amending Acts. 
 
 inadequate.
 
 ri- * -lo AT- T 'J'he Mu/dleacx Industrial r/-",. .^ ^i ; t onn 
 
 [1 . & 18 Vict.] ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ 1^-^ [Chap, clxix.] 209 
 
 or sclionls aro iiiadcqnato or unfit for the proper accornraodiition of 
 the juvenih' oll'euders oi"th<' said county resolve that it is expedient 
 to enlarge any existing industrial school or schools or to })rovide a 
 new or additional industrial school or new or additional industrial 
 schools in like manner as hercinljeforc directed and may ajjjKjint a 
 separate; committee for eulai'ging any such industrial school or 
 schools as aforesaid or for erecting or providing and for managing 
 such new or additional school or schools hut no further steps for 
 enlarging any existing school or schools or for erecting or })i'oviding 
 such additional industrial school or s<diools as last mentioned shall 
 be taken without the consent in writing of one of Her Majesty's 
 principal Secretaries of State. 
 
 12. [ Committee to make contractu subject to approbation of Quarter 
 Sessions. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. 6'. 41, ss. 3 (vii.), 80, and 82.] 
 
 13. Any committee of visitors (subject to such approbation asT'owcrto 
 aforesaid) nuiy purcliase in ])er{)etuity and take a conveyance from ^'^^'torsto 
 any ])erson having absolute pinver to sell and convey any lauds or consideration 
 l)uildings in consideration of a vearly rent charge or annual sum to of a rent 
 
 be limited to such jierson his heirs and assigns or as he or they shall '"^servea. 
 direct out of tlie lands or buildings to be purchased and the same 
 shall accordingly be conveyed . . . subject thereto and to powers of 
 distress and entrv for securing the same. [_See also 51 & 52 Vict, 
 c. 41, s. 79 (3).] 
 
 14. Any industrial school to be provided for the said county i^chool may 
 may be without the limits of the said county and when all or any j^g "^^^^^i^g 
 jiart of such industrial school shall be situate within the limits of umits of the 
 any other county then and in every such case the Justices of the county. 
 said county of Middlesex shall have full ])ower and authority to act 
 
 in such other county as far as concerns the regulation and manage- 
 ment of such industrial school and the powers hereby conferred in 
 the like manner as if such industrial school and every part thereof 
 were situate within the county of Middlesex. 
 
 X5. \_Rating of schools, licp. by the Middlesex County Council 
 Act 1898, s. 26.*] 
 
 16. The provisions of " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act Certain pro- 
 1845 " with resi)ect to the purchase of lands bv ati^reement and with u'^^^o"v°i 
 respect to the j)urchase money or compensation commg to jtarties c. is 
 having limited interests or prevented from treating or not making iucorpoi-ated. 
 title and all other provisions of the said Act ap])licable to and in 
 case of the purchase of lands by agreement shall be incorj)orated 
 herewith and all ])arties by the said })rovisions empowered to sell 
 any lands may give lands in exchange for the pur})Oses hereof for 
 other lands and enter into all necessary agreements for that purpose 
 and on any exchange money may be paid by either party by way of 
 e([uality of exchange and the ])rovisions with rosjicct to ])urchase 
 money or compensation coming to parties having limited interests 
 or prevented from treating or not making title shall aj)ply to any 
 money coming to any such parties on exchange . . . and any 
 conveyance to be so made shall have the like force and effect as a 
 
 * S. 2G of the Middlesex County Council Act ls<»8 is as follows : " Section 15 of the 
 Middlesex Industrial Schools Act 1854 is hereby repealed and the industrial school at 
 Feltham and any additional buildings erected or to be erected shall while used for 
 the purpose of an industrial school be assessed to county parochial district and other 
 rates made after the cumniencement of this Act upon the same basis and to the same 
 extent as other lands and buildings in the same parish or district." 
 
 14
 
 01A rnr^.^ ^1 ,• 1 The Middlesex Industrial n - p t c, i- t 
 
 210 [Chap, clxix.] ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ jg^^_ [1 . & 18 \ ict.] 
 
 conveyance made under section eighty-one of the said " Lands 
 Clauses Consolidation Act." \P(xrt omitted {conveyance to Jive or 
 more visitors) superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 79 (2).] 
 
 17 — 20. {^Appointment of new trustees of lands pmrchased — 
 Visitors maij order repairs up to £400, inay sell lands and obtain 
 release from contracts with consent of Secretary of State. Svper- 
 seded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 3 (vii.)', 64 (3), 79 (3), and 80.] 
 
 rians etc. to gj, EveiT committee of Justices or visitors shall .submit all 
 
 to and™^**^*^ plans and contracts for building or providing or enlarging an 
 
 approved by industrial school and all contracts for purchases of lands or buildmgs 
 
 the Secretaiy for any such purpose to one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries 
 
 o tate. ^^. g|-^^g j^j^^l shall submit to one of such Secretaries of State 
 
 estimates of the costs and expenses of carrying into execution such 
 
 plans and no such agreement contract or plan shall be carried into 
 
 effect until the same has been approved by such Secretary of State 
 
 in writing under his hand. 
 
 22. [ Visitors not to be interested in contracts. Superseded by 
 the Muidcipjal Corporation Act 1882, s. 22, and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 4i, 
 
 5. 75.] 
 
 23 — 28. \Powers to raise moneys on mortgage. Semble superseded 
 by the London County Council {Money) Acts 1875 to 1904.] 
 
 Committee 29. Every committee of visitors shall within twelve months after 
 
 DreDTre°^^ *° the first appointment of such committee for the purpose of providing 
 
 general rules an industrial school prepare and submit general rules for the govern- 
 
 and submit ment of the industrial school under their superintendence to one of 
 
 Secretarvof -^^^' Majesty's principal Secretaries of State for his approval and 
 
 State and such lules when approved by him shall be printed and observed 
 
 to make and every such committee shall have power with the like approba- 
 
 pu^simnt"^ tion to alter and vary such rules from time to time as they think 
 
 to such rules, necessary and every such committee shall make from time to time 
 
 such regulations and orders as they think fit not inconsistent with 
 
 the general rules for the time being in force for the management 
 
 and conduct of the industrial school Provided always that if any 
 
 juvenile offender shall be of a religious persuasion differing from 
 
 that of the Established Church a minister of such persuasion at the 
 
 special request of such juvenile offender or at the special request of 
 
 his or her parents shall be allowed to visit him or her at proper and 
 
 reasonable times under such restrictions imposed by the committee 
 
 of visitors as shall guard against the introduction of improper persons 
 
 and shall prevent improper communications. 
 
 Visitors to 30. The committee of visitors of every industrial school hereafter 
 
 ^h^^^la'^ ^ ^^ ^^ erected or provided under this Act shall appoint a chajilain for 
 the same who shall be in priest's orders and shall be licensed by the 
 bishop of the diocese and such chaplain or his substitute approved 
 by the committee of visitors shall jjerform and celebrate in the 
 chapel of or in some convenient place within or belonging to such 
 industrial school divine service according to the rites of the Church 
 of England as established by law on every Sunday Christmas Day 
 and Good Friday and sliall also perform and celebrate such service 
 within the said industrial school at such other times and also such 
 other services according to the rites of the Church of England as 
 established by law at such times as the committee of visitors shall 
 direct but no clergyman so nominated shall officiate in any industrial 
 school until he shall have obtained a license for that purpose from
 
 n- I' 10 xr ■^ The ^fid(ll^'liex Industrial r(^„,^ ^K-i.-i on 
 
 [1 . <fe 18 Vict.] ^^..^^^^^^ ,^^^ 1^54_ [Chap. cLxix.] 211 
 
 the bishop of the diocese wherein such industrial school is situated 
 iior for any longer time than while such license shall continue in 
 force and a notice of every such noiniiiation shall within Due month 
 iiftcr it shall take ])lace be transmitted to th(; ijishoi) by the Clerk 
 of the Peace * and the committee; of visitors shall appoint a medical Visitors to 
 officer who may be resident in such industrial school and a treasurer ^^2*1^^ 
 €lerk superintendent master and matron of such school and such officer and 
 other officers and servants for such school as the committee of»uchotlier 
 visitors may think iit and the committee of visitors shall have power ''*^^f|'^.f"f 
 to remove such chaplain medical officer treasurer clerk superin- they think fit. 
 tendent master matron or any other officer or servant and shall 
 from time to time n])on every vacancy by deatli removal or other- 
 wise in the office of the chaplain medical officer treasurer clerk 
 •suj)erintendent master matron or other officer appoint some other 
 person to such office subject to the conditions and restrictions affect- 
 ing the original appointment to snch office and may from time to 
 time till up or not as in their discretion they may tliink tit vacancies 
 among other ofHcers and servants of such industrial school and the 
 •committee of visitors of such school shall from time to time fix the 
 salaries and wages to be paid to such chaplain treasurer clerk 
 superintendent master matron and other officers and servants of 
 such school which salaries and wages shall be paid out of the 
 rates lawfully applica])le to the building repairing or maintaining 
 euch industrial school. 
 
 31. In case any cliaplain clerk superintendent master matron or justices may 
 'Other officer or servant of any such industrial school shall become grant super- 
 from confirmed sickness age or infirmity incapable of executing the ^■^^ superin- 
 ^uties of his or her office or shall have been an officer or servant in tendent, etc. 
 «uch industrial school for not less than twenty years and shall be 
 not less than sixty years of age, the Justices of tlie said county 
 assembled at the General or Quarter Sessions not being less than 
 five if in their discretion they shall think fit so to do but not other- 
 wise may grant to such chaplain clerk superintendent master 
 matron or other officer or servant such annuity as they in their 
 discretion may think proportionate to the merits and time of service 
 of such chaplain clerk superintendent master matron or other officer 
 •or servant (whether incapable from sickness age or infirmity or 
 retiring from long service and age) and may order the payment 
 thereof out of the rates lawfully applii-able to the building or 
 .repairing or maintaining such industrial school Provided always 
 that the annual amount paid by way of superannuation or allowance 
 to any retired chaplain clerk superintendent master matron or other 
 •officer or servant shall be made according to the scale set forth in 
 the Act of the fourth and fifth William tJie Fourth chapter twenty- 
 four, \_Amendecl'iS & 39 Vict. c. Ixxxvii. .v. 4 ; and i^ee ol & 52 
 Vict. c. 41, ,^. U9 {!).'] 
 
 32. The committee of visitors of every industrial school shall ^ '•^"'^'"^ ^"^ 
 previously to every Quarter ^Sessions audit the accounts of the accounts, 
 treasuer and clerk of such industrial school and shall submit the 
 
 same to the court at such sessions and send the same once a year to 
 one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. \_Affiended 
 38 & 39 \'ict. c. Ixxxvii. a\ 4.] 
 
 33. Not less than three members of every committee of visitors Three visitors 
 shall together once at the least in every month inspect every part '^.-^j^ ^^^^ ^^ 
 of the industrial school of which they are visitors and see and every month. 
 
 .* See 51 i: 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 3 (vii.) and 78.
 
 212 
 
 [Chap, clxix.] 
 
 The Middlesex Industrial 
 Schools Act 1854. 
 
 [17 & 18 ViCT.l 
 
 Power of 
 committee 
 to detain 
 juvenile 
 offenders 
 sent to them 
 
 Children may 
 be provided 
 for after the 
 term of 
 sentence 
 is expired. 
 
 Justices may 
 make order 
 for main- 
 tenance on 
 parents or 
 guardians. 
 
 examine as far as circumstances will permit every inmate therein 
 and the general books kept in such industrial school and shall 
 enter in a book to be kept for that purpose any remarks which they 
 may deem ])roper in regard to the condition and management of such 
 industrial school and the inmates therein and shall sign such book 
 upon every such visit. \_Ame7ided 38 & 39 Vict. c. Ixxxvii. s. 4.] 
 
 34. [ Visitors to report annually to Quainter Sessions. Superseded 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 3 and 82 (2).] 
 
 35. \_Judges and Justices authorised to send children to industrial 
 school. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. Ixxxvii. s. 3.] 
 
 36. Every juvenile offender sentenced to detention as aforesaid 
 may be legally detained in any industrial school during the term of 
 his or her sentence and if he or she shall abscond from such school 
 or wilfully neglect or refuse to abide by or conform to the rules 
 
 ■ thereof it shall be lawful for any magistrate of the police courts of 
 the metropolis or for any two or more Justices in Petty Sessions 
 acting for the county, city, riding, or division wherein the said 
 offender shall actually be at the time he or she shall so abscond or 
 neglect or refuse as aforesaid ;ipon due proof thereof made before 
 him or them upon the oath of one credible witness by warrant to 
 commit such offender for every such offence to any house of correc- 
 tion for the said county, city, riding, or division with or without 
 hard labour for any period not exceeding one calendar month for the 
 first offence and not exceeding three calendar months for the second 
 or any subsequent offence and after the expiration of any such 
 imprisonment every such offender shall be remitted to the original 
 sentence and shall undergo the residue thereof ; Provided always 
 that if the Committee of Visitors shall be willing to receive any 
 such offender in lieu of his or her being imprisoned as aforesaid any 
 such Police Magistrate or Justices as aforesaid may by warrant 
 direct such offender to be sent back to such industrial school there 
 to undergo the residue of his original sentence and it shall be lawful 
 for the committee of visitors of such industrial school to pay the 
 expenses of recapturing such offender and bringing him or her back 
 to such industrial school and the same shall be defrayed out of any 
 rates lawfully applicable to the maintenance of such school providec^ 
 also that the time during which such offender shall have absconded 
 or have been imprisoned as aforesaid shall not be reckoned as part, 
 of the original sentence. 
 
 37. It shall be lawful for the committee of visitors^ of any 
 industrial school if they shall think fit on the expiration of the- 
 period for which any juvenile offender shall have been detained in. 
 such industrial school to pay on account and for the benefit of but 
 not to, such offender any sum not exceeding five pounds, such sum 
 to be expended in clothing or tools, or in any other way which shall 
 seem to such committee desirable with a view to enable such 
 offender to obtain an honest livelihood and such sum shall be jjaid 
 out of any rates lawfully applicable to the maintenance of such 
 school. \_See also 38 & 39 Vict. c. Ixxxvii. s. 7, and the Reforma- 
 tory and Industrial Schools Act 1891, s. 1.] 
 
 38. On application made by or on behalf of the treasurer of the 
 county of Middlesex * it shall be lawful if they so think fit for any 
 two or more Justices in Petty Sessions of the county, riding, 
 division, liberty, city, or borough in which the father, stepfather,. 
 
 * See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 3 (vii.) and 78.
 
 [1 . & 18 \ ICT.] ^^, ,/^^^^^ ^^^.^ j^._^_ [Chap, elxix.] 213 
 
 grandfather, mother or grandmother of any juvenile offender de- 
 tained in snch industrial scliool shall dwell to make an order upon 
 such father, ste])father, grandfather, niother or grandmother being 
 •of sufficient abilit}" for the payment to such treasurer or to some 
 person on his behalf of any sum of money (not exceeding three 
 shillings a week) towards the maintenance of such offender in such 
 school and during his or her detention therein provided tliat anv 
 person aggrieved by any such order shall have the like right of 
 a])peal in all respects as the father or other relation of any charge- 
 able poor ])erson upon whom an order of maintenance may be made 
 or by virtue of the Act of the forty-third year of Queen Elizabeth 
 intituled " An Act for the relief of the Poor," or of any subsequent 
 statute for the amendment of the same and all powers given by 
 the said statute of Queen Elizabeth or any subsecjuent statute for the 
 amendment thereof to overseers or guardians of the ])00r for the 
 enforcement of sucli last mentioned order of maintenance shall be 
 had and exercised by the treasurer of the said county of Middlesex 
 for the enforcement of the order made in pursuance of this Act upon 
 the father or other relation of such juvenile offender, [.l.s- to 
 appeals, see also Summart/ Jurisdiction Acts.^ 
 
 39. In case of the death of any juvenile offender in any industrial In case of 
 school notice and statement of the death and cause of the death "^t to te sen't^^r 
 such juvenile offender and the name of any person or persons who the reg:istrar 
 was or were present at the death shall be drawn up and signed by of deaths, 
 the clerk and medical officer of such industrial school and a copy 
 
 thereof shall be by the clerk transmitted to the registrar of deaths 
 for the district within twentv-four hours of the death. \_A7nended 
 m & 39 Vict. c. Ixxxvii. s. 4.'] 
 
 40. The said industrial schools shall be at all times open to the Schools may 
 insj)ection of any person duly authorised for that purpose by one of j^^. 'J^^.^^^'^Qf 
 Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. Secretary of 
 
 41. \_Pou'er to Middlesex Justices to visit schools. Superseded by 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 3 (vii.)-] 
 
 42. If any superintendent officer or servant in any industriaHX"'''^^-^' °° 
 school shall through wilful neglect or connivance permit any person .^i,j^,^n„ '' 
 to quit or escape therefrom or be at hirge or shall secrete or abet or escapes, 
 connive at the escape of any such person he shall be guilty of mis- 
 demeanour and shall be subject to indictment for every such offence, 
 
 or for everv such offence, on summarv conviction thereof before two 
 Justices of the Peace, shall forf\'it and pay any sum not more than 
 twenty pounds or less than two pounds. 
 
 43. \_Visit07'S mfuj sue and be sued in the name of their clerk. 
 Spent. See^l k o2 Vict. c. 41, s. 79 (1).] 
 
 44. It shall be lawful for the clerk to anv committee of visitors ^^''^^ ^"^ 
 
 ., • 1 • 1 1 1 1 1 • 1 * i J visitors may 
 
 01 any mdustrial school l)y their order to ])rosecute or proceed prosecute for 
 
 against any person for any otfeiice against this Act committed by offences, 
 unv olHcer or servant belono-iny: thereto or emploved therein and 
 i>uch clerk acting as the prosecutor or comi»lainant in any such 
 prosecution or proceeding shall be competent to bear witness therein 
 in the same manner as if he were not such j)rosecutor or com- 
 plainant and no such prosecution or proceeding shall abate or be 
 discontinued by reason of the death or removal of such clerk but his 
 successor shall come and be in his place.
 
 214 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act l^h^x [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 of penalties. 
 
 Eecoveryand 45, All penalties and forfeitures imposed hereby shall and may 
 n? npntit^rs ^^ recovered summarily before two Justices in manner provided by 
 the Act of the twelfth year of Her Majesty " to facilitate the per- 
 formance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions 
 within England and Wales with respect to summary Convictions 
 and Orders "' and such penalties and forfeitures when recovered upon 
 proceedings taken by the clerk to the committee of visitors of any 
 industrial school shall be paid to the treasurer of the county to be 
 by him applied in aid of the county rate. 
 
 46. \_Expenses of Act. Spent ^ 
 
 Schedule. \_Form of mortgage. Semhle spent. See note on 
 ss. 23—28.] 
 
 18 & 19 VICTORIA. A.D. 1855. 
 
 CHAPTER 120. 
 
 * An Act foe the better Local Management of the Metropolis. 
 
 [lAtk August 1855.] 
 
 {Preamble. Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. lf> {S.L.E.).'] 
 
 1. [Repeal of the Vestries Act 1831 {so far as regards the metro- 
 polis). Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 2. \_Vestries in the metropolis to consist of not less than eighteen 
 or more than one hundred and twenty members. Rep. 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 3. [Parishes with more than two thousand rated householders to be 
 di'cided into icards. Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 4. [Secretary of State to appoint persons to set out ivards and 
 apportion number of vestrymen. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. ^'o (S.L.R.).] 
 
 5. [T/ relative population of wards varies on future census, the 
 numbers of vestn/men may be altered by the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works. 'Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 6. [Qualification of vestrymen. Rep. and replaced by the Local 
 Government Act ls94, ss. 31 and 89. {See Appendix.)] 
 
 7. [Election of vestrymen. Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 t 8. [Full number of vestrymen for any parish to be chosen at 
 first election — Transfer to vestries constituted under this Act of 
 powers and pririleges of existing vestries. Rep. in part 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 35 ; remainder semble spent, see ibid. s. 4.] 
 
 19. [As to term of office of first vestrymen and future elections. 
 Rep. in part 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.), and 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19- 
 (S.L.R.) ; remainder semble spent. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, 6-. 4.] 
 
 t 10. [As to filling vacancies in vestries. Semble spent. See 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, 6-. 4.] 
 
 11 — 12. [Appointment and, term of office of auditors in the metro- 
 polis. Rep. 62 tt 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 * The powers, duties, and liabilities of the Metropolitan Board of Works under this 
 Act are transferred to the London County Council by 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). and 
 those of the vestries and district boards to the councils of the metropolitan boroughs 
 established under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14. See ibid. ss. 4. 31 (2). 
 
 + Semhle that so much of these sections as is not expressly repealed is spent by 
 leason of schemes under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14. See ibid. s. 28.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Management Act 1850. [('hai-. 12').] 215 
 
 13 — 27. [^l.** to conduct of elections of vestn/. Re p. h;j the Local 
 Gocernment Art 1894, s. 89. {^ee Appendix.)'] 
 
 28. . . . all (jiiestions shall be docided by the votes of the Quorum of 
 majority of the vestrymen present, and the vestry may act notwith- ^^^'^"^•'^• 
 standint{ any vacancies therein. \_l'ajt omitted (a.s to fjnornin of 
 vestries) rep. 02 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35. See also ibid. s. 31 (2).] 
 
 29. \_Meetinys not to be holden in the church. Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. 
 r. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 30. At every meeting of any vestry nnder this Act, in the absence Meeting to 
 of the persons anthorizcnl l)y law , . . to take tlie chair, tlie members ^\^^}- ^ 
 
 1 1 II I i. 1 • J- ^1 1 i- T , chairman, 
 
 ])resent shall elect a chiiirman lor the occasion beiore proceeding to 
 
 other bnsiness, and tlie chairman, in case of an ecinaliry of votes on 
 
 any question, shall have a second or casting vote. [Words omitted 
 
 (" or custom") rep. hj the Local Government Act 1894, s. 89. See 
 
 ibid. .S-. 31 (2). {See Appendix.)'] 
 
 31 — 42. \_Formation of jjarishes into districts — Con-stitution of 
 district boards — Incorporation of vestries and district boards. Rep. 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 43 — 53. S^Constitution,, incorporation., and meetings of the ^[etro- 
 jiolitan Board of Works. Rep. 51 <fe 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 126, and 
 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 54. \_Dis(jualif cations for mcndjership of the yietropolitan Board^ 
 di.strict boards, and vestries, and. for audltorships thereof. Rep. 
 bij the Ijocal Government Act 1894, s. 89. {See Appendix!)] 
 
 55 — 56. \^As to resignation of members of the metropolitan and 
 district boards and vestries and re-election of retiring members. 
 Rep. 62 k 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 57. No resolution or other act ... of any such vestry, shall be N'o resolution 
 revoked or altered at any subsequent meeting, unless such sub- "^^ °^*^'^^" 
 sequent meeting be specially convened for the purpose, nor unless ^nv district 
 such revocation or alteration be determined upon by a majority board, or of 
 consisting of two thirds ... of the vestrymen present at such sub- ''°>' ^^**^' *^ 
 sequent meeting, if the number of . . . vestrymen present at such .^ g^bsequent 
 subse(iuent meeting be not greater by one tifth than the number meeting, 
 present when such resolution was made or such act was done, but if "niess under 
 
 the number of . . . vestrymen present at such subsequent meeting cmjjgtj 
 
 certain cir- 
 
 ances. 
 
 be greater by one fifth than the number present at such former 
 meeting, then such revocation or alteration may be determined upon 
 by a mere majority. [^Parts omitted (a.s to }fefropolitan Board) 
 rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. lU (S.L.R.), and (as to district board) rep. 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, x. 35 ; and see ibid. s. 31 (2).] 
 
 58. It shall be lawful for . . . any such vestry ... to appoint Committees 
 a committee or committees for any pur]ioses which, in the discretion "lay be 
 
 of the . . . vestry, would be better regulated and managed by ^^^'" 
 means of such committee, and at any meeting to continue, alter, or 
 discontinue such committee. . . . \_Parts omitted (as to }fctropolitan 
 Board') rep. 55 & 56 Met. r. 19 (S.L.R.) ; (as to di.<trict board) rep. 
 62 k 63 Vict. c. 14, ,s. 35; aiid (as to acts of committee being 
 .submitted to general bod >/ for approval) rep. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, 
 .V. 31 ; but see 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 8 and 31 (2).] 
 
 59. Every committee so aiuiointed mav meet from time to time, rowers of 
 and nuiy adjourn from place to })lace, as they may think i>roper. tor committees, 
 carrying into etlect the purposes of their ajipointment ; but no
 
 216 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Minutes of 
 proceedings 
 of metro- 
 politan and 
 district 
 boards and 
 of vestries to 
 be entered. 
 
 All books to 
 be open to 
 inspection. 
 
 Power to 
 Metropolitan 
 Board, dis- 
 trict boards, 
 and vestries 
 to appoint 
 officers. 
 
 Clerk and 
 treasurer not 
 to be tlie 
 same person. 
 
 business shall be transacted at any meeting of the committee unless 
 three members of the committee are present. 
 
 60. Entries of all proceedings of . . . any such vestry, with the 
 names of the members who attend each meeting, shall b^ made in 
 books to be provided and kept for that purpose, under the direction 
 of the . . . vestry, and shall be signed by the members present, or 
 any two of them ; and all entries purporting to be so signed shall 
 be received as evidence, without proof of any meeting of the . . . 
 vestry having been duly convened or held, or of the presence at any 
 such meeting of the persons named in any such entry as being 
 present thereat, or of such persons being members of the . . . 
 vestry, or of the signature of any person by whom any such entry 
 purports to be signed, all which matters shall be presumed until 
 the contrary be proved ; and every such . . . vestry shall provide 
 and keep books in which shall be entered true and regular accounts 
 of all sums of money received and paid by them, or under their 
 authority, and of all liabilities incurred by them, and of the several 
 purposes for which such sums of money are received and paid and 
 such liabilities incurred, and copies of all contracts entered into by 
 any such . . . vestry. \_Note to s. 57 applies.] 
 
 61. All such books shall at all reasonable times be open to the 
 examination of every member of the . . . vestry ... to which 
 such books belong, . . . and of every owner of property, church- 
 warden, overseer, and ratepayer within any . . . parish, as regards 
 books belonging to the . . . vestry thereof . . . , and of every 
 creditor on the rates raised under this Act by any such . . . vestry 
 . . . , without fee or reward, and they respectively may take copies 
 of or extracts from such books or any part thereof, without paying 
 for the same ; and in case the members of the . . . vestry, or any 
 of them, or any of the officers or servants of the . . . vestry having 
 the custody of the said books, being thereunto reasonably requested, 
 refuse to permit or do not permit any such owner of property, 
 churchwarden, overseer, rateimyer, or creditor to examine the same, 
 or take any copies or extracts, every such member, officer, or 
 servant so oifending shall for every such offence, upon a summary 
 conviction thereof before two Justices, forfeit any sum not exceeding 
 ten pounds. [Parts omitted (as to books of district hoards) rep. 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35. Superseded (as regards books of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works) 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 ; the 
 Municipal Corporations Act 1882, part xiii. (see Appendix) ; and 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 10.] 
 
 62. . . . (subject to the provisions herein contained) the board 
 of works for every district under this Act, and the vestry of every 
 parish mentioned in Schedule (A.) to this Act, shall respectively 
 appoint or employ, or continue for the purposes of this Act, and 
 may remove at pleasure, such clerks, treasurers, and surveyors, and 
 such other officers and servants as may be necessary, and may allow 
 to such clerks, treasurers, surveyors, officers, and servants respec- 
 tively such salaries and wages as the board or vestry may think fit. 
 [Part omitted (as to Metropolitan Board) rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 
 (8.L.R.). See also ss. 139 and 202 ; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 112 ; 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, ss. 106—109 ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 4 (1), 
 9 (\\andU (2).] 
 
 63. No person holding the office of treasurer under . . . any 
 district board or any such vestry, nor his ])artner, nor any person in 
 the service or employ of them or eitlier of them, shall hold, be
 
 [18 & 10 Vict.] Metropolis A fanagemunt Act \^r):y. [CnAvA'lO.] 217 
 
 eligible to, or in any manner assist or officiate in the olfico of clerk ; 
 and neither the person holding the office of clerk, nor his partner, 
 nor any person in the service or employ of them or either of them, 
 «hall hold, be eligible to, or in any niiinner assist or officiate in the 
 office of treasurer; and every i)erson ollendnig in any of the cases 
 specified in this provision shall forfeit and pay the sum of one 
 hundred pounds, which may be recovered by any person, with full 
 <',osts of suit, by action in any of the su})erior courts of law. \_Vart 
 omilti'dias to Metropolitan Hoard ) rt'p. .").") A: .">() Vtrt. c. V.) {S.L.J'.).^ 
 
 64. No officer or servant of the Metropolitan Board, or of any Penalty on 
 ■district board or any such vestry, shall l)e in anywise concerned or officers, etc. 
 interested in any contract or work made with or executed for such /esT^lTn*^ 
 board or vestry ; and if any such officer or servant be so concerned contracts, or 
 i)r interested, or, under colour of his office or emj)loyment, exact, exacting fees, 
 take, or accept any fee or reward whatsoever, other than his proper 
 
 salary, wages, and allowances, he shall be incapable of afterwards 
 holdins: or continuiuiT in anv office or emtilovment under such board 
 or vestry, und shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty pounds, which 
 may be recovered by any person, with full costs of suit, by action in 
 any of the superior courts of law ; })rovided that no person, being a 
 shareholder of any joint stock company, shall be j)revented from 
 being employed as an officer or servant by reason of any contract 
 between such company and such board or vestry, or of any work 
 executed bv such company. \_See also the Publir Bodies Corrupt 
 Practices Act 1889.] 
 
 65. Before any officer or servant as aforesaid enters upon any officers, etc. 
 office or employment under this Act, by reason whereof he will or J"^t^i^^iJ,onev 
 may be intrusted with the custody or control of money, the board or to give sec'u- 
 vestry shall require and take from him such security for the faithful rity for duly 
 execution of such office or employment, and for duly accounting *or 'for*Jh?same. 
 all monies which may be intrusted to him by reason thereof, as 
 
 they may think sufficient ; and every such officer and servant, as 
 
 well during liis continuance in office or employment as upon his 
 
 resignation, dismissal, or ceasing to hold his office or emjdoyment, 
 
 shall respectively, when and in such manner as shall be required 
 
 by the board or vestry, nuike out and deliver a true and perfect 
 
 account, in writing signed by him, of all monies received by him for 
 
 the purposes of this Act, and stating how, and to whom, and for 
 
 what ])urpose such monies have been disposed of, and shall together 
 
 with such account deliver the vouchers or receipts for all payments 
 
 made by him, and pay over to the treasurer or such person as the 
 
 board or vestrv mav ai)])oint all monies owing bv him ; and if any If officer fail 
 
 such officer or servant fail to render such account, or to j)ro(luce and account, et-. 
 
 deliver up such of the said vouchers and receipts as may be in his Justices may 
 
 possession or i)ower, or to pav over anv such monies as aforesaid, or commit 
 
 •/. <. 1 ^ ,. /' 1 .' 1 • • ^i ^ • 1 1 +• ;i offender to 
 
 if, for the space ot five days after being thereunto required, lie tail pri^^^n. 
 to deliver up to the board or vestry, or to such person as they may 
 appoint, all books, papers, writings, property, efiects, matters, and 
 things in his possession or power belonging to the board or vestry, 
 then and in every such case a Justice shall, on complaint being 
 made to him in that behalf, summon the party charged to ai)pi'ar 
 and answer the complaint before two Justices at a time and i)lace to 
 be specified in the summons; and upon the ai)i)earance of the party 
 charged, or upon proof that the summons was personally served 
 upon him or left at his last known place of abode in England, and 
 if it appear to the last-mentioned Justices that he has tailed to
 
 218 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 (t 10 Vict.] 
 
 Power to levy 
 by distress. 
 
 Metropolitan 
 and district 
 boards and 
 vestries to 
 provide 
 proper 
 offices, and 
 to cause daily 
 attendance 
 to be given. 
 
 " Vestry " in 
 following 
 provisions to 
 mean vestry 
 of a parish in 
 Schedule (A.) 
 
 Sewers 
 (except main 
 sewers) 
 vested in 
 vestries and 
 district 
 boards. 
 
 render any such account, or to produce and deliver up any such 
 vouchers or receipts, or any such books, papers, writings, property^ 
 effects, matters, or things as aforesaid, and that he still fails or 
 refuses so to do, it shall be lawful for them, by warrant under their 
 hands and seals, to commit the offender to gaol, there to remain, 
 without bail, until he shall have rendered such account, and pro- 
 duced and delivered up all such vouchers, receipts, books, papers, 
 writings, property, effects, matters, and things in respect of which 
 the charge was made ; and if it appears that the party charged has 
 failed to pay over any such monies as aforesaid, and that he still 
 fails or refuses so to do, it shall be lawful for the last-mentioned 
 Justices, by a like warrant, to cause the same to be levied by distress 
 and sale of his goods and chattels, and in default of any sufficient 
 distress to commit him to gaol, there to remain, without bail, for a- 
 period not exceeding three months, unless such monies be sooner 
 paid : Provided always, that if the complainant, by deposition on 
 oath, show to the satisfaction of any Justice that there is probable 
 cause for believing that the party charged intends to abscond, it shall 
 be lawful for such .Justice, without previous summons, by warrant 
 under his hand and seal to cause him to be forthwith apprehended ; 
 and in such case the said jiarty shall, within twenty-four hours 
 after apprehension, be brought before the same or some other 
 Justice, who may order that he be discharged from custody, if such 
 Justice think that there is no sufficient ground for detention, or that 
 he be further detained until he be brought before two Justices at a. 
 time and place to be named in the order, unless bail to the satisfac- 
 tion of the Justice be given for the appearance of the party before 
 such two Justices : Provided also, that no such proceeding shall be 
 construed to relieve or discharge any surety of the offender from 
 any liability whatsoever. \_See also s. 156 ; t/ie Summa/y JurisdiC' 
 tion Act 1879, s. 6 ; and 02 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 14.] 
 
 66. . . . every such . . . vestry . . . shall provide and maintain 
 such ofhces within their . . . parish as may be necessary for the 
 purposes of this Act, and shall take care that their clerk, or some 
 person duly authorized by them in that behalf, attends at their 
 office daily (Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, and days 
 appointed for any general fast or thanksgiving, alone excepted)^ 
 for the purpose of receiving notices and transacting the ordinary 
 business of the . . . vestry under this Act. \_Parts omitted (as ta 
 Metropolitan Board and, district boards) rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 
 (S.L.E.) arid 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35. See also ss. 150—155; 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 65 ; .56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 24 ; and 62 & 6a 
 Vict. c. 14, .S-. 5 (2).] 
 
 Duties and Poivers of Vestries and District Boards. 
 
 67. Where in the provisions herein-after contained any expression 
 is used referring to the vestry of a parish, such expression shall be 
 construed as referring only to the vestry of a parish mentioned in 
 Schedule (A.) to this Act, unless such construction be repugnant to 
 the context. 
 
 68. . . . all sewers vested in the Metropolitan Commissioners 
 of Sewers* which are situate in any parish mentioned in 
 Schedule (A.) to this Act (except such sewers as are mentioned 
 
 * Aijpointed and empowered under 11 & 12 Vict. c. 112 ; 12 & 13 Vict. c. 93 ; 14 & 15 
 Vict. c. 75 : 15 & 10 Vict. c. 64 ; IG «c 17 Vict. c. 125 ; and 17 & 18 Vict. c. Ill ; since 
 repealed bv 24 & 25 Vict. c. 101. and 38 & 39 A^ict. c. 66 (S.L.R.).
 
 [18 & 10 Vict.] ^[etropolis Management Act 1800. [Chap. 120.] 219 
 
 in Schedule (D.j to this Act), witli the walls, defences, banks, 
 outlets, sluices, fla])s, penstocks, gullies, grates, works, and things 
 thereunto appertaining, and the materials thereof, with all rights 
 of way and ])assage used and enjoyed by such Commissioners 
 over or to such sewers, works, and things, and all othei- rights 
 concerning or incident to such sewers, works, and things, shall 
 become vested in the vestry of such parish : and all sewers vested 
 in the said Metropolitan Commissioners which are situate within 
 any district mentioned in Schedule (B.) to this Act, exce})t as before 
 excepted, with all such works and things as aforesaid appertaining 
 thereto, and all rights of way and passage used and enjoyed by such 
 Commissioners over or to such sewers, works, and things, and all 
 other rights concerning or incident to such sewers, works, and 
 things, shall become vested in the board of works for such distiict ; 
 and all sewers made and to be made within any sucli parish or 
 district, except sewers and works vested or to be vested in the 
 Metropolitan Board of AVorks, as herein-after mentioned, shall be 
 vested in such vestry and board respectively. [ Words omitted i^" upon 
 the commenremeid oj this Act "j rep. 00 k 00 Vict. c. V.) {S.L.R.).~\ 
 
 69. The vestry of every parish mentioned in Schedule (A.) to this Vestries and 
 Act, and the board of works for every district mentioned in Schedule u'^^'ii^^ 
 (B.) to this Act, shall (sul)ject to the powers by this Act vested in repair, etc. 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works) from time to time repair and all sewers 
 maintain the sewers under this Act vested in them, or such of them ^'^^^^^ i° 
 as shall not be discontinued, closed up, or destroyed under the from time to 
 powers herein contained, and shall cause to be made, repaired, and time to con- 
 maintained such sewers and works, or such diversions or alterations struct new 
 
 . ones etc 
 
 of sewers and works, as mav be necessarv for effectuallv draininor ' 
 
 their parish or district, . . . and it shall be lawful for any such 
 vestry or district board to carry any such sewers or works through, 
 across, or under any turnpike road, or any street or place laid out 
 as or intended for a street, or through or under any cellar or vault 
 which may be under the pavement or carriasfeway of any street, and 
 into, through, or under any lands whatsoever, making compensation 
 for any damage done thereby as herein-after jirovided ; and it shall 
 be lawful for any such vestry or district board from time to time to 
 enlarge, contract, raise, lower, arch over, or otherwise improve or 
 alter all or any of the sewers, watercourses, and works which shall 
 be from time to time vested in them or subject to their order and 
 control, and to discontinue, close up, or destroy such of them as they 
 may deem to have become unnecessary : Provided always, tliat no 
 new sewer shall be made without the previous approval of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works : Provided also, that the discon- 
 tinuance, closing u]t, destruction, or alteration of any sewer as 
 aforesaid shall be so done as not to create a nuisance ; and if by 
 reason thereof any person shall be deprived of the lawful use of any 
 covered sewer, it shall be the duty of the vestry or district board to 
 provide some other sewer or a drain as effectual for his use as the 
 sewer of which he is so deprived : Provided also, that where the 
 vestry or district board alter any sewer, or j)rovide a new sewer in 
 substitution for a sewer discontinued, closed up, or destroyed, they 
 may contract or otherwise alter the private drains communicating 
 with the sewer so altered, or with the sewer so discontinued, closed 
 up, or destroyed, or may close up or destroy such ]>rivate drains, 
 and provide new drains in hen" thereof, as the circumstances of the 
 sewerage may a})pear to them to require, but so that in every case
 
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 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 vestries and 
 district 
 boards to do 
 works of im- 
 provement in 
 sewers, etc. 
 the expense 
 of which to 
 be divided 
 between the 
 party liable 
 and the 
 parish or 
 district. 
 
 Oulh'holes, 
 etc. to be 
 trapped. 
 
 Vestries and 
 district 
 boards to 
 cause sewers 
 to be 
 cleansed, etc. 
 
 Vestry or dis 
 trict board 
 in certain 
 cases may 
 compel 
 owners, etc. 
 of houses to 
 construct 
 drains into 
 the common 
 sewer. 
 
 the altered or substituted drain shall he as effectual for the use of 
 the person entitled thereto as the drain previously used. \_Part 
 omitted (as to ^/food-works) rep. 42 & 43 Vict. c. cxcviii. s. 43. See 
 also 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, ss. 34, 35, 45—51, 58 and 83, and 53 & 54 
 Vict. c. 66, s. 4.] 
 
 70. Wherever any party is, by prescription, by reason of tenure, 
 or otherwise, liable by law to maintain or do any repairs to sewers, 
 banks, watercourses, or works in any such parish or district which 
 the vestry or district board judge it necessary to alter or improve, it 
 shall be lawful for them to make such alterations or improvements 
 therein as they think proper, and to divide the expense of such 
 alterations or improvements between the party liable to such main- 
 tenance or repairs and the parish, district, or persons who would 
 have been wholly liable to the expense of such alterations or 
 improvements if no party had been liable as aforesaid, so as to 
 throw on the party liable to such maintenance or repairs such part 
 of the expense of alterations or improvements as may be equal to 
 what would be incurred for such maintenance or repairs, and to 
 throw on the parish, district, or persons aforesaid the residue of 
 such expense, and to settle and adjust such proportions either by 
 some general regulation or by order in each particular case, as they 
 may think proper : Provided always, that nothing in this Act con- 
 tained shall exempt from liability to do any works, or to pay the 
 whole cost thereof, any person who, by prescription, by reason of 
 tenure, or otherwise by law, is so liable. \_Amended 42 & 43 Vict, 
 c. cxcviii. s. 43.] 
 
 71. Every district board and vestry shall, by providing proper 
 traps or other coverings, or by ventilation, or by such other ways 
 and means as shall be practicable for that purpose, prevent the 
 effluvia of sewers from exhaling through gullyholes, gratings, or 
 other openings of sewers in any of the streets or other places 
 within their district or parish. \_See also 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, 
 6-. 27.] 
 
 72. Every vestry and district board shall cause the sewers vested 
 in them to be constructed, covered, and kept so as not to be a 
 nuisance or injurious to health, and to be properly cleared, cleansed, 
 and emptied, and for the purpose of clearing, cleansing, and empty- 
 ing the same they may construct and place, either above or under 
 ground, such reservoirs, sluices, engines, and other works as maybe 
 necessary. \See also 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. s. 16.] 
 
 73. If any house or building, whether built before or after the 
 commencement of this Act, situate within any such parish or 
 district, be found not to be drained by a sufficient drain com- 
 municating with some sewer, and emjitying itself into the same, 
 to the satisfaction of the vestry or board of such parish or district, 
 and if a sewer of sufficient size be within one hundred feet of any 
 part of such house or building, on a lower level than such house or 
 building, it shall be lawful for the vestry or board, at their dis- 
 cretion, by notice in writing, to require the owner of such house or 
 building forthwith, or within such reasonable time as may be 
 appointed by the vestry or board, to construct and make from 
 such house or building into any such sewer a covered drain, and 
 such branches thereto, of such materials, of such size, at such level, 
 and with such fall as shall be adequate for the drainage of such 
 house or building, and its several floors or stories, and also of its
 
 [IS & 19 Vict.] Metropolh Mana(f<^ment Act l^hb. [Chap. 120.] 221 
 
 areas, waterclosets, privies, and offices, (if any,) and for conveying 
 the soil, druinage, and wash therefrom into tiie said sewer, and to 
 provide fit and j)roper j)aved ur irc;j)ermeable sloped surfaces f(ir 
 conveying surface water thereto, and tit and y)roper sinks, and fit 
 and ])roper syphoned or otherwise tra]t])ed iiih^ts and outh'ts for 
 hindering stench therefrom, and fit and j)roper water su])ply and 
 water sn])}»lying pipes, cisterns, and apjjaratus for scouring the 
 same, and for causing the same to convey away the soil, and fit 
 and proper sand traj)s, expanding inlets, and other apparatus for 
 hindering the entry of improper substances therein, and all other 
 snch fit and jiroper works and arrangements as may a[)pear to the 
 vestry or Injard, or to their officers, requisite to secure the safe and 
 pro})er working of the said drain, and to j)revent the same from 
 obstructing or otherwise injuring or impeding the action of the 
 sewer to which it leads ; and it shall be lawful for the said vestry 
 or board to cause the said works to be inspected while in progress, 
 and from time to time durini; their execution to order such reason- 
 able alterations therein, additions thereto, and abandonment of 
 part or parts thereof, as may to the vestry or board or their officers 
 appear, on the fuller knowledge afforded by the opening of the 
 ground, refpiisite to secure the complete and perfect working of 
 sucli works ; and if the owner of such house or building neglect penalty on 
 or refuse, during twenty-eight days after the said notice has been owner, etc. 
 delivered to such owner, or left at such house or building, to begin ^°^ neglect, 
 to construct such drain and other works aforesaid, or any of them, 
 or thereafter fail to carry them on and complete them with all 
 reasonable despatch, it shall be lawful for the vestry or board to 
 cause the same to be constructed and made, and to recover the 
 expenses to be incurred thereby from such owner in the manner 
 herein-after provided. \_See ss. 22.5 — 227 ; 25 ct 26 Vict. c. 102, 
 sis. 04, GO, ami 90 ; .54 k 5o Vict. c. TO, s. 48 ; and 57 & 5b Vict, 
 c. ccxiii. s. 122—124.] 
 
 74. If it appear to the vestry or board of any parish or district ^^°^i!?^°°, ^'^'^ 
 that a group or l)lock of contiguous houses, or of adjacent detached ^r^na°e of 
 or semi-detached houses, may be drained and improved more econo- biocks'of 
 mically or advantageously in combination than separately, and a bouses. 
 sewer of sufficient size already exist or be about to be constructed 
 
 within one hundred feet of any part of such group or block of 
 houses, whether contiguous, detached, or semi-detached, it shall be 
 lawful for such board or vestry to order that such group or block 
 of houses be drained and improved, as herein-before provided, by a 
 combined operation. [^Atnended 26 & 26 Vict. c. l02, s. 64.] 
 
 75. It shall not be lawful to erect any house or other building >'o honse to 
 in any parish mentioned in Schedule (A.) to this Act, or in any ^.*jf^,o^|[ 
 district mentioned in Schedule (B.) to this Act, or to rebuild any drains con- 
 house or building within any such parish or district which has been stmcted to 
 I)ulled down to or below the floor commonly i-alled the ground floor, [j^j^n^f^t'he^' 
 or to occupy any house or building so newly built or rebuilt, unless vistrv or 
 
 a drain and such branches thereto and other connected works and 'iu-trict 
 apparatus and water supply as herein-before mentioned be con- ^'^^'"'l- 
 structed and provided to the satisfaction of the surveyor of the 
 vestry of such parish or board of works for such district, of such 
 materials, of such size, at such level, and with such fall as they may 
 direct, so that the same shall be available for the drainage of the 
 lowest floor of such house or building, and of its several floors or 
 stories, and also of its areas, waterclosets, privies, and offices (if
 
 222 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Notice of 
 buildings to 
 be given to 
 the vestry 
 or district 
 board before 
 commencing 
 the same. 
 
 Power to 
 Metropolitan 
 Board or 
 vestrv' or 
 district board 
 to branch 
 private drains 
 into sewers, 
 
 any), which drain shall lead from such house or building, or the 
 intended site of such house or building, to such sewer, already 
 made or intended to be constructed near thereto, as the vestry or 
 board shall direct and appoint, or if there be no such sewer existing 
 or intended to be constructed within one hundred feet of any part of 
 the intended site of such house or building, then to such covered 
 cesspool or other place, not being under any dwelling house, as the 
 vestry or board shall direct ; and whenever any house or building is 
 rebuilt as aforesaid, the level of the lowest floor of such house or 
 building shall be raised sufficiently to allow of the construction of 
 such a drain and such branches thereto and other works and 
 apparatus as are herein-before required, and for that purpose the 
 levels shall be taken and determined under the direction of the 
 vestry or district board. \_See also 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 37 
 et seq.~\ 
 
 76. Before beginning to lay or dig out the foundation of any new 
 house or building within any such parish or district, or to rebuild 
 any house or building therein, and also before making any drain for 
 the purpose of draining directly or indirectly into any sewer under 
 the jurisdiction of the vestry or board of or for any such parish or 
 district, seven days notice in writing shall be given to the vestry 
 or board by the person intending to build or rel)uild such house or 
 building or to make such drain ; and every such foundation shall 
 be laid at such level as will permit the drainage of such house or 
 building in compliance with this Act, and as the vestry or board 
 shall order, and every such drain shall be made in such direction, 
 manner, and form, and of such materials and workmanship, and 
 with such branches thereto and other connected works and apparatus 
 and water supply as herein-before mentioned, and as the vestry or 
 board shall order, and the making of every such drain shall be 
 under the survey and control of the vestry or board ; and the vestry 
 or district board shall make their order in relation to the matters 
 aforesaid, and cause the same to be notified to the person from 
 whom such notice was received within seven days after the receipt 
 of such notice, and in default of such notice, or if such house, 
 building, or drain, or branches thereto or other connected works 
 and apparatus and water supply, be begun, erected, made, or pro- 
 vided in any respect contrary to any order of the vestry or board 
 made and notified as aforesaid, or the provisions of this Act, it shall 
 be lawful for the vestry or board to cause such house or building to 
 be demolished or altered, and to cause such drain or branches 
 thereto and other connected works and apparatus and water supply 
 to be relaid, amended, or re-made, or, in the event of omission, added, 
 as the case may require, and to recover the expenses thereof from 
 the owner thereof in the manner herein-after provided. \_See s. 202 
 and note thereon ; ss. 215—227; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, ss. 63, 64, 
 and 88 ; and 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. ss. 145 and 164.] 
 
 77. [Power to branch drains into sewers. Rep. 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. 102, s. 61.] 
 
 78. Whenever it is necessary to open any part of the pavement or 
 any street or public place, for the purpose of making or branching 
 any private drain into any of the sewers or drains vested in the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, or any vestry or district board under 
 this Act, or authorized to be made by them under this Act, it shall 
 be lawful for the vestry or board, in case they think fit so to do, to
 
 [18 & 10 Vict.] Metropolis Management Art \Hyib. [Ciiap. IvlU.] 223 
 
 make so much and snch part of such private drain, and also to con- a* the ex- 
 Ktruct so much and such part of the work necessary lor lii"a"t:hing '^^"^^^ "^^ ^ ® 
 the same into the ])ublic sewers as shall he under or in any street, whom they 
 and to i-oeover the expenses incnrred thereby from the owner of the belong, 
 house, huilding, or ground to which such private drain belongs, iu 
 the manner herein-after provided. [^See ss. 225 — 227.] 
 
 79. It shall be lawful for any such vestry or board to contract v«?stry or 
 and agree with the owners or occupiers of anv houses, buildings, or l'f*"^,l^l'V** 
 
 1 1 1* •!! 1*^1 1 11 '^^ ' agree CO 
 
 ground that any drams reqmred to be made, altered, or enlarL-'ed make house 
 by such owners shall be constructed, made, altered, and enlarged by drain.s at 
 the vestry or board ; and the cost price of making, altering, or of^ow^ng^i-s^i^r 
 enlarging such drains, as certified by the surveyor of the vestry occupiers, 
 or board, shall be re]iaid by the owner or occupier so agreeing to 
 the vestry or board, and in default of payment the same may be 
 recovered in the manner herein-after provided. [_See ss. 225 — 227.] 
 
 80. ^Vll(M•e any sewer in anv of the parishes mentioned in either Vestry or 
 
 of the iSchedule.s (A.) and (B.) to this Act, into which anv drain '^^«'"^"V°^^*^ 
 
 V / \ y ' ^ ^ •- IT13.V order £1 
 
 shall l)e made or branched, has been built since the third day of eoiitributioa 
 September one thousand eight hundretl and thirteen, and before the towards con- 
 €ommencement of this Act, at the expense of any T)erson or bodv *^'^"'^^'°'^ "^^ 
 other than any commissioners of sewers, the vestry or district board certain cases, 
 in whom such sewer is vested may order such sum as they may 
 deem just to be paid and contributed by the owner of tlie house to 
 which such drain belongs towards the expense of the construction of 
 such sewer, which sum shall, on the receipt thereof by such vestry 
 or board, be paid over to the person or body aforesaid, and such 
 vestry or board may, if tliey see tit, order and accej)t j)ayment of 
 such sum, with interest after a rate not exceeding live pounds for 
 the hundred by the year, by instalments within any period not 
 exceeding twenty years. \_See also 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 59.] 
 
 81. \_As to erecting and rebuilding houses without proper water- 
 closets. Hep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142. See ibid. ss. 37 — 42.] 
 
 82. It shall be lawful for any such vestry or board, or for their Power for 
 surveyor or inspector, or such other person as they appoint, to district ^° 
 inspect any drain, ... or sinks, traps, syphons, pipes, or other boards to 
 works or apparatus connected therewith, within the parish or dis- authorize 
 trict of such vesti-y or board, and for that ])urpose, at all I'easonable ^^g^'*^° ° 
 times in the daytime, after twenty-four hours notice in writing has 
 
 been given to the occupier of the premises to which such drain, . . . 
 or other connected works or apparatus as aforesaid, is attached, or 
 left upon the premises, or iu case of emergency without notice, to 
 enter, by themselves or their surveyor or inspector and workmen, 
 upon any premises, and cause the ground to be opened in any place 
 they think fit, doing as little damage as may be. [Farts ofnitted (as 
 to watercloset, priiy, cesspool, and water supphj apparatus) rep. 
 54 it 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142. See ibid. ss. 2 (1) (b), lU, and 40—42.] 
 
 83. In case any drain, ... or other connected works or ap])aratus. Penalty on 
 herein-before mentioned, be found, on inspection, not to have been persons 
 made or provided according to the directions or regulations of the l^a^'in^Jor 
 vestry or district board, or contrary to the provisions of this Act, or altering 
 in case any ])erson, without the consent of the vestry or district drains, 
 board, construct, rebuild, or unstop any sewer, drain, . . . which 
 
 may have been ordered by them not to be made, or to be demolished 
 or stopped up, ... or destroy any connected works or apparatus as 
 aforesaid, or iu case any person, without the consent of the vestry or
 
 224 [Chap 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 district board, break into any sewer vested in sncli vestry or board, 
 every person so offending shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceed- 
 ing ten pounds ; and in case the person so making any sewer, drain, 
 ... or other works or apparatus as aforesaid, contrary to the 
 directions or regulations of the vestry or board, or contrary to 
 the provisions of this Act, or, without such consent as aforesaid, 
 constructing, rebuilding, or unstopping any sewer, drain, . . . which 
 may have been ordered to be demolished or stopped up, ... or 
 destroying any connected works or apparatus as aforesaid, or break- 
 ing into any such sewer as aforesaid, do not, within fourteen days 
 after notice in writing by the vestry or board, cause such sewer, 
 . drain, ... to be altered or reinstated in conformity with the 
 directions of the vestry or board, or, as the case may be, to be 
 demolished or stopped up . . . , or such connected works or apparatus 
 to be restored, then and in every such case the vestry or board may 
 cause the work to be done, and the expenses thereof shall be paid by 
 the person who has so offended. \^Xote to s. 82 applies. See also 
 ss. 225—227 ; and 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, ss. 66, 68, and 69.] 
 
 Where no 84. If such drain, . . . or other connected works and apparatus, 
 
 default found \^q found on inspection as aforesaid to be made to the satisfaction of 
 
 be paid by the vestry or board, and in proper order and condition, they shall 
 
 vestry or cause the Same to be reinstated and made good as soon as mav be, 
 
 board. ^^w^ the expenses of examination, reinstating, and making good 
 
 such drain, ... or other works or apparatus as aforesaid, shall 
 
 be defrayed by the vestry or board, and fall compensation shall be 
 
 made by them for all damages or injuries done or occasioned by the 
 
 examination of any such drain, ... or other works or apparatus as 
 
 aforesaid. [Note to s. 82 applies. See also ss. 225 — 227.] 
 
 Vestry or 85. If, upou such inspection as aforesaid, any drain, . . . appear 
 
 to'^^^ause t^ ^® ^^ ^^ order and condition, or to require cleansing, alteration,, 
 
 drains, etc. to or amendment, or to be filled up, the vesti'y or board shall cause 
 be put into notice in writing to be given to the owner or occupier of the pre- 
 d^ti^n^ T^' Ibises upon or in respect of which the inspection was made, requiring' 
 where' him forthwith, or within such reasonable time as shall be si)ecified 
 
 necessary. in such notice, to do the necessary works ; and if such notice be not 
 complied with by the person to whom it is given the vestry or 
 board may, if they think fit, execute such works, and the expenses- 
 incurred by them in so doing shall be paid to them by the owner 
 or occupier of the premises. [JVote to s. 82 applies. See aha 
 ss. 225—227 ; and 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, 6-. 64.] 
 Vestry and 86. . . . Provided also, that where any work by any vestry or 
 
 to^cause ^^^ district board done or required to be done in pursuance of the pro- 
 ofEensive visions of this Act interferes with or prejudicially affects any ancient 
 ditches, mill, or any right connected therewith, or other right to the use of 
 
 brcleansed*^ water, full compensation shall be made to all persons sustaining 
 or covered, damage thereby, in manner herein-after provided, or it shall be 
 Where works lawful for the vestry or board, if they think fit, to contract for the 
 interfere with pni-chase of such mill, or any such right connected therewith, or 
 ^7u^^?l^^^ other right to the use of water; and the provisions of this Act 
 
 iniii, etc. ,*— ' - - 111* J.* 
 
 compensation With respect to the purchases by the vestry or board herem-aiter 
 to be made, authorized shall be api)licable to every such purchase- as aforesaid. 
 the"mn^^ [Pari! Omitted {as to cleansing, Jilling up, etc., oj'ensive ditcheSy 
 purchased, drains., etc.) rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142.] 
 
 Power to 37^ Jt giiall be lawful for any vestry or district board, where they 
 
 district ^^"^ think fit, to cause the ditches at the sides of or across public roads-
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] MetrojwUs Management Act 1855. [Chai>. 120.] 22a 
 
 and byeways and j)ublic footways to be filled nj), and to snbstitnte boards 
 pipe or other drains alongside or across sncli roads and ways, with 'j-^,!,^^"^^,^!^^^ 
 a])proj)riate shoots and means of conveying water from such roads side of roads, 
 and ways tliereinto, and from time to time to rej)air and amend the '^"'^ **"bsti- 
 same ; and the surluce of hind gained by filling up such ditches " ^ P'P*^**- 
 may, if the vestry or board so think fit and direct, be thrown into 
 snch roads and ways, and be rej)airable as })art thereof, and be under 
 the control of the surveyors of the higlnvays, or other })erson in 
 charge of snch roads, byeways, or footways. 
 
 88. [.I*' to public conremences. lie p. 54 & 55 Vict, c 7^, a. 142. 
 See ibid. s. 44.] 
 
 89. If any vestry or district board desire t(^ transfer to the Vestries and 
 
 MetroT)olitau Board of Works the ])0wers and duties vested in J^''^^™'^ 
 
 1 . T • , 1 1 • 1 • 11- boards may 
 
 snch vestry or district board in relation to sewerage and drainage, transfer their 
 
 and a resolution for so transferring sucli powers and duties be powers as to 
 
 j)assed by a majority at a meeting of such vestry or district board, ^f^^JYi^ro^*' 
 
 specially convened for the purpose of considering the question of poiitan Board 
 
 such transfer, of which not less than fourteen days notice shall of Works. 
 
 have been given, and at which there shall be present not less than 
 
 two thirds of the whole number of such vestry or board, then such 
 
 powers and duties, and all sewers and property vested in such vestry 
 
 or board under this Act, for the purposes of or in connexion with 
 
 such powers and duties, shall, at the expiration of one month after 
 
 notice from sucli vestry or board shall have been given under their 
 
 seal to the said Metropolitan Board of such resolution having been 
 
 passed as aforesaid, become vested in the said Metropolitan Board, 
 
 and the provisions of this Act for defraying expenses incurred by 
 
 such Board in the execution of this Act shall extend to ex])enses 
 
 incurred by them in the execution of the j)owers and duties so 
 
 transferred to them. [^See also 25 & 26 Vict. c. 1U2, s. 28 ; and 
 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 5 (3) and 7.] 
 
 90. All the duties, powers, and authorities for or in relation to the -^V P^^'"^ 
 
 ,. , ,. / . ' , . . . ,. . , relating to 
 
 paving, lighting, watering, cleansing, or imju-ovmg ot any parish pavingretc. 
 mentioned in Schedule (A.) to this Act, or any ])art of such j)arish, to be vested 
 now vested in any commissioners, or in anv bodv other than the "* Y^.'^^'i^'^ 
 
 , r. , -^ . , . /r. i'" ' • • and in dis- 
 
 vestry oi such parish, or in any oiiicer ot any commissioners or trict board.--, 
 other body, and all other duties, powers, and authorities in anywise 
 relating to the regulation, government, or concerns of any such 
 parish or part, or of the inhabitants thereof, (except such duties, 
 powers, and authorities as relate to the affairs of the church, or 
 the management or relief of the poor, or the administration of any 
 money or other j)roperty a])])licable to the relief of the poor, so far 
 as such duties, powers, and authorities relate thereto,) now vested 
 under any local Act of Barliament in any commissioners, or in any 
 body other than the vestry of such parish, or in any such officer, 
 shall cease to be so vested, and shall, save as herein otherwise 
 provided, become vested in and be jierformed and exercised by the 
 vestry of such parish under this Act : and all the duties, powers, 
 and authorities for or in relation to the paving, lighting, watering, 
 cleansing, or imjtroving of any parish included in any district men- 
 tioned in Schedule (B.) to this Act, or any ])art of such parish, now 
 vested in any commissioners, vestry, or other body, or in any oiiicer 
 of any commissioners or other body, and all other duties, powers, 
 and authorities in anywise relating to the regulation, government, 
 or concerns of any such jjarish, or part, or of the inhabitants thereof 
 
 15
 
 226 
 
 [Ghap. 120.] Metropolis MaJiagement Act 1855. [18 & 19 Yict.] 
 
 Saving as to 
 Baths and 
 Washhouses, 
 Metropolitan 
 Burials, 
 Markets and 
 Charitable 
 Trusts Acts. 
 
 Expenses 
 incurred 
 under exist- 
 ing powers 
 relating to 
 paving, etc. 
 to be deemed 
 expenses 
 incurred in 
 execution of 
 this Act, 
 
 As to the 
 transfer of 
 property. 
 
 (except such duties, powers, and authorities as relate to the aiFairs 
 of the church, or the management or relief of the poor, or the 
 administration of any money or other property applicable to the relief 
 of the poor, so far as such duties, powers, and authorities relate 
 thereto), now vested under any local Act of Parliament in any com- 
 missioners, vestry, or other body, or in any such officer, shall cease 
 to be so vested, and shall, save as herein otherwise provided, become 
 vested in and be performed and exercised by the board of works for 
 such district ; and the provisions of every such Act of Parliament 
 as aforesaid shall be applicable to the vestry of every parish men- 
 tioned in the said Schedule (A.) and to every such district board 
 accordingly, and the offices of all commissioners and persons whose 
 powers are determined by this Act shall cease and be determined, 
 and there shall be no new appointment or election to any such office. 
 ISee also 19 & 20 Vict. c. 112, ss. 1—3 ; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 73 ; 
 35 & 36 Vict. c. Ixvi. s. 3 and note thereon ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, 
 s. 23.] 
 
 91. Provided always, that . . . nothing in this Act shall extend 
 to or affect any rights, privileges, powers, or authorities vested in 
 any persons in reference to any market, or any powers or rights for 
 or in relation to the administration of any charitable trusts, save 
 that any powers or rights in relation to any such trusts vested or 
 which would have become vested in the existing vestry of any parish 
 shall be vested in the vestry of such parish as constituted by this Act. 
 VPart omitted {Act not to divest vestries^ commissioners, or hurial 
 hoards of i^owers as to baths and ivashhouses and burials) rejj. 62 
 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35 ; and see ibid. ss. 4, 23, and 34.] 
 
 92. Provided also, that all expenses of paving, lighting, watering, 
 cleansing, or improving any parish or any part of any parish 
 mentioned in either of the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to this Act, and 
 all other expenses in relation to the regulation, government, or 
 I)ublic concerns of any such parish or part, or of the inhabitants 
 thereof, except only expenses incurred in relation to the affairs of 
 the church or for the management or relief of the poor, and other 
 expenses by law payable out of any poor rate, which are not herein 
 provided for, shall be deemed expenses incurred in the execution of 
 this Act, and shall be defrayed accordinglv. \See also ss. 158 — 169 ; 
 and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 112. ss. 1—3.] 
 
 93. All property, matters, and things whatsoever vested in such 
 commissioners or other body, or in any such officer as aforesaid, 
 under any such Act, in connexion with any such duties or powers as 
 aforesaid, hereby transferred to the vestry of any parish or the 
 Board of Works for any district, shall upon the commencement of 
 this Act be vested in such vestrv or board ; and where anv such 
 property, matters, or things are vested in any such commissioners 
 or body, or officer, acting for parts extending beyond such parish or 
 district, the Metropolitan Board of Works shall by their order 
 declare in what vestry or district board they shall be vested, and 
 may, if they see fit, apportion the same between the vestries and 
 district boards within whose respective districts and parishes such 
 parts may be situate, and the same shall be vested accordingly; and 
 any money in the possession of any such commissioners or other 
 body, or any such officer, which becomes vested in any such vestry 
 or board under this enactment, and the income of any other such 
 property, until sold or disposed of, shall be applicable, as nearly as 
 may be, for the like purposes as if this Act had not been passed.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Management Act 1850. [Chap. 120,] 227 
 
 94. \_Samn(f for existing contractsi of such rommistiioners and 
 hodics. Semhle spent.^ 
 
 95. /'Jxisti)ig cotnmis.sioners, etc., continued until commencement 
 of this Act. Rep. 38 & 39 Virt. c. 66 (S.L.U.).] 
 
 96. Every vestry and district board shall, witliiti their parish l^owers an-l 
 
 or district (exclusively of anv other itcrsoiis whatsoever), execute the ^"^'^'^ °^ , 
 re !■ I 1 " r\-\ 11 II 1 surveyors of 
 
 oihee 01 and be surveyor ot hi,t,Miways, and iiave all such powers, highways, 
 
 authorities, and duties, and be subject to all sueh liabilities, as and property 
 any surveyor of hij^hways in Enj^land is now or may hereafter be them Vr^ns 
 invested with or liable to by virtue of his ofHce, under tiie laws for ferred to 
 the time being in force, so far as such jjowers, authorities, duties, vestries and 
 and liabilities are not inconsistent with this Act : but all expenses 'jJ'^^^V^' 
 which under any such law ought to be defrayed by liighway rates 
 shall be defraved bv means of the rates to be raised under this Act, 
 and all monies which would be apjdicable in aid of such higiiway 
 rates shall be a})j)lied in aid of the said rates to be raised under this 
 Act, and no such vestry or b(jard shall be subject to any provisions 
 concerning the accounts of surveyors of highways, or requiring any 
 returns to be made to any special sessions; and all streets being 
 highways, and the pavements, stones, and otlier materials thereof, 
 and all other things provided for the purposes thereof by any 
 surveyor of highways, or by any person serving the office of sur- 
 veyor of highways, or by any vestry or disti-ict V)oard under this 
 Act, shall vest in and be under the management and control of the 
 vestry or district board of the ])arish or district in which such 
 higiiways are situate. [See also the Highway Act 1835, and 51 & 52 
 Virf. c 4l,s. 11 (1).] 
 
 97. [^1^ to rates alrradf/ made. Hep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 
 {S.L.H.).-] 
 
 98. It shall be lawful for every vestry and district board from Vestry or dis- 
 time to time to cause all or any of the streets within their j)arish or ^"^^ ^stre^ts° 
 district, or any part thereof respectively, to be paved or repaired to be paved, 
 when and as often and in such form and manner and with such 
 materials as such vestry or board think tit, and to cause the ground 
 
 or soil thereof to be raised or lowered, and the course of the 
 channels running in, into, or through the same to be turned or 
 altered, in such manner as they think })roper, and to alter the 
 position of any mains or pi})es in or under such street, such altera- 
 tion to be made subject to the ajjproval of the engineer of the 
 company to which such mains or pipes belong. \_See also ss. 105 
 and 1U() : 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, ss. 77 aiid 112 ; 35 & 36 Vict c. Ixvi. 
 s. 3 and note thereon ; 53 & 54 Vict. c. 54, ss. 1 — 3 ; and b^ & 54 
 Vict. c. 66, s. 3.] 
 
 99. Provided always, that whenever the freehold of any court, Owners 
 passage, or public place, not being a thoroughfare, is vested in the ^°e*hoid°of 
 owner of any adjoining house, the paving of such court, inissage, or courts, etc. 
 public })lace shall be done by such owner, if deemed expedient i»r t" p^^'e tlie 
 necessary by the vestry or district l)oartl. ^'^^^' 
 
 100. The owner of any such court, passage, or public place, not Owner of 
 being a thoroughfare, shall, if required by the vestry or district board j'j!."i"Yh° 
 
 of the {)arish or district in wliicli the same is situate, to the satisfaction and keep the 
 of such vestry or district board sufficiently i)ave, cover the surface pavement, 
 of, or repair the same, and lay, at a proi)er level, through, over, ^^^' ^° repair. 
 -Under, or along sucli j)art thereof as such vestry or board may 
 require, a drain, channel, or gutter, and keep such pavement or
 
 228 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Penalty on 
 owners for 
 neglect. 
 
 Vaults and 
 cellars under 
 streets not to 
 be made 
 without the 
 consent of 
 the vestry 
 or board. 
 
 Vaults, etc. 
 under streets 
 to be repaired 
 by owners or 
 occupiers. 
 
 Provisions 
 for paving 
 new streets. 
 
 covering, and drain, channel, or gutter, in good repair, to the satis- 
 faction of such vestry or board ; and if any such owner of any 
 court, passage, or public place, not being a thoroughfare, do not 
 sufficiently pave or cover the same as aforesaid, or do not lay down 
 therein such drain, channel, or gutter, or do not repair the same 
 respectively, to the satisfaction of such vestry or board, within 
 fourteen days after notice in writing requiring him so to do has been 
 given to him by such vestry or board, every such person so 
 offending shall forfeit and pav any sum not exceeding five pounds. 
 [_See also 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 81.] 
 
 101. No vault, arch, or cellar shall be made under any street 
 without the consent of the vestry or district board of the parish or 
 district in which the same is situate ; and all such vaults, arches, 
 and cellars hereafter to be made within any parish or district 
 mentioned in either of the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to this Act shall 
 be substantially made, and so as not to interfere or communicate 
 with any drain or sewer under the control of any vestry or district 
 board, or of the Metropolitan Board of Works, without their con-, 
 sents respectively first obtained ; and if any vault, arch, or cellar be 
 made contrary to this provision, it shall be lawful for the vestry or 
 district board, or for the Metropolitan Board of Works, to fill up 
 or alter the same, and the expenses incurred thereby shall be paid 
 by the owner of such vault, arch, or cellar. \_See also 57 & 58 Vict^ 
 c. ccxiii. s. 72.] 
 
 102. All vaults, arches, and cellars made either before or after 
 the commencement of this Act under any street in any parish or 
 district mentioned in either of the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to this 
 Act, and all openings into the same in any such street, shall be- 
 repaired and kept in proper order by the owners or occupiers of' 
 the houses or buildings to which the same respectively belong ; and 
 in case any such vault, arch, or cellar be at any time out of repair,, 
 it shall be lawful for the vestry or district board of such parish or 
 district to cause the same to be repaired and put into good order, 
 and to recover the expenses thereof from such owner iij the manner- 
 herein-after provided. \_See also 61 Geo. 3, c. xxix.^ and 2 & 3. 
 
 V^ict. c. 47. s. 60.] 
 
 103—104. \_Occiipation of under gi^ound rooms as dwellings. Hep.. 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142.' See ibid. ss. 96—98,] 
 
 105. In case the owners of the houses forming the greater part 
 of any new street laid out or made or hereafter to be laid out or 
 made, which is not paved to the satisfaction of the vestry or district 
 board of the parish or district in which such street is situate, be 
 desirous of having the same paved, as herein-after mentioned, or 
 if such vestry or board deem it necessary or expedient that the 
 same should be so ])aved, then and in either of such cases such 
 vestry or board shall well and sufficiently pave the same, either 
 throughout the whole breadth of the carriageway aijd footpaths 
 thereof, or any part of such breadth, and from time to time keep 
 such pavement in good and sufficient repair ; and the owners of the 
 houses forming such street shall, on demand, pay to such vestry or 
 board the amount of the estimated expenses of providing and 
 laying such pavement (such amount to be determined by the 
 surveyor for the time being of the vestry or board) ; and in case 
 such estimated expenses exceed the actual expenses of such paving,, 
 then the difference between such estimated expeqses ar\d such actual
 
 90Q 
 
 {18 & 19 Vict.] y/etropolts Afa /fakement Act ISbry. [Chap. 120.] 
 
 expenses shall be ro])ai(l by the said vestry or board to the owners 
 of honses by whom the said sura of money has Ijecii jiaid ; and in 
 case the said estimated expenses be less than the actnal expenses of 
 such paving, then the owners of the said houses shall, on demand, 
 pay to the said vestry or board such further sum of money as, 
 together with the sum already j)aid, amounts to such actual expenses. 
 \_Set' note on s. 98.] 
 
 106. The vestry or district board of any parish or district may, ^estry or 
 
 if tliey think fit, by notice in writing put up in any j)art of any street declar^their 
 in their ])arish or district, not being a highway, declare their inten- intention of 
 tion of repairing the same under tliis Act, and thereupon the same repairing any 
 shall be from time to time re])aired by them under the authority of^^^^'^^ 
 this Act. . . . l^Part omitted {notice in icritinq to he given to persons highway. 
 intc rested) rep. 25 & 26 Viet. c. 102, s. 80.] 
 
 107. Nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend Act not to 
 to authorize the taking down or removing any bar, gate, rail, or other ^a^inTanv^ 
 fence fixed for preventing any thoroughfare into or from any square, thoroughfa're 
 street, or way, without the consent of the proprietor of the estate without the 
 or property upon which such bar, gate, rail, or other fence, square, prop^etor of^ 
 street, or way shall be situate. \_See also 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxlvii. ; the estate. 
 i^(S k 57 Vict. c. Ixvi. ; and 01 k 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. ss. 42 — 45.] 
 
 108. It shall be lawful for every vestry and district board from Vestries and 
 time to time to place any posts, fences, and rails on the sides of anv ^'^^'"l^'^ 
 
 n ^ ^ • ii • -1 T i. • i. x" i.1 ' boards ma V 
 
 lootways or carriageways m their parish or district, tor the purposes place fences, 
 of safety, and to pr(>vent any carriage or cattle from going on the etc. to 
 same, and also to place any posts or other erections in any carriage- footways. 
 ways so as to make the crossings thereof less dangerous for foot 
 passengers, and also from time to time to repair and renew any such 
 posts, rails, or fences, or to remove the same, or any other obstruc- 
 tion or encroachment on any carriageway or footway. [^See also 
 ss. 119 and 120; 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. 6-5. 64 — 66; the Highway Act 
 1835, s. 72; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 60 ; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41,'5. 11 (1) ; 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 199 ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 5 (1).] 
 
 109. No company or person shall break up or ojjcn the pavement, Notice to be 
 surface, or soil of any street, the paving whereof is under the control s'^^" ^-T 
 and management of the vestry or district board of any ])arish or to vestries 
 district, for the purpose of making and laying down any main of and district 
 
 pipes or for anv other purpose whatsoever, except in cases of ^^^'"'^ ^'^^'^ 
 
 •^ ' . . • p 1 j^ . • • ^1 1 -i-r . mvement, 
 
 emergency arising troni detects in pipes or other works, without \.^^ j^ be- 
 having previously given three clear days notice in writing to such quired to be 
 vestry or district board, stating in such notice the name of the street ^^'^'-'^ "P- 
 and the particular part thereof in which such pavement, surface, or 
 soil is intendetl to be broken up or opened, the day on which the 
 work is proposed to be commenced, and the time within which it will 
 be completed ; and in any such case of emergency as aforesaid such 
 company or person shall, within twelve hours after they or he begin 
 to break up or open sucli pavement, surface, or soil as aforesaid, give 
 such notice as aforesaid to the said vestry or district board : and no 
 such j)avement, soil, or surface shall be broken uj) or opened for the 
 purpose of laying down any new main of pipes for the conveyance 
 of water during any part of the months of December, January, and 
 February, without the consent of the said vestry or district Ixmrd ; 
 and no gaslight comjiany shall at any time break uj) or open any 
 such pavement, surface, or soil for the })urpose of laying down any 
 new mains of pipes, without the consent iu writing of the said
 
 230 
 
 [CHAr. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 streets not to 
 be broken up, 
 except under 
 the super- 
 intendence of 
 vestry or 
 board. 
 
 Streets 
 broken up to 
 be reinstated 
 without 
 delay. 
 
 Penalty on 
 persons 
 taking up 
 pavements 
 neglecting to 
 reinstate 
 them, and to 
 place lights 
 during the 
 night-time 
 to prevent 
 accidents. 
 
 vestry or district board ; and every company or person offending 
 against this enactment shall for everv such offence forfeit a sum not 
 exceeding five pounds, and shall, within twenty-four hours after 
 notice in writing from the vestry or district board, cause such mains 
 of pipes to be taken up and removed, and the pavement, surface, or 
 soil to be reinstated and put into its former state : Provided always, 
 that any gaslight company may break up or open any such pave- 
 ment, surface, or soil, for the purpose of laying down and attaching 
 to mains and pipes already existing any new service pipes, on giving 
 to the said vestry or district board, three days at the least before so 
 doing, notice of their intention to break up or open such pavement, 
 surface, or soil for such purpose.* 
 
 110. Whenever it is necessary, from any cause whatever, for any 
 comjiany or person to break up or open the pavement, surface, or 
 soil of any street, such street, and the pavement, surface, and soil 
 thereof, shall be broken up and opened under the superintendence 
 of the vestry or district board of the parish or district in which the 
 same is situate, and in such manner and as regards gas companies 
 at such time, as they shall direct ; and such company or person 
 shall with all convenient speed complete the work on account of 
 which the same is broken up or opened, and fill in the ground and 
 make good the pavement or surface or soil so broken up or opened, 
 and carry away the rubbish occasioned thereby, and shall in the 
 meantime cause the place where such pavement or surface or soil 
 is so broken up or opened to be fenced and guarded, and shall set 
 up and maintain ujion or against the part of the pavement, surface, 
 or soil so broken up or opened a sufficient light during every night 
 that such pavement or surface or soil is continued open or broken 
 up. \_Amended 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, .s-. 82.] 
 
 111. If any company or person authorized to break up or open 
 any of the pavement or surface of any street, for the purpose of 
 laying, altering, or repairing any gas, water, or other pipe, or other 
 lawful cause, do not with due diligence cause the ground to be filled 
 in, and the pavement to be reinstated, and the surface to be made 
 good, in a proper and substantial manner, or do not in the mean- 
 time fence and guard the same, and affix and maintain lights during 
 the night near to the places where any ground is open, so as 
 to prevent any accident, every such company or other person so 
 offending shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding 
 five pounds, and also a further sum not exceeding forty shillings 
 for every day during which such offence continues ; and no such 
 pavement shall be considered to have been reinstated in a proper 
 and substantial manner by any such company or other person unless 
 the same have been reinstated with the same or similar materials 
 of the like quality and thickness, and cemented and bound together 
 in the same or in an equally substantial manner, as those of which 
 it was composed, in such manner as is satisfactory to the vestry 
 or board. 
 
 * Provisions as to ojiening streets are also contained in .57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. ss. 15 
 et seq. ; the Waterworks Clauses Acts 1847 (ss. 28 — 34), and 1863; the Gas Works 
 Clauses Acts 1847 (ss. 6—12), and 1871 ; 23 &. 24 Vict. c. 125, ss. 49, 50, and 54 ; the 
 Tramways Act 1870, ss. 26—33 (see Appendix) ; the Electric Lighting Act 1882, s. 12 ; 
 various special Acts and Orders of London Gas Companies and London Water Com- 
 panies and Metropolitan Borough Councils supplying electricity in London : the 
 Telegraph Acts 1863 (ss. 9—20), 1878 (ss. 3 and" 4), and 1892 (s. 5); the London 
 Hydraulic Power Company's Acts 1871 to 1893; the Metropolitan District Railway 
 Act 1900, ss. 4, 5, and 14, and various special Acts relating to London underground 
 railways, and 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccii.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Management Act l^hh. [Chap. 120.] 231 
 
 112. In case any part of the jiavement of any street be sunk Vestry or 
 broken, injured, or damaged by reason of the breaking, bursting, or [^^^j^^^^ " 
 want of repair of any pipe belonging to any water, gas, or other pavements 
 company, it sliall be lawful for the vestry or district board of the i"j"red by 
 parish or district in which such ])avement is situate, if they deem "t^^l^^ 
 it expedient so to do, to cause notice to be given to the company to repaired by 
 wliom such pipe is supposed to belong forthwith well and sufhciently company, 
 to r(!pair and make good such jiavement : and if the company to penalty for 
 whom such notice is given do not, within forty-eight hours next neglect, 
 after such notice, take up such pavement, and well and sufficiently 
 
 repair and amend such pipe, and cause the ground to be well and 
 sufficiently filled in and rammed down, and the said pavement to 
 be relaid and repaired, to the satisfaction of the vestry or district 
 board, then such company so ofiending shall for every such offence 
 forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty jjounds. 
 
 113. Provided always, that in case it be discovered, after any Company 
 pavement in any street has been taken up by any company, and the g^und^to 
 ground 0})ened, that tlie pipe beneath the surface of such pavement repair a pipe 
 required to be repaired and amended does not belong to the company di'^covered to 
 to whom such notice has been given as aforesaid, but to some other another com- 
 company, then such first-mentioned company to whom such notice pany, to give 
 has been so given as aforesaid shall, within forty-eight hours after notice to such 
 such discovery, cause a copy of sucli notice to be in like manner and^o°be 
 given to the company to whom such pipe belongs, and require them reimbursed 
 to obey, conform to, and comply with the original notice, instead expenses. 
 
 of the company to whom such original notice was given as afore- 
 said ; and such other company to whom such last-mentioned notice 
 is given as aforesaid shall reimburse and pay, on demand, to the 
 first-mentioned company, the reasonable costs and charges incurred 
 in and about the taking up of the pavement and opening the ground ; 
 and the said last-mentioned company shall obey, conform to, and 
 comply with the said original notice, and execute and perform the 
 work mentioned therein, in such and tlie same manner, and within 
 such and the same time, in all respects, as if the said original notice 
 had been given to such last-mentioned company, and they shall be 
 liable to and shall incur the same penalties and forfeitures, on neglect 
 so to do, as they would have incurred and been liable to if the said 
 original notice had been given to them in manner before directed 
 with respect to such first-mentioned company ; and if the comjjany 
 by whom such pavement has been first taken up, and who have 
 opened the ground, neglect to give the notice hereby required to 
 the company to whom such pipe actually belongs, such company so 
 neglecting shall for every such oftence forfeit and pay any sum not 
 exceeding twenty pounds. 
 
 114. Provided also, that whenever the permanent surface or soil ^^^^^^^^ ^^ 
 
 of any street is broken up or opened, it shall be lawful for the (jj^^rict boanl 
 vestrv or district board of tlie ])arish or district in which the same to reinstate 
 is situate, in case they think it exi)edient so to do, to fill in tbe P^^'J^^^jJ^*"^ 
 ground and to make good the pavement or surface or soil so broken expenses to 
 up or opened, and to carry away the rubbish occasioned thereby, the parties, 
 instead of permitting such work to be done by the com]»any or 
 person by whom such surface or soil is broken uj) or opened ; and 
 the expenses of filling in such ground and of making good the 
 pavement or soil so broken up or opened shall be repaid, on demand, 
 to the vestry or board by such comjiany or person.
 
 232 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act IS-")."). [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Power for 
 
 vestry or 
 district board 
 to contract 
 with com- 
 pany for 
 restoring 
 pavements. 
 
 As to the 
 watering of 
 streets. 
 
 Vestries and 
 district 
 boards may 
 appoint and 
 pay crossing 
 sweepers. 
 
 Owners, etc. 
 to remove 
 future pro- 1 
 jections, on 
 notice from 
 vestry or dis- 
 trict board. 
 
 Penalty for 
 neglect. 
 
 Vestry or 
 district board 
 may remove 
 existing pro- 
 jections and 
 make com- 
 pensation for 
 the same. 
 
 115. It shall be lawful for the vestry or district board of any 
 parish or district to coutract and agree, for any term of years or 
 otherwise, with the several companies or persons authorized to 
 take up any of the pavements or other formed surface of any of the 
 streets within such parish or district, for the filling in, paving, and 
 restoring of such parts of the said streets as may be from lime to 
 time required to be taken up for the purpose of laying, altering, or 
 repairing any pipes or other like purpose. 
 
 116. Every vestry and district board shall have full power and 
 authority to cause all or any of the streets in their parish or district 
 to be watered as often as they think fit. . . . [Part omitted {powers 
 to vestries and district hoards to sink wells and fix jjumps) rep. 
 54 & .55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142. See ibid. s. 51.] 
 
 117. [ Vestries and district boards to cleanse footways. Rep. 
 .54 k 55 Vict. c. 76, 6-. 142. See ibid. s. 29.] 
 
 118. It shall be lawful for every vestry and district board to 
 appoint and pay, or for two or more vestries and district boards to 
 unite, when necessary, in appointing and paying, suitable persons 
 to cleanse and sweep, and to keep properly cleansed and swept 
 daily, crossings for passengers over the streets and public thorough- 
 fares within their respective jurisdictions, and in such situations as 
 the said vestries or district boards may from time to time fix and 
 determine, which persons so appointed shall be distinguished by 
 their dress or some distinctive mark as public servants. 
 
 119. If any porch, shed, projecting window, step, cellar door or 
 window, or steps leading into any cellar or otherwise, lamp, lamp 
 post, lamp iron, sign, sign post, sign iron, showboard, window shutter, 
 wall, gate, fence, or opening, or any other projection or obstruction 
 placed or made against or in front of any house or building after the 
 commencement of this Act, shall be an annoyance, in consequence 
 of the same projecting into or being made in or endangering or 
 rendering less commodious the passage along any street in their 
 parish or district, it shall be lawful for the vestry or district board 
 to give notice in writing to the owner or occupier of such house or 
 building to remove such projection or obstruction, or to alter the 
 same, in such manner as the vestry or board think fit, and such 
 owner or occupier shall within fourteen days after the service of 
 such notice upon him remove such projection or obstruction, or alter 
 the same in the manner directed by the vestry or board ; and if the 
 owner or occupier of any such house or building neglect or refuse, 
 within fourteen days after such notice, to remove such projection or 
 obstruction, or to alter the same, in the manner directed by the 
 vestry or board, he shall forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds, 
 and a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day during 
 which such projection or obstruction continues after the expiration 
 of such fourteen days from the time when he may be convicted of 
 any offence contrary to the provisions hereof. {_See note on s. 1U8 ; 
 and. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. ss. 73 and 164.] 
 
 120. It shall be lawful for every vestry and district board, if any 
 projection or obstruction which has been placed or made against 
 or in front of any house or building in any such street before the 
 commencement of this Act shall be an annoyance as aforesaid, to 
 cause the same to be removed or altered as they think fit : Provided 
 always, that the vestry or board shall give notice in writing of such 
 intended removal or alteration to the owner or occupier against or
 
 [18&19YICT.] Metropnli.^ Management Act \^')^). [Ohai-. 120.] 233 
 
 in front of whose house or building such projection or obstruction 
 shall be, seven days before such removal or alteration shall be 
 commenced, and shall make reasonable comj)ensation to every i)erson 
 who shall incur any loss or damairc by such removal, excoptinrr in 
 cases where the obstruction ur projection may now be removuble 
 under any Act, in which case no compensation shall be made. \_See 
 note on s. IIH.] 
 
 121. Every person who shall build, or bco:in to build, or to take Hoards to be 
 down or begin to take down, any house, liuilding, or ^i^l'> or alter I'^g^j.gp^^"^^" 
 or repair, or begin to alter or repair, the outwurd part (;f any house, 
 buildinii-, or wall, shall, in all cases in which the footwav is therebv 
 obstructed or rendered inconvenient, cause to be put up a proper 
 
 and sufficient hoard or fence, with a convenient platform and han<l- 
 ruil, if there be room enough for the same, to serve as a footwuy 
 for })assengers outside of such hoard or fence, and shall continue 
 such hoard or fence, in such cases as aforesaid, with such platform 
 and handrail, standing and in good condition, to the satisfaction of 
 the vestry or district board of the parisii or district in which such 
 house, building, or wall is situate, during such time as may be 
 necessarv for the public safetv or convenience, and shall, in all 
 -cases in which the same is necessary to prevent accidents, cause 
 such hoard or fence to be well liglited during the night : and every ^^"g^^*g^^.j°j" 
 such person who fails to put up such hoard or fence and such plat- hoards, 
 form, with such handrail as aforesaid, or who does not, whilst the 
 said hoard or fence is standing, keep the same well lighted during 
 the night, shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceed- 
 ing five pounds, and a further sum not exceeding forty shillings 
 for every day during the continuance of such default. \_See also 
 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. s. 75 ; the Admrtising Stations {Rating) Act 1889, 
 s. 5 ; and 53 & 54 Vict, c. ccxliii. s. 32,] 
 
 122. It shall not be lawful for any person to erect or set up in ^^^^l^^^^"^ 
 any street any hoard or fence or scaflbld for any ])urpose whatever, ^vUhout 
 
 or any posts, bars, rails, boards, or other things by way of inch »sure, licence from 
 for tlie purpose of making mortar, or of depositing bricks, lime, vestry or dis- 
 rubbish, or other materials, without a licence in writing first had 
 and obtained from the clerk or surveyor of the vestry or district 
 board of the i)arish or district in which such street is situate ; and 
 every such lii-encc shall state the place where and the purpose for 
 which such hoard or fence, scaffold or iuclosure, is to be set up 
 or made, and the size thereof, and the time for which it is to be 
 permitted to continue. \_See note on s. 121.] 
 
 123. If any person erect or set up in any street any hoard or If hoard be 
 fence or scafibld for any purpose whatever, or any i)osts, burs, I'l-il^, ^aLrials'^be 
 boards, or other things by way of iuclosure, for the purpose of deposited in 
 making mortar, or of depositing bricks, lime, rubbish, or other an .v mamu-r 
 materials, without a licence from the vestry or district board, ox do Ih.^n\'),*'t^,p 
 any such act as aforesaid in any other manner than as ])ernjitted satisfaction 
 by' such licence, or continue the same beyond the time stated in of the vestry 
 such licence, or fail to keep any hoard, fence, platform, or handrail ^J^.^rd,"he 
 in good rei)air, he shall for every such offence forfeit a sum^ not same may be 
 exceeding five pounds, and a further sum not exceeding ibrty removed, 
 shillings for every day during the continuance of such olfcnce : and 
 
 it shall be lawful' for the vestry or board to cause sui-li hoard, fence, 
 scaffold, or iuclosure to be i)ulled down, and the materials thereof, 
 and also all the bricks, mortar, lime, or other building materials, or
 
 234 
 
 [Chap. 1:2m.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Providing 
 against acci- 
 dents in lay- 
 ing out new 
 streets, etc. 
 
 Vestries and 
 district 
 boards to 
 cause streets 
 to be lighted 
 
 other matters or things contained within any such inclosnre, to be 
 removed, and deposited in such place as the vestry or board may 
 think fit, and to be kept until the charges of pulling down and 
 removing the same be paid to the vestry or board ; and in case the 
 same be not claimed and tlie said charges paid within the space 
 of eight days next after such seizure thereof, it shall be lawful for 
 the vestry or board to order the same to be sold, and by aud out of 
 the proceeds of such sale to pay such charges, rendering any surplus 
 to the owner or other person by law entitled thereto ; and in case 
 the proceeds of such sale be insufficient to cover such charges, and 
 the charges of selling and disposing of such materials, matters, and 
 things, the deficiency shall be repaid by the owner of such materials, 
 matters, and thin2:s to the vestry or district board, on demand. 
 \_See note on s. 121 .] 
 
 124. Every person laying out or opening any new street, or 
 building therein, shall, daring the operations necessary for forming 
 such new street, or for building therein, take all such precautions 
 for guarding against injury to the passengers along such street as 
 may be directed by the vestry or district board of the parish or 
 district within which such operations are being carried on ; and if 
 any person fail to comply with the directions of such vestry or 
 district board, within such time as may be limited by them, such 
 vestry or district board may do whatever may be necessary for 
 carrying the same into effect, and the expenses thereby incurred 
 shall be repaid to such vestry or district board by the person laying 
 out or opening such new street, or building therein, as aforesaid, and 
 shall be recoverable by them from such person in manner provided 
 by this Act. \_See also 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. part ii.] 
 
 125 — 129. \_As to ernploijment of scavengers and collection of 
 refatic. Rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142. See ibid. ss. 29 — 34.] 
 
 130. Every vestry and district board shall cause the several 
 streets within their parish or district to be well and sufficiently 
 lighted, and for that pur230se shall maintain, or set up and main- 
 
 • tain, a sufficient number of lamps in every such street, and shall 
 cause the same to be lighted with gas or otherwise, and to 
 continue lighted at and during such times as such vestry or 
 board may think fit, necessary, or proper ; and all public lamps,, 
 and the lamp posts and lamp irons and fittings thereof, to be 
 provided bv anv vestry or district board, shall vest in such vestry 
 or board. ^ [See also 23 & 24 Vict. c. 125, s. 22 ; 35 & 36 Vict., 
 c. Ixvi. s. 3 ; 36 Vict. c. vii. s. 2 ; 39 & 40 Vict. c. Ixxix. s. 34 ; 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. clxxii. s. 14 ; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 3 (viii.), 11,. 
 and 79 (2), and notes thereon ; 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi, s. 20 ; 
 60 & 61 Vict. c. ccxxiv. s. 6 ; 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 6 (1) ; 
 63 & 64 Vict. c. ccxix. s. 43 ; arid various provisions in Bridges- 
 Acts in this tcork.~\ 
 
 131. \_rJcensing of slaughterhouses. Rep. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102,. 
 s. 92. See also 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, ss. 19 and 20.] 
 
 132 — 134. \_As to appointment of medical officers and inspectors-- 
 of nuisances — Vestries and district hoards to execute the Nuisances 
 Removal Acts. Rep. .54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142. See ibid. ss. 106 — 
 108, and 139.]
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Managi^mfnt Act \%i):). [Chap. 120.] 235 
 
 Duties and Powers of Metropolitan Board of Works. 
 
 135. The sewers mentioned in Scbednle (D.) to this Act, being Main sewers 
 the main sewers now vested in the (Commissioners of Sewers of the vestod in th.- 
 City of London and in the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers ^y'^y^^i'^^i^'^^^ 
 respectively, with the walls, defences, banks, outlets, slnices, flaps, Works, and 
 ])enstocks, gullies, grates, works, and things thereunto belonging, l"-»wer to such 
 and the materials thereof, with all rights of way and passage used ^^^ ^wers. 
 and enjoyed by such Commissioners respectively over and to such 
 
 sewers, works, and things, and all other rights concerning or incident 
 to such sewers, works, and things, shall be vested in the Metro- 
 ])olitan Board of Works, and such board shall make such sewers 
 and works as they may think necessary for jjreventing all or any 
 l»art of the sewage within the metropolis from flowing or passing 
 into the River Thames in or near the metropolis,* . . . and shall also 
 make all such other sewers and works, and such diversions or altera- 
 tions of any existing sewers or works vested in tiiem under this Act, 
 as they may from time to time think necessary for the effectual 
 sewerage and drainage of the metropolis, and shall discontinue, 
 close up, or destroy such sewers for the time being vested in them 
 under this Act as they may deem unnecessary, and such Board shall 
 from time to time repair and maintain the sewers so vested in them, 
 or such of them as may not be discontinued, closed up, or destroyed 
 as aforesaid ; and for the purposes aforesaid such Board shall have 
 full power and authority to carry any such sewers or works through, 
 across, or under . . . any street or place laid out as or intended for 
 a street, as well beyond as within the limits of the metropolis, 
 or through or under any cellar or vault under the carriageway or 
 pavement of any street, and into, through, or under any lands what- 
 soever within or beyond the said limits, making compensation for 
 any damage done thereby as herein-after provided, and all sewers 
 and works from time to time made by the said Board shall vest in 
 them ; and the said Board shall cause the sewers vested in them to 
 be constructed, covered, and kept so as not to be a nuisance or 
 injurious to health, and to be properly cleared, cleansed, and 
 emptied, and for the purpose of clearing, cleansing, and emptying 
 the same they may construct and place, either above or under 
 ground, such reservoirs, sluices, engines, and other works as may 
 be necessary, and may cause the sewage and refuse from such sewers 
 to be sold or disposed of as they may see fit, but so as not to create 
 a nuisance, and the money arising thereby shall be ajjplied towards 
 defraying the expenses of such Board. {Parts omitted {date for 
 completion of certain scicer^) rep. 32 & 33 \'ict. c. lU2, s. 50 ; and (as 
 to turnpike roads) spent. See the Iliqhwai/s and Locomotives (Amend- 
 ment) Act 1878, s. 13 ; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, *\ 11 ; and 62 & 63 Vict. 
 c. 14, 6\ 6. See also 21 & 22 Vict. c. 104, and 57 ».t 58 Vict. c. coxii. 
 6>. 16.] 
 
 136. {Plans of works for prcenting sewage passing into the 
 Thames to be approi:ed bg Commissioners of Works. Rep. 21 & 22 
 Vict. c. 104, s. 25.] 
 
 * As to districts outside the metropolis now discharging sewage into the metro- 
 politan main drainage system, see 34 & 35 Vict. c. cxxix. ; 35 &: 3(5 Vict. c. clxiii. ; 
 3() & 37 Vict. c. ccxviii. ; 54 & 55 Vict. c. ccv. ; oC. &; 57 Vict. c. cciv. ; 59 k. 60 Vict, 
 c. ccxlvii. ; 60 & Gl Vict. c. cclii. part v.; 61 & 62 Vict. c. cxliii. ; Penge Scheme 1900 
 made under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14 ; 3 Edw. 7, c. cl.xxxviii. part ix.
 
 236 
 
 [Chap. 12U.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Metropolitan 
 Board mar 
 declare 
 sewers to be 
 main sewers 
 and take 
 under their 
 jurisdiction 
 sewerage 
 matters 
 under juris- 
 diction of 
 vestries 
 and district 
 boards. 
 
 Metropolitan 
 Board to 
 make orders 
 for control- 
 ling vestries 
 and district 
 boards in 
 construction 
 of sewers, etc, 
 
 Metropolitan 
 Board may 
 direct ap- 
 pointments 
 to be made 
 for two 
 parishes or 
 districts 
 jointly. 
 
 Or may place 
 a street in 
 different 
 parishes 
 under the 
 management 
 of one 
 vestn', or 
 part of a 
 parish under 
 the manage- 
 ment of 
 vestry of 
 adjoining 
 parish. 
 
 137. In case it appear to the Metropolitan Board of Works that 
 any sewers in the metropolis not herein-before vested in such Board 
 ought to be considered main sewers, and to be nnder their manage- 
 ment, it shall be lawful for such Board, by an order under their seal, 
 to declare the same to be main sewers, and thereupon the same shall 
 vest in and be under the management of the said Board ; and it 
 shall also be lawful for the said Board by any such order to take 
 under their jurisdiction and authority any other matters in relation 
 to sewerage and to drainage with respect to which jurisdiction or 
 authority is by this Act vested in any vestry or district board. 
 
 138. The Metropolitan Board of A\'orks shall from time to time, 
 in order to secure the efficient maintenance of the main and general 
 sewerage of the metropolis, make such general or special order as to 
 them may seem proper for the guidance, direction, and control of 
 the vestries of parishes and district boards in the levels, construc- 
 tion, alteration, and maintenance and cleansing of sewers in their 
 respective parishes or districts, and for securing the proper con- 
 nexion and intercommunication of the sewers of the several parishes 
 and districts and their communications with the main sewers vested 
 in the said Metropolitan Board, and generally for the guidance, 
 direction, and control of vestries and district boards in the exer- 
 cise of their jjowers and duties in relation to sewerage ; and all 
 such orders shall be binding upon such vestries and boards. \_See 
 also ss. 83 ami 204 ; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, .§.§. 32, 45— 51, 68, 69, and 
 83 ; 53 & 54 Vict. c. QQ, ss. 4 and 5 ; 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. s. 39 ; 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 23 ; and 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. ss. 8 — 17.] 
 
 139. The Metropolitan Board of Works, where it appears to them 
 expedient that any officer or set of officers necessary for any of the 
 purposes of this Act should act for a larger area than is comprised 
 in one parish or district, or for parts of different parishes or districts, 
 may, with the consent of the vestries or boards of such parishes or 
 districts, direct that such vestries or boards shall unite in the appoint- 
 ment and removal of such officer or set of officers ; and the said 
 Metropolitan Board shall in such case direct the mode in which the 
 respective bodies or committees thereof shall act together for the 
 purposes of every such appointment and removal, and the propor- 
 tions in which the salary or salaries of such officer or officers shall 
 be borne and paid by every such parish and district respectivelv. 
 [See 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, ss. 99 (4), 106 (2), and 108 (1) and (2) (b) ; 
 and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 8 (4).J 
 
 140. It shall be lawful for the Metropolitan Board of Works, 
 where it appears to them that any street or line of street, being 
 in more than one parish or district, should be placed under the 
 exclusive management of one vestry or district board for the pur- 
 poses of paving, lighting, watering, and cleansing, or any of them, 
 or for the purposes of sewerage and drainage, or for all the purposes 
 of this Act, to order that the same shall be under the management 
 of such vestry or board accordingly ; and it shall also be lawful for 
 the said Metropolitan Board, where it appears to them that any part 
 of any parish or district is so detached or situate that it would be 
 convenient for the purposes of sewerage or drainage that the same 
 should be placed under the management of the vestry or district 
 board of any adjoining parish or district, to order that such part 
 shall, for such purposes, be under the management of such vestry or 
 district board. [See s. 160 and 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 86.]
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Managnnfnt Act \^hi). [Chap. 120.] 237 
 
 141. [^Naming of streets and numherinq of houses. Rep. 25 <fe 20 
 \'irt. c. 102, s. »:.' See 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. ss. '.V>—'.Ss.'] 
 
 142. [Register of alterations of street names tu hi' kept. Rep. 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 215. See ibid. s. 38.] 
 
 143. [Building line. Rep. 25 & 20 Met. c. 1 •»•,', s. 75. See 
 57 <fe 58 K/ci. c. ccxiii. ss. 22 e^ .^eq.'\ 
 
 144. The Metroj)oHtan Board of Works sliall have ])Ower to r'^'^^r to 
 make, widen, or inij»rov(! any streets, roads, or ways, for fa(-ilitatin<i; jjo^rd^o ''^" 
 the passage and tralHc between diiferent ])arts of the metropolis, or make ira- 
 te contribute and join with any persons in any such improvements provements. 
 as aforesaid, and to take, by agreement or by gift, any land, rights 
 
 in land, or property, for the purposes aforesaid (or otherwise) for 
 the improvement of the metro])olis, on such terms and conditions as 
 tiiey may think fit; and such lioard, where it appears to them that 
 further powers are required for the purpose of any work for the 
 improvement of the metropolis or ])ubiic benefit of the inhabitants 
 thereof, may make ap})lications to Parliament for that ])urpose, and 
 the expenses of such application may be defrayed as other exj)enses 
 of the said Board. . . . [Part omitted {plans of works, ichere 
 expenses exceed £50,000, to he approved hg Commissioners of 
 Works, and where thei/ t'vtrec^r/ £100,000, works to he .'ianctioned hg 
 Parliament) rep. 21 &' 22 Vict. c. 1<)4, 6-. 25. See also 10 «fc 20 Vict. 
 c. 112, s. 10 ; 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. ss. 80—90 ; 25 & 20 Vict. c. 102, 
 ss. 72, 73 ; and the County Cou?icils {Bills in Parliamefit) Act 1903 
 {See Appendix).^ 
 
 145 — 147. [Determination of Metropolitan Commissioners of 
 Sewers, and as to current proceedings and rates. Rep. 55 & 50 Vict. 
 C. 19 {S.L.R.).'\ Property 
 
 148. All property, matters, and things whatsoever vested in the Mttropuiitan 
 Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers,* except such sewers as are Commission- 
 hereby vested in any vestry or district board, and exce]>t such sewers f^^ppt^^^'^ 
 as are not within the limits of the parishes and places mentioned in sewers trans:- 
 the schedules to this Act, shall be vested in the Metrojwlitan Board ferredtoves- 
 of Works. . . . [Part omitted {as to existing debts, contracts, etc.) |"j^^ boards) 
 
 rep. 55 & 56 Vict. C.\^ {S.L.R.).'] transferred to 
 
 the Metro- 
 
 Auxiliary Powers common to the Metropolitan Board of Works of works. ' 
 and to Vestries and District Boards. 
 
 149. The Metropolitan Board of Works, and every district board Power to 
 and vestry, may enter into all such contracts as they may tliink ^e^/ries^uf 
 necessary for carrying this Act into execution ; and every such enter into 
 contract for works or materials whereof the value- or amount exceeds contracts 
 ten pounds, shall be in writing or print, or ])art]y in writing and ^Jt^^7J'"^ 
 partly in print, scaled with the seal of the board or vestry ; and execution, 
 every contract so entered into, and duly executeil by the other 
 
 parties thereto, shall be binding on the board or vestry and their 
 successors, and upon all other parties thereto : Provided always, I'ower to 
 that it shall be lawful for any such board or vestry to comi)Ound for™!^n'aities 
 with any contractor or other person in respect of any penalty iu respect of 
 incurred by reason of the nonperformance of any contract entered i^'reacb of 
 into as aforesaid, whether such ])enalty be mentioned in any such ^'^^ 
 contract or in any bond or otherwise, for such sum of money or 
 other recompence as to the board or vestry may seem proper. 
 
 * See footnote to s. 68,
 
 238 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 boards and 
 vestries to 
 purchase 
 lands, etc. 
 for the 
 purposes 
 of this Act. 
 
 Certain 
 provisions of 
 8 & 9 Vict. 
 0. 18. incor- 
 porated with 
 this Act. 
 
 Lands not to 
 be taken 
 compulsorily, 
 except by 
 Metrojxjlitan 
 Board, with 
 consent of 
 Secretani" 
 of State. 
 
 150. It shall be lawful for the Metropolitan Board of Works and 
 every district board and vestry to purchase, or to take on lease for 
 such term as they may think fit, any land, or any right or easement 
 in or over any land which they may deem necessary or expedient 
 for the formation or protection of any works which they are 
 authorized to execute under this Act, also any offices and other 
 buildings, yards, stations, or places for deposit of refuse, materials, 
 and things, or any land for the erection and formation of such 
 ofiices and other buildings, yards, stations, or places for deposit ; 
 and also to contract for the purchase, removal, or abatement of any 
 milldara, pound, weir, bank, wall, lock, or other obstruction to the 
 flow of water, whereby sewerage or drainage is interrupted or 
 impeded, and for the purchase of any land, or any right or easement 
 in or over any laud, which it may be necessary or expedient to 
 purchase to prevent the obstruction of sewerage or drainage ; and 
 also to purchase or take on lease as aforesaid the whole or any part 
 of any streams or springs of water, or any rights therein, which it 
 appears to them necessary to acquire and use for the purposes of 
 cleansing sewers and drains and the other purposes of this Act, or 
 any land which is deemed by them advisable to purchase or take on 
 lease for the purpose of drawing or obtaining water from springs, or 
 by sinking of wells, and for making and providing reservoirs, tanks, 
 aqueducts, watercourses, and other works, or for any other purpose 
 connected with the works for obtaining such supply of water as 
 aforesaid : Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall 
 authorize the said Metropolitan Board, or any district board or 
 vestry, to use or permit to be used any such works for the purpose 
 of carrying water by supply pipes into any house or factory for 
 domestic, manufacturing, or commercial purposes. \_See 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. lo2, s. 22, and 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. s. 4.] 
 
 151. For the purpose of enabling the said Metropolitan Board, 
 and everv district board and vestrv, to obtain anv laud, or anv right 
 or easement in or over any land, which they respectively may require 
 for the purposes of this Act, " The Lands Clauses Consolidation 
 Act, 1845," except the provisions of that Act with respect to the 
 recovery of forfeitures, penalties, and costs, shall, subject to the 
 provisions herein contained, be incorporated with this Act ; and 
 the provisions of the said Act so incorporated with this Act which 
 would be applicable in the case of a purchase of any laud shall 
 be applicable in the case of a purchase of a right or easement 
 in or over any land ; and for the purposes of this Act the expression 
 " the promoters of the undertaking," wherever used in the said 
 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, shall mean the Metropolitan Board, 
 or the district board or vestry, acting under the provisions of the 
 said Act and this Act, as the case may be. 
 
 152. Provided always, that the provisions of the said Lands 
 Clauses Consolidation Act " with respect to the purchase and taking 
 of lands otherwise than by agreement '" shall not be incorporated 
 with this Act, save for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 to take land, or any right or easement in or over land, for the 
 purpose of making any sewers or works for preventing the sewage 
 or any part of the sewage within the metropolis from passing into 
 the Thames in or near the metropolis, or otherwise for the purpose 
 of the sewerage or drainage of the metropolis : Provided also, that 
 no land, or right or easement in or over land, for the purposes
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Management Act I860. [Chap. 120.] 239 
 
 aforesaid, shall be taken compulsorily by the said Board, without 
 the previous consent in writing of one of Her Majesty's principal 
 Secretaries of State. \_See aUo 21 & 22 Vict. c. 104, s. :} ; and 
 25 & 20 Vict. c. 102, s. 22.] 
 
 153. The Metropolitan Board of Works, before a])plying for the Previous 
 consent of tlie Secretary of State for taking land, or any riu'lit or ^g'^^.^.^n 
 easement in or over land, eoinpulsorily, as aforesaid, shall publish, 
 
 once at the least in each of four consecutive weeks, in one of the 
 daily newspapers ])ul)lished in the metropolis, an advertisement 
 describing the nature of the works in resjiect of which tlie land, 
 right or easement, is proposed to be taken, naming a ])Iaee where 
 a })lan of the proposed work is open for inspection at all reasonable 
 hours, and stating the quantity of land or the particulars of the 
 right or easement that they reipiire for the i)ur])ose of such works, 
 and sliall serve a notice on the (owners or reputed owners, lessees or 
 reputed lessees, and occupiers of the land intended to be taken, or 
 of the land in or over which such right or easement is intended to 
 be taken, such service to be made four weeks ])reviously to tlie appli- 
 cation to such Secretary of State, and such notice shall state the 
 particulars of the land, right or easement, so re(piired, and that the 
 Metropolitan Board are willing to treat for the purchase thereof, and 
 as to the compensation to be made for the damage that may be 
 sustained by reason of the proposed works. 
 
 154. The Metropolitan Board of "Works, and any distric-t board or Power to 
 vestrv, fttiav sell and disixise of anv land purchased bv them under u *^.^L 
 tins Act, and any property wliatsoever vested \\\ them under this property 
 Act, which it may appear to them may be proi)erly sold or disposed not wanted, 
 of; and for completing and carrying any such sale of any land into 
 
 effect such board may make and execute a conveyance of the land 
 sold and disposed of as aforesaid unto the purchaser, or as he shall 
 direct, and such conveyance shall be under the seal of the said 
 board or vestry ; and the word " grant " in such conveyance shall 
 have the same operation as by the said Lands Clauses Consolidation 
 Act, 1845, is given to the same word in a conveyance of lands made 
 by the i)romoters of the undertaking ; and a receipt under the seal 
 of the said board or vestry shall be a sufficient discharge to the 
 purchaser of any such land or any other such property as aforesaid 
 for tlie purchase money in such recei])t expressed to be received : 
 and the money arising from such sale of any land i)urchased under 
 this Act, and (except as herein-after otherwise provided) of any 
 such property, shall be ajjplied in aid of the rate out of which the 
 expenses of the purchase of such land or ])rovidiiig sucli property 
 have been or are authorized to be defrayed under this Act ; and the 
 money arising from the sale of any property vested in any such board 
 or vestry under this Act, and which, before becoming so vested, was 
 vested in anv commissioners or other bodv, or in anv officer of anv 
 commissioners or other body, or in atiy surveyor of highways, shall 
 be applied in or towards the discharge of any del)ts or lial»ilities for 
 the discharge whereof rates are by this Act authorized to be raised in 
 the parish or part to the commissioners or other body for the manage- 
 ment of the paving, lighting, or cleansing whereof sneii ])ro])erty 
 may have belonged l)efore the coniiuenceiuent of this Act, and, 
 subject as aforesaid, shall be ai)plied in aid of such rate to be raised 
 under this Act in such parish or part as to the board or vestry 
 disposing of such property may. seem just ; and any such board or
 
 240 
 
 [Chap. 120,] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18&19ViCT.j 
 
 Owners of 
 land may on 
 sale reserve 
 a right of 
 pre-emption. 
 
 Penalty for 
 withholding 
 property 
 transferred to 
 Metropolitan 
 Board or any 
 vestry or dis- 
 trict board. 
 
 How sums 
 to be raised 
 by vestries 
 and district 
 boards for de- 
 fraying their 
 expenses. 
 
 vestry] may let any land purchased by or vested in them under this 
 Act, and which for the time being is not required for the purposes 
 thereof, in such manner and on such terms as such board or vestry 
 may see fit. \_WorcIs in square brackets rep. {except so far as 
 the;/ apply to the Metropolitan Board of Works) 62 & 03 Met. c. 14, 
 s. 35. See ibid. s. 6 (5). See also 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 45 ; the 
 Conveyancing and Law of Propjerty Act 1881, s. 49 ; 47 & 48 Vict, 
 c. 50, s. 23; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 64 (3) and 65 (3); and 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. 41,, s. 24.] 
 
 155. Provided always, that where any land or any right or 
 easement in or over land is purchased by the said Metropolitan 
 Board, or any district board or vestry, under this Act, it shall be 
 lawful for the owners of or parties entitled to sell or convey such 
 land, right or easement, to reserve u|)on the sale thereof to such 
 board or vestry in and by the conveyance such right of pre-emption 
 to the person for the time being entitled to the land (if any) from 
 which the land so purchased was severed, or in or over which such 
 right or easement is granted, as is provided by sections 128, 129, and 
 130 of the said Lands Clauses Consolidation Act ; but, except where 
 such right of pre-emption is so reserved, there shall be no such 
 right, notwithstanding the incorporation of the said Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Act with this Act. 
 
 156. In case any person having the charge, control, or possession 
 of any property, matters, or things vested in the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works, or the vestry of any parish, or any district board, by or 
 under this Act, neglect or refuse to give up the same, on demand, 
 to such board or vestry, or such person as they respectively 
 may order, every person so offending shall, upon being convicted 
 thereof before any two Justices of the Peace, for every such offence 
 forfeit and pay, over and above the value of the property not given 
 up, such sum not exceeding five pounds as the said Justices may 
 think fit. 
 
 157. \_Breaking up turnpike roads. Rep. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, 
 s. 33.] 
 
 Precisions for defraying Expenses of Vestries and District Boards. 
 
 158. Every vestry and district board shall from time to time, by 
 order under their seal, require the overseers of their parish, or of 
 the several parishes in their district, to levy, and to pay over to the 
 treasurer of such vestry or board, or into any bank in snch order 
 mentioned, and within the time or times thereby limited, the sums, 
 which such vestry or board may require for defraying the expenses 
 of the execution of this Act (and such orders may be made wholly 
 or in part in respect of expenses already incurred or of expenses to 
 be thereafter incurred) ; and every such vestry and board shall 
 distinguish in their orders sums required for defraying expenses of 
 constructing, altering, maintaining, and cleansing the sewers or 
 otherwise connected with sewerage, and also, where the Act of the 
 session holden in the third and fourth years of King William the 
 Fourth, chapter ninety,* or any other Act by virtue whereof land is 
 rated in respect of expenses of lighting at a less amount in pro- 
 portion to the annual value thereof than houses, or is wholly 
 exempted from being rated in respect of such expenses, is in force 
 in any parish, or any part of any parish, at the time of the passing 
 
 * The Lighting and Watching Act 1833.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Mdropolis Management Art Is'^r^. [Chap. 120.] 241 
 
 of this Act, distinguish, a.^ regards such jjarish or ])art, the sums 
 r('(|uired for defraying expenses of lighting their parish or district 
 from sums re([uired for defraying other expenses of executing this 
 Act. . . . [^Part omitted (as to seurruf/e expenses) rep. 62 k 03 
 Met. c. 14, .s'. 135, and set- ihid. s. 11. .SVv aho the Kxtra-parorhial 
 Flares Art 1857, .s. 3.*] 
 
 159. Where it appears to any vestry or district board that all or Vestries and 
 
 , ^^, ^^ /. //. • 1 • 1 -1 I boards may 
 
 any part of the expenses lor detraymg winch any sum is hy «iicli ,.^^.„,pj ^j^'J-tg 
 vestry or board ordered to be levied as af(»resaid have or has been not benf-tited 
 incurred for the sj)ecial benefit of any jiarticular ])art of their parish by fxpf^-ndi- 
 or district, or otherwise have or lias not been incurred for the eijual pa\^,„ent! 
 benefit of the whole of their parish or district, such vestry or board 
 may, l)y any such order, direct the sum or sums necessary for 
 defraying such expenses or any jjart thereof to be levied in such 
 j)art, or exempt any part of such parish (jr district from the levy, 
 or require a less rate to be levied thereon, as the circumstances of 
 the case may recpiire ; and any such board may refrain, where any 
 entire parish ought in their judgment to be so exem])t, from issuing 
 an order for levying any money thereon, notwithstanding they may 
 issue an order or orders for levying sums upon any other parish or 
 jiarishes in their district. \_See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, .5. 10.] 
 
 160. AVhere ])art of any jiarish is placed for all or any of the I'rovisions 
 purposes of this Act under the management of the vestry or district [yi^grrapart 
 l)oard of an adjoining jiarish or district, the sums which such vestry of a parish 
 or board may require for defraying the expenses of executing this i« placed 
 Act by such vestry or board in the part so placed under their manage- n,an^emeDt 
 ment shall be from time to time paid, upon their orders, by tlie of' the vestry 
 vestry of the parisli whereof such i)art is so ])laced under the "r .^foard of 
 management of such other vestry or board, or if such parish is p!jrC!,^^of 
 comprised in a district formed by tliis Act then by the district district, 
 board of such district ; and such sums shall be raised by the vestry 
 
 or board upon whom such orders are made in like manner as if the 
 expenses in respect whereof the same are re(piireil had been incurred 
 by them in executing this Act. \See s. 140 a/id ?iote thereon.'] 
 
 161 — 169. \_LeKyi7ig and collection of rates. Bep. 62 & 63 Vict. 
 c. 14, 6'. 35.] 
 
 Provisions for def raging Expenses of Metropolitan Board. 
 
 170. \_Metropolitan Board to assess upon the city and metropolis 
 sums for execution of Act bg the Board. Rep, 25 & 26 Vict. <\ 102, 
 s. 5. {(j.v.).'] 
 
 171. The clerk of tlie said ^Metropolitan Board, or any person Power to 
 authorized by the said Board in this behalf, may from time to time J^'^^rl^P'^r''*" 
 insjiect . . . any returns concerning all or any of the parishes and ,^,,'y o^e 
 places, whether parochial or extra-parochial, in the metropolis, autborized 
 delivered or to be delivered in ]»nrsuance of anv Act relating to ^>'^'"^''"- ^ 
 
 ,11,, • •' f> o ,. inspect rat«s 
 
 county rates, and any rate maile by tlie Commissioners ot hewers ol uuuie for 
 the City of Loudon, and any valuation on which the same is made, county or 
 and may take copies or extracts from any such rates, basis ^^ J^'l[[^J'^[^'^'^"*y 
 standard, returns or valuation, without payment of any fee or metropolis. 
 
 * S. 3 of the Kxtra-parochial I'laces Act ls57 is as follows: "3. In each of the 
 the places termed tht- Inner Teniplo, the Jliddle Temple, . . . the officer for the time 
 being acting as the muler treasurer of such Inn of Court . . . shall be the overseer 
 of such place; and in default of any such othccr, the Justices having jurisdiction 
 in such Inns . . . respectively shall appoint some inhabitant houseliohier therein 
 to be the overseer thereof for the then current year, and thenceforth from year to 
 year so long as the office of under treasurer . . . shall be vacant." 
 
 16
 
 242 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 reward ; and if any person having the custody of any such rate, 
 basis or standard, return or valuation, wilfully neglect or refuse 
 to permit any such clerk or person authorized as aforesaid to inspect 
 the same, or to take copies or extracts of or from the same, at all 
 reasonable times, he shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not 
 exceeding ten pounds. [Part omitted {as to inspection of rates) 
 rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.B.). See also 20 & 21 Vict. c. 64, 
 s. 13 ; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 15 ; 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 14; 
 and the Cit>/ of London Sewers Act 1897.] 
 
 172 — 179. [Proiisionsfor raising expenses of Metropolitan Board. 
 Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 180 — 182. [Provisions for discharging liabilities under local 
 
 'paving Acts and liabilities of Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers — 
 
 Where Metropolitan Co ntmissi oners of Sewers have incurred 
 
 e.xpenses, Metropolitan Board may levg such rates as remain due. 
 
 Spent7\ 
 
 Power to 
 boards and 
 vestries to 
 borrow 
 money on 
 mortgage. 
 
 No priority 
 
 amongst 
 
 mortgagees. 
 
 Form of 
 mortgage. 
 
 Register of 
 mortgages. 
 
 General Powers to Metropolitan and District Boards and 
 
 Vestries to borrow. 
 
 183. It shall be lawful for the Metropolitan Board and every 
 district board and vestry, for the purposes of defraying any ex- 
 penses incurred or to be incurred by them in the execution of this 
 Act, to borrow and take up at interest, on the credit of all or any of 
 the monies or rates authorized to be raised by them under this Act, 
 any sums of money necessary for defraying any such expenses ; and 
 for the purpose of securing the repayment of any sums so borrowed, 
 together with such interest as aforesaid, such board or vestry may 
 mortgage and assign over to the persons by or on behalf of whom 
 such sums are advanced the respective monies or rates upon the 
 credit of whicli such sums are borrowed ; and the respective mort- 
 gagees shall be entitled to a proportion of the monies or rates 
 comprised in their respective mortgages, according to the sums 
 in such mortgages mentioned to have been advanced ; and each 
 mortgagee shall be entitled to be repaid the sums so advanced, 
 with interest, without any preference over any other mortgagee or 
 mortgagees by reason of any priority of advance or the date of his 
 mortgage : Provided always, that no monies shall be so borrowed by 
 any district board or vestry without the previous sanction in writing 
 of the said Metropolitan Board. [Rep. {so far as relates to the mode 
 
 s. 60. 
 105; 
 62 & 
 
 '•] 
 make 
 
 of borrowing by the Metropolitan Board) 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, 
 
 See also 25' & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 72 ; 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 47, s. 3 ; 59 & 00 Vict. c. clxxxviii. s. 32 ; 
 63 Vict. c. 14, 6-. 4 (1) ; and the Electric Lighting Act 1882, s. 
 
 184. [Power to Public Works Loans Commissioners to 
 advances. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, ». 50, and 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 
 {S.L.R.). See 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 20.] 
 
 185. Every mortgage authorized to be made under this Act shall 
 be by deed duly stamped, truly stating the date, consideration, and 
 the time of payment, and shall be sealed with the seal of the board 
 or vestry, and may be made according to the Form (E.) contained 
 in the schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like effect, or with 
 such variations or additions in each case as the board or vestry and 
 the party advancing the money intended to be thereby secured may 
 agree to ; and there shall be kept at the office of the board or vestry 
 
 of the mortgages made by them, and within fourteen 
 
 a 
 
 register
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Manaffeme?it Act IS^iJ. [Chap. 120.] 243 
 
 <Uiys after the date of aiiy mortjz;age an entry shall be made in the 
 register of the number and date thereof, and of the names and 
 ileseriptions of the })arties thereto, as stated in the deed ; and every 
 such register sliall l)e open to ])nblie insjjection during office hours 
 ^it the said office, witiiout fee or reward ; and any clerk or other 
 person having the custody of the same, refusing to allow such 
 inspection, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 [Rep. (rt6- ret/ards the Metropolitan Board of Works) 32 & 33 Vict, 
 ■c, 102, 6\ 50.] 
 
 186. The board or vestry making any such mortgage may, if they Repayment 
 
 think proper, fix a time or times for the rei)avment of all or anv ^^ "°"®^ 
 
 • I 1 1 1 1 • . . 1 ', 1 .. , • borrowed 
 
 ])rnicn)al momes borrowed under this Act, and the payment of the at a time 
 
 interest thereof respectively, and may ])rovide for the repayment of agreed upon, 
 such monies, with interest, by instalments or otherwise, as they may 
 think fit ; and in case the board or vestry fix the time or times of 
 rej)ayment they shall cause such time or times to be inserted in the 
 mortgage deed ; and at the time or times so fixed for ])ayment 
 thereof such princijjal monies and interest respectively shall, on 
 denumd, be j)aid to the party entitled to receive the same accord- 
 ingly ; iind if no otlier ])lace of })ayment be inserted in the mortgage interest on 
 deed, the i)rincij)al and interest shall be jtayable at the princij)al mortgages 
 office of the board or vestry, and, unless otherwise provided by any [''Ij'^P*^^ 
 mortgage, the interest of the money borrowed thereupon shall be ^^ "J^''^^y- 
 ])aid half-yearly ; and if no time be fixed in the mortgage deed for As to repay- 
 the rejjayment of the money so borrowed, the ])arty entitled to"'^^'^^ 
 receive such money may, at the expiration or at any time after the J^°"ed ^ben 
 ■expiration of twelve months from the date of such deed, demand no time has 
 payment of the ])rinci])al money thereliy secured, with all arrears of t>e^" ^©reed 
 interest, upon giving six months previous notice for that purpose ; "^°°* 
 and in the like case the board or vestry may at any time pay otf the 
 money borrowed, on giving the like uotice ; and every such notice 
 shall be in writing or print, or both, and if given by a mortgagee 
 shall be given in manner herein provided for service of notices on the 
 board or vestry, and if given by the board or vestry shall be given either 
 personally to such mortgagee or left at his residence, or if such mort- 
 gagee or his residence be unknown to them, or cannot be found after 
 diligent incpiiry, such notice shall be given by advertisement in the 
 Loii<lon Gazette; and if the board or vestry have given notice of their interest to 
 intention to pav off anv such mortgage at a time when the same ^^^'^^ °? 
 may lawfully be })aid off by them, tliea at the expiration of such u„tice to pay 
 notice all further interest shall cease to be ])ayable thereon, unless, off a mort- ' 
 on demand of payment made })ursuant to such notice, or at any time ga^e debt, 
 thereafter, the board or vestry ftiil to })ay the principal and interest 
 due at the expiration of such notice on such mortgage. \_Xote to 
 s. 185 applies ; and see s. 220.] 
 
 187. It shall be lawful for the said Metropolitan Board, with i^ower to 
 respect to anv securitv granted bv the Metroi)olitan Commissioners i^^^row to pay 
 
 i" i ' i. I'l 1 n * 1 ^ A- K ^ IV off existing 
 
 of hewers, or granted by such Board under this Act, and for every securities. 
 
 district board and vestry, with respect to any security for any 
 
 existing debt or liability which such board or vestry are by this 
 
 Act recpiired to disi:harge, and any security granted by such board 
 
 or vestry under this Act, to raise and borrow the monies necessary 
 
 for paying off such secnrity, and to pay otf the same; and the 
 
 monies borrowed for the purpose of such payment shall be secured 
 
 and repaid in like manner as if borrowed for defraying the expenses
 
 244 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855 [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Payment of 
 principal and 
 interest may 
 be enforced 
 by the 
 appointment 
 of a receiver. 
 
 Transfer of 
 mortgages. 
 
 Register of 
 transfers. 
 
 of the execution of this Act : Provided always, that nothing herein 
 contained shall extend to authorize the paying off of any security 
 otherwise than in accordance with the provisions thereof. [_Note ta 
 s. 185 applies.'] 
 
 188. If at the expiration of six months from the time when any 
 priucipal money or interest has become due upon any mortgage 
 made under this Act, . . . and after demand in writing, the same 
 be not paid, the mortgagee may, without prejudice to any other mode 
 of recovery, apply for the appointment of a receiver to two Justices, 
 who are hereby empowered, after hearing the parties, to appoint, in 
 writing under their hands and seals, some person to collect and 
 receive the whole or a competent part of the monies or rates liable 
 to the payment of the principal or interest in respect of which the 
 application is made, until such principal or interest, or both, as the 
 case may be, together with the costs of the application and the costs- 
 of collection, are fully paid; and upon such appointment being made 
 all such monies or rates, or such competent part thereof as aforesaid, 
 shall be paid to the person appointed, and when so paid shall be 
 so much money received by or to the use of the morta'ao^ee or 
 mortgagees, and shall be rateably apportioned between or among 
 them, but subject and without j^rejudice to such rights of priority, 
 if any, as shall then be subsisting between the mortgagees or any of 
 them : Provided always, that no mortgagee shall be prejudiced, 
 either directlv or indirectly, bv any loss which mav be occasioned 
 by the misapplication or nonapplication of any monies or rates 
 received by any receiver appointed otherwise than upon the appli- 
 cation or with the express consent of such mortgagee, or by any act^ 
 deed, neglect, or default on the part of such receiver, but such loss- 
 shall be wholly borne by the mortgagee or mortgagees upon whose 
 application or with whose express consent such receiver was ap- 
 pointed : Provided also, that no such apijlication shall be entertained 
 unless the sum or sums due and owing to the applicant amount to 
 one thousand pounds, or unless a joint application be made by two 
 or more mortgagees to whom there may be due, after such lapse of 
 time, and demand, as last aforesaid, monies collectively amounting 
 to that sum. \_yote to s. 185 applies. Part omitted (as to moneys 
 due under the Metropolitan Sewers Act 1848) spent. See also 2 & 3 
 Vict. t?. 71, 6-. 14.] 
 
 189. Any mortgagee or other person entitled to any mortgage 
 under this Act may transfer his estate and interest therein to any 
 other person by deed duly stamped, truly stating its date, the names 
 and descriptions of the parties thereto, and the consideration for the 
 transfer ; and such transfer may be according to the form contained 
 in the Schedule (F.) to this Act annexed, or to the like effect ; and 
 there shall be kept at the office of every board and yestry making 
 any mortgages under this Act a register of the transfers of such 
 mortgages ; and within thirty days after the date of any such deed 
 of transfer, if executed within the United Kingdom, or within thirty 
 days after its arrival in the United Kingdom if executed elsewhere, 
 the same shall be produced to the clerk of the board or yestry 
 making the mortgage ; and such clerk shall, ujjon payment of the 
 sum of five shillings, cause an entry to be made in such register of 
 its date, and of the names and description of the ])arties thereto, as 
 stated in the transfer ; and upon any transfer being so registered, 
 the transferee, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall be
 
 fl8&19VicT.] Metropolis Management Act \^i)^). [Chap. 120.] 245 
 
 entitled to the fall benefit of the ori<,Mnal mort<(age, and the principal 
 and interest secured thereljy ; and every such transferee may in like 
 manner transfer his estate and interest in any such raortj,'age ; and 
 no person, except the ])erson to whom the same has been last trans- 
 ferred, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall be entitled 
 to release or discharge any such mortgage, or any money secured 
 thereby. \_Note to s. 185 applies.'] 
 
 190. For the purpose of i)roviding a fund for i)aying off mortgages sinking fun^i 
 granted under this Act, the board or vestry granting such mortgage \l^ pj,vli^';'ff 
 siiall once in every year set aside, out of the monies or rates charged mortgages, 
 thereby, such sum as they think ])roper, being not less than two 
 
 pounds per centum on the amount of the principal monies secured 
 thereby; and the sum so from time to time set aside, and all other 
 monies a])])lied by the board or vestry in angmontatif)n of tlie said 
 fund, sliall be a])plied, in the manner herein-after direrted, in ])ay- 
 ment, so far as the same will extend, of the principal money secured 
 by such mortgages, or the same shall be invested in the public 
 funds, or on Government or real security, in the name of the board 
 or vestry ; and the dividends and interest of the monies so invested, 
 when ami as the same become due, shall from time to time be 
 received and invested in like manner, in order that the said monies 
 so set aside and invested may accumulate at comj)Ound interest j 
 and when such accumulated fund amounts to a sum which, in the 
 o])inion of the board or vestry, can be conveniently applied for that 
 purpose, the stocks, funds, or securities whereon the same is invested 
 shall be sold or otherwise converted into money, and the monies 
 -arising from any such sale and conversion shall be a])])lied, in the 
 manner herein-after directed, in payment, so far as the same will 
 extend, of the said principal monies, and so from time to time until 
 the whole of the said princijjal monies are discharged. [Note to 
 6'. 185 applies. See also the Housing of' the Working Classes Act 
 1003, s. 15.*] 
 
 191. When and as often as the board or vestry are enabled and ^'^e of 
 think it expedient to pay off one or more of the said mortgages, J^^grtgages. 
 they shall cause the several numbers of such mortgages to be written 
 
 upon distinct slips of paper of an equal size, and all such slips shall 
 be rolled or folded up in a siniihir form, and put in a box, and the 
 €lerk of the said board or vestry shall, at a meeting of the board or 
 vestry, draw separately out of the said box one of the said slips, and 
 thereiipon the mortgage corresponding with the number so drawn 
 shall be ])aid off by the board or vestry ; and after every such ballot 
 the board or vestry shall cause a notice, signed by the clerk, to be 
 given to the person entitled to the money to be paid off, and such 
 notice shall express the principal sum proposed to be paid off, and 
 that the same will be paid, together with the interest due thereon, 
 at a ])lace to be specified in such notice, at the expiration of six 
 months from the date of giving such notice ; and at the expiration 
 of such period the interest of the princi[)al money to be paid off shall 
 cease, unless such ])rincipal money and interest be not paid, on 
 
 * S. 15 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1903 is as follows : " 15. For 
 the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act as to the maximum 
 period for which money may be borrowed, eighty years shall be substituted for 
 si.xty j-ears in section twenty-seven of the .Metropolitan Hoard of Works (Loans) Act 
 ISii'J, and such sum as will be sufficient, with compound interest, to repay the money 
 borrowed within such period, not exceeding eighty years, as may be sanctioned 
 by the London County Council, shall be substituted for two pounds jjer cent, in 
 section one hundred and ninety of the Metropolis Management Act 1855."
 
 246 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18(fcl9YiCT.] 
 
 Annual 
 reports by 
 vestries and 
 district 
 boards. 
 
 Vestry to 
 make ont 
 and publish 
 yearly a list 
 of estates, 
 charities, and 
 bequests, etc., 
 with the 
 application 
 thereof. 
 
 demand, pursuant to such notice ; but such principal money, and 
 the interest thereof to the end of the said six months, shall 
 nevertheless be payable, on demand. [^Note to s. 185 applies.'] 
 
 192—197. lAudit of accounts. Rep. 62 k 63 Vict. c. 14, .5. 35. 
 See ibid. s. 14.] 
 
 Annual Reports. 
 
 198. Every such vestry as aforesaid and district board shall in 
 the month of June in every year cause to be printed ... a report 
 of their proceedings in the execution of this Act, and of the works 
 commenced and completed respectively in the preceding year by 
 such vestry or board, and the works remaining in progress at the- 
 termination of such year, and also of any proceedings taken by them 
 or under their authority in the preceding year, in pursuance of any 
 regulations of the General Board of Health* for the time being in 
 force, or otherwise, for the removal of nuisances or the improvement 
 of the sanitary condition of their parish or district ; . . . and every 
 such vestry and board shall in the said month of June send a copy 
 of every such . . . report, together with a printed list of the names 
 and addresses of the members of such vestry and board, and of their 
 officers, to the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and every vestry 
 and district board shall permit inspection at their office of a copy 
 of any such . . . report by any ratepayer in their parish or district,, 
 without payment, at all reasonable times, and shall also permit the 
 like inspection by the public generally of such list of officers ; and 
 copies of such . . . report, and list of officers, shall be delivered to 
 any person applying for the same, on payment of such reasonable 
 sums, not exceeding twopence for each such copy, as may be fixed 
 by such vestry or board in this behalf. \Parts omitted (as to- 
 appending report of medical officer) rep. 54 k 55 Vict. c. 76, 6-. 142 
 {see ibid. s. 106) ; and (cis to prejjarinq an account in abstract, etc.y 
 rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 199. Every such vestry as aforesaid shall cause to be made out 
 once at least in every year a list of the several freehold, copyhold^ 
 and leasehold estates, and of all charitable foundations and bequests, 
 if any, belonging to the parish, and under the control of the vestry, 
 the list to contain a true and detailed account of the jilace where 
 such estate or charitable foundation may be situate, or in what 
 mode and security such bequest may be invested, specifying also- 
 the yearly rental of each, and the particular appropriation thereof, 
 together with the names of the persons partaking of their benefit 
 (except where such benefit shall be allotted to the poor of the parish 
 generally), and to what amount in each case, and also stating the 
 name and description of the persons in whom such estates are 
 vested, and the names and description of the trustees for each 
 charity ; and such lists shall be open for the inspection of the rate- 
 payers at the office of the vestry clerk at the same time with the 
 accounts when audited. . . . \_Part omitted (the icords " according 
 to the procisions of this Act "') repj. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35. See 
 also ibid. s. 23 ; the Charitable Trusts Act 1855, .5. 44 ; and. 56 & 57 
 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 14.] 
 
 200 — 201. {^Annual reports of Metropolitan Board to be sent to 
 Secretary of State and laid before Parliament. Rep. 56 & 57 Vict, 
 c. 54 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] ^rrtropolls ^fa'nflf|rmrnf Art \f-:):^. [CnAi-. 12<».] 247 
 
 Bt/elaws. 
 
 202. The Metropolitan Board of Works and every district board Power to 
 and vestry respectively may from time to time make, alter, and RoartT°f'**" 
 repeal byelaws for all or any of the ])nrp(»ses followinL^ : (tliat is to Works to 
 say.) for rcf^nhitiny: the business and ])roceedings at their meetings make bye- 
 and of committees appointed by tliem, the aj)pointment and removal ^^' 
 
 of their officers and servants, and the duties, conduct, and remunera- 
 tion of such officers and servants ; und the said 3Ietropolitan Board 
 may also from time to time make, alter, and repeal l^yelaws for 
 regulating . . . the material of the ])avement and roadway of new 
 streets and roads, . . . and for regulating the dimensions, form, 
 and mode of construction, and the keeping, cleansing, and repairing 
 of the pi]>es, drains, and other means of communicating with sewers, 
 and tlie traps and apparatus connected therewith ; . . . and for 
 regulating the form of aj)peal and mode of proceeding thereon : and 
 generally for carrying into effect the purposes of this Act ; and Penalty for 
 every such board and vestry may thereby impose such reasonable ^''.^^f^/'^ 
 penalties as they think fit, not exceeding forty shillings, for each ^^'^^'^^• 
 breach of such byelaws, and in case of a continuing offence a further 
 ])enalty not exceeding twenty shillings for each day after notice of 
 the offence from the board or vestry : Provided always, that under Power to 
 everv such bvelaw it shall be lawful for the -Justices before whom ;^"!i''^*;"t 
 
 ,. • 111- I 1 1 1 1 ''O remit 
 
 any penalty im])Osed thereby is sougiit to be recovered to order the penalties, 
 whole or part only of such penalty to be paid, or to remit the whole 
 penalty : Provided also, that no byelaws shall be repugnant to 
 the laws of England or to the provisions of this Act, and that no 
 byelaw shall be of any force or effect unless and until the same be 
 submitted to and confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the board 
 or vestry : Provided also, that no penalty shall be imposed by any 
 such byelaw unless the same be approved by one of Her Majesty's 
 principal Secretaries of iState. [AmenJeJ 02 & 03 Vict. c. 15. 
 J* arts omitted (a.s to emptying^ etc., cesspools, etc?) rep. 54 & 55 Vict, 
 c. 70, s. 142 ; and {as to plans, etc., of new streets) rep. 57 & 58 Vict, 
 c. ccxiii. 6'. 215. See also 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. .^s. 14 — 20; 55 & 
 
 56 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. ss. 39, 40; 50 k 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. lO; 
 
 57 it 58 Vict. c. ccxii. s. 5 ; 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 104 ; 03 k 04 
 Vict. c. cclxviii. ss. 25 — 27 ; 3 Edw. 7, c. clxxxvii. ss. 54, 55.] 
 
 203. All byelaws made and confirmed as aforesaid in pursuance Publication 
 of this Act shall be printed and hung up in the principal office of o^ ^y*^^^^"^ 
 the board or vestry, and be open to public ins})ection without ]iay- 
 
 ment, and copies thereof shall be delivered to any person applying 
 for the same, on payment of such sum, not exceeding twopence, as 
 the board or vestry shall direct; and such byelaws, when so pub- 
 lished, shall be binding upon and be observed by all parties, and shall 
 be sufficient to justify all }iarties acting under the same; and the 
 production of a printed copy of such byelaws, authenticated by the Evidence of 
 seal of the board or vestry, shall be evidence of the existence, and of '- *^ •'^^■''• 
 the due making, confirmation, and ])ublication of such byelaws, in 
 all prosecutions under the same, without adducing jtroof of such seal 
 or of the fact of such confirmation or publication of such byelaws. 
 
 Provisions for Protection of Propertij and Works of Metropolitan 
 and District Boards and Vestries, and preventing Obstruction 
 in Execution of Works. 
 
 204. iS^o building shall be erected in, over, or under any sewer r.uiidings not 
 vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works, or in any vestry or Q°p^j,^g^;^e^
 
 248 
 
 [Chap. 12u.] Metropolis Management x\ct 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 without 
 consent. 
 
 Penalty on 
 l^ersons 
 sweeping dirt 
 into sewers. 
 
 Penalty for 
 wilfully 
 damaging, 
 etc. lamps 
 or other 
 property of 
 vestries or 
 district 
 boards or 
 of the 
 
 ^Metropolitan 
 Board. 
 
 Persons 
 carelessly or 
 accidentally 
 damaging 
 lamps, etc. 
 to make 
 satisfaction. 
 Penalty on 
 interrupting 
 workmen, etc. 
 in execution 
 of duties. 
 
 Penalty upon 
 occupiers 
 obstructing 
 execution of 
 works, or not 
 disclosing 
 owner's name. 
 
 district board, without their consent first obtained in writing ; and 
 if any building be erected contrary to this provision the board or 
 vestry in whom such sewer is vested may demolish the same, and 
 the expenses incurred thereby shall be paid by the person erecting 
 such building. {See also 25 ifc 26 Vict. c. ¥)'>," s. 08.] 
 
 205. No scavenger or other person shall sweep, rake, or place 
 any soil, rubbish, or filth, or any other thing, into or in any sewer 
 or drain, or over any grate communicating with any sewer or drain, 
 or into any dock or inlet communicating with the mouth of any 
 sewer or drain, or into which any sewer or drain may discharge its 
 contents, or into the Biver Thames contiguous thereto ; and every 
 scavenger or other person who shall so offend shall for every snch 
 ofiience forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five ponnds. [See 
 also 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. s. 62 ; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 6U (3) ; 57 & 58 
 Vict. c. clxxxvii. s. 92 {see Apjjendix) ; and 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. 
 ss. 8 — 17.] 
 
 206. If any person wilfully take away, break, throw down, or 
 damage any lamp set up for lighting any of the streets in any 
 parish mentioned in either of the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to this 
 Act, or wilfully extinguish the light within the same, or damage 
 the iron or other furniture thereof, or wilfully damage any other 
 property vested in any vestry or district board, or any property 
 vested in the said Metropolitan Board, it shall be lawful for any 
 person who sees such offence committed to seize, as also for any 
 other person to assist in seizing, the offender, and by authority of 
 this Act, and without any other warrant, to convey him, or to 
 deliver him into the custody of a police officer in order to be secured 
 and conveyed, before some Justice ; and if the party accused be 
 convicted of such oftence he shall forfeit the sum of forty shillings, 
 and shall also pay to such vestry or board the amount of damage 
 done, \_See also 2 & 3 Met. c. 47, s. 54 (16) ; the Malicious Damage 
 Act 1861, .^s. 51, 52 ; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, ss. 68, 69 ; 54 & 55 Vict, 
 c. 76, ss. 51, 53 ; and various sections in Bridges Acts.'] 
 
 207. In case any j^erson carelessly or accidentally break, throw 
 down, or damage any such lamjj, or the iron or other furniture 
 thereof, or other such property as aforesaid, he shall pay the amount 
 of damage done. \_See ss. 225 and 226.] 
 
 208. If any person at any time obstruct, hinder, or molest any 
 surveyor, inspector, collector, or other officer, workman, or person 
 whomsoever employed by virtue of this Act in the performance or 
 execution of his duty, every such person so offending shall for the 
 first oftence forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings, for the second 
 offence the sum of twenty shillings, and for any subsequent oftence 
 the sum of five pounds. 
 
 209. If the occupier of any jiremises prevent the owner thereof 
 from carrying into effect, with respect to such premises, any of 
 the provisions of this Act, or any order of any vestry or district 
 board made in ])ursuance thereof, he shall be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding five j)onnds for every day during the continuance of such 
 refusal or neglect ; and if the occupier of any premises, when 
 requested by or on behalf of the vestry or district board to state 
 the name and description of the owner of the premises occupied by 
 him, refuse or wilfully omit to disclose or wilfully mis-state the 
 same, it shall be lawful for any Justice to summon the party to 
 appear before him or some other Justice at a time and place to be
 
 [18&19YICT.] Metropolis Management Act \Hii^. [Chap. 120.] 249 
 
 appointed in such summons ; and if the party so suiumoned neglect 
 or refuse to attend at the time and place so appointed, or if he do 
 not show good cause for sucli refusal, or if sucli wilful omission or 
 mis-statement be proved, tlie Justice ])efore wliom the party is so 
 summoned may impose upon the oitender a penalty not exceeding 
 five pounds. \_St'e also ^4 ct H.j Vict. c. 70, s. 110(2); and ^u k. 
 ,58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 20(J (11) {e) and {g)7\ 
 
 210. All savings and provisions in turnpike, railway, waterworks, Savings an.l 
 improvement, and other Acts, saving and providing for the rights, PJ^^j'^^^"^ "^ 
 powers, and authorities of the Commissioners of Sewers for any of applicable to 
 the parts wliich sliall be within the metropolis as defined by this commls- 
 Act, shall, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions ^^^^^^^ ^^ 
 of this Act, continue and be in force in favour of and with reference apply to 
 
 to tlie ]\retro]iolitan P)oard of Works and the several district boards Metropolitan 
 <jf works and vestries having tlie management of sewers under this bo!^!.^!!;'^^^^'^ 
 Act, and in favour of the (Jommissioners of Sewers of the City of vestries. 
 London, so far as such savings and provisions respectively are now 
 applicable to them, or to any officer or person so continued by the 
 «aid Board. \_S>ee tlie Cit)/ of London Sewers Act 1897.] 
 
 Ajjpeals. 
 
 211. Any person who deems himself aggrieved by any order of Power to ap- 
 tiny vestry or district board in relation to the level of any building, oTder^and 
 or any order or act of any vestry or district board in relation to acts of ves- 
 the construction, repair, alteration, stopping or filling up, or demoli- ^^}^^ ^°^ ^^• 
 lion of any building, sewer, drain, . . . may, within seven days after [„ relation to 
 notice of any such order to the occupier of the premises aifected construction 
 thereby, or after such act, appeal to the Metropolitan Board of of works. 
 "Works against the same ; and all such appeals shall stand referred 
 
 to the committee ap})ointed by such Board for hearing appeals as 
 herein provided ; and such committee shall hear and determine all 
 such a})j)eals, and may order any costs of such appeals to be paid to 
 or by the vestry or district board by or to the party a])pealing, and 
 may, where they see fit, award any compensation in respect of any 
 act done by any such vestry or district board in relation to the 
 matters aforesaid ; provided that no such compensation shall be 
 awarded in respect of any such act whicli may have been done under 
 any of the provisions of tliis Act on any default to com])ly with any 
 such order as aforesaid, unless the appeal be lodged within seven days 
 after notice of such order has been given to the occupier of the 
 premises to which the same relates. \_Amended 25 k 20 Vict. c. 102, 
 .b'. 29. See also 54 cV: 55 \'ict. c. 70, s. 120. l*art omitted (as to 
 cesspools, etc.) rep. 54 & 55 I'ict. c. 70, s. 142. See ibid. ss. 37, 41, 
 and 43.] 
 
 212. The Metro])olitan Board of Works shall api)oint a committee MetropoUu 
 for the purpose of hearing all such ap])eals as may be made to the ^^ppj-,^^ ^ 
 said board as aforesaid, which committee shall have ]iower to hear committee 
 and decide all such appeals; and the ^Metropolitan Board of Works forbearing 
 .shall from time to time fill n]i any vacancy in such committee ; and ''^PP^^^^- 
 the chairman of the said Board shall, by virtue of his office of chair- 
 man, be a member of the said committee in addition to the members 
 appointed by the said Board, and shall ])reside at all meetings of such 
 committee at which he is present ; and in case of a vacancy in the 
 office of such chairman, or in his absence, some other member of 
 the committee shall be chosen to preside : and all the powers of 
 
 an
 
 250 
 
 [CHAr. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict]. 
 
 Where two or 
 more persons 
 are to do any 
 act or pay 
 any sum of 
 money, vestry 
 or district 
 board may 
 apportion 
 the same. 
 
 Power to 
 vestries and 
 district 
 boards to 
 spread re- 
 payment of 
 expenses 
 over a period 
 not exceed- 
 ing twenty 
 years. 
 
 As to sers'ice 
 of notices, 
 etc. on 
 Metropolitan 
 and district 
 boards and 
 vestries. 
 
 As to service 
 of notices on 
 owners and 
 occupiers 
 and other 
 persons. 
 
 such committee may be exercised by any tliree of them ; and 
 any member of such committee may at any time resign his office. 
 {^Amended 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 29. See also 54 & 55 Vict.c. 76, 
 ^<. 126.] 
 
 213—214. [Ixetiring allo/cances to persons employed imder Metro- 
 })olitan Commissioners of Sewers, and officers of pacing boards. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 Miscellaneous Clauses. 
 
 215. Where, under the authority of this Act, two or more persons- 
 are or may be directed by any vestry or district board to do or join 
 in doing any act, or to pay or join in paying any sum of money,, 
 costs, or expenses, or where any vestry or district board are 
 authorized or think proper to permit two or more persons to join 
 together in doing any act, or paying any sum of money, costs, or 
 expenses, it shall be lawful for the vestry or district board to 
 apportion the matter to be done, or the sum of money, costs, or 
 expenses to be paid, between such persons, in such manner as the 
 vestry or board consider just and reasonable. 
 
 216. In all cases where any vestry or district board is authorized 
 to order any costs, charges, or expenses to be paid by private 
 parties it shall be lawful for such vestry or district board to order 
 and accept payment of such costs, charges, expenses, together with 
 interest thereon after a rate not exceeding five pounds for the 
 hundred by the year, by instalments, within such period, not 
 exceeding twenty years in each case, as they may determine, the 
 amount thereof to be recoverable in the same manner as other 
 expenses are to be recovered under this Act. [8^6^ ss. 225 and 226.] 
 
 217 — 219. \_Recovery of expenses from owner or occupier. Hep. 
 25 & 26 VicL c. 102, s. 96. See ibid. s. 97.] 
 
 220. Any summons or notice, or any writ or other process at law 
 or in equity, or any other matter or thing whatsoever, required to 
 be served upon the Metropolitan Board of AVorks or any district 
 board or vestry, may, unless herein otherwise provided, lawfully be 
 served by delivering the same personally to the clerk of such 
 respective board or vestry, or by leaving the same at the principal 
 office of such board or vestry. 
 
 221. All notices by this Act required to be given to the owner or 
 occupier of any land or premises, or other person, may be served 
 personally on such owner, occupier, or ])erson, or left with some 
 inmate of his place of abode, and any notice required to be given to 
 any such owner or occupier may, if there be no occupier, be affixed 
 to some conspicuous part of the land or premises, and it shall not 
 be necessary in any notice to any owner or occupier of any land 
 or premises to name such owner or occupier : Provided always, 
 that where there is no occupier, and the owner of any such land 
 or premises, and his place of abode or that of his agent is known 
 to the vestry or board by or on behalf of whom such notice is given, 
 or any of their officers, such notice shall be served on such owner 
 personally, or left with some inmate of his place of abode, or 
 transmitted to such owner through the Post Office, addressed to him 
 at his place of abode or last known j)lace of abode in the United 
 Kingdom, or served on his agent as aforesaid. \_See also 54 & 55 
 Vict. c. TO, .S-. 128 ; 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. *\ 188 ; 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. cxxxvii. .S-. 5 ; and, the Interpretation Act 1889, s. 26.]
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Met ropoli.'i Management Act \^^i). [Chap. 120.] 251 
 
 222. Every notice, demand, or like dociuu(;iit given by or on Authentica- 
 beliiilf of the Metropolitan Board of Works, or any vestry or tlistrict ^'^^l^^^g^j^, 
 board under this Act, may be in writing or print, or j)artly in 
 writing and partly in print, and shall be sufficiently authenticated 
 
 if signed bv their clerk or Ijy the officer ))y whom the same is given. 
 [See also 32 & 33 Vict. c. G7, s. GO ; 34 & 35 Vk-t. c. 113, a. 40; 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s«. 127 k 128 ; 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 187 ; 
 and the Interpretation Act 1889, .f. 20.] 
 
 223. If any person against whom the ]\Ietroj)olitan Board of Proof of 
 AV'orks, or any district board or vestry, have any claim or demand, bankruptcy 
 become bankruj)t, ... it shall be lawful for tiie clerk or collector, 
 
 in all proceedings under the bankrn])tcy . . . , to rej)resent such 
 board or vestry, and act in their l)ehalf in all respects as if such 
 claim or demand were the claim or demand of the clerk or collector, 
 and not of such board or vestrv. \_l'arfs omitted (as to in.^olcencij) 
 rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).^ 
 
 224. [Tender of amends. Rep. ^i"! k fi% Vict. c. 66 (S.L.Ti.). See 
 t/te Public Authorities Protection Act 1893 (see Appendix).'] 
 
 225. In every case where the amount of any damage, costs, or Compensa- 
 
 expenses is bv this Act directed to be ascertained or recovered in a *^'^"' ^^*™*^®' 
 ' " , , n ^ . and expenses, 
 
 summary manner, or the amount of any damage, costs, or expenses how to be 
 is by this Act directed to be paid, and the method of ascertaining ascertained 
 
 ■ and re- 
 
 covered 
 
 the amount or enforcing the ])ayment thereof is not j)rovided for, ^°" ^^' 
 such amount shall, in case of disj)ute, be ascertained and determined 
 by and shall be recovered before two Justices ; and the amount of 
 any compensation to be made under this Act by the said ]\Ietro- 
 politan Board, or any vestry or district board, shall, unless herein 
 otherwise provided, be settled, in case of dispute, by and shall be 
 recovered before two Justices, unless the amount of comi)ensation 
 claimed exceed fifty pounds, in which case the amount thereof shall 
 be settled by arbitration, according to the provisions contained in 
 the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, which are applicable 
 where questions of disputed compensation are authorized or required 
 to be settled by arbitration. [See 2 & 3 Vict. <?. 71, s. 14 ; and the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848, s. 33.] 
 
 226. Where the amount of any compensation, or of any damage, ^lethod of 
 costs, or expenses, is to be determined by or to be recovered before before^ ^°° 
 two Justices, it shall be lawful for any Justice, u])on the ajjplicatiou Justices in 
 of either party, to summon the other party to appear before two questions of 
 Justices, at a time and place to be named in such summons ; and ^^™^^^' 
 upon the appearance of such ])arties, or, in the absence of either of 
 
 them, upon proof of due service of the summons, it shall be lawful 
 for such two Justices to hear and determine the matter, and for that 
 purpose to examine such parties, or any of them, and their witnesses, 
 on oath, and make such order, as well as to costs as otherwise, as to 
 them may seem just. [JS'ote to s. 225 applies.] 
 
 227. Every penalty or forfeiture imposed by this Act, or by any Penalties, etc. 
 byelaw made in pursuance thereof, the recovery of which is not coveredas 
 otherwise provided for, may be recovered by summary jiroceedings provided by 
 before any Justice in manner provided by the Act of the session ^ ■^i- Vict. 
 holden in the eleventh and twolftii years of Her i\[aiesty, chajtter ^' 
 forty-three, " to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices 
 
 of the Peace out of Sessions within England and Wales with respect 
 to summary Convictions and Orders." [See 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, 
 .ss. 104 and 107.]
 
 252 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Managemerd Act 1855. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 Damages to 
 be made good 
 in addition 
 to penalty. 
 
 Transient 
 offender.--. 
 
 Proceedings 
 not to be 
 quashed for 
 want of form. 
 
 Parties 
 
 allowed to 
 appeal to 
 Quarter 
 Sessions, on 
 giving 
 security. 
 
 Court to 
 
 make such 
 order as 
 they think 
 reasonable. 
 
 228. If, throngli any act, neglect, or default on account whereof 
 any person has incurred any jienalty imposed by this Act, any 
 damage to the property of the said Metropolitan Board, or any 
 vestry or district board, has been committed by such person, he 
 shall be liable to make good such damage, as well as to pay such 
 penalty ; and the amount of such damage, in case of dispute, shall 
 be determined by the Justices by whom the party incurring such 
 penalty is convicted, and the payment of the amount of such damage 
 may be enforced in all respects as such penalty. 
 
 229. It shall be lawful for any officer or servant of the said 
 Metropolitan Board, or any vestry or district board, and for any 
 police constable, and all persons called by him to his assistance, to 
 seize and detain any person who has committed any offence against 
 the provisions of this Act, or any byelaw made in pursuance thereof, 
 and whose name and residence shall be unknown to such officer 
 or servant or police constable, and convey him with all convenient 
 despatch before some Justice, without any warrant or other authority 
 than this Act ; and such Justice shall proceed with all convenient 
 despatch to the hearing and determining of the complaint against 
 such offender. 
 
 230. No act, order, or proceeding in pursuance of this Act, or in 
 relation to the execution thereof, shall be quashed or vacated for 
 want of form, nor shall the same be removed by certiorari or other- 
 wise into any of the superior courts, except as herein specially 
 provided. 
 
 231. If any person feel aggrieved by any adjudication or deter- 
 mination of any Justice or Justices with respect to any penalty or 
 forfeiture under the provisions of this Act, such party may appeal 
 to the General or Quarter Sessions. . . . [Part omitted (as to 
 procedure on appeal) rep. hy the Summani Jurisdiction Act 1884, 
 s. 4.] 
 
 232. At the General or Quarter Sessions for which such notice is 
 given the Court shall proceed to hear and determine the appeal in 
 a summary way, or they may, if they think fit, adjourn it to the 
 following Sessions ; and upon the hearing of such appeal the Court 
 may, if they think fit, mitigate any penalty or forfeiture. . . . [Part 
 omitted {as to satisfaction of the party injured) rep. hy the Summary 
 Jurisdiction Act 1884, ,s-. 4.] 
 
 233 — 234. [Penalties to he sued for u-ithin tliree months, and 
 application of penalties. Hep. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 105. See 
 ibid. s. 107.] 
 
 Special Provisions and. Savings. 
 Provision for 235. Where the vestries of any parishes mentioned in either of 
 oTvestdes"^ the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to this Act now act jointly or in union, 
 and elections or exercise any powers or privileges jointly or in union, or elect 
 outofves- guardians, directors, trustees, or other persons whomsoever whose 
 offices are not expressed to be determined by this Act for any 
 joint purposes, the vestries of such parishes elected under this Act 
 may act jointly or in union, and shall have the like powers and 
 privileges jointly or in union, and elect for such joint purposes in 
 like manner and with the like eftect ; and where in any of the said 
 parishes any guardians, directors, trustees, or other persons who- 
 soever whose offices are not expressed to be determined by this 
 
 tries under 
 local Acts.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] MetroijoUti Management Act l^ihh. [Chap. 120.] 253 
 
 Act are now by law elected out of the vestry of any such parish, 
 such guardians, directors, trustees, or other jjersons as aforesaid 
 may be elected out of or from the vestrymen and persons who 
 . . . are eligible as vestrymen for the same parish ; and the office 
 of no such guardian, director, trustee, or otlier ])erson shall be 
 determined by reason of his ceasing to be a vestryman in con- 
 se(juence of the passing of tliis Act ; but every such guardian, 
 director, trustee, or other j)erson sliall continue in office until such 
 time as he would otherwise have ceased to hokl liis office. [ Words 
 omitted (" under this Act") rep. 50 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 89.] 
 
 236. [Confirmation of an agreement of \i)th August 1854, between 
 the London and Sorth-western Railway/ Company and the Faxing 
 Commissioners for certain roads in St. ]*ancras^ and vesting the 
 maintenance of such roads in St. Pancras Vestry^ 
 
 237. This Act shall not divest the commissioners under an Act Special pro- 
 of the session holden in the fifth ami sixth years of Her Majesty, ^''^^°".*'',^*^ 
 chapter forty-eight (local), "For paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, commis° 
 and imj)roving Ely Place and Ely Mews, Holborn, in the County of sioners acting 
 ]Middh'scx," of any of the })0wers or property vested in them under ""'^^"^ ^ "^ **.. 
 that Act, . . . but such parts shall be subject to all the provisions as to paving * 
 of this Act relating to sewerage and house drainage, and to be Ely riace, 
 assessed or rated for sewerage expenses incurred by the said district ^''*^" 
 board,* and for expenses incurred by the Metropolitan Board of 
 
 AV'orks, and towards any sums recjuired to be raised l)y such Board 
 under this Act, in like manner as other parts within the said district. 
 \_Fart omitted {Act not to apply as to paving, lighting, watering, 
 and cleansing streets icithin limits of ^ & 6 Vict. c. xlviii., and rates 
 not to be levied for such purposes icithin such litnits under this Act) 
 rep. 62 & G3 Vict. c. 14, s. 35, and the Borough of Ilolborn {Safron 
 Ilill and Ely Place) Scheme 1901 made under that Act^ 
 
 238. \_Special provision as to the parish of Wooltvick. Rep. 62 
 <k 03 Vict. c. 14, s 35.] 
 
 239. Wliere any enclosed garden or ornamental ground is vested Special pro- 
 in or under the maintenance or management of any commissioners ^'*'°°^^^ ^"^ 
 or other body for the use of the inhabitants of any si^uare, crescent, o-ardens in 
 circus, street, or place, surrounding or adjoining such garden or squares, etc. 
 ground, and the powers of such commissioners or other body do not 
 
 extend ])eyond such garden or ground, and such sipiare, crescent, 
 circus, street, or place, or any adjoining street, way, or passage, so 
 far as the same may abut upon any part of any house, shop, building, 
 or tenement situate in or fronting any such square, crescent, circus, 
 street, or place, nothing in this Act shall divest such commissioners 
 or body of any property in such garden or ground, or in any railing 
 or footway bounding the same, or of any duties, powers, or authorities 
 now or hereafter vested in any such commissioners or other body for 
 or in relation to the paving, watering, cleansing, improving, or 
 regulating of such enclosed garden or ornamental ground, or in 
 relation to the railing or footwav boundinu" the same, or to lew 
 rates for defraying any expenses incurred in the execution of such 
 duties or powers ; and where the maintenance or management of 
 any enclosed garden or ornamental grounil is vested in any commis- 
 sioners or other body, for the use or benetit of the inhabitants nf any 
 square, crescent, circus, street, or place surrounding or adjoining the 
 same, who are liable to be assessed for the maintenance thereof, and 
 
 * I.C. the district board for the Holborn district.
 
 254 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act ISdd. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 the powers of such commissioners or other body extend beyond such 
 enclosed garden or ornamental gronnd, and such square, crescent, 
 circus, street, or place, or such adjoining street, way, or passage as 
 aforesaid, the maintenance and management of such enclosed garden 
 or ornamental sfround shall be vested in a committee, consisting of 
 not more than nine nor fewer than three of such inhabitants, and 
 such committee shall be aj^pointed annually in the first week in 
 June by such inhabitants ; and the vestry or board shall from time 
 to time cause to be raised the sums required by such committee for 
 defraying the expenses of the maintenance and management of such 
 enclosed garden or ornamental ground, or of such part thereof as is 
 situate within their parish or district, by an addition to the general 
 rate to be assessed on the occupiers of the houses or buildings the 
 occupiers whereof are now liable to be assessed for the same purpose : 
 Provided always, that where any such rate which may now be levied 
 for such purpose is limited in amount the rate to be levied under 
 this provision shall be subject to the like limit. 
 
 Saving of 240. This Act shall not divest the commissioners for carrying 
 
 powers and joto execution " The Crown Estate Paving Act, 1851," and the sub- 
 Comrnis^-^ sisting provisions of the Acts therein recited, or the Commissioners 
 sioners under of . . . Works . . . , of any of the powers, duties, authorities, or pro- 
 14 & 15 Yict. perty vested in them respectively under the said Acts ; and nothing 
 ^' ^' in this Act shall extend to authorize or empower any vestry or 
 
 district board to exercise any power or control whatsoever in respect 
 of paving, maintaining, lighting, watering, cleansing, and regulating 
 any streets or places in the neighbourhood of the Houses of Parlia- 
 ment, delineated on a plan marked E., referred to by "The Crown 
 Estate Paving Act, l&ol," or any jjortion of the district now under 
 the mauaeement of the commissioners for carrving into execution 
 the said Crown Estate Paving Act, and the subsisting provisions 
 aforesaid, or to exercise any power or control whatsoever in or over 
 any of the gardens or pleasure grounds the management whereof is 
 now or may for the time being be vested in such last-mentioned 
 commissioners ; nor shall any such street or place, or any portion 
 of such district, as aforesaid, be assessed or rated under this Act for 
 defraying any expenses incurred by any vestry or district board in 
 relation to paving, lighting, watering, or cleansing, but such streets, 
 places, and district shall be subject to all the provisions of this Act 
 relating to sewerage and house drainage, and to be assessed or rated 
 for sewerage expenses incurred by any such vestry or board, and for 
 expenses incurred by the Metropolitan Board of Works, and towards 
 any sums required to be raised by such Board under this Act as by 
 this Act provided. [ Words omitted (" Her Majest'/s " and " atid 
 Public Buildings'') rep. 55 L 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Saving of 241. Xothing in this Act shall divest the Commissioners . . . of . . . 
 
 thenghtsof ^Qj-j^g ^ _ of auv power or propertv now or which for the time 
 the Commis- , . , " i • > i ^ i ' t • • , i • * ^ i 1 1 i 
 
 sioners of bemg may be vested m them ; and nothmg in this Act shall extend 
 
 "Works. to authorize or empower any vestry or district board to exercise any 
 
 power or control whatsoever in or over any of the royal or public 
 
 parks, gardens, or pleasure grounds, the management whereof is 
 
 now or may be for the time being vested in such Commissioners; 
 
 and nothing in this Act shall alDridge, alter, or affect any right, 
 
 power, exemption, or remedy of the Queen's most excellent ^Majesty, 
 
 ... or the said Commissioners, in, over, or in relation to the 
 
 possessions of the Crown or of the public. [Note to s. 240 applies.']
 
 [18 & 10 Vict.] MHro}wlis Management Act \Hh^. [Chap. 120.] 255 
 
 242. Xuthiii^^ ill this Act shall divest the Commissioners of Saving of 
 Sewers of the City of London of any powers or property vested in eky ComLis- 
 tiiem in relation to such parts of any of the parishes mentioned in sionere of 
 ►Schedule (H.) to fliis Act as are within the City of London, nor shall Hewers over 
 sucli ])arts lie sul)je('t to l)e rated or assessed by any district board, of'^adshefL 
 but shall be subject to all the powers of the Metropolitan Board of schedule (B.) 
 Works as other ])laces in the City of London, \_yote to a. 210 
 
 243. \_Savin<] ri<jhfs of Mffropolitan Sewage Manure Compang. 
 Rep. oo & 5G 'Viet. c. lu' {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 244. \_Savinq rights of' commissioners or trustees of turnpike roads. 
 
 S))enf. No turnpi/a' roads now in London. See note on s. IZ-).^ ^, . 
 ^ ^ -; Saving for 
 
 245. Xothin*^ in this Act sliall interfere with the powers given Metropolitan 
 Ly law to the Commissioners of the Police of the metropolis. Police Com- 
 
 r ■ 1 1 r Ti iiiissioners. 
 
 246. y\rt not to prejudice (jucstion whether pansh oj Battersea 
 
 includes Fenge. Hep. 55 & 50 Vict. c. 10 (»S'./>.7i?.).] 
 
 247. All Acts of rarliament in force in any parish or place to Repeal of 
 which this Act extends, or in any part of such parish or place, A^J^ ^f^°°>, 
 shall, so far as the same are inconsistent with the provisions of this this Act. 
 Act, be repealed as regards such j)arish or place, or such ])art thereof, 
 notwithstanding any provisions of this xVct continuing and trans- 
 ferring respectively to vestries or parishes and transferring to district 
 
 boards any duties, powers, or authorities now vested in vestries, 
 commissioners, or other bodies. 
 
 248. Ui»on the petition of the Metropolitan Board of Works, l" case of 
 or of any district board or vestry, representing to Her Majesty in th" provisions 
 Council that by reason of the provisions of any local Act of Par- of tins Act, 
 liament relating to any district or ])arish, or any part thereof Provisions of 
 respectively, ditticulties have arisen in the execution of this Act ^'!^^^g*^.^j^j.jg^ 
 and of such local Act or cither of them, and jiraying for a suspension by Order in 
 or alteration of all or any of the ])rovisions of such local Act, or for the '-'ouncil, on 
 establishment of other provisions in lieu thereof under this enact- boards'or 
 ment, it shall be lawful for Her ]\Iajesty, by Order in Council, to vestries, 
 suspend or alter all or any of the i)rovisions of such local Act, and 
 
 to make other provisions in relation to the matters thereof as Her 
 Majesty, with the advice of her Privy Council, may think necessary 
 under the circumstances of the case ; and every such Order in Council 
 shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within one month 
 after the making thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, or if Par- 
 liament be not sitting, then witliin one month after the next meeting 
 of Parliament, and shall be published in the London Gazette: 
 Provided always, that no such Order in Council shall remain in force 
 bevond the term of one vear froiu the makinir thereof.. \See 02 ct 03 
 IVr^.,-. 14, 6-. 10 (1 (y)).] 
 
 249. \_Power to extend Act to adjoining parishes. Rep. 55 & 56 
 Vict. c. 10 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Interpretation and. Commencement of Act. 
 
 250. h\ the construction of this Act " the metropolis " * shall be Interpreta- 
 <leemed to include the city of London, and the parishes and places ..^thJ^nietr™^ 
 mentioned in the Schedules (A.), (B.), and (C.) to this Act ; "the polis:" 
 ■city of London" shall be deemed to include all parts now within " ihe city of 
 
 -^ ^ London : " 
 
 * See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 100; (;2 & 63 Vict. c. 14. s. 18 (2) and (3) and 
 20, and the Clerkenwell, Mitcham, Penge, Putney, and South Hornsey Orders in 
 €oancil 1900 made under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14 ; see also '6 Edw. 7. c. Ixxxi.
 
 256 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Managemerd Act 1855. [IS&IOVict.J 
 
 " parish : " 
 
 "overseers 
 the poor : " 
 
 " rates : " 
 
 ■ owner : 
 
 the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Sewers for the City of 
 Loudon :* and the word "parish" shall include any place men- 
 tioned in Schedule (A.) to this Act, and any place or combination 
 of places mentioned in Schedule (B.) to this Act, for which one 
 or more member or members is or are to be elected to any district 
 of board ; the expression " the overseers of the poor " shall include any 
 persons authorized to make and collect or cause to be collected the 
 rate for the relief of the poor in any jjarish ; any expression referring 
 to any rate or rates raised under this Act by the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works or any vestry or district board shall mean the sums and 
 rates authorized to be raised by the said Metropolitan Board and the 
 sums authorized to be raised by any vestry and district board respec- 
 tively ; the word " owner " shall, except for the purpose of the 
 provision of this Act requiring notice to be served on owners or 
 reputed owners of land, before application to one of Her Majesty's 
 principal Secretaries of State for his consent to exercise powers of 
 taking land, or any right or easement in or over land, compulsorily^ 
 mean the person for the time being receiving the rackrent of the 
 lands or premises in connexion with which the said word is used^ 
 whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other 
 person, or who would so receive the same if such lands or premises 
 were let at a rackrent ; the word "street" shall apply to and include 
 any highway . . . , and any road, bridge (not being a county bridge), 
 lane, footway, square, court, alley, passage, whether a thoroughfare 
 or not, and a part of any such highway, road, bridge, lane, footway, 
 "drain:" square, court, alley, or passage ; the word "drain" shall mean and 
 include any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, 
 or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the 
 purpose of communicating with a cesspool or other like receptacle 
 for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more 
 buildings or premises occupied by different joersons is conveyed, and 
 shall also include any drain for draining any group or block of 
 houses by a combined operation under the order of any vestry or 
 district board ; and the word " sewer " shall mean and include 
 sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which 
 the word " drain," interpreted as aforesaid, applies. . . . [Amended 
 25 & 26 Viet. c. 102, .5. 112. Parts omitted, (as to turnjnke roads) 
 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.R.), and (as to ashpits and dustbinsy 
 rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 251. [Commencement of Act, \.^t January 1856.] 
 
 " street : " 
 
 ■ sewer 
 
 •' ashpit : "' 
 
 SCHEDULE (A.).t 
 
 Part L 
 
 Parishes each electing Two Members of the Metropolitan Board 
 
 of Worlis. 
 Saint Marylebone. 
 Saint Pancras. 
 Lambeth. 
 
 Saint George Hanover Square. 
 Islington, Saint Marv. 
 Shoreditch, Saint Leonard. 
 
 * See the City of London Sewers Act 1897. 
 
 f Rep. (so far as relates to election of members of the ^letropolitan Board of Works) 
 5.5 i: 56 Vict. c. 19 (S.L.R.). These parishes and their boundaries are considerably 
 affected by 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, and various schemes and orders thereunder.
 
 [18 & 10 Vict.] Metropolis Management Act ISoo. [Chap. 120,] 
 
 257 
 
 Part II. 
 
 Parishes each electing One Member of the Metropolitan Board 
 
 of M'orhs. 
 Padding tor J. 
 
 Saint Matthew Betlinal Green. 
 Saint Mary Newington, Surrey.* 
 Cambcrwell. 
 
 Saint flames Westminster. 
 Saint James and Saint John Clerkenwell f to be considered as one 
 
 parish. 
 Chelsea. 
 
 Kensington, Saint Mary Abbot. 
 Saint Lnke Middlesex.* 
 Saint George the Martyr Soutliwark. 
 Bermondsey. 
 
 Saint George in the East. 
 Saint Martin in the Fields. 
 Hamlet of Mile End Old Town. 
 Woolwich. 
 Rotherhithe. 
 Saint John Hampstead. 
 
 SCHEDULE (B.).:J 
 Parishes united into Districts for the Purposes of the Act. 
 
 Part I. 
 
 Districts each electing One Member of the Metropolitan Board 
 
 of Works. 
 
 Name of District. 
 
 Whitechapel District 
 
 Westminster District § 
 
 Greenwich District 
 
 Parishes. 
 
 Aldgat 
 
 Saint Mary Whitechapel 
 Christchurch Spitalfiekls 
 Saint Botolpb without 
 
 County of Middlesex 
 Holy Trinity, Minories. 
 Saint Katherine, I'recinct of 
 Mile End New Town, Hamlet of 
 Liberty of Norton Folgate . 
 Old Artillery Ground . 
 Tower, District of 
 
 Total .... 
 
 Saint Jlargaret 
 
 Saint John the Evangelist . 
 
 Total 
 
 Saint Paul Deptford. including Hatcham 
 
 Saint Nicholas Deptford 
 
 Greenwich 
 
 Total 
 
 Number 
 
 of Members to 
 
 be elect«d to 
 
 District Boartl. 
 
 27 
 
 12 
 
 G 
 1 
 1 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 .■)S 
 
 30 
 27 
 
 21 
 30 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 i: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40. 
 
 f See the London (Clerkenwell detached) Order in Council 1900 made under 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14. 
 
 % Note to Schedule (A.) applies. 
 § See 50 & 51 Vict. c. 17. 
 
 17
 
 258 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act 1855. [18&19Vict.] 
 
 Name of District. 
 
 Wandsworth District* 
 
 Backney District f 
 
 ■Saint Giles District 
 
 Holborn District 
 
 Strand District 
 
 Fulham District % . 
 
 Limelionse District 
 
 Toplar District 
 
 Saint Saviour's District. 
 
 Number 
 
 of Members to 
 
 be elected to 
 
 District Board. 
 
 Clapham 
 
 Tooting Graveney 
 Streatbam ..... 
 Haint Mary Battersea, excluding Penge 
 Wandsworth .... 
 
 Putney, including Eoehampton . 
 
 Total 
 
 Hackney 
 
 Saint Mary Stoke Newington 
 
 Total ..... 
 
 Saint Giles in the Fields 
 Saint George Bloomsbury . 
 
 Total ..... 
 
 Saint Andrew Holborn above Bars 
 Saint George the Martyr 
 Saint Sepulchre, in the County of Middlesex 
 Saffron Hill. Hatton Garden. Ely Kents, and 
 Ely Place ...... 
 
 The Liberty of Glasshouse Yard . 
 
 Total 
 
 Saint Anne Soho 
 
 Saint Paul Covent Garden . 
 
 Saint John the Baptist Savoy, or Precinct 
 
 of the Savoy ..... 
 Saint Mary-le-Strand .... 
 Saint Clement Danes .... 
 Liberty of the Piolls .... 
 
 Total 
 
 Saint Peter and Saint Paul Hammersmith 
 Fulham 
 
 Total 
 
 Saint Anne Limehouse .... 
 Saint John Wapping .... 
 Saint Paul Shadwell .... 
 Ratcliffe, Hamlet of ... . 
 
 Total 
 
 All Saints Poplar 
 
 St. Maiy Stratford-le-Bow . 
 Saint Leonard Bromley 
 
 Total 
 
 Christchurch. ..... 
 
 Saint Saviour (including the Liberty of the 
 Clink) 
 
 Total . • . • . 
 
 18 
 3 
 9 
 
 12 
 9 
 6 
 
 51 
 
 57 
 
 27 
 21 
 
 48 
 
 24 
 9 
 6 
 
 9 
 1 
 
 49 
 
 18 
 9 
 
 1 
 3 
 
 15 
 3 
 
 49 
 
 24 
 15 
 
 39 
 
 15 
 3 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 36 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 15 
 
 48 
 
 15 
 24 
 
 39 
 
 * See 3 Edw. 7. c. Ixxxi. 
 
 f See 56 & 57 Vict. c. 55, and the London (South Hornsey) Order in Council 1900 
 made under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14. 
 X See 48 & 49 Vict. c. 33.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Mrtroi>ol'>H Management ActA^i)'). [Chap. 12<).] 
 
 259 
 
 Part II. 
 
 Districts united for electing One ^femher of tint Metropolitan Board 
 
 of Workii. 
 
 Name of District. 
 
 Parislies. 
 
 Number 
 
 of Memljere to 
 
 Ije elected to 
 
 District Board. 
 
 , Plumstead District * . 
 
 united with 
 ^Lewisham District f . 
 
 Charltou next Woolwich .... 
 
 Plumstead 
 
 Eltham 
 
 Lee 
 
 Kidbrooke 
 
 Total 
 
 Lewisham, including Sydenham Cbapelry . 
 Hamlet uf I'enge 
 
 Total 
 
 9 
 12 
 6 
 9 
 1 
 
 37 
 
 24 
 
 
 27 
 
 Part 111. 
 
 Palish and District united for electing One Member of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works. 
 
 AThe Parish of Rother- 
 
 
 
 hithe, 
 
 
 
 united with 
 
 
 
 . Saint Olave District -" 
 
 Saint Olave 
 
 12 
 
 Saint Thomas Southwark .... 
 
 1 
 
 Saint John Plorsleydown .... 
 Total 
 
 15 
 
 
 28 
 
 SCHEDULE (C). 
 
 The Close of the Collegiate 
 
 (Jhnrch of 8aint Peter.| 
 The Charter House. § 
 Inner Temple.jl 
 Middle Temple.|| 
 
 Lincoln's Inn.lF 
 Gray's Inn.** 
 Staple Inn.ft 
 Fnrnival's Inn. ft 
 
 * See 56 & 57 Vict. c. 55. 
 
 t See the London (Penge) Order in Council 1900 made under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14. 
 
 X See 62 .v: 63 Vict. c. 14, s. Iti (3) and the City of Westminster (Close of the 
 •Collegiate Church of St. Peter) Sciicme 19l)l made under that Act. 
 
 § See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 1 and 1st Schedule, and the Borough of Finsburj' Order 
 in Council 1900 made under that Act. 
 
 II See 62 ic 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 22. 
 
 IT See the Borough of Holborn (Lincoln's Inn) Scheme 1901 made under 62 Jc 63 
 Vict. 0. 14. 
 
 ** See the Borough of Holborn (Gray's Inn) Scheme 1901 made under 62 4: 63 Vict, 
 c. 14. 
 
 tt See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 1 and 1st Schedule, and the Borough of Holborn Order 
 in Council 1900 made under that Act.
 
 260 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act l^hb. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 SCHEDULE (D.) 
 Main Seweks of the Metropolis. 
 
 NoiiTH Side of the Thames. 
 
 Stamford Brook ( West Branch). 
 
 Commences at an angle in the boundary between tlie parishes of 
 Hammersmith and Acton, on the south of the Uxbridge and London 
 Road, and tangent to a footpath running south from East Acton 
 Lane, extending thence in a south-easterly direction to Paddens- 
 wick Green, when it joins the east arm of the said brook. 
 
 Stamford Brook {East Branch). 
 
 Commences at a point on the boundary between the parishes of 
 Hammersmith, Willesden, and Acton, abont 100 feet north-east 
 of the Old Oak Bridge over the North-western Railway, extending 
 thence in a southerly direction to Paddenswick Green. 
 
 The united streams of the above two branches discharge into- 
 Hammersmith Creek. 
 
 Brook Green Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Wood Lane, at the Keeper's Lodge, on the south 
 side of Wormwood Scrubs, and discharges into the River Thames 
 by two outlets, viz., Bridge Road and Queen Street, on the east 
 side of Hammersmith Suspension Bridge. 
 
 A branch from the above commences in New Road, at the north 
 end of the Grove, and joins the main sewer at Broadway Hammer^ 
 smith. . 
 
 Falham Sewer. 
 
 Commences at a sluice in the moat surrounding the Bishop of 
 London's Palace, on the west side of the junction of High Street, 
 Fulham, with the Fulham Road, and discharges into the Thames 
 under the Toll House of Fulham Bridge. 
 
 Bel Brook Seiver. 
 
 Commences at a point in North End Road, about 80 feet north- 
 west of Walham Green Church, and discharges into Kensington 
 Canal on the south-east side of the Imperial Gasworks. 
 
 Counters Creek Sewer {Main Line). 
 
 Commences at a point in the Harrow Road, about 200 feet west 
 of Kensal Green Cemetery Gate, and discharges into the Thames 
 at the outlet now forming on the south-west side of Cremorne 
 Gardens. 
 
 Counters Creek Sewer {West Branch). 
 
 Commences at a culvert under the Grand Junction Canal, on the 
 boundary between the parishes of Kensington and Hammersmith^ 
 at the south-west corner of Kensal Green Cemetery, and joins the 
 above main line in Latimer Road at its junction with Bromley Road.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Management Art 1855. [C!hap. 120.] 261 
 
 Counters Creek Seiver {East Branch). 
 
 Drains tlie whole of Kensal Xew Town, situate in a detached 
 portion of the jiai'ish of St. Luke Chelsea, and part of the parish of 
 8t. Mary Paddington, and passes under the Great Western Railway 
 at a bridge leading to Portobello Lane, on the south-east side of 
 the Western Gasworks, antl joins the main sewer at a point about a 
 quarter of a mile north-west of Notting Barn Farm, 
 
 Counters Creek Sewer {Kensrnyton Branch). 
 
 Commences in Victoria Grove at about 50 feet to the north of 
 Uxbridge Itoad, and joins the main line at the junction of Pembroke 
 and Warwick Koads. 
 
 Sewer to the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Works. 
 
 Commences at Knightsbridge at its junction with the Ranelagh 
 Sewer, and extends thence in a south-westerly direction to the 
 works at Stanley Bridge. 
 
 Millmarts Row Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Fulham Road, at about 780 feet west, and at 
 about 230 feet east of the junction of Park Walk with Fulham 
 Road, and discharges into the River Thames opposite to Millmaa's 
 Row. 
 
 Church Street Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Gloucester Road at its junction with Canning 
 Place, at about 750 feet south of Hogmore Lane Gate, and dis- 
 charges into the Thames on the south side of Chelsea Old Church. 
 
 Queen Street Sewer. 
 
 Commences between Gloucester Road and Hyde Park Gate South, 
 on the south of Kensington Road, and about ;3i»0 feet south of 
 Kensington (iate runs through Old Bromjjton, and discharges into 
 the River Thames on the east side of Chelsea Free Dock. 
 
 Smith Street Sewer, 
 
 Commences in the Kensington Road at a point about 750 feet 
 west of Prince of Wales Gate, and extends thence by Rutland Gate, 
 Rutland Street, and Fulham Road on the west of P)romiiton Crescent, 
 find along College and Markham Streets, and discharges into the 
 Thames on the west side of Chelsea Royal Hospital. 
 
 Ranelagh Sewrr. 
 
 The branch sewers from Edgeware Road, Fincliley Road, and 
 Kilburn Vale unite at Kilburn Bridge, and for the main line, which, 
 running in a southerly direction, discharges into the River Thames 
 on the south-east side of Chelsea Royal Hos])ital. 
 
 This sewer has several branches, the chief of which commences 
 in Grove End Road, at about OOO feet west of St. John's AVood 
 Road, extending thence by Lisson Grove, New Road, Grand Junction 
 ]{oad, and Albion Street, to a tumbling bay, where it joins the main 
 sewer in Uxbridge Road. 
 
 King^s Scholars Pond Sewer. 
 Commences in the Finchley Road, at about 150i» feet above 
 Junction Road Toll Gate, and discharges into the River Thames at 
 the Equitable Gasworks, about 700 feet above Vauxhall Bridge.
 
 262 
 
 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act \'6hh. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 King's Scholars Pond Setver {Pall Mall Branch). 
 
 Commences at Waterloo Place, and joins the main line opposite 
 the entrance of Bucking-ham Palace. 
 
 Grosvenor Ditch. 
 
 Commences in Page Street, at abont 150 feet east of the junction 
 with Regent Street, Vanxhall Bridge Road, and discharges into the 
 River Thames at the northern extremity of Millbank Road, 
 
 Horseferry Road Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Grey Coat Place, and discharges into the River 
 Thames at the Horseferry Stairs. 
 
 Wood. Street Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Grey Coat Place, and discharges into the River 
 Thames in the prolongation of Wood Street. 
 
 Victoria Street Sewer. 
 
 Commences at Shaftesbury Terrace, Pimlico, and discharges into 
 the Thames at Percy Wharf. 
 
 Regent Street Sewer {Western Branch). 
 
 Commences in the outer circle of the Regent's Park, at about 
 200 feet north-west of Hanover Gate entrance, and joins the eastern 
 branch in the New Road, opposite to the prolongation of Portland 
 Place. 
 
 Regent Street Sewer {Eastern Branch'). 
 
 Commences in Upper Albany Street, at about 200 feet south of 
 Collateral Cut Bridge over the Regent's Canal, and joins the western 
 branch at the aforesaid point in the New Road. 
 
 The main sewer proceeds thence along Regent Street, and dis- 
 charges into the River Thames at Percv Wharf. 
 
 '&" 
 
 Northumberland Street Seiver {Westei^n Branch). 
 
 Commences in Warren Street, on the north of Fitzroy Square, and 
 proceeds in a southerly direction along Cleveland, Newman, Wardour, 
 Princes, and Panton Streets, Haymarket, to Charing Cross, opposite 
 the District Post Office. 
 
 Northumberland Street Sewer {Eastern BrancJi). 
 
 Commences in New Road, at about 170 feet west of the junction 
 with Hampstead Road, and proceeds along Tottenham Court Road, 
 High Street, Seven Dials, and St. Martin's Lane, to Charing Cross, 
 when it joins the western branch. 
 
 The main lane proceeds along Northumberland Street, and dis- 
 charges into the Thames at Northumberland Wharf. 
 
 Savoy Street Setver. 
 
 Commences in Stanhope Street, Regent's Park Basin, at a point 
 at about 160 feet north of the junction with Edward Street, and 
 proceeds along Robert, George, Gower, Charlotte, Bloomsbury, 
 Endell, Bow, Wellington, and Savoy Streets, and discharges into 
 the Thames at a point about lOO feet above Waterloo Bridge.
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Metropolis Managemetit Act l^hi). [Chap. 120.] 263 
 
 Norfolk Street Seiver. 
 
 Commences at the junction of Drury Lane and Long Acre, and 
 passes by the Olympic, Theatre, and alonL"" Newcastle Street and 
 Strand, and discharges into the liiver Thames ojtixjsite Norfolk 
 Street. 
 
 Essex Street Sewer {Western Brancli). 
 
 (commences in Russell Square, opposite Montague Place, and 
 proceeds along Montague, llussell, and Museum Streets, Drury 
 Lane, Great Wild Street, and Vere Street, to the junction of the 
 eastern brancli at the intersection of Sheffield and (Gilbert Streets, 
 Clare Market. 
 
 Essex Street Sewer {Eastern BrancJi). 
 
 Commences at the corner of Tottenham Court Road, and proceeds 
 along New Oxford Street, Newton Street, and Cross Lane, Parker 
 and (xreat Queen Streets, west side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, to the 
 junction with the western arm above described. 
 
 The main sewer proceeds thence along Gilbert Street, Clement's 
 Lane, Pickett Street, and Essex Street, and discharges into the 
 River Thames at Temple Pier. 
 
 Fleet Sewer. 
 
 Commences in High Street, Hampstead, at the junction of High 
 Street with Flask Walk, extending thence through Sonth End 
 Green, Gordon Honse Lane, Victoria Road, Great College Street, 
 Old St. Pancras Road, Bagnigge Wells Road, west of Middlesex 
 House of Correction, and by Farringdon Street to Blackfriars Bridge, 
 where it discharges into the River Thames. 
 
 This sewer has numerous tributaries running into other districts, 
 the chief of which are Camden Road, Caledonian Road, Pentonville 
 Hill, River Street, St. John's Road, Holborn Hill, and Guildford 
 Street. 
 
 Goswell Street Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Sydney Street, at the junction of Sydney Grove, 
 and discharges into the Thames at Walbrook. 
 
 London Bridge Sewer (City Road Branch). 
 
 Commences at Duncan Terrace, on the west side of the New 
 River, and joins the main line at the north end of Finsbury 
 Pavement. 
 
 Another branch commences in Lonsdale Square, Islington, and, 
 extending thence through Barnsbury Street, Richmond Grove, i)asses 
 under the New River at New Nortli Road Bridge, thence along 
 Portland Place, King Street, under the Regent's Canal, by Sturt's 
 Lock, Walbrook Street, and ( 'ritcliill Place, where it joins another 
 branch at St. John's Church, lluxton. 
 
 London Bridge Sewer {Balls Fond Branch). 
 
 Commences on the boundary between St. Mary Islington and 
 St. John Hackney, at Cock and Castle Lane, Dalston, and passes 
 by Balls Pond and Rosemary Branch Bridge to the junction at 
 St. John's Church, above described. The united sewers then 
 discharge into the River Thames at London Bridge.
 
 264 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Ma?iaffe?ne)it Act IS66. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 London Bridge Sewer {Shoreditck Branch). 
 
 Commences in Queen's Road, at the junction with Laurel Street, 
 Dalston, and extending thence along Queen's lioad, Great Cambridge 
 Street, Hackney Road, Shoreditch, and Bishopsgate, joins the main 
 line at King "William's Statue. 
 
 Irongate Sewer. 
 
 Commences in the City, and proceeds along the sonth-west side 
 of Houndsditch, west side of Minories, and by the precincts of Old 
 Tower Without, and discharges into the River Thames at Irongate 
 Stairs, on the east of the Tower. 
 
 Sightingale Lane Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Union Street, Old Artillery Ground, and Booth 
 Street, Spitalfields, and extends thence along Commercial, Leonard, 
 Wells, and Parsons Streets, and Nightingale Lane, and discharges 
 into the Thames on the western side of the entrance into Hermitage 
 Basin. 
 
 Hermitage Street Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Redmead Lane, on the boundary between the 
 parishes of St. John Wapping and St. George in the East, and 
 extends thence along Great Hermitage Street, and discharges into 
 the River Thames at about 50 feet east of Union Stairs. 
 
 Old Gravel La7ie Sewer. 
 
 Commences at the boundary between the parishes of St. George 
 in the East and St. John Wapping, in Old Gravel Lane, and dis- 
 charges into the River Thames at a point about 110 feet west of 
 the Thames Tunnel. 
 
 Wapping Wall Sewer. 
 
 Commences in Green Bank, at the junction of Upper Well Alley, 
 and passes through King Street, and discharges into the River 
 Thames at about 12U feet on the north-east side of New Crane 
 Dock. 
 
 Shadwell Basin Sciver. 
 
 Commences on the north side of the Eastern Dock, at the 
 termination of West Gardens, and extends thence between the 
 warehouses and Xew Gravel Lane, on the north side of Shadwell 
 Basin, and along Shadwell Dock Street, and discharges into the 
 River Thames at the eastern pier of the Shadwell entrance to the 
 London Docks. 
 
 Pennington Street Sewer. 
 
 Commences at the boundary between the parishes of St. George 
 in the East and St. John Wapping, in St. George Street, and 
 extends thence along Pennington Street, Old Gravel Lane, West 
 Gardens, Cow Lane, Little Spring Street, Labour-in-Vain Street, 
 and Lower Shadwell, and discharo-es into the River Thames at 
 Shadwell Dock Stairs. 
 
 Ilatcliffe Highway Sewer (^Western Branch). 
 
 Commences at the junction of Sherwood Place with Meed Street, 
 at about 9()0 feet south-east of Shoreditch Church, and extends 
 along Turvile, Thomas, and High Streets, and Whitechapel Road, 
 to the junction of New Road with Whitechapel Road.
 
 [IS&lOViCT.] Met ropolU Management Act \H:):y. [Chap. 120.] 265 
 
 Ratclijfe H'tghwiy Sewer {Eastern Branch). 
 
 Commences at the jiuictiou of Ha^iie Street vvitli Betlmal Green 
 Koad, and extends alon<^ Ilai^nie Sti-eet, Wellington and diaries 
 Streets, to the junction of New Koad with A\'hitechai)el lioad, above 
 ■described. 
 
 Rat cliff e lliyhfra;/ Sewer {Xort/i-eastern Branch). 
 
 (.'ommences from the rear of Shoreditch Church, and proceeds 
 alonjt,^ Old Castle Street, Vii-^inia Jlow, Wellin<rton Row, (Jld IJethnal 
 Oreen lload, Cambridge Itoad, Cleveland Street, King Street, 
 Jamaica Street, Havering Street, and Love Lane, to ]{atcliffe 
 Hi^^hway. 
 
 The main sewer proceeds along New Road, Cannon Street Road, 
 St. George's Street, High Street, Shadwell, and Broad Street, and 
 ■discharges into the River Thames at Katclirte Cross Stairs. 
 
 LImehiln Dock Seiver. 
 
 Commences at the junction of Victoria Road with Bishop's Road, 
 on the soutli-western side of Bonner's Hall Bridge, leading into 
 Victoria Park, and extends along Victoria Road, east side of Bethnal 
 Green, Globe Road, White Horse Lane, and Rhodeswell Road, 
 and passes under the Regent's Canal at Rhodeswell "Wharf, thence 
 along the Black Ditch, Upper North Street, and North Street, and 
 ■discharges into the River Thames at Limekiln Dock. 
 
 Great Slnice and Ih-unkcn Dock Sluice. 
 
 These sluices are situated on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs, 
 and drain the whole of that part of the isle south of the AVest 
 India Dock Basin. They liave four inlet sluices for purposes of 
 flushing. 
 
 Blackicall Sluice. 
 
 Commences at Batsoh's Inlet, near Limehouse entrance to the 
 West India Dock, and discharges into the Thames on the north side 
 of the Blackwall entrance to the West India Dock. 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway Sewer. 
 
 Commences at Mile End Bridge, over the Regent's Canal in Bow 
 Road, })roceeds along Bow Road, Tredegar Square, and by the 
 railway, and discharges into the River Lea, where the viaduct of 
 the said railway crosses that river. 
 
 Hacknei/ Brook Sewer {Main Line). 
 
 Commences in the high road opposite to St. John's Church 
 Up])er Holloway, and extends thence in a south-east direction along 
 Holloway Road to a point about 4r)() feet south of Tollington Road, 
 thence in an easterly direction by the north of Abney Park C'eme- 
 tery. Hackney Downs, and Hackney "Wick, and discharges into the 
 River Lea, immediately to the north of Old Ford Wharf. 
 
 Hackney Brook Sewer ( Wick Lane Branch). 
 
 Commences in Old Ford Road, on the east side of Old Ford 
 Bridge, crossinu" the Reo:ent'8 Canal, and extends alon? Grove Road, 
 U ick Lane, and joins the main sewer at Hackney Wick.
 
 266 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Management Act \^^h. [18 & 19 Vict.] 
 
 South Side of the Thames. 
 
 Bezerleif Brook. 
 Commeuces on the boundary between the parishes of Putney and 
 Wimbledon, at a point about 1,800 feet south of Beverley Bridge, 
 on the Kingston Koad, and discharges into the River Thames about 
 half a mile above Putney town. 
 
 Sewer between Parishes of Putney and Wandsworth. 
 Commences on the road from Kingston to Wandsworth, and 
 discharges into the River Thames at a point about l,oO'J feet below 
 Fulham Bridge. 
 
 Wandle River. 
 Commences at a point where the i)arishes of Streatham and 
 Tooting intersect the river, and discharges into the River Thames- 
 at the town of Wandsworth. 
 
 Falcon Brook. 
 Commences at Tooting Common, and discharges into the River 
 Thames at Battersea Creek. 
 
 Lord Spencer s Sewer. 
 Commences in the town of Battersea, and extends in an easterly 
 direction through Battersea Park, and discharges into the River 
 Thames at about 400 feet below Battersea New Bridge. 
 
 Heath Wall Sewer (Main Line). 
 Commences at the Falcon Brook at a sluice about 300 feet north 
 of the South-western Railway, and extending along the south margin 
 of Battersea Fields, discharges into the Thames at Heath Wall MilL 
 
 Heath Wall Sewer {Clapham Rise Brandt). 
 
 Commences on the boundary between the parishes of Clapham 
 and Lambeth at the intersection of New Road with Clapham Rise^ 
 and extends along the east side of Clifton Street, and joins the main 
 sewer at a point about 100 feet north-east of New Road, Battersea 
 Fields. 
 
 Effra Sewer. 
 
 Commences at the boundary between the parishes of St. Mary 
 Lambeth and Croydon, in Westow Hill Road, immediately opposite 
 to the Convent of '• Our Ladv," and discharges into the River Thames 
 at Yauxhall Creek, on the south side of the Phcenix Gasworks, and 
 near to Vauxhall Bridge. 
 
 Effra, Sewer (Upper Soricood Branch^. 
 Commences in Westow Hill Road on the boundary between the 
 parishes of Lambeth and Croydon, at about 200 feet west of the 
 Crvstal Palace Hotel, and proceeds northward alons; the boundarv 
 between the parishes of St. Mary Lambeth and St. Giles Camber- 
 well, and joins the main sewer at a point about 230 feet west of 
 Croxted Lane. 
 
 Duffield and Battle Bridge Seivers. 
 These sewers drain the most densely inhabited portions of the 
 south side. The inlets for flushing purposes are at Kennington, 
 Vauxhall, Lambeth Church, and Stangate. The outlets are by the 
 following sluices, viz., the Arnold and Dover sluices, near Waterloo 
 Bridge : Pudding Mill, near Blackfriars Bridge ; the Boar's Head,
 
 [18 & 19 Vict.] Mt'tmpoU^ Managemait Act 1855. [Chap. 120.] 267 
 
 Welsh Troopers, Black Lion, and Bear sluices, near Southwark 
 Bridfife ; tlie Bridge Yard, I5attle Bridge ; and Green Bank, in 
 St. Olave Southwark ; Freeman's Lane, St. John Jerusalem ; and 
 Great St. John, in Horsleydown ; and the Salisbury and Duffield 
 sluices, in Bermondsey. 
 
 lAmek'dn Sluice. 
 Drains the opr-n fields of part of the parish of Rotherhitlie, and 
 proceeds along Swan Lane, and discharges into the River Thames 
 at about 3U0 feet east of the Thames Tunnel. 
 
 (rlobe Stairs Sewer. 
 Drains the northern basin of the Commensal Dock Company, and 
 extends along the eastern side of St. Paul's Church, Rotherhithe, 
 and part of Rotherhithe Street, and discharges into the River Thames 
 at Globe Stairs. 
 
 Sewer at Dtiran<Ps Wharf {Rotherhithi'). 
 Commences to the south-east of Bull-Head Dock, Rotherhithe, 
 and pursues an easterly course by Rotherhithe and Lower Queen 
 Street, and discharges into the River Thames at a "10 footway " 
 opposite Cow Lane. 
 
 Rotherhithe Pier Sewer. 
 Commences in Trinity Street, at a point about 400 feet south of 
 Cow Lane, and proceeds along Trinity Street, and discharges into 
 the River Thames at Rotherhithe Boat Pier. 
 
 Eai'l Sewer {Main Line). 
 Commences in Cold Harbour Lane, at a point about 1,100 feet 
 north-east of its junction with Loughborough Road, and proceeds 
 along High Street, Camberwell, Camberwell Road, Boundary Lane, 
 and eastward along the boundaries of several parishes, and dis- 
 charges into the River Thames on the boundary between the counties 
 of Surrey and Kent, near to the Royal Dock Yard, Deptford. 
 
 Earl Setver (^Wi/ndham Road Branch). 
 Commences on the east side of Kennington Park, and proceeds 
 along New Row, and southward on the east of Thomas Street, east- 
 ward along Wyndham Road, and joins the main sewer at a point 
 about 100 feet south of Southampton Street, Camberwell. 
 
 Earl Sewer {White Post Lane Branch). 
 Commences in Victoria Road, at the junction with Choumert 
 Place and Cutthroat Lane, near Peckham Rye, and proceeds along 
 Victoria Road, Hanover Street, Rye Lane, High Street, Meeting- 
 house Lane, Halfway House Lane, and AViiite Post Lane, and joins 
 the main sewer at the junction of tlic ])arishcs of Rotherhithe, 
 St. Paul's Deptford, and St. (xiles Camberwell. 
 
 Royal I'ock Yard Sewer. 
 Commences on the east of Black Horse Bridge, and extends east- 
 ward on the south side of the Mast Pond, and discharges into the 
 River Thames opposite to the Royal Victualling Yard. 
 
 Ravensbourne and Si/denham Sewer. 
 Commences at Bell Green, and extends along and by Catsford 
 Hill Road, Lewisham, !ind I>romley Road, Silver Street, Loam Pit 
 Vale, and Mill Lane, and discharges into Deptford Creek at Parish 
 Wharf, near Kingsford Mill.
 
 268 [Chap. 120.] Metropolis Ma?iageme)-tf Act 1855. [18&19Vict.J 
 
 Ravensboiirne and Lee Green Sewer. 
 Commences in the Eltham Road, about 300 feet east of Lee 
 Green, and proceeds along Lee Road, Lewisliam Road, Bath Place, 
 Egerton Road, and North Pole Lane, to a pumping station, where it 
 discharges into Deptford Creek, at a point about 400 feet north of 
 the London and Greenwich Railway. 
 
 Horseferry Road {Greenwich). 
 Commences in Caroline Street and Roan Street, and proceeds 
 along Union and Bridge Streets, and discharges into the River 
 Thames at Horseferry. 
 
 SCHEDULE (E.).* 
 Form of Mortgage of Rates. 
 
 Mortgage, Number ( ) 
 
 By virtue of an Act passed iu the year of the reign 
 
 of Queen Victoria, intituled \Jiere insert the title of this Act'], the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, or the Board of Works for the district 
 of or the Vestry of the parish of (as the case 
 
 may be), in consideration of the sum of paid to 
 
 by A.B., of 
 for the purposes of the said Act, do grant and assign unto the 
 said ji.B., his executors, administrators, and assigns, all [here 
 describe the monies or rates to be mortgage(P\, to hold to the said 
 A.B., his executors, administrators, and assigns, from the day of 
 the date hereof until the said sum of with interest 
 
 at the rate of per centum per annum for the same, 
 
 shall be fully paid and satisfied ; and it is hereby declared that the 
 said principal sum shall be repaid on the day of and that 
 
 in the mean-time the interest thereof shall be paid on the day 
 
 of and the day of in every year. 
 
 In witness whereof the Metropolitan Board of Works, or the said 
 District Board, or the said Vestry, {as the case may be,) have here- 
 unto set their seal, this day of one thousand 
 eight hundred and 
 
 SCHEDULE (F.).* 
 
 Form of Transfer of Mortgage. 
 
 I A.B. of in consideration of the sum 
 
 of pounds paid to me by CD. of 
 
 do hereby transfer to the said CD., his executors, administrators, 
 and assigns, a certain mortgage, number , bearing date 
 
 the day of and made by the Metro- 
 
 politan Board of Works, or the Board of "Works for the district 
 of or the Vestry of the parish of for securing the 
 
 sum of and interest [or, if such transfer be by 
 
 indorsement on the mortgage, insert, instead of the ivords after 
 " assigns " the within security], and all my property, right, and 
 interest in and to the money thereby secured, and in and to the 
 monies thereby assigned. In witness whereof I have hereunto set 
 my hand and seal, this day of one 
 
 thousand eight hundred and 
 
 A.B. (l.s.) 
 
 * Tliese forms are obsolete as regards the Metropolitan Board of Works. See 
 s. 185 and note thereon.
 
 [19 & 20 Vict.] 77<e Metropolitan Police Act 185G. [Chap. 2.] 269 
 
 19 & 20 VICTORIA. A.D. 1856. 
 
 CHAPTKR 2. 
 
 An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Metropolitan 
 Police. \2><th Februar;/ 1850.] 
 
 \_P7'eamble {reciting 10 Geo. 4, c. 44, and 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47) rep. 
 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 (-S'.L.i?.).] 
 
 1. There shall he apjjointed from time to time niider the said One Com- 
 Acts and he but one Commissioner of Police, who shall be styled p^]jYp'°"^j[j°^^ 
 "The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis;'' . . . and all be appointed 
 the provisions of the said Acts concerning tlie removal and a})]joint- after passing 
 me nt from time to time of the said Justices or Commissioners, or "^ ^^^^ '^*^*" 
 either of them, shall be ap]>licable to the removal and appoint- 
 ment from time to time of " The Commissioner of Police of the 
 Metropolis," \Part omitted {m to surciring ( 'ommissioner under 
 
 recited Arts) rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 00 (-S./>.7i\).] 
 
 2. It sliall be lawful for Her Majesty, by warrant under her Power to 
 sign man\ial, to a])point two fit jjersons to be during Her Majesty's ^^g^\ant^° 
 pleasure Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis, and commissiou- 
 upon every vacancy in the office of any such Assistant Commissioner ers of Police, 
 in like manner to apj)oint some other person to such office ; and ^^j^ue of such 
 every such Assistant Commissioner shall by virtue of and during otBce, shall 
 the continuance of such appointment be a Justice of the Peace of be Justices of 
 the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, Kent, Berkshire, Jg hereiT' 
 and Buckinghamshire, and of all liberties therein, and execute the named. 
 duties of a Justice of the Peace for the said several counties and 
 
 for all liberties therein, although he may not have the qualilication 
 by estate required by law in the case of other persons being Justices 
 of the Peace for counties : Provided always, that no such Assistant 
 Commissioner shall act as a Justice of the Peace at any Court 
 of General or Quarter Sessions, or in any matter out of Sessions, 
 except for the preservation of the peace, the prevention of crimes, 
 the detention and committal of offenders, and in carrying into 
 execution the ])nrposes of this Act and the said recited Acts. 
 \_Amended 47 & 48 Vict. c. 17, ,s, 2.] 
 
 3. [-J^ to .^alaricH of Commissioner and Assistant Cotnmissi oners. 
 Rep. \icith sacingj'or existing o//icers) G2 & 03 ]'ict. c. 20, 6\ 1.] 
 
 4. \_Assista?it Commissioners to be within 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 24. 
 Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 5. All the jurisdictions, duties, powers, and authorities which, Powers vested 
 under the said Acts of the tenth year of King George the Fourth m. the Com- 
 
 1 ,1 1 1 ,1 • 1 x> TT -ii/r • 5 -0.1 i' i.1 missioners of 
 
 and the second and third years oi Her Majesty, or either ot tnem, police under 
 
 or under any other Act of Parliament, are vested in or iiu])0sed on, recited Acts 
 
 or should or might, if this Act had not been passed, have ^*^*^" [.^^^^ ^^^he 
 
 performed or exercised by, the Commissioners of Police of the g^jje (^q^. 
 
 Metropolis, shall be vested in and imposed on and shall and may missioner. 
 
 be performed and exercised by the Commissioner of Police of the 
 
 Metropolis ; and all enactments contained in the said Acts or any 
 
 Act of Parliament having reference to the Commissioners of Police 
 
 of the Metropolis shall be ai)plicable to the said Commissioner, save 
 
 where otherwise provided by this Act.
 
 270 
 
 Duties of 
 
 Assistant 
 Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 [CHAr. 112.] 
 
 The Metropolis Management 
 Amendment Act 1856. 
 
 [19 & 20 Vict.] 
 
 Matters now 
 required to be 
 done by one 
 Commissioner 
 may be done 
 either by tlie 
 Commissioner 
 or an assist- 
 ant, as Secre- 
 tary of State 
 may direct. 
 
 In case of 
 vacanc}' in 
 office of Com- 
 missioner of 
 Police, or of 
 his illness or 
 absence, an 
 Assistant 
 Commis- 
 sioner may 
 act for him. 
 
 Provisions as 
 to Commis- 
 sioners of 
 Police sitting 
 in Parlia- 
 ment, etc. to 
 apply to 
 Assistant 
 Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 6. The Assistant Commissioners, and each or either of them, shall 
 respectively, under the superintendence and control of the Com- 
 missioner of Police of the Metropolis, do and perform such acts and 
 duties in execution of the Acts relating to the said police as may 
 be from time to time directed by any orders and regulations made 
 by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, with the approba- 
 tion of one of Her Majesty's princijial Secretaries of State. \_Note 
 to s. 2 applies.'] 
 
 7. Where by any Act of Parliament the i^rovisions of such Act 
 are required or authorized to be executed or any things are required 
 or authorized to be done by one of the Commissioners of Police of 
 the Metropolis appointed in that behalf by one of Her Majesty's ' 
 principal Secretaries of State, such provisions and things shall be 
 executed and done respectively by the Commissioner of Police of 
 the Metropolis, or by one of the Assistant Commissioners nominated 
 by the Secretary of State in this behalf, as the Secretary of State 
 shall direct. [^Note to s. 2 applies.] 
 
 8. In case of any vacancy in the office of Commissioner of Police 
 of the Metropolis, or in case of the illness or absence of any such 
 Commissioner, it shall be lawful for such one of the said Assistant 
 Commissioners as may be authorized by writing under the hand and 
 seal of one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State for this 
 purpose to do all snch acts as it would be competent for the 
 Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to do, and all acts done 
 by any Assistant Commissioner so authorized shall be as valid and 
 effectual as if done by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 
 if the office had not been vacant, or (as the case may be) if the 
 Commissioner had been present and acting. l^JVote to s. 2 applies.] 
 
 9. The provision of the firstly-recited Act for preventing any 
 Justice of the Peace appointed by virtue of that Act from being 
 elected or sitting as a member of the House of Commons, ... or 
 indirectly interfering therein, shall apply to and include the said 
 Assistant Commissioners to be appointed under tiiis Act. [Pa7-t 
 omitted {as to voting in elections) rep. by the Police Disabilities 
 Removal Act 1887, 's. 1.] 
 
 10. \Acts done by one Commissioner during the vacancy in the 
 office of the other confirmed. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.)7\ 
 
 Church rates 
 where made 
 in open vestry 
 before pas- 
 sing of the 
 Act 18 & 19 
 Vict. c. 120. 
 to continue 
 to be so 
 made. 
 
 CHAPTER 112. 
 
 An Act to Amend the Act of the last Session of Parlia- 
 ment, Chapter One hundred and twenty, for the better 
 Local Management of the Metropolis. [29^/^ July 1856.] 
 
 \_Preamble (reciting 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120) rep. 55 & 56 Vict.c. 19 
 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 1. AVhere at the time of the passiug of the said Act the power of 
 making church rates or rates of the nature of church rates in any 
 parish was vested in any open vestry, or in any meeting in the nature 
 of an open vestry meeting, or in any meeting of the parishioners, 
 inhabitants, or ratepayers generally, or of such of the parishioners, 
 inhabitants, or ratepayers as were rated at or above any specified 
 amount or value (whether such vestry or meeting were holden for 
 the parish at large or for any liberty or other district therein), such
 
 ri9.^' Of) YiptI The Metropolis Management rrHApn'>l '>71 
 
 LI J cV .0 \ ici.j Amemfment Act 1856. l^^^v. U..J ..l 
 
 power shall not be deemed to have become vested in the vestry 
 ■constituted in such parish under the said Act, but shall be exercised 
 as if the said Act had not been })assed. . , . \_Parf omitted {as to 
 rates alread)/ made) rep. 38 & 39 \'ict. c. 00 (6'. />./('.).] 
 
 2. Nothintr in the said Act or this Act shiill affect or be deemed Nothing in 
 ,1 Lv \ \ i- 1 I.- ,.• 11 1 tljis Act or in 
 to have atiected any power ot electing or appomtin",'' cliurchwardens ^^^ jy yj^.j 
 
 or makin<; church rates, or other power wliich, at the time of the c. 120. 
 
 passing- of the said Act, was vested in an\^ such open vestr\' or '» affect 
 
 ,• i- -1 111 4.1 i.1 1 ecclesiastical 
 
 meeting as atoresaid, or any elected or other vestry, wliere such districts 
 
 vestry or ineetins:!: acts exclusively for any district (by whatever 
 
 denomination distinguished) created for eccdesiastical purposes only. 
 
 {See the Church Rate Abolition Act 1808, s. 10.] 
 
 3. Save as herein-before otherwise provided, all the duties, powers, Other powers 
 and ])rivileges (including such as relate to the affairs of the ^^ yestries 
 ohurcii, or the management or relief of the poor, or the administra- nieetings 
 tion of any money or other projjcrty ai)])licable to the relief of the declared to 
 poor.) which mitrht have been performed or exercised bv any open liavebeen 
 or elected or other vestry or any such meetmg as aforesaid in any ^q vestries 
 j)arish, under any local Act or otherwise, at the time of the passing under Act 
 of the said Act of the last session, shall be deemed to have become ^^."^^J^ ^ '*^*^" 
 transferred to and vested in the vestry constituted by such last- powers ^^^^^ 
 mentioned Act ; except so far as any such duties, powers, or privileges transferred 
 may in the case of a parisli included in any district mentioned in |° district 
 ►Schedule (B.) to the said Act be vested by section ninety thereof in 
 
 the board of works of such district : Provided that all duties and 
 powers relating to the affairs of the church, or the management or 
 relief of the poor, or tiie administration of any money or other 
 ])rop('rty iip])licable to the relief of the i)oor, which at the time of 
 the j)ussing of the said Act were vested in or might be exercised by 
 any guardians, governors, trustees, or commissioners, or any body 
 other than any open or elected or other vestry, or any such meeting 
 as herein-before mentioned, shall continue vested in and be exercised 
 by such guardians, governors, trustees, or commissioners or other 
 body as aforesaid. \_See also 02 & 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 23.] 
 
 4 — 5. {Occupiers may claim to be rated — Compositions not to be 
 disturbed^ and landlord's liability not to be affected. Rep. 00 k 56 
 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.E.).'] 
 
 6—8. [Right of occupier so claiming to vote — As to qualifications 
 of vestrymen or auditors. Rep. 50 k 57 Vict. c. 73, ^s. 89. {See 
 Appendix^ 
 
 9. {Regulation of meetings of vestries constituted (5iy 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120. 'Spent. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4 ; and see 18& 19 Vict, 
 c. 120, ss. 8 — 10, and note thereon.'] 
 
 10. And whereas doubts are entertained whether the i)rovision in Section 144. 
 section one hundred and forty-four of the said Act of the last session, ^A-^^"'*^ V"!,^ 
 authorizing the Metro|)oliLan Board of AVorks,* where it aj)pears fo declared to' 
 them that further powers are required for the purpose of any work extend to 
 for the improvement of the metro])olis or public benefit of the |i»thorize 
 inliabitants thereof, to make applications to Parliament for that to rai'hament 
 purpose, and providing that the exjienses of such a])i)licatiou may for providing 
 be defrayed as other expenses of the said Board, extends to authorize parks, etc. 
 applications to Parliament by such Board for powers for providing 
 
 parks, pleasure grounds, places of recreation, and open spaces, and 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 
 [Chap. lU.] The Hay and Straw Act 1856. [IIJ & 20 Vict.] 
 
 District 
 boards and 
 vestries em- 
 powered to 
 take ground 
 to be main- 
 tained as an 
 open space 
 or pleasure 
 ground. 
 
 Recited Act 
 and this Act 
 to be as one. 
 
 it is expedient to remove such donbts : The powers given to the 
 said Board to make ap})]ication8 to Parliament, and the provision for 
 the expenses of such application, extend respectively to applications 
 to Parliament for the purpose of providing parks, pleasure grounds, 
 places of recreation, and open spaces lor the improvement of the 
 metropolis or the public benefit of the inhabitants thereof, and to 
 the expenses of all such applications. 
 
 11. Any district board * or vestry * may take, by agreement or gift, 
 any land or any right or easement in or over land, for any estate 
 or interest therein, and on such terms and conditions as they may 
 think fit, for the purpose of such land being either kept as an open 
 space or being kept and maintained as a pleasure ground for the 
 public benefit of the inhabitants of the district or parish ; but this 
 enactment shall not authorize any expenditure to be defrayed by 
 rates, except for the purpose of enclosing, maintaining, planting, and 
 otherwise improving the same. \_See 44 & 45 Vict. c. 34, s. 5.] 
 
 12. The said Act of the last session and this Act shall be 
 construed together as one Act. 
 
 No sand, etc. 
 to be put in 
 any truss of 
 hay or straw 
 to increase 
 its weiglit. 
 
 Salesmen to 
 declare tlie 
 names of the 
 owners of 
 such hay 
 or straw. 
 
 Clerk of the 
 market, upon 
 complaint, to 
 weigh and 
 examine the 
 hay or strawy 
 and if found 
 deficient, etc. 
 to summon 
 offenders be- 
 fore Justices. 
 
 CHAPTER 114. 
 
 An Act to prevent false Packing and other Frauds in the 
 Hay and Straw Trade. [29M Juhj 1856.J 
 
 \_P reamble rep. 55 & i)Q Vict. c. 10 {8.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. i^o person shall mix or put, or cause to be mixed or put, any 
 water, sand, earth, or other matter or thing whatsoever in any 
 bundle or truss of hay or straw intended for sale, within the cities of 
 London and Westminster, or within thirty miles thereof, with intent 
 fraudulently to increase the weight thereof, nor sell, off'er, or expose 
 for sale, or cause to be sold, offered, or exposed for sale, any hay or 
 straw into or with which any water, sand, earth, or other matter has 
 been put or mixed, with such intent as aforesaid. 
 
 2. Every salesman or other person who shall sell, in any market 
 or place within the cities and limits aforesaid, any hay or straw for 
 the owner thereof, shall at the time of such sale or at the delivery 
 thereof deliver or cause to be delivered therewith to the buyer 
 thereof a ticket or note containing the number of trusses so sold, 
 and the Christian name, surname, and address of such owner. 
 
 3. Where any hay or straw is off'ered or exposed for sale in 
 any public hay market within the cities and limits aforesaid, if any 
 complaint be made to the clerk or toll collector of any such market 
 that the same is deficient in weight or quantity, or has been mixed 
 or packed contrary to the provisions of this Act or of the Act of 
 the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter 
 eighty-eight, it shall be lawful for him and he is hereby required to 
 weigh and examine the same ; and if upon such weighing or exami- 
 nation any such hay or straw shall be found deficient in weight or 
 quantity, or mixed with any foreign matter, contrary to the pro- 
 visions of this Act or of the said recited Act, every such clerk or 
 
 * Now Metropolitan Borough Council. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [20 & 21 Vict.] The Metropolitan Police Act 1857. [Chap. 64.] 273 
 
 collector is hereby authorized and empowered to summon tlie offender 
 or offenders before any Justice of tlie Peace liaving jurisdiction in 
 the district where such market is situated, and every such Justice 
 shall upon proof thereof convict the offender or offenders in the 
 respective j)enalties by this Act or the said recited Act imposed. 
 
 4. For every offence a^^ainst or disobedience of the provisions of I'enalties. 
 this Act the offender shall, at the discretion of the Justice before 
 whom the conviction shall take place, be liable to any penalty not 
 exceeding ten pounds as shall be adjudged by such Justice. 
 
 5. This Act shall be construed and taken together with the Act 36 G. 3. c. 88. 
 passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King George the ^\^^^ ^^^ 
 Third, cha])ter eighty-eight, so far as the provisions of the same are constmed 
 consistent herewith. , . . \_Part omitted (as to pemliny actions) together. 
 rep. 38 k 39 Vict. c. 66 (6'.L.i?.).] 
 
 20 & 21 VICTORIA. A.D. 1857. 
 
 CHAPTER 64. 
 
 An Act ... to amend the Acts concerning the Metropolitan 
 Police. [2oM August 1857.] 
 
 [Fart of title and preamble rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 (5.Z.i?.).] 
 
 1 — 10. \Promsions as to borrowing monies. Rep. 49 & 50 Vict, 
 c. 22, s. 8.] 
 
 11 — 12. [Valuation for purposes of police rate. Rep. {as to 
 metropolis) 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 13. The receiver for the metropolitan police district, or any person Power to 
 haviuET an order for that purpose under the hand of such receiver, receiver for 
 
 .^ , i. 1 * I ^ £■ • ^ J. metropolitan 
 
 may inspect any poor rate made or to be made lor any parish, town- police dis- 
 ship, precinct, or ])lace in the metropolitan police district, and take trict, etc. to 
 copies of or extracts from any such rate, without payment of any fee '"^P^^t rates. 
 or reward. 
 
 14. If any overseer or overseers refuse or neglect to make any Penalty on 
 return when so required bv the receiver as aforesaid, or if anv over- overseers 
 
 . *' . nc&rlcctin^r to 
 
 seer or person having the custody of any such poor rate as herein make returns, 
 
 mentioned refuse or neglect to permit the receiver or any person or refusing to 
 
 hereby authorized to inspect such rate, or to take copies or extracts produce rates. 
 
 from the same, within two days after notice in writing, under the 
 
 hand of such receiver, for that purpose shown to the overseer or 
 
 person having the custody of such poor rate, or left at his usual 
 
 place of abode ; every overseer or person so offending shall, on 
 
 conviction thereof before two Justices of the Peace, or before any 
 
 Police ^Magistrate sitting in a police court of the metrojiolitan 
 
 police district, forfeit and ])ay for every such offence the sum of 
 
 ten pounds. 
 
 15. \_As to deficiencii in Police Superannuation Fund. Rep. by 
 the Police Act 1890, s. 36.] 
 
 Schedules (A.) and (B.). [Forms of mortgage and transfer. Rep. 
 49 & 50 Vict. c. 22, s. 8.] 
 
 18
 
 274 
 
 [Chap, ex V 
 
 , -j Covent Garden Approach and Southwark p.^^ ^ 91 v 1 
 ■J and Westminster Communication Act 1 857. L~ <^ - ^ ^ct.J 
 
 CHAPTER CXV. 
 
 An Act to enable the Metropolitan Boaed of Wokks to 
 open certain new streets in the city and liberties of 
 Westminster and in the Borough of Southwark. 
 
 \\i)th August 1857.] 
 
 \_Preamble recites (inter alia) 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 6-, 144 ; and 
 that by the London Bridge Approaches Act 1850 the residue of 
 " The London Bridge Approaches Fund^^ was mude applicable 
 to the opening of improved communication between Coventry Street 
 and Cozent Garden ; and that the Commissioiiers of Woods ivere 
 authorized by 4 & 5 Vict. c. V2 to advance £30,000, and by the said 
 Act o/1850 to appropriate a further sum of £30,000 with interest 
 ioicards making a new street between Southwark and Westminster 
 Bridge; and that there urns then £89,100 in Exchequer Bills 
 applicable to such pjurpose ; and that plans of the improvements 
 proj)Osed by the Act have been deposited with the Clerks of the Peace 
 for Middlesex and Surrey^ 
 
 1. [Incorporation of Lands Clauses Act 1845. Spent.'] 
 
 Short title. 2. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall be sufficient , to 
 
 use the expression " Covent Garden Approach, and Southwark and 
 Westminster Communication Act, 1857." 
 
 interpreta- 3. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have 
 tion of terms. -(;]^g several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be 
 
 something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; 
 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 The word " streets " shall include squares, streets, courts, or alleys, 
 highways, lanes, roads, thoroughfares, or public passages or 
 places : 
 
 The expression " the Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works. 
 
 [Part omitted {definitions of '■^ person^'' ^^ Justice f '■^ two Justices^'' 
 and ^'■lessees'''') spe?it.] 
 
 4. [Defnition of ^'- sheriff^' in Lands Clauses Act for purposes of 
 this Act. Spent7\ 
 
 5 — 7. [Board, to execute Act — Poa-er to act by a committee — 
 Persons interested, not eligible for committee. Superseded by the 
 Municijjal Corporations Act 1882, 6-. 22 {see Appendix)^ and 51 & 
 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 8. It shall be lawful for the Board to make the new streets 
 following; that is to say, a new street commencing in the parish of 
 Saint Martin in the Fields in the city and liberty of Westminster 
 in the county of Middlesex f at or from Saint Martin's Lane at or 
 near its point of intersection by Long Acre and Cranbourne Street, 
 and thence running in a south-easterly direction, and terminating 
 in the jjarish of Saint Paul Covent Garden in the city and liberty 
 of Westminster aforesaid at or near the north-west end of the street 
 there called King Street, and which new street will be partly in the 
 parish of Saint Martin in the Fields and partly in the parish of 
 Saint Paul Covent Garden, and is herein-after referred to as the 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 8. 40 (8). 
 f Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 Power'to 
 make new 
 streets.
 
 [20& 21 Vict.] ^^''f!!'. ^^'''^'^ Approach ami ^oufJocarh (-rjn^p.exv.] 275 
 
 ■- -^ and I > estint/istiu- L oinmararatjon Act 1 bu / . •- -■ 
 
 Covent Gardon ay^prnarh ; a new street commenciiio: in the parish 
 •of (Jhristchiirc^h JSuiithwurk in the county of" tSurrey * at the east side 
 of the ]51ackfriars Road opposite or nearly opposite to the east end 
 of Stamford Street, and terniinatinj^ in Hi<;h Street in the j)arish of 
 Saint Saviour's in the boroui^di of Soiithwurk and county of Surrey* 
 near York Street in tlie same borough, and which lastly-mentioned 
 new street will be ])artly in the ])arish of Christchurch, ])artly in 
 the Clink liberty, and ])artly in the j)arish of Saint Saviour's South- 
 wark in the county of Surrey,* and is herein-after referred to as the 
 South wark imj)rovement. 
 
 9 — 13. {jStvcets and other tvorku authorized to be made according 
 to depo.^ited plans — Poivers to Board to take lands, to lay out foot- 
 ways, to alter and stop up streets, etc., and testing of soil thereof 
 in the Board for the pw'poses of the Act — Powers to stop up ways 
 during works and to alter streets. Spent.~\ 
 
 14. \As to laying of pavements, and vesting the same, when laid, 
 .in the board of works\ or vestry\ in lohose district or parish they arei] 
 
 15. [Sewers and drains to be arched over or filled up, and new 
 Mwers and drains to he under the same management as existing 
 
 ones?^ 
 
 16. \_Poiver to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent ^ 
 
 17. [Ground laid into the streets to form part thereof to he used 
 ■by puhlic, and to be under the management of the board of ioorks\ 
 or vestry \ in tvhose district or parish it is.'] 
 
 18. The Board may permit the use of the subsoil or ground Provision as 
 under any street formed by the Board, or any part thereof, by any streets, 
 -company or person for the purpose of subways, subroads, railways, 
 
 or any public works or purpose, or for laying down gas or water 
 pipes, or telegraph wires, upon such terms and conditions and for 
 such period as the Board and such company or person may mutually 
 agree, and the Board may soil and convey any such right or jiroperty 
 to any company or person for any of the purposes aforesaid, or may 
 grant a lease thereof for any term or number of years, and make 
 •such stipulations for preventing injury to the adjoining property, 
 and for the security of the public, as the Board think proper. 
 
 19 — 44. [Powers to take lands — Errors and omi.ssions in plans — 
 Saving rights of Charles and William Pott — Power to Board to 
 sell materials — Removal of hod ies from graveyard of Red cross Street 
 J'riends' Meeting House — Powers to survey lands to he taken — 
 Power for compulsory purchase limited to 5 years — Provisions 
 as to acquisition of lands and, compensation — Section 133 of 
 Lands Clauses Act 1^45 not incorporated — Deficiencies of land tax 
 during works — Poiver to grant huilding leases of lands not wanted — 
 Gvoiind rents and reversions to he sold — Power to sell land without 
 previously leasing — Land not wanted to he sold icithin ten years — 
 Jieceipts of Board to he effectual discharges — Power to Board to 
 raise £35,U00 on the credit of the London Bridge Approaches Fund — 
 Board may accept contributions towards Covent Garden approach — 
 Moneys appropriated for South wark improvement to he paid to the 
 Board. Spent.] 
 
 45. [Borrowing powers. Rep. in }>art 32 ct 33 Vict.r. l'>2, c». 5U. 
 Hemr. spent ; see ihid. s. 34.] 
 
 * Now the county of London, t^ee 51 I'c 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 f Now the Metropolitan Borough Councils. See G2 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 276 
 
 [Chap, cl.] 
 
 The Finsbury Park Act 1857. [20 & 21 Yict.] 
 
 46 — 53. {Financial 'provisions. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 54. \_Separate accounts. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41^ ss. 6» 
 and 71.] 
 
 55. {Application of moneys borrowed. Spent.'] 
 
 56. {Application of' moneys arising from sales, etc. Rep. 32 & 
 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 57 — 58. {Commissioners oj Works to deliver to the Board the 
 £89,100 Exchequer Bills held by them — Board to exhaust suchfund& 
 before exercising borrowing j)Owers. Spent.'] 
 
 Schedule, {Forms of securities for loans. Spent. See 32 & 33- 
 Vict. c. 102, s. 34.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms 
 
 Power to 
 form and 
 maintain 
 park. 
 
 CHAPTER CL. 
 
 An Act to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to form 
 A Park for the Northern Suburbs of the Metropolis, to 
 BE called Finsbury Park. {llth August 1857.] 
 
 {Preamble recites 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ^. 144, and 19 & 20 Vict, 
 c. 112, aiid (inter alia) that the Metropolitan Board of Works had 
 deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex 
 plans of the proposed park.] 
 
 1. {Incorporation of Lands Clauses Act 1845. Spent.] 
 
 2. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall be sufficient to use 
 the expression "The Finsbury Park Act, 1857." 
 
 3. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have 
 the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some- 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 The word " person " shall include corporation, whether aggregate 
 
 or sole : 
 The word " streets " shall include streets, courts, or alley s^ 
 highways, lanes, roads, thoroughfares, or public passages 
 or places : 
 The expression " the Board " shall mean " the Metropolitan Board 
 
 of Works : " * 
 The expression "New River Company"! shall mean the Governor 
 and Company of the New River brought from Chadwell and 
 Amwell to London. 
 4 — 6. {Board, to execute Act — Power to act by committee — Persons 
 interested not eligible for committee. Superseded by the Municipal 
 Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 (see Appendix) ; and 51 & 52 Vict. <?. 41^ 
 6'.S'. 40 and 75.] 
 
 7. It shall be lawful for the Board and they are hereby 
 empowered to provide, form, and maintain a park or enclosure 
 for the use, recreation, and enjoyment of the public, to be called 
 " Finsbury Park," situate in the parishes of St. Mary Islington and 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 purchase 
 compulsorily 
 certain pro- 
 perty herein 
 named. 
 
 , + 
 
 Hornsey respectively in the county of Middlesex 
 
 8. It shall be lawful for the Board, for the purposes aforesaid, to 
 purchase and take, compulsorily or by agreement, and to hold all or 
 any of the lands and property herein-after mentioned and described, 
 other than and except the lands, works, and waters of the New 
 River Company;! (that is to say,) all those several pieces or parcels 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 t Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 J Now the county of London. 
 
 See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 [20 & 21 ViCT.J The Fhisbimj Park Act 1857. [Chap. cL] 277 
 
 of land situated in the parishes of St. Mary Islinj^ton and Hornsey 
 respectively, and containinfi; in tlje whole two hundred and fifty 
 flicres or thereabouts, bounded on the north by a line nearly ranging 
 with tile kilns across land belonging to or reputed to belong to 
 George Moore and Thomas Twining Wing, and on the east l)y the 
 ■Green Lanes Road and by the north, south, and west boundaries of 
 the filtering beds and reservoirs belonging to the New Itiver ('oiu- 
 pany,* and on the south by the river belonging to the New River 
 ■Company * and by land belonging to Henry Rydon esf^uire, and on 
 the west by Stroud (Jreen Lane, the Great Northern Railway, 
 Highbury Vale, and Blaekstock Lane, which said pieces or parcels 
 of land are intersected from east to west by the Seven Sisters Road, 
 and are portions of the said pieces or parcels of land which are 
 marked or shown npon the ])lan so deposited with tiie clerk of the 
 peace for the county of Middlesex aforesaid, or witiiin the limits of 
 <leviation marked upon the said plan. 
 
 9. The Board shall lay out, j)lant, and enclose the said park, and Power to lay 
 build any lodge or lodges or other ornamental l)uildings therein, J^Jj^'P^^^^^^ 
 and in such manner as they shall think fit, and may cause any of the the park, 
 buildings which shall be on the hereditaments so to be purchased to and purchase 
 be pulled down, and apply the i)roduce of the sale of the materials b'^il'iings,etc. 
 for any of the purposes aforesaid. [-SVv alao 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. 
 
 s. 50, and 58 & 50 Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 45.] 
 
 10. The Board may construct sncli bridges as they may deem Board may 
 necessary over the New River within the said park. h^^d^'^^'^'^t 
 
 11. [Potver to appoint officers for purposes of Act. Superseded " ^^' 
 hy the Municipal Corporations Act 1852, 6*5. 19 and 20 {See 
 Appendix); and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75.] 
 
 12 — 13. [-4^ to hyelaius. Superseded 40 Vict. c. viii. ^.s. 3, 4, and 
 10 ; 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 and 19 ; and. 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 14. The maintaining and keeping in order the said park and Management 
 otherwise regulating and improving the same shall be under the "^ t^^^.P^^k 
 care, management, and control of the said Board, and the said Board jjo^rd 
 shall have and exercise all the powers and authorities given by 
 
 this Act. 
 
 15. {Expenses of obtaining and executing Art. Spent in part, 
 lienir. superseded bg 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41, part iv.] 
 
 16. [Officers not to be intei'ested in contracts. See 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 120, s. 64, ichich is practically identical, and semble applies to 
 this x\.rt7\ 
 
 17. It shall be lawful for the said Board and they are hereby Po^er to 
 empowered for the ])urj)ose of forming and enclosing the said jiark (j^^^^^ streets, 
 or otherwise, and from time to time, to alter and divert such of the etc., making, 
 streets, roads, and watercourses, other than the New River and compensation 
 the works and waters of the New River Company,* delineated upon ° ^^^n^J^- 
 the plan deposited as aforesaid, and lying within the boundary 
 
 of the pieces of land hereby authorized to be purchased, as to the 
 Board may seem necessary. 
 
 18. [Stopping up ways during formation of park. Spent.'] 
 
 19. [Saving rights for Commissioners of Turnjjike Roads Sorth 
 of the J'hamcs. Spent.] 
 
 20. [Board to make roads from lands of G. Moore and T. Twining 
 Wing to Green Lanes Road. ' Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. xcvii. ss. 9.] 
 
 * Now the Metropohtan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. U.
 
 278' 
 
 [Chap, cl.] 
 
 The Finshury Park Act 1857. [20 & 21 Vict.] 
 
 New Eiver 
 Company * 
 not to be 
 interfered 
 with. 
 
 New Kiver 
 Company * 
 may lay 
 and renew 
 mains, etc. 
 
 Certain works 
 for park to be 
 made at the 
 expense of 
 tiie Board, 
 and to satis- 
 faction of 
 New River 
 Company,* as 
 far as affects 
 New Eiver. 
 
 21. [Powe?' to the Board to fill up sewers and drains on providing 
 substitutes^ which are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drains.^ 
 
 22. [Powers to the Board to alter ivater or gas pi])es. Spent. '\ 
 
 23 — 29. {Powers to the Board to take lands — Errors and omis- 
 sions in plans — Powers for compulso>-g purchase limited to five 
 years — Section 133 of Lands Clauses Act 1845 7iot to be incorporated 
 — Deficiencies of land tax during works. Spent."] 
 
 30. Provided always, that the Board, their lessees or assigns, 
 shall not, iu the execution of any of the powers by this Act given, 
 diminish or interfere with the channel of the New River or the flow 
 of water through the same, or construct or lay down any works,, 
 sewers, drains, houses, erections, or buildings, whereby or by the 
 user whereof the water therein or iu the mains of the New River 
 Company* may be fouled, or the free access of air to the said 
 channel obstructed ; and the Board, their lessees or assigns, shall 
 not make any alteration of the levels of the land purchased or taken 
 under this Act, whereby the depth of ground between the surface 
 and any of the mains of the New River Company * shall be reduced 
 to less than eighteen inches, or whereby the access to the New River 
 shall be hindered. 
 
 31. The New River Company * may at all times hereafter lay 
 down any new or additional mains and pipes, and examine, remove, 
 alter, repair, and renew any of their mains or pipes for the time 
 being laid in or under any lands which, or their rights and easements 
 in and over which, shall have been purchased under the powers of 
 this Act, and examine and cleanse the channel of the New River in 
 the passage thereof through the same lands, and remove therefrom, 
 place and lay upon the banks thereof stones, ice, mud, rubbish,, 
 weeds, vegetables, and other matters which it may from time to 
 time be necessary to remove from their works ; and lor the purposes 
 aforesaid the New River Company,* their agents, servants, and 
 workmen, may at all reasonable times hereafter, with or without 
 horses and carts, enter upon any of the same lands : Provided 
 always, that in the execution of these powers the New River 
 Company * shall do as little damage as may be, and whenever the 
 surface of the ground is disturbed by them they shall restore the 
 same to the previous condition thereof, or as near thereto as may be, 
 and shall remove all such matters as shall be laid on the said lands 
 as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch. 
 
 32. That in the event of the Board acquiring the estate of the 
 Ecclesiastical Commissioners adjoining upon the filtering reservoirs 
 of the New River Company * near the Green Lanes, and appro- 
 ])riating the land for the purposes of a park, the Board shall, if the 
 Board of Trade shall so require, fence the New River and reservoir 
 from the public ; and all such roads, sewers, bridges, communica- 
 tions, and other works as shall be desired by the said Board, whether 
 adjoining upon the said reservoirs or crossing the New River or the 
 mains or works of the New River Company,* shall be constructed by 
 and at the expense of the said Board ; and as to such of the same 
 as interfere with, infringe upon, or pass over any of the works of the 
 said New River Company,* the same shall be constructed under the 
 superintendence and to the satisfaction of the engineer for the time 
 being of the said New River Company,* and the New River Company* 
 
 ' Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 [21 & 22 Vict.] '^^^'\ Metropolis Mruiagement .^, j , . 
 
 ^ -J Amendment Act I808. •- -^ 
 
 shall be exonerated from any oldifration under wliicli they now lie to 
 the Ecclesiastical ( Jummissiuners for the fornjation of roads, sewers, 
 or bridges, with a view to the occupation of the same ground for 
 Ijuilding purposes or otherwise. 
 
 33. Any disputes which may arise between the New River As to settle- 
 
 Companv * and the I^oard with reference to the constrnction, execu- ""^"•^ ''^'^^®' 
 .; ,1 , -• n .1 putes between 
 
 tion or non-execution, observance or non-observance ol any 01 the Board and 
 
 l)Owers or provisions of this Act, or to any matter incidental thereto New River 
 
 or connected therewitli, (except questions the settlement of which ^-'ompany.* 
 
 is ])rovided for by "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1840," 
 
 herewith incorporated,) shall, uidess a Judge of any of the sni)erior 
 
 Courts of Common Law shall, on application to be made to him in a 
 
 summary wa}', otherwise direct, be settled by arbitration ; and for 
 
 this purpose the clauses and provisions of " The Railways Clauses 
 
 Consolidation Act, 1845," with res])ect to the settlement of disputes 
 
 by arbitration, are incorporated with this Act, with this alteration, 
 
 namely, that the appointment of any arbitrator on the part of the 
 
 Board shall be under their common seal. 
 
 34 — 35. \Jioard may sell lands not wanted tvithin ten years — 
 Receipts of Board to he effectual discharges. Spent.'] 
 
 36. [Borrorcing powers. Rep. in part 32 & 33 Vict.c. 102, .s-. 50. 
 liemr. .spent ; see ibid. s. 34.] 
 
 37 — 44. \_Financial provisions. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. h)2,s. 5iJ.] 
 
 45. [Application of moneys to be borrowed. Spent. See 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. WZ,s. 3.] 
 
 46. The Board may enter into all such contracts as they may The Board 
 think fit for forming and providing the said jjark, conveniences, and ™*y contract, 
 matters by this Act authorized to be provided, and for any others in 
 
 relation to the purposes of this Act in respect of which it may appear 
 to the Board expedient to enter into contracts. 
 
 47. [Accounts. Superseded^! & 52 Vict. c. 41, 6'. 71.] 
 
 Schedule. [Forms of securities for loans. Spent. See 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 102, .$. 34.] 
 
 21 & 22 VICTORIA. A.D. 1858. 
 
 CHAPTER l«i4. 
 
 An Act to alter and amend the Metropolis Local Manage- 
 ment Act (1855), and to extend the Powers of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works for the Purification of 
 the Tha:\[es and the Main Drainage of the Metropolis. 
 
 [^Zd August 18.58.] 
 
 [Preamble {reciting 18 & 10 Vict. c. 12o) rep. 55 k bQ Vict. c. 19 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. The Metropolitan Board t shall cause to be commenced as soon The Metro- 
 as may be after the passing of this Act, and to be carried on and ^^^l^rk^'u)'^^^ 
 completed with all convenient speed according to such plan as to commence 
 them may seem proper, the necessarv sewers and works for the sewerage 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan AVater l!oard. See 2 Edw. 7, c. IL „g -_.„^ k^ 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). •
 
 280 [Chap. 104]. ^^^'' A^J^fnt l7'\%^!''^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^'''^•^ 
 
 improvement of the main drainage of the metropolis, and for pre- 
 venting, as far as may be practicable, the sewage of the metropolis 
 from passing into the River Thames within the metropolis. 
 
 BoaTmay "" 2. The Metropolitan Board of Works, for the purposes of this 
 construct Act, may construct any work through, along, over, or under the bed 
 works on the and soil and banks and shores of the River Thames, making com- 
 bed^of the pensation to all persons having any interest in any wharfs, jetties, 
 Thames. or other property damaged by such works, as provided by the said 
 
 Act of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty in respect 
 of property injured under the powers of such Act. 
 Powers of g r^y^^ powers of taking land given bv the said Act of the 
 
 takings land .1, , i- ,° ^tt \t • , inji 
 
 to apply for eighteenth and nineteenth years 01 Her Majesty, and all other 
 the purpose of powers iu such Act and this Act in relation to sewerage works, 
 deodorizing gi^all extend and be applicable as well to works for deodorizing 
 sewage as to all other works under this Act, either within or 
 beyond the limits of the metropolis, and all such works shall be 
 deemed works for the purpose of the sewerage or drainage of 
 the metropolis. 
 
 4 — 7. [Powei's to raise money for purposes of Act. Rep. 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.1 
 
 8. \_Applicatio7i of money borrowed. Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 
 {S.L.R.):] 
 Appointment 9, It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
 enffineerif^"^ Treasury from time to time to appoint an engineer or engineers to 
 inspect the works to be constructed under this Act, and to report 
 to such Commissioners in relation to the expenditure thereon ; and 
 such engineer or engineers shall have full power and authority at all 
 reasonable times to enter upon such works, and survey and inspect 
 the same, and to inspect the accounts of the said Metropolitan 
 Board in relation thereto, for the purpose of reporting as aforesaid. 
 
 10 — 22. [^Pofcers to raise main drainage rate. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict, 
 c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 Metropolitan 23. The Metropolitan Board of Works, in the meantime and until 
 
 deodorize ^^'*^ works required by this Act for the purification of the River 
 
 sewage, and Thames are completed, may do all such works and apply all such 
 
 defray ex- means as they may deem proper for deodorizing such sewage or 
 
 under^s^ 19 otherwise protecting the public health from any injurious conse- 
 
 Yict. c. 120. quences therefrom, and may defray the expenses incurred for this 
 
 purpose as the expenses incurred by the said board under the said 
 
 Act of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty are 
 
 therein directed to be defrayed. 
 
 Board to 24. The said Metropolitan Board shall cause all works to be 
 
 execute executed under this Act to be constructed and kept so as not to be 
 
 works so as • 1 i n • i i • • 1 • t 
 
 not to create ^ nuisance, and shall, in deodorizing any sewage, and in disposing 
 
 a nuisance, of any sewage or refuse from sewers, act in such manner as not to 
 
 create a nuisance. 
 
 25. [liepeal of s. ISrj and of proviso ^0 s. 144 ^ 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.):\ 
 
 26. {Extension of time for completion of certain works under 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 126. Rep. 32 k 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 Works, etc. to 27. No works upon the bed or shores of the said River Thames 
 of b^^h°^^^ below high-water mark which may interfere with the navigation of 
 Admiralty. ^^^-^ river shall at any time be commenced or executed under the
 
 TOT s oo T-,^ -1 '^fte Metropolis Management rn^., iim i oqi 
 
 £21 & 22 \ ICT.] AmendLnt Act 1858. LChap. 1o4.] 281 
 
 j)rovisions of this Act witliout the same having hcen previously 
 approved of by the Lord High Adminil,* or the commissioners for 
 executing the office of Lord High Admiral, such ajjproval to be 
 from time to time sjjecified in writing under the hand of the 
 Secretary to the Admiralty. 
 
 28. In order to })reserve the navigation of the Hivor Thames, the Works upon 
 plans of any work to be constructed under tiie authority of this Act jllver Thames 
 upon the banks, bed, or shore of the River Thames, which may to be ap- 
 interfere with the free navigation of the said river, shall l)e a[)proved proverl by the 
 by the Conservators of the Uiver Thames, in writing signed by their ^f^tf,e'^j{^ye'r*' 
 secretary, before such works are commenced, certifying that the Thames, 
 works according to such plans will not interfere with the navigation 
 
 of the River Thames, 
 
 29. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to ^a^jng rights 
 extend to prejudice or derogate from the rights of the Conservators sei-vators"o'f 
 of the River Thames, or to prohibit, defeat, alter, or diminish any the Kiver 
 power, authority, or jurisdiction which at the time of the passing of l'^»°^^s- 
 this Act the said Conservators did or might lawfully claim, use, or 
 exercise, so far as such rights, power, authority, or jurisdiction 
 
 may be exercised for preserving the free navigation of the River 
 Thames. 
 
 30. No works under or over the main navigable channel of the Regulation of 
 River Lea shall at any time be commenced or executed under the oToveA'he^'^ 
 provisions of this Act without leaving the top of any work under River Lea. 
 the navigation not less than twelve feet below high water, Trinity 
 standard, and for any work over any part of the navigation without 
 
 leaving the soffit of such work not less than eight feet six inches 
 above high water. Trinity standard, with a clear span over the said 
 river, inclusive of the towing-path thereof, of not less than fifty-four 
 feet; provided that it shall be lawful for the trustees of the River 
 Lea, by writing under their common seal, on the application of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, to consent to an alteration or variation 
 of the said dimensions or either of them. 
 
 31. It shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's principal Secre- On complaint 
 taries of 8tate, at his discretion, on representation or complaint ^^^^^^jt^^^^ i„ 
 made to him of anv nuisance committed in execution of auv works, execution of 
 or in deodorizing any sewage, or in disposing of any sewage or ^^^^ks, Secre- 
 refnse from sewers, or in any other manner under this Act, to cause may order 
 inquiry to be made into the matter represented or com])lained of prosecution, 
 to him, and to direct such i)rosecution or prosecutions, or to take 
 
 such other proceedings as he may think fit, in order to ensure the 
 prevention or abatement of such nuisance as aforesaid. 
 
 32. In the construction of this Act the expression '' deodorize " ti"\t'^£^f^'nis. 
 shall be deemed to include any process whereby the solid susjiended 
 
 matters in sewage may be j)recipitated or separated from tlie liquid 
 before the discharge thereof, or whereby the noxious or otiensive 
 properties of sewage may be neutralized ; and the expression 
 "sewage" shall mean and include the contents of the sewers 
 before the emi)Ioyment of such process. 
 
 33. The said Act of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her J^n^'S^^fg^^^t 
 Majesty and this Act shall be read together as one Act. to be as one. 
 
 Schedules A. and B. [Form of assessment and form of precept. 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, 6\ 50.] 
 
 * Now the Board of Trade. See the Harbours Transfer Act 1862, s. 8,
 
 282 
 
 [Chap, xxxviii.] Victoria Park Approach Act 1858. [21 & 22 Vict.] 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
 
 An Act to authorize the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 
 FORM an improved COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LiMEHOUSE AN1> 
 
 THE Victoria Park in the County of Middlesex ; and 
 FOR OTHER PURPOSES. \lUh Juue 1858.] 
 
 {Preamble recites 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 144.] 
 
 1. [Incorporation of Lands Clauses Act 1845. &pent7\ 
 
 Short title. 2. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall be sufficient to use 
 
 the expression " Victoria Park Approach Act 1858." 
 
 Interpreta- 3. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have, 
 
 tion of words. i^^ several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some- 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 • • • • ■ • 
 
 The word '•' streets " shall include squares, streets, courts, or alleys, 
 highways, lanes, roads, thoroughfares, or public passages or 
 places : 
 
 The expression " the Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works.* 
 
 Power to 
 make im- 
 provements. 
 
 \Part omitted {definitions of'-'- Justice,^' '■'-tico Justices,^'' and '-^ lessee'^} 
 spent.'] 
 
 4—6. [Board to execute Act — Power to act hy committee — Persons 
 interested not eligible for committee. Superseded by the Municipal 
 Corporations Act 1882 {see Appendix), s. 22 ; and 51 & 52 Vict^ 
 c. 4:1, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 7. It shall be lawful for the Board to make the improvements 
 following ; (that is to say,) 
 
 To form a new street or road, commencing in the parish of Saint 
 Anne, Limehouse, in the county of Middlesex,f at or from the 
 East India Dock Road at or near its point of intersection with 
 the Commercial Road East and West India Dock Road, thence 
 proceeding in a north-westerly direction, passing by means of 
 a bridge over the Limehouse Cut, and under certain arches 
 already formed under the railway known as the Loudon and 
 Blackwall Extension Railway, and terminating in the hamlet 
 of Mile End Old Town, in the said county, at or near to York 
 Terrace and Saville Place in the Bow Road, opposite or nearly 
 opposite to the south end of Grove Road : 
 To improve that portion of Grove Road which is situate between 
 Bow Road in the said hamlet of Mile End Old Town and Old 
 Ford Road in the parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, and 
 for the y)urposes thereof, to widen and alter that part of the 
 road which is situate on each side of the crossing of the Eastern 
 Counties Railway ^ over the said road, and to construct side 
 arches under that railway, and to alter the footpaths of such 
 road, or make new footpaths on both sides or either side of 
 the Eastern Counties Railway,! in the said hamlet of Mile 
 End Old Town and parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green. 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 I Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, a. 4.0 (2). 
 \ Amalgamated with the Great Eastern Railway by the Great Eastern Railway 
 Company's Act l':i(j2.
 
 [21 & 22 Vict.] Victoria Park Approach Act 1858. [Chap, xxxviii.] 283 
 
 8 — 13. [^fmprovements to be made arcordinr/ to drpoaited plana — 
 
 Power to deciate — Piopcrt;/ not to he taken without consent ardean 
 
 shown on plans — Ei-rors and omissions in plans — Power to lay out 
 
 footways, etc. — Power to alter and stop up streets — Power to stop 
 
 up ways during ivorks. Spent.'] 
 
 14. [Powei- to the Board to Jill up .<icivers and drains on providing 
 .'iubslitutes, which are to be under the same managemerd as existing 
 seivers and drains.] 
 
 15. \_Poiver to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent.] 
 
 16. Such of the works herel)y anthorized as are necessary for or Forprotec- 
 coiuiectcd witli tlie aforesnid arteratiou :ind widoninp^ of that part ^^ ^iastem '^^ 
 the (irove Uoad which is situate on e.ich side of the crossing of the counties 
 Eastern Counties Railway* over the said road, and the construction Railway 
 of side arches under that railway, and the alteration of or making <^'o™paDy- 
 new footpaths on both sides or on either side of that railway, and 
 
 any works constructed under the authority of tliis Act wiiich siiail 
 in any way affect the said railway or the works connected therewith, 
 . . . when so made and constructed by the said Board . . . , shall, so far 
 as respects such part thereof as shall be situate within the hamlet 
 of Mile End Old Town, be from time to time maintained and repaired 
 in such manner as shall be ajjproved by the engineer for the time 
 being of the said railway company, and to his satisfaction, by the 
 vestry of the hamlet of Mile End, and so far as respects any other 
 part thereof, shall be so maintained and re]):iired by the district 
 board or vestry of that parish or place in which such works are 
 situate, according to the provisions contained in this Act. \_Parts 
 omitted (as to constructio?i of works) spent.] 
 
 17. If any dispute shall arise, . . . l)etween either of the said J^een^Bo^d 
 district boards or vestries and tlie said railway company or their and railway 
 engineer, or between the said district boards or vestries, with respect company to 
 to the maintenance or repair of any work under or in any way arbitration ^ 
 affecting the said railway, every such dispute shall be settled by 
 arbitration in the manner provided by " The Hallways Clauses Con- 
 solidation Act, 1845," with resjjcct to the settlement of disputes by 
 arbitration. \_Part omitted (as to confitruction of works) spent.] 
 
 18. {Board, to erect a bridge over Lee Navigation. Spent.] 
 
 19. The bridge so to be l)uilt as aforesaid over the River _ Lee Bridge.^etc. 
 navigation shall be executed to the reasonable satisfaction of the stmcted 
 engineer for the time being of the trustees, at the expense of the under super- 
 Board ; and such bridge when erected shall be maintained '^"'^l ^^^'^•q^'^"*;*^^ °^ 
 repaired by the district board to such satisfaction as aforesaid. . . . lcc Trustees. 
 \_Pa/'t omitted (as to disputes about construction) spent.] 
 
 20. At all times during the construction of the said bridge and r^'^^^ij^^^"/'*'" 
 other works, and any future rejiairs thereof, the Board or the district navlirafion 
 board shall leave for the free and uninterrupted })assage of boats, free during 
 barges, and other vessels along the said navigation an open and works, etc. 
 uninterrujjted navigable waterway of the width of twenty-four feet 
 
 at the least, and an uninterrupted horseway along the said towing- 
 path of the width of six feet at the least, both waterway and 
 horseway haviuo; a clear height or headway of at least seven feet. 
 
 21—24. [For the protection of the Lee Samgation and trustees of 
 the Jxii-er Lee.] 
 
 25. [As to agreements with landowners and others. Spent.] 
 
 * Amalgamated with the Great Eastern Railway by the Great Eastern Railway 
 Company's Act 18G2.
 
 284 [Chap. 125.] Metropolis Gas Act 1860. [23 & 24 Vict.] 
 
 26. \TMn(l laid into street to form part thereof, and to be main- 
 tained hij the hoard of works * of the district or the vestry * of the 
 parish within which it is?^ 
 
 As to subsoil 27. The Board may permit the use of the subsoil or ground under 
 any street formed by the Board, or any part thereof, for cellars or 
 vanlts attached to the houses on the sides of snch street, and also 
 the use of snch subsoil or ground by any company or person for the 
 purpose of subways, subroads, railways, or any public works or 
 purpose, or for laying down gas or water pipes, or telegraph wires, 
 upon such terms and conditions and for such period as the Board 
 and such company or person may mutually agree; and the Board 
 may sell and convey any such right or property to any company or 
 person for any of the purposes aforesaid, or may grant a lease 
 thereof for any term or number of years, and make such stipulations 
 for preventing injury to the adjoining property and for the security 
 of the public as the Board think proper. 
 
 28 — 36. \Foioer to Board, to sell materials — Powers for com- 
 pulsory jmrchase limited to five years — Section 133 ^ the Lands 
 Clauses Act 184.5 ')7ot to apply — Deficiencies of land tax during 
 works — Power to grant building leases of lands not wanted — As to 
 sale of ground rents — Power to sell land without leasing — Land not 
 wanted, to be sold within ten years — Receipts of Board to be effectual 
 discharges. Spe7it.'\ 
 
 37. [Krpe?ises of obtaining and executing Act. Superseded {as 
 to executing Act) 51 & 52 Vict. c. 4l\, jyart iv. Remr. spent.'] 
 
 38. \Bor rowing jjowers. Rep. in part 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50. 
 Retnr. spent. See ibid. s. 34.] 
 
 39 — 44. \_Financial provisions. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 45. \_Sep>arate accounts. Superseded h\ & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 71.] 
 
 46. [^Application of moneys borrotved. Spent.] 
 
 47. \_Applicatio)i of moneys arising from sales. Rep. 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 48. [Saving the rights of the Crow?i.] 
 
 Schedule. [Fo?'m of Bond. Spent. See 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 34.] 
 
 23 & 24 VICTORIA. A.D. 1860. 
 
 CHAPTER 125. 
 
 An Act foe better regulating the Supply of Gas to the 
 Metropolis. [28M August I860.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that " The Gaslight ^" Coke Com- 
 pany^' " The City of London Gaslight ^' Coke Company "■\ " The 
 Commercial Gaslight (f- Coke Company,'' " The Equitable Gaslight 
 Company,'' X " The Great Central Gas Consumers Comjjany^'^ " The 
 Independent Gaslight ^' Coke Company," § " The London Gaslight 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Borough Council. See (52 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 t Amalgamated with the Oasliglit & Coke Company by an Order in Council in 
 1870 made under 31 & 82 Vict. c. cxxv. ss. 18—24. 
 
 X Amalgamated with tlie Gaslight k. Coke Company by the Gaslight & Coke 
 Company's Act 1871. 
 
 § Amalgamated with the Gaslight & Coke Company by an Order in Council in 
 1870 made under 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. ss. 18—24.
 
 [23 & 24 Vict.] Metropolis Gas Act 18G0. [Chap. 125.] 286 
 
 Company,'' * " The Phoenix Gaslight if Coke Compamj,'' f " The 
 liatcliff Gaslight f Coke Company,'' % " The Surrey Consumers 
 
 Uppi 
 
 by several mains in the same district, hare agreed, as far as possthle, 
 each one to confine its supply to a separate district, in order to 
 economise capital and avoid the too frequent opening of the public 
 streets, and, that subject to the prorisions and restrictions of this Act, 
 it is expedient that such districting should receive the sanction of 
 Parliament.^ 
 
 1. This Act may for all j)iirposes be cited as " Metropolis Gas «hort title. 
 Act, 186U." 
 
 2. "The Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847," (except so far as the io& ii Vict. 
 ])rovisions thereof are inconsistent with this Act,) is incorporated ^- ^^- '"^^f- 
 with and forms part of this Act, and shall apply to the several JhS'Act.'" 
 companies before named or referred to as fully as if the gasworks 
 
 of the several companies were authorized by this Act ; and the 
 expression " undertakers " in the recited Act shall be held to applv 
 to every gas company affected by this Act ; but it shall not be 
 lawful for any gas company, by the application of any of their 
 l)rofits or funds, to make up to the })rescribed rate, or the rate 
 of ten pounds per centum per annum where no such rate shall be 
 prescribed, any dividend which shall have been payable more than 
 six years previously ; provided that the powers vested in the Justices 
 by the said Act shall be exercised by a Magistrate. [ Varied {as 
 regards the South Metropolitan, Commercial, and Gaslight ^- Coke 
 Companies) 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. s.2; 32 & 33 Vict. c. cxxx. 6-. 4 ; 
 38 & 39 Vict. c. cc. s. 3 ; and 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxv. s. 8.] 
 
 3. This Act applies to the several gas companies, and to all (^"ompanies 
 persons already or hereafter supplying gas within the metropolis, to whomTct 
 except as herein-after excepted. applies, 
 
 4. In the construction of this Act the following words and Interpreta- 
 expressions have the following meanings, unless excluded by the ^^^^ °^ **''™®' 
 subject or context ; (that is to say,) 
 
 The expression " gas company " or " gas companies " means and 
 includes any and every company, and any person or persons, 
 supplying gas within the limits'^ of this Act : 
 
 The expression " local authority " includes the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works,** vestries,tt and district boards ft ai)pointed 
 under an Act of the session of the eighteenth and nineteenth 
 years of the reign of Iler present Majesty, chapter one hundred 
 and twenty, for the local management of the metropolis : 
 
 • Amalgamated with the Gaslight &; Coke Company by an Order in Council in 1883 
 made under 31 iSc 82 Vict. c. cxxv. ss. 18 — 24. 
 
 t Amalgamated with the South Metropolitan Gaslight and Coke Company by an 
 Order in Council in 1880 made under the South Metropolitan Gaslight '& Coke 
 Company's Act IHTti, s. 64. 
 
 X Amalgamated with the Commercial Gas Company bv the Commercial Gas 
 Act 1875. 
 
 § Amalgamated witli the South Metropolitan Gaslight in Coke Company by an 
 Order in Council in 1879 made under the South Metropolitan Gaslight & Coke 
 Company's Act 187G, s. 1)4. 
 
 II Amalgamated with the Gaslight & Coke Company bv an Order in Council in 1872 
 made under 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. ss. 18—24. 
 
 ^ Amalgamated with the Gaslight & Coke Company bv an Order in Council in 1876 
 made under 31 & 32 Viet. c. cxxv. ss. 18—24. 
 
 ** Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 40 (8). 
 
 ft Now the Metropolitan Borough Councils. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 286 [Chap. 125.] Metropolis Gas Act 1860. [23 & 24 Vict.] 
 
 The word "inspector" or "inspectors" shall mean any metro- 
 politan gas inspector or inspectors to be appointed under this 
 Act : 
 
 The word "consumer" means a person receiving or entitled, in 
 accordance with this Act, to receive a supply of gas from any 
 gas company : 
 
 The word " the metropolis " has the same meaning as in the said 
 Act of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her present 
 Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty : 
 
 The word " district " means, with respect to every gas company 
 supplying gas wholly or in part within the metropolis, the 
 district, so far as it is within the metropolis, within which the 
 gas company are from time to time authorized to supply gas, 
 and means, with respect to any person or persons not being 
 a gas company, but supplying gas wholly or in part within 
 the metropolis, the district within the metropolis within which 
 he or they shall from time to time as a trade or business 
 supply gas : 
 
 The word " street " includes square, court, alley, highway, lane, 
 road, thoroughfare, and public passage or place : 
 
 The word " premises " includes public and private messuages and 
 other buildings, lands, and tenements whatsoever : 
 
 The word " the gasworks " means the works of the respective gas 
 companies, and the works connected therewith : 
 
 The word " rate " includes all rents and other payments for a 
 supply of gas : 
 
 The word "meter rent" includes all rents and other payments 
 for the use of gas meters : 
 
 The word " Magistrate " means any police or stipendiary Magis- 
 trate acting in and for the district of the metropolis in which 
 the matter referred to him arises, and iu the city of London 
 and the liberties thereof shall mean any Justice of the Peace 
 for the city of London and the liberties thereof : 
 
 * The words " common gas " shall mean gas of an illuminating 
 
 power herein-after defined of not less than twelve candles : 
 
 * The words " cannel gas " shall mean gas of an illuminatinof 
 
 o o c 
 
 power herein-after defined of not less than twenty candles. 
 Limits of Act. 5. The limits of this Act shall be the metropolis: Provided 
 always, that this Act and the several clauses and provisions thereof 
 shall not extend or apply or be construed to extend or apply to the 
 several gas companies set forth and enumerated in the schedule 
 annexed to this Act ; provided also, that the districts severally 
 specified and described in the Acts and instrument of incorporation 
 respectively mentioned in the said schedule, or within which the said 
 companies or any of them are now supplying gas, (notwithstanding 
 the said districts, or any portions thereof, are or may be within 
 the limits of the metropolis as defined by this Act,) shall not be 
 included or deemed to be included in the expression " the metro- 
 polis," or any extension thereof which may hereafter be made, under 
 the provisions of the herein-before mentioned Act of the eighteenth 
 and nineteenth Victoria, chapter one hundred and twenty ; provided 
 also, that if the said companies or any of them shall supply gas 
 in parts of the metropolis other than those within their respective 
 districts as defined in the said schedule, then the provisions of this 
 
 * Rep. as regards the Commercial and Gaslight & Coke Gas Companies. See 
 38 & .39 Vict. c. cc. s. 3, and 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxv.'s. 8.
 
 [23 & 24 Vict.] Metrojjoli.'i Gas Act im). [Chap. 125.] 287 
 
 Act shall \)(i held to a])[)Iy to such companies respcftively so faronlv 
 as regards such extended limits as may be within the metropolis. 
 
 6. The limits of each of the said com])anies shall be the respective Sanctioning 
 districts sn])])lied with gas by such companies as the same are ^':^'^°™^°^ °^ 
 ^Icfincd upon four duplicate maps, signed by the Hight Honourable gas'com-"^ 
 TJiouuis Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, and which maps have panics to be 
 been severally deposited with the respective Clerks of the Teace ""'.^J''*^* '^ 
 for the counties of Middlesex, London, Surrey, and Kent ; provided Jevl^io'i 
 that at the expiration of three years next after the passing of this 
 Act, and of every three years thereafter, Her Majesty's princi])al 
 Secretary of State for the Home Deitartment* for the time being 
 may, either upon the application and with the consent of any two 
 or more of the said gas companies whose districts adjoin one another, 
 make any alteration in the boundaries of such districts, or, upon the 
 application of any local authority, or uj)on the requisition of not 
 less than twenty gas consumers within any district or districts 
 proposed to be affected, and upon proof to his satisfaction being 
 given that any of the said gas companies are not in a condition 
 adequately to supply with gas their respective districts, or have 
 substantially failed to fulfil the obligations imposed by this Act, 
 may make such alterations in the boundaries of such districts, or 
 admit any new company respectively, as he thinks proper; and all 
 such alterations shall be certified on one or more maps, to be signed 
 by the said Secretary of State,* and deposited with one or more of 
 the said Clerks of the Peace ; and such last-mentioned map or majjs 
 tshall be binding on all parties, and the provisions of this Act shall 
 be held to apply to the several districts when so altered, and to the 
 several companies affected thereby, as fully and effectually as if 
 no alteration in such districts had been made, and no other company 
 or person than the company to whom such limits are for the time 
 being assigned or shall hereafter be assigned shall supply gas for 
 sale within the said limits, unless authorized by Parliament so to 
 do ; provided that before proceeding to consider the necessity for 
 altering any of the said districts the said Secretary of State * shall 
 cause at least one month's notice to be given of such application to 
 all parties interested therein or affected thereby, and such notice 
 shall state the day and hour when and the place where such applica- 
 tion will be considered ; and notices to be given to any gas company 
 shall be left with the secretary or some other principal officer of 
 the company, and notices to be given to any local authority shall 
 be left with the clerk or some other principal officer of the said 
 local authority. [See 51 & 5.2 I'/ct. c. 41, 6'. llf< (p) and (lU). 
 
 7 — 12. \_As to complaints and inspectors. Rep. (as regards the 
 
 South Metropolitan, Commercial, and Gasliyht tj- Coke Compa?iies) 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. c. exxv. s. 3 ; 32 & 33 Vict. c. cxxx. .s. 4 ; 38 & 31) 
 
 Vict. c. cc. s. 3 ; and 30 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxv. 6\ 8 ; and so apply to 
 
 no existing compamj?\ 
 
 13. All the costs, charges, and expenses of and incitlont to any Cost of alter- 
 inquiry and decision of the said Secretary of State * under this Act ^°S district, 
 shall from time to time be borne and paid by such parties as the 
 said Secretary of State* shall direct, and such decision may, ui)on 
 an ex-parte api)lication, be made a rule of any of Her Majesty's 
 superior Courts of Law at Westminster. 
 
 * Now the Board of Trade. See 31 & 32 Vict. c. ccxxv. s. 3; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 
 cxxvi. s. 81, and c. cxxx. s. 4 ; and 38 & 39 Vict. c. cc. s. 3.
 
 288 
 
 [Chap. 125.] 
 
 Metropolis Gas Act 1860. [23 & 24 Vict.] 
 
 Gas com- 
 panies to prO' 
 vide pipes, 
 and supply 
 gas and 
 meters at pre 
 scribed rents. 
 
 Security to be 
 given to gas 
 company, if 
 required. 
 
 Differences as 
 to security to 
 be deter- 
 mined by a 
 Magistrate. 
 
 Penalty on 
 gas company 
 failing to pro- 
 vide pipes or 
 supply of gas 
 or meters. 
 
 14. Every gas company from time to time supplying gas within 
 any district shall, as to any premises or street within snch district 
 not already supplied with gas, and which shall lie within fifty yards 
 of any existing mains, at their own expense, on being required by 
 the owner or occn])ier of any premises within the district or in part 
 within the district, who shall contract for not less than two years 
 to pay gas rates in respect of snch snpply to an amount equal 
 to twenty per cent, upon the outlay, provide and lay all proper 
 and sufficient communication, service, and other pipes vq) to the 
 premises of such owner or occupier, to communicate with the gas 
 company's mains, and shall, if so required by the owner, occupier, 
 or local authority, furnish him or them, at the rate prescribed by 
 this Act, with a supply of gas for the purpose of being used in or 
 on the premises, or for lighting the street, and if so required by 
 the owner or occupier, furnish him with one or more meters, for 
 ascertaining the quantity of gas consumed ; provided that the gas 
 company shall not be bound to supply more than one meter for 
 each consumer occupying a separate dwelling or apartment, nor any 
 meter exceeding a five-light meter ; provided also, that the meter 
 rent which the said company shall be entitled to claim for such 
 meter shall not exceed ten per cent, on the net cost of such meter. 
 . . . l^iimended (as regards South Metropolitan and Commercial 
 Companies) 32 & 33 ^^ict. c. cxxx. s. 73 ; and 38 & 39 Vict. c. cc, 
 s. 75. See also the Gasivorks Clauses Act 1871, ss. 11 and 39. 
 Part omitted {companies 7iot charging ineter rents on \st Januarif 
 1860 not to charge the same before \st January 1862) rep. 38 & 39 
 Vict. c. m (S.L'.R.).'] 
 
 15. Provided, that the owner or occupier, if so required in writing 
 by the gas company or any of their officers, shall, before he is 
 entitled to have the pipes provided and laid, or to have a supply 
 of gas or of meters furnished, give to the gas company such security 
 for the payment of the rate for the gas to be supplied to him, and 
 of the meter rent for every meter to be supplied to him, as he and 
 the gas company agree on. [^Amended (as regards the South Metro- 
 politan, Commercial, and Gaslight ^^ Coke Companies) 32 & 33 Vict, 
 c. cxxx. s. 72 ; 34 & 35 Vict. c. cxxi. s. 13; and 38 & 39 Vict, 
 c. cc. .S-. 77. See also the Gasivorks Clauses Act 1871, 55. 11 and 16.] 
 
 16. Provided, that if the owner or occupier and the gas company 
 cannot agree thereon, the security to be given shall be determined 
 by a Magistrate ; and any single Magistrate shall, on the applica- 
 tion of the owner or occupier and the gas company, or either of 
 them, determine the nature and amount of the security to be given ; 
 and the security may, as the Magistrate thinks fit, be the deposit 
 with the gas comjmny, or with any person approved by the Magis- 
 trate, or the prepayment to the gas company, of a sum of money 
 or any other security which the Magistrate thinks sufficient and 
 reasonable ; and the determination of the Magistrate shall be binding 
 on all parties, and final : Provided that if the security be the deposit 
 with the gas company of a sum of money, the gas company shall 
 pay interest thereon to the consumer at such rate as the Magistrate 
 shall determine. \_Note to s. 15 applies.^ 
 
 17. If the gas company, not being entitled to require or not 
 having required any security, wilfully fail for seven days after 
 being thereunto required in writing by the consumer, or where the 
 security agreed on or determined by the Magistrate is given, shall
 
 [23 & 24 Vict.] Metrojjolis Gas Act ISfiO. [Chai-. 125.] 289 
 
 wilfully fail for fonrteoji days thereaftor to provide and lay all 
 liropcr and snUiciont commnnicatioii, service, and other ])i])es, or to 
 j'lirnish a snj)jil\- of gas, or to I'lirnisii any meter, pursuant to the 
 provisions of tiiis Act, then and in every such case the «^as company 
 shall, on a summary conviction before a ]\Ia<^istrate, forfeit and pay 
 to the consumer not exceedin*,^ iorty sliillinu's tor every day after 
 the ex{)ii'ation of seven or fourteen days respectively durini^ wliicli 
 the failure continues. \_Amen(/<'(i bij the Gasworh/i Clauses Act 1871, 
 s. 2 ; but see 38 & 39 Vict. c. cc. .s.'3.] 
 
 18. Provided, that every private consumer shall, if so required ,.,j^ns!rmed 
 in wi'itin.u' by the ,<i'as com]iany, consume tlie fjas l)y meter, but any ijy nu-ter, if 
 consumer may, if he thinks lit, ])rovide his own meter. roquircd by 
 
 19. Subject to the provisions of this Act, every gas company, '^.*^^^^j^_ ' 
 from time to time, may enter into any contract with any owner, panies may 
 occupier, or local authority for all or any of the following purposes ; contract for 
 that is to say, for suj)])lyintj,- him or them with gas, and with pipes, '^"PP'y- 
 burners, meters, lam])s, lani]) j)osts, and other a])paratus, and for 
 
 the repair and cleansing and for the lighting and extinguishing 
 thereof, in sncli manner and on such terms and conditions as the 
 j)arties agree. 
 
 20. l*rovided, that, notwithstanding its being required by any Contracts 
 Act of Parliament or otherwise that the gas company's contracts notunde"^'^ 
 shall be under seal, every contract of the gas company entered into seal. 
 
 in accordance with this Act shall without seal be binding on them, 
 if the contract be signed by at least two of their directors, or by 
 their secretary or other ofHcer, by the authority of at least two of 
 their directors. 
 
 21. Provided, that no contract for any of those purposes shall Restrictions 
 contain any term or condition contrary to any of the provisions of °" "j^"'^*''^^'^^ 
 this Act, or for giving in case of difference the sole arbitrament companies, 
 thereon to the gas company or any officer or j)erson who is or has 
 
 been employed by them, or who may have a pecuniary interest in 
 such company, or for requiring any notice by a consumer discon- 
 tinuing his sup])ly of gas or meter which shall make him liable to 
 pay more than one montli's rate or meter rent after the time of the 
 service of the notice, or which shall entitle the gas comjiany, except 
 for breach of any of the provisions of this Act, to discontinue any 
 supply of gas by less than one month's notice in writing to the 
 consumer, unless the rate due for gas shall be in arrear, in which 
 case three days notice in writing to the consumer shall be sufficient. 
 
 22. The gas company shall well and effectually light all ])ublic «as com- 
 lamps in all streets which they are reipiired by the local authority P''^""''^/''^ 
 to light, and shall, according to the terms of their contract, supply ^i^jen're^ 
 to the local autliority so much gas as they require lor their ]>ublic iinina by 
 lamps; provided that the gas com})any shall not be compelUul to '"^'l' . 
 light any street with lamps at a greater distance from each other than ^" '*^' • ' 
 seventy-iive yards. [_See also 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. ss. So and 80.] 
 
 23. The local authority may j)rovide and keep in rejiair their own Local 
 
 l)ublic himi) iiosts and lami)s, and aiu)aratus connected therewith, ''"^'"'"^'^.s, 
 
 1- r-xi- ii.i.1 1 J. 11^ 1 ..■ 1 i":iy provide 
 
 and m case oi their electing to burn by meter, light and extinguish lauip posts 
 
 the lamps, and defray the exjienses thereof. \_Sce 18 & 10 I'/W. and lamps. 
 
 r. 102, .s5. 130 and 200 ; and 25 & 20 Vict. c. In2, s. 90.] 
 
 24. Every gas company shall, unless ])revented by necessary Service 
 repairs or unavoidable accident, at all times keep all their branch ^,^,^1*"'*^}^^^^^^^^ 
 or service pipes fully charged with gas, and the stopcocks so turned ^■^x.\\ gas. 
 
 19
 
 290 
 
 [Chap. 125.] 
 
 Metropolis Gas Act 1860. [23 & 24 Vict]. 
 
 Limit of 
 charge for 
 gas and 
 meters. 
 
 Difference to 
 be settled by 
 _ arbitration. 
 
 Incoming 
 tenant not to 
 pay arrears 
 of outgoing 
 tenant, unless 
 by express 
 aareement. 
 
 Gas com- 
 panies to 
 cause maps 
 of their 
 districts to 
 be made. 
 
 As to deposit 
 and inspec- 
 tion of the 
 maps; 
 
 as not to prevent the brancli or service pijjes from being at all times 
 filled with gas. 
 
 25 — 34. [^6- to illuminating jpower^ purity, and gas examiners. 
 Note to ss. 7 — 12 applies.~\ 
 
 35. . . . Xo gas company shall . . . demand or take for any gas 
 or tive-light meter snpplied by them any snm of money exceeding 
 the rate or meter rent by this Act authorized. [ Words omitted 
 (" after the ^\st Dec. 1860," and saving for existing contracts) rep. 
 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 36. ^^Determination of existing contracts. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict, 
 c. 66 (S.L.R.) ; and 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 37. [As to charge for J) uhlic lamps. Sote to ss. 7 — 12 apjplies.^ 
 
 38. If any difference arise between the local authority and the 
 gas company with respect to ... the rate to be charged for gas 
 supplied or for lighting any public lamp, the difference shall be 
 referred to and be determined by arbitration in the manner prescribed 
 by the "Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 184.5," wdth respect 
 to the settlement of disputes b}' arbitration. \_Rep. {as to Com- 
 mercial and Gaslight ^" Coke Companies) 38 & 39 Vict. c. cc. s. 3, 
 and 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxv. s. 8 ; as regards the South Metropjolitan 
 Gas Compjany, the words '■'■ Lands Clauses ConsolidaJ.ion Act, 1845" 
 substituted for " Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 " 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. cxxx. s. 69. Part omitted {as to diference with 
 respject to alteration of test) .superseded by the Gaslight ^^ Coke 
 and other Gas Companies Amendment Act 1880, s. 6.] 
 
 39. In case any consumer leave the premises where gas was 
 supplied to him without paying to the gas company the rate or 
 meter rent due from him, the gas com^jany shall not reijuire from 
 the next tenant of the premises payment of the arrears so left 
 unpaid, unless the incoming tenant agreed with the defaulting 
 consumer to pay the arrears ; but the gas company shall, not- 
 withstanding any such arrears, in the absence of collusion between 
 the outgoing and incoming tenant, supply gas to the incoming 
 tenant, as required by this Act, on being required by him so to do. 
 
 40 — 41. [As to appeal to Home Secretary on rise of price of gas — 
 Home Secretary to issue form of accounts to be jilled up by gas 
 companies. Sote to ss. 7 — 12 applies?\ 
 
 42. Every gas company shall within one year after the passing of 
 this Act cause a map to be made of the district within which their 
 mains or district mains then lie, on a scale not less than six inches 
 to a mile, and shall cause to be marked thereon the line of all their 
 then existinir: mains and district mains, and shall once in everv 
 year correct such maj) and make such additions thereto as will show 
 the line of all their then mains and district mains as aforesaid. 
 \Ilep. {as to Commercial Company) 38 & 39 Vict. c. cc. s. 3. See 
 ibid. s. 70 ; and {as to Gaslight <^' Coke Company) 39 & 40 Vict, 
 c. ccxxv, .5'. 8. See also the City of London Gas Act 1^68, s. 88.] 
 
 43. Every map, or a copy thereof, so made by or for each com- 
 jjany, with the date expressed thereon of the last time when it was 
 so corrected, shall be deposited, certified by their secretary or clerk 
 by writing under his hand to be a true copy thereof, with the 
 respective clerks of the peace for the counties in which such mains 
 lie, and who are hereby required to receive and keep in safe custody 
 the same ; and such maps so deposited shall at all reasonable times
 
 [23 & 24 Vict.] Metropolis Gas Act 1860. [Chap. 125.] 291 
 
 be open to the inspection of all local authorities and consnoaers, and 
 their respective agents, and they respectively niay take copi(^s of 
 or extracts from the same ; and every gas company wilfully failing 
 to comi)ly with any of the re([uirements of this Act with respect to 
 maps, ;ind every person having charge of such maps who shall refuse 
 to allow any ])erson to inspect and take copies of or extracts from 
 such maps, slnill for every such ott'ence forfeit a sum not exceeding 
 ten pounds. \_Note to s. 38 {as to repeal) applies.'] 
 
 44. Every clerk of the peace with whom any map shall be Charge for 
 •deposited under the provisions of this Act may charge and take .'jf^map,^"" 
 the sum of one shilling for every inspection of such map, and the 
 further sum of two shillings and sixpence for every extract from or 
 
 •copy taken of such map. \_yote to s. 38 {as to repeal) applies.] 
 
 45. If and whenever it apiiears to the Secretarv of State that anv ^ec^etary of 
 . . . !• I • » 1 -1*1 I • "i '^tate may 
 
 ot the provisions oi this Act liave been violated or not complied direct pro- 
 
 with on the part of any gas comj)any, or that the gas company are ceedings by 
 acting in a manner unauthorized by law, and if it appear to him that ^'^ Attorney 
 it would be for the j)ublic advantage that the gas company should against gas 
 be restrained from so acting, or compelled to do any act for remedy- companies. 
 ing the wrongful act done by them, the Secretary of State may 
 certify the same in writing to Her Majesty's Attorney General, and 
 thereupon he, if he be so advised, shall proceed by information, bill, 
 or action, or other such proceeding at law or in equity, as the case 
 requires, to restrain the wrongful acting or to compel the doing of 
 the acts for remedying the wrongful acts ; provided always, that 
 the Secretary of State shall not give the certificate at a ])eri()d 
 exceeding one year after the committing of the offence specified in 
 the certificate. \_JS'ote to s. (> applies.] 
 
 46. Every penalty imposed by this Act, the recovery and applica- Recovery and 
 tion of which is not otherwise specially provided for by this Act, gf'pe^iti'^s. 
 shall be recovered on summary conviction before a Magistrate, and 
 
 1)6 enforced, accounted for, and paid to the receiver of the metro- 
 politan police district, and shall be apportioned in the same manner 
 as penalties or fines, other than fines upon drunken persons, or upon 
 constables for misconduct, or for assaults upon police constables, are 
 by the Act of the third year of Her ])resent Majesty, for regulating 
 police courts in the metropolis, directed to be recovered, enforced, 
 accounted for, paid, and api)lied ; and every order or conviction of 
 tiny Magistrate in respect of any such penalty shall be subject to 
 the like appeal, and upon the same terms, as is Ijy that x\ct pro- 
 vided in respect of any order or conviction of any Magistrate ; and 
 every Magistrate by whom any order of conviction is made under 
 this Act shall have the same power of binding over the witnesses 
 examined, and the witnesses shall be entitled to the same allow- 
 ance of expenses, as they would be entitled to in case the order, 
 conviction, and a])peal were made under that Act. 
 
 47. Every Magistrate shall, for the purposes of this Act, have Jurisdiction 
 full jurisdiction and full powers and autliorities over the ])arties ["rates for pur- 
 respectively, and with respect to making onl'Ts on the parties re- poses of Act. 
 spectively, and otherwise, and as to costs, and may issue every such 
 summons, warrant, and other process, and may take such other 
 proceedings as he thinks requisite; and the service of any summons, 
 
 notice, oriler, or other process in the matter on such person, or in 
 such manner as a Magistrate directs, slniU be good service thereof; 
 and every Magistrate may juoceed singly iu the execution ot this 
 Act in such manner as he thinks proper.
 
 292 
 
 [Chap. 125.] 
 
 Metro23oUs Gas Act 1860. [23 & 24 Vict.] 
 
 For the 
 protection 
 of -water 
 companies. 
 
 For laying 
 pipes to 
 convey gas. 
 
 Mode of 
 laying pipes 
 
 48. Notliing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to 
 extend to authorize or empower any gas company to interfere with 
 or abridge any of the rights or privileges of any company estab- 
 lished for the supply of water to the inhabitants of any parish 
 or place within the metropolis ; and every gas company shall be 
 answerable for any damage, spoil, injury, or mischief which shall 
 be done to any of the pipes, works, or property of any such water 
 company, or which shall or may be sustained by such water company 
 by reason or in consequence of any act, matter, or thing to be 
 done or executed by such gas company, or any of their servants, 
 agents, or workmen. 
 
 49. AVhenever any gas company, or their servants, agents, or 
 workmen, shall dig or sink any trench for laying any new mains 
 or pipes, other than service pipes, for the conveyance of gas or other 
 apparatus near to which any pipe belonging to any water company 
 for conveying water, or any branch or service pipe for the supply 
 of water to any dwelling house or buildings, shall be laid, such gas 
 company, their servants, agents, or workmen, shall give four hours 
 previous notice thereof in writing to the manager or chief clerk, 
 or secretary or engineer, of such water company, such notice to be 
 delivered at the principal office of the company between the hours 
 of ten in the morning and four in the afternoon, and shall, under the 
 inspection of the manager or chief clerk, secretary or engineer for 
 the time being of such water company, protect and secure every 
 such water pipe from any injury, and shall also repair any damage 
 that shall be done to such pipe, and in default of repairing such 
 damage the gas company shall for each such default forfeit and pay 
 to the secretary for the time being of such water company, for the 
 use of the said water company, any sum not exceeding five pounds^ 
 and also the costs and expenses which shall have been incurred by 
 the said water company in protecting and securing any such water 
 pipe, or in repairing or making good any injury that may have been 
 done thereto by the means aforesaid, such costs and expenses to be 
 ascertained by any Justice, and to be recovered in the same manner 
 as any expenses or penalty under this Act may be recovered. [_See 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 109—112 and notes thereon.'] 
 
 50. All pipes hereafter to be laid by any gas company for the 
 conveyance of gas shall be laid at the greatest practicable distance 
 from the nearest part of any jjipe then laid down by or by order of 
 any water company for the conveyance of water, and wherever the 
 width of the carriageway or footpath will allow thereof shall be laid 
 at the distance of four feet at least from the nearest part of any such 
 water pipe, unless in cases where it shall be unavoidably necessary 
 to lay the gas pipe across or nearer to any water pipe, in which case 
 the said gas pipe shall, wherever practicable, be laid over and above 
 the said w^ater pipe at the greatest practicable distance therefrom^ 
 and shall form therewith a right ans'le, or as near thereto as the 
 situation will admit ; and in every such case the said gas pipe so 
 crossing the said water pipe shall be at least nine feet in length, so 
 that no joint of any gas pipe shall be nearer to any water pipe than 
 four feet at the least, where the width of the road, street, square, 
 market place, lane, alley, passage, court, or other place will admit ; 
 and every such gas pipe so crossing the water pipe shall for the 
 whole length thereof be sufficiently bedded in with good sound clay 
 or other fit materials of a proper consistence, and well worked and 
 rammed into the trench all round the said gas pipe, and in laying
 
 [23 & 24 Vict.] Metropolis Gas Act I860. [Chap. 125.] 2'J3 
 
 down any such gas pipe the gas company sliall use such joints as 
 iii-e for the time being of the most imjiroved descri{)tion for pre- 
 venting the leakage of gas, and shall in no case j(»in two or more 
 gas pipes together ])revious to their ])eing laid in the trench, but 
 shall lay each jtipe as near as may be in its place in the trench, 
 and shall in such trench ]»roperly form the jointing with the otiier 
 pipes to be added thereto with projjcr and snflicicnt materials, and 
 shall also, wherever })racticable, lay and well and sufficiently bed 
 <mch joint of the main gas pipes and also the joints or screws of the 
 branch or service gas pipes connecting with the main gas ])ipes, and 
 also the joints of the service or branch ])i})es for conveying the gas 
 from the main gas pi])es to the houses and other buildings, and all 
 other joints, inlets, a])ertures, or openings which are or shall or may 
 be made in any of the main gas pi])es belonging to the gas company, 
 in such manner and of such matei'ial as shall, as fai* as reasonablv 
 practicable, prevent leakage. 
 
 61. Whenever the water which shall be su])plied by any water To prevent 
 company shall be contaminated or affected in anv wav whatsoever f^rtjier con- 
 
 \ A e 1 1 ' II '-1.1 • i. i. tamination of 
 
 by the gas oi any gas company, such gas company sliall, within twenty- „.ater by gas. 
 four hours next after notice thereof in writing, signed by any one 
 of the directors, or by the secretary for the time being of such water 
 ■company, or by any person using the water of such water company, 
 and left at the office of such gas company, cause measures to be 
 taken effectually to prevent such gas from contaminating or affecting 
 the water of such water company ; and in case such gas company 
 shall not within fortv-eight hours next after anv such notice so left 
 as aforesaid use all reasonable means to effectually remove the cause 
 of such complaint, and prevent all such contamination whereof 
 notice shall be given as aforesaid, then and in every such case such 
 gas com])any shall on each com])laint whereof notice shall be given 
 as aforesaid forfeit and pay to tlie secretary of such water company, 
 for the use of such water company, the sum not exceeding ten pounds 
 for each day during which the water supplied by such water com- 
 pany shall remain contaminated or affected by the gas of such gas 
 company; and every sucli jienalty or forfeiture may be recovered for 
 the use of such water company in the same manner as any other 
 penalty or forfeiture imposed by this Act may be levied and 
 recovered. \_See 54 & 55 Vict. c. 70, ^^s-. 52 and 53.] 
 
 52. And whereas it may become a question upon such complaint For ascer- 
 as aforesaid whether or not the water supplied by any water com- taimng if the 
 pany within the metrojtolis be contaminated or affected by the gas taminated. 
 of the gas company : 13e it enacted, that in every such case it shall 
 be lawful for any such water company to dig to and about and to 
 fsearch and examine the mains, p/ ])es, conduits, and apjniratus of the 
 gas company adjacent to the i)i })es of such water company for the 
 purpose of ascertaining whether or not such contamination i)roceed 
 or be occasioned by the gas of such gas company, giving twenty- 
 four hours previous notice in writing, signed by one of the directors 
 or by the secretary for the time being of such water company, and 
 left at the head otiice of such gas company, of the intention of such 
 water company so to dig, search, and examine as aforesaid, and of 
 the time and place or places when and where such digging, search, 
 and examination is intended to be made : and if it shall ajipear that 
 the said water has been contaminated, and that there has been any 
 escape of gas whereby such contamination has been produced, then
 
 294 [Chap. 125.] Metropolis Gas Act \m'). [23 & 24 Vict.] 
 
 and in every such case the costs and expenses of tlie said digging, 
 search, and examination, and of the repair of the street, road, or 
 place which shall be taken up or disturbed, shall be borne and paid 
 by such gas company, which costs and expenses shall be ascertained 
 and determined if necessary by any Justice, and may be levied and 
 recovered in the same manner as any penalty or forfeiture imposed 
 by this Act may be levied and recovered : Provided always, that if 
 upon such examination it shall appear that such contamination has- 
 not arisen from any escape of gas from any of the mains, pipes, or 
 conduits of the gas company to which such notice shall have been 
 given, then and in every such case the water company by whom or 
 on whose behalf such examination and search shall have been made 
 shall bear and pay all the costs, charges, and expenses of and 
 incident to such examination and search, and shall also make good 
 to such gas company any damage which may be occasioned to their 
 mains, pipes, conduits, or apparatus by such search, and also any 
 injury or damage which may be done in or about any of the streets, 
 roads, or places which shall be broken up or disturbed in such 
 search, the amount of such damage to be ascertained and determined 
 if necessary by any Justice, and to be levied and recovered in the 
 same manner as any penalty or forfeiture under this Act may be 
 levied and recovered. 
 
 Appropria- 53. All penalties or sums of money ordered and adjudged within 
 
 ^'^^^ 'f. . the city of London and the liberties thereof to be paid under this 
 the citT of*^ Act, and not otherwise appropriated, shall be i)ayable to the 
 London. chamberlain of the city of London, in aid of the expenses of the 
 police of the said city. 
 
 Raving rights 54. Kothing in this Act contained shall avoid, prejudice, or impair 
 
 rt^^^B d ^^^' ^^ ^^® powers now exercised by or vested in the Metropolitan 
 
 of Works, Board of Works,* or in the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of 
 
 vestries, and London j and the liberties thereof, or any powers now vested in any 
 
 others. local authority within the metropolis, or any powers now exercised 
 
 or possessed in respect of the manufacture or supply of gas within 
 
 the metropolis by anj' railway company, or by any other person or 
 
 persons making or supplying gas for his or their own use, and not 
 
 making or supplying gas to the public as a trade or business : 
 
 Provided that if the said local authority shall refuse or delay their 
 
 consent to any company to lay down mains or pijies in accordance 
 
 with the jn'ovisious of this Act, it shall be lawful for the said 
 
 Secretary of State under his hand to authorize the same to be laid 
 
 down without such consent ; and after the date of the application 
 
 by such company to the said Secretary of State for such consent no 
 
 jjenalty shall be incurred by any default of such company, so far as 
 
 it is occasioned by such refusal only. \_Xote to s. 6 applies.'] 
 
 Saving 55. Provided, that no special remedy or j^rovision for giving relief 
 
 general juris- ^q ^^y person given by this Act shall prejudice or diminish the 
 conrts of law general jurisdiction of any of Her Majesty's superior Courts of Law 
 and equity, or Equity over or with respect to the acts or defaults in respect of 
 which the special remedies or provisions are so given. 
 
 56. lExpe?ises of Act. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (^.Z.i?.).] 
 
 57. \_Expenses of local authorities under the Act. Superseded {as 
 to London County Council, as successor to the Metropolitan Board 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S), 
 t Now the Common Council of the City of London. See the Citv of London Sewers- 
 Act 1897.
 
 [24 & 25 Vict.] 
 
 Ihtt Metrojjolitau Police 
 {Receiver) Act 1861. 
 
 [Chap. 124.] 
 
 295 
 
 of Works') 51 & 52 Vict. c. 4\, parf iv. ; a?i(/ (as to metropolitan 
 borouijh councils, as successors to Vfstrics and district hoards) 02 & 
 63 Vict. r. 14, s. K).] 
 
 Schedule to whicli Fil'tli Section of the foregoing Act refers. 
 
 Name of Gas Company. 
 
 The Crystal Palace District 
 Gas ('ompany.* 
 
 The Woolwich, Plurastead, 
 and Charlton Consumers 
 Gas Company.f 
 
 The Woolwich Equitable 
 Gaslight and Coke Com- 
 pany .f 
 
 The Wandsworth and Put- 
 ney Gaslight and Coke 
 Company. 
 
 The Brentford Gas Com- 
 pany. 
 
 The Victoria Docks Gas 
 Company. J 
 
 The Eltham Gaslight and 
 Coke Company, Limited. 
 
 The West Ham Gas Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Mitcham, Merton, and Toot- 
 ing Gas Company. 
 
 Si)ef;ial Act or 
 Instninieiit of Incorporation. 
 
 The Crystal Palace District 
 
 Gas Company's Act, 18.^8. 
 The Woolwich, Plumsttad, 
 
 and Charlton Consumers 
 
 Gas Act, 1855. 
 The Woolwich Equitable 
 
 Gas Company's Act, 1 855. 
 
 The Wandsworth and Put- 
 ney Gas Act, 1856. 
 
 The Brentford Gas Act, 
 18.58. 
 
 The Victoria Docks Gas 
 Act, 1857. 
 
 Articles of Association 
 un<ler the .Joint Stock 
 Company's Act, 185(5. 
 
 The West Ham Gas Com- 
 pany's Act, 1856. 
 
 Articles of Association 
 under 7 & >< Victoria, 
 cap. 110. 
 
 District. 
 
 The district defined by their 
 
 said special Act. 
 The di.strict defined by their 
 
 said special Act. 
 
 Tlie district defined by their 
 said special Act. 
 
 The district defined by their 
 said special Act. 
 
 The district now actually 
 supplied by the company. 
 
 Tlie district defined by their 
 said special Act. 
 
 The parish of Eltham. 
 
 The district defined by their 
 said special Act. 
 
 The parishes and villages of 
 and adjacent to Mitcham, 
 Merton, and Tooting. 
 
 24 & 25 VICTORIA. A.D 1861. 
 
 CHAPTEli 124. 
 
 An Act fok amending the Law relating to the Receiver 
 FOR the Metropolitan Police District ; and for other 
 Purposes. [6M August 1861.] 
 
 \Freamhh'. {reciting 10 Geo. 4, c. 44) rep. 55 k h^ Vict. c. 19 
 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 1. The person for the time beins^ hoklino- the office of Receiver for Kcceiver 
 the metropolitan police di.strict shall be a t-"Oi'P*^^*i'^^ion sole, by the ^°"p^'j^"j^^^* 
 name of " the Receiver for the ]VIetro])olitan Police District,'" and sole. 
 
 by that name shall have })erpetnal succession, with a capacity by 
 his official name to acquire and hold lands, to hold stock in the 
 public funds, shaves in any public com])any, securities for monies, 
 and j)ersonal pro})erty of every description, to sue and be sued, to 
 execute deeds, using an official seal, to make leases, to enter into 
 engagements binding on himself and his successors in office, and to 
 do all other acts necessary or expedient to be done in the execution 
 of the duties of his office. 
 
 2. [ T'ran.sfer to the Receiver oj'propertg vested in prerious receivers. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 * Now the South Suburban Gas Company. See the South Suburban Gas Act 1904, s. 3. 
 
 t Amalgamated with the South Metropolitan Gaslight & Coke Company by an 
 Order in Council in 18S4 made under the South Metropolitan Gaslight A: Coke Com- 
 pany's Act 187(5, s. 1)4. 
 
 X Amalgamated with the Gaslight :>c Coke Company by the Gaslight & Coke Com- 
 pany's Act 1870.
 
 296 [Chap, cxvii.] The Lambeth Bridge Act 1861. [24 & 25 Yict.] 
 
 Exoneration 3^ The Receiver for the time being for the metropolitan police 
 metropoman ^listrict, herein-after referred to as the Receiver, shall not be personally 
 police liable for any debt incurred or engagement entered into by him by 
 
 district. hj;^ official name in his official capacity, but all such debts and 
 
 engagements shall be satisfied out of the monies for the time being 
 
 received by him in his official capacity. 
 
 Alteration of 4. The name of the Receiver for the time being shall not ... be 
 
 ^^™® ^f|i^- inserted in the official account kept by him with . . . the Bank of 
 
 of^England^^^'^o^'^^^- \_^Voi-(hs Omitted {;' after the passing of this Act"" and 
 
 " the Gocernor and Comparoj of') rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.').'] 
 
 Power of 5. The Receiver may, by the direction of one of Her Majesty's 
 
 Eece^ver to principal Secretaries of State, transfer, demise, enfranchise, mortgage, 
 ' or otherwise dispose of property of any tenure vested in him in his 
 official capacity, and may purchase, take, or lease property of any 
 tenure required for the purposes of the Metropolitan Police Force or 
 other the purposes of his office. [Rep. {so far as it relates to a.ny 
 police court) 34 & 35 Vict. c. 35,* s. 5.] 
 
 6. [Pensions and oMowamces to icidows and children of constaMes 
 killed in execution of tJieir duties. Rep. 53 & 54 Vict. c. 45, 6-. 36.] 
 
 Eepealof 7. . . . [Repeal qfl() Geo. 4, c. 44,6-. 2q in part.'] The overseers 
 
 ^e^t ^^~ f *^ball pay into the Bank of England, to the account of the Receiver 
 10 G.l. c. 44. of the Metropolitan Police, the amount mentioned in the warrant f 
 and enact- within the time specified for that purpose, and . . . the certificate 
 ment of new £ ^j^ bank, signed bv one of their cashiers, specifving the amount 
 
 pro\'TSioDs in .. jr^ * ^ 71*0 
 
 lieu thereof, paid into the bank, shall be a sufficient discharge to the overseers for 
 such amount, and shall be- allowed as such in passing their accounts 
 with their respective parishes, townships, precincts, or places. 
 [Paits omitted rejj. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 (xS'-Z.^.).] 
 Payment of 3^ Jq addition to the sums hereby directed to be paid by the 
 the'bank^ *^ overseers all other sums from time to time accruing payable to the 
 Receiver shall be paid into the Bank of England to the account of 
 the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police, and the certificate of the 
 bauk, signed by one of their cashiers, specifying the amount paid 
 into the bank, shall be a sufficient discharge to the persons paying 
 the same. 
 
 This and 9. This Act, so far as is not inconsistent with the purposes thereof, 
 
 previous Acts ghall be construed as one with the said Act of the tenth year ot 
 btruedas'one. ■'^i'^o George the Fourth, chapter forty-four, and the other Acts 
 relating to the Metropolitan Police Force. 
 
 10. [Short title. Rep. 55 & 56 Vict c. 19 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 CHAPTER CXVII. 
 
 An Act to ixcorporate a Company for making a new Bridge 
 FROM Lambeth to AVestminster. [\\th. .Jahj 1(S61.] 
 
 [Preamble recites 6 (S: 7 Wm. 4, c. cxxxiv., and 1 & 2 Vict, 
 c. Ixvii., and tliat the same had never been jyut into execution, and 
 that the pjowers conferred thereby had expired.'] 
 
 Short title. !• '^'^^^ -^^^ may be cited for all ])urposes as "The Lambeth 
 
 Bridge Act, 1861." 
 
 * Eep. GO & 61 Yict. c. 2t;, s. 9. f See 10 Geo. 4, c. 44, s. 23.
 
 [24 & 25 Vict.] The Ijunbeth Bridge Acf 18G1. [Chap, cxvii.] 297 
 
 2. \^In(:orporation of Latuls Clauses and ('ompanies Clauses Arts. 
 Sjjent.'\ 
 
 3 — 15. \_fncori)Oi-afi(>N of Ldmheth Jiridi^e ('ninpanj^ n-itli an 
 ■authorized capital of £4<t,n()(j — Provisions as to finance and direc- 
 tors. Spent, See 40 & 41 Met. c. xcix.] 
 
 16 — ^17. [^Power to take lands — Tiine for compulsori/ jnirchase 
 limited to two years. Spent^ 
 
 18. The works wliich the Company are by this Act authorizetl to ^^orks 
 execute are as follows ; (that is to say,) 'a good and substantial Je^execiTtecl^ 
 bridge for carriages, carts, horses, and ])a8sengers across the River 
 Thames, with approaches thereto, and with all convenient and 
 necessary abutments, j)iers, landing stairs, and works, to com- 
 mence in the i)arish of Saint Mary Lambeth in the county of 
 Surrey,* in Church Street near the south-western extremity of the 
 churchyard of the parish church of Saint Mary Lamijeth, and to 
 terminate in the parish of Saint John the Evan<relist within the city 
 
 and libertv of Westminster in the countv of Middlesex * in Market 
 Street near the junction therewith of Grub Street. 
 
 19. The Company shall make and maintain on each side of the^^^^^*^ 
 bridge a good and sufficient fence of not less height than four feet. "*^^®' 
 
 20. For the ])urposes of the works the Comi)any from time to incidental 
 time may, within the limits of deviation defined on the said ]»Ians, "''^'*- 
 dig and make pro])er foundations in the river and on tlie lands on 
 
 each side thereof, and make dams in the river during the making or 
 rei)airing of the bridge, and cut, level, embank, and scour the banks 
 of the river, and cut, remove, scour, take, and carry away all trees, 
 roots of trees, beds of gravel, sand, mud, and other impediments, 
 and execute all other works necessarv or convenient for bnildinor, 
 maintaining, and rejjairing the bridge, and the approaches to 
 communicate with the bridge, on each side of the river. 
 
 21. {For the protection of Lambeth Palace and St. Manj Lamheth 
 Church. Spent.'] 
 
 22 — 23. {Bridge to he made according to plans approved by the 
 Thames Conservators. Spent.] 
 
 24. The Companv shall not take anv gravel, soil, or other material ^ompauy not 
 Irom the bed of the Kiver Thames without the ])revious consent of ' ?, , 
 
 , , . , . p ii !»• rni • • • 1 11 1 ,. material from 
 
 the Conservators ot the iiiver ihames in writnig under the hand ot river without 
 their secretarv. \_See also 57 & 58 \lct. c. clxxxvii. s. 07 (^^f consent of 
 Appetldix).] " Conservators. 
 
 25 — 26. {Clans of bridge to be approved by Admiralty — Mode of 
 construction of bridge. Spent.] 
 
 27. During the construction of the bridge and works connected i^iplits to be 
 therewith, the Comi)any shall hang out or exhibit thereat or near 11^^^^^.^^"""" 
 thereto, and for ever after the com[)letion of the bridge the Company 
 .shall hang out or exhibit ujwn the bridge and works respectively 
 every night, from sunset to sunrise, lights to be kept burning by 
 and at the expense of the Company, and proj)er and sufficient for 
 the navigation and safe guidance of vessels, and the lights shall be 
 from time to time altered by the Company in such manner and be of 
 such kind and number, and be so placed as the (.'onservators of the 
 Kiver Thames shall by writing under the hand of their secretary 
 approve of: and in case the Comj)any shall neglect to exhibit and 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 .Sc 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 40.
 
 298 [Chap, cxvii.] The Lambeth Bridge Act 1861. [24 & 25 Yict.] 
 
 keep the lights burnino: as aforesaid, they shall forfeit and pay for 
 
 every such offence the sum of ten pounds. 
 Steps to be 28. A flight of steps shall be constructed and ever after be main- 
 
 ^t^^*t;]"^*^d- Gained in good repair by and at the cost of the Company at each side 
 of bridt^e. 0^' ^1^© bridge and at both ends of the bridge, exce])t the Admiralty 
 
 shall think proper to dispense with one or any of such fliglits of 
 
 steps, and each flight shall not be less than twenty feet wide and be 
 
 free to tlie public. 
 
 If public 29. AVhenever the Company shall shut up, remove, or take away, 
 
 stairs shut up, q]. jn any manner obstruct the free use and enjoyment of any exist- 
 ere^t^o°hers ^^^o ])ublic stairs or landing place, they shall forthwith cause some 
 equally convenient free public stairs or landing place to be erected 
 or provided in the place or stead of the stairs or landing place so 
 shut up, removed, or taken away, or the free use and enjoyment of 
 which may be in any manner obstructed. 
 
 30. \('ompaiiij to invest £1,000 before bridge commenced. Spent.'] 
 
 31. \_Admiraltg may order local surreg. Superseded 57 & 5^ 
 Vict. c. clxxxvii. s. 183.] 
 
 Admiralty or 32. If any work to be constructed by the Company in, under, over, 
 
 Conservators through, or across the Elver Thames, or if any portion of any work 
 
 ab^a^doned^ which affects Or may affect any such river or access thereto, shall be 
 
 works at abandoned or suffered to fall into disuse or decay, it shall be lawful 
 
 expense of for the Lord High Admiral * or the Commissioners for executing 
 
 Companj'. ^j^g office of Lord High Admiral,* or for the Conservators of the 
 
 River Thames, to abate and remove the same, or such part or parts. 
 
 thereof as he or they may at any time or times deem fit and proper, 
 
 and to restore the site thereof to its former condition, at the cost and 
 
 charge of the Company, and the amount thereof shall be a debt due 
 
 from the Company to the Crown or the said Conservators, and if not 
 
 paid upon demand may be recovered as a debt due to the Crown or 
 
 the said Conservators, with the costs of suit, or may be recovered 
 
 with costs as a penalty is or may be recoverable from the Company, 
 
 33. \_Sacing the rights of the Thames Conservancy?^ 
 
 34. {^Protection of sewers as regards intended works. Semble 
 spent,'] 
 
 35. \_Period for completion of tcorhs limited to four years. Spent.'] 
 36—50. {^Provisions as to tolls. Superseded 40 & 41 Vict, 
 
 c. xcix. s. 16.] 
 
 51—52. [As to offences committed on bridge or approaches and 
 
 as to dajnaging bridge. Superseded by 45 Vict. c. Ivi. s. 41, and 
 
 55 & 56 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. s. 40. See also the Malicious Damage 
 
 Act 1861, 6-.9. 33 aw/ 51.] 
 
 Barge owners 53. H' and w^henever any person having the care of any boat. 
 
 answerable jjarii-e, or Other vessel navigated on the river, wilfullv, carelessly, 
 for damage ^ ' i- .i ^ t • • / i i u 
 
 donebytiieir or negligently causes or suffers any damage or m_]ury to be clone by 
 
 servants. the vessel to the bridge, the owner of the vessel shall be liable to 
 
 make satisfaction to the Company for all such damage or injury. 
 
 54 — 56. \_Further provisions as to tolls. Spent.'] 
 
 Eecoveryand 57. All offences under this Act, and all penalties, damages, 
 application of eharges, tolls, and costs imjjosed or payable under this Act, may 
 pena les. -^^ recovered in a summary manner under the provisions of the 
 11 & 12 Vict. Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of Her present 
 
 c. 43. 
 
 * Now the Board of Trade. See the Harbours Transfer Act 1862, s. 8.
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] The Thames EmhanJuncid Art 1802. [Chap. 93.] 299 
 
 Mnjf'sty, cliaj)ter forty-three, intituled " An Aet to facilitate the Per- 
 formance of the Duties oi' Justices of the Peace out of the Sessions 
 within England and Wales with respect to summary Convictions 
 and Orders," and all such ])enalties shall be ])aid to the (^'ompany, 
 exce])t so far as the convictinjr Justices award not more than one half 
 thereof to the informer. \_^ee alao 2 A: :» VicA. c. 71, h. 34.] 
 
 58 — 61. [^-l.S' to serrice of noticr.s b// the Company — ('ompatiifs 
 accounts — Appropriation of tolls and expenses of obtaining Act. 
 Spent ; and see 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 25 & 26 VICTORIA. A.D. 1862. 
 
 CHAPTER 93. 
 
 An Act for embanking the North Side of the River Thamks 
 FROM Westminster Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge, and 
 
 FOR MAKING NEW STREETS IN AND NEAR THERETO. 
 
 [1th August 1862.] 
 
 \_Preamhle recites 20 Sc 21 Vict. c. cxlvii.* ; 21 & 22 Vict. c. V)A ; 
 and 24 & 25 Vict. c. 42.t] 
 
 1. [Incorporation of Lands Clau><cs Acts. SpentJ] 
 
 2. This Act mav for all purposes be cited as " The Thames Short title. 
 Embankment Act/l862." 
 
 3. The following words and expressions in this Act have for the interpreta- 
 purposes of this Act the following meanings, unless excluded by ^^^'^ ^^ terms, 
 the subject or context ; (to wit,) 
 
 "The Board" means the Metropolitan Board of Works J constituted 
 by and acting under the statute, eighteenth and nineteenth 
 Victoria, chapter one hundred and twenty, for the better 
 local management of the Metropolis : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 " The Conservators " means the Conservators of the River Thames : 
 " The lierein-before recited Act" means " Tlie London Coal and 
 Wine Duties Continuance Act, 1861 : " § 
 
 • ••••, 
 
 The woi'd "Justice" sluili, in relation to any lands or to the 
 j)urchase or taking by the Board of any lands situated within 
 the citv of London or the liberties thereof, mean the Lord 
 Mayor or any Alderman or the Recorder of the city of Lou- 
 don, and shall, in relation to any lands or to the ])urchase or 
 taking by the Board of any lands situated not within the 
 city of London or the liberties thereof, but within the 
 county of Middlesex,! mean a Justice of the Peace acting in 
 or for the county of Middlesex : !| 
 
 • •••■• 
 
 The word " street " shall include any square, street, highway, 
 road, lane, footway, thoroughfare, or puldic place, court, 
 alley, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, and a part 
 
 * Rep. 57 & 5S Vict, o, clxxxvii. (see Appendix). 
 
 t Rep. ao & 56 Vict. c. 19 (S.L.R.). 
 
 j Now the London County Council. See 51 & .".2 Vict. c. 41. .<:. 40 (S). 
 
 § Kep. 55 i: 5(5 Vict. c. io (iS.L.R.) 
 
 |] Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 40 (2).
 
 300 [Chap. 93.] The Thames Embankment Act 1862. [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 of any sneli square, street, highway, road, lane, footway, 
 thoroughfare, or public place, court, alley, or passage. 
 [_Parts omitted {definithns of " the Treasurtj,'' " the Admiralty,'''' 
 '"'the Thames Kmhankment and Metropolis Improvement Fwid" and the 
 meaning of " sheriff^ in the Land Clauses Acts incorporated) 
 spent.'] 
 
 4. \_Wo/-ds defined in the Lands Clauses Acts to have the same 
 meanings in this Act. 
 
 5. \_As to deposit of plans with the Clerks of the Peace for the City 
 of London, for Westminster, and. for Middlesex, and. inspection of 
 
 same.'] 
 
 6. [^Power to mahe ivorhs according to deposited plans. Spent?j^ 
 
 7. \Board to appoint committee to execute Act. Superseded hy the 
 Municipal Corporations Act 1882, ,s. 22 {see Appendix), and 51 & 52 
 Vict. c. 4:1, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 Works 8. The improvements and works by this Act authorized comprise 
 
 authorized. ^\^q following ; (to wit,) 
 
 1 . The making and maintaining an embankment and viaduct on 
 
 the left bank of the Uiver Thames, with all necessary and 
 convenient walls, piers, arches, culverts, drains, quays, 
 wharves, barge beds, basins, landing places, stairs, water- 
 ways, approaches, and other conveniences and works, such 
 embankment to commence at the northern side of the 
 Middlesex end of Westminster Bridge, and to terminate at 
 or near the eastern boundary of the Inner Temple, and such 
 viaduct to commence at the eastern boundary of the Inner 
 Temple and to terminate near to the western side of the 
 northern end of Blackfriars Bridge ; the said embankment 
 and viaduct respectively to be constructed in whole or in the 
 greater part upon the bed or foreshore of the River Thames, 
 and the site of which embankment and viaduct will be within 
 the parishes, liberties, extra-parochial and other places fol- 
 lowing, or some of them ; (that is to say,) Saint Margaret 
 Westminster, Saint Martin in the Fields, Saint Clement Dane, 
 Saint Mary le Strand, Saint John the Baptist, and the Savoy 
 or precinct of the Savoy, all in the county of Middlesex,* 
 and the Middle Temple and the Inner Temple, the precinct 
 of Whitefriars, Saint Bridget otherwise Saint Bride, the pre- 
 cinct of Bridewell, and the parish or precinct of Saint Ann 
 Blackfriars, all in the city of London or county of Middlesex : * 
 
 2. The making upon the said embankment and viaduct a public 
 
 roadway one hundred feet wide up to the eastern boundary 
 of the Inner Temple, and not less than seventy feet wide 
 thence to Chatham Place, with all necessary approaches to 
 the said roadway : 
 
 3. The making of an approach road of an uniform width of not 
 
 less than forty feet, and on a gradient not steeper in any 
 part thereof than one in thirty, leading from and out of 
 such embankment roadway, and communicating hy means 
 of approaches with each of the streets following ; namely, 
 Surrey Street, Norfolk Street, and Arundel Street ; and which 
 last-mentioned approach road and approaches will be in 
 the parish of Saint Clement Dane in the city of Westminster, 
 each of which approaches shall be formed on a gradient not 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 4]^ s. 40 (2).
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] The Thames Embankment Act 1802. [Chap. 93.] 301 
 
 steeper in any ])iirt thereof than one in thirty, and of a 
 width not less than tlie width of the street with which the 
 same shall so communicate as aforesaid : 
 
 4. The makin«^ a new street whicii shall commence from and out 
 
 of the said cmbanlvmcnt and I'oiidway at or near the east 
 side of the Middlesex end of lluntrerford Brid<;:e in the 
 parish of JSaint Martin in the Fields, and shall pass on, over, 
 and tlirough divers streets, wharves, lands, and places in 
 the j)arishes of Saint Martin in the Fields, Saint Clement 
 Dane, and the ])ici'inct of the Savoy, and sliall terminate in 
 Wellington Street, Waterloo l>rid<re, in the precinct of the 
 Savoy, ojjposite to the northern wing of the western front 
 of Somerset House, with all necessary ajiproaches to such 
 DBW street ; and also several sliort streets or communica- 
 tions, each to continence from and out of such last-menti(jned 
 new street, and respectively to communicate with and terminate 
 in Villiers Street and Buckingham Street in the ])arish of 
 Saint Martin in the Fields, and Cecil Street in tiie parishes 
 of Saint Martin in the Fields and Saint Clement Dane, or one 
 of them : 
 
 5. The making a new street which shall commence by a junction 
 
 with the intended new street fourthly herein described at or 
 near to George Street in the Adelphi, and shall terminate in 
 and by a junction with AV'hitehull Place at the east end 
 thereof, all in the parish of Saint Martin in the Fields : 
 
 6. The making a new street whicli shall commence from and out 
 
 of the said embankment aiul roadway at or near a place 
 called Whitehall Stairs, and shall })ass thence through AVhite- 
 hall Yard, and shall terminate in the street known as "White- 
 hall, opposite to the Horse Guards, all in the ])arishes of 
 Saint Margaret Westminster and Saint Martin in the Fields : 
 
 7. The reclaiming and inclosing all or so much of the bed or fore- 
 
 shore of the Uiver Tliames as shall lie between the present left 
 bauk of such river and the said intended embankment. 
 \_Amended 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxi. s. 4.] 
 
 9. \_Certain lands not to be taken without consent. Spent ^ 
 
 10. [^Profisions of tki.^ Act as to Thames Embankment and 
 Metropolis Improvement Fund applied to further works. Spent 
 See 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, ss. 30 aiid 50.] 
 
 11 — 18. \_Poivers to the Board to set out footways and to deviate — 
 Time for compulsory purchases oj' land limited to b years — Powers to 
 Jill up bed of the Thames^ to remorr stairs, piles, etc., to purchase lands 
 and extinguish rights aud claims to the bed of the Thames — Soil to 
 form the Embankment may be raised from the Thames by the Con- 
 servators — Power to Board to take places for depositing materials — 
 Approval of certain ivorks by the Admiralty. Spent.'] 
 
 19 — 20. [_Stairs, quays, etc., authorized by the Act to be appro>'ed 
 by the Conservators — Lights to be exhibited at night during works. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 21. Whenever the Board shall shut u]), remove, or take away. Piers and 
 or in any manner obstruct the free use and enjoyment nt" any stairs to be 
 existing piers, })ublic stairs, or landing place now marked by the iieu^onho°e 
 Watermen's Comj)any, they shall cause some pier, public stairs, or taken away, 
 landing place to be erected or provided, to the satisfaction of the 
 Conservators, in the stead of the pier, stairs, or landing place so
 
 302 [Chap. 93.] The Thames Embankment Act 1862. [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 shut lip, removed, or taken away, or the free use and enjoyment of 
 which may be obstructed ; and every such substituted pier shall, so 
 soon as the same shall be completed, be and hereby is vested in 
 the Conservators, and subject in their hands to all the powers 
 and provisions applicable thereto of " The Thames Conservancy 
 Act, 1857."* 
 
 Embankment 22. From and after the completion of the embankment and 
 repalr'^^^ ^^ viaduct by this Act authorized the Board shall, out of the rates 
 raised for defraying the expenses of the Board under the Act 
 eighteen and nineteen Victoria, chapter one hundred and twenty, 
 keep and maintain the same respectively and every part thereof in 
 proper repair ; and if the embankment or viaduct or any portion 
 thereof or any of the works connected therewith be out of repair 
 or insecure, so as to be dangerous to any person passing along the 
 Eiver Thames, or to any vessel either moored alongside of or passing 
 by the same respectively, or be in any manner injurious or likely to 
 be injurious to the River Thames or to the free navigation thereof, 
 the Conservators may, by notice in writing to the Board, require 
 them to repair the embankment or viaduct, or the portion thereof or 
 the works connected therewith so out of repair or insecure as afore- 
 said, to the reasonable satisfaction in all respects of the surveyor from 
 time to time of the Conservators, within a time to be limited in such 
 notice ; and in case the Board refuse or fail to repair the embankment 
 or viaduct, or such portion thereof, to the reasonable satisfaction in all 
 respects of such surveyor, within the time to be limited as aforesaid, 
 then and in every such case the Conservators may reiDair the same 
 respectively, and may recover the expenses incurred thereby from 
 the Board ; provided that all the parts of the metropolis shall be 
 deemed to be equally benefited by all sums expended by the Board 
 for such maintenance and repair as aforesaid. 
 
 23 — 24. [As to ascertaining com'pensation — Powers to take lands — 
 Errors in book of reference. Spent.'] 
 
 Ground laid 25. When the said roadway and new streets, and the approaches 
 streets\tc ^° ^^^ same respectively, shall be made and paved in pursuance of 
 to be used b^- this Act, all the ground and lands which shall be laid open into the 
 the public. said roadway, or any of such new streets, or the approaches of the 
 same resijectively, shall form jjart of such roadway or new street, 
 as the case may be, and shall, except as hereby otherwise expressly 
 provided, be used by the public accordingly ; and the same roadway, 
 new streets, and approaches, and the sole power, authority, and duty 
 of paving, repairing, cleansing, lighting, and watching thereof 
 respectively, and of rating the lands and hereditaments situate and 
 being within the same, shall be under the care, management, con- 
 trol, and jurisdiction of the same vestries,t board, district boards,+ 
 commissioners, or persons as the other streets in the wards, dis- 
 tricts, parishes, or places in which the same respectively shall be 
 situate. [Amended 35 & 36 Vict. c. Ixvi. s. 3. See also 62 & 63 
 Vict. c. 14, s. 6 (2).] 
 
 26. [J'eclaimed land to be dedicated to the jmblic. liep. 31 & 32 
 \ 'ict. c. cxi. s. 25.] 
 
 27. [Power to grant land or easements in respect of loss of ?iver 
 frontage. Spent.] 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by .57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii (see Appendix.) 
 
 f Now the Councils of the Metropolitan Boroughs. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. ^
 
 [•25 & 20 Vict. J The Thamf^ Embankment Act \'6^1. [Chap. 93.] 303 
 
 28. No house or Iniildiuji; shall he erected npon any part ^'" ^louse to 
 
 of the lauds to be aeunircd or reclaimed as aforesaid situated f ^^, ^r^*T» i'^ 
 , , I , , * /• 1 o • • front or the 
 
 between the Kiver iliames and the gardens oi the societies ptrdcns of 
 
 of the Inuer and Middle Temiile respectivelv, other thau auv '*"' i'""-'" 
 
 such ])orters or gardeners lodges, alcoves, or other buildings •^^'xemjie 
 
 a like nature, of only one floor eacii, as are from time to time, 
 
 whetlier i^efore or after the passing of this Act, a])proved by 
 
 the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public 
 
 Buildings, by writing under his hand. \_Va.i'ie(l 3s & 3'.' Vict. 
 
 c. clxxix. .s. 3U.] 
 
 29. Notwithstanding anytliing in this Act contained, the })ublic As to the 
 
 roadwav herein-before mentioned shall, so far as the same itasses '■"•'^^^^Y',^*** 
 
 . I ' 1 !• . 1 1 !• 1 o ■ !• !• I T 1 -.f 1 11 connected 
 
 southward oi the gardens ot the Societies oi the Inner and Middle with the 
 
 Temples respectively, be constructed on an embankment, and all the Inner and 
 
 land reclaimed and enclosed from the River Thames Iviuir in front of ^f"^'^l^ 
 
 the present southern boundary of the Inner and tiie Middle Temjtlcs, 
 
 except so much as is occupied by the embankment and road 
 
 thereon, shall for ever hereafter be the exclusive property, as to such 
 
 land southward of the Inner Temple, of and be vested in the 
 
 trustees for the Society of the Inner Temple, and as to the lands 
 
 southward of the Middle Temple, of and be vested in the trustees 
 
 for the Society of the Middle Tcmi^le, for an estate in fee simple 
 
 absolute in possession, to and upon the like uses and trusts as the 
 
 uses and trusts to and upon which the lands adjoining thereto of 
 
 the societies respectively are from time to time held ; and such 
 
 lands, but not the embankment or road thereon, shall for all 
 
 parochial purposes be within and part of the places called the Inner 
 
 Tem})le and the Middle Temple respectively ; and in order that so 
 
 far as can be the two societies respectively and their respective 
 
 property and rights shall be protected against being prejudicially 
 
 iiifected bv the execution of this Act, the Board from time to time 
 
 may and shall take all such precautions, and make, execute, and do 
 
 all such matters and things, in, upon, in connexion with, and near 
 
 to the Temple land, and fulfil all such stipulations, as are before the 
 
 ])assing of this Act specified, under the hand of the First Ct>mmis- 
 
 sioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings : and the said 
 
 Societies of the Inner Temple and Middle Temple shall not claim 
 
 any damage or compensation in respect of the execution of the 
 
 jjowers of this Act. \_^See note {as to extra-parochial places) on 
 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 158.] 
 
 30. The Board may and shall make for the two societies a Board to 
 lauding })lace, with proper and sufficient works and conveniences "^.^' '^'^'^'°^ 
 •connected therewith, in substitution for their present landing j)lace u^ of the 
 
 at the end of Middle Tem])le Lane, and the same shall be used by Temples, 
 the Inner Tem})le and the Middle Temple, and shall be held, enjoyed, 
 and regulated by the two societies as their private lauding place 
 accordinglv. 
 
 31. [Saving the rights of the Temples.'] 
 
 32. As regards all lands which shall be purchased or otherwise Board may 
 accpiired by the Board under the jjrovisious of this Act, and which ?^^^ build- 
 shall not be wanted for the j)urposes of the same (other than and !r"ound"not'^ 
 •except such lands as are by virtue of this Act reserved and exccjited wanted for 
 from the operation of this power of leasing, or are otherwise dealt purposes of 
 ^vith), it shall be lawful for the Board, subject to the provisions of this ^^^ ^'^^'
 
 304 
 
 [Chap. 93.] The Thames Emhankment Act 1862. [25 & 26 Vict.j 
 
 Board mav 
 make agree- 
 ments for 
 leases and 
 accept sur- 
 renders of 
 leases, etc. 
 
 Act, when and as they shall think fit, by an indenture or indentures 
 nnder their common seal, to demise and lease such ground and 
 hereditaments, or such part thereof as they shall think it expedient 
 to let on building leases, either together or in parcels, to any person 
 or persons who shall erect and build or covenant and agree to erect 
 and build thereon, or on any part or parts thereof, houses, erections, 
 and buildings of such rate or class or respective rates or classes 
 of buildings, upon such plan and elevation or respective plans and 
 elevations, of such height or respective heights, and with such 
 stories, as the Board shall think proper, for such number of years and 
 under such conditions as they may think fit, and either at a rent or 
 without any rent, but so that in every such demise or lease there be 
 contained a covenant for the payment of the rent, if any shall be 
 thereby reserved, and also such other covenants on the part of the 
 tenant or lessee therein to be named as the Board shall reasonably 
 require, and also a clause in the nature of a condition of re-entry 
 on nonpayment of the rent (if any) thereby to be reserved, or on 
 nonperformance of the covenants therein to be contained on the part 
 of the tenant or lessee to be observed and performed, and that the 
 lessee or lessees named in every such lease shall execute a counter- 
 part thereof ; and on the negotiation for any such lease the Board 
 may, if they think fit, accept and take any fine for the granting 
 thereof, and may enter into any agreement for the granting any 
 lease or leases on such terms and conditions as they may think fit, 
 and on the granting the leases in pursuance of such agreements may 
 alter the amount of the rents agreed to be reserved on such leases, 
 and may apportion the same and grant separate leases of any part of 
 the hereditaments by any such agreement agreed to be leased, as 
 thev mav tliink fit ; and mav also, as thev think fit, alter or rescind 
 any agreement as aforesaid, and may accept any surrender of any 
 lease granted, for the purjiose of granting separate leases of the 
 same i^remises at apportioned rents or under different covenants, or 
 otherwise in all respects as the Board shall think fit ; and further, 
 any part of the said lands may be appropriated for squares, gardens, 
 or open places, or for basins, docks, barge beds, or other works or 
 conveniences as aforesaid, and any part thereof may be let for yards 
 or courts to be attached to anv houses, to be leased as the Board 
 shall think fit. 
 
 Power to 33. As soon as conveniently may be, and either before or 
 
 Board to sell after the houses, erections, and buildings to be erected and built 
 rentfand*^ as lastly herein-before is mentioned, or any of them, shall be 
 reversions finished and completed, and either before or after such leases as 
 comprised in last aforesaid shall have been granted, the Board shall and they 
 sue lease. ^^.^ hereby authorized and required to sell and dispose of the 
 ground rents to be reserved by the leases or demises in pursuance 
 or in consideration of which the same houses or buildings re- 
 spectively shall have been erected and built, or shall be agreed 
 to be erected and built, and also the reversion and inheritance 
 in fee simple in possession (subject to any such lease or demise 
 or agreement) of the pieces or parcels of ground thereby demised 
 or agreed to be demised, and such houses and other build- 
 ings thereon, either altogether or in jjarcels, by public auction 
 or private contract, for such prices or sums of money as the 
 Board shall think reasonable, and subject to such stipulations and
 
 [25 & 20 Vict.] The Thames Embankment Act \m2. [Chap. 03.] 305 
 
 ])r()visions as to the enjoymont thoroof, and as to tlu; nature of the 
 i)iiiklin<i-s which are to be at all tiiii(\s erected and built there<jn,aud 
 also subj(!ct to such stijuUations as to the title to be produced to the 
 hereditaments to be sold, as the Board shall think fit ; and as regards 
 any stipulations or ])rovisions which may be contjiined in any such 
 conveyance, the same may at all times thcreartei' be enforced in a 
 Court of E([uity by the JJoard ior the benefit of the j)arties entitled 
 to the other jjroperty adjoining or held umlci- the same title, in such 
 manner in all res])ects as the JJoard may think fit ; and the Board 
 shall at the costs and charges of the purchaser of the same ])remises 
 resj)ectively, upon payment of the sum or sums of money agreed to 
 be given for the same res})ectively to the Board by any writing under 
 their common seal convey and assure the piece or parcel of ground 
 so ])urch;ised by such ])urcliaser, ton;t'tlK'r with the houses, erections, 
 antl buildings then erectetl and built or to be erected and built theretjii 
 ves])ectively, and the fee simple and iidieritance thereof, with the 
 a])purtenanees, to such ])urchaser, his heirs and assigns, or as he or 
 they shall in that belialf direct, free from all incumbrances (except 
 the building lease or building leases or agreement or agreements 
 to be granted thereof by virtue of this Act) ; and all conveyances 
 and leases whicii shall be made as aforesaid pursuant to the authority 
 hereby in the Board reposed shall be adjudged sufficient to vest such 
 estate in the ])urchaser or lessee as shall have been agreed for, or 
 shall be expressed or intended to be conveyed and granted by any 
 such conveyance or lease. \_See 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, ss. 44 
 and 45.] 
 
 34. It shall be lawful for the ]3oard to sell in manner and subject Power to 
 as aforesaid, and absolutely to grant and convey, any of the lands anv Rrounc*! 
 which shall Ik; purchased or otherwise ac([uire(l by the Board as afore- which may 
 said, and whicli shall not be wanted for the })ur]JOses of this Act, and ""Jt be 
 which they shall not think it expedient to let on building leases as the'^purposes 
 aforesaid, (other than and always except such lands as by virtue of of this Act. 
 this Act are reserved and excepted from the operation of this power 
 
 of sale, or are otherwise dealt with,) subject nevertheless to such 
 stipulations and conditions as they may think tit, and thereui)on 
 the same shall be conveyed and assured by the Board as they shall 
 think fit. \_Xote to s. 33 applies.'] 
 
 35. Before the Board dispose of anv superfluous lands they shall ^"perriuous 
 first offer to sell the same to the person then entitled to the lands sale to be 
 (if any) from which the same were originally severed, and if any such offered to 
 person be desirous of ])urchasing such lands then within six weeks '^^^■"*^'"-^ ''^ 
 after such offer of sale he shall signify his desire in that behalf to which thev 
 the Board, or if he decline such offer, or if for six weeks he neglect were origi'n- 
 to signify his desire to purchase such lands, the right of })re-emption '^^'>' severed, 
 of every such person so declining or neglecting in respect of the 
 
 lands included in such offer shall cease, and a declaration in writing 
 made before a Justice by some person not interested in the matter 
 in question stating that such offer was made and was refused, or 
 not acce])ted within six weeks from the time of making the same, 
 shall in all courts be suliicient evidence of the facts therein stated. 
 [Varied by 26 & 27 Vict. c. 45, s. 21.] 
 
 36. If any person entitled to such ])re-emption be desirous of Differences 
 purchasing any such lands, and such person and the Board (\o "Ot ^"^ ^^'^ Pj"^^^^*" 
 agree as to the price thereof, thp:ii such price shall be ascertained arbitration. 
 
 20
 
 306 
 
 [Chap. 93.] The Thames Embankment Act 1862. [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Provisions of 
 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 120., 
 
 19 & 20 Vict. 
 c. 112., 
 
 21 & 22 Vict. 
 c. 104., 
 incorporated. 
 
 Use of 
 locomotives 
 prohibited in 
 the streets. 
 
 Owners of 
 vessels liable 
 for damage 
 done to the 
 embankment, 
 etc. 
 
 Masters com- 
 pelled to pay 
 penalties for 
 neglect of 
 servants may 
 recover the 
 same from 
 servants. 
 
 by arbitration, and the costs of such arbitration shall be in the 
 discretion of the arbitrators. 
 
 37. [^Application of monies arising from, sales. Rep. 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 38. [Application of surplus monies. Spent7\ 
 
 39. The provisions of the Acts relating to the local management 
 of the metropolis, namely, the Acts eighteen and nineteen Victoria, 
 chapter one hundred and twenty, nineteen and twent}' Victoria, 
 chapter one hundred and twelve, twenty-one and twenty-two Victoria, 
 chapter one hundred and four, shall, so far as the same are not incon- 
 sistent with the provisions of this Act, extend and apply to the objects 
 and purposes of this Act ; and the Board shall, for carrying out those 
 objects and purposes, have and may exercise all such powers, 
 privileges, and authorities as are conferred upon them by such Acts ; 
 provided that the Board shall not apply any monies which they are 
 authorized to raise under the said Acts to the construction or com- 
 pletion of the works specially authorized by this Act. 
 
 40. [Costs of arbitrations. Spent.'] 
 
 41. It shall not be lawful for any person to use a locomotive 
 engine propelled by steam along the streets or roadways constructed 
 under the ])rovisions of this Act. [See also the Locomotives on 
 Highways Act 1896, s. 1.*] 
 
 42 — 46. [Financial provisions. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 47. [As to separate accounts and audit thereof, and laying the 
 same annually before Parliament. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 71.] 
 
 48. In case any damage or mischief shall be done to the said 
 embankment or roadway, or to any such quays, piers, stairs, hards, 
 slips, or landing places as aforesaid, or any of the works, matters, 
 or things to be constructed or provided under the provisions of this 
 Act, or any part thereof respectively, by any ship, lighter, barge, 
 boat, float, raft, or vessel, through the wilful negligence of any 
 person having the command of any such ship, lighter, barge, boat, 
 float, raft, or vessel, or any of the mariners or persons employed 
 therein, then and in every such case the owner of such ship, lighter, 
 barge, boat, float, raft, or vessel is hereby made answerable to the 
 Board for the amount or value of any such damage or mischief, and 
 the same, provided it shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds, if 
 not forthwith j^aid and satisfled, may be recovered in such manner 
 as the penalties and forfeitures hereby imposed are by virtue of the 
 Metropolis Local Management Act, eighteen and nineteen Victoria, 
 chapter one hundred and twenty, directed to be recovered. [See 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 225—227.] 
 
 49. In case the owner of any such ship, lighter, barge, boat, float, 
 raft, or vessel shall be compelled to pay any penalty, or to make 
 satisfaction for any damages, by reason of any neglect or deftiult 
 done or committed by his servants or mariners, or any of them, such 
 servants, and each and every of them, shall be liable to pay such 
 
 * S, 1 of the Locomotives on Highways Act 1896 is as follows : " 1. (1) The 
 enactments mentioned in the schedule to this Act, . . . shall not apply to any vehicle 
 propelled by mechanical power if it is under three tons in weight unladen, and is not 
 used for the purpose of drawing more than one vehicle (such vehicle with its loco- 
 motive not to exceed in weight unladen four tons), and is so constructed that no 
 smoke or visible vapour is emitted therefrom except from any temporary or accidental 
 cause. , . ." The schedule to the 189G Act includes (i/i^d-ra/ia) 25 & 26 Vict. c. 93, s. 41.
 
 [25 & 2G Vict.] TJa^ Thamrs llmbanhment Act 1802. [Chap. 93.] 307 
 
 penalty or damufi'es fwitli tlio costs thereof) to siicli owner ; and in 
 case oi' nonpayment, upon demand thereof, and oatli made by such 
 owner of the payment made by him of such penalty, satisfaction, 
 or damages, and that the same and the costs thereof have not been 
 repaid to him by such servants or mariners, or any of them, althoujrh 
 demanded (sueii oath to be maile befi^re any one or more Justice or 
 Justices of the Peace for the c;ounty or place where such penalty or 
 satisfaction siiall have been recovered), the amount thereof, provided 
 the same shall not exceed the sum of twenty j)ounds, shall be 
 recovered in the same manner as any penalty is by virtue of the 
 Metropolis Local Management Act, eighteen and nineteen Victoria, 
 chapter one hundred and twenty, directed to be recovered. \_Note to 
 s. 48 applies.^ 
 
 50. AVlien any fine or penalty shall be recovered under the Application 
 authority of this Act, the aj)|)lication wiiereof is not otherwise '^^P'^'^^^'^'^* 
 provided for, the same shall be j)aid to the Board, and be applied priated. 
 by them for the i)urposes of this Act. 
 
 51 — 52. l^Tem/er of (iiucikIs — Notice and limitations of actions. 
 'Superseded h;/ f/a: Public Auflwrities Protection Act 1893 (see 
 Appendix)7^ 
 
 53. Except witli the previous consent in writing of the Most Xoble T-an^i of the 
 Algernon Duke of Northumberland, his heirs, se([uels in estate, or x"liu°*' u 
 assigns, the Board shall not take any more lancl belonging to the Lnd, except 
 said Dnke, under the provisions of this Act, than is requisite for the tl'at required 
 formation of the following streets, not exceeding sixtvfeet in width: f^^the forma- 
 
 . . . ^. * lion of CGr- 
 
 that is to say, a street in continuation of \Vhitehall Place and a tain streets, 
 street in coutiuuation of Xorthumbeidand Street, such streets to be not to be 
 ,made respectively in the direction shown on the Plan A. herein-after ^^^^'^ ^■'^^; 
 referred to, or within the limits of deviation shown on such ])lan ; 
 and, except with the previous consent in writing of the said Dnke, 
 liis heirs, secpiels in estate, or assigns, and of the said Board, no 
 ibuilding shall be erected upon the lands taken from the said Dnke, 
 his heirs, sequels in estate, or assigns, for such streets, or upon the 
 dands coloured green upon the ])lan ujarked (A.) signed in duplicate 
 by the Bight Honourable William ( 'owper, one part wiiereof is 
 deposited in the l*rivate Bill Otlice of the Honourable the House 
 .of Commons, except any buildings for making necessary fences on 
 the sides of such streets, or for accommodating the public with 
 fountains or covered resting places, or for public monument>^, such 
 
 ■ buildings or monuments not exceeding nineteen feet in height above 
 Trinity high-water mark. [^Amended 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxi. s. 24. 
 
 ■ See also 36 & 37 Met. c. 40. s. 2 ; and c. c. s. 29.] 
 
 54. [. 1-v to aj/propriation of lands southward of the Craven Estate 
 for formation of new .street in continuation of Crai'en Street. Rep. 
 3(') & 37 I 'ict. c. c. *'. 27.] 
 
 55. [^l.^- to street between Whitehall Place and \Vellinyto/i Street 
 bt/ Charing Cross Rail wo >/ Bridge. Rep. 31 ifc 32 Vict. c. cxi. i^. 25.] 
 
 56. [As to lands of the Charing Cross Railwag Compang.* 
 Spent.] 
 
 57. Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, it shall be As to repair 
 lawful for the said Company, after notice to the Board, and subject "f Charing 
 to their reasonable regulations, at all times hereafter to enter upon and w^ks^^'^ 
 
 * Now the South-Eastern Railway Companv. See the Charins: Cross Railway Acts 
 .1SG3 and 18G4,
 
 308 
 
 [Chap. 93.] The Thames Embankment Act 1862. [25 & 26 Vict.} 
 
 As to con- 
 struction of 
 landing 
 places. 
 
 Provision as 
 to the land 
 belonging to 
 Duke of 
 Norfolk. 
 
 Buildings not 
 to be erected 
 between the 
 property of 
 the Marquis 
 of Salisbury- 
 and the river. 
 
 Junction 
 with Salis- 
 bury Street 
 not to be 
 consti-ucted 
 without 
 consent of 
 Marquis of 
 Salisbu^J^ 
 
 and use, for the purposes of repairing, amending, or restoring their 
 railway and works, and their steamboat pier and landing place at 
 Hnngerford, and the works connected therewith, so much of the said 
 street or embankment as adjoins to or passes under the said railway 
 and works. \Jiee also 4 Edw. 7, c. cciii. s. 39.] 
 
 58. No public landing place, pier stairs, or quay for landing 
 passengers (other than such as shall be substituted for the present 
 AdeljDhi Pier at the site now occupied by that pier) shall be con- 
 structed under the jjowers of this Act, on the south side of the said 
 embankment within one hundred and fifty yards on either side of 
 the steamboat pier belonging to the Charing Cross Eailway Company 
 at Hnngerford. \J^ote to s. 57 applies.'] 
 
 59. [^Saring rights of Charing Cross Railway Company .*] 
 
 60. ...... 
 
 No buildings shall be placed on the reclaimed land between 
 Somerset House and the Middle Temple southward of the said 
 a])proach road on the said plan, exce])t the walls or arches of the 
 Embankment or of any roads or approaches to be made on the 
 said land, and except any public stairs or landing places, fountains, 
 and covered resting jjlaces for public use, or public monuments. 
 
 \Parts omitted (as to construction of the north side of the approach 
 road and apjjroaches thereto from Surrey Street, Sorfolk Street, and 
 Arundel Street — Vesting certain lands in and as to rights of building 
 for and compensation to the Duke of Sorfollf. Spent 7\ 
 
 61. {_As to the AdelpJii Estate. Hep. 31 k 32 Vict. c. cxi. .s. 25.] 
 
 62. No house or building shall be constructed without the consent 
 of the Marquis of Salisbury, his heirs, sequels in right, or assigns, 
 upon any land now lying between, or which shall or may after the 
 reclamation and enclosure of the bed and foreshore of the river, lie 
 between, Cecil Street and Salisbury Street, and the houses on the 
 southern ends thereof on the north and the Kiver Thames on the 
 south, other than the walls or arches of the embankment, or any 
 roads or approaches to be made on the said land, and except any 
 public stairs or landing places, fountains, and covered resting places 
 for public use or public monuments. . . . [^Pa/i omitted (a.s to 
 right)i of access for the Marquis of Salisbury) rep. 36 & 39 Vict, 
 c. clxxix. .S-. 12.] 
 
 63. No roadway to Salisbury Street shall be constructed without 
 the consent of the said Marquis, his heirs or assigns, and if so con- 
 structed shall not be open to the public except for foot passengers, 
 unless the said Marquis, his heirs or assigns, shall by some writing 
 under his or their hand or hands si^'nifv his or their intention to 
 dedicate it to the public for other purposes, to be specified in such 
 writing or writings. 
 
 64 — 66. \Saring the rigJds of the Corporation of the City of 
 London, the Tlianies Conservators, and t/te Metropolita.n Police.] 
 
 67. \Tnterference tvith sewers during works. SpentT] 
 
 68 — 70. \_Sating the rights of the Commissioners of Sewers of the 
 
 City of London, district boards and testries, the Charing Cross and 
 
 Waterloo Bridge Companies, tJie Corporation of L^ondon (as to 
 
 Blackfriars Bridge^, tlte Commissioners of Works {as to Westminster 
 
 * Now the South-Eastern Piailsvay Company. See the Charing Cross Railwav Acts 
 1863 and 1864.
 
 125*20 V:CT.] "' Vl^rif .1^^"^^ "' [«-"«•] '"'^ 
 
 /^/vV/ryr), c/z/c/ r>/" M^' Loj/(/o/?, C/iafkam, and Dnrer Raibvay Com- 
 j)ain/. Set- 40 i^. 41 IVr/. r. xcix. rt«f/ 50 & 51 Vict. c. 34.] 
 
 71 — 72. [^l.s' ^o (Ivridtioii of/pnsite certain Crown lant/.s, delineated 
 on certain jdam^ called " Ike Crown P/a/^s," ropieii whereof' were 
 depoiiited in the Court of Exchequer and the < >lfice of Record a. Spent^ 
 
 73. \_/^i.sjjo.sal of reclaimed, land in which the Crown is interested. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 74. It shall not be lawful for flic Board to orect aiiv building or No buiUling 
 
 , , 1 , / i.1 i.1 .11 •!■ " I. 1 to be erected 
 
 strnctnro wliatevor (other than a ])!irai)<'t wall or railiii,'/ not exceed- o^ embank- 
 ing four feet in height) on any part of the eml)aiikment coloured ment oppo- 
 blue, green, or red on the said Crown ])lans, without the consent in site land in 
 writing of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's AVoods, Forests, and intereste'd"^'^ 
 Land llevennes, or one of them as regards the part coloured ])lue, without 
 or of the First Commissioner of ITer ^Majesty's Works and Public consent. 
 Buildings as regards the i)arts coloured green and red. 
 
 75 — 78. [.l.s to ascertaining value of the interest of the Crown and 
 Thames Cofi.serrators in certain lands — No compensation to be paid 
 to the Cro/rn in respect of land above high-water mark — Board to 
 proride new landing place.'f ?chen e.ristinq ones in front of certain 
 Crown lands arc removed — Crown lessees to have for 5 years after 
 the passing of the Act options of leases of reclaimed land adjacent 
 to their properties. Spent.~\ 
 
 79. [Saving the rights of the Crown under the Thames Conser- 
 vancg Act 1857. See 57 k 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. {see Appendix)7\ 
 
 80. {Saving the rights of the Crown generally.'] 
 
 81. \_As to taking lands of the Duchy of Lancaster. Spent.] 
 
 82. [Jn to construction of the .street viaduct witJiin the precinct of 
 the Savoy, and saving for the J > achy of lAincaster. Rep. 31 ct 3*2 Vtct. 
 c. cxi. s. 25.] 
 
 83—84. \_.\s to construction of the viaduct in front of the works of 
 the City of London Gas Light <j* Coke Company and Whit (friars 
 Dock. Spent.] 
 
 85. {Supplemental plans referred to in the Act to be deposited 
 icifh the ( 'lerk of the Peace for Middlesex and to be open to 
 inspection^ 
 
 vScHEDULE. {Form of mortgage. Spent. See 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, 
 s. 34.] 
 
 CHAITER 102. 
 
 * An Act to amend the JMetropolis Local Management Acts. 
 
 \_-th August 18()2.] 
 
 {Preamble {reciting 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120 ; 10 & 20 Vict. c. 112 ; 
 and 21 & 22 Vict. c. "104) rep. 50 & 57 Vict. c\ 54 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 1. {As to charqinci debt in respect of Counters Creek works, and 
 part of debt on the Ravensbourne works incurred by the Metropolitan 
 
 Commissioners of Sewers on the main drainage rate. Rep. in jtart 
 56 & 67 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.Ix.) ; remr. spe?)t.] 
 
 2. {As to repayment of sums expended on Victoria Street sewer 
 since 1st January 18."»f')." Pep. 50 ^^' 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 * See note * to Is .*>: l;l Vict. c. 120 (page 214).
 
 310 
 
 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 The Metropolis Mcoiagemenf 
 Amendment Act 1862. 
 
 [20 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Sums to be 
 assessed by 
 Metropolitan 
 Board. 
 
 Basis of 
 assessment. 
 
 Mode of as- 
 sessment by 
 the Metro- 
 politan Board 
 of Works. 
 
 3 — 4. {Defining jparishes and jAaces on which a loan to the Metro- 
 politan Commissioiiprs of Sewers from the Clergg Matual A.s.^ti ranee 
 Societg is to be charged — Sating rights of jjersons holding securities 
 therefor. Speiit.'] 
 
 5. {Repeal of s. 170 o/" 18 & 10 Vict. c. 120.] The Metropolitan 
 Board of Works shall from time to time ascertain and assess 
 upon the several parts of the metropolis the several sums whicli^ 
 having regard to the annual rateable value of the property in 
 such parts respectively, ought to be charged thereon for defraying 
 the expenses of the said Board in the execution of the firstly and 
 secondly-recited Acts and of this Act, and any such sums may be 
 assessed wholly or in part in respect of expenses incurred or to be 
 incurred, and also in respect of any unpaid balance of any former 
 precept of tlie said Board : Provided always, that such repeal shall 
 not in any respect affect any act, matter, or thing whatsoever done 
 or commenced to be done under or by virtue of the said firstly and 
 secondly-recited Acts, or any proceeding taken or to be taken under 
 the thirdly-recited Act, or to affect or prejudice, except as herein 
 specially provided, in any way the rights or liabilities of any 
 district or part under the one hundred and eighty-first section of the 
 firstly-recited Act, but the same shall be judged of in all respects 
 as if this Act had not been passed. [Part omitted {repeal of 
 s. 170 6>/ 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120) rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.). 
 See the' County Rate Act 1852 ; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 22 ; and 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 3, 40, and 68 semhle superseding this section.'] 
 
 6. For the purpose of making any assessment under the preceding- 
 section the Board shall estimate the annual value of property 
 according to the estimate or basis on which any county rate in force 
 in any part of the metropolis is made, or, where there is no such 
 county rate, according to a like estimate or basis. [Rep. so far 
 as authorizing or relating to the ascertaining of the calue of ang 
 hereditament with respect to the calue of which the ralaation prodded 
 
 for hy 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67 is conclusiie. See ibid. s. 77, and see 
 note on s. 5.] 
 
 7. All such assessments to be made by the Metropolitan Board 
 of "Works shall lie assessed and charged by the said Board upon the 
 same basis and in the same manner as the county rate is assessed 
 and charged by the Justices under the statutes in force for assessing 
 and charging county rates in England and "Wales : Provided always, 
 that all precepts shall be issued and rates levied by the said Board 
 in manner directed by the several recited Acts relating to the better 
 local management of the metropolis and by this Act, so far as 
 relates to making precepts and levying rates. [Sotc on section 6 
 apjjlies^ 
 
 8. [As to forms of assessments and precepts of Metropolitan Board 
 of Works. Rep. (a.s- to precepts) 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35 ; rernr. {as 
 to assessments) spent. See 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 22.] 
 
 9 — 12. [As to assessments and precei)ts of Metropolitan Board of 
 Works. Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ... 35.] 
 
 13. [Metropolitan Board may amend assessments and. precepts 
 where necessary. Spent. See 32 & 33]7c-2'. c. 102, .s-. 22, andh\ & 52 
 Vict. c. 41, ss. 3, 40, and. 68.] 
 
 14. [Overseers to pay and account for monies to restries and 
 district boards. Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.]
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] '^^'^ Metropolis yfanaf^monf j-^^^^,^ j^^^.] 311. 
 
 L -^ Aineiidtneut Act 1802. •- -■ 
 
 15. it sliiill l)(' lawful for tlic TMctroitolitiiii Hoard of Works . . . Power to 
 
 1 1- .Li. -^1 i^ii Hi. Metropolitan 
 
 by order m writing-, to reiimrc the vestry clerk, overseer, collector, jjoard, ves- 
 
 or other person having; the custody or control of any rate for the trii-B. and 
 
 relief of the poor in any parish or jilace, or of any other rate, or (jf 'ii^'tnct 
 
 any book containin*:; a copy of any such rate as aforesaid, to furnish, ,iemand to be 
 
 within sucii j)('riod, not l)einf;^ less than seven days, as shall he furnished 
 
 limited in such order, a true copy of such rate for the relief of the withcopiesof 
 
 poor, or other rate, or of such copy thereof as aforesaid, or of such ^^^^^ ra e, e 
 
 j)art or parts of the same as shall he specified in such order, on 
 
 jjaynicnt or tender for such ("Opy at the rate of sixpence for every 
 
 twenty-four names (inclusive of all the particulars in the several 
 
 columns in the rate, so far as such particulars have reference to 
 
 such names respectively), and the said copy shall he examined by 
 
 and signed by such vestry clerk, overseer, collector, or otiier ])erson, 
 
 and shall be verified by his solemn de(daration, if tiie said Metnj- 
 
 ])olitan Board . . . shall require the same, which solemn declaration 
 
 any Justice of the Peace, or commissioner duly authorized, is hereby 
 
 empowered to administer ; and any person havin'.^ the custody or 
 
 control of such rate, or copy thereof, who shall refuse or neglect to 
 
 make and deliver to such JMetropolitan Board, ... or any person 
 
 by them authorized to receive the same, such copy or extract, or to 
 
 make such solemn declaration as aforesaid, shall be liable to a 
 
 penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every such offence, and to 
 
 a furtiier penalty not exceeding ten ])Ounds for each and every day 
 
 during which the said offence shall be continued, to be recovered by 
 
 a summary proceeding. \_Parts omitted (as to vestries and district 
 
 hoards) rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35. See ibid. ss. 4 and 11 ; 
 
 see also 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, .s-. 171 and note thereon.'] 
 
 16. \_Expenses of vestries in Schedule B. under thiti and recited. 
 Act)<, to be paid by district boards. Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 17. [Recovery of monies assessed by Metropolitan Board on extra- 
 parochial property at determination ofW & 12 Vict. c. 112. Spent.~\ 
 
 18. In any proceedings before any .Justice or Justices, by or on One summons 
 behalf of any vestry, district board, overseer, or collector, against ^^^^^^^ '^^^"^^ 
 the occupier or owner of any premises, for the recovery of any rates recovery 
 assessed under the said Acts or this Act which may be in arrear, all of rates", 
 the rates for the recovery of which such proceedings shall be taken 
 
 shall be included in the same summons, and the charge for such 
 summons shall not exceed one shilling, and the signature of any 
 Justice or Justices to any such summons may be either in writing or 
 by a stamp affixed as such Justice or Justices may direct. \_See 
 also the Poor Rates Recovery Art 1862.] 
 
 19. ... No corporate body or person or ])ersons lending or Parties lend- 
 
 proiiosinir to lend monev to . . . any vestry or district board, under mi^r money to 
 1 ^^ • ,.1 ■• 1 » .^1 • » j^ i« 4 .. V . 4- Metropolitan 
 
 the ])rovisions of the said xVcts or this Act, or ot any Act or Acts loi j^^j^r,! or 
 
 amending the same, or of any Act or Acts empowering them or vestries or 
 
 either of them to borrow money, shall be bound to see or obliged to district 
 
 inquire whether tlie money lent or ])roj)osed to be lent is advanced ^,^^'^^^^^1 ^^ 
 
 for the purposes of such Acts, nor to see or inquire into tiie applica- inquire into 
 
 tion of the monev so lent, or any part thereof; nor shall any such application 
 
 1 1 ' 111 • 1 i.„ of money, 
 
 respective body or person or persons be bound or re(|Uirea to regularity 
 
 ascertain that the board or vestry so borrowing, or the meeting or ofV^ceed- 
 
 meetings of such l)oard or vestry, was or were properly constituted ings, etc. 
 
 or convened, or that the proceetlings at any meeting were legal or 
 
 regular ; and the common seal of every such board or vestry,
 
 312 
 
 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 The Metro])olis Manoqement 
 Amendment Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Public Loans 
 Commis- 
 sioners 
 authorized to 
 lend money 
 to Jletropo- 
 litan Board, 
 vestries, etc. 
 
 Power to stop 
 up carriage 
 or foot ways, 
 etc. 
 
 Power to 
 Metropolitan 
 Board to 
 take lands, 
 for roads, etc. 
 
 Maintenance 
 of bridges. 
 culverts, etc. 
 
 Formation 
 and main- 
 tenance of 
 bridges, 
 arches, cul- 
 verts, etc. 
 
 impressed upon or affixed, pursuant to the order or resolution of 
 sueii Itoard or vestry, to any mortga,o:e, bond, or other instrument 
 which may have been made or granted by the said board or vestry, 
 shall be landing and conclusive on the said board or vestrv bv 
 whom any such mortgage, bond, or other instrument may have 
 been so sealed and executed, and their successors. [Parts omitted 
 {as to Metropolitan Board of Works) rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50, 
 and 56 & 57 Vict. r. 54 (S.L.B.).'] 
 
 20. It shall be lawful for the commissioners acting in the 
 execution of the Act of the session holden in the nineteenth and 
 twentieth years of Her Majesty, chapter seventeen,* and in the 
 execntion of any of the Acts recited in that Act, or of any Act or 
 Acts for amending or continuing the same Acts or any of them, 
 to make advances ... to any vestry or district board, upon the 
 security of all or any of tlie monies or rates to be assessed or levied 
 by them under the said recited Acts or this Act, and without 
 requiring any farther or other security than a mortgage of such 
 monies or rates, repayable by such instalments, within a period not 
 exceeding thirty years, as shall in each case be agreed upon. [JVote 
 to s. 19 applies.^ 
 
 21. It shall be lawful for the said Metropolitan Board, and they 
 are hereby authorized and empowered, during the construction of 
 any works by them under the recited Acts or this Act, subject to 
 the provisions of such Acts, to cause to be stopped up all or such 
 part of the carriage or foot way of nny streets, roads, or ways as 
 shall be necessary for the due execution of the said works. 
 
 22. The compulsory powers of taking land given to the said 
 Metropolitan Board by the firstly recited Act, and the " Lands 
 Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," shall, subject to the conditions 
 and restrictions in the firstly recited Act contained, extend and be 
 applicable to the taking of any lands which they may require for 
 the purpose of making convenient roads or ways to or in connexion 
 with any sewers or works vested or hereafter to be vested in the 
 said Board, or whicli they may require for making roads or ways 
 during the construction of any sewerage works, or for spoil banks or 
 j)laces of deposit of surplus earth or other materials in the execution 
 of any such works. [See is & 10 \lrt. c. 120, s. 152.] 
 
 23. [^^otes of the Metropolitan Board exceeding £20,000 to he 
 confirmed at subsequent meetinq. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 
 s. SO.] 
 
 24. When the said Metropolitan Board shall, in exercise of the 
 jjowers conferred upon them, have constructed any bridges, culverts, 
 arches, or passages in connexion with any sewers or works, all such 
 bridges, culverts, arches, and passages shall at all times after the 
 construction thereof l)e maintained at the expense of the said Board. 
 
 25. It sliall l)e lawful for the said Metropolitan Board to make and 
 maintain any bridges, arches, culverts, passages, or roads over, under, or 
 ])y the sides of or leading to or from any sewerage works constructed 
 or to l)e constructed by them, which they may deem necessary and 
 convenient for preserving the communications between lands through 
 which the said works may have been or may be made or carried ; 
 provided that it shall be lawful for the said Board to contract and 
 agree with the owners and occupiers of lands to pay them or any of 
 
 * Kep. and replaced by the Public Works Loans Act 1875.
 
 [25 & 20 Vict.] ^^^'' Metrnpoli. f-'^-rrnent j-^^^^, j^^.,^ 3^3 
 
 •- -J Amendment Act 1802. ^ -■ 
 
 them componsatioii in lien of making or raaintaining such hritlges 
 or other works, 
 
 26. {^Timr for completion of icorh upecijied in .s. 1 o/ 21 it 22 
 Vict. c. 11)4, extended. Rep. Wl <Sc :}:i \'ict. c. 102, .s. 50.]' 
 
 27. No gully or ventilating sliat't inmjediately connected with or As to 
 appertaining: to, or which hereafter may be immediately connected *'"'^PJ''"^'^'^ 
 
 i.i, • , , 1 • ii TIM- ^ 1-. i» 1 gullies con- 
 
 witli oi- a])j)ertam to, any sewer vested m the Metropolitan Jioard „ecte<j ^vith 
 of AVorks, shall be trapped, covered, or closed up without previous main sewers, 
 notice in writing being given to the said IJoai'd, nor it' the said 
 Board or their engineer within one week after the giving of such 
 notice shall exy)ress in writing their oi- his objection to the same. 
 \_iSee 18 & 10 T/VV. c 120, .s. 71, and note thereon^ 
 
 28. Notwithstanding the jii'ovision contained in the eighty-ninth Powei-s as to 
 .section to the firstly recited Act, i-elativ(; to the transfer hy yestries f^T®'"^^^ ""^^ 
 and district boards to the Metroj)olitan Board of W orks of their ferre<l to 
 powers and duties in relation to sewerage and drainage, it shall not Metropolitan 
 be lawful for any vestry or district board to transfer to the I\Ietro- ^'f '^ "'''^'^' 
 
 1. 1 'i« Tir 'i 1 1 • -1 1 out consent 
 
 politaii r>oard of Works any such ])owers oi- duties without the of that Board. 
 
 previous consent in writing of the said Metropulitan Board. 
 
 29. Under the provisions of the two hundred and eleventh and Orders to be 
 two hundred and twelfth sections of the firstly recited Act, "f^Jge^^^Q^™' 
 empowering the Committee of Appeal of the Metropolitan Board appeals 
 
 of Works to hear and determine an ap]ieal against any order or act against acts 
 
 of any vestry or district board, the said committee mav allow or "^ Y^'f*"'^.^ ^ 
 %. %, ? v anfl district 
 
 dismiss the appeal, or quash or confirm or vary the order appealed boards 
 against. 
 
 30. \_Appeal committee empowered to make improvement rates 
 and, issue distress tcarrants for expenses of prirate improvements 
 executed, by the Metro])olitan Commissioners of Seivers. Spent ^ 
 
 31. [Repeal of so much of s. 58 of\% & 19 Vict. c. 120 as requires 
 acts of committee to be submitted to board or vestry for approval. 
 Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 32. Whereas it is in and by the firstly recited Act provided that Comnumi- 
 the Metro})olit;ni Board of Works shall from time to time, in order Jjgtl^een 
 to secure the eiHcient maintenance of the main and general sewerage sewers in 
 of the metropolis, make sucii general or special orders as to them f^i^^frent 
 may seem proper for the guidance, direction, and control of the J^^^ricts and 
 vestries of parishes and district boards in the levels, construction, payment of 
 alteration, maintenance, and cleansing of sewers in their respective compensa- 
 parishes or districts, and for securing the proper connexion and |.'°"'icieratron 
 intercommunication of the sewers of the several parishes and thereof, 
 districts, and their communication with the main sewers vested in 
 
 the said Metroi)olitan Board, and generally for the guidance, direc- 
 tion, and control of vestries and disti-ict boards in the exercise of 
 their powers and duties in relation to sewerage, and all such onlers 
 •shall be binding upon such vestries and boards : Be it enacted, that 
 whenever the said Metropolitan Board shall, in exercise of the said 
 power, have ordered that any sewer or sewers vested in the vestry, 
 district board, or other body acting for any parish or place com- 
 prised in the schedules of the firstly recited Act, having control 
 over the sewers in one parish, district, or part, sliall,for the purpose 
 of outfall or otherwise, be connected with any sewer or sewers vested 
 in the vestry or district board of another parish, tlistrict, or ])art, or 
 other body having control over the sewers in such parish, district,
 
 314 
 
 [Chap. lOx!.] 
 
 The Metropolis Management 
 Amendment Act 18G2, 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Plan, etc. of 
 works affect- 
 ing railways 
 or canals to 
 be submitted 
 to companies. 
 
 Line of rail- 
 way not to 
 be altered. 
 
 or part, it shall be lawful for the vestry, district board, or other 
 body, for the drainage of whose parish, district, or part such con- 
 nexion shall be required, and at whose instance and request such 
 order shall have been made, to execute all necessary works as well 
 within their own parish, district, or part as within any other parish, 
 district, or part which sliall be specified in the said order of the 
 Metropolitan Board for affectino; such connexion : Provided that 
 every communication to be made by any vestry, district board, or 
 other body with any sewer out of their own parish, district, or part 
 shall be made under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the 
 board, vestry, or otlier body having control over such last-mentioned 
 sewer ; and where it shall appear to the said Metropolitan Board to 
 be equitable and just, under the circumstances of the case, that any 
 vestry, l)oard, or other body so connecting their sewers with the 
 sewers vested in another vestry, district board, or other body should 
 ])ay such last-mentioned vestry, board, or body any compensation or 
 remuneration, either in one sum or by yearly or other payments, for 
 the use of tlieir sewer, it shall be lawful for the said Metropolitan 
 Board to order and direct payment of such compensation or remuner- 
 ation accordingly, and the vestry, board, or other body to whom 
 any such payment shall be directed to be made may recover the 
 same from the vestry, board, or body directed by such order to 
 make such payment, either by action at law or before a Justice of 
 the Peace in a summary manner. \^,See 18 & 10 ^'ict. c. 120, s. 138.J 
 
 33. [_Begi.dntion.s a.s to breaking up turninke roads. Rep. 56 & 57 
 Virt. c. 54 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 34. Where any works authorized by this or the recited Acts will 
 interfere with any railway or canal, the board or vestry proposing 
 to construct such works shall before commencing the same give 
 notice in writing of their intention so to do to the company owning 
 such railway or canal, and shall, together with such notice deliver 
 a plan and section showing the nature of such interference ; and if 
 within seven days after the receipt of such notice the company shall 
 by writing, addressed to the board or vestry, object to the manner 
 in which it is intended to interfere with such railway or canal 
 respectively, on account of the probable interruption or endangering 
 of the traffic thereon, the same works shall not be commenced ; and 
 it shall thereupon be referred to an engineer, to be appointed by the 
 Board of Trade, on the application of either party, to determine the 
 maimer of executing the said works, and the determination come to 
 by such engineer shall be binding on both parties. 
 
 35. Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for any board 
 or vestry to alter the level of anv railwav or canal, unless with the 
 consent of the comjmny owning the same respectively, or, it that 
 be refused, with the consent of the Board of Trade ; and provided 
 also, that nothing in this Act contained shall take away or affect the 
 right of any railway or canal company to compensation for the taking 
 or injuriously affecting of any land or property of such company, or 
 for or by reason of the interruption of any traffic on their railway 
 or canal, or for any damages, costs, or expenses which such company 
 may be required to pay in consequence of such interruption. [_See 
 .s. 72, and 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s.$. 60, 135, and 225.] 
 
 36. \_I aspect or s of 'cote>i under 18 & 19 Yict. c. 120 to appoint 
 umpire. Hep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 89 {see Appendix).']
 
 [25 & 20 Vict.] '^'^'^ MroroUs Management ^^^^^, j,^o.] 315 
 
 •- -J Ameiunaent Act 1«02. •- -■ 
 
 37. Everyvcstry . , . constituted under the firstly- recited Act, or \>'^tri(^s ami 
 this Act, may hold tlieir nieetinj^s on such dtiys of the week, except Ij^aHs'^njav 
 Sundays, us they may iVom time to timedetermine, notwithstanding appoint their 
 any provision to the contrary contained in any local Act ; and any days of 
 husiness which, by any local or other Act of rarliament, or custom, '"'^*^t^°&- 
 should he done by any such vi'stry on a certain day, may be done 
 
 at any meeting of such vestry duly convened for the jiurpose, and 
 held within seven days next before or after such certain day as 
 aforesaid. . . . \_Pai'fs omitted (a.s to hour of meeting^ re/j. ;jO & 57 
 Viet. ('. 73, a. 31 {tiee Aj)jjeniHx) ; and (cm to district boards) rep. 
 62 k 63 Vict. c. 14, .s. 35.] 
 
 38. {^Certiorari for auditors allowances or dimlloicanct s. Rep. 
 62 \- ()3 Vict. c. 14, .s. 35.] 
 
 39. If anv person be returned to serve in anv vestry for more rrovision in 
 than one ward, he shall on or before the next meeting of the vestrv ^^^o'^a 
 after such election signify in writing to the clerk of such vestry his being re- 
 decision as to the ward which he may desire to represent on such turned for 
 return ; and if before or at such meeting he shall refuse or neglect ™«re than 
 so to do, the vestry shall determine the ward which he shall repre- 
 sent ; and the vacancy occasioned by such determination or decision 
 
 shall be filled up by an election to be held for that purpose within 
 one month from the date of such determination or decision, such 
 elections to be conducted in the like manner as the annual elections 
 of vestrymen. 
 
 40—41. [- Ia to elections of testrymen and dicision of parishes into 
 wards. Rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, .:>•. 35.] 
 
 42. \]^o parish to be annexed without notice. Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. 
 
 c. 56 {!S.L,R.):\ 
 
 43. \^Annual reports of officers of health for parishes and districts. 
 Rep. 54 «& 55 Vict. c. 76, .s. 142. .S'^"^ ibid. 106.] 
 
 44. It shall be lawful for the owners or occupiers of any land or Owners ami 
 iiremises in anv parish, district, or iiart within the limits of the f^*^^?^^"^* °^ 
 
 1 • 1 /• 1 1 • 1 • 1 » -11 land mav 
 
 metro})olis us denned by the hrstly-recited Act, with the consent execute" 
 and subject to the regulations and conditions herein-after mentioned, works of 
 to construct sewers at their own expense for the ])urpose of draining 't\^e["y^/^ 
 such land or })remises ; and it shall be lawful for any vestry or expense, 
 district l)oard in whom the sewers in any ])arish, district, or part 
 are vested, if they shall deem it just and proper so to do, to 
 contribute out of the rates under their control ap])licable to the 
 execution of works of sewerage to their costs of any sewers 
 constructed for the jiurpose aforesaid. [»S'(^t' 6'6'. 47 — 51 and 'oX?^ 
 
 45. Any vestry or district board intending to construct any sewer Vestries etc. 
 shall, before commencinu' anv works for that puriiose, submit to the t'^ *u^i">t 
 
 TIT ^ 1-. T» 1 ,. tT'^ 1* 1 /.I 1 • 1-1 plans of new 
 
 Metropolitan Board ot \\ orks a plan of the street or place in which .^...^ers to 
 
 it is proj)osed to construct such sewer, drawn to such a convenient Metropolitan 
 
 scale or scales as the said Metro])olitan Board shall direct, and there Boanl. 
 
 shall be shown on sucli ])lan the position, course, and dimensions 
 
 of the proj)osed sewer, with a section or sections thereof, ami such 
 
 other particulars in relation thereto as the said Metropolitan Board 
 
 shall deem necessary and require, and no such sewer or works shall 
 
 be proceeded with without the ap})roval in writing or contrary to 
 
 the directions of the said Board. [See is <!c I'J Vict. c. 120, ;». ^\), 
 
 and note thereon^
 
 316 
 
 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 The Metropolis Manaqement 
 Amendment Act 1802. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Private par- 
 ties before 
 branching 
 sewers into 
 main or dis- 
 trict sewers 
 to apply for 
 sanction of 
 vestries, etc. 
 
 Vestries, etc. 
 before sanc- 
 tioning 
 sewers, to 
 apply for 
 approval of 
 Metropolitan 
 Board. 
 
 Seven days 
 notice must 
 be given 
 before drains 
 can be 
 
 Communica- 40^ Three clear days notice in writing shall be given to the 
 ma^n sewers ^^^etropolitan Board of Works by any vestry or district board 
 previously to the connexion of any sewer or drain with a main 
 sewer ; and the necessary junction or communication for that 
 j)urpose shall be made by such vestry or district board to the 
 satisfaction of the said Metropolitan Board. \Jiee note to s. 45.] 
 
 47. Every person other than a vestry or district board intending 
 to make or branch a sewer, either into a sewer vested in the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works, or into a sewer vested in any vestry or 
 district board, shall in the first instance lay the plan and section 
 thereof before, and apply for the sanction of, the vestry or district 
 board of the parish, district, or part in which such last-mentioned 
 sewers shall be situate ; and no sewer shall be begun to be made 
 by such person until the sanction in writing of such vestry or 
 district board shall have been obtained. \^>See note to s. 45.] 
 
 48. Before any vestry or district board shall sanction the con- 
 struction of any such sewer they shall submit the plan and section 
 thereof to the Metropolitan Board of Works for their approval, in 
 the same manner as if such sewer were proposed to be constructed 
 by such vestry or district board ; and no vestry or district board 
 shall sanction the construction of any such sewer without the 
 approval in writing of the said Metropolitan Board first had and 
 obtained. [See note to s. 45.] 
 
 49. All persons intending to make or branch any drain into a 
 sewer vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works shall, seven clear 
 days before commencing any works for tliat purpose, make written 
 application to the vestry or board of the parish, district, or part in 
 
 branched into which such sewer shall be situate, accompanied b}^ a plan showing 
 
 main seweis. g^j^.]^ particulars as may be required by any l^yelaw or resolution of 
 
 the said Metropolitan Board ; and no such work shall be commenced 
 
 until the sanction in writing of the said vestry or district board shall 
 
 have been given. [_See also 53 & 54 ]^ict. c. 66, ss. 4 and 5.] 
 
 50. When it shall be desired to abandon either wholly or in 
 part, or to extend, contract, or alter, any design for a sewer 
 previously submitted to and approved by the Metropolitan Board 
 of AVorks, notice in writing of such desire shall be given by the 
 vestry or district board by whom such approval shall have been 
 obtained to the said Metropolitan Board, accompanied by plans and 
 sections showing the nature of the abandonment, extension, con- 
 traction, or alteration desired ; and no such abandonment, extension, 
 contraction, or alteration shall be made without the previous 
 approval in writing of the said Metropolitan Board : and no person 
 other than a vestry or district board shall abandon wholly or in part, 
 or extend, contract, or alter in construction, any sewer approved or 
 sanctioned by the Metropolitan Board of Works, without the previous 
 sanction in writing of the vestry or district board in whose parish 
 or district the works were intended to be executed, to be applied for 
 and given in the same manner as herein-before directed with respect 
 to new sewers. 
 
 In case sewer 51. In case any sewer sanctioned and approved by tlie Metro- 
 be not con- politan Board of Works as herein-before provided shall not be 
 in 12 months' co'^'^^i"^^^^^'^^ or executed within twelve calendar months from the 
 fresh applica- date of such Sanction or approval, the works for the construction of 
 tion to be f;^^^.]^ sewer shall not be executed without a fresh permission bv the 
 Metroj^olitau Board, and their written sanction that the necessary 
 
 Regulations 
 as to aban- 
 donment, 
 alteration, 
 etc. of 
 design for 
 sewers 
 previously 
 approved.
 
 r*^5 & '>r; Vict 1 '^''''' MetropoliH Management r., ..^ -, 
 
 works fur the coiisti-iictioii of sucli .sewer luuy j>roeee(l, to Ih* ujtplieil 
 for and obtain(;(l in manner herein-befcjre jjrovided with respect to 
 the orijiinal permission for the construction of such sewer. 
 
 52. Where any sewer shall . . . he constrncted by any vestry Expease of 
 or district Ijoard in or for the drainaf^e of any new street, or q^ ^'^yaatracAmg 
 any house or houses erected since the iirst day of January one ytre|^[^ !ui"^^^ 
 thousand ei^'ht hundred and lifty-six, the; expense of const met in;^^ streets laid 
 such sewer and the works appertaining thereto, inchidinj^ the cost ^^"' •'*''^'^* . . 
 of gullies, side onti-ances, lengths of sewer at the intersection of "'' **"■ ^^''*'' 
 streets, and other incidental chari:es and expenses, shall Ijc borne 
 
 jiiid defrayed by tiie owners of such street or liouses and of the land 
 bounding or abutting on such street respectively, and the said 
 expenses shall be apportioned by the vestry or district board in such 
 ])roportions as they may deem just, and the amount ciiar^-ed upon 
 or payable in respect of each house or ])remises shall Ijc payable 
 l)efore the works shall be commenced, during their ])rogress, or after 
 their completion, as the vestry or district board shall in each case 
 deterniine, either in one sum or by instalments, within such period, 
 not exceeding twenty years, as the vestry or district boanl shall 
 direct; and any such sum or instalments shall be recoverable from 
 the present or any future owner of the said house or premises either 
 by action at law or in a summary manner before a Justice of the 
 Peace, at the ojjtion of the vestry or board. [ Words omitted (" after 
 the jjassiny of this Act ") rep. 56 it o7 l7cV. r. 54 {S.L.Ii.)?^ 
 
 53. Where any sewer shall be constructed by any vestry or district Expense of 
 
 board in a street in whi(;h pi-eviously to such construction there '^'^°^'^''"*^V°^ 
 
 had been no sewer, or only an open sewer, l)Ut where sewers rates there hati 
 
 have been levied previously to such construction, the expense of ^^efore been 
 
 constructing such sewer and the works aT)])ertaininu- thereto "'^'^' "^'P®" 
 . i 1 '^ ' s G \v G rs 
 
 including the cost of gullies, side entrances, lengths of sewer at 
 the intersection of streets, and other incidental charges and ex})enses, 
 shall be borne and defrayed in part only by the owners of the houses 
 situate in and of the land boundin;:' and abuttiuEf on such street 
 res])ectively ; and the amount to be borne by such owners shall be 
 determined by the vestry or district board in each ])articular case, 
 and the residue of sucli expenses shall lie defrayctl liy the vestry or 
 district board out of the sewers rates levied in their parish or district ; 
 and the amount so charged by the vestry or district Ijoard upon or 
 in respect of each house or premises siiall be payable, either before 
 the works shall be commenced, during their progress, or after their 
 completion, as the vestry or board shall in each case determine, 
 either in one sum or by instalments, within such ])eriod, not exceed- 
 ing twenty years, as the vestry or boan.1 sliall direct ; and any such 
 sum or instalment shall be recoverable from the j>resent or any 
 future owner of such liouse or j)remises eitiier by action at law or in 
 a summary manner licfore a. Justice of the Peace, at the option of the 
 vestry or board : L'rovided that no street or property in respect of 
 which sewers rates have been levied for live years ])rior to the 
 iirst day of January one thousand eight hundred ami tifty-six shall 
 be subject to be charged under the provision contained in this 
 section. 
 
 My ^--j-i i.i' i...- 1^1 Laiul may be 
 
 . in apportioning the cost oi constructing sewers under the cliarired in a 
 
 })rovisions contained in the two last lueceding sections of this Act li*ss proper- 
 relating to the construction of sewers wholly or partly at the cost J"^" ^^^an 
 of private parties, it shall l)e lawful for any vestry or district board property.
 
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 Amendment Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Where 
 estimated, 
 expenses 
 exceed actual 
 costs, differ- 
 ence to be 
 refunded by, 
 and where 
 less to be 
 paid to, 
 vestrv, etc. 
 
 Vestry or dis- 
 trict board 
 raay defray 
 part of ex- 
 pense out of 
 sewer rates. 
 
 Appeal 
 against 
 orders of 
 vestries, etc. 
 as to amount 
 or apportion- 
 ment of 
 expenses. 
 
 Execution of 
 •works of 
 sewerage by 
 vestries and 
 ■district 
 boards be- 
 jond the 
 limits of the 
 metropolis. 
 
 to cliarg'e the owners of land bounding or abutting on any street in 
 a less pro})ortion than the owners of house property, should they, 
 under the circumstances of" the case, deem it just and expedient 
 so to do. 
 
 55. In any case in which the estimated expenses shall exceed the 
 actual cost of constrncting sewers under the provisions contained 
 in the said two preceding sections of this Act relating to the con- 
 struction of sewers wholly or partly at the cost of private parties, 
 then the difference between such estimated expenses and the actual 
 cost shall be repaid by the vestry or board to the owners of the houses 
 or premises by whom the amount of any such estimated expenses 
 may have been j)aid ; and in any case in which the estimated 
 expenses shall be less than the actual cost of constructing any sewer 
 or sewers under the provisions aforesaid, then the owners of the 
 said houses or premises shall, on demand, pay to the said vestr}' 
 or board such further sum of money as, together with any sums 
 already paid, will make up the amount of the actual cost ; and the 
 vestry or district board shall have all the same remedies for the 
 recovery of such further sum as are herein-before given for recovering 
 any expenses apportioned by vestries or district boards under the 
 said enactments. 
 
 56. It shall be lawful for the vestry or district board, should they 
 deem it reasonable and just so to do, at their discretion to defray, 
 . . . any portion of the expenses of and incident to the construction 
 of sewers under the provisions contained in the said two sections of 
 this Act relating to the construction of sewers wholly or partly at 
 the cost of private parries. \_Part omitted (as to sewers rates^ rep. 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35 ; see ibid. s. 10.] 
 
 57. Any person wlio may deem himself aggrieved by any order 
 or resolution of any vestry or district board in relation to the 
 expenses of constructing works under the said two sections of this 
 Act relating to the construction of sewers wholly or partly at the 
 cost of private parties, or the apportionment of such expenses, may 
 appeal to the Metropolitan Board of AVorks against such order or 
 resolution, subject in all respects to the directions and provisions 
 contained in the two hundred and eleventh section of the firstly- 
 recited Act, and the section of this Act relative to the form of order 
 to be made by the Committee of A{)peal of the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works against orders or acts of vestries or district boards. \_See 
 s. 29, and 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 211 and 212.] 
 
 58. . . . AVhenever it shall be found necessary by the vestry of any 
 parisli mentioned in Schedule A. to the said Act, or by the board 
 of works of anv district mentioned in Schedule B. to the said Act, 
 for the purpose of executing works for any of the purposes men- 
 tioned in the said section, to carry any sewer or work beyond the 
 limits of the metropolis as defined by the said Act, it shall be 
 lawful for any such vestry or district board to execute works in 
 parts situate beyond or without such limits, and to cleanse, repair, 
 and maintain such works as they shall from time to time deem 
 necessary : Provided always, that no work shall be performed or 
 commenced by any vestry or district board beyond the limits of the 
 metropolis as above defined, except for the purpose of continuing* 
 or forming part of a work commenced or executed within their 
 respective parish or district; nor shall any such works be performed 
 or commenced without the consent in writing of the Metropolitan
 
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 Board of Works for that piir])ose first iiad and obtained, nor without 
 the consent of the vestry or district board, or anthoiiries of the 
 parish or jihice fhroufi^h which the work may ])ass ; but if any such 
 vestry or district board or antliority sliall refuse such consent, one 
 of Her Majesty's (Miief Secn.'taries of State shall have authority 
 under this Act to decide whether sucii consent ought to be withheld, 
 and such Secretary of State Tuay make such Order as to hira sliall 
 seem just ; but nothing herein contained shall apply to any work 
 for the purpose of the main drainage of the metropolis under the 
 recited Acts : Provideil also, that no new sewer, either within or Proviso, 
 beyond the limits of the metro])olis, shall be made or executed Ijy 
 any vestry, district board, or other liody having control over sewers 
 within the metro|)olis without the ])revious a])j)roval of the said 
 Metroi)olitan ]5oard. \_Fart omitted {rerital of \x Sc H* I'/rt. c. 120, 
 .V. fli)) re/K oC) & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.Ii.).'] 
 
 59. Tlie ])rovisions contained in the eightieth section of the Contribution 
 firstly-recited Act, empowering vestries and district boards to ^^'^^'''gj^ygj.g 
 order, iit their discretion, under the circumstances therein men- and sewers 
 tioned, such sums as they shall deem just to be paid and contributed ijuilt since 
 by the owners of houses towards the expense of the constructioa Insc^or"'^'^ 
 of sewers into which drains from such houses shall be made or hereafter to 
 branched, shall be extended, and the same are hereby extended and be built, 
 made a])plicable to the Metropolitan Board of ^^'orks with respect 
 
 to houses draining into main sewers constructed at the expense 
 of any person or body other than any commissioners of sewers, 
 and which are vested in the Metroi)olitan Board : aud the same 
 provisions are hereby extended aud made a])plicable to all sewers 
 within the limits of the metropolis as defined bv the firstlv-recited 
 Act, built since the first day of January one thousand eight hundred 
 and fifty-six, or which may hereafter be built at the expense of 
 any jierson or body other than the Metropolitau Board of Works, 
 or any vestry, district board, or other body having control over 
 sewers within the metropolis, into which house drains may be made 
 or ])ranched ; and the said Metropolitan Board, vestry, district 
 board, or other body, as the case may be, may at their discretion 
 accept payment of contribution from the owners of houses draining 
 into such sewers respectively, either in one sum or by instalments 
 within any period not exceeding twenty years, with interest after 
 a rate not exceeding five pounds by the hundred by the year, as 
 the said Board, vestry, or other body shall in each case determine, 
 and shall on receipt of any such contribution or instalment pay over 
 the same to the person or body entitled thereto ; and every sum 
 payable to the said Board, vestry, or other body by way of contribu- 
 tion to the construction of sewers shall be recoverable from the 
 present or any future owner of the said premises either by action 
 at law or before a Justice of the Peace in a summary manner, at 
 the option of the Board or vestry : Provided that nothing herein 
 contaitu'd shall prejudice or alYect the right of vestries and district 
 boards to demand and recover from the owners of houses and land 
 the sums charged uj)on them by such vestry and district boards 
 respectively under the j)rovisions containetl in this Act. \_See 
 ss. 52 am/ 53.] 
 
 60. In all cases in which time shall be given by the ^letropolitau Where time 
 Board of Works, or by any vestry, district board, or other ^'"*^y '■!^f^^'''°/^f 
 for the payment of any contribution to the cost of a sewer as afore- cont'ributi^on, 
 said, the Metropolitan Board of Works shall keep a register oftheMelro-
 
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 Amendment Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 politan Board 
 shall keep a 
 reeister. 
 
 Eegulations 
 respecting 
 openings 
 into sewers. 
 
 Extension of 
 time under 
 sect. 76 of 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 120. for 
 making 
 orders by 
 vestries and 
 district 
 boards. 
 
 all snch orders for contribution, which register shall contain the 
 description of the premises, the amounts payable, the periods for 
 payment, and other necessary particulars ; and such register shall 
 be open to inspection by parties interested during office hours 
 without payment of fee or reward ; and every vestry, district board, 
 or other body giving time for payment of any such contribution as 
 aforesaid shall forthwith transmit to the said Metropolitan Board 
 a copy of their order or resolution in that behalf made, and such 
 other particulars in relation thereto as the said Board may deem 
 necessary and require. 
 
 61. . . . No person shall make or branch any sewer or drain, or 
 make any opening into any sewer vested in the Metropolitan Board 
 of "Works, or in any vestry or district board, without the previous 
 consent in writing of such Board or vestry : Provided that it shall 
 be lawful for any person, with such consent, at his own expense, 
 to make or branch any drain into any sewer vested in such Board 
 or vestrv, or authorized to be made bv them or either of them under 
 the firstly-recited Act or this Act, such drain being of such size, 
 materials, and other conditions, and branched into such sewer in 
 such manner and form of communication in all respects, as the 
 Board or vestry shall direct or appoint : Provided also, that where 
 any contribution to the cost of a sewer is payable in respect of 
 drainage into the same, it shall not be lawful for any person to 
 make or branch any drain into such sewer except in conformity with 
 the directions of the Board or vestry in whom the same shall be 
 vested with respect to payment of contribution under the provisions 
 contained in the firstly-recited Act and this Act in that behalf; 
 and in case any person, without the consent of the said Metropolitan 
 Board, district board, or vestry as aforesaid, make or branch, or 
 cause to be made or branched, any sewer or drain, or make any 
 opening into any of the sewers vested in any such Board or vestry, 
 or authorized to be made by them as aforesaid, or if any jicrson 
 make or branch, or cause to be made or branched, any drain of 
 a difierent construction, size, material, or other conditions, or in 
 another manner or form of communication than shall be directed 
 or appointed by such Board or vestry, every person so ofiending 
 shall for every such oftence forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty pounds ; 
 and the Board or vestry may cut off the connexion between such 
 drain and their sewer, or if thev shall see fit execute the necessary 
 works for making the said drain conformable to their regulations 
 or directions at the expense of the person making such drain or 
 causing the same to be made, such expenses to be recovered either 
 by action at law or in a summary manner before a Justice of the 
 Peace, at the option of the Board or vestry. \_See s. 59, and 18 & 19 
 Vict. c. 120, s. 80. Fa/t omitted (/■t'jjeal of fs. 77 of 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120), rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.LJL).'] 
 
 62. {_As to underground rooms occupied as dwellings. Rep, 
 54 k 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142. See ibid. ss. 96 and 97.] 
 
 63. Whereas by the seventy-sixth section of the firstly-recited 
 Act it is provided that the vestry or district board shall make their 
 order in relation to the matters therein referred to, and cause the 
 same to be notified to the person from whom the notice mentioned 
 in the said section was received within seven days after the receipt 
 of such notice, and it is expedient that the time for making such 
 order should be extended : Be it therefore enacted, that where any 
 notice shall have been given to any vestry or district board jiursuant
 
 to the said section, it shall he lawful for the surveyor of such vestry 
 or board, if he sliall deem it necessary and proper so to do, witliia 
 three days after the receipt of such notice by the vestry or district 
 board, by writing under bis hand directed to an«l served upon the 
 j)erson ;i"iving such notice, to reqnire that the ])iiildini^ or works 
 referred to therein shall not be proceeded witii until alter the then 
 next meeting of the said vestry or district board, and until their 
 directions in reference therfto shall have been notified to such 
 person, provided that the order of the said vestry or district board 
 shall be made and notified to the said jierson at the latest within 
 fifteen days after the receipt of such notice by the vestry or district 
 board ; and in case any person shall j)roceed with any building or 
 works contrary to this enactment he shall forfeit and pay to the 
 vestry or district board a sum not exceeding five jiounds, and also 
 a furtlier sum of forty shillings for every day during which such 
 offence shall continue, to be recovered by action at law or in a 
 summary manner at the option of the vestry or board. 
 
 64. Whereas by the seventy-third, seventy-fourth, seventy-sixth, where par- 
 
 . . . eighty-fifth, . . . sections of the firstly-recited Act certain J^^^rv^out 
 
 works, matters, and things are required to be constructed, made, or works pursu- 
 
 executed on the requisition of vestries and district boards by the ^nt to order 
 
 owners or occuj)iers of the premises therein referred to; and in case vestry m'ay^^ 
 
 any such owner or occupier refuse or neglect to commence, proceed recover 
 
 with, or complete the same, as the case mav be, the vestrv or penaltv or do 
 
 district board are authorized to perform and execute such works, wortcs. 
 
 matters, and things, and recover the costs incurred thereby in 
 
 manner therein provided : Be it enacted, that in case of any such 
 
 neglect or default by any person or persons to comply with the 
 
 order of any vestry or district board to execute any works, matters^ 
 
 or things under any of the said provisions, the person or persons 
 
 so offending sliall forfeit and pay to the vestry or district board a 
 
 sum not exceeding five pounds, and also a further sum not exceeding 
 
 fortv sliillinp-s for every dav during:: whic^h such offence shall continue, 
 
 to be recovered by action at law or before a Justice of the Peace in 
 
 a summary manner, at the option of the vestry or district board ; 
 
 and the vestry or district board may at their discretion either 
 
 execute or perform any such works, matters, or things, and recover 
 
 the costs and expenses thereof from the owner of the property as 
 
 aforesaid, or i)roceed for and recover the said penalty or penalties ; 
 
 but nothing herein contained shall render any person or persons 
 
 liable to be proceeded against for the penalty as well as for the 
 
 costs and exjienses of the works. \_\Vor(1s omitted {^^ eightij-Jirst'''' 
 
 and " and. fif/ht //-sixth ") n'p. 54 it 55 \'ict. c. 7(3, ^s-. 142 ('/.'.'.).] 
 
 65. The penalties declared by the lirstly-recited xVct in the case j'^f 1*^^^,?° 
 of persons committing the otiences mentioned therein are hereby c. 120. ex- 
 extended and made a])plicable to all jjcrsons causing the com- t<?Dded to 
 mission of any such offences, or l)y whose order or direction any ^^^3-'^ 
 such offences shall have been committed. offences. 
 
 66. Whereas certain property within the limits of the metroiX)lis Temporary 
 
 is so situate as to render it impracticable, or practicable only at ^|l';'].t.'"^° ^V 
 
 ,1 -11 '1 Hrainage or 
 
 undue expense, to connect such property witli covered sewers, and property 
 
 it is expedient that some temporary j)rovision should be made for where no 
 
 draining such property and abating the nuisances existing thereon ^.^°^^ 200^"^" 
 
 or caused thereby : Be it therefore enacted, that in any case in feet. 
 
 ■which any house or other building, whether erected before or after 
 
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 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 The Metropolis Management 
 Amendment Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Penalty on 
 persons 
 placing 
 buildings or 
 encroach- 
 ments on 
 sewers. 
 
 Penalty on 
 persons 
 interfering 
 with sewers. 
 
 the passing of this Act, is without sufficient drainage, and there is 
 no proper sewer within two hundred feet of any part of such house 
 or building, it shall he lawful for the vestry or district board of 
 the parish or district in which such house or building is situate by 
 notice in writing to require the owner of such house or building to 
 construct and lay from such house or building a covered drain to 
 lead therefrom into a covered water-tight cessjjool or tank or other 
 suitable recejitacle, not being under a house or within such distance 
 from a house as the vestry or board shall direct, and to construct 
 such cesspool, tank, or receptacle ; and the several pro%^sions in 
 the firstly-recited Act with respect to the laying of house drains at 
 the expense of the owners of property, and the recovery of such 
 expenses of and the penalties for any omission in respect to the 
 performance of any such works pursuant to the orders of vestries 
 or district boards in accordance with the directions of the said Act, 
 shall be extended to and apply to the making of such cesspools, 
 tanksj receptacles, and drains, and the orders of vestries and district 
 boards in relation thereto and the expenses thereof. \_See s. 64, and 
 IS (fc 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 73—85.] 
 
 67. \_Compulsoi^y water sup-phj for houses. Rep. 54 in 55 Vict, 
 c. 76, .S-. 142. See ibid. s. 48.] 
 
 68. Every person who shall knowingly erect or place any build- 
 ing, wall, bridge, fence, obstruction, annoyance, or encroachment 
 in, upon, over, or under any sewer under the jurisdiction of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, or of any vestry or district board, 
 and every person obstructing, filling in, or diverting any sewer or 
 drain under the jurisdiction, survey, or control of the Metropolitan 
 Board or of any vestry or district board, without the previous 
 consent in writing of the Board or vestry in whom the same may be 
 vested, shall, in addition to any other proceeding to which he may 
 be liable therefor, forfeit and jjay to such respective Board or vestry 
 a sum not exceeding twenty pounds for every such offence : and 
 the Board or vestry may demolish and remove any such building, 
 wall, bridge, fence, obstruction, annoyance, or encroachment, and 
 perform any works necessary for restoring or reinstating the sewer 
 or other work or thing damaged ; and the party erecting such 
 building, wall, bridge, fence, or causing such obstruction, annoyance, 
 or encroachment, shall also pay the expense of removing and 
 abating them respectively, and of re-oj^ening, restoring, repairing, 
 or reinstating any sewer or drain obstructed, filled in, closed up, 
 or diverted ; and in case of a continuing offence in any of the cases 
 aforesaid the offender shall be liable to a further penalty, not 
 exceeding five j>ounds, for each day after notice thereof from the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, or from the vestry or district board, 
 to be recovered by action at law or before any Justice of the Peace, 
 by a summary proceeding, at the option of the Board or vestry ; 
 Pro\ided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to 
 prevent or impede the maintenance, repair, or renewal of any 
 buildings or works under which a sewer or drain has been con- 
 structed, but so, nevertheless, that such buildings or works shall 
 not injure or obstruct the said sewer or drain. \_See 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120, s. 83 and note thereon., and s. 204.] 
 
 69. Any person who shall take up, remove, demolish, or other- 
 wise interfere with any sewer or part of a sewer vested in the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, or in any vestry or district board,
 
 125 & 20 Vict.] The Metropolis Manarjernent 
 
 •- -J Amendment Act 1802. ■- -• 
 
 witliont thf previous porraission in writinf]^ of snch board or vestry, 
 or who sluill wilfnllv (lainu<re unv sewer, bank, defence, wall, 
 penstock, ,i;ratin^, ^"ully, side entrance, tide valve, flap, work, or 
 thing vested in the Metropolitan Board or any vestry or district 
 board, or do any act by which the drainage of the metropolis or 
 any ])ai't tiiereof may l<e oltstnicfcd oi- injured, shall for every snch 
 oU'ence forfeit and pay to the said JMi^tropoIitan Board of W^orks, or 
 to the vestry (»r distri(;t board aggrieved by any such act, for every 
 snch offence a sum not exceeding twenty pounds, and shall also pay 
 to snch board or vestry all the expenses of repairing, restoring, 
 reinstating, or amending any sewer or ftther work or thing so taken 
 up, removed, demolished, damaged, or interfered with, to be re- 
 covered by action at law or before a Justice of the Peace by a 
 summary proceeding, at the option of the Board or vestry. [_See 
 note on s. 68.] 
 
 70. [.l.s' to providing and w.aintaimnq drinkinq fountains. Rep, 
 M k ;-).■) Viet. c. 70, s. 142. .Sec ibid. s. .ll.] 
 
 71. All property, rights, matters, and things whatsoever which I°come of 
 before the passing of the firstly-recited Act were vested in any pert^f^etc'^*'' 
 surveyor or surveyors of highways in connexion with their duties subject to 
 and powers as such surveyor or surveyors, transferred by that Act trusts for 
 
 to any vestry or district board, shall be deemed to have become hj!rinv;rvs to 
 transferred to and to have vested in such vestry or district board be'paid'over 
 by virtue of the said Act : and so much of the yearly and other i? vestry or 
 income of all estates, property, and effects of whatsoever description ^o^r^^*^ 
 so vested and transferred as aforesaid as is or may be subject to anv 
 use or trust for or in respect of and applicable to the repair of any 
 highways within the metropolis shall be applicable to the repair, 
 maintenance, and im])rovement of the highways within the metro- 
 polis under the ])ro visions of the said Act, and shall from time to 
 time be accounted for and paid over to the respective vestries and 
 district boards, and be ai)plied by them for the purposes of the 
 highways within their parishes and districts, in the same manner as 
 the same could lawfully have been a])plied l)efore the passing of the 
 said Act. [.^tr 18 ct 10 Vict. c. 12U, .s. UO.] 
 
 72. The vestry of every parisli mentioned in Schedule A. to the Vestries and 
 firstlv-recited Act, and the district board of everv district, sliall, '.^'^^'"l'^'^ 
 with the previous consent in writing of the Metropolitan Board of with consent 
 Works, have power within their respective parish or district to of Mctropo- 
 make, extend, widen, alter, or imjtrove any street, road, or way, effgct^m- 
 
 or any bridge over a canal traversing any part of such parish or provcments 
 district, for the i)urpose of facilitating i)assage and traffic, or for within their 
 any other public. ])urpose ; or to contribute and join with the IJi^Jt^jg^^'^ 
 Metroi)olitan Board, or with any other body or persons, in any such 
 improvements : and to take by agreement or gift any land, right 
 in land, (tr property for tlie ])urposes aforesaid, or any of them, on 
 such terms and conditions as they may think fit ; and for the 
 jnirposes aforesaid it shall be lawful for any vestry or district board, 
 should tliey see tit, to take down the ])resent bridges over canals 
 witliin their parish or district, and to erect others in their j)Iace and 
 stead, or to erect new bridges over such canals in such situations 
 as they may deem beneficial, and from time to time to repair and 
 maintain such existing or new bridges, and to indemnify the canal 
 company or other body or jiersons interested in such briilges against 
 the future repairs and maintenance of any such bridges ; and the
 
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 Amendment Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 YiCT.] 
 
 Act as to 
 paving and 
 improving 
 parts of 
 metropolis 
 to extend to 
 metropolis 
 as defined by 
 this Act. 
 
 Expenses of 
 paving new 
 streets. 
 
 exjjenses incurred by any vestry or district board in any such im- 
 jDrovements shall be paid out of the general rate authorized to be 
 raised in their parish or district under the firstly-recited Act : 
 Provided that no such extension, widening, alteration, improvement, 
 taking down, or re-erection of any existing bridge over any such 
 canal, or the erection of any new bridge over the same, shall be 
 made without the previous consent in writing under their common 
 seal of the company owning such canal, and the provisions of the 
 one hundred and seventh section of the firstly-recited Act shall 
 remain in force and be applicable to this enactment : Provided also, 
 that it shall be lawful for any such vestry or district board, under 
 the provision contained in the one hundred and eighty-third section 
 of the firstly-recited Act, to borrow and take up at interest on the 
 credit of all or any of the moneys or rates authorized to be raised 
 by them under that Act any sums necessary for defraying the 
 expenses of any such improvements : Provided, that nothing in this 
 Act shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize the taking 
 down or removing any bar, gate, rail, or other fence fixed for 
 preventing any thoroughfare into or from any square, street, or way, 
 without the consent of the proprietor of the estate or property upon 
 which such bar, gate, rail, or other fence, square, street, or way 
 shall be situate : Provided that this enactment shall not limit the 
 powers in force given by the Act next herein-after referred to, or 
 by any local Act. {See also s. 100, and 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 
 ss. 107 and 183, and notes thereon.'] 
 
 73. The powers of improving and regulating streets and for the 
 suppression of nuisances contained in the Act of the fifty-seventh 
 year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, chapter 
 twenty-nine, local and personal, intituled " An Act for better paving, 
 improving, and regulating the Streets of the Metropolis, and re-- 
 moving and preventing Nuisances and Obstructions therein," shall 
 so far as the same is in force, and is not inconsistent with the 
 provisions of the recited Acts and this Act, extend and apply to 
 the metropolis as defined in the firstly-recited Act and in this Act, 
 including any unpaved streets, and notwithstanding any exceptions 
 therein contained. 
 
 74 — 76. [Buildings beyond general line. Rep. 57 & 58 Vict^ 
 c. ccxiii. .S-. 215. See ibid. ss. 22 et. seq. and 190.] 
 
 77. Where any vestry or district board shall, under the powers 
 given by the one hundred and fifth section of the firstly-recited Act, 
 have paved or be about to pave any new street, the owners of the- 
 land bounding or abutting on such street shall be liable to con- 
 tribute to the expenses or estimated expenses of paving the same, 
 as well as the owners of houses therein, provided that it shall be 
 lawful for the vestry or district board to charge the owners of land 
 in a less proportion than the owners of house property, should 
 they deem it just and expedient so to do ; and any such costs or 
 expenses, including the cost of paving at the points of intersection 
 of streets, and all other incidental costs and charges, shall be 
 apportioned by the vestry or board, and shall be recoverable either 
 before the work shall be commenced, or during its progress, or after 
 its completion ; and it shall be lawful for the vestry or district 
 board at their discretion to accept payment of the amount appor- 
 tioned or charged in respect of each house or premises by instalments, 
 spread over a period not exceeding twenty yeai's, and. any such,
 
 [25&2Cyic..] ^'^tSS Iri^f-r' [<••-.•. 102.] 325 
 
 amount shall l)e vecovei-aLlo from the present or any fntnre owner 
 of the premises either l)y ac^tion at law or in a summary manner 
 before a Justice of the I'eaee, at the option of the vestry or board. 
 [See also 53 & 54 Vict. cc. 54 and 60.] 
 
 78. [-l.s fojldijijing of footwaya. Rej). 53 & 54 Vict. c. 54, a. 1.] 
 
 79. \_liexital of the detennination under IH k 19 Vict. c. 120 of 
 the poicerti of the commisaionerfi under 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. xlix.* to 
 pave road a and J'oot(cai/s on the JiedJ'ord e.sta.te. Rep. 5r) it 57 Vict, 
 c. 54 {S.L.R.) — Certain sums advanced by the l>iike of Jiedjo/(/ for 
 making up certain roads and footways on that estate to be added to 
 the debt on, St. Pancras parish. Spent. See the St. Pancra^s Loans 
 Acts 1879 and 1887.] 
 
 80. . . . No street not bein^r an higliway shall be repaired '''■o^i'^^ *o 
 as in the said section mentioned, unless notice be o:iven to the ^^^^ ^y y^^.^ 
 owners and rated occu])iers of the houses in such street respectively; c. 120 
 and service of any such notice may be effected by leaviui; the same repealed, 
 at the several houses in such street, or where any of the said Notice of 
 houses shall be unoccupied, by alFixint^ the same upon the outer ''^*^"*"''!^ ^^ 
 door or some conspicuous part of such houses ; and provided further, not being ' 
 that no such street shall be repaired as in the said section men- a highway. 
 tioned if within one luonth after notice has been given as aforesaid 
 
 written notice of objection to such repair, signed by at least two- 
 thirds of the owners or rated occupiers of houses iu the said street, 
 shall be given to the vestry or district board. \Part omitted, 
 {repeal of prori.w to s. 106 of 18 k 19 Vict. c. 120) rep. 56 k 57 
 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.). See also s. llO, and 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 
 s. 221.] 
 
 81. In any case of default by the owner of any court, passage, Where 
 or public place, not being a thoroughfare, to comply with the °'^^'^*:^^ °^ 
 requisition of any vestry or district board to perform works of omit to drain 
 paving or draining of the nature described in the one hundredth and pave, 
 section of tlie firstly-recited Act, it shall be lawful for the ^'^'^^^^' ^wrf Aboard 
 or board, should they see fit, in lieu of enforcing the penalty therein may perform 
 mentioned to execute and perform such works, and recover the the works, 
 expenses tliereof from the owner either by action at law or in a ^'^^'^^"^ 
 sumnuiry manner before a Justice, at the option of the vestry or owner, 
 board. 
 
 82. In every case in which any company or person shall be liable Reinstate- 
 under the firstly-recited Act to reinstate the pavement, surface, or ™^|Jj bro^Tn' 
 soil of any street under the control of any vestry or district board uii by works 
 which may have been broken uj) or oj)ened, or to repay to such I'f companies 
 vestry or board the expenses of reinstating the pavement, surface, ^^^' 
 
 or soil of any street, every such company or person shall be liable 
 to reinstate the pavement, surface, or soil, or to pay the exj)enses of 
 reinstating the i)avement, surface, or soil of such parts of the street 
 as shall have been so broken up or opened, as well as of the i)art 
 or parts contiguous thereto which may be affected by the works 
 of such com})any or j)erson, to the reasonable satisfaction of the 
 surveyor for the time being of the vestry or district having control 
 over the pavements in sucii })arish or district. [6'('(' 18 »fc 19 Vict, 
 c. 120, *^6\ 109 — 115, and notes thereo7i.~\ 
 
 83. The Metropolitan Board of Works may, iu order to secure Metropolitan 
 
 the efficient maintenance of the main and general sewerage of the Board may 
 
 ° ° make bye- 
 
 * IJepealed bv the St. Pancras Order in Council li>01, made under 62 & G3 laws for 
 Vict. c. U. ■
 
 326 
 
 guidance of 
 vestries, etc. 
 in construc- 
 tion of 
 sewers. 
 
 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 The Metropolis Management 
 Amendment Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Vestries, etc. 
 may stop up 
 streets during 
 execution of 
 works. 
 
 Metropolitan 
 Board may 
 place road- 
 way, foot- 
 paths, etc. in 
 different 
 parishes or 
 districts 
 under man- 
 agement of 
 one vestry 
 or district 
 board. 
 
 Persons 
 omitting to 
 give notice 
 required by 
 section 76 of 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 0. 120. liable 
 to penalty. 
 
 metropolis, from time to time make, alter, and repeal b3'elaws for 
 the guidance, direction, and control of the vestries of parishes in 
 Schedule A. to the firstly-recited Act, district boards, and all other 
 persons, in relation to the levels, dimensions, construction, main- 
 tenance, ventilation, and cleansing of sewers in their respective 
 parishes, districts, or parts, and for the other objects enumerated in 
 the one hundred and thirty-eighth section of the firstly-recited Act, 
 subject in all respects to the several provisions relating to byelaws 
 contained in the two hundred and second section of the said Act ; 
 but this provision shall only extend to the city of London and 
 the liberties thereof, so far as regards the main drainage of the 
 metropolis. {See 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 138, and 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 15, s. 3.] 
 
 84. It shall be lawful for any vestry or district board ... to 
 close or stop up any street within their parish or district during the 
 execution of any paving, sewerage, or other works by such vestry 
 or board in such street, and to keej^ the same closed and stopped up 
 for such time as shall be necessary in that behalf . . . {See also 
 s. 21. Parts omitted (as to sanction of the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works to such stopping ujj) rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 85. {Height of huildings. Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 215. 
 See ibid. s. 47.] 
 
 86. Where in any street the roadway and footpaths or either of 
 them are or is situate in more than one parish or district, or where 
 the whole of the roadway and footpaths of any street are situate in 
 one parish or district, and the whole or any part of the houses and 
 buildings abutting on such roadway or footpaths are situate in 
 another parish or district, in either of the said cases it shall be 
 lawful for the Metropolitan Board of Works, should they deem it 
 convenient and proper so to do, to order that any such roadway and 
 footpaths shall, for the purposes of sewerage, drainage, p)aviug, and 
 lighting, or any of them, be under the exclusive management of the 
 vestry or district board of one of the said parishes or districts and 
 to order and direct in what proportions the costs of constructing 
 and maintaining any new sewer or drain in such street, or of the 
 reconstruction, reparation, or maintenance of any existing sewer or 
 drain therein, or of the i)avang or making up or lighting of the 
 roadway or footpaths thereof, and the repair and maintenance of 
 such roadway or footpaths, shall be borne and defrayed by the 
 vestry or board of each parish or district, and the decision of the 
 said Metropolitan Board thereon shall be final and conclusive ; and 
 in case of default by any vestry or board liable under any such order 
 to any such payment, the vestry or district board entitled thereto 
 may sue for and recover the amount thereof from the vestry or 
 board so making default by action at law. {See 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 
 ss. 140 and 160.] 
 
 87. {Naming of streets. Rep. 67 & oS Vict, c.ccxiu. s. 215. See 
 ibid. ss. 32—36.] 
 
 88. If any jierson shall, without having given the notice directed 
 by the seventy-sixth section of the firstly-recited Act, begin to lay 
 the foundation of any new house or building within any j)arish 
 mentioned in Schedule A. of the said Act, or any district in 
 Schedule B. of the said Act, or to make anj' drain for the purpose of 
 draining either directly or indirectly into any sewer under the juris- 
 diction of the vestry or board of such parish or district, he shall
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] The Metropolis Mana^ment j-^,^^^,_ j,^^ -, 337 
 
 •- -J Amendment Act 1802. •- -■ 
 
 become lial)Ie to a penalty for every sncli offence not exceeding 
 five ])onn(ls, and to a (;ontinuinj^ j)eiialty of forty shilling.s for each 
 and every day during wJiich lie shall omit to give the notice directed 
 by the said Act. 
 
 89. [ Wrotiqfal collection of aahes, etc. Rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, 
 .v. 14-J. ,Scc ih'id. .s. 34.] 
 
 90. Every ])erson who shall affix or canse to be affixed any bill, Penalties for 
 notice, or j)a})er against, or deface or disfigure any street post, I'l'^^p on kufp 
 post, pumj), or building vested in any board or v(!8try, or who shall posts, notice 
 remove, deface, or injure any notice board ])laced or set up by order boards, etc. 
 of any board or vestry, or who shall ])ull down, obliterate, or deface 
 
 any notice set u]) or alHxcd by order of any board or vestry shall 
 for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings, 
 to be recovered before a Justice by a summary proceeding. [_See 
 also 2 & 3 Vict. tf. 47, 6-. 54 (10).] 
 
 91. '[h'eejjitig swine in improper situations. Tlcp. 54 & 55 Vict, 
 c. 7(), s. 142. See ibid. ss. 17 and 18.] 
 
 92. [lie peal of s. 131 ^/ 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, and s. 35 0/ the 
 Metropolitan Cattle Market Act 1857. Rep. 38 k 30 Vict. c. 60 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 93 — 95. \_Lice7ising of cowhouses — Removal of manure. Rep. 
 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, 6'. 142. See ibid. ss. 20, 35, and 36.] 
 
 96. . . . It shall be lawful for any vestry or district board, at Vestry or 
 their discretion, to require the pavment of anv costs or expenses •^^^stnct board 
 
 1 • I i.1 c ■ 1 r uf i 1 *i may require 
 
 which the owner of any ])remises may be liable to pay under the payment of 
 
 said recited Act or this Act either iVom the owner or from any costs or ex - 
 
 person who then or at any time thereafter occupies such jtremises, P<5"ses from 
 
 and such owner or occu])ier shall be liable to pay the same, and the occupier, and 
 
 same shall ])e recovered in maimer authorized by the recited Act occupier pay- 
 
 and tills Act ; and the owner shall allow such occupier to deduct ^^jj^'^j.^^^j'^"''* 
 
 the sums of money which he so ])ays out of the rent from time to 
 
 time becoming due in respect of the said ])remises as if the same 
 
 had been actually paid to such owner as part of such rent : Pntvided 
 
 always, that no such occui)ier shall be re([uired to pay any further 
 
 sum than the amount of rent for the time being due from him, or 
 
 which, after such demand of suc-h costs or expenses from such 
 
 occupier, and after notice not to pay his landlord any rent without 
 
 first deducting the amount of such costs or exj)enses, becomes 
 
 payable by such occu])ier, unless he refuse, on application lieing 
 
 made to him for that purpose by or on behalf of the vestry or district 
 
 board, truly to disclose the amount of his rent, and the name and 
 
 address of the person to whom such rent is ])ayable, but tiie burden 
 
 of proof that the sum demanded from any such occu})ier is greater 
 
 than the rent due by him at the time of such notice, or which has 
 
 since accrued, shall lie upon such occupier : Provided also, that Apocments 
 
 nothing herein contained shall be taken to affect any contract "^'^*1^ [j^nXrd and 
 
 or to be made between any owner and occupier of any house, buiUling, tenant not to 
 
 or other property, whereof it is or may be agreed tluit the occupier be affected. 
 
 shall pay and discharge all rates, dues, and sums of money payable 
 
 in resi)ect of such house, building, or other projierty, or to effect any 
 
 contract whatsoever between landlord and tenant. \_Rart omitted 
 
 {repeal of ss. 217, 218, and 2lU of l8 .^ 10 Vict. c. 120) rep. 56 & 
 
 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.R.). See also 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 121 ; and 
 
 57 k 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 173.]
 
 328 
 
 Deduction 
 by owTiers 
 paying rent 
 where amount 
 of expenses 
 deducted 
 from rent 
 paid to bim. 
 
 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 The, Metropolis Management 
 Amendment Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 vestries, etc. 
 to borrow 
 moneys for 
 the improve- 
 ment of 
 streets. 
 
 Penalties may 
 be recovered 
 in manner 
 provided bv 
 11 & 12 Vict. 
 c. 43. 
 
 97. If the owner or landlord of any premises from whose rent any 
 amount shall he deducted in respect of any costs, charges, or 
 expenses payable nnder the firstly-recited Act or this Act shall hold 
 the premises in respect of which the amount of such costs, charges, 
 or expenses shall he paid at a rent not less than the rackrent, he 
 shall be entitled to deduct the whole amount paid by him on account 
 of such costs, charges, or expenses from the rent paya])le by him to 
 his superior landlord ; and if he holds at a rent less than the rack- 
 rent, he shall be entitled to deduct from the rent so payable by him 
 a sum l)earing the same proportion to the amount so paid by him on 
 account of such costs, charges, or expenses as his rent shall bear to 
 the rackrent ; and if the owner or landlord from whose rent any 
 deduction be made under the provision last aforesaid be himself 
 liable to the payment of rent for the premises in respect of which 
 the deduction shall be made, and hold such premises for a term of 
 which less than twenty-one years shall be unexpired, but not other- 
 wise, he may deduct from the rent so payable by him a sum bearing 
 the same proportion to the sum deducted from the rent payable to 
 him as the rent payable by him shall bear to the rent payable to him, 
 and so on in succession with res])ect to every landlord of the same 
 premises both receiving and liable to pay rent in respect thereof, 
 and holding the same for a term of which less than twenty-one 
 years shall be unexpired as aforesaid : Provided always, that nothing 
 herein contained shall be construed to entitle any j)erson to deduct 
 from the rent payable by him more than the whole sum deducted 
 from the rent payable to him : Provided also, that nothing herein 
 contained shall be taken to affect any contract made or to be made 
 between any owner or occupier of any house, building, or other 
 property whereof it is or may be agreed that the occupier shall pay 
 and discharge all rates, dues, and sums of money payable in respect 
 of such iiouse, building, or other property, or to affect any contract 
 whatsoever between landlord and tenant. \_See also 54 & 55 Vict, 
 c. 70, s. 121 ; and 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 173.] 
 
 98-99. \_Wi(Wi of streets. Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 215. 
 See ibid. ,ss. 6—21.]' 
 
 100. It shall be lawful for every vestry and district board 
 mentioned in clause one hundred and eighty-three of the first-recited 
 Act to exercise the power to borrow moneys therein mentioned, with 
 the sanction of tlie Metropolitan Board of Works granted under 
 their common seal, for the purpose of enabling suchivestry or district 
 board to make, extend, widen, alter, or improve any street, road, or 
 way, for facilitating the passage and traffic within the parish or 
 district for which such vestry or district board is appointed, or for 
 the purjjose of contributing to and of joining with the Metropolitan 
 Board or with any other board or j)ersons in any such improvement. 
 
 101. \Inspectors of tveights and measures. Rep. by the Weights 
 and Measures Act 1878, s. 86. See ibid. s. 55.] 
 
 102. Every jjenalty or forfeiture imposed by this Act, and made 
 recoverable by a summary proceeding, may be recovered before any 
 Justice of the Peace, in manner provided by the Act of the session 
 holden in the eleventh and twelfth years of Her Majesty, chapter 
 forty-three. 
 
 103. [Expenses of obtaining Act. 
 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. m
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] ^'''"' ^f^'^J'^'^ '/^'^f'^'^^ [Chap. 1 02.] 329 
 
 •- -J Aim- ml maid Act Jn'j2, ^ j 
 
 104. Tlie provision in the two Imnflrod and twcnfy-soventh section Provision as 
 of the firstly-recited Act tor the ix-covei-y oi" penalties and torfeitnres un,ye"2''7th 
 imposed hy the said Act is herel)y exteinh-d to any damages, costs, st-ction of 
 or expenses j)ayable or recoveiaMc iiikIci' the said recited Acts or tliis i^^ in Vict. 
 Act ; and any such damages, costs, or exi)euses, the recovery where- extended to 
 oi" is not otherwiso provided for, may be recovered by summary damages, etc. 
 ])roc,('edings in manner directed by the said section. 
 
 105. . . . All penalties or forfeitures pavable or recoverable under Application 
 the iirstly-recited Act or this Act, . . . 'shall go and be paid in °^ Penalties, 
 manner herein-after mentioned, anything contained in an Act made 
 
 and ])asscd in the session holden in the second and third years of the 
 reign of Her })resent Majesty, chapter seventy-one, or in any other 
 Act or Acts to the contrarv notwithstanding ; that is to sav, one 
 lialt" shall go to the iuformei', and the remainder shall go to the 
 vestry or district l)oard of the jiarish or district in which the offence 
 was committed, or to the Metro])olitan Jjoard of W(jrks, in case the 
 injury shall have been sustained by or the otience committed in 
 res])ect of that Board ; or if such vestry or district board or the 
 Mctr()])olitau Board of Works be the informers, then the whole of 
 the penalty recovered shall go to them resjx'ctively, and all sums 
 "which shall go to or be recovered by any board or vestry on account 
 of any ])ciuilty or forfeiture shall be paid to their treasurer or into 
 such bank to their account as they may direct, and shall be 
 a])j)licable towards the general expenses of such board or vestry ; 
 provided that in everv case where anv board or vestrv are liable to 
 any penalty or forfeiture, the whole of such penalty or forfeiture 
 shall go to the informer. \_Parts omitted {repeal of s. 234 of \S &, 
 19 Vict. c. 120 and as to penalties under the A^nisances I-iemoval Act 
 1855 *) rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.B.) and 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, 
 s. 142. See 2 & 3 Vict. c. 71, s. 34.] 
 
 106. [JVotice of action, etc. Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. s. 61 ((j.v.). See 
 Appendix.^ 
 
 107. . . . No person shall be liable for the payment of any Penalties to 
 })enalty or forfeiture under the recited Acts or this Act, or any bye- [|^r wTt*hhf^^ 
 law made by virtue thereof, for any oiFi-nce made cognizable before gjx months, 
 a Justice, unless the com})laint res2)ecting such offence have been 
 
 made before such Justice within six months next after the commission 
 or discovery of such offence. \^Part omitted (repeal of s. 233 o/ 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120) rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.B.).'] 
 
 108. [_Act not to ajt]d>/ to things done before its passing. licp. 56 
 
 <t 57 Met. c. 54 (S.L.R.).'] No further 
 
 109. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to make the ^fta^lfj^^o'' 
 several places named in Schedule (0.) of the firstly-recited Act places named 
 liable to anv pavment or assessment to which they would not have i" ^ched. (C.) 
 been liable if this Act had not been passed. Vict ic l''0 
 
 110. The said recited Acts and this Act shall be construed Acts to be 
 together as one Act. construed as 
 
 111. IShort title. Rep. Z^Q & 57 Virf. r. 54 {S.L.R.). See the°''^^''^' 
 Short Titles Act 1896.] 
 
 112. In the construction of the recited Acts and this Act the term Interpreta- 
 ." metropolis " shall be deemed to include the city of London and ^"''^ "^^ ^*^^°^^- 
 the parishes and places mentioned in the Schedules (A.), (B.), and 
 
 (C.) to the firstly-recited Act ; the word '' drain " shall be deemed 
 
 * Kep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 112.
 
 oon rn^.^ ir-on ^^^^ Metro uolis Manaqemerd no- t o/s -vr n 
 
 330 [Chap. 102. 1 . ^ ]\ . j . iJr-.o [20 & 26 Vict.I 
 
 "- -" Amendment Act 1^62. i- J 
 
 to apply to and include the subject matters specified in the two 
 hundred and fiftieth section of the firstlj^-recited Act, and also any 
 drain for draining a group or block of houses by a combined 
 operation, laid or constructed before the first day of January one 
 thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, pursuant to the order or 
 direction or with the sanction or approval of the Metropolitan 
 Commissioners of Sewers ; the expression '' water company " shall 
 mean and include any of the companies enumerated in the Twentv- 
 ninth section of the Act of the session of the fifteenth and 
 sixteenth years of the reign of Queen Victoria, chapter eighty-four,* 
 for the making better provision resj)ecting the supply of water to 
 the metropolis, and also any other company, board, or commission, 
 association, person, or partnership, corporate or unincorporate, for 
 the time being supplying the metropolis or any part thereof with 
 water for domestic use ; the word '• cattle '"' shall include sheep, 
 lambs, and swine; the word " street " shall be deemed to apply to 
 and include the subject matters specified in the two hundred and 
 fiftieth section of the firstly-recited Act, and also any mews and 
 a part thereof; the expression ^' new street" shall apply to and 
 include all streets hereafter to be formed or laid out, and a part of 
 any such street, and also all streets, the maintenance of the paving 
 and roadway whereof had not, previously to the passing of this Act, 
 been taken into charge and assumed by the commissioners, trustees, 
 surveyors, or other authorities having control of the pavements or 
 highways in the parish or place in which such streets are situate, 
 and a part of any sach street, and also all streets partly formed or 
 laid out ; the word '• pave *' shall apply to and include the formation 
 of the roadway or footway of any street ; the word '"clerk" shall 
 include any ofiicer called or to be called " secretary ; " the word 
 " suryeyor " shall include any ofiicer called or to be called 
 "engineer;" the word "print" shall apply to and include every 
 mode of taking impressions, whether by letter press, stereotype, 
 lithogra25hy, or otherwise. \^See also 53 k 54 Vict. c. ^^, s. 3, and 
 2 Edit: l/c. 41.] 
 
 113. {Finsbury Fark Act 1857 continued till 1863. Rep. 38 & 39 
 Vict. c. 66 (>S'.Z.J?.).] 
 
 114. \_Payment of auditoris. Rep. in 'part 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 
 {S.L.R.). Rernr. superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 71 (3).] 
 
 115. [^Transfer of poicers of committee of management under 
 10 Geo. 4, c. lxviii.,t respecting the parish of Saint PomI, Cozent 
 Garden, to the cestry of tha.t parish. Spent.'] 
 
 116. \_Sacing the rights of the Crown and the Duchy of Lancaster.'] 
 
 117. \_Sa'cing the rights of the Crown in respect of the Duchy of 
 Cornwall?^ 
 
 SCHEDULES to which this Act refers. 
 
 Schedule A. SJAst of certain securities and liabilities of Metro- 
 jjolitan Commissioners of Sewers. Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.)J] 
 
 Schedule B. \_A'ppjortionment of debt on loan from the Clergy 
 Mutual Assurance Society. SpentT] 
 
 Schedule C. \Form of assessment. Spent. See 32 & 33 Vict. 
 c. 102, s. 22. Forms of precepjt, rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 * See Appendix. 
 
 j Rep. by the ^Vestminste^ Order in Council 1901 , made under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14.
 
 [26 & 27 Vict.] The Metropolis ImproKement Act 1803. [CHAr. 45.] 331 
 
 26 & 27 VICTORIA. A.D. 1863. 
 
 CHAriEU 45. 
 
 An Act for jiaking a new 8treet from liLACKFJUAits to the 
 Mansion House in the City of London in connexion with 
 the Embankment of the River Thames on the Northern 
 Side of that Kiver ; and for other Ti'ri'oses. 
 
 [13M Jal>/ 1803.] 
 
 \Preamhle recites 24 & 25 Vict. c. 42,* and that under 25 k 20 
 Vict. c. 03, the Metropolitan Board of Works {in this Act called the 
 JJoard/f) were authorized to make the embanhment therein mentioned^ 
 and, the deposit of plans showing the intended new street and works 
 tvith the Clerk of the Peace for the City of London.'] 
 
 Works. 
 
 1. The Board may, in the situation and line, and according to the Power to 
 levels, and within the limits of deviation, and on the lands, defined ^"''''^ ^^ 
 in the deposited plans, sections, and book of reference, make the street. ^^ 
 street herein-after described ; namel}', — 
 
 A street commencing in the precincts of Whitefriars and Bride- 
 well, and parishes of Saint Bridget otherwise Saint Bride, and 
 Saint Ann Blackfriars, or some or one of tliem, in the city 
 of London, in or out of New Bridge Street, at or near the 
 j)orti()n of New Bridge Street called Chiitham I'luee, and 
 terminating in the parishes of Saint Mary "Woolchurch Haw 
 and Saint Mildred Poultry, or one of them, in the city of 
 London, at or in tlie streets called the Poultry, ^Mansion 
 House Street, and C'liarlotte Bow, in the city of Loudon, at 
 or near the ]\Iansion House : 
 which is herein-after referred to as the new street, 
 
 2. \_As to works connected with the new street. Spent.'] 
 
 3. The Board shall widen the street called Bennett's Hill, so that As to widen 
 the same may, at its junction with the new street, and to the extent Ij^,^®"?^*^^ 
 of the pro])erty ])urc]iased by the Board abutting on Bennett's Hill, Queen Street, 
 be of tlio width of thirty-five feet at the least ; and the Board shall cheapside. 
 also widen the street called Queen Street, Cheapside, so that such 
 
 street may, to the extent of the property purchased by the Board 
 abutting on that street, be of the width of fiftv feet at the least. 
 
 4 — 8. [Power to deviate — Prorision as to concurrent poiccrs of 
 purchase of lands — As to junctioiL between the new street and the 
 approach to Seiv Blackfriars Bridge authorized by the Blackfriars 
 Bridge Act 1863 — Alteration of gas and ivater pipes. Spent.'] 
 
 9. The Board may make under the new street an arched passage Power to 
 or covered way, herein-after called the sub-way, for sui-li jnirposes make subway, 
 as they tliink fit, with all communications, works, and things ni'ces- 
 sary or proper for the convenient use thereof ; and the same sub-way, 
 communications, works, and things shall be deemed part of the 
 works authorized by this Act, and the same shall (notwithstanding 
 anything herein contained) belong to and be vested in the P)Oard, and 
 shall be maintained antl repaired by tlie Boanl in manner provided 
 
 * Kep. 55 & 51) Vict. c. 19 (S.L.K.). 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 332 
 
 [Chap, 45.] The Metropolis Improvement Act 1863. [26 & 27 Vict.] 
 
 Sections 32 
 to 38 of 
 25 & 26 Vict. 
 c. 93 incor- 
 porated. 
 
 by section twenty-two of the Emliankment Act of 1862, respecting 
 the embankment therein mentioned ; and the Board may permit the 
 use of the sub-way for the purpose of the laying down of gas or 
 water pipes, or telegraphic wires, or for any other like works or 
 purpose, on such terms and conditions and for such period as the 
 Board and any company or person may mutually agree ; and the 
 Board may sell, convey, or demise any right to any company or 
 person for any of the purposes aforesaid, and may make such 
 stipulations for preventing injury to the adjoining property, and for 
 the security of the public, as the Board think proper, and may 
 agree to refer to arbitration any matter in difference under the 
 present provision. \_See also 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccii.] 
 
 10. [Poiver to the Board to lay out footways. Spent.'] 
 
 11. \_Ground laid into new street to form part tliereof and to he 
 under the care of the Commissioners of Sewers for the City ofLondon*~\ 
 
 12—19. \_Power to take lands — Incorporation of Lands Clauses 
 Acts — Incorporation of ss. 23, 24, and 40 of 25 & 26 Vict. c. 93 — 
 Power to purchase and extinguislt easements — Interference with 
 seivers — Custody and. inspection of depjosited plans till completion of 
 works — Time for compulsory purchase limited to five years — For 
 pjrotection of the Equitable Assurance Compxiny, the Principal Pro- 
 bate Registry, and the Probate Court. Spent7\ 
 
 20. There shall be incorporated with this Act sections thirty-two 
 to thirty-eight (both inclusive) of the Embankment Act of 1862 
 (relating to leases and sales of land by the Board, and to the 
 application of money arising therefrom, and to matters connected 
 therewith respectively) ; and for this purj^ose the term "this Act" 
 and terms of reference thereto, used in any of the sections last 
 enumerated, shall be taken to mean or refer to the present Act. 
 \IIep. (so far as relates to incorj^oration of s. 27) 32 & 33 Vict, 
 c. 1U2, s. 50 ; a7id see notes on sections incorporated.] 
 
 21. Before the Board sell any superfluous lands adjoining any 
 lands required p^^ijijc street under the control of the Commissioners of Sewers,* the 
 side streets Board shall give notice to such Commissioners, and such Commis- 
 sioners may within two months after such notice rec|uire the Board 
 to sell to them such quantity of land as may be necessary for 
 widening any such street to a width not exceeding thirty-five feet ; 
 and the provisions of the thirty-fifth section of the Embankment 
 Act of 1862, shall not extend to any such lands in respect of which 
 such requisition may be made by the said Commissioners, and the 
 price shall in case of dis])ute be settled in manner jjrovided by the 
 thirtv-sixth section of such Act. \_See tlie City of London Seivers 
 Act 1897.] 
 
 Money. 
 
 22—23. \_Financial provisions. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 24 — 25. [^.s- to compensation. Spent.] , 
 
 26. There shall be incorporated with this Act sections fifty, fifty- 
 one, and fifty-two of the Embankment Act of 1862 (relating to the 
 application of penalties, and to actions, and to matters connected 
 therewith respectively) ; and for this purpose the term " this Act," 
 
 * See the City of London Sewers Act 1897. 
 
 As to certain 
 
 Sections 50 
 to 52 of 
 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. 9.3. incor- 
 porated.
 
 [26 & 27 Vict.] The Thames Embankment Act 1803. [Chap. 75.] 333 
 
 and terms oi' reference thereto, used in any of the sections last 
 ennmerated, sliall be taken to mean or refer to the present Act. 
 \_See notes on sections incorporated.'] 
 
 27. The I'oard sliall have ami may exercise, for and in the Extension to 
 execntion of this Act, all such ])o\v(;rs, privilege's, ami authorities as t*"8 Act of 
 are conferred on the Board i)y the Acts constitutiu;jr and regulating po"fJ^g of 
 the Board (save that the Board shall not apply any money raised Board, 
 under those Acts in or towards the construction or execution of any 
 
 work authorized by this Act), and, as far as may be, the provisions 
 of those Acts shall ajjply for the jjurposes and in the execution of 
 this Act. . . . [l\(/-t omitted {incorporation of s. 7 of 'Z-) k. ~iO \'ict. 
 c. 93) superseded. See note on that section.'] 
 
 28. [Saving the rights of the Com?nissioners of Sewers* of the 
 City of London.] 
 
 29. This Act may be cited as " The Metroi)olis Improvement Act, Short title. 
 1863." 
 
 30. [Expenses of obtaining and executing Act. Spent in part. 
 Rcmr. superseded J31 k 52 Vict. c. 41.] 
 
 CHAPTER 75. 
 
 An Act for the Embankment of Part of the River Thames, 
 ON THE South Side thereof, in the Parish of Saint IMary 
 Lambeth, and for other Purposes. [28M Jul;/ 1863.] 
 
 [Preamble recites 24 & 25 I let. c. 42,t and that under 25 & 26 1 'ict. 
 c. 93, and 26 & 27 Vict. c. 45, the Metropolitan Board of ^Vorks {in 
 this Act called the Board-^^ were authorized to make certain embank- 
 ments therein mentioned, and that plans sections and book of reference 
 of new works had been deposited, with the Clerk of the Peace for 
 Surrey.] 
 
 Works. 
 
 1. The Board may, in the situations and lines, and according to the Power to 
 levels, and within the limits of deviation, and on the lands, defined make works 
 in the deposited plans, sections, and book of reference, make and de^'^s^t^d *** 
 execute the embankment and works herein-after described ; namelv, plans. 
 
 (1.) An enlargement of the bed of the liiver Thames, by an Works 
 
 excavation of the land, and removal of the wharf walls authorized, 
 and premises from or near Gunhouse Alley near to the 
 Loudon Gasworks to or near Broad Street, all in the jiarish 
 of Saint iMary Lambeth : 
 
 (2.) An embankment on the right bank of the Thames in the 
 parish of Saint Mary Lambeth, commencing at or near 
 Gunhouse Alley, and ending at Westminster Bridge : 
 
 (3.) A new street, to be wholly situate in tlie ]»arish of Saint Marv 
 Lambeth, from ralace New Koad to Bishop's Walk : 
 
 (4.) The widening of Palace New Koail within the limits of devia- 
 tion in continuation of such last-mentioned street : 
 
 (5.) A new street, to be wholly situate in the parish of Saint Mary 
 Lambeth, commencing in and out of the roadway on the 
 
 * See the City of London Sewers Act 1807. 
 
 t Rep. 55 &: 56 Vict. c. l'.* (S.L.K.). 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 334 
 
 [Chap. 75.] The Thames Embankment Act 1863. [26 & 27 Yict.] 
 
 Public foot- 
 way along 
 the embank- 
 ment. 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 construct 
 or provide 
 barge beds, 
 etc. 
 
 Sections 16, 
 19, 20. 21, 
 and 22 of 
 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. 93 incor- 
 porated. 
 
 Ground laid 
 open into 
 streets to 
 form part 
 thereof. 
 
 before-mentioned intended embankment, and terminating 
 at or near Yauxhall Row : 
 (6.) The reclaiming or inclosing of a portion of the bed or fore- 
 shore of the River Thames. 
 
 2. The Board shall lay ont and maintain a public footway of not 
 less than twenty feet in width on and along the said embankment 
 from Westminster Bridge to the point where the intended street to 
 Yauxhall Row diverges from the embankment roadway. 
 
 3. \_As to auxiliary' works. Spent.'] 
 
 4. For the purpose of diminishing so far as practicable incon- 
 venience to the wharfingers, warehousemen, and others having 
 wharfs or premises on the line of the embankment, or having 
 rights of way, easements, or other access to the river, the Board 
 may construct or provide, and afterwards maintain, alter, or improve, 
 all such barge beds, receptacles, recesses, cuts, and basins, and all 
 such other conveniences for loading and unloading goods from barges, 
 lighters, and boats, with entrances or passages or means of access to 
 and from the Thames under the embankment, and all such slips, 
 hards, landing j)laces, jetties, wharves, yards, approaches, and other 
 conveniences and works connected therewith, as the Board may 
 think proper, for the accommodation and use of wharfingers, ware- 
 housemen, and other persons carrying on trade or business in the 
 neighbourhood of the Embankment, and may set apart and appro- 
 priate for the purposes of the present section any land acquired or 
 reclaimed by the Board under this Act, and may enter into and 
 carry into effect such agreements as the Board thinks fit with any 
 wharfingers, warehousemen, and other persons with reference to the 
 construction, providing, maintenance, alteration, improvement, or 
 use of anv such work or convenience as aforesaid. 
 
 5. [Power to deviate. Spent.] 
 
 6 — 7. [For protection of the La/mbetk Bridge Company. Spent ; 
 see 40 k 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 8. [Maintenance of existing dra.w docks at Broaxl Street o/nd 
 Ferry Street. Rep. 31 & 32 Yict. c. cxi. s. 17.] 
 
 9. There shall be incorporated with this Act sections sixteen, 
 nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two of the Embankment 
 Act of 1862 ('relating to the raising of materials from the bed of 
 the Thames, and to the approval of plans and elevations by the 
 Conservators, and to the exhibition of lights during the construction 
 of the works, and to the substitution of piers and other conveniences, 
 and to the maintenance and repair of the embankment, and to 
 matters connected therewith respectively) ; and for this purpose the 
 respective terms " this Act " and " the said embankment," and 
 terms of reference thereto respectively, used in any of the sections 
 last enumerated, shall be taken to mean or refer to the present Act 
 and the Embankment by the present Act authorized. [jSpent as 
 regards incorporation of ss. 16, 19 aMd 20. See notes on sections 
 incorporated.] 
 
 10 — 13. [Power to take places for depositing malerials — As to 
 a/prprocad of certain works by the Boa.rd of Trade — Alteration of 
 qas and other pipes — Power to set oat footways. Spent.] 
 
 14. When the roadway, new streets, and approaches aforesaid 
 respectively are completed, of which completion a certificate signed 
 by the chairman of the Board, and delivered to the Clerk of the
 
 [26 & 27 Vict.] The Thame.s Embankment Act IHCt-i. [Chap. 75.] 335 
 
 Peace for the County of Surrey,* Khull be for all purposes eonclnsive 
 evidence, all tlio <;roun(l laitl ojien into the same respectively shall 
 be deemed to form part thereof respectively, and may be nsed by the 
 public accordingly ; and thenceforth the same roadway, new streets, Streets to be 
 and ap])roafiies, with the sole power, autlioritv, and dutv of paviuir, ""'^'^'' "^^r 
 repuinii;!;-, cieansuig, li<,dituiji;, and watching the same, and of rating vestries, etc. 
 hereditaments within the same respe(;tively, shall be under the care, 
 management, control, and jurisdiction of the same vestries, board, 
 <listrict boards, commissioners, or })ersons as the other streets in 
 the parishes, districts, or jdaces in which the same respectively are 
 situate. [Ainenr/ed 30 Viet. c. vii. n. 2. See also 35 L 30 \^ict. 
 c. Ixvi. s. 3, and note thereon^ 
 
 Lands. 
 
 15. [Poiver to take lands — Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. 
 
 Spent. '\ 
 
 16. [^0 part oj Lambeth Bridge to be taken. Spent ; and see 
 40 k, 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 17—20. [Incorporation of ss. 23,24, and 40 of 2^ & 20 Vict. c. 93 
 — Purchase and extimjuishnient of easements — ('x.sfod^/ and inspection 
 of deposited plans during works — Time for compulsorg purchase of 
 lands limited to 7 years. Spent.'] 
 
 21. There shall be incor])orated with this Act section twenty-seven Sections 27, 
 a,ud sections thirtv-two to thirtv-fonr (both inclusive), and'section -"^^ to 34, and 
 
 thirty-seven of the Embankment Act of 1802 (relating to ajipro- yict. c.^s" 
 priation by the Board in respect of loss of river frontage, and to incorporated, 
 leases and sales by the Board, and to the application of money 
 arising therefrom, and to matters connected therewith respectively) ; 
 and for this purpose the term " this Act," and words of reference 
 thereto, used in any of the sections last enumerated, shall be taken 
 to mean or refer to the present Act ; and the said section twenty- 
 seven shall be read as if the words " right bank " were therein 
 substituted for the words " left bank." \_l\ep. (.so far as relates 
 to incorporation of s. 37) 32 & 33 Vict. c. l02, 6-. 5i). Spent as regards 
 incorporation of s. 27 ; and see notes on sections incorporated. \ 
 
 22 — 23. \_Fotver to Duchi/ of Cornwall to make grants of lands — 
 Mode of ascertaining value of interest of Crown and Thames Con- 
 servators in certain lands. Spent.] 
 
 24. [Saving the rights of the Crown.] 
 
 25. [Saving the rights of the Conimissioners of' Works.] 
 
 Moneg. 
 26—29. [Financial provisions. liep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 30—31. [Power to charge rates a.s collateral security — Separate 
 accounts and repayment of advances. Spent ; and see 32 & 33 Vict, 
 c. 102.] 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 32. [As to compensation. Spent.] 
 
 33. [Incorporation of ss. 48 — 52 o/'25 «fc 26 Vict. c. 93. See notes 
 
 on sections incorporated.] 
 
 34. The Board shall have and may exercise for and in the execution Extension 
 of this Act all such powers, i)rivileges, and authorities as are con- o*f general* 
 ferred on the Board % the Acts constituting and regulating the powers of 
 
 * See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 118 (10). ^°^^'^-
 
 336 
 
 [Chap. 55.] Metropolitan Police Act 1864. [27 & 28 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Board (save that the Board shall not, except as herein provided, 
 apply any money raised under those Acts in or towards the con- 
 struction or execution of any work authorized by this Act), and as 
 far as may be the provisions of those Acts shall extend and apply 
 for the purposes and in the execution of this Act. . . . \_Fart omitted 
 {incorporation of s. 7 of 25 & 26 Vict. c. 93) superseded. See note 
 on that section.'] 
 
 35 — 36. [Saving the rights of the Thames Conservators and of the, 
 Duchjj of Cornwall. '\ 
 
 37. \_Saving the rights of the Commissioners of Works in respect of 
 Westminster Bridge and. of the Lambeth and. Vauxhall Bridge Com- 
 panies. Spent ; see 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix., and 50 & 51 Vict. c. 34.] 
 
 38. This Act may be cited as The Thames Embankment 
 Act, 1863. 
 
 39. [^Expenses of obtaining and executing Act. Spent in part. 
 Remr. superseded 50 & 51 Vict. c. 41, part iv.] 
 
 27 & 28 VICTORIA. A.D. 1864. 
 
 Repeal of 
 recited pro- 
 vision, and 
 substitution 
 of amended 
 provision. 
 
 Treatment 
 of charge 
 brought to 
 police court 
 while shut. 
 
 CHAPTER 55. 
 
 An Act foe the better Regulation of Street Music within 
 THE Metropolitan Police District. [25?"^ Juhj 1864.] 
 
 [_Preamble {reciting 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, 6\ 57) rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 
 {S.L.B.).'] 
 
 1. . . . The following provision sliall take effect as part of the 
 said Act ; namely, any householder within the metropolitan police 
 district, personally, or by his servant, or by any j^olice constable, 
 may require any street musician or street singer to depart from 
 the neighbourhood of the house of such householder, on account 
 of the illness, or on account of the interruption of the ordinary 
 occupations or pursuits of any inmate of such house, or for other 
 reasonable or sufficient cause ; and every person who shall sound 
 or play upon any musical instrument or shall sing in any thorough- 
 fare or public place near any such house after being so required to 
 depart, shall be liable to a penalty not more than forty shillings, 
 or, in the discretion of the Magistrate before whom he shall be 
 convicted, may be imprisoned for any time not more than three 
 days, and it shall be lawful for any constable belonging to the 
 Metropolitan Police Force to take into custody without warrant 
 any person who shall offend as aforesaid : Provided always, he 
 shall be given into custody by the person making the charge : 
 Provided also, that the person making a charge for an offence 
 against this Act shall accompany the constable who shall take 
 into custody any person offending as aforesaid to the nearest police 
 station house, and there sign the charge sheet kept for such purpose. 
 [Part omitted {repeal of s. 57 o/ 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47) rep. 56 V^ict. 
 c. 14 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 2. Whenever any person charged with an offence under this 
 Act shall be brought to any station house during the time when 
 the police court shall be shut, it shall be lawful for the constable
 
 [27 & 28 Vict.] Metropolitan Iloaseleim Poor Act 18G4. [Chai-. 1 1G.] 337 
 
 ill charge of the station house to require the person making the 
 charge to enter into a recognizance, conditioned as is ]»rovided by 
 the Act ])assed in the second and third years of Her Majesty, 
 chapter forty-seven, section seventy-two ; and upon the refusal 
 of such person to do so it shall he lawful for such constable to 
 discharge from custody the ])erson so charged. 
 
 CHAPTEK 11«;. 
 
 *An Act to make Provision for distributing the Charge of 
 Relief of certain Classes of i'uor Persons over the 
 WHOLE of the Metropolis. [29M July 1864.] 
 
 \_Preamblc rep. 5G Vict. c. \A {SJ.Jl).'] 
 
 1 — 2. \_yfi'tropolitan Board of ^yorhl^ to reiinhur.se the guardians 
 of every union or parisli icJtolly or partly within the metropolis 
 monies expended by them in the relief of destitute wayfarers. 
 Rep. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 6, s. Go.] 
 
 3. The relief to which this Act shall apply shall include food ^^'hat relief 
 and articles of necessity supplied by the said guardians, or by their bQ^ggJ^'"' 
 relieving or other ofHcer, or liy any metropolitan police constable 
 authorized by them in such behalf, and also the cost of lodging or 
 shelter hired or temporarily provided for any such poor person, but 
 
 not money given to him. 
 
 4. Where the guardians sliall have provided j)roper wards or Provision 
 other places of reception for this class of poor, and the same shall for the case 
 have been approved of by the Poor Law ]5oard,tthey may include as .^j-ant wards 
 part of the expense incurred by them in the relief of these poor established, 
 persons such sum in respect of each pauper as the Poor Law Board 
 
 shall from time to time allow for the cost and expense of temporarily 
 providing and maintaining such wards or other places. \_>iee also 
 30 k ?>\^Viet. c. G, .s. 60.] 
 
 5. Where no adequate accommodation exists, the guardians Guardians to 
 shall provide within their respective unions or parishes such wards P^o^^^e pro- 
 or other places of reception for destitute wayfarers and foundlings wards. 
 
 as the Poor Law Board,! having regard to the number of ])ersons 
 likely to require relief therein respectively, shall direct. In default 
 of making such provision, and until the same has been made, the 
 Guardians of the union or parish so making default shall not be 
 entitled to the benefit of this Act. \_See also 34 & 3o Vict. r. lo8, 
 s. 9.] 
 
 6. \^Act not to apphi to expenditure for relief after Lady iJat/ 
 18G5. Rep. 28 & 29 Vict. c. 34. 6\ L] 
 
 7. The several words used in this Act shall be construed as in the Interpreta- 
 Act of the fourth and fifth William the Fourth, chai)ter seventy-six, J t>«D of words. 
 and the subsequent Acts explaining and extending the same, and 
 
 the provisions thereof not inconsistent with anything herein 
 contained shall be incorporated herewith. 
 
 8. This Act mav be cited for all purposes as the " Metropolitan «5hort title. 
 Houseless Poor Act, 1864." 
 
 * This Act was extended and made perpetual by 28 k, 29 Vict. c. 34. 
 
 f Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act ISTI. 
 
 \ I.e. the Poor Law Ameodmeut Act 1^>34.
 
 338 
 
 [Chap, iv.] The Soiithwark Park Act 1864. [27 & 28 Tier.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 An Act to enable the Metbopolitax Board of Works to provide 
 A public Park fob the South-eastern Districts of the 
 ]Metropolis, to be called kSolthwark Park. 
 
 [28M Apnl 1864.J 
 
 \_Prea7nbl€.~\ 
 
 1. [Incorporation of Lands Clauses Arts. Spent.'} 
 
 2. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall be sufficient to use 
 the expression '■ The South wark Park Act, 1864." 
 
 3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the 
 several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some- 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction : 
 (that is to say.) 
 
 The word " streets "' includes streets, courts, or allevs. hisrhwavs. 
 
 lanes, roads, thoroughfares, or public passages or places : 
 The expression " the park " means the park and the lands, 
 
 lodges, buildings, roads, and communications acquired and 
 
 made or erected by the Board for the purposes of the park : 
 The expression " the Board "' means the Metropolitan Board of 
 
 Works :* 
 
 Power to 
 form and 
 maintain the 
 park. 
 
 Power to lav 
 out, plant, 
 and enclose 
 the park, 
 and purchase 
 buildings, etc. 
 
 Management 
 of the park 
 to be in the 
 Board. 
 
 [Fart omitted (as to meanings of icords in Acts incorporated. 
 
 Spent?^ 
 
 4 — 6. \Board to execute Act — Power to act by committee — 
 Persons interested not eligible for committee. Superseded by the 
 Municipal Corporations Act 1882 (see Appendix), s. 22 ; and 51 
 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 75.J 
 
 7. It shall be lawful for the Board and they are hereby em- 
 powered to provide, form, and maintain a park or enclosure for the 
 use, recreation, and enjoyment of the public, to be called - South- 
 wark Park," situate in the parish of Saint Mary, Rotherhithe, in 
 the countv of Surrev.f 
 
 8. [Poicer to take lands shaicn on deposited plan. Spent?^ 
 
 9. The Board shall lay out, plant, and enclose the said park, and 
 build anv lodsre or lodges or other ornamental buildings therein, 
 and in such manner as thev shall think fit, and mav cause anv of 
 the buildings which shall be on the lands so to be purchased to be 
 pulled down, and apply the produce of the sale of the materials for 
 any of the purposes of this Act. \_See also 50 it 51 Vict. c. cvi. 
 s. 50 : and 58 k 59 Vict. c. cxxvii. 6-. 45.] 
 
 10. Potcer to appoint officers for purposes of Act. Superseded 
 by the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, ss. 19 and'2(i (see Appendix) ; 
 and b\ & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75.] 
 
 11 — 14. \_As to bye-laics. Superseded. See 40 Vict. c. viii. ss. 3. 
 4, and h) ; 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. .5.5. 14-21; and 61 & 62 
 Vict. c. ccxxi. .5. 61.] 
 
 15. The maintaining and keeping in order the said park and 
 otherwise regulating and improving the same shall be tmder the 
 care, management, and control of the said Board, and the said 
 Board shall have and exercise all the powers and authorities given 
 bv this Act. 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 k. 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 t Now the County of London. See 51 A: 52 Vict. c. 41, 3. 40 (2).
 
 ro- f, oQ -vr,. ,., 1 Thames Embankment Amendment rn -, oo,. 
 
 J_2/ &28 ViCT.J . J ^ [Chai'. cxxxv.] 339 
 
 16. [Expenses of obtaining and of executing Act. Spent in part \ 
 remr. superseded 51 & 52 Vict. r. 41, part iv.] 
 
 17. [j >//icers of the Board not to be interested in contracts. See 
 l!S & ll» \'irf. r. 120, s. 04, irhii-h is prdcticaUif identical and 
 isemhlf ajj/dics to this Act^ 
 
 18. [Stopping up wags duri/ig firmatitjii of par/;. ,'ipc/U.'\ 
 
 19. [Power to the Board to Jill up sewers and drains on prodding 
 substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 ■sewers and drains.'] 
 
 20. [Power to the Board to alter water or gas pipes. Spent.] 
 
 21 — 30. [Errors and omissions in plans — Powers of compulsorg 
 purchase of lands limited to 5 gears — Section 133 of Lands Clauses 
 Act ls45 not incorporated — JJeJiciencies of land tax during execution 
 of works — Board to sell lands not wanted within H) gears — Power to 
 the Board to grant building leases of lands not wanted — Ground 
 rents and recersions thereof to be sold — Po/rer to sell such land 
 without pre>:iouslg leasing — Receipts of Board to be effectual dis- 
 charges. Spent.] 
 
 31. Borrowing poioers — Jiep. in part 32 & 33 Vict. c. 1(J2, .s. 5iJ ; 
 remr, superseded bi/ the London Countg Council {fSloney) Acts 
 
 187.5-1904.] 
 
 32 — 39. [Financial provisions. Bep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 40. [Application of monies to be borrowed. Spent. See 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 102, s. 3.] 
 
 41. The Board may enter into all such contracts as they may I'ower to 
 think tit for forming and providing the said j)ark, conveniences, and ^'oa""'^ ^ 
 matters by this Act authorized to be provided, and for any others 
 
 in relation to the purposes of this Act, in respect of which it may 
 appear to the lioard expedient to enter into contracts. 
 
 42. [Accounts. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 71.] 
 
 Schedule. [Forms of bond and of annuitg security. Spent. 
 See 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 34.] 
 
 CHAPTER CXXXV. 
 
 ,An Act to knable the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 
 PURCHASE additional LaNDS AND TO MAKE FURTHER IM- 
 PROVEMENTS IN THE Parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in 
 THE County of Surrey, for the purposes of " Thk Thames 
 Embankment Act, 1803.'" [30M June 1&G4.] 
 
 [Preamble recites 20 & 27 Vict. c. 75 (/// this Act called " the Act 
 oj 1803 ") and the deposit of a plan and book of reference with the 
 Clerk of the I*eacefor Surreg.] 
 
 1. This Act may Ite cited for any purpose as " Thames short title. 
 Embankment Amendment Act, 1864.'' 
 
 2. [Expressions in Acts incorporated to have same meanings in 
 this Act. Spent.] 
 
 3. [Powe/- to Board to take lands shown on deposited plans — 
 Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.]
 
 340 
 
 Power to 
 make works 
 according to 
 deposited 
 plans. 
 
 Works 
 authorized. 
 
 [Chap, ccxxxv.] The Albert Bridge Act 1864. [27 & 28 Vict.] 
 
 4. The Board may, in the situation and lines, and within the 
 limits of deviation, and on the lauds defined on the deposited plan 
 and described in the book of reference thereto, and according to 
 the levels shown on tlie deposited section, make and execute the 
 works herein-after described ; namely. 
 
 The improvement of the approaches to Palace New Road in 
 continuation of the improvements authorized by the Act of 
 1863 ; and the widening and improvement of a portion of the 
 street called Stangate, commencing from the Westminster 
 Bridge Road ; and the widening of Palace New Road from 
 Stangate to Crozier Street : 
 
 The stopping up of Crozier Street from Palace New Road to 
 Stangate, and a portion of the street called Stangate, leading 
 from the main street of Stangate to Crozier Street aforesaid, 
 and the appropriation and use of the part of the street so 
 stopped up. 
 
 5. \_Time for compulsory purchase of land limited to 5 years.. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 6. \_This Act and the Act <?/1863 to be construed as one Act^^ 
 
 Short title 
 of Act. 
 
 Works 
 
 CHAPTER CCXXXV. 
 
 * An Act to incokporate a C'ompany for making a new Brii>gi: 
 FROM Chelsea to Battersea, with Approaches thereto. 
 
 [2^th July 1864.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that it is expedient to incorporate a 
 Company to build, the new bridge, and, that provision should be made 
 for purchase by the Company of the existing Battersea Bridge built 
 and. maintained under 6 Geo. 3, c. 6G.t] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Albert Bridge 
 Act, 1864." 
 
 2 — 27. {Incorporation of the Companies Clauses Acts 1845 and 
 1863 and Lands Clauses Acts — Incorporation of the Albert Bridge 
 Company with a capital of £90,000 — Financial provisions — 
 Procisions as to directors — Powers to take lands shown on plans, 
 deposited with the Clerks of the Peace for Middlesex and Surrey 
 — Powers for compulsory purchase of lands limited to 3 and for 
 completion of works to 5 years. Provisions as to the sale of 
 Battersea Bridge to the Company — Application of 6 Geo. 3, c. 66 
 to Company — -Alteration of Battersea Bridge. Spent.] 
 
 28. The works which the Company are by this Act authorized ta 
 
 authorized to execute are as follows ; (that is to say,) 
 
 1. A bridge across the River Thames, with all convenient 
 ai)proaches, abutments, piers, walls, embankments, toll- 
 houses, toll gates, landing stairs, and other works and 
 conveniences connected therewith, to commence in the 
 parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in Cheyne ^Valk, at or near 
 the junction therewith of Oakley Street, and to terminate 
 in the parish of St. Mary, Battersea, in a road called the 
 Prince Albert Road : 
 
 * The time for the completion of tlie bridge and works authorized by this Act wa& 
 extendc'd by 84 & 35 Vict. c. Ixxiii. and 86 & 37 Vict, c. xcvii., which are now spent. 
 t Spent. See 44 & 45 Vict. c. cxcii. s. 28.
 
 [27 & 28 Vict.] The Albert Bridge Act 1864. [Chap, ccxxxv.] 341 
 
 2. A street commencirif,' in the King's Road, Chelsea, opposite 
 
 OakJey 8treet aforesaid, and termiiiafint; in the Brorapton 
 and Fulham J{(jud in the })arisli of .St. Luke, Chelsea : 
 
 3. A public road comraeucing in the said parish of St. Mary, 
 
 Buttersea, at the south end of Culvert Itoad, near Sheepgut 
 Road, and teruiinatintr in an intended new road forming 
 on the land of P. \\ . Flower, Esii., known as Long Edge 
 Farm Estate, in the aforesaid parish of St. Mary, Battersea. 
 
 29. The Company shall make and maintain on each side of the Fence to 
 Bridge a good and sufficient fence of not less height than four feet, bri'ige to be 
 
 . made. 
 
 30. For the purposes of the works the Company from time to as to inci- 
 tinie may, within the limits of deviation defined on the said ])lans, 'lental works, 
 dig and make proper foundations in the river and on the lands on 
 
 each side thereof, and make dams in the river during the makiuij or 
 repairing of the bridge, and cut, level, embank, and scour the banks 
 of the river, and cut, remove, scour, take, and carry away all trees, 
 roots of trees, beds of gravel, sand, mud, and other im})ediments, 
 and execute all other works necessary or convenient for building, 
 maintaining, and repairing the bridge, and the approaches to 
 communicate with the bridge on each side of the river. 
 
 31. [ Works not to be commenced ivithont the consent of the 
 Thames Conservators. Spent^ 
 
 32 — 33. \_Bridf/e to be made acrording to plans deposited with the 
 Thames Conservators — Security for completion of works. Spent.'] 
 
 34 — 35. Bed and soil of river not to be interfered with nor 
 materials abstracted therefrom without the consent of the Thames 
 Conservators. Superseded 57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. s. 87 (see 
 Appendix).] 
 
 36. \_Approval of plans by the Board of Trade.] 
 
 37 — 38. [Plans of roads to be apjjroved hj the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works — As to cO)tstruction of Bridge. Spent.] 
 
 39. During the construction of the bridge and works connected Lights to be 
 therewith the Company shall hang out or exhibit thereat or near ^^ burnintr 
 thereto, and for ever after the completion of the bridge the Comjjany "^ " ^^' 
 shall hang out or exhibit u})on the bridge and works res])ectively 
 
 every niglit, from sunset to sunrise, lights to be kept burning by 
 and at the expense of the Company, and proper and sufficient for the 
 navigation and safe guidance of vessels ; and the lights shall be 
 from time to time altered by the Comjiany in such manner and be of 
 such kind and number and be so phu-ed as the Conservators of the 
 River Thames shall bv writing under the hand of their secretarv 
 approve of ; and in case the Com})any shall neglect to exhibit and 
 keep the lights burning as aforesaid they shall forfeit and pay for 
 every such offence the sum of ten pounds. 
 
 40. \Jf public stairs be shut up, Compang to erect others. Spent.] 
 
 41. [Board of Trade mag order local survey. Superseded 57 *k 
 58 Vict. ('. clxxxvii. .s. 183 {see Appendix).] 
 
 42. if any work to be constructed by the Company in, under, over, Board of 
 through, or across the River Thames, or if anv portion of anv work T^a^^e or 
 which affects or may affect that river shall be abandoned or suffered mav remove 
 to fall into disuse or decay, it shall be lawful for the Board of Trade abandoned 
 or for the Conservators of the River Thames to abate and remove the ^^'^rks at 
 same or sucli part or parts thereof as he or they may at any time company.
 
 342 [Chap, ccxxxv.] The Albert Bridge Act IMi. [27&28Yict.] 
 
 or times deem fit and proper, and to restore the site thereof to its 
 former condition, at the cost and charge of the Company, and the 
 amount thereof shall be a debt due from the Company to the Crown 
 or the said Conservators, and if not paid upon demand may be 
 recovered as a debt due to the Crown or the said Conservators, as 
 the case may be, with the costs of suit, or may be recovered with 
 costs as a penalty is or may be recoverable from the Company. 
 
 43. [_^Saving rights of the Conserzators.~\ 
 
 44. \_Saving rights of the Crown^ 
 
 45. [For 2^rotection of sewers as regards intended works, semble 
 spent.'] 
 
 46. \_As to construction of bridges ocer public streets. Spent?\ 
 47—63. \_As to tolls. Superseded 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 16.] 
 
 64 — 65. [Penalty for damaging any part of bridge and. approaches 
 
 — Annoyances — Wilfully damaging bridge. Superseded by 4.5 Vict. 
 
 c. Ivi. s. 41, and .35 A: ^^ Vict. c. ccxxxviii. s. 40. See also the 
 
 Malicious Damage Act 1861, ss. 33, 34, .51, and 52. 
 
 Barge owners 66. If and whenever any i)erson having the care of any boat, 
 
 answerable ijarge, or Other vessel navigated on the river, wilfully, carelessly, 
 
 done by their or negligently causes or sutfers any damage or injury to be done by 
 
 servants. the vessel to the bridge, the owner of the vessel shall be liable to 
 
 make satisfaction to the Company for all such damage or injury. 
 
 67 — 69. [^46- to tolls. Spent. See also 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 Recovery and 70. All offences Under this Act, and all penalties, damages, 
 application of charges, and costs imposed or pavable under this Act. mav be 
 recovered in a summary manner under the provisions of the Act 
 of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of Her present 
 11 & 12 Vict. Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled ''An Act to facilitate the 
 c-43. Performance of the Duties of .Justices of the Peace out of the 
 
 Sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary Con- 
 victions and Orders," and all such penalties shall be paid to the Com- 
 pany except, so far as the convicting Justices award, not more than 
 one half thereof to the informer. [Word omitted (" tolls'") spent.~\ 
 
 71 — 75. [Service of notice by Company — Annual accounts — 
 Leasing of superfluous lands — Deficiency in rates. Spent. Bridge 
 approaches and new street to be public highways. See 40 & 41 
 Vict. c. xcix. s. 16.] 
 
 76. [For jrrotection of the London, Chatham (j- Dover Raihcay 
 Company. Spent?^ 
 
 11 — 78. [Lands of the London, Chatham ^' Dover, West London 
 Extension, and South-western Railway Companies not to be taken 
 without consent. Spent.'] 
 
 79 — 88. [For the protection of the London and South-western 
 Railway Company — As to construction of an archway or bridge 
 under tJie railway, and vesting the same in railway company with 
 liability for the repair thereof. Semble spent except as to vesting 
 and repjair of archway 7] 
 
 89. [Lands of the London, Brighton ^ South Coast Railway 
 Com:pany not to be taken without their consent. SpentT] 
 
 90 — 91. [Compa.ny within Z years to form sides of the south ascent 
 to bridge and complete Albert Road to the satisfaction of Battersea 
 Park Commissioners and Wandsworth District Board of Works
 
 [27 & 2s Vict.] Wa7idsivort/' Bridge Act 1804. [Chap, ccxxxviii.] 343 
 
 respecticely^ and as to contributini) oj' SLijOO towards siwh road b>j the 
 Commissioners. Spent.'] 
 
 92. [Sating the riijht.^ of the Batterse.a Park Commissioners. 
 
 Spent.] 
 
 93. \_F.xpenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER CCXXXVIII. 
 
 * An Act for incorporating the Wandsworth Bridge Company 
 and for authorizing them to make and maintain the 
 Wandsworth Bridge, and to make Roads leading thereto; 
 
 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. [2Wl .Jubj lSG4.] 
 
 \J^reamble7\ 
 
 1. This Act may for all purposes be cited as " Wandsworth Bridge Short title. 
 Act, 1804." 
 
 2 — 3. \_JHcorporation^ of Land i.lau.scs Acts and Conipaiucs (.'Lauses 
 Acts — Definitions therein extended to this Act. Spent.] 
 
 4 — 18. \_Incorporation of Compang — Provisions as to issue of 
 capital, directors, and meetings of the Company. Spent. See 
 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 19 — 23. {^Powers to take lands — Errors in deposited plans — Ti?ne 
 for compulsory purchase limited to 3 years — Powers to make bridge 
 and roads authorized by this Act. Spent.] 
 
 24. The bridge and roads and works which the Company are by Works au- 
 this Act authorized to execute comprise the following bridge and t^^nzed by 
 roads, with all proper and sufHcient abutments, ])iors, land arches, " 
 
 walls, embankments, toll houses, toll gates, landing stairs, foot])aths, 
 approaches, drains, gullies, channels, crossings, pavements, and other 
 works and conveniences connected therewith ; (that is to say,) 
 
 (A.) A bridge to be called " the Wandsworth Bridge," com- 
 mencing on the foreshore of the River Thames in the parish 
 of Wandsworth in the county of Surrey,! and terminating 
 opposite thereto on the foreshore of the River Thames in 
 the parish of Fulham in the county of Middlesex rf 
 (B.; A road commencing at the southern abutment of the bridge 
 passing through or under the embankment (»f the Rich- 
 mond line of the London and South-western Railway, and 
 terminating in tiie AVaudsworth lioad leading from Wanils- 
 worth to London, and which ri)ail will be made wholly in 
 the parish of Wandsworth in the county of Surrey : t 
 (C.) Two roads, each commencing at the northern abutment of 
 the bridge, and the eastern road terminating in Peter- 
 borough Road, and the western road terminating in the 
 King's Road, and the whole of wliich two roads will be 
 made in the ]iarish of Fulham in the county of Middlesex.! 
 
 25. For the purposes of the works by this Act authorised, the incidental 
 Company from time to time may dig and make proper fonnilations w^rks. 
 
 in the River Thames and on the lands on each side thereof, and 
 make dams in the river during the making or repairing of the 
 bridge, and cut, level, embank, and secure the banks of the river, 
 
 * The times for taking of lands and completion of works authorized by this Act were 
 extended and the raising of £10O.(XK) further capital was authorizeti by 30 i: 31 Vict, 
 c. cci., which is now entirely spent. 
 
 f Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict, c 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 344 
 
 [Chap, ccxxxviii.] Wandsworth Bridge Act 1804. [27 & 28 Vict.] 
 
 Entry on 
 lands for 
 surveys and 
 works. 
 
 Inclination 
 of roads. 
 
 Parapet to 
 bridge and 
 fence to 
 roads. 
 
 Bridge 
 not to be 
 altered 
 without 
 consent. 
 
 Power to 
 Conservators 
 to remove 
 works 
 disused, etc. 
 
 and cut, remove, scour, take, and carry away all trees, roots of trees, 
 beds of gravel, sand, mud, and other impediments, and execute all 
 other works necessary or convenient for building, maintaining, and 
 repairing the bridge and roads. • 
 
 26. The Company from time to time may enter upon the lands in 
 which the bridge and roads and works are to be made, and also upon 
 any adjoining lands, and examine and survey the same, and ascertain 
 and set out the j^arts thereof required for the purposes of this Act, 
 and may make walls, arches, culverts, ditches, drains, fences, and 
 works, and do all things requisite for the making, maintaining, 
 and repairing of the bridge and roads and works, doing as little 
 damage as may be, and making full comjjensation to all parties 
 interested for all damage so done. 
 
 27. l^For protection of Mr. Wat?ieys property. Spent.'] 
 
 28. [^Power to take materials from lands near bridge and roads 
 for making, improving, and maintaining the same. Semhle obsolete^ 
 
 29 — 32. {Deviations from deposited plans^ and as to construction 
 
 of bridge. Spent?^ 
 
 33. The inclination of the roadway over the bridge and of the 
 roads by this Act authorized respectively shall not be steeper than 
 one foot in twenty-seven feet as regards the bridge, and one foot in 
 twenty-three feet as regards the roads. 
 
 34. The C'ompany shall make and maintain on each side of the 
 bridge a proper and sufficient parapet of not less than four feet high. 
 . . . \Part omitted {as to fencing roads) spent.] 
 
 35 — 42. \J2om])any to pjrovide landing jdaces in lieu of those 
 interfered, ivith — PIoms of bridge to be approzed. by the Thames Con- 
 servators — Width of bridge and, inclination of roadway — Company 
 to invest £1,000 before commencement of works — Plans of bridge to 
 be a.pjrroved by the Board of Trade and of roads by the Metrojjolitan 
 Board, of Works — ^1.5 to interference with the bed, of the River 
 Thames and, as to taking materials from river. Spent in part, remr. 
 superseded ; see 57 & .58 Vict. c. clxxxvii. (see Appendix).] 
 
 43. When the bridge and the works connected therewith are 
 begun or made, the Company at any time thereafter shall not alter 
 or extend the same without first obtaining the like approval of the 
 Conservators of the Hiver Thames in writing under the hand of 
 their secretarv as before beginning ; and if the bridge and works 
 shall be begun or made or be altered or extended contrary to the 
 provisions of this Act, the Conservators, if they think fit, may abate, 
 alter, and remove the same, and restore the site thereof to its former 
 condition, at the expense of the Company, and the amount thereof 
 shall be a debt due from the Company to the Conservators, and be 
 recoverable with costs accordingly, or may be recovered with costs 
 as a penalty. 
 
 44. If any work made by the Company in, over, or across the 
 River Thames, or if any portion of any such work which affects the 
 river, be abandoned or suffered to fall into disuse or decay, the Con- 
 servators of the River Thames may abate and remove the same, or 
 such part or jjarts thereof as they at any time deem fit, and restore 
 the site thereof to its former condition, at the expense of the Com- 
 pany, and the amount thereof shall be a debt due from the Company 
 to the Conservators, and be recoverable with costs accordingly, or 
 may be recovered with costs as a penalty.
 
 [27 & 28 Vict.] Wandsworth Bridge Act 1?^64. [Chap, ccxxxviii.] 345 
 
 45 — 46. [_TralJic on th>: Ituwr Thames not to he interrujded hij 
 works, and as to construction of bridges over public streets. Spent^ 
 
 47. Dnriiijj: tho makiii<; or repairing of the bridf^e and the works Lights on 
 connected therewith, and for ever after the completion of the bridge, ''"^^^'j^" ^^' ^"^ 
 the Conij)any sliall hang out or exhibit upon the Ijridge and works jj^iiighL' 
 respectively every night, from sunset to sunrise, lights to be kept 
 burning by and at the expense of the Company, and pro])er and 
 sufficient for the navigation and safe guidance of vessels, and the 
 
 lights shall be from time to time altered by the Comjjany in such 
 manner, and be of such kind and num])er, and l)o so placed, as tiie 
 Conservators of the Hiver Thaujes sliall, by writing under the hand 
 of their secretary, approve of; and if the Company shall fail so to 
 show and keep burning the lights, they shall for every such offence 
 forfeit not exceeding twenty pounds, which shall be a debt due to 
 the Conservators, and be recoverable with costs accordingly, or may 
 be recovered with costs as a penalty. 
 
 48. \_For protection of seivers of the Metropolitan Hoard of 
 Works. Spent ; see also 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix."] 
 
 49 — 58. \^For protection of the London and South-western Rail- 
 ivdij ('omjjang, and as to construction of an arch wag or bridge un<h'r 
 the railwag^ and nesting the same in Rail wag ('ompang with liability 
 for the repair thereof. Semble spent except as to vesting and repair 
 of archway.'] 
 
 59. . . . The Company from time to time may repair, rebuild, r-eriod for 
 im))rove, and maintain . . . the bridge and the works connected of^orlc'^" 
 therewith. . . . \_Parts omitted (cis to period for completion of 
 ivorks) spent7\ 
 
 60. Any land arch or land arches for the passage of flood waters Land arches 
 at either or both of the ends of the bridge shall be deemed to be ^^jf^^^® 
 part of the bridge, and the same, and the roadway over the same, waters to 
 shall be repaired and maintained as ])art of the Ijridge accordingly ; be part of 
 and in the event of there being any difference or question as to the ^"dge. 
 boundary line between the bridge and any of the roads by this Act 
 authorized, every such difference or question may be referred to and 
 determined by the Conservators of the liiver Thames. \_See also 
 
 40 & 41 Vict! c. xcix. s. 16.] 
 
 61. \_Bridge to be a public, but not a county bridge. Rep. 58 A: 59 
 Vict. c. cxxvii. 6'. 40.] 
 
 62. \J-(oads to be pari.^yh highways and repairable accordingly. 
 See also 40 k 41 Vict. c. xcix. s. 1(5.] 
 
 63. [^Poiver to grant building leases of certain supe/yluous land. 
 Semble spent.] 
 
 64 — 67. [As to compensation to Battersea Bridge Company for 
 abstraction of traffic. Spent.] 
 
 68 — 91. [As to tolls. Spent ; see also 40 & 41 1 'irt. c. xcix. .s. 1 (>.] 
 
 92. [Malicious injury to bridge. Superseded by 45 Vict. c. Ivi. 
 s. 41, and 55 <.^ 5G Vict. c. ccxxxviii. s. 40. See also the Malicious 
 Damage Act l5>61.] 
 
 93. If and whenever any person having the care of any boat, Barge 
 barge, or other vessel navigated on the River Thames wilful I v, *^^^°^'"* ,, 
 
 , ' , T 1 n^ • • ' answerable 
 
 carelessly, or negligently causes or suffers any damage or iniury to for damage 
 be done bv the vessel to the brid^je, or anv of the works connected done by 
 therewith, the owner of the vessel shall be liable to make compen- \^^l^^^^' 
 satiou to the Company for all damage or injury so done.
 
 346 
 
 Settlement 
 by Justices 
 of diifer- 
 ences as to 
 damages 
 and charges. 
 
 Recovery 
 and appli- 
 cation of 
 penalties, 
 etc. 
 
 [Chap. 34.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Houseless 
 Poor Act 1805. 
 
 [28 & 29 Vict.] 
 
 Transient 
 ofEenders. 
 
 Company 
 to provide 
 ferrj" boats 
 in case of 
 accident to 
 bridge. 
 
 94. Where any damage or charge is by this Act directed or 
 authorized to be paid, and the manner of ascertaining the amount 
 thereof is not otherwise provided for, the amount in case of nonpa}'- 
 ment thereof or difference respecting the same shall be ascertained 
 and determined by one or more Justice or Justices for the county of 
 Middlesex* or Surrey.* 
 
 95. All offences under this Act, and all penalties, damages, 
 charges, and costs imposed or payable under this Act, or by virtue 
 of any byelaw, rule, or order made in pursuance thereof, may be 
 taken cognizance of or recovered under the provisions of any Act 
 from time to time in force relating to the performance of the duties 
 of Justices of the Peace out of sessions in England, and with respect 
 to summary convictions and orders, and all such penalties shall be 
 paid to the Company, except so far as the convicting Justices award, 
 not more than one half thereof, to the informer. \Worcl omitted 
 (" tolls ") spent.'] 
 
 96. Any constable or other officer or agent of the Company, and 
 all such persons as he respectively calls to his assistance, and with- 
 out any warrant other than this Act, may seize and detain any 
 person whose name and place of abode are unknown to the person 
 so seizing, and who commits any offence against this Act, and may 
 convey him before a Justice of the Peace for the county of Middlesex* 
 or Surrey,* and the Justice may deal with the offender as if he had 
 been duly summoned or brought by warrant before him. 
 
 97. {Service of notices hy the Company. Spent ; see 40 & 41 
 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 98. If and whenever after the bridge is completed the passage 
 over it becomes dangerous in consequence of accident or damage, or 
 it is considered desirable to repair or alter or rebuild the bridge, or 
 any part thereof, the Company may and shall during the repairing, 
 altering, or rebuilding of the bridge provide a sufficient ferry over 
 the River Thames at or near to the site of the bridge. \Part 
 omitted {as to tolls for ferry) semhle superseded 40 & 41 Vict. 
 c. xcix.] 
 
 99. \_Yearly accounts of Company to he sent to the Clerks of Peace 
 for Middlesex and Surrey. Spent ; see 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 100—101. {Saving the iHghts of the Crown and the Thames Con- 
 servancy.] 
 
 102. {Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 Provisions of 
 recited Act 
 extended to 
 relief after 
 Lady Day 
 1865. 
 
 28 & 29 VICTORIA. A.D. 1865. 
 
 CHAPTER 34. 
 
 An Act to make the Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act per- 
 petual. \'2?id June 1865.] 
 
 {Preamble {reciting 27 & 28 Vict. c. 116) rep. 50 Vict. c. 14 
 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 1. . . . The provisions of the said Act shall be extended to the 
 expenditure for relief of destitute wayfarers, wanderers, and found- 
 lings, or other destitute persons, in the several unions and parishes 
 referred to in the said Act. . . . {Parts omitted {the ivord " That,'^ 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 [28 & 29 Vict.] Metropolitan Fire Briffude Act 1805. [Chap. 90.] 347 
 
 and. the repeal of s. 6 r/ 27 k 28 17c/. r. \\i)) rep. 38 & 39 Vict. «ect. o. 
 C. m (S.L.Jt), & 5G Viet. C. 14 (S.L.U).] repealed. 
 
 2. The Poor Law Board* sliull from time to time cause the wards Poor i^w 
 and other phices of recei)tioii provided according' to tlie said Act to [^"^'i""'^ t<> 
 be iriKj)ecte(l not h.^ss than once in every i'oiir months lM;t\veen the inspected, 
 hours of six o'clock in the eveniniz; and ei^ht in the morninji^ in and may 
 the months between October and March inchisive, atid between the '"*^^''^^*' *°'' 
 hours of eii^ht o'clock in the eveninji^and eij^^htin the morning in the certificate, 
 months between April and Septemljer iindnsive ; and the results of 
 
 such inspections sliall be rejxjrted to the Poor Law I'oard,* who may 
 at any time revoke and renew the certificates granted or to be 
 granted under the first section of that Act. 
 
 3. The said Board* may allow for the costs and expenses referred Allowance 
 to in the fourth section of that Act, when they shall see fit to do so, ["r^providing 
 a sum or several sums in gross instead of a sum in respect of each wards, 
 pauper as therein provided. 
 
 4. Any constable of the Metropolitan I'olice or of the police of Power to 
 the city of London may personally coiuluct any destitute wayfarer, pro^ide°or 
 wanderer, or foundling, or other destitute person, not having temporary 
 committed or being charged with any offence j)unishable 1)y law, relief, 
 within the knowledge of such constable, to any wards or other 
 
 places of reception approved of by the Poor Law Board* under the 
 said Act or this Act ; and everv such wavfarer, wanderer, or 
 foundling shall, if there be room in such wards or other places 
 of reception, be temporarily relieved therein. 
 
 5. The wards or places of reception ])rovided under the said Act ^°]^^J^ during 
 shall be oj)en for the admission of destitute wayfarers, wanderers, ^'^'j^j^^^^^^'" 
 and foundlings, or other destitute persons, who shall apply to be open for 
 admitted during the hours between six o'clock in the evening and admission, 
 eight in the morning in the months between October and March 
 inclusive, and during the hours between eight o'clock in the 
 
 evening and eight o'clock in the morning in the months between 
 April and September inclusive, and the guardians shall be entitled 
 to be reimbursed for all relief administered in conformity with the 
 provisions of that Act during those hours respectively. 
 
 6. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Metropolitan short title. 
 Houseless Poor Act, I860." 
 
 CHAPTER 00. 
 
 t An Act for the Establisument of a Fire BuuiADE within 
 THE Metroi'olis. [oM Jult/ 1805.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 56 Vict. i*. 14 (^S.L.R.).'] 
 
 PviliiniiKirij. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "Metropolitan short title. 
 Fire Brigade Act,' 1805." 
 
 2. For the purposes of this Act the " metroiK)lis " shall ">^'^" J^f^*)"^'j°° 
 the city of London and all other ])arishes and ])hu'es for the^jj^T^J^" 
 time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board ot"insnmnce 
 
 \\'orks : ' company.-' 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871 , s. 2. 
 t See also 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. ^. It;.
 
 348 
 
 [Chap. 90.] Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865. [28 & 29 Vict.] 
 
 Definition 
 of " Metro- 
 polis Local 
 Management 
 Acts/' 
 
 Duty of 
 Metropo- 
 litan Board 
 in relation 
 to fires. 
 
 Purchase 
 of buildings 
 and land. 
 
 Transfer of 
 plant of 
 existing 
 fire ofiices. 
 
 Constitution 
 of Fire 
 Brigade. 
 
 Salaries of 
 Fire Brigade, 
 
 " Insurance company " shall include any persons corporate or 
 imincorporate, or any person carrying on the business of fire 
 insurance. 
 
 3. The expression " Metrojiolis Local Managements Acts " shall 
 mean the Acts following ; that is to say, " The Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, 1855," " The Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 
 1856," and " The Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1862." 
 
 Estahlishment and Duties of Fire Brigade. 
 
 4. . . . The duty of extinguishing fires and protecting life and 
 property in case of fire shall within the metropolis be deemed for 
 the purposes of this Act to be entrusted to the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works,* and with a view to the performance of that duty it shall 
 be lawful for them to provide and maintain an efficient force of 
 firemen, and to furnish them with all such fire engines, horses, 
 accoutrements, tools, and implements as may be necessary for the 
 equipment of the force, or conducive to the efficient performance of 
 their duties. S^Words omitted (" on and after 1st January 1866 ") 
 rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (6'.i>.7?.)-] 
 
 6. The said Board, herein-after referred to as the Board,* may 
 take on lease, purchase, or otherwise acquire stations for engines, 
 stables, houses for firemen, and such other houses, buildings, or land 
 as they may think requisite for carrying into efiect the purposes of 
 this Act, and may from time to time sell any 2oroi)erty acquired by 
 or vested in them for the purposes of this Act : 
 
 The Board may also contract with any company or persons 
 authorised to establish the same for the establishment of tele- 
 graphic communication between the several stations in which their 
 fire engines or firemen are placed, and between any of such 
 stations and other parts of the metrojjolis. 
 
 6. . . . All stations, fire engines, fire escapes, plant, and other 
 property belonging to or used by the fire engine establishment of 
 the insurance companies in the metropolis shall vest in or be con- 
 veyed or assigned to the Board for all the estate and interest of the 
 said companies therein, upon trust to be applied by the Board to 
 the purposes to this Act, but subject to all legal liabilities and 
 obligations attaching thereto, including the payment of all pensions 
 that have been granted to the members of the said fire engine 
 establishment, according to a list that has been furnished to the 
 chairman of the said Board by the chief officer of the said fire 
 engine establishment, and all trustees for the same shall be 
 indemnified against such liabilities and obligations. The Board 
 may also, if they think fit, ])urchase the stations, fire engines, and 
 jjlant belonging to any parish, place, or body of persons within their 
 jurisdiction. \_Note to s. 4 a^^plies.'] 
 
 7. The force of firemen established under this Act, herein-after 
 called the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, sliall be under the command 
 of an officer, to be called the chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire 
 Brigade. 
 
 The chief officer and men composing the said Fire Brigade shall 
 be appointed and removed at the pleasure of the Board. [^See 
 4 Fdw. 7, c. ccxliv. s. 46.] 
 
 8. The Board shall pay such salaries as they think expedient to 
 the said Fire Brigade. They may also make such regulations as 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c.41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [28 & 29 Vict.] Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865. [Chap. 9<i.] 349 
 
 they think lit witli respect to the coiiijjensation to be made to them 
 in case of accident, or to their wives or families in case of their 
 death ; also with respect to the pensions or allowances to be paid to 
 tiicin ill case of retirement ; also with respect to the i^mtnities to be 
 paid to ])ersons givin*^ notices of lires ; also with respect to jrratnities 
 \)\ way of a gross sum or annual j)aynu'nt to b(; from tinn; to time 
 awarded to any member of the said force, or to any other person, for 
 extraordinary services performed in cases of fire ; also with resj)ect 
 to gratnities to turncocks belonging to waterworks from which a 
 snp[)ly of water is quickly derived. \_,See aUo the Police Act \>y^M), 
 ss. 22 (7) and 30 (4), and 54 & 55 Vict. c. ccvi. ss. 60—09.] 
 
 9. The Board may by byelaws make regulations for the training. Power to 
 discipline, and good condnct of the men laelonging to the said Fire Ja^^ns*for 
 Pjrigade, for their speedy attendance with engines, fire escay)es, Fire Brigade. 
 and all necessary implements on the occasion of any alarm of fire, 
 
 and generally for the maintenance in a due state of eificiency of 
 the said Brigade, and may annex to any breach of such regulations 
 ])enalties not exceeding in amount forty shillings, bnt no byelaw 
 under this section shall be of any validity unless it is made and 
 confirmed in manner directed by the Metroi)olis Local ]\Iaiiag('ment 
 Acts ; and all the provisions of the said Acts relating to byelaws 
 shall, with the necessary variations, a})ply to any byelaws made in 
 ])ursuance of this Act. [See also 18 «fc 19 ]'ict. c. 12n, .'is. 202 and 2^)3.] 
 
 10. \_Compensatio7i to parish officers. Spent.'] 
 
 11. The Board may make such arrangements as they think fit -^=* to pnr- 
 as to establishing fire escapes throughout the metropolis. They ^^^p^^ ^'"^* 
 may for that purpose contribute to the funds of the Koyal Society 
 
 for the Protection of Life from Fire, or of any existing society that 
 ])rovides fire escapes, or may purchase or take by agreement the 
 j)roperty of any existing society in their stations and fire escapes, 
 and generally may maintain such fire escapes and do such things 
 as they think exi)edient towards aiding persons to escaj)e from fire ; 
 and any expenses incurred by them in ])ursuance of this section 
 shall be deemed to be expenses incurred in carrying into efiect 
 this Act. 
 
 12. On the occasion of a fire the chief or other officer in charge of As to 
 
 the Fire Brigade may, in his discretion, take the command of any \!-"JJ]^^"cr°^a^i^. 
 volunteer fire brigade or other persons who voluntarily phice their 
 services at his disposal, and may remove, or order any fireman to 
 remove, any persons who interfere by their presence with theoi)era- 
 tions of the Fire Brigade, and generally he may take any measures 
 that appear expedient for the })rotection of life and jiroperty, with 
 power by himself or his men to break into or through, or take pos- 
 session of, or pull down any premises for the jturpose of putting an 
 end to a fire, doing as little damage as possible ; he may also on 
 any such occasion cause the water to be shut oif from the mains and 
 ])ipt's of any district, in order to give a greater suiii)ly and pressure 
 of water in the district in which the lire has occurred; and no water 
 com})any shall be liable to any penalty or claim by reason of any 
 interruption of the snpply of water occasional only by compliance 
 with the provisions of this section. 
 
 All police constables shall be authorised to aid the Fire Brigade 
 in the execution of their duties. They may close any street in or 
 near which a fire is burning, and they may of their own motion, 
 or on the request of the chief or other otficer of the Fire Brigade
 
 350 
 
 [Chap. 90.] Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865. [28 & 29 Vict.] 
 
 Contribu- 
 tions by 
 insurance 
 offices. 
 
 Mode of en- 
 forcing con- 
 tributions. 
 
 Mode of as- 
 certaining 
 proportions 
 of contri- 
 bution. 
 
 Penalty on 
 insurance 
 companj- 
 not making 
 return. 
 
 Examination 
 of books of 
 insurance 
 companies. 
 
 remove any persons who interfere b)' their presence with the opera- 
 tions of the Fire Brigade. 
 
 Any damage occasioned by the Fire Brigade in the due execution 
 of their duties shall be deemed to be damage by fire within the 
 meaning of any policy of insurance against fire. 
 
 Expenses, 
 
 13. Every insurance company that insures from fire any property 
 in the metropolis shall pay annually to the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works,* by way of contribution towards the expenses of carrying 
 this Act into eft'ect, a sum after the rate of thirty-five pounds in the 
 one million pounds on the gross amounts insured by it, except by 
 way of reassurance, in respect of property in the metropolis for 
 a year, and at a like rate for any fractional part of a million, and 
 for any fractional part of a year as well as for any number of years 
 for which the insurance may be made, renewed, or continued. 
 
 The said payments by insurance companies shall be made quarterly 
 in advance, on the first of January, first of April, first of July, and 
 first of October in every year. . . . [^Part omitted (as to dates ofjirst 
 pat/ment) rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 06 (S'.L.i?.).] 
 
 14. All contributions due from an insurance company to the 
 Board in pursuance of this Act shall be deemed to be specialty 
 debts due from the company to the Board, and be recovered 
 accordingly. 
 
 15. For the purpose of ascertaining the amount to be contributed 
 by every such insurance company as aforesaid, every insurance com- 
 pany insuring property from fire in the metropolis shall, ... on 
 every . . . first of June, or on such other days as the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works * may appoint, make a return to the said Board, in 
 such form as they may require, of the gross amount insured by it in 
 respect of property in the metropolis. 
 
 There shall be annexed to the return so made a declaration made 
 by the secretary or other officer performing the duties of secretary 
 of the com])any by whom it is made, stating that he has examined 
 the return with the l)Ooks of the company, and that to the best of 
 his knowledge, information, and belief it contains a true and faithful 
 account of the gross amount of the sums insured by the company to 
 which he belongs in respect of property in the metropolis. 
 
 The return made in the June of one year shall not come into 
 efl:ect till the first of January of the succeeding year, and shall 
 be the basis of the contributions for that year. \_Part omitted 
 (provisions for the years 1864 and 1866) rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 
 
 (-S'.Z./A).] 
 
 16. If any insurance company makes default in making such 
 returns to the Board as are required by this Act, it shall be liable 
 to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which 
 it is so in default. 
 
 17. The secretary or other officer having the custody of the books 
 and papers of any insurance company that is required to pay a con- 
 tribution to the Board in pursuance of this Act shall allow any 
 officer appointed by the Board to inspect, during the hours of 
 business, any books and papers that will enable him to ascertain 
 the amount of property insured by such company in the metropolis, 
 and the amount for which it is insured, and to make extracts from 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [28 & 29 Vict.] Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1805. [Chap. 90.] 351 
 
 snch books or papers; and any secretary or otlior such officer as 
 aforesaid of a conii)any fuiiins; to comply witii tin? r(v|iiisiri()ns of 
 this section in respect of sncli inspections and extmcts shuli l)e 
 liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds 
 for each offence. 
 
 18. The . . . Ti-easnry sliull pay or cause to be paid to the Board <''»ntribu- 
 i)y way of contribution to the expenses of maintaining' tlie Fire ^1'^"'' '^''' 
 Brigade such sums as Parliament may from time to time- <;rant for lowanT*^"* 
 that purpose, not exceediijf; in any one year the sum often thousand exij^^nse of 
 pounds. [ Words omitted (" ComminHioners of Iler Majesty h ") rep. ^^"^de. 
 56 Virf.r. U{S.L.R.).-] 
 
 19—21. \^Fi nancial provisions. Hep. 32 k 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 22. Where any chief officer, or other person who has been employed I'ower to 
 by the Board in any capacity under this Act, and has been discharged ^^^ ''^" 
 therefrom, continues to occupy any house or buildinj: that may be oSrl or 
 proviiled for liis use, or any part thereof, alter one week's notice in men out of 
 writing from the Board to deliver up i)Ossession thereof, it shall be I'l-uses pro- 
 lawful for any Police Magistrate, on the oath of one witness, stating ,^iem. ^^ 
 such notice to have been given, by warrant under his hand to order 
 
 any constable to enter into the liouse or building occupied by such 
 discharged chief officer or other person as aforesaid, and to remove 
 him and his family and servants therefrom, and afterwards to deliver 
 the possession thereof to the Board, as eflectually to all intents and 
 ])urposes, as the sherifi" having jurisdiction within the place where 
 such liouse or building is situate might lawfully do by virtue of a 
 writ of ])Ossession or a judgment at law. 
 
 23. [Penaltij where chimne>/s are on Jire. Rep. 63 & 64 Vict, 
 c. cclxviii. s. 30.] 
 
 24. All penalties imposed by this Act, or by any byelaw made necovery of 
 in ])ursuance thereof, and all expenses and other sums due to the ''^°^^^'^*' 
 Board in pursuance of this Act, in respect of which no mode of 
 recovery is prescribed, may be recovered summarily before two 
 Justices in manner directed by the Act of the session holden in the 
 eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, 
 chapter forty-three, or any Act amending the same, and when so 
 recovered shall be paid to the treasurer of the Board, notwithstand- 
 ing any Police Act or other Act of Parliament directing a different 
 appropriation of such monies. \_See 2 & 3 Vict. c. 71, s. 47.] 
 
 25. Any dispute or other matter which is by this Act directed to Summary 
 be determined summarily by two .Justices shall be deemed to be j.""***^®^'"^ 
 a matter in respect of which a complaint is made upon which they niininp cer- 
 have authority by law to make an order for jiayment of money taiu matters, 
 within the meaning of the said Act of the session holden in the 
 eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her ])resent iMajesty, 
 chapter forty-three, or any Act amending the same. 
 
 26. Any act, power, or jurisdiction hereby authorized to be done Kxtension of 
 
 or exercised bv two Justices mav be done or exercised bv the follow- I^*'«" 
 
 -., . " .... , . ' . . . ,. . ,• . iriven to two 
 
 mg Magistrates withm tlieir respective jurisdictions ; that is to say, justices. 
 
 by any Metropolitan Police Magistrate sitting alone at a juJice court 
 
 or other ai)pointed place, or by the I^ord flavor of the city of 
 
 London, or any alderman of the said city, sitting alone or with 
 
 others at the Mansion House or Guildhall.
 
 352 
 
 [Chap. 90.] Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865. [28 & 29 Yict.]' 
 
 Establish- 
 ment of 
 salvage 
 force bv 
 insurance 
 offices. 
 
 Brigade 
 
 when 
 
 employed 
 
 beyond the 
 
 metropolis, 
 
 or on special 
 
 services. 
 
 Board to 
 send infor- 
 mation of 
 fires to 
 offices. 
 
 Transfer to 
 Board of 
 powers of 
 parishes as 
 to fireplugs. 
 
 27—28. [Audit of accounts and poiver of Board to delegate to 
 committee. Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (*S\Z.2i'.).] 
 
 29. If the companies insuring properh' within the metropolis, 
 or any such number of them as may in the opinion of the said 
 Board be sufficient, establish a force of men charged with the duty 
 of attending at fires and saving insured property, it shall be the 
 duty of the Fire Brigade, with the sanction of the Board, and subject 
 to any regulations that may be made by the Board, to afford the 
 necessary assistance to that force in the performance of their duties, 
 and upon tlie application of any officer of that force, to hand over to 
 their custody property that may be saved from fire : and no charge 
 shall be made by the said Board for the services thus rendered by 
 the Fire Brigade. 
 
 30. It shall be lawful for the Board, when occasion requires, to- 
 permit any part of the Fire Brigade establishment, with their 
 engines, escapes, and other implements, to proceed beyond the limits 
 of the metropolis for the purpose of extinguishing fires. In such 
 case the owner and occupier of the property where the fire has 
 occurred shall be jointly and severally liable to defray all the 
 expenses that may be incurred by the Fire Brigade in attending 
 the fire, and shall pay to the Board a reasonable charge for the 
 attendance of the Fire Brigade, and the use of their engines, 
 escapes, and other implements. In case of difference between the 
 Board and the owner and occupier of such property, or either of 
 them, the amount of the expenses, as well as the propriety of the 
 Fire Brigade attending such fire (if the propriety thereof be dis- 
 puted), shall be summarily determined by two Justices. In default 
 of payment, any expenses under this section may be recovered by 
 the Board in a summary manner. 
 
 The Board may also permit any part of the Fire Brigade estab- 
 lishment to be employed on special services upon such terms of 
 remuneration as the said Board may think just. 
 
 31. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade shall in the morning* of each 
 day, with the exception of Sundays, send information, by post or 
 otherwise, to all the insurance offices contributing for the purposes 
 of this Act, of all fires which have taken place within the metropolis 
 since the preceding return, in such form as may be agreed upon 
 between the Board and the said companies. \Note to s. 7 applies.'] 
 
 32. All the powers now exercised by any local body or officer 
 
 within the metropolis as respects fireplugs shall henceforth be 
 
 exercised by the Board, and the Board shall be entitled to receive 
 
 copies or extracts of all plans kept by any water company * under 
 
 the provision of the Act of the session of the fifteenth and sixteenth 
 
 years of Her Majesty, chapter eighty-four ; f and every such water 
 
 company shall provide at the expense of the Board in any mains or 
 
 pipes within the metropolis plugs for the supply of water in case of 
 
 fire at such places, of such dimensions, and in such form as the 
 
 Board may require, and the Fire Brigade shall be at liberty to make 
 
 such use thereof as they may deem necessary for the purpose of 
 
 extinguishing any fire ; and every such company shall deposit keys 
 
 of all their fireplugs at such places as may be appointed by the 
 
 Board, and the Board may put up on any house or building a public 
 
 notice in some conspicuous place in each street in which a fireplug 
 
 is situated, showing its situation. \^Amended by 34 & 35 Vict.c. 113, 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See now 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 f See Appendix^
 
 [28 & 29 Vict.] ^^^""'^^^^^^/^^^ and Uolhorn fmproveuient .^^^^^ .^-. 
 ^ -^ Act ihbii. L -• 
 
 s. 34. See aho the Water worka Clauses Act 1847, hs. 38 — 44 ; and 
 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. .s. 4.] 
 
 33. "Owner" in tliis Act shiill mean tlie person for the time Deanition of 
 being receiving the rackrent of the premises in connexion with "'*"^°^''"" 
 wliich the word is nsed, either on his own account or as agent or 
 
 trustee for souk; otlier jx'rson, or who would receive the same if the 
 ])remises were let at rackrent. 
 
 34. [^Repeal of 14 Geo. 3, r. 7s (except .ss. 83 and 5(j thereoj ). 
 Rep. 38 & 30 Vict. c. 06 {S.L.h'.).] 
 
 35. [Repeal of s. 44 of the Lighting and Watching Act 1833. 
 Rep. 50 Vict. c. 14 {S.I..'R.).~\ 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 An Act to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to open 
 A New Street in Whitechapel, and to kemove Middle 
 Row, Holboun, all in the County of Middlesex, 
 
 \ltk April 1865.] 
 
 [Preatnble recites 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 6-. 144.] 
 
 1. [Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 2. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall be sufficient to use Short title, 
 the expression " AVhitechapel and Holborn Imjirovement Act, 
 
 1865." 
 
 3. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have Interpreta- 
 the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some- *'*^" ^^ terms, 
 thing in the subject or context rejmguant to such construction ; 
 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 ■ ••••• 
 
 The word "streets" shall include scpiares, streets, courts, or 
 alleys, highways, lanes, roads, thoroughfares, or j)ublic 
 passages or places : 
 
 The expression " the Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works :* 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Parts omitted (definitions of " Justice^'' " two Justices" and 
 " lessee,'"' and as to meanings of ivords in Acts incorporated^ spent.] 
 
 4—6. [Board to execute Act — Poirer to act by committee — Per- 
 sons interested not eligible for committee. Superseded by the 
 Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 {see Appendix), and 51 »fc52 
 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 7. It shall be lawful for the Board to make the new street and I'ower to 
 
 improvements following ; (that is to say,) a new street commencing ^r^*; "ndi im- 
 
 in the ])arish of Saint Mary Matfelon otherwise Saint Mary provements. 
 
 Whitei^hai)el in the county of Middlesex,-]- at or from High Street, 
 
 AVhitechapel, at or uear its point of intersection by Leman Street 
 
 and Commercial Street, and terminating in the said ])arisli and in 
 
 the hamlet of ^lile End Ohl Town, or one of them, ar or near the 
 
 west end of the street or road called Commercial Road East, at 
 
 its junction with Church Lane, and which new street is herein-al'ter 
 
 referred to as the Commercial Road East extension ; and to widen 
 
 and improve the public thoroughfare of High Holborn uear its 
 
 * Now the London County Council. 8ee 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 f Now the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 23
 
 make sub 
 ways 
 
 OK, -/^, ••• -1 W'hitechapel and Holhorn Impromment roo p on tt -i 
 
 354 i_Chap.iii.] ^ Actl^^h. [28 & 29 Vict.] 
 
 junction with the bonndary of the city of London at Holborn Bars, 
 by removing the dwelling honses, messuages, and premises forming 
 the north side of the passage or place commonly called Middle 
 Row, and lying between that passage and the north side of Holborn 
 aforesaid, in the parish of Saint Andrew's Holborn above Bars in 
 the county of Middlesex,* and which improvement is herein-after 
 referred to as the Middle Row, Holborn, improvement. 
 
 8 — 12. \_Streets and ivorks to be made according to deposited 
 plans — Powers to the Board to deviate, to lay out footways, etc., 
 and to stop up streets, etc. — Vesting of soil of such streets in the 
 Board for the purpo.ses of the Act — Powers to stop up ways during 
 works, and to raise or lower streets. Spent.'] 
 
 13. \^As to laying of pavements, and vesting the .same in the 
 board (f worhs'f or vestfyt in ivhose district or parish they are.] 
 
 14. [flower to the Board to f II up setvei^s and, drains on providing 
 substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drains^ 
 
 15. [Power to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. S/jent.] 
 
 16. [Ground laid, into streets to form part thereof, and to be 
 under the care of the board of ivorks] or vestry] in whose district 
 or parish it is.] 
 
 Power to 17. The Board may make, under the new street formed by them 
 
 under the powers of this Act, an arched passage or covered way, 
 herein-after called the subway, for such purposes as they think fit, 
 with all communications, works, and things necessary or proper for 
 the convenient use thereof; and the same subway, communications, 
 works and things shall be deemed part of the works authorized by 
 this Act, and the same shall (notwithstanding anything herein con- 
 tained) belong to and be vested in the Board, and shall be maintained 
 and repaired by the Board. . . . [Part omitted {as to use of subu-ay) 
 superseded, .56 & 57 Vict. c. ccii.] 
 
 18 — 30. [Eirors and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to 
 sell materials, and to survey lands to be taken — Powers for com- 
 pulsory purchase limited to 5 years — As to acquisition of lands 
 and, compensation — Deficiencies of land tax during works — Power 
 to grant building leases of lands not wanted— Sale of ground, rents 
 and reversions — Power to sell la.nds without leasing — Sale of lands 
 not wanted — Receipts of Board to be effectual discharges. Spent.] 
 
 31. [Borrowing powers. Rep. in part 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50. 
 
 Remr. .spent.] 
 
 32 — 39. [Financial provisions. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 40. [Separate accounts. Super. seded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 ss. 68 and 71.] 
 
 41. [Application of monies borrowed. Spent.] 
 
 42. [Application of monies arising from sales, etc. Rep. 32 & 
 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 43. [Prowers of Metrop>olis Management Acts extended to this 
 Act. Spjent.] 
 
 Schedule. [Forms of bond and security for annuity. Spent; see 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102.] 
 
 * Now the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, .s. 40 (2). 
 
 t Now the Metropolitan Borough Council. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [29 & 30 Vict.] ^'^'^ Superanmmtion {Metropolis) ^^^^^ ^^-^ 3__ 
 
 29 & 30 VICTORIA. A.D. 1866. 
 
 CHAPTP:ii 31, 
 
 * An Act to provide for Superannuation Allowances to 
 Officers of Vestries and other Boards within the Area 
 OF the MpiTRoroLis Local Management Act. 
 
 [18M Jiay I860.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 50 17/?/. c. 14 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. The vestry of any parish and district board of any district Vestries, 
 
 or any other ])arochial l)ody within rhc metropolis, and also the '^^^'^'"^^* 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, may, at thoir discretion, grant to MetrMpolitan 
 
 any officer in their respective services, including the chairniiin of Boanl of 
 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works, who shall l)ec()me incajtable ^^^'^'■'^'* ™^y 
 
 of discharging the duties of his office with efficiency by reason of aniiuatjon"' 
 
 permanent infirmity of mind or l)ody, or of old age, upon iiis allowances 
 
 I'esigiiing or otlierwise censing to hold his office, an annual allow- •^'^ *^*^®™ '" 
 ? 1- • ^ i. ii-i i'l-^i 1 certain cases, 
 
 ance not exceetlmg m any case two thirds ot his tlien salary, 
 
 regard being had to the scale of allowances herein-after contained, 
 
 and shall charge such allowance to the fund or funds to which 
 
 such salary would have been charged if he had ccuitinued in his 
 
 office : Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall 
 
 aflect the powers contained in the two hundretl and thirteenth 
 
 section of " The Metropolis Management Act, 1855." [Spent as 
 
 regards Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works7\ 
 
 2. This allowance shall be payable to or in trust for such officer Allowances 
 only, and shall not be assigna])le for nor chargeable with his debts "°^**^^^, 
 
 or other liabilities without the consent in writing of the vestry, foji^'J^btg^g^Q 
 
 district board, Metropolitan Board of Works, or other parochial 
 
 l)ody. 
 
 3. No officer shall be entitled to such allowance on the ground Limitation 
 of old age who shall not have completed the full age of sixty "f,-~ ""''"* *'^ 
 
 ^ ^ ^ •' allowances. 
 
 years. 
 
 4. Subject to the provisions herein contained, the allowance to ^caie of 
 be granted ... to persons who shall have served in an established allowances, 
 capacity as officers as aforesaid, whether their remuneration be 
 computed by weekly wages, poundage, or percentage on collection 
 
 of rates, or annual salary, shall be as follows ; (that is to say,) 
 
 To any person who shall have served ten years and upwards 
 and uiuler ileven years, an annual allowance of ten six- 
 tieths of the salary and emoluments of his office ; 
 And in like manner an addition of one sixtieth in respect of each 
 additional year of such service until the comiiK'tion of a j)eriod of 
 service of forty years, when the annual allowance of forty 
 sixtieths may be granted ; aiul no adilition sliall be made in res])ect 
 of any service beyond forty years ; but in computing the time of 
 any officer's service any period during which such officer shall 
 
 * See note * to 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, p. 214 ; see also 17 & 18 Vict. c. cbcix. s. 31 ; 
 •^8 & 29 Vict. c. 90, s. 8 ; the Baths and Washhouses Act 187S, s. 12 ; the Lunacy Act 
 1890, s. 280 ; 54 & 55 Vict. c. ccvi. ss. 60—69 ; and 55 &; 5G Vict. c. ccxxxviii. s. 41.
 
 356 
 
 [Chap. 90.] 
 
 The Sanitary Act 1866. 
 
 [29 & 30 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 
 increase 
 
 allowance. 
 
 Power to 
 grant gratui- 
 ties in case 
 of retirement 
 before en- 
 titled to su- 
 perannuation 
 allowance. 
 
 Notice of 
 grant to be 
 given. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 liave been in the service of a vestry, board of trustees, or other 
 parochial board of the same parish superseded by " The Metropolis 
 MauagementAct, 1855," or of any parish comprised in the district 
 board granting such allowance, shall be included. [ Words omitted 
 (" after the commencement of this Act'') rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 5. When for the due and efficient discharge of the duties of any 
 office professional or other peculiar qualifications not ordinarily 
 to be acquired in the vestry or board's service are required, and 
 any person having such qualifications shall have been or may be 
 appointed thereto beyond the age of thirty years, any vestry 
 or Board may, by order, direct that when any person now holding 
 or who may hereafter be appointed to such office shall retire from 
 their service, a number of years, not exceeding ten, to be specified 
 in the said order, shall, in computing the amount of superan- 
 nuation allowance which may be granted to him under this Act, 
 be added to the number of years during which he may have 
 actually served. 
 
 6. Any vestry or board or other parochial body may grant to 
 any person who is compelled to quit their service by reason of 
 severe bodily injury occasioned, without his own default, in the 
 discharge of his public dnty, or from infirmity of mind or body, 
 before the completion of the jjeriod which would entitle him to a 
 superannuation allowance, a gratuity not exceeding three months 
 pay for every two years of service. 
 
 7. No grant shall be made without one month's previous notice, 
 to be specially given in writing to every member of the vestry or 
 district board, of the proposal to make such grant, and the time 
 when it shall be brought forward. 
 
 8. In the construction of this Act the term " Metropolis " shall 
 have the same interpretation as in the Metropolis Management Act, 
 1855, and Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1862 ; the 
 words " other parochial body " shall mean all trustees, overseers, 
 and others who make the several rates for the purposes of the 
 vestry or the district board of any district. 
 
 CHAPTER 90. 
 
 An Act to amend the law relating to the Public Health, 
 
 \lth August 1866.] 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 Evidence of 41. In any proceedings under the Common Lodging Houses Act, 
 
 ^a^^of ^° 1851, if the inmates of any house or part of a house allege that they 
 
 overcrowded are members of the same family, the burden of proving such allega- 
 
 houses. tion shall lie on the persons making it. 
 
 \_The whole Act, except s. 41, is repealed by 54 ^, 55 Vict. c. 76, 
 6'. 142, and the Public Health Act 1896, s. 6.]
 
 [29& 30 Vict.] The Metropolitan Coinmons Act 18G6. [Chap. 122.] 357 
 
 CI I AFTER 122. 
 
 An Act to makk Pkovision for thk Impuovemknt, Piujtkction, 
 AND Management of Commons neau the Metropolis. 
 
 [lOM August 1866.] 
 ^Preamble rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (<S./../i'.).] 
 
 1. This Act nitiv be cited as The Metropolitan Commons Act, «hort title. 
 1866. 
 
 2. For the ])urposos of this Act the local authority in relation to Definition 
 each metropolitan common shall be the authority described as such oflocal 
 in connexion therewith in the first schedule to this Act ; and for anVlocai 
 the ])nrposos of this Act the local i-ate in relation to each metroi)olitan rate, 
 common shall be the rate described in connexion therewith in the 
 
 same schedule. 
 
 3. In this Act— Interpreta- 
 
 The term " common " means land subject at the passing of ^'^^^ ^^ terms, 
 this Act to any ri<^ht of common ; the term " commoner" 
 means a person having any sucii right of common ; the 
 term " manor " includes re])uted manor ; and those terms 
 as used in this Act respectively refer to any particular 
 common to which this Act applies, and to every })ersou 
 having a right of common in, over, or affecting that 
 common, and to the manor of the wastes whereof that 
 common is part : 
 
 The term '' the Commissioners " means the Inclosure Commis- 
 sioners for England and Wales, and the term " Assistant 
 Commissioner'' means tlie Assistant Commissioner 
 appointed by the Inclosure Commissioners.* 
 S^Amended 32 & 33 Vict. c. 107, 6'. 2.] 
 
 4. This Act shall apply to any common the whole or any part To what 
 whereof is situate within the metrojxditan ])olice district f as (lefined "•■nmuns 
 at the passing of this Act (referred to in this Act as a metropolitan * *" ^ 
 common). 
 
 5. . . . The Commissioners shall not entertain an application Exclusion of 
 for the inclosure of a metropolitan common, or any part thereof ; ''},"^^'^'?^^^' "^ 
 . . . and notwithstanding any ])roceedings taken under any Act sioners to 
 other than this Act, or any provisional order of the Commissioners inclose, etc. 
 made but not already confirmed by Act of Parliament, proceedings 
 
 mav be taken under this Act in relation to any metropolitan common. 
 SJ^arti^ omitted (" after the pas.siny of this Act,^^ and this Act not to 
 affect proceedings under Orders already coiifirnied) rep. 56 Vict, 
 c. 14 {S.L.R.):] 
 
 6. A scheme for the establishment of local management with Memorial for 
 
 a, view to the expenditure of money on the drainage, levelling, and si^i'eme as to 
 
 ^ ,. •■ II I • f, common, 
 
 improvement of a metrojwlitan common, ana to the making oi 
 
 bvelaws and reirulations lor the })rovention oi nuisances and the 
 
 preservation of order thereon, may be made under this Act, on a 
 
 memorial in that behalf presented to the Commissioners by the 
 
 lord of the manor or by any commoners, or by the local authority, 
 
 or in case of a common extending into the districts of two or more 
 
 of the bodies described in the first schedule to this Act, then by 
 
 * These Commissioners were appointed under the Inclosure Act 1845, but their 
 powers and duties are now exercised by the Board of Agriculture. Sec the Settled 
 Land Act. 1882, s. 48, and the Board of'Agricultui'e Act 18S9, ss. 2 (2) 10, 11 (1) an<l 
 13, which last mentioned section repeals s. 45 of the Settled Land Act 1882. 
 
 t See 10 Geo. 4, c. 44, s. 4 ; and 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, >;. 2.
 
 358 
 
 [Chap. 122.] The Metropolitan Commons Act 1866. [29 & 30 Vict.] 
 
 Inquiry into 
 memorial.' 
 
 Preparation 
 of draft 
 scheme. 
 
 Printing and 
 publication of 
 draft scheme. 
 
 Objections 
 and sugges- 
 tions respect- 
 ing scheme. 
 
 Inquiry into 
 scheme by 
 public 
 sittings. 
 
 Report of 
 Assistant 
 Commis- 
 sioner. 
 
 Final settle- 
 ment and . 
 approval of 
 scheme. 
 
 Scheme to 
 state rights 
 affected. 
 
 Provision for 
 compensa- 
 tion. 
 
 any one or more of such bodies. [Amended Z2 & 33 Vict. c. 107, s. 3. 
 See also 40 k 41 Vict. c. viii. s. 3 ; 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 
 21 ; and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 7. On the jDresentation of any memorial nnder this Act the Com- 
 missioners (if on consideration of the memorial they think fit) may 
 make such examination and inq^niry as they think necessary or 
 proper in relation to the subject matter of the memorial. 
 
 8. On such examination and inquiry the Commissioners may. 
 if they think fit, prepare the draft of a scheme resjiecting the 
 common or any part thereof. 
 
 9. Where the Commissioners prepare the draft of a scheme 
 they shall cause it to be printed, and printed copies of it to be 
 delivered to the memorialists and to the lord of the manor and 
 to the local authority, and shall also cause it, or a jiroper abstract 
 of it, to be published and circulated in such manner as they think 
 sufficient for giving information to all parties interested, 
 
 10. During two months after the first i^ublication of the draft 
 of a scheme the Commissioners shall receive any objections or 
 suggestions made to them in writing respecting the scheme. 
 
 11. At any time after the expiration of those two months, the 
 Commissioners, if they think fit, may refer the draft of the scheme 
 to an Assistant Commissioner. 
 
 On any such reference the Assistant Commissioner shall proceed 
 to make an inquiry concerning the subject matter of the scheme, 
 and for that purpose to hold a sitting or sittings in some convenient 
 place in the neighbourhood of the common, and thereat to take and 
 receive any evidence and information offered, and hear and inquire 
 into any objections or suggestions made or to be made during the 
 sitting or sittings, resj^ecting the scheme or the common, with power 
 from time to time to adjourn any sitting. 
 
 Notice shall be published, in such manner as the Commissioners 
 direct, of every such sitting (except an adjourned sitting), fourteen 
 days at least before the holding thereof. 
 
 12. The Assistant Commissioner to whom the draft of a scheme 
 is referred shall make a report in writing to the Commissioners 
 setting forth the result of the inquiry, and whether in his opinion 
 the draft of the scheme shonld be approved with or without 
 alteration, and if with any, then with what alteration, and his 
 reasons for the same, and the objections and suggestions, if any^ 
 made on the inquiry, and his opinion thereon. 
 
 13. As soon as may be after the expiration of the said two months, 
 or the receipt by the Commissioners of the report of the Assistant 
 Commissioner (as the case may be), the Commissioners shall pro- 
 ceed to consider any objections or suggestions made to them 
 in writing respecting the scheme, and the report (if any), and 
 thereupon they shall, if they think fit, finally settle and approve ot 
 the scheme in such form as they think expedient. 
 
 14. Every scheme shall state what rights (if any) claimed by 
 any person or class of persons are afiected by the scheme, and in 
 what manner and to what extent they are affected thereby, and 
 whether or not the scheme has been in relation thereto consented to 
 by that person or class of persons, or any of them. 
 
 15. No estate, interest, or right of a profitable or beneficial 
 nature in, over, or aflecting a common shall, except with the
 
 [29 & 30 Vict.] The Metropolitan Commons Act 1860. [Chap. 12-J.] 359 
 
 consent of the person entitled tliereto, be taken away or injuriously 
 affected by any selienie, witliout (•onii)ensHtion beinjr made or 
 provided for the same, and such compensation shall, in case of 
 difference, be ascertained and ])rovided in the same manner as if 
 the same compensation were for tiie compulsory j)urchase and 
 taking or tiie injurious affecting of lands under the provisions of 
 the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 18GU. 
 
 16. If any person claiming any estate, interest, or right in, Appeal 
 over, or affecting the common to wliich any scheme relates is ffrm^naUo'n 
 dissatisfied with any determination made or implied by the < 'om- of Commis- 
 missioners or by the scheme concerning any estate, interest, or sioners. 
 right in, over, or affecting the common, every such ])erson may 
 
 obtain a decision thereon in an action at law in the maimer 
 ])rovided by section fifty-six of the General Act to facilitate the 
 Liclosure and Improvement of Commons, passed in the session of 
 the eighth and ninth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, J! /jiW^^jg 
 chapter one hundred and eighteen. 
 
 17. Every scheme shall contain a i)rovisiou for the sale at all times Printing and 
 of ])rinted copies thereof to all persons desiring to bay the same, at scheme. 
 
 a i)rice not exceeding a reasonable sum to be fixed by the scheme. 
 
 18. Every scheme, when approved by the Commissioners, shall Scheme when 
 be certified by them, and sealed with their common seal. be^cerdfied. 
 
 19. When the Commissioners certify a scheme they shall cause printing and 
 ])rinted copies of it to be delivered to the memorialists and to the publication 
 lord of the manor and to the local authority, and shall also cause °^ ■^'^^^'"^• 
 it, or a proper abstract of it, to be published and circulated in such 
 manner as they think sutficient for giving information to all parties 
 interested. 
 
 20. \_Annual report to he laid before Houses of Parliament. Rep. 
 ij the Commons Act 1899, s. 21.*] 
 
 21. The Commissioners in such annual report shall set forth in Contents of 
 full every scheme certified by them during the year to which the '^^PO'^ 
 report relates, and shall state the grounds of their approval thereof, 
 
 and the ol)jections, if any, made thereto and over-ruled, and all 
 proceedings had in respect of those objections, and the grounds on 
 which they were over-ruled. 
 
 22. A scheme certified by the Commissioners shall not of itself Confirmation 
 have any operation, but the same shall have full operation when ^y Acf o/ 
 and as confirmed by Act of Parliament, with such modifications, if parliament, 
 any, as to Parliament seem fit. 
 
 23. If in the progress through Parliament of a Bill confirming Reference of 
 any scheme certified by the Commissioners a petition is presented ^^^^g™ com- 
 to either House of Parliament against the scheme, the Bill, as far mittee if 
 
 as it relates to the scheme petitioned against, may be referred to a opposed. 
 Select Committee, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appearand 
 oppose as in case of a private bill. 
 
 24. All expenses incurred by the Commissioners in relation to Expenses of 
 any memorial, or to any scheme consequent thereon, shall be ^lefr^ed by 
 
 * S. 21 of the Commons Act 1S99 is as follows : " Section twenty of the Metro- memorialists,' 
 politan Commons Act ISClJ is hereby repealed, and the Board of Agriculture shall etc. 
 include in an annual report to rarhament a statement of their proceedings under 
 Part I. of this Act and under the Metropolitan Commons Acts IStWi to 187^, during 
 the year ending the thirty-first day of December then last past, with such particulars 
 as to their proceedings under the last-mentioned Acts as are required by section 
 twenty-one of the Metropolitan Commons Act 186G."'
 
 360 [Chap. 122.] The Metropolitan Commons Act 1866. [29 & 30 Vict.] 
 
 defrayed by the memorialists, or by any ratepayers or inhabitants 
 of the parish or district in or near to which the common is sitnate, 
 or of the metropolis willing and offering to defray those expenses, 
 or by the local authority if willing and offering to defray the 
 same ; and the Commissioners may, if they think fit, on or at any 
 time after the presentation of the memorial, require the memorialists 
 or those ratepaj^ers or inhabitants, or any of them, or the local 
 authority having offered as aforesaid, (as the case may be,) to pay 
 to the Commissioners such sum as the Commissioners think 
 requisite for or on account of those expenses, or to give security 
 to the satisfaction of the Commissioners for the payment of those 
 expenses on demand. 
 Power for 25. The local authority may in relation to any metropolitan 
 
 local common for which they are the local authority, and the Metropolitan 
 
 contribute for Board of AVorks * may in relation to any metropolitan common 
 purposes of (although not one for which they are the local authority), contribute 
 scheme, '^ViQ\i amount as they think fit (in a gross sum or by annual pay- 
 
 ments or otherwise) towards the expenses of executing any scheme 
 under this Act when confirmed by Act of Parliament, including the 
 payment of the compensation (if any) to be paid in pursuance thereof. 
 Expenses 26. All ex]ienditure incurred by a local authority under this 
 
 of local ^qx, shall be defrayed by them out of the local rate, and all 
 
 be paM out° expenditure incurred by the Metropolitan Board of Works * under 
 of local rate, this Act, in cases where they are not the local authority, shall be 
 defrayed by them out of the rate which in the first schedule to 
 this Act is described as the local rate in connexion with the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works,* and the amount requisite in that 
 behalf respectively shall be raised by means of such respective rate 
 accordingly. 
 Amendment 27. The Commissioners may from time to time approve and 
 o sciemes. g^j-^-jfy ^ scheme for amending any scheme confirmed by Act of 
 Parliament, and all the provisions of this Act relative to an original 
 scheme shall apply also to an amending scheme, mutatis mutandis. 
 Provision for 28. Where any lord of a manor, commoner, or other person 
 disability having any estate, interest, or right in, over, or affecting a common 
 is under the disability of infancy, lunacy, or coverture, or other 
 legal disability, or is beyond the seas, his or her guardian, trustee, 
 committee of the estate, husband, or attorney (as the case requires), 
 or in default thereof a person nominated in that behalf by the 
 Commissioners under their common seal (which nomination they 
 are hereby empowered to make as occasion requires), shall for the 
 purposes of this Act be deemed to be substituted in the jjlace of such 
 lord, commoner, or other person. 
 Consent with 29. Where any estate, interest, or right in, over, or affecting a 
 cfrownor° common belongs to or is enjoyed by Her Majesty, ... in right of 
 Duchy rights, the Crown, or forms part of the possessions of the Duchy of 
 Lancaster or of the Duchy of Cornwall, any consent for the purposes 
 of any scheme under this Act may be given in respect of that estate, 
 interest, or right as follows ; namely, — 
 
 In the first-mentioned case, if the estate, interest, or right is 
 under the management of the Commissioners of . . . Woods, 
 . . . then by those Commissioners or one of them with the 
 approval of the . . . Treasury; and if it is under the manage- 
 ment of the Commissioners of . . . Works . . . , then by the 
 last-mentioned Commissioners with the like approval : 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [29 & 30 Vict.] The Metropolitan Commons Act 1866. [Chap. 122.] 361 
 
 In the sccondly-mentioiif'd case In' the Chancellor of the Dnchy 
 of Lancaster, by writing nnder iiis hand attested by the ( 'lerk 
 of the ('ouncil of the Dncliy : 
 In the thirdly-mentioned case by the Duke of Cornwiill, or other 
 the persons for the time bein*; empowered to dispose for any 
 purpose of lands of the Dnchy of Cornwall. 
 \\Vords omitted {''■ llcr heirs or sucfi'iinors,^'' ^''Forests ami Land 
 Rerenues" " Commissioners of Her Majesti/^s" " I/er Majestfs/' 
 and '^ and Ptddic Jhrildimjs") rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 30. Any lord of a manor, commoner, or other jjcrson having any Power for 
 estate, interest, or rij^ht in, over, or aU'ectinir a comnion niav, bv n^^^^^^^i 
 power of attorney in writing' under his hanil (which shall be cxemjtt to appoint 
 from stamp duty), a])i)oint an agent to act for him for the purposes agent. 
 
 of any memorial or scheme under this Act. 
 
 All things by this Act directed or authorized to be done by or 
 with rehition to any lord of a manor, commoner, or other jjersoQ 
 as aforesaid may be lawfully done by or with relation to his agent 
 so appointed. 
 
 Every such agent may, in the name and on behalf of his 
 principal, sign, concur in, and execute any memorial or act, or 
 signify consent or dissent on any matter arising out of the execution 
 of this Act. 
 
 Every person shall be bound by the acts of any such agent 
 according to the authority committed to him as fully as if the 
 principal had himself acted. 
 
 Every such i)ower of attorney, or a copy thereof examined and 
 authenticated as a true copy by the signature of a witness or 
 witnesses, shall be deposited with the C^ommissioners. 
 
 Any such ])ower of attorney may be in the form given in the 
 second schedule to this Act or to the like eifect. 
 
 31. AVhere any estate, interest, or right in, over, or ailecting Provision for 
 a common is by deed conveyed for the purposes of a scheme conveyance 
 tmder this Act, with the ajtproval of the Commissioners, the pro- sioners. 
 visions of the Act of the ninth year of the reign of King George !m;. 2. c. 3«j. 
 the JSecond (chapter thirty-six),* " to restrain tlie Disposition of 
 
 Lands whereby the same become unalienable," shall not apjily to the 
 conveyance. 
 
 32. Notwithstanding anything in any other Act, it shall be lawful Power for 
 for Her Majesty, . . . from time to time, for the purposes of a j^'^j^jj^^i^i* ^^i^ 
 scheme under this Act, to grant to any ])ersons or body, for such rights in' 
 estate or interest, and on such terms and subject to such conditions (-ommis- 
 
 as to Her Majesty, . . . seem meet, all or any part or parts of the ^'*^'^®'^- 
 open and uninclosed lands being wastes of the Koyal ]\Ianor of East 
 Greenwicli in tlie county of Ivent.t and also to so <rrant all or anv 
 ot the rights of common which ller ^Majesty, . . . lias . . . for the 
 time being in, over, or afiecting any metro] )olitan common, and 
 which might by law be so granted by a private person entitled 
 absolutely thereto, and in every such case such persons or botly, 
 their heirs, suci^essors, executors, or administrators, shall have full 
 capacity to take and hold the same lands or rights. 
 
 Whenever it is the i)leasure of Her ]\Iaiestv, . . . to make a 
 grant as aforesaid, the . . . Treasury may issue a warrant to such 
 persons or body. 
 
 * Piep. (oxfopt part of s. 5) by the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act ISSS, s. 13. 
 t Now tho county of London." See 51 & C>2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (_2).
 
 362 
 
 [Chap. 122.] The Metropolitan Commons Act 1866. [29& SOYict.] 
 
 Even' sncli warrant shall be exempt from stamp duty, and shall 
 be enrolled as conveyances in lands forming part in the land 
 revenues of the Crown in England are required to be inroUed, and 
 the iurolment thereof shall be certified at the foot or on the 
 back thereof by the proper officer by whom the same is inrolled 
 under his hand, and the same when inrolled shall be returned 
 with the certificate of inrolment to the grantees named in the 
 warrant. 
 
 From and immediately after the inrolment of the warrant the 
 grantees by force of this Act shall be deemed to be in the actual 
 seisin or possession of the lands or rights in the warrant specified, 
 and shall hold and enjoy the same, according to the warrant, for the 
 purposes therein specified. [ Words omitted (" Her heirs or suc- 
 cessors,'' " or have,'' and " Commissioners of Her Majesty's ") 
 7^ejj. 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.B.).'] 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 The First Schedule. 
 
 Description of Local Authority and Local Rate. 
 
 Metropolitan Common. 
 
 A metropolitan common, the 
 whole or any part whereof 
 is situate within the metro- 
 polis as defined by the Me- 
 tropolis Management Act, 
 1855. 
 
 A metropolitan common, the 
 whole or any part whereof 
 is situate within the district 
 of a local board constituted 
 under the Public Health 
 Act, 1848, J and the Local 
 Government Act, 1858,:]: or 
 one of them, and no part 
 whereof is situate within 
 the metropolis as defined as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Any other metropolitan com- 
 mon. 
 
 Local Authority. 
 
 The Metropolitan 
 Board of Works.* 
 
 The local board. § 
 
 Local Rate. 
 
 The rate leviable for defraying 
 the expenses of the Board 
 in the execution of the 
 Metropolis Management Act, 
 1855, and the Acts amend- 
 ing the same.f 
 
 The general district rate. 
 
 The vestry || of the 
 parish in which the 
 common or any part 
 thereof is situate. 
 
 The poor rate. 
 
 \_A7nended 61 & 62 Vict. c. 43, s. 2.] 
 
 The Second Schedule. 
 
 Form of Power of Attorney. 
 
 The Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866. 
 
 I, A.B. of in pursuance of the above-mentioned 
 
 Act, appoint of to be my agent for all 
 
 the purposes of that Act [or for a specified purpose under the Act\ 
 
 Dated this day of 18 . 
 
 (Signed) A.B. 
 Witness, 
 CD. 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 t Now the county rate. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 3 (1). 
 i Eepealed and replaced by the Public Health Act 1875. 
 
 § Now the district council. See the Local Government Act 1894, s. 21 (see 
 Appendix). 
 
 II Now the parish council. See the Local Government Act 1894, s. 6.
 
 [29 & -50 Vict.] Kenisinyton Improcement Act IHCiO. [Chai'. cl.] :i03 
 
 CllArTEK CL. 
 
 An Act to exarlk the Metropolitan Boaed of "Works to make 
 Impkovements in the Pauish of Saint Maicv Ajsuotts, Ken- 
 sington, IN the County of Middlesex, by widening High 
 Street and King Street, and forming new Lines of 
 Streets connected therewith ; and for other Purposes. 
 
 [2sM Jane IsGG.] 
 
 \_PreambLe recites 18 & 10 Vict, c 12U, a. 144.] 
 
 1. \^[ncorj)oration of Lands Clauses Act. Spent.'] 
 
 2. In citing this Act for any pnrpose it shall he snfficient to use Short title, 
 the e.xi)ression " Kensington Iniproveiiient Act, IbGO." 
 
 3. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have interpreta- 
 the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there ]jq ^^'^^ ^^ ^"nn. 
 something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; 
 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 The word " streets " shall include squares, streets, courts, or 
 alleys, highways, roads, thoroughfares, or public passages 
 or places : 
 
 The expression '^ the Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works : * 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Parts omitted {definition of " Justice^'' " two Justices,'"' and 
 " lessee,''^ and as to meanings of ivords in incorporated Acts^ spent.~\ 
 
 4 — 6. S^Board to execute Act — Power to act by committee — 
 Persons interested not eligible for committee. Superseded by the 
 Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 {see Appendix); and 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 7. It shall be lawful for the Board to make the improvements Power to 
 
 and uew streets following : that is to sav, ^^^^^ ^™- 
 
 A • ^ ■ S IT- I L.^ >! T' i 1 • I ■ provements. 
 
 An improvement m the High Street, Kensington, by wulening 
 
 the same on the southern side thereof, such widening to 
 
 commence at the west side of Young Street, and to terminate 
 
 westward of the junction of King Street with High Street : 
 
 A new street in substitution of a jjortion of the present street 
 called King Street, such new street to commenee from and 
 out of High Street to the eastward of the present line of 
 King Street, and to terminate in King Street : 
 
 An improvotuent of King Street by widening the same on the 
 western side thereof IVom the proposed termination ol" the 
 last-mentioned intended new street towards the place where 
 King Street unites with Kensington Scjuare : 
 
 A new street commencing from and out ot" Young Street south 
 of the junction of Young Street with High Street, and ter- 
 minating in the intended new street, in substitution of part 
 of King Street, at or near its proposed termination. 
 
 8 — 12. \_Streets and works to be made according to deposited 
 plans — Powers to the Board to deviate, to lay out footways, etc., 
 and to stop up streets, etc. — Vesting of .wil of sucli streets in the 
 Board for the purposes of the Act — Power to stop up ways during 
 works, and to raise or lower streets. Spent.] 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 364 
 
 [Chap. 6.] The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867. [30 & 31 Vict.] 
 
 13. \_As to laying of pavements, and vesting the same in the board 
 of ivorks * or vestry * in whose district or jmrish they are.'] 
 
 14. [Power to the Board to fill up sewers and drains on providing 
 substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drains.] 
 
 15. [Power to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent.] 
 
 16. [Ground laid into streets to form part thereof, and to be 
 under the care of the board of works * or vestry * in whose district 
 or 2ytt^'ish it is.] 
 
 17 — 29. [Errors and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to 
 sell materials and to survey lands to be taken — Power for com- 
 pulsory purchase limited to 5 years — As to acquisition of lands 
 and compensation — Deficiencies of land tax during icorks — Power 
 to grant building leases of lands not wanted — Sale of ground rents 
 and reversions — Power to sell lands without leasing — Sale of lands 
 7wt ivanted — Receipts of Board to be effectual discharges. Spent.] 
 
 30. [Borrowing powers. Rep. in part 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50. 
 Remr. spent.] 
 
 31—38. [Financial 2)rovisions. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 39. [Separate accounts. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 68 
 and 71.] 
 
 40. [Application of monies borroiced. Spent.] 
 
 41. \_Application of monies arising from sales, etc. Rep. 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 42 — 44. [As to rehousing persons of the labouring class. Spent.] 
 45. [Powers of Metropolis Management Acts extended to this Act.] 
 Schedule. [Forms of bond and security for annuity. Spent ; see 
 32 k 33 Vict. c. 102.] ' 
 
 30 & 31 VICTORIA. A.D. 1867. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 CHAPTER 6. 
 
 \ An Act for the Establishment in the Metropolis of Asylums 
 FOR THE Sick, Insane, and other Classes of the Poor, 
 AND OF Dispensaries ; and for the Distribution oyer the 
 Metropolis of Portions of the Charge for Poor Relief ; 
 
 AND for other PURPOSES RELATING TO PoOR ReLIEF IN THE 
 
 Metropolis. [29M March 1867.] 
 
 [Enacting words rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.R.).] 
 Preliminary. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867. 
 
 2. In this Act— 
 
 The term " the Poor Law Acts " means the Act of the session 
 of the fourth and fifth years of King William the Fourth 
 (chapter seventy-six) "for the Amendment and better Ad- 
 ministration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and 
 Wales," and the Acts extendingr or amending the same. 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Borough Council. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 t See also 34 Vict. c. 15 ; the I'oor Law Act 1897, and 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, ss. 55, 
 67, 79 & 80, 81, 85, 86 and 104.
 
 [30 & 31 Vict.] The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867. [Chap. 6.] 
 
 365 
 
 Words ill this Act liave the same meaning'' as in the Poor Law- 
 Acts. \_Part omitted {meaniruf of the " I'oor Law Amendment Act 
 0/1844 ") rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (.S'./>.7t?.).] 
 
 3. This Act extends only to unions and ])arishes not in union Limitation of 
 which are wholly or for the ^''t^ater T)art thereof respectivelv in- ■^^^ ^'^ ^^? 
 chided in the nietro])olis as defined Ity the Metropolis Miina^ement 
 
 Act, 1855; and in this Act the term "the metro})olis" means the 
 metro])oli8 as so defined. 
 
 4. Any order of the Poor Law Board* under this Act shall not Orders of 
 be deemed a general order within the o])eration of the Poor Law ii'^^'^^^^^ 
 Acts, althouf^h addressed to more than one union or ])arish. 
 
 District Asijlams. 
 
 5. Asylums to be su])])orted and managed according to the pro- Asylums to 
 visions of this Act may be provided under tliis Act for reception and ^^ prt>vice( . 
 relief of the sick, insane, or infirm, or other class or classes of the 
 
 poor chargeable in unions and parishes in the metroj)olis (and in this 
 Act the term " asylum " means an asylum provided under this Actj. 
 \_A7nended 34 k 35 Vict. c. 108, s. 10 t ; and see 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61, 
 ... 40.] 
 
 6. In order to the provision of asylums, the Poor Law Board * ^P™^!"'" "^^ 
 may from time to time by order combine into districts, unions or 
 parishes, or unions and ])arishes, in the metropolis, as they think fit, 
 
 and may from time to time alter any such district by addition, sub- 
 division, se])aration of })art or otherwise (and in tliis Act the term 
 "the district" means, in relation to each asylum, the district for 
 which that asylum is for the time being provided). \_Amended 
 34 & 35 Vict. c. 108, s. 10 f ; aiid see 39 & 4i) Vict. c. 61, s. 40, aiid 
 45 & 46 Vict. c. 58, s. 9.] 
 
 7. For each district there shall be an asylum or asylums, as the Number of 
 Poor Law Board * from time to time by order direct. asylums. 
 
 8. For the asylum or asylums of each district there sluill be a Managers of 
 body of managers constituted as in this Act ])rovided, which ^^y^^"^'^- 
 managers and their successors are hereby incor])orat('d liy the 
 
 name of the Managers of the Asylum Distrii-t, 
 
 and by that name shall be one body corporate, with j)erpetual 
 succession and a common seal, and with power, subject and accord- 
 ing to the orders of the Poor Law Board,* to take, hold, and 
 dis])ose of lands and other })roperty for purposes of the asylum 
 district (and in this Act the term " the managers " means, in relation 
 to each asylum district, the managers thereof for the time being). 
 
 9. The managers shall (su])iect to the provisions of this Act) be of°^'an^e*J.°. 
 partly elective and partly nominated. 
 
 10. Elective managers shall be from time to time elected by the Election of 
 guardians of eacli of the several unions and jnirishes forming the '"^^'''e®'"^- 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act Ls"!, s. 2. 
 
 ■j- S. 10 of the Pauper Inmates Discharge and Hegulation Act ISTI (.'{1 A: Sfj Vict. 
 0. lOS) is as follows : " AVhere any district hereafter formed by the Poor Law 
 Board for the relief of the casual poor or any other class or classes under section 
 six of the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1S67, is conterminous with any district previously 
 formed under the same section for the relief of some other class or classes, the Poor 
 Law Board may by order direct that the managers of any such last-mentioned district 
 shall be the managers also of all or any of the districts conterminous with it which 
 may be subsequently formed ; and tlie expenses of prt)viding any asylum for the 
 reception and relief of the casual pour under section five of the iletrnpolitan Poor 
 Act, 1867, and the maintenance of such poor therein, shall be repayable in like manner 
 as expenses for the provision of wards for the same class of poor under section 
 sixty-nine of the said Act."
 
 366 
 
 [Chap. 6.] The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867. [30 & 31 Vict.] 
 
 Nomination 
 of managers. 
 
 Number, 
 qualifications, 
 etc. of 
 managers. 
 
 Validity of 
 acts of 
 managers 
 notwith- 
 standing 
 vacancies. 
 
 Probibition 
 against 
 managers 
 being cpn- 
 cerned in 
 contracts. 
 
 Building for 
 asylum. 
 
 As to the 
 purchase or 
 hiring of 
 lands, etc. by 
 managers. 
 
 district from among themselves, or from among ratepayers qualified 
 to be guardians therein, or partly from one and partly from the 
 other. \See also 32 & 33 Vict. c. 63, s. 6.] 
 
 11. Nominated managers shall be from time to time nominated 
 by the Poor Law Board * from among Justices of the Peace for any 
 connty or place resident in the district, or from among ratepayers 
 . . . assessed to the poor rate therein on an annual rateable value 
 of not less than forty pounds, or partly from one and partly from the 
 otlier. [ Words omitted (" resident in the district and'''') rep. 31 & 32 
 Vict. c. 122, s. 9, and 56 Vict. c. 14 (*S./..i?.).] 
 
 12. The Poor Law Board * shall from time to time by order 
 prescribe the total number of the managers, and the proportion 
 of the elective and nominated managers (but so that the prescribed 
 number of the nominated managers do not ever exceed one third of 
 the prescribed number of the elective managers), the number of 
 elective managers to be elected for each union or parish in the 
 district, the qualifications of the managers, their tenure of office, 
 the mode and times of election, and the quorum for their meetings. 
 
 13. Any act or proceeding of the managers shall not be invalid by 
 reason only of any vacancy in their body, or by reason only of any 
 failure to elect or nominate or any defect or irregularity in or about 
 the election or nomination of any person to be manager, or by reason 
 only of the want of qualification or disqualification of any person 
 acting as manager ; and the managers shall be deemed lawfully con- 
 stituted, and shall act, notwithstanding any such vacancy, failure, 
 defect, irregularity, want of qualification, or disqualification. 
 
 14. The provisions of the Poor Law Acts imposing penalties on 
 guardians and their officers if concerned for their own profit in pro- 
 viding or in any contract for the supplying of anything for the use 
 of workhouse or otherwise for the support or maintenance of the 
 poor, and all remedies for recovery of such penalties, shall extend 
 and apply to the managers and their officers. 
 
 15. The Poor Law Board * may from time to time by order direct 
 the managers to purchase or hire, or to build, and (in either case) to 
 fit up a building or buildings for the asylum, of such nature and 
 size, and according to such plan, and in sucli manner, as the Poor 
 Law Board * think fit, and the managers shall carry such directions 
 into execution, \_Amended 34 & 35 Vict. c. 15. s. 11, and the Poor 
 Law Act 1897, s. 2.+] 
 
 16. The managers shall have for the purposes of the asylum the 
 like powers as are for the time being vested in guardians of unions 
 or ])arishes in the metropolis relative to the purchase or hiring of 
 lands or buildings ; but the consent of any ratej^ayers or owners of 
 property in a union or parish shall not be necessary with respect to 
 any sale, lease, or other disposition of any workhouse, building, or 
 land by guardians or overseers to the managers. \_Amended hij the 
 Poor Laid Act 1897, s. 2 f See also 52 & 53 Vict. c. 56, s. 5.] 
 
 17. {Power to borroiv money. Rep. htj the Poor Law Act 1897, 
 s. 3.] 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2. 
 
 t S. 2 of the Poor Law Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 29) is as follows : " 2. The power 
 to provide land and buildings under the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, is hereby 
 declared to include power to provide any land or buildings which may, in the opinion 
 of the Local Government Board, be required for the purposes of that Act, and the 
 provisions of section two of the Poor Law Act, 1889, with respect to loans hy guardians
 
 [30 & 31 Vict.] T/ie Metropolitan Poor Act 1807. [Chap. 0.] 367 
 
 18. The Poor Law Board* nia}' by order directt that unv biiildiiij^ Adaptation 
 for the time beiiij; ill use us a workhouse be, witli siieh altenitions '^'^^ '^Jp^J'"^' 
 as tlie Poor Law Poard * think ht, used for the asylum, and thmce- for'asyiu^rl^. 
 forth that liuihliii-,^ shall be lor the common use of the district 
 accordingly ; and an annual sum in the nature of rent or other cora- 
 jiensatiou of su(di amount as the Poor f^aw Board* from time to 
 
 tim(! direct shall be paid to the guardians of the union or i)urish 
 to which such building belongs, as long as the same continues to be 
 so used. 
 
 19. If iu any such case the managers expend any monev in the Heimburse- 
 improvement or enlargement of the building, or tlu; y)roviding of '"'""^ ^"^ . , 
 sul)stantial fittings therein, and aft(!r\vanls ivliiKjuish the use "iJIiSuire. 
 thereof, the Poor Law Board* may, if they think tit, make an 
 adjustment in respect of that expenditure between the owners of 
 
 the building and the managers, and direct sucli amount as they 
 think ei[uitable to be reimbursed to the managers by the owners 
 of the building, to be paid at once or by instalments as the Poor 
 Law Board * direct. 
 
 20. The managers shall from time to time provide for the asylum Furniture, 
 necessary fixtures, furniture, and conveniences, and such as the ^'^'^■- f'''" 
 Poor Law Board* from time to time by order direct. asylum. 
 
 21. The mode of admission of persons into the Asylum shall l)e Mode of 
 such as the Poor Law Board* from time to time by order direct. admission 
 
 '' into asylum. 
 
 22. The managers shall have the like powers as guardians for powers and 
 the relief, maintenance, and management of the inmates of the <l<ities of 
 Asylum, and shall from time to time provide such medicines, |^^"gj^^^j^° 
 a])pliances, and requisites for the medical and surgical care and inmates!^ 
 treatment of the inmates, and cause the same to be furnished and 
 
 used according to such rules, as the Poor Law Board * from time to 
 time by order direct. 
 
 23. The following provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act Application 
 . . . 1.S44 shall extend to the asylum as if it were an asylum under -V^^'^^-'f 
 that Act or a workhouse, and as if the managers were a district c. loi. as 
 board under that Act, that is to say, — hereinnamed. 
 
 So much of section forty-three as relates to rules of the Poor 
 Law Board * for government of the asylum or its inmates, 
 and to religious assistance and instruction : 
 Sections tiftv, tiftv-four, tiftv-seveu, and tiftv-nine. 
 [ Word omitted (" <?/") rep. 56' Vict. c. 14 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 24. Witli reference to chargeability, burial, and other incidents, *^''V]!"S*^" 
 the asylum shall in relation to each inmate thereof be deemed to of 'inmates.' 
 be in the union or ])arish from which such inmate is sent ; but 
 
 births and deaths in the asvlum shall be rciristered by the reiristrar 
 in whose district the asvlum is situate. 
 
 25. The managers shall have the like powers as guardians for Appointment, 
 the appointment, control, and payment of paid officers of the ^ffi;.erg^^**^ 
 asylum, and the grant of superannuation iillowances to them. 
 
 The duties, number, anil salaries of the \n\\(\ olKcers, and the 
 securities to be given by them, shall be such as tiie Poor Law Board* 
 may from time to time approve or by order direct. 
 
 of unions as amended by tliis Act, shall apply, for the purpose of Iwrrow-ing under 
 the Metropolitan Poor Act, 18t)7, instead of section seventeen of the last-mentioned 
 Act, but with the substitution of 'one-tenth of the rateable value of the district' for 
 'one-fourth' of the rateable value of the union." 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2.
 
 368 
 
 [Chap. 6.] The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867. [30 & 31 Vict.} 
 
 Enforcement 
 of orders of 
 manaarers. 
 
 Committees 
 of manaa'ers. 
 
 Orders of 
 Poor Law 
 Board as to 
 managers. 
 
 Use of 
 asylums as 
 medical 
 schools. 
 
 Representa- 
 tive of Com- 
 missioners in 
 Lunacy. 
 
 Expenses of 
 providing 
 asylum and 
 salaries. 
 
 Charges for 
 
 maintenance, 
 
 etc. 
 
 Audit of 
 accounts. 
 
 Powers of 
 auditor. 
 
 26. Legal and reasonable orders of the managers shall 1)6 obeyed, 
 and obedience thereto shall be enforced, in like manner and by "and 
 under like remedies and penalties as legal and reasonable orders of 
 guardians. 
 
 27. The managers may from time, to time, subject and according 
 to such regulations as the Poor Law Board * from time to time by 
 order prescribe, appoint committees of members of their body, and 
 delegate to them any of the powers of the managers. 
 
 28. The managers shall, in the exercise and discharge of all their 
 powers and duties, be subject to orders of the Poor Law Board* in 
 like manner as guardians are under the Poor Law Acts. 
 
 29. Where the asylum is provided for reception and relief of the 
 sick or insane it may be used ... for the training of nurses, in 
 such cases and manner and subject to such regulations as the Poor 
 Law Board * from time to time by order direct. [ Words omitted Q^/o?- 
 the purposes of medical instruction and ") rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 63, 
 s. 20, and 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.E.) ; but see 52 & 53 Vict. c. 56, s. 4.] 
 
 30. Where the asylum is provided for reception and relief of the 
 insane the Commissioners in Lunacy may, if they think fit, depute 
 one of their body or appoint from time to time a special commis- 
 sioner, and the person so deputed or appointed shall be entitled to 
 attend meetings of the managers and to take part in their j^roceed- 
 ings, but not to vote. . . . \^Pa7't omitted {cisylum to he considered 
 a workhouse) rep. by the Lunacy Act 1890, s. 342.] 
 
 31. Expenses incurred by the managers in or about the pur- 
 chasing, hiring, building, repairing, and fitting up of buildings for 
 the asylum, and any sum in the nature of rent or other compen- 
 sation, payable by the managers to guardians, in respect of the use 
 for the asylum of a building previously used as a workhouse, and 
 expenses incurred by the managers in or about the providing of 
 fixtures, furniture, conveniences, medicines, medical and surgical 
 appliances, and other necessaries required for keeping the asylum 
 in proper order for daily use, and the salaries and maintenance of 
 the officers thereof, shall be defrayed by contributions from the 
 unions and parishes forming the district. 
 
 32. Expenses incurred by the managers in or about the food, 
 clothing, maintenance, care, treatment, and relief, or for the 
 burials, of inmates of the asylum shall be separately charged to 
 the respective unions or parishes from which the inmates of the 
 asylum are sent. 
 
 33. The Poor Law Board* shall appoint some person to be the 
 auditor of the district, who shall audit the accounts of the managers 
 and of their ofiicers ; and those accounts shall accordingly be pre- 
 pared for and submitted to the auditor at such times and in such 
 manner as the accounts of guardians of unions are by the Poor Law 
 Acts required to be prepared and submitted. \_See the District 
 Auditors Act 1879.] 
 
 34. The auditor shall have the like powers of allowing and dis- 
 allowing accounts, and of making surcharges therein, as auditors 
 appointed under the Poor Law Acts have for the time being ; and 
 sums disallowed, reduced, or surcharged in the accounts submitted 
 to the auditor shall be recoverable in like manner as under the 
 Poor Law Acts ; and there shall be the like appeal to the Court of 
 Queen's Bench or to the Poor Law Board* against an allowance, 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2.
 
 [30&31Vtct.] The Mvtmiiolitan Poor Ad ISriT. [Ohap. ^.j %Cl\ 
 
 (lisallovvjuic.c, or siircliar^M^ luadc l»y tlu; au<lit(»r, us in case <»f' thtj 
 audit, ot" union or j)arisli accoiuits. 
 
 35. Within one month alt(!r each audit the luana.i^er.s .shall deliver, Circulation of 
 by post or otherwise, to each board of guardians in tlu^ district a ^^f ^^"^ '^^ 
 printed abstract (in a form from time to time j)rescribed liv the 
 Poor Law lioard*) ol' tin; accounts as audited. 
 
 36—37. \_l\emuneratioii of auditor — Removal am/ appointment of 
 new auditor. I'rp. b>/ the Difitrict Auditor.'^ Act 187'.', .s. 11.] 
 
 ^fcdical (Jut-door Relief. 
 
 38. The I'oor Law lioard * may from time to time, hy order, i'uilding for 
 direct the guardians of a union or parish in the metroj)olis to <i'8pe°«afy- 
 ])rovide a dispensary or dispensaries for such union or j)arish, and 
 
 to purchase or hire, or to build, and (in either case) to fit up and 
 furnish a building or l)uildiiigs for that purjjose, of such nature 
 and si/.e, and according to sucli plan, and in such manner as the 
 Poor Law Board* think fit, or to set apart, adai)t, fit u{) and furnish 
 for that purpose such part of the workhouse of the union or parish, 
 according to such plans, and in such manner, as the Poor Law 
 Board* think fit, and the guardians shall act accorilingly ; and, where 
 the Poor Law Board* by order so direct, the guardians may borrow 
 the amount requisite in that belialf, in like manner and su])ject to 
 the like conditions as in the case of the building of a workhouse. 
 [aS'^^ also 32 & 33 Vict. c. G3, ss. 12 — 14.] 
 
 39. There shall be a committee of management for tlie dis{)ensary Dispensary 
 or dispensaries in each union or parish, to be called the dispensary ^""'""^ittee. 
 committee for the union or parish (and in this Act the term " the 
 dispensary committee " means, in relation to each union parish, the 
 dispensary committee for the same for the time being). 
 
 40. The dispensary committee shall be elected by the guardians Election of 
 of the union or })arish from among themselves, or from among ^■^""'""ee. 
 ratepayers of the union or i)arish assessed to the poor rate on an 
 
 annual rateable value of not less than forty pounds, or partly from 
 niii' and partly from the other. 
 
 41. The Poor Law Board* shall from time to time prescribe Number, etc. 
 with respect to each committee the number and tenure of office of °^^°™"""^- 
 the members, the luode and tiiues of election, and the ipiornni for 
 
 their meetings. 
 
 42. The guardians of each union or parish j)roviding a dispensary I'laycs for 
 shall also provide, according to the directions of the Poor Law p^or'^-tT'^ 
 Board,* i)roper })laces where the medical officers of the union or 
 
 parish may see such of the sick poor as attend there for advice, 
 and where meetings of the dispensary committer^ may be held. 
 
 43. The dispensary committee siiall from time to time appoint Appoiiumeiit 
 and shall at all times keej) ai>j)ointed proi^-r persons to be Jis- ^'^^^'^''•■'P*^"""-''^' 
 pensers of medicine at the dispensaries for the union or parish, and 
 
 may from time to time appoint such other officers and such servants 
 for the purposes of those dispensaries as they think fit. 
 
 The duties, (jualifications, number, and salaries of tiie dispensers, 
 officers, and servants shall be such as the Poor Law Board * nuiy 
 from time to time approve or by order direct. 
 
 * Now the Local Government Hoard. See the LocalCTOvernment Board Act 1871, s. 2. 
 
 24
 
 370 
 
 [Chap. 6.] The MetropolitaJi Poor Act 1867. [30 & 31 Vict.] 
 
 etc 
 
 Appointment 
 of district 
 medical 
 oflBcers. 
 
 Provision and 44, The guardians of each union or parish providing a dispensary 
 medkines^ ° shall from time to time, on the requisition of the dispensary com- 
 mittee, provide proper medicines and appliances and requisites for 
 the care and surgical treatment of the sick poor of the union or 
 parish relieved out of the workhouse, and the same shall be dis- 
 pensed and furnished to such of the poor entitled to relief as require 
 the same, on the prescription or written direction of the district 
 medical officer, subject to such regulations as the Poor Law Board* 
 from time to time by order direct. 
 
 45. The district medical officers for a union or parish shall be 
 from time to time appointed by the dispensary committee, subject 
 to the rules and orders of the Poor Law Board * respecting appoint- 
 ment and removal of officers under the Poor Law Acts ; but the 
 district medical officers in office at the time of the dispensary 
 committee entering on their duties shall continue in office as if 
 this Act had not been passed, subject nevertheless to such modifi- 
 cations of arrangements respecting their duties and remuneration, 
 made with them before the passing of this Act, as the Poor Law 
 Board * think fit. 
 
 Modification 46. For giving efi'ect to the provisions of this Act relating to 
 
 of districts medical relief out of the workhouse, the Poor Law Board* mav 
 
 contracts from time to time vary as they think fit medical districts, salaries, 
 
 with district and contracts with district medical officers, existing at the passing 
 
 medical Qf ^jjjg ^^^ qj, ^^ j^^-^y ^jj^g thereafter. 
 
 omcers. 
 
 DiMrict and Separate 'Schools. 
 
 47. So much of section forty-seven of the Poor Law Amend- 
 ment Act . . . 1844 ... as provides for payment by unions as 
 therein mentioned of expenses incurred by any district board in 
 the purchase or hire of any land or buildings for a school, or in 
 erecting, repairing, adding to, or fitting up any building, and the 
 salaries of the officers and servants of the establishment, and other 
 common charges of the school, shall, ... as far as those provisions 
 relate to a district in the metropolis, be repealed. . . . \_Farts 
 omitted Q' from the 29th day of Septeraher next,"" and as to mode of 
 payment of expenses) rep. 06 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.R.), and (repeal of 
 13 & 14 Vict. c. 11) rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 48. Expenses incurred by a district board constituted under 
 the Poor Law Amendment Act . . . L'^44 for the maintenance of a 
 district school for a district in the metropolis in the purchase or 
 hire of land or buildings for the school, and the salaries of officers, 
 and all other common charges of such school, shall, . . . be def raved 
 by contributions from the unions and parishes forming the district, 
 as in this Act provided. [ Words omitted (" g/'" and '''from the said 
 29th day of September next'''') rep. 56 Vict. c. \\ (^S.L.B.).'] 
 
 49. The Poor Law Board * may from time to time nominate to 
 be members of such a district board such persons as they think 
 fit from among .Justices of the Peace for any county or place resident 
 in the district of the school, or from among ratepayers resident 
 in that district, and assessed to the poor rate therein on an annual 
 rateable value of not less than forty pounds, or partly from one 
 and partly from the other, but so that the number of members so 
 nominated do not ever exceed one third of the full number of the 
 elected members of the board. 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2. 
 
 Certain pro- 
 visions as to 
 charge of 
 expenses of 
 buildings, 
 etc. as in 
 7 & 8 Vict, 
 c. 101. s. 47. 
 13 & 14 Yict. 
 c. 11. 
 repealed. 
 
 Charges for 
 buildings and 
 salaries of 
 officers of 
 district 
 schools. 
 
 Addition of 
 nominated 
 members to 
 district 
 board.
 
 [30 & ;31 Vict.] T/w Met ropoUhni Poor Art \H(\:. [Chap. 0.] 371 
 
 Workho'DieK for Classes of Pour. 
 
 50. Where, in the opinion of tlie Poor Law Board,* the work- deception in 
 
 house of a union or T)arish in the metropolis is a(hipted only for ^V^rkhouse- 
 
 1 i • c /• -11 • * 1 '^'' poor 
 
 the rece])rion oi poor persons ot a purticnlar class or particular belonging to 
 
 classes, hut is capahlc of accoramo<latin<j; pool' jiersons of that other unions 
 
 class or those classes from any other union or parish within the '"^ parishes. 
 
 metropolis, the Poor Law Board* mayhy order direct the f,'uardians 
 
 of the union or parish to which the workhouse helongs to receive, 
 
 lodge, and maintain therein poor jjorsons of that class or those 
 
 classes, (jr any of them, and tlie giuirdians sliall receive, lodge, and 
 
 maintain such poor persons accordingly on terms to be agreed 
 
 on, with the approval of the Poor Law Board,* by the respective 
 
 boards of guardians of the unions or ])arishes concerned, or, in 
 
 default of such agreement, to be prescribed by the Poor Law 
 
 Board * by order : and in every such case the following provisions 
 
 shall have effect : 
 
 (L) Every poor person so received into the workhouse shall, 
 
 while therein, be treated in all respe(;ts in like manner, 
 
 and be subject to the same or the like regulations and 
 
 liabilities, as the other poor persons therein, and shall 
 
 be chargeable in the first instance to the union or to the 
 
 parish in the workliouse whereof he is received : 
 
 (2.) The abiding of any sucli poor person in such workliouse 
 
 shall in all other res])ects be attended with the same 
 
 legal consequences as if the workhouse were situate 
 
 within the union or parish from which he is sent : 
 
 (3.) Every guardian of the union or parish from which such 
 
 poor person is sent may at all reasonable times enter the 
 
 workhouse and inspect any part thereof. 
 
 Lands. 
 
 51. The provisions of the Act of the session of the fifth and I'rovjsions of 
 sixth years of the reign of King \Villiam the Fourth (chapter ^ -Ji.f JiVrein- 
 sixty-nine) " to facilitate the Conveyance of Workhouses and other named to 
 Proj)erty of Parishes, and of Licorporations or Unions of Parishes, ^^pply. 
 
 in England and Wales," relative to the acquisition of sites or 
 buildings for workhouses, and of all Acts extending or amending 
 the same, shall apply to lands and buildings required to be pur- 
 chased, hired, or otherwise ac(iuired for any of the purposes of this 
 Act, and shall have efiect as if managers under this Act were 
 guardians, and as if an asylum or dispensary were a workhouse. 
 
 52. The Lands I'lauses Consolidation Act, 184.3, and the Lands \^^\f^^ 
 Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1800 (in this Act'^^^gyj^j 
 referred to as the Lands Clauses Acts; are hereby incorporated with c. is. and 
 this Act, and for the purposes of this Act the term the promoters -';< -^ -'4 \ ict. 
 of the undertaking used in those Acts shall mean managers or pj^^pQ^^jg^j 
 guardians desirous of purchasing lands for purj)oses of this Act ; and 
 
 in those Acts and this Act the term lands shall include any estate, 
 term, easement, right, or interest in, over, or affecting lands. 
 lAmen</,'</ 31 l\: 32 Vict, c 122, .s. 35.] 
 
 63. So much of the Lands Clauses Acts as relates to the pnr- Provisions as 
 chase of lands otherwise than by agreement shall not be i)ut in ^QrcE'S"^'^ 
 force except for the purchase of lands for the purpose of enlarging land. 
 a workhouse, hospital, or school existing at the passing of this 
 * Now the Local Ooverniuent Board. See the Local Government Board Act 187L s. 2.
 
 372 [Chap. 6.] The Metropolitan Poor Act 1861 [30 & 3l Vict.;) 
 
 Act, aud then not without a previous order of the Poor Law 
 Board * directing such purchase. 
 
 ^^^ir tfon ^^' Before the Poor Law Board * make any such order the 
 as to lands, managers or guardians applying to them for the same shall publish 
 once at least in each of four consecutive weeks in a daily morning 
 newspaper published in the metropolis ao advertisement stating 
 the object for which the lands are proposed to be taken, and the 
 quantity of lands required, and the place where a plan of the 
 lands is open for inspection at reasonable hours, and shall four 
 weeks l)efore the application to the Poor Law Board * serve notices 
 on the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and 
 occupiers of the lands, stating the particulars thereof, and that 
 the managers or guardians are willing to treat for purchase 
 thereof. 
 
 Contrihutions of Unions and Parishes. 
 
 Basis of 55. Sums to be contributed under this Act by unions and 
 
 contributions, parishes shall be assessed on and contributed by them respectively 
 in proportion to the annual rateable value of the property therein 
 comprised, to be determined according to the valuation lists, or, 
 where there are none, according to the latest poor rate for the 
 time being for the union or parish, or on such other basis as the 
 Poor Law Board * from time to time direct. 
 
 Calls for con- ^Q The managers of an asylum under this Act, and the district 
 
 managers^ and board constituted under the Poor Law Amendment Act . . . 1844 
 
 district for the maintenance of a district school, shall from time to time call 
 
 boards. q^ \\yQ guardians of the unions and parishes forming the district 
 
 for such contril)utions as the managers or district board consider 
 
 requisite for the purposes of the asvlum or school. [ Word omitted 
 
 ("^•") rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (>S'.L.7?.j.] 
 
 Notice of call 57, Notice in writing of the amount of every such contribution, 
 tion^"^*^"^"' purporting to be signed by the clerk or other officer of the managers 
 or district board (in a form from time to time prescribed by the 
 Poor Law Board * by order), shall fourteen days at least before such 
 contribution becomes due be delivered to the clerk or acting clerk 
 of the guardians of each union aud parish liable to the contribution, 
 either by post in a letter addressed to him at the office of the union 
 or ])arish or otherwise. 
 
 Remedies for 58. If the contribution is not duly jjaid the managers or district 
 recovery of hoard shall (in addition to any other remedy which any person 
 "has for the time being against guardians) have the like remedy 
 for recovery of the contribution, or of so much thereof as is not 
 paid, from the overseers or other officers authorized to levy poor 
 rates in tlie several jjarishes (whether comprised in a union or 
 not) in the district, as guardians have for the time being for 
 recovery 4"rom overseers of contributions of parishes ; and if the 
 overseers of any parish in a union pay any money to the managers 
 or district board on account of such contribution they shall be 
 entitled to credit for sucli payment in the accounts of the union 
 with their parish. 
 
 Medical In-door Relief. 
 
 Determinna 59. Li order to facilitate provision for the appointment, where 
 
 tion or varia- requisite, of resident workliouse medical officers, and for better 
 tion of con- 
 tracts with * ^ow the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2.
 
 [30 & 31 Vict.] The Metrojjolitait Poor Art L>>0:. [Chap. 6.] 373 
 
 classification and manaj^ement of the sick poor in a separate workhouse 
 hos])ital or bnildinjj, or in an infirmary kept distinct from the rest "^|!^,^' 
 of tlie workhouse, the Poor Law Hoard * may, Ijy order, determine, 
 or from time to time vary as they think iit, any contract witli any 
 medical or other workhouse officer existino; at the passing of this 
 Act, and direct the guardians to pay to a medical or other officer 
 affected therel)y such coiiiyiensation l»y way of iiurreased salary, or 
 of an annuity, or uf a gross sum, or otherwise, as tlie Poor Law 
 Board* think fit. [Amended 30 & 40 Vict. 6-. 61, s. 41.] 
 
 Houseless Poor. 
 
 60. ^Repeal of ss. \ and 2 of 21 k 2^ Vict. e. 116. Rep. 38 & 30 
 Vict. c. 66 (^./;./i\).] 
 
 Metropolitan Common Poor Fund. 
 
 61. There sliall he a fund, called The Metropolitan ( 'ommon Establish- 
 Poor Fund, raised according: to the provisions of this Act hv ^*^°*^ "^., 
 
 ,.,,.',, ,, '^, . i . , - , • ,,^ Metropolitan 
 
 contril)utions from the several unions, j)arishes, and places m the Common 
 raetro])olis (in this Act referred to as the Common Poor Fund). Poor Fund. 
 
 62. Tliere shall be a receiver of the Common Poor Fund (in this Appointment 
 Act referred to as the Receiver), who shall he from time to time ^j common 
 appointed by and shall be removeable by the Poor Law Board,* Fund. 
 
 and shall receive such salary and give such security (if any) as the 
 Poor Law Board * direct. 
 
 63. The Receiver shall o])en an account with . . . the Bank of Keceiver to 
 England, intituled The Account of the Receiver of the Metropolitan ^fB^^^nr* 
 Common Poor Fund for the time being. {Words omitted ('' M^ England. 
 Governor and Company of'') rep. 56 Vict. ^.14 (6'./v.i?.).] 
 
 64. The Poor Law Board * shall from time to time assess on the Assessment 
 several unions and parishes in the metropolis the amounts of their ^^ contribu- 
 
 ,• i. -1 i- j^ i 1 / < !-> T- 1 • i- tions to 
 
 respective contributions to the ( ommon Poor rund, m ju'oportion common 
 to the annual rateable value of the j)ro])erty therein comprised, to Fund. 
 be determined according to the valuation lists, or, where there are 
 none, according to the latest poor rate for the time being for the 
 union or parish, or on such otlier basis as the Poor Law Board * 
 from time to time direct. 
 
 65. The Poor Law Board * shall I'roni time to time issue to the <^]ollection of 
 guardians of each union or parish a precept under the seal of the p^"^"'^'^ 
 Board requiring them to pay the amount of their contribution 
 
 therein specified, in the manner and witliin the time therein pre- 
 scribed, and tlie guardians shall ai'cordingly raise the amount of 
 their contribution out of the poor rates of the union or parish, and 
 shall pay the same into the Bank of England to the credit of the 
 account of the Receiver ; and no such precept shall be liable to be 
 removed into any court of law by certiorari or otherwise, nor 
 shall any order of the guardians, or any rate made after the passing 
 of this Act, be liable to question in any such court on the ground of 
 its having been made wholly or partly in furtherance of any such 
 precept : Provided always, tliat the guardians sliall be entitled to 
 have credit in part payment of their contribution for the amount 
 which may be re])ayabie to them out of the Common Poor Fund, 
 under the preceyit of the Poor Law Board,* as herein-after 
 mentioned, in respect of expenditure during the preceding half year. 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See tbe Local Government Board Act isTl >. "J.
 
 374 
 
 [Chap. 6.] The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867. [30 & 31 Vict.] 
 
 Collection of 
 contributions 
 by local 
 authority 
 where no 
 poor rate. 
 
 Levying of 
 rate by local 
 authoritv. 
 
 Remedies for 
 recovery of 
 contributions. 
 
 Application 
 of Common 
 Fund. 
 
 7 & 8 Vict, 
 c. 101. 
 
 66. In order to obtain payment of the amount of the contribution 
 to the Common Poor Fund payable in respect of any place where 
 there is no poor rate, the Poor Law Board * shall from time to time 
 issue to the masters of the bench, treasurer, governors, or other 
 body or persons having the chief control or authority there, a 
 precept requiring them or him to pay the amount of contribution 
 therein specified, in the manner and within the time therein 
 prescribed, and they or he shall pay the same accordingly. [See the 
 Extra-parochial Places Act 1857, .s-. o, noted on p. 241.] 
 
 67. In every such place the masters of the bench, treasurer, 
 governors, or other body or persons, may levy on the several persons 
 occupying rateable property therein the amount of contribution so 
 paid by them or him by means of a rate in the nature of a poor 
 rate, and for that purpose may employ and remunerate collectors, 
 and shall have the like powers as are for the time being vested in 
 overseers for the purposes of the making, assessing, levying, and 
 collecting of poor rate. 
 
 68. If any contribution to the Common Poor Fund required by 
 the Poor Law Board * to be paid by any guardians, masters of the 
 bench, treasurer, governors, or other body or persons, is not duly 
 paid, the Receiver shall (in addition to any other remedy which any 
 person has for the time being against guardians) have the like 
 remedy for recovery from them or him, in the Receiver's own name, 
 of the contribution, or of so much thereof as is not paid, as guardians 
 have for the time being for recovery from overseers of contributions 
 of parishes ; and for that purpose the precej)t of the Poor Law 
 Board* requiring the contribution shall be conclusive evidence of 
 the amount thereof and of the liability thereto of the party sued. 
 
 69. Expenses incurred for the following purposes . . . shall be 
 repaid out of the Common Poor Fund, that is to say, — 
 
 (1.) For the maintenance of lunatics in asylums, registered 
 hospitals, and licensed houses, and of insane poor in 
 asylums under this Act, except such expenses as are charge- 
 able on the County Rate : \_See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 6-. 68.] 
 
 (2.) For the maintenance of patients in any asylum specially 
 provided under this Act for patients suffering from fever 
 or smallpox : [Amended btj 52 k 53 Vict. c. 56, s. 3 (4).] 
 
 (3.) For all medicine and medical and surgical ai3pliances sup- 
 })lied to the poor in receipt of relief by guardians under 
 this Act or any of the Poor Law Acts : 
 
 (4.) For the salaries of all officers employed by the guardians 
 in and about the relief of the poor by the managers of 
 district schools under " The Poor Law Amendment Act, 
 1844," and by the managers of asylums under this Act, 
 and also the salaries of the dispensers and other persons 
 employed in dispensaries under this Act, provided the 
 appointments of the officers have been sanctioned by the 
 Poor Law Board * : 
 
 (5.) For compensation to any medical officer of a workhouse 
 affected by the determination or variation by the Poor 
 Law Board * of a contract respecting medical relief in the 
 workhouse, or for compensation to any officer of a union 
 or parish who may be deprived of his office by reason of 
 the operation of this Act : 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government 15oard Act 1S71. s. 2.
 
 28 Vict. 
 
 [30 & 31 Vict.] T/te Metropolitan Poo?- Act 1867. [Chap. 6.] 375 
 
 (6.) For fees for registration of births and deaths : 
 
 (7.) For fees for and other ex])enses of vaccination : 
 
 (8.) For maintenance of pauper children in district, separate, 
 
 certificated, and licensed schools : 
 (9.) For relief of destitute persons certified by the auditor, and 
 j)rovisi()n of tein])orary wards or otlier y)hicos of recejition 
 a])i)ruve(l by the I'oor Law IJoard,* under the Metropolitan ^^ ^,^' 
 Houseless Poor Acts of 1804 and 1805. 28 & 29 Vict 
 
 [See also 32 & 33 Vict. c. 63, ss. lb and 21 ; 33 & 34 Vict. c. 18, c. 34. 
 ss. I and 2 ; 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, .^,«. 79 and 104 ; and 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. 45, s. 1. Words omitted (" after the 2\)th day of September 1867 ") 
 rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 70. After each half-yearly audit the auditors shall, within such Mode of 
 time and in such manner as the Poor Law Board * from time to ^j^^^^"^°* 
 time direct, certify to the Poor Law Board * the amount actually rv.mmon 
 expended by each union or ])arish in respect of expenses which Fund. 
 are to be repaid out of the Common Poor Fund ; and the Poor 
 
 Law Board * shall, by precept under the seal of the Board, direct 
 the Receiver to repay out of that fund to the guardians of the 
 unions and parishes the several sums so ex])ended, and the amount 
 repaid shall be applied by them in aid of the fund chargeable with 
 the relief of the poor. 
 
 71. The salaries of the Receiver and his assistants, and all Receiver's 
 expenses incurred by him in the execution of this Act, shall be ^ 
 
 paid out of the Common Poor Fund. 
 
 72. The account of the Receiver at the Bank of England shall g^^g'^j.^f.^''" 
 be drawn on in such manner and according to such regulations as account, 
 the Poor Law Board * from time to time by order direct. 
 
 Poor Relief under Local Acts. 
 
 73. The relief of the poor of every union or parish in the Constitution 
 metropolis governed by a local Act shall, from and after a day to fo/p^aHshe? 
 be stated in an order of the Poor Law Board * in relation to each under lociii 
 union or parish, be, notwithstanding anything in such local Act, Acts, 
 administered by a board of guardians elected according to the Poor 
 
 Law Acts, and in conformitv with an order of the Poor Law 
 Board.* 
 
 74. The guardians so constituted under this Act, notwithstanding Powers of 
 anything in any local Act, shall have the same powers and ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 authorities, and shall be subject to the same orders, regulations, 
 
 and restrictions, as guardians elected under the Poor Law Acts. 
 
 75 — 76. [Transfer to guardians constituted under this Act of 
 properti/ belonying to parishes or unions governed by local Acts, 
 and held for purposes of poor relief and guardians' business and 
 as to continuance of existing officers. Semble spent.'] 
 
 77. Nothing in this Act shall deprive any body constituted having for 
 under a local Act of any power thereby vested 'in them of making ^^'^^^P^^"^ 
 and levying poor rates ; and in relation to guardians constituted bodies, 
 under this Act every such body shall be deemed overseers within 
 the Poor Law Acts as far as regards liability to payment of con- 
 tributions required by guardians for purposes of the relief of the 
 poor in the union or parish. 
 
 • Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act l!<71, s. 2.
 
 376 
 
 [Chap. 39.] The Metropolitan Police {Receicer) Act 1867. [30 & 3 1 Vict.] 
 
 Appointmenl 
 (if officers on 
 failure of 
 manager.-^, 
 etc. 
 
 Extension of 
 
 borrowing 
 
 powers. 
 
 Provision 
 for orders of 
 removal and 
 of main- 
 tenance. 
 
 78. \liejjeal {^o far as theij relate to the metropolis) of so much 
 of .v. 64 as prevents the anion of parishes governed by local Acts, 
 icitJioat consent of the (/aardian.'^, and of s. 65 of the Poor Law 
 Amejidment Act 1844. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 79. {^Poiver to Poor Law Board* to nominate additional guardians. 
 Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 89.] 
 
 OJf.cers. 
 
 80. In case at any time any managers of an asylum or dispensary 
 committee under this Act, or any board of guardians of a union 
 or parish in the metropolis, fail, for fourteen days after receipt 
 of a requisition of the Poor Law Board * in this behalf, to appoint 
 (either originally or on a vacancy) any officer whom they are 
 by law required or authorized to appoint, then at any time after 
 the expiration of that period of fourteen days the Poor Law 
 Board * may, if they think fit, by order, appoint a fit person to 
 be such officer ; and the person so appointed shall have and perform 
 all tlie same powers, rights, privileges, and duties as if the appoint- 
 ment had been duly made by the managers, committee, or guardians, 
 as the case may be. 
 
 Borrowing. 
 
 81. Where the guardians of a union or parish in the metropolis 
 require to l)orrow money for the purposes and under the authority 
 of the Poor Law Acts, the principal sum borrowed may be any 
 sum not exceeding one half of the aggregate amount of the rates 
 raised for the relief of the poor in that union or parish within 
 three years ending on the twenty-fifth day of March next preceding 
 the borrowing of the money, anything in the said Acts to the 
 contrary notwithstanding. \_See also 52 & 53 Vict. c. 56, s. 2 (6), 
 semble repealing this s. 81.] 
 
 82. Nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any board of 
 guardians or churchwardens and overseers from obtaining any 
 order of removal or any order of maintenance in respect of any 
 pauper by reason of the costs and expenses of such pauper being 
 repaid out of the (Jommon Fund. 
 
 CHAPTER 39. 
 
 An Act for amending the Law with respect to the Accounts 
 OF the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District ; 
 and for othee Purposes relating to the Metropolitan 
 Police. \\bth July 1867.] 
 
 \Preamhle {referring to the audit of the accounts of the Receiver of 
 the Metropolitan Police District under 29 & 30 Vict. c. 39) rep. 
 56 Vict. c. 14 (6'.i:.i^.).] 
 
 As to the 1. The amount of all monies received and expended for the 
 
 accounts to purposes of the Act passed in the tenth year of King George the 
 Parliament. Fourth, chaj)ter forty-four, shall be made up to the 31st day of 
 March . . . in each yeai-, and shall annually be laid before both 
 Houses of Parliament within thirty days after the thirty-first day 
 of March, il' Parliament be then sitting, or within thirty days after 
 the first meeting of' Parliament subsequent to such last-mentioned 
 
 *■ Now the r>(jcal (J(jvcrnmenl iJoard. Sue the Local Government Hoard Act 1871. s. 2.
 
 [3U & 31 Vict.] The Metropolitati Streets Act 1867. [Chap. 134.] 377 
 
 day. [ Words omitted (" in lieu of the thi rti/-fij'st da>/ of TJecember ") 
 rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 {S.L.H.).'] 
 
 2. [A,s to trnlar;/ of I'eceicfr. Ki'i,. Wi k O:} Vict. c. :iG, .s. 1.] 
 
 CHAPTER 134. 
 An Act fok regulating thk Traffic in thk .Mktropolis, and 
 
 FOR MAKING PROVISION FOR THK GKKATKR Sf;CUR[TY OF PERSONS 
 PASSING THROUGH THE STREETS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 
 
 [2<J^A AtKjust LSG7.] 
 \_Preamble rep. 00 \'ict. c. 14 {>i.Jj.R.).~\ 
 Preliminari/. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all pnrjjoses as " The Metropolitan J^hort title. 
 Streets Act, 1807.'" 
 
 2. In this Act " the metropolis " shall mean the city of London I'etinition of 
 and all ])arish('s iuid places for the time being within the jnrisdiction poij!^ ™^^'^°' 
 of the Metropolitan Board of Works.* 
 
 3. The following expressions for tiie purposes of this Act shall. Definitions: 
 unless the context reiiuires a diti'erent constrnction, have the 
 meanings herein-after assigned to them ; that is to say, 
 
 "Magistrate" shall, within the city of London and the lilierties " ^^agis- 
 thercof, mean the Lord Mayor of the city of London, or any '^"^^''^ = 
 alderman of tlie said city, sitting alone or witii others at 
 the Mansion House or Guildhall, and in the rest of the 
 metroj)olis shall mean any Metropolitan Police Magistrate : 
 
 "Commissioner of Police," bevond the limits of the citv of"Commis- 
 London and the liberties thereof, shall mean "the Commis- ^J^/}^^' °,J 
 sioner of Police of the Metropolis," and within such limits 
 " the Commissioner of the Police Force of the City of London 
 and the Liberties thereof : " 
 
 "Street" shall include any highway or other i)ublic jilace, " street : " 
 whether a thoroughfare or not ; and any of the royal parks, 
 gardens, and possessions which are managed by the Com- 
 missioners of . . . Works, ... in ])arsuance of the Act of 
 the session of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign 
 of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-two, shall, for the 
 purposes of this Act, be deemed to be public places : 
 
 The word " cattle " shall include bull, ox, cow, heifer, calf, sheep, "cattle." 
 goats, and swine, also horses, mules, and asses, when led in 
 a string or loose. 
 [ Words omitted (" Her Majesty's " and " and Public Buildings ") 
 rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 4. The expression "the general limits of this Act" shall mean I'^nerai 
 
 such parts of the metro])olis as are enclosed in a circle of which the ^^"""^ °^ 
 
 centre is Charing Cross, and the radii are four miles in length, as 
 
 measured in a straight line from Charing Cross : 
 
 The expression " the special limits of this Act " shall mean such •Special 
 j^j^ 1 ^-i-i-x iji 3i.i -I limits of 
 
 streets and portions of streets as may l)e declared to he special .^^^ 
 
 limits in manner herein-after ])rovided. 
 
 \_Amended bif the ^[etrOl^olit((n Street.^ Act 1885, .s. "-.'.f] 
 
 * Now the London County t'ouncil. See f)! & iV2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S). 
 
 t S. 2 of tlio Metmpolitan Streets Act ISSf) (is Vict. c. 18) is as fullows : 
 "2. In section fnur of tlic Metropolitan Streets Act 1SC.7 -six miles" shall be suh- 
 stituted for 'four miles," and the said Act shall take effect and be construed 
 
 accordingly."
 
 378 
 
 [Chap. 134. J The Metropolitan Streets Act 1867. [30 & 31 Vict.] 
 
 Prohibition 
 of scavenger- 
 ing except 
 between 
 certain 
 hours. 
 
 As to the 
 deposit of 
 goods in 
 streets 
 within 
 general 
 limits of 
 Act. 
 
 Cattle not to 
 be driven 
 through 
 streets 
 within cer- 
 tain hours. 
 
 Regulations 
 as to metro- 
 politan stage 
 carriages. 
 
 Prohibition 
 of carriage 
 of adver- 
 tisements, 
 except those 
 approved by 
 Commis- 
 sioner of 
 Police. 
 
 PART I. 
 • General Regulations. 
 
 5. No person shall, . . . between the hours of ten in the morning 
 and seven in the evenino;, in such streets as mav be named bv the 
 Commissioner of Police, remove any ashes, dust, or refuse from any 
 house in any street. 
 
 Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall be 
 liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 
 \_Wor(U omitted {^^ after the 1st day of January 1868") rep. 56 Vict, 
 c. 14 (S.L.B.) See also s. 25 ; a?id 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, ss. 16 (2) 
 and 30—36.] 
 
 6. Xo goods or other articles shall be allowed to rest on any 
 footway or other part of a street within the general limits of this 
 Act, or be otherwise allowed to cause obstruction or inconvenience 
 to the passage of the public, for a longer time than may be abso- 
 lutely necessary for loading or unloading such goods or other 
 articles. 
 
 Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall be 
 
 liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. . . . 
 
 [Ame?ided, and jjart omitted (certain .spaces to be deemed part of 
 
 footway^ rep. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 5, >-. 1.* See also 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. 
 
 8. 65.] 
 
 7. No person shall drive or conduct any cattle through any street 
 within the general limits of this Act between the hours of ten in 
 the morning and seven in the evening, except with the permission 
 of the Commissioner of the Police. 
 
 Any person driving or conducting cattle in contravention of this 
 section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten .shillings for 
 each head of cattle so driven or conducted. 
 
 iSee also 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 51, and the Islington Parish Act 1857, 
 s. 3.] . • 
 
 8. Within the general limits of this Act the driver of a 
 metropolitan stage carriage shall not stop such carriage for the 
 purpose of taking uj) or setting down passengers at any part of 
 a street except as near as may be to the left or near side of the 
 roadway. 
 
 Any driver of a metropolitan stage carriage acting in contra- 
 vention of this section shall be liable for each offence to a penalty 
 not exceeding forty shillings. 
 
 9. No picture, print, board, placard, or notice, except in such 
 form and manner as may be approved of by the Commissioner of 
 Police, shall, by way of advertisement, be carried or distributed^ in 
 any street within the general limits of this Act by any person riding 
 in any vehicle, or on horseback, or being on foot. 
 
 Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall be 
 liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings. 
 
 This section shall not apply to the sale of newspapers. 
 [^See also 16 & 17 Vict. c. 33,^ s. 16.] 
 
 * S. 1 of the Metropolitan Streets Act Amendment Act 1867 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 5) 
 is as follows: "1. The sixth section of 'The Metropolitan Streets Act 1867,' pro- 
 hibiting the deposit of goods in the streets, shall not apply to costermongers, street 
 hawkers, or itinerant traders, so long as they carry on their business in accordance 
 with the regulations from time to time made by the" Commissioner of Police, with the 
 approval of the Secretary of State ; and so much of the said sixth section as refers to 
 the surface of any space" that intei-venes in any street between the footway and the 
 carriageway is hereby repealed."'
 
 [30 & 31 Vict.] The Metropolitan Streets Act 1867. [Chap. 134.] 379 
 
 Special Lijnits. 
 
 10. Tlie Commissioner of Police, with the aj)j)roval of one of Her Power of 
 Majesty'^^ ])rin(;ipal Secretaries of State, may from time to time ^jo^eTof 
 direct tluit any street or j)ortioii of a street within th(? j^enerai p(,iice to 
 limits of tliis Act is to be deemed to be within the sjiecial limits of make special 
 this Act, and may from time to time take any street or portion of a ''™'*'*- 
 street out of tlie special limits of this Act : Provided, 
 
 1st. Tliat an order made bv the Commissioner of Police under 
 this section shall not come into eil'ei-t until the expiration 
 of ten days from the date of the approval thereof by the 
 Secretary of State : 
 2d. Tliat notice that an order has been submitted for the a])proval 
 of the said Secretary of State under this section in respect 
 of any street or ])ortion of a street shall be affixed to a 
 lamp post or otherwise i)lacarde(l in some conspicuous 
 position in or near the street or jjortion of a street to 
 wiiich such intended order relates, and at the principal 
 office of the local authority having charge of such street 
 and of the Metropolitan Police and of the City Police 
 respectively, for not less than twenty-eight days ])reviou8ly 
 to the approval of the said Secretary of State being given 
 to the said order : 
 3d. That a copy of such order when approved by the said Secre- 
 tary of State shall be published in tlie London Gazette, 
 and also affixed to a lamp post or otherwise ])lacarded in 
 some conspicuous position in or near the street or ])ortion 
 of a street to which the said order relates and shall always 
 during the time that the order is in force be kept so 
 affixed or placarded. 
 A copy of the London Gazette containing any order ])urporting 
 to be made in pursuance of this section shall be evidence of the 
 contents of such order and of the same having been duly made 
 and approved in manner provided by this Act, and until the 
 contrary is proved the provisions of this Act with respect to the 
 affixing or placarding of such order shall be deemed to have been 
 duly complied with. 
 
 11. The Commissioner ^^i Police, with the approval of the said ^^_f^jj\l*^^^°°'^. 
 Secretary of vState, and the Commissioner of City Police, with the ^^j/"*^^^^^ 
 consent of the Court of Mayor and Aldermen, and subject to the 
 a])proval of the said Secretary of State, may from time to time 
 
 make regulations to be observed by all })ersons within the special 
 limits of this Act with respect to the following matters : 
 
 1. With respect to the route to be taken by all carts, carriages, 
 
 or other vehicles, with j)Ower to prohiljit any cart, carriage, 
 
 or other vehicle from coming int<i any street or part of 
 
 a street within the said limits for the purpose only of 
 
 passing to its destination in some other street or part of a 
 
 street : 
 
 ~. With respect to the line to be kept by persons riding or 
 
 driving : 
 
 And may, with the like ai)proval, from time to time alter, vary, or 
 
 repeal any regulation made by them, and make new regulations in 
 
 addition to or in lieu of any existing regulations ; but this section 
 
 shall not authorize the Commissioner of Police or the Secretary of 
 
 State to limit the number of metroi)olitan stage carriages that may
 
 380 
 
 [Chap. 134.J The Metropolitan Streets Act 1867. [30 & 31 Vict.] 
 
 Penalty for 
 disobedience 
 to regula- 
 tions. 
 
 Publication 
 of regula- 
 tions. 
 
 pass down any street in pursuance of their ordinary trade. \See 
 also 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s.s. .51 and 52, and 3 FAiv. 1, c. 17, &. 1.] 
 
 12. Any person wilfully disregarding or refusing to conform 
 to any regulation of the Commissioner of Police made in pursuance 
 of this Act shall incur a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for 
 each offence ; and any constable may take into custody without 
 warrant any jierson who within view of such constable wilfully 
 disregards or refuses to conform to any such regulation, and refuses 
 to give his name and address to such constable ; and any printed 
 copy of such regulations certified under the hand of the (Jommis- 
 sioner of Police who made the same to be a true copy of regulations 
 made by him, or purporting to be i)rinted by the Queen's printer, 
 shall be evidence of such regulations, and until the contrary is 
 proved all such regulations shall be deemed to have been duly made, 
 
 13. A i)rinted copy of all regulations made by the Commissioner 
 of Police in ]mrsuance of this Act shall be hung up for public 
 inspection in such places within his district as the Commissioner of 
 Police thinks advisable ; but it shall not be necessary in enforcing 
 any regulation to prove that the provisions of this section have been 
 complied with, nor shall the noncompliance therewith invalidate 
 any regulation. 
 
 Regulation of ^4, Within the special limits of this Act no driver of or conductor 
 ™r 6°^°^'^^° of a metropolitan stage carriage shall take up or set down passengers 
 carriage.>< at any place where he may for the time being be prohibited by 
 regulation of the Commissioner of Police from taking them up or 
 setting them down ; and any driver or conductor acting in contra- 
 vention of this section shall be liable for each offence to a penalty 
 not exceeding forty shillings. 
 
 15. Between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and six 
 o'clock in the evening no coal shall be loaded or unloaded on or 
 coaland'casks across any footway within the special limits of this Act, and 
 in streets. between the same hours and within the same limits no casks, 
 whether empty or full, (wine or spirits in cask excepted,) shall be 
 lowered or drawn up by means of ropes, chains, or other machinery 
 passing across the footway or any part thereof. 
 
 Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall be 
 liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 
 Prohibition of 16. No person shall, within the special limits of this Act, and 
 carriage of between the hours often in the morning and seven in the evening, 
 except with the permission of the Commissioner of Police, — 
 
 1. Drive or conduct along any street any cart, carriage, or other 
 vehicle laden with timber, metal, or any other article which 
 exceeds in length thirty-five feet, or which protrudes more 
 than eight feet six inches behind the vehicle or more than 
 one foot from the sides of the vehicle : 
 
 2. Carry in any way along any street any ladder, scaffold pole, or 
 other article which exceeds thirty-five feet in length or eight 
 feet six" inches in breadth : 
 
 3. Drive or conduct along any street any cart, waggon, or other 
 vehicle used for conveying goods or merchandise, and drawn 
 by more than four horses : 
 
 Any person acting in contravention of this section shall for each 
 offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 
 
 No penalty shall be imposed on or costs awarded against any 
 person for acting in contravention of this section if such person 
 
 in special 
 limits. 
 
 As to the 
 loading and 
 unloading of 
 
 timber and 
 other large 
 articles 
 between 
 certain hours.
 
 [30 & 3i Vict.] The MdropolWm Street!^ Act ISO:. [Chap. 1:54.] 381 
 
 prove to the satisfaction of the Magistrate haviii;^ power to impose 
 the penalty that tiic act alleged to be in contravention of this section 
 was done on the occasion of a fire or other sudden emergency with a 
 view to prevent accident, or to save life or j)ro{ierty. 
 
 Any hyelaw, rule, order, or regulation made or to be made within 
 the city of Jjondon and the liberties tliereof that is inconsistent 
 with this section shall be void. 
 
 PART n. 
 
 Hackney Carriayes. 
 
 17. The following regulations shall be made with respect to Regulations 
 hackney carriages as defined by the Hackney (Jarriage Acts, and j^^ ^^^ 
 plying witiiin the limits defined for the ])urposes of those Acts : — carnages. 
 
 2. The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis may from time 
 to time cause to be affixed such plate or mark in such position 
 as he thinks expedient to any liackney carriage certified by 
 him to be in a tit condition for ])ublic use, and may cause to 
 be removed such plate or mark whenever such carriage has, 
 after notice to the owner thereof, been determined by him to 
 be in a condition unfit for public use. If any plate or mark 
 adopted l)y the said Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 
 for distinguishing hackney carriages that are fit for pul^lic 
 use is affixed to any hackney carriage without his authority, 
 or if any plate or mark counterfeiting or resemlding such 
 authorized plate or mark is affixed to any hackney carriage, 
 the owner of the carriage, and also the driver (unless such 
 owner or driver proves that he was ignorant of the plate or 
 mark being affixed to the carriage in contravention of this 
 section), shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not 
 exceeding forty shillings : 
 For the purposes of this Act the expression " Hackney Carriage 
 Acts," shall mean the following Acts : 
 
 An Act passed in the session of the first and second years of 
 the reign of King William the Fourth, eha])ter twenty-two, 
 intituled " An Act to amend the Laws relating to Hacknev 
 Carriages, and to AVaggous, Carts, and Drays, used in the 
 Metropolis . . . " : 
 An Act i)assed in the session of the sixth and seventh years of the 
 reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-six, intituled 
 " An Act for regulating Hackney and (Stage ( 'arriages in and 
 near London " : 
 An Act i)assed in the session of the thirteenth and fourteenth 
 years of the reign of Hi'r j)resent ^Majesty, chapter seven, in- 
 tituled "An Act for consolidating the ClHce of the Registrar 
 of Metropolitan Public Carriages with the Office of the Com- 
 missioners of Police of the Metropolis, and making other 
 Provisions in regard to the consolidated C>tfiees " : 
 An Act passed in the session of tlie sixteenth and seventeenth 
 years of the reign of Her present i\Iajesty, chapter thirty-three, 
 intituled " An Act for the better Regulation of Metrojiolitan 
 (Stage and Hackney Carriages, and for })rohibiting the Use of 
 Advertising Vehicles '' : 
 An Act passed in the session of the sixteenth and seventeenth 
 years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred
 
 382 
 
 [Chap. 134.] The Metropolitan Streets Act 1867. [30 & 31 Vict.] 
 
 Regulations 
 as to dogs. 
 
 As to the 
 licensing 
 shoeblacks 
 and mes- 
 sengers. 
 
 Obstructions 
 at standings 
 prohibited. 
 
 and tweuty-.seven, intituled '' An Act to reduce the Duties 
 payable in respect of Hackney Carriages used in the Metro- 
 polis, and to amend the Laws relating to the granting of 
 Licences and Payment of Duties in respect of Metropolitan 
 Stage and Hackney Carriages, and to make Provision as to the 
 Charge for the Hire of Hacknev Carriaojes in certain Cases." 
 [Parts omitted (as to lamps on hackney carriages^ rep. 38 & 39 
 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.) ; a7icl (as to part of 'title of I & 2 TT7//. 4, c. 22) 
 rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.B.).'] 
 
 Doqii. 
 
 18. The police may take possession of any dog found in any 
 street within the metropolis, and not under the control of any 
 person, and may detain such dog until the owner has claimed the 
 same, and paid all expenses incurred by reason of such detention. 
 
 The Commissioner of Police, if he see fit, may issue a notice 
 requiring any dog while in the streets and not led by some person 
 to be muzzled in such a manner as will admit of the animal 
 lireathing and drinking without obstruction : and the police may 
 take possession of any dog found loose in the streets without such 
 muzzle during the currency of such order, and may detain such dog 
 until the owner has claimed it, has provided a proper muzzle, and 
 has paid all expenses connected with such detention. 
 
 Where any dog taken possession of by the police wears a collar 
 with the address of any person inscribed thereon, a letter stating 
 the fact of such dog having been taken possession of shall be sent 
 by post to the address inscribed on the collar. 
 
 The Commissioner of Police may cause any dog which has remained 
 in the possession of the police for three clear days without the 
 owner claiming the same, and paying all expenses incurred by its 
 detention, to be sold or destroyed. Any monies arising from the 
 sale of any dogs in pursuance of this section shall be applied in the 
 manner in which penalties under this Act are applicable. 
 
 When, upon complaint that any dog has bitten or attempted to 
 bite any person within the metropolis, it appears to the Magistrate 
 having cognizance of such complaint that such dog ought to be 
 destroved, the Magistrate mav direct the doe; to be destroyed, and 
 anv police constable mav destrov the same accordingly : and all 
 dogs detained by the ])olice under this section shall be properly fed 
 and maintained. \_See also 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, .s-*-. 54 (2) and 61 ; the 
 Dog.-i Act 1^T1, and the Diseases of Animals Act 1894, s. 22 (xxxi.).] 
 
 Shoebla.chs and Messejigers. 
 
 19. The Commissioner of Police may. if he thinks fit, from tiuie 
 to time license street shoeblacks, and commissionaires or messengers 
 to exercise their calling, and appoint places at which they may 
 stand to exercise their respective callings, and direct the numbers 
 of each class who may stand at the appointed places. 
 
 20. Every shoeblack, and commissionaire or messenger, other 
 than those authorized by the Commissioner of Police, who occupies 
 the standings appointed by the said Commissioner, or who remains 
 there after being required by a constable on duty to leave, and 
 every person molesting or obstructing any authorized shoeblack, 
 commissionaire, or messenger in the exercise of his calling, and 
 every person not being an authorized shoeblack or commissionaire 
 who fraudulently puts on or imitates the dress, or takes the name,
 
 [30& 31 Vict.] The Metropolitan Streets Act 1867. [Chap. 134.] 383 
 
 designation, or character, ol" any authorized shoeblack or coiu- 
 missionaire, shall for each otience be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding forty shillings. 
 
 21. S^Amendment of ,ss. 39 and 40 of 2 & 3 Virf. r. 47, relating to 
 faim. Rep. 38 k 39 Vict. c. m {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 22. The said Secretary of State or the <Jommissioner of Police ^'lacard, etc. 
 may cause to be attached to any lamp pcxst any placard or signal he °^^ f ^ 
 may think ex[)edient tor the purpose ot carrymg into etiect the lamp post, 
 provisions of this Act. 
 
 *23. Any three or more i)ersons assembled together in any ])art Prohibition 
 of a street within the metropolis for the purjwse of betting shall be of bettinj^ in 
 deemed to be obstructing the street, and each of such persons shall '''^'■®^'^- 
 be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds ; and within the 
 city of London and the lil^erties thereof any constable of the City 
 Police Force, and without such limits any constable of the Metro- 
 j)olitan Police Force, may take into custody, without warrant, any 
 person who may commit such offence in view of such constable. 
 
 24. The powers vested in the Commissioners of Police by the Extension of 
 fifty-second section of the Act of the session of the second and third ^^^^- ^2- of 
 years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-seven, with ^ 47 '° ' 
 respect to keeping order in the streets and preventing obstructions 
 
 may be exercised within the city and the liberties thereof by the 
 City Commissioner of Police on all occasions when a street is 
 thronged or liable to be obstructed. 
 
 25. Notwitiistanding anything contained in any Act of Parliament, Inhabitants 
 it shall be lawful for the inhaljitants in all such streets within the j^ ^'J-^ °5 
 city of London or the liberties thereof as may from time to time be place dust, 
 named by an order of the Commissioners of Sewers to deposit before etc. on the 
 (dght o'clock in the morning on the curbstone of the foot pavement curbstone 
 in a box or barrel all ashes, dust, or refuse, so that the same may o\;iodc7n 
 be removed by the scavenger. \_See also the Cit)/ of London Sewers the morning. 
 Act 1897, and the City of London (^Public Health) Act 19U2, s. 4.] 
 
 26. Where the fare now payable by law on hiring any hackney No fare to 
 carriage standing on any stand shall not amount to one shilling the be less than 
 driver shall be entitled to charge one shilling. \_See 16 & 17 Vict. *' 
 
 cc. 33 and 127.] 
 
 27. Penalties under this Act within the city of London and the Ponaltie.<;. 
 liberties thereof shall be recovered and applied in manner directed 
 
 by a local Act passed in the session holden in the secoinl and third 
 years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter ninety-four, and 
 intituled An Act for regulating the Police in the City of London, 
 and beyond the limits of the city of London and the liberties 
 thereof shall be recovered and applied in manner elirected by the 
 Acts relating to the Metropolitan Police. 
 
 All powers conferred by this Act shall be deemed to be in addition 
 to and not in derogation of any other powers conferred by any other 
 Act of Parliament, antl any sucii other powers may be exercised as 
 if this Act hud not passed. 
 
 28. This Act, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, shall Con.«truction 
 be construed as one with the Acts relating to the Metropolitan '^^ '^^^• 
 Police and to the City Police. 
 
 29. \_Commcncenient of Act {\st November 1807). Rep. 3> «Sc 39 
 Vict. c. m (S.L.R.).^ 
 
 * See also 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. IG, and the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 23 
 (see Appendix) and byelaws thereunder in force {inter alia) within the counties of 
 London, Middlesex, Essex, and the boroughs of Kichuiond and Croydon.
 
 384 
 
 [Chap. 8.] The London M?j.seum Site Act 1868. [31 & 32 Vict.] 
 
 31 & 32 VICTORIA. A.D. 1868. 
 
 Power to 
 sell lands 
 in schedule 
 for purposes 
 of London 
 Museum. 
 
 Protection 
 for interests 
 omitted by 
 mistake to 
 be purchased 
 
 Power to 
 
 transfer 
 lands, etc. to 
 Department 
 of Science 
 and Art. 
 
 Hhort title. 
 
 CHAPTER 8. 
 
 An Act to provide for the Acquisition of a Site for a Museum 
 IN THE East of London. [28M Fehruani 1868.] 
 
 \Preamhle recites that the lands described in the schedule farm 
 part of a charity estate situate in the -parish of SaJnt Matthew, 
 Bethnal Green, in the comity of Middlesex* known as the Poors Lands 
 of that parish, and that the same are eligible as a site for the museum 
 'proposed to be established by the Department of Science and Art in 
 the east of London, and it is expedient that they be sold for that 
 purposed] 
 
 1. For the purposes of the said musenm, and purposes connected 
 therewith, the persons for the time being acting as trustees of the 
 said charity estate, or a majority of them, being not less than three 
 fourths of the number of such acting trustees, may sell, and the 
 persons for the time being acting as trustees for the establishment 
 and maintenance of the said museum may jjurchase, all or any 
 part of the said pieces of land, with the rights, easements, and 
 appurtenances actually or by reputation belonging thereto, at such 
 price and on such terms as they agree on, with the approbation of 
 the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales. 
 
 2. On the payment of the purchase money, and the execution and 
 delivery to the purchasers of an assurance of the lands sold, the 
 purchasers shall stand seised thereof, absolutely discharged (save as in 
 such assurance may be expressed) from all prior trusts, estates, and 
 claims therein or thereto ; but the provisions of the Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Act, 1845, with respect to interests in lands which 
 have by mistake been omitted to be purchased, shall apply and take 
 effect as if the lands had been acquired under the provisions of that 
 Act, or as near thereto as circumstances admit ; and those provisions 
 are hereby incorporated with this Act ; and for the purposes of this 
 Act the term " the promoters of the undertaking " used in those 
 provisions shall mean the purchasers under this Act. 
 
 3. The purchasers under this Act may hold the lands purchased 
 by them, subject and according to the terms and conditions on which 
 they purchase the same, and to the provisions of this Act, or may, 
 on the request of the Department of Science and Art,t grant or 
 dispose of the same to that Department, or as that Department 
 directs, and the same when so granted or disposed of shall be held 
 subject and according to the terms and conditions on which the same 
 are pnrchased under this Act, and to the provisions of this Act, and 
 shall be used and applied accordingly, and not otherwise ; and no 
 dwelling house shall be erected on any part of the land so pnrchased, 
 except apartments in connexion with the museum itself, to be 
 occupied by the officers thereof. 
 
 4. This Act may be cited as the London Museum Site Act, 1868. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Lands authorized to be purchased. 
 
 All those two pieces of land situate in the parish of Saint 
 Matthew, Bethnal Green, in the county of Middlesex,* and lying on 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 t Now the Board of Education. See the Board of Education Act 1899.
 
 [3i & ',i2 Vict.] 7V(e Police Rafe Art i8(J8.- [Chap. 07.] 38o 
 
 the ea^t side ot'fhe Cunibridfjff Road there, and comprisiiifr tof^ether 
 the laud formerly known as The Green, as the same arc delineated 
 on the plan drawn in the mar<^iii of a memorandum' of agreement 
 dated the twentv-second day of Novemlier one tiionsand eitrht 
 liuudred and sixty-seven, and made or exjiressed to he made Ijetween' 
 William Howard, esquire, Edward ]']agles, cordwainer, Jtichard 
 Henry Ashlbi-d, pawnbroker, HoJjert Brookes, gentleman, Joseph 
 Hamilton Cox, gentleman, William Englehurtt, silk manufacturer, 
 Nathaniel Hardingham, gentlenum, William Kolx-i't Frederick Tjane, 
 surgeon, John JMillar, surgeon, William Mundy, builder, .James 
 ►Smart, surgeon, and (ieorgi; Samuel Webb, gentleman, inhabitants 
 of the parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, of the one part, and 
 the ]leverend Septimus Cox Holmes Hansard, rector of the same 
 parish, Antonio Brady of Stratford in the county of Essex, esrpiire, 
 and .John IMoxon Clabon of 21 Great George Street, Westminster, 
 esquire, of the other part, and are thereon coloured green, which 
 said pieces of land are now in the several occupations of Symonds 
 and Gardinci". 
 
 CHAPTER ('.:. 
 
 An Act to amend the Law relating to the Funds provided 
 for defjiaying the expenses of the ^metropolitan police. 
 
 [3l6-< Jal>/ 1868.] 
 
 [Preamble {reciting that the expenses of the Metropolitan Police 
 are defrayed out of an annual sum limited not to exceed Sd. in the £ 
 on the full annual value of all propertij rateable for the relief of the 
 poor within the parisJies, to/rnships, preeinct,s, and places described 
 in the Acts /-elating to the Metiopolitan Police) rep. oi\ Met. c. 14 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all [mrposes as "The Police Rate short title. 
 Act, 18()8." 
 
 2. The annual sum to be ])rovided in pursuance of the . . . Acts Manner of 
 
 for defraying the expenses of the ^letropolitau Police Force shall d.frayinsr 
 
 not exceed ninepence in the ])ound, calculated on such value as e^'P'-'^ses of 
 
 ,. -1 r^,, , ,,^ 7 /^/ J u -7" I ^ Metropolitan 
 
 aioresaid. . . . [^Parts omitted (the icord ' said^ and as to one- poUce Force. 
 
 quarter of such annual sum being contributed bg the Treasurg and 
 
 three-quarters raised bg a rate) rep. bg the Police Expenses Act 1875.* 
 
 See also .">! it 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 24.] 
 
 3. Tiiere shall be paid to each Assistant Commissioner of Police Allowance to 
 in addition to his salary, as an allowance for house rent, such annual Assistant 
 sum not exceeding three liundred pounds as may from time to time ^■'^"^™i*- 
 
 be directed by one of Her i\Iuiesty's ])rincipal Secretaries of State, house. 
 witli the assent of the . . . Treasury, and any allowance so paitl 
 shall be deemed to be part of the expenses of the Metropolitan 
 Police. \_Rep. {with sating for existing officers) '52 it 03 Vict. c. 2(3, 
 s. 1. Aiyiended A~ k 48 Vict. c. 10, s. 3. Words omittet/ (" Com- 
 missioners of Her Majeslg's"") rep. 50 ]'ict. c. 14 (.S.A./i.).] 
 
 4. \_Pepeal of the Metropolitan Police Act 1833, and s. lu of 
 20 & 21 ]'ict. c. 64 : Acts relating to the Metropolitan Police 
 to mean the following Acts : 10 Geo. 4. r. 44 ; 2 & 3 Met. c. 47 : 
 19 & 20 Vict. c. 2 ; 20 it 21 Vict. c. 04 : 24 it 25 ]'ict. r. 124. Hep. 
 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.P.).] 
 
 * RcpciUed bv 06 k JT Vii-t. c oi (^S.L.K.). 
 
 25
 
 386 
 
 [Chap. 106.] The Metropolitan Fairs Act 1868. [31 & 32 Vict.] 
 
 Construction 
 of Act. 
 
 5. This Act shall be construed as one with the said Acts relating 
 to the Metropolitan Police, and all the provisions of snch Acts, save 
 in so far as they are hereby varied or repealed, shall continue in 
 full force. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Power to 
 summon 
 owner and 
 occupier of 
 ground on 
 which fair 
 is held. 
 
 Service of 
 summons. 
 
 Act cumu- 
 lative. 
 
 CHAPTER 100. 
 
 * An Act for the Prevention of the holding of unlawful 
 Fairs avithin the Limits of the Metropolitan Police 
 District. [316-?' Julj 1S68.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 06 Vict. c. 14 {8.L.R.').'] 
 
 1. This Act mav be cited for all purposes as " The Metropolitan 
 Fairs Act, 1868."' 
 
 2. T\'here any fair is holden or notice is given of any fair pro- 
 posed to be holden on any ground within the metropolitan police 
 district other than that on which a fair has been holden during each 
 of the seven years immediately preceding, it shall be competent 
 for the Commissioner of Police to direct one of the superintendents 
 of the Metropolitan Police Force to summon the owner or occupier 
 of the ground upon which such fair is holden to appear before a 
 Magistrate forthwith, or at a time to be specified in the summons, 
 to show his right and title to hold such fair ; and if such owner or 
 occupier do not attend in pursuance of such summons, or does not 
 show to the Magistrate who hears the case sufficient cause to believe 
 that such fair is lawfully holden, the Magistrate shall declare in 
 writing such fair to be unlawful, and the Commissioner shall give 
 notice of such declaration by causing copies thereof to be affixed 
 on and near the ground where such fair is holden or proposed to be 
 holden ; and after such notice has been affixed for the space of six 
 hours the Commissioner of Police may direct any constable to 
 remove every booth, standing, and tent, and every carriage of 
 whatsoever kind, conveyed to or being upon the ground for the 
 purpose of holding or continuing such fair, and to take into custody 
 every person erecting, pitching, or fixing, or assisting to erect, 
 pitch, or fix, any such booth, standing, or tent : and every person 
 hiring, accompanying, or conveyed in every such carriage, and everi'' 
 person resorting to such ground with any show or instrument of 
 gambling or amusement, and every person convicted before a 
 Magistrate of any of the ofi'ences aforesaid, shall be liable to a 
 penaltv of not more than ten pounds. [See also 2 (t 3 Vict. c. 47, 
 ss. 38 ^and 39.] 
 
 3. A summons under this Act may be served on the owner or 
 occupier of any ground personally or by leaving the same at his 
 usual or last known place of abode, or, if the name of such owner 
 or occupier or his j^lace of abode is not known to the police, by 
 putting up such summons in a conspicuous place on the ground 
 where the fair is holden or proposed to be holden, and it shall not 
 be necessary to name the owner or occupier in the summons, but he 
 may be described as the owner or occupier of the ground. 
 
 4. All powers conferred by this Act shall be deemed to be in 
 addition to, and not in derogation of, any other powers conferred 
 
 * The Fairs Acts 1871 and 1873 empower the Secretary of State for the Home 
 Department, on a representation from the Justices or the owner, to abolish fairs 
 with the consent of the owner, or to alter the days on which they are held.
 
 [31 & 32 Vict.] The Poor Faiw Ameiulmct/ Ad 1868. [Chap. 122.J 387 
 
 by any other Act (rf I'urliunioiit, and any such otlier powers may be 
 exercised us if tliis Act had not passed. 
 
 5. This Act, «o far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, shall be Construction 
 construed as one witli the Acts relating to the Metropolitan Police. ^^ ^''^■ 
 
 CHAPTEH 122. 
 
 An Act to makk further Amendments in the Laws for TriE 
 Kelief of THE Poor in England and Wales. 
 
 I'Mst Jul;/ 1808.] 
 l^Preamble.'] 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 9. . . . So much of tiie Metroj)olitan Poor Act, 1867, as reijuires I'rovision for 
 persons, other than Justices of the Peace, nominated by the Poor ^a'/incies and 
 Law Board * as managers or guardiaijs, to be tesident within the of^managere 
 district, union, or parish respectively for which they may be under the 
 nominated, shall be repealed. ' " ' Metropolitan 
 
 ' ^ Poor Act. 
 
 11. . . . All the expenses and charges which, according to the New basis for 
 })rovisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1844, would be j!^® ^".°*"''"* 
 chargeable upon the common fund of any district formed or to be school and 
 formed under that Act or under this Act, shall be borne by the several other 
 unions or parishes comprised in the district according to the annual 'districts, 
 rateable value of the pro])erty therein comprised, to be determined 
 according to the valuation lists in force in such unions, and according 
 to the latest poor rate for the time being for the parishes not in 
 union, or, so far as respects any district wholly or partially within 
 the metropolis, as defined by tlie Metropolis Poor Act, 1867, on such 
 other basis as the Poor Law Board * shall from time to time direct. 
 [Part omitted {repeal of the School Districts Act 1850 in respect of 
 ami (/ebtf<, charges^ or liabilities to be incurred after 29th September 
 18'68) rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.P.).'] 
 
 • > • • t • 
 
 35. . . . The term "promoters of the undertaking" in set-tion Explanation 
 fifty-two of the last-mentioned Act t shall be deemed to have included ^/. '^^ ^ ^^ 
 managers nnd guardians desirous of purchasing lands for any of the s. 52'. 
 purposes of the Poor Law Acts as therein defined. \_Pa/-t omitted 
 (as to extension of time for the repayment of loans) rep. 6U & 61 
 Vict. c. 29, s. 3.] ■ 
 
 \_The parts of the Act omitted are not special to London.'] 
 
 CHAPTER Vll. 
 
 An Act to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to make 
 Improvements in the Parish of Saint Marylebone in the 
 County of Middlesex by forming a new Street in lieu 
 of Stingo Lank from the Marylebone Hoad to Upper 
 York Street. [2".>M May 1868.] 
 
 [Preamble recites Is & 11) Vict. c. 12t>, ,s. 144, and that the 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (in this Act called '■^ the Board") 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Governiuent Board Act 1871, s. 2, 
 t T.c. ;^0 .<: 31 Vict. r. C.
 
 make new- 
 street 
 
 388 [Chap, vii.] ^<^r:f/lebon^ {Stlngo^Lam) tmprmement ^3 j ^ 3^ y^^^ -j 
 
 hare deposited ivith the Clerk of the Peace for Middlesex a plan 
 of the proposed new street.^ 
 Short title. 1. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall be sufficient to use 
 
 the expression " Marylebone (Stingo Lane) Improvement Act, 1868." 
 ^. [^Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.] 
 Interpieta- 3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the 
 tion of terms, several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some- 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 • • • • ' • 
 
 The word " streets " shall include squares, streets, courts, or 
 alleys, highways, roads, thoroughfares, or public passages 
 or places : 
 
 The expression " the Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works : 
 
 • •«••• 
 
 [Farts omitted ((lefnitiorts of ''^ Justice j" ^Hwo Justices^'' ^^Marylebone 
 Vestry,''' and " lessee^'' and as to meanings of words in Acts 
 incorporated) spent.] 
 
 4 — 6. [Board to execute Act — Poiver to act by committee — 
 Persons interested not eligible for committee. Superseded by 
 the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 (see Ajjpendi.jc) ; and 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 75 ; and now spent.] 
 Power TO 7. It shall be lawful for the Board to make the new street 
 
 following ; that is to say, 
 
 A new street commencing in the Marylebone Road at or near the 
 point where Stingo Lane unites with that road, and ter- 
 minating at or in Upper York Street at or near the place 
 where Stingo Lane unites with Upper York Street. 
 
 8 — 12. [Streets and other works and improcements authorized by 
 the Act to be made according to deposited plans — Power to deviate — 
 Power to lay out footways, etc. — Power to the Board to alter and 
 stop up streets as shown on the deposited plans and resting of soil 
 thereof in the Board for the purposes of the Act — Poiver to stop up 
 ways during execution of the Act and to raise or lower streets. 
 Spent.^ 
 
 13. [Incorpjoration of s.^. 13—16 and 22—29 of 29 & 30 Vict, 
 c. cl. Spent. See notes on these sections which apply here.] 
 
 14 — 18. [Errors and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to 
 sell materials and, to survey land to be taken and to treat for lands 
 — Power for compulsory purchase limited to 3 years. Spent.'] 
 
 19. [Borrowi?ig powers. Rep. in part 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50 ; 
 remr. spent.] 
 
 20 — 26. [Financial provisions. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102,5.50.] 
 
 27. [Separate accounts. Spent ; and see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 71.] 
 
 28. [Apjpjlication of monies borrowed. Spent.] 
 
 29. [Application of monies arising from sales. Rep. 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 30—31. [Marylebone Vestry to contribute to the extent of half 
 cost of the improvements. Spent.] 
 
 32. [As to talking houses of labouring class persons. Spent.] 
 
 33. [Powers of Metropolis Management Acts extended to this Act. 
 
 Spent.]
 
 ro^sroo^r. -i ^'^''^ Thame Si EmhankmeM {^orth rr< -t oor. 
 
 [31 & 32 Vict.] ^^^^ ^,^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ [Chap, cx,.] 389 
 
 CHAPTER CXI. 
 
 An Act for altering thk .Sti;krts in communication with thk 
 Emrankmknt on the North Side of the Thames, i-or giving 
 Effect to an ARRANCiEMEXT with the South-eastern Hail- 
 way Company with resi'Ect to the Pier at Hungerford, 
 and to an Arrangement with the Metropolitan District 
 Railway Company, and for amending some of the Pr<j- 
 
 VISIONS OF THE ACTS RELATING TO THE EmHANKMENT ON THE 
 
 South Side of the Thames ; and for other Purposes. 
 
 [13M .////// 18GS.] 
 
 [^Preamble recites (inter tiliti) 25 k 20 Vict.r.%\ {in tlini Act 
 referred to as the Emhanhment Act of' 1802), a ml that by that Act 
 the Metro})olitan Board of Worhs {in this Act referred to an the 
 Board*) >cere authorized, to make (inter alia) certain streets more 
 ■particularly described in para.yraphs 4, 5 and of s. S thereof] 
 and that it would be of yreat j/ublic adrantaye if the streets de- 
 scribed in the said parayraphs were altered and portions thereof 
 abandoned and if streets partly in substitution for the streets so 
 abandoned and partly new ivere made as folloirs : 
 
 A new street or road {Xo. 1.) wholly in the parish of 'Saint Marti n- 
 in-the- Fields^ commenciny at the eastern end of Whitehall 
 Place, and terminatiny in the embankment roadway authorized 
 by the Embardiment Act of 1802 at or near to Chariny Cross 
 Railway Bridye, and on the south-western side thereof : 
 A new or substituted street or road {So. 2.) irli.olly in the parish 
 of Saint Martin-in-the- Fields, commenciny from and out of 
 Villiers Street at the south-eastern end thereof, and ter- 
 minatiny at or near its point of intersection by the netc street 
 or road No. 3. ; 
 A new street or road {So. 3.) wholly in the parish of Saint Martin- 
 in-the-Fields, commencing from and out of the intended street 
 {No. 1.) at or near and on the south-western side of the 
 Chariny Cross Railway Bridye, nearly opposite to the 
 disused wliarf leading from Great Scotland Yard called 
 Percy Wharf, passing through the opening under and 
 adjacent to the Middlesex abutment of the said bridge, and 
 terminating in the intended nen- street {No. 2.) at or near 
 the south-eastern end of I'illiers Street: 
 A new street or road {No. 4.) in the parishes of Saint Marti n-in- 
 the-Fields, Saint Clement Danes, and Saint John the Baptist, 
 Saroy, or the precinct of Savoy, or any of them, commencing 
 in the parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields by a junction with 
 the new street No. 3. at its eastern termination, and also with 
 the neic street No. 2., and terminating in the parish of Saint 
 John the Baptist, Saroy, or the precinct of Saroy, nearly 
 0})posite to the centre of the western front of Someiset House : 
 and recites that it is expedient to repeal certain provisions of the 
 Emban/,'me?it Act of 1862, and recites that with reference to the 
 steamboat pier and landing place at Hungerford . formerly belonging 
 to the Charing Cross Railway Company, but under the Charing 
 Cross Rai la-ay Acts 1803 and 1804 rested in the South-eastern 
 Raihvay Company, an arrangement {in this Act called the South- 
 eastern arrangement) has been made between the South-eastern 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 390 
 
 [Chap, cxi.] 
 
 The Thames Embankment {North 
 and South) Act 1868. 
 
 [31 & 32 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 
 Railicay Company and the Board that the Board shall proude a. 
 
 ^floating landing stage and other works at an agreed point, amd tha.t 
 the same shall be vested in the Company in substitution for their present 
 landing stage and tvorks, and that the powers of the (Jo7npany shall 
 be transferred to the new landing stage and works ; and recites that 
 by s. 8 of 2Q & 27 Vict. c. 75 precision is ?nade for the mainten- 
 ance by the Board of certain draw docks and works at Broad Street 
 and Ferry Street, Lambeth, and that an arrangement has been made 
 bettveen the vestry of St. Mary, Lambeth, and the Board that the 
 
 formation of the Ferry Street draw dock shall be di,rpensed with, and, 
 that the Board shall construct an iron landing pier at or near the 
 end of Church Street in accordance with a design to be prepared by 
 the chief engineer of the Board, and approved by the Board and the 
 vestry and by the Conservators of the River Thames {if such approval 
 is required), and that the Board shall form a double 10 feet way 
 under the embankment roaJway at or near to White Hart Dock 
 ■with a headway increased to 8 feet in substitution for that dock 
 as heretofore existing.'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as " The Thames Embankment (North 
 and South) Act, 1868." 
 
 2. [Incorporation of Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 3. With respect to the interpretation of terms in and for the pur- 
 tion of terms, poses of this Act, the following provisions shall have effect; namely, 
 
 In this Act the term " the works " means the new streets, roads, 
 and approaches, and widenings, alterations, and improve- 
 ments of existing streets, roads, approaches, quays, thorough- 
 fares, courts, alleys, passages, and places authorized by this 
 Act : 
 
 In this Act the term " street " includes any square, street, high- 
 way, road, lane, mews, footway, thoroughfare, or public 
 place, court, alley, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or 
 not, and a part of any such square, street, highway, road, 
 lane, mews, footway, thoroughfare, or public place, court, 
 alley, or passage. 
 
 [Parts omitted {defnitions of " Court of competent jurisdiction,^'' 
 '' superior Courts,^' and " sheriff," and as to meanings of words in 
 Acts incorporated) spent.] 
 
 4. The Board shall abandon the making of so much of the new 
 streets authorized by the Embankment Act of 1862, and described 
 in paragraphs four, five, and six of section eight of that Act (recited 
 in this Act), as do not form part of the new streets shown on the 
 amended deposited plans signed by Basil Thomas "Woodd esquire, 
 and shown and coloured thereon by red lines and colours, and 
 numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. 
 
 5. [As to compensation to persons interested, in lands purchased 
 for the purposes of the portions of the streets authorized to be 
 abandoned by this Act, for all injury sustained by them by reason 
 of the pmrchase not being cotnpleted. Spent.] 
 
 6. Subject to the provisions of this Act and of the Acts incor- 
 ])orated with this Act, the Board may make, execute, and maintain 
 in the lines and situations and according to the levels described on 
 the amended deposited plans and sections the streets herein- before 
 
 Abandon- 
 ment of 
 authorized 
 streets. 
 
 Power to 
 make works 
 and take 
 lands.
 
 roi f omr,.,„n '^he Thames Embankment (North r/. -n om 
 
 [31 & 32 VicT.J ^^^^^^ ^^,^^^^/^^ ^^^^ jg^g; [Chap, cxi.] 391 
 
 described shown on the amended deposited plans, and marked and 
 colonred as streets No. 1, 2, 3, and 4, with such roadways, footways, 
 ])avements, sewers, drains, works, and conveniences as the Board 
 think necessary or proper, and may enter on, take, hold, and use all 
 or such of the lands described in the said deposited plans and book 
 of reference as they re(|uire for that i)urpose. 
 
 7 — 11. [Time for compulsory purchase of lands limited to 
 3 years — Errors and omissions in deposited plans and books of 
 reference — Saving the rights of the Duke of Northumberland — Power 
 to deviate — Interference with works of the Charing Cross Railway. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 12. Tliere shall be incorporated with this Act sections 32 to 30, New streets 
 both inclusive, of the Embankment Act of lsf;2 relatinjc to leases l^l.'^P^'^ °^ 
 and sales by the Board, and to tlie application of money arising Embankment 
 therefrom, and to matters connected therewith respectively, and works, 
 (subject to the provisions of this Act) the works shall be deemed 
 
 to be further works within the meaning of section 10 of the 
 Embankment Act of 1n62. [See also 02 k 03 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. 
 ss. 19 — 23, superseding ss. 32 — 34 and semble ss. 35 and 36, 
 incorporated^ 
 
 13. [Powers to make connecting works and stop up and appro- 
 priate certain streets within limits of deviation. Spent.] 
 
 14. The Board may make under the intended new streets an Power to 
 arched passage or covered way (hereiu-aftor called the subway) for ™*^^ ■^'^^' 
 such purposes as they think lit, with all communications, works, and ^*^^' 
 things necessary or proper for the convenient use thereof, and the 
 
 same subway, communications, works, and things shall be deemed 
 part of the works authorized by this Act, and the same shall (not- 
 withstanding anything in this Act) belong to and be vested in the 
 Board, and shall be maintained and repaired by the Board ; and 
 the Board may permit the use of the subway for the purpose of the 
 laying down of gas or water pipes or telegraph wires, or for any 
 other like works or purpose, on such terms and conditions and for 
 such period as the Board and any company or person agree ; and 
 the Board may sell, convey, or demise any right to any company or 
 person for any of the purposes aforesaid, and may make such stipu- 
 lations for preventing injury to the adjoining property and for the 
 security of the public as the Board think proper, and may agree to 
 refer to arbitration any matter in difference under this section. [See 
 also 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccii.] 
 
 15. [As to taking houses of labouring class persons. Spent.] 
 
 16. So soon as the landing stage to be constructed by the Board Powers of 
 under the South-eastern arrangement has been constructed and Company in 
 placed as provided by the arrangement, and the present landing subrtuuted 
 stage has been removed, the South-eastern Railway Company shall landing stage, 
 have and may exercise and enjoy the same rights, powers, ami 
 authorities of taking tolls and dues, and all otlier rights, advan- 
 tages, powers, ])rivileges, authorities, and easements whatsoever, 
 
 and shall be subject to the same duties and obligations affecting the 
 public in respect of the landing stage to be ])rovi(led as aforesaid, as 
 they now have, exercise, and enjoy and are subject to as regards the 
 present landing stage ; and any mortgage, lease, or other dealing by 
 the Company in respect of the tolls authorized to be taken at their 
 present landing stage shall apply to the tolls to be taken at the 
 intended landing stage to be substituted as if such last-mentioned
 
 392 
 
 [Chap, cxi.] 
 
 The Thames Embankment {North 
 ami South) Act 1868. 
 
 [31 & 32 Vict.] 
 
 Section 8 of 
 Act of 1863 
 repealed. 
 
 Reclaimed 
 land to be 
 dedicated to 
 the use of 
 the public. 
 
 Section 53 of 
 the Act of 
 1862 to be 
 read as apply- 
 ing to street 
 No. 1 under 
 this Act. 
 
 Repeal of 
 parts of Act 
 of 1862. 
 
 For the pro- 
 tection of the 
 Charing Cross 
 Railway. 
 
 tolls were the tolls authorized to be taken at the present landing stage. 
 \_See 4 Edw. 7, c. cciii. s. 39.] 
 
 17. Section eight of the Thames Embankment Act, 1863, relating 
 to the draw docks at Ferry Street and Broad Street, is by this Act 
 repealed, but the Board shall carry into effect and fulfil the con- 
 ditions of the arrangement before recited between the Board and the 
 Vestry of Lambeth. 
 
 18. \Borrowiiui poicers. Rep. in part 32 k 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50. 
 Remr. superseded b)/ the London Count i/ Council (Mone^/) Acts 1875 
 —1904.] 
 
 19—22. [Fi7iancial proa.non.s. Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 23. All the land reclaimed or to be reclaimed from the River 
 Thames on the south of the streets thirdly and fourthly herein- 
 before described, and not required for streets or roads, nor otherwise 
 specifically appropriated by the provisions of this Act, or required 
 for such stations, ventilators, or works of the Metropolitan District 
 Railway as the Company are not by the Metropolitan District Rail- 
 way Act, 1864, precluded from constructing, and lying between an 
 imaginary line drawn from the eastern boundary of the houses on 
 the east side of Cecil Street to the embankment roadway on the 
 east, and the Crown lands on the west, and the embankment road- 
 wav on the south, and all the lands reclaimed from the Thames 
 between the Adelphi estate and the new street fourthly described, 
 together with the lands to be reclaimed between the southern side 
 of the approach road shown on the plan marked C, referred to 
 in the Embankment Act of 1862, leading towards Norfolk Street, 
 Surrey Street, and Arundel Street, shall for ever hereafter be vested 
 in and maintained by the Board for the use of the public as places 
 of recreation or ornamental grounds, and the expenses incident to 
 such maintenance shall be deemed to be expenses of the Board in 
 the execution of the Act 18 and 19 Victoria, chapter 120, and all the 
 parts of the metropolis shall be deemed to be equally benefited by 
 all the sums so expended by the Board. \_See also 33 k 34 Vict. 
 c. xcii. s. 5.] 
 
 24. Section 53 of the Act of 1862 shall be read and have effect as 
 if the new street (No. 1.) by this Act authorized to be made in con- 
 tinuation of Whitehall Place had in that section been substituted 
 for the street in continuation of Whitehall Place and the street in 
 continuation of Northumberland Street in such section referred to. 
 
 25. The following provisions of the Embankment Act of 1862 are 
 hereby repealed : namely. 
 
 Section 26, relating to dedication of reclaimed land for jniblic use : 
 Section 55, relating to the Charing Cross Railway Bridge : 
 Section 61, relating to the Adelphi Estate : 
 
 Section 82, relating to the precinct of the Savoy and lands of the 
 duchy of Lancaster. 
 
 26. [As to foot communication from Adam Street to the new street 
 or road. No. 4. Rep. 33 & 34 Vict. c. xcii. s. 4.] 
 
 27. The following provisions shall be in force for the protection of 
 the Charing Cross Bridge and Railway and other works and ]iro- 
 perty of the South-eastern Railway Company, and the same shall 
 be observed and fulfilled by the Board accordingly, unless otherwise 
 mutually agreed in writing by the Board and the Company under 
 their respective common seals ; (that is to say,)
 
 roi f oo T7- -1 "^f^he Thames Emhayikmeyit (North rn„^^ „„: i oqq 
 
 [31 & 32 Vict.] ^^^^^^ ,,^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ [Chap, cxi.] 393 
 
 1. The Board shall not interfere with, purchase, or take any lands, 
 
 property, or works helongin<^ to tlie Sonth-eastern Railway 
 Company without their consent in writing, exce])t such land 
 as shall be required for the actual construction of the streets 
 shown on the said amended deposited plans and sections : 
 
 2. No ])nilding, shed, or other structure shall be erected under the 
 
 (Sharing Cross Bridge, or witliin a distance of fifty feet from 
 the Charing Cross Station, or the land under the said bridge : 
 
 3. The Middlesex abutment of the said bridge shall form the 
 
 northern boundary of tlie proposed street No. 3 shown on 
 the said de])Osited plans, and the lands and ])roperty of the 
 South-eastern Kailway (Jompany shall form the western 
 boundary of the proposed street No. 2. from the point D. 
 to the point G. shown on the amended de])Osited plans, to 
 the intent that the South-eastern Baihvay Com])any may 
 have free access to such streets iVom tlieir projierty, and the • 
 South-eastern Railway ('omi)any shall be entitled to such 
 access accordingly : 
 
 4. The South-eastern Hail way ( 'ompany shall be entitled, in respect 
 
 of any land and i)ro])erty ])urchased from them by the Board, 
 to the right of pre-emption wiiich is conferred upon owners of 
 land in certain cases by the Lands Clauses Consolidaticm Act, 
 1845, notwithstanding such land and pro])erty so j)urchased 
 are situate within a town, or are lands built upon or used for 
 building purposes. 
 
 28. \_S. 54 of the Embankment Act <?/1802 extended to this Act. 
 Bep. 36 (t 37 Vict. c. c. s. 27.] 
 
 29. [Saving for lands of the Marquis of Salisbiinj. Spent.'] 
 
 30. [Certain lands to be sold to the Marquis of Salisbur;/. Rep. 
 33 & 34 Vict. c. xcii. 6\ 4.] 
 
 31. The Act of the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Repeal of 
 Third, chapter 34, is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to [^ Qg^ 3 
 any land reclaimed under or by virtue of the powers contained in c. 34. 
 the same Act, and now the property of the Marquis of Salisbury, 
 
 and the said Marquis, his sequels in right, heirs and assigns, may 
 build on any such lands at his and their will and ))leasure, and, 
 notwithstanding anything in the Embankment Act of b"^()2 or in 
 this Act contained, may also in like manner build on any land 
 which he or they may purchase or acquire from the Board under 
 the same Acts, or either of them. 
 
 32. [For the protection of lands of the Thames Plate Glass Com- 
 pany. Spent.] 
 
 33. [Incorporation of s. ^\ of the Kmbanhment Act of b^«32. 
 Spent.] 
 
 34 — 36. [As to construction of street So. 4 through the precinct 
 of the Sai-of/ and the removal of qrares at Lutheran Chapel. Rep. 
 33 & 34 17.??'. c. xcii. .v. 4.] 
 
 37. Whereas the ^Metropolitan District Railway Comjiany have Confirminp 
 entered into an agreement with the Board in reference to ^^i«' S'?icmi- 
 construction of the said railway in ct)nnexion with tiie Thames poiitan Dis- 
 Embankment, a copv of which agreement is contained in the trict Railway 
 Schedule (A.) to this Act, and it is ex])edient that such agreement, <"^^mpany. 
 should be ratified and confirmed by rarliament : Now, therefore, be 
 it enacted, That the said agreement shall be and the same is hereby
 
 .,,, , r/-( -T 'IJ((^ Thames EinhankmeM (Noith roi f omr n 
 
 31M [Chap, cxi.] ^^^^j g^^^,^^ ^^^,^ ^,,^3^^ [31 k 32 Vict.] 
 
 ratified and confirmed, anything* in the Thames Emljankment Act 
 of 1862 and the Metropolitan District Railways Act, 1864, to the 
 contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding : Provided that nothing 
 in this Act contained shall, nor shall the ratification and confirma- 
 tion of the agreement in the schednle to this Act contained, in any 
 way afiect the rights, privileges, and powers of the City of London 
 Gaslight and Coke Company * as they existed before the passing 
 of this Act. 
 
 38. [Saving the fights of the Crowfi.'] 
 
 39 — 40. \_Saving the rights of the Commissioners of Works and the 
 Thames Conservators.'] 
 
 41. \_Expe7ises of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 SCHEDULE (A.). 
 
 Containing Agreement between the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 and the Metropolitan District Railway Company confirmed by 
 the foregoing Act. 
 
 Ageeement made and entered into this fifteenth day of May one 
 thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight IjetM^een the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works (herein-after called the Board) of the one part, and 
 the Metropolitan District Railway Company (herein-after called the 
 Company) of the other part. 
 
 Whereas by the Thames Embankment Act, 1862, for constructing 
 the embankment on the north side of the said river between West- 
 minster Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge, it was enacted, section 83, 
 that the viaduct in front of the works and premises of the City of 
 London Gaslight and Coke Company shall be carried upon two 
 arches of such dimensions as therein specified, and by section 84 
 that there should be one arch under the said viaduct in front of the 
 said Whitefriars Dock of a span and dimensions therein specified, 
 and it was intended that the said embankment should from the 
 eastern end of Temple Gardens to the Whitefriars Dock be con- 
 structed on a viaduct, with a roadway of seventy feet in width : And 
 whereas by the Metropolitan District Railways Act, 1864, under 
 which the said Metropolitan District Railway Company was incor- 
 porated, for the purpose of constructing a railway from Kensington 
 in the county of Middlesex to Trinity Square in the city of London, 
 which railway was intended to run along the said embankment, it 
 was enacted, section 42, that the embankment and road mentioned 
 in the Thames Embankment Act, 1862, to be formed opposite to the 
 City of Loudon Gaslight and Coke Company and Whitefriars Dock, 
 shall be so constructed as shall best suit the formation of the rail- 
 way and works hereby authorized, and the said embankment and 
 roadway and the convenience of the said gasworks and docks, and as 
 shall l)e agreed u])on lietween the engineers for the time being of 
 the said Board and of the Railway Company, anything in the same 
 Act contained notwithstanding, subject nevertheless to such arbitra- 
 tion as is herein-after ])rovided for in case of diff'erence between the 
 engineers ; provided tliat the Board may construct the roadway of 
 the width of one hundred feet, and in that case the referee herein- 
 after named for the settlement of questions of compensation arising 
 
 * Amalgamated with the Gaslight & Coke Company by an Order in Council 
 made in 1870 under 31 & 32 Vict. c. 125, ss. 18—24.
 
 [3. & 32 VICT.] "- '''::%X^'"^^^^^"''"' [''"^" ""-^ ''' 
 
 between the Company and the Metropolitan Board of Works shall 
 assess the amount which in his judijraont. ought to be allowed to 
 the Company in respect of the expense of an^uiring the additional 
 width of thirty feet for the purpose of such roadway ; provided also, 
 that the inner wall of the said roadway shall not extend more than 
 sixty-eight feet from the centre line of the said roadway as shown 
 on the deposited plans referred to in the Thames Embankment Act, 
 1862, and certain sections of such Act, including sections 30, 4U, 41, 
 43, 52, 01, contained provisions in reference to or affecting compen- 
 sation to be paid to owners, lessees, and occujjiers : And whereas it 
 has been agreed between the engineers of the said Board and of the 
 Railway Company that it will best suit the formation of the railway 
 and the works connected therewith, and also of the said embank- 
 ment and roadway authorized by the Thames Embankment Act, 
 1862, and the convenience of the said gasworks and dock, that the 
 embankment and road to be formed from the ea^tern end of the 
 Temple lands to the west side of Bridewell AVharf, including 
 the space opposite the said Gaslight and Coke Company and the 
 AVhitefriars Dock, be constructed as a solid embankment, with a 
 roadway of the width of one liundrod feet : And whereas it has been 
 agreed between the said Board and the Company as follows ; (that 
 is to say,) Now this indenture witnesseth, and each of the said parties 
 hereto doth hereby covenant with the other of them, as follows : 
 
 1. That the said embankment and road shall be constructed from 
 the eastern end of the Temple lands to the west side of Bridewell 
 Wharf, including the space opposite the London Gaslight and Coke 
 Company and the AVhitefriars Dock, as a solid embankment, and 
 that the Board shall construct the roadway of the width of one 
 hundred feet thereon. 
 
 2. That the said Company shall construct tlieir railway within 
 such solid embankment, and shall proceed with and complete such 
 railway without delay when and so soon as the state of progress of 
 the Board's works will allow, so that the works of the Company 
 and of the Board may be completed by the fifteenth July one 
 thousand eight hundred and sixtv-nine. 
 
 3. That the Company shall take all such stei)s as may be neces- 
 sary to bring the various provisions and power of the said Acts of 
 1862 and 1804 into full operation, and the Board shall concur in the 
 taking of sucli steps when it shall be necessary for the Board so to 
 do, and the: land reclaimed by the embankment shall be used in 
 such manner as will diminish the compensations claimable by any 
 parties. 
 
 4. That Lord Stanley, or some other party to be nominated by 
 one of the Judges of the superior Courts in manner referred to 
 by the 01st section of the Act of 1864, shall ascertain and determine 
 in what proportions the comjiensations })ayable conset|uont ujion the 
 said embankment being constructed as a solid embankment shall be 
 paid by the Board and Company res})ectively : and in defining and 
 settling such pro})ortions due regard shall be had by the arbitrator 
 to the saving which will accrue to the Comi)any and the Board 
 respectively by the ado})tion of a solid embankment and the con- 
 struction of the railway within such solid embankment, instead of 
 the construction of the embankment roadway on arches as contem- 
 ])lated by section 83 of the said Act of 1n62, and the construction of 
 the railway independently of the embankment.
 
 on/- rn • -\ The Thames Embankment (North roi p oo -v?- t 
 
 396 [Chap, cxi.] .^^^^^^ ^5,^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ [31 & 32 Vict.] 
 
 5. That in order to form a fund for the discharge of the com- 
 pensations aforesaid an account shall be opened at the London and 
 Westminster Bank in the name of the Earl of Devon and Sir John 
 Thwaites ; that the Railway Company shall forthwith pay to such 
 account the sum of forty thousand pounds, and the Board shall also 
 pay to the same account from time to time such sum as shall be 
 necessary, and, when the arbitrator shall have settled the propor- 
 tions in which the compensation shall be paid as between the Board 
 and the Company, the Board and the Company respectively shall 
 pay from time to time, as comi)ensation becomes payable, any 
 further sums which mav have become necessarv bevond their pre- 
 vious payments to meet their respective proportions thereof to the 
 said account, to be applied in discharge of the same. 
 
 6. That the payments agreed to be made in article 5 are not in 
 any way to affect or prejudice the Board or the Company as regards 
 the comparative liability of the Company or the Board as between 
 themselves respectively. 
 
 7. That with regard to the payment of the sum of two hundred 
 thousand pounds mentioned in section 61 of the said Act of 1864 
 the Company shall pay to the Board fifty thousand pounds, part 
 thereof, on the first dav of Julv one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixty-nine, and the further sum of seventy-five thousand pounds on 
 the first dav of Julv one thousand eiu'ht hundred and seventv, and 
 the further sum of seventy-five thousand pounds on the first day of 
 July one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and that interest 
 on such sum of two hundred thousand pounds, at five pounds per 
 centum per annum, shall be paid by the Company to the Board as 
 from the first dav of Julv one thousand eight hundred and sixtv- 
 eight half-yearly, the first payment of interest to be made on the 
 first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, 
 until the whole be paid ; and as regards any further sum which may 
 be due or awarded under the same 61st section to the Board, it shall 
 be payable by three equal annual instalments bearing interest at the 
 same rate from the date at which the Company shall take posses- 
 sion of the land for stations in respect of which it may become 
 payable, the first instalment being payable at the end of one year 
 from the Company so taking possession. 
 
 8. That the Company shall, not later than the first day of July 
 one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, commence the con- 
 struction of their railway and works from Westminster Bridge to 
 the Tem})le, and will thenceforward continually proceed with the 
 construction of such portion of their railway and works with all 
 reasonable despatch, and as regards so much of the railway and 
 works as are to be constructed under so much of the embankment 
 as is not yet formed the Company shall, after such embankment 
 shall be in a state to allow of the same, construct the same simul- 
 taneously with the construction of that portion of the embankment, 
 so that those portions of the railway and works and embankment may 
 be completed contem])oraneously : and in case of the Company not 
 proceeding with the construction of the mentioned portion of the 
 railway and works simultaneously with the construction by the Board 
 of the embankment, the Board may proceed with the construction of 
 the embankment as they might have done under the 63rd section 
 of the said Act of 1864 had this agreement not been entered into. 
 
 9. That in case of any difference between the engineer of the 
 Board and the engineer of the Company with respect to the mode
 
 [31 &32 Vict.] The City of London Gas Act 1868. [Chap, cxxv.] 
 
 397 
 
 of constrncfcion of the railway and works in (connexion with tlio said 
 embankment, such diflerencx* shall from time to time be referred 
 under the 02nd section of the said Act of 1«G4. 
 
 In witness whereof the Board and tlie ('ompany have respectively 
 
 caused their common seals to be hereunto uflixed, the day and 
 
 year iirst aljove written. 
 
 Sealed by order, 
 
 John Pollard, 
 
 Olerk to the Board. 
 
 CHAPTER CXXV. 
 
 *An Act to amend the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, and to 
 make further provision for regulating the supply of 
 Gas to the City of London ; and for other Purposes 
 
 CONNECTED THEREWITH. [I'Mh J uh/ 1^0-^.] 
 
 [^Preamble reciter (inter alia) that the cltj of London is noiv supplied 
 icith gas hj the Gaslight <^' Coke Compani/, the City of London 
 Gaslight ^' Coke Company, and the Great (Central Gas Consumers 
 Company, and that it is expedient that the Metropolis Gas Act 1860 
 {in this Act referred to as the Act r?/'1860) so far as it relates to the 
 city of' London be amended^ 
 
 Preliminary. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as The City of London Gas Act, 1868. 
 
 2. Li this Act — 
 
 The term " the city " means the city of London and the liberties Short title 
 
 thereof ; 
 The term "the Commissioners of Sewers" moans the Com 
 
 missioners of Sewers of the city ; f 
 The term " Corporation " means the mayor and commonalty and 
 
 citizens of the city of London, and any powei-s given to them 
 
 may be exercised l)y the mayor, aldermen, and commons in 
 
 Common Council assembled ; 
 The terms "Companies" and "Company" mean the Gas Light 
 
 and Coke Company, the City of London Gas Light and Coke 
 
 Company, and the' Great Central Gas Consumers Company, 
 
 and each of them ; % 
 The term " undertaking "' includes all property and rights ; 
 The term "half year" means a half year reckoned from the first 
 
 day of January and first day of July in each year ; 
 
 * The provisions of this Act were extended tothe(.;a--^liLrl)t &: Coke (.'oiupany's under- 
 taking without, as well as within, the city by s. 109 of that Com^iany's Act of 1S»>8. 
 
 t Now the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of the city of London, See the City 
 of London Sewers Act 1897. 
 
 X See footnotes to the preamble of 23 & 24 Vict. c. 125 (page 284). 
 
 _ Interpreta- 
 tion of terms.
 
 398 
 
 [CHAr. cxxv.] nr City of London Gas Act 1868. [31 & 32 Vict.] 
 
 Certain 
 sections of 
 23 & 24 A'ict. 
 c. 125, as in 
 schedule to 
 this Act. 
 repealed. 
 
 The term " quarter " means a quarter of a year reckoned from 
 the first day of January, first day of April, first day of July, 
 and first day of October in each year ; 
 
 The term " day " means (except in this section) twenty-four 
 hours reckoned from nine o'clock in the forenoon of one day 
 to nine o'clock in the forenoon of the next following day, 
 so much of each day as is before nine o'clock in the forenoon 
 being reckoned as part of the immediately preceding day of 
 the montli or week ; 
 
 The term " caudles " means such candles as are described in 
 section 25 of the Act of 1860 ; 
 and this Act shall be read as one with the Act of 1860. 
 
 3. Such parts of the Act of 1860 as are described in the first 
 schedule to this Act, and any part of any special Act of any Company 
 inconsistent with this Act, so far only as they respectively relate 
 to the Companies and the city, are hereby repealed as from the 
 thirtieth day of Sej^tember one thousand eight hundred and sixty- 
 eight, and the Act of 1800 so amended shall, as to all the Companies 
 mentioned in the preamble of the said Act, be read throughout as 
 if the Board of Trade had Ijeen inserted therein instead of Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. 
 
 4 — 17. [^Provisions as to purchase {by agreement) by the Corpora- 
 tion within 3 years of any undertakings so far as supplying the 
 city. Spent {purchase not carried out).^ 
 
 18 — 23. [Provisions as to ejfecting amalgamation of Companies 
 snpplying in the city by Schemes a.jjproredby the Board of Trade and 
 confirmed by Orders in Council. Sjjent. See note on pjreamble of 
 23 &24 Vict. c. 125, jo. 284.] 
 
 Sale of copies. 24. Each amalgamated Company shall at all times keep at their 
 principal office printed copies of the scheme relating to the Company, 
 with the confirming Order in Council, and shall sell copies to all 
 persons desiring to buy the same, at a reasonable rate, not exceeding 
 sixpence for each copy. If any Comj^any fail to comply with this 
 provision they shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty 
 pounds, and to a further penalty not exceeding five pounds for 
 every day during which such failure continues after the first penalty 
 is incurred. 
 
 25 — 28. \_Pro'cisions as to ditidends. Pep, by the Gaslight ^ 
 Coke Company's Act 1876, s. 8.] 
 
 Appointment 
 of referees. 
 
 Continuance 
 of referees. 
 
 Quorum, etc. 
 of referees. 
 
 Gas Referees. 
 
 29. The Board of Trade shall as soon as may be after the passing 
 of this Act appoint three competent and impartial persons, one at 
 least of them having practical knowledge and experience in the 
 manufacture and supply of gas, who shall be called the gas referees 
 (and who are in this Act referred to as the gas referees), and in 
 case of a vacancy happening among them by death, resignation, or 
 otherwise shall appoint a competent and impartial person to fill the 
 vacancy, one at least of the three being always qualified as aforesaid. 
 
 30. Every person appointed to be one of the gas referees shall 
 continue in office for one year only from the date of his appointment, 
 but shall be capable of reappointment. 
 
 31. Two of the gas referees shall be a quorum, and at least two of 
 the referees shall concur in every act or determination of the referees.
 
 [31 & 32 Vict.] The City of London Gas Act 1868. [Chap, cxxv.] 399 
 
 32. A copy of each certificate of the gas referees rei[uired by Ccriificates 
 this Act shall be sent by them to the Corporation, and to each of of referees, 
 the Companies. 
 
 33 — 84. \_As to testing for illuminating power and jmriti/. Rep. 
 by the. (jaslight c\- Coke Connjanys Act 1870, 5. 8.] 
 
 85. A Company sup])lyin<( <^as to jHiblic lamps, or the Com- Governors for 
 missioners of hewers,* may at their own expense cause to be afHxed '^^^^^^ lamps, 
 to each lamp the instrument known as a street lamp governor, 
 
 and the Commissioners of Sewers * or the Company (as the case 
 recpiires) shall be entitled to have access tliereto for the purpose of 
 examining the same ; and in case any dispute arises between the 
 Company and the Commissioners of Sewers* with reference to the 
 afHxing, operation, or inspection of governors, the same shall be 
 referred to the determination of the chief gas examiner, whose 
 decision shall be iinal and conclusive. 
 
 86. A Comj)any shall not charge a higher price per one thousand i^imit of 
 cubic feet for gas supplied to the Commissioners of Sewers * than ^,ag'^^,^'/j'J[e(j 
 the lowest price per one thousand cubic feet charged by them at fo pubHc'^ 
 the same time to any private customer, but if the Company contend, lamps. 
 
 as against the Commissioners of Sewers,* that there are special 
 circumstances justifying them in charging a lower price to any 
 other customer, the c^uestion shall be determined by arbitration 
 whether or not such lower price shall be taken as the standard for 
 the price to be charged to the Commissioners of Sewers,* and the 
 price fixed by such arbitration shall continue for two years at least.t 
 
 87. Section thirty-eight of the Act of 186U shall be read as if Settlement of 
 the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, were therein mentioned ^^f^'j.^^"?^^ ''•^' 
 instead of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. 
 
 88. Each Comi)any shall, within six months of the passing of Company to 
 this Act, make a map of the district within which their mains or™^^®.^'"^P 
 pipes may be laid to a scale of not less than five feet to a mile, appliances'^ 
 and shall show thereupon the lines, sizes, and depth beneath the beneath the 
 surface of all their existing mains or pipes, excepting the service P^^Uc ways, 
 pipes to separate houses, and the positions of all valves, syphons, 
 
 and other appliances, and shall once in every year, on or before 
 the thirty-first day of December, correct such map and make such 
 alterations in or additions thereto as may be necessary to show 
 correctly, as near as may be, the lines, positions, sizes, and depths 
 of the various jnpes, and also their appliances, and shall keep such 
 map in the principal ollice of the Company, and the same shall be 
 open to the inspection of the Commissioners of Sewers * and their 
 officers, and to the public generally, who may inspect or take copies 
 of or extracts of the same ; and the Company may charge and take 
 the sum of one shilling for each inspection of such map, and the 
 further sum of two shillings and sixpence for each extract, tracing, 
 or copy taken of such map. 
 
 * Now the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London. See the City of London 
 Sewers Act 1897. 
 
 t S. 39 of the Scheme for the amalgamation of the London Gaslight Company 
 with the Gaslight & Coke Company (1883) contains the following proviso": 
 " Provided also that the United Company shall not charge in tiic districts of the 
 London Company south of tlie lUver Tliames, a higher price per 1000 cubic feet of 
 sixteen candle gas, either for public or private lighting, than the price for the time 
 being charged by the South Metropolitan Gas Company for gas of the same 
 illuminating power, and section 8G of the City of London G":us Actr IStSS, shall apply 
 as against the United Company to the whole "of the public lamps supplied with gas 
 of similar quality, but not to private consumers, within their districts north of the 
 Thames."
 
 400 
 
 [Chap, cxxxv.] (Ch,U.n^ Art I8fi« [^1 & ^^ Vict.] 
 
 {Chelsea) Act 1868. 
 
 dispute. 
 
 Penalty on 39^ If the Company fail to comply with any requirements of this 
 
 defaulT'"^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ respect of sach map they shall for every such offence forfeit 
 
 and pay any sum which two Justices of the Peace may adjudge, 
 
 not exceeding the sum of fifty pounds. 
 
 Deposit in 90. Where a dispute arises between a Company and one of their 
 
 ntf^nf! customers respecting any ])ayment to be made to the Company, if 
 
 the customer deposits with the Company, by way of security, the 
 amount claimed by them, it shall not be lawful for the Company 
 to discontinue a supply of gas to the customer by reason of the 
 dispute ; but nothing herein shall authorize a Company, where such 
 deposit is not made, to discontinue a sui)ply of gas to the customer 
 in any case in which they would not have been authorized to do so 
 if this Act had not been passed. 
 
 91 — 92. [^l.s- to expenses of executing Act. Rep. by the Gas- 
 Ii(/ht (j- Coke Compantfs Act 1876, s. 8.] 
 93. {^Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.~\ 
 
 The SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Act refers. 
 
 Parts of Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, so Jar as t/iet/ relate to the 
 
 city, repealed. 
 
 Section two, as far as it incorporates the provisions of the Gasworks 
 Clauses Act, 1847, with respect to the amount of profit to 
 be received by the undertakers from the gasworks carried on 
 for their benefit, or imposes any restriction on a Company in 
 respect of the rate of dividend. 
 
 Sections seven to twelve, both inclusive. 
 
 Sections twenty-five to thirty-four, both inclusive. 
 
 Section thirty-seven. 
 
 Sections forty and forty-one. 
 
 CHAPTER CXXXV. 
 
 * An Act to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 
 EMBANK THE RiVER ThAMES BETWEEN THE ROYAL HoSPPfAL 
 
 AT Chelsea and Battersea Bridge in the County of 
 Middlesex, and to make a Roadway and other Works 
 
 connected THEREWITH ; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 
 
 [13;'/^ July 1868.] 
 
 \Prearnhle recites that the making by the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works (in this Act referred to us the Board ■\) of an embankment on 
 the Middlesex bank of the River Thames, commencing in the parishes 
 of St. Mary Abbott Kensington and St. Luke Chelsea, or one of them, 
 at or near the emhankment in front of the public gardens of the 
 Ro>/al Hospital at Chelsea, and terminating at Battersea Bridge, and 
 that the formation of a roadway upon the said embankment will be 
 of great jjuhlic utility ; and recites 24 & 25 Vict. c. 42 J ; 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. 93 ; 26 & 27 Vict. cc. 45 and 75 ; 27 & 28 Vict. f. 113 § ; 31 & 32 
 Vict. cc. 17, 1 43,1j and cxi. ; and the deposit of pdans tcith the Clerk 
 of the Peace for Middlesex.^ 
 
 * See 39 & 40 Vict. c. Lxxix. s. ?A. 
 
 f Now the London Countv Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 X Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19"(S.L.R.). 
 
 § Rep. bv the Thames Conservancy Act 1894 (see Appendix). 
 
 II Rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.R.). 
 
 *| Rep. 32 & 33 Vict. e. 102, s. 50.
 
 roi p oo-ir ^ n ^^he Thames Embankment rn t .r.-, 
 
 [31 & 32 Vict.] ^ ^.^^^^^.^^^ ^^.^ j ^^^^ [Chap, cxxxv.] 401 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as " The Thames Embankment (Chelsea) Short title. 
 Act, 1868." 
 
 2. {^Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 3. With res])ect to the interpretation of terms in and for the interpreta- 
 purposes of this Act the following provisions shall have eflFect ; ''^° °^ terms, 
 namely, 
 
 *■•••■ 
 
 In this Act the term " the works " means the embankment, river 
 wall, roadway, approaches, alterations in streets, and other 
 works anthorized by this Act : 
 In this Act the term " street " includes any sqnare, street, high- 
 way, road, lane, mews, footway, thoron<,Hifare, or public 
 place, court, alley, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, 
 and a part of any such square, street, highway, road, lane, 
 mews, footway, thoroughfare, or pu])lic place, court, alley, or 
 passage. 
 \_Part omitted {definitions of ^^ Court of competent jurisdiction'" and 
 '' superior Courts,'''' and as to meanings of loords in Acts incor- 
 porated) spent.] 
 
 4. [Power to make works and take lands according to deposited 
 plans. Spent.] 
 
 5. There shall be incorporated with this Act sections . . . forty- Sections 23, 
 eight, forty-nine, and fifty of the Thames Embankment Act, 1^62, ^g' ^^'^^5^ ^^ 
 (relating to . . . damage to embankment by means of vessels, 25'& 26 vict. 
 and as to penalties and application thereof,) and for this purpose c. 93. incor- 
 the term "this Act" and terms of reference thereto used in any of P"""^*^®^- 
 the sections last enumerated shall be taken to mean or refer to the 
 
 present Act. \_Fa}'t omitted {incorporation of ss. 23, 24, and 40 of 
 1 862 Act, as to taking of parts of lands, correction of errors, and 
 costs of arbitrations) spent.] 
 
 6 — 12. [Power to the Board to purchase easements — Time for 
 compulsorg purchase of lands limited to 5 years — For the protec- 
 tion of Earl Cadogan — As to taking trees opposite Cheyne Walk — 
 For the protection of Mr. Sloane Stanley. Spent.] 
 
 13. [Power to interfere with Batter sea Bridge and Albert Bridge. 
 Spent; and see 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix.] 
 
 14 — 15. [Powers to make subsidiary and connecting works, to stop 
 up and appropriate streets, etc., shown on deposited plans. Spent.] 
 
 16. The Board may make under the intended roadway an arched rower to 
 I)assage or covered way (herein-after called the subway) for such °^''^^ ^"^" 
 purposes as they think tit, with all communications, works, and ^^^^' 
 things necessary or ])roper for the convenient use thereof, and the 
 same subway, communications, works, and things shall be deemed 
 part of the works authorized by this Act, and tlie same shall 
 (notwithstanding anytliing in this Act) belong to and be vested in 
 the Board, and shall be maintained and repaired by the Board, 
 and the Board may permit the use of the subway for the purpose of 
 the laying down of gas or water pipes or telegrapli wires, or for any 
 other like w^orks or purpof^e, on such terms and contlitions and for 
 such period as the Board and any company or person agree; and 
 the Board may sell, convey, or demise any right to any company 
 or person for any of the jmrposes aforesaid, and may make such 
 stipulations for preventing injury to the adjoining property and for 
 the security of the public as the Board think proper, and may 
 
 26
 
 402 
 
 [Chap, cxxxv.] 
 
 The Thames Embankment 
 {Chelsea) Act 1868. 
 
 I_31 & 32 Vict.] 
 
 SectioHs 19, 
 20, 21, and 
 
 incorporated 
 
 Provision as 
 to Crown 
 frontage. 
 
 agree to refer to arbitration any matter in difference under this 
 section. \_See also 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccii.] 
 
 17 — 20. \^As to taking houses of labouring class j^ersons — Decia- 
 tion — As to taking soil from the Thames for making the embankment 
 — As to deepening the bed of the river and levelling holes caused 
 thereby. Spent.'] 
 
 21. There shall be incorporated with this Act sections . . . twenty- 
 one and twenty-two of the Thames Embankment Act of 1862 
 g to . . . the substitution of piers and other conveniences, 
 and to the maintenance and repair of the embankment, and to 
 matters connected therewith respectively), and for this purpose the 
 respective terms "this Act" and " the said embankment," and 
 terms of reference thereto respectively used in any of the sections 
 last enumerated, shall be taken to mean or refer to the present 
 Act and the works by the present Act authorized. \_Part omitted, 
 {incorporation of ss. 19 and 20 of the 1862 Act, as to approval 
 of plans by the Conservators, and the exhibition of lights during 
 construction of tvorks) spent.'] 
 
 22 — 26. '[Approval of ivorks by the Board, of Trade — Alteration 
 of water, gas, and other pipes — Power to lay out carriageways and 
 footways. Spent.] 
 
 27. [Ground, laid, into roadway to form part of public street, and 
 the roadway to be under the same management of the vestries,* district 
 boards,* commissioners, or persons, as other streets in the parishes, 
 districts, or places in which the same is situate. See 39 & 40 Vict, 
 c. Ixxix. s. 34.] 
 
 28. [Incorporation of ss. 27, 32—34, and 37 of 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. 93. Spent as to incorporation of s. 27 ; superseded as to incor- 
 poration of ss. 32 — 34 by 62 & 63 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. ss. 19 — 23 ; 
 and as to incorporation of s. 37 rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 29. [Borrowing powers. Superseded by the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works {Loans) Acts 1869 — 1871, and the London County Council 
 {Money) Acts 1875—1904.] 
 
 30 — 32. [Financial provisions. Rep. '^2 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 33. [Saving the rights of the Crown.] 
 
 34. Whereas a copy of the deposited plans and sections (which 
 copy is herein-after called the Crown plans) has been prepared, on 
 which certain parts of the bed or foreshore of the River Thames up 
 to high-water mark belonging to or claimed by Her Majesty as part 
 of the hereditary laud revenues of the Crown are coloured blue, 
 light brown, and green, and certain land adjacent thereto is coloured 
 red and dark brown, the line of embankment and roadway by this 
 Act authorized being coloured light and dark brown, and the Crown 
 plans have been signed by one of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
 Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues : Be it enacted, that the 
 Crown plans shall be deposited at the office of Land Revenue 
 Records and Inrolments, and it shall not be lawful for the Board in 
 the construction of the intended embankment, roadway, or works to 
 make any deviation from the levels defined in the sections shown on 
 the Crown plans, nor from the centre line of roadway shown thereon, 
 without the consent in writing of one of the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, it being intended 
 that, as regards the works by this Act authorized in front or to the 
 
 * Xow the Metropolitan Borough Councils. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] Amendment Act 1869. C^^ap. 63.] 403 
 
 south of the Crown hind coloured red on the Crown jjhins, such 
 works shall be wholly constructed on the land coloured li^ht and 
 dark brown on such ])lans. 
 
 35. ... It sliall be lawful for Her Majesty, Hor heirs and sue- Works to be 
 €essors, or the Commissioners for tiie time being of Her Majesty's 'lo"'= "oitiox^ 
 Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or any lessees or tenants under [j^ot^^^nds 
 Her Majesty, to construct any vaults or cellars under the embankment opened to 
 €r roadway to be constructed upon the land coloured brown ujion public 
 the Crown ])lans, and also to liave access to and to make any 
 openings into such roadway from the land coloured red on the 
 
 Crown ])lans. \^Part omitted {Board to fill up level and to wall or 
 fence f he part of the foresliore coloured blue hfnig between the intended 
 roadiva;/ and the present rker frontage before the roadway is open 
 to the public) spent. '] 
 
 36. \_Lands coloured blue to remain rested in the Crown.'] 
 
 37. It shall not be lawful for the Board to erect any building No buiWing 
 
 or structure whatever (other than a paraj)et wail or railing not '^^'^ ^^ V^^^f^*^ 
 
 exceeding four feet in height) on any part of the embankment ment"opp^jsite 
 
 coloured brown on the said Crown })lans without the consent in land in which 
 
 writing of the Commissioners of Her Maiesty's AVoods, Forests, and ^''""^'P '""^f 
 Til, ,. , 1 J 7 J rested with- 
 
 Land itevenues, or one oi them. out consent. 
 
 38. \_noard to fence off lands coloured blue and dark brown from 
 lands coloured red before commencing works. Spent.] 
 
 39. \_Crown lessee of the rirer frontage adjacent to the lands 
 coloured blue to hare the option of taking irithin 3 years a lease of 
 the reclaimed land adjacent to his property for the terms of his 
 leases. Spent.] 
 
 40 — 41. \_No compensation to be paid to the Crown in respect of 
 land above high-water mark and as to mode of ascertaining the interest 
 of the Croivn and Thames Conservators in certain lands. Spent.] 
 
 42. [_Saving the lights of the Thames Conservators.] 
 
 43. \_Saving the rights of the Commissioners of Works.] 
 
 44. \_Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 32 & 33 VICTORIA. A.D. 1869. 
 
 CHAPTER 63. 
 
 An Act to amend The METUoroLiTAN Poor Act, 1867. 
 
 [dth August I860.] 
 
 [Freatnble rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.I^.).] 
 
 1. The Poor Law Board,* as and when they shall see fit, may Poor Law 
 dissolve any asylum or school district contained wholly or partly in ^'^'*rd em- 
 the metropolis, and upon such dissolution shall . . . provide for di'.^^sohT 
 the compensation of the officers and other persons employed therein, asyUim and 
 in like manner as wlion a union is dissolved under the authoritv oP*^.'^"?*^^ ^^f" 
 
 * TFlf*!^ Jinn 
 
 the thirty-second section of the Poor Law Amendment Act, ls84 : unions. 
 . . . and prior to issuing any order dissolving such district, the said 
 Board may by their order empower the managers of such district to 
 sell and dispose of any laud, buildings, or other property belonging 
 
 * >;o\v the Local Government Board. See the Loral Government Board Act 1S71. s. 2.
 
 404 
 
 [Chap. 63.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Poor 
 Amendment Act 1869. 
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Provision for 
 the amalga- 
 mation of the 
 several parts 
 of a district 
 into one 
 union. 
 
 Provision for 
 parish work- 
 house in 
 unions upon 
 which union 
 money has 
 been ex- 
 pended. 
 
 Poor Law 
 Board em- 
 powered to 
 adjust parts 
 of divided 
 parishes. 
 
 Provision for 
 the dealing 
 with the 
 property 
 vested in a 
 board of 
 guardians of 
 a parish on 
 the dissolu- 
 tion of the 
 board. 
 
 to them, and to apply the produce thereof in discharge of the debts 
 and liabilities then outstanding against such managers, and to 
 distribute any surplus which may remain among the parishes or 
 unions comprised therein according to their original proportions, 
 and if the said district shall be dissolved before the same shall be 
 sold, the said Board may by their order empower the persons who 
 were the managers of the district at the time of its dissolution, or 
 the major part of them, to make such sale, and to convey the land 
 to the purchaser thereof, and to apply and distribute the produce 
 accordingly. \Part8 omitted (as to adjustmerd of 7ngkts and liabilities 
 of parishes and unions in any district dissolved and repeal of so 
 mucli of s. 32 of Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 as requires 
 the concurrence of two-thirds of the guardians in the dissolution) rej>. 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.B.), and hy the Poor Law {Dissolution of 
 School Districts and Adjustments) Act 1903).] 
 
 2. Where the union or unions and parish or parishes, or unions 
 or parishes, constituting any district formed under The Poor Law 
 Amendment Act, 1844, or under The Metro])olitan Poor Act, 1867, 
 shall have been or shall be formed into one union for the relief of 
 the poor, all the property, real and personal, of the board of managers 
 shall be transferred to, and shall vest in, the guardians of the said 
 union, and the liabilities, obligations, and debts of the said board 
 of managers shall be, in like manner, transferred to and be discharged 
 by the said guardians. 
 
 3. Where the guardians of any union shall at any time, under the 
 orders of the Poor Law Commissioners * or the Poor Law Board,* 
 have borrowed money and expended it upon the improvement or 
 enlargement of the workhouse or other property belonging to any 
 parish comprised within the union, and such workhouse or property 
 shall afterwards be sold or let, the guardians shall be entitled to 
 receive out of the purchase money or rents such an amount as in 
 the judgment of the Poor Law Board * shall appear reasonable, and 
 the same shall be appropriated for the benefit of the said union in 
 such manner as the said Board shall by their order direct. 
 
 4. Where several parts of any parish are sej^arated from one 
 another and it shall appear to the Poor Law Board * that the relief 
 to the poor in such j^arish can be better administered by means of a 
 readjustment of those parts, the said Board may, by an order under 
 seal, make a readjustment of such parts, by incorporation with an 
 adjoining parish or otherwise, in such manner as shall seem to them 
 to be most expedient. . . . \_Pa7't omitted, {as to adjustment of 
 rights and liabilities of parts of parishes affected) rep. by the Poor 
 Law {Dissolution of School Districts and Adjustments) Act 1903.] 
 
 5. Where upon the constitution of a board of guardians for any 
 parish under the order of the Poor Law Commissioners * or the 
 Poor Law Board * any workhouse, land, goods, etfects, or other real 
 or personal estate then vested in or belonging to any body or persons 
 in trust for the parish, became vested in or transferred to such 
 guardians, and the board so constituted has been or shall be dissolved 
 or has otherwise ceased or shall cease to exist, such workhouse, 
 land, goods, elfects, or other real or personal estate shall, upon such 
 dissolution or cessation, be by virtue of this Act revested in and 
 transferred to the body or persons if still subsisting in whom the 
 same were vested, or to whom the same belonged when any such 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2.
 
 ron Sr rto ^Trr.n.i ^^^ MetropoUtau Poor ^n ^-o -i tr.^ 
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] Amendment Act 1869. C^hap. 63.] 405 
 
 board was constituted, to be held upon the same trusts and with 
 the same riglits and obligations as existed when the property was 
 previously lield by such body or persons, and subject to all obliga- 
 tions lawi'iilly created by the said board wliile the same was vested 
 in them ; and if there should be no such body or ])ersons subsisting 
 in whom the same can be so vested, and as regards all jn'operty 
 acquired by the said board otherwise than as aforesaid, the same 
 shall in like manner, u})on such dissolution or cessation, vest in and 
 be transferred to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor, or 
 the overseers of the poor only, as the case may be, of the said parish, 
 upon such trusts, with the same rights and subject to the same 
 obligations as aforesaid. , . . \^Pa7't omitted {i-epeal of .•>•. 17 of 
 30 & 31 Vict. c. lOG) rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (^S.L.R.).'] 
 
 6. The qualification of managers referred to in section liJ of The Qualification 
 Metropolitan Poor Act, l«(i7, shall be deemed to have been and to '^^ ^^^^^^" 
 be that which the Poor Law Board * are empowered to prescribe by distrfcts™ 
 the twelfth section of the said Act. 
 
 7. When any parish or union comprised in a district formed as Provision for 
 aforesaid shall have been, or shall be added to a union, or shall be the acting 
 formed into a union with some other parish, without being separated aparlshln 
 from the district, every manager elected or nominated for such a district 
 parish or union shall continue to act as a member of the board of ^^^^^!"^^ 
 managers for such district until the term for which he was elected added to a 
 or nominated shall have exjjired, and the board of management union, 
 shall continue to be legally constituted, notwithstanding any such 
 
 change in the separate parishes or unions combined therein ; and 
 where the Poor Law Board * shall have nominated guardians in any 
 union or parish, the board of guardians shall continue to be legally 
 constituted, and such nominated guardians to be qualified to act 
 until the expiration of the term for which they were nominated, 
 notwithstanding any increase in the number of ex-officio guardians 
 in the meantime. 
 
 8. Every registrar of births and deaths or marriages acting for Registrars of 
 any district in a union or parish, on or after the twenty-fourth ^^^^^^^ ^°'^ 
 day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, shall be continue in 
 entitled to continue in office notwithstanding the dissolution of the office not- 
 union, or the addition or separation from a union of the parish or Y.^thstanding 
 j)arishes comprising the district for which he acts, to the same of union. 
 extent as if such dissolution, addition, or separation had not taken 
 
 place. . . . [^Fart omitted (as to registrars ivhose offices determine 
 before passing of Act^ rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 9. . . . The sums of money now borrowed or hereafter to be How loans in 
 borrowed by the managers of any district under the authority of ^,''*^"'''*^ t° 
 that or any subsequent Act shall, with interest thereon, be charged 
 
 upon and paid oif out of the common fund of the district. \_Part 
 omitted {^repeal of s. 17, par. 2, of 'iO & 31 Vict. c. 6) 7-ep. 46 & 47 
 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 10. \_S. 24 of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1868, extended 
 to auditors under 30 & 31 Vict. c. 6. Rep. 46 k 47 Vict. c. 39 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 11. The guardians of any union or parish and the managers of Guardians 
 anv school or asvlum district mav, with the consent of the Poor ^"l^'",'^.^!" 
 
 -r ' n t M. \ 1 • ' 1 • • ^ 1' i uiay provide 
 
 Law Board,* purchase, lure, or otherwise acquire and lit up and ships for the 
 
 furnish one or more ships to be used for the training of boys for training of 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2. ^^ service.
 
 406 
 
 [Chap. 63.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Poor 
 Amendment Act 1869. 
 
 [32 & 33 VicT.J 
 
 Where dis- 
 pensary pro- 
 vided the 
 establish- 
 ment of a 
 dispensary 
 committee 
 not to be 
 peremptory. 
 
 Where a 
 dispensary is 
 provided, 
 guardians 
 shall provide 
 a place for 
 the attend- 
 ance of sick 
 poor and 
 medical 
 officer. 
 
 If guardians 
 refuse or 
 neglect to 
 provide a 
 dispensary, 
 no allowance 
 to be made 
 out of Metro- 
 politan Com- 
 mon Fund for 
 medicinesand 
 medical offi- 
 cers salaries. 
 
 Vaccination 
 expenses. 
 
 Arrange- 
 ments with 
 public 
 general 
 hospitals. 
 
 Guardians 
 may provide 
 in their 
 workhouses 
 for the main- 
 tenance of 
 particular 
 classes of 
 poor, and 
 receive 
 therein poor 
 of the same 
 class from 
 other unions 
 and parishes. 
 
 the sea service, and every such ship shall be deemed to be a school 
 or asylum, as the case may be, within the meaning of " The Metro- 
 politan Poor Act, 1867," and the several Acts therein referred to as 
 " the Poor Law Acts " respectively. 
 
 12. AVhere the guardians of any union or parish provide a dis- 
 pensary for their union or parish, it shall not be necessary that a 
 dispensary committee shall be appointed for such dispensary unless 
 the guardians apply to tlie Poor Law Board * to issue an order for 
 that purpose and the Poor Law Board * issue such order accordingly, 
 
 13. If the guardians provide a place for the dispensing of medi- 
 cines for the relief of the sick poor of the union or parish, or of 
 a district therein, under the authority of any other Act than The 
 Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, they shall, if required by the Poor 
 Law Board * to do so, jDrovide a proper room at such place where the 
 medical officer of such union or parish, or of the district comprising 
 such place, may see such of the sick poor as attend there for advice, 
 and every medical officer of the union, parish, or district, as the 
 case may be, shall, personally or by his authorized substitute, 
 attend at that place during the times to be fixed for this purpose 
 by the said guardians with the approval of the Poor Law Board.* 
 
 14. If the guardians of any union or parish, after being required 
 by the said Board * to provide a dispensary under The Metropolitan 
 Poor Act, 1867, or under the authority of any other Act, neglect or 
 refuse to comply with such requisition, no repayment shall be made 
 from the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund to the guardians of such 
 union or parish in respect of any medicine or medical or surgical 
 appliances supplied by them to the poor of the union or parish, or 
 in respect of the salaries of the medical officers of such union or 
 parish, until the guardians provide a dispensary in conformity with 
 the requisition of the Poor Law Board,* from which time the right 
 to such repayment shall again accrue. 
 
 15. No expenses of vaccination shall be repaid out of the said 
 fund which shall have been incurred without the authority or 
 without the approval of the Poor Law Board.* 
 
 16. It shall be lawful for any board of guardians, with the 
 consent of the Poor Law Board,* to enter into arrangements with 
 any public general hospital or dispensary situate within the limits 
 of the parish or union for wliich the said board act, to receive and 
 treat pauper patients on terms to be arranged between the board 
 of guardians, with the sanction of the Poor Law Board,* and the 
 authorities of the hospital or dispensary, as the case may be. 
 
 17. The guardians of any union or parish may, with the approval 
 of the Poor Law Board,* set apart any ward or portion of their 
 workhouse for the reception of particular classes or descriptions of 
 poor persons, and provide separate maintenance and treatment for 
 them therein, subject to such regulations as the said Board may at 
 any time order or approve of, and may, with their consent, receive 
 and maintain therein any poor person of the same class or description 
 chargeable to any other union or parish upon such terms as shall 
 be mutually agreed upon by the respective boards of guardians ; 
 and every such poor person so received into such workhouse shall, 
 while therein, be treated in all respects in like manner, and be 
 subject to the same regulations and liabilities as the other poor 
 persons of the same class or condition, and shall be deemed to be 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2.
 
 r32&33ViCTl The Metropolitan Poor [Chap. 63.] 407 
 
 LO^ (X, oo viLi. J Amendment Act l^iy'^i. "- -^ 
 
 charfreable in the first instance to the common fund of the union 
 or to the parish in whose workiiouse such poor person shall be 
 received ; })rovided that the abiding of such poor person in such 
 workhouse shall in all other respects be attended with the same 
 le^al conse(|uences as if such workhf)Use had Iteen situated within 
 the union or ])arish from which such poor person shall have been 
 sent. 
 
 18. The compensation payable to any officer of a union or parish Compen^. 
 who shall be deprived of his office by reason of the parish being J.^^^'^^^^^ ^^ 
 added to or taken from a union, or tlie union ])eing dissolved or the Metropo- 
 altcred, and any com])ensation awarded by the Poor Law Board * litan i^'om- 
 under section one of this Act, shall be paid by the guardians of p^°^ "'"^ 
 such one of the parishes or unions affected by the addition, altera- 
 tion, or dissolution, as the Poor Law Board * may l)y order direct, 
 
 and sJiall be repaid to such guardians out of the jMetropolitan 
 Common Poor Fund. 
 
 19. In computing the time of the services of any officer of a Provision as 
 union or parish who shall be deprived of his office by reason of the J^nfeTf'"'^*"^ 
 parish being added to or taken from a union, or the union being service of 
 dissolved or altered, any period during whicli such officer shall have "®^^^ , 
 been in the service of a vestry, district boaril, or other parochial officTunder 
 board of the same jjarish shall, with the consent of such vestry, this Act. 
 district board, or other parochial board, be included. 
 
 20. \_Repeal of so much of s. 29 of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 6 as authorizes 
 the use of any as>/bim for the sick or insane as a medical school. 
 Rep. 46' & 47 Vict. c. 3U {S.L.R.). But see 52 & 53 Vict. c. 56, s. 4.] 
 
 21. The cost of the maintenance and instrnction of orphan or Maintenance 
 deserted children placed out by the guardians of any parish or c^^rg^^to 
 union, with the consent of the Poor Law Board,* shall be repaid to Common 
 the guardians from the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund. Fund. 
 
 22. When the boundaries between any two parishes are irregular Readjust- 
 or inconvenient, it shall be lawful for the vestries of such parishes ™oTndaries 
 to enter into an agreement to re-adjust such boundaries, and such between two 
 agreement shall be submitted to the Poor Law Board* for their parishes by 
 approval, and such Board shall, if they tiiink fit, by an order ander ^|gj^™^° 
 seal, confirm such agreement, and shall make such regulations for 
 
 the adjustment of the rights and liabilities of the parishes aflected 
 by the said order as the nature of the case shall in their judgment 
 require. \_See the Local Government Act, 1894, s. 36 (13) (see 
 Appendix), and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, «. 16 (1, c.).] 
 
 23. The term "common fund of the district" shall mean the Jnterpreta- 
 „ , . , , ^ ., . ,. ^, . , • 1 v • - tion clause, 
 fund raised by contributions from the unions and parishes lorming 
 
 the district assessed on and contributed by them in conformity with 
 the provisions of The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, and words in 
 this Act shall be construed in like manner as in The Metropolitan 
 Poor Act, 1S()7, and The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, and 
 subsequent Acts amending and extending the same, and the pro- 
 visions contained in the said several Acts and not repealed shall, so 
 far as they shall be consistent herewith, be extended to this Act. 
 
 24. This Act shall, except where otherwise provided, apply to the ^^^""^^^^ 
 metropolis only. metropolis. 
 
 25. This Act may be cited and described for all ]mrposes as The short title. 
 Metropolitan Poor Amendment Act, 1669. 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2.
 
 408 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Act to be 
 construed as 
 one with 
 25 & 26 Vict. 
 0. 103. and 
 27 & 28 Vict. 
 c. 39. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Extent of 
 Act. 
 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 120. 
 
 Definitions. 
 
 ' Metro- 
 polis : " 
 
 " Parish : " 
 
 " Union : " 
 
 " Kate- 
 payer : " 
 
 " Year : " 
 
 ' ' Surveyor 
 of taxes : " 
 
 " Overseers 
 
 " Vestry 
 clerk : " 
 
 CHAPTER 67. 
 
 An Act to provide for Uniformity in the Assessment of 
 Rateable Property in the Metropolis, \9itk August 1869.] 
 [Preamble rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (^.L.T?.)] 
 
 Preliminary. 
 
 1. The Union Assessment Committee Act, 1862,* is in this Act 
 referred to as " the principal Act ; " and the principal Act, and the 
 Union Assessment Committee Act, 1864,* (amending the same,) 
 shall for the purposes of this Act, and so far as is consistent with 
 the tenor thereof, be incorporated with this Act ; and the expression 
 " this Act " in the principal Act, and any expression referring to 
 the principal Act which occurs in the said Act amending the same, 
 or in any other Act or document, shall, as regards places to which 
 this Act extends, be construed to mean the principal Act as incor- 
 porated with this Act. 
 
 2. This Act (including the Acts incorporated herewith) may be 
 cited as The Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869. 
 
 3. This Act shall extend only to unions and parishes not in 
 union, which are for the time being either wholly or for the greater 
 part in value thereof respectively situate within the jurisdiction 
 of the Metropolitan Board of Works f appointed under The 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855. 
 
 4. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — 
 
 The term " metropolis " means the unions and parishes to which 
 this Act extends : 
 
 The term " parish " means any place for which a separate poor 
 rate is or can be made, or for which a separate overseer is or 
 can be aj^pointed : [See note o;z 6\ 158 ^ 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120 
 as to extra-parochial jdaces.'] 
 
 The term " union " means any union of parishes, and any parish 
 for which there is a separate assessment committee under 
 this Act and the Acts incorporated herewith : 
 
 The term " ratepayer " means every person who is liable to any 
 rate or tax in respect of property entered in any valuation 
 list : [See 47 & 48 Vict. c. 5, s. 2.] 
 
 The term " year " means the twelve months commencing with 
 the sixth of April and ending with the succeeding sixth of 
 April ; and words referring to a year refer to the same 
 period : 
 
 The term " surveyor of taxes " means any surveyor of taxes, 
 inspector of taxes, or other officer appointed or to be 
 appointed by the Commissioners either of Inland Revenue 
 or of Her Majesty's Treasury for the purposes of any tax 
 in respect of which a valuation list is by this Act made 
 conclusive : 
 
 The term " overseers " includes any person or body of persons 
 performing the duties of overseers so far as regards the 
 assessment, making, and collection of rates for the relief 
 of the poor : [See note on s. 158 of 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120 as 
 to extra-jmrochial places ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 11.] 
 
 The term " vestry clerk " means [the vestry clerk, if any, elected 
 under the Act of the session of the thirteenth and fourteenth 
 
 * See Appendix. 
 
 f Now tlie London County CounciL 
 
 See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 100.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [Chap. 67.] 409 
 
 years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty- 
 seven, or under a local Act, or, if there is no sucli clerk,] 
 the vestry clerk appointed under " The Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, 1855 " : \_Words in square brackets semhle spent. 
 See 62 <fe 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 4 and 31 (2).] 
 
 The term "hereditament" means any lands, tenements, here- " Heredita- 
 ditaments, and property which are liable to any rate or™^°*^- 
 tax in respect of which the valuation list is Ly this Act 
 made conclusive : 
 
 The term "gross value " means the annual rent which a tenant "Gross^^ 
 might reasonably be expected, taking one year with another, ^^"^^^ 
 to pay for an hereditament, if the tenant undertook to pay all 
 usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent- 
 charge, if any, and if the landlord undertook to bear the 
 cost of the repairs and insurance, and the other expenses, if 
 any, necessary to maintain the hereditament in a state to 
 command that rent : 
 
 The term " rateable value " means the gross value after deducting " Rateable 
 therefrom the probable annual average cost of the repairs, ^=^^^6." 
 insurance, and other expenses as aforesaid : 
 
 The Acts specified in the first schedule to this Act are in this 
 Act referred to by the short title placed opposite to them 
 in that schedule. 
 
 Assessment Committee. 
 5. Where, in any parish which is not included in any union Election of 
 formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, and the Acts commuSe 
 amending the same, there is for the time being a vestry elected in single 
 according to the provisions of the Metropolis Management Act, Parish where 
 lb55, but no assessment committee under the principal Act, the ygstry.^ ^ 
 following provisions shall have effect : 
 
 (1.) Where in any such parish there is a board of guardians 
 having power under any local Act to make the rates for 
 the relief of the poor that board of guardians shall appoint 
 an assessment committee. 
 (2.) Where any two of such parishes are united under a local 
 Act for the purpose of assessing or making the rates for 
 the relief of the poor, the guardians for such united 
 parishes elected in pursuance of the Poor Law Amend- 
 ment Act, 1834, and the Acts amending the same, shall 
 appoint an assessment committee : 
 (3.) In cases other than those before mentioned the vestry of 
 such parish shall appoint an assessment committee : \_See 
 62 k 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 4 and 13.] 
 (4.) In . . . every . . . year, the body who appoint an assess- 
 ment committee under this section shall on a day fixed by 
 such body between the fifteenth and twenty-ninth of April 
 in that vear, or some other dav fixed by the Poor Law 
 Board,* hold a meeting, and appoint from among them- 
 selves an assessment committee (consisting of not less 
 than six nor more than twelve in number) in the same 
 manner, as near as may be, as if the parish or united 
 parishes were an union and the appointing body a board 
 of guardians within the meaning of tlie principal Act. 
 
 * Now the Local Government Boartl. See the Local Government Board Act, 1871, 
 s. 2.
 
 410 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Making of 
 
 valuation 
 
 lists. 
 
 Valuation 
 lists to be 
 dealt with 
 under 25 & 
 26 Vict. c. 103, 
 ss. 17 to 21. 
 
 Duplicate 
 sent to sur- 
 veyor o£ 
 taxes. 
 
 Notice to 
 occupier of 
 alteration of 
 value, etc. 
 
 [ Woids omitted (" the first year after the passing of this 
 Act and^'' and '"'■ subsequent'''') rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 
 {S.L.R:)?^ 
 
 All the provisions of this Act and the Acts incorporated herewith 
 shall — 
 
 («.) in cases where the assessment committee is appointed by 
 guardians under this section be construed as if such 
 g.uardians, and the monies applicable by such guardians 
 for the relief of the poor were the guardians mentioned 
 in the principal Act and the common fund ; and — 
 
 ((^.) in cases where the assessment committee is appointed by the 
 vestry be construed, so far as is consistent with the tenor 
 thereof, as if the terms vestry,* members of the vestry, 
 vestry clerk, assistant vestry clerk, and monies applicable 
 to the payment of the expenses of a vestry under the 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, were respectively sub- 
 stituted for the terms board of guardians, guardians, clerk 
 of the board of guardians, assistant clerk of the board of 
 guardians, and common fund, but nothing in such Acts 
 relating to ex-officio guardians shall have any application 
 in the case of a vestry. 
 
 \_Amended 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 13 and 31 (2).] 
 
 Making of Valuation Lists. 
 
 6. The overseers of every parish to which this Act extends, 
 within the time in this Act mentioned, shall make and sign a 
 valuation list of their parish in duplicate, in accordance with this 
 Act. \_See s. 42.] 
 
 7. After the valuation list is signed by the overseers the same 
 proceedings shall be had as are directed by the seventeenth, 
 eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first sections of the 
 
 ■ principal Act, subject to the alterations made by this Act. 
 
 8. The overseers shall send one duplicate of the valuation list 
 to the surveyor of taxes of the district at the same time that the 
 other duplicate is deposited by them. The surveyor of taxes shall 
 insert in the duplicate so sent to him the amount in his opinion of 
 the gross value of the hereditaments comprised in such list where 
 such amount differs from the amount inserted by the overseers, and 
 shall transmit the duplicate to the assessment committee within 
 twenty-eight days after he has received the same. 
 
 9. In each of the following cases ; namely, 
 
 (1.) Where the overseers of the parish insert in the valuation 
 list some hereditament not previously assessed, or raise 
 the gross or rateable value of some hereditament above 
 the value stated in the valuation list for the time being 
 in force or (where there is no valuation list) in the then 
 last assessment to the poor rate, or 
 (2.) Where the assessment committee (otherwise than in deter- 
 mining an objection) alter a valuation list by inserting 
 therein some hereditament, or by raising the gross or 
 rateable value of some hereditament comprised therein, 
 the overseers shall immediately after the deposit or re-deposit of the 
 list (as the case may be) serve on the occupier of such hereditament 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Borough Council. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [Chap. 67.] 411 
 
 a notice of the gross and rateable valae thereof inserted in the 
 valuation list. \_See also 47 & 48 Vict. c. 5, s. 2.] 
 
 10. The notice of the deposit and re-deposit of the valuation list ^'o^i^e to 
 published by the overseers shall state the tinaes at which and the aj^j*jjjQ™g ^^f 
 mode in which objections are to be made. objection. 
 
 11. Objections may be made before the assessment committee Grounds on 
 by any jierson authorised by this Act and the Acts incorj^orated ^^f'^^^' 
 herewith to object who feels himself aggrieved by reason of the object before 
 unfairness or incorrectness of the valuation of any hereditament, or a:'sessraent 
 by reason of the insertion or incorrectness of any matter in the committee, 
 valuation list, or bv reason of the ouiission of anv matter therefrom, 
 
 or by reason of such a valuation list as is required by this Act not 
 having been transmitted by the overseers to the assessment com- 
 mittee. The notice of objection shall specify the correction which 
 tiio objector desires to be made. 
 
 12. A surveyor of taxes, and any ratepayer in the parish, shall have ^^"^^^^3°^^°^ 
 the same right of inspecting, c()pying,tHking extracts from, and object- may inspect, 
 ing to any valuation list which relates to his district or parish as is copy, and 
 given to any person by this Act and the Acts incorporated herewith. y^i^^^jiQQ 
 
 13. If the overseers of any parish fail to transmit such a valuation list. 
 
 list as is required by this Act, the assessment committee shall if overseers 
 
 appoint some person to make a valuation list, and mav allow such ^^o not trans- 
 t . . 11.. 1- 'iii-i-i mitlist, com- 
 
 person such remuneration m addition to his expenses as tney tnink' mittee to 
 
 fit ; and all expenses incurred by the assessment committee in appoint a 
 
 pursuance of this section shall be paid by the guardians, and ^^^^^ **^ 
 
 charged by them to such parish. 
 
 The person so appointed shall have for the purposes of this section 
 
 the same powers and duties as overseers, and the valuation list so 
 
 made shall be dealt with in the like manner as if it had been duly 
 
 made and transmitted by the overseers. 
 
 14. The assessment committee, within the time in this Act t^o^b^e^r'jws^d? 
 mentioned, shall revise the valuation list in accordance with this certified, and 
 Act and the Acts incorporated herewith. When they have finally sent to over- 
 aj)proved such valuation list, they shall cause the totals of the gross *^^^®' ^*^- 
 and rateable value in such list to be ascertained and inserted in the 
 
 list, and three members of the committee present at the meeting 
 at which the list is finally approved shall sign at the foot thereof 
 such declaration of ap{)roval and certificate of com])liance with this 
 Act as is contained in Part One of the second schedule to this Act. 
 One duplicate, so certified, shall be sent to the clerk of the managers 
 of the metropolitan asylum district,* and tlie other duplicate to the 
 overseers of the parish to which it relates. \_See s. 42 ; 56 &, 57 
 Vict. c. ccxxi. .s". 14 ; and t/ie Agricultural Mates Act IbUO, .s-. 5 {/j). 
 (See page 428).] 
 
 15. The overseers of the parish, on receiving the duplicate of J^^f^^'J^^^ 
 the valuation list so sent to them by the assessment committee, shall jj^^ ineacii 
 immediately deposit it in the place in which the rate books of the parish, 
 parish are kept, and shall publish notice of such depc^sit, and of 
 
 the time and mode of making aj)peals, and of the grounds on which 
 an appeal is allowed by this Act to be made. 
 
 16. The certified valuation list so sent to the clerk of the jjg^ ^^ ^gj^g 
 
 managers of the metropolitan asylum district * by the assessment of the 
 
 committee shall be deposited at the oftice of such managers,! and managers of 
 
 ^ " metropolitan 
 
 * Now the Clerk of the London County Council. See 51 .&: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 44. asylum 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 44. district.
 
 412 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 &33 Vict.] 
 
 Printing and 
 distribution 
 of totals of 
 gross and 
 rateable 
 value in 
 valuation list 
 
 Holding of 
 special ses- 
 sion to hear 
 appeals. 
 
 Persons en- 
 titled to 
 appeal to 
 special 
 sessions. 
 
 Extent of 
 jurisdiction 
 of special 
 sessions. 
 
 Powers of 
 
 special 
 
 sessions. 
 
 within the time in this Act mentioned shall be returned by such 
 clerk to the same assessment committee. 
 
 17. The clerk of the managers of the metropolitan asylum dis- 
 trict* shall, within the time in this Act mentioned, cause the totals 
 of the gross and rateable values of all the valuation lists to be 
 printed, and a printed copy of all such totals to be sent to every 
 assessment committee, and the overseers of every parish in the 
 metropolis and in every county in which any parish to which any 
 of such totals relate is situate, to the clerks of the peace for every 
 such county, to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, the 
 Corporation of the City of London, . . . every district board in the 
 metropolis, and the Poor Law Board.! Every assessment com- 
 mittee, overseer, and ratepayer within the metropolis and every such 
 county shall respectively be entitled to have printed copies of such 
 totals on payment of one penny for each copy of all the said totals. 
 [ Words omitted (" the Metropolitan Board, of Works ") semhle obsolete ; 
 see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 (8) and 44. As to district boards, 
 see 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.] 
 
 Appeals. — Special Session. 
 
 18. In every petty sessional division in the metropolis the 
 Justices of the Peace acting in and for such division shall, in every 
 year at the time mentioned in this Act, hold a special sessions for 
 hearing appeals under this Act against the valuation lists of the 
 several parishes within such division. \_See s. 42.] 
 
 19. Any ratepayer and any overseers of a parish, so far as 
 respects the valuation list of such parish, and any surveyor of taxes, 
 so far as respects the valuation list of any parish in the petty 
 sessional division, may, if he or they feel aggrieved by any decision 
 of the assessment committee on an objection made with respect to 
 the unfairness or incorrectness of the valuation of any hereditament 
 included in such list, but not otherwise, appeal against such decision 
 to the special sessions. The right to appeal to special sessions shall 
 not deprive a person of any other right of appeal conferred on him 
 by this Act. \_See 47 Vict. c. 5, s. 2."] 
 
 20. The Justices in special sessions under this Act shall not hear 
 any appeal touching any matter with respect to which notice of 
 appeal to the general assessment sessions % has been served in 
 manner prescribed by this Act, and shall not hear any appeal 
 touching any part or alter any part of the valuation list except the 
 part relating to the value of an hereditament ; and a decision of 
 such Justices and an alteration by them of the value of an heredita- 
 ment in the valuation list of any parish shall affect only the rights 
 of the ratepayers of such parish among themselves, and shall not of 
 itself in any way alter the totals of the gross or rateable value of 
 such list as settled by the assessment committee, but may form a 
 reason for an appeal against such totals to the assessment sessions 
 and superior court as herein-after mentioned. 
 
 21. The Justices in special sessions under this Act may adjourn 
 their court from time to time, as may be necessary for the per- 
 
 * Now the Clerk of the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 44. 
 
 t Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, 
 s. 2. 
 
 X Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 42, and the Scheme of the London County Council made thereunder on the 
 1st March, 1892.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [Chap. 67.] 413 
 
 formance of their duties nnder this Act. They shall have with 
 respect to the attendance and examination of witnesses, the taking 
 of evidence, the keeping order in conrt, the enforcing their orders, 
 and all matters necessary for the execution of their duties under 
 this Act, the same powers and jurisdiction as if they were assembled 
 in ])etty sessions. 
 
 22. The Justices in special sessions shall send a written notice Notice by 
 of the time and place at which they will hold a special sessions g^g^/*,^^ c 
 for the purpose of hearing appeals with respect to any parish time of 
 
 to the overseers of such parish, who shall j)nblish it as soon as it is sitting, 
 received by them. 
 
 Appeals. — Assess7nent Sessions* 
 
 23. For the purpose of hearing appeals under this Act against Court of 
 any valuation list in the metropolis, the Justices of the Peace g'-'^erai 
 appointed as herein-after mentioned shall at the time mentioned sessions, 
 in this Act assemble and hold a court of general assessment 
 sessions * (in this Act referred to as the assessment sessions). \_See 
 
 s. 42.] 
 
 24. [^Appoifitment of members of general assessment sessions. 
 Superseded 51 & .52 Vict. c. 41, s. 42.] 
 
 25. The Justices in assessment sessions * may from time to time Officers of 
 a})point, with the consent of the Poor Law Board,t a clerk, and fg^Jsg^gnt 
 other persons to assist them in the performance of their duties sessions, 
 under this Act, and may assign him or them such remuneration and 
 
 such duties as the Poor Law Board f may approve. 
 
 26. The Justices in assessment sessions * may from time to time Chairman, 
 appoint one of their own number to act as their chairman, \ who po^^e"r™'o£° 
 shall have a second or casting vote, and they may from time to general 
 time determine on their quorum so that it be not less than three. assessment 
 
 The Court of General Assessment Sessions * may adjourn from ^^^^^°'^- 
 time to time, as may be necessary for the performance of their 
 duties under this Act, and (for the purpose of giving judgment 
 only) from place to place in the metropolis. They shall with 
 respect to the attendance and examination of witnesses, to the 
 taking of evidence, to the keeping of order in court, to contempt 
 of court, to the enforcement of their orders, and to all matters 
 necessary for the execution of their duties under this Act, have the 
 same jurisdiction and powers and be in the same position as a Court 
 of Quarter Sessions ; and, subject to the express provisions of this 
 Act, shall conduct their proceedings, be convened, and be in the 
 same position, as near as may be, as if they were a Court of Quarter 
 Sessions. 
 
 27. The Justices in assessment sessions * may, with the approval Orders as to 
 of one of Her Maiesty's ])rincipal Secretaries of State, make orders proceedings 
 from time to time for the i)ur})0se of regulating the ])roceedings nizances on 
 on appeals to them under this Act, and for determining the appeals, 
 recognizances (if any) to be entered into by appellants in the case 
 
 of appeals either to special sessions or to the assessment 
 sessions.* 
 
 * Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 i*»; 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 42, and the Scheme of the London County Council made thereunder on the 
 1st March, 1892. 
 
 t Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, 
 s. 2. 
 
 $ See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 42, and 59 &. 60 Vict. c. 65, s. 2.
 
 414 [Chap. 67.] TI>e Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Fees on ap- 
 peals under 
 Act. 
 
 Places for 
 
 hearing 
 
 appeals. 
 
 Public notice 
 of times of 
 holding 
 courts to be 
 given. 
 
 Summons 
 of certain 
 officers as 
 witnesses. 
 
 Persons 
 entitled to 
 appeal to 
 asses.sment 
 sessions. 
 
 28. The Justices in assessment sessions * may make a table of 
 the fees which in their opinion should be paid to the clerks of special 
 sessions and to the clerk of assessment sessions * in the case 
 of appeals under this Act, and shall lay such table before one 
 of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State in the same manner 
 as the Justices at quarter sessions may make and lay before such 
 Secretary of State a table of fees, and all the provisions of section 
 thirty of the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years 
 of Her Majesty's reign, chapter forty-three, (which section relates 
 to a table of fees and to the prohibition of clerks taking other fees,) 
 shall apply in the case of a table of fees made, and the business 
 done by the said clerks under this Act. 
 
 All fees paid in the case of appeals to the assessment sessions * 
 shall be paid to the account of the Receiver of the Metropolitan 
 Common Poor Fund, and shall be so paid and taken and accounted 
 for in such manner as the Poor Law Board f may from time to time 
 by order prescribe. 
 
 29. The Justices in assessment sessions * shall from time to time 
 appoint the place in the metropolis where the appeals relating to 
 each parish in the metropolis are to be heard, and may, if they think 
 fit, divide the metropolis into districts for the purpose of appeals, 
 and appoint one or more places for every such district. 
 
 30. The Justices in assessment sessions * shall cause public 
 notice to be given of the several times at which they will sit at the 
 several places appointed for the hearing of appeals ; such notice 
 may be given under the hand of their clerk, and shall be given 
 by advertisement in some newspaper circulating generally in the 
 metropolis and by sending a cojjy of such notice to every surveyor 
 of taxes in the metropolis, to every assessment committee which 
 would have a right to appeal at such court, and to the overseers of 
 every parish to which any appeal relates, and to all the j^arties to 
 the appeal. 
 
 The overseers shall publish the notice as soon as it is received 
 by them. 
 
 31. The Justices in assessment sessions * may order any clerk 
 to the Commissioners of Taxes, any surveyor of taxes, clerk of 
 assessment committee, overseer, assistant overseer, or like officer in 
 the metropolis to produce any documents relating to rates or taxes 
 which such .Justices may consider necessary for determining an 
 appeal, and do not relate to profits of trade or of concerns in the 
 nature of trade. 
 
 Any person who refuses, after tender of a reasonable sum for his 
 expenses, 'to obey any order under this section shall be liable (on 
 summary conviction before the Justices in assessment sessions * or 
 any other two Justices) to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 32. Any ratepayer and any surveyor of taxes, and any overseer, 
 with the consent of the vestry of his parish, who may feel aggrieved 
 by any decision of the assessment committee, on an objection made 
 before them to which he was a party, or by any decision of special 
 sessions, whether he was a party or not, may appeal against such 
 decision to the assessment sessions.* 
 
 Any assessment committee in the metropolis, or in the county in 
 
 * Now the Quarter Se.ssions for the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 42, and the Scheme of the London County Council made thereunder on the 
 1st March, 1892. 
 
 f Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871, s. 2.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuatioyi {Metropolis) Act 1%^. [Chap. 07.] 415 
 
 which the parish to which the appeal relates is situate, any over- 
 Beers in the nietropoJis or such county, with the consent of the vestry 
 of their parish, any ratej)ayer in the metropolis or such county, 
 and any body of persons authorised by law to levy rates or require 
 contributions payable out of rates in the metropolis or such county, 
 may ap[)eal to the assessment sessions,* if they or he feel aggrieved 
 by reason — 
 
 (1.) Of the total (^f the gross value of any ])arish being too high 
 or too low ; 
 
 (2.) Of the total of the rateable value of any parish being too 
 high or too low ; or 
 
 (3.) Of there being no ai)proved valuation list for some parish. 
 [^Amended 47 Vict. c. 5, s. 2. See also 51 & 52 Vict. (?. 41, s. 40 (2) ; 
 and (J2 & 63 Vict. c. 14, .s. 11.] 
 
 Proceedings on Appeals. 
 
 33. Notice in writing of every appeal, whether to special sessions ^'otice of 
 or the assessment sessions,* si)ecifying the correction which the l^H^^x o*J 
 a})pellant desires to have made in the valuation list, must be served, assessment 
 within the time in this Act mentioned, on the following persons ; sessions, 
 namely, 
 
 In all cases on the surveyor of taxes of the district to which the 
 appeal relates, and on the clerk of the assessment committee 
 which approved the list wholly or partly questioned by the 
 appeal : 
 When the appeal relates to the unfairness or incorrectness of the 
 valuation of, or to the omission of an hereditament occupied 
 by any person other than the appellant, or to the incorrect- 
 ness of any matter stated in the list with respect to any such 
 hereditaaient, then on such person : 
 If an assessment committee or a surveyor of taxes is the appellant, 
 then also on the overseers of the parish to which the appeal 
 relates : 
 Provided that it shall not be necessary to serve any notice of appeal 
 on the surveyor of taxes in any case in which the appeal relates 
 only to the rateable value of any hereditament. 
 
 The clerk of the assessment committee, on receiving notice of 
 an appeal, shall forthwith serve notice thereof on the clerk of the 
 special sessions or of the assessment sessions,* as the case may 
 re(inire. \_See s. 42, and 47 Vict. c. 5, s. 3.] 
 
 34. The Justices in special sessions and in assessment sessions * Sessions to 
 
 respectively shall, in open court, hear and determine all appeals ^^^^ ^"^ 
 ■t \ , 1 1- ,\ • 1 1 .1 . , ^\, determine 
 
 brought l)etore tliom in such order as they may respectively trom appeals, and 
 
 time to time appoint. They may adjourn the hearing from time alter list 
 
 to time, and to any day not later than the day before whicli all accordingly. 
 
 appeals to them are required by this Act to be heard ; and in the 
 
 case of assessment sessions * for the purpose of obtaining the 
 
 decision of any superior court to any day necessary for that jnir- 
 
 pose ; and if from accident or mistake due notice of appeal has 
 
 not been given, or if an additional notice of appeal appears to be 
 
 reipiired, they may, if they think it just, order notice of appeal to 
 
 be given. They may confirm or alter the valuation list, so far as 
 
 it is questioned by the appeal, in such manner as they think just, 
 
 but shall not make any alteration in contravention of this Act. 
 
 * Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 42, and the Scheme of the London County Council made thereunder on the 
 1st March, 1S92.
 
 416 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Making of 
 valuation list 
 where none 
 approved. 
 
 Assessment 
 sessions may, 
 on applica- 
 tion of party 
 to appeal, 
 order valua- 
 tion. 
 
 Adjournment 
 to receive 
 valuation list 
 or valuation. 
 
 Valuation to 
 be in writing, 
 person 
 making it to 
 have power 
 to enter. 
 
 Costs of 
 appeal. 
 
 Appeal from 
 decision of 
 assessment 
 sessions on 
 points of law. 
 
 The clerk of the assessment committee, or some deputy allowed by 
 the assessment committee, shall attend the court with the valuation 
 list to which the appeal relates, and any alteration shall be made by 
 the Justice acting as chairman * of the sessions in that list, and the 
 said Justice shall place his initials against such alteration. \_See 
 s. 42 (13).] 
 
 35. If it appears to the Justices in assessment sessions f on any 
 appeal that there is no approved valuation list for some parish, they 
 may appoint some proper person (with such remuneration as they 
 may appoint) to make a valuation list. Such person shall have for 
 that purpose the same powers and duties as overseers. 
 
 The valuation list so made shall be deposited and otherwise made 
 known to the persons interested in such manner as the court may 
 direct, but in manner as near as may be as is provided in this Act 
 with respect to the list originally made. 
 
 The costs of making such valuation list shall be paid by the 
 assessment committee who failed to approve the list, and shall be 
 deemed part of their expenses under the principal Act. 
 
 36. If any of the parties to the appeal apply to the Justices in 
 assessment sessions f to direct a valuation of any hereditament 
 with respect to which any appeal may be made, and if such appli- 
 cant or applicants give such security as the court think proper to 
 pay the costs of the valuation, the court may, in their discretion, 
 appoint some proper person to make such valuation. 
 
 37. Where the court appoint a person to make a valuation list 
 or a valuation, they may fix some subsequent day, either before 
 or after the day before which all appeals are required by this Act 
 to be heard, for receiving such valuation list or valuation, and may 
 adjourn the hearing to that day. 
 
 38. The person so appointed to make a valuation shall make his 
 valuation in writing signed by him, showing the particulars of the 
 hereditaments comprised therein, and the amounts at which he has 
 valued the same respectively. 
 
 Such person may at all reasonable times, with or without assis- 
 tants, enter ui)on any of the hereditaments directed to be valued, 
 and may do thereon all acts necessary for completing the valuation. 
 
 39. The costs of any appeal, including the costs of any such 
 valuation as aforesaid, shall be in the discretion of the Justices in 
 special or assessment sessions f (as the case may be), and shall be 
 awarded by them to be paid by such parties to the appeal, and in 
 such proportions, as they think just. 
 
 Costs (including the costs of making a valuation) so ordered to 
 be paid may be recovered as if they had been awarded by a Court of 
 Quarter Sessions, and when ordered to be jiaid by parties other than 
 a ratepayer shall be paid as in this Act mentioned. 
 
 40. The same proceedings may be had by special case and 
 certiorari or otherwise, for questioning any decision of the Justices 
 in assessment sessions, f as may be had for questioning any 
 decision of the Justices in general or quarter sessions, provided 
 that every such certiorari shall be sued out within three months 
 after the decision is given. 
 
 At any time after notice given of appeal under this Act to the 
 
 * See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 42 ; and 59 & 60 Vict. c. 55, s. 2. 
 
 f Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 42, and the Scheme of the London County Council made thereunder on the 
 1st March, 1892.
 
 [32(!St 33 ViOT.] The Valuation (Meiropotis) Ad 186'9. [Chap. 67.] 4l7 
 
 assessment sessions,* it shall be lawful for the parties, by consent 
 and b}' order of any judge of one of the superior courts of conunon 
 law at \Vestniinster,f to state the facts of the case in the form of a 
 special case for the opinion of any of those courts, and to agree that 
 a judgment in conformity with tiie decision of that court, and for 
 such costs as that court may adjudge, may be entered on the appli- 
 cation of either party at the meeting of the Justices in assessment 
 sessions * next or next but one after such decision has been given, 
 and such judgment may be entered accordingly, and shall be of the 
 same effect in all respects as if the same iiad been given l)y the 
 assessment sessions* upon an appeal duly brought before them 
 and adjourned ; and the Justices shall, if necessary, hold a sessions 
 or an adjourned sessions for this purpose. 
 
 Notice in writing of the decision of any superior court in pur- 
 suance of this section shall be served by tlie clerk of the assessment 
 sessions on the assessuient committee which approvetl the list 
 (questioned on the appeal to such court. 
 
 41. Notice of every alteration in the valuation list, which altera- Notice of 
 tion is made in consequence of anv decision on any api)eal to tlie ^i'^«'''^^'o° ^^f 
 
 • 1 • ^, ■ " * -'^ill list to be seut 
 
 special sessions, assessment sessions,* or a superior court, shall, ^^ overseers 
 as soon as possible, be sent in writing by the clerk of the assessment 
 committee to the overseers and surveyor of taxes of the parish and 
 district respectively to which the list which is so altered relates, 
 and such alteration shall be entered by the clerk of the assessment 
 committee and by the overseers on the duplicates respectively 
 de])osited with them. 
 
 Notice of every alteration in the total of the gross and rateable 
 value of any valuation list, which alteration is made in consequence 
 of any decision on any appeal to the assessment sessions * or a 
 superior court, shall as soon as possible be sent in writing by the 
 clerk of the assessment committee to the clerk of the managers of 
 the metro[>olitan asylum district,;): and the clerk of such managers * 
 shall send in writing such altered total to every person and body of 
 persons who has power to levy or make any rate or assessment or 
 require any contribution based on such total. 
 
 Times J or TroceeJinys. 
 
 42. With respect to the times within which proceedings under Times witL- 
 this Act and the Acts incorporated herewith are to be done, the p"oceed^ii?s 
 following provisions shall have effect ; that is to say, in making 
 
 (1 .) Theoverseers shall make anddepositthe valuation listbeforethe valuatiou list 
 lirst of June in the first year after the passing of this Act : ^^e^ 
 
 (2.) The overseers shall transmit the valuation list to the assess- 
 ment committee not sooner than fourteen and not later 
 than seventeen days after notice is given of the deposit of 
 such list : 
 
 (3.) Notice of any objection by any person other than the sur- 
 veyor of taxes and the overseers shall be given before the 
 expiration of twenty-five days after the list is deposited : 
 
 (4.) The assessment committee shall revise the valuation list 
 before the lirst of October in the same year, and before 
 the same day, but not less than sixteen days after the 
 
 * Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 & 32 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 42; and the Scheme of the London Countv Council made thereunder on the 1st 
 March, isy2. 
 
 •f Now the High Court of Justice. See the Judicature Act 1873, ss. 3 and 4. 
 
 J Now the Clerk of the London County Council. See 51 i: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 44. 
 
 27
 
 418 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Duration of 
 
 valuation 
 
 list. 
 
 Rate to be 
 levied not- 
 withstanding 
 appeal. 
 
 transmission of the list to them by the overseers, shall 
 hold a meeting- for hearing objections to such list : 
 
 (5.) The assessment committee shall give notice of a meeting for 
 hearing objections to a list not less than sixteen days 
 before such meeting : 
 
 (6.) Notice of objection with respect to any list by the surveyor 
 of taxes and by the overseers shall be given not less than 
 seven days before the meeting at which objections to such 
 list will be heard by the assessment committee : 
 
 (7.) The assessment committee shall send the valuation list to be 
 re-deposited within three days after it is approved by 
 them, and shall appoint a day not less than fourteen nor 
 more than twenty-eight days after such re-deposit for 
 hearing objections to the alterations, of which objections 
 seven days notice shall be given by the objector : 
 
 (8.) The assessment committee shall finally approve and send 
 the valuation list to the overseers, and the clerk of the 
 managers of the metropolitan asylum district,* before the 
 first of November in the same year : 
 
 (9.) Notices of appeal to special sessions shall be given on or 
 before the twenty-first of November in the same year : 
 
 (10.) The Justices may hold the special sessions at any time after 
 the thirtieth of November in the same year, which will 
 enable them to determine all appeals before the ensuing 
 first of January : 
 
 (11.) The clerk of the said managers * shall send out the printed 
 totals before the first of December in the same year, and 
 shall return the valuation list to the assessment committee 
 not sooner than fourteen nor later than twenty-one days 
 after the totals are sent out : \_See the AgricMltural Rates 
 Act 1896, 6". 5 {b). {See p. 428.)] 
 
 (12.) Notices of appeals to assessment sessions! shall be given 
 on or before the fourteenth of January in the same year : 
 
 (13.) The Justices may hold the assessment sessions f at any time 
 after the first of February in the same year, which will 
 enable them to determine all appeals (except where a 
 valuation list or valuation is ordered) before the ensuing 
 thirty-first of March : 
 
 (14.) Notice of the times at which the assessment sessions t will 
 be held at each place shall be given by the clerk ten days 
 at least before the first court is held. 
 
 Effect of Valuation List. 
 
 43. The valuation list as approved by the assessment committee, 
 and, if altered on any appeal under this Act to any sessions or a 
 superior court, as so altered, shall come into force at the beginning 
 of the year (commencing on the sixth of Ai)ril) succeeding that in 
 which it is made, and shall last for five years, subject to any 
 alterations that may be made by any supplemental or provisional 
 list as herein-after mentioned. 
 
 44. Notwithstanding any appeal under this Act which may be 
 pending at the commencement of the year, the valuation list 
 shall come into force unaltered, and every assessment, contribution, 
 
 * Now the Clerk of the London County Council. See 51 k. 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 44. 
 
 t Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 42 ; and the Scheme of the London County Council made thereunder on the 1st 
 March, 1892.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation (Metropolis) Act \Hm. [Chap. 07.] 419 
 
 rate, and fax in respect of which the vahiatiou list is conclusive 
 sliall l)e made, re(|nin'd, levied, and paid in accordance with such 
 valuation list ; and wliere in conse<[Uence of tlie decision on any 
 appeal under this Act to assessment sessions * or a superior court 
 an alteration in sucli valuation list is made which alters the amount 
 of the assessment, conti'ibutiini, rate, or tax levied thereunder, the 
 difference, if too much has been paid, shall be repaid or allowed, 
 and if too little, shall be deemed to be arrears of the assessment, 
 contribution, rate, or tax (excejit so far as any penalty is incurred 
 on account of arrears j, and shall ])e paid and recovered accordingly. 
 
 45. The valuation list for the time being in force shall be Valuation 
 deemed to have been duly made in accordance with this Act and the ''""^ ^o be 
 Acts incorporated herewith, and shall for all or any of the purposes fo"purposes 
 in this section mentioned be conclusive evidence of the gross value of certain 
 and of the rateable value of the several hereditaments included rates taxes, 
 therein, and of the fact that all hereditaments required to be cation^^'^' 
 inserted therein have been so inserted : that is to sav, 
 
 (1.) For the purpose of any of the following rates which are 
 made during the year that tlie list is in force, namely, the 
 county rate, the metropolitan police rate, the church rate, 
 the highway rate, the poor rate, the police, sewers, con- 
 solidated and other rates in the city of London, the sewers, 
 ligliting, general, and other rates levied by order of 
 district boards f or vestries, f the . . . sums assessed on any 
 part of the metropolis by the Metropolitan Board of Works,;^ 
 assessments for contributions under the Metropolitan Poor 
 Act, 1807, and ever}' other rate, assessment, and con- 
 tribution levied, made, and required in the metropolis 
 on the basis of value : [ITorr/.s- omitted {^^ main drainage 
 improvement ami other rates and''') superseded 51 & 52 
 Vict.c. 41, ss. 3 (1) andm']. 
 (2.) For the purpose of any of the following taxes which become 
 chargeable during the year that the list is in force ; namely, 
 
 (j:(.) The tax on houses levied under the House Tax Act . 
 
 and the Acts therein incorporated or referred to : ^ ;^'g g^p 
 (J).) Any tax assessed in pursuance of the Income Tax . ' 
 
 Act, and any Acts continuing or amending the c. 35., etc. 
 same, on any lands, tenements, and heredita- 
 ments, in all cases where the tax is charged on 
 the gross value, and not on profits : 
 (3.) For the purpose of determining, so far as it is applicable, 
 the value of any hereditament included therein for the 
 jiurposes of the Acts relating to the sale of exciseable 
 li(|Uors, to the (jualification of a juror, . . . and of a 
 manager under the "Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834," 
 or the " Metropolitan Poor Act, 1807," at any time at 
 which such value is re(|uired to be ascertainetl : \_Part 
 omitted {af< to (pialijications of vestrymen and auditors under 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 12U, and of guardians) superseded by the 
 Local Government Act 1894, ss. 2U, 23, and 31 {see 
 Appendix); and 02 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (5) & 14; and see 
 ibid. s. 10 (1).] 
 
 * Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 ^*«: 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 42; and the Scheme of the London County Council made thereunder on the 1st 
 March, li>02. 
 
 t Now the Councils of the Metropolitan Boroughs. See G2 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4, 
 
 X Now the Loudon County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 c 
 
 420 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Yict.] 
 
 10 Geo. 4. And in construing the Metropolitan Police Act and the Acts 
 
 ^- *■*• amending the same, the last valuation for the time being acted 
 
 u])on in assessing the county rate shall be deemed to mean the 
 
 valuation list for the time being in force : 
 i5&i6Tict. And in construing the County Rate Act* and Acts referring to 
 c. 81., etc. |.jjp valuation, estimate, basis, or standard for the county rate, the 
 
 valuation, estimate, basis, or standard shall be deemed to be the 
 
 rateable value stated in such list : 
 14 & 15 Yict. And in construing the House Tax Act and the Acts therein 
 c. 36., etc. incorporated or referred to, the full and just yearly rent shall be 
 
 deemed to be the gross value stated in such list : 
 5 & 6 Yict. And in construing the Income Tax Act and any Acts continuing 
 
 3o., etc. Qj, amending that Act, with respect to Schedules A. and B. thereof, 
 
 annual value shall be deemed to mean the gross value stated in 
 
 such list. \_See also the Finance Act 1894, s. 35.] 
 
 Revision of Valuation List. 
 Mode of 46. Every valuation list shall be revised in manner directed by 
 
 revising this Act, and such revision in every period of five years (the first 
 
 valuation list. ^£ such periods beginning with tiie sixth of April one thousand 
 eight hundred and seventy-one) shall be conducted as follows : 
 (1.) In each of the first four years of such period a sujoplemental 
 list shall, if necessary, be made out in the same form as 
 the valuation list, and shall show all the alterations which 
 have taken place during the preceding twelve months in 
 any of the matters stated in the valuation list, but shall 
 contain only the hereditaments aff'ected by such altera- 
 tions. If no alteration has taken place which makes a 
 .supplemental list necessary, the overseers shall send a 
 certificate to that efi'ect to the assessment committee in 
 place of such list, which certificate may be in the form 
 contained in the second schedule to this Act : 
 (2.) In the fifth year of every such period the overseers shall 
 
 make a new valuation list : 
 (3.) The same regulations shall be observed and the same pro- 
 ceedings shall be had in the case of a supplemental list 
 and a new valuation list as are directed by this Act and 
 the Acts incorporated herewith in the case of the valuation 
 list made in the first year after the passing of this Act : 
 (4.) A su})plemental list and a new valuation list shall come 
 into force at the beginning of the year succeeding that in 
 ■ which they are respectively made, in the same manner 
 and subject to the same conditions as the valuation list 
 made in the first year after the passing of this Act: 
 (5.) In each of the last four years of such period the valuation 
 list which was in force on the day before the commence- 
 , ment of each such year, together with and as altered by 
 the supplemental list, if any, which comes intu force at 
 the commencement of such year, shall be the valuation 
 list which is in force during that year : 
 (6.) A new valuation list when it comes into force shall supersede 
 the valuation list which was in force during the fifth 
 year of such period. 
 
 Provision for 47. If in the course of any year the value of any hereditament is 
 valuing a increased bv the addition thereto or erection thereon of anv building, 
 house built ' . r. •>. 
 
 * bee Appendix.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act \m^. [Chap. 67.] 421 
 
 or is from anv canso increased or reduced in value, the following i^etween the 
 lirovisions shall have effect : wbich'tlie 
 
 (1.) The overseers of the parish in which sucli hereditament is valuation 
 situate may, and on the written requisition of the assess- listisma^e. 
 ment committee or of any rate])ayer of the union or of 
 the surveyor of taxes for the district shall, send to the 
 assessment committee a provisional list containing; the 
 gross and rateable value as so increased or reduced of such 
 hereditament : 
 
 (2.) A co])y of the requisition shall be sent by the person making 
 it to the clerk of the assessment committee, and if within 
 fourteen days after the rei[uisition has been served on the 
 overseers they make default in sending such provisional 
 list he shall forthwith summon the assessment committee, 
 and the assessment committee shall ajjpoint a person to 
 make such ])rovisional list, in the same maimer as is in 
 this Act provided in the case of the overseers failing to 
 transmit a valuation list : 
 
 (3.) On the receipt of the list the clerk of the assessment com- 
 mittee shall serve on the surveyor of taxes for the district 
 a copy of the list, and siiall serve on the occupier of any 
 hereditament to which the list relates a copy of so much 
 thereof as relates to that hereilitament. Every copy shall 
 be accompanied by a notice specifying a day, being not less 
 than fourteen days after the date of the service of the 
 notice on or before which any objection to the provisional 
 list may be made, and stating the mode in which an 
 objection is to be made. Such copy and notice shall 
 be served in the same way as notices by an assessment 
 committee are served : 
 
 (4.) An objection may be made to any such provisional list by the 
 said occupier, and by the surveyor of taxes, or by either of 
 them, bv notice thereof in writing being served on the clerk 
 of the assessment committee, on the overseers, on the 
 surveyor of taxes, and on the occupier, or on such of 
 them as the case may require : 
 
 (5.) The clerk of the assessment committee, on the receipt of the 
 notice of any objection, shall forthwith summon a meeting 
 of the committee, and give notice of the time and })lace of 
 such meeting to the overseers, to the surveyor of taxes, 
 and the occupier : 
 
 (6.) The committee shall hear and determine on the objection in 
 the same manner as if it were an objection to a valuation 
 list, and may make such order as they think just : 
 
 (7.) If no objection is made, then on the expiration of the time 
 for making objections, or if an objection is made then as 
 soon as the assessment committee have determined on the 
 objection, the assessment committee shall cause a copy to 
 be made of the provisional list, with any alteration made 
 in it by the committee, and shall return the list and the 
 copy thereof, after being dated and signed by their clerk, 
 to the overseers : 
 
 (8.) A provisional list, signed as aforesaid, shall have operation 
 from the date of the service by the clerk of the assessment 
 committee of a copy of the list and notice on the occupier,
 
 422 
 
 [Chap. 67."] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32& 33 Vict.] 
 
 Costs of 
 appeal, etc. 
 
 Inland 
 Revenue 
 may make 
 allowances 
 for expenses 
 of Act. 
 Expenses. 
 
 and shall continue in force until the tirst list (supplemental 
 or other) which is subsequently made comes into force : 
 
 (9.) Upon a provisional list coming into operation the overseers 
 shall make such entries in the rate book for the then 
 current poor rate as will bring the same into conformity 
 with such list, and shall also enter therein the date at 
 which such list is to come into operation, and shall charge 
 the occupier of such hereditament with a proper proportion 
 of such current poor rate, regard being had to the time 
 which has elapsed between the making of such rate and 
 the said date and to the rateable value stated in such 
 provisional list, and such occupier shall be considered 
 as actually rated for such sum from the said date, and be 
 liable to pay the same, and the same may be enforced 
 accordingly : 
 
 (10.) A provisional list during the time that it is in force shall 
 be deemed to form part of the valuation list for the time 
 being in force, and shall (so far as is necessary) be 
 substituted for so much of that valuation list as relates to 
 the same hereditament, and every rate and tax in respect 
 of which the valuation list is conclusive, which are 
 respectively made or charged after the provisional list 
 comes into force, and the proportion of the current rate 
 charged as before provided in this section shall be levied 
 accordingly ; but if when the next revision of the valuation 
 list takes place the list as approved and altered on appeal 
 contains a smaller value for the hereditament comprised in 
 a provisional list than the value stated in such provisional 
 list, the amount of rate or tax which has been overpaid in 
 consequence of the larger value having been stated shall 
 be repaid or allowed : 
 
 (11.) Nothing in this section shall affect the value on which any 
 rate is made or sum is assessed or contribution recpiired 
 which is made, assessed, or required on the totals of the 
 gross or rateable value of jiarishes or unions. 
 
 Expenses. 
 
 48. The costs of an appeal awarded against or incurred by any 
 assessment committee or overseers shall be deemed to be expenses 
 incurred under this Act and the Acts incorporated herewith, and 
 shall be raised and paid accordingly. 
 
 Any costs or expenses awarded against or incurred by any sur- 
 veyor of taxes shall be defrayed in the same manner as expenses are 
 directed to be defrayed by the Acts relating to the taxes in respect 
 of which the valuation list is made conclusive. 
 
 49. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue may make such allow- 
 ances as they think fit for remunerating any person employed by 
 them in the execution of this Act, and for the discharge of any costs 
 or expenses incurred by him. 
 
 50. The expenses of the assessment sessions * and such remune- 
 ration as the Poor Law Board -j* may from time to time allow to the 
 
 * Now the Quarter Se.ssions for the County of London. See '>\ k. 52 Vict. c. -11, 
 s. 42 ; and the Scheme of the London Counts- Council made thereunder on the 1st 
 March, 1892. 
 
 t Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 
 1871, s. 2.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act \9,m. [Chap. 67.] 423 
 
 clork of the managers of the metropolitan asylum district,* the 
 clerk of the assessment sessions,+ aud persons Jipp()int(;d to assist 
 the assessment sessions f as ])rovided by this Act, and such costs 
 and expenses incurred by such clerks and persons under this Act as 
 the l*oor Law l^oard J may allow, after such audit as the Por)r Law 
 Board J may direct, shall be paid by tht; Receiver of the ^Ietro{)olitan 
 Common Poor Fund out of any monies for the time being in his 
 hands, and shall be paid at such times and in such manner and upon 
 such j)recei)t of the Poor Ijaw Board* as the Poor Law Board* may 
 from time to time ])rescribe, and tiie Poor Law Board % 'uay require 
 contributions for the jjiirjiose of raising such remuneration, expenses, 
 and costs. 
 
 Rules for formatio)i of Valuation List. 
 
 51. The valuation list shall be made out in the form given in the Form and 
 second schednle to this Act. valuation list. 
 
 The overseers shall not include in such valuation list any here- 
 ditaments (except tithes or payment in lieu of titlies) which are 
 charged according to Rale two in section sixty of the Income 5 & 6 Vict. 
 Tax Act, but shall include tithes and payments in lieu of tithes and ^- '^°- 
 every hereditament in their parish, and shall enter every heredita- 
 ment in the valuation list in accordance with the classes mentioned 
 in the third schedule to this Act, so that the deductions to be 
 made in ascertaining the rateable value may be calculated in 
 accordance with that schedule. \_See the Agricultural Rates 
 Act ISOO, s. 6 (:3) {</). {See page 428.)] 
 
 52. The per-centage or rate of deductions to be made from the Deductions 
 gross value in calculating the rateable value for the purposes of for rateable 
 this Act shall not exceed the amounts in the third schedule to this ^'^'^^• 
 Act, so far as the same are applicable. 
 
 53. When a surveyor of taxes gives notice of objection or of ^^^^^^j^j. ^^^ 
 appeal, the amount specified in the notice as being in his judgment gross value 
 the gross value of any hereditament referred to in the notice shall be specified by 
 inserted in the valuation list by the assessment committee, special of^taxes to^"^ 
 sessions, or assessment sessions,f unless it is proved to the satis- be inserted, 
 faction of the assessment committee, special sessions, or assessment unless dis- 
 sessions,f that such amount ought not to be so inserted. P'^^'® " 
 
 54. Nothing contained in this Act or the Acts incorporated here- ^ ^ 
 
 with shall affect any exemption or deduction from or allowance out exemptions 
 
 of any rate or tax whatever, or any privilege of or provision for and excep- 
 
 beinti* rated or taxed on any exce])tional principle of valuation. tional pnn- 
 
 ° ..XXX 01 pies of 
 
 Returns. valuation. 
 
 55. ... In every . . . year in which a new valuation list is made, or 
 
 in the month of March preceding any such year, every person who make^returus. 
 is liable to be charged with any rate or tax in respect of which the 
 valuation list is made conclusive shall, when required, make to the 
 overseers of his parish such statement or return as a jierson charge- 
 able under the Income Tax Act and the Acts amending the same is 
 bound to make. \_Amended 47 & 48 Vict. c. 5, 5. 2. Words omitted 
 {^'- In the Jirst year after the passing of this Act, and'"* and 
 " subsequent ") rep. 56 »fc 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.y] 
 
 * Now tlie Clerk of the London County Council. See 51 k. 52 Vict, c 41, s. 44. 
 
 t Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 & 52 Vict, c. 41, 
 s. 42 ; and the Scheme of the London County Council made thereunder on the 
 1st March 181)2. 
 
 X Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871 
 s. 2.
 
 424 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 overseers, 
 who are to 
 serve them 
 
 Surveyor of 55, for the pnrpose of securing the proper making of such 
 ?upplv notices retnrns, the surveyor of taxes shall in the month of February 
 and forms for preceding send to the overseers of each parish in his district a 
 returns to sufficient number of printed forms and notices, and the overseers, 
 within a month after the receipt thereof, shall serve a notice and 
 form on every person in their parish required by this Act to make 
 a return ; and every person required by this Act to make a return 
 shall make it within twenty-one days after the service of a notice 
 and form on him. 
 
 The forms and notices shall be such as are prescribed by the 
 Income Tax Act or the Acts amending the same, or as the . . . 
 Treasury may from time to time prescribe, and any such form duly 
 filled up and signed shall be deemed to be a sufficient return. 
 
 The return shall be delivered to the overseers of each parish, and 
 together with the valuation list shall be sent bv them to the 
 surveyor of taxes, and by the surveyor of taxes to the assessment 
 committee, [Words omitted {^'^ Commissioners of Her Majesty s^^) 
 rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 57. An assessment committee may, by order, require any person 
 who is the owner or occupier or reputed owner or occupier of any 
 
 returns from hereditament in their union to send them a return in writing of 
 owner and all or any of the following things ; viz., of the rent receivable 
 occupier. qj. payable by him (as the case may be) for such hereditament, 
 and of the person entitled to any tithe rentcharge charged on such 
 hereditament, and of the amount of the same, and of the several 
 persons by whom any tithe rentcharge is paid to him, and of the 
 amounts paid by each such person, and of any other particulars 
 respecting such hereditament as are required for the due execution 
 of this Act and the Acts incorporated herewith. And every such 
 owner or occupier shall obey such order within fourteen days after 
 the service thereof on him. 
 
 58. If any person wilfully refuses or neglects to make any return 
 lawfully required under this Act withiti the times respectively 
 limited by this Act in that behalf, he shall be liable, on summary 
 conviction, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 If any person wilfully makes or causes to be made a false return, 
 he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding 
 ten pounds. 
 
 Assessment 
 committee 
 
 Penalty for 
 no or false 
 returns. 
 
 Provision for 
 cases where 
 no guardians 
 and where 
 no overseers. 
 
 Miscellajieous. 
 
 59. With respect to any parish which is not included in any 
 union of parishes, and in which there is no board of guardians,* 
 the following provisions shall have effect : 
 
 (1.) The assessment committee of the adjoining union shall act as 
 the assessment committee of that parish, and where there 
 is more than one such adjoining union the Poor Law 
 Board f shall determine the assessment committee which 
 is to act for such parish : 
 (2.) Every such parish shall, for the purposes of this Act and the 
 Acts incorporated herewith, but not for any other purpose, 
 be deemed to be within the union of the assessment com- 
 mittee which acts for it : 
 
 • See note on 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. s. 158. 
 
 f Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 
 1871, 8. 2.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act \m9. [Chap. 67.] 425 
 
 (3.) The masters of* the bench, treasurer, fjovernors, or othei- body 
 of persons in sucli parish, may, at the time appointed for 
 the election of an assessment committee, appfjint a person 
 to be a member of such assessment committee in a(Mi- 
 tion to the nnmbci- elected under this Act and the Acts 
 incorporated herewith : 
 
 (4.) AV'here there are no overseers the assessment committee shall 
 appoint some person to perforin the daties of the overseers 
 under this Act and the Acts incorporated herewith, and may 
 award him sucli remuneration as they think fit ; and the 
 ])ersoii so appointed shall |»erform those duties, and shall, 
 for that purpose, have all the jjowers of overseers : 
 
 (5.) A proportionate share of the expenses of the assessment com- 
 mittee under this Act and the Acts incorporated herewith, 
 and any remuneration ])aid to or exjienses incui-red by the 
 person appointed by them under this or any other section 
 to make a valuation list, shall be char<i;ed on such parish, 
 and the sums so charged shall be paid by the masters of 
 the bench, treasurer, governor, or other body of j)ersons ; 
 and sections sixty-six, sixty-seven, and sixty-eight of the 
 Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, shall apjily to such sums in 
 the same manner as if the assessment committee and their 
 clerk were the Poor Law Hoard and the receiver mentioned 
 in those sections. 
 
 60. Where the vestrv or the guardians of auv i)arish jierfoim the Provision 
 duties of overseers with respect to a valuation list under this Act ^"^5u ■ 
 the list shall be signed by the vestry clerk or the clerk of the seers, 
 guardians. \See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 11.] 
 
 61. The guardians may, upon the ap]dication of the assessment (Juardians , 
 
 committee, after notice sent in the manner recpiired by the principal "^^y appoint 
 
 Act, appoint some competent person to assist the committee in the valuer to 
 
 valuation of the hereditaments in the union for such period as they assist the 
 
 see fit, at a salarv or other settled remuneration, to be paid out of ^^^*^^*™f "^^ 
 ^, .. ; ' ^ committee. 
 
 the common lund. 
 
 62. Every assessment committee, with the consent of the guar- Assessment 
 dians, and every overseer, with the consent of the vestry of his and ovei>*' 
 parish, may, for the purposes of any application for a valuation on seers may 
 any appeal, give security for paying the costs of such valuation, ^i^'^ security 
 An assessment committee may give such security and may a})pear vaiiiatlcm? 
 on any appeal by their clerk, and shall indemnify the said clerk 
 
 against all monies, losses, and costs paid or incurred by jiini in 
 conse(juence of such security or appearance. 
 
 63. x\ny room maintained out of the proceeds of any rate levied ^'*^ *^^ P"^^**^ 
 wholly or partly in the metropolis may (with the consent of the a'^^als,'^etc. 
 person or body corporate having the control of it) be used for 
 
 hearing appeals, and for other purposes of this Act. 
 
 64. A valuation list may be proved by the production of a ^^'^ence of 
 duplicate or copy of such list purporting to be certified to be a Jisl"etc°° 
 duplicate or a true copy by the clerk of the assessment committee 
 
 that aj)proved it, and such certificate shall state that the alterations 
 (if any) made in the list in consequence of the decision on any 
 appeal under this Act have been correctly made in the duplicate or 
 copy so produced, and the clerk on aj^plication shall furnish a copy 
 to anv overseers on pavment of a sum not exceeding the rate of 
 three shillings for every hundred entries numbered separately. A
 
 426 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Service of 
 notices, etc. 
 by post, etc. 
 
 Publication 
 of notices by 
 overseers. 
 
 Inspection, 
 etc. of docu- 
 ments depo- 
 sited with 
 rate books. 
 
 Valuation 
 lists to be 
 equivalent 
 to rate books 
 of parish. 
 
 provisional list may be proved by the production of a duplicate or 
 copy thereof purporting to be certified to be a true copy by the 
 clerk of the committee who signed it. 
 
 65. All orders and notices under this Act and the Acts incorpo- 
 rated herewith shall be in writing or print, or partly in writing and 
 partly in print, and if made or given by an assessment committee 
 shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by their clerk ; and all 
 orders, notices, and documents required by the same Acts to be 
 served on or sent to any person or body of persons corporate or 
 unincorporate may be either delivered to such person or the clerk 
 of such body, or left at the usual place of abode of such person or 
 clerk, or at the office of such clerk or body, or (if such abode or 
 office cannot on reasonable inquiry be discovered) at the premises 
 to which the order, notice, or document relates. 
 
 They may also be served and sent by post, by a prepaid letter, 
 addressed to such person, or to the office of such body or to their 
 clerk, and, if sent by post, shall be deemed to have been served and 
 received respectively at the time when the letter containing the 
 same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, and in 
 proving such service or sending it shall be sufficient to prove that 
 the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and prepaid 
 and put into the post. [^See the T titer pretation Act 1889, s8. 20 and 
 26 {see Aj)pendix).~\ 
 
 66. Any notice required by this Act to be published by the 
 overseers shall, on the Sunday next following the receipt of such 
 notice, or the document to which the notice refers, and the two 
 following Sundays, be published by them in the manner in which 
 notice of a rate allowed by Justices is required to be published. 
 \_See the Poor Rate Act 1743, s. 1, and the Vestries Act 1837, s. 2.] 
 
 67. AVhere any documents are required liy this Act to be 
 deposited in the same place in a parish in which rate books are 
 kept, every ratepayer shall be at liberty to inspect and take copies 
 of or extracts from such documents at any reasonable time, without 
 fee or charge. \_See also 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 14.] 
 
 68. The duplicate of the valuation list, ajjproved by the assess- 
 ment committee, and sent to the overseers, as directed by this Act, 
 the notices of alterations made on any appeal under this Act, and 
 any provisional list, shall for all purposes be deemed to be part of 
 the rate books of the parish, and shall be produced by the overseers 
 before the Justices upon any application for allowance of rates, and 
 on any appeal under this or any other Act, and on any other occasion 
 if so required, on which they are bound to produce such rate books, 
 and any overseer who fails to produce such list in accordance with 
 the provisions of this section shall be liable on summary conviction 
 to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 The duplicate of the valuation list returned to the assessment 
 committee by the clerk of the managers of the metropolitan asylum 
 district,* and other documents in the possession of the assessment 
 committee in pursuance of this Act, shall be kept at the board 
 room or other convenient place from time to time appointed by the 
 guardians of the same union, but shall be deemed to be in the 
 possession of the assessment committee, and shall be produced by 
 their clerk to the district auditor whenever required by him. 
 
 * Xow the Clerk of the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 44.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation (Metropolis) Act 1860. [Chap. 67.] 427 
 
 69. Any ratepayer, overseer, clerk of an assessment committee. Ratepayer, 
 or surveyor of taxes in tlie metroi)olis njay, at all reasonable times, fnsp™rdocu- 
 witliont payment, insj)ect and take coi)ies of and extracts from all ments, etc. 
 valnation lists and documents wliicli in pursuance of this Act are'" hands 
 under the control of the clerk of the manairers of the metropolitan |^a,n^ers 
 asylum district,* or of the (derk of tiie assessment sessions.! or assessment 
 
 Any surveyor of taxes and any guardian and any overseer in a committee, 
 union, without payment, and any ratepayer in a union on payment 
 of a fee not exceeding one shilling (to be carried to the common 
 fund), may at any reasonable time expect [-^''V-] and take copies of 
 and extracts from any valuation lists, notices of objection, returns, 
 and other documents in the possession or under the control of the 
 assessment committee of that union. 
 
 Any clerk of an assessment committee in the metropolis may 
 insj)ect and take extracts from any valuation lists in the possession 
 or under the control of the assessment committee of anv other union 
 in the metropolis. 
 
 Any })er8on who hinders a ratepayer, overseer, clerk of an assess- 
 ment committee, or surveyor of taxes from so inspecting or taking 
 copies of or extracts from any valuation list or document, or demands 
 where not authorised by this Act a fee for allowing him so to do, shall 
 be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five 
 pounds for each offence. [6'ee aUo 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 14.] 
 
 70. \^Uu'ner where rated to he in position of occupier. Rep. 47 
 tt 48 I 'ict. c. 5, s. 2.] 
 
 71. Any person who feels aggrieved by reason of any clerical Amendment 
 
 or arithmetical error in a rate in the metropolis mav applv to two ''^,^''!'"'^"'" 
 
 ... . ^ ^ •^j_- . ' 1- ^ • rate bv t\YO 
 
 justices 01 the peace or a magistrate sitting at any ])Olice court in justices. 
 
 the metro]K)litan police district, who, after the a])j)licant has given 
 
 such notice to the overseers who made the rate and such persons as 
 
 such justices or magistrates think just, may hear the case in like 
 
 manner as in the case of summary proceedings, and amend the rate 
 
 so far as respects such error. 
 
 72. Whenever the name of any person liable to be rated at the Omissions 
 time the rate is made is omitted from any rate in the metropolis, or fro^i the rate. 
 if any person is described in any such rate by a wrong name, the 
 overseers may, after giving to such person seven clear days notice 
 
 of their intention, apply to any two justices or any i)olice magistrate 
 as aforesaid, who may liear the case in like manner as in the case 
 of summary proceedings, and insert the name so omitted, or 
 correct the name so wronglv entered, and everv such insertion 
 and correction sliall operate as if it had been part of the original 
 rate : Provided that any person whose name is so inserted or 
 corrected in any such rate may appeal against the same at the 
 general quarter sessions of the peace which is liolden next after 
 such insertion or correction, in like manm^r as he might have 
 ajtjiealed against the rate. 
 
 73. Every poor rate made in the metropolis after the tifth of 
 April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one shall contain the rate and 
 particulars specified in the fourth schedule to this Act, together declaration, 
 with such other particulars as the Poor Law Board :^ may from time 
 
 * Now the Clerk of the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 41. 
 
 f Now the Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41. 
 s. 42 ; and the Scheme of the London Countv L'ouncil made thereunder on the 
 1st March, l,s92. 
 
 X Now the Local Government Board. See the Local (Tovernment Board Act 1871, s. 2.
 
 428 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Valuation {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Amendment 
 of 25 and 2ti 
 Vict. c. 103. 
 s. 11. 
 
 Saving of 
 powers to 
 value pro- 
 perty not 
 included in a 
 valuation 
 list. 
 
 Separate 
 assessment of 
 houses for 
 purposes of 
 house duty, 
 income 
 tax, and 
 Licensing 
 Acts. 
 
 Repeal of 
 Acts herein 
 described. 
 
 to time by order direct, and the overseer shall sign the form of 
 declaration which is given in that schedule before the rate is allowed 
 by the justices. And the justices shall not allow any rate at the 
 foot of which the said declaration has not been added and signed. 
 
 Any overseer who wilfully omits to make the said declaration or 
 makes the same falsely shall be liable on summary conviction to a 
 penalty not exceeding five pounds. [^See the Agricaltaral Rates Act 
 1896, s. 6 (3) (r/).t] 
 
 74. The entry of the proceedings of the assessment committee 
 at any meeting, and of the names of the members who attend that 
 meeting, may be signed by the chairman of the next meeting of 
 the committee, and every entry and minute purporting to be so 
 signed shall be received in evidence in the same manner as if such 
 entry or minute had been signed by the chairman of the meetins^ at 
 which the proceedings took place, and the members were present. 
 
 75. Nothing in this Act shall in any way alter or affect the 
 mode of valuing or taxing any hereditament which is not included 
 in any valuation list, or which is chargeable according to the 
 profits and not according to the gross value, or the mode of 
 charging the occupiers of land subject to a tithe rentcharge in 
 respect of such tithe rentcharge. 
 
 76. Where for the purposes of the Acts relating to the duty on 
 inhabited houses, or to the duties charged under Schedule B. of the 
 Income Tax Act, or to the sale of exciseable liquors, it is necessary 
 to make a separate valuation of any hereditament by reason of its 
 not being separately valued in any valuation list, the value of such 
 hereditament shall be ascertained in the same manner as if this Act 
 had not passed. 
 
 Repeal of Acts. 
 
 11. [The enactments specifed in the fifth schedule to this Act, 
 and'\ so much of any [other'] Acts, whether public or local 
 and personal, as authorizes any valuation of hereditaments to be 
 made for the purposes of any rate or tax in respect of which the 
 valuation list is by this Act made conclusive, are hereby repealed, 
 where they relate only to the metropolis absolutely, and in other 
 cases so far as they relate to the metropolis : 
 
 [Part omitted {as to promsio/is of tlie Acts repealed remaining in 
 force until this Act comes into operation^ and words in square 
 brackets rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.)^^ 
 
 * Ss. 5 (S) and 6 (3) of the Agricultural Rates Act 1896 are as follows : — 
 " 6. In every valuation list and in the basis or standard for any county rate, and in 
 any valuation made by the council of a borough or any other council for the purpose 
 of raising the borough or other rate — 
 
 " {b) In every case the total rateable value of the agricultural land in each parish 
 
 shall be stated separately from the total rateable value of the buildings or 
 
 other hereditaments in such parish ; and whenever a copy of the total of 
 
 the rateable value of any parish is required to be sent to any person, such 
 
 copy shall state both the above-mentioned totals." 
 
 " 6. (8) The Local Government Board may by order make regulations for the 
 
 purpose of this section, and also generally for carrying into effect this Act, and 
 
 these regulations shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, and if neither 
 
 House of Parliament within ten days passes a resolution adverse to the said order, 
 
 they shall be binding in law until varied in the same manner, shall have effect as if 
 
 they were enacted in this Act, and shall amongst other matters provide— 
 
 " (r/) for the alteration of the valuation list in accordance with the statements as 
 finally settled and sending copies of the Schemes to spending authorities, 
 and for applying and adapting any statutory form or procedure respecting 
 the valuation list or poor rate."
 
 [32& 33 ViCT.J The Valuation (Metropolis) Act 1869. [Chap. 07.] 
 
 429 
 
 Date of Act. 
 
 First Schedule. 
 
 Short title used in this Act. 
 
 lU Geo. 4. c. 44. 
 5 & 6 Vict. c. 35. 
 
 14 k IT) Vict. c. 30. 
 
 15 & 10 V'ict. c. 81. 
 
 The Motr()|)olitaii Police Act. 
 The Income Tax Act. 
 The House Tax Act. 
 The Coiiiitv Rate Act. 
 
 Second Schedule. 
 
 Part 1. 
 
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 in the Metropolitan Union of \or not beinsr in the Union! 
 
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 Signed this 
 
 day of 
 A.B. ^Overseers of the poor of 
 CD. j the parish aforesaid. 
 We do hereby approve the above vahiation list, and certify tiiat 
 in determining the gross and rateable value of the above heredita- 
 ments the provisions of the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 186U, have 
 been duly complied with. 
 
 dav of 
 
 Sia'ned this 
 
 A.B.\ Members of tiie Assessment 
 
 Committee of the 
 Union. 
 
 CD. . 
 KF. ) 
 
 Note. — The two last of the above columns (for gross and rateable 
 value as determined by Assessment Committee) must be 
 filled up, and the totals of those columns must be added 
 U]» after the objections to the alterations have i^if any) 
 been heard, and before the list is finally approved. 
 
 Part II. 
 
 Form of Certificate where no supplemental list is sent. 
 We, the overseers of the parish of , do hereby certify 
 
 that no alteration has taken place in the matters stated' in the 
 valuation list of this parish which renders a supplemental list 
 necessary. 
 
 A.B. ) Overseers of the parish 
 CD. ] of 
 {8ee the Agricultural Rates Act 1896, s. (3) (il). {Seepage 428.)]
 
 430 
 
 [Chap. 67.] The Vahmtion {Metropolis) Act 1869. [32& 33 Vict.] 
 
 Third Schedule. 
 
 Showing the several classes into which the hereditanaents inserted 
 iu a valuation list under this Act are to be divided. 
 
 3. 
 
 Class 1. Houses and buildiogs, or either of them, without 
 land other than gardens where the gross value is 
 
 under 20Z 
 
 „ 2. Houses and buildings without land other than 
 gardens and pleasure grounds valued therewith 
 for the purpose of inhabited house duty where 
 the gross value is 20/. and under 40/. . 
 
 Houses and buildings without land other than 
 gardens and pleasure grounds valued therewith 
 for the purpose of inhabited house duty where 
 the gross value is 40/. or upwards .... 
 
 Buildings without land which are not liable to in- 
 habited house duty and are of a gross value of 
 20/. and under 40Z. 
 
 Buildings without land which are not liable to in- 
 habited house duty and are of a gross value of 
 40/. or upwards ....... 
 
 Land with buildings not houses .... 
 
 Land without buildings . . . . . . 
 
 Mills and manufactories ...... 
 
 Tithes, tithe commutation rentcharge, and other 
 payments in lieu of tithe .... 
 
 ,, 10. Railways, canals, docks, tolls, waterworks, and gas- 
 works ........' 
 
 ,, 11. Rateable hereditaments not included in any of the 
 foregoing classes ...... 
 
 The maximum rate of deductions prescribed in this 
 schedule shall not apply to houses or buildings let out in 
 separate tenements, but the rate of deductions in such cases 
 shall be determined as in classes 9, 10, and 11. 
 
 Maximum rate 
 of deductions. 
 
 7. 
 8. 
 
 Per cent, or 
 proportion. 
 
 25 or jth. 
 
 20 or ith. 
 
 IG* or \th. 
 
 20 or ith. 
 
 16f or ith. 
 
 10 or x'lith. 
 
 5 or ^Vth. 
 33^ or ^rd. 
 To be determined 
 in each case 
 according to 
 the circum- 
 
 stances and the 
 general princi- 
 ples of law. 
 
 FouKTH Schedule. 
 
 Form of Rate. 
 
 Rate for the Relief of the Poor of the Parish of in the 
 
 Union, and for other purposes chargeable thereon, according to 
 law made this day of in the year of our 
 
 Lord 18 , after the rate of in the pound, which is 
 
 estimated to meet all the expenses for the above purposes which 
 which will be incurred before the of next. 
 
 No. 
 
 Name of 
 occupier. 
 
 Name of 
 owner. 
 
 Descrip- j Name or 
 tion of situation 
 
 property i of 
 rated. ! property. 
 
 Rateable 
 value. 
 
 Rate at 
 
 in the 
 pound.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] The Valuation {MetvopoUn) Act 1809. [Chap. 07.] 431 
 
 Declaration to be added to the Rate. 
 
 We, the undersif^ncd, do licrcLy declaro that oih' of us, or some 
 person on our Lehtilt", has examined and (compared the several 
 particuhirs in the respective columns of the above rate with the 
 valuation list made under the authority of the Vuluation (Metropolis) 
 Act, ISOO, and now in force in this parish {or township), and the 
 several iicredituments are, to the best of our belief, rated according; 
 to the value appearinji; in such valuation list, and do declare that 
 the total of the al)ove rate amounts to ])ounds 
 
 sliillinp^s and pence. 
 
 |- Churciiwardens. 
 
 > Overseers. 
 \_^ee the Agricultural Hat ex Act 1896, s. f) (3) (r/). {See page 428.)] 
 
 Fifth Schedule. 
 
 25 k 20 Vict. c. 102. An Act to amend the Metropolis^ 
 
 Local Management Acts (The Metro- ( in })art, 
 polis Management Amendment Act, l namelv, — 
 
 1862). . , ) 
 
 \_So much of ss. 6, 7, and 13 as authorizes or relates 
 to the ascertaining the value of ang hereditament 
 with respect to the value of ichiclt the caluation list 
 is conclusive and] so much of any Act as applies 
 the provisions hereby repealed. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Farts omitted {repeal of so much of 43 Geo. 3, c. 161, 48 Geo. 3, 
 c. 55, and 57 Geo. 3, c. 25 respectively, as relates to the mode of 
 ascertaining the value of houses tvith respect to the value of ichich 
 the valuation list is conclusive ; of so much of ss. 30 and 32 of 10 
 Geo. 4, c. 44 as relates to the ascertaining the value of an>/ heredita- 
 7nents with respect to the value of ichich the valuation li.st is made 
 conclusive ; of ss. 1, 2, 6, 7, aiid 9 ; o/ 6 and 7 Will. 4, c. 96 ; ofs. 60 
 (iVo. I. ; So. 11., pars. 1 and 3 : So. IV., pars. 2 and 4 ; So. V., 
 so far as respects the deductions allowed hg this Act^, s. 63 (So. X. 
 pars. 1,2, 3, and 4), ss. G4, G^y, (j(\, 67, 68, 78, 81, 82, 87, and ang 
 other part which relates to the ascertaining of the value of lands, 
 tenements, and hereditaments n-ith respect to the value of which the 
 valuation list is made conclusive ; of so much of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36 
 as relates to the mode of ascertaining the value of houses with respect 
 to the value of which the valuation list is conclusive of 5 cV 6 Vict, 
 c. 35 ; of so much of ss. 1 — 20 {both inclusive) as relates to the pre- 
 paration of a basis or standard of countg rate for ang part of the 
 metropolis, and ss. 40 — 43 {both inclusive) ; of \(j k \~ Vict. c. 34, 
 ss. 32 and 47, and so much of the rest of the Act as relates to the 
 mode of a.icertaining the value of any hereditaments with respect to 
 the vaUie of which the valuation list is conclusive of l-y & IG Vict, 
 c. 81 ; of so much of ss. 175 and 179 ^Z" IS & 19 Vict. c. 120, as relates 
 to ascertaining the value of ang heredita?nent with respect to the 
 value of which the valuation list is conclusive ; of ss. 11 and 12 o/
 
 432 
 
 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Board of Works ^09 i qq vf ^ -1 
 {Loans) Act 1869. '-"^^ ^ '^'^ ^ ^^^'J 
 
 20 & 21 Vict. c. 64 ; o/s. 1 6>/21 & 22 Vict. c. 33 ; 0/ ss. 3, 14, 15, 
 the folloicing ivords in s. 17, ^^and a copy of such valuation list shall 
 be forthwith delivered to the board of guardians^'' ss. 22, 23, 24, 25, 
 26, 27, 28 doion to " schedule hereunto annexed^' ss. 29, 31, 32, 33, 
 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 42, 43, and 45 of 26 & 26 Vict. c. 103; of ss. 1, 9, 
 and 11 of 2~ &2S Vict. c. 39; of s. 11,. so far as it relates to the value 
 of propertii of 29 & 30 Vict^ c. 64 ; of s. 1 of 29 & 30 Vict. c. 78 ; 
 and of ss. 30, 31, 32, and 38 of 31 & 32 Vict', c. 122) rey^ 46 & 47 
 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.B.)!\ 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Definition of 
 terms. 
 
 Exercise by 
 Board of 
 borrowing 
 powers. 
 
 Creation by 
 Board of 
 consolidated 
 stock. 
 
 Security for 
 stock. 
 
 CHAPTER 102. 
 
 An Act for making further Provision respecting the Borrow- 
 ing OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works, and 
 FOR other Purposes connected therewith. 
 
 ■ \\\th August 1869.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 56 k 57 Vict. c. 54 (<S'.Z.i?.).] 
 
 1. This Act may lie cited as The Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Loans) Act, 1869. 
 
 2. In this Act,— 
 
 The term '• Board " means the ^Metropolitan Board of Works.* 
 
 Each of the several series of Acts specified in the different parts 
 of the first schedule to this Act is in this Act referred to by the 
 collective name given to such series in such separate part. 
 \_Farts omitted {(lefinition of " Treasunj ") rep. 56 & 57 Vict, 
 c. 54 (S.L.R.^ ; {definition of ^^ Tmpjrovement Fund'''' to mean '■'•the 
 Thames Embanhment and Metropolis Improvement FmuV consti- 
 tuted under the London Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Act 
 1861 1) .spent.'] 
 
 3. . . . The board shall not (excei)t for such temporary period 
 not exceedine; six months as the Treasury mav from time to time 
 sanction) raise, otherwise than in conformity with this Act and with 
 the sanction of the Treasury, any money under any powers of 
 borrowing, whether conferred by the Acts mentioned in the first 
 schedule to this Act, or otherwise howsoever. \_Words omitted 
 Q^ After the passing of this Act") rep. 56 k 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R^T] 
 
 4. The board, for the purpose of raising such portion of the loans 
 authorized by the Acts mentioned in the first schedule to this Act 
 for the purposes of those Acts as the Treasury may from time to time 
 sanction, may create capital stock, to be called the metropolitan 
 consolidated stock, in this Act referred to as consolidated stock, 
 and to be issued in such amounts and manner, at such price and 
 times, on such terms, subject to such conditions, with such 
 dividends, and redeemalale (at the option of the Board) at par at 
 such times and on such conditions as the Treasury, before the 
 creation thereof, may from time to time approve. \Amendedh^ k 60 
 Vict. c. ccxiv. s. 23.] 
 
 5. No holder of any portion of consolidated stock shall have any 
 priority or preference by reason of the jjrior creation of such stock 
 or otherwise, and all consolidated stock created for the purposes of 
 the Acts mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, or of any Act 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 11, s. 40 (8). 
 t Repealed 55 & 56 Vict, c, 19 (S.L.R.).
 
 roo p oo ir n TJid MetiOixdttan Board of W oiUh r/i„, mon .<oo 
 
 132 & 33 Vict.] ,/ -, , , i^..,/ Chap. 102. 1 433 
 
 L J {LoaiiH) Act LsOli. i- -* 
 
 horoafter to bo ])assncl, and the dividoruls theroon, and the sums 
 required lor the retlemptiou theredl', shall be charj^ed indiliereutly 
 on the wliole of the lands, rents, and ])roperty belonging to the 
 boai'd, under th(! Acts mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, 
 and on all moneys which can be raised by the boaid by rates under 
 this Act, . . . subject to all charges existing at the passing of this 
 Act on such lands, rents, projierty, moneys, and fund respectively, 
 and shall be a first charge thereon after those charges ; and all 
 moneys reipiii'ed for payment of the dividends on such stock, and 
 the suras re([uired to be raised for the I'edemption of such stock as 
 mentioned in this Act, shall be raised out of the . . . metropolitan 
 consolidated rate* as in this Act mentioned. \i*art)i omitted {as to 
 " improvement fund'''') spent.'] 
 
 6. AVhcre any stock has been created under this Act in order to Application 
 raise any ])ortion of a loan authori/>ed by any of the Acts mentioned rai^^"*^^ 
 in the first schedule to this Act for the pur])Oses of any of those 
 
 Acts, such stock is referred to in this Act as created for the purposes 
 of such Act, and the money raised thereby shall be deemed to have 
 been borrowed under and for the purposes of such Act, and shall 
 (subject to the provisions of this Act) be applied accordingly. 
 
 7. All consolidated stock shall be personal estate, and shall not stock, etc. to 
 descend to the heir or be liable to any foreign attachment by the be personal 
 custom of London or otherwise. 
 
 8. \^As to advances by PtdAic Works Loan Commissioners. Rep. 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 9. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, if investment 
 they think fit, with the ai)proval of the Treasury, may from time to b^'^co^^j^^'i^ 
 time, out of any moneys coming into their hands under any Act sioners for 
 relating to savings banks or to post office savings banks, make the Reduction 
 advances to the board on the security of consolidated stock without ^^^^ j 
 any further or other security, and may invest the said moneys in i^ebt. 
 
 such stock. 
 
 10. The board shall cause to be kept at their office, or at some Books to be 
 ])ank .... books in which the names and addresses of the several ^^ ,°^ ^ . 
 
 ', , ,. ,. . . •11 consouaatea 
 
 persons and bodies corporate from time to time entitled to con- stock. 
 
 solidated stock, and the amounts to which they are respectively 
 
 entitled, and all transfers thereof, shall be duly entered. \_\Vords 
 
 omitted (" to be approved bij the Treasury ") rep. 59 & 60 Vict. 
 
 c, ccxiv. s. 23.] 
 
 11. Consolidated stock shall be transferred only as follows :— Transferor 
 (1.) The transfer shall be made in the said books, and shall be ^^'^^ ' 
 
 signed in such books by the transferee or by his attorney 
 duly authorized in that behalf, which authority shall be 
 given by writing under his hand and seal attested by two 
 or more witnesses : \^AmcndeA 33 & 34 Vict. c. 24, s. 7.] 
 
 (2.) The transfer may be in the form contained in the second 
 schedule to this i\.ct, which shall be effectual in law to 
 pass to the transferee all the interest of the (transferor in 
 the stock expressed to be transferred and the dividends 
 thereon : 
 
 (3.) The acceptance of the transfer may be signified by the 
 transferee, or his attorney authorized in manner aforesaid in 
 that behalf, subscribing such accei)tance in the said books : 
 
 * Now the county rate. 8ce 'A ic 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 8(1). "^t* (!'), •J''* (A) '■> »"•' the 
 Countv itatus Act 1852, s. 2G. (See Ajjpendix.) 
 
 28
 
 434 
 
 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 rhe Metropolitan Board of Works r-oo v oo ^r n 
 
 rr \ A * -xooa '>^ & 3-3 VICT. 
 
 {Loans) Act 1869. i- -^ 
 
 Books to be 
 evidence. 
 
 Certificates 
 of stock. 
 
 Certificate 
 to be renewed 
 when 
 destroyed. 
 
 Provisions of 
 26&;27 Vict, 
 c. 28. as to 
 certificates 
 to bearer, to 
 extend to 
 this Act. 
 
 (4.) A person becoming entitled to any stock in consequence of 
 
 the death, bankruptcy, or marriage of the owner, or by any 
 
 lawful means other than by transfer under this Act, shall 
 
 produce such evidence of his title as may be reasonably 
 
 required by the board, or by the persons or l)ody corporate 
 
 who keep the said books. 
 
 No notice of any trust, express, implied, or constructive, shall be 
 
 entered in the said books or receivable by the board, or by any 
 
 persons or body corporate who keep such books. 
 
 12. \_As to elosim/ of transfer books. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 
 (S.L.F.).] 
 
 13. The books so kept uuder the provisions of this Act shall be 
 evidence of all matters therein entered under the provisions of this 
 Act, and of the title of persons or bodies corporate entered therein 
 as owners of any consolidated stock who are mentioned therein as 
 such owners. 
 
 14. The board, persons, or body corporate who keep the said 
 books may, if the board think fit, issue to the holder of any con- 
 solidated stock a certificate under the hand of some officer of the 
 l)oard or body corporate or of such persons, which certificate shall 
 s^jecify the amount of stock to which such holder is entitled, and 
 such certificate shall be evidence of the title of the holder at the 
 date of the certificate to the amount of stock stated therein, but 
 the want of such certificate shall not prevent the owner of any 
 consolidated stock from transferring the same. 
 
 15. If any such certificate be worn out or damaged, then the 
 same may, upon the production thereof, be cancelled, and another 
 similar certificate may be given to the holder of the stock therein 
 specified, or if such certificate be lost or destroyed, then upon proof 
 thereof to the satisfaction of the board, persons, or body corporate 
 who keep the said books, a similar certificate shall be given to the 
 holder of the stock specified in the certificate so lost or destroyed, 
 and in either case a due entry of the substituted certificate shall be 
 made in the said books, and for every such certificate given in 
 pursuance of this section a fee not exceeding two shillings, to be 
 carried to the account of the board, may be demanded. 
 
 16. The Stock Certificate Act, 1863,* (which relates to the issue 
 to holders of stock in the public funds of certificates to bearer trans- 
 ferable by delivery,) shall extend to consolidated stock in the same 
 manner as if such Act were herein enacted, with the following 
 modifications ; namely, 
 
 (1.) The term "the bank" shall be construed to mean the board, 
 
 persons, or body corporate who keej) the books for the 
 
 transfer of consolidated stock : 
 (2.) The terms " public stocks " and " stock " shall be construed 
 
 to mean consolidated stock : 
 (3.) The term " the books of the bank " shall be construed to 
 
 mean the books kept for the transfer of consolidated stock 
 
 in pursuance of this Act : 
 (4.) All fees shall be paid to the account of the board : 
 (5.) [As to sta?n/j duty. Hep. 46 k 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 (6.) The provision respecting a stock certificate, in respect of 
 
 which no coupons have been presented for payment for a 
 
 period of ten years, shall not extend to consolidated stock, 
 
 * Rep. ?,'.>, A: 34 Vict. c. tiH (S.L.R,), but see 33 & 34 Vict. c. 24, s. 8 ; and the 
 National Debt Act 1870, part v.
 
 roo p CO TT 1 The Metropolitan Hoard of Works r/.„_ i,,., i 40- 
 
 £32 & 33 \ icT.] ^/^^^^^^ ^^.^ 1^^.,/ [Chap. L.J.] 43o 
 
 17. The board may enter iiit(t sncli arrangement with any bank AnauKement 
 for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act with i-eference to ^^*^ ^^^' 
 the creation and transfer of consoh'dated stock, and the manage- 
 ment thereof, and the kof'])ing of the said books, and for the 
 
 profjcr remuneration of tlie bank with reference thereto. . . . \_\Vords 
 omitted (" as may be ajjproced Inj the Treasur>/ ") rejj. 50 & 61 ) Vict. 
 j:. ccxiv. s. 23.] 
 
 18. jM.s to .'if amp datii on tran.sfrrs. Rep. 40 it 47 Vict. c. 39.] 
 
 19. For the purposes of the Act of the session of the twenty- t'"iKery, etc. 
 fourth and twenty-fifth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter ^^ ^[^^"^^Ytc 
 ninety-eight, " to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of ' 
 Enghxnd and Ireland relating to indictable offences by forgery," 
 
 all consolidated stock shall be deemed to be caj)ital stock of a 
 body coriiorate within the meaning of that Act. 
 
 20. Any ])erson who with intent to defraud makes any false Making false 
 entry in or alters any word or figure in any of the said books for ^"^"^^ ^" 
 transfers, or in any manner falsifies any of the said books, or 
 
 makes any transfer of any consolidated stock, in the name of any 
 person who is not the true owner thereof, shall be guilty of felony, 
 and on conviction shall be liable to penal servitude for any term 
 not exceeding fourteen years. . . . [^l^art om.itted{as to imjjrifionment 
 for term not exceeding 2 i/cars) rep. •)^) & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S'.A.A^).] 
 
 21. Any person who, being a clerk, officer, or servant of or Making out 
 emjiloyed by the board, or the persons or body corjiorate who keep false dividend 
 the books for transfer of consolidated stock, does with intent ^q^^^^"^"*^* 
 defraud make out or deliver any stock certificate, dividend w^arrant, 
 
 or document for the payment of money in relation to any con- 
 solidated stock for a greater or less amount than the person on 
 whose behalf such certificate, warrant, or document is made out 
 is entitled to, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable on con- 
 viction to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding 
 seven years. . . . [Part omitted {as to imprisonment for anij term 
 not exceeding 2 jjears) superseded b}j the Penal Servitude Act 1891.] 
 
 22. \_Potcer to the board to levy the ^^metropolitan consolidated 
 rate " Jor the purpose of paying dividends on and redeeming con- 
 solidated stock, of defraying the expenses of obtaining or executing 
 the Acts mentioned, in the jirst schedule to Act, and for payment of 
 principal and interest of and, sinking funds for securities granted 
 by the board for the pjur poses of those Acts before the passing of 
 this Act. Superseded 51 A: 52 ]'ict. c. 41, ss. 3 (1), 4U (9), 1)8 (4). 
 See the County Rates Act 1852, s. 26. {See Appendix.)] 
 
 23. Where any portion of the consolidated rate represents any Saving of 
 rate which for the j)urposes of any contract or otherwise is deemed "^"t^- 
 to be a landlord's or tenant's rate, such portion sliall for those 
 l)urposes be deemed to be such landlord's or tenant's rate as the 
 
 case may be, and all rights at the passing of this Act existing 
 as between landlord and tenant, or enjoyed by any person under 
 statute, contract, or otherwise in relation to the sums or rates 
 assessed by tlie board, shall continue to exist and be enjoyed 
 in relation to the consolidatetl rate as between and by the same 
 persons and in the same manner as in relation to such sums or 
 rates. \_Xote on s. 5 {as to metropolitan consolidated rate) applies^ 
 24 — 25. \_As to raisi)ig money required for the consolidated rate 
 and exemptions therefrom. Superseded 51 & 52 \'ict. c. 41, ss. 3 
 (1), 40(9), 68 (4). See also the County Rates Act 1852, .s-. 26. {See 
 Appendix.)~\
 
 436 
 
 Consolidated 
 loans fund. 
 
 [C^HAP. 102.] 
 
 The Metropolitaoi Board of Worka 
 {Loans) Act 1869. 
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Moneys ap- 
 plicable to 
 consolidated 
 loans funil. 
 
 Separate 
 accounts of 
 amount 
 raised for 
 different 
 Acts. 
 
 Creation of 
 stock for 
 paying off 
 money 
 borrowed, etc 
 
 26. For the purpose of paying the dividends on and redeeming' 
 consolidated stock created under this Act there shall be established 
 a fund to be called the consolidated loans fund of the metropolis, 
 in this Act referred to as the consolidated loan [.>>•?>] fund, and, 
 subject to the provisions of this Act, the board shall keep a separate 
 account of such fnnd. 
 
 27. The board shall carry to the consolidated loans fund the 
 moneys following . . . ; that is to say, — 
 
 (1) All moneys whether in the nature of capital or otherwise 
 
 arising from the sale lease or other disposition of lands 
 rents and propertv belonging to the board. \_See aha 
 47 & 48 Vict. ^."'oO, 6-. 23, and 53 & 54 Vict. c. 41, 
 ss. 24 and 25.] 
 
 (2) \_The residue of the improvement fnid ichich ma ij come into 
 
 their hands in the manner mentioned in this Act. Spent.'] 
 
 (3) Such an annual sum in every year out of the consolidated 
 
 rate and out of the contributions paid to the board in 
 pursuance of the Fire Brigade Act or out of one of such 
 sources as may be equal to two per cent, on the total 
 nominal amount of consolidated stock whether it has 
 been cancelled or not ; or 
 
 (4) Such greater or less annual sum as the Treasury may from 
 
 time to time approve as being in their opinion necessary in 
 order to pay the dividends on and to redeem all the con- 
 solidated stock in sixty years from the date of the creation 
 thereof. [Amo/ded hy the Homing of the Worhing Classes 
 Act 1903, s. 15.] {_See 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 190, andnote.']^ 
 
 28. \^As to the application of the consolidated, loans fund. Bep. 
 52 & 53 Vict. c.(A, s. 15.] 
 
 29. [_As to application of the Thames Embankment Fund. Bep, 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.B )".] 
 
 30. \_As to transfer of the improvement fund to hoard. Bep. i)i 
 part 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.Jj.B.) ; remr. spent.] 
 
 31. The board shall cause to be kept proper accounts showing 
 the appro])riation of the moneys raised by the stock created under 
 this Act for the purposes of the different series of Acts, namely, 
 the General Improvement Acts, the Main Drainage Acts, the 
 Eml)ankment Acts, and the Fire Brigade Act respectively. 
 
 All or any of the accounts of the board may be from time to time 
 consolidated in such manner and on such conditions as the Treasury 
 approve, and the accounts so keptshall be deemed sufficient for the pur- 
 poses of any Act and all other purposes. [-6'eg51 &52]76-^. c. 41,s.71.] 
 
 32 — 33. [^1.5 to conversion of existing securities into consolidated 
 stock. Spent.] 
 
 34. For the purpose of raising money . . . to pay off any security 
 granted before the passing of this Act by the board for the purposes 
 of any of the Acts mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, and 
 . for the purpose of the conversion of any such security, the board 
 may create consolidated stock under the provisions of this Act in 
 like manner ... as they may create the same for the purpose of 
 raising money for the purposes of the said Acts, and the money 
 raised by such stock shall be ajjplied in such payment, and all 
 stock created under the provisions of this section shall be deemed 
 to be created and the money raised thereby to have been borrowed 
 for the purposes of the Acts for the jiurpose of which the original
 
 TQO ^r QQ Vrr,.,. 1 'l/te Metropolifdn Hoard of Worh.'i ra ir^.i-i 4.,- 
 
 [32 & 33 Vici.] ^/^^^^^^^^ j^.^ ^^^.,^/ [Chap. 102.] 4.i. 
 
 security was granted. [ Word omitted (" or ") r(?;A 34 & 35 Vict. c. 47, 
 6'. 7 ; (" and with the lihe mnction ") ;-e/>, 59 & 60 Vict. c. cc.xiv. s. 23.] 
 
 35. [/Is to sinking fund of existing securities. Spent.'\ 
 
 36. [As to borrowing powers for the jnirposes of Main JJrainfKje^ 
 J'^inhanhtnent, and Fire J brigade Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 37. AVliere the managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District Loans by 
 require to borrow money under " The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867," board to 
 and the Acts amending the same, such managers may borrow and MetSutaa 
 the board may lend on the security authorized l)y those Acts such Asylum 
 sums as the managers may have been autliorized by the Poor Law iJistrict. 
 Board,* in pursuance of those Acts, to borrow, not exceeding in the 
 
 whole five hundred thousand pounds. f 
 
 For the purj)ose of raising the money so lent to the managers, 
 the board may create consoliilated stock under the provisions of this 
 Act, in like manner and with the like sanction as they may create 
 the same for the purpose of raising money for the purposes of the 
 Acts mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, and all the pro- 
 visions of this Act shall apply us if such money were raised and 
 stock were created for the j)ui-[)(jses of the last-mentioned Acts, with 
 this exception, that the money required in pursuance of this section 
 may be borrowed by the board in addition to the sum limited by 
 this Act. 
 
 All sums received by the board from the said managers in res})ect 
 of interest on or the principal of such loan shall be carried to the 
 Metroi)olitan Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 Notwithstanding anything in the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, 
 and the Acts amending the same, the amount so lent by the board 
 shall be repaid to them by the said managers, with interest, within 
 such period not exceeding sixty years as may be agreed upon 
 between the board and the said managers, subject to the approval 
 of the Treasury. 
 
 The board may lend and the managers may borrow money in 
 l)ursuance of this section for the purpose of repaying any loan due 
 at the passing of this Act from the said managers. 
 
 The board and the said managers may execute all such deeds and 
 documents and do all such acts as may be necessary or expedient 
 for carrying this section into effect. 
 
 38. [Limit of borrowing powers. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 39. The dividends on all consolidated stock shall be paid on such Payment of 
 days as may be from time to time fixed by the board. . . . [ Words flivklends. 
 omitted C' icith the approval of the Treasurg ") rep. 59 & 60 Vict. 
 
 c. ccxiv. s. 23.] 
 
 40. Any person or body corporate entitled to any consolidated Appointment 
 stock or to any security granted by the board may, if default be °f ^ 
 made for a period of not less than two months after demand in '" ^^ 
 writing in the payment of dividend on sucii stock or of interest on 
 any such security, apply to the Court of Chancery in a summary 
 way for the appointment of a receiver, and the Court of Chancery 
 may, if the Court think fit, on such application appoint a receiver 
 on such terms and conditions, and with such powers, as the court 
 think fit. Such person shall have the same power of collecting and 
 
 * Xi)\v the Local Government Board, See the Local Government Board Act LS71, s. 2. 
 t This limit is varied by many of the subsequent Jloncy Acts of the iletropolitan 
 Board of A\orks and the London County Council. 
 
 receiver 
 L-ertain 
 
 cases.
 
 v^si rr <cr*T> 1 f»9 1 '^'^'^ Metropolitan Board of Work.^ r-09 r.o Virr T 
 
 4ob [Chap. 102.] ^£^^^^^_^ ^^^.^ ^gg,^ L-^2 ^ 33 Vici.J 
 
 receiving and applying all moneys lialJe to be carried under this 
 Act to the consolidated loans fund, and of assessing and raising 
 the metropolitan consolidated rate for the purpose of obtaining such 
 moneys as the board or any officer thereof may have, and shall 
 apply all snch moneys, after payment of expenses and costs, under 
 the direction of the court, for the purposes of and in conformity 
 with this Act. The court may at any time discharge such receiver, 
 and shall have full jurisdiction over such receiver, and the applicant 
 and all persons and bodies interested in the acts of the receiver, in 
 the same manner and to the same extent as if a suit had been duly 
 instituted for the administration of the affairs of the board and a 
 receiver had been appointed in such suit. 
 
 The Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, with the advice and 
 
 assistance of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, 
 
 the Master of the Rolls, and the Vice-Chancellors, or any two of 
 
 those judges, may from time to time make general orders for the 
 
 regulation of the practice of the Court of Chancery under this section. 
 
 [Xote to s. 5 (r/.s to the metropolitan consolidated i^ate) apjplies^ 
 
 Moneys ^-^^ ^i\ s^^jjis of money, bills, and drafts which are received by 
 
 the board to ^^^ board Under the provisions of this Act shall from time to time, 
 
 be paid into within two days after the same have been received, or within two 
 
 bank to their ^^y^ after any bill has been accepted, completed, and perfected, 
 
 if the same is not accepted, completed, and perfected at the time it 
 
 is received, be paid by the board into the hands of some bank to be 
 
 api)ointed by the lioard . . . , for which the receipt of one of the cashiers 
 
 or other officers of such ])ank shall be a sufficient discharge : and all 
 
 such moneys, bills, and drafts so to be paid as aforesaid shall from 
 
 time to time be placed to the account of the board with such bank, 
 
 and shall be applied and disposed of by the board for and towards 
 
 the several purposes to which the same are by law applicable. 
 
 [Words omitted (" uith the approval of the Treasury''''^ rep. 59 & 60 
 
 Vict. c. ccxiv. 6-. 23.] 
 
 Exemption 43^ ^ person or body corporate purchasing any consolidated 
 
 of ^^ockTrom stock, or advancing money to the board on the security of such 
 
 inquiries into stock, shall not be bound to see or inquire whether such stock is 
 
 application created or such advances are required for the purposes of the Acts 
 
 re^iTrit^v of Dientioned in the first schedule to. this Act, or is or are within the 
 
 proceedings, borrowing powers of the board, or otherwise in accordance with the 
 
 et^c. provisions of this Act, or any regulations made thereunder, and 
 
 shall not be prejudiced by the same not being so, and shall not be 
 
 bound to see to or inquire into the application of the money or any 
 
 part of the money arising from such stock or advances, or be in any 
 
 way responsible for the non-ap|ilication thereof, and shall not be 
 
 bound to inquire whether the board so raising money, or any 
 
 meeting thereof, was properly constituted or convened, or that the 
 
 proceedings at any meeting of such board were legal or regular. 
 
 Approval of 43. The approval, sanction, or certificate of the Treasury, where 
 reasur^'. required under this Act, may be signified by the signature of any 
 officer appointed by them for the purpose, and shall, until the con- 
 trary is proved, be deemed to have been given, and the holder 
 of consolidated stock shall not be prejudiced by reason of the 
 absence of any such approval, sanction, or certificate. 
 
 Purchasers 44. Where the board sell or lease or otherwise dispose of to 
 
 freS^^rom'^ any person or body corporate any land, rents, or property charged 
 charges. Under the provisions of this Act as security for any consolidated
 
 TOO 1' oo A7 -\ The Metro nol/f fill hoard of Works ^(^ i,,.)T ion 
 
 L -J {Loans) Act 1^09. •- -• 
 
 8toc;k, such land, rents, and property sliall in tlie hands of sucIj 
 person or body corporate l)e absolutely treed of every su(di charge, 
 and snch person or body corporute shall n(jt be bonnd to sec to 
 or inquire into the application of the money iirising from such sale 
 to tlie consolidated loans fund oi' otherwise in manner directed 
 by tliis A(;t, or be in any way I'esponsible I'or the non-applicatiou 
 thereof. 
 
 45. Nothing in this Act shall affect any power or duty of the '"'^wer of 
 board to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of land, rents, or property euT^amP'^ 
 belonging to them, or to apply the moneys in the nature of capital 
 arising from such sale, lease, or disposition, in discharge of such 
 liabilities and securities as are a charge on the same in priority 
 
 to the charge created by this Act, or affect the claim of any person 
 or body corporate under any of the Acts mentioned in the first 
 schedule to this Act, or otherwise existing at the passing of this 
 Act, to such moneys or any part thereof. \_See also 41 & 48 Vict, 
 c. oO, s. 23, a)H/^i)'i & o4 Virt. c. 41, s. 24.] 
 
 46. The ])oard may, in lieu of any portion of consolidated stock Creation by 
 authorized to be created under this Act, create for the like purpose ^^°!;!!!.?1. 
 termmable annuities, to be called metropolitan annuities, and to be 
 granted at such rate of interest, on such terras, subject to such con- 
 ditions, and terminable after such mimber of years as the Treasury 
 
 may before the creation thereof from time to time approve : and 
 throughout this Act the term " stock " shall be construed to include 
 annuities so created, and all the provisions of this Act sliall be con- 
 strued accordingly, subject to the following qualifications ; namely, 
 (1.) The term " dividend" shall be construed to mean the portion 
 
 of the annuity which represents interest. 
 (2.) The term " nominal amount of stock " shall be construed to 
 mean the capital value of the annuity at the time when 
 such nominal amount is required to be ascertained, such 
 capital value to be calculated on the same principles as 
 the calculation made at the time of its creation. 
 (3.) The term " redeeming stock " and terms referring thereto 
 shall be construed to mean paying the portion of instal- 
 ments of any annuity which represents capital. 
 (4.) Instalments of an annuity shall be paid on such days as may 
 from time to time be fixed by the board with the approval 
 of the Treasury. 
 
 (5.) An appointment of a receiver may be made where one or 
 more of the ai)pli('ants hapi)en to be entitled jjartly to stock 
 and partly to annuities, or where one or more of the 
 applicants hajipen to be entitled to stock and one or more 
 to annuities, as well as where he or tliey are entitled to 
 stock alone or annuities alone. 
 
 (6.) Where power is given by this Act to create stock, or to lay 
 out the consolidated loans fund in the purchase of stock 
 or to convert any security into stock, or to invest in or 
 advance money on the security of stock, such creation, 
 purchase, conversion, investment, or advance may be of, 
 in, into, or on the secnritv of annuities onlv or partlv 
 annuities and partly stock. 
 
 (7.) \_As to stamp duty on transfer of. vietrooolitau aniUdties. 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vk-t. c, 3'J \S.LM.).']
 
 440 
 
 Annual 
 return to be 
 laid before 
 Tarliament. 
 
 [Chap. 102.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Board of Works 
 Loans {Act) 1869! 
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 47. \_As to existing secwities under the Acts mentioned in th^e first 
 schedule. Spent ?^ 
 
 48. [ Transitory prousions as to uncompleted loans. Spent.'] 
 
 49. On or before the first of June in every year the lioard shall 
 prepare a return, in such form as may he from time to time directed 
 by the Treasury, showing up to the twenty-fifth of March preceding 
 the amount of consolidated stock, and the application of the money 
 raised by such stock, and the sums carried to and the application of 
 the consolidated loans fund, and such other particulars respecting 
 their loan transactions, and such estimate of the expenditure of the 
 board for all purposes for the year commencing on such twenty- 
 fifth of March, as the Treasury may from time to time require, and 
 such return shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament on or 
 before the said first of June, if Parliament be then sitting, and if 
 not within ten days after the next meeting of Parliament. [See 
 also 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 13.] 
 
 50. \_Repeal of Acts in third schedale to the extent therein 
 mentioned. Hep. 46 & 47 Vict, c, 39 {S.L.It.).'] 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 FiKST Schedule. 
 
 Acts authorizinq Loans. 
 
 Date. 
 
 Title. 
 
 PART I.— GEXEEAL IMPEOVEMEXT ACTS. 
 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. 
 
 19 cic 20 Met. c. 112. 
 2.5 & 26 Vict. c. 102. 
 
 20 & 21 Vict. c. cxv. 
 
 20 k. 21 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 cl. 
 
 21 & 22 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 27 & 28 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 iv. 
 
 28 & 29 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 iii. 
 
 29 & 30 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 cl. 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 vii. 
 
 21 & 22 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 1(14. 
 
 26 &; 27 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 6S. 
 
 28 & 29 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 19. 
 
 28 & 29 Vict. c. 90. 
 
 2.5 & 26 Vict. c. 93. 
 26 & 27 Vict. c. 45. 
 
 26 & 27 Vict. c. 75. 
 
 27 & 28 Vict. c. cxxxv. . 
 27 & 28 Vict. c. 61. 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. c. 43. 
 
 31 k. 32 Vict. c. cxi. 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxxv. . 
 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. cxxxiv. 
 
 The Metropolis Management Act, 1855. 
 
 The Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1856. 
 
 The Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1862. 
 
 Covent Garden Approach and Southwark and West 
 minster Communication Act, 1857. 
 
 The Finsbury Park Act, 1857. 
 
 Victoria Park Approach Act, 1858. 
 . The Southwark Park Act, 1864. 
 . Whitechapel and Holborn Improvement Act, 1865. 
 . j Kensington Improvement Act, 1866. 
 . • Marylebone (Stingo Lane) Improvement Act, 1868. 
 
 PART II.— MAIN DRAINAGE ACTS. 
 
 The Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1858. 
 The Metropolitan Main Drainage Extension Act, 1863. f 
 An Act to extend the period for borrowing the sum 
 
 authorized to be raised under the Metropolitan Main 
 
 Drainage Extension Act, 1863.t 
 
 PART IIL— FIRE BRIGADE ACT. 
 
 . , The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act, 1865. 
 
 PART IV.— EMBANKMENT ACTS. 
 
 , I The Thames Embankment Act, 1862. 
 
 . The Metropolis Improvement Act, 186.3. 
 
 . The Thames Embankment Act. 1863. 
 
 . Thames Embankment Amendment Act. 1864. 
 
 . : The Thames Embankment and Metropolis Improve- 
 
 I ment (Loans) Act, 1864.f 
 . The Thames Embankment and Metropolis Improve- 
 ment (Loans) Act, 1868. f 
 . ^ The Thames Embankment (North and South) Act, 1868. 
 . I The Thames Embankment (Chelsea) Act, 1868. 
 The Park Lane Improvement Act, 1869. 
 
 * See also the Tramways Act 1870, s. 21. 
 t Rep. by s. 50 of this Act. 
 
 (See Appendix.)
 
 [32 L .3^ ViCl.J (l.nan^\ Act 1860. ^-^^^^ ' ^^^^ ^^^ 
 
 (Loans) Act 1800. 
 Skconu SciiKDrM';. 
 
 J'^oriihs of 'rraiis/i'r. 
 
 J J ,!./>'., of , in coiisitlcji-iition (^T the suiu of 
 
 pounds paid to mo by CI), of 
 , do lioreby transfer to tlie said C'./A, liis 
 executors, administrators, and assigns, the sum (jf £ 
 metro|)olitan consolidated stock \or atinuitios] standing,' in my name 
 in the books kept of such stock [or annuities], and all my property, 
 right, and interest in and to the same and the dividends thereon [or 
 the instalments thereof]. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand 
 this day of one thousand 
 
 eight hundred and 
 
 A.B. (L.s.) 
 
 1, CD., do hereby acce])t the above-named sum 
 
 of £ stock [or annuities], and will hold the same subject 
 
 to the same conditions on which the said transferor held the same. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand 
 
 this day of one thousand 
 
 eight hundred and 
 
 CD. (L.S.) 
 
 Third Schedule. [Enactments repeaUd (viz. 80 much of .v. 135 
 of 18 & 19 Vict. c. 121) a.s promdcs that the sewers and -works 
 'therein mentioned shall be completed on or before the "Mst December 
 18(50 ; so much of s. 183 thereof as relates to the mode of borrowing 
 b>/ the Metropolitan Board of Worhs, and ss. 184—191 thereof, 
 both inclusive, so Jar as regai^ds the Metropolitan Board oj Works — 
 s. 45 from " anil for securing " to end of section, and ss. 46 — 53, 
 both incUmce, and s. 56 <?/ 20 & 21 Vict. c. cxx.—s. ^G fro?n ^' and 
 for sect/ring " to end of section, and ss. 37 — 44, both inclusive, of 
 20 A: 21 Vict. c. cl. — ss. 4 — 7 and 10—22, all inclusive, and s. 26 
 of 21 & 22 Vict. c. 104— ,>,•. '38fro?n ^^ and for securing'' to end of 
 section, and as. 39 — 44, both inclasire, and s. 47 of 21 & 22 176'^. 
 c. xxxviii.— .s. 37 and ss. 42—40, both inclusive, of 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. 93—6-6'. 19 and 20 so far as regards the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works, and s. 26 of 2o & 26 Vi'ct. c. 102— so much of s. 20 a*- 
 incorporates s. 37 of 25 & 26 Vict. c. 03 ; and ss. 22 a?id 23 (f 
 26 & 27 \lct. c. 45—26 & 27 Vict. c. 68 (the whole Act)— so much 
 of s. 21 as incorporates s. 37 o/25 & 26 Vict. c. 93 ; and ss. 26, 27, 
 28, and 29 of 26 & 27 Vict. c. 75—27 & 28 Vict. c. 61 {the whole 
 Act) — s. dlfrom ^^ and for securing" to end of section, and ss. 32 — 
 39, both inclusive, of 21 & 28 Vict. c. iv.— 28 & 29 Vict. c. 10 {the 
 whole Act)—ss. 10, 20, and 21 <2/'28 ct 20 Vict. c. 00— 6-. 31 from 
 " and for securing " to end of section, ss. 32—30, both inclusive, 
 and s. 42 <>i/28 & 20 Vict. c. m.—s. 'i^) from '^ and for securing" to 
 end of section, ss. 31 — 38, both inclusive, and s. 41 o/ 20 &, 30 
 Vict.c. d.— 31 & 32 Vict. c. 43 {the whole Act)—.^. W) from ''and 
 for securing'' to end of .section ss. 20—26, both inclusive, and s. 29 
 of 31 & 32 Vict. c. \n.—so much of s. 18 as relates to the mode 
 of borrowing^ and ss. 19 — 22, both inclusive, of'il & 32 Vict. c. cxi. — 
 so much of s. 28 as incorporates s. 37 r)/' 25 k 26 Vict. c. 03 ; so
 
 44^ 
 
 [Chap. 107.] 
 
 Tlte Metropolitan Commons 
 Amendment Act 180'.). 
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 muck of s. 29 as relates to the mode of horrounmj^ and ss. 30 — 32, 
 bot/i inclusive, of?>\ & 32 Vict.c. cxxxv. — so much of s. 25 as relates 
 to the mode of borrowing, and ss. 26 — 28, both i'nclusive, of 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. cxxxiv.) rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (/S.L.i^.).] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Extension of 
 interpreta- 
 tion of terra 
 " common " 
 in 29 & 30 
 Vict. c. 122. 
 
 Extension 
 of right to 
 memorialize. 
 
 CHAPTER 107. 
 
 An Act to amend The Meteopolitan Commons Act, 1866. 
 
 \\\th August 1869.] 
 {Preamble rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.)^ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as " The Metropolitan Commons 
 Amendment Act, 1869." 
 
 2. The following words shall be added to the interpretation of the 
 term " common " in the third clause of The Metropolitan Commons 
 Act, 1866 ; namely, " and any land subject to be included under the 
 provisions of the eighth and ninth Victoria, chapter one hundred and 
 eighteen." * - . 
 
 3. A scheme may be made, under The Metropolitan Commons 
 Act (1866), on a memorial in that behalf presented to the Com- 
 missioners f by any twelve or more ratepayers, inhabitants of the 
 parish or parishes in which the metropolitan common is situate, 
 as well as by any such person, persons, or body as is or are described 
 in section six of the said Act. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Limits of 
 Act. 
 
 Definition of 
 stage car- 
 riage and 
 hackney 
 
 Meaning of 
 " prescribed. 
 
 Exemption 
 of certain 
 carriages 
 from opera- 
 tions of Act. 
 
 CHAPTER 115. 
 
 An Act foe amending the Law relating to Hackney and 
 Stage Carriages within the Metropolitan Police District. 
 
 \Uth August 1869.] 
 • {Prea7nble rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (.S.Z.ii'.).] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Metropolitan 
 Public Carriage Act, 1869." 
 
 2. The limits of this Act shall be the metropolitan police district, 
 and the city of London and the liberties thereof. 
 
 3. {Commencement of Act {\st January 1870). Hep. 56 & 57 
 Vict. c. 54 (^IL./t*.).]' 
 
 4. In this Act " stage carriage " shall mean any carriage for the 
 conveyance of passengers which plies for hire in any public street, 
 road, or place within the limits of this Act, and in which the 
 passengers or any of them are charged to pay separate and distinct 
 or at the rate of separate and distinct fares for their respective 
 places or seats therein. 
 
 " Hackney carriage " shall mean any carriage for the conveyance 
 of passengers which plies for hire within the limits of this Act, and 
 is not a stage carriage. 
 
 " Prescribed " shall mean " prescribed by order of one of Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretaries of State." 
 \8ee also 6 & 7 176-^ c. 86, s. 2.] 
 
 5. A "stage carriage" which on every journey goes to or com^s 
 from some town or place beyond the limits of this Act shall not be 
 deemed to be a carriage plying within the limits of this Act. 
 
 * I.e. the Inclosnre Act 1845. 
 
 f Now the Board of Agriculture. See note on 29 & 30 Vict, c 102, s. 3.
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] ''''" ^^'^'"^''^'j^.i ^'" ^ ''"''"'^' [< ''^ai-. 1 1 5.] 443 
 
 Licensin;/ Ihickney ami Star/f: Carriages. 
 
 6. One of Her Majesty's l*rincii»iil Secretaries of State may from [^'''^J^^f 
 time to time license to ply for hire within the limits of this Act ^^^^.j^^^' 
 hackney and stji^e carriages, to be distinguished in sncli manner licences, 
 as he may by order prescribe. 
 
 Any licence in respect of a hackney or stage carriage under this 
 section may be granted at such price, on su(;h conditions, Ijc in 
 such form, be suljject to revision or suspension in such events, and 
 generally be dealt with in such manner as the said Secretary of 
 State may ))y order prescribe, subject as follows : — 
 
 (1.) That a hackney or stage carriage licence shall, if not revoked 
 or suspended, be in force for one year, and there shall 
 be ])aid in respect thereof to the Receiver of the Metro- 
 ])olitaii Police, to be carried to the account of the Metro- 
 })olitan Police Fund, such uniform sum, not exceeding two 
 pounds two shillings, as the said Secretary of State may 
 })rescribe : 
 (2.) That in any such order provision shall be made for the 
 transfer of a hackney oi- stage carriage licence to the 
 widow or to any child of full age of any person to whom a 
 hackney or stage carriage licence has been granted who 
 may die during the continuance of such licence leaving a 
 widow or child of full age, and also for the transfer of a 
 hackney or stage carriage licence to the husband (jf any 
 woman to wliom such licence has been granted and who 
 marries during the continuance thereof. 
 
 7. If any unlicensed hackney or stage carriage plies for hire, the Penalty 
 owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five °JJiScense(^ 
 pounds for every day during which such unlicensed carriage plies, carriage. 
 And if any unlicensed hackney carriage is found on any stand 
 within the limits of this Act, the owner of such carriage shall be 
 
 liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each time it is 
 so found. The driver also shall in every such case be liable to a 
 like penalty unless he proves that he was ignorant of the fact of the 
 carriage being an unlicensed carriage. 
 
 Any hackney or stage carriage plying for hire, and any hackney 
 carriage found on any stand without having such distinguishing 
 mark, or being otherwise distinguished in such manner as may for 
 the time being be prescribed by the said Secretary of State, shall 
 be deemed to be an unlicensed carriage. 
 
 "o' 
 
 Licensing Drivfis of Unckneg and Stage Carriages. 
 
 8. No hackney carriage shall ply for hire within the limits of iiackncy 
 this Act unless under the cliarge of a driver having a licence from carnage to 
 the said Secretary of State, and no stage carriage shall ply for hire ^^. licensed 
 within the limits of this Act unless the conductor and driver of such drivers, 
 carriage have respectively licences from the said Secretary of State. 
 If any hackney or stage carnage plies for hire in contravention of 
 this section, the person driving the same, and also the owner of 
 such carriage, unless he proves, in the case of a hackney carriage, 
 that the driver, and in the case of a stage carriage, that the 
 conductor or driver, as the case may require, acted without his 
 privity or consent, shall respectively be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding forty shillings.
 
 AAA rnTT.x, 1 1 K n The Metropolitan Public Catriaqe roo p oo ir n 
 
 444 [Chap. 115. 1 ^ yl^/j 1869 [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 A licence to the driver or conductor of a hackney or stage car- 
 riage may be granted at snch price, on such conditions, be in such 
 form, be subject to revocation or suspension in such events, and 
 generally be dealt with in such manner as the said Secretary of State 
 may by order prescribe, subject to this jn-ovision, that any such 
 licence shall, if not revoked or suspended, be in force for one year, 
 and there shall be paid in respect thereof to the Receiver of the 
 Metropolitan Police, to be carried to the account of the Metro- 
 politan Police Fund, such sum not exceeding five shillings as the 
 said Secretary of State may prescribe. This clause shall not repeal 
 the tenth section of an Act of the sixth and seventh years of the 
 reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-six. 
 
 Regulations relating to Hackney and Stage Carriages. 
 Regulations 9^ The Said Secretary of State may from time to time by order make 
 and'stage^^^"^ regulations for all or any of the following purposes ; that is to say, 
 
 (1.) For regulating the number of persons to be carried in any 
 hackney or stage carriage, and in what manner such 
 number is to be shown on such carriage, and how such 
 hackney carriages are to be furnished or fitted : 
 
 (2.) For fixing the stands of hackney carriages, and the distances 
 
 to which they may be compelled to take passengers, and 
 
 the persons to attend at such stands : \_See also 6 & 7 Vict. 
 
 c. 86, ss. 29 and 33 ; 13 & 14 Vict. c. 7, s. 6 ; and 16 & 17 
 
 Vict. c. 33, s. 12.] 
 
 (3.) For fixing the rates or fares, as well for time as distance, to 
 be paid for hackney carriages, and for securing the due 
 j)ublication of such fares ; provided that it shall not be 
 made compulsory on the driver of any hackney carriage to 
 take passengers at a less fare than the fare payable at the 
 time of the passing of this Act : [_See 16 & 17 Vict. c. 33, 
 s. 4, and c. 127, ss. 13 — 15.] 
 
 (4.) For forming, in the case of hackney carriages, a table of 
 distances, as evidence for the purpose of any fare to be 
 charged by distance, by the preparation of a book, map, or 
 plan, or any combination of a book, map, or plan : 
 
 (5.) For securing the safe custody and re-delivery of any property 
 accidentally left in hackney or stage carriages and fixing 
 the charges to be paid in respect thereof, with power to 
 cause such property to be sold or to be given to the finder 
 in the event of its not being claimed within a certain time : 
 [_See 16 & 17 Vict. c. 33, .s-.^'ll.] 
 Subject to the following restrictions : — 
 
 (1.) In fixing the stands for hackney carriages within the city of 
 London and the liberties thereof the consent of the Court 
 of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen shall be required to any 
 stand appointed by the Secretary of State : 
 
 (2.) No hackney carriage shall be compelled to take any jiassenger 
 a greater distance for any one drive than six miles : 
 
 (3.) During such portion of time between sunset and sunrise as 
 is from time to time prescribed, no driver shall ply for 
 hire unless the hackney carriage under his charge be pro- 
 vided with a lamp properly trimmed and lighted, and fixed 
 outside the carriage in such manner as is prescribed. 
 
 This clause shall not repeal section thirteen of the Act of the
 
 [32&33VICT.] The Park Lane fmprovement AcnW.K [C'HAP.cxxxiv.] 445 
 
 fif'tli uiul sixth years of the rei«in of Her present ]\Iaje.sty, chapter 
 seventy-nine,* so far as re.u'ards existing carriages or any which may 
 be built witliin one year after the passing of this Act. 
 
 10. ^Vhere the Secretary of State is authorized to make any order Penalties for 
 under tliis Act, lie rniiv annex a i)enaltv not exceeding fortv shillings '"'each of re- 
 for the breach of sucii order or of any part or parts thereof, or of" 
 
 any regulation or regulations thereby made ; and any })enalties 
 under this section shall be deemed to be penalties under this Act, 
 and may be enforced accordingly. 
 
 11. Any licence graiitable by a Secretary of State under this Act Licences hy 
 may, if the said Secrctarv of State so direct, be '^ranted bv the ^^•'o™ ^" '^e 
 ( Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, or by such other person *" 
 
 as the said Secretary of State appoints for the j)uri)ose. 
 
 12. The said Secretary of State may appoint such officers and Powers to 
 
 constables of the metropolitan i)olice force, and for the citv of^ai-ryAct 
 
 1 J 7 •■ _ into cxGCu- 
 
 London of the city police, as he tliinks fit to perform any duties tion. 
 
 required to be performed for the purj)0ses of carrying this Act into 
 
 execution, and may award such sums by way of compensation for 
 
 their services out of the monies raised under this Act as he may 
 
 think just. 
 
 Legal Proceedings and Miscellaneous. 
 
 13. All penalties under this Act may be recovered summarily in Recovery of 
 the manner directed by the Act of the session of the eleventh and penalties, 
 twelfth years of Her ])resent Majesty, cha])ter forty-three, and any 
 
 Act amending the same; and the term "justice" or '-justice of 
 the peace " shall include any metropolitan police uiagistrate sitting 
 alone at a police court or other appointed place, and the Lord Mayor 
 of the citv of London or any alderman of the said citv sittins; alone 
 or with others at the Mansion House or Guildhall. 
 
 14. The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police may cause to Placard, etc. 
 be attached to any lamj) post any placard or signal for the purpose "^>' ''® 
 
 of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act. lanip'post, 
 
 15. All the provisions of the Acts relating to hackney carriages E.xisting 
 and metro])olitan stage carriages in force at the time of the com- ^^^^^ ^"^ "^on- 
 mencement of this Act shall, subject to any alteration made therein f [""e ^° 
 by this Act or bv anv order or regulation of the said Secretary of 
 
 state made m pursuance of this Act, continue in force, and all such 
 ])rovisions of the said Acts as relate to licences granted under those 
 Acts, or any of them, sliall, subject to any alteration as aforesaid 
 apply lo licences granted under this Acr. 
 
 CHAPTER CXXXIV 
 
 An Act to enable the Metropolitan Boakd of AVork.<; to 
 WIDEN Hamilton Place, and to extend the same into and 
 IMPROVE Park Lane, in the Parish of Saint George. 
 Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex : and for 
 other Purposes. pG^// Julg I.nOO.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that the Commissioners of Her 
 Majestg's Worhs and Public Buildings have set bach the eastern 
 
 * I.e. the Eailwav Passencrer Bntr \ct ls42.
 
 440 
 
 [CHAP.cxxxiv.] The Park Lane Improvement Act 1869. [32&33 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 No buildinji- 
 to Vie erected 
 iu a certain 
 part of the 
 impro'vement 
 
 Ways to 
 stables not 
 taken to be 
 made. 
 
 houndartj fence of Htjde Park and tvidened a portion of Park Lane 
 from its junction ivitk Oxford Street to or towards the termination 
 of the improvement bij this Act authorized, and that the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works * {in this Act called the Board) are about to 
 construct such icorks as may he necessary to form and adapt for 
 public traffic the widened portion aforesaid (in this Act called " the 
 northern widening ")•] 
 
 1. In citing tbis Act for any pni-pose it shall be sufficient to use 
 the exjiression " The Park Lane Improvement Act, 1869." 
 
 2. ^^Incorporation of lAinds Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 3. \_Parts omitted {definitions of '-'■ court of competent jurisdiction^'' 
 ^'- improvemeMf ^'street,''' ^^ sherif" ^' the northern widening^'' and 
 '■^ the parish,'"' and as to meanings of n-ords in Acts incorporated) s/jent.'] 
 
 4 — 6. \_Board to execute Act — Power to act by committee — 
 Persons interested not eligible for committee. Spent.] 
 
 7. \_Power to the Board, to widen Hamilton Place and extend it 
 into Park Lane in the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, and 
 to take lands for such purposes. Spent.] 
 
 8. No erection or building- whatever, excej^t an open iron fence 
 on a stone base, which base shall not exceed three feet in height 
 from the surface of the road, shall be erected on the said lands 
 between Hyde Park and the row of houses commencing with 
 Holdernesse House and extending to Stanhope Gate. 
 
 9. [Po/cer to alter streets. Spent.] 
 
 10. [^iJirecting how pavements shall be laid, and, that the widened, 
 and new streets iclien paved shall be repaired, by the vestry of the 
 parish, of St. George, Hanover Square,] and that the propjerty therein 
 .^IhiU belong to such vest/'y.] 
 
 11. [Power to the Board to fill up sewers and d rains on providing 
 .substitutes, which are to be under the same ca.re and management as 
 existing sewers and drains.] 
 
 12. [Power to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent.] 
 
 13. [Ground laid into streets to form part tltereof, to he used hy 
 public and to be under the management of the said vesUy.]] 
 
 14 — 18. [Lrroi'S and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to 
 sell materials — Power to surrey land to be taken — Power to treat 
 for lands — Periods for compulsory purchase of lands limited to 2 
 and for completion of works to 4 years. Sjjcnt.] 
 
 19. Such ways and openings shall be made and paved by the 
 Board as shall be necessary to provide convenient access for 
 carriages and foot passengers from Hamilton Place to the stables 
 and coach houses on the east side thereof which may not be taken 
 for the purpose of the works by this Act authorized, and to 
 the backs of the houses Nos. 138, 139, and 140, Piccadilly, and 
 the said ways and oi)enings shall be formed, made, and paved to 
 the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, 
 Forests, and Land Revenues, or one of them, and Her Majesty and 
 Her lessees and tenants shall at all times have the use and enjoy- 
 
 * Now the London County Conncih See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S). 
 t Now the city of Westminster. See 62 & 68 Vict. c. 14, s. 1, and Letters Patent 
 dated the 27th October I'JOO, and published in the Landon (slazette, 30th October 1900.
 
 133 & 34 Vict.] '^^'^ ^/^^r.;>.^7a;| P..;- Amendment ^^^^^^ ^^-^ 44. 
 
 raeiit of sncli ways and openings eitlier with horses and carriages or 
 witiioiif. 
 
 20 — 24. [^l.s fo (Irfieiencies of huid tax thuing fcorhs — Power to 
 the 1)0(11(1 to .^cll .HHrpliis land — Land not nytnted to be sold n-ithin 
 10 years — Receipts of the Hoard to be effectual dinchargea — An to 
 expenses of northern icidening. Spent.'l 
 
 25. \_Borro/cing powers, lie p. {so far a.s relates to the mode of 
 borrotchig) 32 k 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50. lienir. spent.'] 
 
 26 — 28. \_As to the improvement fmd under the London Coal and 
 Wine Dutiea Continuance Act)i iJSOl, and amending Acts. lie]). 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50.] 
 
 29. [^Powers of Metropolis Management Acts extended to this 
 Act. Semble Spent.] 
 
 30 — 31. {^Saving the rights of the Crown.] 
 
 32. \^llc})cnses of obtaining Act . Spent ^ 
 
 33 & 34 VICTORIA. A.D. 1870. 
 
 CHAPTER 18. 
 
 An Act to provide for the equal Distribution over the 
 Metropolis of a further Portion of the (.'harge for the 
 Relief of the Poor. \2Wh June 1870.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (^.L./?.).] 
 1. . . . The provisions of the sixty-ninth section of the Metro- Maintenance 
 politan Poor Act, 1867, directing the repayment of the expenses p^Q^j^^^e a 
 incurred for the maintenance of lunatics and insane poor, and of charge upon 
 patients in any asyhim s])ecially provided nnder that Act for patients the Metro- 
 suit'ering- from fever and small pox, siiall extend to the expenses j^on^poor^'^^* 
 incnrred for the maintenance of panpers in any other asylum now Fund. 
 or hereafter to be provided under the said Act, and to the main- 
 tenance of pauj)ers ahove the age of sixteen years in any workhouse 
 in the metropolis, and the Poor Law Board* shall, by its precept 
 under seal, direct the Receiver of the Common Poor Fund to repay 
 such expenses out of that fund, in the same manner as the expenses 
 specified in that section, subject, nevertheless, to the following 
 provisions : — 
 
 (1.) The Poor Law P)oard* shall certify the maximum number 
 
 of paupers to be maintained in any workhouse or asylum. 
 (2.) No repayment shall be made in respect of a greater number 
 of paupers maintained in any asylum on any one day than 
 will com])lete the maximum number which such asylum 
 shall have been certitieel to hold as aforesaid, nor in 
 respect of a greater number of })aupers maintained in any 
 workhouse on any one day than will, together with the 
 children under the age of sixteen, if any, maintained 
 therein on the same day, complete the maximum number 
 certilied for such workhouse, 
 (3.) The amount so repaid in respect of such maintenance shall 
 be at the rate of fivepence per day for each paui)er in such 
 workhouse or asylum. 
 
 * Now the Local Liovernment Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1.S71, s. 2.
 
 448 
 
 The main- 
 tenance of 
 officers to be 
 allowed as 
 part of their 
 salaries. 
 Financial 
 statement of 
 guardians. 
 
 Construction. 
 Short title. 
 
 r/t ofT The Metropolitan Board of Works roo s oa^t t 
 IChap. 24.1 ,/ \ A . 10-A 133 & 34 Vict.| 
 
 L -■ {Loans) Act 18/0. •- ^ 
 
 (4.) If the guardians of any union or parish, or the managers of 
 any asylum, shall, during any half year ending at Lady 
 Day or Michaelmas respectively, have refused or neglected 
 to comply with any order of the Poor Law Board,* issued 
 under the Poor Law Acts, directing the alteration or 
 enlargement of the workhouse, the provision of i)roper 
 drainage, sewers, ventilation, tixtures, furniture, surgical 
 and medical appliances, or directing the appointment of 
 any oflficer, or prescribing the maximum number of paupers 
 to be maintained in any workhouse or asylum, or the 
 classification of such paupers, such guardians or managers 
 shall be deemed to be in default, and the Poor Law 
 Board* may, if they think fit, omit from their precept for 
 such half year, addressed to the Receiver of the Common 
 Poor Fund, the sums which such guardians or the 
 guardians of the unions and j^arishes comprised in the 
 district to which the asylum belongs, would have been 
 entitled to be repaid under this Act if there had been no 
 such default : Provided that if such guardians or managers 
 shall comply with such order before the termination of 
 the next ensuing half year, it shall be lawful for the 
 Poor Law Board* to include in their precept for that 
 half year the sums so omitted from their precept for the 
 jn-evious half year. 
 
 [Words omitted {^^ From and after the 29tk day of September., 
 1870 ") rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 2. The term " salaries of oflicers," referred to in the said sixty- 
 ninth section of the said Metropolitan Poor Act, shall include the 
 cost of the rations of the officers therein described, according to a 
 scale to be fixed by the Poor Law Board.* 
 
 3. Within one month of each audit of the accounts of the board 
 of guardians of any union or jmrish in the metropolis, such board 
 shall deliver, by post or otherwise, to each vestry t within such 
 union or parish, one or more copies of the financial statement of 
 such guardians, showing the receipts, expenditure, balances, and 
 liabilities for the half-year, as audited. 
 
 4. This Act shall be construed in like manner as the Metropolitan 
 Poor Act of 1867, and shall be termed The Metropolitan Poor 
 Amendment Act, 1870. 
 
 CHAPTER 24. 
 
 An Act for making fuether Provision respecting the borrow- 
 ing OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works. 
 
 [4^/^ July 1870.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 Short titles 1. This Act may be cited as The Metropolitan Board of Works 
 and construe- (Loans) Act, 1870, and shall have eff"ect as one Act with the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 1860, in this Act referred to 
 as the principal Act ; and the principal Act and this Act may be 
 cited together as The Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 
 1869 and 1870. 
 
 * Now the Local Government P.oard. See the Local Government Board Act 1871 , s. 2. 
 •j- Now tlie Metropolitan Borough (Councils. See G2 & Gli Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 roQ Sr OA \T-.r,.^-\ The Thames Kmhanhmerd r-f. .. ^ . ,^ 
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] ^^^orth) Act 1870. [Chap, xcn.] 449 
 
 2. [^l.v to composition for Htamp flat)/ on transfers of existing 
 stock. Rep. 40 k 47 Vict. c. 3U (S.L.li'.).] 
 
 3 — 4. [-1^ to composition for stamp dutij on transfers of future 
 stock ana of terminable annuities. Rep. by the Stamp Act 1891, 
 s. 123.] 
 
 5. In consideration of the provisions for comy)Osition in this Act Exemption 
 contained, transfers of metropolitan consolidated stock issued or to f rom^rtamp 
 l)e issued, and stock cei'tificates in resj)ect thereof, and transfers of 
 metroi)olitan annuities, are herelty, notwithstanding anything in the 
 principal Act, exempted from stam]) duty. \^See also the Customs 
 
 and Inland Revenue Act 1887, ss. 14 and 15.] 
 
 6. \_As to composition for stamp duty payable under this Act. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 7. Section eleven of the principal Act shall liave effect as if Amendment 
 in paragraph (1.) thereof "transferor" were substituted for ^J former ^^' 
 " transferee." Act. 
 
 8. In the event of any Act being passed in the present session Alteration of 
 of Parliament containing provisions in suljstitution for The Stock [^^g^g",^^ *^ 
 Certificate Act, 18G3,* section sixteen of the principal Act shall have certificates, 
 effect as if the substituted provisions were referred to in that section 
 
 in lieu of The Stock Certificate Act,* 1863. \_See the Isational Debt 
 Act 1870, part v.] 
 
 CHAPTER XCII. 
 
 An Act for the Abandonment of the authorised Street from 
 THE Thames Embankment below Charing Cross Kailway 
 Bridge to Wellington Street, Strand ; and for other 
 purposes. [Ath July 1870.] 
 
 [Prea??ible recites that by 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxi. (in this Act referred 
 to as the Embankment Act of 18G8) the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (in this Act called the Board]) were authorised among other things to 
 make a street (No. 4) described in the preamble to the Embankment 
 Act of 1868, and that it is expedient to abandon the making of such 
 street.] 
 
 1. This Act mav be cited as The Thames Embankment (North) Short title. 
 Act, 1870. 
 
 2. The Board shall abandon the making: of the said street. Abandon- 
 
 ^ _^ ment of 
 
 3. \_As to compensation in respect of lands abandoned. Spent.] street. 
 
 4. The sections of the Embankment Act of 1868 described in the Repeal of 
 schedule to this Act by their numbers and marginal notes are ^^^g^^j^^ 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 5. Provided always, that all land authorised to be taken for the ^'''^r protec- 
 purposes of the said street, and forming part of the land referred ^^elpbi^ ^^ 
 to in the 23rd section of " The Thames Embankment (North and estate, 
 v^outh) Act, 1868," shall be subject to and ini'luded within the 
 provisions of the said section, and shall be accordingly maintained 
 
 by the Board for the use of the })ublic as a place c»f recreation, or 
 as ornamental ground ; and, except as is by this Act otherwise 
 provided, nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice or affect the 
 
 ♦ Rep. 33 k U Vict. c. OO (S.L.K.). 
 
 f Now the London County Council. See 51 Jc 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 29
 
 450 
 
 [Chap. 15.] The Metropolitan Poor Act 1871. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 property, rights, or interests of George James Drummorid, the 
 owner or reputed owner, or other the owner for the time being, 
 of the Adelphi estate. 
 
 6. [Expenses of executing and obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 The SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Act refers. 
 
 Sections of Embankment Act of 1868 repealed. 
 
 Number. 
 
 Marginal note. 
 
 Twenty-six . 
 Thirty . 
 Thirty-four . 
 Thirty-five . 
 Thirty-six 
 
 Foot communication from Adelphi. 
 Certain land to be sold to the ^Marquis of Salisbury. 
 Construction of street Xo. 4 through precinct of Savoy. 
 Removal of graves, etc. at Lutheran Chapel. 
 Compensation in respect of burial ground. 
 
 The provi- 
 sions of 30 & 
 31 Vict. c. 6., 
 etc., appli- 
 cable to 
 buildings 
 extended to 
 other sub- 
 jects. 
 
 Act incorpo- 
 rated with 
 above-recited 
 Act. 
 
 34 & 35 VICTORIA. A.D. 1871. 
 
 CHAPTER 15. 
 
 An Act to amend The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867. 
 
 \_2bth May 1871.] 
 
 [Preamble {reciting 30 & 31 Vict. c. 6) rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 
 {S.L.R.).-] 
 
 1. . . . All the provisions of the said Act, as amended by the 
 subsequent Act of 1869, which relate to the procuring of any 
 buildings for the purpose of an asylum under that Act shall apply 
 to any ship, vessel, hut, tent, or other temporary erection which 
 may be used by the managers, with the approval of the Poor Law 
 Board,* for the reception of paupers, or otherwise for the purposes 
 of the asylum, whether the same shall have been acquired or used 
 prior to the passing of this Act, or shall be acquired or used 
 hereafter ; and such ship, vessel, hut, tent, or other temporary 
 erection shall for all the purposes of the first-mentioned Act be 
 deemed to be an asylum specially provided under it. [Word 
 omitted (" that ") rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.E.). See also 
 30 & 31 Vict. c. 6, s. 31 ; and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 63, s. 11.] 
 
 2. This Act shall be construed as and shall be taken to be incor- 
 porated with the said Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867. 
 
 CHAPTER 47. 
 
 An Act for amending the Acts regulating the borrowing of 
 Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and for 
 other Purposes relating thereto. [I'^th July 1871.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S-l.E.).] 
 Short titles. 1. This Act may be cited as The Metropolitan Board of "Works 
 Act to be con- (Loans) Act, 1871, and shall be construed and have effect as one 
 AcTsteTii^n ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 1869, in 
 named. this Act referred to as the principal Act; and the principal Act 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Local Government Board Act 1871 
 S.2.
 
 ro^ p or T7- ^ n TV^'i? Metropobtan Board of ]\ orks ,-. , , - -> .^. 
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] ,/ . . * ^o~^ (Jhai*. 1;).| 4;j1 
 
 •- -' {Loans) Act \Hi\. l -J 
 
 and The Metropolitiui Board of Works (Loans) Act, 1870, and this 
 
 Act may be cited togetlier as Tlie Metroi)olitan I'oard of Works 
 
 (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871. 
 
 2. \_l )t'Ji.nition of ^^ main druinaye securitieny Spent. '\ 
 
 3 — 6. [Amendme/nt of pj'ovisions respecting main drainage 
 
 securities. Spent.'] 
 
 7. \_Omission of the word. " or " in s. 34 {first line) of the principal 
 Act. Rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 8. [Amcndmrnt of s. '34 of the principal Act, hy substituting 
 consolidated stork for Main Urainatje and other securities.] 
 
 9. All consolidated stock created before or after the passing of this Repayment of 
 Act for an3^ of the ijurposes of section thirtv-four of the principal Act ^^If:'"^.;^?!!'^ 
 shall, notwitlistandmg anything in the principal Act or this Act, be years, 
 purchased or redeemed and cancelled within sixty years from the 
 
 time of the tirst creation by the Board* of any consolidated stock. 
 
 10. \_Loans di/ the Board to vestries and district boards. Rep. 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R):\ 
 
 11. [^Continuance of limit of borrowing poivers. liep.Ql &62 Vict, 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 12. The books for the transfer of consolidated stock created by Closing of 
 the Board* may be closed on any day in the month next preceding ''■^'jf^^J" 
 that in which the dividends on that stock are payable, but so that dividend, 
 the books be not at any time so closed for more than fifteen days ; 
 
 and the persons and bodies corporate who on the day of such closing 
 are inscribed as holders of consolidated stock shall, as between 
 them and their transferees of consolidated stock, be entitled to the 
 dividend thereon becoming ])ayable next after that day ; and this 
 section shall have effect in lieu of section twelve of the principal Act. 
 
 13. [Power for trustees to take Metropolitan stock. Rep. by the 
 Trust fnrestment Act 1889, s. 8. See ibid. s. 3 (f).] 
 
 14. [*S'. 3 of the Married Wo7nen''s Property Act 187U to apply 
 to Metropolitan stock. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 15. Any account required by the Main Drainage Acts to be Description 
 opened in the books of . . . the Bank of England, and any account ^^ ^^^^j. ^f 
 required by any other Act or by the Treasury to be so o])en('d for England for 
 any purpose connected with the duties of the Board,* shall, if the '"»'"''™'n''^ge 
 Treasury so direct, be opened and kept under the official designations purposes!^ 
 
 of the Permanent Secretary of Her Majesty's Treasury and the 
 Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works* for the time being, 
 jointly ; and on a vacancy in the office of either of those officers, 
 the balance remaininti: to the credit of anv such account shall vest 
 in his successor in office jointly with the other, and during the 
 vacancy shall not be disposed of by the other, and in case of a 
 vacancy by death shall not constitute assets of the deceased or be 
 in any manner subject to the control of his legal representatives ; 
 and the Treasury shall from time to time direct in what manner 
 any such account shall be drawn on, and what evidence of the title 
 of any person to draw thereon shall be sufficient ; and . . . the 
 Bank of England are hereby indemnified in respect of anything 
 done or permitted under this section. [ WonLs omitted (" the 
 Governor and Company of'' rep. 56 «fe 57 Vict. c. 54 (-S.A./^.).] 
 
 16. \As to the annual report of the Board under 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120, 6\ 200. Rep. ij(j & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S).
 
 .f-o rn 1 •• 1 The Metropolitan Commons First ro^ p octt n 
 
 452 [Chap. Ivii.] Supplemental Act 1871. ^^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^^'^ 
 
 17. [^« to loans to the managers of the metropolitan asylum 
 district. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {Sl.R.).'] 
 
 18. {Appointment of auditor of accounts of the Board. Rep. 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (/S'./y./i!.).] 
 
 Modified 
 scheme as to 
 Blackheath 
 certified by 
 Inclosure 
 Commis- 
 sioners 
 confirmed. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 CHAPTER LVII. 
 
 An Act to confirm a Scheme under " The Metropolitan 
 Commons Act, 1866," relating to Blackheath. 
 
 [29M .June 1871.] 
 
 [Preamble recites that the Inclosure Commissioners for England 
 and, Wales have, in pursuaiK-e of " The Metropolitan Commons Act, 
 1866," duly certified a scheme for the establishment of local manage- 
 ment with respect to Blackheath, .situate in the parishes of Greenwich 
 and Lewisham, in the county of Kent.*^ \_Be it e?iacted] 
 
 1. That the scheme for the establishment of local managemeDt 
 with respect to Blackheath, situate in the parishes of Greenwich 
 and Lewisham, in the county of Kent,* certified by the Inclosure 
 Commissioners for England and Wales under their seal on the 
 third day of November one thousand eight hundred and sevent}", be 
 modified by the omission in clause 14 of the scheme of the words 
 "by clause 6 of the Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866, inasmuch as 
 the improvement of the Heath and the prevention of nuisances 
 thereon and other pur230ses of a like nature cannot be carried out 
 without in some small degree interfering with such rights, but 
 such interference will be beneficial to such rights and the persons 
 entitled thereto respectively, and no such rights are taken away or 
 injuriously aifected," the lords of the manors of Lewisham and 
 East Greenwich having consented to such modification, and that 
 the said scheme so modified be hereby confirmed, and from and 
 after the passing of this Act shall be deemed to be a Public General 
 Act of Parliament, of the like force and effect as if the provisions 
 of the same had been enacted in the body of this Act. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Metropolitan 
 Commons Supplemental Act, 1871." 
 
 t SCHEME with respect to Blackheath. 
 
 1. Blackheath hereinafter called " the Heath " in the county of Kent * as the 
 same is delineated in a plan deposited with the Inclosure Commissioners J for 
 England and Wales shall henceforth for all the purposes of this scheme be 
 regulated and managed by the Metropolitan Board of Works hereinafter 
 termed the " Board." § 
 
 2. [_Power to appoint offi,cers and as to expenses of executing scheme. Su])erseded 
 hy the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, ss. 19 and 20 (see Appendix), and 51 & 52 
 Vict. c. 41, 8. 75.] 
 
 3. The Board may execute any works of drainage and improvement of the 
 Heath so far only as may be required for the purposes of the Metropolitan 
 Commons Act and shall preserve the turf gorse fern and grass and for this 
 purpose may enclose by fences for short periods such portions as may require 
 rest to revive the same and may take all necessary steps for preserving the trees 
 
 * Now the county of Loudon. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 f This Scheme is not, as in other cases, printed with the confirming Act, but is set 
 out here for convenience of reference. 
 
 + Now the Board of Agriculture. See the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, s. 2. 
 § Now the London County Council. See 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 rr>A a^ OK ^T.^r„i r/fe Afetf^opohtan fommo?fs First rn i --t -to 
 
 o4&.JoViCT. o / . / I <io-i rCHAr. Ivii. I 453 
 
 "- -J Supplemental Act \Hi\. ^ -• 
 
 in Chesterfield Walk and elsewhere on the Heath and may lop and remove any 
 trees that may be dead or dangerous and may plant any young trees in their 
 places and may plant or otherwise beautify such of the gravel pits as are situate 
 at the north-east corner of the Heath and are numbered 1 2 and 3 on the said 
 plan and the gravel pit situate at the south-west corner of the Heath and 
 numbered 4 on the said plan hut no trees shall br- [)lanted in such pits so as to 
 intercept the view across the Heath and may also plant or otherwise beautify 
 such outlying portions of the Heath as may appear to them suitaijle but shall 
 do nothing that shall otherwise alter or vary the natural features or aspect of 
 the Heath. 
 
 4. The Board shall maintain the Heath as delineated in the plan deposited 
 with the Inclosure Commissioners * free of all encroachment and shall permit no 
 trespass on or partial or other enclosure of any part thereof and no fences posts 
 rails or other matters or things shall be maintained fixed or erected thereon 
 without the consent in writing of the lioard but the Board shall fence off and 
 protect all such parts and places as may from time to time be dangerous. 
 
 5. \As to byelaws. Superseded 40 Vict. c. viii. s.t. 3, 4, and 10 ; 53 & 54 Vict, 
 c. ccxliii. s.t. 14-21 ; and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 01.] 
 
 6. Except for those persons who now by law are entitled to do so, it shall not 
 be lawful without the consent of the Board in writing to turn out on the Heath 
 for grazing any cattle sheep or other animal. 
 
 7. [/Is to b\ielaws. Note to clause 5 upiilies.'] 
 
 H. Except for the owner or owners for the time being of the soil, it shall not 
 be lawful without the consent in writing of the Board to form build or lay any 
 sewer drain pipe waterway or other matter of like nature in into or under any 
 part or parts of the Heath. 
 
 9. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as placing any of the public 
 roads or highways on or across the Heath under the care of the Board or shall 
 prevent the Board of Works of Greenwich + and Lewisham t by their officers 
 and servants taking such portions of the Heath as they may now by law be 
 entitled to take for the purpose of widening the said roads or highways to the 
 width they may now be compelled by law to make but it shall not be lawful for 
 either of the said Boards t or any other person or persons to make or form any 
 new roads over and across the Heath without the consent in writing of the 
 Board. 
 
 10. [Borrowing jjowers. Superseded by the London County Council (^Money) Acts 
 1875—1904.] 
 
 11. \_As to penalties under Scheme and byelaws. Note on clause 5 applies."} 
 
 12. [Proceedings for convictions not to be quashed for icant of form.'] 
 
 13. Saving always to all persons and bodies politic and corporate and their 
 respective heirs successors executors and administrators all such estates interests 
 or rights of a profitable or beneficial nature in over or affecting the Heath or 
 any part thereof as they or any of them had before the confirmation of this 
 Scheme by Act of Parliament or could or might have enjoyed if this Scheme 
 had not been confirmed by Act of Parliament. 
 
 14. The lords of the manors of Lewisham East Greenwich and West Combe 
 claim the soil and freehold of so much of the Heath as lies within their 
 respective manors, and all timber and timber-like trees and the minerals 
 (including gravel) under the same. The tenants of the said manors claim the 
 right of cutting heather furze underwood and turf for fuel and of digging gravel 
 under certain restrictions. This Scheme affects the rights over Blackheath so 
 claimed as aforesaid only so far as is absolutely necessary for the purposes 
 contemplated by this Scheme. The lords of the manors of Lewisham and East 
 Greenwich consent to their rights being affected in the manner and to the 
 extent herein expressed. The consent of the lord of the manor of West Combe 
 has not been received. The Inclosure Commissioners although public notice 
 requesting all who claimed rights to appear at a sitting was duly given have no 
 means of -ascertaining whether the tenants of the manors consent or not. 
 
 15. Printed copies of this Scheme shall at all times be sold at the office of the 
 Board to all persons desiring to buy the same at a price not exceeding sixpence 
 each. 
 
 * Now the Board of Agriculture. See the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, s. 2. 
 t Now the Councils of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham. 
 See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 4 and 31.
 
 A^A rn„, 1 ::• -1 The MetropoUtaji Commons Second ro^ p o-tr -\ 
 
 4o4 [Chap. Ixiii.] Supplemental Act 1871. ^34 & 3o Vict.] 
 
 The Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales pursuant to the pro- 
 visions of " The Metropolitan Commons Act 1866 " hereby certify the above 
 written Scheme. 
 
 In witness whereof they the said Inclosure Commissioners have caused their 
 official seal to be hereunto affixed this third day of November one thousand 
 eight hundred and seventy. 
 
 o 
 
 1 
 
 Scheme as to 
 Shepherd's 
 Bush 
 Common 
 certified by 
 Inclosure 
 Commis- 
 sioners 
 confirmed. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 CHAPTER LXIII. 
 
 An Act to confiem a Scheme (Shepherd's Bush) under " The 
 Metropolitan Commons Act, 186(3." [29M June 1871.] 
 
 \PreamhU recites that the Inclosure Commissioners for England 
 and Wales have, in pursuance of " The Metropolitan Commons Act, 
 1866," dul// certified a, scheme for the establishment of local manage- 
 ment ivith respect to Shepherd's Bush Common, situate in the parish 
 of Hammersmith in the county of Middlesex *~\ \_Be it enacted] 
 
 1. That the scheme for the establishment of local management 
 with respect to Shepherd's Bush Common, situate in the parish of 
 Hammersmith in the county of Middlesex,* certified by the Inclosure 
 Commissioners for England and "Wales under their seal on the ninth 
 day of May one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and con- 
 tained in the schedule hereunto annexed, be hereby confirmed, and 
 from and after the passing of this Act shall be deemed to be a 
 Public General Act of Parliament, of the like force and efi'ect as if 
 the provisions of the same had been enacted in the body of this Act. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Metropolitan 
 Commons Second Supplemental Act, 1871." 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 Scheme with respect to Shepherd's Bush Common. 
 
 1. Shepherd's Bush Common, herein-after called " the Common," in the county 
 of Middlesex,* as the same is delineated in a plan deposited with the Inclosure 
 Commissioners for England and Wales,t shall henceforth for all the purposes of 
 this scheme be regulated and managed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, 
 herein-after termed " the Board." :J: 
 
 2. \_Power to appoint officers — Expenses of executing scheme. Siqjerseded hy the 
 Mimicipal Corporations Act 1882, ss. 19 and 20 (see Appe7idix) ; and 51 & 52 Vict. 
 c. 41, s. 75.] 
 
 3. The Board may execute any works of drainage and improvement of the 
 Common, so far only as may be required for the purposes of the Metropolitan 
 Commons Act, and shall preserve the turf and grass, and for this purpose may 
 inclose by fences for short periods such portions as may require rest to revive 
 the same, and may plant or otherwise beautify the Common. 
 
 4. The Board shall maintain the Common, as delineated in the plan deposited 
 with the Inclosure Commissioners,! fi'ee of all encroachment, and shall permit 
 no trespass on, or partial or other inclosure of any part thereof, and no fences, 
 posts, rails, or other matters or things shall be maintained, fixed, or erected 
 thereon without the consent in writing of the Board. 
 
 5. [ J..S to hyelav)s. Superseded 40 Vict. c. viii. ss. 3, 4, and 10 ; 53 & 54 Vict, 
 c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 6. Except for those persons who now by law are entitled to do so, it shall 
 not be lawful, without the consent of the Board in writing, to turn out on the 
 Common for grazing any cattle, sheep, or other animal. 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 t Now the Board of Agriculture. Sec the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, s. 2. 
 
 X Now the London County Council. See 51 & 53 Vict, c 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] The ITampstead Heath Act 1871. [Chap. Ixxvii.] 455 
 
 7. [An to bt/clatcs. Note on clause 5 applies.^ 
 
 8. Except for the owner or owners for the time being of the soil, it shall not 
 be lawful, without the consent in writing of the Board, to form, build, or lay 
 any sewer, drain, pipe, waterway, or other matter of like nature, in, into, or under 
 any part or parts of the Common. 
 
 9. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as placing any of the public 
 roads or highways on or across the Common under the care of the Board, or 
 shall prevent the Board of Works for the Fulliam district,* by their officers and 
 servants, taking such portions of the Common as they may now by law be 
 entitled to take for the purpose of widening the said roads or highways to the 
 width they may now be compelled by law to make ; but it shall not be lawful 
 for the said Board, or any other person or persons, to make or form any new 
 roads over and across the Common without the consent in writing of the Board. 
 
 10. [Borrowing jwwers. Sapcraeded by the London County Council (Money) Acts 
 1875—1904.] 
 
 11. [As til penalties. Note on clause 5 a^yplies.^ 
 
 12. [Proceedings not to be quashed for want of form. See 40 & 41 Vict. c. cci. 
 27id Stmedule, Par, 12.] 
 
 13. Saving always to all per.sons and bodies politic and corporate, and their 
 respective heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, all such estates, 
 interests, or rights of a profitable or beneficial nature in, over, or affecting the 
 Common or any part thereof, as they or any of them had before the confirmation 
 of this Scheme by Act of Parliament, or could or might have enjoyed if this 
 Scheme had not been confirmed by Act of Parliament. 
 
 14. The lords of the manor of Fulham claim the soil and freehold of the 
 common and the minerals under the same. All the occupiers of property 
 adjoining the Common, including the tenants of the manor, claim to exercise 
 rights of common of pasturage over the tract. 
 
 This Scheme affects the rights over the Common, so claimed as aforesaid, only 
 so far as is absolutely necessary for the purposes contemplated by this Scheme. 
 The lords of the manor and others who claim rights over the Common assent to 
 their rights being affected in the manner and to the extent herein expressed. 
 
 15. Printed copies of this scheme shall at all times be sold at the office of 
 the Board, to all persons desiring to buy the same, at a price not exceeding 
 sixpence each. 
 
 The Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales, pursuant to the pro- 
 visions of "The Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866," hereby certify the above- 
 written scheme. 
 
 In witness whereof they (the said Inclosure Commissioners) have caused their 
 official seal to be hereunto affixed, this ninth day of May one thousand eight 
 hundred and seventy-one. 
 
 L.S 
 
 CHAPTER LXXVII. 
 
 t An Act for effecting a Transfer to the IVIetropolitan 
 Board of Works of the open. Space known as Hampstead 
 Heath, and for enabling them to preserve, improve, and 
 regulate the same ; and for other Purposes. 
 
 [29M June 1871.] 
 
 \_Preamble recites that it would be to the great advantage of the 
 inhabitants of the metropolis if Hampstead Heath {in this Act called 
 the Heathy were alwags kept unbuilt on., and toere for that puruose 
 vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works (in the Act callea the 
 Board t)-~\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as The Hampstead Heath Act, 1871. Short title. 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Hammer.-imith. See 48 4: 49 Vict, 
 c. 33, s. 3 ; and (■)2 i: (13 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 f See also 50 Vict. c. xli., and 51 & 52 Vict. c. cli. 
 I Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52'Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 456 [Chap. Ixxvii.] The Hampstead Heath Act 1S1 1. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 Effect of 
 schedules. 
 
 Extent of 
 provisions as 
 to Sir J. M. 
 Wilson and 
 Mr. Wilson. 
 
 Direction for 
 transfer by 
 iSir John 
 Maryon 
 Wilson and 
 Mr. Wilson. 
 
 Heath to be 
 kept open. 
 
 Prohibition of 
 
 alienation. 
 
 etc. 
 
 Prohibition of 
 sale of turf, 
 gravel, etc. 
 
 Power to 
 
 drain, etc. 
 
 Preservation 
 of turf, etc. 
 
 Inclosure and 
 planting of 
 specified parts 
 of Heath. 
 
 Power to 
 build Heath 
 keepers 
 lodges, etc. 
 
 2 — 3. \_Tncorporation of Lands Clauses Acts — Deposit of plan 
 ivith the Clerk of the Peace of Middlesex.'] 
 
 4. The schedules to this Act shall have effect as part of this Act. 
 
 5. The provisions of this Act relating to Sir John Maryon Wilson 
 and Spencer Maryon Wilson shall extend to each of them, their and 
 each of their heirs and assigns. 
 
 6. Subject to the terms and conditions in this Act expressed, Sir 
 John Maryon Wilson and Spencer Maryon Wilson shall convey to 
 the Board, in consideration of the sum of fort3^-five thousand pounds, 
 the Heath as described in the first schedule to this Act, with all 
 trees, shrubs, gorse, and plants growing or being thereon, and all 
 mines and minerals therein or thereunder, and all the rights, 
 members, and appurtenances thereof or belonging thereto, for all 
 the estate and interest therein which are vested in or belong to Sir 
 John Maryon Wilson and Spencer Maryon Wilson. 
 
 7 — 11. \_As to deliver 1/ of abstract of title — Payment of purchase 
 money and conveyance — Time of pjossession and receipt of profits — 
 Interest in case of non-completion — Payment of costs and expenses 
 of conveyance. Spent.'] 
 
 12. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall for ever 
 keeji the Heath open, uninclosed, and unbuilt on, except as regards 
 such parts thereof as are at the passing of this Act inclosed or 
 built on, and shall by all lawful means prevent, resist, and abate 
 all encroachments and attempted encroachments on the Heath, and 
 protect the Heath, and preserve it as an open space, and resist all 
 proceedings tending to the inclosure or appropriation for any purpose 
 of any part thereof. 
 
 13. It shall not be lawful for the Board to sell, lease, grant, or 
 in any manner dispose of any part of the Heath. 
 
 14. The Board shall not cut turf, or dig gravel, mould, or soil, or 
 fell or cut gorse, heather, timber or other trees, shrubs, or brushwood 
 on the Heath for profit. 
 
 15. The Board shall by virtue of this Act have the following 
 powers ; (namely,) 
 
 To drain, level, and improve the Heath, as far only as may be in 
 their judgment from time to time requisite, with a view to 
 the use thereof for purposes of health and unrestricted exercise 
 and recreation : 
 
 To plant trees and shrubs on the Heath for purposes of shelter or 
 ornament, and to make temporary inclosures for the protection 
 thereof. 
 
 16. The Board shall at all times preserve, as far as may be, the 
 natural aspect and state of the Heath, and to that end shall protect 
 the turf, gorse, heather, timber and other trees, shrubs, and brush- 
 wood thereon. 
 
 17. Within one year after the passing of this Act, the Board 
 shall, at their own expense, in a proper manner, inclose and plant 
 as ornamental grounds the two portions of the Heath secondly 
 described in the first schedule to this Act, and marked C. and D. 
 on the deposited plan, and shall for ever at their own expense 
 maintain and keep the same as ornamental grounds in good order 
 and condition. 
 
 18. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Board may erect 
 from time to time on the Heath, and maintain, such convenient or 
 ornamental buildings, of an elevation of not more than twenty feet
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] The Hampsfead IJmfh Act XSl^. [r'FiAP. Ixxvii.] 467 
 
 in any case, as they think re([ui8ite for the accommodation of Heath 
 keepers, constables, or other officers, or for other public or useful 
 purposes. \^See also 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. .s, 5(J ; 58 & 59 Vict, 
 c. cxxvii. H. 45.] 
 
 19. f/l.s to making a mail 00 feet iridr orcr the strip of land 
 marked. II. and coloured brown on the deposited plan. Spent. '\ 
 
 20. Sir John Maryon Wilson and Si)encer Marvon Wilson shall Power to 
 ])e at liberty at any time, at their own expense, with proper materials 
 
 and in a proper manner, to the satisfaction of the Board, to convert 
 the driftways or footways coloured brown, and marked E. and F, 
 and G. on the de])Osited ])lan, or any or either of them, into j)ublic 
 roadways of the width of OO feet each, and fit for the use of carts, 
 waggons, and carriages ; but any such roadway shall be planted with 
 trees along both sides thereof at the expense of the })erson making 
 the same, and to the satisfaction of the Board, and the trees shall 
 belong to and be kept up by the Board, 
 
 21 — 24. \_As to bt/elaws. Superseded AQ Vict. c. viii, ss. 3, 4, and 10. 
 See also 53 <& 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; and 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. ccxxi. .s'. 61.] 
 
 25. [^Appointment of officers. Superseded 53 & 54 Vict, 
 c. ccxliii. ,s. 17.] 
 
 26. For purposes of enactments empowering the Metropolitan Powers and 
 Police, the Heath shall be deemed a place of public resort, and the poUce over 
 powers and duties of the Metropolitan Police in relation to the public Heath, 
 safety and the preservation of order and protection of property shall 
 
 extend to the Heath and to buildings and structures thereon, but 
 nothing in this section shall extend the liability to police rates to 
 any property that would not have been liable thereto if this Act had 
 not been passed. 
 
 27 — 28. \^Arrest of transient offenders and penalti/ for assaulting 
 constables. Superseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. s. 18, and 
 Schedule B. paragraph 33.] 
 
 29. The piece of land coloured yellow on the deposited plan shall Provision in 
 go, remain, and be as if no agreement for sale of the Heath to the [^h^^^oi^^ a 
 Board had been made and this Act had not been passed, save that yeiiow on 
 the same shall be by virtue of this Act absolutely freed and dis- deposited 
 charged from all rights of common, commonable rights, rights of P^*"' 
 
 way, and other rights, estates, interests, and privileges in, over or 
 aflfecting the Heath, or the wastes of the manor of Hampstead ; but 
 the Board shall make full compensation in respect of any such right, 
 estate, interest, or privilege, if and when tlie same is claimed, the 
 title to and amount of such comj)ensation to be ascertained and 
 determined subject and according to the provisions of the Lands 
 Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, i860, and 1861). 
 
 30. Subject to the provisions of this Act and the provisions I'ower to 
 
 incorporated with this Act, the Board mav from time to time, after P"'"^'''^''® ,, 
 i.1 ,. 1 TT , 1 - 1 1^ ' 1 1 1 commonable 
 
 the conveyance ot the Heath to tlie Board, jnirchase by agreement rights, etc. 
 
 all such rights of common, commonable riglits, rights of way, and 
 
 other rights, estates, interests, and privileges in, over, or atfecting 
 
 the Heath, as they think it requisite to accjuire for tiie better 
 
 execution of this Act, and for that purpose every such right, estate, 
 
 interest, or privilege shall be deemed lands. 
 
 31. When the Board have purchased under this Act any right Power to 
 pf common, commonable riffht, right of wav, or other right, estate, «'.^\ing'"sh 
 
 ■ '' o^o ..J o > 1 rigiits of
 
 458 
 
 [Chap. Ixxvii.] The Hampstead Heath Act 1871. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 common, etc. 
 when pur- 
 chased. 
 
 Power to 
 limit rights of 
 common by 
 agreement, 
 etc. 
 
 Power to 
 purchase or 
 accept lands 
 formerlj part 
 of Heath, etc. 
 
 Notice of 
 proceedings 
 at courts, 
 and protest 
 bv Board. 
 
 Power to 
 take pro- 
 ceedings as 
 commoners. 
 
 Saving for 
 rights of 
 common. 
 
 Act not to 
 confer in- 
 terest, etc., 
 and saving 
 for Board. 
 
 interest, or privilege in, over, or affecting the Heath, they may, as 
 they think most expedient, with a view to securing the free use of 
 the Heath by the public for purposes of exercise and recreation, and 
 the better execution of this Act, either extinguish the same, or 
 retain, hold, and exercise the same wholly or partially. 
 
 32. The Board in any case, if they think fit, instead of purchasing 
 wholly any right of common, commonable right, right of way, or 
 other right, estate, interest, or privilege in, over, or affecting the 
 Heath, may y)y agreement purchase the same partially, or purchase 
 a right to impose limitations or restrictions on the same, and other- 
 wise to regulate the exercise and enjoyment thereof, and may from 
 time to time exercise all such powers as are conferred on them by 
 any such agreement. 
 
 33. The Board may from time to time purchase by agreement, 
 subject and according to the provisions incorporated with this Act, 
 or accept a grant of and hokl any land unbuilt on, having been or 
 reputed to have been formerly part of the Heath, and any such land 
 when vested in the Board shall for the purposes of this Act be 
 deemed part of the Heath, and the Board may from time to time, 
 with respect to any land having been or reputed to have been 
 formerly part of the Heath, accejjt for a valuable consideration or 
 otherwise from the owner of or person holding the same a covenant 
 against building thereon, and may from time to time enforce any 
 such covenant. 
 
 34. Nothing shall be done affecting the Board or the Heath at 
 any court of the manor of Hampstead without previous notice in 
 writing to the steward of the manor, and on receipt of any such 
 notice the steward shall communicate the same to the Board, and 
 the Board shall thereupon be entitled, if they think fit, by an agent 
 appointed in this behalf, by writing under their seal, to attend at the 
 court to which the notice relates, and to protest against anything 
 there proposed that would affect them or the Heath, and any such 
 protest shall be entered on the rolls of the court. 
 
 35. The Board shall be capable of taking, and may from time to 
 time, if they think fit, with a view to the protection and preservation 
 of the Heath, take any such proceedings as a person having a right 
 of common on the Heath or any part thereof is capable of taking, 
 and for that purpose the Board shall have all the rights, powers, and 
 remedies of a person having such a right of common. 
 
 36. Nothing in this Act (except the provisions respecting the 
 piece of land coloured yellow on the deposited plan) shall take 
 away or prejudicially affect any right of common, commonable right, 
 right of way, or other right, estate, interest, or privilege in, over, 
 or affecting the Heath, and every such right, estate, interest, or 
 privilege shall be and remain in all respects as if this Act had not 
 been passed. 
 
 37. \_Poicer to the Board to a]jpl>/ existing funds to the purposes 
 of the Act. Spent.~\ 
 
 38. {^Borrowing powers. Superseded hj the London County 
 Council {Money) Acts 1875 — 1904.] 
 
 39. Nothing in this Act (except the provisions respecting the 
 piece of land coloured yellow on the deposited plan) shall confer, 
 enlarge, or confirm on, in, or to any person, or on, in, or to any 
 corporation, company, or body other than the Board, any right,
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] The Ilampstead Heath Act 1871. [Chap. Ixxvii.] 459 
 
 estate, interest, or ])rivile<^e in, over, or iiffcctinf; tlie Heath, and 
 nothing in this Act siuill take away, abridge, or i)rejudicially affect 
 any riglit, ])Ovver, or authority that the Board, or any otticer or 
 servant of the Board, or any constal)le, would have enjoyed or might 
 have exercised if this Act had not been jjassed. 
 
 40. Notliing in this Act shall authorise any com])anv, ])odv, or Hestraint on 
 
 1-1 ^1 i,! •. 4. ^ * '4.' building bv 
 
 person, or any j)arocnial or other autlionty, to put up at any time companies" 
 any building or structure on the Heath, either on the ])arts thereof etc. 
 heretofore usually covered with water or elsewhere. [^See s. 18.] 
 
 41. Notliing in this Act shall enable tlie Board, unless w^ith the '■>r protec- 
 previous consent in writing of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for \\^,!iis and^ 
 England under tlieir common seal, and oi' Tiiomas Spencer AVells, others. 
 Esquire, res])ective]y (in wliich expressions are included the owners 
 
 for the time being of the lands to which this section relates), to take 
 or interfere with the access to the Heath by the said Commissioners 
 and the said Thomas Spencer AVells, and their res})ective tenants, 
 by means of certain gates shown on a j)lan verified in triplicate by 
 the signatures of Henry Shrubsole on behalf of the Board, and of 
 Messrs. AVhite, Borrett, & Co. on behalf of the said Commissioners 
 and of the said Thomas Spencer AVells, or shall enable the Board to 
 take or interfere with tlie use by the said (Commissioners and the 
 said Thomas Spencer A\'ells, and their respective tenants, of the road 
 or public way on the Heath leading from Telegrai)h Hill to Golder's 
 Hill, and the access to the said road from the said gates. 
 
 42. The Board shall not, otlierwise than by agreement with the for protec- 
 provost of the College Royal of the Blessed Mary of Eton, near p^Jj^^g^^^^^" 
 unto Windsor in the county of Bucks, commonly called the King's 
 College of Our Blessed Lady of Eton, nigh or by Windsor in the 
 
 said county of Bucks, and the same college, their successors, lessees, 
 and undertenants, take or in any manner interfere with the road 
 which, as appears by the deposited ])lan, leads out of the public 
 highway called the Spaniard's Road in a north-westerly direction 
 for a distance of 250 yards or thereabouts, and then runs in a 
 south-westerly direction for a distance of 400 yards or thereabouts 
 along or near to part of the boundary of an estate called Wyld's 
 Estate, belonging or reputed to belong to the said provost and 
 college, situate in the parish of Hendon in the county of Middlesex, 
 and then, running in a south-easterly direction for a distance of 
 150 yards, leads into the ])ublic liighway at North End in the 
 parish of Hampstead, nor otherwise than by agreement as aforesaid 
 take or in any manner interfere with the soil of the said road or 
 any part thereof, or any of the approaches thereto from the said 
 Wyld's estate, or any right of way over or along the said road or 
 any part thereof ; and for the purposes of this ])rovision tlie said 
 road shall be deemed to include the entire space lying between the 
 said road and the boundary of Wyld's estate, and also a branch of 
 the said road leading to a well outside the boundary of Wyltl's 
 estate, and near to the farmhouse called the Heath Farmhouse on 
 the said estate. 
 
 43. Nothing in this Act shall authorise the Board, without the !•> protec- 
 consent in writing of the mayor and commonalty and citizens of Ri'^er ponds 
 the city of London, and of the governor and company of the New etc. 
 River,* to take, acquire, or in any way interfere witli any of the 
 
 ponds, pipes, rights, powers, and })rivileges of the same corporation 
 * >'ow the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 460 
 
 [Chap, cxxix.] The Hornsey Local Board Act 1871. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 and company, or either of them, or to divert, abstract, or diminish 
 the quantity of water flowing into those ponds at the passing of 
 this Act. 
 
 44. \A8 to compensation to the North Metropolitan Railway. 
 
 Spent.~\ 
 
 45. [Dijf'erences respecting any provision of the Act arising 
 between the Board and Sir John Maryon Wilson and Spencer 
 Maryon Wilson, Eton College, the City Corporation, the New River 
 Company,* the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, Thomas 
 Spencer Wells, or the North Metropolitan Railway CompjoMy to be 
 referred to arbitraAAon?\ 
 
 46. [^Expenses of obtaAning Act. Spent.'] 
 
 THE SCHEDULES. 
 
 The First Schedule. 
 
 Description of Heath. 
 
 1. All that portion of the waste lands of the manor of Hampstead, called 
 Hampstead Heath, shown on the deposited plan by being coloured red. 
 
 2. All those two other portions of the waste lands of the same manor, shown 
 on the same plan by being coloured red, and being respectively surrounded by a 
 line coloured brown, and being respectively marked C. and D. 
 
 3. All those pieces of land usually covered with water, being other portions of 
 the same waste lands or of the soil of the same manor shown on the same plan 
 by being coloured blue, and respectively marked A. and B. and B. 
 
 4. All those four strips of land, other portions of the same waste land?, shown 
 on the same plan by being coloured brown, and being respectively marked E. 
 and F. and G. and H. (the strip of land marked H. being the site of a road 
 intended to be made to the northward of Telegraph Hill). 
 
 The Second Schedule. 
 
 [Conditions respecting title and conveyance. Speyit."] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 CHAPTER CXXIX. 
 
 An Act to make better Provision for the Drainage of Hornsey 
 IN THE County of Middlesex ; and for other Purposes 
 
 RELATING THERETO. [13M Juhj 1871.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that for the jmrposes of the Local 
 Government Act 1858t apportion of the parish of Hornsey was formed, 
 into a district called the Hornsey District, the local goiernment of 
 which was zested in the Hornsey Local Board\ ; and also recites that 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works have agreed icith the Hornsey 
 Local Board that the sewage matter of the district shall be allowed 
 to pass into the main drains of the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 upon certain terms.] 
 
 Prelimina.ry. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Hornsey Local 
 Board Act, 1871. 
 
 2. The expression The Local Government Acts in this Act shall 
 mean the Public Health Act,t 1848, and the several Actsf amending 
 the same, and the Local Government Act, 1858,t and the several 
 Acts t amending the same. 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 t Rep. by the Pablic Health Act 1875, s. 34.3. 
 
 X Now the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Municipal Borough of Hornsey.
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] The Hornsey Local Board Act 1871. [Chap, cxxix.] 461 
 
 3. \Jncorpor(ition of LaniU ('lauaes Acta. Spent7\ 
 
 4. Subject to the ])rovisions of this Act the Hornsey Local Board * I'ower to 
 may make and maintain, in the lines and situations and according J^^^^e sewer- 
 to the levels shown on the de])0sited plans and sections, the sewers deposited 
 and other works in this Act described, and all j)roper and necessarv plans, 
 outfalls, sluices, flood <i:ates, catch-water drains, banks, and other 
 
 works and conveniences connected therewith, and may enter upon, 
 take, and use such of the lands delineated on the said plans and 
 described in the deposited book of reference as may be required for 
 that j)urpose. The works by this Act authorised are, — 
 
 A sewer to be wholly situate in the parishes of Stoke Newington 
 and Hornsey in the county of Middlesex,! and to commence 
 at or near a i)oint in Tottenham Lane, and terminating by a 
 junction with the northern high-level sewer of the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works + at a point in the Manor Road in the 
 said parish of Stoke Newington. 
 
 5. The works by this Act authorised shall be constructed and "^"^^^^^ ^° ^® 
 maintained by and at the expense of the Hornsey Local Board * to and^main- 
 the satisfaction in all respects of the engineer for the time being of tainedto 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works. % Metro^'oman^ 
 
 6. With respect to the lands or property of the Metropolitan Bolrd^oV ^° 
 Board of Works i which the Hornsev Local Board * are bv this Act Works, 
 authorised to use, enter upon, or interfere with, the Hornsey Local To acquire 
 Board * shall not purchase or take the same, but they shall have an easements 
 easement or right of using the same for the purposes of but subject gards^iands, 
 to the provisions of this Act. etc. of the 
 
 7. [.I*' to line of sewer through the prehendal manor and estate ^t/" Metropolitan 
 Stoke jSewington. Not affecting London.'] Works ° 
 
 8. \_Sewer to be made of such diameter as Metropolitan Board of 
 Works shall require. Spent.'] 
 
 9 — 16. \_Mode of construction of the sewer through the prehendal 
 manor — Provisions as to construction and maintenance of works by 
 the llornseg Local Board.* Xot affecting I^ondon.'] 
 
 17. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Metropolitan Board Metropolitan 
 of Works % shall permit and suffer the sewage of the Hornsey district works°to 
 
 to be emptied into the northern high-level sewer, and shall do all admit into 
 acts, matters, and things necessary for securing and maintaining "P"^era 
 proper and sufficient openings in the said sewer, and maintaining sewe'r^^^ 
 free communication with such sewer and the sewers within the said sewage of 
 
 district. Ilornsej 
 
 18. The Hornsey Local Board* shall not, without the consent of ^^^"'^'• 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works, t i)ermit or suffer any district or of^Homs^ 
 place beyond the area under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan district to 
 Board of Works, X other than the Hornsey district, to drain into or P?^s into said 
 otherwise to be connected with anv sewer or sewers for the time ,i^ " ^^^ 
 being of the Hornsey Local Board * which may discharge into the 
 
 said northern high-level sewer, and no such other district or place 
 shall have any such power, notwithstanding any powers in any 
 general Act to the contrary. 
 
 19. The Hornsey Local Board* shall so far as is practicable ^^•^'^™ waters 
 prevent the storm waters of their district from flowing into the ^^J^k^''., k^ 
 sewers withm the said district and thereby into the said northern excluded from 
 high-level sewer. sewer. 
 
 * Now the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Municipal Borough of Hornsey. 
 t Now partly in the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 J Now the London County CounciL See 51 .k 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 462 [Chap, cxxix.] The Hornsey Local Board Act 1871. [34& 35 Vict.] 
 
 Limiting 20. Provided always, that the sewage to be delivered under this 
 
 amount oi _^^.^ -^^i^^ ^^^ ^^^^ hioh-level sewer shall not exceed five hundred 
 
 S6Wa.o*G to '>G , ^ 
 
 discharged cubic feet per minute, measured at the boundary of Hornsey parish, 
 into high-level and if that quantity be at any time exceeded the Metropolitan Board 
 sewer. ^j^ Works * shall have full power and authority to alter and reduce 
 
 the outlet so as to limit the discharge to the before-mentioned 
 quantity, and the Hornsey Local Board t shall permit the engineer 
 and other officers of the Metropolitan Board of Works * from time to 
 time to have access to the works by this Act authorised, and to alter 
 and reduce as aforesaid the said outlet. 
 
 21. Sailor nsey Local Board ivithin 12 months from the jjassing 
 of the Act to pay the Metropolitan Board of Worhs £10,000 toivards 
 the cost of making and maintaining northern high-level sewer. Spent.~\ 
 
 22 — 29. [^Powers to the ILornsey Jjocal Board] to make a special 
 drainage rate to defray the expenses of construction of ivorks and 
 obtaining Act and promsio7is ivith reference thereto. Kot affecting 
 London.^ 
 
 30. [Co?itridutions by Hornsey Local Board towards costs of main 
 drainage system. Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. clxiii. s. 57.] 
 Main drain- 31. For the purpose of raising the moneys by this Act directed 
 age rates to ^q jjg ■^^\([ to the treasurer of the Metropolitan Board of Works * by 
 payment of ^^T ^^ Contribution to the costs incurred by the said Board in respect 
 contributions, of their main drainage system, the Hornsey Local Board t may in 
 each year make and levy a rate, to be called the '' Main Drainage 
 Rate," upon the owner and occupier of all kinds of property within 
 their district for the time being assessable under the Local Government 
 Acts to the general district rates which they are authorised to make 
 under the said Acts, and may make, levy, collect, and recover the 
 same as part of any general district rate, and the several powers and 
 provisions of the Local Government Acts with respect to the making, 
 levying, collection, and recovery of the general district rates, and 
 with respect to exemptions and limitations, shall extend and apply 
 to the main drainage rates under this Act : Provided always, that 
 the said Local Board shall not levy in any one year main drainage 
 rates exceeding the amount required for the payment of the moneys 
 payable in each year to the said treasurer. [^Amended 35 & 36 Vict, 
 c. clxiii. s. 57. See also the Hornsey Drainage Scheme 1901, ?7iade 
 under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14.] 
 
 Power to 32. In case of any default or neglect of the Hornsey Local 
 
 Board^of '"^^'^ Board t in any year to pay the amount which by this Act is directed 
 
 Works to levy to be paid by such Board within the time specified in such notice, 
 
 rate in case the Said Metropolitan Board of Works * may appoint persons to levy 
 
 of default. ^^ ^)^^ Hornsey district the amount to be paid to such Board in such 
 
 year in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, and such persons 
 
 shall proceed in the same manner, and have the same powers, 
 
 remedies, and privileges, and be subject to the same regulations 
 
 with reference to the levying of such money, as any person duly 
 
 appointed by such Board for such purpose would have had or been 
 
 subject to. \_Amended 35 & 36 Vict. c. clxiii. s. 57.] 
 
 Provisions of 33. Whereas a Bill is pending in Parliament, intituled A Bill 
 
 pending Bill for amending the Acts regulating the Borrowing of Money by the 
 
 Hornsey ° Metropolitan Board of Works, and for other Purposes : Therefore if 
 
 district. the said Bill should pass into law the several provisions thereof, so 
 
 * Now the London County Council. 8ee 51 & .'52 Vict. c. 41, s. -10 (8). 
 
 •j- Now the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Municipal Borough of Hornsey,
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] Wandsworth Commou Act 187 1 . [Chap, clxxxi.] 463 
 
 far as they are applicable, shall extend to and be in force within 
 the district of the Hornsey Local Board.* [-b'et; 34 *fc 3;") \lc(. <:. 47, 
 and 30 k, 30 Vict. c. clxiii. .«j. 53.] 
 
 34 — 37. \Act not to afect powers of the Hornsey Local Hoard to 
 make rates under the Local Government Acts — Provisions relating 
 to the Hornsey L^ocal Board for the protection of the New liiver 
 Company f and the Great Eastern Railway Company. Xot affecting 
 London. '\ 
 
 38. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed Saving 
 
 to extend to alter, abridge, or take away any of the rights, powers, "Sro^litan 
 and privileges of the Metropolitan Board of Works.* Buard of 
 
 39. \_Costs of obtaining Act. Not affecting London.'] Works. 
 
 CHAPTER CLXXXI. 
 
 § An Act fok vesting the Management of the open Space 
 KNOWN AS Wandsworth Common in the County of Surrey 
 IN A Body of Conservators, with a View to the Preservation 
 thereof; and for other Purposes. [31*-^ July ls7L] 
 
 [^Preamble recites (inter alia) that there is in the county of Surrey ^ 
 and in the parishes of Battersea and Wandsworth an open space of 
 large extent uninclosed and unbuilt on known as Wandsworth 
 Common {in this Act referred to as the Common) and that the 
 Common is situate within and is or is alleged to be part of the tcastes 
 of the manor of Battersea and Wandsworth, and that the Right 
 Honourable John Poyntz, Earl Spencer {in this Act referred to as 
 Earl Spejicer) is or claims to be entitled iii fee simple in possession 
 to that manor ; and that it is expedient that provision be made for 
 the transfer from Earl Spencer of his estate in the Common to a 
 body of Conservators to preserve the same for public use.~\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Wandsworth (Jommou Act, Short title. 
 1871. 
 
 2. [^Incorporation of the Commissioners Clauses Act 1847, except 
 the parts set out in the frst schedule. Superseded by .")U & 51 Vict, 
 c. cvi. ss. 25 — 29.] 
 
 3. In this Act, Interpreta- 
 
 " The deposited plan " means the plan deposited for the ^^'^°- 
 purposes of this Act with the Clerk of the Pea e for 
 the County of Surrey : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 " Person " includes corporation aggregate or sole. 
 
 [Pai't omitted {definitions of " the Secretary of State for the 
 Home Department^' and '■^ the First Cojnmissioner of Works'") 
 spent. 1 
 
 4. For the purposes of this Act the Common shall be taken to be Description 
 the open space known as Wandsworth Common, as shown on the *^ Common, 
 deposited plan and thereon coloured green. 
 
 6. Within one month after the passing of this Act, and before Custo<ly of 
 exercising anv of the ])Owers conferred on them bv this Act, the P „"? ""' ^^ 
 
 ' 1 11 1 • -1 /> 1 ' T1 ^ , I >> . 4. and 
 
 Conservators shall deposit with the Clerk oi the Peace lor the i vict. c. 83. 
 
 * Now the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Municipal Borough of Hornsev. 
 
 t Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 % Now the London County Council. See 51 & ij'2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 § See also 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. ss. 25 — 27. 
 
 <ir Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 464 [Chap, clxxxi.] Wandsworth Common Act l^'^iX. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 Comity of Surrey one duplicate of the plan authenticated as aforesaid, 
 and the same shall be within the provisions of the Act passed in the 
 first year of Her Majesty's reign (chapter 83), "to compel Clerks 
 of the Peace for Counties and other Persons to take the Custody of 
 such documents as shall be directed to be deposited with them 
 under the standing orders of either House of Parliament," in like 
 manner as if the same had been deposited with the Clerk of the 
 Peace in such a case as is provided for by that Act, and the other 
 duplicate of that plan shall be retained by the Conservators, and 
 shall be admissible and be received in evidence for all purposes of 
 this Act on production by the Conservators or their officer. 
 Schedules to Q j\^q schedules to this Act shall be deemed part of this Act. 
 
 be part of ^ 
 
 Act. 7 — 29. {Incorporation^ appointment^ election^ and meetings of 
 
 Conservators. Superseded 5U & 51 Vict. c. cvi, ss. 25 — 29.] 
 
 Vesting of 30. The Common, with the buildings and inclosures comprised 
 
 Common in within the ambit thereof as shown on the deposited plan, being 
 Consenators. j-}jgpgQj-^ coloured green, with its rights, members, and appurtenances, 
 is by this Act as on and from the passing thereof vested in the Con- 
 servators for all the estate and interest therein which immediately 
 before the passing of this Act were vested in or belonged to Earl 
 Spencer. 
 
 31. \_Act to be stamped. Spent.'] 
 Confirmation 32. The agreement set forth in the third schedule to this Act is 
 
 of scheduled j^g^ebv confirmed, and the same shall be carried into effect accord- 
 agreement. . - ' 
 inglv. 
 
 Common to 33. The Conservators shall at all times keep the Common open 
 be kept open. QnJQclosed and unbuilt on, except as regards such parts thereof as 
 are at the passing of this Act inclosed or built on, and except as 
 otherwise in this Act or in the agreement scheduled thereto 
 expressed, and shall by all lawful means prevent, resist, and abate 
 all encroachments and attempted encroachments on the Common, 
 and protect the Common and preserve it as an open space, and resist 
 all proceedings tending to the inclosure or appropriation for any 
 purpose of any part thereof. 
 
 Prohibition of 34. It shall not be lawful for the Conservators, except as in this 
 alienation, ^^^ q^ ^}jg agreement scheduled thereto expressed, to sell, lease, 
 grant, or in any manner dispose of any part of the Common. 
 
 Preservation 35. The Conservatops shall at all times preserve as far as may be 
 
 of turf, etc. ^]^g natural aspect and state of the Common, and to that end shall 
 protect the turf, gorse, heather, timber, and other trees, shrubs, and 
 brushwood thereon. 
 
 Prohibition of 36. The Conservators shall not cut turf or dig gravel, mould, or 
 sale of turf, g^j]^ qj. fg]} Qp ^^^ gorse, heather, timber, or other trees, shrubs, or 
 ■ brushwood on the Common for profit, except subject and according 
 to such restrictions and regulations as the First Commissioner of 
 Works from time to time prescribes, and all money received in 
 respect thereof shall be carried to the conservancy fund * under this 
 Act. 
 
 Power to 37. The Conservators shall by virtue of this Act have the follow- 
 
 drain, etc. ing powers ; (namely,) 
 
 To drain, level, and improve the Common as far only as may be 
 in their judgment from time to time requisite for the use 
 
 * Now the county fund. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 68.
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] Wandsworth Common Act 1871. [Chap, clxxxi.] 40;") 
 
 thereof for j)urj)Oses of liealtli and unrestricted exerci.se and 
 recreation, and to make teraponiry inelosnres for the pro- 
 tection of the turf or the better attainment of the objects 
 aforesaid : 
 To plant trees and slirubs thereon for purposes of shelter or 
 ornament, and to make temywrary enclosures for the protection 
 of such trees and shrubs : 
 To make and maintain such roads and ways thereon as may be 
 in their judgment necessary or proper, and to maintain any 
 existing roads and ways thereon, as far as the same may be 
 obligatory on them or in their judgment expedient : 
 To make and maintain thereon ornamental ponds : 
 But the Conservators shall not make any pond so that any part 
 thereof shall be within ninety yards of any part of the intended road 
 shown on the deposited plan and marked thereon A B, and shall at 
 their own expense effectually line with concrete or puddle with clay 
 all ponds which they make. 
 
 38. \_Roads marked A B and C D on the deposited plan and 
 certain ivorks to be made by Earl Spencer within (5 months after the 
 passing of the Act. Spent.~\ 
 
 39. The Conservators may from time to time purchase by agree- Power to 
 ment or accept a grant of and hold any land having been or'reputed P"rchas*^ or 
 to have been formerly part of or adjoining to the Common, and any etc^^'^ ^'^^' 
 such land when vested in the Conservators shall for the purposes of 
 
 this Act be deemed part of the Common. 
 
 40. Nothing shall be done affecting the Conservators or the Notice of 
 C'Ommon at any court of the manor of Battersea and Wandsworth proceedings 
 without previous notice in writing to the steward of the manor, and pro^test?bv°^ 
 on receipt of any such notice the steward shall communicate the Consen-ators. 
 same to the Conservators, and the Conservators shall thereupon be 
 entitled, if they think tit, by an agent appointed in this behalf by 
 
 writing under their common seal, to attend at the court to which 
 the notice relates, and to protest against anything there proposed 
 that would affect them or the Common, and any such protest shall 
 be entered on the rolls of the court. 
 
 41. Earl Spencer, his heirs and assigns, sliall on every reasonable rroduction, 
 request in writing by the Conservators, and at their expense, ^^j"- of court 
 produce to them or their agents, or in any court or elsewhere, as nianor. 
 occasion requires, the court rolls of the manor of Battersea and 
 Wandsworth, or any portion thereof, and make and furnish to them 
 
 such true coj)ies, attested or unattested, thereof, or of any portion 
 thereof as they require, and shall in the meantime keep the same 
 court rolls safe and undefaced, unless prevented by tire or other 
 inevitable accident. 
 
 42. In order that this Act may be a final settlement of all Certain lamls 
 questions and claims connected with the lands formerly part of [^^^'*^'"^""^^^ ^r?" 
 AVandsworth Common, delineated on the deposited i)lan, and left Hirhts. 
 uncoloured, or coloured otherwise than green thereon, those lands 
 
 shall henceforth be and the same are hereby reK'used and discharged 
 from all commonable, customary, and other rights and claims (if any) 
 of the commoners (if any). 
 
 43. The Conservators shall be capable of taking, and may from Power to 
 time to time (if thev think fit) take, anv such proceeding's as a ^^''^ pro- 
 person having a right of common on the Common or any part commoners, 
 thereof is capable of taking, and for the purpose of any proceedings 
 
 3U
 
 466 
 
 [Chap, clxxxi.] Wanchwoi^th Common Act 1871. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 taken b}* the Conservators they shall have all the rights, powers, 
 and remedies of a person having such a right of common. 
 
 Annuity to 44. There shall be by virtue of this Act payable and paid to Earl 
 
 Earl Spencer, gpencer, and to his heirs and assigns for ever, a perpetual annuity of 
 two hundred and fifty pounds, without deduction (except for income 
 tax or property tax), and the same annuity and all arrears thereof 
 shall be deemed to be a liability or debt due from the Conservators 
 in their corporate character, and to be in the nature of a specialty 
 liability or debt, and payment thereof shall be made by equal half- 
 yearly payments on the first day of January and the first day of 
 July in every year, the first of those payments to be made on the 
 first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, 
 and interest at the rate of five per centum per annum shall be 
 payable on so much of any half-yearly payment thereof as is at any 
 time in arrear for thirty days after the time at which the same 
 shall have become payable, and that annuity and the interest on the 
 arrears thereof shall he a charge on the whole revenue of the Con- 
 servators, and on the conservancy fund under this Act, in jjriority to 
 all other charges, mortgages, payinents, and deductions whatsoever 
 (except for rates and taxes), and shall be payable and paAd thereout, 
 and by means thereof, by the Conservators accordingly. [ Words in 
 italics semble sp)ent^ 
 
 45. \_Poiver to the person entitled for the time being to the annuity, 
 if any half-yearly pa/yment is 30 daj/s in arrear after demand, in 
 writing, {without prejudice to any other remedy) to obtain from two 
 Justices the appointment of a receiver to receive the whole or a com- 
 petent part of the revenues of the Conservators and the conservancy 
 fund until all arrears of the annuity and. costs are paid ; and 
 provisions as to the powers of such receiver. Semble spent.'] 
 
 46 — 49. \_As to raising of rates by the Cojiservators for the 
 annuity and. for executing the Act. Supjerseded, 50 & 51 Vict, 
 c. cvi. s. 25.] 
 
 50. The Conservators may at any time, with the consent of any 
 person for the time being entitled to dispose of the annuity by this 
 Act made payable, redeem the same by payment of such gross sum, 
 and on such conditions as may be agreed on. 
 
 51 — 57. [Power to Conservators to borrow — Application of m.oney 
 borrowed. — Constitution of Wandsworth Conservancy Fund — Con- 
 servators' accounts — Production of rate books for Battersea and 
 Wandsworth — Election of Conservators. Superseded 50 & 51 Vict, 
 c. cvi. 6-.S-. 25—29.] 
 
 58 — 64. [^6- to byelaws — Appjointment of constables and assaults 
 on constables. Supjerseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. s. 14 — 21 and 
 schedule, and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 65. For the purposes of enactments empowering the Metropolitan 
 Police, the Common shall be deemed a place of public resort, and the 
 powers and duties of the Metropolitan Police in relation to public 
 safety and preservation of order and protection of property shall 
 extend thereto ; but nothing in this Act shall extend the power of 
 levying police rates to any person or property to which the same 
 would not have extended if this Act had not been passed. 
 
 66. \_Arrest of transient offenders. Superseded 53 & 54 Vict, 
 c. ccxliii. 6-. 18.] 
 
 67 — 70. [Proceedings for offences against the Act and byelaws 
 
 Power to 
 
 redeem 
 
 annuity. 
 
 Police 
 authority 
 over 
 Common.
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] Wandsivortli Conmon Act \^~\. [Chap, clxxxi.] 467 
 
 — Application of penalties — Publication of Conservators' notices. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 71. Nothing \n this Act or any byehiw of the Conservators shall Saving for 
 take away, abridge, or lireiudiciullv allect anv right of common, "^^^^ °^ , 
 
 .1 " *.. CouiiiioD etc. 
 
 commonable or other like right of way, or other right in, over, or 
 aftecting the ('onimon, r)ther than any right in, over, or affecting the 
 same vested in or belonging to Earl Spencer. 
 
 72. Nothing in this Act or in any byelaw of the Conservators saving rights 
 shall take awav, aliridge, or ])reiudiciallv atiect anv estate or right ^ ^^^^ 
 
 of Earl Spencer in or over any of the waste lands of the manor 
 of Battersea and Wandsworth, except the Common. 
 
 73. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Spejit.] 
 
 The SCHEDULES referred to. 
 
 THE P^IRST AND SECOND SCHEDULES. 
 
 \_Parts nf Commisnioners Ckmses Act excepted — An to voting for Conservators. 
 Superceded 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. sx. 25—29.] 
 
 THE THIRD SCHEDULE. 
 
 * Agreemrnt respecting P()ktion.s of Wandsworth Common. 
 
 1. Christopher AVilliam Todd (in this agreement referred to as Mr. Todd), 
 in consideration of the benefits secured to him by this agreement, and of the 
 other stipulations of this agreement, to convey free from incumbrances to the 
 Battersea and Wandsworth committee for the preservation of Wandsworth 
 Common (in this agreement referred to as the promoters), a strip of ground 
 twenty feet wide, along the road called Bolingbroke Grove, coloured dark 
 green on the plan, signed at the same time with this agreement (which strip of 
 ground was formerly part of the Wandsworth Common). 
 
 2. The title to the strip of ground aforesaid to begin with the conveyance to 
 Mr. Todd, and the prior title not to be in any way inquired into. 
 
 3. The promoters to level, make, and maintain public ways across the strip 
 of ground aforesaid, at the points marked X and Y on the said plan, of the 
 respective widths shown thereon : Provided that no such way injure any tree 
 or trees in Bolingbroke Grove aforesaid. 
 
 4. The promoters to be at liberty to fence off the strip of ground aforesaid, 
 except at the ways aforesaid, with an open iron fence not more than four feet 
 six inches high, such fence if erected to be maintained and from time to time 
 repaired and painted by the promoters, who shall also make a path between the 
 fence and any houses built on JNIr. Todd's land, such path to be not less than 
 five feet wide in the clear. mea.sured from the fence to the nearest part of any 
 such house, or of any fence, railing, wall, step, or other projection in front of 
 or connected with the same. 
 
 5. The promoters to remove the present fence between the strip of ground 
 aforesaid and Bolingbroke Grove, and to replace the same in a parallel line 
 twenty-five feet westward from its present position. 
 
 6. The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company (in this 
 agreement referred to as the Railway Company), at their own expense, to 
 shift their present road to the westward as shown on the said plan by the red 
 dotted lines, and to convey or re-lease to Mr. Todd their interest in so much of 
 the present road as will be relinquished by the said Railway Company in 
 consequence of such shifting, and which is represented on the said plan by the 
 space coloured blue, and also in the piece of laud distinguished on the said plan 
 by the striped pink colour, and to devote the piece of land distinguished by the 
 pink colour not striped (in addition to the piece of land distinguished by the 
 yellow colour) to the purposes of the road so shifted as aforesaid, and to allow 
 the said shifted road to be open on its south end to the Common, and to be 
 dedicated to public use. 
 
 7. The promoters to make a road or way forty feet wide from the south end 
 
 * This agreement, although merged in the conveyances made thereunder, is set 
 out on account of the information atfectiug the Common which it contains.
 
 468 [Chap. 53.] Victoria Park Act 1812. [35 & 36 Vict.] 
 
 of the road of the Railway Company so .shifted as aforesaid in a direct line 
 adjoining Mr. Todd's property into Bolingbroke Grove, such road when made 
 to belong to and be maintained by the promoters, and also to be dedicated to 
 public use : Provided that the promoters shall not be called upon to cut down 
 or injure any tree in Bolingbroke Grove aforesaid in making the said road. 
 
 8. Lord Spencer, in consideration of the other stipulations of this agreement, 
 and of the provisions of the Wandsworth Common Bill now before Parliament, 
 to convey to the Railway Company a portion of the Common at the south end 
 thereof, lying between the St. James's Road and the Railway Company's rail- 
 way, sufficient for a passenger shed and an approach to the Railway Company's 
 station there, which portion to be conveyed is coloured brown on the said plan. 
 
 9. \_Questioiis arising before the conveyances to he made hereunder are made as to 
 ayiything to he done under this agreement to he settled by the Attorney General or 
 some one nominated by him. Sioenti] 
 
 10. If the Wandsworth Common Bill passes into law in the session of 1871, 
 or any similar Bill passes into law in the session of 1872, then the Conservators 
 constituted thereby to be substituted in this agreement for the promoters. 
 
 11. \_The promoters to pay the Railway Company s costs incidental to this 
 agreement, and to their proceedings in Parliament in resptect of the Wandsworth 
 Common Bill. Spent."} 
 
 12. If no such Bill as aforesaid passes before the first day of November 1872, 
 this agreement to be void, except as regards payment of the Railway Company's 
 costs, as specified in clause 11. 
 
 Dated this twenty-eighth day of March 1871. 
 
 HoRXE AND Hunter, 
 
 Solicitors for the Promoters. 
 Frere, Cholmeley, and Co., 
 
 Solicitors for Lord Spencer. 
 Geo. Badham, 
 
 Solicitor for Mr. Todd. 
 Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., 
 
 Solicitors for the Railway Company. 
 
 35 & 36 VICTORIA. A.D. 1872. 
 
 CHAPTER 53. 
 
 *An Act to confirm an Agreement for the Purchase by the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works of certain Land adjoining 
 Victoria Park, and for the Appropriation of such Land as 
 PART OF the same Park. [6tk August 1872.] 
 
 {Preamble recites (inter alia) that under the Acts sjjecijied in 
 Schedule {A.) to the Act, the lands described in the agreement set 
 forth in Schedule (B.) are under the management of the Commis- 
 sioners of Her Majesty s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, who 
 have, under the said Acts, poiver to lease, sell, or exchange the said 
 lands.'\ 
 
 Articles of 1. The said articles of agreement dated the third day of May 
 
 ^fo^tMn ^"® thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and set forth in the 
 
 Schedule (B.) Schedule (B.) to this Act annexed, are by this Act coniirmed, and 
 
 confirmed. such articles of agreement shall be of the same force and have the 
 
 same effect as if the same were by this Act enacted : Provided 
 
 always, that the said lands shall, after completion of the purchase 
 
 thereof, continue vested in Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, 
 
 instead of being conveyed to the Metropolitan Board of Works or 
 
 to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, 
 
 as provided by the said articles of agreement, but the same lands 
 
 shall become and be part of Victoria Park, under the management 
 
 of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, 
 
 * See also 50 & 51 Vict. c. 34.
 
 fori Sr r>c-\Trr.,^-\ The Metropolitan Commons rn i---t 
 
 [35 & 36 Vict.] Supplenlental Act 1872. ^CflAr. xliii.] 
 
 instead of being as the said lands now are })art of the land revenues 
 of the Crown, under the management of the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Woods, Forests,, and Land Hcvenues ; and notwithstanding 
 the })rovisions of the said agreement, the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Works and Public Buildings shall, from the day herein-after 
 appointed for completion of the ])nrchase, or if the purchase be 
 sooner completed then from such comjiletion, be entitled to possession 
 of and receipt of any profits arising from the said lands. . . . 
 l^Part omitted {the Metropolitan Hoard of Works not to t)C liable for 
 taxes, etc.) rep. 50 & 51 Vict. c. 34, s. 5 ; and {as to completion of 
 purchase) spe/it.] 
 
 2. [As to payment oj purchase money and expenses of purchase. 
 Spent] 
 
 The SCHEDULES to which the foregoing Act refers. 
 
 Schedule (A.) 
 
 469 
 
 10 Geo. 4. c. 50. 
 4 & 5 Vict. c. 27. 
 6 & 6 Vict. c. 20. 
 14 & 15 Vict. c. 42. 
 14 & 15 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 Schedule (B.) 
 
 [Agreement made the ^rd day of May 1872, whereby Charles 
 Alexander Gore, a Commissioner of Woods, Forests, and Land, 
 Revenues, agreed on behalf of Iler Majesty to sell to the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works, and the Board agreed to purchase from 
 Her Majesty, for the sum of £20,450, all those four plots of land, 
 containing together 23 acres and 3 roods or thereabouts, adjoining 
 Victoria Park, in the parishes of St. John, Hackney, St. Mary, 
 Stratford-le-Bow, and St. Matthew, Bethnal Gree?i, which lands 
 tcere delineated and coloured red, and numbered respectively 1, 2, 3, 
 and 4, in the plan annexed to such agreement. Spent.~\ 
 
 CHAPTER XLin. 
 
 * An Act to confirm a Scheme under " The Metropolitan 
 Commons Act, 1866," relating to Hackney Commons. 
 
 [27//^ June 1872.] 
 
 [Preamble recites that the Inclosure Commissioners for England 
 and Wales have, in pursuance of'"'' The Metropolitan Commons Act, 
 1866," duly certified a scheme for the establishment of local manage- 
 ment with respect to Hackney Commons, situate in the parish of 
 Hackney in the county of Middlese.r.tl [Be it enacted] 
 
 1. That the scheme for the establishment of local management Scheme as 
 with respect to Hacknev Commons, situate in the parish of Hackuev *« Hackney 
 
 J.^ i ,^^^r■^^^ " x ./• ii ii T i /I • • (.OmmonS 
 
 m the county of Middlesex,! certified by the inclosure I ommissioners certified by 
 for England and Wales under their seal on the twenty-second day inclosure 
 of February one tliousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and ^^nimis- 
 contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, be hereby confirmed, j'-j.^J^g^j" ' 
 and from and after the passing of this Act shall be deemed to 
 
 * See also 47 & 4S Vict. c. ccxxiii. s. 45. 
 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 j.7n rPnAD ^liii' n The Metropolitan Commons roKS oa^r -\ 
 
 4/0 [Chap, xlm.] Supplemental Act 1872. t^^'^ ^ ^^ ^^^^0 
 
 be a Public General Act of Parliament, of the like force and effect 
 as if the provisions of the same had been enacted in the body of 
 this Act. 
 Short title. 2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Metropolitan 
 
 Commons Supplemental Act, 1872." 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Scheme with respect to Hackney Commons. 
 
 1. Hackney Commons — that is to say, London Fields, Hackney Downs, Well 
 Street Common, otherwise Hackney Common, Xorth Mill Field, South Mill 
 Field, Stoke Xewington Common, and Clapton Common, and parcels of waste 
 land at or near Dalston Lane and Grove Street, as the same are delineated in a 
 plan deposited with the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales* — 
 shall henceforth for all the purposes of this Scheme be regulated and managed 
 by the Metropolitan Board of Works, herein-after termed " the Board.''t 
 
 2. \_Appointment of officers. Superseded by the Muyiicipal Corporations Act 
 1882, .S-.S'. 19 and 20 {see A2)pemlix), ami 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75. See also 18 & 
 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 202. — Expenses of executing Scheme. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict, 
 c. Al,part iv.] 
 
 3. The Board may execute any works of drainage, raising, levelling, fencing, 
 and improvement of the Commons respectively, so far only as may be required 
 for the purposes of the Metropolitan Commons Act, aud shall preserve the turf, 
 shrubs, trees, plants, and grass, and for this purpose may enclose by fences, for 
 short periods, such portions as may require rest to revive the same, and may 
 plant or otherwise beautify the Commons, but shall do nothing that shall other- 
 wise vary or alter the natural features or aspect of the said Commons. 
 
 4. The Board shall maintain the Commons respectively, as delineated in the 
 plan deposited with the Inclosure Commissioners, free of all encroachment, and 
 shall permit no trespass on or partial or other enclosure of any part thereof, 
 and no fences, posts, rails, or other matters or things shall be maintained, fixed, 
 or erected thereon without the consent in writing of the Board : and the Board 
 shall include in their annual report a statement as to the state of the Commons, 
 for the information of the ratepayers. 
 
 5 — -7. [.4.S- to hyelaws. Superseded 40 Vict. c. viii. ss. 3, 4, and 10 ; 53 & 54 
 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 8. Except for the owner or owners of the soil, it shall not be lawful, without 
 the consent in writing of the Board, to form, build, or lay any sewer, drain, 
 pipe, waterway, or other matter of like nature, in, into, or under any part or 
 parts of the said Commons. 
 
 9. Except for those persons who now by law are entitled to do so, it shall not 
 be lawful to turn out on the Commons respectively for grazing any cattle, 
 sheep, or other animals. 
 
 10. The Board may have power to apply at any time for an amended or new 
 Scheme. 
 
 11. [Borrowing powers. Superseded by the London County Council (^Money^ 
 Acts 1875—1904.] 
 
 12. [Pi-oreedini/s not fo be rpui shed for loont offoriii.'\ 
 
 13. Saving always to all persons and bodies politic and corporate, and their 
 respective heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, all such estates, 
 interests, or rights of a profitable or Ijeneficial nature in, over, or affecting the 
 Commons, or any part thereof, as they or any of them had before the confirma- 
 tion of this Scheme by Act of Parliament, or could or might have enjoyed if 
 this Scheme had not been confirmed by Act of Parliament. 
 
 14. The lords of the manor of Lords Hold Hackney claim an estate in fee 
 simple, subject only to the rights of common of the tenants of the manor 
 entitled thereto, in such of the lands as are waste of the manor : that is to say, 
 Clapton Common, Stoke Xewington Common, the two parcels of waste in 
 Dalston Lane, and the parcel of waste in Grove Street, and so that the said 
 rights of common do not prevent the claimants digging and selling clay, gravel, 
 sand, and brick-earth from out of the said wastes : also the right to approve the 
 wastes of the manor by precept according to the custom of the manor : also 
 the fines, quit-rents, and other manorial dues in respect of such portions of the 
 
 * Now the Board of Agriculture. See the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, s. 2. 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 10 (8).
 
 [35 & 36 Vict.] Thames Embankment Sorth Act 1872. [Chap. Ixvi.] 471 
 
 various Lammas fields, that is to say, London Fields, Hackney Downs, Well 
 Street Common, otherwise Hackney Common, North ^lill Field, and South 
 Mill Field, as are copyhold of the manor, together with the rii,'ht to dig and sell 
 clay, gravel, sand, and brick-earth out of sucii copyliold portions and out of any 
 freehold portions which have been enfranchised without the minerals : also the 
 right of escheat and all other manorial rights in and over all the said Lammas 
 lands and wastes. 
 
 The trustees of Thomas George Corbett, deceased, claim the whole of London 
 Fields, from the oth April to the 12th August in every year in severalty, and 
 they also claim the soil during the remainder of the year, subject to the rights 
 of common which may Vje then exercised thereon, part as freehold and part as 
 copyhold ; and as to that part which is freehold, they claim to be exclusively 
 entitled to the soil, and to all mines, minerals, and brick-earth in and under the 
 same ; and as to that part which is copyhold they claim to be entitled to the 
 soil and the brick-earth in and under the same upon payment to the lords of 
 the manor of a royalty. 
 
 The part owners of the other Lammas fields claim such fields from the 5th 
 April to the 12th August in every year in severalty, and they also claim the soil 
 during the remainder of the year, subject to the rights of common which may 
 be then exercised thereon, some portions being claimed as freehold and some as 
 copyhold. 
 
 The copyhold tenants of the manor and the owners of enfranchised copyholds 
 claim rights of common of pasture over the Lammas fields from the 12th August 
 to the h\X\ April in every year, and over the waste lands at all times of the year, 
 and also certain rights to dig gravel and sand, and to lop trees on the said waste 
 lands, such rights of common of pasture being subject to the byelaws which 
 heretofore have been and hereafter may be made by the homage of the said 
 manor : also the right when assembled as homage of the said manor at the 
 courts of the said manor, to regulate the aforesaid rights of common of pasture 
 by making byelaws for determining the number of cattle which each commoner 
 may turn on the lands, and the fines and dues to be paid in respect thereof, and 
 by appointing drivers for superintending the same, and making other regulations 
 warranted by the custom of the said manor. 
 
 This Scheme affects the rights so claimed as aforesaid only so far as is 
 absolutely necessary for the purposes contemplated by this Scheme. 
 
 The lords of the manor, the owners of the London Fields, and certain of the 
 part owners of the other Lammas fields, do not consent to the Scheme. All the 
 other claimants consent to it, provided compensation be given for any rights 
 taken away or prejudicially affected by it. \See 47 & 48 Vict. c. cc.xxiii. .s-. 46.] 
 
 15. Printed copies of this Scheme shall at all times be sold at the office of the 
 Board, to all persons desiring to buy the same, at a price not exceeding sixpence 
 each. 
 
 The Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales pursuant to the 
 provisions of "The Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866" hereby certify the 
 above-written Scheme. 
 
 In witness whereof they the said Inclosure Commissioners have caused their 
 official seal to be hereunto affixed this twenty-second day of February one 
 thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. 
 
 CHAPTER LXVI. 
 
 An Act for amending and extending the Thames Embankment 
 Act, 1862, and for other Purposes. [27M June 1872.] 
 
 {Preamble recites 25 & 26 Vict. c. 93, and in particular s. 25 
 thereof. ~\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Thames Erabankmeut North short title. 
 Act, 1872. 
 
 2. In this Act— Interprcta- 
 
 "The Embankment Act of 1862" means the Thames Embank- ^^°°- 
 meut Act, 1862 :
 
 472 [Chap. Ixvi.] Thames Embankment North Act 1872. [35 & 36 Vict.] 
 
 " The Board " means the Metropolitan Board of Works * : 
 
 " The Victoria Embankment " means the embankment made 
 
 under the Embankment Act of 1862 : 
 
 " Roadway " includes the carriageway and footways of the 
 
 roadway. 
 
 Transfer to 3. The Toadway on the Victoria Embankment shall (notwith- 
 
 fhority°m^Jr' standing anything in the Embankment Act of 1862) be under the 
 
 and property management, control, and authority of the Board, and they shall 
 
 in roadway, have the sole power, authority, and duty of paving, macadamizing, 
 
 ^^^' maintaining, repairing, watering, cleansing, and lighting the same, 
 
 and the same roadway, and the walls, railings, and fences thereof, 
 
 (subject nevertheless to section 77 of the Embankment Act of 1862, 
 
 and except such parts of the said walls, railings, and fences as are, 
 
 so far as regards the lands coloured blue and green respectively on 
 
 the Crown plans mentioned in the Embankment Act of 1862, on the 
 
 land side of the said roadway,) and the trees, lamp-posts, and other 
 
 things thereon, are herebv vested in and the same shall belong: 
 
 absolutely to the Board. \_See also 36 Vict. c. vii. s. 2; 38 & 39 
 
 Vict. c. clxxix. s. 5 ; 39 & 40 Vict. c. Ixxix. ss. 34 — 36 ; 50 & 51 
 
 Vict. c. 34, 6-. 2 ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 6 (2).] 
 
 4 — 5. \_As to hyelaws. Superseded 40 Vict. c. viii. ss. 3, 4, and 
 10, See also 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21, and 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 For protec- 6. No provision of this Act, and no byelaw to be made there- 
 tion of the nnder, shall be taken to vest in the Board, or to give the Board 
 Middle ^^}' fight in or jurisdiction over any wall, railing, fence, or other 
 
 Temple. boundary now or hereafter to be erected upon the lands belonging to 
 
 the Honourable Societies of the Inner and Middle Temple between 
 the Victoria Embankment and any part of such lands, or to repeal, 
 alter, or contravene, or in any way to impede the execution or 
 performance of the provisions of sections 28, 29, 30, 31, or 41, of 
 the Embankment Act of 1862, or any of the stipulations contained 
 in a certain specification referred to in section 29 of the said last- 
 mentioned Act, and bearing date the 26th day of May 1862, and 
 made under the hand of the Right Honourable William Cowper, 
 then Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public 
 Buildings, or otherwise to take away, lessen, prejudice, or affect 
 any estate, right, interest, jurisdiction, franchise, power, privilege, 
 and immunity, claim, or demand of, or any liability to, the two said 
 societies respectively or either of them, or their respective trustees, 
 treasurers, or masters of the bench, whether under Act of Parlia- 
 ment, charter, grant, agreement, specification, prescription, custom, 
 usage, or otherwise, or any right, interest, claim, or demand of the 
 two societies respectively, or either of them, in any way relating 
 to the Temple land or any part thereof, or any works thereon or in 
 connexion therewith. 
 
 Saving rights 7. Nothing in this Act contained shall authorise or empower the 
 quess^oY^'^' ^^^^^ ^^ make any byelaw for all or any of the purposes aforesaid 
 Salisbury which shall in anywise prejudice, lessen, affect, or interfere with any 
 and others, rights, easements, advantages, or privileges which the Marquess of 
 Salisbury, his heirs, sequels in rights, or assigns, or his or their 
 lessees or tenants of houses and premises in Cecil Street and Salis- 
 bury Street, respectively have, possess, or enjoy, or is or are entitled 
 to under or by virtue of the 62nd or any other section of the 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 roc p o/a ir n -'^''^ Metropolitan Street rn„,r, „i^;,-,-n ^-':{ 
 
 [35 & 36 ViCT.n , ^. «,# iQ-o I ( HAP. clxiii.J 4<.J 
 
 L J Improcements Act icxZ. "- -■ 
 
 Embankment Act of 1862, or iindor or by virtue of any Act or Acts 
 amending the said Act of 1862, but all such ri<,'hts, easemetits, 
 advantages, and privileges shall remain in full force and effect to 
 all intents and j)urposes wliatsoever as il' this Act had not been 
 passed ; and further, tliat every byelaw which the Board may from 
 time to time make under tlie [trovisious of this Act shall be abso- 
 lutely void and of no effect as far as it prejudices, lessens, affects, 
 or interferes with any of the said rights, easements, advantages, or 
 privileges of the said Mar(|uess of Salisbury, his heirs, se(iuels in 
 right, or assigns, or his or their lessees or tenants. 
 
 8. \^Expenties oj executing Act. Superseded 51 tk 52 \'ict. c. 41, 
 part iv.] 
 
 9. \_Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 CHAPTER CLXIII. 
 An Act to enable the Metropolitan Board ok Works to 
 
 WIDEN AND IMPROVE CERTAIN StEEETS, AND TO MAKE CERTAIN 
 
 NEW Streets within the Metropolis. [Qth August 1872.] 
 [^Preamble recites 34 & 35 V^ict. cc. 47 and cxxix.] 
 
 1. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall be sufficient to use short title, 
 the expression "The Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1872." 
 
 2. "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, 1.^60, and Lands 
 1860," (except section 133 of the first-mentioned Act, and also such Incorporated, 
 of the provisions of those Acts as are varied by, or excepted from, 
 
 or inconsistent with this Act,) are incorporated with and form part 
 of this Act. 
 
 3. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have luterpreta- 
 the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless tliere be some- **°° ° terms, 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; 
 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 The word " streets " shall include squares, streets, courts or alleys, 
 
 highways, roads, thoroughfares, or public passages or places : 
 The term " improvements " means the widening of the several 
 
 streets, roads, and thoroughfares, and the construction of the 
 
 new streets by this Act authorised : 
 The expression " the Board " means the Metropolitan Board of 
 
 Works.* 
 
 • . • • • • 
 
 \_Parts omitted {definitions of " Justice " and " lessee,'"' and as to 
 meanings of words in Acts incorporated) .^pent.'] 
 
 4. \_Board to execute Act. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40.] 
 
 5. The Board mav make the following improvements, or anv of Power to 
 them: ' ^ make im- 
 
 ,,r T \ provement^ 
 
 ( \\ APPiNG Improvements.) herein 
 
 (1.) They may widen High Street and Lower East Smithtield, °''*'">^d. 
 Wapping, on the northern and southern sides thereof, 
 commencing from the eastern side of the entrance of the 
 Wapping Basin of tlie London Dock in the })arisii of Saiut 
 John, Wapping, and terminating at Little Thames Street 
 * IJow the London County Council. See 51 4: 52 Vict. c. 41 s. 40 (8).
 
 474 [Chap, clxiii.] ^^ Metropolitan Street . ^ ^ 
 
 •- -■ Improvements Act 1872. •- ^ ^ ^^^■\ 
 
 in the parish of Saint Botolph Without Aldgate, and in 
 the precinct of Saint Katherine, or one of them : 
 (2.) They maj' widen the thoroughfare in continuation of the 
 above-mentioned improvements, commencing in Lower 
 East Smithfield, at the eastern end of Little Thames Street 
 aforesaid, and terminating in the said precinct of Saint 
 Katherine, near the entrance to the Saint Katherine's 
 Docks from the River Thames : 
 
 (Shoreditch Improvements.) 
 
 (3.) They may widen High Street in the parish of Saint Leonard, 
 Shoreditch, on the west side thereof, commencing at a 
 point about thirty yards south of the intersection of 
 Bateman's Row, in the same street, and continuing into 
 and terminating in Old Street Road, at or near the point 
 of intersection thereof by the North London Railway : 
 
 (4.) They may construct a new road partly in the parish of Saint 
 Matthew, Bethnal Green, and partly in the said parish of 
 Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, commencing on the east side 
 of the High Street, Shoreditch, near the terminus of the 
 Great Eastern Railway, and ending at a point in the 
 Bethnal Green Road, near Ohilton Street : 
 
 (5.) They may widen Gibraltar Walk, at the south end thereof, 
 in the parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green : 
 
 (6.) They may construct a new road in the said parish of Saint 
 Leonard, Shoreditch, and in the parish of Saint Luke, 
 commencing in High Street, Shoreditch, opposite Com- 
 mercial Street, and terminating in Old Street Road, at or 
 near Tabernacle Square : 
 
 (Old Street towards New Oxford Street Improvements.) 
 
 (7.) They may widen Old Street, on the northern side thereof, 
 where it joins Goswell Road, in the parish of Saint Luke : 
 
 (8.) They may widen Wilderness Row, on the southern side 
 thereof, in the liberty of the Charterhouse, and in the 
 parish of Saint John, Clerkenwell : 
 
 (9.) They may construct a new road, commencing at Saint John 
 Street, opposite Wilderness Row, passing thence through 
 or into the parishes of Saint John and Saint James, 
 Clerkenwell, and Ely Place, Ely Rents, Hatton Garden, 
 and Saffron Hill, and terminating in Farringdon Road at 
 or near the Sessions House, Clerkenwell : 
 
 (10.) They may construct a new road, commencing at the termi- 
 nation of the last-mentioned new road, and terminating 
 in Liquorpond Street in the parish of Saint Andrew, 
 Holborn, above Bars : 
 
 (11.) They may widen Liquorpond Street, Christopher Street, 
 King's Road, and Theobald's Road : 
 
 (1 2.) They may form a communication between the western end 
 of Theobald's Road from Gloucester Street and Kingsgate 
 Street to Vernon Place : 
 
 (Harrow Road Improvement.) 
 
 (13.) They may widen the south-eastern end of the Harrow Road, 
 and the west side of the Edgeware Road, near its junction 
 with the Harrow Road :
 
 roc e on ^T n '^'^^^ Metropolitan .Street rfUiAi. ^K-i;,' i 47^ 
 
 [35 & 36 Vict.] improvemLt, Act 1872. l^^"^^ " "^-^"^'^ ^'-^ 
 
 (Newington Butts Improvement.) 
 
 (14.) They may widen Newington Butts in the parisii of St. 
 
 Mary, Newington, on the north-west side of the said road, 
 
 comnieneiiig at Church Yard Kow and terminating at a 
 
 point about one hundred yards to the north-east of the 
 
 said row. 
 
 6 — 11. \_Improve7nents to be made according to plans deposited 
 
 with the Clerks of the Peace for Middlesex and Sarrei/ — Power to 
 
 the Board to take lands shown on sncJi plans^ to stop) up vxiys 
 
 during works, to raise or lower streets, to deciate, to make suh- 
 
 sidianj fvorks, to stop up, alter, etc., or appropriate streets, to 
 
 alter water, gas, and other pipes. Spent."] 
 
 12. The Board shall not api)ro|)riate for building purposes anv f^ertain 
 
 . /• ii i.- • ^1 • 1 £• o • i. T I Vii 1 11 properties to 
 
 j)art of the properties ni the parish ot haint .)ohii, Clerkonwell, jQ^m part of 
 
 numbered respectively 70, 71, 73, 75, 76, and 77 on the deposited new street. 
 
 plans, so far as such properties will be situate to the north of the 
 
 proposed new street in Clerkenwell, but the said properties and 
 
 portions thereof so situate as aforesaid shall be thrown into and form 
 
 part of the new street in Clerkenwell, and the connexion between 
 
 the said new street and Clerkenwell Green shall be formed by an 
 
 easy curve commencing in No. 80 and terminating in No. 81 on the 
 
 deposited plans. [ Varied 38 & 39 Vict. c. clxxix. ss. 28 and 29.] 
 
 13. \_Power to lag out footways. Spent 7\ 
 
 14. [yl.s- to laging of pavements and resting the mme tvhen laid, 
 in the board of works * or restrg * in ivhose district theg are.] 
 
 15. \_Poiver to the Board to fill up sewers or drains on promding 
 substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drainsT] 
 
 16. {Power to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent.] 
 
 17. The Board may make, under any street made or widened by ^'^'JJ^Jj^ 
 them under this Act, a subway (being an arched passage or covered ,™^ ^ *" 
 way) for such i)urposes as they may think fit, with all communica- 
 tions, works, and things necessary or proper for the convenient use 
 thereof, and the same subway, communications, works, and things 
 shall be deemed ))art of the works authorised by this Act, and the 
 same shall (notwithstanding anything in this Act) belong to and 
 be vested in the Board, and shall be maintained and repaired by the 
 Board, and the Board may permit the use of the subway for the 
 jnirposo of the laying down of gas or water pipes, or telegraph wires, 
 or for any other useful ])urpose, on such terms and conditions, and 
 for such period as the Board and any company or person agree, 
 and the Board may sell, convey, or demise any right to any company 
 or person for any of the purjioses aforesaid, and may make such 
 stipulations for preventing injury to tlie adjoining ])roperry. and for 
 the security of the i)ublic, as the Board think proper, and may a<rree 
 to refer to arbitration any matter in difference under this section. 
 \^See also 56 «fe 57 Vict. c. ccii.] 
 
 18. {Ground laid into the streets to form part thereof, and to be 
 under the management of the restrg of the parish * or board oj works 
 of the district* in which the same is situate.] 
 
 19—23. {Errors and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to 
 sell materials and to survey lands to be taken — As to compensation — 
 Deficiencies of land tax during works. Spent.] 
 
 * Now the council of the metropolitan borougb. See 62 & 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 wavs.
 
 476 
 
 [Chap, clxiii.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Street 
 Improvements Act 1872. 
 
 [35 & 36 Vict.] 
 
 Receipts of 
 Board to be 
 effectual 
 discharges. 
 
 Metropolitan 
 Railway 
 Company to 
 be borne 
 harmless. 
 
 Maintenance 
 of such works 
 
 24 — 26. \Power to the Board to grant huilding leases of surplus 
 lands — -^l*- to sale of ground rents and reversions thereof — Power 
 to sell such lands without leasing. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict. 
 c. ccxxxvii. s. 23. See ibid. ss. 19 — 22.] 
 
 27. \_Time for sale of surplus lands limited ^o 10 gears from com.- 
 pletion of improvements. Superseded 47 & 48 Vict. c. 50, s. 23.] 
 
 28. The receipt of the Board for any purchase moneys, rents, or 
 profits, or other money payable to the Board by virtue of this Act, 
 shall be a sufficient and effectual discharge for the money in such 
 receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received, and the person to 
 whom the same shall be given shall not afterwards be answerable or 
 accountable for the mis-application or non-application of the money 
 in such receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received. 
 
 29. \_Saving for lands of the Sutton Hospital in Charterhouse. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 30. \^As to construction of the bridge carrying the new road over 
 Metropolitan Railivag. Spent ^ 
 
 31. The Metropolitan Board of Works * shall at all times save 
 harmless and keep indemnified the Metropolitan Railway Company 
 from and against all claims, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses 
 which the Metropolitan Railway Company may sustain or be put 
 unto by reason of the construction of the bridge across the railway 
 and maintenance of the same, and if thereby the free use of such 
 railway by the Metropolitan Railway Company shall be obstructed, 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works shall pay to the Metropolitan 
 Railway Company, as or by way of ascertained damages, the sum of 
 fifty pounds for every hour during which any such obstruction shall 
 continue, and so in proportion for any less period than one hour, and 
 in default of payment of any such sum, or any such losses, liabilities, 
 costs, or expenses, on demand made on the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works, the Metropolitan Railway Company may recover the same, 
 with full costs, in any court of competent jurisdiction : Provided 
 always, that nothing in this Act contained shall take away or in any 
 manner affect any other right, if any, to compensation, to which 
 under the provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 
 1845, or the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, or otherwise, 
 the Metropolitan Railway Company are or may be entitled by 
 reason of the formation of the said bridge and street across and 
 over their railway and lands. 
 
 32 — 33. \_As to carrying the 'new road under the viaduct of the 
 North London liaihvay. Spent.] 
 
 34. The Board shall at all times maintain the bridge and other 
 works by which the said new road shall be so carried under the 
 North London Railway in substantial repair and good order to the 
 reasonable satisfaction, in all respects, of the principal engineer of 
 the North London Railway (Jompany, and if and whenever after 
 notice from the North London Railway Company the Board fail so 
 to do, the North London Railway Company may make or do in 
 and upon as well the lands of the Board as their own lands such 
 repairs, and the sum from time to time certified by such engineer 
 to be the reasonable amount of such expenditure shall be repaid to 
 the North London Railway Company by the Board, and in default 
 of payment may be recovered by such Company from the Board, 
 with full costs, in any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict, c, H, s. 40 (8).
 
 to" e on -it. -1 ^-^'^ Metropolitan Street rn i ••• n i-- 
 
 [3o&30ViCT.] , ^., /„/ J / iw-.> [Chap, clxiii.l 4<. 
 
 ^ -" Iniproceiaents Act \>iiZ. •- -J 
 
 35. It shall not be lawful for the Board or their contractors, T'-affic on 
 agents, servants, or workmen, in C(tnstriictin<; or reimirin^ the ,^,j',f[jJi^ay 
 works by this Act authorised under the North London Hallway, not to be 
 to obstruct the traffic on snch railway, or to prevent the convenient obstructed, 
 passage of engines, carriages, or waggons along the same, and if 
 
 that traffic or such passage of engines, carriages, or waggons be 
 obstructed contrary to this enactment the lioard shall forfeit and 
 pay to the North London Railway (,'ompaiiy the sum of fifty pounds 
 for every hour, by way of ascertained damages, during which such 
 obstruction shall continue. 
 
 36. Notwitlistanding anytliiug in this Act contained tlie lioard Thi^ Board 
 shall be responsible for and make good to the North London Hail- j^^'^^^\ 
 way Company all costs, losses, damages, and expenses which may sustained by 
 be occasioned to that Company, or to any of the works or projjerty North Lon-' 
 thereof, or to the traffic thereon, or otherwise, by reason of the ^,"" ^^'l^ay 
 execution or failure of the works by this Act authorised under such '^"'P*"^- 
 Company's railway, or of any act or omission of tlie Board, or of 
 
 any of the persons in their employ, or of their contractors or others, 
 and the Board will effectually indemnify and hold harmless the 
 North London Railway Com])any from all claims and demands upon 
 or against them by reason or arising out of such execution or failure, 
 or of any such act or omission. 
 
 37. The Board shall not in any case, without the previous con- interference 
 sent in writing of the North London Railway C'ompany under their with lands of 
 common seal, take, use, enter upon, or interfere with the railway, ^on Railway 
 works, lands, or property at any time belonging or in the possession Company. 
 
 or under the power of that Company, except only sucli part or parts 
 thereof respectively as it shall be necessary for the Board to take, 
 use, enter upon, or interfere with for making and maintaining the 
 works by the preceding enactments in that behalf autliorised to be 
 carried under the railway of the North London Railway Company. 
 
 38 — 39. \_Boar(/ to acquire easements only in lands of the Sorth 
 London Raihvay Company — As to alteration of the Company's 
 signals at the expense of the Board. Spent.'] 
 
 40. If at any time the North London Railway Comjjany shall be Provision for 
 desirous of widening the viaduct of their railway to the extent of 1^"^^^^^'°°^^ 
 two additional lines of rails where the same viaduct will be crossed t'i?e' Nort*h 
 by such new road, that Company shall be at liberty to widen their London 
 viaduct to the extent aforesaid over the said road bv a bridjje of the R^'^ii'^ay- 
 same character as shall be built bv the Board for carrving the 
 
 present viaduct of the railway over the said new road. 
 
 41. \_Savi7ig the rights generally of the North London Railway 
 Company.] 
 
 42. Any difference which may arise between the Board and the Aibitration. 
 North London Railway Company under the before-mentioned enact- 
 ments (except as to the amount of purcluise money or compensation 
 
 for the purchase or taking of any land or easement which the Board 
 are by this Act autliorisetl to actpiire from the Nortii Lomlon Rail- 
 way Company), shall be from time to time referred to and determined 
 by an arbitrator to be appointed on the aj)plication of either party by 
 the Board of Trade, and the costs of the arbitration shall be in the 
 discretion of the arbitrator. 
 
 43. For the protection of the London and Saint Katharine Docks Provisions for 
 Company, (herein-after in this Act called the Dock Company,) the the London
 
 A>^o rn„.^ ^1 ,•;: 1 T/te Metropolitan Street tok p o/-. tr i 
 
 4.8 [( HAP. clxiii.] Mprovements Act 1872. f'^^ & ^^' ^^^'^•1 
 
 and St. Board shall at their own expense observe, fulfil, and conform to the 
 
 Docks""^ stipulations and provisions following : 
 
 Company, ...... 
 
 (d.) In altering for the purposes of this Act the two bridges of the 
 Dock Company, one of which is numbered on the deposited 
 plans 44 in the parish of Saint John, Wapping, and the 
 other ;j3a, in that parish, and 237 in the parish of Saint 
 George in the East, the Board shall not, otherwise than by 
 agreement with the Dock Company, increase the extent 
 of widening shown on the deposited plans or deviate from 
 the levels or mode of construction shown on the deposited 
 sections : 
 
 • • • ■ • • 
 
 (r/.) The Board shall make good all damage that may be caused 
 to the works or property of the Dock Company by the con- 
 struction, removal, or want of repair of any of the Board's 
 works ; but in every case of pressing necessity, and in 
 every other case if for fourteen days after notice in writing 
 thereof given to the Board by the Dock Company, the 
 Board do not proceed with due diligence to make good 
 such damage, the Dock Company may, if they think fit, 
 make good the damage, and the amount expended by them 
 in so doing shall be repaid to them by the Board : 
 
 (e.) It shall not be lawful for the Board or their contractors, 
 agent, servants, or workmen in the execution of the powers 
 of this Act, to obstruct the waterway of either of the lock 
 entrances under the said bridges, or the convenient passage 
 of vessels and lighters through the same : 
 
 {/.) Provided, that notwithstanding anything in this Act con- 
 tained, the Board shall make good to the Dock Company 
 all costs, losses, damages, and expenses which may be 
 caused to the Dock Company or to any of their works or 
 property, or to the traffic there, or otherwise, by reason of 
 the execution or failure of any work by this Act authorised, 
 or by reason of any act or omission of the Board or of any 
 persons in their employ, or of their contractors or others, 
 and the Board will eff'ectually indemnify and hold harmless 
 the Dock Company from and against all claims and demands 
 upon or against them on account of or consequent on any 
 such execution or failure or any such act or omission : 
 
 {(/.) The said bridges when widened shall be the property of 
 the Dock Company, and all the provisions of the section 
 numbered one hundred of the London Docks Act, 1828, 
 9 George 4, chapter 116 (Local), shall apply thereto as 
 fully as to the now existing bridges : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 (j.) If and whenever any damages or other sums payable by the 
 Board to the Dock Company under this section are not 
 paid on demand made on the secretary or clerk of the 
 Board, the same may, with costs of suit, be recovered 
 against the Board in any court of competent jurisdiction : 
 
 {k.) Provided that if the Board and the Dock Company so agree, 
 the Board may, in lieu of altering the said swing bridge 
 numbered on the deposited plans 44, in Saint John, 
 Wapping, substitute for that swing bridge a fixed bridge 
 or road or thoroughfare, and fill up wholly or partially the
 
 r.. - K o/^ -ir -\ T^ft^ Metro ijoht (in Street p^, i •••n ^■•■n 
 
 ra5&36ViCT.l r ^ ' , ,,07.. [Chap, clxiu.j 4/9 
 
 L J Improvements Act 1872. ^ -^ 
 
 entrance lock under such fixed bridge, road, or tiiorougb- 
 fare, and by any such agreement any of tlie sub-sections of 
 tliis section may, as regards tlie said swing bridge or the 
 fixed bridge, road, or thoroughfare which may be 8u])sti- 
 tuted, be modified or waived, and if a fixed bridge, road, 
 or thoroughfare Ije agreed ujion tiie r<'mainder of the said 
 entrance lock may be tilled uj), and tlie Dock Company 
 may sell and dispose of the same and of any other lands 
 adjoining or near thereto belonging to them and lying 
 between their Itoundary wall and the River Thames, and 
 their obligation to maintain a footpath across the gates of 
 the said entrance, and all rights of way and other rights 
 over the same, shall cease : 
 (/.) All questions and dilferences which may at any time arise 
 between the Board and the Dock Corajjany under this 
 section (except as to the amount of purchase money or 
 compensation for {)urchase or taking of any easement 
 which the Board under this Act are authorised to acquire 
 from the Dock Company, and whicli ])urchase money or 
 compensation shall be ascertained under the Lands (Jlauses 
 Consolidation Acts incorporated with this Act,) shall be 
 from time to time referred to and determined by an 
 arbitrator to be appointed by the Board of Trade u])on 
 the ai)plication in writing of both or either of the parties 
 in difference, and his decisions shall be binding and con- 
 clusive upon both the parties in difference, and the cost of 
 the arbitration shall be in his discretion : 
 (w.) Except as is by this Act otherwise expressly provided, nothing 
 in this Act contained shall take away, lessen, prejudice, or 
 alter any of the rights, privileges, or powers of the Dock 
 Company. 
 [Parts omitted (as to taking of easements, expenses of Dock Company 
 during ivorks, as to the Companif s additional expenses of main- 
 tenance of bridges and power to compound therefor') spent.'] 
 
 44. [For the protection of the Thames Conservancy.] 
 
 45. \_For the protection of Messrs. Rivingtons lands. Sperit.] 
 
 46. \_As to purchase of part of the church and churchyard of 
 Saint Mary Newington. Spent.] 
 
 47. [Period for compulsory purchase of lands and construction of 
 works limited to 5 and 7 years respectively. Spent^ 
 
 48 — 49. [-16' to rehousing persons of the labouring class. Spent.] 
 
 50. [Power to the Board to apply existing funds to the purposes 
 of this Act. Spent.] 
 
 51. [Bon-owing powers by. Superseded by the London County 
 Council {Money) Acts 1875 — 19U4.] 
 
 52. Nothing in this Act shall take away, abridge, or })rejudicially Saving for 
 affect any right, jiower, authority, or remedy which the Board i^^ar<i- 
 would have had or might have exercised if this Act had not been 
 passed. 
 
 53. The provisions of this Act relating to the Hornsey Local * Effect of 
 Board shall, notwithstanding anything in the Hornsey Local l',oard i"''^'^^*'''^^ ^ 
 Act, 1871, or in any other Act empowering that Board, have elfeet Local Board, 
 for the better execution of section 33 of the Hornsey Local Board 
 
 Act, 1871, whereby the Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 
 1871, is extended to the district of the Hornsey Local Board.* 
 
 * Now the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Municipal Borough of Hornsey.
 
 4SU 
 
 [Chap, clxiii.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Street 
 Improvements Act 1872. 
 
 [35 & 36 Vict.] 
 
 Application 
 of Metro- 
 politan Loans 
 Act to Horn- 
 sey Local 
 Board. 
 
 Form of 
 mortgage by 
 Hornsey 
 Local Board. 
 
 EfiEect of 
 mortgage by 
 Hornsey 
 Local Board. 
 
 Amendment 
 in respect of 
 section 30 
 of Act of 
 1871. 
 
 Contributions 
 to be paid by 
 Hornsey 
 Local Board 
 towards costs 
 of main 
 drainage 
 system. 
 
 54. Any money from time to time borrowed by the Hornsey 
 Local Board* under the Hornsey Local Board Act, 1871, or for the 
 purposes of any work (within or without their district) which they 
 are about to execute or to which they are about to contribute 
 under the Acts empowering them, and which appears to the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works f and to the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Treasury to be a permanent work, may, with the consent 
 of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and on such terms 
 and conditions as those Commissioners from time to time think fit, 
 be borrowed from and be lent by the Metropolitan Board of Works,! 
 and section 37 of the Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 
 1869, shall apply to every such loan, with the substitution of the 
 Hornsey Local Board* and the Hornsey Local Board Act, 1871, and 
 the other Acts empowering that Board, for the managers and 
 the Acts in that section mentioned, and with the omission of the 
 reference in that section to the Poor Law Board, and with the 
 addition to the amount in that section mentioned of the money from 
 time to time borrowed by the Hornsey Local Board.* 
 
 55. Every mortgage made by the Hornsey Local Board* for money 
 borrowed by them from the Metropolitan Board of Works t may be 
 made in such manner and form as those Boards agree. 
 
 56. Subject and without prejudice to the other jDro visions of this 
 Act, every mortgage made by the Hornsey Local Board* for money 
 borrowed by them from the Metropolitan Board of Worksf shall be 
 deemed a mortgage granted by the Hornsey Local Board* under the 
 Hornsey Local Board Act, 1871, or under the other Act or Acts 
 authorising the Hornsey Local Board to borrow the money secured 
 by the mortgage, and in respect thereof the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works t shall be deemed mortgagees of the Hornsey Local Board * 
 under the same Act or Acts (as the case may be). 
 
 57. Section 30 of the Hornsey Local Board Act, 1871, (relating to 
 contributions to be paid by the Hornsey Local Board * towards the 
 cost of the main drainage system of the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works f) is hereby rejiealed, and sections 31 and 32 of the same Act 
 and all enactments having reference thereto, shall be read and have 
 effect as if the provisions of this Act relating to the Hornsey Local 
 Board* had been inserted in the Hornsey Local Board Act, 1871, in 
 lieu of section 30 of that Act. \_See the Hornsey Drainage Scheme 
 1901, made under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14.] 
 
 58. For the purpose of contributing to the costs incurred by the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works f in respect of their main drainage 
 system, the Hornsey Local Board* shall pay to the treasurer of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works f the yearly sums, at the times, and 
 during the periods following ; (that is to say,) 
 
 (1.) The Hornsey Local Board* shall pay a yearly sum sufficient 
 to provide the requisite interest and sinking fund in re- 
 spect of such a proportion of the money which had been 
 borrowed by the Metropolitan Board of Works f for main 
 drainage jjurposes before, and which remain undischarged 
 at the passing of the Hornsey Local Board Act, 1871, or 
 which has been or is borrowed by them for those purposes 
 after the passing of that Act, and is for the time being 
 undischarged, as the annual rateable value of the property 
 
 * Kow the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Municipal Borough of Hornsey. 
 f Now the Loidon County Council. See 51 &. 52 Vict, c, 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [36 & 37 Vict.] The Thames Embankment Land Act 1873. [Chap. 40.] 481 
 
 in the district of the llornsey Local lioiinl * assessable to 
 the general district rate bears to the annual rateable valae 
 of the property in the metropolis liable in respect of main 
 drainage charges : 
 
 (2.) The yearly sura aforesaid shall be jmid in every year during 
 the residue whicli was to come at the passing of the 
 Hornsey Local Board Act, l^i7], of the period of sixty 
 years from the time of the first creation by the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works t of any metropolitan consolidated 
 stock : 
 
 (3.) The yearly sum aforesaid shall be ])aid for the first year on 
 the 2nd day of December 1?!>72, and for every subseipient 
 year on such day in each year as shall be specified in that 
 behalf in a notice in writing to be delivered by the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works + to the clerk of the Hornsey 
 Local Board * on or before the 1st day of May in each year, 
 but so that the day so specified for i)ayment be not 
 sooner than three months after the date of delivery of the 
 notice : 
 
 (4.) The Hornsey Local Board* shall also pay such further yearly- 
 sum as the Metropolitan Board of Works + in each year (as 
 well during the residue aforesaid of the said ])eriod of 
 sixty years as after the ex})iration of that period; by notice 
 in writing delivered by the Metropolitan Board of Works f 
 to the clerk of the Hornsey Local Board* on or before the 
 1st day of May in each year, require the Hornsey Local 
 Board * to pay as a contribution towards the cost of the 
 maintenance and working of the main drainage system of 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works f : 
 
 (5.) Provided that the amount of any such further yearly sum as 
 last aforesaid shall not exceed a sum which shall bear to 
 the whole expense incurred by the Metro])olitan Board of 
 Works t in the maintenance and working of their main 
 drainage system, the same proportion as the annual 
 rateable value of the pro})erty in tlio district of the Hornsey 
 Local Board * assessable to the general district rate bears to 
 the annual rateable value of the pro]»erty in the metropolis 
 liable in resjject of main drainage charges. 
 
 59. [Expenses of obtainitig Act. Spent.'] 
 
 36 & 37 VICTORIA. A.D. 1873. 
 
 CHAPTER 40. 
 An Act to authorise the Acquisition and Api'RorRiATiON by the 
 
 METROrOLITAX BoARD OF WoRKS OF CERTAIN LaND RECLAIMED 
 FROM THE RiVER ThAMES IN PURSUANCE OF THE THAMES EM- 
 BANKMENT Act, l^i()2. [21.n/ .Jul;/ 1^73.] 
 
 \_Preajnble recites (inter alia) 25 it 20 Vict. c. '-'3, aiuf that bij the 
 Thames Conservancij Act, 1857,:J: and an arrangement made between 
 the Crown and the Corporation of the Citjj of London so much of 
 
 * Now the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bnrpesses of the Municipal Porouph of Hornsey. 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 i: .")2 Vict. o. 41, s. 40 (^x). 
 
 X Rep. and replaced by tlie Thames Conservancv Act 1^94 (see Appendix). 
 
 31
 
 482 
 
 [Chap. 40.] The Thames Emhankment Land Act 1873. [36 & 37 Yict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Heads of 
 
 arrangement 
 in schedule 
 confirmed. 
 
 Provisions as 
 to the blue 
 land. 
 
 Appropriation 
 of lands. 
 
 the soil and foreshore of the Thames heloio Teddington Lock as was 
 opposite am/ land belonging to or in the possession of the Crown or 
 any Department of the Government {and in this Act called the 
 reserved land) tvas reserved to the Croim, and the residue of such 
 soil and foreshore {in this Act called the conservancg land) teas 
 vested in the Conservators of the River Thames for all the estate 
 and interest of the Crown and the said Corporation therein subject 
 to an obligation on the part of the Conservators to jmy to the Crown 
 one-third of all moneys that might be received by them in respect of 
 such conservancy land ; and that previously to the year 1862 the 
 Croum was also possessed of valuable water frontage, tvharfage, and 
 other rights (in this Act called ''\frontage rights ") on the northern 
 sliore of the Tliames between Westminster and Blachfriars Bridges ; 
 and that by 25 & 26 Vict. c. 93, 5i acres of the reserved land and 
 the said frontage rights and part of the conservancy land were taken 
 by the Metropolitan Board of Works for tJie purposes of that Act ; 
 tJiat the reserved land after deducting the said o| acres as aforesaid 
 taken by the Board is in this Act called, the residuary reserved land, 
 and that it is expedient that the Board should be empowered to take 
 a further j)Oi^tion of the residuary reserved, land {in this Act called 
 the red land) containing about 7,300 square yards adjacent to tJie 
 gardens of Fife ILouse Whitehall , coloured red and more particularly 
 described on a plan in this Act called tJie deposited plan ma.rked A. 
 and signed by one of the Commissioners of Her Majesty s Woods, 
 Forests, and Land Revenues, and deposited at the office of Land 
 Revenue Records amd Inrolments ; and that the lands coloured blue 
 on the deposited jilan are vested in the Board subject to the pro- 
 visions of 25 k 26 Vict. c. 93, a7id 31 & 32 176-^ c. cxi. ; and that 
 certain negotiations have taken place and, the heads of arrangement 
 set forth in tlie schedule to the Act were adjusted as proper to be 
 recommended to Parliament. '\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Thames 
 Embankment Land Act, 1873. 
 
 2. The heads of arrangement set forth in the schedule to this 
 Act are by this Act confirmed, and are declared to be valid and 
 binding for all intents and purposes on Her Majesty, her heirs and 
 successors, and on the Metropolitan Board of Works * and their 
 successors ; and the Commissioners for the time being of Her 
 Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or one of them, and 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works * are respectively empowered to 
 execute all such convevances and do all such other acts as mav 
 be necessary to carry out and give full effect to the said heads of 
 arrangement, and all such conveyances shall be valid and have 
 full effect. 
 
 3. The land in the said heads of arrangement mentioned as 
 coloured blue shall, when conveyed to the Crown, be held freed 
 and discharged from all the provisions of the Thames Embank- 
 ment Act, 1862, and the Thames Embankment (North and South) 
 Act, 1868. 
 
 4. All lands acquired by the Metro])olitan Board of Works* in 
 pursuance of this Act shall be appropriated for the purposes of a 
 public garden, and shall be maintained by them as such ; and 
 section four of the Thames Embankment (North) Act, 1872, 
 enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works to make byelaws, shall 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 ■[36 & 37 Vict.] 7'/^ T/ximPs F.mhankment Land Art 1«73. [Chap. 40.] 483 
 
 •extend and a})ply to the lands to be api)ropriated by tliem as afore- 
 said for the })ur{)0ses of a ])u])lir garden : Provided always, that no 
 portion of such jmblic garden shall l)e higher than six feet above 
 the level of the adjoining footpath on the Embankment roadway. 
 \_See note on section incorporated.'] 
 
 5. \^J)Orrowinq powers. Superseded b>j the London Counti/ Council 
 IMoney) Acts 1875—1904.] 
 
 THE SCHEDULE. 
 
 Crown Land on the Thames Embankment. 
 
 Heads of Arrangement proposed to be snhmitted for the con- 
 sideration of Parliament by the Honourable (.'harles Alexander 
 Gore, a Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and 
 Land Revenues, and the Metropolitan Board of Works, herein- 
 after called the Board.* 
 
 1. These heads of arrangement are not of themselves to have any 
 force or validity, but they embody the terms which, in the opinion 
 •of the above-named Charles Alexander Gore, on behalf of the 
 Crown, and of tht' Board, may properly be submitted for the con- 
 sideration of Parliament as a settlement which, in the interest of the 
 public, may be advantageously made in regard to the matter which 
 is the subject of the arrangement. 
 
 2. The arrangement is only to take effect in the event of the 
 Board being authorised by Parliament in the ])resent session to 
 acquire, and thereafter duly acquiring, Northumberland House and 
 certain other property of the Most Noble Algernon Duke of North- 
 umberland which is scheduled in the book of reference to the 
 Charing Cross and Victoria Embankment Approach Bill now before 
 Parliament. \_See 30 »k 37 Vict. c. c.]. 
 
 3. For the considerations herein-after mentioned, the said Charles 
 Alexander Gore, or the Commissioner or Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues for the time being 
 (having the management of the property), are or is to convey, 
 subject to the interest of the Metropolitan District Railway Com- 
 pany in a small portion thereof, to the Board the land near the 
 gardens of Fife House, Whitehall, and containing 7,3oO square 
 yards, or thereabouts, which is coloured red on a ])lan signed by 
 the said Charles Alexander Gore, and deposited at the otfice of 
 Land Revenue Records and Inrolments, herein-after called the 
 deposited plan. Such land is herein-after called the " red land." 
 
 4. The red land when conveyed to the Board shall, within six 
 months after the same is acquired by them, be formed and laid out, 
 and shall for ever thereafter l)e maintained by the Board as an 
 ornamental ])u])lir garden, with lawns, gravel walks, tlower beds, 
 and shrubberies, the surface of the soil not being in any place more 
 than six feet above the level of the existing foot pavement of the 
 Embaidcment roadwav, and no building or erection shall at anv time 
 be placed on the red land. 
 
 5. In lieu of the wall or fence which by section I'Z of the Thames 
 Embankment Act, 1S62, the Board are to erect between the red 
 land and the roadway on the Embankment, the Board will construct 
 and maintain between the red land and the adjoining garden, in the 
 
 * Now the London County I'ouncil. >?ee 51 ic 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (i).
 
 484 
 
 [Chap, vii.] 
 
 The Thames Embankment 
 {South) Act 1873. 
 
 [36 & 37 Vict.] 
 
 occupation of Lord Gage, a proper closed fence, not less than 8 feet 
 in height above the surface of the public garden adjoining such 
 fence, standing on a kerb wall, and being supported by iron railings. 
 
 6. As the consideration for the red land, the Board, after it shall 
 have acquired Northumberland House, but not before, is to convey 
 to the Crown, free from all the provisions of the Thames Embank- 
 ment Act, 1862, and the Thames Embankment (North and South) 
 Act, 1868, certain land at the north-west corner of the red laud, 
 containing 1,060 square yards, or thereabouts, and coloured blue on 
 the deposited plan. The said land so coloured blue is herein-after 
 called the blue land. And the Board is also to pay to the Crown 
 the sum of £3,270. 
 
 7. The general line of frontage of the main building or buildings- 
 to be erected on the blue land (when conveyed to the Crown), and 
 on the Crown land on the westward side of the red land, shall not 
 be nearer to the line of the terrace wall shown on the deposited 
 plan than 30 feet, and the intervening space between any buildings 
 which may be erected on the blue land or on the said Crown land 
 shall be separated from the public garden on the red land and on 
 the land to the eastward of the blue land by a terrace wall of an 
 ornamental character (of which the design is to be approved by the 
 Board). And such terrace wall shall be erected on the site marked 
 terrace wall on the deposited plan, and the said terrace wall shall 
 not be more than 15 feet in height (exclusive of the balustrade 
 thereon) above the pavement of the footway on the Embankment 
 roadway, and no openings for light or means of access to the public 
 garden shall be made in such terrace wall. 
 
 Dated this twenty-fifth day of April 1873. 
 
 Chaeles a. Gore.. 
 Witness, 
 
 E. Bloom FIELD, 
 
 Solicitor's Department, 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works. 
 
 Sealed by order, 
 
 J. E. Wakefield, 
 
 Clerk of the Board. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Transfer to 
 Board of 
 obligations 
 as to repairs, 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 An Act for amending and extending the Thames Emranki^ient 
 Acts, 1863 and 1864; and for other Purposes. 
 
 [24^;/^ April 1873.] 
 
 [^Preamble recites 26 & 27 Vict. c. 75 (/;* this Act called the Act 
 of 1863), and in particular ss. 2 a?id 14 thereof \ and, that by 27 & 28 
 Vict. c. cxxxv. {in this Act called the Act of 1864) the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works'* {in. this Act called the Board) was empowered to- 
 embank part of the Thames on the south side thereof, and that the- 
 embankment is now known as the Albert Embankment.^ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as The Thames Embankment (South) 
 Act, 1873. 
 
 2. The embankment wall and the footway adjoining the embank- 
 ment shall (notwithstanding anything in the Acts of 1863 and 1864) 
 be under the management, control, and authority of the Board^ 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 ror. e o- 17- n The Metropolitan Commons r/'„.„ k.......:-i /lo*; 
 
 [36 & 3. Vict.] Supplemental Act 1873. t^'^^^' ^'^'^-^^^-^ ^^^ 
 
 and they shall have the sole power, anthority, and duty of paving, etc of em- 
 repairing, cleansing, and lighting the same ; and the said embank- ^*^ "^^^^ 
 ment wall and footway, and the trees, lami)-posts, and other things footway, 
 thereon are hereby vested in and the same shall belong absolutely 
 to the Board. \_See 35 & 30 Vict. c. Ixvi. s. 3, aiid note thereon.'] 
 
 3—4. \_As to byelaivs. Superseded 40 Vict. c. viii. ss. 3, 4, and 
 10. See also 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. s,s. 14—21 ; and 01 & 62 Vict, 
 c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 5. \_Expenses of executing Act. Superseded ^A & 52 Vict. o. 41, 
 part'vf. ; and the London County Council (Monei/) Acts 1>>75 — 1904.] 
 
 6. \_Kxpenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER LXXXVI. 
 
 *An Act to confirm a Scheme under " The Metropolitan Com- 
 mons Act, 1800," relating to Tooting Beck Common. 
 
 \jth Jul;/ 1873.] 
 
 [Preaynble recites that the Inclosure Commissioners for England 
 and Wales have in pursuance of " The Metropolitan Commons Act 
 1866 " duly certijied a scheme for the establishment of local manage- 
 ment ivith respect to Tooting Beck Common, situate in the parish of 
 Streatham in the county of Surrey.] [Be it enacted] 
 
 1. That the scheme for the establishment of local management Scheme as to 
 with respect to Tooting Beck Common, situate in the parish of ^°^*"^s Beck 
 Streatham in the county of Surrey,! certified by the Inclosure tige^ by jq.' 
 Commissioners for England and Wales under their seal on the closure Com- 
 thirteenth dav of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy- missioners 
 three, and contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, be hereby 
 confirmed, and from and after the passing of this Act shall be 
 deemed to be a Public General Act of Parliament, of the like force 
 
 and effect as if the provisions of the same had been enacted in the 
 body of this Act. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Metropolitan Short title. 
 Commons Supplemental Act, 1873." 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Scheme for the Establishment of Local Management with reference 
 
 To Tooting Beck Common. 
 
 \_Recitals (inter alia) of an agreement by Beriah Dreii- and Phil'qj William 
 Flower to sell and by the Metropolitan Board of Worlds (hereinafter referred to 
 as "the Board '^ X) '" Ji'm-hase the manor nf Tooting Beck, subject to certain 
 stijiulations ax set out in the schedtde to this Srheme ; and that the commons or icaste 
 la7ids belonging to the said vianm' are delineated on a plan deposited with the 
 Inclosure Commissionei'S, and that it is intended that the Board shall take a con- 
 veyance thereof. 1 
 
 1. From and after the completion of the said purchase by the Board, the 
 commons or waste lands delineated in the said plan, and therein edged with 
 green (in this Scheme referred to as '• the Common "), shall for the purposes 
 of this Scheme be regulated and managed by the Board. 
 
 2. [^Puirer to appoint officers. Superseded by the Munici/xd Corporations Act 
 1882, S.S-. 19 and 20 {see Appendix), and 51 & 52 17(7. c. 41, s. 75. See also 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 202.] 
 
 • See also G2 &; t53 Vict. c. ccx.xxvii. ss. 2;t and 30. and 4 Edw. 7. c. ccxliv. part vi. 
 
 + Now the county of London. See 51 *: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 J Now the London County Council. See 51 Sc 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 486 
 
 [Chap, c] 
 
 The Charing Cross and Victoria 
 Emhanhnent Approach Act 1873. 
 
 [36 & 37 ViCT.J 
 
 3. The Board may drain, plant, ornament, and improve the Common as may 
 be necessary, and for the purpose of preserving the turf and grass may inclose 
 by fences for short periods such portions as may require rest to revive the same, 
 and for the further protection of the Common may put up a post and chain 
 defence against the straying of cattle along such poi'tion of it as is marked by a 
 dotted line in red on the said plan. No house or any other buildings shall be 
 erected on the Common, except such lodges or other buildings as may be- 
 necessary for the maintenance or management of the said Common or recreation 
 ground. The Board may from time to time erect on the Common such lodges 
 and other buildings as may be necessary for the maintenance or management of 
 the said Common or recreation ground. [See alao 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. .s. 50,. 
 and 58 & 59 Vict. c. ccxxvii. *•. 45.] 
 
 4 — 5. [^4.s' to hyelaios. Superseded 40 Vict. c. viii. .•,-.>■. 3, 4, and 10 ; 53 & 54 
 Vict. c. ccxliii. -s.s'. 14 — 21 ; and 61 & 62 Viet. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 6. The Board shall be at liberty to receive and apply for the purposes of this 
 Scheme, or any of them, any subscriptions or donations applicable thereto 
 respectively that may come to their hands. 
 
 7. \_E.cpense^ <if ohtaining and executing the Scheme. Spent in part. Remr. 
 suj)er>ieded 61 & 52 Vict. c. 41, part iv.] 
 
 8. [Bor7-owing ijowers. Superseded by the London County Cjnncil (Money), 
 Acts 1875—1904.] 
 
 9 — 10. [Pe/ialties and hyelaws. Note on clauses 4 — 5 applies.'] 
 
 11. The trustees for the poor of the parish of Streathara, the devisees of the- 
 late Mr. George Phillips, Mr. Samuel Martin, and the trustees of the will of 
 Robert Brown Russel, deceased, claim to be entitled to rights of common of 
 pasturage over and upon Tooting Beck Common. The Master, Fellows, and 
 Scholars of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, claim to be entitled to the soil and 
 herbage of a certain portion (about 3 roods) of the land included in this Scheme, 
 and Mr. John Kymer claims a certain small strip. 
 
 This Scheme affects the several rights and interests in, over, and upon Tooting 
 Beck Common by conferring on the Board power to purchase the same com- 
 pulsorily, with a view to their absolute extinction. 
 
 The trustees for the poor of Streatham consent to the Scheme provided 
 compensation be given for any rights taken away or prejudicially affected by 
 it. The Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Emmanuel College, Mr. John 
 Kymer, the devisees of the late Mr. George Phillips, and the trustees of 
 the will of Robert Brown Russel, deceased, do not consent to the Scheme. 
 Mr. Samuel Martin does not oppose the Scheme. 
 
 12. Printed copies of this Scheme shall at all times be sold at the office of the 
 Board to all persons desiring to buy the same, at a price not exceeding 2s. 6d, 
 each. 
 
 The SCHEDULE above referred to. 
 
 [^Provisions to take effect in the event of the Common not being dedicated as 
 therein mentioned to the ^mhlic under the Metropolitan Commons Act 1866, or 
 other Act of Parliament icithin five years from \lth December 1868. Spent.^ 
 
 CHAPTER C. 
 
 An Act for making a new Street from 
 Victoria Embankment. 
 
 \_Prea7)ible.~\ 
 
 Charing Cross to the 
 [Itk July 1873.] 
 
 Short title. 1. This Act may be cited 
 
 as 
 
 The 
 
 Charing 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 Embankment Apjjroach Act, 1873." 
 
 2. {Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 3. In this Act the following: words and expressions 
 
 Cross and Victoria 
 
 have the 
 
 several 
 
 meanings 
 
 hereby assigned to them, miJess there be some- 
 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 The word *' streets " shall include streets, courts, alleys, high- 
 ways, roads, thoroughfares, or public passages or places ;
 
 ro/T' p o- IT 1 I f'^ Channq t rasa and \ ictona r^. ,, t .o- 
 
 r36«s.i< ViCT.l jr I I * i ^ I .1./ 1&-Q [Chap. C.I 487 
 
 L -■ Lmbanliment Approach Act 18 iO. •- -■ 
 
 The term " improvement " means the new street and works 
 
 connected therewith by this Act authorised ; 
 The expression "the Board " * means the Metropolitan Board of 
 
 Works : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \Parts omitted {dejinitiom of " Justice" " two Juatices,'^ " leasee^" 
 and an to meanings of ivord.s in Acts incorporated) spent.'] 
 
 4. The Board may construct a new street in the ])arish of Power to 
 St. Martin in the Fields, in tliR conntv of Middlosex,+ commencin'^ make new 
 at Charing ( "ross, and tenuin.itiiig at the Victoria Embankment, 
 
 near the Charing Cross station of the Metropolitan District 
 Railway. 
 
 5. [^Imjirorement to be made according to plans deposited with the 
 Clerk of the Peace for Middlesex. Spent.'] 
 
 6. [^Confirmation of two agreements dated '2Sth Fehraarj 187:3 set 
 forth in the schedule to the Act, one made between the Duke of 
 
 Northumberland and Eaid Percy and, the Board, and the other 
 between the said Duke and the Board, for the sale to the Board of 
 Northumberland House and other properties therein mentioned. 
 Spent.] 
 
 7 — 12. [Power to the Board to stop up wags during works, to 
 raise or lower streets, to dei'iate, to make subsidiary works, to alter 
 gas and water pipes, and to lag out carriage ways, etc. Spent.] 
 
 13. [As to laying of pacements and vesting the same when made in 
 the Vestry of St. Martin in the Fields.^] 
 
 14. [Power to the Board to fill up sewers and drains on providing 
 substitutes, ichich are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drains.] 
 
 15. [Power to the Board to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent.] 
 
 16. [Ground laid into streets to form pjart thereof, to be used by 
 the jfublic, and to be under the management of the said Vestry. %] 
 
 17 — 21. [Errors and omissions in pkuis — Power to the Board to 
 sell materials and to survey land to be taken — As to compensation — 
 Deficiencies of land tax during works. Spent.] 
 
 22 — 24. [Power to the Board to grant building leases of surplus 
 lands — As to sale of ground rents and rerersions thereof— Power 
 to sell such lands without leasing. Superseded (52 tt 63 Vict. c. 
 ccxxxvii. s. 23. See ibid. ss. 19—22.] 
 
 25. [Time for sale of surplus lands limited to 10 years from 
 completion of improvement. Superseded 47 & 48 Vict. c. 50, s. 23.] 
 
 26. The receipt of the Board for any purchase moneys, rents, or Receipts of 
 
 ])rotits, or other monev ])avable to the Board bv virtue of this Act, Board to be 
 
 1111 iu • ^ "^ 1 •■ ^ I 1- 1 !• ' ^1 • 1 effectual 
 
 shall be a sumcient and eiiectual disciiarge lor the money m sucli discharges. 
 
 receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received, and the person to 
 
 whom the same shall be given shall not afterwards be answerable 
 
 or accountable for the misajiplication or non-ajjplication of the 
 
 money in such receipt exj)ressed or acknowledged to be received. 
 
 27. Whereas by the Thames Embankment Act, 1802, (section 54,) Forprotec- 
 the Board were required to api)ropriat(> and set apart so much of the ^'°° °f i^f„.„ 
 land to be acquired by them untier the powers ol that Act lying 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 j Now Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the City of Westminster. See 62 k 63 
 Vict. c. 14, s."4 ; and Letters Patent, dated 27th October 1900.
 
 488 
 
 rPwAP ^1 '^^'^ Charing Cross and Victoria rc.r. c q~Tr„'p"i 
 
 LLHAP. C.J Embankment Approach Act 1873. L'^*^ &. ^. v icr.j 
 
 southward of the Craven estate as was necessary for the formation 
 of a public street of not less than sixty feet in width in continuation 
 of Craven Street, up to and to communicate with the new street 
 fourthly described in the said Act, and which land was not to be 
 used for any other purpose : And whereas by the Thames Embank- 
 ment (North and South) Act, 1808, (section 28,) it is enacted that 
 the before-mentioned section of the Act of 1862 as to the appropria- 
 tion of land for the purposes of the continuation of Craven Street 
 shall extend and apply to all lands purchased by the Board under 
 the powers of the said Act of 1802 [.s-?>], whether part of the Craven 
 estate or Ivins^ southward thereof, and as if the street No. 3 bv the 
 Act of 1868 authorised were mentioned in the said 54th section of 
 the said Act of 1862, instead of the street in that Act fourthly 
 described : And whereas the continuation of the said Craven Street 
 has not yet been made : And whereas certain parts of the said 
 Craven estate are sought to be acquired by the Board under the 
 powers of this Act, and it has been agreed with William George 
 Craven, Esquire, the owner of the said estate, that the following 
 provisions shall be in force for the benefit of his estate instead of 
 the before-mentioned enactments of the said Acts of 1862 and 1868: 
 Therefore those enactments shall be and the same are hereby 
 repealed, and instead thereof the following provisions shall be in 
 force : 
 
 The Board shall remove the railings at the end of Craven Street, 
 and make, within seven years after the passing of this Act, a street 
 not less than thirty-six feet wide in continuation of Craven Street, 
 up to and to communicate with the street No. 3 by the before- 
 mentioned Act of 1868 authorised. 
 
 Any buildings which may be erected under the powers of this 
 Act on the easternmost side of the continuation of Craven Street 
 shall not extend beyond the present line of buildings on the eastern- 
 most side of that street. 
 
 The 
 
 properties 
 numbered 
 57, 58, and 
 59 may be 
 built upon. 
 
 53rd section 
 of Act of 
 1862 not to 
 apply to 
 this Act. 
 
 Plan of new- 
 buildings to 
 be submitted 
 to Council of 
 the Royal 
 Institute of 
 British 
 Architects. 
 
 [Part omitted {Board not to take lands of Mr. Craven, numbered 
 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, and 56 on the deposited plans except by agree- 
 ment, but may jmrchase Mr. Craven^s interest in Nos. 25 and 26 
 Craven Street) spent.'] 
 
 28. Notwithstanding anything in the said Acts of 1862 and 
 1868, or either of those Acts, contained, the Board may, subject to 
 the provisions and restrictions of this Act, set apart and appropriate 
 for building purposes the properties numbered respectively 57, 58, 
 and 59. 
 
 29. Nothing in the 53rd section of the Thames Embankment 
 Act, 1862, contained, restricting the erection of buildings upon 
 certain lands acquired from the Most Noble Algernon late Duke of 
 Northumberland shall extend or apply to any lands purchased under 
 the powers of this Act. 
 
 30. The architectural elevations of all buildings to be erected 
 under this Act, fronting the new approach to the Thames Embank- 
 ment, or fronting any street to be made under this Act, shall be 
 submitted by the Board to the consideration of the council of the 
 Royal Institute of British Architects previous to the commencement 
 of anv such buildings. 
 
 31. [Period for purchase of lands limited to 5 and for construction 
 of works to 7 years. Spent. \
 
 [36& 37 Vict.] Bechenham Setverage Act 1873. [Chap, ccxviii.] 
 
 32. \_Sarii-ig the right.s of the Crown.'] 
 
 33. \_Pou'er to the Hoard to appl;/ existing fiuxh to the purposes 
 of thi.s Art. Spent.] 
 
 34. [J)orrofri//(/ poivers. Superseded !»/ the London County 
 Council {Money) Acts 1875—1904.] 
 
 35. \_Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 (Schedule. \_Agreements referred to in s. H. Spent.] 
 
 489 
 
 CHAPTER CCXVIII. 
 
 * An Act to make better Provision for the Sewerage of a 
 Part of the Pajush of Beckenham in the County of Kent ; 
 AND FOR other PURPOSES. [pth August l'^73.] 
 
 [Preamble recites that the Board of 11 or/w for the Leiri.^hnm 
 district (in this Act called the Letcisham Board of IJor/'.^t), con- 
 stituted, 2inder 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, are empowered to ma/ce sewers 
 for the effectual drainage of their district, cornprising the parish of 
 LeioisJiam and. the hamlet of Penge, which parish and hainlet 
 are separated from one another by a jnere of land part of the parish 
 of Beckenham, but that the parish of Bechenham is not comprised in 
 the district of the Lewisham Board of \Vor/{S,-\ and is beyond the 
 limits of the metropolis as defined by 18 «fc 19 Vict. c. 120 ; and that 
 the Lewisham Board of IVorhs f have made a sewer, called the Penge 
 and Bell Green sewer, for the drainage of part of their district, and 
 have carried the said sewer througlt part of the hamlet of Penge, 
 and thereout across tlie said piece of land, in the parish of BecJien- 
 liam, into and, through part of the parish of Letcisham, and so into 
 the liavensbourne and Sydenhnm main sewer of the Metropolitan 
 Board of Worhs^ ; and that the parish of BeckenJiani is comprised 
 in the Bromley Poor Laiw Union, which nnion forms a rural sanitary 
 district ivithin the Public Health Act, 1872,§ and that the guardians 
 of that union, or a committee appointed by them, are the rural 
 sanitary authority of that district ; and that a considerable part of 
 the sewage arising within the area of the said piece of land, in the 
 parish of Beckenham, fnds its ivay into the Penge and Bell Green 
 sewer without any contribution from the parocliial authorities irithin 
 that area towards the cost of the said sewer or of the Tiarensboume 
 and Sydenham main seiver, and that it is rea.^onable that the nse of 
 the said sewers should be paid for by the district benefited thereby : 
 and that on sanitary and other grounds it would be of great local 
 and public adrautage if the guardians of the Bromley Union jcere 
 admitted within the drainage area of the MetrojH)lita// Board of 
 Works,X and empowered and required to use the Penge and Bell 
 Green sewer (in that part thereof where it crosses the piece of land 
 aforesaid sejtarating the parish of Lewisham from the hamlet of 
 Penge) for the purposes of the more effectual drainage of that 
 portion of the parish of Beckenham which is shown on a map 
 prepared for the jiur poses of this Act, and authenticated by the 
 signatures of Samuel Edwards on behalf of the Lewisham Board of 
 
 * Ss. 8—12, 14, 15, 17, and 19 of 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. are applied to 
 Beckenliam sewerage aieii by Penge and Beckenham Drainage Scheme IWl, made 
 under (12 & 68 Vict. c. 14. 
 
 t Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham. See 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 X Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (h). 
 
 § Rep. and replaced by the Public Health Act 1875.
 
 490 
 
 [Chat, ccxviii.] Beckenham Sewerage Act 1873. [36 & 37 Vict.} 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of term? 
 
 Custody of 
 map. 
 
 Lewisham 
 Board to put 
 Penge and 
 Bell Green 
 sewer into 
 repair, etc. 
 
 Use by 
 guardians of 
 Penge and 
 Bell Green 
 sewer, sub- 
 ject to con- 
 ditions. 
 
 Worki<* and of Joseph Willia?yi Bazalgette on behalf of the Metro- 
 politan Board of Wor/(S,'\ and is thereon diatingai sited by a green 
 colour^ and, wliicli portion of thie said parish of BeclienJmm is in tins 
 Act referred to as the BeckenJiam sewerage area.'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Beckenham Sewerage Act, 1873. 
 
 2. In this Act the expression the guardians shall mean . . . 
 any sanitary authority for the time being having by law the control 
 or management of the sewerage of the said Beckenham sewerage 
 area as defined by this Act. [^Part omitted (inclusion of the 
 guardians of the Bromley Poor Law Union in the definition of guar- 
 dians) superseded by Order of the Local Gorernrnent Board of 
 26th April 1876, made under s. 270 off he Public TIeaJth Act 1875, 
 creating the Beckenham Local Board %.] 
 
 3. The Lewisham Board of Works* shall, within one month 
 after the passing of this Act, deposit the said map with the Clerk 
 of the Peace for the County of Kent, and the same shall be kept 
 subject and according to the provisions of the Public General Act 
 passed in the session of Parliament of the seventh year of the reign 
 of King William the Fourth and the first year of the reign of Her 
 present Majesty, chapter eighty-three, and also deposit a duplicate 
 of the said map with the clerk of the guardians, and any ratepayer of 
 the parish of Beckenham may inspect the same on reasonable notice. 
 
 4. The Lewisham Board of Works * shall, on or before the twenty- 
 fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, put 
 the said Penge and Bell Green sewer into a fit, efiicient, and proper 
 state of repair in all respects, and shall at all times keep and maintain 
 the same in good, efiicient, and comj^lete repair in all respects. 
 
 5. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the guardians shall,, 
 with all reasonable dispatch after the passing of this Act, connect 
 all or any of the drains or sewers already made or hereafter to be- 
 constructed upon or within the Beckenham sewerage area with the 
 Penge and Bell Green sewer within the parish of Beckenham, 
 subject to the following conditions ; (namely,) 
 
 (1.) Before commencing the construction of any such sewer the 
 guardians shall submit to the Lewisham Board of Works* 
 and to the Metropolitan Board of W^orks t a plan of the 
 street or place in which they propose to construct it, 
 drawn to such a convenient scale as the said respective 
 Boards from time to time require, and showing the posi- 
 tion, course, and dimensions of the proposed sewer, with 
 a section thereof, and such other particulars relative 
 thereto as the said Boards from time to time may 
 reasonably require : 
 
 (2.) The guardians shall not proceed with any such sewer or 
 works without the approval in writing or in contravention 
 of the directions of the said respective Boards, and the 
 guardians shall comply with all such orders and directions 
 from the Metro})olitan Board of Works t as that Board shall 
 make and give in connexion with the works under the Act 
 affecting the main drainage of the metropolis : 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham. See 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14 ; s. 4. 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & .52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 + Now the Beckenham Urban District Council. See the Local Government Act 
 1894 (see Appendix).
 
 [36 & 37 Vict.] Beckenham Sewerage Act 1873. [Chap, ccxviii.] 491 
 
 (3.) The guardians sliall give three dear days notice in writing 
 to the Lewisham Board of Works before connecting any 
 sewer with the Penge and Bell Green sewer, and the 
 necessary junction or communication for that ])urpose 
 shall be made to the reasonubk* satisfaction of the Lewis- 
 ham Board of Works. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Part omitted {expenses of obtaining Act) spent.'] 
 
 6. The guardians shall not, without the consent of the Lewisham Sewage of 
 Board of Works * and of the i\Ietroi)()litan I'.oard of \\'orks,t permit °^Jf "/p^'f '^ 
 or sutler any district or ])hice beyond the area under the jurisdiction into Penge 
 of the Metroi)olitan l^oard of Works,t other than the Beckenham and Bell 
 sewerage area, to drain into or otherwise to be connected with any "jreen sewer, 
 sewer or sewers for the time being discliarging into the said Pen^e 
 
 and Bell Green sewer, and no such other district or place shall 
 have any such power, notwithstanding any powers in any general 
 Act to the contrary. 
 
 7. The guardians shall in exercise of the powers of this Act, so ^^*^™^''®'^^' 
 
 far as is practicable, prevent the storm waters of their district from practicable, 
 
 flowing into the sewers within the Beckenham sewerage area, and to be ex- 
 
 thereby into the Penge and Bell Green sewer. ^^^^^^ ^™™ 
 
 •' ° sewers. 
 
 8. The guardians shall, on or before the twenty-fifth day of payments by 
 March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, pay to the guardians to 
 Lewisham Board of Works * the sum of one thousand and sixty-two Lewisham 
 pounds and ten shillings, and shall pay to that Board a yearly sum 
 
 equal to the amount that would be jiroduced by a rate of one half- 
 penny in the pound on the annual rateable value of the proi)erty 
 in the Beckenham sewerage area assessable to the rate for the 
 relief of the poor, which yearly sum shall be ])ayable half-yearly 
 on the twenty-ninth day of September and the twenty-fifth day of 
 March in each year, and the first half-yearly payment shall be made 
 on the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred 
 and seventy-four. 
 
 9. If and whenever it may be necessary in making any rate for As to appor- 
 any of the purposes of this Act to apportion any assessment upon ^g°"™^gQ°g 
 any j)roperty in the parish of Beckenham between so much of that 
 
 parish as is within the Beckenham sewerage area and the re- 
 mainder of that parish, the overseers of the poor of that parish shall 
 forthwitli give notice in writing of every such assessment and the 
 apportionment thereof to the Lewisham Board of Works, and if 
 the said Board object to any such apportionment they shall, within 
 twenty-one days after the receipt of such notice, give to the said 
 overseers notice in writing of such tlieir objection, stating the 
 ground thereof, and thereupon the matter in difference (if any; shall, 
 upon the a})plication of eitlier party (after fourteen clear days notice 
 given to the other party), be referred to the determination of the 
 metropolitan ])olice magistrate for the time being sitting at the 
 police court at Greenwich, whose decision thereon shall be final, 
 binding, and conclusive on all parties ; and the costs of" and incident 
 to such determination shall be in the discretion of such magistrate, 
 and such magistrate shall have power to alter and shall alter any 
 such rate accordingly : Provided nevertheless, that it shall not be 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of liewisham. !<ee 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4, 
 t Now the London Count v Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S).
 
 492 [Chap, ccxviii.] Beckenham Sewerage Act 1873. [30 & 37 Vict.] 
 
 required of the said overseers to give to the said Lewisham Board * the 
 notice herein-before specified except in the following cases ; namely, 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 3. As to any such assessment and apportionment thereof made 
 after the passing of this Act which shall differ from the 
 last preceding assessment or apportionment thereof. 
 \JPart omitted {as to assessments existing at the passing of this Act 
 and first made thereafter) spent.'] 
 Contributions 10. For the purpose of contributing to the cost incurred by the 
 to be paid by Metropolitan Board of Works t in respect of their main drainage 
 w^ds^costof system the guardians shall pay to the treasurer of the Metropolitan 
 main drain- Board of Works f the several sums after mentioned at the times and 
 age system. (Jx^ring the periods following ; (that is to say,) 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 (2.) A yearly sum sufficient to provide the requisite interest and 
 sinking fund in respect of such a proportion of the money 
 borrowed by the Metropolitan Board of Works t for main 
 drainage purposes before or after the passing of this 
 Act, and for the time being undischarged, as the annual 
 rateable value of the property within the Beckenham 
 sewerage area assessable to the rate for the relief of the 
 poor bears to the annual rateable value of the property in 
 the metropolis liable in respect of main drainage charges : 
 
 (3.) The yearly sum aforesaid shall be paid in every year during 
 the residue to come at the passing of this Act of the 
 period of sixty years from the time of the first creation 
 by the Metropolitan Board of Works t of any metropolitan 
 consolidated stock : 
 
 (4.) The yearly sum aforesaid shall be paid for the first year 
 on the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight 
 hundred and seventy -four, and for every subsequent year 
 on such day in each year as shall be specified in that 
 behalf in a notice in writing to be delivered by the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works t to the clerk of the guardians on 
 or before the first day of May in each year, but so that 
 the day so specified for payment be not sooner than three 
 months after the date of delivery of the notice : 
 
 (5.) The guardians shall also pay such further yearly sum as the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works f in each year (as well during 
 the residue aforesaid of the said period of sixty years as 
 after the expiration of that period), by notice in writing- 
 delivered by the Metropolitan Board of Works to the 
 clerk of the guardians on or before the first day of May 
 in each year, shall require the guardians to pay as a con- 
 tribution towards the cost of the maintenance and working 
 of the main drainage system of the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works t : 
 
 (6.) Provided that the amount of any such further yearly sum as 
 last aforesaid shall not exceed a sum which shall bear to 
 the whole expense incurred by the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works t in the maintenance and working of their main 
 drainage system the same proportion as the annual rate- 
 able value of the property within the Beckenham sewerage 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham. See 62 & 63 Vict. 
 c. 14, s. 4. 
 + Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [36 & 37 Vict.] Beckenham Sewerage Act I^IZ. [Chap, ccxviii.] 493 
 
 area assessable for the relief of the poor bears to the 
 annual rateable value of the jjroperty in the metropolis 
 liable in respect of main drainajre charges, 
 \_Part omitted (a.s to pai/mentti hi/ the qimrdians to the Metropolitan 
 Board of £2,312 iD.s. before 25M March 1874 totrardn the cost of 
 the RavenHhouriie and Si/deidan/i innin newer and. « pportionment 
 of such amount) .yje/tt.^ 
 
 11. In case of any default or nej,dect on the part of the guardians I'ower for 
 to pay in full and in accordance with this Act any amount ])ayable and M(^ro- 
 by them under this Act to the Lewisham Hoard of Works * or the poiitan 
 Metropolitan Board of Works,t in every such case those two hoards lioards to 
 jointly, or either of them (as the case may require), may ai)point ^i^l^^^ of 
 persons to levy within the Beckenham sewerage area the amount guardians, 
 in arrear and all ex])enses connected therewith and occasioned by 
 
 such default or neglect, and the ])ersons so app(Hnted shall in rela- 
 tion thereto proceed in the like manner, and have the like ])Owers, 
 remedies, and privileges, and be subject to the like regulations and 
 penalties, as if they were overseers of the poor of the parish of 
 Beckenham acting under an order of the guardians. 
 
 12. The Lewisham Board of Works * and the ]SIetropoIitan Board Inspection 
 of Works t respectively may by their proper officer from time to time 
 inspect any poor rate made for the parish of Beckenham, and also 
 
 any rate made in pursuance of this Act, and may take any copy or 
 extract thereof or therefrom respectively without payment, and if 
 the person having the custody thereof respectively does not allow 
 either of those Boards to do so he shall for every such offence be 
 liable, on summary conviction before two justices, to a penalty not 
 exceeding ten pounds. 
 
 13. Subject to the })rovisions of this Act, the guardians may, for Power to 
 the purpose of defraying the costs, charges, and expenses which j^.^"^^^ *° 
 they may have incurred or may incur, or become liable to pay, for for'the pur- 
 er on account of anything done preliminary to or in consequence of, pose of Act. 
 or incidental, or in anywise relating to the introduction, progress, or 
 passage through Parliament of the Bill for this Act, including the 
 settlement and adjustment of the clauses and provisions thereof, 
 
 and also including the costs, charges, and expenses which, as herein- 
 before provided, the guardians are required to pay to the Lewisham 
 Board of Works,* and for the defraying and paying of the pecuniary 
 requirements, payments, and obligations whatsoever imposed and 
 authorised by this Act, and in anywise arising out of, under, or by 
 virtue of this Act or of any Acts, either expressly or by reference, 
 incorporated therewith, when and as they shall think fit, issue their 
 precept to the overseers of the poor of the parish of Beckenham 
 requiring them to pay over to the guardians the amount specified 
 therein, and in order to comply therewith the said overseers shall, 
 by a day not less than one calendar mouth from the date thereof, 
 and to be therein named, levy within the Beckenham sewerage 
 area, as defined by this Act, a rate herein-after called the special 
 drainage rate ; and such overseers and all other persons and bodies 
 shall, in relation thereto, jiroceed in like manner, and have the 
 like powers, remedies, and privileges, and be subject to the like 
 exemptions, regulations, and penalties, as are contained in the 18th 
 and 19th sections of "The Public Health Act, 1872,"? with refer- 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham. See G2 i: t)3 Vict, 
 c. 14. s. 4. 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 Sc .52 Vict, c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 X Rep. and replaced by the Public Health Act 1^75.
 
 494 
 
 Provisions as 
 to general 
 district rates 
 to apply to 
 special drain- 
 age rates. 
 
 Amount of 
 rate to in- 
 clude ex- 
 penses of 
 recoverino: it. 
 
 Occupiers to 
 pay special 
 drainage rate 
 and deduct 
 same from 
 rent. 
 
 Guardians 
 empowered 
 to borrow 
 money, and 
 Metropolitan 
 Board of 
 Works em- 
 powered, 
 subject to 
 certain re- 
 strictions, to 
 lend the 
 money. 
 
 As to mort- 
 gages made 
 with Metro- 
 politan Board 
 of Works. 
 
 [Chap, ccxviii.] Beckenham Sewerage Act 1873, [36 & 37 Vict.] 
 
 ence to the lew of rates, and as if the Beckenham sewerasre area 
 were a contriLutorv place within the meaning of "The Public Health 
 Act, 1872."* "' . _ 
 
 14. The several powers and provisions of the Local Government 
 Acts with respect to the making, levying, collection, and recovery 
 of general district rates, and with respect to exemptions and 
 limitations, shall extend and aj)ply to the special drainage rates 
 under this Act. 
 
 15. The amount of any special drainage or other rate under this 
 Act may be such an amount as will be sufficient to raise or discharo'e 
 not only the sum in respect of which the rate is made, but also 
 such a sum as will meet the expenses, or a due proportion of the 
 expenses, incurred and to be incurred in and about making and 
 recovering the rate. 
 
 16. The occupiers of property in the Beckenham sewerage area 
 rated or to be rated under this Act shall pay the special drainage 
 rate assessed thereon, and may deduct the amount so paid from and 
 out of the rents payable by them to the lessors or landlords which 
 shall become payable next after the payment of any such rate : 
 Provided that this enactment shall in nowise prejudice or affect 
 any agreement already or hereafter to be made between any owner 
 or landlord and his tenant of the property so to be rated : Provided 
 also, that where any such property is unoccupied at the time of 
 making any special drainage rate, the owner thereof shall pay the 
 amount of such special drainage rate thereon without prejudice to 
 any agreement as aforesaid. 
 
 17. The guardians from time to time, under the authority of this 
 Act, in addition to any moneys they are authorised to borrow under 
 "The Public Health Act, 1872," * or any Acts incorporated there- 
 with, may borrow at interest on mortgage of " the special drainage 
 rate," and of any other rates leviable by them within the Becken- 
 ham sewerage area, and either together or separately, all such 
 sums as they may from time to time think requisite for any of the 
 purposes of this Act ; and every such mortgage may and shall be 
 made in the manner prescribed by and subject to the provisions in 
 relation to mortgages of the Sewage Utilization Acts,* subject to 
 this qualification, that such moneys may be borrowed for any term 
 not exceeding fifty years ; and any money from time to time 
 borrowed by the guardians for the purposes of this Act may, with 
 the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and 
 on such terms and conditions as the said Commissioners from time 
 to time think fit, be borrowed from and be lent by the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works t ; and section 37 of " The Metropolitan Board of 
 Works (Loans) Act, 1869," shall apply to every such loan, with 
 the substitution of the guardians and this Act and the other Acts 
 empowering the guardians, for the managers and the Acts in that 
 section mentioned, and with the omission of the reference in that 
 section to the Poor Law Board, and with the addition to the amount 
 in that section mentioned of the money from time to time borrowed 
 by the guardians under the authority of this Act. 
 
 18. Every mortgage made by the guardians for money borrowed 
 by them from the Metropolitan Board of Works t may be made in 
 such manner and form as the guardians and that Board agree upon, 
 and subject and without prejudice to the other provisions of this 
 
 I 
 
 * Piep. and replaced by the Public Health Act 1875. 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8)
 
 [37 & 38 Vict.] The Sanitan/ Law Amendment Act 1874. [Chap. 89.] 495 
 
 Act any such mortgage shall be deemed a mortgage granted by 
 the guardians under this Act and any other Act authorising the 
 guardians to borrow money on mortgage, and in respect thereof 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works * shall be deemed mortgagees of 
 the guardians under the same Act or Acts, as the case may be. 
 
 37 & 38 VICTORIA. A.D. 1874. 
 
 CHAPTER 89. 
 
 An Act to amend and extend the Sanitary Laws. 
 
 [Ith Aiujmt 1874.] 
 
 49. The keeper of every common lodging house which is rejiris- Notices of 
 tered under the Common Lodging Houses Acts . . . shall, when common 
 required to do so by the authority registering . . . the same, cause hou^es^and 
 a notice with the words " Registered Lodging House," ... to be slaughter- 
 affixed on some consj)icuons place on the outside of the premises '^2."*®^ *° ^ 
 where the same can be seen by any inspector or officer of the premises'^ 
 sanitary authority. 
 
 Such notice shall be affixed within one mouth after the registra- 
 tion . . . , and shall be continued undefaced and legible so long as 
 the premises are used for the purpose. 
 
 Every person who shall make default in this respect, or shall 
 neglect or refuse to affix or renew such notice after requisition in 
 writing from the sanitary authority, shall be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding five pounds for every offence, and of ten shillings for 
 every day that the neglect shall continue after conviction. 
 
 \Parts omitted {as to slaughter houses) rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, 
 s. 142, sch. 4.] 
 
 \_'rhe tiihole Act (except so far as relates to the metropolis or the 
 metropolita)t police district) rep. by the Public Health Act 
 1875, s. 343 ; and. {except so much of ss. 46 a7id 49 as relates, to 
 common lodging houses) rep. bg 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142 ; s. 46 
 {as to confirmation of regulations made under 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28, 
 s. 9) superseded bg 2 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii. s. 53.] 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 An Act for vesting in the Metropolitan Board of Works the 
 Garden or Inclosure in Leicester Square in the County 
 OF Middlesex, and for providing for the Management 
 
 thereof ; AND for OTHER PURPOSES. [8M JunC 1874.] 
 
 \Freamble?[ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as " Leicester Square Act, 1874." short title. 
 
 2. {Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. S/tent.'] 
 
 3. In this Act " the Board " means the Metropolitan Board of interpreta- 
 
 Works.* tionofterm. 
 
 4. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may enter on, rower to 
 take, and use the lands delineated on and described in the deposited ^^'^^ certain 
 
 *■ land. 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 .<c 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (s).
 
 496 
 
 [CHAP.xcvii.] Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1874. [o7&. 38 Vict.] 
 
 Direction to 
 make garden 
 or inclosure 
 a place of 
 recreation. 
 
 Penalty for 
 injury to 
 garden or 
 inclosure. 
 
 Saving of 
 Board. 
 
 plan and book of reference or any part thereof : Provided always, 
 that nothing in this Act contained shall confer upon the Board any 
 powers over any land not contained within the limits of the before- 
 mentioned garden or inclosure. 
 
 5 — 6. \_Period for compulsory purchase limited to one year — 
 Errors and omissions in plans. Spent.'] 
 
 7. The Board shall appropriate and set apart the garden or 
 inclosure in Leicester Square aforesaid, when acquired by them 
 under this Act, as a place of recreation for public or general use in 
 such manner and to such extent as they from time to time think 
 fit ; and shall inclose, lay out, drain, plant, and ornament the same, 
 and shall always keep the same open and unbuilt on. 
 
 8. \_As to hyelaws. Superseded. 40 Vict. c. viii. ss. 3, 4, and 10 ; 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. 
 
 s. 61.] 
 
 9. If any police constable sees any person throwing any rubbish 
 into the garden or inclosure aforesaid, or trespassing therein, or 
 getting over the railings or fence thereof, or stealing or damaging 
 flowers or plants therein, or committing any nuisance therein, he 
 may apprehend the offender by the authority of this Act, and every 
 such offender (whether so apprehended or not) shall for every such 
 offence be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 
 forty shillings, or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding 
 fourteen days. 
 
 10. [Power to the Board to apply existing funds to the purposes 
 of the Act. Spent.'] 
 
 11. {^Borrowing poioers. Superseded by the London County 
 Council {Money) Acts 1875—1904.] 
 
 12. [Saving s. 74 of London Central Railway Act 1871 ajid 
 the agreement therein mentioned. Rep. by the London Central 
 Railway '^Abandonment) Act 1875.] 
 
 13. Nothing in this Act shall take away, abridge, or prejudicially 
 affect any right, power, authority, or remedy which the Board 
 would have had or might have exercised if this Act had not been 
 passed. 
 
 14. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER XCVII. 
 
 An Act for empowering the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 
 CONSTRUCT A NEW ROAD NEAR FiNSBURY PaRK ; FOR MAKING 
 
 BETTER Provision for the Sewerage of the District of the 
 South Hornsey Local Board ; for amending the Provisions 
 
 RELATING TO THE NeWINGTON BuTTS IMPROVEMENT ; FOR 
 
 authorising the metropolitan board of works to pay 
 
 Expenses incurred in respect of Thanksgiving Day ; and 
 
 FOR other Purposes. [16^/^, July 18-74.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that by 20 & 21 Vict. c. cL the 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works were empowered to make a park called 
 
 Finsbury Park, and that it is expedient that they be empoivered to 
 
 make a new road in or near tha.t Park, and that plans and sections of 
 
 the proposed road ham been deposited with the Clerk of the Peace 
 
 for Middlesex^]
 
 [37 & 38 Vict.] Metropolitan Board of Worh.f Act 1874. [CHAP.xcvii.] 497 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as tin' Metropolitan Board of AVorks f^li^'i^t title. 
 Act, 1874. 
 
 2 — 3. \_lncor/)Or(it/ori of fjinds Clausen ^Ic/.s — Jnterprctation of 
 terms. Sjn'/it.'\ 
 
 4 — 5. \_l'ou'er to IdL'f la nds shou-ii on deposltrd plans — J^eriod for 
 coni/nilsonj ])Urr/i((sr limited to 3 yrars. S/ft'nt.^ 
 
 6. Subject to the })rovisious of this Act, the ^Metropolitan ]}oar(l I'ower to 
 of "Works may construct a new road, commencing at or near the ^^^^ ^^^^\ 
 Finsbury I'ark Tavern, skirting Finsbnry Park on the northern and bury Park. ^' 
 western sides tlieroof, and terraiiiiitiiig in the road adjoining the 
 
 Green Lanes. [Varied 38 ct 39 I'ict. c clxxix. .vn. 'lA — 'J5.] 
 
 7. [ Works to (■(tn/oriN to dcposifi'd jtlo ns — Foa'irs to dt'riatc. 
 S//ent.~\ 
 
 8. Tlie sections of the Finsbnry Park Act, ls.'")7, (Jescribed in the incorpora- 
 sche(bile (A.) to this Act are hereby incorj)orated witii this Act, and ^^^^P^V^^^^ 
 the same shall, for the pnrposes of this Act, be read and have effect park Act. " 
 as if the road anthorised by this Act had been authorised by that 
 
 Act as ])art of Finsbnry Park and its ap])roaches, and as if the 
 de])osited })Ian for tliis Act had been ])art of the deposited jdans for 
 that Act, and as if in those sections the expression " this Act " 
 meant the present Act. 
 
 9. With res})ect to the coraj)letion and use of the road l)y tliis Road sub- 
 Act authorised, the following provisions shall have effect : (that is stituted for 
 
 , -. "- ^ ^ road.«< re- 
 
 1^0 say,; quired bv 
 
 (1.) The road which is intended to provide a thoroughfare from ^'^^^ ^^^• 
 the Seven Sisters lioad to the Green Lanes, and thereby 
 secure the commnnications intended to be preserved by 
 section 20 of the Finsbury Park Act, 1857, shall, when 
 complete, be deemed to be in substitution for the roads 
 required to be made by that section : 
 
 (2.) The road shall have a carriageway of a width of not less than 
 twenty-six feet idear from curb to curb, and a footpath on 
 each side of a width of not less than seven feet, and ])roper 
 and sufficient screen fences where required for the safety of 
 traffic between it and the railway, and the bridge crossing 
 the New Kiver shall be of the same width as to carriage- 
 way and footpaths as the road . . . : \_ra/t omitted (road 
 to be completed and. opened to the public within 2 years 
 from the passing of the Act^ spent. ^ 
 
 (3.) No wall, fence, or other obstruction shall be placed by the 
 Metropolitan Poard of AVorks * between the road and the 
 lands of Frank Willau where sncii lands abnt on the road ; 
 the said lands shall have an uninterrn])ted building frontage 
 to the road, but nothing herein contained shall affect the 
 liability of the owner or occupier of any of snch lands to 
 fence or })roteet the same from the road, or from ])reveuting 
 cattle straying from such lands thereon :. [ \'aried 38 tt 39 
 Vict. c. clxxix. .*'. 25.] 
 
 (4.) — (5). [77^6 certifcate of two Justices certifying that the road 
 is complete to be conclusice evidence thereof. Spent.'] 
 
 * Now the I.ondoa County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 32
 
 498 [Chap, xcvii.] Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1874. [37 &38 Vict.] 
 
 (6.) On such a certificate being granted, the road shall become a 
 
 public highway, and be repairable accordingly . . . : [^Fart 
 
 omitted (the expense of lighting and maintaining the road 
 
 for the Jirst 8 years after its opening to be paid hg the 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works) spent.'] 
 
 (7.) On snch a certificate being granted, section twenty of the 
 Finsbnry Park Act, 1857, siiall be repealed, and the 
 Metropolitan Board of "Works* may close Finsbnry Park 
 at night, and at such other times as they think ex- 
 pedient . . . : \_Part omitted (as to certain pending pro- 
 ceeding,^) spent.'] 
 
 (8.) The present entrances to the park at the ])oints marked 
 A. B. 1. and B. 2. on apian signed by Samuel Waterhouse, 
 Esquire, chairman of the committee to whom this Act as 
 a Bill was referred in the House of Commons, shall, after 
 the formation of the road, be kept by the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works * as means of access for carriages and foot 
 passengers to the park from such road, and such entrances 
 shall be oj)en at such times as the other like public 
 entrances to the park, and be sul)ject in all respects to the 
 - . . regulations and orders made by the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works * from time to time under the Finsbury Park 
 Act, 1857, and this Act. \_Varied 38 k 39 Vict. c. clxxix. 
 s. 25. Word omitted (^' hgelaics'''') superseded bg AO Vict. 
 ■ €. viii. ss. 3, 4, and 10 ; 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; 
 and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 10. [-'I*' to compensation of the owner for the time being of the 
 lands mentioned in s. 20 of 20 & 21 Vict. c. cl. bg reason of the 
 repeal of such section. Spent.] 
 
 For protec- H. The bridge for carrying the road over the New River shall be 
 tion of the constructed in conformity with the followino- regulations ; (that is 
 
 New River. ^ . •' e o ? v 
 
 to say,) 
 
 The span of the bridge or distance lietween its jners, measured at 
 right angles to the course of the said river, shall not be less 
 than twenty feet, the clear height of such bridge from the 
 highest water level of the said river to the under side or 
 soffit of the arch or girder of the bridge shall at no place be 
 less than two feet, and the piers of the said bridge shall be 
 so constructed that the river channel between and near them 
 may safely have a water depth of at least five feet ; where 
 the said road passes over the said river or causes any 
 severance of the lands , of the New River Company,! the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works * shall provide convenient and 
 proper crossings, either under or over the road, as a means of 
 communication for the agents or servants of the New River 
 Companyt between the lands so severed : 
 
 In the event of any slip or rupture in the embankment of the said 
 river by reason of the works or default of the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works,* whether the same shall happen during the 
 construction of the road or after the road shall have been 
 completed and opened for traffic, or in the event of any 
 loss to the New River Companyt from any interruption 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 t Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 [37 & 38 Vict.] Metropolitan Board of Worh.^ . \rt 1874. [Chap, xcvii.] 409 
 
 of their supply of water throui^h any act or acts or default 
 of the Metropolitan P>oard of Works,* their agents or 
 contractors, the Metropolitan liuard of Works* shall be 
 answerable and shall pay to the New River Conipanyf 
 all daina,i;"es arising thei'efroni, and be liable at all times 
 thereafter to make good at their own expense whatever 
 injnry may be caused or done to the said river and banks ; 
 and any (piestion which may arise as to any such expenses 
 or danuiges shall, at the re(juest of either party, be referred 
 to a civil engineer to be ai)i)ointed by the Board of Trade, 
 and the award of every such engineer shall be final and 
 conclusive : 
 
 All works in any way affecting the said New liiver or the 
 banks thereof shall be done under the direction and to the 
 I'easonable satisfaction of the engineer of the New River 
 Company.t 
 
 12. Nothing in this Act contained, or in anv bvelaw or regulation For protec- 
 to be made by virtue hereof, shall alter, prejudice, or in any manner London 
 affect any right, duty, or obligation arising or existing between the waterworks 
 Metropolitan Board of AV'orks * and the East London ^Vaterworks Company, 
 Com})any f resj)ectively, under the indenture made between them, 
 and dated the lUth day of August 1871. 
 
 J.O, ...... 
 
 (2.) The South Hornsev Local Board % shall not, without Board to 
 the consent of the Metropolitan 15oard of A\'orks,* permit any IjJ'ji^J^^^se 
 district or place outside the area of the jurisdiction of that Hornsey dis- 
 Board, other than the South Hornsey district, to drain into trict into 
 or otherwise be connected with any sewer of the South Hornsey ^?.'^,J.^t'^° 
 Local Board t discharging into a sewer of the Metropolitan Board of and Middle 
 Works,* anci no such other district or place shall have any right Level sewers 
 to so drain or be connected, notwithstanding any jjrovision in any 
 general Act. \_Part omitted {admisfiioK of st'trtujc of Sontli Ilortise)/ 
 distrirt into the Sorthern llxjh Lerel and Middle Leeel se/rera of 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works*) rep. b>/ the Borough of Stoke 
 Newinyton {South Hornsey) Scheme 19U1 made under 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c 14.] 
 
 14 — 20. [/Provisions as to contribution by ami rating of South 
 Hornsey district in respect of the said admission of sewage. Rep. 
 by the said Stoke Neicington Order in Council.'] 
 
 21. [Extension of time respecting Newington Butts improtement 
 under 3.5 & 36 Vict. c. clxiii. Spent.] 
 
 22. \_Poicer for the Board to defrag expenses relative to Thanks- 
 giving Bay {21th Feb. 1872). Spent.] 
 
 23. \_Borrou-ing powers. Superseded bij the London County 
 .Council {Money) Acts 1875—1904.] 
 
 24. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 t Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 j Now tiie Council of the ^letropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington. Se 
 London (South Hornsey) Order in Council 1900, made under G2 i: 63 Vict. c. 14. 
 
 See the
 
 500 
 
 [Chap. 3.] Metropolitan Police^ Magistrates r^^ ^ ^^ y^^,^. 
 
 j\Ct i-O t o. '- -' 
 
 The SCHEDULES referred to in the foreooinjr Act. 
 
 Schedule (A.) 
 
 * Parts of Finshury Pa.rh Act, 185T, incorporated. 
 
 Number of Section. 
 
 Three 
 Five 
 
 Six . 
 Ten 
 Eleven 
 
 Sixteen 
 
 Seventeen 
 
 Eighteen 
 
 Twenty-one 
 
 Twenty-two 
 
 Twenty-three 
 Twenty-five 
 
 Twenty-six 
 
 Twenty-nine 
 
 Thirty-four 
 
 Thirty-five 
 
 Fortv-six 
 
 Marginal note of Section. 
 
 Interpretation of terms. 
 
 Board to appoint committee to carry the Act into execution. 
 
 Members of committee not to be interested in contracts. 
 
 Board may construct bridge over New River. 
 
 Power to Board to appoint officers, etc., and take security, if 
 
 they think fit. 
 Penalties on officers, etc., being interested in contracts, or 
 
 exacting fees. 
 Power to Board to divert streets, etc., making compensation to 
 
 owners. 
 Power to Board to stop up parts of carriage and foot ways of 
 
 streets. 
 Sewers or drains to be arched over or filled up. Board, at the 
 
 time of filling up any sewer, etc., to build a similar sewer, etc. 
 Power to Board to raise, sink, or alter water or gas pipes. 
 Power to take houses and land for the purposes of this Act. 
 EiTors and omissions in plans, etc., may be corrected by Justices. 
 
 who shall certify the same. 
 Board empowered to treat for the purchase of lands, etc. 
 Provision for deficiencies in land tax. 
 P'ower to Board to sell land not wanted. 
 Receipt of Board to be effectual discharges. 
 The Board mav contract. 
 
 Schedule (B.) 
 
 \Provhions as to construction of road authorised hy the Act, 
 
 38 & 39 VICTORIA. A.D 1875. 
 
 Salaries of 
 Magistrates 
 of metropo- 
 litan police 
 courts. 
 
 CHAPTER 3. 
 
 An Act to make further Provision with Respect to the 
 Salaries of the Magistrates of the Police Courts in 
 THE Metropolitan Police District. [19t/( March 1875.] 
 
 SPreamhle {reciting 2 & 3 Vict, c. 71, s. 9, and 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 126, 6-. 19) rep. 56 k 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 1. . . . There shall be payable ont of the Consolidated Fund of 
 the United Kingdom to the (_"hief of the Police Magistrates ap- 
 pointed to the metropolitan police courts in the metropolitan police 
 district the yearly salary of eighteen hundred pounds, and to each 
 of the other Magistrates so appointed the yearly salary of fifteen 
 hundred pounds. 
 
 Every such salary . . . shall be payable at such intervals, not 
 exceeding three months, as may be from time to time determined 
 by the . . . Treasury. 
 
 [Parts omitted (as to date of commencement of salaries and salaries 
 to accrue from day to dajj and the words " Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty' s ") rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 2. [Repeal of enactments merdioned in the schedule. Rep. 46 »fc 47 
 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 * See notes on sections incorporated which apply here.
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] The Fublic EntertainmenU Art \^1:), [Chap. 21.] 501 
 
 3. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Magistrates •''hort title. 
 Act, \>i~v>. 
 
 Schedule. {Actn ifpealed {viz. so much of a. 9 <.is relates to the 
 .vdanj of ainf Police a\ fay id rate, and a. 11 of 2 & 3 Vict. c. 71; 
 .f. 19 of the Crimitial Justice Act 185o ; a/fd .so much of the Judges 
 Salaries Act 1872 as relates to the salary of any Police Magistrate 
 ill the metropolis) rr/>. 40 & 47 \'irt. c. 39 (-V./../^.).] 
 
 CHAPTEK 21. 
 
 * An Act kok amending the Law kelatin(; to Houses of 
 Public Dancing, Music, or other Public Entertainment 
 OF the like Kind, in the Cities of London and Westminster. 
 
 [lAth June 1875.] 
 
 \_Prea)nhJr {reciting 2.") Geo. 2, c. 36) re/j. 56 k 57 Met. c. 54 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. Section three of the recited Act shall be constrned as if. Amendment 
 instead of the proviso, "that no siu-h house, room, ;,'arden, or other of o5^Geo " 
 place kept for any of the said purposes, although licensed us afore- c. 3(j. 
 said, shall be oi)en for any of the said ])urposes before the hour of 
 
 five ill the afternoon,"' there were substituted the proviso, " that no 
 such house, room, garden, or other place kept for any of the said 
 purposes, although licensed as aforesaid, shall be open for any of the 
 said purjmses before the hour of noon." 
 
 Provided, that if on any special occasion an occasional license of 
 exemption shall have been granted under tlie twenty-ninth section 
 of the Licensing Act, 1^72, in respect of any house, room, garden, 
 or other place licensed under the recited Act, no penalty or for- 
 feiture shall be incurred for contravention of section three of the 
 recited Act, as hereby amended, on account of such house, room, 
 garden, or other place being kept open for any of the purposes 
 aforesaid on such sjjecial occasion from midnight until the hour 
 specified in such occasional license as the hour for closing. 
 
 2. {^Commencement of Act (29M September 1874). Rep. 46 k 47 
 Viet. e. 39 (S.L.R.), find 50 k 57 ]'iet. c 54 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 3. This Act may ])e cited as The Public Entertainments Act, Short title. 
 1.S75. 
 
 CHAPTER 28. 
 
 An Act to amend the Law respecting the Superannuation 
 Allowances of certain Officers of the Staff of the 
 Metropolitan Police. [29/'/' June 1875.] 
 
 {Preamble {recitiny 4 k 5 117//. 4, e. 24 {hereinafter referred 
 to as the Sujterannuation Act 1834); 2 ct 3 Vict. c. 47, .v. 21; and 
 the Superannuation Act 1859) rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.').'] 
 
 1. . . . The Secretary of State may, as soon as conveniently may Power to 
 be ... , by order make regulations respecting the grant to the suteTo^make 
 
 * Wliole Act rep. as to the county of Middlesex by the Music and Dancing regulations 
 Licences (Middlesex) Act IS'U, s. 2 (12).
 
 502 
 
 as to super- 
 annuation for 
 officers of 
 staff of 
 Metropolitan 
 Police in 
 accordance 
 with the 
 principles 
 applicable 
 to civil 
 service. 
 
 [Chap. 28.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Police Staff 
 {Superannuation) Act 1875. 
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 grant super- 
 annuation 
 allowances, 
 etc. 
 
 Fund for 
 payment of 
 superannua- 
 tion allow- 
 ances past 
 and future. 
 
 .31 k. 32 Vict, 
 c. 67. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 officers of tlie staff of the Metropolitan Police mentioned in the 
 schednle to this Act of superannuation allowances, compensations, 
 gratuities, or other allowances, on the like principles and conditions 
 as are in force at the passing of this Act with respect to persons in 
 the permanent civil service of the State, with power to provide for 
 the case of any such officer transferred to or from any office or 
 employment remunerated out of any moneys raised in any part of 
 Her Majesty's dominions by taxes or rates, penalties or fines, or any 
 moneys applicable in aid or reduction of taxes or rates, or out of 
 other public revenue in any part of Her Majesty's dominions, or any 
 public office or employment in any part of Her Majesty's dominions 
 remunerated by way of fees or otherwise. 
 
 A copy of the order proposed to be made in pursuance of this 
 section shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, and shall 
 not be finally made by the Secretary of State until it has lain for 
 not less than twenty days before Parliament, but such order when 
 finally made by the Secretary of State shall be deemed to be within 
 the powers of this Act, and shall have effect as if it were enacted in 
 this Act. 
 
 {^Amended hy the Police Act 1890, .s-. 32, and 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26, 
 s. 5. Words omitted (" one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of 
 State hereinafter referred to as " and " after the passing of tins 
 Act'') rep. 56 & 57 '17-^'^ c. 54 (S.L.B.).'] 
 
 2. The Secretary of State may, under the circumstances authorised 
 by the regulations under this Act, grant, if he think fit, to any of 
 the officers of the staff of the Metropolitan Police mentioned in the 
 schedule to this Act a superannuation allowance, compensation, 
 gratuity, or other allowance, in accordance with the said regulations. 
 
 Where any superannuation allowance has been granted before the 
 passing of this Act to any of the said officers under " The Super- 
 annuation Act, 1 834," the Secretary of State may, if he think fit, 
 grant to such officer, on his application a superannuation allowance 
 in accordance with the regulations under this Act in lieu of the 
 superannuation allowance so granted. 
 
 Every such grant shall be sjiecified in the annual report laid 
 before Parliament with respect to the Metropolitan Police, and shall 
 state the special reasons (if any) for such grant. 
 [Amended hy tlie Police Act 1890, s. 32, and 60 & 61 Vict. 
 c. 26, s. 5.] 
 
 3. Every superannuation allowance which has been granted 
 before the ])assing of this Act to any of the officers of the staff" 
 of the Metropolitan Police mentioned in the schedule to this Act, 
 shall continue to be payable to such officer ; and every such 
 superannuation allowance, and every sujierannuation allowance, 
 compensation, gratuity, or other allowance, which may be granted 
 after the passing of this Act to any of the officers of the staff of 
 the Metropolitan Police mentioned in the schedule to this Act, shall 
 be deemed to be part of the expenses of the Metropolitan Police 
 Force, within the meaning of the Police Rate Act, 1868, and shall 
 be defrayed accordingly. 
 
 4. [Pepeal of s. 21 of 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 
 (S.L./i.).^ 
 
 5. This Act may be cited as The Metropolitan Police Staff 
 (Superannuation) Act, 1875.
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] // x . , iw-- [Chap. 6o. | 503 
 
 L -I I I Jtti ii'<\ Art IK.ii L -I 
 
 {Loaiiii) Act J^jTO. 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Officers of Staff ov Metropolitan Police to whom Act 
 
 APPLIES. 
 
 Every person who has been employed, wliether before or after 
 the passing of this Act, under the Commissioner of Police 
 of the Metropolis or the Receiver for the Metroj)olitan Police 
 District, and is not a constable, and whose salary has l^een 
 j)aid as part of the expenses of the Metropolitan Police 
 Force. 
 
 CHAPTER 05. 
 
 An Act for fljrther amending the Acts relating to the 
 RAISING OF Money hv the Metropolitan Board of Works, 
 
 AND for OTHEIt PlKPOSES. [\\th AuyUSt \^1b.'\ 
 
 {Preamble rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as The Metropolitan Board of Works ^hort title. 
 (Loans) Act, 1875. 
 
 This Act shall be read and have effect as one with The Metro- Construction 
 jwlitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871. of Act- 
 
 2. [Power for the Board to spend moneys on or in contributing to 
 improi-ementx till 31. s;* December^ 1876. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 
 (.S./..7?.).] 
 
 3. yExpen>^eii for Fire Briqade purposes till '-Wst December 1876 — ''ower for 
 Pep. 46 i, 47 I let. c. 39 (6'. />./?.).] ^^or 
 
 The Board * shall from time to time carry to the Consolidated Loans Fire Brigade 
 Fund such sums as the Treasury approve as Ijeing, in their opinion, purposes, 
 suftncient to redeem, within thirty years from the date of the 
 creation of stock for purposes of this section, an amount of 
 consolidated stock equal to that so created. 
 
 4. \_Poa'er to the Ihun-d to Und to vestries and district boards ^o^'^'^t^ ^or 
 con.'ititated ainler 18 k 19 Vict. e. 120 till ?Ast December 1876. fo^;'^/-^ J^;"^ 
 Pep. 4() k 47 Vict. c. 39 (S•.^./,^).] _ _ district" 
 
 Money lent by the Board •'* under this section shall, notwithstanding board, 
 anything in any other Act, be repaid to them, with interest, within 
 such time after the borrowing as the Board * and the borrowers, with 
 the a]>])roval of the Treasury, agree, not exceeding, in case of a 
 loan for })urposes of im])rovements elfected by the widening of 
 streets or bridges, or for the purpose of ])urchase of land in fee 
 simple, sixty years, and for any other })uri)ose thirty years. 
 
 Li case of a loan re([nired to be for not exceeding thirty years, 
 the Board*" shall from tiuje to time carry to the Consolidated Loans 
 Fund such sums as the Treasury approve as being, in their o[)inion, 
 sufficient to redeem, within tlie period for which the loan is made, 
 not exceeding thirty years from the date of the creation of stock 
 for purposes of this sei'tion, an amount of consolidated stock equal 
 to that so created. 
 
 5. [Power to the Board to lend to (/udrdidiis of a union or pari.-^h Power for 
 wholh/ or for the qreater part within the metropolis till oVst ^^^^^;^J^l^^^'"^ 
 J)ecember 1876. Pep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.P.).'] guardians. 
 
 Money lent by the Board* under this section shall, notwithstanding 
 * Now the London Count v Council See 51 iV: 5'2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S).
 
 504 
 
 [Chap. 65.] 
 
 The Metropolitan Board of Works 
 {Loans) Act 1875. 
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] 
 
 Power for 
 Board to lend 
 to corpora- 
 tion, burial 
 board, etc. 
 
 Power for 
 Board to 
 expend for 
 incidental 
 charges on 
 consolidated 
 stock. 
 
 Repayments 
 to go to 
 Consolidated 
 Loans Fund. 
 
 Future Loan 
 Bills to have 
 tables of in- 
 formation ac- 
 comianying. 
 
 Returns 
 respecting 
 money raised 
 and valua- 
 tion, lia- 
 bilities, etc. 
 
 anything in any other Act, be repaid to them, with interest, within 
 such time after the borrowing as the Board * and the borrowers, with 
 the approval of the Treasury, agree, not exceeding thirty years. 
 
 The Board * shall from time to time carry to the Consolidated Loan 
 Fund such sums as the Treasury approve as being, in their opinion, 
 sutiicient to redeem, within the period for which the loan is made, 
 not exceeding thirty years from the date of the creation of stock 
 for purposes of this section, an amount of consolidated stock e(jual 
 to that so created. 
 
 6. [Power to the Board to lend till ?>\st December 1876 to 
 corporations, co?n?nissioners, burial boards, or other public bodies 
 haling power to levy rates in respect of land, tcithin the metropoli.^. 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict.'c. 39 (^.Z.i?.).] 
 
 Money lent by the Board* under this section shall, notwithstanding 
 anything in any other Act, be repaid to them, with interest, within 
 such time after the borrowing as the Board * and the borrowers, with 
 the approval of the Treasury, agree, not exceeding, in case of a 
 loan for purposes of improvements effected by the widening of 
 streets or bridges, or for the purpose of purchase of land in fee 
 simple, sixty years, and for any other purpose thirty years. 
 
 In case of a loan to be for not exceeding thirty years, the Board* 
 shall, from time to time, carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such 
 sums as the Treasury approve as being, in their opinion, sufficient 
 to redeem, within the period for which the loan is made, not 
 exceeding thirtv vears from the date of the creation of stock for 
 purposes of this section, an amount of consolidated stock equal to 
 that so created. 
 
 7. [Extension of amount which the Board may lend till 2>\st 
 December 1876 to manaqers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 '(^.Z./?.).] 
 
 8. The Board * may from time to time expend for composition for 
 stamp duty, charges payable to the Bank of England, costs of 
 advertising, brokers commission, and other expenses incidental to 
 the raising of money by consolidated stock, such amount as they 
 require for that purpose, and as the Treasury approve, and in order 
 to raise the same may from time to time create consolidated stock. 
 
 9. [Alteration of limit in 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 38, on the amount 
 which the Board may borrow. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 10. All sums received by the Board* in respect of interest on or 
 principal of any loan made by them under this Act shall be carried 
 to the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 11. [Act not to ajfect loan.^ reiiolfed upjon before its passing. Rep. 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 12. Where the Board * are desirous of obtaining a further Act 
 empowering them to raise money, they shall cause the Bill for the 
 same, as proposed to be submitted to Parliament, to be accompanied 
 with tables giving such information as the Treasury require for the 
 j)urpose of enabling a comparison to be made between the rateable 
 value of the metropolis and the liabilities of the Board.* 
 
 13. The Board * shall every year frame and deliver to the Treasury 
 returns showing — 
 
 i. All money raised by the Board * under this or any further Act 
 for purjjoses mentioned in this Act ; 
 * 2s'ow the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [38 & 30 Vict.] ^^^ ^^''^'^^''Ztl^:!'""^ *'^''^' [^«^»'- 1^^^^"-] ^'^^ 
 
 ii. Ill relatiou to every ])iirish, district, union, or ])Iace in respect '^'f parishes 
 whereof a loan is ohtaincil from the IJoanl* nii<ler tliis Act ^"g^jV'.J^'' 
 or any further Act ; 
 
 (1.) the annual rateable value of the property therein ; 
 i^Z.) as nearly as may be, the actual indebtedness of each 
 parisli, district, union, or place in respect of loans 
 })reviously contracted. 
 The Treasurv shall cause every such return to he laid before both 
 Houses of Parliament. [See aUo 32 & 33 Virt. r. \{yz, .,. 4U.] 
 
 14. Where any ap])lication for a loan is made to the Board by I'owt-i- for 
 anv bodv to which the Board* are authorised bv this or anv other f^l^'j'J^'''" 
 Act to lend money, the Jioard * may, as a condition precedent to the returns from 
 making of the loan, and to the ])aym('nt from time to time of any »Joaif.s 
 money as part thereof, require that body to frame and deliver to the '^"iTuwing. 
 ]?oard* from time to time returns giving, in relation to the parish, 
 district, unioM. or ])lace in respect whereof the loan is applied for, 
 
 .such information respecting the tinancial condition of the body 
 applying as the Board* think expedient. 
 
 15. [Fee of auditor of Board's accounts. Ilej). .jCi A: o? Vict, 
 c. 54(.b'./..A'.').] 
 
 CHAPTEK LXXXVII. 
 
 An Act to amend "The Middlesex Industrial Schools Act, 
 1854." ['-^0^// J>nn' IsTo.] 
 
 [Preamble recites IT & Is \'irf. c. clxix.] 
 
 1. This Act shall be construed as one with so much as is left Construction 
 hereby unrepealed of the said Act of the 17th and 18th Victoria, °^ ^^^• 
 cap. clxix., and the last-mentioned Act and this Act may be cited 
 respectively as "Tlie Middlesex Industrial Schools Act, 18o4," and Short titles, 
 "The Middlesex Industrial Schools Act, 1875," and maybe cited 
 toirether as " The Middlesex Industrial Schools Acts." 
 
 2. So much of section 1 of " The Middlesex Industrial Schools Definition of 
 Act, 1854," as defines the meaning of juvenile offender is hereby J^'^^^^^^llf^ 
 repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted, that, for the purposes of 
 
 the Middlesex Industrial Schools Acts, "juvenile otfender"' shall 
 mean tiny child apparently above the age of ten and not above the 
 age of fourteen, who is convicted of any offence committed in the 
 county of Middlesex,! such conviction being before any judge or any 
 jsessions of the peace for the trial of felonies and misdeme:inors, or 
 by a metropolitan police magistrate, or by two or more justices of 
 the peace in ])etty sessions assembled. 
 
 3. The thirty-fifth section of the Middlesex Industrial Schools Repeal ot;^ 
 Act, 1854, is hereby repealed, and in place thereof be it enacted as Mfdaiesex ° 
 follows : The Judge or sessions before whom, and the Police Magis- industrial 
 trate or Justices in petty sessions assembled by whom, a juvenile ^djools Act. 
 ofi'ender is convicted, may, at his or their discretion, instead of ^'^^' 
 sentencing sucli offender to any punishment to which he would be 
 
 liable, sentence him to be detained in an industrial school within 
 the meaning of the Middlesex Industrial Schools Acts, the general 
 rules for the government of which have been approved by one of 
 Her Majesty's princii)al Secretaries of State, for any term not less 
 
 * Now the London Countv Council. See 51 x .")2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 t See 51 i r.2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (•_»).
 
 506 
 
 [Chap. Ixxxvii.] 
 
 The Middlesex Industrial Schools 
 Act 1875. 
 
 [38 & 39 ViCT.J. 
 
 \><o\. 
 
 Payments, 
 etc. made on 
 account of 
 Feltham 
 School to be 
 valid. 
 
 than two or more than five years : Provided that no juvenile- 
 offender shall be detained beyond the time when he attains sixteen 
 years of age. 
 Modification 4. The Middlesex Industrial Schools Act, 1854, shall be modified 
 i^ d^^^*t*^M ^"^ as follows : viz., the same shall })e read and have effect as if 
 Schools Act. Tl^c Prison Act, 1865, were referred to in section 31 in place of 
 
 the Act of the 4th and 5th William the 4th, chapter 24 ; 
 The words '■' three months "' were contained in section 33 in place 
 of the word " month " ; 
 
 • ■•••• 
 
 The word " superintendent " were contained in sections 32 and 39- 
 in place of the word " clerk." 
 \^Part omitted {substitution of '■'' February'''' for '■'■March''' in s. 34 
 of \1 & 18 Vict. c. clxix.) spent, s. 34 bein^ superseded. See note 
 thereon7\ 
 
 5. [Repeal or modification of parts of Xl & 18 Vict. c. clxix. made 
 by this Act not to affect past matters thereunder. Spent in part ; 
 remr. superseded by the Interpretation Act 1889, s. 11.] 
 
 6. All payments, rates, moneys, superannuations or allowances^ 
 acts or things made, levied, borrowed, granted, suffered, or done, or 
 which purported to be made, levied, borrowed, granted, suffered^ 
 or done to, for, on behalf of, or in respect of the said school at 
 Feltham, under the provisions of the Middlesex Industrial Schools 
 Act, 1854, shall, notwithstanding that the same may have been 
 wholly or partly made, levied, borrowed, granted, suffered, or 
 done to, for, on behalf of, or in respect of the said school, as a 
 certified industrial school, be valid and effectual to all intents- 
 and purposes whatsoever. 
 
 7. It shall be lawful for the committee of visitors of any 
 industrial school within the meaning of the Middlesex Industrial 
 Schools Acts which has been certified as an industrial school, if 
 they shall think fit, on the expiration of the period for which 
 any child shall have been ordered to be detained therein under 
 the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, to pay on account and for the 
 benefit of, Ijut not to such child, any sum not exceeding five 
 pounds, such sum to be expended in clothing or tools, or in any 
 other way which shall seem to such committee desirable, with a 
 view to enable such child to obtain an honest livelihood, and such 
 sum shall be paid ont of the rates for the county of Middlesex.* 
 
 8. The powers of the Justices of the county of Middlesex,! under 
 the Middlesex Industrial Schools Act, 1854, to order jiayment 
 out of the county rates for the said county, and to levy countj^ 
 rates for the said county for the payment of moneys, costs, and 
 expenses required or payable for any of the ])urposes of the said 
 Act, and to borrow moneys on mortgage of the county rates, 
 shall extend to all moneys, costs, and expenses required or payable 
 for or towards the maintenance or otherwise on account of children 
 detained under the provisions of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866^ 
 in any industrial school established or to be established under the 
 Middlesex Industrial Schools Acts, or by way of superannuation 
 allowance for services rendered in respect of such children. 
 
 9. The committee of visitors may, at any time after the expira- 
 tion of eighteen months of the period of detention to which a 
 juvenile offender has been sentenced, by a license under their 
 
 * Now the C'onnty of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2;. 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 ic 52 Vict. c. 42, s. 3 (i.) and (viL). 
 
 Children de- 
 tained under 
 the Indus- 
 trial Schools 
 Act, 1866, 
 provided for 
 after the 
 period of 
 detention has 
 expired. 
 
 f^xtension of 
 powers of 
 levying and 
 applying 
 rates and 
 borrowing 
 moneys. 
 
 Power to 
 
 license 
 juvenile 
 offenders to 
 live out of 
 school and to 
 apprentice 
 them.
 
 roo p on I' n The Middlesex Industrial Schools rn i •• -i ^n-^ 
 
 [38&39 viCT.J J / IH"" [Chap. Ixxxvii.J o07 
 
 liands, permit him to liv<' with any trustworthy and respectalde 
 jxTson named in the license, and willini:- t(» receive and take charge 
 of him : 
 
 Any license so granted shall not be in force for more than three 
 months, bnt may, at any time before the expiration of those 
 three montiis, be renewed for a farther period not exceeding 
 three months, to coniniciice from tlie exj)iration ofthe j)re- 
 vious ])erio(l of three montlis, aii<l so from time to time until 
 the period of detention to which the juvenile offender has 
 been sentenced has expired. 
 Any such license may also be revoked at any time by the com- 
 mittee of visitors i)y writing under their hands, and there- 
 upon the juvenile offender to whom the license related may 
 be required by them, by writing under their hands, to return 
 to the school. 
 The time during which a juvenile offender is absent from the 
 school in ])ursuance of the license shall, except where such 
 license has been forfeited by his misconduct, be deemed to be 
 part of the time of his detention in the school, and at the 
 expiration of the time allowed by the license lie shall be 
 taken baidc to the school, 
 A juvenile offender escaping from the person with whom he is 
 placed under the license, or refusing to return to the school 
 on the revocation of his license, or at the expiration of the 
 time allowed thereby, shall be deemed to have escaped from 
 the school. 
 Tiie committee of visitors may at any time after a juvenile 
 offender has been placed out on a license as aforesaid, if he 
 conducted himself well during his absence from the school, 
 bind him with his own consent a]»i)rentice to any trade, 
 calling, or service, notwithstanding that his period of 
 detention has not expired, and every such binding shall 
 be valid and effectual to all intents. 
 
 10. Sections 12 and 50 of the Industrial 8cliools Act, 1,^06, Certain pro- 
 the Industrial Schools Act, 1872, and the Prison Authorities Act, tTe'SneLl 
 1874, shall not apply to industrial schools within the provisions of law not to 
 the Middlesex Industrial Schools Acts : Nothing in this section -'^PP'y- 
 contained shall deprive a school board of the power to contribute 
 
 in manner provided by section 27 of the Elementary Education 
 Act, 187U, towards any industrial school within tlie meaning of 
 the Middlesex Industrial Schools Acts, which is also a certified 
 industrial school. 
 
 11. For the purposes of any superannuation allowance to be ^^^^^^ "^f 
 granted to any person under tlie ])rovisions of the 3Iiddlesex JerWce'fJr 
 Industrial Schools Acts, the period of service of such person shall superannua- 
 be reckoned from and inclusively of the day of the date of his ^'^n. 
 
 or her first appointment under the said Acts, and whether his or 
 her services have been rendered in respect of children detained 
 under the Industrial Schools Act, iMiG, or under the Middlesex 
 Industrial Schools Acts. 
 
 12. [Sanng the rights of mortgagees under 17 »!c IS Vict. c. clxix. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 13. \^Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.]
 
 508 
 
 i-p I ,• -| The Metropolitan Bon id of Wofks 
 
 ■- . - - .J (Various Powers) Act 1875. 
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Power for 
 Board to 
 make im- 
 provements. 
 
 CHAPTER CLXXIX. 
 
 An Act for authorising Improvesients in and near the Precinct 
 OF THE Savoy and near Charing Cross, with a View to 
 
 THE opening of BETTER COMMUNICATION WITH THE VICTORIA 
 
 Embankment, and for conferring Powers on the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works with Reference to Tooting 
 Graveney Common : and for other Purposes. 
 
 [2c/ August 1875.] 
 
 {Preamble recites (inter alia) 20 & 21 Vict. c. cl. s. 20 ; and 37 k 
 38 Vict. c. xcvii. ss. 6, 9, and lO ; and that at the passing of the last- 
 mentioned Act the lands mentioned in s. 20 of 20 & 21 Vict. c. cl. 
 had become or were reputed to he and are or are reputed to be 
 the propertij of Frank Willan ; and that .Joseph Lucjis is or 
 claims to be oicner of tlie site of other lands adjoirung or nea.r 
 thereto; and that the road authorised by s. 6 of 37 & 38 Vict, 
 c. xcvii. J'.as not yet been begun : and that tfie said Frank Willan 
 and JosepJi Lucas are desirous of obtaining the substitution of two 
 roads on the sites shown on the deposited plans {and marked thereon 
 Road So. 1 and Road Xo. 2) for part of the road authori.^ed by 
 37 & 38 Vict. c. xcvii., andtjiat the Metropolitan Boa.rd of Works * {in 
 this Act called " the Board"" ), hare o.greed with them for such substi- 
 tution ; and a.LiO recites 35 k 36 Vict. c. clxiii. and thaJ it u'ould be 
 of great public adcantage if an addition were made to the Sessions 
 House, Clerkenivell, in manner shoivn on the deposited plans ; and 
 that pla/ns and sections of the before-mentioned tico proposed sub- 
 stituted roads, and showing the land to be acquired for the purpo.'ies 
 of til e said. Sessions House, have been deposited in April last with the 
 Clerk of the Peace for Middlesex ; and also recites 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. 93, s. 28.] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as The Metropolitan Board of Vorks 
 (Various Powers) Act, 1^75. 
 
 2 — 3. {Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts — Power to the Board 
 to take lands shoicn on the deposited pla/ns. Spent. 1 
 
 4. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board may make 
 and maintain, in the lines and according to the levels shown on the 
 plans and sections deposited in November last, the improvements 
 thereon shown, comprising the following ; (that is to say,) 
 
 (1.) A road (Xo. 1) commencing at the roadway of the Victoria 
 Embankment opposite the precinct of the Savoy, passing 
 thence through a part of the embankment, and of the 
 gardens thereof, and through lands belonging to Her 
 Majesty the Queen in right of her Duchy of Lancaster, 
 and through the southern part of the Board's vacant 
 ground, and terminating at the eastern boundary of the 
 land and property of the Marquess of Salisbury adjoining 
 the said ground ; 
 
 (2.) The alteration from time to time in connexion with other 
 improvements by this Act authorised of the footway and 
 roadway of the Victoria Embankment at or near the 
 precinct of the Savoy : 
 
 (3.) A road fXo. 2) as an approach to the Board's vacant ground 
 at the north-east corner thereof, from the southerly end of 
 Little Savov Street, otherwise Little Savov Hill. 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 I
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] 'f^f^'^^l^^tropolit^n Board qf Works ^^,^^^,_ ^^^^^^^ ,^^^ 
 
 ^ -^ {\ anoas rowerii) Act !>>,'). •- ' 
 
 5. The roads (Xo. 1) and (No. 2) by this Act aiitliorised sliall, Boards 
 when made, he deemed part of the roadway of tlic Victoria Ernl'ank- pan of road- 
 ment lor the pnrjjoses of sections three and four of the Thames way of em- 
 Embankment (North) Act, 1872, and for all other purposes. bankmem. 
 
 6. \_Pofrer to the Board to .^arrfiidcr certain h'nd to the Duchj 
 of IjdH-osti'r. Spent.'] 
 
 7 — 8. \_Power to the Ducht/ of Lancaster to make certain improce- 
 ments to and in the xicinittj of the German Lutheran ('hapel.~\ 
 
 9. In rehition to lands belonfjinp: to Tier Majesty in ri«rht of her I'owersof 
 Uucliy of Lant'aster reipiired to be dealt with for tlie purposes ol j-eiation'to 
 this Act, and to minor works required for better effectuating the lands, etc. 
 arrangement between the Board and the Chancel hjr and Council of 
 the Dncliv of Lancaster, the Chancellor and Council are hereby 
 further em])owered to do the following things ; (namely,) 
 
 (1.) To grant to the 15oard, in consideration and as part of the 
 arrangement with them, the right to construct and main- 
 tain part of road (No. 1) and road (No. 2) in and over - 
 lands belonging to Her Majesty the Queen in right of 
 her Duchy of Lancaster : 
 (2.) To release to the Board, in consideration and as part of the 
 arrangement with them, any rights of light and air now 
 belonging to Her Majesty the Queen in right of her 
 Duchv of Lancaster over the Board's vacant y-round : 
 
 O' 
 
 (6.) To put up and maintain, or from time to time to remove, 
 wholly or ])artially, and reinstate fences of such nature 
 as the Board and the Chancellor and < 'ouncil fi-om time 
 to time agree, along so much of the road (No. 1) and of 
 the Victoria Embankment as will be on, over, or next to 
 any land belonging to Her Majesty the Queen in right 
 of her Duchy of Lancaster, and as the Chancellor and 
 Council think tit : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Parts omitted contain various poicers to the Duchy of Lancaster^ 
 
 10. [Financial powers for the Duchj of Lancaster.'] 
 
 11. The Act of the eleventh year of King George the Third Repeal of 
 (chapter thirty-four), intituled ''An Act for enabling certain persons ^ 34 
 
 to enclose and embank part of the Biver Thames adjoining to Durham 
 Yard, Salisbury tStreet, Cecil iStreet, and Beaufort Buildings, in the 
 county of Middlesex," as far as the same aifects any land within the 
 l>recinct of the Savoy belonging to Her Majesty the Queen in right 
 of her Duchy of Lancaster, or the Board's vacant ground, or any 
 lands aci^uired by the Board under this Act, is hereby repealed. 
 
 12. And whereas the rights of communication and access and Repeal of 
 egress by the ()2nd section of the Thames Embankment Act, 1862, P^''^ "'.^^ 
 conferred on the Manpiess of Salisbury, his heirs and assigns, to "Xhe Thames 
 and from the land to be reclaim(>d anil enclosed under the said Act Embankment 
 and referred to in the said section, and the obligations of the Board -'^'^V ^^^-'' 
 
 in respect of the said rights, have been the subject ot a suit in the m^nt in sub- 
 Court of Chancery, in which the present ]\Ianjuess of Salisbury, stitution of it. 
 herein-after called the ^laripiess, is jilaintitf and the Board are 
 defendants, and it is mutually desired that all fnrtlier litigation in 
 respect of the subject-matter of the said suit shall l)e j)ut an end to 
 between the parties ; it is therefore enacted as follows :
 
 510 
 
 rr^ 1 • n J^f'C^ Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 1 Chap, clxxix. / r^ • d \ ^ /^o■~x 
 
 L -• (Various Powers) Act iSiO. 
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] 
 
 Regulation 
 and manage- 
 ment of 
 Tooting 
 Graveney 
 Common. 
 
 Provision for 
 compensa- 
 tion. 
 
 (1.) All that part of the said 62nd section of the Thames Embank- 
 ment Act, 1862, which follows the word "monuments" 
 shall be and the same is hereb}' repealed : 
 
 (2.) Road Xo. 1, by this Act authorised to be made, shall, within 
 15 months from the passino^ of this Act, be constructed 
 and continued by the Board over the vacant ground be- 
 longing or reputed to belong to them up to the eastern 
 boundary of the land and property of the Marquess 
 adjoining the said ground : 
 
 (3.) The Board shall also, within 15 months from the passing of 
 this Act, construct, make, and finish a roadway of the 
 width of 25 feet, running northwards from and out of 
 the said road No. 1 to and into and communicating with 
 the southern end of Carting Lane, as shown on the plan as 
 signed by Richard Nicholson on behalf of the Marquess, 
 and William \V'yke Smith on behalf of the Board : 
 
 (4.) The Marquess, his heirs and assigns, and his and their 
 sequels in right, and his and their lessees, tenants, and 
 occupiers (duly authorised by him or them) of houses 
 and premises in Cecil Street and Salisbury Street, and 
 of the houses, lands, and premises lying between the 
 houses at the southern ends of the said streets on the 
 north and the Thames Embankment garden on the south, 
 and of any other houses or ])remises near or adjoining 
 • thereto and belonging to the Marquess, shall have full 
 and free rights of communications and access and egress 
 at all times either on foot or with horses, carts, and car- 
 riages of any description, and for all purposes whatsoever 
 to and into and over and along the said road No. 1, and 
 the said road to be made therefrom to and communicating 
 with the southern end of Carting Lane as aforesaid : 
 (5.) [Upon the completion bt/ the Board of the said road No. i, 
 and of the road to be made therefrom, all steps to be taken 
 for ending the suit between the Marquess and, the Board. 
 Spent.~\ 
 
 13. \_Fower to the Board to stop up Trinity Place, Charing Cross. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 14. From and after the passing of this Act, Tooting Graveney 
 Common sliall be regulated and managed by the Board as a place 
 of recreation for the public, and for that purpose sections two to six 
 (both inclusive) and nine and ten of the scheme for the establish- 
 ment of local management with respect to Tooting Beck Common, 
 confirmed by The Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act, 1873, 
 shall by virtue of this Act extend and apply to Tooting Graveney 
 Common, and the Board may from time to time, if they think fit, 
 contribute any sum not exceeding one thousand one hundred and 
 fifty-five pounds towards the costs incurred before the passing of 
 this Act by any persons in maintaining the rights of the commoners 
 and others in and over Tooting Graveney Common by a suit in the 
 Court of Chancery or otherwise ; provided that no estate, interest, 
 or right of a profitable or beneficial nature in, over, or affecting the 
 said common shall, except with the consent of the person entitled 
 thereto, be taken away or injuriously affected by or under this Act, 
 without compensation being made for the same, and such compen- 
 sation shall, in case of difference, be ascertained in the same manner
 
 ,roo p on ir n Fhe Metioijolitan Boun/ ()/ W ur/cs rr. ^ i • n -11 
 
 1 38 & 39 Vict. I / r- • r. , a /ic-- (. hap. clxxix. oil 
 
 L -J {\ or lous Powers) Act \b 10. "- -" 
 
 .as if the same cora])erisation were for the comiJiilsory jtiirehase an<l 
 taking or tlie injuriously aifectiiij; of lands under tin? provisions of 
 "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and "The Lands 
 < Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 18C0." \_Amended 
 4U Vict, c viii. .s.s. 3, 4, and 1<). See, olso notes on the aectiomt of 
 36 & 37 I7r^. c. Ixxxvi. referred to, iclneh notes u-pi'l'j /'.ere.'] 
 
 15 — 22. [_ErrorK and onfi.i.sions in jjlon.s — Power to sun:e>/ lond 
 to be tohrn — As to rompensotion — iJejIrieneies in land tax during 
 works — Power to f/ie lioord to deriate — Alteratio?i of water, gas, 
 and other pipes — Power to lag out carriagewags, etc. — Period for 
 /•ontpulsorg purchase of lands limited to o aroffor construction of 
 worhs to 7 years. Spent.!^ 
 
 23. The j)huis of the substituted roads and of the land to be I'lans de- 
 appropriated for the i)urpose of the Clerkenvvell ►Sessions House, P'"'®'.';''^ ^° 
 
 1 ■ 1 /» • 1 • 4 -1 1 • 1 1 /^.i 1 r- 1 T» April to be 
 
 deposited as aioresaid in Aj)ril last witli the Clerk 01 the leace part of de- 
 fer tlie County of IMiddlesex, shall be kept with the other j)lans posited plans, 
 deposited in November lust for the pnr])oses of this Act, and shall 
 for the ])urposes of this Act, and for all other purposes, be deemed 
 to form part of the deposited plans. 
 
 24. If within one month after the passing of this Act Frank Substitution 
 Willan and Josepli Lucas grant to the 15oard, and the Board accept, j^j. pj^^t of 
 on such terms and conditions as the parties agree on, the rerjuisite authorised 
 sites for the two roads shown on the plans deposited in A])ril last, road near 
 the Board shall construct on those sites two roads in lieu of and in j.^rk. " ^ 
 substitution for so much of the road authorised by The Metropolitan 
 
 Board of Works Act, 1874, as was proposed to be constructed 
 betweeu the points marked A and B on the said deposited plans. 
 
 25. The Metropolitan Board of Works Act of ls74 shall have Effect of Act 
 eftect as if the two roads by this Act authorised had been described substituted 
 in that Act in lieu of that portion of the road therein described for roads, 
 which those two roads are to be substituted, and as if in sub- 
 section 3 of section *.» of that Act the lands of Frank Willan therein 
 referred to had been the lands of Frank Willan ami Joseph Lucas 
 resjjectively. 
 
 26. \_Amendment of 37 *fc 38 Vict. c. xcvii. s. 9 (7) as to payment 
 of costs of certain pending proceedings. Spent.~\ 
 
 27. The Board may appropriate and grant, for and to the use of Grant for 
 the Justices of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, such part of ^y"Xn? °^ 
 tlie ]»ublic street adjoining the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, on tlie Hoiise, 
 southern side thereof, aiul described on the plans de])osited in April clerkenwell. 
 last as land to be transferred to the said Justices, as the Board 
 
 think tit, and the same shall vest in the body or officer or person in 
 whom the Sessions House is vested,* and shall go along with and be 
 deemed part of tlie appurtenances of the Sessions House. 
 
 28 — 29. [^Power to sell to the Middlesex Justices so much as is 
 ahown on the deposited plans of the land required bg 3.'} *k 30 Vict, 
 c. clxiii. s. 12 to be thrown into the new street in Clerkenwell — Con- 
 nection of the new street with Clerkenwell Green mentioned in s. \2 
 ofZ^ k 30 Vict. c. clxiii. to be -iO feet wide with a 3^) feet carriage- 
 wag, and bg an easg curve commencijig and terminating in or near 
 the pieces of land therein described as So. 80 and So. 81 respecticely. 
 Spent.'] 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 Jt 52 Vict. c. 41, s. Gl.
 
 512 
 
 The Societies 
 of the Inner 
 and ^liddle 
 Temple em- 
 powered to 
 build upon a 
 small portion 
 of their land 
 referred to in 
 the Thames 
 Embankment 
 Act. 1862. 
 
 [Chap, oo.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Wo7'ks 
 (Loans) Act 1876. 
 
 [39 & 40 Vict.] 
 
 30. Xotvrithstanding the provisions of the 2>ith section of the 
 Thames Embankment Act, 1862, it shall be lawful for the Honour- 
 able Society of the Inner Temple to construct and maintain at the 
 south-eastern extremity of the buildings proposed to be erected in 
 extension of Harcourt Buildings a tower or turret, and also an orna- 
 mental bay window from the ground uj)wards, and the eastern pier 
 of an ornamental central arch, and for the Honourable Society of 
 the Middle Temple to construct and maintain at the south-western 
 extremity of the buildings to be erected in extension of Plowden 
 Buildings a tower or turret, and also a similar bay window and the 
 western pier of the said central arch, provided that the said towers 
 or turrets respectively shall not project more than ten feet, and that 
 the said bay windows and piers respectively shall not project more 
 than live feet on to the lands referred to in the said 28th section, 
 and that the said towers and turrets, bay windows, and piers shall 
 be constructed according to a plan and elevation to be previously 
 approved by the Board. 
 
 31 — 32. [_Po/rer to the Board to applij existing funds to the 
 purposes of this Act and to horroic. Spent in part. Rernr. super- 
 seded by the London Count}/ Council {fSloneij) Acts 1875 — 1904.] 
 
 33. \_Saviny the rights of the Croivn and of the Ihichg of Lancaster?^ 
 
 34. \_Eyipenses of obtaining Act. Spjent.'] 
 
 39 & 40 VICTORIA. A.D. 1876. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Construction 
 of Act. 
 
 CHAPTER b^. 
 
 An Act for further amending the Acts relating to the raising 
 OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and for 
 OTHER Purposes relating thereto. [11// August 1876.] 
 
 \_Preamble recites 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65 {in this Act referred to as 
 '■the Act of 1875."] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Loans) Act, 1876*! 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871, and the 
 Act of 1875. 
 
 3. \^Poicer to the Board to spend monies on or in contributing to 
 general irnprocements till 31,5^ December 1877, Rep. 46 & 47 Vict, 
 'c. 39 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 4. yExpensesfor Fire Brigade purposes till 31.s-/ December 1877. 
 Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). — Provision as to carrying from 
 tim,e to time to the Consolidated L^oans Fund sucli sum as the 
 Treasury approve as .sufficient to redeem the stock created for the 
 purpose of this section in 30 years. Ldentical with such provision in 
 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 3.] 
 
 5 — 6. [Amendment of limit in ss. 3 and 9 of the Act ^/1875 on 
 expenditure for Fire Brigade pvr])Oses., and on loans to vestries and 
 district boards. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (^S.L.R.).'] 
 
 7. [Power to the Board to lend to vestries and district boards till 
 ^Ist December 1877. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.).— Pro- 
 vision for repayment within a time to be approved by the Treasury not
 
 Ton p -.A AT ■^ I he Divided Parishes and Poor m^,^ 01 n kiq 
 
 r39&40ViCT.1 , A.I /I * ^u~(^ [Chap. 61.] 513 
 
 •- -• Law Amendment Act \^ I ii. •- -■ 
 
 exceeding as to loans for widening streets or for bridges and 
 purchase of lands (50 years^ and for other jmrposes 20 years ; 
 and in the case of a loan for not exceeding thirty years requiring the 
 Board from time to time to carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund 
 such sums as the Treasury approve as sufficient to redeem the stock 
 within the period, of the loan. Identical icith such provision in 
 38 & 30 Vict. c. G5, s. 4.] 
 
 8. \_Power to the Jioard to lend to guardians till 31 «< December 
 1877. Rep. 40 & 47 Vict, c 30 {S.L.R.). — Provision for repayment 
 loithin a. time to be a}>})roved. by the Treasury not exceeding 30 years, 
 and as to carrying to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sum as the 
 Treasury approve as .sufficient to redeem the stock within the period 
 
 for which the loan is made. Identical ivith such jjrovision in 38 & 39 
 Vict. c. 05, s. 5.] 
 
 9. [^Poiver to the Board to lend to corporations, burial boards, etc., 
 till 'i\st December 1877. Jiep. 40 & 47 Vict. c. 30 {S.L.P.).— Pro- 
 vision for repayment icithin a time to be approved by the Treasury, not 
 exceeding as to loans for widenings of streets or bridges and purchase 
 of lands GO years, and for other purposes 30 years, and in the 
 ca.'ie of a loan for not exceeding 30 years requiring the Board 
 from time to time to carry to the Con.solidated Loans Fund such sum 
 as the Treasury approves as sufficient to redeem the stock within the 
 period of loan, identical ivith suck provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 05, 
 s. 0.] 
 
 10. \_r.xten,von of the amount ivhich the Board may lend to the 
 Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. Pep. 40 & 47 Met. 
 c. 39 (&/..X).] 
 
 11. {Alteration of limitation of borrowing poiver in 32 & 33 Vict., 
 c. 102, s. 38. Rep. 01 & 02 Vict. c. 22 {S'.L.R.)?^ 
 
 12. All suras received by the Board in respect of interest, on or nepa3-ments 
 principal of any loan made l)y them nnder this Act shall be <^'f^i'i"i^'tl ^oHdated ^^' 
 to the Consolidated Loans Fund. Loans Fund. 
 
 CHAPTER 01. 
 
 An Act to vrovide for thp: better Arrangement of divided 
 Parishes and other local Areas, and to make sundry 
 Amendments in the Law relating to the Relief of the 
 Poor in England. [\^th August 1870.] 
 
 ■ ■•••• 
 
 Metropolita n Provisions. 
 
 40. Whereas doubts have been entertained as to the extent of l^-^i'l'"i'i*''^n 
 the i)0\vers given to the Poor Law Board by sections five and si.\ IropoUtan' 
 of the ^Ietro])olitan Poor Act, 1807, it is hereby enacted and roor Act .as 
 declared that those powers may be exercised by the Local Govern- t^' the power 
 ment Board in order to the provision of asylums, workhouses, or [^^j^.^^'^^^jj. ^^i 
 other buildings for the reception of any class or classes of the poor classes of 
 chargeable in the metropolis. po^'r. 
 
 41. The powers conferred ujion the Poor Law l>oard by section Extension of 
 fifty-nine of the Metro])olitan Poor Act, 1807, to determine or vary ^'■r^L";!;^^ 
 
 1 j'l Ti 1 11 n-> •• tieicrmininc; 
 
 the contracts with any medical or other workhouse othcers existing or varying ' 
 at the passing of that Act, may be exercised by the Local Govern- contracts 
 ment Board for the ])ur])ose of improving the classification of all |J)^^°3i"\ict 
 classes of paupers in addition to the purposes in the said section c. 0. s. 59. 
 
 33
 
 514 
 
 [ 
 
 Chap. 01.] 
 
 The Divided Parishes and Poor 
 Law Amendment Act 1876. 
 
 [39 & 40 Vict.] 
 
 Power of 
 managers in 
 respect of 
 patients not 
 paupers. 
 
 The exemp- 
 tion of the 
 Inns of 
 Court and 
 the Charter 
 House 
 removed. 
 
 specified, and with reference to the contract with, or the appointment 
 of any officer appointed by a board of guardians irrespective of the 
 date of the appointment or contract. 
 
 42. If the managers of a district constituted under the provisions 
 of the Metropolitan Poor Acts shall have admitted any sick person 
 into their asylum not being a pauper, but under circumstances of 
 urgency, they shall have and may exercise the like jjowers over 
 such person, and shall have the like remedies for the recovery of all 
 reasonable charges incurred on behalf of any such person as are 
 conferred by the Poor Law Acts upon guardians over paupers, and 
 for the recovery of relief given or deemed to be given by way of loan 
 to any such jjauper. 
 
 But the said powers and remedies shall not be exercised or put 
 in force by the managers until they shall have been authorised to 
 do so by the Local Government Board, and shall be exercised 
 subject to any restrictions which may be imposed from time to 
 time by the Board. 
 
 Provided also, that no sum shall be recoverable by managers 
 under the provisions of this Act in respect of any expenses incurred 
 by them other than those which shall be the subject of a separate 
 charge in respect of an inmate to any union or parish in the district. 
 
 43. {^Repeal as from \st September 1876 of so much of s. 3 of 
 the Extra-parorhial Places Act 1857 as procides that the Inner 
 Temple^ the Middle Temple,* Grai/s Inn,] and the Cliarter House, 
 London, shall not he added, to any union or other district for the 
 purposes therein referred, to. Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 [Provided, that] no such Inn of Court shall be added to a union 
 or parish so long as the benchers thereof shall make payments, as 
 regards the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple to the Guardians 
 of the Poor of the (Uty of Loudon Union, and as regards Grays Inn 
 to the Guardians of the Poor of the Holborn Union, of such sum as 
 shall be called for by such guardians respectively as a contribution 
 in aid of the common fund of such unions upon a precept framed 
 according to the form set forth in the schedule hereto annexed, or 
 to the like effect, which sum, together with the costs of collection, 
 shall, when the masters of the bench of any Inn think proper, be 
 paid out of a rate in the nature of a poor rate to be made and levied 
 by the overseer or overseers of the said Inn, as in the case of a poor 
 rate made and levied in any other parish. 
 
 Such contribution shall be based upon the annual rateable value 
 of the said Inn as settled by the valuation list in force for the time 
 being, ii any, or otherwise as settled by the Local Government 
 Board for its contribution to the Metropolitan Poor Fund, and shall 
 be calculated and issued in every respect as if the said Inn were 
 a parish comprised in the said union, but so nevertheless that such 
 contribution shall not include any sum, whether for principal or 
 interest, in respect of rejjayment of moneys borrowed and charged 
 on the poor rates of the parishes comjjrised in the said union or on 
 the common fund thereof. - ' 
 
 * See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 22. 
 
 t Gray's Inn is induded in the mctro}W)litan borou.uh uf Holboin by the J'.urough 
 of Holborn Order in Council 1000 raadit under t'i2 & G.S Vict. c. 14, but the Borough of 
 Ilolborn ((Iniy's Inn) Scheme lilOl made under that Act provides as follows : 
 
 " 4, ]s'othing in the Act or this Scheme shall affect the amount of the payment 
 which would otherwise have been payable by the Benchers under section forty-three 
 of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1876, or any composition, 
 contribution, or exemption conferred by or payable under that section."
 
 [39 k 40 Vict.] ^^^^^^, j,,,^,,,,/,,^^,,,, ^^^.^ 1^^^^ : [Chap, bli] 51o 
 
 Provided . . . , that the contrihntioii of tlie respective unions 
 towiirds such Metropolitan Poor Fund shall he calculated upon the 
 annual rateal)Ie value of such unions increased hy the annual 
 rateal)le value of the Inn or Inns contrihutinjjj thereto as aforesaid, 
 and the provisions of the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, applicable 
 to any such Inn of Court, shall ceuse to operate so- lonj,' as the 
 contributions herein described are paid in resj)ect of such Inn : 
 Provided also, that . . . the registrar of the Charter House shall 
 cease to be the overseer of the parish of the Charter House, and tJie 
 JuHticeK of the. Pence hiv'nui jxrixdictton. in flw place n/iall fortlnrifk 
 appoint an ocersee?- to art for the mid pariah until the time of the 
 next annual appointment of oterseera ; and thenceforth ai)point- 
 ments shall be made as in the case of other parishes, and every such 
 overseer shall have nil the ])owers and j)rivileges, and shall be 
 subject to all the duties which by law attach to such au officer. 
 \_\Vord)i in square brackefa and. words o/nitted {^^ also,'' and '''■from 
 and after the said \st day of September nexV) rep. 57 & 58 Vict, 
 c. bQ (S.L.h'.). Words in italics spent.'] 
 
 44. The words herein contained shall be construed as in the Poor Intcrpreta- 
 Law Amendment Act, is:}4, and in the Acts amending or extending ^^''^ ^^*"^^- 
 the same, and the ])rovisions contained therein and not repealed shall 
 
 so far as they shall be consistent herewith, be extended to this Act. 
 • • • « • . 
 
 45. This Act may be cited and described for all ])urposes as •'' The 
 Divided Parishes aud Poor Law Amendment Act, 1870." 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Precept for a Contribution from an Inn of Court. 
 To the benchers of 
 You are hereby rc([uired to pay to of 
 
 , the treasurer of the guardians of the poor 
 of the union, on behalf of such guardians, on the 
 
 day of the sum of pounds 
 
 shillings and pence, as the contribution of the 
 
 above-named Lin of Court in aid of the common fund of the said 
 '.union, such amount having been duly calculated according to the 
 provisions of the Divided Parishes Poor Law Amendment Act, 1876, 
 and to take the receipt of the said treasurer indorsed upon this 
 paper for the said sum of 
 
 Given under our hands at a meeting of the guardians of the poor 
 of the said union held on the day of 
 
 (Signed) A'.)'., Presiding Chairman. 
 
 ir.A. 
 
 J J y '[Guardians. 
 
 Countersignature of the Clerk 
 to the Guardians. 
 
 Indorsement. 
 Received this day of 18 of the within- 
 
 named benchers the sum of on l)clialf y}( the 
 
 with in-named guardians. 
 
 Treasurer of the Union. 
 
 [The parts of the Act omitted are not special to London.]
 
 lion of tcrmfe. 
 
 516 [CHAP.lxxi..] "r.titrplr.tlflfTr* [3"40V:CT.] 
 
 CHAPTER LXXIX. 
 An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 
 MAKE A NEW StREET FROM SuN StREET TO WORSHIP StREET ; 
 
 to undertake certain duties in connexion with the 
 Chelsea Embankment ; and for other Purposes. 
 
 \21th June 1876.] 
 
 [^Preamble recites (inter alia) that the Great Eastern Bailway 
 Company have in the construction of the Metropolitan Extension 
 stopped up and appropriated Sun Street or tlie greater part thereof, 
 and that it is expedient tvith a view of remedi/ing the public incon- 
 xeniences which have arisen by such interference tvith Sun Street that 
 another thoroughfare should be provided by the construction of a new 
 street from Sun Street to Worship Street and recites 35 & 36 Vict, 
 c. clxiii. s. 49, and 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxxv. s. 27.] 
 
 Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as " The Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Various Powers) Act, 1876." 
 
 2. {Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts and part of the Rail- 
 ways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845. Spent^ 
 
 interpreta- ^ 3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the 
 several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some- 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; 
 (that is to say,) 
 
 • • ■ • . • • 
 
 The word " streets " shall include streets, courts, alleys, highways, 
 roadways, thoroughfares, or public passages or places ; 
 
 The term "improvement" means the new street and works con- 
 nected therewith by this Act authorised ; 
 
 The expression " the Board " means the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works.* 
 
 [Part omitted {definitions of'''' Justice,''' " t?vo Justices" " lessee,'' and 
 *' the Railway " in the Raihvays Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 
 incorporated, and as to meanings of words in Acts incorporated') 
 spent7\ 
 
 Power to 4. The Board may construct a new street in the parish of St. 
 
 ri^L^f "^^^ Leonard, Shoreditch, in the county of Middlesex,! commencing at Sun 
 Street and terminating at the Curtain Road, near Worship Street. 
 
 5 — 12. \Street and other toorks authorised to be made according to 
 pjlans deposited ivith the Clerk of the Peace for Middlesex — Powers 
 to the Hoard to purchase and extinguish easements ; to stop up ways 
 during works; to raise or loicer streets; to deviate ; to make sub- 
 sidiary works ; to stop up, alter, etc., or ajjpropriate the streets shown 
 on the deposited pla/ns ; to alter icater, gas, and other p)ipes ; and to 
 lay out carriageways, etc. Spent.'] 
 
 13. {As to laying of pavements, and vesting the same when laid in 
 and an to the maintenance thereof by the Vestry of the parish of 
 St. Leonard, Shoreditch.X'] 
 
 14. {Power to the Board, to fill up sewers and drains on pro- 
 viding sub.Htitutes, winch, are to be under the same management as 
 existing setvers and drains.] 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 f Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 X Now ttie Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch. See 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 street.
 
 r39&40VicT. , ' ) t' , /' /: 4- I /lu-/- 1 Chap. cc. ol7 
 
 *- -^ Lmpj'ovemcnt ocnemetonjii'mation Actio io. ^ ^ 
 
 15. [Power to the Board to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent.~\ 
 
 16. [Ground laid into streets to form part thereof and to be under 
 the vt((na(ji'iiH'nt of the Vestrij of St. Leonard, Shoreditch*^^ 
 
 17 — 21. [A'/70/".s and omissions in {dans — Power to the Hoard to 
 sell materials and to sarreij lands to be taken — As to compensation — 
 Dejiciencies in land tax during works. Spent. '\ 
 
 22 — 32. [Power to the Board to grant building leases of surplus 
 lands — As to sale of ground I'ents a ltd recersions thereof — Power to 
 sell such lands without leasinq — Surplus lands to be sold, unthin 
 li) gears — Receipts of the Board to be effectual discharges — Period, 
 for compulsorg purchase of lands limited to 5 and for construction 
 of loorks to 7 gears — Great Eastern Rail wag Compang to give notice 
 of intention to take hou.'<es of labouring i-lasses — Rehousinq bq the 
 Board of labour I ng class persons displaced bg them — Contribution bg 
 the Vestrg of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, of not exceeding half the 
 expenses of the new street and improvements — Board mag lend the 
 Vestrg their contribution — Credit to be given to the Vestrg for sale of 
 sur/dus lands. Spent."] 
 
 33. [Power to the Secretary of State to release the Board from 
 s. 49 c/35 & 36 Vict. c. clxiii. Spent."] 
 
 34. The embankment wall and tlie adjoining footway of the Transfer to 
 Chelsea Embankment, and the ornamental grounds on that embank- ^j^y"|t°oQs 
 ment, resiiectively constructed under the j)Owers of the Thames as to repairs, 
 Embankment (Chelsea) Act, 1808, shall (notwithstanding anything etc. of em- 
 contained in that Act) be under the management, control, and 'J^"}^°i«^nt 
 
 , . o J.^ 11 1 1 ii I 11 1 1 1 wall and 
 
 authority oi the iioard, and they shall have the sole j)ower, footway, 
 autliority, and duty of maintaining and lighting the said wall and 
 footway, and the trees, lamp-posts, and other things thereon are 
 hereby vested in, and the same shall belong absolutely to the 
 Board, and the Board shall also maintain the said ornamental 
 grounds. [See 35 & 30 Vict. c. Ixvi. s. 3 and note thereon.] 
 
 35 — 36. [.l.s to bgelaws relating to the Chelsea Embankment wall 
 and foot wag. Superseded 40 & 41 Vict. c. viii. ss. 3, 4, and 10; 
 63 k 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi.s. 61.] 
 
 37 — 38. [Bowers to the Board to apply existing funds to the 
 purposes of this Act and to borrow. Spent in part. Remr. super- 
 seded bg the London Countg Council (Moneg) Acts 1877 — 1904.] 
 
 39. [h\cpenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER CC. 
 
 IAn Act to confirm a Phovisional Order of one of Her Majesty's 
 Principal Secretaries of State for the Improvement of 
 AN unhealthy Area in the Whitechapkl District, and an 
 
 UNHEALTHY ArEA IN THE LiMEHOUSE DISTRICT, WITHIN THE 
 
 Metropolis. [llth August 1876.] 
 
 [Preamble.] Provisional 
 
 1. The Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed is hereby ^^rder in 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the ]\Ietro])olis (\\ hitechapel and short title. 
 Limehouse) Improvement Scheme Conlirmatiou Act, 1876. 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch. See G2 k. 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4. 
 t See 12 & 43 Vict. c. l.xxx.
 
 518 
 
 [Phap. 35.] Metropolitan Open Spaces Act 1877. [40&41 Viex.] 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 MeTKOPOLIS (WlIITECHAPKL AXD Ll.M K.IIoUSE) ImI'UOVEMEXT. 
 
 [Provisional Order of the Home Sprrrt/iry, doted V2th June 1870, rojijinniiu/ 
 a Scheme of 12th November \^lt), jtrepared by the Metropolitan Board of Maoris 
 under the Artizaii.^ and Labo/irrrs Dn-eltin(/>< Jntjirnrement Act 1875 for the 
 imjiroreinent (f two anliealthj areati situated re»pertirely in Limehouse and 
 Whitcchapel. 
 
 The Order rocitca that the number of persons of the vwrking clans that ivill be 
 displaced bi/ the Scheme is estimated at 3,GG9, and provides that the laml coloured 
 red and fjreen on the plan marked A A referred to therein shall constitute the 
 improrement area, and prorides for the clearing of the improvement area and for 
 the erection thereon of ttcenti/-four blocks ofdwellinr/s to accommodate 3,870 j^ersons 
 nflhr irorki/i;/ class. 
 
 The Order also requires the widening of Cartwright Street to .30 feet and its 
 extension southwards into Ujiper East Smithfield, and the widening of Glasshouse 
 Street to 30 feet from Rmjal Mint Street to Sir Henri/ Peek's premises, and tlm 
 farmation of a new roadway 2^^) feet wide in continuance of Blue Anchor Yard. 
 Sjient.] "... , . '^ , '. 
 
 40 & 41 VICTORIA. A.D. 1877. 
 
 Metropolitan 
 Board of 
 Works may 
 acquire and 
 hold open 
 spaces for 
 benefit of 
 public. 
 
 18 & 1<J Vict. 
 c. 120. 
 
 Right of 
 entry to 
 places of 
 recreation 
 may be con- 
 veyed to 
 Melropolitan 
 Board of 
 Works. 
 
 Provision for 
 
 keeping up 
 open spaces. 
 
 Extent of 
 Act. 
 
 CHAPTER 35. ' 
 
 * An Act for affording Facilities for the Enjoyment by the 
 Public of Open Spaces in the Metropolis. ■'- • 
 
 ■ .r [2d AitgusflSll.'] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 1. The Metropolitan Board of Works! may, by purchase on 
 voluntary sale, or by the gift of the person or persons legally entitled 
 to dispose of the same, acquire or accept the ownership of any 
 open spaces, whether inclosed within rails or palings, or uninclosed, 
 situated in the metropolis, and hold the same in trust for the 
 perpetual use thereof by the public for exercise and recreation. . . . 
 [Part omitted (as to hi/elaics). Superseded 40 Vict. c. viii. ss. 3, 
 4, and 10 ; 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. 6-^. 14—21 ; and 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. ccxxi. .s. 01.] / ' ' 
 
 2. Where any open spaces now are or hereafter may be used as 
 ])laces of exercise and recreation for the inhabitants of certain 
 houses, and the property and right of user is now or hereafter may 
 be vested in one or more persons as owners or occupiers of such 
 houses, such owners and occupiers (if any) may convey to the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, f in trust for the jiublic, the right to 
 enter ujion and use and enjoy snch open spaces, subject to such 
 terms and conditions as may be agreed upon. 
 
 3. The Metropolitan Board of Works f shall be entitled to make 
 such 2)rovision as may be ne(;essary for maintaining and protecting 
 the oj)en spaces so acquired by them. 
 
 4. [Expenses of executing Act. Superseded, 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41^ 
 part iv.] 
 
 5. This Act shall not extend to the royal parks, nor to any 
 land belonging to Her Majesty in right of her Crown or of her 
 
 * See also 41 & 45 Vict. c. 34 ; 50 & 51 Vict. c. 32; and 53 & 54 Vict. c. 15. 
 t Now tlie London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict, c, 41, -s. 40 (8).
 
 [40&4iv,cT.j ''^''"■Tu:;'::^"r;1,s^7 "'"'*' [''n^r.^s.] 519 
 
 (Moiu'i/) Act In? 7. 
 
 w oi'Ks ... or 01 LUC! V uiiiiuissioiiers 
 r tho ('rown Esbitt^ Paviri<,' Act, l>>;ol, 14& 15 Vict, 
 moil within tho nK.'iuniig of " The '^•,,"*^".,(, y. 
 on," uiid '" The M('tr<>|iolitan <^'(»iuinoiis e' i'_>-2. 
 
 Duchy of Laricastor, or any garden, ornamental ground, or orna- 
 mental land for the time being under the management of the 
 Commissioners . . . of . . . W'oi'ks . . . or of the Commissioners 
 tor the time being acting iindrr 
 or to any raetntpolitan eommo 
 Mctrojinlltan C'ommons Act, InO 
 Amendment. Act, Isd'J," nor to any land bcdongiui; to either of •<- *^j!-! Vict, 
 the honourable Societies of the Inner Temple and Mi<ldle Temj)le. ^- ^*''' 
 [^Words omitted (^\f or the time beinq''' and '■^ Her Majetiti/'a''' and 
 " and Public Jhiildinys ") rep. 57 &"58 Vict. c. 56 (-S'./J./i'.).] 
 
 6. The term " metrojiolis " in this Act means all parishes and Meanlnf? of 
 places mentioned in Schedules A., J>., and C. to the . . . Metropolis Iroooiis""*^ 
 Management Act, 1855. [^Word {^' said'') omitted rep. 57 & 58 
 
 Vict. C. m {S.L.R.).'] In the city 
 
 7. The powers in this Act conferred on the Metrojwlitan Board of Lon-ion 
 of Works * shall in the city of London be exercised by the "layor, ^l*^* P^'^^'j^'^^J 
 aldermen, and commons of the said city, who shall defray all the executed by 
 expenses caused by or connected with the execution of such powers. theCorpora- 
 
 8. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, '*^°' 
 
 lo-^ "^ ^ ^ ^ ' Sliort title. 
 
 CHAPTER 52. 
 
 An Act for furtheh amending the Acts relating to the 
 RAISING OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; 
 
 AND FOR other PURPOSES EELATING THERETO. 
 
 [14M August 1877.] 
 
 {Preamble recites 38 & 39 Vict. c. G5, and 39 & 40 Vict. c. 55 {in 
 this Act referred to respectively as " the Act of 1875," and " the Act 
 ^1870."] 
 
 • ^ 1. This Act may be cited as the " Metropolitan Board of Works Short title. 
 (Money) Act, 1877," and the Act of 1^75, the Act of 187r), and this construction 
 Act may be cited together as the "Metropolitan Board of Works of Act. 
 (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1877." 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the Metro- ^^ j^^ "^ ^'''*- 
 politan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871, and the Act 33 ,^t;4 Yi^t 
 of 1875 and the Act of 1870. c 24. 
 
 3—6. {Amendment of limit in ss. 4, 7, 8, and 9 of the Act of^*^-'^'^ ^'''''• 
 18 70 on exjH'nditare for Fire Brigade purposes, and on loans to 
 vestries, district boards, guardians, and corporations, burial boards, 
 and other public bodies. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.P.)^ 
 
 7. [Power for the Board to spend moneys on or in contributing to 
 general imp/ooements till 31 s^ December 1878. Pep. 4(') A: 47 1 /ct. 
 'c. 39 (S.L.P.).'] 
 
 8. [As to expenses for Fire Brigade purposes till 31. s7 J)ecembcr 
 1878. Rep. 40 & 47"F/c'^ c. 39 {S.L.R.). Provision as to carrying 
 
 from time to time, to the Consolidated Loans Fund, such sum as the 
 Treasury approre as s?(/ficie?it to redeem the .stork created for the 
 purjmses of this section in 3U years. Identical with such provision 
 in 38 & 39 I let. c. 03, s. 3.] 
 
 9—10. [_A.s to expenses for the purposes of j}^ & 41 17^/. rc^ 
 ccxxxv., viii., and cc\.; and 35 & 30 Virf. c. elxiii. R</>. 40 i^ 47 
 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 * Now the Loudon County Council. See 51 A: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 .,,„ rrt — 1 The Metropolitan Board of Works r^n r ^i -ir t 
 
 o20 [Chap. viii.J ^ i-tl%'~l [40<k41 Vict.j 
 
 11. [Power to the Board to lend to vestries and distinct boards 
 till Ust December 1878. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict c. 39 (S.L.R.). Pro- 
 vision for repayment within a time to be approved by the Treasury, not 
 exceeding, as to loans for widening streets or for bridges and jmr- 
 chase of lands, 60 years, and other jmrposes 30 years ; and in the 
 case of a loan for not exceeding 30 years requiring the Board from 
 time to time to carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sum as 
 the Treasury approve as sufficient to redeem the stock created for the 
 purposes of this section unthin the period of the loan. Identical with 
 such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 4.] 
 
 12. \_Potver to the Board to lend to guardians till ^\st December 
 1878. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). Provisioji for repayment 
 within a time to be approved by the Treasury, not exceeding 30 years, 
 and as to carrying to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sum as the 
 Treasury approve as sufficient to redeem the stock created for the 
 purposes of this section within the period of the loan. Identical with 
 such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 5.] 
 
 13. \_Power to the Board to lend to corporations, burial boards, 
 etc., until '^Ist December 1878. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.). 
 Provision for repayment within a time to be approved by the Treasury, 
 not exceeding, as to loans for widenings of streets or bridges and 
 purchase of lands, 60 years, and for other purposes Z'<) years', and in 
 the case of a loan for not exceeding 30 years requiring the Board 
 
 from time to time to carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sum 
 as the Treasury approve as sufficient to redeem the stock created 
 
 for the purposes of this section within the period of the loan. Identical 
 with such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 6.] 
 
 14 — 22. \_Power to the Board to raise money by " Metropolitan 
 Bills,'^ and provisions in reference thereto. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict.c. 39 
 {S.L.R.f] 
 
 23. [Alteration of limitation of borrowing poiver i?i 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 102, s. 38. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 Repayments 24. All sums received by the Board in respect of interest on or 
 r* ^° ^M 1 P^^^ciiml of any loan made by them under this Act shall be carried 
 Loans Fund, to the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 25. [Application of the provisions ^ s. 3 ^ 32 & 33 Vict. c. 1 02, 
 to this Act. Spent.'] 
 
 Schedule. [Particulars of new money potvers conferred by this 
 Act. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 An Act to enlarge the Powers of the Metropolitan Board 
 OF Works with respect to the making of certain Bye- 
 laws, TO authorise them to contribute towards the Cost 
 
 OF A PUBLIC KeCREATION GrOUND FOR THE DISTRICTS OF 
 
 Sydenham and Forest Hill, and to confer Powers upon 
 THE Board of Works for the Lewisham District with 
 reference to such Recreation Ground. [24^/^ Apiil 1877.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that the Board of Works for the 
 Lewisham District have acquired 17| acres of land adjoining Mayo 
 Road for the purpwses of a public recreation ground, subject to certain 
 covenants and conditions, which are now spent.]
 
 r^A p Ai \r 1 77ie Afetro/jolitan Board of Works r< <.. » .. „mJ n ^oi 
 
 [40&41 ViCT.J ' . , jr,-^ -^ [LHAr. vni.J o^l 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as " The Metropolilau Board of Work8 Short title. 
 Act, 1877." 
 
 2. In this Act the following words and expressions have the intorpreta- 
 sevcral nicuiiings herehy assi^aicd to thcin, nnlcss there Ix; some- ^'°" *^^ ^^'""•''• 
 thing in the snhject or context repugnant to sneh constructions : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 The expression "the Board" means the Metropolitan Board of 
 ^Vorks * : 
 
 The expression " the District Board " means the Board of Works 
 for tiie Lewisham District f : 
 
 The ex})ression " the parks " means and includes the several 
 ])arks, gardens, heaths, commons, emlMukments, and open 
 spaces in respect whereof hyelaws are by or under the several 
 Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act autiiorised to be 
 made by the Board. 
 [^Part omitted (definition of " two Justices ") spent.'] 
 
 3. The Board may, subject to the provisions of this Act, from General 
 time to time make byelaws as regards " the parks " for all or any P'^'^^J'^j^^ ^ 
 of the following purposes ; (that is to say,) byelaws. 
 
 (1.) Their government, control, and management, and the pre- 
 servation of order and good conduct among persons 
 frequenting them : 
 
 (2.) The exclusion and removal therefrom of gipsies, hawkers, 
 beggars, rogues, and vagabonds : 
 
 (3.) The protection of "the parks," and of the walls, railings, 
 fences, lamp-posts, trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, walks, 
 seats, and other things therein : 
 
 (4.) The prevention of nuisances, annoyances, obstructions, and 
 encroachments : 
 
 (5.) The i)revention of the deposit of road sand, rubbish, or other 
 matter : 
 
 (0.) The ])revention of the illegal taking, cutting, or digging the 
 turf, sods, gravel, clay, sand, gorse, heather, plants, shrubs, 
 trees, and the like : 
 
 (7.) The })revcntion of the posting of bills or })lacards, and the 
 writing, stamping, cutting, printing, drawing, or marking 
 in any manner (»f any word or character, or of any repre- 
 sentation of any object, on any wall, railing, fence, tree, 
 lamp-post, walk, pavement, or seat, or elsewhere in the 
 parks : 
 
 (8.) Tlie prevention of bird catching, bird trapping, and the 
 robbing of birds' eggs or nests : 
 
 (9.) Generally the prevention and restraint of acts or things 
 
 tending to the injury and disfigurement of " the parks," 
 
 or to interference with the use thereof by the public for 
 
 purposes of exercise and recreation. 
 
 ISee also b'd & 54 Met. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; and Gl & 02 Vict. 
 
 c. ccxxi. 5. 01.] 
 
 4. And as regards any heath or common referred to in this Act Special bye- 
 the Board may, in addition to the several matters mentioned in |fJJ[tiiTand 
 the immediately preceding section, from time to time, subject to the commons. 
 
 * Now the Lon.lou County Coiuieil. See 51 & :*•! Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (s). _ 
 f Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of LcwisLam. lS«!e 62 & 63 Viet, 
 c. 14, s. 4.
 
 599 
 
 [Chai'. viii,] 
 
 The Mrfi'opolitfin Board of Work.^ 
 
 Act 1877. 
 
 [40 & 41 Vict.] 
 
 '\ih 
 
 Byelaws 
 under this 
 Act to super- 
 sede those 
 already made. 
 
 Penalties 
 under bye- 
 laws to be 
 paid to 
 Board, 
 
 Board may 
 
 contribute 
 
 towards 
 
 recreation 
 
 ground at 
 
 Sydenham. 
 
 District 
 Board may 
 erect 
 
 refreshment 
 rooms, etc. 
 
 District 
 Board era- 
 powered to 
 pay expenses 
 connected 
 with 
 
 recreation 
 ground out 
 of general 
 rate, etc. 
 
 provisions of this Act, make byelaws for the following or any of 
 the following- ])nrposes ; (that is to say,) 
 
 Tlie prevention of shooting or chasing of game or other animals 
 
 thereon : . ' , ' '„ 
 
 The regulation of assemblages of persons thereon, and of sports 
 and games j^layed there : 
 \ , The regulation of the nse of animals and carriages let out for 
 hire thereon, and of the drivers of carriages, and of jjersons 
 letting out for hire or using animals or carriages thereon : 
 The prevention of vehicles being driven or horses being exercised 
 by grooms and others on any part of snch heath or common 
 not set apart by the Board for the purpose. 
 \_See note to s. 3.] ■ _ . •■ t- . . 
 
 5 — 9. [Further provisiojis as to snaking, allotvance, and enforce- 
 ment of b}/elaws. Superseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 16 — 19 ; 
 and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 10. When any byelaws are made under this Act those for which 
 they are substituted shall no longer be in force, and the powers 
 of the Acts in relation thereto shall cease to be in operation, or to 
 have any effect, except so far as may be necessary for the comple- 
 tion of any proceedings or the recovery of any penalties thereunder. 
 
 11. All penalties which may be recovered under any of the bye- 
 laws made by the Board under the jiowers of this Act shall be 
 paid to the Board, and shall be carried by them to the credit of 
 the funds set apart or appropriated by them towards "the park's" 
 expenses. •-.,, ^a ,: -A .. .>,...; . ..■ ,. -. , 
 
 12. The Board may, out of any money raised or authorised to be 
 raised by them under any Act, and not required for the purposes 
 of that Act, contribute any sum not exceeding four thousand two 
 hundred and fifty pounds to and towards the providing by the 
 District Board of the recreation ground before referred to, but 
 thereupon the District Board shall be bound at all times to main- 
 tain the said ground as a place of recreation, and in a good state 
 of repair, to the satisfaction in all respects of the Board, subject to 
 the herein-before recited covenants and conditions in the said grant 
 contained. " '-'^ ■ '=, 
 
 13. The District feoard may, with the consent of the Board 
 under their common seal, erect and maintain on any jiart of the 
 recreation ground one or more lodges for the residence of the keeper 
 or keepers thereof, and also refreshment and retiring rooms and 
 urinals, and such other accommodation as may be necessary for the 
 convenience of the public frequenting the said ground, and may 
 from time to time demise such rooms for any term not exceeding 
 three years upon such terms and conditions as may be approved by 
 the Board. [_See also 56 & 57 Vict. c. Ixxi. s. 25.] 
 
 14. The District Board may from time to time defray all costs 
 and expenses which have been or may be incurred by them in 
 acquiring, laying out, [)lanting, maintaining, and improving the said 
 recreation ground, and in carrying into execution the [jowers of this 
 Act, so far as they relate to the District Board, out of and by means 
 of the general rate which they have now power to levy within 
 their district, and for the purposes aforesaid the District Board may 
 also exercise the jjowers of borrowing money, and of mortgaging, 
 charging, and applying the general rate, and otherwise, contained
 
 tAfx P A^ ^r T The Metropolitan Board of Woi'ks ^c^„,r. ,.;;; n --;oq 
 
 [40 & 41 Vict.] ^ Act l'^"'^ [CnAP. mu.J o^.j 
 
 in " The Metropolis Management Act, 1855," or in any Act or Acts 
 amending the said Act of 1855. \_Se,e also 62 & 03 Vict.e. 14, h. 10.] 
 
 15. The District Board may, subject to the j)r(ivisions of this Act, District 
 from time to time make byelaws for all or any of tin' ^''''^^^''»cC .n'.'jk'ifb^e- 
 pnriwses ; (namely,) _ laws as to 
 
 For protection of the said recreation gronnd, and of the railings recreation 
 and fences thereof, and of the lamp-posts and other tilings ground- 
 thereon : 
 
 For protection of any trees, shruhs, plants, flowers, grass-walks, 
 seats, and other things thereon : 
 
 For the prevention of j)Osting of bills or placards, and the writing, 
 stamping, cutting, printing, drawing, or making in any 
 manner of any word or cliai-acter, or ol" any representation 
 of any object, on any wall, railing, fence, tree, lamp-post, 
 pavement, or seat, or elsewhere in the said recreation 
 ground : 
 
 For preservation of order and good conduct amongst persons 
 fre([uenting the said recreation ground : 
 
 Generally for prevention or restraint of acts or things tending 
 to the injury or disfigurement of the recreation ground or 
 anything in the same, or to interference with the use thereof 
 by the public for the purpose of exercise and recreation. 
 
 16. The provisions of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, as Extendinp^ 
 to byelaws made by a district board, shall extend and a])i)Iy to the ^J^su^.i/^''"" 
 byelaws to be made by the District Board under this Act, and for byelaws. 
 this purpose section 202 of the said Act of 1855 shall extend and 
 
 apply to such last-mentioned byelaws. 
 
 17. \_Kxpertses of obtaining Act. SpentJ] 
 
 The SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Act refers. 
 
 Title or short title of Act. , Session and Chapter. 
 
 The Fiiisburv Park Act, 1857 20 &; 21 Vic. cap. cl. 
 
 The Thames'Embankment (South Side) Act, iso;^ . . 2fi & 27 Vic. cap. Ixxv.' 
 
 The Southwark I'ark Act, 18(54 27 Vic. cap. iv. 
 
 The Hampstead Heath Act, 1S71 :J4 & 35 Vic. cap. Ixxvii. 
 
 'J'he Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act, 1H71 (relat- . 
 
 ing to Bhickheath) 34 i: 3;") Vic. cap. hi i. 
 
 The Metropolitan Commons Second Supplemental Act, 1S71 
 
 (relating to Shepherd's Bush Common) . . . . 34 & 35 Vic. cap. Ixiii. 
 The Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act, 1S72 (relat- , 
 
 ing to H.acknev Common) 35 &; 36 Vic. cap. xliii. 
 
 Tlie Thames Embankment (Korth) Act, 1872 . . . 35 & :5(; Vic. cap. Ixvi. 
 The Thames Embankment (.South) .\ct, 1873 . . . 3t) Vic. cap. viL 
 The Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act, 1873 (relat- i 
 
 ing to Tooting Beck Common) ! 36 & 37 Vic. cap. Ixxxvi 
 
 The Leicester Square Act, 1874 
 
 The Metropolitan Board of Works, Various Powers, Act, 
 
 1875 (relating to Tooting Graveney Common) . 
 The Metropolitan Board of Works. Various Bowers, Act, ) 
 
 1876 (relating to the Thames Embankment, Chelsea) . 39 & 40 Vic. cap. Ixxix 
 
 37 Vic. cap. x. 
 
 38 & 39 Vic. cap. clxxix. 
 
 * Semble intended for the Thames Embankment Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 75).
 
 524 [Chap, xcix.] The Metropolis Toll Bridges Act 1877. [40 & 41 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 As to con- 
 sideration in 
 case of tbe 
 company in 
 Tart II. of 
 schedule. 
 
 CHAPTEll XCIX. 
 
 An Act to provide for throwing open for the free use of the 
 Public certain Toll Bridges within the Metropolis. 
 
 \\2th Jul;/ 1877.] 
 
 \Preamble.~\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as " The Metropolis Toll Bridges Act, 
 
 1877." 
 
 2. In the constrnction of this Act the following terms shall have 
 tlie meanings herein -after assigned them : 
 
 " The Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board of Works.* 
 The term " bridge " shall include any of the bridges mentioned 
 in the first column of the schedule to this Act annexed, and all 
 buildings and works in, under, upon, or forming part of the same. 
 
 The term " company " used in relation to any bridge shall mean 
 the company, body, or persons sjiecified in the second column of 
 Part I. or Part II. of the schedule to this Act annexed, opposite to 
 the name of such bridge. 
 
 The term "special Act"' with respect to a company shall mean 
 and include any and every Act of Parliament relating to the bridge 
 of such company, or any matter connected therewith or incident 
 thereto. 
 
 The term " undertaking " shall mean, — 
 
 With respect to any company specified in Part I. of the schedule 
 to this Act annexed, the bridge of such company and the 
 approach roads to and toll-houses on or near the same, and all 
 lands and works necessarily occupied or used for the purposes 
 of the same, and all the estate, right, title, and interest of such 
 company in or to the same, and all rights, powers, and autho- 
 rities and privileges of such company in relation thereto, under 
 their special Act or otherwise ; and 
 With respect to the company specified in Part II. of the schedule 
 to this Act annexed, all rights of way or passage over the 
 bridge of such company, and all powers, authorities, and 
 privileges enjoyed or exerciseable by such company with re- 
 sj^ect to such rights of way or i)assage, and all rights, powers, 
 authorities, and privileges enjoyed or exerciseable by such 
 company with respect to tolls and charges arising from or in 
 connexion with such rights of way or passage over such bridge, 
 and all the estate, right, title, and interest of such company in 
 or to such rights of way or passage, tolls, and charges, under 
 their special Act or otherwise. 
 
 3 — 4. [Board to execute Act — Power to act hg a committee. 
 Superseded hy the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 {see 
 Appendix), and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 75 and 82.] 
 
 5 — 7. [Power to the Boai^d to p)urchxise Companies undertakings 
 and provisions as to purchase. Spent.~\ 
 
 8. The amount of the consideration, when agreed upon or ascer- 
 tained in manner aforesaid in respect of all or any of the under- 
 takings of the company specified in Part II. of the schedule to this 
 Act annexed, . . . shall be j^aid or payable to such company upon 
 the conditions following, in this Act referred to as " the conditions 
 of purchase ; " (that is to say,) 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict, c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [40 & 41 Vict.] The Metropolis Toll Bridges Act 1877. [Chap, xcix.] 525 
 
 Stihjoct to tlie provisions of this Act, such coini)any shall maintain 
 and k(M'j) their brid^^c; iu substantial repair, suitable and open to the 
 ])ublic at all times lor every deserij)tion of foot traffic, which con- 
 ditions such comjianv shall and thev are hereby reiiuired to fnllil. 
 
 In case any ditlerence shall arise between such company and the 
 Board as to whether or not, snch company, after ])ayment of any snch 
 consideration in one sum . . . , shall IVoiii time to time have fulMlled 
 all the conditions of ])urcha8e, such dilference shall be decided 
 by an arbiti-ator to be ai)pointed l)y the Board of Trade on the 
 application of such company or of the Board, whose decision as to 
 such dilference and as to the payment of the costs incurred in the 
 proceedings before him shall be final and binding upon such company 
 and the Board. . . . 
 
 \_l*art)i omit fed (as to o/)fio)i to the Board, loldch was not exercised, 
 to jxifi consideration hi/ ivaij of an annual rentrha>-(/e) spent.'] 
 
 9 — 14. [^Provisions as to ])atjment of consideration. >Sj/ent.] 
 
 15. When the receipt for the amount of the consideration . . . Transfer of 
 agreed u})on or so ascertained as aforesaid to be i)aid for the "°^*'^'''*'''"^- 
 j)urchase of the undertaking of any com])any has been signed in 
 manner directed by this Act, then such undertakini,' shall, by virtue 
 
 thereof and of this Act, be transferred to and vested in the Board, 
 and they shall be entitled to immediate ])Ossession, and they shall 
 have absolute control of such undertaking freed and discharged from 
 all leases, contracts, debts, charges, and liabilities whatsoever of 
 the company affecting the same, and thereupon all duties, obliga- 
 tions, and liabilities of the company in respect of the same shall, 
 save as by tliis Act expressly ])rovided, absolutely cease and 
 determine. \_l\i/-t omitted (as to first pajjment of rentcharge) spent.] 
 
 16. After the Board has acquired absolute control of any under- Effect of 
 taking, the tolls and charges arising from or in connexion with the ^•'^'i^^^''' 
 bridge or bridges comprised in such undertaking shall cease to be 
 levied thereon and the said bridge or bridges shall be open free to 
 
 the i)ublic, and the said bridge or bridges if specified in Part I. of 
 the schedule to this Act annexed, and the roads over the same, shall 
 be maintained and rei)aired by the Board, and the said bridges shall 
 not be or become county bridges,* but the approach roads thereto 
 shall be j)ublic highways maintainable ancl repairable as other 
 highways in the parish or district in which the same shall be situate 
 respectively. 
 
 Provided always, that the bridges specified in the several divisions 
 herein-after mentioned shall be open free to the public at one and 
 the same time ; tluit is to say, 1st division, Waterloo Bridge, and 
 the footbridge at C'haring Cross and also the footbridge at I'annon 
 (Street, unless the same be then closed antl discontinued in accord- 
 ance with the provisions of this Act ; 2nd division, Lambeth Bridge, 
 Vauxhall Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, Albert Bridge, and Battersea 
 Bridge ; 3rd division, Wandsworth Bridge, Pnlham (otherwise 
 Putney) P)ritlge, antl Hammersmith Briilge. 
 
 17 — 21. [^Pending proceedings not to abate — Companies to continue 
 liable for their debts — As to propertg of Companies not part of their 
 undertakings — Compensation to Companies' o//icers. Spent.] 
 
 22. [Power to the Board to sell surplus lands and. as to applica- 
 tion of moftegs arising .therefrom. Spent. See also 53 iV; .")4 Vict, 
 c. 41, .S-. 25.] 
 
 * Amended 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxvii, s. 46.
 
 526 [Chap, xcix.] The Mttropolis Toll Bridges Act 1877. [40 & 41 Vict.] 
 
 Special pro- 23. Whereas under the provisions of a local and personal Act 
 
 Deptford* *° passed in the first year of the reign of Her present Majesty, that is 
 
 Creek Bridge, to say, the Act first Victoria, chapter one hundred and twenty (in 
 
 7 w. 4. and this Act referred to as " the Act of 1837 "), the London and Greenwich 
 
 1 Vict. c. cxx. Eailway Company * are required to pay by way of compensation, 
 
 recompense, or allowance to the Deptford Creek Bridge Company in 
 
 every year the difference (if any) between the moneys received in 
 
 such year by the said Deptford Creek Bridge Company by way of 
 
 rent for the tolls taken in respect of such bridge and a sum of two 
 
 thousand three hundred and twenty-five pounds : 
 
 And whereas it is expedient that from and after the transfer to 
 the Board of the undertaking of the Deptford Creek Bridge Company, 
 provision should be made for the payment to the Board of so much 
 on account of such compensation, recompense, or allowance as shall 
 be just, and as but for the passing of this Act would continue to be 
 paid to the Deptford Creek Bridge Company by the London and 
 Greenwich Railway Company * : Therefore, 
 
 Li estimating the consideration to be paid for the undertaking of 
 the Deptford Creek Bridge Company, such consideration shall be 
 estimated upon the basis that the Deptford Creek Bridge Company 
 is entitled to receive not only the actual tolls of such bridge, but 
 also annually and in perpetuity from the London and Greenwich 
 Eailway (Jompany,* their lessees and assigns, the diff"erence between 
 such tolls and the sum of two thousand three hundred and twenty- 
 five pounds, and the net annual value of the tolls and revenue 
 of the said company shall be ascertained separately in manner 
 by this Act prescribed, and due regard shall be had to the liability 
 of the London and Greenwich Railway Company,* their lessees and 
 assigns, under section nine of the Act of 1837, to the payments 
 therein prescribed in respect of such tolls and revenue and to the 
 possible determination thereof, and the amount of the net annual 
 value of such tolls as specifically ascertained is herein-after in this 
 section referred to as " the net annual value of the tolls of Deptford 
 Creek Bridge." 
 
 The London and Greenwich Railway Company,* their lessees and 
 assigns, shall, from and after the transfer of the Deptford Creek 
 Bridge to the Board, from time to time pay to the Board the 
 difference between the sum of two thousand three hundred and 
 twenty-five pounds mentioned in the said ninth section of the Act 
 of 1837 and the net annual value of the tolls of Deptford Creek 
 Bridge, at the times and in the manner provided by the said ninth 
 section for the payments to be made thereunder to the Deptford 
 Creek Bridge Company, and as if the amounts so from time to 
 time payable had by the Act of 1837 been specifically mentioned 
 and been made payable to the Board instead of to the Deptford 
 Creek Bridge Company : Provided always, that the Board and the 
 London and Greenwich Railway Company,* and their lessees and 
 assigns, may at any time contract and agree for the payment by 
 the London and Greenwich Railway Company,* their lessees or 
 assigns, of a capital sum in lieu of the before-mentioned annual 
 payments. 
 7W. 4. and The properties by the tenth section of the Act of 1837 charged 
 1 Tict. c. cxx. ^s\\\\ the payment to the Deptford Creek Bridge C/ompany of com- 
 pensation, recompense, or allowance shall continue to be charged 
 
 * This Company's undertaking was leased to the Houth-eastern Railway Company 
 by the London and Greenwich Railway Company's Act 1845.
 
 [4U & 41 Vict.] The Metropolis Toll Bndgea Act 1877. [CriAP. xcix.] 527 
 
 witli the paymoiit of tho monoys by this Act made ])ayahle to the 
 Board on account of such coiupensation, recompense, or allowance 
 by the London and (Greenwich Uaihvay Company,* in like manner in 
 every respect as if the same had by the said Act l)een made payable 
 to the I^oard instead of to the l)e])tf()rd (!reek 15rid<(e Company, and 
 all tlie ])o\vers and remedies l)y the said tenth section provided for • 
 the recovery by the said Deptfoi-d Creek Bridge Com})any of 
 com])ensation, recompense, or allowance which mi«?ht from time to 
 time become due and be uni)iii(l l)y the said London and Grecnwi(;h 
 Kaihvay Comj)any * sluill enure to tin- benefit of and may be exennsed 
 by the Board in like manner in every respect as if the Jioard were in 
 the said section substituted for the.Deptford Creek Bridge Company. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Part omittt'd(as to therh/ht of the South-eastern Railwa)/ Compart}/ 
 to he heard in proceedings relating to consideration to be paid under 
 this Act) spent. \ 
 
 24. [^Greenwich District Hoard of Works to control Dcptford 
 draichridgc. Superseded 49 & 50 Vict. c. cxii. s. 39.J 
 
 25. \_l)issolution of companies. Spent.'] 
 
 26. [Power to the Board to borrow .£l,50O,O0iJ. Spent 7\ 
 
 27. {.Tiistices of the Peace of Middlesex and Surreg to contribute 
 toicards maintenance of bridges. Superseded bg readjustment under 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 4U (7). See ibid. s. 90.] 
 
 28. {^Expenses of executing Act, Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 part iv.] 
 
 29. All suras which from time to time the Board may require for Moneys 
 the purpose of carrying to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sums required 
 
 as may be approved by the Treasury as necessary to be so carried in anTdiScr 
 respect of moneys borrowed under the authority of this Act, and all boards to be 
 sums which from time to time the Board may Vecpiire to defray any ^'"sed as a 
 such expenses as aforesaid and which any vestryt or district board't ^®°^'"*' '^^• 
 may by precept be required to pay to the Board in pursuance of the 
 provisions of this Act, shall in such precept be termed " bridge 
 exi)enses,"]: and shall be paid by such vestry f and district 
 board t respectively, and shall be raised in like manner as if the same 
 were Required by the said vestryt or district boardt for defraying such 
 of the expenses of such vestryt or district boardt as are chargeable 
 ui)on their general rate. 
 
 30. The South-eastern Railway Company may from time to time As to the two 
 close such part or })arts of the Charing (!ross Railway J>ridge as may f«>otbri(lgesof 
 for the time being be apj)ropriated for the purposes' of foot traHic, e'Jst«m^'^' 
 and discontinue the use thereof for such purposes upon substituting iL-uiway 
 
 in lieu thereof such other adequate and proper accommodation for Company, 
 the said foot trnilic as may be agreed upon between the Board and 
 the Company, or failing such agreement as may be settled by 
 arbitration, and tiiereu])on all rights of way or j)assage over such 
 })art or parts so closed as aforesaid shall absolutely cease and 
 determine, and the provisions of tliis Act in rclaliiui thereto shall 
 ap]ily to the accommodation so substituted in lieu thereof as aforesaid 
 
 * This Company's undertaking was leased to tlie South-eastern llailway Company 
 by the London and Greenwich Railway Company's Act 1845. 
 
 t Now the Mctrojiolitan liorouj^li Council. See 62 I's: WW Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 X Now raised as part of tho general county rate. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 3.
 
 528 
 
 [Chap, xcix.] The Metropolis Toll Bridges Act 1877. [40 & 41 Vict.] 
 
 Saving rights 
 of London 
 Gaslight 
 Company, 
 
 in every respect as if such substituted accommodation had originally 
 been the bridge of such company as defined by this Act. 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 \Part omitted (as to the right of the South-eastern Railway 
 Company to close the Canyion Street footbridge) spent.^ 
 
 31. Nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice, affect, or alter 
 any right, privilege, or power vested in or enjoyed or exerciseable 
 by the London Gaslight Company* in respect of any main or pipe 
 laid under, over, or along any bridge or the approaches thereto. 
 
 32. \_Sacing the rights of the Thames Conseruancy^ 
 
 33. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 The SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. 
 
 Paet I. 
 
 First Column. 
 
 Second Column. 
 
 fl. Hammersmith Suspension Bridge 
 J2. Fulham (otherwise Putney) Bridge 
 
 3. Wandsworth Bridge . 
 J4. Battersea Bridge \ 
 
 5. Albert Bridge / * * ' 
 §6. Vauxhall Bridge 
 
 7. Lambeth Bridge 
 
 8. Waterloo Bridge 
 
 ||9. Deptford Creek Bridge 
 10. Chelsea Suspension Bridge 
 
 Hammersmith Bridge Company. 
 Fulham Bridge Company. 
 Wandsworth Bridge Company. 
 
 Albert Bridge Company. 
 
 Vauxhall Bridge Company. 
 
 Lambeth Bridge Company. 
 
 Waterloo Bridge Company. 
 
 Deptford Creek Bridge Company. 
 
 The Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
 
 Works and Public Buildings. 
 
 Paet II. 
 
 111. 
 
 Footbridge at Charing Cross Railway^ 
 Station, as set apart for the use 
 of foot passengei-s on the 1st day 
 of January 1877. 
 **12. Footbridge at Cannon Street Rail- 
 way Station, as set apart for the 
 use of foot passengers on the 1st 
 day of January 1877. 
 
 South-eastern Piailway Company. 
 
 * Amalgamated with the Graslight & Coke Company by an Order in Council made 
 in 188.3 under 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxv. ss. 18—24. 
 
 f See 44 & 45 Vict. c. cxcii. s. 50. 
 
 j New bridges in lieu of these were built under powers obtained by 44 & 45 
 Vict. c. cxcii. 
 
 § The old bridge was altered under powers obtained by 44 & 45 Vict. c. cxcii., and 
 powers to rebuild the bridge were obtained by 58 k. 59 Vict. c. cxxix. 
 
 II This bridge was reconstructed in 1881. See 44 & 45 Vict. c. cxcii. 
 
 ^ The original bridge, which was built and carried on as a toll bridge undertaking 
 under 6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. cxxxiii., 6 Vict. c. xix., 8 i: 9 Vict. c. Ixii., 12 & 13 Vict. c. li. 
 and 14 & 15 Vict. c. cxliv. by the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Footbridge 
 Company (by 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ixii. called the " Charing Cross Bridge Company "), 
 was, with the Bridge Company's undertaking, acquired by the Charing Cross 
 Railway Company, who removed the original bridge and provided this footbridge 
 in place thereof. See the Charing Cross Railway Act 1859, and the Hungerford 
 Market and Charing Cross Bridge Act 1860. See also 49 &; 50 Vict. c. cxii. ss. 7 and 22. 
 The Charing Cross Railway Company was amalgamated with the South-eastern Rail- 
 way Company by the Charing Cross Railway Company's Act 18G3 (20 & 27 Vict. c. cxv.) 
 
 ** In consequence of this footbridge having been closed by the Railway Company, 
 no transfer thereof was effected under this Act.
 
 Metropolis ( Gouhton Street, Flower 
 [40 & 41 Vict.] and Dean Street, W/iitechapel, etc.) [Chap, ciii.] r^^g 
 
 improvement I'roviaional Orders 
 f'niifiniHifhii Art 1877. 
 
 (!IlAi'TKI{ cm. 
 
 An Act TO coNFiuM (natTAis PitovisioxAL OitoKits of on-k of Hkr 
 Ma.iksty's PiuNcii'Ai, Skckrtaiuks of Statk F0I{ TIIK ImI'IIoVK- 
 MKNT OF certain ArKAS WITHIN TIIK M KTROl'OLIS. 
 
 [VZt/f .hi I;/ 1877.] 
 
 [/'/7V/////>/r,] 
 
 1. Tlic ( >r(lcrs set out in llic sclicilulc liciv iinlii unnexecl are Provisional 
 II r 1 Orders in 
 
 hereby f(.Mlirn.c(l. scho.l-.le 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Gonlst.on Street, fjn'ir'ned. 
 Klowef :iii(l Dean Street, Wliiteeh;i])el, etc.) I iiiproveiiieiit l*ro- Shoit title, 
 visional Orders Conlirmatioii Act, 1877. 
 
 SCHEnULE. 
 
 Miiritoi'oi.is (Gon.sTON R'litEiCT an'd Fi.owkk .\nii Di.an Stukkt, 
 
 Willi i';<ii Ai'Ki.,) Imi'kovkmicn r. 
 
 [ProvixiDiitil Order of the Home Si'creMiry of 14/// Ma;/ 1877 roiifirmhuj u Scheme 
 pn j)((rr(I 1)1/ the .]fetroj>nI!fan Hoard of Worl'x, under tlw. Art/r:uiis and Luhonrcm 
 DiriU'nKfs Iir/irorenie/d Act \>^7[), for the iwprorement (f two iinhralth;/ arrant iritliin 
 the ]\'h/li'chuj)(l distrlcf. Tlir Order recitea that the minthcr of jwrsona of the 
 ■iror/iiiaj clafss displaced Ixj the Scheme is estimated at 3,2-17, a/id that, in addition, 
 there are in the Flower and Dean Street area registered lodf/ing-honnes containing 
 \2'.) rooni!^, irifh accommodation for Ibl ocnijtanlH. Tlie Order proridex for clearing 
 the imjirorcmeid areas, and for the erection tln-reon of dnrllinga to accommmhite 
 3,2(50 persons of ike working class, and requires the widening (f Middlesex Street to 
 AO feet from \Vhitechapel High Street to Went worth Street; Goiilston Street to 40 
 feet; New doidston Street to ;H) feel ; Wenlworth Street to AQ feet from Middlesex 
 Street to Old Castle Street ; WtntiiyirtJi Street to 40 feet from Commercial Street to 
 George Yard; George Street to HO feet ; Flower and Dean Street to HO feet from the 
 rear of houses in Commercial Street to George Street ; and Upper Keate Street and 
 Keate Court to HO feet. Spent.] 
 
 Metropolis (Saint CrKoKCiK tiik Mautyu, Sihtiiw.vrk,) Improvement 
 
 \_Prorisi(mal Order <f the Home Sccretarg of lAfh Ma;/ 1877 confirming a Scheme 
 prejinrcd h;i the Mctrojmlltan Hoard of ]yorks, tinder the Artizans and Labourers 
 Dwellings Improremeiit Act lHlf),for the improrement of three unheolth;/ areas tcithin 
 the parish of Saint George the Marti/r, Soutlncarl:. The Order recites that the nuudier 
 of persons of the working class displaced hij the Scheme is estimated at 920, and 
 that in addition there are in the Mint Street area 10 registered lodging-houses 
 with C)\ rooms, and accommodation for 340 persons. The Order jirorides for 
 clearing the improvement areas, and for the erection, thereon of dwellings to accom- 
 modate I, \0S persons of the working class, and requires the widening of Mint Street 
 to HO feel between Harrow Street and Blue Vxdl Allnj ; Harrow Street to HO feet 
 between Mint Street and Sujfolk ( '<inrl ; lihte li(dl Alleg to HO feet ; Webber h'ou; so 
 far as it is affected b;/ the Scheme, to HO feet ; Tower Street, so far as it is affected 
 bi/ the Scheme, to HO feet ; and King Street, so far as it is affected bg the Scheme, to 
 HO feet. Spent.} 
 
 Metkoi'oi.is (Bepfokdiutky, Saint MAKiiN-ix-iiiE-FiELns, and Strand 
 
 District,) Improvement. 
 
 [Prori-tional Order (f the Home Secretary of Hlh Ma;i 1877 confirming a Scheme 
 jirejiared b;/ the .}fetroj>oHtan Board of Works, under the Artiz(tns a)id Labourers 
 Dwellimfs lmpri>rement Act 187;'),./'"/" the improrement of an unhealthy area parti;/ 
 loithin the parish if St. .Uarlin-in-the-Fields a)id parti g tcithin the Strand district. 
 The Order recites that the number ofjnrsons disjjlaccd by the Scheme is estimated at 
 797. The Order prorides for clearing the improvement area, and for the erection 
 thereon of direllings to accommodate 817 j)ersons (f the working class, and requires 
 the widening of Bedfordbury to HO feet ; Chamlos Street to 46 feet between No. Gil 
 and Bedfordbury ; and for a neto street, HO feet wide, to be formed from Bedfordbury 
 to Bedford Cmrl. Sjient.] 
 
 34
 
 The Metropolis {Great Wild Street, 
 o30 [Chap, cxxxiii.] etc.) Improvement Frovisional [40 & 41 Vict.] 
 
 Orders Conjirmation Act 1877. 
 
 CHAPTER CXXXIII. 
 
 *An Act to confipvM certain Provisional Orders of one of 
 Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the 
 
 lMPRt)VEMENT OF CERTAIN UNHEALTHY ArEAS WITHIN THE 
 
 Metropolis. [23^/ ./?/(/ 1877.] 
 
 Provisionni {_Preamhle^, 
 
 Orders in \^ The Orders set out in the scliednle hereunto annexed are 
 
 SSi. ''"eby confirmed. 
 
 Short title. 2. This Aft may be cited as The Metropolis (Great Wild Street, 
 
 etc.) Improvement Provisional Orders Confirmation Act, 1877. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Metropolis (Great Wild Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields,) Improvement. 
 
 \ProvWioiml OrdpT of the Home Secretnry of llth May 1877 confirming a 
 Scheme ^»T^)rtr«Z by the Metropolitan Board of Works under the Artizans and 
 Labourers DicelUjigs Improvcmeid Act 187.5 for the iinproveine)it of an unhealthy 
 area in the parinh. of St. Giles-iti-the-Fiehls. The Order recites that the number of 
 persons of the working class dis2)laced hy the Scheme is estimated at 1,598, arid 
 that in addition there are 5 registered lodging-houses., containing 44 rooms, irith 
 accommodation for 241 pej'.w??.^. The Order provides for clearing the imjirore- 
 nient area and for the erection thereon of dweUings to accommodate \fil[) persons 
 of the ioorking chrss, and requires the widening of Princes Street to AO feet between 
 Drury Lane and Great Wild Street, and of the eastern end of Great Wild Street to 
 40 f'et. Spent.] 
 
 Metropolis (Pear Tree Court, Clerkenwell,) Improvement. 
 
 \_rrovisional Order of the Home Secretary of 11th May 1877 confirming a 
 Scheme ptrepared by the MetropoHta)i Board of Worlcs iinder the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings hnprovement Act 1875 for the iu,provement <f an nnhealthy 
 area i)i the 2Jarish (f St. James, Clerkcnivell. The Order recites that the number 
 of i^ersons of the working class displaced by the Scheme is estimated at 410. The 
 Order ^j/v>y/c/^s for clearing the imjirorement area, and the erecfio?i thereon of 
 diri'Uinys to accommodate 454 persons of the worl'ing class, and also requires the 
 icideniitg of the north-west end of Clerkenwell Close to 67 feet, the formation of a 
 new street, No. 1, 30 feet wide from Clerkc/rwell Close to Robert's Court, and of 
 a new street, No. 2, 'i() feet wide from Clerkenwell Close in a south-ivesterly direction 
 towards Coppnce Row. Spent.~\ 
 
 Metropolis (Whitecross Street, St. Luke,) Improvement. 
 
 [^Provisional Order (f the Home Secretary of 11 th May 1877 confirming a 
 Scheme prepared by the Metropolitan Board of Works under the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dv:elUngs Inqn-ovement Act 1875 for the i/uproreu/ent of certain 
 unhealthy areas in the parish, of St. Lake, Middlesex.^ The Order recites that 
 the number of pe7'sons of the working class to be displaced by the Scheme is 
 estimated at ?>,^)'i\. The Order provides for clearing the improvement areas and 
 fur the erection thereon of dwellings to accommodate 'd,^^^ jiersons of the working 
 class. The Order also requires the widening of {No. 1) Coleman Street, on the 
 south side to 4:0 feet, and its e.vtension, (f the same width, into Whitecross Street ; 
 the formation of a new street. No. 2, 40 feet wide, in continuation of No. 1, 
 from Whitecross Street to Golden Lane ; a new street, No. 3, 30 feet tvide, 
 in continuatio7i of Banner Street, from Whitecross Street to Reform Place, and 
 20 feet wide theuce to Hartshorn Court ; a nem stveet. No. 4, 30 feet wide, to connect 
 No8. 2 a)ul 3 in the line (f Little Cheapside ; a neio street, N^o. 5, 40 feet wide, 
 from Bnnhill Rou} to Whitecross Street in the line of Tujisfers Alley ; a new street, 
 No. 6, 30 feet wide, from the wide part (f LamVs Buildings to W hitecross Street, 
 in the line if Blue Anchov Alley ; a -new street, N^o. 7, 3l) feet wide, in continua- 
 tion of Chequer Alley to Whitecross Street ; a new street. No. 8, 30 feet ivide, con- 
 necting No. 7 loith Coleman Street ; and a new street. No. 9, 30 feet wide, connect- 
 ing street No. 7 toith street No. 5, in line of Graham Buildings ; the vndening 
 
 * This Act was amended by 41^ & 44 Vict. c. cxxxi. 
 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 r^n ji 17 n MfJroijolitaii (^ominons Supplemental rn • -i roi 
 
 [40 & 41 Vict.] ^ zleM.s77 [Chap. cci.J 031 
 
 o/" ]l7u7^n'0ss Street to 40 /(»^'< f<« ///^ cant xide from Bullock Alley to Foster's 
 hiuldiiujii, (Did of (Jhe//ufr Allri/ to ]Hferf, or thcnrdionfs, for the leiifjth (f (Jeorge's 
 Court. Sjxiil.^ 
 
 MKTKorni.is (IIicii Stukkt, 1.s],in(;t()N,) I.Mritovi:.\ii:xT. 
 
 [Proviaiounl Order of tin; Home Hecretunj (f Ylth May 1877 confirrninfi a 
 Scheme prejjured by the Metropiditan Hoard of Worki^ under the Artizans and 
 Liiltourem DireWnKj^ I iiiin-onineHt A<t 1^7.') for the iiiijiroreiiieut of oil vidiedlthy 
 (irrii ill the jxirixli <f St. .'/'"■//, Isliiit/toii. 'I'lie Ordir recitex that the numher <f 
 persotis tf the loorhiuf/ class to be disjiluced by the Scheme is estimated at .01.0. The 
 Order jiroridi'x for clear/nf/ the improremenl arm and for the erection of diceUinrjs 
 llieriiin to accoiittnodate bUi't persons <f the v:orkinij clasSy and retptires the ivideu/mj 
 of liluck Horse Yard to '^bfeet. Spent.] 
 
 MicTKoroMs (Oi.ii PvE Strket, Westminstek,) Improvement. 
 
 \_Prorlsii)iiid Order of the Home Secretary of \lth Maij 1877 confirming a 
 Si'heiiir prt'pareil by the Metropolitan Hoard of Works under the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dirrlli/iys Jniprorenienl ^Icl ] HI 5 for the iinjirorement (f an unhialthy 
 urea in the Westminster distriit. Tlie Order recites that the /rumher of jiersons of 
 the icorking class to be displaced by the Scheme is estimated at 874. 77/^ Order 
 jirorides far clearing the imjjrorement area and fir the erection tfiernm if dwellings 
 to accomnnidate H7(\ ])ersons if the working class. (Did requires the vvihuinr/ of part 
 of Orchard Strut to 40 feet ; Old Pye Street to WO feet between New Pye Street and 
 St. Anns Street; St. Anns Street to 40 feet between Orchard Street and Old Pye 
 Street ; New Pye Strert to WO feet ; and Perkins Penis to ?,0 feet from the rear of 
 housrs in Great Peter Street to Old Pye Street. S/ienl.^ 
 
 CHAPTER CCI. 
 
 * An Act to confirm Schemes under the Metropolitan Commons 
 Act, 1806, ano the Metropolitan ('ommons Amendment Act, 
 18()'.), RELATiNc; p.espectivelv TO Ealixg Commons, Clapham 
 (Common, and Bostall Heath Common. \^Z( I August IsTT.] 
 
 [^Pi'camblc recites (inter alia) that the Tnrlo.^ure Co)n?)?issio?2ers 
 have in pursuance of 2S) k ^M) Vict. c. 122, ami '-VZ Is. 3;i Vict. c. lOT, 
 certijied schemes for the estahlishment of local management icith 
 respect to Kali ng Commons^ Bostall Heath Common., and Clapham 
 Common7\ 
 
 1. The seliemes for the estahlishment of local manno-craent with Scliomcs as 
 
 respect to Ealing Commons, situate in the conntv of ]\n(l(llesex, and |? ''^''''"S 
 . ', '^,, . , ' . . (ominous. 
 
 With respect to (clapham ( onimon, situate m tlie county ol Surrey,! ciapliam 
 and with respect to Bostall Heath Common, sitnate in the conntv e'ommon, 
 of Kent,t respectively certified by the Inclosnre Commissioners ^"^'_!,/i','^^o„|. 
 for Eiio;land and '\Vales,+ under their seal on the twcnty-seventii day i„oii con- 
 of danuarv one thousand eii;ht hundred and seventv-six, the twentv- lirmoci witli 
 fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred 'and seventy-six, mo^li'ications. 
 and the twentv-tirst dav of December one thousand eight huntlred 
 and seventy-six, shall be modilied so as to be in the terms respectively 
 s})ecitied in the first, second, ami tliird schedules to this Act, and so 
 motlilied shall be hereby coutirnieil. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited for all juirposes as the Metropolitan ^hort title. 
 C'Ommons Supplemental Act, 1877. 
 
 * The powers and duties of the Metropolitan Board of Works under this Act and 
 the Sclicmos as to Clapham Common and Bostall Heath thereby confirmed were 
 transferreil to the London County Council by 51 i!c Wl Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S). 
 
 ■)• Now the county of Limdon. See 51 &: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (•_'). 
 
 \ Now the Board of Afrricnltnro. See tlie P.oard of Agrii"ulture Act 1SS9, s. 2.
 
 532 [Chap, cci.] ^^^'^^'^^P^^'f"'-^ aTi8'!7 '"^"^'^'^""'''^''^ [40 & 41 Vict.] 
 
 FIRST SCHEDULE. 
 
 {Scheme with respect to Ealing Cominotis. Does not affect London.'] 
 
 SECOND SCHEDULE. 
 
 Metropolitan Commons Act., 18GG, r/?/(/ Metropolitan Commons Amendment Act, 18(J9. 
 
 Scheme with respect to Clapiiam Common. 
 
 \_Preaml)le to the Scheme recites that hy an agreement of the 5th Jannarij 1875, 
 Richard Bosioell Beddome a)id timntij-five other jier sons, then the holders of a lease 
 of Clapham Common for twenti/-one years from the 25th day of March 18(34, agreed 
 vtith the Mctropiilitan Board of Works, in the event of a Scheme under the 
 Metropolitan Commons Act embracing the Common being confirmed by Parliament 
 during the sessions o/' 1874 {then past) or 1875, to surrender or assign to the Board 
 the premises demised hy the said lease and all their estate and interest therein without 
 compensation ; and further recites that by another agreement of the same date the 
 Right Honourable John Poyntz, Earl Spencer, E.G., as lord of the manor of 
 Batfersea and Wandsworth, as to the hereditaments firstly thereinafter described, 
 Sir George Bon-yer, Bart., M.P., and Charles Sawyer, the trustees of Henry Athiiis 
 Bou-yer, deceased, as lords of the manor of Clapham, as to the hereditametiis secondly 
 thereinafter described, and Henry Atkins Bowyer, tenant for life of the hereditaments 
 devised by Henry Atkins Bowyer, deceased, agreed hi the event of a Scheme being 
 confirmed as aforesaid to sell to the Board firstly the part of Clapham Common 
 situate in the pari >!h of Battersea and irithin the manor of Battersea and Wandsworth, 
 and secondly the remaining portions ff Clapham Common situate in the parish of 
 Clapham and loithin the manor of Clapham, subject to all such rights ef common, 
 commonable rights, rights of v:ay andicater, as any jierson or persons {other than the 
 vendors or any 2)ersons claiming under them, except the lessees or tenants under the 
 before-mentioned lease) might have in the said hereditaments, and also subject as 
 regards the hereditaments secondly described to the before-mentioned lease thereof 
 {e.rcept a smcdl jiortion thereof situate at the hack of the Rookery and used as a lay- 
 stall), and to a lease of a piece of land used as a hrystcdl dated the \st June 18G4* 
 and made between the said Henry Atlins Bowyer deceased rf the one part and the 
 Wandsworth Board of Works of the other part ; and the preamble further recites 
 certainother agreements and lastly two agreement.^ ef the 1st June 1876 between the 
 said parties, substituting the .'^esxions q/1875, 187G, or \^11 for the sessions of 1S74: 
 or 1875 in the firstly recited agreements, and further recites the deposit of a plan of 
 the Common icith the Inclosure Commis>iioners.\'] 
 
 1. From and after the completion of tbe said surrender and the said purchase, 
 the Commons or waste lands delineated in the said plan (in this Scheme re- 
 ferred to as " the Common ") shall be and are hereby dedicated to and for the 
 use and recreation of the public as an open and uninclosed space for ever, and 
 shall for the purposes of this Scheme be regulated and managed by the Board ; 
 provided that if the said surrender and the said purchase be not completed 
 within three years from the date of the confirmation of this Scheme by 
 Parliament, this Scheme shall be void. 
 
 2. {Power to appoint and regulate officers. Superseded by the ^funiripal Cor- 
 pr>rations Act 1882, ss. 19 ami 20 {see Appcjidi.r), atul 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75. 
 See also 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 202.] 
 
 3. The Board may drain, plant, ornament, and improve the Common as may 
 be necessary, and, for the purpose of preserving the turf and grass, may inclose 
 by fences for short periods such portions as may require rest to revive the same. 
 No house or any other building shall be erected on the Common, except such 
 lodges or other buildings as may be necessary for the maintenance or manage- 
 ment of the said Common. The Board may from time to time erect on the 
 Common such lodges and other buildings as may be necessary for the maintenance 
 or management of the said Common. [See also 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. s. 50, and 
 58 & 69 Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 45.] 
 
 4. The Board shall maintain the Common, as delineated in the plan deposited 
 with the Inclosure Commissioners,! free of all encroachment, and shall permit no 
 trespass on or partial or other inclosure thereof ; and no fences, posts, rails, or 
 other matters or things shall be maintained, fixed, or erected thereon without 
 the consent in writing of the Board. 
 
 * As to land used as a laystall. See 2 Edw. 7, c. clxxiii. s. 80. 
 
 t Now the Boan1 of AGTioiiltine. See the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, s. 2.
 
 [■40 & 41 Vict. I ^l''' '■"/'"'''"" ' 'o^^^^^ns Supplemeutal .^^^^^ ^^.. 533 
 
 ^ -■ Art 18/ i. '- -^ 
 
 5 — 7. [^-l^ It) hijfldifH a/itl /iciKilties. Siiju'nit<lnf 4<l Met .<■. viii. ««. 3, 4, ami 10; 
 53 & 54 I'/VV. c. ccxliii. s-.s. 14—21 ; «//^/ Cil i^' (12 Yicl. c. ccxxi. x. 01.] 
 
 8. The IJoard ni;iy set apart any portion or portions of the Common as they 
 may consider expedient for cricket or other games. 
 
 II. The IJoard shall he at liljc'rty to receive and iii)|>ly for the |)urposes of 
 this Scheme, or any of them, any snb.scriptions or donations applicable thereto 
 respectively that may come to their hands. 
 
 10. [/''.r/ic list's (if ohtdiii/ii;/ a ml cxecittintj Scheme. Spent in jiar/. Rcntr. 
 siijicrardctl 51 & b'2 \'/rt. c. i\, /iitrl iv.] 
 
 11. Except for tho.se persons who now by law are entitled to do so, and 
 whose riL,dits shall not be ac(|iiired by the Hoard niider the .said af^reements, or 
 shall not be purchased or acipiired by the IJoard under this Sclieme, it .shall not 
 be lawful to turn out on the Common for grazing any cattle, sheep, or other 
 animal. 
 
 I'J. No proceeding touching the conviction of any oll'ender under this Scheme, 
 nor any order or other matter or thing whatsoever made, done, or transacted in 
 or relating to the execution of this Scheme, shall be vacated, quashed, or set 
 aside for want vt form. 
 
 l."{. Saving always to all persons ;ind bodies politic and corporate, and their 
 respective heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, all such estates, 
 interests, or right of a profitable or beneficial nature in, over, or affecting the 
 Common, or any part thereof, as they or any of them had before the confirmation 
 of this Scheme by Act of Parliament, or could or miglit have enjoyed if this 
 Scheme had not been confirmed by Act of Parliament, except only so far as 
 any such estates, interests, or rights are or shall be ac(juired by the Board under 
 the agreements herein-before recited, or either of them, or shall be acquired by 
 the lioard by consent or by purchase, whether by agreement or compulsorily. 
 
 14. The copyhold tenants of the manor of Battersea and certain freehold 
 tenants of the manor of Clapham claim rights of common of pasture over the 
 Common. The claimants consent to the Scheme. 
 
 15. This Scheme affects the several estates, interests, and rights in, over, and 
 upon the Common, and not included in tlie said agreements, by conferring on 
 the Board power to purchase the same, or any of them, with the view to their 
 absolute extinction. 
 
 1(>. Printed copies of this Scheme shall at all times be sold at the ofHce of the 
 Board, to all persons desiring to buy the same, at a price not exceeding 2v. ikl. 
 each. 
 
 THIRD SCHEDULE. 
 
 }retrnpnHt(iH Commons Acts^ 180() (iiid 18((9. 
 SniKME WITH ItKSl'IX'T TO BoST.M.L HkATII.* 
 
 1. Bo.stall Heath, herein-after called "the Heath," in the county of Kent,t 
 as the same is delineated in a plan deposited with the Inch)sure Commissioners I 
 for England and Wales, shall henceforth, for all the i)urposes of this Scheme, 
 be regulated and managed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, heroin-after 
 termed "the Board." 
 
 2. [^Toirer to dji/inhit and rcfjulate officers. Siijierscded l>ji tin- .Miniieijuil 
 Corjxirtitioiis Act 1882, .sy. I'.hind 20 (see Aj)jiendix),und ijl tfc 52 Vict. c. 41. .s. 75. 
 See also 18 ^: l'.» I'irt. c. 120, .s. 202.] 
 
 8. The Board may execute any works of drainage and improvement of the 
 Heath so far only as may be re(iuircd for the purposes of the Metropolitan 
 Commons Acts, and shall preserve the turf and grass, and for this purpose 
 may inclose by fences for short periods such portions as may require rest to 
 revive the same, and shall also |)reserve the trees and so much of the gorse as 
 they may deem desirable, and may plant or otherwise beautify the Heath, 
 but shall do nothing that sliall otherwise vary or alter the natural features 
 or aspect of the Heath. 
 
 4. The Board shall maintain the Heath, as delineated in the plan deposited 
 with the Inclosure Commissiouers,f free of all encroachment, and shall permit 
 
 * See also 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. s, 30. 
 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 I Now the Board of Agriculture. See the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, s. 2,
 
 r^oA n '., , n The Mctrouolitaii Stfcet Improve- r ,(. o ,^ -\t -, 
 
 o34 [UiAP. ccxxxv.] JcntsActmi. [40&41Vict.J 
 
 no trespass on or partial or oilier iiielusure of any part thereof, and no fences, 
 posts, rails, or other matters or things shall be maintained, fixed, or erected 
 tbereon without the consent in writing of the Board. 
 
 5 — 7. [.4s to byelaws ntid jjemdties. Superceded 4(J Vict. c. viii. .s.s. 3, 4, a/id 10 ; 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; and Ijl & G2 Vict. e. ccxxi. s. Gl.] 
 
 8. Except for the owner or owners for tbe time being of the soil, it shall 
 not be lawful, without the consent in writing of the Board, to form, build, 
 or lay any sewer, drain, pipe, waterway, or other matter cf like nature in, 
 into, or under any part or parts of the Heath. 
 
 9. Except for those persons who now Ijy law are entitled to do so, it shall 
 not be lawful to turn out on the Heath for grazing any cattle, sheep, or other 
 animal. 
 
 10. The Board may have power to apply at any time for an amended Scheme 
 or for a new Scheme. 
 
 11. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as placing any of the public 
 roads or highways on or across the Heath under the care of the Board, or 
 shall prevent the Board of Works for the Plumstead district,* by their officers 
 and servants, taking such portions of the Heath as they may now by law be 
 entitled to take for the purpose of widening the .said roads or highways to the 
 width they may now be compelled by law to make ; but it shall not be lawful 
 for the said Board or any other person or persons to make or form any new 
 roads over and across the Heath without the consent in writing of the Board. 
 
 12. \_Expenses of ohtaiuing and executinij Scheme. S^jent in part. lienir, 
 superceded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, part iv.] 
 
 1.^. The Board shall be at liberty to receive and apply for the purposes of 
 this Scheme, or any of them, any subscriptions or donations applicable thereto 
 respectively that may come to their hands. 
 
 14. No proceeding touching the conviction of any offender under this 
 Scheme, nor any order or other matter or thing whatsoever made, done, or 
 transacted in or relating to the execution of this Scheme, shall be vacated, 
 quashed, or set aside for want of form. 
 
 15. Saving always to all persons and bodies politic and corporate, and their 
 respective heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, all such estates, 
 interests, or rights of a profitable or beneficial nature in, over, or affecting the 
 Heath, or any part thereof, as they or any of them had before the confirmation 
 of this Scheme by Act of Parliament, or could or might have enjoyed if this 
 Scheme had not been confirmed by Act of Parliament. 
 
 16. [/l-s to compensation to Qncen'a College, Oxford, as lords of the manor of 
 Plutnstead. Speid.'] 
 
 17. The lords of the manor of Plumstead claim the soil and freehold of the 
 Heath and the minerals under the same. The freehold tenants of the manor 
 claim certain rights of common of pasture and of cutting turf, furze, gorse, 
 and fern over and upon the Heath. 
 
 18. Printed copies of this Scheme shall at all times l)e sold at the office of 
 the Board, to all persons desiring to buy the same, at a price not exceeding G(/. 
 each. 
 
 CHAPTER CCXXXV. 
 
 An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 TO MAKE certain NeW StREETS AND StREET IMPROVEMENTS 
 
 WITHIN THE Metropolis. \l-^th August 1877.] 
 
 [^Preamble.'] 
 
 Short title 1. This Act may be cited as " The Metropolitau Street Improve- 
 
 ments Act, 1877." 
 
 2. [^Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 Interpreta- 3. In tiiis Act the foHowing words and expressions liave the 
 
 tion of terms, several meanings hereby assigned to them, nnless there be some- 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich. See 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4.
 
 I in I' A-i -KT -\ If"' M('fio/)<>l(tan Street Iininave- r/i t cok 
 
 40 & 41 ViCT.l ' , , , ,^,-- ' rCnAi'. ccxxxv. 53o 
 
 ^ -• mods. Ai-t \hi I. L -^ 
 
 thiii^ ill the subjcci (»r context n'pu«j^naiit to sncli construction; 
 
 (tliiit is to say,) 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 The word *' Ktreets " iiicliides streets, courts, alleys, lii^^liways, 
 
 loiidwuys, tlioron<(lifiires, oi- jmhlic ])assages or |)hu;es ; 
 The term " improvements " means the new streets and street 
 
 im])rovem<Mits and work's coiincctcd thcrcwifli I'espectively 
 
 by this Act authorised ; 
 The expression "the lioard " means the Metn»i)olitan Board of 
 
 Works* ; 
 
 \_Part.s oitiilteil {jlcfinitioiis of " .Justice,'''' " t/ro Jiisfiri's,'''' finf/ 
 " lessee,''^ (ind as to medniiKjs of icoiuls in Acts iKcorpordtei/) spent. \ 
 
 4. Subject to the pi'ovisions ol" this Act, the Board may, upon the Power to 
 lands to be ac(juired by them under the powers of this Act im^l s^rVJtrand 
 shown u})ou the deposited plans,f make and carry into execution all street im- 
 or any of the new streets and street improvements following ; (that provements. 
 is to say,) 
 
 West End New Streets and Street Improvements. 
 
 A new street (No. 1) all in the ])arishes of St. James, West- 
 minster, and St. Anne, Soho, in flu; county of Middlesex. + 
 commencing at Regent (Jii'cus, I'iccadilly, in the jiarish of 
 St. James, Westminster, on the north-eastern side of the 
 said Circus, then crossing Tichborne Street and Great 
 Windmill Street to Huj)ert Street, thence continued by the 
 widening of Kiclimond Street and King Street on the south- 
 eastern sides thereof, then by the formation of a short length 
 of new street to and terminating at Grafton Street, near its 
 intersection with West Street in the parish of St. Anne, 
 Soho. 
 
 A new street (No. '2) in continuation of street (No. 1), all in the 
 parishes of St. Anne, Soho, St. (Tiles-in-the- Fields, and 
 St. George, Bloomsbury, commencing at the termination of 
 street No. 1, in the })arish of St. Anne, Solio, and extending 
 thence by the widening of l)udley Street on its south- 
 eastern side, thence along Broad Street, and thence by the 
 ibrmation of a new street across Bloomsbury Street, Vine 
 Street, and Tliorney Street, and terminating in New Oxford 
 Street at or near its intersection with Duke Street in the 
 parish of St. George, Bloomsbury. 
 
 A new street (No. 3) commencing at the eastern side of the said 
 Kegent Circus, Piccadilly, in the ])aiisli of St. James, West- 
 minster, by the widening of Piccadilly on the north side, then 
 by the widening of Coventry Street on the south side, and 
 the widening of Princes vStreet on the west side, and ter- 
 minating at Panton Street in the parish of St. ]Martin-iu-the- 
 Fields, and St. Anne, Soho, or one of them. The intended 
 street will be situate in the several ])arishes of St. James, 
 Westminster, St. Anne, S(tho, and Si. Marti n-in-the-Fields, 
 in the countv of J\Iiildlesex.t 
 
 ♦ Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 11, s. 10(8). 
 
 t Certain lands sluiwn on those plans were exeei>ted from the j>rovisions of tliis 
 section In the Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, iss;< (Hi Vict. c. .\xiii.), which 
 is now spent. 
 
 \ Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 10 (2).
 
 ,-o^ rn -I T/tc Metropolitan Street I mprore- r^n f ^i ir -\ 
 
 036 [Chap, ccxxxv.] ^entsActmi. ^ [40 & 41 Vict.] 
 
 Tlie wideniug' of Tic-libonic iStreet on its south-west side in the 
 parish of ISt, James, Westminster. 
 
 The widening of Great Windmill fStreet on its west side from 
 Angel Court to the intersection of Tiehhorne Street and 
 Piccadilly, and also at or near its soutli-eastern corner and 
 junction with Coventry Street, all in the parish of St. James, 
 AVestminster. 
 
 A new street (No. 6) commencing in Trafalgar Square at its 
 south-east corner in the parish of St. Martiu-in-the-Fields, 
 to be formed partly by widening the roadway on the eastern 
 side of the square, by widening St. Martin's Place, thence by 
 a short length of new street commencing at Hemmings Row, 
 and terminating at Castle Street, thence by widening Castle 
 Street partly on the east and partly on the west side, thence 
 by a new street from the north end of Castle Street, crossing 
 Prince's Row, Lichfield Street, Grafton Street, and Moor 
 Street to the south end of Crown Street, thence by widenino^ 
 Crown Street on the east and partly on the west sides, and 
 terminating at Tottenham Court Road, at or near its junction 
 with Oxford Street in the parishes of St. Anne, Soho, 
 St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and St. Marylebone, or one of them. 
 The intended street will pass through the parishes of St. 
 Martin-in-the-Fields, St. Anne, Soho, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 
 and St. Marylebone, or some of them, in the county of 
 Middlesex.* 
 
 Gkay's Inn Road Improvement. 
 
 The widening of Gray's Inn Road on its east side, all in the 
 parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. Pancras, or one of 
 them, commencing in Higli Holborn in the ])arish of St. 
 Andrew, Holborn, and terminating opposite Henry Street in 
 the parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. Pancras, or one 
 of them. 
 \_Aiitended 45 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 2.] 
 
 Kentish Town Road Lmprovement. 
 
 Tlie widening of Kentish Town Road on the east side from a 
 l)oint about tifty yards to the south of Clarence Road to its 
 junction with Monto Video Place. 
 
 The widening of Monte Video Place on the west side from Col- 
 lumpton Place to Alpha Place, and on the east side from 
 Reed's Place to Rochester ]ioad, and the Kentish Town Road 
 on the east side from Rochester Road to Bartholomew Road, 
 all in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex.* 
 
 Islington Improvement. 
 
 The widening of Goswell Road on the south-west side thereof 
 from or near the house No. 353 in that road to the junction 
 of Goswell Road with St. John Street Road. Also the 
 widening of St. John Street Road from or near the house 
 No. 196 in that road to the junction of that road with 
 Goswell Road, all in the parishes of St. James, Clerkenwell, 
 and St. Mary, Islington, or one of them, in the county of 
 Middlesex.* 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 and 52 Vict. c. 4], s. 10 (2).
 
 r.,. 1. ,1 1- I /'I' Mctronolttan Street hniirote- r^. . ...... n -.q- 
 
 r40&41 Vict. ^ , , ,10--- IChat. ccxxxv. I o^i 
 
 Hackney Imi'Uovkmknt, 
 
 The widciiiiii;- ol" !\I:u'e Street, lltickiicy, on its west side iVoiu its 
 junction with Anihnrst Koiul E;ist, otherwise Aiiiimrst. Road, 
 to a point uliout 811 yards to the nnrtli opjjo.site the ehnrch- 
 yard, all in the parish ol" ISt. Joim, Hackney, in the county 
 of Miihllesex.* 
 
 TooLKY Sthkkt ImI'KOVKMKNT. 
 
 The widening of Tooh'y Street, jiailly nn the suuth-west and 
 }>artly on the north-east sides, from J>erniondsey Street, in 
 the parish of St. .Jolm, Horsleydown, to (^ueen Eli/.altetii's 
 Grammar School, and in continuation the widenin<^ of Free- 
 school Street and Thornton Street on their south-west sides 
 and Dockhead j)artly on its soutli and jiartly on its north 
 side to a point opposite the lioman ( 'atliolic Convent, in tlie 
 ])arisli of l>ermoiidsey. Also the wideiiini; of Hicknuin's 
 Folly and Farkei's Row at and near the junction of those 
 thoi'ou;L;hi"ai'es and London Street on its south side, from 
 Jlickman's Folly to a point about 70 yards to the east 
 thereof, both in the })arish of F)crmondsey. The widening 
 of l\Iill Street on the south-east side; iVom Dockhead to a 
 j)oint about 70 yards to the north-east thereof, all in the 
 ])arish of Bermondsey. The said improvement will be situate 
 in the parishes of St. Olave, Southwark, St. John, Horsley- 
 down, and I^)ermondsey, or some or one of thenj, in the 
 county of Surrey.* 
 
 SOUTHWAKK BkIUGE RoAD AND GrBAT DoVEK StREET 
 
 Communication. 
 
 A new street commencing in the Southwark Bridge Rciad, near 
 its junction witli Peter Street, in the pai-ishes of St. Saviour 
 and St. (Jeorge-the-Martyr, Southwark, or one of them, and 
 continued thence across Queen Street and Duke Street to 
 liedcross Street, and further extended by the widening of 
 ]\Iint Street, jiartly on its north-east and j)artly on its south- 
 west sides, and terminating in Blackman Street at its 
 juncticn with Mint Street, in the ])arish of St. George-the- 
 JMartyr, Strnthwark, all in the jiarishes of St. Saviour and of 
 St. George-the-^lartyr, Southwark, in the county of Surrey.* 
 
 Jamaica Road and Union Road Imtuovkment. 
 
 The widening of Jamaii-a Road, on the nortli side, between New 
 
 Church Street and Trinces Jtoad. 
 Also Princes Road at its junction with Jamaica Road. 
 The further widening of Jamaica Road on the south side from 
 
 Major Road to »famaica Level, and on its nortli side from 
 
 Cherrv Garden Street to a iioint about "J" vards to the west 
 
 thereof. 
 The widening of Jamaica Level on its west side iVom Jamaii-a 
 
 Road to a j)oint about 4U yards to the south thereof. 
 All tlie aliove inipi'uvements will be situate in the parish of 
 
 Bermondsey in the I'ountv of Surrev.* 
 The widening of Union I{oad on its north side from Paradise 
 
 Street to Deptford Lower Road, in the parish of Rotherhithe, 
 
 in the county of Surrey.* 
 
 * Now the county of London, yee .j1 A: 52 Vict. c. II. s. 10 (2).
 
 KQQ rr'r,.,. ,^ 1 The Met ro/joUtaii Street rm/iroce- r^A p <i ir n 
 
 538 [Cbap.ccxxxv.] ;;,L^, .1,^877. ^ [40 & 41 Vict.] 
 
 Cambekwell and Peckham Improvement. 
 
 The wideuinj? of Camberwell lload on the east side from the 
 house No. 285 in that road to Camberwell Green, all in the 
 parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, in the county of Surrey.* 
 
 The widening of Church Street, Camberwell, on its north side, 
 commencing at the south-east corner of Camberwell Green, 
 and terminating forty yards or thereabouts to the west of 
 Vicarage lload, all in the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, in 
 the county of Surrey.* 
 
 The widening of certain parts of the Peckham Poad and High 
 Street and Queen's Poad, Peckham, partly on the north and 
 partly on the soutli side, from a ])oint fifty yards or there- 
 abouts west of \Vinchester Place to a \)o\\\t thirt)' yards or 
 thereabouts west of Montpelier Poad, all in the parish of 
 St. Giles, Camberwell, in the county of Surrey.* 
 
 Deptford Bridge Approaches. 
 
 The widening of the approaches of Deptford Bridge partly on 
 the north and partly on the south side, commencing from 
 the Broadway, Ue])tford, in the parish of St. Paul, Deptford, 
 in the county of Kent,* and terminating in the Blackheath 
 Poad at its junction with the Greenwich Poad in the parish 
 of St. Alphage, Greenwicii, in the said county. 
 The widening of the Greenwich Poad on its south-east side, from 
 the Blackheath Poad, to Wellington Grove in the said parish 
 of St. Alphage, Greenwich. 
 5 — 14. \^Iiiiprofemt'iits to be made according to plans deposited, 
 icith, the ( Icrhs of the Peace for Middlesex, Surrei/, and Kent, and, 
 the citji of Westminster — Saving for St. Martins Church — Power to 
 the Board to extinguish easements, to stop up ways during works, 
 to raise and, lower streets, to deviate, to make subsidiary works, to 
 divert, alter, and stop up streets, etc. — Protection of Post Office 
 telegraphs during construction of works — Alteration of water, gas, 
 and other pipes — Power to lay out carriageways. Spent7\ 
 
 15. \_As to laying of pavements, and vesting the same when laid in 
 the vestry '\ or district board '\ in ivhose parish or district they are.~\ 
 
 16. \_Power to the Board, to fill up seu'ers or drains on jjroviding 
 substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drains.^ 
 
 17. [Power to alter areas, pipes, etc. Spent.'] 
 
 18. \_Ground, laid into the streets to form part thereof, and, to be 
 under the management of the vestry t or district board, of works t of 
 the parish or district. in which the same is situate^ 
 
 19 — 24. \_Errors-cmd omissions in plants — Power to tlie Board 
 to sell materials, and, to survey property to be taken — As to compen- 
 sation — Deficiencies of land, tax during works. Spent.] 
 
 25 — 27. [Power to the Board to grant building leases of surplus 
 
 lands — As do sale of ground-rents and reversions thereof — Power 
 
 to sell such lands without leasing. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict. 
 
 c. ccxxxvii. s. 23. See ibid. ss. 19 — 22.] 
 
 Board may 28. The Board may from time to time let, either from vear to 
 
 etc. of lands.' ^^^"^ f^f f^r a term, at rackrent, or exchange or otherwise dispose 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 f Now the metropolitan borough council. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [41 c\i 42 VicT.J Monumciita (Metrojjolis) Act 1878. [Chap. 20.] 039 
 
 of, any luiiMiiig (»r lands, or any part thrrcof, at^juircil hy tlieiii 
 mi»l(!r tliis Act, and not rciinircd to he laid into and to I'oiin jiart of 
 the imjirovonients or any of tli('Mi,and may cxcnnite and do any dt'«id, 
 act, or thing |)roi)cr for eifectnating any .such lease, exchange, or 
 other disposition. 
 
 29. ['/)'///>'/'<)/• sale of surplus lands limited to \i) ijears froia f/ic 
 compli'tion of the improrj'im-iits. Si/jfcrsedcd 47 k 48 Vict. c. Oij, 
 .s. 'S.\.] 
 
 30. The recei})t of the Board for an\ purchase moneys, rents, or Rereiptsof 
 profits, or other money j)ayable to the Board by virtue of this Act, ^.}^^^,![y.\7 '^^ 
 shall be a sufficient and eil'eetual tlischargc! for the money in such discharges, 
 receipt ex])ressed t)r acknowledged to be received, and the person 
 
 to whom the same shall be given shall not afterwards be answerable 
 or accountable for the misa])plic.ation or non-application of tlie 
 money in sucii receijjt expressed or acknowledged to be received. 
 
 31 — 33. \_l'eriods for conijiulsori/ purchase of lands limited, to 
 7 and for execution of works to 10 years — Rehousing persons of 
 the labouring class* SjtentJ] 
 
 34. [^Sacing the rights of the Commissioners of Worhs.^ 
 
 35. I'^aring the rights of the Croicn.'] 
 
 36 — 37. {^l^otvei- to the Board to applg existing Jands to the 
 purposes of this Act — Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 8cuKDULE. \_Particulars as to labouring class persons displaced 
 who are estimated to number 10,121). Spent.] 
 
 41 & 42 VICTORIA. A.D. 1878. 
 
 CHAPTER 20. 
 
 An Act kou conkkuuini; Foweks ui'ON thk I\lETiioroLiTAN Boako 
 
 OF Works with kkstkct to the Obklii<k known as Cleo- 
 
 I'atra's Needle, and other Monuments. [22<^/ Julg 1878.] 
 
 [I'/eamble recites (inter alia) that the Victoria, Albert and Chelsea 
 
 Kmhankments, and other lands are rested in the Metropolitan Hoard 
 
 of Works, and that it would be to the advantage oj the Metropolis 
 
 that facilities sliould be afforded for the maintenance of Cleopatra's 
 
 JS^eedle on the Victoria Kndjankment.] 
 
 1. This Act mav be cited as the Monuments (Metro])olis) Act, short title 
 1878. " of Act. 
 
 2. In this Act tlie following terms shall have the meanings intcrpreta- 
 herein-after assigned to them : '^ou. 
 
 The term "the Board" shall mean the Metropolitan Board of 
 
 \V^orlvS t : 
 The term "the obelisk" shall mean the obelisk known as 
 
 Cleopatra's Needle : 
 The term " monument " shall include any monument, statue, or 
 
 other work. 
 
 3. When the obelisk has been erected on the Victoria Embank- Obelisk 
 
 ment, the same shall thereupon be under the care and control of P'*'*^'-'^\. ""*'*■" 
 ,i ,, , 1 ,1 1^ 1 1 11 1 • • i.1 V care of the 
 
 tlie fioani, antl tlie Boanl siiall prest'rve and manitam the same tor Board, 
 the benefit of the public, and the Board may erect in connexion 
 therewith any a})})ropriate works of art. 
 
 * These provisions as to rehousiiiLr persons of Uie lay)oarinp cl:v<s were aniended hy 
 the Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, ISSii (111 Vict. c. xxiii.), ss. 3 — 5, which 
 sections are now spent. 
 
 t Now the London County Council. Sec 51 & a'J Vict. c. 11, s. 40 (8).
 
 o40 [Chap. 32.] i / i , > , / i / iq~q [41 & 42 Vict-I 
 
 •- -^ Acts Ameiid/ne lit Act ioiC). ^ -J 
 
 Penalties for 4. Any persoM wlio injures or disfigures the ol)e]isk, or any 
 
 ^"j"y^!5 monument erected or to be erected ou any of the said embankments 
 
 monuments, or lands, or who posts any bill or placard, or who writes, cuts, 
 
 prints, draws, or marks in any manner any word or character, or 
 
 any representation of any object, on the obelisk or such monument, 
 
 shall for every such offence forfeit and pay to the Board a penalty 
 
 not exceeding five ])ounds, to be recovered in the manner provided 
 
 IS .^ lit vkt. by the Metro])olis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts amending 
 
 c. 120. ^]^^3 game, with respect to the recovery of penalties by summary 
 
 proceedings. [_See 18 & ID Vict. c. 120,^5. 227.] 
 
 5. \_Expenses of executing Act. Sxpo-seded 51 & 52 Vict.c.A\, 
 jmrt iv.] 
 
 CHAPTEll 32. 
 * An Act to amend the MprrROPOLis Management Act, 1855, 
 
 THE MpyfROrOLlTAN BuiLDING ACT, 1855, AND THE ACTS 
 AMENDING THE SAME KESrECTIVELY. [22('/ JldtJ 1878.] 
 
 \_Preamble {recititu:/ 18 & 19 Vict. cc. 120 and 122) rep. 67 & 58 
 Vict. c. 5G (.S'.L.it!.).i 
 
 Preliminary. 
 Short title. \^ xhis Act may be cited for all purposes as the Metropolis 
 
 Management and Building Acts Amendment Act, 1878. 
 
 Ls^t'FM'W^ ^* '^'^'^^ "^^^ shall extend and apply to the metropolis as defined 
 Q. 12U. by the Metropolis Management Act, 1855. 
 
 Division of 3. This Act shall consist of three parts. 
 
 Act into 
 
 three parts. PART I. 
 
 4. \J)efinitions of " roadway ^^ " centre of the roadway,"" and 
 
 '■'' prescribed distance.''^ Rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 215.] 
 ^Metropolis 5^ The Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts amending 
 
 ActTamTtin^s ^^^^ same, and this i)art of this Act shall be construed together as 
 part of Act to one Act : Provided always, that nothing in this Act shall be held 
 be con.striied to limit or restrict the powers now vested in the Commissioners of 
 18 &"i'/vict Sewers of the city of London, or in any body or person elsewhere 
 c. 120. within the metropolis, by an Act passed in the session of Parliament 
 
 held in the fifty-seventh year of the reign of King George the Third, 
 57 G. 8. intituled '' An Act for better paving, improving, and regulating the 
 
 c. XXIX. streets of the Metropolis and removing and preventing nuisauces 
 
 and obstructions therein." \_See the Citi/ of London Sewers Act 
 
 1897.] 
 
 6 — -10. \_Promsions as to formation of streets. Hep. 57 & 58 Vict. 
 
 c. ccxiii. s. 215. See ibid. ss. 6 — 21.] 
 rower to I 11. Whenever it a])pears to the Board that any house or other 
 
 rartah/ca'^es P^^^e of public resort within the metropolis which was at the time 
 to require of the passing of this Act authorised to be kept open for the public 
 proprietors of performance of stage plays, and which is kept open for such 
 theatres and purpose, Under the "authoritv of letters patent from Her Majesty, 
 
 (ertain music } ', . , " , p i- i. j i 
 
 hallsinu.se her lieirs and successors or predecessors, or or a license granted by 
 at the time of the Loi'd Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household for the time 
 this'Jv^tuf °^ being, or by Justices of the Peace, $ or that any house, room, or other 
 
 reniedy * The poweis and duties of the Metropolitan Hoard of Works under this Act were 
 
 structural transferred to the London County Council by 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 defects. t f^ee also 45 Vict. c. hi. s. 45. 
 
 X Now the London County C'ouncil. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 7.
 
 r41&42ViCT.] 1/1 / / 1 / ife-v [Chap. 32.1 ij41 
 
 ])liic(' of public resort witliiii tlie motropolis, contsiininc: a snporfioial 
 urea i'or the uceoiumodiition of tlie piiMic of not less tlmii five 
 liiUHlred S(|nare feet, which was at the time of the passinj^ of this 
 Act authorised to he kept oi)eii, and which is kept (ij)en, for dancing, 
 music, or other public entertnintncnt of the like kind, under the 
 iiuthoritv of a license <rrante(l bv anv Court of Quarter Sessions,* is 
 Si) defective in its structure tiiat s{)ecial danger from fire may result 
 to the ])ublic frequenting the same, then and in every such case the 
 I'oard may, with the consent of the Lord Cliaml)erlain in the case 
 of theatres under his jurisdiction, and oi" Iler .'\rajesty's ]»rincipal 
 Secretary of State in all other cases, if in the o])inion of the Board 
 such structural defects can be remedied at a moderate expenditure, 
 by notic(! in writing require the owner of such house, room, or other 
 place kept o])en for any of the ])urj)oses aforesaid, under such 
 authority as aforesaid, to make such alterations therein or thereto 
 as mav be necessarv to remedv such defects, within a reasonable 
 time to be specified in such notice : and in case such owner fails to 
 comply with the requirements of such notice within such reasonable 
 time as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding iifty 
 pounds for such default, and to a further j)enalty of five ])ountls for 
 every day after the first day after the expiration of such reasonable 
 time as aforesaid during which such default continues : Provided 
 alwavs, that anv such owner mav, witliin fourteen davs after the 
 recei})t of any such notice as aforesaid, sei've notice^ of apjjcal 
 against the same upon the Board, and thereupon such ai)peal shall 
 be referred to an arbitrator to be appointed by Her Majesty's First 
 ( 'ommissioner of Works at the request of either ]>arty, who shall 
 liear and determine the same, and may, on such evidence as he may 
 think satisfactory, either confirm the notice served by the Board, or 
 may confirm the same with such modifications as he may think 
 )tro])er, or refuse to confirm the same, and the decision of such 
 arbitrator with respect to the re(|uiremonts contained in any such 
 notice, and the reasonableness of the same, and the persons by 
 whom and the proportions in which the costs of such arbitration 
 are to be })aid, shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all 
 ])arties. 
 
 In case of an a])peal against any such notice, compliance with the 
 re([uirements of the same may be post])oned until after the day upon 
 which such appeal shall be so decided as aforesaid, and the same, 
 if confirmed in whole or in part, shall only take eft'ect as and from 
 such day. 
 
 12. Tlie Board may from time to time make, alter, vary, andi'owcrto 
 amend such regulations as they may think expedient with respect Ii,akeVl*^-iila- 
 to the requirements for the protection from fire of houses or other tions wifh 
 ])laces of public resort within the metropolis to be kept oi)en for the respect to 
 public j)erformance of stage plays, and of houses, rooms, or other J^'|JJJ'^J,*®^'j 
 l)laces of })ublic resort within the metropolis containing a superficial mw music 
 area for the accommodation of the puitlie of not less than five ii:»iis for pr.v 
 hundred S(piare feet, to be ke})t o])en for ])ublic dancing, music, or ^'''^'"'" ^'"''" 
 other public entertainment of the like kind, under the authority of 
 letters patent from Her Majesty, . . . or of licenses by the Lord 
 Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household, or by any Justices of the 
 Peace,* or by any Court of Quarter Sessions,* which may be granted 
 for the first time after the i)assing of this Act ; and may by such 
 regulations prescribe the requirements as to position and structure 
 ♦ Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 7. 
 
 res 
 ain 
 
 fire.
 
 ^.„ rr^ o.i -1 Metropolis Manaqement and Buildivq r^i o ^o-tr -, 
 
 542 [C HAP. 32.] ^^^^ Amendment Act J 878. ^ ^41 & 42 \ ict.] 
 
 of snch houses, rooms, or places of j)nblic resort wliich may, in the 
 opinion of the Board, be necessary for the protection of all persons 
 who may frequent the same against dang-ers from fires which may 
 arise therein or in the neighhonrliood thereof; ])rovided tliat the 
 Board may from time to time in any special case dis])ense with or 
 modify such regulations, or may annex thereto conditions if they 
 think it necessary or expedient so to do. 
 
 The Board sliall, after tlie making, altering, varying, or amending 
 of any such regulations, cause the same to be printed, witli the date 
 thereof, and a printed copy thereof shall be kei)t at the office of the 
 Board, and all persons may at all reasonable times insjiect such 
 coj)y withont payment, and the Board sliall cause to be delivered 
 a printed copy, authenticated by their seal, of all regulations for 
 the time being in force to every person ajiplying for the same, on 
 payment by such person of any sum not exceeding five shillings for 
 every such copy. 
 
 A printed co])y of such regulations, dated and autlienticated by 
 the seal of the Board, shall be conclusive evidence of the existence 
 and of the dne making of the same in all i)roceedings under the 
 same, without adducing proof of such seal or of the fact of such 
 making. 
 
 From and after the making of any such regulations it shall not 
 be lawful for any person to have or keep open any such house, room, 
 or other place of public resort for any of the purposes aforesaid, 
 unless and until the Board grant to such person a certificate in 
 writing under their seal, to the effect that such house, room, or 
 other place was on its completion in accordance with the regulations 
 made by the Board in pursuance of the provisions of this Act for 
 the time being in force, and in so f;ir as the same are applicable to 
 such house or other })lace, and to the conditions (if any) annexed 
 thereto by the Board. 
 
 In case any such house, room, or place of pul)lic resort is oi)ened 
 or kept open by any person for any of the i)urposes aforesaid, 
 contrary to the provisions of this enactment, such ])erson shall be 
 liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for every day on which 
 such house or i)lace of public resort is so kept open as aforesaid. 
 \^\Vords omitted i^'- her heirs or successors ") rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 
 {S.L.Il.).-\ 
 
 Provisional 13. A person interested in any premises about to be constructed, 
 license for ^ qj. jj^ e()urse of construction, which are designed to be licensed and 
 used within the metro])olis for the jmblic performance of stage 
 ])lays, or for ])ul)lic dancing, music, or other jmblic entertainment of 
 the like kii.d, may a,])])ly to the licensing authority for the grant 
 of a provisional license in respect of such ])remises. The grant of 
 such provisional license shall, in respect of the discretion of the 
 licensing authority and ])rocedure, be subject to the same conditions 
 as those ajjplicablo to the grant of a like license which is not 
 provisional. A provisional license so granted shall not be of any 
 force until it has l)cen confirmed by the licensing authority ; but 
 the licensing authority shall confirm the same on the ])rodnction 
 l)y the applicant of a certificate ])y the Board that the construction 
 of the i)remises has been com])leted in accordance with the regula- 
 tions and conditions made by the Board as herein-before provided, 
 and on being satisfied that no objection can be made to the character 
 of the holder of such i)rovisional license.
 
 [41 & 42 VfCT.] '^f''^'-''f/-^ ^f'nn,r,Pmn^f andHuihlim, . . 
 
 PART II. 
 
 14—20. l/'rovisfom as to the construction of hxildinqs. Jitp. 
 57 ct 58 Vict.c.w.\'\\\. .s. 215.] 
 
 TAirr ill. 
 
 21. The iircliitoct of the IJoard, and .any other i)erson unthorised I'-^wer for 
 hy tlie Hoard in writinii: nndei- their seal, may, at all reasonable p^rrsonT*^ ""' 
 times al'icr comijletion oi' (lnrin<:; constrn(;tiou, enter and inspect iiutlioriscd 
 any honse, room, or othei- place kejjt open or intended to he ke])t |^>' ^'""'■'\ 
 open for the })nl)lic performance of sta^'e ])lays, or for ])nbli(- .!,\"rv,'.vor"to 
 dancing, music, or other pn])lic entertainment ol" the like kind enter'aiKl 
 aifected by any of the provisions of this Act, or of any regnlations in^P^ct 
 imide in ])ursuance thereof; . . . and if any person refnses to admit n^.^^ffnil'ill,^ 
 snch architect, ])erson, ... or to atlbrd him ;ill leasonable assistance huiidinfrs, 
 in sncli inspection, in every snch case the person so refusing,' shall '""^ works, 
 incnr for each oifencc a penalty not exceeding twenty i)onnds. 
 
 \_Parts omitted {power of entni for the district surveyor) rep. 57 & 58 
 Vict. c. ccxiii. x. 21.").] 
 
 22. For the purpose of comj)lying with the requirements of any Powor to 
 notice or order served or made under the ])rovisi()ns of this Act on °o enn"!r'^*^' 
 any owner, builder, or jjcrson in respect of any house, Imilding, or hoiuscs, etc. 
 other erection, room, or place, such owner, l)nilder, or person, his to comply 
 servants, workmen, and agents, may, after giving seven days notice )),! o'rde^r.'^^^ 
 in writing to the occupier of such house, building, or other erection, 
 
 room, or ])lace, and on i»roduction of snch notice or order, enter such 
 house, building, or other erection, room, or place, and do all snch 
 works, matters, and things therein or thereto, or in connexion there- 
 with, as may be necessary ; and if any ])erson refuses to admit such 
 owner, builder, or i)crson, or his servants or workmen or agents, or 
 to atford them all reasonable assistance, such ])erson shall incnr for 
 each offence a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. {JRep.hl & 58 
 Vict. c. Q.Q,yA\\., so far as relating to any notice or order served or 
 made under any provision thereby repealed.'] 
 
 23. Every jienalty imposed by Part I. and Part III. of this Act Hecoveryof 
 may be recovered by summary proceedings before any .Justice in l'^"=''"*^-"'- 
 like manner and subject to the like right of ai)peal as'if the same 
 
 were a penalty recoverable by summary proceedings under the 
 Metropolis Management Act, LS55, and the Acts amending the i^ •*;■■ !'•• ^'''•»- 
 same . . , : Provided always, that in any ])roceedings against any ^" ^'^' 
 ])(>rson l"or more than one penalty in res])ect of one or more brcai-ii 
 or breaches of any provision of this Act or of any byelaw made in 
 l)ursuance of this Act, it shall be lawful to include in one summons 
 all such ])('nalties, and the charge for such snmmous shall not 
 exceed two shillings. [_Part omitted {as to penalties under Part II. 
 of this Act) rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 215. See also 18 & 10 
 Vict. c. 120, ss. 227, 231, and 232.] 
 
 24. Her Majesty's royal palaces, and all buildings, works, Mud J;.f,^,^'J,';;"* 
 ground excepted IVom the operation of the ]\letropolis MMuagement ,n!poUs' 
 Act, Ibi;')."), and the Acts amcmling the same, or of any of the said Management 
 Acts, shall be excejjted from the operation of the provisions of -^'^♦j?:'^'*"'^*''^^ 
 this Act which are to be construed with such Acts, and jill*"^"" ^^" 
 exemptions from the })rovisions of any of the said Acts shall extend '^'^; li> Vict, 
 to such of the provisions o\' this Act as arc to be construed as ^" """ 
 albresaid with such Acts.
 
 .,, rn o- n Metropolitan Board of Works r^i i .«oTr n 
 
 044 [Chap. 3 . .] ^^^ . ^^^.^ ^^L^^^ [41 k 42 Vict.] 
 
 ) 
 
 Act not to 
 apply to the 
 Inner and 
 Middle 
 Temple, etc. 
 
 25. \_Exemptions from the Metropolitan Building Acts extended to 
 this Act. Rep. oT & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 215.] 
 
 26. Nothino; in this Act, . . . shall apply to the Inner Temple, 
 the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, Staple Inn, Fnr- 
 nival's Inn, or the close of the collegiate chnrch of" Saint Peter, 
 Westminster. [_\Vords omitted ^^ or in any bi/elaw of the Board 
 thereunder ") rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii. s. 215.] 
 
 27. \_Saving the lights of the Croicn and of the iJuchg of Lancaster.'] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Construction 
 of Act. 
 
 32 & 33 Vict, 
 c. 102. 
 
 33 & 34 Vict. 
 0. 24. 
 
 34 & 35 Vict, 
 c. 47. 
 
 38 & 3<J Vict. 
 c. 65. 
 
 39 & 40 Vict. 
 c. 55. 
 
 40 & 41 Vict, 
 c. 52. 
 
 CHAPTER 37. 
 
 An Act to further amend the Acts relating to the raising of 
 Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and for 
 OTHER Purposes relating thereto. [8^/^ August 1878.] 
 
 \_Preamhle?^ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Loard of Works 
 (Money) Act, 1878 ; and the Metropolitan P>oard of Works (Money) 
 Acts, 1875 to 1877, and this Act may be cited together as the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1878. 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 18G0 to 1871, and the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1877. 
 
 3. [Amendment of s. 13 of AO k 41 Vict. c. 52. Rep. AQ k ^1 
 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 4. \Poiver to the Board to expend under 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 
 s. 144, and 25 & 26 Vict. c. 1()2, .s-. 22. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 
 
 (-S'.Z./^.).] 
 
 5. \_As to expenses for Fire Briqade purposes till 31. s? December 
 1879. Rep. 46 k 47 'Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). 
 
 Provision as to carrging from time to time to the Consolidated 
 Loans Fund such sum as the Treasury approve as sufficiejit to 
 redeem the stock created for the purposes of this section in "^0 years. 
 Identical nnth such provision in 38 & 39 1 ^ict. c. 'i.Sh., s. 3.] 
 
 6 — 9. {Expenses for the purposes of 40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxv\, 
 
 35 k 36 Vict. c. clxiii., 36 & 37 Vfct. c. Ixxxvi., 38 k 39 Vict, 
 
 c. clxxix., and 41 & 42 Vict. c. cxlv. Rep. 46 k 47 Vict. c. 39 
 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 10. \_Pomer to the Board to lend, to vestries and district boards till 
 'Mst December 1879. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.).— Provision 
 for repayment tcithin a tim£ to be approved by the Treasury not 
 exceeding.^ as to loans for tvidening streets or bridges and purchase of 
 land, 60 years, and for other pmrposes 30 years ; and, in the case of 
 a loan for not exceeding 30 years requiring the Board from time to 
 time to carry to the (Consolidated. Loans Fund such sums as the 
 Treasury appjrove as being sufficient to redeem the stock created for 
 the purposes of this section tvithin the period of the loan. Identical 
 with such provision in 38 k 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 4.] 
 
 11. \Powe)- to the Board to lend to guardians till 31,$f December 
 1879. Rep. 46 k 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). — I'rovisionfor repayment 
 within a time to be approved by the Treasury not exceeding 30 years, 
 and as to carrying to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sum as the
 
 [41 & 42 Vict.] Metropolitan Commons Act 1^1%. [Chap. 71. J 545 
 
 Treasure/ apprnrp. as snfflcicnt to redeem the Htock created for the 
 purposes of this section within the period of the loan. Idcnticdl 
 with such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 05, .v. 5.] 
 
 12. \_Power to /hr r>o(ii-d to Iciu/ to corporations, burial hoards, etc., 
 till'Mst l)eceml)er LSTU. Itep. 40 & 47 Vict. c. 3'.J (S./v.Ji.).— /'ro- 
 rision for re])a)/meiit nnthin. a time approced hij the 'Treai^iirij not 
 exceediny, as to loans for icidenintj streets or for bridges and. 
 purchase of lands, OO years, and for other purposes 30 years ; and. 
 in the case of <i loan for not exceeding 30 years requiring the Hoard 
 from time to time to carry to the Consolidated f^oans Fund siwh sums 
 as the Treasury approre as suj^cient to redeem the stock created 
 
 for the purposes of this section within the period, of the loan. 
 Identical with such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 05, .s-. 0.] 
 
 13. \_Extensio7i of amount whiclt the Hoard may lend to the 
 Manaqers of the Metropolitan Asqlum District. Hep. 46 k 47 
 
 Virf.'r. m {S.L.H.).'] 
 
 14 — 21. \^Power to the Board to raise money hy " ^fetropjolitan 
 Bills " and jiroi'isions in reference thereto. Rep. 40 c<: 47 Vict. c. 39 
 S.L.R.).'] 
 
 22. [^jUteration of limitation of horrowinq poioer in 32 & 33 I let. 
 c. 102, s. 38. Repj. 01 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.LR.).'\ 
 
 23. All sums received by the Board in respect of interest on or Ropnyments 
 
 principal ofanv loan made bv them under this Act shall be carried ^? ^^ !P, ^ , 
 
 ,1 /( 1- i i 1 r i-i"^ 1 CoiisDluiateil 
 
 i(» the ( onsolidated Loans i^ nnd. Loans Knml. 
 
 24. \_Extension of s. 3 of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102. Rep. 01 & 02 
 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.):] 
 
 Schedule. \_Farticulars of iieiu moneq poioers conferred lnj this 
 Act. Rep. 40 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {8.L.R.).\ 
 
 CHAPTEll 71, 
 
 An Act to extend to JMetropolitan Commons certaix Pro- 
 visions OF THE Commons Act, 1876, \\.{Sth August \'61'^7\ 
 
 {Preamble rep. 57 k 58 Vict. c. 50 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 1. This Act shall be cited as the IMetroiioiitan Commons Act, ^liort title. 
 1878, and shall be read as forming one Act with the Metro{)oIitau ~^ yy.^ ^^ ' 
 ('Ommons Acts, 1800 and 1809. 32&:« Vict. 
 
 2. The Metroiiolitan Board of Works* sliall, in resiiect of any ,,' 
 
 ... . ^ *■ I o\v6r to 
 
 common situate within the metroj)olis as defined by the Metropolis Mctroiwlitin 
 JVlanagement Act, 1855, have the same power to ])nrehast,' and hold, iJuard to 
 with a view to prevent the extinction of tiie riyhts of common, l^^'?""^'-' *'"'^ 
 
 ,,,.,',. '^ ,. ' hold common 
 
 any saleable riti'lits m common, or any tenement ot a commoner rights 
 havini^ annexed tliereto riirlits of coniinon, as is confcn't'd l)y the fifth i>= ^'t H' Vict, 
 parag-rajili of the eii;hth section of tlie Commons Act, l>TO,t •4'*^"' ^/,/f % V" >f 
 an urban sanitary authority in respect of a suburban common. c.i^. 
 
 ♦ Now tlic London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, .>;. 40 (S). 
 f The lit'th paiagrapli oi s. S of the Commons Act lS7t) i.*; as follows : 
 " They {'i.e. an urban sanitary authority) may also in the case of any such suburban 
 common puirhase and hold as aforesaid with a view to prevent the extinction of the 
 rights of common, any saleable ritihts in common or any tenement of a commoner 
 having annexed thereto rights of ennnnon." 
 
 35
 
 546 
 
 Extension 
 of certain 
 provisions of 
 :{9 & 40 Vict. 
 c. 5(5. to 
 metropolitan 
 commons. 
 29 & 30 Vict. 
 0. 122. 
 
 32 & ;{;'. Vict. 
 
 c. 107. 
 
 [Chap, cxii.] 
 
 Orders in 
 
 schedule 
 
 confirmed. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 ]\letropolis {Bowmans Buildiitgs, 
 MarjiUhone, and Essex Road, Is- [41 & 42 Vict.] 
 lij?(/fon,) Tmpi'ovement Promsional 
 Orders Covjirmation Act 1878, 
 
 3. Sections thirty and thirty-one of the Commons Act, 1870,:}: 
 sliall, after the jiassing of this Act, apply to metropolitan commons 
 within the meaning of the Metroj)olitan Commons Acts of 18GG 
 and 1869. 
 
 CHAPTER CXII. 
 
 An Act to confiem certain Provisional Orders of one of 
 Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the 
 Improvement of certain Unhealthy Areas within the 
 Metropolis. \\th July 1878.] 
 
 \_Pre«rrLUc?j^ 
 
 1. The Orders set out in the schedule hereunto annexed are 
 hereby conHrmed. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Bowman's Buildings, 
 Marylebone, and Essex Road, Islington,) Improvement Provisional 
 Orders Confirmation Act, 1878. 
 
 \ Ss. 30 and 31 of the Commons Act 1S76 are as follows : 
 
 "30. A count}' court within wliose jurisdiction an}' common or part of a common 
 is situate shall have jurisdiction to hear any case relating to any illegal inclosure or 
 encroachment of or upon such common or part of a common respectively made after 
 the passing of this Act or to any nuisance impeding the exercise of any right of 
 common arising after the passing of this Act, and to grant an injunction against 
 such inclosure encroachment or nuisance, or to make an order for the removal or 
 abatement of such inclosure encroachment or nuisance. 
 
 " Any per.sou aggrieved by any injunction granted or order made or refusal to 
 grant an injunction or make an order by a county court in pursuance of this section 
 may, on giving security for costs to the satisfaction of the county court, appeal to 
 the High Court of Justice in a summary manner, or by special case or otherwisi', as 
 may be prescribed by rules of court to t)e made by the Supreme Court of Judicature 
 in manner provided by the seventeenth section of the Supreme Court of Judicature 
 Act, 1875. 
 
 " The appellate court may on hearing the appeal reverse modify or confirm the 
 injunction or order complained of, or remit the case to the county court from which 
 till' appeal lay, with instructions to deal with the case according to the directions 
 given by the appellate court. 
 
 " Where an appeal is lodged against the onler of a county court directing the 
 removal or abatement of any inclosure encroachment or nuisance, such order shall 
 be suspended during such time as such appeal is pending. 
 
 "Nothing in this Act contained shall abridge or interfere witli any existing right 
 of abating or otherwise preventing any illegal inclosure of or encroachment on an}' 
 common or any nuisance interfering with any right t)f conniion. 
 
 " Until rules of court are made for the puiposes of this section, an appeal may be 
 had from the decision of any county court uutler this section in the same manner in 
 which an aj)peal from the decision of a county court may be had in a case within its 
 ordinary jurisdic:tion. 
 
 " 31. Any person intending to inclose or approve a common or part of a common 
 otherwise than under the provisions of tliis Act .shall give notice to all persons 
 claiming any legal right in sucli common or part of a common, by publishing, at 
 least three months beforehand, a statement of his intention to make such inclosure, 
 for three successive times, and in two or more of the jDrincipal local newspapers in 
 the county, town or district in which the common or part of a common proposed to 
 be inclosed is situate ; but the provisions of this section shall not apply to any 
 conuuons or waste lands whereon the rights of common are vested solely in the lord 
 of the manor. 
 
 " A production of a newspaper containing such advertisement as aforesaid shall 
 be evidence of the same having been issued, and the inclosure shall, until the 
 contrary is proved, be deenicl to have taken place at the time specified in such 
 advertisement."
 
 [41 & 42 Vict.] IHu/nstead Cominoii Act 1878. [Ohai'. cxlv.] .04'; 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Metropolis (Bowman's BciLniNds, Makylkbonk) Imimu)Vkmf,xt. 
 
 [Provisional Order of the Home Senrtaii/ dulfd 'Ard Ajiril IHIH^ coiifirmi/ifj a 
 SrJipme prr/xirrtl In/ tlie .l/clrojioll/n/i lioiird of Worhx, under the Artiziuia luid 
 Lahdurcrx DirrUiiKja J mjirooeutciit Act 187.0, fur the iiiij)riirpiiifiit of an unheidtlni 
 area situated in the parinh tf Hainl Mari/lelidne. The Order reriteis that the number 
 of persons if the trorkiug class to he d/sjilaml hi/ the Srheme is estimated at 80(5, 
 and prorides for the clearinq (ftlie lands en/istitiilin// the inijyrorement area and for 
 die erection thereon of direllini/s to accomniodnlc DaO persons of tlie irorkinfj class. 
 The Order further irquires the widenintj of Linton Place to 'hO feel to the east of 
 premises in Kilijware PomI, and its continuation at the same vidlh into Manninr/ 
 Street, and the firmation of a new street, HO feet wide, from Pell Street to Linton 
 Place. Sjient.] 
 
 Tiiic Mktropolis (Essex Road, I.sli.\(;to.\) Impkovkmknt. 
 
 [Provisional Order of the Home Secretary dated iird April 1878, confirm intj a 
 Scheme prejiared In/ the Metropolitan Poard of Works, under the Ariizans and 
 Labourers Direllinrjs /mprorenie/it Act 1H7.'j, for the improrement of an nnheidlhi/ 
 area situated in the parislt of Saint Mary, Islimjton. The Order recites that the 
 iinmher of persons of tlie irorkiny <-lnsn to he dlsj/liiced by the Scheme is estimated 
 <it 1,7U<>, and prorides for the cleariny of the lands constituliny the improvement 
 area and for the erection thereon of dicellincjs to accommodate 3,135 persons of the 
 vorkiny class. 'The Order also rcf/uirea the iridenimj (f Popham Street to 30 .feel ; 
 Paradise Place to ^0 feet ; and I'o/ihain Rond, otlienrise Fmy Lane, to ?A) feet 
 between Popham Street and Elder Widk ; and the formation of a iiein street, 
 iiO feet icide, in continuation to Essex lioad ; and a new street, 30 feet wide, to be 
 formed in the line of Anglers Gardens. S/Jcnt.] 
 
 CHAPTER CXLV. 
 
 * An Act for effecting a Transfer to the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works of the oren Spaces known: as Plumsteah 
 
 ('OMMON and »ShoULDER-0F-]\IuTTON (iREEN, AND FOR ENABLING 
 THEM TO PRESERVE, IMPROVE, AND REGULATE THE SAME, AND 
 TO ERECT A LODGE URON BlACKHEATH. [4M Jld>/ 1878.] 
 
 \_Prcamble recites (inter alia) that there are in the county of Koit t 
 t/ro Oj>eii spaces hnoicn as I'lumstead Common (in this Act referred 
 to as the ( 'ommon) and Shoulder-of-Matton Green (in this x\ct referred 
 to as the Green), situate within the manor of Plumstead, of which 
 manor the prowst and scholars of Queen's College, Oxford (in this 
 Act called the College) are or claim to be lords, and that there is 
 another open space in the jiarish of Plumstead hnoicn as Jiostall 
 Heath (in this Act referred to as the Heath), formerhj part of the 
 said manor ; that the Heath has been placed under the authority of 
 the Metro})olitan Board of WorhsX (in this Act called the Board), 
 who hare purchased, or are about to ])urrhase the same, and that it is 
 eupedient that the Common and the Green should also be placed under 
 such authority ; and also recites an indenture of lease dated the lOM 
 day of July 1873 made between the Colleqe of the one part and the 
 Secretary of State for the War ])epartment of the other part, irherehy 
 certain parts of the Common ?cere agreed to be leased to the Secretary 
 for War as therein mentioned ; and also recites that plans shelving 
 the Common and the Green have been deposited with the Clerh of the 
 Peace for Kent.] 
 
 * As to Plumstead Common, see also 47 &; 4S Vict. c. ccxxiii. .s. 4S : IS i: 49 Vict, 
 c. clxvii. ss. 51— 54 ; .ind 54 i: .")5 Vict. c. ccvi. s. 50. 
 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 vt 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 X Now tlio London County Council. Sec 51 & 52 Vict. r. 41. s. 40 (8).
 
 548 
 
 [CHAr. cxlv.] Plumstead Common Act 1878. [41 & 42 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Incorporation 
 of general 
 Acts. 
 
 Si & 9 Vict. c. IS. 
 23 & 24 Vict. c. IOC. 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. 18. 
 
 As to portion 
 of Common 
 to be used by 
 military. 
 
 Common to 
 bo under 
 management 
 of Board. 
 
 Vesting of 
 indenture of 
 lease in 
 Board. 
 
 Powers of 
 Board as to 
 improvement 
 of Common 
 and (ireen. 
 
 Common and 
 Green to be 
 preserved 
 from en- 
 croachment. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as tlie Plumstead Common Act, 1878. 
 
 2. The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, 18G0, and 1869, 
 are, so far as the provisions thereof are a]»plicable, incor{>orated 
 with and form part of this Act. 
 
 3. \_Poiver to the Board to purchase the Common and. the Green, 
 and as to conTeyance of the same to the Board. Sjient.'] 
 
 4. From and after the completion of tlie said conveyance that 
 part of the Common which is coloured blue on the maj) or ])lan 
 thereof which is signed in duplicate by Her Majesty's principal 
 Secretary of State for the AVar Department, and by the Chairman 
 of the Metro])olitan Board of Works, and to be hereafter held by 
 their respective officers, or such other part of the said (^ommon 
 as may at any time hereafter, either in substitution or in addition to 
 such blue part, be mutually agreed upon by the said principal 
 Secretary and ( Uiairman to be set aside for such purpose, shall for 
 ever be kej)t open as a parade, camping, training, or exercising 
 ground, to be used by all branches of Her Majesty's regular, 
 auxiliary, and reserve forces, when and as often as need or occasion 
 shall require ; and the said principal Secretary and his successors 
 shall at all times restore and make good the surface of the part 
 coloured blue, or such substituted or additional part, so that the 
 same may, as heretofore, be kept in and restored to good order and 
 condition as a parade, camping, training, or exercising ground for 
 Her Majesty's forces as aforesaid, and for such liberty or easement 
 over tlie ])art coloured l)Iue as is herein-before reserved or granted 
 to the said principal Secretary he shall ])ay as ]ntrchase money to the 
 said Metropolitan Board of Works the sum of four thousand pounds. 
 
 5. Subject as aforesaid, and so as not in any way to interrupt or 
 interfere with the free use and enjoyment of the liberty or easement 
 herein-before mentioned, the Common and Green, as the same are 
 delineated in the deposited ])lans, shall be regulated and managed 
 by the Board us a place of recreation for the public. 
 
 6. The herein-before recited indenture of lease dated the 19th day 
 of July 1873 shall be assigned to and vested in the Board so that 
 the term may be merged and vested in the said Board. 
 
 7. [^Potver to appoint and regulate officers for tlie purposes of the 
 Act. Superseded by the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, ss. 19 
 and 2U {see Appendix), and. 51 & 52 \'ict. c. 41, s. 75. See also 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 6-. 202.] 
 
 8. The Board may (subject to the approval and consent of the said 
 l)rincipal Secretary as to the part coloured blue) execute any works 
 of drainage and improvement of the ('ommon and Green, so far only 
 as may be required for the purposes of the Metropolitan Commons 
 Acts, and shall preserve the turf and grass of the uncoloured 
 j)ortions, and for this purpose may inclose by fences for short periods 
 such jKjrtions as may reipiire rest to revive the same, and shall also 
 ])reserve the trees, and so much of the gorse as they may deem 
 desirable, and may plant or otherwise beautify the C'ommon and 
 Green, but shall do nothing that shall otherwise vary or alter the 
 natural features or aspect of the Common and Green. 
 
 9. The Board shall maintain the Common and Green as de- 
 lineated in the deposited plans free of all encroachment, and shall 
 ])ermit no trespass on or partial or other inclosure of any j)art 
 thereof, and no fences, posts, rails, or other matters or things shall
 
 [41 &42 Vict.] L'laimtmd Common Act 1«78. [Chap, cxlv.] 549 
 
 be niiiiiitaiiied, fixed, or erected thereon without the consent in 
 
 writ ill L^ ol' the Board. 
 
 10 — 12. [Afi to })iicl(iivii. Siiju'r/icded 53 & 54 \'i<:t. c. ccxliii. 
 .s.s. 14 -:,'!, uikI 01 & 0~ X'k-t. c. ccxxi. .s. fJl.] 
 
 13. It shall not be lawful, without the consent in writini,^ of the Sewers, etc. 
 Board, to form, build, or lay any s<nver, drain, pipe, waterway, or "^'^^^,'.„|!^j^^j 
 other matter of like nutui'e, in, int(j, or under any part oi' parts of without con- 
 the ( "ommon or (ireen. ' sent of Board. 
 
 14. Except for those j)i'rsons wIkj now liy law are entitled to do Restrictions 
 so, it shall not be lawful to turn out on the Common or Green ^tUe^'Ctc"" 
 for <(razing any cattle, sheep, or other aninuil. 
 
 15. Nothiu",' herein contained shall l)e construed as placinj; any rublic roads, 
 of the public roads or hi<i:hways on or across the Common and ^'^- "•^'' ^" •■'^ 
 Green respectively under tlie care of the Board, or siiall pi'''vent q^'jj^J^^'j"^^ 
 the respective local authorities by their oflicers and servants taking 
 
 such portions of the Common and Green respectively as they may 
 now by law be entitled to take for the purpose of widening the said 
 roads or highways to the width they may now lie compelled by law 
 to make, but it shall not be lawful to make or form any new roads 
 over and across the Common and Green, or either of them, without 
 the consent in writing of the Board. 
 
 16. Subject to the j)rovisions of this Act and the provisions I'ower to 
 incorporated with this Act, the Board may from time to time, after ^^^^^^^^^-y 
 such conveyance of the estate and interest of the C'ollege in the rights, etc. 
 Common and Green as aforesaid, purc;hase by agreement or other- 
 wise all such riglits of common, commonable rights, rights of way, 
 
 and other rights, estates, interests, and })rivileges in, over, or 
 affecting the (\immon and Green respectively as they think it 
 re([uisite to acfpiire ibr tlie better execution of this Act, and ibr 
 that purpose every such right, estate, interest, or privilege shall be 
 deemed lands. 
 
 17. AVhen the Board have purchased under this Act any right of I'f wer to 
 common, commonable right, right of way, or other right, estate, rj^^^tf^^g^ 
 interest, or privilege in, over, or affecting tlie Common and Green when pur- 
 respectively, they may, as they think most expcnlient, with a view chased. 
 
 to securing the free use of the Common and Green by the public for 
 j)uri)oses of exercise and recreation and the better execution of this 
 Act, either extinguisli the same, or retain, hold, and exercise the 
 same, wholly or partially. 
 
 18. The Board, in any case, if they think fit, instead of pur- i'ower to 
 chasing wholly any right of common, commonable right, right ^t' J"^.'^^'[|[|^'j'^"'^^. 
 way, or other right, interest, or privilege in, over, or affecting the agreement. 
 Common or (Ji-een, may by agreement purchase the same ])artially, 
 
 or purchase a right to iujpose limitations or restrictions on the same, 
 and otherwise to regulate the exercise and enjoyment thereof, and 
 may from time to time exercise all such powers as are conferred on 
 them by any such agreement. 
 
 19. No estate, interest, or right of a profitable or beneficial I'rovision f.r 
 nature m, over, or afiectuig the C ommon or Green respectively sluul, ,1^^^' 
 exce]>t with the consent of the i)erson entitled thereto, be taken 
 
 away or injuriously aflected by virtue of this Act without compen- 
 sation being made or j)rovided for the same; and such com])ensatiou 
 shall, in case of ditference, be ascertained and jtrovided in the same 
 manner as if the same compensation were for the compulsory
 
 550 
 
 [Chap. 18.] Racecourses Licetisimj Act 1879. [4ii & 43 Vict.] 
 
 As to ;iC(iiii.-i 
 tion or sur- 
 render of 
 rights of 
 War Office. 
 
 Conveyance 
 of Common 
 and Green 
 not to be 
 subject to 
 9 G. 2. c. ;!(■). 
 
 Board may 
 erect lodij;e 
 on Black- 
 heath, 
 
 pnrcliuse and taking or the iujnrious affecting" of lands under the 
 provisions of the Lefore-nientioned Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts. 
 
 20. The provisions in this Act contained for the accjnisition by 
 the Board of rights aifecting the Common shall extend to the 
 acquisition by them of, and the granting or surrendering by Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the War Department, and 
 his successors, from time to time, of all or any j)art or parts of the 
 rights which Her Majesty's said principal Secretary or his suc- 
 cessors may claim to have for the time being in, over, or affecting 
 the Common, or any part or parts thereof. 
 
 21. Where any estate, interest, or right in, over, or affecting the 
 Common or Green is by deed conveyed for the purposes of this Act, 
 the provisions of the Act of the 9th year of the reign of King 
 George II. (cap. 30) " to I'estrain the disi)osition of lands whereby 
 the same become inalienable," shall not aj)ply to the conveyance. 
 
 22. The Board may erect and maintain, upon such part of 
 lUackheath as may be agreed upon between them and the lord of 
 the manor, or as, in case of difference, shall be settled by the before- 
 mentioned Secretary of State for the Home Department, a suitable 
 lodge for the accommodation of any oliticer ai)])ointed by them to 
 ])reserve order u[)on the Heath, and for its protection. \_See also 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. ,s-. 50, aiul 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 45.] 
 
 23. \_Expenses of ohfaln/iKj atid cxecutiug Act. Spent in jjart. 
 Rentr. superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, part iv., and the London 
 Countij Council {Mone;/) Acts 1879—1904.] 
 
 42 & 43 VICTORIA. A.D. 1879. 
 
 Uctjuitiuiis. 
 
 Horse-races 
 unlawful 
 within ten 
 miles of 
 London un- 
 less licensed. 
 
 Power to 
 Justices to 
 license at 
 Michaelmas 
 quarter 
 sessions. 
 
 CHAPTER IS. 
 
 An Act for the Licensing of Metropolitan Suburban Race- 
 courses. \^ird Jul;/ 1879.] 
 
 \_Preamblc rep. 57 k 58 Vict. c. 50 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 1. A horse-race within the meaning of this Act shall mean any 
 race in which any horse, mare, or gelding shall run or be made to 
 run in competition with any other horse, mare, or gelding, or against 
 time, for any prize of what nature or kind soever, or for any bet or 
 wager made or to be made in res})ect of any such horse, mare, or 
 gelding, or the riders thereof, and at which more than twenty 
 persons shall be present. 
 
 2. ... It shall not be lawful that any horse-race be held or take 
 place on any i)retext whatsoever within a radius of ten miles from 
 Charing (Jross in the city of Westminster, unless in a place for which 
 a license for horse-racing has been obtained j)ursuant to the pro- 
 visions herein-after contained. [ Words omitted, (" From and after 
 the 2m day of March, 1«S0 ") rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 50 {S.L.R.)!\ 
 
 3. Any person desirous of obtaining a license for horse-racing 
 
 for any open or enclosed land or place, being the owner, lessee, or 
 
 occupier of such land or j)lace, may apply to the Justices assembled 
 
 at any Michaelmas (Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden for 
 
 the county,* city, riding, liberty, or division in which such land or 
 
 * As regards the county of London, now the London County Council, see 51 & 52 
 Vict. c. 41, s. 3.
 
 r42&43VlCT.1 ',,, ^ . ,,.-:,, [(HAP. 00.] ool 
 
 place is situate, which Justices arc hereby empowered to <;rarit or 
 witlihold a license at their discretion, siicli license to be of force 
 and valid for twelve months dating fiom the twenty-fifth day of 
 March next following the date of such api)lication. 
 
 4. Every such apjtiication shall \n\ made to the Justices in the *^"|^V^f 
 same manner as aj)plicati(jns for licenses for places to be kept for .,ppii,.^,i,,„ 
 public danciuL;, musi(t, or other entertainment und(!r tin; ])rovisiotis fur license, 
 of an Act passed in the tweuty-lifth year of His late Majesty King 
 George the Second. [JS'^ote to s. 3 (tp/diea.] 
 
 5. Any person who . . . shall take part in any horse-race in any I'enalty 
 open or enclosed land or j)lace for which a license is reipiired "'J^^er |'",^P^^^"°^^ 
 this Act, and lor which a lici'tise has not been obtained, shall upon in unlicensed 
 summary conviction be liable to a ])enalty of ten pounds, or an horse-races, 
 imprisonment not exceeding two mouths. \_\Vor(fs omitted {^^ after 
 
 the mid 'lUh day of Murch l88U");-<^y>. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 50 {S.L./L).'] 
 
 6. Any person who shall be the owner or lessee or in iiossession Penalty on 
 or occuiKitiou of anv oi)en or enclosed land or i)lace for which a °^^'°*^'".'* ^"^^, 
 
 1 ■ ,-1 • • -1 1 \ • A \ 1 1-1 occupiers of 
 
 license lor horse-racing is re([Uired under this Act, aiKl ui)Ou wiiicli grcund where 
 
 any horse-race shall be held . . . without such license having been unlicensed 
 
 obtained, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction ['.'^/'l'^'^^^^'^** 
 
 thereof shall be punishable for every such offence with fine or 
 
 im])risonment at the discretion of the Court, such tine not to be 
 
 less than live ])ouiids nor more than twenty-five pounds, and such 
 
 imj)risonment not to be less than one month uor more than three 
 
 months. \^^'ote to s. 5 ajjjjlies.^ 
 
 7. Every horse-race held or taking ])lace in contravention of the Unlicensed 
 provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be a nuisance, and anv j'orse-races 
 
 . *' to D6 0.6611160. 
 
 ])ersou injured or inconvenienced thereby sliall have all such rights a nuL-^ance, 
 and remedies against all persons taking part in the same, and against and liable 
 owners, lessees, and occupiers of the land or place, as he would have ^^cordingly, 
 in case of a nuisance at common law. 
 
 8. This Act may be cited as the Uacecourses Licensing Act, 1879. Short title. 
 
 CHAPTER 01 1. 
 
 An Act fok further amending the Acts relating to the 
 RAiisiNG OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; 
 
 AND FOR other PURPOSES RELATING THERETO. 
 
 [lot/i Any ant 1^7'J.] 
 [Preamble rep. 01 & 0:i Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the IMetropolitan Poard of Works short title. 
 (Money) Act, 1879; and the Metropolitan P.oard of Works (]\rouey) ^'^^^39 Vict. 
 Acts, 1875 to 1878, and this Act may be cited together as the 4'i 5^42 vict. 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money)" Acts, 1875 to 1879. c. 37. 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the Co^^J^^^tion 
 ]\Ietro])olitan P>oard of AVorks (Loans) Acts, 1809 to 1871, and 3-..i33Vicuc. i(>2. 
 the Metro])olitau Board of Works (Money) xVcts, 187o to I818. m * 35 vict c i?.' 
 
 38&39 VicU c 6& 
 
 3—7. [Amendment of S6. 5 and 9 of ^\ k 42 Vict. c. ^1 -Power to ^l^^. 
 the Board to expend money for the purposes of 40 &, 41 }'ict. c. cci. ; " *«v 
 for improvements in connection with the obelisk on the Victoria Em- 
 bankment : and under 18 & 19 \'irt. r. 12U, .s-. 144, and 25 & 20 
 Vict. c. 102, *•• 72. Jiep. 01 & 02 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.Ii.).'] 
 
 IcL c. M. 
 icU c. 5i 
 ict. c. 37.
 
 K-o r/-^ on -\ Mi'tro/iohtau Board 0/ Works r^o * A'i\T,r.,„~\ 
 
 oo2 [Chap. 69. 1 /,, . , ^ iw-n [42 & 43 Vict. I 
 
 •- -J {Moneij) Act 18 /U. ^ -" 
 
 8. \_As to expciiHC^J'or Fire l>ri(j(i(/c jjiirposes until '6\st December 
 l^^U. Rep. 01 k'Cy'Z Vict. c. 22 (t^S.L.K.). — Provision as to carri/ing 
 from time to time to the Consolidated Loans Fund, such sum as 
 the Treasurij approve as sufficient to redeem the stock created for 
 the purposes of this section in 30 years. Identical with such pro- 
 vision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 3.] 
 
 9 — 11. [^Fower to the Board to expend monei/ for the purposes of 
 3o ,^-, 36 Vict. c. clxiii.; 36 & 37 Vict. c. Ixxxvi. ; 38 k 39 Vict. 
 c. elxxix. ; 40 & 41 Vict. cc. cci. and ccxxxv. ; cmd 41 & 42 Vict, 
 c. cxlv. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 12. \_Power to the Board, to lend to vestries and district boards 
 until 'd\st December 1880. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).— Pro- 
 vision for repayment within a time to be approved, by the Treasury 
 not exceeding, as to loans for widening streets or for bridges and 
 purchase of lands, 60 years, and for other purposes 30 years ; and 
 in the case of a loan for not exceeding 30 years requiring the Board 
 from time to time to carry to the Consolidated Ijoans Fund such sums 
 as the Treasury apj>rore as sufficient to redeem the stock created for 
 the purposes of this section within the period of the loan. Identical 
 with such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 4.] 
 
 13. [Poiver to the Board to lend to the vestry of St. Pancras for 
 the pmr poses of the St. Pancras Loans Act 1879. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.'):\ 
 
 14. \Power to the Board to lend to guardians till ^\st December 
 1880. Rej). 61 & ()2 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R). — Provision for repayment 
 n-ithin a time to be approved, by the 'Treasury not exceeding 30 years, 
 and as to carrying to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sum as the 
 Treasury apyprove as S'ufficient to redeem the stock created for the 
 
 purposes of this section within the period, of the loan. Identical with 
 such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 5.] 
 
 15. [Power to the Board to lend to corporations, burial boards, 
 etr.Jill ?>\st December 1880. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).— 
 Provision for repayment tvithin a time to be approved by the 
 Treasury not exceeding, as to loans for widening streets or for 
 bridges and purchase of lands, 60 years, and, for other purposes 30 
 years ; arul in the case of a loan for not exceeding 3l) years requiring 
 the Board from time to time to carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund 
 such sums as the Treasury approve as sufficient to redeem the stock 
 created for the purposes of this section within the period of the loan. 
 Identical with such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 6.] 
 
 16—26. \_I^xtension of the amount ivhich the Board may lend to 
 the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District — As to " Metro- 
 politan Bilhr Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (^'.Z.it'.).] 
 
 Repayments 27. All sums received by the Board in respect of interest on or 
 to be carried princijjul of any loan made by them under this Act shall be carried 
 to con.oii- ^ ^1 (Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 dated Loans 
 
 Fund. 28. \Ext,ension of s. 3 <2/"32 & 33 Vict. c. 102. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict, 
 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Schedule. \F*articulars of new money jwwers conferred by this 
 Art. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.)'.]
 
 Mitrojjoli.s (Lit I If ('uraiu Street^ 
 
 [4:^ & 4:i Vict.] liloom.sh'ir;/, WdU Street, I'Dplnr, [C'mai'. Ixxix.] 553 
 
 <i ih/ < 1 n (it Peter Street^ Went mi hater,) 
 
 Inijjrorei/ieiit I'rorisioiKil Orden^ 
 
 Conjinnation Act l^TU. 
 
 CllAl'TKK 7:{. 
 
 An Act '1'<> aiitiiouisk 'iiii'; ( 'o.m.mission'kks ok . . . \V<»niis . . . 
 TO A(ii;KK WITH TiiK ( '( >Nsr;nvAi'< ii{s (M' riiK JiiVKi: Tiiamks 
 ON TiiK Paymknts K(tK I'lKiis (»i; Lanuing-I'LACKS in ok upon 
 
 TIIK J>KI) OR ShuKK of TIIK UlVKU TlIAMKH. 
 
 [15M Augmt l-sT'J.] 
 
 [ ll'o/v/.s oitiifted in title (" //./■ Mtijesfifs " and " and Forest. s and 
 Land Jxerenues''''), and preandjli; {j-eeitinij the 'I'/tatnes Cunsercanci/ 
 Act, 1857*) rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 5(5 (,S'./J.A'.).] 
 
 1. This Act may Le cited as the ( "oiniuissiouers of Woods (Thames «hori title. 
 Piers) Act, 1870. 
 
 2. The Commissioners, or one of tlieiii, actint; with the consent of Power to 
 
 the . . . Treasiirv, and the Conservators may from time to time ^i^"'™'*"' , 
 111 1 1 " I t- 4.1 sionersand 
 
 make, tind when made revoke and vary a,i;"reejnenrs resj)ecrin<( tne conservators 
 
 annual payments to l)e made from time to tinu; . . . by the Con- to aKne as 
 
 servators to the Commissioners, or which heretofore should l,ave *'' '■^'"'•'*/°'' 
 1 1 • i !• 11 iwi • 111 \n(iTi^, etc. 
 
 l)een so made m respect ot .•ill or any oi the piers or landmo'-jilaces 
 
 in or upon anv ])ortions of the bed or shores of the Kiver Thames 
 
 erec'ted or accjuii'ed by tlie Conservators either before or afti-r the 
 
 passing of this Act, suid under the management of the Conservators. 
 
 All sums paid to tlie ( 'omniissioners in pui'suance of any such 
 
 iigreemeiit shall be ajtplied (in like manner as sums received by tlie 
 
 Commissioners iVom the Conservators under the Tluinies Conser- L'Uii: 'Ji Vict. 
 
 vancy Act, 1857,*) as part of the heredittiry possessions and land ^•- ^-'^'^'"• 
 
 revenues of the Crown. [sVv al.so 4 I'.d/r. 7, c. cciii. s. 49. Word.^ 
 
 omitted (" Commissioners of Her Majesti/s " and " hereafter ") rep. 
 
 57 i^-. 58 Vict. c. 50 {S.L.R.):\ 
 
 3. [Xs. 103 an(f 1(»4 of the Thames Con.^erranci/ Act 1857 * not to 
 (ippl'/ to am/ reids or recenues received bij tlie Consercators in respect 
 of piers or landing-places iv/dch are the subject of agreemerd under 
 this Act. Spent. ~\ 
 
 4. Nothing in this Act contained sliall be heM to authorise the ^''"»tf'io'» 
 
 , , , ' , , . ^ . 1 T I ot Act. 
 
 ( onservtitors to ei'ect, ac(jnire, or retaui any piers or laiuling-places 
 which they were not authorisetl to erect, ac(piire, or retain before 
 the passing of this Act. 
 
 CHAPTER LXXIX. 
 
 An Act to confikm certain Provisional Orders of ()Nk ok 
 IIki; Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the 
 Jmi'rovement of certain Unhealthy Areas within the 
 Metropolis. ['Sd Jnh/ 1>7'.».] 
 
 [rreu„dj/r.'] 
 
 1. The Orders set out in the schedule hereunto annexed are ^^^''f^cr.s in 
 hereby conhrmed. confirmed. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Little Coram Street, short title. 
 Bloomsbury, Wells Street, Poplar, and Great Peter Street, West- 
 minster,) Improvement Provisional Orders Confirmatiou Act, 1870. 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by 57 & oS Viet. e. elx.xxvii. ; f-ee ibid. s. L'3'J (,see Appendi.x).
 
 554 
 
 Metropolis {M'hitechapel and Lime- 
 [Chap. Ixxx.] house) Impromitnent Scheme Modiji- [4::i&43ViCT.] 
 
 cation Act 1879. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Metropolis (Little Cokam Stkeet, St. Giles District and St. Pancras,) 
 
 Improvement. 
 
 [Pror/sio)/(tl Order of the Home Secretary elated 4th April 1879, coiifirnung a 
 Scheme jirejiared b// the J\[etrop(ditnn Bonrd of WorIc>;, under the Arthmns (uid 
 Lahourern J)ioeU/?i<js Imjrrovonod Act 1875, for the improvement of an ladiealth// 
 area situated in the parisli of St. Georye, Bloomahury. The Order recitev tliat the 
 number of persona of the loorkinr/ class to be displaced by the Scheme is estimated at 
 858, and jyrov'ides for the clearinrj of the iniproriement area and for the erection 
 thereon if dwellings to accomino<lafe 858 persons belonrjing to the working class. The 
 Order also requires the loidening of Little Coram Street at each e)id, .so as not to be 
 of less zvidth than 30 feet or thereabouts in any part if its length. Spent!] 
 
 Metropolis (Wells Street, Poplar,) Improvement. 
 
 [Provisional Order of the Home Secretary dated 1st Ai)ril 1879, confirmimj a 
 ScJteme 2>rej)ared by the Metropiolitan Board of Worhs^ under the Artizans and 
 Labourers Lhvellings Ivipyrorement Act 1875, for the impjrovcment of an unhealthy 
 area situated in the pa^Hsh of All Saitds, Poplar. The Order recites that the 
 number of persons of the u-orhing class to he disjjlaced by the Scheme is estimated 
 at 1,029, and jjrovides for the clearing of the lands constituting the imjirovement 
 area and for the erection thereon of dwellings to accommodate 1,030 persons of 
 the working class. The Order also requires the widening of Wells Street to 
 30 feet ; Robin Hood Lane to a minimnin, loidth of 40 feet beticeen Wells Street 
 and White Hart Place; and the formation of a new street -10 feet tcide from 
 Cotton Street to Robin Hood Lane ; and a new street 30 feet wide from the 
 last-named neio street into White Hart Place. Spient.] 
 The Metropolis (Great Petek Street, Westminster,) Improvement. 
 
 [^Provisional Order of the Home Secretary dated 1st Ajjril 1879, confirming a 
 Scheme prepared by the Metriq>olitan Board of Works, under the Artizans luul 
 Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act 1875, for the improvemeid of an unhealthy 
 area .situated in the parish of Saiid John the Evangelist, Wei^tminster. 2'he Order 
 recites that the number if persons of the work,ing class to be displaced by the Scheme 
 is estimated at 179, and, provides for the clearing if tlie la/uls const dut'ing the 
 improvement area a/ul for the erection thereon of dwellings to accommodate 180 
 jyersons of the tvorking class. The Order cdso requires the wide7ung of Saint 
 Jfatthew\s Street, at its junction loitli Great Peter Street, to the extent of "2,0 feet, 
 prorideil that the District Hoard <f Westutinster are villing to bear the v)hole 
 cost if such widening, except the cost of the acquisition of so much la/id as is 
 necessary for the purpose. Speid.] 
 
 Order in 
 schedule 
 confirme<l. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 CHAPTER LXXX. 
 An Act to confirm a Phovisional Orukk of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for thk Modi- 
 fication OF A Scheme confirmed by the Metkopolis 
 (Whitechapel and Limehouse) Improvement Schkmk (Jon- 
 FiRMATioN Act, ISTO. [3^/ ./w/y 1879.] 
 
 [^I-^reaM/jle.] 
 
 1. The Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed is hereby 
 confirmed. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropoh's (AVhitechapel and 
 Limeliouse) Improvement Scheme IModitication Act, 1879. 
 
 SCHEDULE 
 
 Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme 
 
 Confirmation Act, 187G. 
 [Provisionid Order of the Home Secretary dided May, 187'.', permitting the 
 Metriipolitan Board of Works to modify the Scheme authorized by 39 & 40 
 Vict. c. cc. by 2)urchasing by agreement the y;i<3ce of land on. the west side of 
 Cartwright Street, coloured jmrple on the plan annexed to the Order, and 2}ro- 
 ridi/nj that such jtiere of land sludl be added to the improceme/d area to which such 
 Scheme relates, and be appjropriated to the widening of Cartwright Street. S2n')d.]
 
 [42 & 43 Vict.] Wurmwood Scruf/ji Act Ibl'J. [Cuai.cIx.] r)55 
 
 CUAl'TKU CLX. 
 
 *An Act to i-uovidk fuk thk Usku and Ukgulatkjn ok ckutain 
 Lands at AVokmwood Sckujjs. [}l\sf ./'//^ ll^TIJ.] 
 
 \_Prea7nble recitf/i that with a view to create a mctro/fotitan 
 cxrrrixiiKi (/ronnd in piusudnce of the Military Forces l^orolization 
 Act l.S7~, one of Ilcr Majeatijs principal Secretaries (>/ State 
 {in thi.s Act referred to as the Secretary of State for War), on behalf 
 of Her Majesti/, has purchased, at the expense of the Consolidated 
 Fund, the soil in the common hno/rn as Worm/rood Srruhs, in the 
 manor of Fulhain in the county of Middlesex,] containing 13.") acres or 
 thereabouts, subject to certain riyhts of common ocer the same, and 
 also certain inclosed lands adjoining the said common, containing 
 respecticely 5)3 acres and acres or thereabouts, free from incum- 
 brances and common and other riqlits, and the same are noic rested 
 ill the Seeretan/ of State for War on behalf of ller Majestij .- and 
 that plans shoiciny the said common coloured light red, and the said 
 inclosed lands coloured dark red and purple respectively, hare been 
 deposited at the War O/fia' and at the office of the Metropolitan 
 Hoard of Works: and that the Secretary of State for War has 
 pro})Osed to the Metropolitan Board of Works that the said common 
 and. inclosed lands, amounting to 1U3 acres or thereabouts, should, be 
 vested, in the Metropolitan fhard of Works on trust to enable the 
 same to be used for such military purposes as the Secretary of State 
 for War from time to time directs, and subject thereto, upon trust for 
 the perpetual use thereof by the inhabitants of the metropolis for 
 exercise and recreation, and. that the said Board should maintain the 
 same and should undertake the compensation of all rights injured by 
 the trusts and purposes aforesaid, and that the Metropolitan Board, 
 of Works hare consented to such proposal.~\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Wormwood Scrubs Act, 1870, short title. 
 
 2. The common known as Wormwood .Scrubs, in the manor of Vesting of 
 Fulluim in the county of Middlesex,! and containing one hundred Wormwoofl 
 and thirty-five acres or thereabouts, and the lands adjoining thereto of adioinhitr 
 and containing fifty-three acres and five acres or thereabouts, which land in 
 common and hinds (in tiiis Act n-ferred to as the Scrubs) are siiown Metropolitan 
 in phms deposited at the AVar OfHce and tlie olHce of the ]\Ietro- ^v^rks** 
 })olitan Board of Works, and are therein coloured respectively light 
 
 red, dark red, and {)ur]ile, shall upon the ])assiiig of this Act vest in 
 the ]\I('tropolitan I'oard of ^Vorks and th(>ir successors, in fee simple 
 in ])ossi'ssion upon the trusts declared by this Act, free from all 
 incumbrances. 
 
 3. The Metropolitan Board of Works shall hold the Scrubs upon Use of the 
 trust to enable the same (except the portion or ])ortions excei)ted as f^irui>-' for 
 
 1 iv i.- i\ J. 1 ^ 1' 1 -iv nuutarv pur- 
 
 herem-aiter mentioned) to be used for such military 1 'i"" poses, ,,^.;^[l f^^ 
 whether camj)s, reviews, drills, training, exercising, firing, rifle oxen-ise ami 
 ranges, or other whatsoever, as the Secretary of State ibr War from rccre;ition. 
 time to time directs, and subject as aforesaid, shall hold the Scrubs 
 upon trust for the perpetual use thereof by the inhabitants of the 
 metropolis for exercise and recreation. 
 
 * The i>roi>orty, powers, duties, and liabilities of the Metropolitan Hoard of Works 
 under this Act were transferred to the London (.'oiintv t'ouncil by 51 A: -^'1 Vict. c. -11, 
 s. 40 (S). 
 
 j- Now the county of London. See ")1 .Sc 02 Vict. c. -il, s. 10 (2).
 
 c 
 
 556 [Chap, clx.] Wormwood Sc?^u/js Act 1H~9. [42 & 43 Vict.] 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 (1.) No permanent bnilding or erection, except rifle butts, and all 
 necessary appurtenances, shall be constructed on the Scrubs 
 without the consent of the Metro])olitan Board of Works 
 and of the Secretary of State for War ; and 
 (2.) No portion of the Scrubs shall, without the consent of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works, be used for military purposes 
 or as a rifle range on any day declared to be a holiday 
 38&;]9Vict. either by the Holidays Extension Act, 1875, or by any 
 
 ^'^- other Act of Parliament, or by Pier Majesty. 
 
 Subject and without prejudice to the continuance and use thereon 
 of the firing points to the rifle butts there shall be excepted from the 
 said use for military purposes the portion of the Scrubs marked with 
 hatching on the ])lans thereof de])0sited as above mentioned, <m- such 
 portion or portions differing wholly or partly from the portion so 
 marked, as the Secretary of State for War and the Metro[)olitan 
 Board of Works from time to time agree upon ; such portion of the 
 Scrubs as is not for the time being excepted from use for military 
 purposes as above mentioned is in this Act referred to as the military 
 portion of the Scrubs. 
 Lciyingout 4. The Metropolitan Board of Works may lay out, drain, level, 
 
 and plantin.ff plant, and improve the Scrubs, in such manner as may be from time 
 o le i.ciu .s. ^^ time agreed upon with the Secretary of State for War, as being 
 most expedient for the execution of this Act, but if they shall not 
 agree as to such laying out, draining, levelling, planting, and 
 improvement, it shall be referred from time to time, or as often as 
 necessary, to two arbitrators (one to be chosen by the Secretary of 
 State for War, and the other by the Metropolitan Boaid of Works), 
 with power to them to appoint an um])ire in the usual way, to settle 
 such difl'erence ; and the Metropolitan Board of Works shall maintain 
 the Scrubs and the inclosure thereof in such condition as may make 
 the Scrubs most suitable for the trusts and jjurposes declared by this 
 Act respecting the same. 
 Regulation 5. When the military portion of the Scrubs, or any part of such 
 
 of Scrubs for military portion, is required by the Secretary of State for War to be 
 purposes. i^^ed for any military purpose, the following provisions shall have 
 effect with respect to the said military portion or ])art : 
 
 (1.) The Secretary of State for War and any of Her Majesty's 
 forces, or other persons acting under the authority of the 
 Secretary of State for War, may use the same for the said 
 military purpose, to tlie exclusion of all ])ersons whomso- 
 ever at such time or times and during such period as the 
 Secretary of State for Why directs : 
 (2.) A person shall not without authority from the Secretary of 
 State lor War, or some person acting under his authority, 
 enter the same or any })art thereof ; and if he enters or 
 attempts to enter the same shall be liable to a fine not 
 exceeding forty shillings : 
 (3.) Any person who obstructs or interferes with the use of the 
 same for any military purpose, or without due authority 
 removes any flag or mark therein, shall be liable to a fine 
 not exceeding five pounds : 
 (4.) A ])erson committing an act for which he is liable to a fine 
 under this section may be renujved by any constable by 
 force from the Scrubs or any ])art thereof, and may be 
 taken into custody by any constable without warrant :
 
 [42 & 4'.i Vict.] irormtvoof/ ScruLs Act 1,ST9. [(!hap. clx.J ri57 
 
 {').) Tlu! M('ti'0])()]iliui I'oanl of Works sliall, so far as is reason- 
 altly prac.ticahic, caiisc! notice to bo <^ivoii of tlie jiortioii 
 of flic Sci'nl)s for the time bein<; ro.jiiircd to be kept clear, 
 :iinl (if tlic liiiic or times at \vhi(^h and the period (luring 
 wliich it, is to be so kept clear, but the absence of such 
 Holier shall not ex('nij)t a person from any fine or liability 
 nndei" this section, nor interfere with the ri^'ht of thi? 
 Secretary of State for War, or of Her Majesty's forces, or 
 persons jictin*:; inid(!r his authoi'ity, or of the Met i'(tp(tlitaM 
 l)oard of W'oi'ks, to use tin; Scrubs and exei'cise the powers 
 conferred i»y this Act. 
 
 6. Whei-eas l)y the Metropolitan Hoard of Works Act, h^TT, the rower of 
 Metropolitan P.oard of Works has ])o\ver to make bvelaws as rej^ards •'"•y^t" 
 
 . ' nijikc uvc- 
 
 the ])arks and other ojx'n spactes therein mentioned for the purjioses laws .-is'to 
 
 jiarticnIiU'ly mentioned in the said Act, and enactments are made tiie Sr-mhs. 
 
 with respect to the enforcement of sn<'h bvehiws, and it is expedient '"-V.." ^'^'- 
 
 . * . c viii 
 
 to extend the said Act to the Scrubs : IJe it therefoie enacted as 
 
 follows : 
 
 The Metropolitan Board of AVorks shall have the same power of 
 
 Tiiakini;' byehi.ws as ref^ards the Scrubs as they have under tlu^ 
 
 Metropolitan I'oard of Works Act, Ls77, as regards the parks and 
 
 other o])en spaces therein mentioned, and sections two to eleven, 
 
 both inclusive, of the said Act shall be construed as if they were 
 
 herein re-enacted, and in terms made a])plicable to the Scrubs, with 
 
 this :iddition, that byclaws under the said sections may be made 
 
 (in addition to the purposes therein mentioned; for keeping clear the 
 
 military ])ortion of the Scrubs, or such ])art of that military portion 
 
 as is for the time being reijuired to be used for a military purpose, 
 
 and for facilitating and regulating the use for a military purpose of 
 
 the said portion of the Scrubs ; })rovided that such byelaws shall not 
 
 !i,])ply to any member of Her Majesty's forces or persons acting under 
 
 t he authority of the Secretary of State loi- War, excej)t so far as they 
 
 are ex])ressed so to a])ply and are assented to in writing by the 
 
 Secretary of State for War. \_S('r notes on sect ions inrorpor((te(/, nnd 
 
 W?, k ':^\ Vict. c. ecxliii. ss. 14—21 anil 01 & (;2 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. (il.] 
 
 7. {^Expenses of executing Act. Superseded bij '>A & 52 Vict. 
 c. 41, part iv.] 
 
 8. If at anv time the Scrubs, or any part thereof, ceases, except Reverter of 
 with the consent of the Secretary of \state for War, to be used for 1,'''' ^"»i^s to 
 exercise and recreation by the inhabitants of the metro])olis, or if state for 
 the Metropolitan Board of AVorks or their successors fail to comply ^^';n"- 
 
 with the provisions of this Act with res])ect to the use of the Scrubs 
 for military ])urposes, the Scrubs shall vest in the Secretary of 
 State for War on beluilf of Her IVIajesty in fee sim})le, free from 
 ineumbrani'es, and free from all right, interest, and claim whatsoever 
 of the Metropolitan Boaiil of Works, tlieir successors or assigns, or 
 of any other person or persons whomsoever, and the Secretary of 
 Stiite for War may re-enter and take possession of the Scrubs 
 accordingly, but he shall pay to the ]\Ietropolitan Board of W(»rks 
 such sum in respect of their outlay on the Scrubs (»r otherwise as 
 may be just. 
 
 9. [l*' to compensation for estates, interests, and riijJits ocer 
 Wormwood Scrubs taken away or injnriouslt/ ((fft'cted bi/ or under 
 
 this Act. Sj>enf.~\
 
 558 
 
 Aletropolis MaiKigemnd {Thames 
 [Chap, cxcviii.] River Prevention of Floods) Amend- [42 & 43 Vict.] 
 
 ment Act 1879. 
 
 ,<,, : . i ... CHAPTER CXCVIII. 
 
 An Act to amend the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and 
 THE Acts amending the same, so far as relates to the 
 . protection of the Metropolis from Floods and Inunda- 
 tions CAUSED BY THE OVERFLOW OF THE RiVER ThAMES ; 
 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. [11 t/l AuffifSt ISli^.] 
 
 [Preamble recites that, notwithstanding the provisions of' the 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, a7id. the Acts amending the same, 
 with respect to the p))-otection of lands from floods and inundations, 
 ■ the lUi'cr Thames in times of high tides, Jloods, and excessive rains, 
 by reason of the loiv level of various ^^Idces, overflotvs its banks, 
 causing inconvenience to persons and injury to health and property, 
 and. it is therefore expedient that the said provisions sJtould be 
 amended, and that pjrorisions such as are in this Act contained 
 should be made for prodding for the due execution and maintenance 
 of the works necessary to prevent the orcrjloicing of the said Rivier 
 Thames icithin the limits by this Act prescribed , and for empowering 
 the Aletropolitan Board of Works to enforce such provisions and to 
 provide for the expjenses incurred, in relation thereto.'] 
 
 Preliminary. 
 
 1. This Act. may for all purposes bo cited as the Metropolis 
 Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment 
 Act, is'TO. 
 
 2. In the constrnction of this Act the followinii: words and 
 tion of terms, expressions have the following meanings, unless excluded by the 
 
 subject or context ; (that is to say,) 
 H) & 20 Vict. The expression "the principal Act" means the Metropolis 
 
 Management Act, 1855, as amended by the Metropolis 
 Management Amendment Act, 1850, and the Metropolis 
 Management Amendment Act, 1862 : 
 
 The expression " the Secretary of State " means one of Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretaries of State : 
 
 The expression "the Board" means the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works * : 
 
 The expression " person " includes any corporation, whether 
 aggregate or sole : 
 
 The expression " River Thames " includes the rivers, streams, and 
 watercourses within the flow and re-flow of the tides of the 
 said river within the limits of this Act : 
 
 The expression " bank " and the expression " dam " includes any 
 bank, wall, fence, wharf, dock, lock, gate, sluice, dam, or 
 defence, or appliance, whether of a moveable, temporary, 
 fixed, or permanent character, for the protection of lands 
 within the limits of this Act from floods or inundations 
 caused by the overflow of the River Thames : 
 
 The expression " flood works " means the entire or partial con- 
 struction, alteration, reconstruction in the same or any altered 
 position of any bank, and the repairing, raising, strengthening, 
 improvement, or removal of any bank, and the enlargement, 
 contraction, raising, lowering, arching over, imjirovement, or 
 alteration of any sewer, channel, or watercourse, and the 
 
 * Now the Lonrlon County ( oiuicil. Sco HI & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. lO (8) 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 
 c. 112. 
 
 25 & 2G Vict. 
 
 c. 102.
 
 'Mctropnlin Mtnuujfiiicitt {T/iames 
 [42 & 43 Vict.] Iticer Precention of Floods) Amend- [Chap, cxcviii.] 559 
 
 ment Act 1879. 
 
 (liscoiitiiinanco, closiiif^ np, or dostrnctinn of utiy suc.li sewer, 
 cliiiiiiicl, or watercourse necessury fur tlu; protection of laiuls 
 within the limits of tliis Act from floods or iiiundatious caused 
 
 1)V t lie overflow ol" I lie h'ivcl' Til III lies : 
 
 The ex})ression " hiinls "' iiuduiU's iiu'ssuai^es, l)nildin,i!:s, erections, 
 ])anks, huids, tenements, und iiereditamcmts of any tenure, 
 and ri^iits and easements in, over, under, or in resiteet of the 
 same : 
 
 The (>xpression "street," in addition to th(! meanin<^ assi_L,Mied to 
 the same tei-m by the j)rinci|)al Act, includes the carriat^eway 
 of any turnjiiki' road and :iny county bridge and any place 
 hiid out as a street : 
 
 The expression "premises " includes lands and streets : 
 
 The expression "owner" means (except where otherwise ex- 
 ])ressly provided) thi; })eison i'oi' tlie time; being receiving the 
 rackrent of tlie lands or premises in connexion with which 
 the word is used, wliether on his own account or as agent or 
 trustee for any other jX'rson, or who would so receive the 
 same if such lands or ])remis(>s were let at a rackrent, and 
 includes any commissionei's, trustees, or other persons or 
 person in whom the premises in connexion with which the 
 said word is used are vested, or who are charged with the 
 control or management of tlie same. 
 
 3. The limits of this Act shall extend to the metropolis as defined Limits of Act. 
 by the principal Act. 
 
 4. The i)rincipal Act, as amcMided by this Act, and this Act sluill <^'onstruction 
 be read and construed together as one Act. 
 
 Executio)! of Works. 
 
 5. From and after the })assing of this Act the execution of all I'^'ood works 
 flood works slniil hv sultiect to and in accordance with such ]dans ""^^J ^? ^'^'^^' 
 
 , , •'. . , . ' i-uted except 
 
 as the l>oard ma}' Irom tune to time cause to be i)reparetl m pur- in acioniance 
 suance of this Act, or with such })lans or speciflcation as the Board with plans, 
 may from time to time ap])rove, and such works shall be carried on 
 and com])leted to tlu> satisfaction of the lioard, and save as aforesaitl 
 no such works shall be commenced, carried on, or completed. 
 
 6. Subject to the provisions and limitations in this Act contained, r.odics an.i 
 the following Inxlies and persons shall he liable to provide for the P^""^"^. J^''^^^'-' 
 execution of all flood works wliich may from time to time in the for'excc'utiou 
 o])inion of the Board be necessary for the protection of ])remises of tiood 
 within the limits of this Act from floods or inundations caused by works. 
 
 the overflow of the Kiver Thames; (that is to say,) 
 
 In respect of all such works to be executed u])on any premises 
 vested in or subject to the control and management of the 
 Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London,* the vestry 
 of any parisji mentioned in Sciiedule A. to tlui principal Actf 
 or the board of works of any district mentioned in Scheilule B 
 to the principal Act,t such Commissioners, vestry, or board 
 of worlvs : 
 In respect of all other such works the owners of the premises 
 
 upon which the same are to be executed : 
 Where any such works are to l)e executed through, alon*;, over, 
 
 * See the City of London Sewers Act ls!)7. 
 
 ■j- Now the Metropolitan P.orongh Council. See G2 &^ (lii Vict. c. 11. s. 1.
 
 Metropolis Management (Tl/ames 
 560 [Chap, cxcviii.] River Precention of Floods) Amend- [42 & 43 Vict.] 
 
 ment Act 1879. 
 
 or under any part of the bed or soil of the River Thames 
 immediately connected with any premises, such works shall 
 be deemed to be works to be executed upon such premises. 
 Board to 7. The Board, as soon as mav be after the passincj of this Act, 
 
 lip ^ •- I O 7 
 
 maKe plan or ^]^,^\i eause a plan to be prepared showing the line and level of the 
 flood works, Aood works which are in their opinion immediately necessary for 
 and serve effectually j)rotecting all premises within the limits of this Act 
 notice o^y^^e -^ijjp}^ iij their judgment require protection from floods or inunda- 
 of upon Com- tions caused by the overflow of the Kiver Thames : and when such 
 missioners of plan has been prepared the Board shall cause notice of the prepara- 
 P^^.'^^f L^ *^^ tion thereof to be served upon the Commissioners of Sewers of the 
 don, vestries, City of London and u])on the vestry of every parish and the board 
 district of works fr)r every district in which any of the works shown on such 
 
 boards, and ^j^j^^j ^^^ proposed to be executed, and upon every owner of premises 
 affected liable to provide for the execution of any of the same, and shall 
 
 thereby. together therewith cause two copies of such part of such plan as 
 
 relates to any of such works in respect of the execution of which 
 such Commissioners, vestry, board of works, and owner are or is 
 liable respectively to provide to be transmitted to them or him 
 respectively, together with such sections, estimates, and other 
 information relating to such copies as aforesaid as they may think 
 proper ; and the Board shall by such notice require such (Commis- 
 sioners, vestry, district Ijoard, or owner to inform the Board within 
 twenty-eight days after the receipt of the same whether they or he 
 intend or intends to execute to the satisfaction of the Board the 
 works shown on the co])ies of such ])arts of such ])lan respectively, 
 and for the execution of wliich such Commissioners, vestry, district 
 board, or owner are or is respectively liable to provide, or whether 
 they or he object or objects to execute such works, and the reasons 
 for such objection. 
 
 If the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, the vestry 
 of any parish, board of works for any district, or any owner or 
 owners give notice to the Board of their or his objection to execute 
 any flood works in manner aforesaid, and of the reasons for such 
 olijection, the Board shall, during the twenty-eight days next after 
 the receipt thereof, consider such objection and reasons, and shall as 
 soon as may be after the exjjiration of such last-mentioned period 
 of twenty-eight days make such order in relation thereto as the 
 Board may think just, and may by such onler make any modification 
 or alteration in such flood works, and shall transmit a co]>y of sneii 
 ord(!r to tlie body or ])erson making such objection. 
 
 In case the Board by any such order make any modification or 
 alteration in the flood works so objected to as aforesaid, they shall 
 amend the ])lan prepared in manner aforesaid so as to show thereon 
 such modification or alteration, and in sucli case they shall transmit 
 to the body or person by whom such objection was made two copies 
 of the ])art of such plan so amended, together with such order. 
 
 The Board shall cause a copy of such plan showing all amend- 
 ments made therein to be kept at their ofiice, and the Commissioners 
 of Sewers, the vestry of every parish, and the board of works of 
 every district to which copies of any part of such plan or of any 
 amendments therein have been transmitted as aforesaid shall cause 
 one of such copies to be kept at their oflice, and all persons may 
 at all reasonable times inspect any such copy without payment. 
 [^Amended 4b Vict. c. hi. .s-. 47 ; and see notes on s. 6.]
 
 Metropolis Management {Thames 
 [42 & 43 Vict.] River Prevention of' Floods) Amend- [Chap, cxoviii.] 561 
 
 ment Act 1870. 
 
 8. Notliinf( in this Act contained shall anthorise the Board, Limitation 
 notwithstanding the general definition of the term bank and A ^-""J^ as to works 
 works, to direct the execution of any works other than such as are 
 necessary for tlie protection of lands within the limits of this Act 
 
 from floods and inundations caused by the (jverflow of the River 
 Thames, and the Board shall have no authority under this Act to 
 ])rescribe or order any works for any other ])uri)Ose, or any works 
 for the embankment of the River Thames, or any j)art thereof, in 
 the nature of the various embankments heretofore executed by the 
 Board under the authority of any special Act of Parliament. 
 
 9. AVHiere in the opinion of the Board the erection of a dam of Powers of 
 a fixed or permanent character on any ])remises would materially J.^'^^j'^ ^'^j^^ 
 interfere with the transaction of the business carried on upon the „f a tem- 
 river side of such premises, the Board may, instead of ordering such porary 
 works of a fixed or permanent character, by order authorise and '^^i^racter. 
 require the erection of a temporary or moveable dam, subject to 
 
 such regulations, restrictions, and conditions with respect to the 
 fixing, removing, and maintenance of the same as the Board may 
 from time to time think necessary; and the Board may by any 
 such regulations, restrictions, and conditions authorise the temporary 
 removal of any such dam during such times as they may think 
 pro]>er, and may prohibit the removal or alteration of the same, 
 except during such times and in such manner as to them may seem 
 necessary or proper. \_See also 45 Vict. c. Ivi. s. 46.] 
 
 10. Where the Board liavc ordered the erection of any dam of Penalty for 
 a temporary or moveable character subject to any regulations, recusations 
 restrictions, or conditions, any person making default in the due etc. as to ' 
 observance or committing a breach of any of the same shall be temporary 
 liable to a penalty not less than twenty pounds and not exceeding "^^^'^■ 
 lifty pounds, and in case of a continuing offence to a further 
 penalty not less than twenty pounds and not exceeding fifty 
 pounds for each day after the first during which such default or 
 
 breach continues ; but, save as aforesaid, such person shall not be 
 liable to any j)enalty or damages or to pay any compensation by 
 reason or in respect of any such default or breach. \_See also 45 
 Vict. c. Ivi. s. 40.] 
 
 11. The Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, thei'owerto 
 vestry of any parish, or the board of works for any district within ^ioQ'",'^'£ 
 the limits of this Act may, within twenty-eight days after thesewersof 
 receipt of the copy or copies of such part of such plan transmitted to City of Lon- 
 them as aforesaid, if they have not made any objection to execute '^'*°'.^^!''^' 
 the flood works shown on such coj)y, or if they have made any such board to 
 objection, within twenty-eight days after the receipt by them of execute flood 
 the order of the Board made after consideration of such objection, '^ofks. 
 give notice in writing to the Board of their intention to execute to 
 
 the satisfaction of the Board the flood works sliown on such copy, 
 and for the execution of which such Commissioners, vestry, or 
 district board are liable to provide, and thereupon such Commis- 
 sioners, vestry, or district board may proceed to execute such works 
 in accordance with such co}iy, under the authority and with the 
 powers by this Act conferred. [6'<'<? notes on s. 6.] Power to 
 
 12. Any owner or owners of premises who is or are liable to ^^^^^er or 
 })rovide for the execution upon such premises of any flood works t^execute'''^ 
 shown on any copy or copies of anv part or parts of such plan flood work*:. 
 
 36
 
 562 
 
 Metrojjolis Management ( Thames 
 [Chap, cxcviii.] River Prevention of Floods) Am^nd- [42 & 43 Vict.] 
 
 ment Act 1879. 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 execute flood 
 works in case 
 of default of 
 Commis- 
 sioners of 
 Sewers of 
 City of Lon- 
 don, vestry, 
 district board, 
 or owner. 
 
 Powers for 
 
 execution of 
 flood works. 
 
 Powers of 
 Board to 
 take lands. 
 
 transmitted to him or them as aforesaid, may within twenty-eight 
 days after the receipt of the copy or copies of such part or parts 
 of such plan as aforesaid, if he or they have not made any objection 
 to execute the flood works shown on such copy or copies, or if he 
 or they have made any such objection, within twenty-eight days 
 after the receipt by him or them of the order of the Board made 
 after consideration of such objection, give notice to the Board of 
 his or their intention singly or jointly to execute to the satisfaction 
 of the Board such works as shown on such copy or copies, and 
 thereupon such owner or owners may, subject to the provisions of 
 this Act, singly or jointly enter upon any such premises and pro- 
 ceed to execute such works in accordance with such copy or copies, 
 under the authority and with the powers by this Act conferred. 
 
 13. If the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, or any 
 vestry, district board, or any owner of premises, neglect during 
 twenty-eight days after the receipt of the copy of any part of such 
 plan as aforesaid, if they or he have not made any objection, to 
 execute the flood works shown on such copy, or if they or he have 
 made any such objection, during twenty-eight days after the receipt 
 by them or him of the order of the Board made after consideration of 
 such objection, neglect to give such notice as aforesaid to the Board, 
 or within twenty-eight days thereafter neglect to begin to execute 
 any flood works shown on such copy, and for the execution of 
 which such Commissioners, vestry, district board, or owner are 
 liable to provide, or fail to carry on or complete such works, when 
 begun, with all reasonable despatch and to the satisfaction of the 
 Board, then and in every such case the Board may, subject to the 
 provisions of this Act, cause the same to be executed, carried on, 
 or completed, and may for such purpose themselves and by their 
 ofiicers, servants, and workmen enter upon such premises and do 
 all such acts, matters, and things as may be necessary for the 
 execution of such works. [_See notes on s. 6.] 
 
 14. The Board, the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of 
 Loddon, the vestry of any parish, the board of works for any 
 district, or any owner of premises, in the execution of any flood 
 works, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, may carry the 
 same through, along, across, or under any street, or through, along, 
 across, or under any cellar or vault which may be under the pave- 
 ment of any street, and into, through, along, across, upon, or under 
 any lands, and may for such purpose enter upon any such cellar, 
 vault, and lands, and any premises in the vicinity of or adjoining 
 the same or connected therewith, compensation being made for any 
 damage done thereby in manner provided by this Act. [^See ss. 
 2.5 — 28 and notes on s. 6.] 
 
 15. Where for the purpose of executing any flood works in 
 accordance with the provisions of this Act it is in the opinion of 
 the Board necessary that the Commissioners of Sewers of the City 
 of London, the vestry of any parish, the board of works for any 
 district, or any owner of premises liable under this Act to provide 
 for the execution of such works, should take and use any premises 
 not vested in them or subject to their control or management, or 
 of which they or he are or is not the owner, or that the Board for 
 the purpose of executing such works in place of them or him should 
 take and use such last-mentioned premises, then and in every such
 
 Metropolis Management (^Thames 
 [42 & 43 Vict.] River Pr eventi 0710/ Floods) Amend- [CHAr. cxcviii.] 563 
 
 ment Act liiTU. 
 
 case the Board may tuke and use any such last-mentioned premises 
 which may be recjuired for tlie purpose of executing such works, and 
 the Board shiill for such ])urj)ose iuive and may exercise all the 
 powers of taking land conferred upon the IJoard In' the principal 
 Act in relation to the takin<i^ of lands for works fur the purpose of 
 the sewerage or drainage of the metropolis. 
 
 For the purposes of notices retpiired by the principal Act to be 
 served upon owners or reputed ownci-s of lands before upj)lving 
 for the consent of the Secretary of State to tlie taking of lands 
 compulsorily, the term " owner " sliall, in relation to premises to be 
 taken for the purposes of this Act, have the same meaning as in the 8 & 9 vict. 
 Liuids C'liuises Consolidation Act, 1845. c. 18. 
 
 When the Jioard have taken any })remises under tlie autiiority of 
 this Act, they may by writing under their seal authorise the Com- 
 missioners of Sewers, the vestry of any i)arisli, the board of works 
 for any district, and any owner to take or use the same for the 
 execution of any flood works in accordance with the provisions of 
 this Act, and thereupon such Commissioners, vestry, district board, 
 or owner may for such purpose take and use such premises or any 
 of them, and shall in respect of the same have all and the same 
 powers as though they or he were or was the Board. 
 \_See notes on s. C] 
 
 16. For the purpose of executing any works under the authority Power to 
 of this Act, the Board, the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of ^''"^^'■"*^*^, 
 London, the vestry of any parish, the board of works for any district, on the shores 
 and any owner of premises liable to execute flood works, may, ami bed of 
 subject to the provisions of this Act, construct any such woi'ks^^?^ ^"'" 
 through, along, over, or under the bed and soil and banks and shores 
 
 of the River Tliames : Provided alwavs, that no such work shall be 
 constructed in or upon the bed or shore of the liiver Thames as 
 defined by the Thames Conservancy Act, 1857,* exceitt with the 20 ic 21 Vict, 
 permission of the Conservators of the said river, and under a license ^- cxlvu. 
 to be granted by the said Conservators in accordance with the 
 provisions of the said last-mentioned Act. \_See ?iotes on s. 6.] 
 
 17. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the following pro- Provision as 
 visions shall a})ply and shall be the only provisions of this Act ^S* certain 
 wliicli shall apply to the execution of flood works in the case of or ^^y^pj^^jeg 
 witli reference to the following dock com])anies and their res})ective 
 undertakings ; that is to say, the London and Saint Katherine Docks 
 Company,! the Surrey Commercial Dock Company, the Millwall 
 
 Dock Company, and the East and West India Docks Company : t 
 (a.) If the Board are of oj)inion that it is necessary for the pro- 
 tection of any lands within the limits of tiiis Act from 
 floods or inundations caused by the overflow of the River 
 Thames that the heij^ht or level of anv bank of anv such 
 dock comT)anv should be raised, thev niav bv notice in 
 writing under the hand of the chairman or engineer for the 
 time being of the Board, to be serveil upon the secretary 
 or left at the chief otiice of the company, recpiire that the 
 height or level of such bank shall be raised by the com- 
 })any to such an extent as the Boanl think necessary and 
 shall specify in the notice ; and if the company do not 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by 57 & 5s Vict. c. cl.xxxvii. (see Appendix). 
 
 t Amalgamated by the London and India Docks Amalgamation Act 1900.
 
 564 
 
 Metropolis Management {Thames 
 [Chap, cxcviii.] Rker Preterdion of Floods) Amend- [42 & 43 Vict.] 
 
 ment Act 1879. 
 
 Power to 
 inspect lands, 
 
 Flood works 
 npon the 
 shore of the 
 River Lee to 
 be approved 
 by the Lee 
 Conservancy 
 Board. 
 .31 & 32 Vict. 
 c. cliv. 
 
 within one month after the service of the notice upon them 
 as aforesaid give snch notice to the Board as is herein- 
 after mentioned, the company shall with all convenient 
 speed raise the height or level of snch bank to the extent 
 specified in the notice. 
 
 {b.) "Within the said period of one month the company may give 
 notice in writinjj to the Board that they consider the 
 requirement of the Board to be unnecessary in whole or in 
 part for the purpose of such protection as aforesaid, and 
 that they desire that the question whether such require- 
 ment is or is not necessary shall be determined by 
 arbitration, and thereupon, upon the application either 
 of the company or the Board, the Board of Trade may 
 appoint a competent and impartial engineer as arbitrator 
 to determine the question. 
 
 (<?.) The arbitrator by his award may direct that the height or 
 level of any bank specified in the notice of the Board shall 
 be raised by the company to such an extent as he may 
 consider necessary, and the company shall with all reason- 
 able speed comply with any such direction of the arbitrator. 
 If the arbitrator is of opinion that the requirements of 
 the Board are unnecessary in whole or in part, he shall 
 so certify. The award of the arbitrator shall be final and 
 conclusive, and the costs of the arbitration shall be in his 
 discretion, 
 
 18. For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this Act, 
 any engineer, surveyor, district surveyor, or other person duly 
 authorised in writinor bv the Board or bv the Commissioners of 
 Sewers of the City of London, or by the vestry of any parish, or 
 by the board of works for any district, or by any owner of premises 
 liable to execute flood works, or the owner of such premises, may 
 enter upon any premises upon which any works executed or to be 
 executed by them or him in pursuance of this Act are or will be 
 situate, for the purpose of inspecting or taking surveys of the same, 
 at any time between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and 
 four o'clock in the afternoon ; and if any person daring such hours 
 refuses to allow such engineer, surveyor, district surveyor, or other 
 officer or person, or any such owner, to enter upon any such premises, 
 or obstructs him in the making of such inspection or survey, such 
 person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and to> 
 a further penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day after the- 
 first dav during which he so continues to act in contravention of" 
 this Act. [See notes on s. 6.] 
 
 19. In order to preserve the navigation of the River Lee, the- 
 plan of any flood works to be constructed under the authority of' 
 this Act through, along, over, or under the bed or soil or banks or 
 shores of the Kiver Lee within the limits of the jurisdiction of the- 
 Lee Conservancy Board under the Lee Conservancy Act, 1868,. 
 which may interfere with the free navigation of the said river, 
 shall be approved by the Lee Conservancy Board in writing under 
 their common seal before such works are commenced, certifying 
 that the works according to snch plan will not interfere with the 
 free navigation of the said river, and thereupon such works shall 
 only be executed in accordance with such plan, and no alt^erationi
 
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 'ment Act 1879 
 
 shall thereafter be made in such plan, except with the approval 
 of the Lee Conservancy Board in writing under their common seal 
 as aforesaid. 
 
 20. Xothiipj: in this Act contained shall extend or be construed Saving rights 
 to extend to prejudice or derof^ate from the rights of the LeeoftbeU-e 
 Conservancy l^oard, or to prohibit, defeat, alter, or diminish any Byarj"^°^"^ 
 power, authority, or jurisdiction wiiich at the time of the passing 
 
 of this Act the Lee ( 'onservancy JJoard did or might lawfully 
 claim, use, or exercise, so far as such rights, j)ower, authority, oV 
 jurisdiction may be exercised, or for the preserving of the free 
 navigation of the River Lee. 
 
 21. Except in so far as may be necessary for the due execution Saving rights 
 of this Act, nothing in this Act contained shall affect, alter, abridge, ^^.^''.^ ^^°^- 
 or interfere with any of the rights or powers at the time of the fJ'Jwera for 
 })assing of this Act vested in the Commissioners of Sewers for the Havering and 
 levels of Havering, Dagenham, Ripple, Barking, East Ham, "West °'^^^'" ^^^^l^- 
 Ham, Ley ton, and Walt ham stow, and for the respective borders 
 
 and confines thereof near to the same, as the same are respectively 
 standing, lying, running, and being in tlie respective counties of 
 Essex, Mickllesex, and Kent, and except in so far as the said rights 
 and powers are varied l)y or are inconsistent with the provisions of 
 this Act they shall continue in full force.* 
 
 Maintenance of Banks. 
 
 22. The bodies and persons by this Act liable to provide for the 
 
 execution of flood works upon any premises shall respectively ])e 
 
 liable to maintain and reitair the banks upon the same, and shall ^laiiit<^'na°ce 
 n ^1 x- 1 • X 1 • • 1 -1 'i"tl repair 
 
 tor the purpose of such maintenance and repair, in accordance with of banks. 
 
 any plan or specifications approved of by the Board, have all and 
 
 the same powers and be subject to all and the same conditions as 
 
 are by the i^eceding ])rovisions of this Act conferred and im])osed 
 
 upon them respectively with respect to the execution of flood works 
 
 in accordance with plans by the Board. 
 
 23. From and after the passing of this Act, if any person make 
 any alteration to anv bank so as to affect the secnritv of the 
 premises upon which the same is situate, or of any other premises I'enalty for 
 adjacent or near thereto, from flooding caused by the overflow of j*^^^ ^'j^jj. 
 the River Thames, without the previous sanction in writing of the i.ut consent 
 Board, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten *^f Board, 
 pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty 
 
 not exceeding ten pounds for every day after the first day after 
 the making of such alteration until the same be sant-tioned by the 
 Board as aforesaid, or if the same is not so sanctioned until such 
 bank be restored to its former condition to the satisfaction of the 
 Board, 
 
 24. Whenever it is made known to the ]>oard that any bank 
 in anv parish or in anv tlistrict within tiie limits of this Act is 
 
 out of repair, dangerous, or insufficient for the efiectual protec- ^""?>' ^"" 
 tion of any premises within the limits of this Act from floods or !ianger?>u.-j or 
 inundations caused by the overflow of the River Thames, they shall insufficient 
 require a survey of suih l)ank to be made by the district surveyor ^*'*".^* *"^ 
 or by some other comiJetent surve} or, and it shall also be the duty ami repair of 
 
 * The powers of these Commissioners do not now extend within London. See tlie same. 
 Land Drainage Act 18G1, s. 2.
 
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 ment Act 1879. 
 
 of the district surveyor to make known to the Board any informa- 
 tion he may receive with respect to any bank being in snch state as 
 aforesaid : 
 
 Upon completion of his survey snch district or other surveyor 
 shall certify to the Board his opinion as to the state of any such 
 bank as aforesaid : 
 
 If snch certificate is to the effect that such bank is not out of 
 repair, dangerous, or insnfficient for the purposes aforesaid, no 
 further proceedings shall be had in respect thereof ; but 
 
 If it is to the eifect that snch bank is out of repair, dangerous, or 
 insufficient for the pnrposes aforesaid, the Board shall cause notice 
 thereof to be served npon the Commissioners of Sewers of the City 
 of London, the vestry of any parish, or the board of works for any 
 district, or owner of premises liable to execute flood works in re- 
 lation thereto, specifying the flood works which are in their opinion 
 necessary for repairing snch bank, removing any cause of danger 
 in relation thereto, or rendering the same sufficient for the purposes 
 aforesaid, (which works are in this Act referred to as " works of 
 maintenance,") and transmitting therewith a plan showing the line 
 and level of the same, and such sections, estimates, and other 
 information relating to the same as they may think proper, and 
 thereupon all the preceding provisions of this Act as to the giving 
 notices to the Board in relation to the execution of such works, and 
 to objections as to the mode of such execution, and to the execution 
 of such works, shall extend and apply to the giving of notices to 
 the Board in relation to the execution of snch works of maintenance, 
 and to objections as to the mode of such execution, and to the 
 execution of such works of maintenance, in like manner in every 
 respect as though such works of maintenance had been works 
 shown on the plan referred to in such preceding jjrovisions and 
 prepared by the Board immediately after the passing of this Act 
 as aforesaid. \_See notes on s. 6.] 
 
 Compensation. 
 
 Mode of 25. Any person or body who claims compensation for any 
 
 ascertaining fj^mage caused bv the execution of anv flood works under the 
 
 amount oi .~. (> i ■ ' >. • p'tt 
 
 compensation authority 01 this Act, or m respect ot any lands or any interest 
 
 for damages in lands taken or used for the pnrposes of or injuriously affected 
 
 execution of ^'^ *^^ execution of flood works under the authority of this Act, 
 
 flood works, KDay claim such compensation from the Board ; and if such person 
 
 etc. or body and the Board do not agree with respect to snch claim, 
 
 then and in every such case the validity of such claim and the 
 
 amount of com])ensation (if any) payable in respect thereof shall, 
 
 on the application of either party, be determined by arbitration 
 
 by the standing arbitrator herein-after referred to, subject to and 
 
 in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and such provisions 
 
 shall be in substitution for the provisions with respect to the 
 
 tribunal for determining the settlement of questions of disputed 
 
 compensation contained in the jjrincipal Act or any Act incorporated 
 
 therewith, and the amount of compensation payable in respect 
 
 of any such claim, when agreed npon or determined as aforesaid, 
 
 shall be paid by the Board as though the same were compensation 
 
 payable in respect of lands taken under the authority of the 
 
 principal Act : Provided always, that the owner or occupier of any 
 
 lands shall not be entitled to any compensation on account of the
 
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 ment Act 1879. 
 
 execution by himself or bj' any other person or body of any flood 
 works for which sncli owner is in jinrsnance of this Act liable to 
 jirovidu u})ou any hinds of whicii he is the owner or occn])ier unless 
 after the execution of such works such hinds are iiermanently 
 iniuriouslv affected tlierebv, and then onlv to the extent of such 
 permanent injury. 
 
 26. Wlien any claim is made for compensation under the lowers of 
 authority of this Act the srandin<c arbitrator siiall have power to ■^'fj''''"^ 
 decide ui)on the validity oi such chum, and to determine what (it to amount of 
 any) compensation shall be made to the person or body making compensa- 
 such claim, and in adjudicating ujion such claim the standing ^^*^°- 
 arbitrator shall liave regard to the nature of the flood works witli 
 
 res])ect to which the claim has arisen, the manner in which the 
 same have been executed, the benefit (if any) which has accrued 
 or which may reasonably be expected to accrue to the person or 
 body making such claim by reason of the execution of such works, 
 and generally to all the circumstances of the case ; and the standing 
 arbitrator may, in determining the compensation to be paid for any 
 lands or interest in lands taken or injuriously aff'ected under the 
 authority of this Act, according as he shall think fit, include in or 
 exclude from such compensation an allowance in resi)ect of the 
 compulsory powers of this Act, and he may make such order as to 
 the payment of the costs of such arbitration wholly or in part by 
 the Board or the claimant, as he shall think just. 
 
 27. For the purpose of determining the validity of claims for Appointment 
 compensation and the amount of compensation payable i^i '"aspect ^^^j^l^^^^^J^S 
 of any claim declared to be valid by this Act directed to be settled' 
 
 by arbitration, there shall be an arbitrator, in this Act called the 
 " standing arbitrator," appointed and acting as follows ; (that is 
 to say,) 
 
 (1.) The Secretary of State shall before the 31st day of December 
 in the year 1^79, and before the same day of December in 
 every third succeeding year, by writing under his hand 
 appoint a standing arbitrator and fix the remuneration to 
 be paid to him, and every person so a])poiuted shall 
 continue in office for three years from such 31st day of 
 December in such years respectively : 
 (2.) Any standing arbitrator may be removed from his office by 
 
 the Secretary of State by writing under his hand : 
 (3.) If any standing arbitrator during his term of otfice dies or 
 resigns or is removed from office, the Secretary of State 
 shall in manner aforesaid, within one month after notice 
 of his death or resignation or removal, ap])oint anotlier 
 person to be a standing arbitrator in his place, and the 
 person so appointed shall continue in office as long only 
 as the person in whose place he is ap})ointed would have 
 been entitled to continue in office : 
 (4.) The remuneration of the standing arbitrator shall be paid by 
 
 the B(^>ard. 
 Before any standing arbitrator enters upon the duties of his office 
 he shall in the ])resence of a Justice make and subscribe the following 
 declaration ; (that is to say,) 
 
 "I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will faithfully 
 and honestly, and to the best of my skill and ability, hear
 
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 ment Act 1879. 
 
 Proceedings 
 before 
 standing 
 .arbitrator. 
 
 Payment of 
 expenses of 
 Commis- 
 sioners of 
 
 and determine all matters which may from time to time be 
 referred to me under the provisions of the Metropolis 
 Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amend- 
 ment Act, 1879. 
 
 A.sr 
 
 And if the standing arbitrator having made such declaration 
 wilfully acts contrary thereto, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 If any reference is pending before a standing arbitrator at the 
 time when he resigns or goes out of office by effluxion of time, it 
 shall nevertheless be proceeded with by him, and his decision shall 
 have the like effect as if he had not resigned or gone out of office. 
 
 28. The standing arbitrator shall appoint a place and time for 
 the hearing of any matter coming before him, and shall cause six 
 days previous notice thereof to be given in such manner as he shall 
 think proper, and at such place and time shall consider such matter 
 and hear the parties appearing by themselves, their counsel, 
 solicitors, or agents, and take evidence, and the standing arbitrator 
 may administer an oath or an affirmation (where an affirmation in 
 lieu of an oath would be admitted in a court of justice) to any 
 person before hearing any evidence from him, and may admit the 
 affidavit or declaration of any person. 
 
 The standing arbitrator, on tlie application of any party, may by 
 summons require the attendance before him of any person to be 
 examined as a witness before him, and may, on the like application, 
 by summons require any person to bring before him all books, 
 papers, and writings in his possession, custody or control relating 
 to any matter to be inquired into by the standing arbitrator. 
 
 Every j^erson so summoned shall attend the standing arbitrator 
 and answer all questions touching the matter to be inquired into, and 
 bring and produce all papers, books, and writings required according 
 to the tenor of the summons ; and every such person not attending 
 in obedience to such summons, or refusing to answer such questions, 
 or failing to bring or produce such papers, books, and writings as 
 aforesaid, shall be liable, if the standing arbitrator shall so order, to 
 a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds : Provided that any person so 
 summoned shall not be l)0und to obey the summons unless a 
 reasonable sum is first paid or tendered to him for his expenses. 
 
 If any person on examination on oath or affirmation before the 
 standing arbitrator, or in any affidavit or declaration used before 
 the standing arbitrator, wilfully gives false evidence, he shall be 
 deemed guilty of perjury. 
 
 In case any party fail to appear at the time and place appointed 
 for the hearing of any matter by the standing arbitrator, the 
 standing arbitrator may proceed with the hearing of such matter in 
 the absence of such party. 
 
 The decision of the standing arbitrator in any arbitration under 
 this Act shall be final and binding upon the 2)arties to such 
 arbitration. 
 
 No award made by the standing arbitrator in accordance with 
 this Act shall be set aside for any irregularity or informality. 
 
 Financial. 
 
 29. The expenses from time to time incurred by the Commis- 
 sioners of Sewers of the City of London in the execution of any 
 flood works under this Act, and any expenses which the Board may
 
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 ment Act 1870. 
 
 from time to time require payment of from the said Commissioners Sewers of 
 as hcroin-afrer jn-ovided, shall he ])aid hy tlie said Commissioners London, 
 out of any rates which the said C-(^nnnissioners are authorised to 
 direct to be made under any Act rehitinj; to the sewerage of the 
 said city, or ont of moneys borrowed on the security of such rates ; 
 and tlie said Commissioners sliall have full j)0wer from time to time 
 to raise the amount of any such exj)ens(;s, and the interest on any 
 moneys borrowed as aforesaid, and any moneys retjuired for tlie 
 repayment thereof, by any such rate which they may be authorised 
 to direct to be made as aforesaid or by any addition thereto. \See 
 note * on s. G.] 
 
 30. Any vestry or district board, for the ])urj)Oso of payin<,' any Paj-raent of 
 
 expenses from time to time incurred bv them in the cxeeution of expenses of 
 x^ *' Vestries And 
 
 any flood works under this Act, or any expenses which the Board district 
 
 may from time to time require payment of as herein-after provided, boards. 
 
 shall from time to time raise the sums they may require by 
 
 borrowing or by means of rates in every respect as if such ex])enses 
 
 were exj)enses of such vestry or district board incurred in the 
 
 execution by them of the principal Act in relation to the sewerage 
 
 of their ])arish or district ; and any such vestry or district board in 
 
 any case in wliich it appears to them that such expenses have been 
 
 incurred for the special benefit of any particular part of their 
 
 ])arish or district, or have not been incurred for the equal benefit of 
 
 the whole of their parish or district, may by order direct the sum or 
 
 sums necessary for defraying such px])enses, or any part thereof", to 
 
 ])e levied in such })art or exempt any part of such parish or district 
 
 from the rates, or require a less rate to be levied thereon, as the 
 
 circumstances of the case may require ; and any such district board 
 
 may refrain, where any entire parish or parishes ought in their 
 
 judgment to be so exempt, from levying any money thereon, 
 
 notwithstanding thev mav issue anv order or orders for levving 
 
 sums upon any other parish or parishes in their district. 
 
 All the provisions of the princi])al Act concerning orders by 
 
 vestries ancl district boards recjuiring overseers of jmrishos to levy 
 
 and pay sums required by vestries and district boards for defraying 
 
 their expenses in relation to the sewerage of their parish or district 
 
 as aforesaid, and for and in relation to the making of rates for 
 
 such pur})0ses, and for levying and enforcing payment of the same, 
 
 shall extend and apply to and in the case of all sums reijuired by 
 
 vestries antl district boards for defraying the cxjtenses incurred 
 
 by them in the execution of this Act, and for paying interest on 
 
 moneys borrowed for the payment of such expenses and for 
 
 repaying such moneys under the authority of this Act. [See note t 
 
 on .s. 0, ((//(/ see 18 & 10 \'ict. c. 1~U, s. loS an// note thereon.'] 
 
 31. AVhere the Board execute any flood works for the execution I'ower to 
 
 of which the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of Lonilon, the Board to 
 
 vestry of any jmrish, the board of works of any district, or any expenses in- 
 
 owner of premises were or was liable to provide, they may by order turre«l by 
 
 retiuire pavment of and recover the whole or such iiart as thev mav them in whole 
 ,,.',. I '.. , 1 1 ^1 ■ t '»• »i" or in part. 
 
 think just of the expenses incurred by them m respect oi tlie 
 
 execution of the same (exclusive of any moneys paid or any 
 expenses incurred by them in res])ect of or in relation to compensa- 
 tion) from the said Commissioners, from sui-li vestry, board of 
 works, or owner :
 
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 ment Act 1879. 
 
 Rentcharge 
 may be 
 granted in 
 respect of 
 works. 
 
 Provided also, that if the said Commissioners or any vestry, 
 district board, or owner feel a2:o:rieved bv the amount of anv sum 
 required by order of the Board to be paid by them or him in respect 
 of any such expenses so incurred by the Board as aforesaid, they or 
 he may at any time within twenty-one days after service of any 
 such order decline to pay such amount, and thereupon the amount 
 of such sum shall be determined by arbitration by the standing 
 arbitrator, who, upon the application of either party, shall, having 
 regard to all the circumstances of the case, determine the amount 
 of the sum to be paid to the Board in respect of such expenses, and 
 shall make such order as to the payment of the costs of such 
 arbitration as he shall think just, and the amount so fixed shall be 
 paid to and may be recovered by the Board. 
 
 "Where any sum is payable to the Board by any owner of premises 
 in pursuance of this section, the Board shall, if required by such 
 owner, accept payment of such sum by half-yearly instalments of 
 such amount as will be sufficient to discharge the same, together 
 with interest on so much thereof as shall for the time being remain 
 unpaid, at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, in thirty 
 years from the date when such sum became payable by such owner, 
 and thereupon the Board shall be entitled from time to time to 
 require payment of such half-yearly instalments from the owner of 
 such premises for the time being : and until all such instalments 
 shall be fully paid off" they shall be a charge upon such premises in 
 priority of all other charges and incumbrances whatsoever, except 
 the land tax and the property tax charged upon the owner, and 
 shall from time to time be paid by the owner of such premises for 
 the time being to and may be recovered by the Board. \^See notes 
 on s. 6.] 
 
 32. Where any owner of lands has incurred any expenses iu 
 pursuance of this Act, the Board, on being satisfied that such 
 expenses have been duly incurred, may by order under their seal 
 grant to such owner a yearly rentcharge issuable out of the lands 
 in respect whereof such expenses have been incurred and specified 
 in such order, and thereupon such lands shall be subject to and 
 charged with the payment of such rentcharge in priority of all 
 other charges or incumbrances whatsoever (except the land tax 
 and the property tax charged upon the owner), and such rent- 
 charge shall be payable by the person who for the time being is 
 the owner of such premises. 
 
 8uch rentcharge shall be personal estate, and shall begin to 
 accrue from the day of completion of the works in respect of which 
 such expenses shall in any such order be expressed to have been 
 incurred, and shall be payable by equal half-yearly payments on 
 the days mentioned in such order during a term not exceeding 
 thirty years, in such manner that the whole of such expenses, with 
 the costs of preparing the said order, together with interest thereon 
 respectively at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum on 
 the sum from time to time remaining unpaid, shall be repaid at the 
 end of the said term. 
 
 At any time before the expiration of the term during which any 
 such instalments or any such rentcharge are or is payable, the 
 person liable to pay the same may redeem such instalment or rent- 
 charge by paying to the Board or to the person entitled to receive 
 the expenses in respect of which such instalments are payable or
 
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 ment Act 187U. 
 
 such rentcbar«re was orrantetl, or sncli ])iirt thereof respectively as 
 niiiy not liave been defrayed by the half-ycjirly puyraents of such 
 iiistiihnents or rentchar^c respectively already made. 
 
 Wlienever any annual j)ayiiient i)y way of instalment or rent- 
 charge is under this Act ])ayal)le by the owner for the time being 
 of anv lands, and such owner for thirtv davs after notice reuuiring 
 him to pay the same makes default in ])ayinir the same, tlien and 
 in every such case the J'oard or the ixm-soii entitled tliereto shall be 
 at liberty to require the occupier of such premises to pay the same 
 to them or him, and in case any such occujuer shall for f<»urteen 
 days after notice in writing- by the Board nr person so entitled as 
 aforesaid recpiiring him to make such jiayment make default 
 therein, then and in every such case the Board or such person 
 entitled as aforesaid may recover the amount due in resjjcct of such 
 rentcharge or instalments from such occu])ier in the same manner 
 and with the like remedies in everv respect as if thev or he were 
 overseers of the poor of the parish in which such })remises are 
 situate, and as if the amount due were poor rates in arrear in respect 
 of such premises : Provided always, that where any payment is 
 made by or recovered from any occu])ier under this section, he shall 
 be entitled to deduct the amount of the same from any i)ayment he 
 may from time to time be liable to make to the owner until he be 
 reimbursed such amount. 
 
 33. The Board, for the purpose of paying any expenses from I'ower to 
 time to time incurred by them under this Act, may a[)i)ly any Ji^^g^^nder 
 moneys raised or authorised to be raised by them under any Act other Acts to 
 of Parliament and not required for the purposes of that Act, and expenses in- 
 also any moneys which they may be authorised to raise for the j!^^^^ ^1({qt 
 purposes of this Act. this Act. 
 
 34. All expenses incurred by the Board in the execution by them Expenses of 
 of this Act, and not hereby otherwise provided for, shall be deemed ^'"^^'■^• 
 
 to be expenses incurred by them in the execution of the ])rincipal 
 Act, and shall be raised and paid accordingly, \_Sce 25 tfc 20 Vict, 
 c. 102, s. 5, and note thereon.'] 
 
 35. Nothing in this Act contained shall exempt from liability to As ^tj) liability 
 maintain and repair any bank any ])erson or body who is by Act of l-ertlin^rtood 
 Parliament, by })rescrij)tion, or by reason of tenure, or otherwise by works for 
 law liable to maintain or do any repairs to any bank : Provided ^yi.ich per- 
 always, that whenever any flood works have been executed by any I'^^^^^rof^ 
 body or person in pursuance of this A("t affecting such bank, and parliament, 
 in relief of tlie liability of the person or body liable to maintain or by prescrip- 
 do any repair to such bank as aforesaid in respect of such main- or°otherwis^e 
 tenancc and repair thereof, then and in every such case the person by law. 
 
 or body so liable as aforesaid shall pay to the body or jierson 
 executing such works such sum as is hereafter in this section 
 mentioned. 
 
 The sum to be paid by such person or body in resjiect of such 
 works shall l)e such sum' as may be agreed on between such person 
 or body and the body or jierson executing such works as aforesaid, 
 or in default of agreement as may be settled l>y arbitration by the 
 standing arbitrator, who, upon the a})i)lication of either party, shall 
 settle the same, and shall in settling the same have regard to the 
 expenses which the person or body by whom such sum is to be 
 paid would have reasonably been liable to incur in respect of the
 
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 ment Act 1879. 
 
 Eecovery of 
 expenses. 
 
 As to notices 
 and orders. 
 
 Agreement 
 between 
 landlord and 
 tenant not to 
 be avoided. 
 
 maintenance or repair of such bank as aforesaid if such works had 
 not been executed as aforesaid, and who shall make such order as 
 to the payment of the costs of such arbitration as he shall think 
 just. 
 
 Any moneys received by the Board, the Commissioners of Sewers 
 of the City of London, the vestry of any parish, or the board of 
 works of any district under the provisions of this section, shall be 
 applied by them towards the payment of the expenses which they 
 have incurred or may incur in the execution of works in pursuance 
 of the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Where the expenses of any such works are made a charge by 
 the Board upon any premises, any moneys received by the Board 
 in respect of the same under the provisions of this section shall be 
 applied by the Board in reduction of the amount of such charge. 
 [See notes on s. 6.] 
 
 Miscella?ieous. 
 
 36. Any expenses recoverable by the Board under the authority 
 of this Act may be recovered in manner prescribed by the principal 
 Act with respect to the recovery of expenses directed by that Act 
 to be recovered in a summary manner. [_See 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 
 ss. 225 a?id 226.] 
 
 37. A notice or order under this Act may be wholly or partly in 
 writing or in print, and may be served on the owner or occupier 
 of any premises by leaving the same with the occupier of such 
 premises or with some inmate of his abode, or if there is no occupier 
 by putting up such notice, plan, or order on a conspicuous j)art of 
 the building or premises to which the same relates, and it shall not 
 be necessary to name the owner or occupier of such premises ; 
 nevertheless, when the owner of any such premises and his residence 
 or that of his agent is known to or can with reasonable diligence 
 be discovered by the party by whom or on whose behalf any notice 
 or order is intended to be served, it shall be the dut}' of such 
 party to send a copy of every such notice or order by the post in a 
 registered letter addressed to the residence or last known residence 
 of such owner or of his agent. 
 
 The term " notice " in this section shall include plan. 
 [See the Interpretation Act 1889, s. 2U {see Appendix).'] 
 
 38. Nothing in this Act contained shall be taken to avoid any 
 contract made between any landlord and tenant of any lands to 
 which the provisions of this Act relate with respect to the execution 
 of any flood works or of any other works for the protection of such 
 lands or any lands adjoining or near the same from floods or 
 inundations caused by the overflow of the River Thames, or with 
 respect to the maintenance and repair of such lands, or of any 
 house, building, or other erection thereupon, or with respect to 
 any payments, rates, dues, and sums of money payable in respect 
 of such lands, house, building, or other erection ; and any moneys 
 paid by any landlord or any tenant in pursuance of this Act, in 
 relation to any matters with respect to which under any such 
 contract such tenant or landlord is liable, may be recovered by such 
 landlord as rent due by such tenant, or be deducted by such tenant 
 from any rent from time to time due bv him to such landlord. 
 
 39. [Saving the rights of the Thames Conservators.]
 
 [42 & 43 Vict.] ^^'^''''t' /';A^' A^l \HvL ^''''''' l^^^^^* ^^-^^-^O ^ -^ 
 
 40. \_Sariiig the rights of the Duchy of Cor/ucall.'\ 
 
 41. \_S(iciiig the I'ights of the Croictt.~\ 
 
 42. \_SaviKg the rights of the Croirn in respert of property vested 
 
 in the Crown or in the Commissioners of Works.~\ So much of 
 
 43. From and after tlic j)assiiig of this Act the provisions of and Vo of 
 sections sixty-nine and seventy of the jjrincipal Act, so far as they 1H& 19 Vict, 
 relate to the execution and inaintenancc of flood works and ])anks c. 120. as 
 
 as defined by this Act by vestries and district boards, shall cease to flood works 
 be in force or to have effect. etc. to cease 
 
 44. Every penalty, fine, or forfeiture imposed by this Act, or for ^ ^« i° ^o'^'''^- 
 
 default or breach of anv refrulation, restriction, or condition made fl!'^!^^^,!;"^* 
 1 • * ii <■ 1 1 /• 1 1 application oi 
 
 or imposed in ])ursuance thereof, may be sued for and recovered penalties. 
 
 by the l^oard, or any officer or servant by them authorised, as if it 
 
 were a jienulty or forfeiture im])Osed by the j)rincij)al Act, and sliall 
 
 be paid to the Board and ajijdied by them towards the expenses 
 
 of carryin*,^ tliis Act into execution, anything contained in an Act 
 
 made and juisscd in the session holden in the second and third years 
 
 of the reign of Her })resent Majesty, cha{)ter seventy-one, or in any 
 
 other Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 45. \_Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER CCXIX. 
 
 An Act to authorise thp: sale of a strip of Land adjoining 
 THE Knightsbridge I3aeracks to the I\1etropolitan Board 
 OF Works for the imfrovemknt of the Knightsbridge 
 Road, to transfer the management of a riece of Crown 
 Land at Hampton Court from the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Woods to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
 Works, and vest the management of Land left vacant 
 ON the eeconstruction and improvement of Gloucester 
 Gate Bridge, Regent's Park, in the Commissioners of 
 Her Majesty's Woods. [loM August 1879.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) an offer hi/ the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works {in this Act thereinafter called " The Metropolitan Board""*) 
 to })urcha.^e from the Commissioners of Woods a strip of la }u/ {in 
 this Act called ''the Knightsbridge land'"') containing 7,023 sxjjerfcial 
 feet, being part of II yd e Par h Jo iciden Knightsbridge Poad abutting 
 on the Cavalry f3arracks, and the deposit of plans showing the said 
 strip of land in the ofiee of Land Pevenne Peeords and Jnrolments ; 
 and further recites the Crown Lands Act 1851 (14 ct 15 Vict. c. 42).] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Knightsbridge and other Crown Short title. 
 Lands Act, 1870. 
 
 As to the Knightsbridge Lands. 
 
 2. It shall bo lawful for the Commissioners of Woods, and ifCommis- 
 
 reipiested by the Secretary for War and the Commissioners of '^(^JJ^^j"^ ''^ _ 
 
 Works, they are hereby required to sell and convey for and on poweretl to 
 
 behalf of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, to the Metropolitan ^^e'] tiie 
 
 Board, all the estate, right, and interest of Her Majestv in the T ^f'^l^'*",„ 
 i T- ■ 1 1-1 1 ^ '■> 1 1 II 1 1 ■ i' 1 N ■ bndee land 
 
 '• Kuigntsbruige land (^colouivd yellow on the dejiosited plan) for to the Mctro- 
 
 the sum of five thousand pounds, subject to the reservations and politan Board. 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 02 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 Eeservation 
 of right to 
 constnict 
 vaults under 
 pavement. 
 
 Appropria- 
 tion ot land 
 by Metropo- 
 litan Board. 
 
 574 [Chap, ccxix.] ^'''^^'^"^{^^^1 Xf 1879 ^'''^'' ^42 & 43 Vict.] 
 
 conditions herein-after specified, and the said land shall upon such 
 sale and conveyance vest in the Metropolitan Board for the pur- 
 poses and subject to the reservations and conditions specified in this 
 Act, free from any right to the occupation thereof by the Secretary 
 for War. 
 
 3 — 4. [^6- to application of consideration money and date for pay- 
 ment thereof. SpeM.'\ 
 
 6. The conveyance to the Metropolitan Board of the said land 
 shall be subject to the right of Her Majesty and of the Secretary for 
 War to construct, hold, use, and maintain vaults under the footway 
 to be formed by the Metropolitan Board as herein-after mentioned 
 either with or without openings between such vaults and the 
 surface, such vaults to be constructed to the reasonable satisfaction 
 of the Metropolitan Board. 
 
 6. When, under the provisions of this Act, the said land shall 
 have become vested in the Metropolitan Board, the following 
 provisions shall take effect : 
 
 1. The Metropolitan Board shall appropriate such part of the said 
 land as may be necessary for such purpose to the formation 
 of a public foot|)ath next the new frontage line of the 
 barracks of such width and at such level as may be ap- 
 jiroved by the Secretary for War, and shall form, make, 
 and sufficiently pave the same, but subject to the rights of 
 construction of vaults reserved to Her Majesty and the 
 Secretary for War as aforesaid ; 
 
 2. The Metropolitan Board shall approjiriate the remainder of the 
 said land to the widening of the Knightsbridge Road, and 
 they shall level, make, and metal the same in such manner 
 that the same may be laid into and form part of the 
 Knightsbridge Road ; 
 
 3. The Metropolitan Board shall relay and repave any part of the 
 said road, street, or footpath which they may disturb or 
 alter in the execution of any of the works aforesaid ; 
 
 and when the said land shall have been laid out, levelled, made, 
 paved, and metalled in accordance with the provisions of this Act 
 the same shall form part of the Knightsbridge Road, and shall 
 thereupon be a public highway, of the same nature, subject to the 
 same control, maintenance, and jurisdiction as the Knightsbridge 
 Road, to which it is hereby added, and the same shall be maintained 
 accordingly. 
 
 7. The present site of the said barracks, including any vaults and 
 openings to be constructed as aforesaid, shall remain part of Hyde 
 Park, but so long as the same shall be used or occupied for barrack 
 purposes for the troops of Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, shall 
 be under the charge of the Secretary for War for the time being, 
 and, subject to this provision, the same premises shall be deemed to 
 belong to that part of the said park which by the said Act of the 
 fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter forty-two, is 
 placed under the management of the Commissioners of Works. 
 
 8 — 12. [Provisions as to Crown lands at Hampton Court and 
 Gloucester Gate Bridge, Regeiifs Park'] 
 
 13. All persons shall be at liberty at all seasonable times to 
 inspect the deposited plans at their will and pleasure, paying the 
 simi of one shilling for every such inspection. 
 
 Present site 
 of barracks 
 to remain 
 part of Hyde 
 Park, but to 
 be under 
 charge of 
 Secretary for 
 War so long 
 as used for 
 barrack 
 purposes. 
 
 Plans to be 
 open for 
 inspection on 
 payment of 
 fee.
 
 [43 & 44 v.cT.] '''''■''';;^;:::J'z'iiit'''''' ^•■'-- 25 ] 5T5 
 
 43 & 44 VICTORIA. A.D. 1880. 
 
 CHAPTKH 2."). 
 An Act fou fl'kthkr amendinc; tmk Acts relatino to the 
 
 RAISING OF MoNEV I5Y THE ^IeTUuI'OLITAN JioAUD OF WuHKS ; 
 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES RELATING THERETO. 
 
 [;^{)th Aoyust 1880.] 
 [Preaml/le rep. 61 & 02 I'icf. c. 22 (X./../.'.).] 
 
 1. Tliis Act may be cited as the Metnipdlitiin ]>(»ar(l of AVorks f^hort title. 
 /Moiiev) Act, 1880, and the Metroiiolitan lioard of Wdrks (^I()Ium) :«- Jii-' via. c. &.'!. 
 
 \ . 'i .^- L i..-(i 1 .lI • 4 ^ 1 -1 . ,* -^ 40 <c 41 Vict. c. 52. 
 
 Acts, \.!>i') to ibtv^ and tins Act may be cited tugetlier as tlie 4i &4.ivici. c. 37. 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Monev) Acts, 1875 to 1880. \\^^'\ '"'■'•*" 
 
 rm A 11 ' Construction 
 
 2. Ihis Act shall be read and have effect as one wiih rhe Metro- of Act. 
 politan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1809 to 1 671, and the i^l"^ Xfc."^ 
 Metropolitan Board of Works flMoney) Acts, 187') to 1n70. ^i ^ 39 vIcl ^ JI. 
 
 339 & 40 Vict. c. 55. 
 4<p i: 41 Vict. c. 52. 
 
 The expression "Embankment Acts" in tlie j\[etropolitan Board 4' & « vJct. c! S: 
 •of Works (Loans) Act, 1869, and in this Act shall mean the series Interpreta- 
 ■of Acts specified in Part II. of the Second Schedule to this Act lil'^:,^ vict c cl 
 annexed, and the Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 1809, ^^ajvict c as 
 shall be construed accordingly, !ij*j:.-avict c 102' 
 
 The expression " Main Drainage Acts " in this Act shall have the :!,'tl4 vki'^i'^' 
 same meaning as is assigned to the same term in the Metropolitan ^-^ & »* vict c w! 
 Board of A\'orks (Loans) Act, 1809. 
 
 l_rart omitted {(Ujinitions of the expressions " I'arhs and Open 
 Spaces Acts'') rep. 01 & 02 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 4—6. \_Amendment of s. 8 <?/ 42 & 43 Vict. c. Q^— Power to the 
 Board to expend money for the purposes of the Parks and Open 
 Spaces Acts; 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120 ; 35 k 30 Yict. c. clxiii. ; 39 & 4ii 
 Vict. c. Ixxix. ; 4U & 41 Vict. c. xcix. ; and 42 & 43 Vict. c. 09. 
 Rep. 01 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 7. \_As to expenses for Fire Brigade purposes till ^\st December 
 1881. Rep. 01 & 02 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.). — Procision as to carn/intj 
 
 from time to time to the Consolidated Loans Fu)id such sum as the 
 Treasury approce as suljicient to redeem the stock created for 
 the purposes of this section in 30 years. Identical with such pro- 
 vision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 05, 6'. 3.] 
 
 8. [Power to the Board to spend money for the purposes of street 
 improcements under 40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxv., and 42 A: 43 Vict. 
 ('. cxcviii. Rep. 01 k 02 Vict.c. 22 (S./^.P.). 
 
 9. . . . There shall be repaid (as provided by the Artizaus and Power for 
 Labourers Dwellings Imi)rovement Act, 1875),* to the consolidated ^^"^^^^ to ex- 
 rate out of the local rate, as defined by the Arti/.ans and Labourers for piiqwses 
 Dwellings lm})rovement xA.ct, 1875,* all moneys reipiircd for ])ayment of schemes 
 of dividends on and the redemption of the consolidated stock created Is^iM^ict c. so 
 for the purposes of this section. . . . \ Parts omitted (as to power ^.^^^., 
 
 I I T 1 ^ -. 1 - • r. /I / • I , .TS « 3a \ let. C. 36. 
 
 .to spend money under 3b & 39 I ict. c. 36, and proviso that the 
 moneys to be raised, and the stock to be created under this section 
 shall only be raised and created in such amounts and at such times as 
 the Board shall actually require and the ^Wasury approve Jar the 
 jjurposes of such schemes) rep. 61 «fc 02 Met. c. 22 (^S.L.R.)^ 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
 
 r^a r/1 o^n Metropolitan Board of Works r^o p aa-^t -i 
 
 ruQ [Chap. 2o.] ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ [43 & 44 Vict.] 
 
 f^T 
 
 Special power 10. . . . All the provisions of the Main Drainage Acts and the 
 expend^ ^° Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts altering or amend- 
 monev for ing the same for the time being in force, relating to the execution 
 purposes of of works authorised by the said Acts respectively, shall continue in 
 ac'e^and'^^'^' fo^ce, aud shall extend and ap])ly respectively to the works executed 
 main sewers, by means of money raised in pursuance of this section, and all stock 
 26&ivict.c: 68*' created under the authority of this section shall be deemed to be 
 iliuvictic. lib! created for the purposes of the above-mentioned Acts respectively. 
 \_Paii omitted {as to power to the Board to spend moiiei/ for purposes 
 of main drainage and, main sewers) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.)^ 
 
 11. [^Potver to the Board to lend to vestries and district boards till 
 ^\st December 1881. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.It).— Provision 
 for repayment within a time to be approved by the Treasury., not 
 exceeding as to loans for ividening streets or for bridges and pur- 
 chase of lands 60 years, and for other purposes 30 years ; and in 
 the case of a loan for not exceeding 30 years requiring the Board 
 
 from time to time to carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sums 
 as the Treasury approve as sufficient to redeem the stocfi created for 
 the purposes of this section within the period of the loan. Identical 
 ivith such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 4.] 
 
 12. [flower to the Board to lend, to guardians till ^\st December 
 1881. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).— Provision for repayment 
 rcithin a time to be approved by the Treasury not exceeding 30 years, 
 and as to carrying to the Consolidated, Loans Fund such sums as the 
 Treasury approve as sufficient to redeem the stock created for the 
 
 purposes of tfiis section within the period of the loan. Identical with 
 such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 5.] 
 
 13. ^Extension of amount which the Board may lend to tfie 
 Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. Rep. 61 & 62 
 Vict. c. 22 (^'.Z.ii^).] 
 
 14. {fower to the Board, to lend to the School Board for London till 
 'Mst December 1 881. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict, c.22 (S.L.R.).— Provision 
 
 for repaf/ment within a period not exceeding 50 years. Superseded by 
 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, sch. 2, and 3 Edw. 7, c. 24.] 
 
 15. \Poiver to the Board to lend to corporations, burial boards, 
 etc., till 'ilst December 1881. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).— 
 Provision for repayment imthin a time to be approved by the Treasury, 
 not exceeding as to loans for widening streets or for bridges and 
 purchase of lands 60 years, and for other jjurposes 30 years ; and in 
 the case of a loan for not exceeding 30 years requiring the Board 
 
 from time to time to carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sums 
 as the Treasury apjn'ove as sufficient to redeem the stock created for 
 the purp)Oses of this section ivithiin the period of tfie loan. Identical 
 with such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 6.] 
 
 16—25. \As to payment of expenses relating to tlie Select Com- 
 mittee on London Water Supply and as to " Metropolitan Bills." 
 Rep. 61 & 62 Jlct. c. 22 (S.L.R'f).'] 
 
 Repayments 26. All sums received by the Board in respect of interest on or 
 
 to be carried principal of any loan made by them under this Act shall be carried 
 
 dated Loans ^0 the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 Fund. 27. \_Limit to borrowing powers. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 
 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 First Schedule. [Particulars of new money powers conferred 
 by this Act. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (-^.L.i?.).] 
 
 * Kep. 82 & 33 Vict c. 102, s. £0.
 
 •[43 & 44 VlCT.l ^f'f'-^lf';^ l,ni>ruC.na',dS<:hcm,>, 
 L J Modijication xVct \%'^^. L'-^"^!. cxxxi.j 
 
 8i:roNr) Sciif.ditle. 
 
 [/'«/7 I. Li>il of I'liil.K (I ml Opni Sjiacrs Artn rrfirrrd to in «. .''. /{iji 
 Gl & 02 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.Ji.).] 
 
 Pai:t II. 
 
 I'iiili(iiihnii id ArU. 
 
 The Thames Embankment (North) Act, 18(;2, 25 »t 20 Vict. c. l).'.., 20 .s:- 27 Vict. 
 c. 45. 
 Thame.q Emhankracnt (Soutli) Act, IKO."',, 20 it 27 Vict, c 75. 
 
 ,. „ Auu iidiniTit Act, lHr.4, 27 & 2H Vict. c. exxxv., 
 
 27 & 2H Vict. c. 01.* 
 M „ (North and South) Act, ISOK, ;51 & '.Vl Vict. c. cxi., 
 
 ;ji \- :i2 Vict. c. 4:5.* 
 
 ,. » (Chelsea) Act, IKOH, 31 & '.Vl Vict. c. c.xxxv., 
 
 :i2 & :i3 Vict. c. i;34.t 
 
 (North) Act, 1870, 3:i it 34 Vict. c. xcii. 
 „ „ 1872, 35 it 30 Vict. c. Ixvi. 
 
 (Land) Act, 1873, 'M) & 37 Vict. c. 40. 
 (South) Act, 1873, 36 Vict. c. vii. 
 Charing Cross and Victoria Embankment Approach Act, 1873, 30 & Wl Vict. 
 
 c. c. 
 IVfetroiiolitan Board of Works Various Powers Act, 1870 (Chelsea Em- 
 bankment), 31) it 4;» Vict. c. Ixxix. 
 
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 CHAPTER CXXXr. 
 
 An Act to confirm the Provisional Order of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the modi- 
 fication OF the Metropolis (Hkiit Street, Islington) 
 Improvement Scheme. [()/// Auyunt l^bO.] 
 
 \_ricamble reciter 4U & 41 \'ict. c. cxxxiii.] 
 
 1. The Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed is hereby onkr in 
 contirmed. sche<luie 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis Improvement ^°" ""^* ' 
 Schemes Modification Act, ixsi). short title. 
 
 ScUKDliLK. [rrnr/s/DiiiiI Order of Ihr TTome Sfrrrfari/, thifcd 2CaJi Drcrniher 
 1870, coiiJiniiiiKj a srhftur prt'jxircd h;/ the Metropolitan Board of Works (l) for 
 the i/irlidiion of a portion of the site of ' Blackhorne Yard {coloured blue and purple 
 on the plan annexed to the Order), in the area to irhirh the Mt^ropolis (ITi<jh Street, 
 Jslin(/ton) Iinjirorement Srheiiir 1877 relatex ; (2) for the purr hase b// the Board 
 of the said portion (f Blaclhorse Yard; (3)/«r the reservation of a riejht of way 
 orcr the said jiortion <f Blurhhorse Yard to'the vendor. Lord Calfhorpe, his heir's, 
 executors, administrators, and assigns, and to his tenants and lessees; and {4) for 
 the piirrhase ami iurhision Inj the Board in the area to irhich the said iniprovement 
 scheme relates ,fNos. 48 ct 5U, JJiyh Street, Islinytun. Spent.] 
 
 44 & 45 VICTORIA. A.D. 1881. 
 
 CHAPTER 34. 
 
 An Act to amend the ]\I etropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1^77. 
 
 [IIM AlUJK.sf \^S\.] 
 
 [Preamble (recitiKij 4(» A: 41 Vict. c. 3.")) ?rp. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 50 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1, In this Act, unless the context otherwise reijuires — ,, . , 
 
 iL 1^ »? 1 1 ^ 1 1 • 1 1 • 1 IX Diicrpreta 
 
 " Ui)en space means any land (whether iiu-losed or uninclosed) tion cUi 
 
 which is not built on, and which is laid out as a garden or is 
 
 * Rep. 32 & 83 Vict. o. 102. s. 50. 
 
 t Seinble refers to the Park Liine Improvement Act 1SG9 (.32 i: 33 Vict. c. cxxxiv.). 
 
 37 
 
 luse.
 
 578 
 
 [Chap. 34.] Metroj)olitaii Open Spaces Act 1881. [44 & 45 Vict.] 
 
 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120. 
 
 Power to 
 trustees to 
 transfer 
 certain oiDen 
 spaces to 
 local I 
 authority. 
 
 used for purposes of recreation, or lies waste and unoccupied. 
 . . . \^Amended 53 & 54 Vict.c. 15, s. 7. Word.^ omitted (" but 
 shall not include any inclosed, land tvhich has not a public 
 road. Of footpath cornpleteh/ round the name ") rep. 50 it 51 
 Vict. c. 32, 6-. 2.] 
 
 " Tlie metropolis " means tlie metropolis as defined by the 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855 ; 
 
 " The Metropolitan Board " means the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works as constituted by the same Act * ; 
 
 " Vestry " means a vestry of one of the parishes specified in 
 Schedule A. of the same Act t ; 
 
 " District hoard " means a board of works of one of the districts 
 specified in Schedule B. of the same Act t ; 
 
 " The corporation " means the mayor and commonalty and 
 citizens of the city of London, and the powers conferred 
 upon them by this Act may be exercised by the mayor, 
 aldermen, and commons of the said city in common council 
 assembled ; 
 
 The " owner " of a churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground 
 means the person or persons, cor])oration sole, or body 
 corporate in whom the soil and freehold of such churchyard, 
 cemetery, or burial ground is vested, whether as appurtenant 
 or incident to any benefice or cure of souls, or otherwise. 
 
 The term "burial ground" shall include any ground, whether 
 
 consecrated or not, which has been at any time set apart for 
 
 . the purposes of interment. . . . [^Words omitted Q^ and in 
 
 ivhich interments liace tal-en jdace .since the year 1800 ") rep. 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 32, s. 2.] 
 
 2. Where any open space within the metropolis is under the 
 provisions of any private or local Act of Parliament placed 
 under the care and management of trustees or other persons, 
 with a view to the preservation and regulation of the same as a 
 garden or open space, it shall be lawful for the said trustees or 
 other the managing body thereof for the time being, in ])ursuance 
 of any resolution duly passed as herein-after mentioned, and with 
 the consent, to be signified in manner herein-after appearing, of 
 the owners and occu})iers of any houses fronting upon, or the 
 owners or occupiers of which are liable to be specially rated for the 
 maintenance of the open space, to convey, assign, or transfer for 
 valuable or nominal consideration, or by way of gift, to the Metro- 
 jiolitan Board, or to the vestry or district board of the parish or 
 district in which such open space or any jjart thereof is situate, the 
 soil and freehold of, or other their entire interest in, or (where no 
 interest in the soil of such open space is vested in tliem) the entire 
 care and management of the said open space, to the end that the 
 same may be preserved for the enjoyment of the public ; and upon 
 such conveyance, assignment, or transfer such trustees or other 
 managing body shall l)e relieved and discharged from all trusts, 
 ])owers, and duties imi)Osed upon them by the Act or other instru- 
 ment und(;r which they were constituted, or under which they then 
 act or otlierwise with reference to the said open space, but shall 
 hold any purchase money ])aid for or in I'espect of the said open 
 space in trust for the benefit of the persons or class of persons for 
 whose benefit the said open space was previously ])reserved and 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 t Now the Metropolitan Borough Council. See (52 & 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [44 & 45 Vict.] Metropolitan Open Spaces Act 1881. Chai'. :U.] 579 
 
 managed by the said trustees, and sncli ])erson8 or class of persons 
 sliall be diseliarL^ed i'roni any sjiecial rate or other oblitration 
 ])revionsly iiujjused on them in respect of sueh (jpeu s])ace. 
 \_Amem/e(/ 50 «fe 51 IVr/. c. 32, s. 2.] 
 
 It sliall be lawful for any such trustees or mana<rin,<^ body as 
 af()resai<l, in i)ursuance of any such resolution as aforesaid, and 
 witii such consent as aforesaid, lor any valuable or nominal 
 consideration, by way of rent or otherwise, or without any con- 
 sideration, to grant or transfer to the Metropolitan Board, or to 
 any such vestry or district board as afor(isai(l, any term of years 
 or other limited interest in or any right or easement over such 
 ojieu space, or to enter into any agreement with the I\Ietrt)])()litan 
 Board or anv such vestry or district board as aforesaid for the 
 opening to the i)ublic of such opeu space, and the care and 
 management thereof by such board or vestry at all times or at any 
 s{)eciiied time or times, without the transfer to such board or 
 vestry of any interest in the soil of such open space ; and any such 
 grant, demise, transfer, or agreement as aforesaid shall l)e deemed 
 a good execution of the trusts, ])owers, and duties imposed upou 
 the said trustees by the Act or other instrument under wliich they 
 are constituted or act. 
 
 A resolution under this section shall be deemed to liave been 
 duly passed if at a meeting of the trustees or other the persons con- 
 stituting such managing body as aforesaid, sumraoneil by at least 
 one month's notice in writing left at or sent by post to their last 
 known or usual place of abode, such resolution shall have been 
 passed by a majority of two thirds in number of the persons present 
 at such meeting, and if such resolution shall also have been con- 
 tirmed by two thirds in number of the persons present at a second 
 like meeting, to be summoned by such notice as aforesaid, and to 
 be held at an interval of not less than one calendar month from 
 the tirst meeting. 
 
 The consent of such owners and occn})iers of houses as aforesaid 
 shall be held to have been given and signitied if, at a meeting of 
 such persons summoned by at least one mouth's notice in writing 
 given as herein-after directed, a resolution shall have been passed by 
 a majority of at least two thirds in number of the persons present 
 at sut'h meeting consenting to the conveyance, grant, or transfer of 
 the said open s})ace as aforesaid, or to such an agreement with the 
 Metropolitan Board, vestry, or district board as aforesaid ; and 
 if such resolution shall also have been confirmed by two thirds in 
 number of such owners and occupiers ])resent at a scct)nd like 
 meeting, to be summoned in like manner to the tirst meeting, and 
 to be held at an interval of not less than one calendar month from 
 the first meeting. 
 
 Notice of such meeting sluill be given by leaving the same or 
 sending the same througli the jwst to every house fronting upon, or 
 the owaier or occupier of which is liable to be specially rated for 
 the maintenance of, the said open sj)ace, and liy inserting the same 
 as an advertisement at Iciist tliice times in any I wo Or more London 
 daily papers, and such notice shall state generally the object of the 
 ' said meeting, and no such meeting shall be hehl between the 
 tirst day of August in one year and the thirty-tirst day of January 
 in the following year. 
 
 For the purposes of this section the owner of a house shall 
 include any person entitled to any term of years therein : and the
 
 580 [Chap. 34.] Metropolitan Open Spaces Act 1881. [44 & 45 Vict.] 
 
 occupier of a lionse shall be the person rated to the relief of the 
 poor in respect of the said house. 
 
 If at any meeting of such trustees or managing body, or at any 
 meeting of such owners or occupiers as before mentioned, the reso- 
 lution proposed at any such meeting be not carried, no meeting 
 shall be called or held with the same object in respect to the same 
 garden or open space until the expiration of three years from the 
 day on which such resolution so proposed was rejected at any such 
 meeting as above mentioned. 
 
 A conveyance, assignment, demise, grant, or agreement under 
 this section shall be made by an instrument under the common 
 seal of the trustees or other managing body if such body be 
 a corporation, and if it be not a corporation under the hands 
 and seals of any five members of such body, or of all the 
 members thereof if for the time being they be less than five in 
 number. 
 
 The trustees or other the managing body of any snch open space 
 as aforesaid may (anything contained in the Act or other instru- 
 ment under which they are constituted or act to the contrary not- 
 withstanding), in pursuance of any such resolution as aforesaid, and 
 with such consent as aforesaid, signified as aforesaid, admit persons 
 not owning, occupying, or residing in any house fronting on the 
 said open space to the enjoyment of the said open space at all 
 times, or at any specified time or times, and may regulate the 
 admission of such persons thereto on such terms and conditions in 
 all respects as the trustees may think proper. 
 
 Any trustees so acting as aforesaid shall have the same power of 
 making byelaws as that conferred by the fourth section of the Act 
 passed in the twenty-sixth year of Her Majesty, chapter thirteen, 
 intituled " An Act for the protection of certain garden or orna- 
 mental grounds in cities and boroughs"* upon the committee therein 
 mentioned. 
 
 Where the freehold of any such open space as is referred to in 
 
 this section, and the freehold of all or of the major part of the 
 
 houses round such open space are vested in the same person or 
 
 persons, the powers conferred by this section shall not be exercised 
 
 without the consent of such person or persons. 
 
 Power to 3. The owner of any open sj)ace within the metropolis which 
 
 transfer jg gujjject to rights of user for exercise and recreation (secured by 
 
 space toiocai Covenant or otherwise) in the owners and occupiers (or either of 
 
 authority. such classes) of any houses round or near the same may, with the 
 
 consent (to be signified in manner herein-after appearing) of such 
 
 owners and occupiers of houses, convey to the Metropolitan Board, 
 
 or to the vestry or district board of the parish or district in which 
 
 such open space or any part thereof is situate, the soil of the said 
 
 ojien space in trust for the enjoyment of the public ; and the owner 
 
 or any person or jjersons in whom any term of years or other limited 
 
 interest in such open space is vested may, with the like consent, 
 
 grant or transfer to the Metropolitan Board or such vestry or district 
 
 board as aforesaid, in trust as aforesaid, any term of years or other 
 
 limited interest in or any right or easement over such open space, 
 
 or enter into any agreement with the Metropolitan Board or any 
 
 such vestry or district board as aforesaid for the opening to the 
 
 public of such ojien space, and the care and management thereof by 
 
 such board or vestry either at all times or at any specified time or 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 [44 & 45 Vict.] Metropolitan Open Spaces Act 1S«1 . [Chai-. :34.] 581 
 
 times wiflionf the transfer to sncli Imard or vestry of any interest in 
 the soil of such o[)eii sjjace. 
 
 The consent of such owners and occui)iers of liouses as aforesaid 
 shall be held to have been given and signiticd if at a meeting of 
 such ])(!rs()ns summoned by at least one nionth's notic'c in writing 
 (given as herein-after dirccteil) a I'esolution shall have been passed 
 by a majority of at least two-thirds in numltcr of the persons present 
 at such meeting consenting to the conveyance, grant, or transfer of 
 the said o])en space as aforesaid, or to such an agreement with the 
 Metro])olitan lioard, vestry, or district board as aforesaid, and the 
 owner shall be thereuj)on discharged from any liability to any 
 person entitled to such right of user as aforesaid in respect of any 
 act done in accordance with such resolution. 
 
 Notic(^ of such meeting shall be given by leaving the same or 
 sending the same through the ])ost to every house, the owner or 
 occuj)ier of which is entitled to any right of usei-, and by inserting 
 the same as an advertisement at least three times in any two or 
 more London daily i)apers, and such notice shall state generally 
 the object of the said meeting ; and no such meeting shall \n\ held 
 between the tirst day of August in one year and the thirty-tirst day 
 of January in the following year. 
 
 For the purposes of this section the owner of an oi)en space shall 
 be any person or persons in wliom the soil of the open space is 
 vested for an estate in possession during his or their life or lives or 
 for any larger estate ; the owner of a house shall include any 
 person entitled to any term of years therein ; and the occupier 
 of a house shall be the person rated to the relief of the poor in 
 respect of the said house. 
 
 4. The owner of any churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground I'ower to 
 situate within the metropolis, and closed for burials either under u™d burLT' 
 an order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, or otherwise, may grounds to 
 convey the soil of such churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, or I'jcai 
 grant any term of years or other limited interest therein to or enter '*^^^ '°" ^' 
 into any agreement with the Metroi)olitan ]3oard or the vestry or 
 district board of the parish or district in which such churchyard, 
 cemetery, or burial ground, or any part thereof, is situate for the 
 })ur])ose of giving the public access to the said churchyard, cemetery, 
 
 or burial ground, and preserving the same as an open s})ace accessible 
 to the public, and under the control of such board or vestry, and for 
 the purpose of improving and laying out the same. \_Scc 15 «fc 10 
 Vict. c. 85, *'. 2.] " 
 
 5, The Metropolitan l^oard and the vestry or district board of rowers and 
 the parish or district within which any open space, churchyard, j^JJJ^ie^ of 
 cemetery, or burial ground, or any part thereof, is situate may, bv authority. 
 agreement, and for valuable or nominal consideration by way of 
 payment in gross or of rent, or otherwise, or without any considera- 
 tion, take and hold the soil and freehold of, or any term of years 
 
 or other limited estate or interest in, or any right or easement in 
 or over any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, 
 and may, witli reference to any o]ieu space, churchyard, cemetery, 
 or burial ground, undertake the entire or partial care, management, 
 and control thereof, whether any interest in the soil is transferred 
 to the board or vestry or not, and may for the jnirijoses aforesaid 
 enter into any agreement with the persons authorised by this Act 
 to agree with reference to any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or 
 burial ground or with any other persons interested therein.
 
 o82 [Chap. 34.] ^^ptropolUar( Open Spaces Act \%%\. [44 & 45 Vict.] 
 
 Anv estate or interest in or control over any o])en space, church- 
 yard, cemetery, or burial ground acfjuired by the Metropolitan 
 Board, or any vestry or district ])oard under the provisions of this 
 Act, sliall be held and administered l)y such board or vestry ia 
 trust to allow, and with a view to, the enjoyment by the pul)lic 
 of such ()])en s])ace, clmrcJiyard, cemetery, or burial ground in an 
 o]>en condition, free from buildings * and under proper control and 
 regulation, and for no other purpose, . . . and the board or vestry 
 shall maintain and Iceep the same in a good and decent state, and 
 mav inclose or keep the same inclosed with ])roper railings and 
 gates, and may drain, level, lay out, turf, plant, ornament, light, 
 seat, and otherwise improve the same, and do all such works and 
 things, and employ sucli officers and servants, as may be requisite 
 for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them. 
 
 Provided that no board or vestry shall exercise any of the 
 powers of management in this Act mentioned with reference to 
 any consecrated ground, unless and until they are authorised so 
 to do by the license or faculty in that behalf of the bishop of the 
 diocese in which such consecrated ground is situate, which license 
 or faculty may be granted by such bishop upon the application of 
 the board or vestry, and may extend to the removal of any tomb- 
 stone or monument,! under such conditions and subject to such 
 restrictions as to the bishop may seem fit. 
 
 \_\Vor(J.^ omitted Q'' bat such ^[etropolitan Board, veatri/, or district 
 
 board shall not allotv the playing of amj games or sports therein ") 
 
 rep. .50 & .51 Vict. c. 32, s. 2.] 
 
 Byelaws. g. The Metropolitan Board and any vestry or district board 
 
 may, with reference to any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or 
 
 burial ground in or over which it has acquired any estate, interest, 
 
 or control under the provisions of this Act, make byelaws for the 
 
 regulation thereof, and of the days and times of" admission thereto, 
 
 and the preservation of order and prevention of nuisances therein, 
 
 and may by such byelaws imjjose penalties for the infringement 
 
 thereof, and provide for the removal of any person infringing any 
 
 such byelaw by any officer of the board or vestry or police constable. 
 
 Byelaws made under this Act shall be made in the same manner 
 
 and subject to the same conditions as byelaws made by the Metro- 
 
 })olitan Board or by a vestry or district board, as the case may be, 
 
 under the Metro})olis Management Act, 1855. [^Superseded {as 
 
 reqai-ds the London Count i/ Council) b>/ 53 & 54 Met. c. cxliii. 
 
 s.i 14—21; and 01 k G2 Vict. c. ccxxi.' s. 61. See also 18 & 19 
 
 Vict. c. 120, ss. 202 and 203.] 
 
 Metropolitan 7, Tj^e ]Metroi)olitan Board or any vestry or district board, and 
 
 vesm-or where an open space extends into two or more parishes or districts 
 
 district board two or more vestries or district boards, either with or without the 
 
 may carry out ]\[etropolitan Board, may jointly carry out the provisions of this 
 
 Act jointij. p^^^^ ^^j^ j^^^ enter into any agreement, on such terms as may be 
 
 arranged between them, for so doing and for defraying the expenses 
 
 of the execution of the Act, and the Metropolitan Board may defray 
 
 the whole or any part of the expenses of the execution of this Act 
 
 by any vestry or district board, and any vestry or district board 
 
 may similarly defray the whole or any part of the expenses of the 
 
 Metropolitan ]>oard or, where an open space extends into two or 
 
 more parishes or districts, of any other vestry or district board. 
 
 * See CO k. 51 Vict. c. cvi. s. 50; 5G & 57 Vict. c. Ixxi. s. 25; 5S & 59 Vict, 
 c. cxxv'ii. s. '15 ; and (ji5 & 04 Vict, c, cclxviii. s, 2'.). 
 t See 5U & 51 Vict. c. 32, s. .S. ,
 
 |44&.45 ViCT.Ji Metropolitan Ojien Spnct'H Act 18sl. [('hai'. 34.] 583 
 
 8. Wliero any open space, ehnrcliyard, cemeteiv, <»i' Imrial ground, I'rovision 
 l)y virtiU! oi'juiy Act of I'iiiliiuncnf, or orliorwise, is cxtiii-parocliiul, 'an*„*i,[!Jl 
 or lornis j)art of sonio ])arisli otlier tliun that which suiTounds the places, 
 saiijc, the vestry or district lioard actiiiLT i"<»r tho parish surrounding 
 
 the same JMa\ (sirrv ouf, (»r \\\;\\ enter into agreement with anv one 
 or more vestries or district hojirds acting for any othei- parishes, on 
 Huch terms nsnuivhe arraiigerl between them, iinrl may juintly carry 
 out, the ]>r()visions of this Act, and >h:dl have tlie sanu- powers in 
 every respect as if such ojien s])ace, churchyard, cemetery, or Iturial 
 ground were part of the parish or district of such vestry or district 
 board. 
 
 9. No estate, interest, oi' right of a prulitahJi^ or benelicial iiatnie rrovbion for 
 in, over, or affecting an open s])ace, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ji°'J|^"'**" 
 ground shall, except with tlie consent of the body or person entitled 
 thereto, be taken away or injuriously aifected by anything done 
 
 under this Act without c.om})ensation being made for the same : and 
 such compensation shall lie paid by the j\Ietroj)olitan lioard, vestry, 
 or district board by which such estate, interest, or right is taken 
 away or injuriously affected, and shall, in case of difference, be 
 jiscertained and ])rovided in the same manner as if the same com- 
 ]»ensatiou were for the compulsory ])urchase and taking or the 
 injurious affecting of lands under the provisions of the Lands ^ & Vict, 
 clauses Consolidation Act, 1X45, and any Acts amending the same, ^- ^**- 
 
 10. All expenses incurred under this Act by the ^Ietrop(ditan Expenses. 
 ])oard or bv any vestrv or district board shall be defrayed out of 
 
 the funds at their disi)osal respectively, or which they respectively 
 are empowered to raise under the Metropolis Management Act, 
 1855, and the several Acts amending the same ; and such exi)euses 
 shall be deemed to be ex])enses for which provision is made by 
 such Acts. \_S((jjf'/-^('(/c(/. {((ii /■(■(/(/■/■(/.-! t/tc LoiKhii Count ij Coancil) hij 
 51 a?i(l 52 Vict. cAl^ part iV. ; and by the London County Council 
 {Mone;/) Acts\^'62—\{)0A:\ 
 
 11. This Act shall extend only to the metropolis, and shall not Kxtent of 
 extend to the royal ]iarks or to any land belonging to Her Majesty -^'^■^■ 
 
 in riirht of her Crown or of her Uuchv of Lancaster, or to anv 
 
 garden, ornamental ground, or ornamental land for the time being 
 
 under the management of the Commissioners for the time being of 
 
 Her IMajesty's Works and Public Buildings or of tlie Conunissi;)ners h & 15 Vitt. 
 
 for the time beiniz; actin<r under the Crown Estate Paving Act, ls51 c 95. 
 
 or to any metroj)olitan common within the meaning of the Metro- -• j.,.;' '' • 
 
 ])olitan Commons Act, 1S6(), and the Metropolitan Commons -o ^t'« vict. 
 
 Amendment Act, 1S60. c. 107. 
 
 12. The powers in this Act conferred on and in relation to the Applicition 
 Metropolitan Board, vestries, and district boards shall in the citv '" "^'J^' "^ 
 01 London be exercised by and have relation to the corporation, wlio 
 
 shall defray, out of the metage of (/rain dutij or otherwise, all the 
 
 ex])enses caused by or connected with the execution of such 
 
 j)Owers by them : and any byelaws made by the corporation for the 
 
 regulation of any open space acquired under the powers of this Act 
 
 shall be made and allowed in manner prescrii)ed by the Corj)oration .ji ^^ jo vict. 
 
 of London (Open Spaces) Act, ISTS. [irV>/7/.s- in italics oL^olete. ccxxsn. 
 
 See the MetageuN Cnii)} (Port of London) Act 1x72,] 
 
 13. This Act may be cited" as the Metropolitan Open Spaces Short title 
 Act, 1881 ; and this Act and the ]\Ietropolitan Open Sjiaces Act, 
 
 1877, may together be cited as the ^Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts, 
 1877 and l8bl.
 
 K0 4 m 40T }rffropolita}i Board of Works caa s a-'kt -i 
 
 584 [Chap. 48.] - fir,,,,A ,,,, islV [44&4oVict.] 
 
 (MoNty) Act 1881. 
 
 CHAPTER 48. 
 
 An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the raising 
 OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and 
 
 FOR OTHER PURPOSES RELATING THERETO. 
 
 [22?ul August 1881.] 
 [^P7'eamble.~\ 
 Short title. 1, This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 3'l4ovicLc.,| (Money) Act, 1881, and the Metropolitan Board of AYorks (Money) 
 41 l^vicLc. f: Acts, 1875 to 1880, and this Act may be cited together as the 
 43 & « Vict, c! k Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1881. 
 Construction 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the Metro- 
 a^l^vict c 10" politan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871, and the 
 ^ I ^' Vict a 47- Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1880. 
 3?i & 40 Vict.' c' .«. 3 — 9. SJntcrpi-ctatlon of the expressions ''''Parks and Open Spaces 
 41 & 42 Vict! c! si: Acts,'"' '' EndjanJcnient Acts^^ and '^ Ma/'n Drainage Acts'''' — Amend - 
 'llV\S:ilt. ment of ss. 6, 7, and 10 q/ 43 & 44 Vict. c. 26— Power to the 
 Board to expend money for the purposes of 44 Vict. cc. xviii. aiid 
 cxcii., and for other purposes. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.)^ 
 
 10. \_As to expenses for Fire Brigade purposes till Z\st December 
 1882. liep. 61 & 62 }^ict. c. 22 {S.L.R.). — Provision as to carrying 
 from time to time to the Consolidated I^oans Fund such sums as the 
 
 Treasury approve as sufficient to redeem the stock created for the 
 purposes of this section in %) years. Identical with such provision 
 in 38 & 30 Vict. c. 65, s. 3.] 
 
 11. \_Power to the Board to expend money ^ up to 31s^ December 
 1882, under 40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxv. and 42 & 43 Vict. c. cxcviii. 
 Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 Power to 12. ...... 
 
 Board to ex- _ _ _ There shall be repaid (as provided by the Artizans and 
 
 for purposes Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875*) to the consolidated 
 
 of schemes rate out of the local rate, as defined by the Artizans and Labourers 
 
 °^^^ Vet Dwellings Liiprovement Act, 1875,* all moneys required for pay- 
 
 c, 36,"" ' ment of dividends on and the redemption of the consolidated stock 
 
 38 & 30 Vict, created for the purposes of this section. . . . \_Parts omitted (as to 
 
 ^•'^^- power to the Board to spend money, up to "^Ist December 1882, for 
 
 jmrposes of liousing schemes, and proviso that the moneys to be 
 
 raised and the stock to be created under this section shall only be raised 
 
 and created in such amounts and at such times as the Board shall 
 
 actually require and the Treasury approve for the purposes of such 
 
 schemes) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 Special power 13. . . . All the provisions of the Main Drainage Acts and the 
 
 expend*^ *° Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts altering or amend- 
 
 money for ing the same for the time being in force relating to the execution of 
 
 purpcsesof works authorised by the said Acts respectively shall continue in 
 
 ^e^anlrmain f*^rce, and shall extend and apply respectively to the works executed 
 
 sewers. by means of money raised in pursuance of this section, and all stock 
 
 21 & 22 Vict, created under the authority of this section shall be deemed to be 
 
 26 & 27 Vict created for the purposes of the above-mentioned Acts respectively. 
 
 c. 68.1 \_Paj't omitted (as to power to the Board to spend, money for pur- 
 
 28 & 29 Vict, poses of main drainage and main sewers) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 
 C. rj. t / O T TJ\~\ 
 
 18 & 19 Vict ^.'-'•^^•' ' •/• J 
 
 c. 120. ' 14. \^Power to the Board to pay all expenses up to 2>\st December 
 
 * Rep. and replaced bv the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. 
 t Rep. 32 & 33 Vict, c" 102, s. 50.
 
 r, I (. ,- ir n Mctvoiiolitan Hoard of W orl;ti ■-, , ,.,-, ^,,^ 
 
 •- -J {Money) Act lb*)!. •- -J 
 
 18?^2, incidental to ani/ intfuij'tj loith reapect to markets for the sale 
 of food ir'iiJdii the nietropol'iH. Rep. '11 k '"cj Vict. c. 22 (S.L.IL).^ 
 
 15. \_J'oiver to the lumrd to lend to ceatries or district hoardti until 
 '^Ut December 1S82. Rrp. 01 & ()2 Vict, c 22 {H.L.R.).—ProviMOn 
 for repai/ntent within a time to be approccd by the Treaisury not exceed- 
 iny an to loans for ivideniny streets or for bridyes and purchase of 
 III lid >> 00 years, and for other purposes 30 yearn ; and in the case of 
 a loan for not exceed in</ !3n yenr.^ reipiirim/ the Hoard from time 
 to time to carry to the ( 'on.solidated Loans Fund .such .sum.s us the 
 Treasury approce as suj/icient to redeem the stock created for the 
 
 purposes of this section within the period of the loon. Identical 
 with .such procisioii in 38 & ))U Vict. c. Oo, s. 4.] 
 
 16. [I'ower to the Hoard to leml to ymirdinn.s until ^Mat l>ercmber 
 1862. Rep. 01 & <J2 Vict. c. 22 {tS.L.Il.). — I'rocision for repayment 
 ivithin a time to be approved by the Trca.sury, not exceed iny 30 yenrn, 
 and as to carryiny to the Con.solidated Loanx. Fund such .sums as the 
 Treasury approve as suficient to redeem the stock created for the 
 purposes of this section icithin the period of the loan. Identical 
 with such provision in 38 «t 3U \'ict. c. G5, s. 5.] 
 
 17. [^Fxtension of amount which the Board may lend to the 
 Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. Rep. 61 & 02 Vict, 
 c. 22 (S.L.'R.).] 
 
 18. [Power to the Board to lend money to the School Board, of 
 Loudon up to Z\st December 1 SS2. Rep.^A k 02 1 ^ict. c. 22(S.L.R.).— 
 I'roiision for repayment within a period to be approved by the 
 Treasury not exceediny 50 years. Superseded by 2 Kdw. 7, c. 42, 
 sch. 2 ; and 3 Kdw. 7, c. 24,] 
 
 19. [Bower to the Board to lend to corporations., burial boards^ 
 etc., until 'd\st December 1882 — J^rovisioii for repayment within a 
 time to be approved by the Treasury, not exceediny a.s to loans for 
 wideniny (f streets or bridyes and purchase of lands 00 years, and 
 
 for other purposes 30 years ; and in the case of a loan for not ex- 
 ceediny 30 years reijuiriny the Board from time to time to carry to 
 the Consolidated Loans Fund such sum a.s the Treasury approve as 
 sujficii'lif to redeem the .stock created for the jturposes of this section 
 within the period, of the loan. Identical with such provision in 
 38 & 3'J Vict. c. Oo, .s. 0.] 
 
 20 30. \_As to metropolitan bills. Rep. 01 k 02 Vict. c. 22 
 
 {S.L.H.).'] 
 
 31. All sums received by the IJuunl in respect of interest ou or Kcpaymcnts 
 piiiuipal oi' uii y loan made by them under this Act shall be carried |<J b;e earned 
 to the Consolidated Loans Fund. tlated Loans 
 
 32. [Limitation of borrowiny powers of the Board. I Up. 01 «fe 02 ^"u'^- 
 VIcf. r. 22 (.y./..A'.).] 
 
 33. . . . The P)(»ard shall cause c<)j)ies of the minutes of all pro- Mimitos of 
 ceedings of the lioard, with the names of the members who attend rr-x'^'odinps 
 each meeting, to be from time to time printed, and to be tiled and lic print ed° 
 kept under their direction at the principal ottici' of the lioard, and a 
 
 coi)y of such minutes so printed and tiled shall be signed by the 
 members present, or any two of them, and all matters contained in 
 any such copy so })rinted and tiled, })ur{)orting to be so signed as 
 aforesaid, shall be received as evidence without proof of any meeting 
 of the Boanl having been duly convened <»r held, or of the presence 
 at any such meeting of the persons named in any such printed copy
 
 086 IChaP. XVUl.l e- ; 4 7 \ * iov.i [44 & 40 VICT. 1 
 
 L -^ i'iiippifimenfdl Act IcS.s]. l. -> 
 
 as being present thevent, or of sncl\ persons lieing" members of the 
 I'oard, or of the signature of any person by whom any such copy 
 ])nri)orts to be signed, all which matters shall be presumed until 
 the contrary be proved : and the copies of the minntes so printed, 
 filed, and signed as aforesaid shall lie in snbstitntion for the entries 
 of the proceedings of the l>oard, after the ])iissing of this Act, 
 required to be made, and for the books containing the same required 
 to lie ke])t under the direction of the Board by section sixty of the 
 Metrojtolis ]\lanagement Act, 1855, and all the })rovisions of the said 
 Act referring or relating to such books as aforesaid shall, as to the 
 minutes of jjroceedings of the Board after the passing of this Act, 
 refer and relate to the said coi)ies of the minutes so printed, tiled, 
 and signed as aforesaid, as though thev were the books bv the said 
 section sixty required to be kept. [ If o/r/.s omitted Q' From, and 
 after the pn.^aing of this Act'') rep. 01 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {^S.L.E.). 
 See also 56 & 57 \'ict. c. ccxxi. s. lO.] 
 
 34. ^Amendment of s. 15 of 3s & 39 Vict. c. 65. Rep. 61 k 62 
 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.E.).] 
 
 First Schedule. \_Particalar.H of new money powers conferred 
 hij this Act. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (-S'. /..//.).] 
 
 Second Schedulk. [^Li.^^t of Parks and Open Spaces Acts and 
 Knd>an];ment Acts referred to in s. 3. Reji. 61 k (52 Vict. c. 22 
 {S.L.R.y\ 
 
 . .^ - CHAPTER XVni. 
 
 *An Act to confirm a ScHEMK under the METROrOLITAN 
 
 Commons Act, 1S66, and the Metropolitan Commons 
 Amendment Act, 1869, relating to Brook Green, Eel 
 Brook Common, Parson's Green, and another Piece of 
 WASTE Land adjoining the King's IIoad. \}^rd June\%%\?^ 
 
 \Preamhle recites that the Inclosure Commissioners for Kngland 
 and Wales\ hare, in pursaancc of the Metropolitan Commons Act, 
 1866, and the Metropolitan Cowmons Amendment Act, 1869, dulg 
 certified a Scheme for the ei<t(djli.^hment of local management with 
 respect to Hrool; (rreen, situate in the parish of Ilammersnuth, in the 
 count ij of Middlesex, \ Eel Brook Common, Parson'' s Green, and a 
 narrow piece of waste land adjoining the King's Road, all in the 
 parish of FulJiam, adso in the countg of Middlesex?^ \ 
 
 Sfhomeasto 1. The Scheme for the establishment of local management with 
 
 Brook Green, respect to Brook Green, situate in the parish of Hammersmith, in 
 
 Eel Brook ^j^ county of Middlesex, i and Eel Brook (Jommon, Parson's Green, 
 
 Parson's' and a narrow piece of waste land adjoining the King's Road, all in 
 
 Green, etc. the parish of Fulham, also in the county of Middlesex, \ certified by 
 
 r^-lf^s^'^ ^^ ^^ Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales,t under their 
 
 Commisi- Seal, ou th(^ sixteenth day of IJecember one thousand eight hundred 
 
 sioners con- and eighty, and contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, is 
 
 firmed. hereby confirmed, and from and after the passing of this Act shall 
 
 be deemed to be a public general Act of Parliament, of the like 
 
 force and effect as if the provisions of the same had been enacted in 
 
 the body of this Act. 
 
 * As to Brook Green, see also 50 & 51 Vic^t. c. cvi. s. 81. 
 
 + Now the Board of A^n-iciilture. See the Board of Agriculture Act IS.'^O, s. 2. 
 
 % Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. iO (2).
 
 [44 & 45 Vict.] ^f'Tfr, ^'IT:: [< 'hai'. xviii.] ftST 
 
 2. This Act, iDay be cited for ull itnr])0.se8 as the Metropolitan ^''f>rt tiUo. 
 ('(millions Sii])j)lcin('iitul Act, \Hx\. 
 
 sen EDI IJ-; 
 
 Tim: Mkikui'iii.i i an Commons A< r, iKtid and IHClt. 
 
 Sciir.MK with respect to Bkouk rji;i;r.N, Eki, Buook Common, Paijson'.s 
 GuKKN, and a narrow piece of waste land adjoining the King's Road. 
 
 [Preamble to the Scheme recltex that ati action Ix pent/iiir/ in the dhameni Dirikion 
 bftirrrn Willntm llennj Lainmiii and others suing for iheniKelcex and other pevHOitA 
 untitled to ri(/htn of common and ciixtomnni riglitx of recreation over certain commonx 
 or waste lands in the manor of fidhain, and the Metrojiolitan Hoard of Works* 
 {^herein-after referred to as the Board) as phiintijf's af/<tinst the /■Ecclesiastical 
 C'onimissniners for Knijlund, Alexander Forbes Tweedie and John llojies, as 
 defendants claiming tit establish snch rights respect iveli/^ and an injnnction to 
 prevent inclnsnre of the said commons or n-aste lands ; and that hf/ the Metro- 
 politan District Jiailn-ai/ ^Icl 1878 (.v. 22) the Ifailtvai/ Comjiani/ in consideration of 
 being idloired to take icithoiit pai/ment part of Eel lirooh Common, cohnired red and 
 yelloir on the jdan in that Act referred to, icere reqnired to lag into the common 
 lands c'donred blue on the said plan ; and recites that bg an agreement of the 
 Hlh •fitlii 1880, made between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Alexander Forbes 
 Ttreedie and Joh/i Jloges, the Hoard, and the said William Ifenrg Lammin and 
 others, it was provided (inter alia) : 
 
 (1) That the said Commissioners as lords (f the Oamor of Fulham should sell 
 
 and the Board sliouUl pnrchase for £.0,000 «// the rights, estates, and 
 interest.t of the Commissioners in the lands Icnoicn as Eel Brook Comntoii, 
 Parson\s (rveen, and Brook Green, coloured green (ni the plan annexed to 
 the said agreement, inclnding in Eel Brook Common the land to be laid 
 into the same by the Railicag Company, hut )iot including a portion of 
 Brook Green Common containing about 2 roods 13 jterches marked A on the 
 said pla/i and appropriated by the said Commissioners as a site for a church, 
 and subject as to Eel Brook Common to the rights if the Raihray Company 
 under the recited Act ; and that the said Alexander Forbes Tweedie aiul 
 John Iloyes should sell to the Board all their estate, right, and interest in a 
 jnirtion if a narrouj piece <f unenclosed waste by the side rf the King's 
 Jioad, and lying betireen Eel Brook Common and Parson s (rreen, and 
 coloured red on the said pbtn, but ndiich portion did not include two strips 
 of land, 40 feet wide respectively, running across the said portion and 
 cross-hatched on the said plan, and intended to be formed into roads as 
 thereinafter mentioned. 
 
 (2) That the said Commissioners should sell all their estate and interest in the 
 
 said two strips, iQ feet n'ide, to the said Alexander Forbes Tweedie and 
 John Ho yes for £800, and that the said Alexaniler Forbes Tioeedie and 
 Jidtn Iliiyes sliinild irithin 12 cidendar months firm roads thereon. 
 
 (.3) That the Board sliould endeavour to ^'I'ocure the prejiaration and settlement 
 of a sclieme by the luclosure Commissioners under the Metropolitan Com- 
 mons Act, 18lJG, with respect to the lands thereby agreed to be conreyed tn 
 them, and to get such srhmie confirmed by Parliament. 
 
 (4) That the pending action should be stayed. 
 
 (6) That if a scheme should be settled and confirmed In the sessions 1880 or 1881 
 
 the Board should take stej)s to hare the action dismissed. 
 (G) Th(d upon the scheme being confirmed the Board sh<ndd pay the Commis- 
 sioners £5,000 for a conveyance of their said estates ami interests. 
 
 (7) That the agreement iras subject to such rights of common or other customary 
 
 or commo/iable rights, rights of way and other e.risting easements <j.f 
 persons other than the Commissioners might have over the said cianmons 
 or waste lands. 
 (12) That if t1ie scheme shoulil not be settled and confirmed as aforesaid the 
 
 injreeinent should be void and the actiioi revived. 
 (14) 'J'hal the Board should prepare and bear the cost if the conveijance to them. 
 And the said pveamble further recites that by the Metropolitan District Itailway Act 
 1880 the land coloured red and yellow on the plan referred to in the ComjHiny's 
 recited Act iflHlS iras vested in the Cinnpany in fee simple, and the land coloured 
 blue on the said plan u-as declared to be part of Eel Brook Conmon ; and recites 
 that the commons or waste lands agreed to be sold to the Board by the recited agree- 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 Koo rri •••-! Metroholttan Commons caa i a-^i n 
 
 588 rCHAP. xviii. I o / . 7 1 ^ 1001 r44&4y ViCT.l 
 
 •- -J Sup}demental Act 1881. ^ j 
 
 ment of Sth Jul;/ 1880 are delineated in a j^^of dejWKited icith the IndoKure Com- 
 viis.'ii,07iers * and therein coloured f/reen, red, and hJne, the portions coloured green and 
 cruKs-hatched on the said jilan beinrj the lands rested in tlie Railvay Company hi/ 
 the said Act q/"1880, a7id the land coloured blue the land added to the Eel Brook 
 Common in substitution there/or.'] 
 
 1. From and after the completion of the said purchase by the Board (of which 
 completion a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board and the Secretary 
 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the time being shall be conclusive 
 evidence) the commons or waste lands delineated in the deposited plan and 
 therein coloured green, red, and blue, other than and except such of the parts 
 thereof, so coloured green and red, as are cross-hatched, and the jiart coloured 
 green which is marked A (which commons or waste lands so coloured green, 
 red, and blue, other than and except as aforesaid, are in this Scheme referred to 
 as " the Commons," shall be and are hereby dedicated to and for the use and 
 recreation of the public as open spaces for ever, and shall for the purposes of 
 this Scheme be regulated and managed by the Board. 
 
 2. [^Appointment and ref/ubdion of officers. Superseded bji the Municipal Cor- 
 porations Act 1882, ss. 11), 20 {see Ajipendir^ ; and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75. 
 See also 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 202 ajid 203.] 
 
 3. The Board may drain, plant, ornament, and improve the Commons as may 
 be necessary, and for the purpose of preserving the turf and grass may enclose 
 by fences, for short periods, such portions as may require rest to revive the 
 same. No house or other building shall be erected on the Commons except such 
 lodges or other buildings as may be necessary for the maintenance or manage- 
 ment of the Commons. The Board may from time to time erect on the 
 Commons such lodges and other buildings as may be necessary for the main- 
 tenance and management of the Commons, and may form such paths and rides 
 over the same as they may think desirable. [See also 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. s. 50 ; 
 and 58 & 5'J Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 45.] 
 
 4 — 5. [As to hyelaws. Superseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21 ; and 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 6. The Board may set apart any portion or portions of the Commons as they 
 may consider expedient for cricket or other games. 
 
 7. The Board shall be at liberty to receive, and apply for the purposes of 
 this Scheme, or any of them, any subscriptions or donations applicable thereto 
 respectively that may come to their hands. 
 
 8. [As to procidiny purchase money and expenses <f executimj the Scheme. Spent 
 in part. Remr. superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41,pa?-i iv.] 
 
 '.). [.l.s to penalties. Note (ui clauses 4 and 5 applies. 
 
 10. No proceeding touching the conviction of any offender under this Scheme 
 nor any order or other matter or thing whatsoever made, done, or transacted in, 
 or relating to, the execution of this Scheme, shall be vacated, quashed, or set 
 aside for want of form. 
 
 11 — 10. [Sarin/J rights in the Commons e.ristiny before this Act — Power to Board 
 to purchase the estates of the Eccle-'iiastical Commissioners, Alexander Forbes 
 Tiveedie and John Hoyes respectively — Consent of these parties to Scheme — As to 
 rights of common claimed bii owners and occupiers of certain ancient messuages, and 
 certain lands and tenements in the manor of Fulham — As to rights claimed by 
 parishioners and inhabitants of Hcunmersmith and Fulham — Board to make 
 compensation for all estates, interests, etc., in commons affected under this Scheme ; 
 conijirnxation to be determined as under Lands Clauses Acts- — Board to pay £2,000 
 to the homage jury of the manor of Ftdham on behalf of the commoners of the said 
 manor as compensatioyifor all rights of common over or affecting the commons. Spent.^ 
 
 17. The Board shall have power to apply at any time for an amended Scheme 
 or for a new Scheme. 
 
 18. Printed copies of this Scheme shall at all times be sold at the office of 
 the Board to all persons desiring to buy the same, at a price not exceeding two 
 shillings and sixpence each. 
 
 The Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales pursuant to the 
 provisions of the Metropolitan Commons Acts, 18G6 and 1869, hereby certify 
 the above-written Scheme. 
 
 In witness whereof they the said Inclosure Commissioners * have caused their 
 official seal to be hereunto affixed, this 16th day of December, one thousand 
 eight hundred and eighty. 
 
 ^ L.S. 
 Now the Board of Agriculture. 8ee the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, s. 2.
 
 fAA i i-\T 1 ^^'''-^'^ ^^^'^f' J^f)^'(fl lionrd Extension r(s„.^ ivYvil f^RQ 
 
 [44 & 4., Vict.] ^j j,^^^^^.^ ^^^.^ ^^^j^ [Chap. Ixxxi.] 589 
 
 CHAPTER LXXXl. 
 
 An Act for en-adlino tiik Local Boauu fou the DisTracT or 
 West Ham in the Countv of Essex to make certain 
 Alterations and to .maintain certain AVorks in and upon 
 THE Embankment of the Northern (3utfall Sewer vested 
 IN THE Metropolitan Board of Works and to enlaroe 
 
 AND ADD to THEIR ToWX HaLL AND OFFICES AND FOR 
 
 granting additional Powers to the said Local Board and 
 FOR other Purposes. [27M Jane 1881.] 
 
 [PrecuMr recites (inter alia) 18 & 19 Vict. ^.120, .s. 2i)4 ; ami 
 that hi/ 4;i k 44 Vict. r. cxxxii. the Local Board for the district of 
 West J lam were authorised to make a new roa(ffrom the liarkiiaj 
 Road to the jmnt of intersection of Manor Road with the northern 
 outfall sewer belongimj to the Metropolitan Hoard of ITorZ-.s-, and 
 that it is ccpedient that proi'i.von should be made for const ructimj a 
 subway throu(/h the embankment and the land, belonyitn/ to the said 
 sewer at and adjacent to the point of intersection of the said sewer 
 and Manor I'oad ; and recites the deposit icith the Clerk of the 
 Peace for Essex of plans, sections, and books of referenced] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the West Ham Short title. 
 Local Board Extension of Powers Act 1881. 
 
 2. \^fncorporation of the Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 3. Li tlie interpretation of this Act the expressions following shall Interpreta- 
 have the nieaning-s hereby attached to them (that is to say)— "o° '^^ *^'"'"^- 
 
 The " Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board of Works.* 
 The " Local Board " shall mean the urban sanitary authority for 
 the district aforesaid . t 
 
 • ••••* 
 
 [^Parts omitted {dcfiidtions of " the district " and " the parish ") do 
 not affect London.] 
 
 4. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Local Board may rower to 
 upon the lands and hereditaments and within the limits of deviation J^o.^j"an^,^°°'" 
 and according to the levels shown in the dejjosited ])lans sections construct 
 and l)0(iks of reference make and maintain the works and improve- new street, 
 ments and do the things following that is to say 
 
 (a.) Widen ]\ranor Boad on either side thereof, such widening 
 
 to commence at the point of intersection of the said road 
 
 with the northern outfall sewer and to terminate at Abbey 
 
 Hoad. 
 
 (b.) ('onstruct a new street commencing at Abbey Road at a 
 
 point opposite I\ranor Road aforesaid and terminating at 
 
 Mortham Street at a point ojjposite Rokeby Street. 
 
 Provided always that nothing in this Act contained shall be 
 
 deemed to authorise the Local Board to make or maintain any 
 
 works or improvements which may in tlu' opinion of the Board 
 
 in anywise alfect the northern outfall sewer vested in the Board or 
 
 the bridge or embankment masonry brickwork or other structure 
 
 appertaining or belonging to the said sewer or the said bridge or 
 
 any works connected therewith. . . . \_Part omitted {Local Board 
 
 not to take certain lands) does not affect LondonT] 
 
 * Now the London County CounciL See 'jI & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. U) (S). 
 
 t Now the Mayor, Akleruieu, aud Burgesses of the County Borough of West Ham.
 
 590 
 
 Power to alter 
 northern 
 outfall sewer, 
 etc. 
 
 [Chai'. Ixxxi.] 
 
 West Ham Local Boaid Extension 
 of Powers Act 1881. 
 
 [44 k 45 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 lower part of 
 Manor Koad. 
 
 Board may 
 shore up 
 sewer, etc. 
 during pro- 
 gress of 
 works. 
 
 Board to 
 erect per- 
 manent sup- 
 port for 
 sewer, etc. 
 
 Notice Vjy 
 
 5. The Board u})Oii receiving notice as herein-after provided from 
 the Local Board may j^roceed within the limits of deviation and 
 according to the levels sliown on the deposited plans and sections 
 to alter cut away vary and adapt the northern outfall sewer vested 
 in the Board at and adjacent to the point of intersection of the said 
 sewer and Manor Road and the bridge and the embankment 
 masonry brickwork or other structure and the land appertaining and 
 belonging to the said sewer and to the said bridge in such manner 
 and to such extent as may in the opinion of the Board be necessary 
 for the purj)Ose of forming the proposed subway between the points 
 marked A and B in the plans signed in duplicate by Sir Joseph 
 AVilliam Bazalgette on behalf of the Board and by Lewis Angell on 
 behalf of the Local Board and deposited in the principal offices of 
 tlie Board and of the Local Board res})ectively and the Board may 
 within the said limits and according to the said levels form the said 
 subway as aforesaid. 
 
 6. The Board upon receiving notice as herein-after provided from 
 the Local Board may proceed within the limits of deviation and 
 according to the levels shown on the deposited plans and sections 
 to lower from its present level so much of Manor Road as is situate 
 between the points marked C, D, E and F on the said plans signed 
 in duplicate by Sir Joseph William Bazalgette on behalf of the 
 Board and by Lewis Angell on behalf of the Local Board and 
 deposited in the principal offices of the Board and of the Local 
 Board respectively so as to give a headway of 16 feet under the said 
 bridge and the Board may within the said limits and according to 
 the said levels form sewer metal and complete as a carriageway so 
 much of the said Manor Road as is situate between the said points 
 and may execute such works as may be necessary for supporting 
 strengthening and maintaining the said embankment and bridge 
 and the foundations thereof and the works connected therewith. 
 And the Local Board shall construct a sewer in the proi)Osed new 
 road immediately adjacent to the lowered roadway under the bridge 
 of sufficient depth and having an outfall into the existing sewers 
 under the jurisdiction of the said Local Board so as effectually to 
 drain the said lowered roadway. 
 
 7. The Board may at and during such time as the said sewer 
 bridge embankment masonry brickwork or other structure is being 
 altered cut away varied and adapted as aforesaid shore up or other- 
 wise support in an efficient manner the said sewer and bridge and 
 the embankment appertaining and belonging thereto at such point 
 or points as may in the opinion of the Board be necessary for the 
 proper and effectual support of the said sewer the said bridge and 
 the said embankment during the progress of the works by this Act 
 authorised to be made and executed. , 
 
 8. The Board shall while the said sewer the said bridge and the 
 said embankment masonry brickwork or other structure and the 
 said land is being altered cut away varied and adapted as aforesaid 
 erect and construct such works at such point or ])oints as may in 
 their oi)inion be necessary for the permanent and effectual sup})ort 
 of the said sewer the said bridge and the said embankment and 
 shall from time to time maintain alter and repair such works in such 
 manner as they may think proper for such support as aforesaid. 
 
 9. When the Local Board desire that the Board should execute 
 
 Local Board the works which they are by this Act authorised to execute upon
 
 rAA tr (KAT-,,.™, n West J lain Local Board l\,.iti'ii><,iou r-i\ ^ -n -m 
 
 [44 (k 45 Vict. ^.. „ , , ,.,r,i [(Jhap. Ixxxi.] o91 
 
 •- Of roirera Act 18>>1. l J 
 
 rec('iviii<( notice to that cilect tVfjiii the Local ]V)ar(l tlie Local f'"" execution 
 
 ]}oanl may serve a notice U])on the lioard at their piincijial ofHce in 1^"''^,^^^^"^ 
 
 the mctro})olis re(inirin<i: the J^oard to execute the works authorised 
 
 by this Act to be executed by tlie Boaixl and the 15oard shall within 
 
 six months after the receipt of such notice (commence and thereafter 
 
 witli due dili,L;ence (;ontinue and complete the (,'xecution of the said 
 
 works in accordance with the ])rovisions of this Act. And the Local 
 
 Board may from time to time and so often as the said works or 
 
 any works in connection therewith or executed by the ]k)ai-d in 
 
 pursuance of this Act shall in the opinion of the engineer to the 
 
 Local lioard re(|uire to be r('j)aired serve notice of such fact upon 
 
 the lioard at their principal office in the metrojjolis and the Board 
 
 sluill as soon as may be thereafter commence and witli due diligence 
 
 continiu! and complete such re])airs in or to the same as may in the 
 
 opinion of the l^oard ])e necessary and ])ropcr. 
 
 10. lu the event of any injury being occasioned to the said I'owur to 
 sewer or the said bridge or the said embankment or to the masonry fe-^tore work.-, 
 brickwork or structure thereof or to any works connected therewirji |"jurr"*^"^ 
 or to any works executed by the Bo:ird in ])ursuance of this Act or 
 
 to any part or parts thereof by the construction of any of the woi'ks 
 by this Act authorised to l)e executed by the Board (whether such 
 injury occurs either during or after the construction or in effecting 
 the maintenance alteration or repair of any such works or in or 
 by the enjoyment or user thereof) the ]>()ard may restore tlie said 
 sewer the said bridge or the said embankment or the masonry 
 brickwork or structure thereof or the works connected therewith or 
 the works so executed by them in jmrsuance of this Act or the part 
 or ])arts thereof which may be injured in such manner and to 
 such extent as the Board may think necessary or expedient for 
 such ])urposes and to obviate the recurrence of any such iujury as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 11. The l^oard may for the purpose of executing any works under rower to 
 the authority of this Act from time to time enter upon and use any enter upon 
 road or lands belonging or re])Uted to l)elong to the Local ]>oard LocaVfioard. 
 and niiiy during the execution of such works stoj) the traffic on the 
 
 said roads or lands for such time or times as may in the o})iuion of 
 the Board be necessary. 
 
 12. The engineer to the Board or any other person from time to Power to 
 time a])pointed by the Board may frorn time to time inspect any ^""J':)!^^ 
 works buildings or premises subject to the control of the Local ^^'" "'■ 
 Board which in the opinion of the engineer to the J'oard are in 
 anywise affecting or likely to affect the said sewer the said bridge or 
 
 the said embankment or the nuisonrv brickwork or structure thereof 
 or any works connected therewith or any works executed by tlie 
 Board in ])ursuance of this Act or any part or ])arts thereof and for 
 that purpose may at all reasonable times in the daytime after forty- 
 eight hours' notice in writing has been given to the Local Board or 
 in case of emergency without notice enter himself or with workmen 
 upon any lands of llu' Local Board and in to or upon any suih lauds 
 works buildings or j)remises and may cause the soil of such lands 
 to be dug into and (»j)ened and the wooilwork brickwork masonry or 
 structure of such works buildings or ])remises to be cut into wher- 
 ever such engineer or })erson thinks fit doing as little danuige as 
 may be and if any person obstructs or attempts to obstruct or incites 
 any person to obstruct the engineer or such person or workmen in
 
 KAo m^.^ 1 ••• n Metropolitetii. hoard of It o/ ■/',>,• r^^ p ^^tt n 
 
 592 Chap, cxlvm.1 ru / n \ a *^o^■^ [44 & 45 Vict.1 
 
 •- -J (Hackney Commons) Act 1881. ^ J 
 
 the exercise of any of the powers conferred b}" this section he shall 
 for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five 
 pounds to be recovered in a summary manner before two Justices 
 by the Board. 
 Costs of ;j^3^ Y^a amount of all costs and expenses from time to time 
 
 paid by Local ^"<^^^i'^"6^ by the Board in the execution by them of any works in 
 Board." pursuance of this Act and in the maintenance alteration or repair 
 
 of the same and the expenses of any inspection made by them in 
 pursuance of this Act including therein a proportion of the expense 
 of the officers on the permanent staff of the Board shall from time 
 to time be ascertained and certified by the engineer to the Board 
 and the Local Board shall from time to time within one month after 
 the same shall have been so ascertained and certified as aforesaid 
 and notice thereof in writing has been forwarded by the Board to 
 them at their office pay such amount so ascertained and certified 
 as aforesaid to the Board and in default of such payment the Board 
 may from time to time recover from the Local Board the several 
 amounts of all such costs and expenses so ascertained and certified 
 as aforesaid together with full costs and charges by all and the same 
 means as any simple contract debt is recoverable. 
 
 Local Board 14. The Local Board sliall be liable to pay and shall pay to the 
 money paid Board any damages penalties costs charges or expenses which the 
 by Board on Board may become liable to pay and shall pay in respect of any 
 account of injury or loss consequent upon the execution by them of any works 
 amages, etc. i^^^jg,^. f]^g authority of this Act (whether such injury or loss occurs 
 either during or after the construction or in effecting the mainten- 
 ance alteration or repairing of such works) or in or by the enjoy- 
 ment or user thereof or the making of any inspection or the doing 
 of any act or thing under the authority of this Act excej^t where 
 such injury or loss arises from any wilful neglect by the Board 
 their officers or servants in or about the executing of such works 
 or the making of such inspection or the doing of such act or thing 
 and all moneys paid by the Board on account of any such damages 
 j)enalties costs charges or expenses shall be repaid to the Board by 
 the Local Board on demand and in default thereof may be recovered 
 by the Board from the Local Board as any simple contract debt of 
 like amount. 
 
 • • » * • • 
 
 [7y<e reinaiia/cr of the Act docs not ajf'cct London. ~\ 
 
 CHAPTER CXLVIIL 
 
 *An Act to enable the Meteopolitan Boaed of AVorks to 
 
 ACQUIRE certain RiGHTS AND INTERESTS IN AND AFFECTING 
 
 Hackney Commons. [18;'/^ July 188L] 
 
 [Preamble recites that by 35 & 36 Vict. c. xliii. a certain Scheme 
 certified under the Metrojwlitan Commons Act 1806 /<?r the establish- 
 ment of local m.anafji'ment ivith respect to Haclincy Commons was 
 duly confirmed, and, that it was by the said Scheme provided tJtat the 
 said llacfmey Commons as therein defined, should thenceforth for all the 
 purposes of the said Scheme be regulated and managed, by the Metro- 
 politan Board of Worfts \ ; and that for the better carrying into effect 
 
 * See also 47 & 4S Viot. c. ccxxiii. s, 45. 
 
 f Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [44 & 45 ViCT.J j^lf'-opolit'in Board oHM. j-^ j ... . 
 
 >- -J Uliiclnioi ( ommons) Act 1881. ^ J " 
 
 Me ohjecta of the .said Scheme it is expedient that the Metropolitan 
 Board of Worlm * (in thi.f Act referred to an " the Jionrd''^ ) lihould he 
 empowered to ac(juire certain lands premisea estates riyhts and 
 interests in and ajf'ccting the said Commons as herein-after mentioned ; 
 and recites the agreement set forth in the schedule and that it is 
 expedient that the same should he confirme(f.'\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for nil purposes as the Metropolitan short title. 
 Board of Works (Hackney Commons) Act l.s81. 
 
 2. The recited agreement so far as the same is set forth in the '"oniirmation 
 schedule to this Act annexed (in this Act referred to as the scheduled -^f agreement, 
 agreement) is hereby confirmed and made binding on the several 
 
 parties thereto and the Board are hereby autiiorised to carry the 
 said agreement in so far as it relates to them into effect and shall 
 have and may exercise all such powers and authorities and do all 
 such acts as may be necessary for sucii ])nrpose. 
 
 3. \_Kxpenses of scheduled agreement and oj ohtaining Act. Spent. ^ 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 [Heads of an agreemerit {dated SO/A June 1880) proponed to he entered into 
 l)etween William Amhurst Ti/snen Amherst Esquire and the trustees of his 
 marriage settlement (therein-after called the Trustees) of the one jiart and the 
 Metropolitan Hoard <f Works (therein-after railed the Board) if the other jmH 
 xvith regard to the lands comprised in the Hachteg Commons Scheme, providing 
 that (a) the trustees should sell and the Board should purchase : — 
 
 1. The fee simple subject to the Lammas rights of and in such parts as are not 
 mentioned in subhead 2 of this clause of 28 acres 3 roods and 1 perch or 
 thereabouts in Hackney Downs 10 acres 3 roods and 28 jierches or thereabouts 
 in North Mill Field and 6 acres 3 roods and 21 perches or thereabouts in 
 South Mill Field being respectively parts of the T'gssen Amlierst estate 
 comprised in the said settlement the contents of the said lands as above stated 
 being those mentioned in the deeds a/id plans relating thereto but out of the 
 above-mentioned hinds in Haclcney Downs are to be deducted the lands 
 purchased by the Great Eastern Railiray Company for the purposes of their 
 railway but this contract shall comprise all the interest of the vendors in the 
 lands adjoining Downs Park Road purchased by the Great Eastern Railway 
 Company to be added to the Hackney Downs. 
 ."2. The fee simple (f a certain piece of land in Hackney Downs and of another 
 piece of land in North Mill Field foryning part of the lands before mentioned 
 and specified in the suit of Attorney-General v. Amherst and being lands 
 enclosed by the lord if the matmr (in pursuance of the custom to enclose) 
 shortly before the institution of that suit. 
 3. The fee simple subject only to common rights of and in all the waste lands of 
 the manor of Hackney comprised in the Hackney Common Scheme including 
 Claptiui Common luul Stoke Newinyton Common and the waste land in 
 Dalston Lane and Grove Street subject as to one triangular piece of land on 
 the noiih side of Dalston Lane ivhich teas formerly waste of the said manor 
 to a lease for \)\) years ivhich has been granted thereof with the exceptions of a 
 small portion of Stoke Newington Common at the north-east corner thereof 
 ivhich WHS shortly before the institution of the suit of Attorney-General v. 
 Amherst enclosed by the lord of tlw mawir of Hackney under the custotn to 
 enclose and certain portions of the last-mentioned Common at the southern 
 corner thereof which hare recently been enclosed with the consent of the Board 
 under the custom to enclose but including certain pieces of land not comprised 
 in the Hackney Commons Scheme ivhich have in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of the precept authorising the last-mentioned enclosure been laid into 
 the Stoke Neivington Common. 
 ■ 4. All otherestates rights and interests in or over the lauds compri.ted in the Hackwy 
 Common Scheme which the said William Amhurst Tyssen Amherst or the 
 said trustees can convey (regard being had to the Act passed in the 2lst year 
 of the reign of King James L regulating the customs of the manors <>t 
 Hackney and Stej>ney) but not so as to prejudice any rights of the said 
 trustees as owners of property in Hackney in their own right except as herein 
 expirssly provided. 
 
 * Now the Londou Couutv Council. See 51 ic 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 38
 
 594 
 
 [Cnip. cxcii.] Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881. [44 & 45 Vict.] 
 
 (b.) Purchase 2)r ice should be £33,000. 
 (c.) The purchase should include : — 
 
 1. All rights which the said William Amhurxt Tyssen Amherst or the said 
 
 trustees possess either as lord or lords of the manor or as severalty ovmerg 
 of Lammas lands over the lands hereby contracted to be sold atul all rights to 
 and interests in respect of the gravel sand brick earth or other minerals lying 
 under such lands and all rights of inclosing or authorising enclosures of any 
 part of the waste or other lands comprised in the said Hackney Commons 
 Scheme. 
 
 2. All his or their rights of common {if any) over the said lands. 
 
 3. All his or their rights as lord or lords of the manor to the royalties on brick 
 
 earth irhich were reserved on the enfranchisement of certain parts of London 
 Fields and Wells Street Common and all other rights of every hind over any 
 parts of the lands comprised in the said Hackney Commons Scheme which 
 have at any time heretofore been enfranchised. 
 
 4. All benefits accruing in resiwct of the rights of escheat and forfeiture uhich he 
 
 or they may possess as lords of the manor in respect of all the lands comjjrised 
 in the said Hackney Commons Scheme. 
 The rights mentioned' in this present head (c) to be extinguished and determined or 
 at the option of the Board to he kept on foot for their benefit if and so far as 
 circumstances icill alloiv. 
 
 Provisions as to title and C07iveyance and as to the Board obtaining an Act of 
 Parliament emihling them to purchase. Spent.^ 
 
 CHAPTER CXCII. 
 
 An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works tO' 
 CONSTRUCT New Bridges over the Thames at Putney and 
 Battersea with Approaches thereto ; to alter and re- 
 construct Vauxhall and Deptford Creek Bridges ; for 
 amending the metropolis toll bridges act 1877 ; and- 
 FOR OTHER PURPOSES. \\lth August 1881.] 
 
 {Preamble recites (inter alia) 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. aiid that the 
 Board have acquired thereunder (amongst others) the existing bridges 
 known as Fulham or Putney Bridge, Battersea Bridge, Vauxhall 
 Bridge, and Deptford Creek Bridge, and that the said Fulham or 
 Putney Bridge and the said Battersea Bridge are in a dangerous 
 condition and unfit for general traffic, and that the said Vauxhall 
 Bridge is so constructed as to be inconvenient to navigation, and that 
 the said Deptford Creek Bridge is unsafe for general traffic, and also 
 recites an agreement of the Ath June 1863 between the fiammersmith 
 Bridge Company and the Brentford Gas Company u'ith respect to 
 lighting certain lamps on the Hammersmith Bridge and the approaches 
 thereto, and to the laying of mains along the said bridge.~\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881. 
 
 2. {^Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spefit.'] 
 
 3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the 
 tion of terms, several meanings hereby assigned to them nnless there be something 
 
 in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that is to 
 say) :— 
 
 " The Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board of Works * ; 
 " The improvements " shall mean the bridges approaches roads 
 
 and works by this Act authorised ; 
 " Deptford Creek Bridge Act " shall mean the Act passed in the 
 forty-third year of King George III. intituled " An Act for 
 building a bridge over the Hiver Ravensbourne at or near its. 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 
 43 Geo. 3. 
 c. cxxxi.
 
 [44 & 45 Vict.] Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881. [Chap, cxcii.] 596 
 
 month or outlet into tho River Thames in the connty of Kent 
 and for making and maintaining jtroper aj)proaches thereto; " 
 
 " Road authority " and the term " district " in relation to a road 
 antliority shall have respectively the same meanings as are 
 assigned to the same terms respectivelv in the Tramways Act 33 k m Vict. 
 187U;* ■ c. 78. 
 
 " The conservators " means the Conservators of the River Thames ; 
 
 • ••••■ 
 
 For the jmrposes of this Act the expression " superior courts " 
 or "court of com])etent jurisdiction" or any other like ex- 
 pression in this Act or any Act wholly or partially incorporated 
 herewith shall be read and have effect as if the debt or demand 
 with respect to which the expression is used were a simple 
 contract debt and not a debt or demand created by statute. 
 \^Parts omitted {dejinition of " Justice " and as to meanings of 
 words in the Lands Clauses Acts incorporated) spent.'] 
 
 4 — 5. \^Board to execute Act and mag appoint Committee therefor. 
 Superseded bg the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 {see 
 Appendix)., and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 4U and 75.] 
 
 6. Subject to the provisions of this Act in the lines according Board may 
 to the levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the ^^^^ bridges 
 deposited plans and sections the Board may make and maintain roads and 
 except as herein-after expressly provided the following bridges works, 
 approach roads and works namely : — 
 
 (1.) A new bridge across the River Thames (herein-after referred 
 to as " New Putney Bridge ") commencing in the parish of 
 Putney and county of Surrey f at or immediately to the west 
 of the brick pier of the aqueduct carrying over the River 
 Thames the pipes of the Chelsea "Waterworks Company on 
 the Surrey shore of the River Thames in that parish and 
 terminating in the parish of Fulham and county of 
 Middlesex f at or immediately to the west of the brick |)ier 
 of the said aqueduct on the Middlesex shore of the River 
 Thames in that parish ; 
 And in connexion with New Putney Bridge the following approach 
 roads thereto namely : — 
 
 In the county of Surrey f and parish of Putney. 
 
 («.) An approach road (herein-after referred to as the " High 
 Street apj)roach road ") commencing in High Street 
 about twenty-live yards south of the junction of Albert 
 Row or Place therewith and terminating at the com- 
 mencement of the New Putney Bridge herein-before 
 described : and 
 {b.) An approach road (herein-after referred to as the 
 "Windsor Street approach road") commencing in 
 "Windsor Street at a point about thirty yards east of the 
 junction therewith of River Street and terminating by 
 a junction with the " High Street approach road" at 
 or near the commencement of the said New Putney 
 Bridge herein-before described ; and 
 In the county of Middlesex f in the parish of Fulham : — 
 
 {c.) An approach road commencing at or near the point 
 where High Street Church Street and Bridge Street 
 
 * See Appendix. 
 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 696 [Chap, cxcii.] Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881. [44 & 45 Vict.] 
 
 meet and terminating at the termination of the said 
 New Putney Bridge herein-before described ; 
 * (2.) A new bridge across the River Thames (herein-after referred 
 to as " New Battersea Bridge ") to be sitnate partly on 
 the same site as and partly on the eastern side of and 
 immediately adjacent to the existing bridge known as 
 Battersea Bridge and commencing in the parish of 
 St. Mary Battersea in the county of Surrey t at or near 
 the " Swan " public-house on the east side of Bridge Road 
 and terminating at or near the wall of the Chelsea Em- 
 bankment at the point where it joins the existing Battersea 
 Bridge in the parish of St. Luke Chelsea in the county 
 of Middlesex t ; 
 And in connexion with New Battersea Bridge the following 
 approach roads thereto namely : — 
 
 In the county of Surrey t and parish of St. Mary Battersea : — 
 (d.) An approach road adjacent to and on the east side of 
 Bridge Road commencing by a junction with Bridge 
 Road about thirty yards south of Wellington Lane and 
 terminating at the commencement of New Battersea 
 Bridge ; 
 In the county of Middlesex t and parish of St. Luke Chelsea : 
 (e.) An approach road formed in part by altering the level 
 of Beaufort Street from a point about forty yards 
 north of the junction therewith of Lindsey Row and 
 in part by continuing Beaufort Street partly over the 
 site of the approach to the existing Battersea Bridge 
 and partly over the Chelsea Embankment up to and 
 terminating at the termination of New Battersea 
 Bridge ; and 
 (_/.) An approach road formed by altering the level of the 
 roadway and footway of the said Chelsea Embank- 
 ment from a point eighty yards or thereabouts east of 
 Beaufort Street to and terminating in the approach 
 road (g) lastly herein-before described at or near the 
 termination of New Battersea Bridge ; and 
 {g.) An approach road formed by altering the level of 
 Lindsey Row commencing about eighty yards west of 
 Beaufort Street and terminating in the approach road 
 (c') herein-before described where Lindsey Row joins 
 Beaufort Street. 
 (3.) [Alteration of Vauxhall Bridge. Spent. See 58 & 59 Vict. 
 
 c. cxxix.] 
 
 (4.) The reconstruction in whole or in part and the widening and 
 
 altering of the existing swing bridge in the county of 
 
 Kentt wbich crosses Deptford Creek partly in the parish of 
 
 St. Alphage Greenwich and partly in the parish of 
 
 St. Nicholas Deptford and connects Bridge Street in the 
 
 said parish of St. Alphage Greenwich with Creek Road in 
 
 the said parish of St. Nicholas Deptford and herein-after 
 
 referred to as " Deptford Creek Bridge ; " 
 
 And the Board may make and maintain in connexion with the 
 
 bridges ajjproach roads and works herein-before described all such 
 
 viaducts embankments piers wharves walls fences drains stairs 
 
 * See also 47 & 48 Vict. c. ccxxviii. 
 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 &; 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 [44<fe45VicT,] Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881. [Chap, cxcii.] 597 
 
 buildings and all snch works and convonionces as they may deem 
 projjer. And for the purposes albresaid or any of theni the J^oard 
 may subject to the y)rovision8 of this Act alter and interfere with the 
 banks bed soil and foreshore of the Jtiver Thames and may make 
 dams and drive such piles in the bed of tlie said river and may 
 erect such temporary staging in up(ni or over the said river and 
 Deptford Creek as may be necessary or convenient and may do and 
 execute every other work and thing necessary or convenient for any 
 of the purposes aforesaid. 
 
 7. [Power to the Board to acquire part of the churchyard of 
 St. Mart/, Putney. S/)ent.~\ 
 
 8 — 14. {^Poicer to Hoard to deviate, to atop up carriayeways ayid 
 to atop trajfic over hridyex. duriiiy icorks, to make auhaidiary worku, 
 to alter gas, ivater, and other pipes, and to provide substitutes for 
 any barge beds and draw docks interfered with. Spent^ 
 
 15. The Board may from time to time make such regulations Board may 
 
 with respect to the navigation of the River Thames or Deptford ^^^^}^^^. 
 n 1 + 1 11 1 ■ xi -1 • 1 1 i. navigation 
 
 Lreek at and near all places in the said river and creek at or near near works in 
 
 which the Board is about to carry or is carrying, into execution "ver and 
 
 the powers by this Act conferred upon them with respect to the ^J^J^^jJ*""^ 
 
 erection alteration and reconstruction strengthening or widening 
 
 of the bridges and works connected therewith and the removal 
 
 of existing bridges as they may think necessary or expedient. 
 
 Provided always that no such regulation shall be of any force 
 
 or effect unless and until the same has been ap])roved by the 
 
 Conservators. 
 
 16. \_Board may underpin walls near works. Spent. ^ 
 
 17. The Board may lay out such parts of the bridges and ajiproach flaking, 
 roads by this Act authorised to be made altered extended recon- ^palrTnd'^^' 
 structed or widened for carriage roads and such parts thereof for lighting of 
 footways as they may think proper and may sewer level pave carriage 
 metal flag channel and complete such roads and ways and ^nch f,^t^^^" ^,f 
 bridges when made altered extended or reconstructed and laitl out bridges, etc. 
 as aforesaid and the roads and footways over the same shall be 
 
 public highways but shall not be or become county bridges and 
 shall be maintained and repaired ])y the Board and the said approach 
 roads shall be public higliways and shall be maintained and rej)aired 
 and lighted as other public highways by the road autliorities of the 
 districts in which the same shall be situate respectively. Provided 
 always that the Board may execute all such works and do all such 
 acts in under or u])on the approach roads to such bridges respec- 
 tively as they may think ])roper for preserving and improving such 
 bridges and the works connected therewith and the stability thereof 
 and may for such purpose enter upon break and open the soil and 
 pavement of such a]»])roach roads and any sewers drains or tunnels 
 within or under such approach roads causing as little ini'onvenience 
 as may be in the execution of the powers hereby conferred and 
 restoring the said roads and sewers drains or tunnels to the same 
 condition as they were in before such breaking and opening. [See 
 58 & 69 Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 40.] 
 
 18. [Provisions dealing with the carrying of gas mains during the 
 alteration of Vauxhall Bridge. Spent,'] 
 
 19. The Board shall so effect the alteration of Vauxhall Bridge Space under 
 that under each of the footwavs of Vauxhall I^ridge when altered as footways of
 
 598 
 
 [Chap, cxcii.] Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881. [44 & 45 Vict.] 
 
 Lights to be 
 exhibited on 
 bridges and 
 works. 
 
 Vauxhaii and ^y tliis Act provided there shall be for the accommodation of any 
 serBridges" corporation company or person authorised by Act of Parliament to 
 utilise any bridge being a public highway within the limits of sach 
 Act for the purposes of such Act a space not less in area than five 
 hundred and fifteen square inches internal capacity and the Board 
 shall so construct New Battersea Bridge that under each of the 
 footways there shall be for the purposes aforesaid a space not less 
 in area than one hundred and forty square inches internal capacity 
 Provided always that the Board shall not exact any rent or other 
 valnable consideration from any such corporation company or person 
 in respect of the use of such space, \hperd as regards Vaaxhall 
 Bridge. See 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxix.] 
 
 20. \_As to the operdng or removing hy the Greenwich Board of 
 Works of the draAvhridge of the reconstructed Deptford Creek Bridge 
 for the passage of ships. Rep. 49 & 50 Vict. c. cxii. s. 39.] 
 
 21 — 22. \_Temporari/ trorks on the Thames to be executed under the ■ 
 direction of the Conservators — Provisions as to the number, height, and 
 span of the arches of New Putney and Battersea Bridges. Spent.'] 
 
 23. During the construction of the new bridges and the altera- 
 tions reconstruction widening and improving of existing bridges 
 and the taking down and removing of the existing Putney Bridge 
 and Battersea Bridge and of the aqueduct or structure carrying the 
 pipes of the Chelsea Waterworks Company over the Thames autho- 
 rised by this Act and of the works connected therewith the Board 
 shall hang out or exhibit thereat or near thereto and for ever after 
 the completion of the said bridges the Board shall hang out or 
 exhibit upon such bridges respectively every night from sunset to 
 sunrise lights to be kept burning by and at the expense of the Board 
 and proper and sufficient for the navigation and safe guidance of 
 vessels and the lights shall be from time to time altered by the Board 
 in such manner and be of such kind and nnmber and be so placed 
 as the Conservators shall bv writing' under the hand of their 
 secretary approve and in case the Board neglect to exhibit and keep 
 such lights burning as aforesaid they shall forfeit and pay for every 
 such offence the sum of ten pounds. 
 
 24. The foundations of the piers and abutments of the New Putney 
 Bridge and the New Battersea Bridge respectively shall be con- 
 structed and maintained at such a level as to allow the bed of the 
 river around and near such piers and abutments to be dredged to 
 a depth of 35 feet at the least below the level of Trinity high- 
 water mark. 
 
 Protection of 25. For the protection of the Governor and Company of Chelsea 
 
 WaUrworks ^^ aterworks * (herein-after referred to as " the Chelsea Waterworks 
 
 Company, etc. Company") and with reference to the removal of the aqueduct of 
 
 that Company over the river Thames be it enacted as follows (that 
 
 is to say) : — 
 
 1. [Board before commencing works to construct a temporary iron 
 structure on lines shown on a plan signed by tlie Chairman 
 of the Committee of tfie House of Commons to wlwm the Bill 
 for the Act ivas referred,, and copies whereof are deposited, 
 in Parliament, with two mains thereon each of 24 inches 
 internal diameter, and two mains each of VZ inches internal 
 diameter with all proper junctions, stopcocks, and con- 
 veniences. Spent.'] 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 Level of 
 foundations.
 
 [44 & 45 Vict.] Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881. [Chap, cxcii.] 599' 
 
 2 — ''\. [Provisio/f.-i (/.■< to tlw, .vi.id ti'iii/jomr;/ Mracfare. Spent J] 
 
 4. The Board shall provide and lay down along or under the tuot- 
 
 ways of New Putney Bridge mains or pipes (jf the same 
 number and diameter respectively as the mains or jjipes which 
 are to be laid down by the lioard in or on the said temporary 
 structure as aforesaid and in addition thereto the Board 
 rIuUI provide and leave under the footways of New Putney 
 Bridge sufficient room or sj)ace for the Chelsea Waterworks 
 Com])any * at any time or times hereafter to lay down 
 therein two but not more than two additional mains or 
 pipes of an internal diameter not exceeding 24 inches 
 each ; 
 
 5. \_Mains, etc, to he of the best (fesrription, nnrl nppromd by the 
 
 (-ompany. Spent.'] 
 
 6. All the mains pipes stop-cocks drain pipes drain cocks and 
 
 other conveniences which shall be laid down in New Putney 
 liridge and the approaches thereto pursuant to this agree- 
 ment shall become and be the property of the Chelsea 
 Waterworks Company * ; 
 
 7. \^As to maintenance of such mains, pipes, etc., by the Board till 
 
 the mains on the new bridge are used by the Company. 
 Spent.] 
 
 8. The Chelsea Waterworks Company * shall at all times have all 
 
 such rights over the footwavs of New Putnev Bridge and 
 over the approaches to New Putney Bridge (whether such 
 footways and approaches shall be dedicated to public use 
 or not) in order to do all acts which may be by such 
 Company deemed requisite for maintaining keeping in repair 
 and renewing the several mains to be laid therein or there- 
 under as aforesaid and for the laving down maintaining 
 repairing and renewing by the Chelsea Waterworks Com- 
 pany * of any additional main or pi])e mains or pipes as 
 they would have beeu entitled to if the provisions in the 
 Waterworks Clauses Act 1847 with respect to the breaking 
 up of streets for the purpose of laying pipes had been 
 incorporated with this Act and the Chelsea Waterworks 
 Company * had been declared by this Act to be " the 
 undertakers " within the meaning and provisions and for 
 the purposes of the said Waterworks Clauses Act 1n47 ; 
 
 9. The Board shall fully compensate the Chelsea Waterworks 
 
 Company * in respect of all damage and loss to be from time 
 to time sustained by them by reason or in consequence of 
 any interruption at any time occasioned to the water supply 
 of the Chelsea Waterworks Comnanv * through anv main 
 pipe or conduit of that Comj)any by reason or in conse- 
 quence of the construction or through the default of any 
 of the works by this Act authorised. . . . And if the Board 
 shall fail to jtay to the Chelsea Waterworks Company * that 
 compensation on demand the same may be recovered with 
 full costs of action by the Chelsea Waterworks Company * 
 by proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction : 
 [Part omitted (^Board to compensate the Com/nuty /'or any 
 loss by reason of temporary diversion of their water supply) 
 spent.] 
 
 10. [Pipes, ?nains, etc., removed to belong to the Board. Spent.] 
 
 • Jfow the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw, 7, c. 41. 
 
 10 a: U Vict. 
 
 c. 17.
 
 600 [Chap, cxcii.] Metropolitan Bridges Act \%^\, [44 & 45 Vict.] 
 
 11. The Board shall before taking down or removing any part of 
 
 or in any way interfering with the present aqueduct of the 
 Chelsea Waterworks Company * provide to the satisfaction 
 of the engineer of the said Company and shall for ever after 
 maintain at the points D and G on the plan aforesaid 
 sufficient outlets communicating with the river Thames 
 with all necessary drain pipes drain cocks tanks and other 
 works and conveniences for the purpose of enabling the 
 mains and pipes of the said Company on each side of the 
 said river to be from time to time and when and as the said 
 Company think fit emptied and drained into the said river 
 such drain pipes when communicating with a main or pipe 
 of the company of 12 inches diameter to be 5 inches in 
 diameter and when communicating with a main or pipe 
 of the Company of greater diameter than 12 inches to 
 be 7 inches in diameter and the said Company shall at 
 all times thereafter have free access to and the free and 
 unrestricted right to use the said outlets for that purpose : 
 Provided that if from any cause beyond the control of the 
 Board it shall be found impossible to construct such outlets 
 or the access to or user of the same by the said Company 
 shall be in any way interfered with or restricted or their 
 right to use the same shall be disputed or challenged the 
 Board shall forthwith make to the satisfaction of the 
 engineer to the said Company all such communications with 
 - and openings into the sewers of the Board on each side of the 
 said river as will enable the mains and pipes of the said 
 Company to be from time to time and when and as the said 
 Company think fit emptied and drained into the said sewers, 
 and shall for ever thereafter permit the said mains and 
 pipes to be emptied and drained into the said sewers 
 accordingly ; 
 
 12. Nothing in this section shall limit prejudice or affect the 
 
 right of the Chelsea Waterworks Company* to compensation 
 in respect of any matter not otherwise expressly provided 
 for by this section or in respect of any lands or houses 
 belonging to the said Company which may be taken or 
 acquired by the Board or may be injuriously affected by 
 the execution of the works by this Act authorised ; 
 
 13. Save as in this Act otherwise expressly provided nothing in 
 
 this Act shall diminish limit prejudice or affect any of the 
 rights or privileges of the Chelsea Waterworks Company.* 
 Board and 26. The Board and the Chelsea Waterworks Company* may 
 
 Chelsea from time to time enter into and make such contracts or agreements 
 
 Company ^^ they may think fit with respect to all or any of the matters 
 may make following (that is to say) : — 
 
 agreements 
 etc, 
 
 The maintenance and repair of the conduit or pipes to be con- 
 structed by the Board on over or along New Putney Bridge. 
 \_Part omitted (as to remomd of existing aqueduct^ spent^ 
 
 27. {Power to the Board, on completion of New Putney Bridge to 
 stopj up parts of the towing path and of certain roads in Fulham 
 and Putney. Spent.'] 
 
 28. \_As to the removal of the existing Putney and Battersea 
 Bridges. Spjent.] 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 [44 & 45 Vict.] Metropolitan Bridges Act \^H\. [Chap, cxcii.] 601 
 
 29. Notwithstanding iinythin<j^ in any Act to the contrary it shall No main or 
 not except as by this Act exjiressly provided be lawful for any f^fa q^ -s^^^ 
 corporation company or person to enter upon break np or interfere Putney 
 with New Putney Bridge or the roads and footways over the same Rridge 
 respectively for the ])urpose of laying down any main or j>if)e or ^j^lj^'^'^^^f 
 executing any work therein thereon or thereunder except witli the Board, 
 consent of the Board in writing and in accordance with such terms 
 
 and conditions not being the exaction of any rent or other valuable 
 consideration as the Board may determine. Provided that nothing 
 in this section contained shall alter or affect any of the provisions 
 of the Telegraph Act 1878. 
 
 30. {^Power to the Jioard to d red ye and deepen the Thames for 
 the alteration of Vauxhall Bridge, SpentS\ 
 
 31. \^The Board, not with, standing 43 (ieo. 3, c. cxxxi., and 40 
 ct 41 \'ict. c. xcix., need not provide aferrg during the reconstruction 
 of Pijifford Creek Bridge. Spent."] 
 
 32 — 42. \_Period. for completion of improvements limitrd to G 
 years — Provisions as to acquisition of lands — Errors and omissions 
 in plans — Bower to the Board to enter and survey lands to be 
 taken — As to rehousing of labouring class persons — Power to the 
 Board to sell materials. Spoit.'] 
 
 43 — 45. [Powers to the Board to grant building leases of surplus 
 land — .l,s to sale of ground rents and reversions thereof — Power to 
 sell such lands without leasing. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. 
 s. 23; see ibid. .ss. 19 — 22.] 
 
 46. The Board may from time to time let either from year to Board may 
 year or for a term at rack-rent or exchange or otherwise dispose of J®* f'^^ 
 any building or lauds or any part thereof acquired by them under 
 
 this Act and not required to be laid into and to form part of the 
 improvements or any of them and may execute and do any deed act 
 or tiling proper for effectuating any such lease exchange or other 
 disposition. 
 
 47. \_Board within such period a.s the// fhinhft after thr completion 
 of the improvements to sell surplus lands. Superseded 47 & 48 
 Vict. c. 60, s. 23.] 
 
 48. The receipt of the Board for any jjurchase moneys rents or Receipts of 
 ])rotits or other money payable to the Board by virtue of this Act ^j^pjfy!^ ^ 
 sliall be a sufficient and effectual discharge for the money in sut-h dischai^es. 
 receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received and the person r(» 
 
 whom the same shall be given shall not afterwards be answerable 
 or accountable for the misapplication or nonaitplication of the 
 money in such receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received. 
 
 49. [Period for compulsory purchase of lands limited to 5 years. 
 
 Spent.] 
 
 50. The Metropolis Toll Bridges Act 1877 shall in so far as it Approach 
 relates to Hammersmith Suspension Bridge and the approach roads J^^l^nj^r- 
 thereto be read as if the roads following (that is to say) : — smith Bridge. 
 
 (a.) The road in the parish of Hammersmith in the county of 
 Middlesex * called Bridge Koad leading from the north end 
 of the Hammersmith Bridge to Hammersmith Broadway ; 
 
 (b.) The road in the parish of Barnes in the county of Surrey 
 from the south end of the said bridge to and across Barnes 
 
 ♦ Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 602 [Chap, cxcii.] Metropolitan Bridges Act ISSl. [44 & 45 Vict.] 
 
 Common to the point where it joins the road leading from 
 London to Richmond ; 
 (c.) The road in the said parish of Barnes aforesaid and in the 
 parish of Putney in the said connty of Surrey or one of 
 them now known as Lonsdale Road leading from the last- 
 mentioned road to the village of Barnes at the junction of 
 the said Lonsdale Road with the towing-path on the bank 
 of the River Thames ; 
 had been therein expressly defined to be approach roads to the said 
 bridge and part of the undertaking of the Hammersmith Bridge 
 Company and the said Act shall as from the passing of the same 
 be construed accordingly. And as from and after the transfer to 
 and vesting in the Board of the undertaking of the said Hammer- 
 smith Bridge Company under and by virtue of the said Act the 
 said roads shall be public highways and shall be maintainable and 
 repairable and shall be lighted as other public highways in the 
 district in which the same are situate respectively and as from and 
 after such transfer and vesting the Hammersmith Bridge Company 
 shall cease to have or exercise any estate right title powers 
 authorities or privileges in over or affecting the said roads or any of 
 them and shall be absolutely free and discharged from any obliga- 
 tion or liability whatsoever to repair maintain or light the said 
 roads or any of them. 
 Agreement as 5X_ The Said agreement between the Hammersmith Bridge 
 Hammer"^ ° Company and the Brentford Gas Company bearing date the fourth 
 smith Bridge day of June eighteen hundred and sixty-three so far as it relates 
 to be binding to lighting Certain lamps on the Hammersmith Bridge and the 
 upon oar . ajiproaches thereto but not further or otherwise in force immediately 
 before the transfer to and vesting in the Board of the undertaking 
 of the Hammersmith Bridge ('ompany shall as from and after such 
 transfer and vesting be as binding and of as full force and effect 
 in every respect against or in favour of the Board and may be 
 enforced as fully and effectually against or by the Board as if the 
 Board were the said Hammersmith Bridge Company and such 
 transfer and vesting had not taken place and the Metropolis Toll 
 Bridges Act 1877 had not been passed and the said Hammersmith 
 Bridge Company as from such transfer and vesting are hereby 
 absolutely freed and discharged from any obligation or liability 
 whatsoever under the said agreement. 
 
 Provided always that nothing herein contained shall prevent the 
 Board and the said Brentford Gas Company by agreement varying 
 or determining the said agreement of the fourth day of June eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-three or making a new agreement in lieu thereof 
 or by way of addition thereto. 
 
 52. [Saving the rights of the Commissioners of Works.^^ 
 
 53. \_Savirig the rights of the Crown.'] 
 
 54 — 55. [^l.s- to interference with the bed of the river and taking 
 of gract'l therefrom. Spent.] 
 
 56. \_Saving the rights of the Tliames Conservato/'S.] 
 Protection of 57^ Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained it shall not 
 and Hans ^^"^ ^^^ lawful for the Board to use or permit to be used any lands taken 
 Sloane by them which are comprised in the family settlement of the Right 
 
 Stanley. Honourable George Henry Earl Cadogan or in the family settlement 
 
 of Hans Sloane Stanley for the purpose of erecting thereon any 
 manufactory warehouse or model lodging-house or any buildings of
 
 C45&'40ViCT.] ^'^''^^MTey^^^^^^ t^-'«^^- =^^'^ ^'^^ 
 
 a similar character ami every lease to he (granted or conveyance 
 made l»y the Board shall contain projjcr clauses prohihiting the 
 respective lessees and grantees from infringing the aforesaid pro- 
 visions. 
 
 58. {Expenses of obtaining Arf. Spent.'] 
 
 45 & 46 VICTORIA. A.D. 1882. 
 
 CHAl'TER 33. 
 
 An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the raising 
 OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and 
 FOR other Purposes. [lOM August 1882.] 
 
 ^Preamble rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works Short title. 
 (Money) Act, 1882, and the Metro])olitan Board of Works (Money) 
 
 Acts, ISTo to 1881, and this Act, may be cited together as the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1882. 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the Construction 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1^69 to 1871, and the of Act. 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1881. 
 
 3 — 10. \_Interpretntion of the expi'essiott.s " P'/rl'S and Open 
 Spaces Acts,'''' " Embankment Acts,^'' and " Main Drainage Acts " — 
 Amendment of ss. 1, 9 {e), 10, and 13 (t/' 44 & 45 Vict. c. 48 — Power 
 to the Poard to contribute to improvements at If</de Park Corner, 
 and to expend moneys for sundn/ purposes. Rep. 61 k 62 Vict, 
 c. 22 (6'.L.A\).] 
 
 11. . . . All the provisions of the Main Drainage Acts and the Special power 
 Metropolis Management Act, ls55, and the Acts altering or amending to expend 
 the same, for the time being in force relating to the execution of ™°°^V,f*'!f 
 works authorised l)y the said Acts respectively shall continue in main draiu- 
 force, and shall extend and a])])ly respectively to the works executed age and main 
 by means of money raised for the pur})0ses of this section; and all ='*^^^®''*- 
 stock created under the authority of this Act, for such purposes ^^ ^oq^ ^^^^' 
 shall be deemed to be created for the purposes of the above- 
 mentioned Acts respectively. \_Part omitted (as to power to expend 
 
 money for purposes of main drainage and main sewers) re/K 
 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.EE.).'] 
 
 12. [^Power to the Board to pay all expenses incidental to any 
 inquiry icith respect to markets for the sale of food within the metro- 
 polis. Rep. 61 k 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.P.).] 
 
 13. {^Power to the Board to lend to vestries and di.-<trict boards 
 till Wist December 18s3. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).— Pro- 
 vision for repayment within a time to be approved by the Treasury, not 
 exceeding as to loans for ividening streets or for bridifes and purchase 
 of lands Q'^) years, and for other purposes 30 years. Identical with 
 such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 4.] 
 
 14. \_Power to the Board to lend to guardians till 'ilst December 
 1883. Rep. 61 k 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).— Provision for repayment 
 within a time to be approved by the Treasury not exceeding 30 years. 
 Identical icith such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 5.]
 
 604 
 
 [Chap. 33.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 {Money) Act 1882. 
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 Power to raise 
 
 consolidated 
 
 stock. 
 
 llepayments 
 to be carried 
 to Consoli- 
 dated Loans 
 Fund. 
 
 15. [Extension of amount which the Board may lend to the 
 Manuyers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. 
 
 c. 22 \s.l!r.):\ 
 
 16. \_Poiver to the Board to lend till ?>\st December 1883 to the 
 School Board for London. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.f— Pro- 
 vision for repayment ivithin a time to be approved by the Treasury not 
 exceeding 50 years. Superseded by 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, .s*. 5 and %nd 
 Schedule ; and 3 Edw. 1, c. 24, s. 1.] 
 
 XI** * • • • • 
 
 Where the Board under the authority of this Act create 
 consolidated stock to raise money for the purpose of the Fire 
 Brigade Act, 1865, or to enable them to make a loan repayable 
 within thirty years from the date of such loan, the Board shall 
 from time to time carry to the ConsolidatedLoans Fund such sums as 
 the Treasury approve as Ijeing in their opinion sufficient to redeem 
 within the period of thirty years from the date of the creation of 
 such stock, or in the case of any such loan within any lesser period 
 for which the same may be made, an amount of consolidated stock 
 equal to that so created ; and 
 
 Where the Board are by this Act authorised to make a loan 
 repayal)le within thirty years from the date of the loan, the Board, 
 instead of raising money for any such loan by the creation of con- 
 solidated stock, may use for any such loan any moneys for the time 
 being forming part of the Consolidated Loans Fund, and not required 
 for the payment of the dividends on consolidated stock ; and 
 
 Where the Board raise consolidated stock for the purpose of any 
 scheme made by the Board under the authority of the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875,* and confirmed by 
 Provisional Order and Act of Parliament, there shall be repaid (as 
 provided Ijy the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement 
 Act, 1875,*) to the consolidated rate out of the local rate as defined 
 by the said last-mentioned Act, all moneys required for payment of 
 dividends on and the redemption of all consolidated stock created 
 for such purpose. 
 
 [Part omitted (as to power to the Board to create consolidated 
 stock to raise money for the purposes of this Act) rep. 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. 22 (S.L.R.).^ 
 
 18—26. [Provisions as to metropolitan bills. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 27. All sums received by the Board in respect of interest on or 
 principal of any loan made l)y them under this Act shall be carried 
 to the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 28. [Borrowing powers. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.)i] 
 First Schedule. [Particulars of new mo7iey powers conferred by 
 
 this Act. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Second Schedule. [List of Parks and Open Spaces Acts and 
 Embankment Acts referred to in s. 3. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 2Z 
 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.
 
 CAK e Af \r ^ -, Metropolitan Board of Works rtx i • -i ^^ ^ 
 
 1 45 «fe 46 V ICT. /I' • D \ a\ iooo rOHAi*. Ivi.l 605 
 
 •- -^ {Various Foivers) Act 1882. ^ -J 
 
 CHAPTER LVI. 
 
 An Act to confer various Pcjwers on the Metropolitan Board 
 OF Works and to amend certain Acts relating to that 
 Board. \\\)t/t June 1882.] 
 
 [Preamble recites that b;/ an agreement of the Wth November 
 1881, set forth in the first part of the schedule to the Act, the 
 churchirarileus and overseers of St. Gileses, Camberwell (who and 
 ivhose successors are in the said agreement and herein-after referred, 
 to as '■^ the chiirchncardena and overseers^'') and the vestry of St. 
 Giles's, Camberwell {in the said agreement and herein-after referred to 
 as '''■the vestry'''') agreed to sell and the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 agreed to purchase for public open spaces certain lands set forth 
 in pa?'t.s II. and III. of the .so id .sche(/ule, and recites that it is 
 expedient that the Jioard should be empoivered to enlarge and improve 
 Tooting Beck Common, controlled by the Board under 36 & 37 Vict, 
 c. Ixxxvi., and that the Board should be empowered to make 
 byelaics for bridges vested in them or which they may be authorised 
 to construct and for the embankments vested in them, and that it is 
 expedient to confer further poicers on the Board to regulate theatres 
 and places of public resort, and with respect to inundations from the 
 Thames.'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works Short title. 
 (Various Powers) Act 1882. 
 
 2. \Jncorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.] 
 
 3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the interpreta- 
 several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some- ^^^^ ^^ terms, 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that 
 
 is to say) : — 
 
 The expression " the Board " means the Metropolitan Board of 
 "Works * ; 
 
 The expression " the metropolis " means the metropolis as defined 
 
 by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 ; 18 & 19 Vict. 
 
 The expression " Justice " means Justice of the Peace acting for *^- ^-^• 
 the county borough liberty or place where the matter re- 
 quiring the cognizance of any such Justice shall arise and 
 who shall not be interested in the matter. . . . 
 
 The expression " the street improvement " means the widening 
 of Tooley Street and the works connected therewith by this 
 Act authorised : 
 
 The expression " the improvements " means the street improve- 
 ment the ]iroviding of open spaces and the improvement of 
 Tooting Beck Common and the works connected therewith 
 respectively by this Act authorised ; 
 
 The expression "scheduled agreement" means the agreement 
 set forth in the first part of the schedule to this Act 
 annexed. 
 
 \_Part omitted {definition of '■'■ two Justices,'' ^'lessee," and '^person," 
 and as to meanings of words in the Lands Clauses Acts incorpor- 
 ated) spent.-] ^^^^ ^^ ^ 
 
 4. This Act shall be carried into eflect bv the Board, carried into 
 
 effect by 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). Board.
 
 606 
 
 [Chap. Ivi.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Various Powers) Act 1882. 
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 5. Subject to the provisions of this Act in the lines according to 
 
 make^wMen- ^^^ levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited 
 ing of Tooley plans and sections the Board may make the street improvement 
 street. following (that is to say) : — 
 
 The widening of Tooley Street on the southern side thereof in the 
 2iarishes of St. Olave Southwark and St. John Horsleydown 
 or one of them in the countv of Surrev * commencing: in the 
 parish of St. Olave Southwark or of St. John Horsleydown 
 at the junction of Tooley Street with Bermondsey Street and 
 terminating in the parish of St. Olave Southwark at the 
 junction of Tooley Street with Dean Street. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Part omitted {poicer to the Board to acquire lands) spent.^ 
 
 6 — 8. [Power to the Board to stop ujj tvays during tcorks, to raise 
 or loicer streets, ajid to deviate. Spent.'] 
 
 9. [Power to the Board to make subsidiary works, to stop up and 
 appropriate streets, and to alter sewers and drains on providing sub- 
 stitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drains.] 
 
 10 — 11. [Power to the Board to alter the position of icater, gas, 
 and. other pipes and to lag out carriageways. Spjent.'] 
 
 12. [As to laying of pavement and vesting the same when laid in 
 the St. Olave s District Board.f] 
 
 13. [Power to the Board to fill up sewers and drains on providing 
 substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 seivers and drains.] 
 
 14. [Power to the Board to alter steps, areas, pjipes, etc. Sjyent.] 
 
 15. [Ground laid into the public .street to form part thereof, and 
 to be under the management cf the St. Olave's District Board.]] 
 
 16. [Period for the execution of ivorks limited to 4 years. Spent ^ 
 
 17. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may maintain 
 in the said parish of St. Giles Camberwell as open spaces to be 
 dedicated to the perpetual use thereof by the public for exercise and 
 recreation as by this Act provided the lands known as Peckham 
 Rye Goose Green and Nunhead Green and described in Part II. of 
 the schedule to this Act annexed and such part of the lands (if any) 
 described in Part III. of the schedule to this Act annexed as they 
 may think expedient all which lands are delineated on the deposited 
 plans and described in the deposited book of reference and they 
 may enter upon take use hold and acquire all or any of the said 
 lands described in the said schedule which they may require. 
 [See aho (as to Peckham Pye) 54 & 55 Vict. c. ccvi. s. 51, a?id 
 55 & 56 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. s. 36.] 
 
 18 — 19. [Confirmation of scheduled agreement — As to p>ayment 
 and application of consideration thereunder. Spent.] 
 
 20. From and after the day of transfer all the estate right title 
 and interest of the churchwardens and overseers and the vestry in 
 or to the lands described in Part II. and Part III. of the schedule 
 to this Act annexed agreed to be conveyed and assigned under the 
 scheduled as:reement shall be transferred to and vest in the Board 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 maintain 
 Peckham 
 Eye etc. as 
 open spaces. 
 
 Land 
 
 described in 
 Parts II. and 
 III. of 
 schedule 
 vested in 
 Board. 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 f Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark. 
 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. . 
 
 See 62 & 63
 
 r^fiir /lA VT^mi Metropolitan Board of Works p^, , . -, ^,,„ 
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] ^ yj.^^^ p^^,^^.^^ ^^^ ^ 3^,^ [Chai'. 1 vi.] 60 / 
 
 absolutely and they shall be entitled to immediate possession of the Commons 
 siime and the Board shall hold the said lands described in Part 11. '^fJ]^^'^ 
 of the said schodnio and if the I5oard thinks it expedient the lands spaced! "^^"^ 
 described in Tart 111. of the said scheihile or so much of the same 
 (if any) as the Board may think suitable for such purj)0se as open 
 spaces for the perpetual use thereof by the public for exercise and 
 recreation and the ]')()ard may from time to time make such ])ro- 
 vision as may be necessary for maintaining and protectinc^ the said 
 open spaces. Saving always to all persons and bodies politic 
 and corporate and their respective heirs successors executors and 
 administrators all such estates interests or rights of a profitable or 
 beneficial nature in over or affecting the open spaces or any of them 
 or any part thereof as they or any of them had before the con- 
 firmation of the scheduled agreement by this Act or could or might 
 have enjoyed if the scheduled agreement had not been confirmed by 
 this Act except only so far as any such estates interests or rights are 
 or shall be acquired by the Board under the scheduled agreement 
 or shall be acquired by the Board by consent or by purchase 
 whether by agreement or compulsorily under the powers conferred 
 by this Act for the purchase of the same with a view to their 
 acquisition by the Board or their absolute extinction. 
 
 21. From and after the day of transfer all the provisions of the Open spaces 
 Metropolitan Board of Works Act ls77 with respect to the making *^ ^^ ^)!^.j°^* 
 contents confirmation approval allowance publication and evidence of 4()*&;^4\°°* 
 of byelaws and to securing the observance of the same and to Vict. c. viii. 
 penalties and proceedings before Justices and the recovery and ^■''^° ^>'^^^^^* 
 a])plication of penalties and generally with respect to the parks and 
 
 heaths or commons shall extend and apply to the said open spaces 
 as if the said open spaces had been included amongst the ])arks 
 heaths and commons in respect of which byelaws were by the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1877 authorised to be made by 
 the Board. [_See 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. as. 14—21, and 01 k 62 
 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 22. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may enlarge Power to 
 and improve Tooting Beck Common by the addition thereto of'J^^Jov% t 
 certain lands in the said parishes of Streatham and Tlapliara and il^g Beck 
 county (if Surrey * delineated on the deposited plans and coloured Common. 
 pink thereon and may for such purpose enter upt)n take or use and 
 
 acquire the said lands and may by way of consideration for the 
 acquisition of part of such lands grant and convey by way of 
 exchange the lands in the said parish of Streatham delineated on 
 the deposited plans and coloured blue thereon in the manner and 
 subject to the conditions by this Act prescribed. 
 
 23. The Board on the one hand and the master fellows and Power to 
 scholars of Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge on ^°'Y^ ^°^ 
 the other hand may at any time after the })assing of tliis Act enter of Emmanuel 
 into and carry into etiect an agreement or agreements with respect College to 
 to all or anv of the matters following (that is to say) :— *°1® *^° , 
 
 / 1 \ rin " 1 !• i. • 1 1 • J 1 -1 ,. .1 1 exchange of 
 
 (1.) ihe exchange ot certain lands m the parish ol Streatham lands for im- 
 and county of Surrey * now vested in the l^oard and provomcnt of 
 
 forming part of and adjoining Tooting Beck Common and J^'^'^^^^^^ ^^^ck 
 
 D- T if i. • 1 1 ii X 1 . Common. 
 
 ragmire Lane tor certain lands near thereto the property 
 
 of the said master fellows and scholars and forming parr 
 
 of Hyde Farm in the parish of I'lapham and in the said 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 40 (2).
 
 608 [CH.P.lvi.] fCrf/i^^M^^st [4-5&4«V,cx.] 
 
 county of Surrey * all which lands are delineated on the 
 
 deposited plans and described in the deposited book of 
 
 reference and the vesting of the said first-mentioned landii 
 
 in the parish of Streatham in the said master fellows and 
 
 scholars freed and discharged from all rights of common 
 
 rights of way and other public and private rights in over 
 
 or aifecting the same ; 
 
 (2.) The extinction or transfer to the Board of all rights of way 
 
 rights of common and all other rights of the said master 
 
 fellows and scholars in over or upon the said lands in the 
 
 parish of Clapham or in over or upon Tooting Beck 
 
 Common. 
 
 And notwithstanding anything in this Act contained the Board 
 
 shall not enter on purchase take use or acquire any estate interest 
 
 or right of the said master fellows and scholars in to over or upon 
 
 the said lands in the parish of Clapham or Tooting Beck Common 
 
 otherwise than by virtue of and in accordance with an agreement or 
 
 agreements made under the authority of this section. 
 
 And for the purpose of making and carrying into effect any such 
 agreement or agreements this Board and the said master fellows 
 and scholars respectively shall subject to the provisions of this Act 
 have and may exercise all such powers and do and execute all such 
 acts matters and things as may be necessary. 
 
 From and after the vesting in the said master fellows and scholars 
 of the said lands in the parish of Streatham forming part of and 
 adjoining Tooting Beck Common and Dragmire Lane under and by 
 virtue of any agreement or agreements made between the Board 
 and the said master fellows and scholars under the authority of this 
 Act the said lauds shall be freed and discharged from all rights of 
 common rights of way and all other public and private rights in 
 over or aifecting the same and all such rights shall be and the 
 same are hereby extinguished and the said lands shall cease to be 
 or form part of Tooting Beck Common and to be subject to the 
 provisions of the Scheme relating to Tooting Beck Common con- 
 firmed by the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1873 and 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1877 and the said Scheme 
 and Act shall resjiectively be construed accordingly. 
 
 Lands in 24. All lands in the parishes of Streatham and Clapham 
 
 Streatham acquired by the Board under the powers of this Act by purchase 
 
 and Clapham or exchange or otherwise shall forthwith thereafter be added to 
 
 acquired by ijecome and be part of Tooting Beck Common and the same shall 
 
 form part of ^^ subject to the cxercise of all rights in over or upon Tooting 
 
 Tooting Beck Beck Common in all respects as though the said lands so added 
 
 Common. formed part of the lands immediately before passing this Act 
 
 subject to the provisions of the Scheme relating to Tooting Beck 
 
 Common confirmed by the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental 
 
 Act 1873 and the jjrovisions of the said Scheme shall extend and 
 
 apply to the lands so added as though the same were included in 
 
 the lands immediately before the passing of this Act subject to 
 
 the provisions of the said Scheme and all byelaws with respect 
 
 to Tooting Beck Common made by the Board under the provisions 
 
 of the Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1877 and immediately 
 
 before the passing of this Act in force or hereafter to be made 
 
 by the Board under the provisions of the Metropolitan Board of 
 
 • Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] f/Z^Politan Board of Wor/c. ^^.^^^^ j^.j -j ^^^ 
 
 L -• (Various Powers) Act 1882. •- -■ 
 
 Works Act 1877 and all the provisions of the said last-mentioned 
 Act with respect to the making contents confirmation ai)proval 
 allowance publication and evidence of byelaws and to securing the 
 observance of the same and to penalties and proceedings before 
 Justices and the recovery and applicution of ]»enalties and generally 
 with respect to the ])arks and heaths or commons shall extend and 
 apply to the said lands so added as though the same had at the 
 time of the passing of the said last-mentioned Act formed part 
 of Tooting Beck Comuion and been included amongst the parks 
 heaths and commons in res])ect of wiiich byelaws were by the said 
 last-mentioned Act authorised to be made by the Board. 
 
 And the provisions of this section shall after the exchange of 
 lands effected by any agreement or agreements made under the 
 authority of this Act between the Board and the said master felh^ws 
 and scholars be by way of full compensation and in discharge of all 
 claims in respect of any rights whether ])ublic or private in over 
 or affecting the lands in the parish of JStreathara taken in exchange 
 by the said master fellows and scholars under any sucli agreement 
 or agreements as aforesaid. \_See notes on 40 & 41 Vict. c. viii. 
 ichich apply here; see also 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21, and 
 61 k 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 25 — 32. \_Errors and omissions in plans — As to arbitration — As 
 to tahiiiy parts onhj of certain property — Power to the Board to 
 survey lands to be taken — As to rehousing labouring class persons — 
 Deficiencies in land tax during icorks — Power to the Board to sell 
 materials. Spent.'] 
 
 33 — 35. \_Power to the Board to grant building leases of surplus 
 lands — As to sale of ground rents and recersions thereof — Power 
 to sell suck lands tcithout leasing. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. ccxxxvii. s. 23. See ibid. ss. 19 — 22.] 
 
 36. The Board may from time to time let either from year to Poard may 
 year or for a term at rackrent or exchange or otherwise dispose of '®^^'^^^®- 
 any building or lands in the said parishes of St. Olave Southwark 
 
 or St. John Horsleydown or any lauds described in Part III. of the 
 schedule to this Act annexed or any part thereof acquired by them 
 under the powers of this Act and not ref^uired to lie laid into and to 
 form part of any of the improvements and may execute and do any 
 deed act or thing proper for eflfectuating any such lease exchange 
 or other disposition. \_Spent as to the lands described in part III. 
 of the schedule.'] 
 
 37. [^Board within such period as they think Jit after the com- 
 pletion, of any of the improvements for the purposes of which lands 
 in St. Olave Southwark and St. John Horsleydown or any lands 
 described in part III, of the schedule to the Act have been actpiired 
 to sell any part of suck lands not laid into any such improvements. 
 Spent as to sale of lands in part III. of schedule. Remr. super- 
 seded 47 tt 48 Vict. c. 50, .s. 23.] 
 
 38. The receipt of the Board for any purchase moneys rents or Receipts of 
 profits or other money payable to the i3oard by virtue of this Act l^oard to be 
 shall be a sufficient antl effectual discharge for the money in such ^isduwes. 
 receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received and the })erson to 
 
 whom the same shall be given shall not af'terwartls be answerable 
 or accountable for the misapplication or non-ai)itlication of the 
 money in such receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received. 
 39 — 40. {Period for compulsory purchase of lands limited to 
 
 39
 
 610 
 
 rpi„._ 1 • -| Metropolitan Board of Works r*^ i ao\t ■^ 
 
 LHAP. IVl. /T,- • n \ \ J. looo 4o & 46 VlCT.1 
 
 '- -■ {vaj'tous Poivers) Act 1882. ^ ^ ^"^ » xv.x.j 
 
 Power to 
 make bye- 
 laws for 
 
 3 years — Poiver to the Board to purchase easements or rights over 
 lands acquired by them within 5 years. Spent.'\ 
 
 41. In addition to any byelaws in that behalf which the Board 
 are now authorised to make the Board may from time to time make 
 
 management and when made repeal amend or alter any byelaws relating to the 
 
 of bridges. management and regulation of any bridge or bridges within the 
 
 metropolis vested in them or which they may be authorised to 
 
 construct or of any embankment vested in the Board and especially 
 
 byelaws for all or any of the following purposes : — 
 
 To control and regulate the traffic on or over any such bridge or 
 
 bridges or such embankments ; 
 To limit the weights of loads to be brought on any such bridge 
 
 or bridges or such embankments ; 
 To stop wholly or partially traffic over any such bridge or bridges 
 
 or any such embankment during alteration or repair ; 
 To prohibit the mooring of vessels to any such bridge or em- 
 bankment or other work connected therewith of the Board ; 
 And all the provisions of the Metropolis Management Act 1855 
 with resj3ect to the making contents confirmation publication and 
 evidence of byelaws and to securing the observance of the same 
 and to penalties and proceedings before Justices and the recovery 
 and application of penalties shall extend and apply to any byelaws 
 from time to time made by the Board under this section. [See 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 202 and 203; and 55 & 56 Vict, 
 c. ccxxxviii. 6'. 40.] 
 
 42. {Saving the rights of the Thames Conservators^ 
 
 Saying rights 43. Nothing in this Act contained or in any byelaw to be made 
 by the Board in pursuance of this Act shall lessen prejudice or alter 
 the right or power of the London Gaslight Company * to lay down 
 maintain alter and repair mains and pipes upon over and along any 
 bridge or bridges within the metropolis vested in the Board or 
 which they are authorised to construct or upon over and along 
 any embankment vested in the Board. 
 
 Provided that when the Board stop wholly or partially traffic 
 over any part of any bridge or embankment in which the Gaslight 
 Company may have any power of laying mains or pipes the Gas- 
 light Company shall on receiving six days notice in writing from 
 the Board of their intention to stop such traffic arrange so far as 
 may be reasonably practicable that any works of laying or repairing 
 mains or pipes which may be or be about to become necessary shall 
 be executed during the period for which the Board shall stop such 
 traffic subject to such regulations as may be reasonably made by the 
 Board with reference thereto. 
 
 44. \_Extension tiW^lst March 1888 of the time limited hy 36 & 37 
 Vict. c. c. s. 25 for the sale of the lands therein mentioned. Super- 
 seded 47 & 48 Vict. c. 50, s. 23.] 
 
 Board may 45. Where any house or other place of public resort within the 
 
 ^f\".Yf ^^^°^ metropolis which is for the time being authorised to be kept open 
 for the public pei-formance of stage i)Iays is kept open for such 
 purpose under the authority of letters patent from Her Majesty her 
 heirs and successors or predecessors or of a license granted by the 
 Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's household for the time being 
 
 * Amalgamated with the Gaslight & Coke Company by an Order in Council in 
 1883 made under 31 &; 32 Vict. c. cxxv. ss. 18— 2i. 
 
 of the Ix)ndon 
 
 Gaslight 
 
 Company 
 
 of exit from 
 theatres etc. 
 to be kept 
 open.
 
 nr £ 4o\T,..r„-] Metropolitan Board of Works rn i • -i an 
 
 [45 & 46 ViCT.] ^ ^.J^^^ p^^^.^^.^^ ^^/^ jg32. CChap. Ivi.] 611 
 
 or by Justices of the Peace * or where any house room or other place 
 of j)ublic resort within the metropolis containin<|^ a sni)erficial area 
 for the accommodation of the public of not less than five hundred 
 square feet which is for the time being authorised to Ije kept oj>ea 
 is kept open for dancing music or other public entertainment of the 
 like kind under the authority of a license granted by any court of 
 quarter sessions * the I'oard may serve a notice in writing ui)on the 
 person by whom such house room or place of j)ublic resort is so 
 kept open re([uiring him to comply with any such requirements as 
 the Board may think expedient with respect to all or any of the 
 matters following (that is to say) : — 
 
 The times during which the doors or any of the doors affording 
 means of exit from any such house room or j)Iace of public 
 resort shall be kept open during the times fixed for the 
 admission of the public to or the presence of the public in 
 or the departure of the public from such house room or 
 place of public resort. 
 The conditions under which such doors or any of such doors may 
 be closed during the times aforesaid and the persons to be 
 charged with the duty of closing and oj)ening the same. 
 The nature of the fastenings to be used for the purpose of keeping 
 such doors or any of such doors closed during the times 
 aforesaid. 
 The notices to be posted in such house room or place of public 
 
 resort specifying the means of exit therefrom. 
 In case any such house room or place of j)ublic resort is kept 
 open by any person for any of the purposes aforesaid while all or 
 any the requirements of such notice are not complied with such 
 person shall he liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for 
 every day on which such house room or place of public resort is so 
 kept open after service of such notice. 
 
 Any person authorised by the Board in writing may at any time 
 during the times fixed for the admission or ])resence of the public 
 and at all other reasonable times enter and inspect any such house 
 room or place of public resort for the ])ur2)ose of ascertaining 
 whether any such notice should be served by the Board with respect 
 to such house room or i)lace of public resort or whether the require- 
 ments of any such notice are comj)lied with and if any jjcrson 
 refuses to admit any person so authorised or to afford him all 
 reasonable assistance in such inspection then in every such case the 
 person so refusing shall incur for each offence a penalty not exceeding 
 twenty pounds. 
 
 46. The Board instead of ordcriu'jr anv works of a fixed or lio.ird mav 
 permanent character under the provisions of the Metropolis Manage- 'i"«^'\orise 
 luent (Thames lliver Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act 1S79 of "existing* 
 may when on any premises any dam of a temporary or movable temporary 
 character for the protection of lands within the limits of the said '^'^^"^^ ^^"'^^^*- 
 Act from ffoods or inundations caused by the overflow of the liiver ^."j,_^(,^.^j/ 
 Thames has been erected without the authority of the Board and 
 the Board are of oi)inion that the erection of a dam of a fixed or 
 l)ermanent character on such premises would materially interfere 
 with the transaction of business carried on upon the river side of 
 such premises by order authorise and require the continuance and 
 maintenance of such temporary or movable dam in its existing 
 condition or with such alterations or modifications in the same as 
 
 ♦ See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 11, s. 3 (v).
 
 612 
 
 Amendment 
 
 of 42 & 43 
 
 Vict. 
 
 c. cxcviii. as 
 
 to copies of 
 
 plans. 
 
 Recovery of 
 penalties. 
 
 rnr^.x, i„,-n Metropolitan Board of Works rAn s ao-^t -i 
 
 [Chap. Ivi.] ^ y^^^^^ p^^^^^^ ^^^ ^gg^^ [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 the Board may think expedient subject to snch regulations restric- 
 tions and conditions with respect to the fixing removing and 
 maintenance of the same as the Board may from time to time 
 think necessary and the Board may by any such regulations 
 restrictions and conditions authorise the temporary removal of any 
 such dam during such times as they may think proper and may 
 prohibit the removal or alteration of the same except during such 
 times and in such manner as to them may seem necessary or 
 jiroper. 
 
 "Where the Board have authorised the continuance and main- 
 tenance of any dam of a temporary or movable character subject 
 to any regulations restrictions or conditions any person making 
 default in the due observance or committing a breach of any of the 
 same shall be liable to a penalty not less than twenty pounds and 
 not exceeding fifty pounds and in case of a continuing offence to a 
 further penalty not less than twenty pounds and not exceeding fifty 
 pounds for each day after the first during which such default or 
 breach continues but save as aforesaid such person shall not be 
 liable to any penalty or damages or to pay any compensation by 
 reason or in respect of any such default or breach, 
 
 47. From and after the passing of this Act it shall not be 
 necessary to transmit to any body or person more than one copy of 
 any part of the plan or of any part of any of the plans from time 
 to time prepared and constituting together the plan referred to in 
 section 7 of the Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention 
 of Floods) Amendment Act 1879 or of any other plan which the 
 Board may from time to time cause to be jirepared in accordance 
 with the said Act. 
 
 48. Every penalty imposed by this Act upon any person with 
 reference to any house room or place of public resort may be 
 recovered by summary proceedings before any Justice in like 
 manner and subject to the like right of appeal as if the same were 
 a penalty recoverable by summary proceedings under the Metropolis 
 Management Act 18.55 and the Acts amending the same; and 
 every penalty imposed by this Act upon any person making default 
 in the due observance or committing a breach of any regulations 
 restrictions or conditions made by virtue of this Act with respect 
 to the continuance and maintenance of any dam of a temporary or 
 movable character may be recovered by the Board or any officer 
 or servant by them authorised in like manner and subject to the 
 like right of appeal as if the same were a penalty imposed by the 
 Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) 
 Amendment Act 1879 and the same shall be applied towards the 
 same purposes as penalties under the said Act : Provided always 
 that in any proceedings against any person for more than one 
 penalty in respect of one or more breach or breaches of any 
 provision of this Act or of any byelaw made in pursuance of this 
 Act it shall be lawful to include in one summons all such penalties 
 and the charge for such summons shall not exceed two shillings. 
 [See 18 & 19 Vict. c. 12U, ss. 227 and 231 ; and 42 & 43 Vict. 
 c. cxcviii. .S'5. 4 and 44.] 
 
 49. {Saving the rights of the Crown and the Commissioners of 
 Works.'\ 
 
 50. \_Saung the rights of the Crown.'] 
 
 51. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.]
 
 f-A-QAn^r T Metropolitan Street Improvements rr'rT.^ ^-,^^;;-. a^o 
 
 i4o&4oViCT.1 A uio-'^/A I *\ I *iooo Chap.ccxxii. 613 
 
 itJvoT xwi J ^^^ jg^^ (Amendment) Act 18«2. •- -' 
 
 SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing Act. 
 
 Part I. 
 
 [Afjrfifinieut i)f llth November 1881 between the churchimrdem and overseers of 
 the poor (if St. U ilea's, Oimherwrll, the vextrij nftlie parish of St. (riles's, Curnbcrwell, 
 and the Metropvlitan Board (f Worlcs for the sale to the Hoard hy the said churrh- 
 vxirdeiiH and overseers atid vestry for il.CKX) of PecLhani, liye, Goose Green, and 
 yunhead Green, then under the management of the said vestry and held by the said 
 churchwardens and overseers. Spent."] 
 
 Part II. 
 
 The following commons wastes or open spaces in the parish of St. Giles 
 Camberwell in the county of Surrey * (that is to say) : — 
 
 (1.) Peckham Rye containing .'<5 acres and 2'J poles or therealx)uts. 
 (2.) Goose Green containing 4 acres and 31) poles or thereabouts. 
 (3.) Nunhead Green containing 2 roods 34 poles or thereabouts. 
 
 Part III. 
 
 Four small pieces of land in the parish of St. Giles Camberwell in the 
 county of Surrey * situate to the northward of Peckham Rye or Peckham Rye 
 Common and abutting on or near to Peckham Rye Road viz. — 
 
 (a.) A piece of land containing 12 poles or thereabouts on which a drinking 
 fountain stands situate at the junction of Heaton Road Rye Lane and 
 Copeland Road. 
 
 (h.) A piece of land containing 6 poles or thereabouts abutting on the 
 eastern side of the open space in front of the "White Horse Inn in 
 Peckham Rye Road or Nigel Road and on the western side of a new 
 road in course of construction in a northerly direction from Peckham 
 Rye Road. 
 
 {<:.) A piece of land containing 2 poles or thereabouts forming part of the 
 open space between the said White Horse Inn and Peckham Rye 
 Road. 
 
 ((/.) A piece of land containing 33 poles or thereabouts, abutting upon the 
 eastern side of Peckham Rye Road between Philip Road and Scylla 
 Road and occupied or partly occupied in connection with the houses on 
 the east side of Peckham Rye Road between Philip Road and Scylla 
 Road. 
 
 CHAPTER CCXXIl. 
 
 An Act for amending the Metropolitan Street Improvements 
 Act 1877. \\d>th August 1882.] 
 
 {Preamble recites 40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxv. (in this Act referred 
 to as " the Act of 1877 ") and in particular s. 33 thereof, and that by 
 reason of the obligations imposed by that section on the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works {in this Act called " the Board''), the Board have 
 been prevented froin carrying into effect certain of the purposes of 
 the said Act ; and that a Select Committee appointed by the House 
 of Commons on the 20th day of February 1882 to consider the working 
 of tlhe Artizans' and Labourers' Divellings Improvement Act 1875 1 
 and the amending Act of 1879 1 with a view of considering (iuter alia) 
 how the expense of and the delay and difficulty in carrying out these 
 Acts might be reduced, and also to consider the working of tfie Metro- 
 politan Street Improvements Acts 1872 and 1877 and of 31 & 32 
 Vict. c. 130 t and 42 & 43 Vict. c. G4,t by their Report of the \^th June 
 1882 recommended tfiat tJie Board sliould forth with be relieved of the 
 obligations imposed by the said s. 33 of the Act of 1877 so far as 
 the same icere applicable (iuter alia) to the Grays Inn Road im- 
 provement by the Act of 1811 authorised ; and that the Board have 
 caused a plan in this Act referred to as " the Gray's Inn Road 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 &; T,2 Vict. c. 41. s. 40 (2). 
 
 •j- Rep. and replaced by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.
 
 614 
 
 [Chap, ccxxii.] 
 
 Metropolitan Street Improzeraerda 
 Act 1877 {Amendment) Act 1882. 
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Amendment 
 of Act of 1877 
 as to Gray's 
 Inn improve- 
 ment. 
 
 Section .33 of 
 Act of 1877 
 not to apply 
 to lands 
 shown on the 
 Gray's Inn 
 Eoad plan. 
 
 plan " to he prepared slwicing the lands to be taken for the purposes 
 of the Gray's Inn Road improtement authorised hy tJie Act of \^~~ 
 and recites the deposit of the said jjlan with the clerks of the peace 
 for Middlesex and the city of Westminster.'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Street Improve- 
 ments Act 1877 (Amendment) Act 1882 and the Metropolitan Street 
 Improvements Act 1877 and this Act may be cited together as the 
 Metropolitan Street Improvements Acts 1877 and 1882. 
 
 2. The Board shall in the exercise of the powers by the Act of 
 1877 conferred upon them for the taking of lands for the purposes 
 of the Gray's Inn Road improvement by the said Act authorised be 
 subject to the conditions following : — 
 
 (1.) The Board may as soon as may be after the passing of this 
 Act exercise the said powers with respect to the lands 
 colonred blue on the Gray's Inn Road plan and lying south 
 of Baldwin's Gardens and such parts of the lands colonred 
 pink and yellow on the Gray's Inn Road plan as are situate 
 between Holborn and the Town Hall of the Holborn 
 District Board of Works.* 
 
 (2.) The said lands coloured blue shall be appropriated exclu- 
 sively to the erection of artizans dwellings and when 
 artizans dwellings have been erected thereon but not before 
 the Board mav remove the buildingrs on the lands coloured 
 green on the Gray's Inn Road plan and the said lands 
 coloured green shall be appropriated exclusively to the 
 erection of artizans dwellings and when artizans dwellinofs 
 have been erected on the said lands coloured green but not 
 before the Board may remove the buildings on the re- 
 mainder of the lands situate to the north of the said Town 
 Hall and authorised to be taken by the Act of 1877 for the 
 purposes of the said Gray's Inn Road improvement but 
 the part of the said lands coloured purple on the Gray's 
 Inn Road plan except such portion thereof as may be 
 ap])ropriated to the widening of Elm Street shall be 
 appropriated exclusively to the erection of artizans 
 dwellings. 
 
 (3.) The artizans dwellings to be erected on the lands colonred 
 blue green and purple respectively on the Gray's Inn Road 
 plan shall be sufficient to accommodate not less than one 
 thousand two hundred persons belonging to the labouring 
 classes. 
 
 (4.) All the lands coloured pink on the Gray's Inn Road plan 
 shall be approj^riated exclusively to the widening of the 
 Gray's Inn Road as by the Act of 1877 authorised. 
 \_Rep. in part and amended 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. s. 13, q.v.'] 
 
 3. From and after the passing of this Act the provisions con- 
 tained in section thirty-three of the Act of 1877 shall cease to be 
 in force with respect to the lands shown on the Gray's Inn Road 
 plan and authorised to be taken by the Act of 1877 and in relation 
 thereto the Act of 1877 shall be read as though the said section were 
 not contained therein. \_See also 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. s. 12.] 
 
 4. [Certifcate of a Secretary of State as to compliance with this 
 Act to he conclusive. Spjent.'] 
 
 5. \_Expenses of ohtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn. See G2 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 r46&47 VictI Metropolitan Board of Wor/(.^ .^. , 
 
 (Monty) Act 1«83. 
 46 & 47 VICTORIA. A.D. 1883. 
 
 CHAPTER 27. 
 
 An Act further to amend the Acts relating to thf-: raising 
 of jmcinky by the metropolitan jjoard of works ; and for 
 other Purposes. [20M Auyast 1883. J 
 
 [Preamble rep. 01 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. Tin's Act maybe cited as the Metro])olitan Board of Works Short title. 
 (Money) Act, 1883, and the Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) 
 
 Acts, ISTo to 1882, and this Act, may be cited toorether as the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1870 to 1883. 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the Metro- Construction 
 iMjlitan Jioard of Works (Loans) Acts, Ib(30 to 1871, and the^^"^^*" 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1882. 
 
 3. . . . . . . Interpreta- 
 
 The expression " Embankment Acts " in the Metropolitan Board '^*""- 
 
 of Works (Loans) Act, 1800, and in this Act, shall mean the 
 series of Acts specified in Part II. of the Second Schednle to this 
 Act annexed, and the Metroi)olitan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 
 1869, shall be construed accordingly. 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 [Parts omitted {definitions of the expressions " Parks and Open 
 Spaces Acts'' and " Main Drainage Acts'') rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 4 — 8. [Amendment of ss. iD (./) and 14 of 45 k 46 Vict. c. 33 — 
 Power to the Board to expend moneys till 'i\st December 1884 for 
 sundry purposes, and to contribute to improvements at Hyde Park 
 Corner. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 9. . . . All the provisions of the Main Drainage Acts and the Special power 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts altering or amend- ^^ ^^P^"^^ 
 ing the same, for the time being in force relating to the execution purposes of 
 of works authorised by the said Acts respectively shall continue in °iain drain- 
 force, and shall extend and apply respectively to the works executed ^^^, ^*^ ™*^" 
 by means of money raised for the purposes of this section ; and all 
 
 stock created under the authority of this Act for such purposes 
 shall be deemed to be created for the purposes of the above- 
 mentioned Acts respectively. [Part omitted (as to power to expend 
 money for purposes of main drainage and main sewers) rep. 
 61 &62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 10. [Power to the Board to lend to vestries, district boards, 
 corporations, burial boards, etc., till ^\st December 1884. Rep. 
 01 k 02 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.). — Provision for repayment within a time 
 to be approved by the Treasury, not exceediny as to loans for 
 widening streets or for bridyes and purchase of lands 60 years, and 
 
 for other purposes 30 gears. Identical with such provision in 
 38 & 39 Vict. c. (So, s. 4.] 
 
 11. [Power to the Board to lend to yuardians till 31, s/ Jh'cember 
 1884. Rep. 61 & 62 I'ict. c. 22 {S.L.R.). — Provision for repayment 
 within a time to be approved by the Treasury not exceediny 30 years. 
 Identical with such provision in 38 & 39 ]lct. c. 05, s. 5.]
 
 n-ia rn„.^ o" -1 Metropolitan Board of Works rtas /c-atx^,,, 
 
 616 [Chap. 2..] [Monev-) Act 1883. ^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^^• 
 
 •] 
 
 Power to 
 raise consoli- 
 dated stock. 
 
 Repayments 
 to be carried 
 to Consoli- 
 dated Loans 
 Fund. 
 
 12. \_Extensioii of amount tvhich the Board may lend to the 
 Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 13. \_Power to the Board to lend during the year ending Z\st 
 Beceniber 1884 to the School Board for London. Rep. 61 & 62 
 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.). — Provision for repayment within a time to be 
 approved by the Treasury not exceeding 50 years. Superseded 2 
 Edw. 7, c. 42, s. 5, and 2nd schedule ; and 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, s. 1.] 
 
 Where the Board nnder the authority of this Act create 
 consolidated stock to raise money for the purpose of the Fire 
 Brigade Act, 1865, or to enable them to make a loan repayable 
 within thirty years from the date of such loan, the Board shall from 
 time to time carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sums as the 
 Treasury approve as being in their opinion sufficient to redeem 
 within the period of thirty years from the date of the creation of 
 such stock, or in the case of any such loan within any lesser period 
 for which the same may be made, an amount of consolidated stock 
 equal to that so created ; and 
 
 Where the Board are by this Act authorised to make a loan 
 repayable within thirty years from the date of the loan, the Board, 
 instead of raising money for any such loan by the creation of con- 
 solidated stock, may use for any such loan any moneys for tlie time 
 being forming part of the Consolidated Loans Fund, and not required 
 for the payment of the dividends on consolidated stock ; and 
 
 Where the Board raise consolidated stock for the purpose of any 
 scheme made by the Board under the authority of the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875,* or the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings Improvement Acts, 1875* to 1882,* and con- 
 firmed by Provisional Order and Act of Parliament, there shall be 
 repaid (as provided by the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings 
 Improvement Act, 1875,*) to the consolidated rate out of the local 
 rate as defined by the said last-mentioned Act, all moneys required 
 for payment of dividends on and the redemption of all consolidated 
 stock created for such purpose. 
 
 \_Part omitted {as to power to the Board, to create consolidated, 
 stock to raise money for the jmiyoses of this Act) rep. 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 15—22. \_As to Metropolitan Bills. Rep. 60 & 61 Vict. c. ccxx. 
 s. 21 ; .s\s. 15—17 and2i) also rep. by 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 23. \_Limitation of power of borrowing in s. 38 of 2>2 & 33 Vict. c. 
 1U2, not to extend to this Act. Liep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (6'.Z.i?.).] 
 
 24. All sums received by the Board in respect of interest on or 
 principal of any loan made by them under this Act shall be carried 
 to the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 25. [Limit to exercise of borrowing powers. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 First Schedule. {Particulars of new money powers conferred 
 by this Act. Liep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (^.L./t*.).] 
 
 Second Schedule. \_Part L JAst of Parks and Open Spaces 
 Acts referred to in s. 3. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.
 
 Metropolis {Tench Street, Saint 
 [40 & 47 Vict.] George-in-the-East) Frodsional [Chap, xciv.] 617 
 
 Order Confirmation Act 1883. 
 
 Pakt II. 
 
 Embankment Acts. 
 
 The Thames Embankment (North) Act, 1802, 25 & 26 Vict. c. 93., 26 & 27 Vict. 
 
 c. 46. 
 „ „ (South) Act, 1803, 26 & 27 Vict. c. 7.5. 
 
 „ „ Amendment Act, 1804, 27 & 28 Vict. c. cxxxv., 
 
 27 iSc 28 Vict. c. 01.* 
 „ „ (North and South) Act, 1808, 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxi., 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. c. 43.* 
 
 „ „ (Chelsea) Act, 1868, 31 & 32 Vict. c. cxxxv., 
 
 32 & ■53 Vict. c. 134.t 
 
 „ (North) Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict. c. -xcii. 
 
 „ „ „ 1872, .35& 30 Vict. c. Ixvi. 
 
 (Land) Act, 1873, 30 & 37 Vict. c. 40. 
 (South) Act, 1873, .30 Vict. c. vii. 
 Oharing Cross and Victoria Emliankment Approach Act, 1873, .30 & 37 Vict. c. c. 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1870 (Chelsea Embank- 
 ment), 3'J & 40 Vict. c. Ixxix. 
 
 CHAPTER XCIV. 
 
 tAN Act to confiem a Provisional Order of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of ^State for the im- 
 provement of an UNHEALTHY Area situated at Saint George- 
 in-the-East, within the Metropolis. [IQt/i Juhj 1883.] 
 
 \Preamhle^ 
 
 1. The Order set ont in the schedule herennto annexed is hereby Order la 
 confirmed. schedule 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Tench Street, ,^'^^^ ^^^^^ 
 Saint George-iu-the-East) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, l.'5'&3. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 The Metropolis (Tench Street, St. George-in-the-East) 
 Improvement, 1883. 
 
 [Provisional Order of the Home Secretary dated 2nd Ma;/ 1883, confirming a 
 Scheme jjrepared b>/ the Metropolitan Board of Workii, under the Artizans and 
 Labourers DwellingH Improvement Act>i 1875 — 1%^2^^ for the improvement of an 
 unheallhii area in the parif^h of St. George-in-the-East. The Order recites that the 
 number of 2)ersons of the ivorlcing class to be displaced by the Scheme is estimated 
 at 1,284, and provides for the clearing of the lands constituting the improvement 
 area and for the erection thereon (f diceUings to accommndafe 1,284 persons belong- 
 ing tn the icorhing class. The Order also recpdres the videning if Tench Street to 
 30 feet^ and Green Bank as nearly as may be to 30 feet. Sj^ent.] 
 
 CHAPTER XCV. 
 
 An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the im- 
 provement of an unhealthy Area situated at Limehouse, 
 WITHIN the Metropolis. [lOM Jul>/ 1883.] 
 
 \_Prea}nble.^ 
 1. The Order set ont in tlie schedule hereunto annexed is hereby Order in 
 
 confirmed. sch^ule 
 
 confirmed. 
 * Rep. 32 & .33 Vict. c. 102, s. 50. 
 
 t yemble refers to the Park Lane Improvement Act 1869 (32 k 33 Vict. c. cxxxiv.). 
 X See 52 & 53 Vict. c. cxlvii. s. 10. 
 ^ Rep. and replaced by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.
 
 618 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Order in 
 schedule 
 confirmed. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 [Chap, xcvi.] 
 
 Metropolis ( Windmill Roiv, Xew 
 Cut, Lambeth) Procisional Order [46 & 47 Yict,] 
 Confirmation Act 1883. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Brook Street, 
 Limehoiise) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1883. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 The Metropolis (Brook Street, Limehouse) Improvement, 1883. 
 
 [Provmonal Order of the Home Secretary dated 2nd May 1883, confirming a 
 Scheme j'rejxired liy the Metropolitan Board, of Worhs, tinder the Artiza/is and 
 Lahourertt Dicellings Improvement Acts 1875 — 1882, for the improvement of an 
 unhealthy area situated in the hamlet of Ratcliff, in the district of Limehouse. 
 The Order recites that the number of persons of the icorlcing class to be displaced by 
 the Scheme is estimated at 562, ajid j^i'ovides for the clearing of the huids con- 
 stituting the improvement area, and for the erection thereon of dwellings to accommo- 
 date 562 persons belonging to the working class. The Order also requires the 
 widening of Harris's Court to 30 feet, Bere Passage, otherwise Orchard Place, to- 
 30 feet, and Bere Street to 30 feet at itsju7iction with Harris's Court. Speid.l 
 
 CHAPTER XCYI. 
 
 An Act to confiem a Provisional Order of one of Hek 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the im- 
 provement OF AN TNHEALTHY ArEA SITUATED IN LaMBETH, 
 
 within THE Metropolis. \\Qth July 1883.} 
 
 \Freamhle?\ 
 
 1. The Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed is hereby 
 confirmed. 
 
 2. \_Samng the rights of the Duchy of Comicall. Spent.'] 
 
 3. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Windmill Row, 
 2s ew Cut, Lambeth) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1883. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Metropolis (Windmill Row, Xew Cut, Lambeth) Improvement, 1883, 
 
 {Provisional Order of the Home Secretary dated 2nd May 1883, confirming a 
 Scheme jirejxired by the Metropolitan Board of Works, under the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings Improvement Acts 1875 — 1882, /o;- the imptrovement of an un- 
 healthy area situated in the parish of Lambeth. The Order recites that the number 
 of persons of the working cla><s to be displaced by the Scheme is estimated at 459, a7id 
 jwovides for the clearing of the lands constituting the improvement area, and for the 
 erection thereon of dicellings to accommodate 459 persons belonging to the icorking 
 class. The Order also requires the iridening of Little Windmill Street to 30 feet ^ 
 Wiiulmill Street to 30 feet, and Eaton Street as nearly as may be to 30 feet. 
 Sjieid.] 
 
 Order in 
 schedule 
 confirmed. 
 
 CHAPTER XCVII. 
 
 An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the im- 
 provement of an unhealthy Area situated at Greenwich, 
 WITHIN the Metropolis. [I6th July 1883.J 
 
 \_Preamble.^ 
 
 1. The Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed is hereby 
 confirmed.
 
 r46&47ViCTl MetropolUart Board of Works rca.p clvvviil 619 
 
 [40 (V 4/ viCT.j (^Bridges, etc.) Act 1883. L*-hap. cixxvii.j oiy 
 
 2. This Act may ho. cited as the Metropolis (Trafalgar Road, f'bort title. 
 Greenwich) rrovisional Order (Jonfirmatiou Act, 1883. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 The METUoroLirf (Tuafalgau Roau, Gkkknwicu) iMriiovKMENT, 1883. 
 
 [Pi-ovixio/ial Order of the Home Secretar;/ dated 2/id June 188.3, eonfirming a 
 Scheme jrrejxired bi/ the Jfetropolitdii Board of Works, uiuler the Artizana and 
 Labourers Dwell hujx Iiuproveme)it Actx 1875 — 1882, for the improvement of an 
 iinhealtJii/ area situated in tlie jiarish of St. Al/Jierje, Greenu-irh. Tltc Order recitex 
 that the number of persons if the xcorkinij class to be displaced bij the Scheme is 
 estimated at 378, and provides for the clear! nr/ of the lands constitutinij tlie improve- 
 ment (rrea, and for the erection thereon of dwelUntis to accommodate .'}80 perso/iM 
 belonging to the tvorkiny class. The Order also retpdres the widening of Lower 
 East Street, othenvise East Lane, between Old Woohcich Road and Trafdgar 
 Road, as nearlg as mag be to 30 feet, and Old Woohuich Road to 30 feet, or there- 
 abouts. Spent.^ 
 
 CHAPTER CLXXVII. 
 
 An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 
 ALTER and re-construct HaMMERSMITH BrIDGE ; FOR PROVIDING 
 FOR THE FREE UsE BY THE PUBLIC OF THE E AST AND WeST FeRRY 
 
 Roads in the Parish of Poplar in the County of Middlesex ; 
 AND FOR other PURPOSES. [2}id August 1883.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) t/te Metropolis Toll Bridges Act 
 1877; and t /tat the Metropolitan Board of Works under the said 
 Act have acquired {amongst others) the bridge knoicn as Hammersmith 
 Bridge, and that the same is now open to the public free/rom toll, and 
 that the Board are required to maintain and repair the same ; and that 
 the said bridge is in a dangerous condition and unjit for general traffic; 
 and recites an Act passed in the ^ilnd year of the reign of King 
 (jrcorge III. intituled, " An Act for establishing a ferry over the River 
 Thames from Greenwich in the county of Kod to the Fsle of Dogs in 
 the county of Middlesex and for making and maintaining road.'i to com- 
 municate therewith^'' and that the said Act was amended by an Act 
 passed in the ^\th year of the reign of King George HI. intituled " An 
 Act for amending an Act of the fifty-second year of the reign of His 
 present Majesty for establishing a ferry over the River Thamrsfrom 
 Greenwich in the county of Kent to the Isle of Dogs in the county of 
 Middlesex and for making and inaintaining roads to communicate 
 tliereicith^'' and that by the said Acts the Poplar and Greenwich 
 Ferry Company were authorised to establi,sh a ferry over the River 
 Thames from Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs, and to make and main- 
 tain roads communicating therewith, and to levy tolls and charges in 
 respect of the use of the same ; and. that the use of the roads knoicn 
 as the East and West Ferry Roads in the parish of Poplar is noiv 
 under the said Acts subject to tJte payment of tolls or charges to the 
 said Ferry Company ; and that it is expedient to provide for 
 throwing open for the free use of the public the said East and West 
 Ferry Jx'oads am/ for such purpose to authorise the Board to purchase 
 t/ie undertaking of the said Ferry Company ; and recites the deposit 
 with the Clerks of the Peace for Middlesex and Surrey of plans and 
 sections of t/ie wor Its proposed to be made by the Board.']
 
 />nA r/-. . 1 ••-! Metropolitan Board of Works faoq a'^^t -i 
 
 620 [CHAr. clxxvn.] (/,,v/^,,, ,tc.) ^./l883. ^^^^^' ^^^^-^ 
 
 Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Bridges, etc.) Act 18'^3. 
 
 2. [Incorporation of the Lands Clauses Acts.'] 
 
 Interpreta- 3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the 
 tion of terms, several meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be something 
 in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that is to 
 say) : — 
 
 " The Board " means the Metropolitan Board of Works * ; 
 
 " The works by this Act authorised " includes the alteration and 
 reconstruction of the existing bridge oyer the River Thames 
 at Hammersmith the erection maintenance taking down and 
 removal of the temporary bridge and the approaches roads 
 and works connected therewith respectively by this Act 
 authorised ; 
 
 " The Ferry Acts " means the Act passed in the fifty-second year 
 of the reign of King George III. chapter one hundred and 
 forty-eight intituled " An Act for establishing a ferry over 
 the River Thames from Greenwich in the county of Kent to 
 the Isle of Dogs in the county of Middlesex and for making 
 and maintaining roads to communicate therewith " and the 
 Act passed in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of King 
 George III. chapter one hundred and seventy-one intituled 
 "An Act for amending an Act of the fifty-second year of the 
 reign of His present Majesty for establishing a ferry over the 
 River Thames from Greenwich in the county of Kent to 
 the Isle of Dogs in the county of Middlesex and for making 
 and maintaining roads to communicate therewith " ; 
 
 " The Poplar and Greenwich Ferry Company " means the 
 Company incorporated by and acting in execution of the 
 Ferry Acts ; 
 
 " The undertaking of the Poplar and Greenwich Ferry Company " 
 means the ferry roads tolls toll houses, and all the property 
 real and personal of the Poplar and Greenwich Ferry 
 Company (save and except any moneys of the said Company 
 which at the time of the transfer of their undertaking to the 
 Board shall be standing to their credit in the books of their 
 bankers on current account and deposit account or in the 
 hands of their treasurer or collectors and any moneys at the 
 same time of the said Company (whether In the hands of 
 their bankers or standing upon any investment) representing 
 unclaimed dividends and interest accrued upon unclaimed 
 dividends and save and except the books of the said Company) 
 and all the estate right title and interest of the said Company 
 in or to the same and all rights powers authorities and 
 privileges of the said Company in relation thereto and to the 
 demanding and taking of tolls and charges and to the making 
 and levying of rates or assessments in resj^ect of the use 
 thereof under the Ferry Acts ; 
 
 " The Lease of 1868 " means the indenture made the twentieth 
 day of February 1868 between the Poplar and Greenwich 
 Ferry Company of the one part and John Barber James 
 Giles (the younger) John William Doust Edward Thomas 
 Phillips John Stevens Robert Luxford John Giles Joseph 
 Samuel Doust James Brownfield Philip Richbell William 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 r46 & 47 Vict 1 Metropolitan Board of Works .r. .i„„„i; -. m\ 
 
 L4D A. 4 / V icT.j (^Bru/ges, etc.) Act 1883. L^hap. clxxvu.J b,l 
 
 Giles and William Sexton Forrest all of Greenwich in the 
 county of Kent watermen bein<^ tiie then survivintr trustees 
 and members of a certain society commonly called or known 
 as the Potter's Ferry Company of the other j)art ; 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 " Road antliority " and the terra " district " in relation to a road 
 authority shall have respectively the same meaninjrs as are 
 assigned to the same terms respectively by the Tramwavs 
 Act 1870; 
 
 " Street " shall have the meaning assigned to tlie same term in 
 the Metropolis 31anagement Act 1855 and the Acts amending 
 the same ; 
 
 " The Conservators " means the Conservators of the River Thames; 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 [Parts omitted {definitions of ^^ Justice,''' ^'lessee," and ^'•person,'''' 
 and as to meanings of luords in the Lands Clauses Acts incorpor- 
 ated) spent ^ 
 
 4 — 5. [Board to execute Act and may appoint Committee therefor. 
 Superseded hg the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 (see 
 Appendix), and 51 k 52 Met. <?. 41, ss. 40 and 75."] 
 
 6. Subject to the provisions of this Act in the lines according to Power to 
 the levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited Hammer"^^ 
 ])lans and sections the Board may alter reconstruct and maintain as smith Bridge, 
 altered or reconstructed the bridge over the river Thames at Ham- 
 mersmith known as " Hammersmith Bridge " and the approaches 
 thereto partly in the parish of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Hammer- 
 smith in the county of Middlesex * and partly in the i)arisli of Barnes 
 in the county of Surrey or any part or parts of the said bridge or 
 approaches. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Part omitted {Board not to stop traffic on the bridge till the tempo- 
 rary bridge hereinafter referred to is open) spent.'] 
 
 7 — 8. [Power to the Board to dredge the Thames for the purpose 
 of reconstructing the bridge, and to make a temporary bridge and 
 approaches. Spent.] 
 
 9. Subject to the provisions of this Act and within the limits of Powers to 
 deviation shown on the deposited plans the Board may make and P^^^ works 
 maintain in connection with the works by this Act authorised all with b^W^eT 
 such piers wharves walls fences drains stairs buildings and all such etc. 
 works and conveniences as they may deem proper. And for the 
 purposes aforesaid or any of them the Board may subject to the 
 j)rovisions of this Act alter and interfere with the banks bed soil 
 and foreshore of the River Thames and may make dams and drive 
 such piles in the bed of the said river and may erect such temporary 
 staging in upon or over the said river as may be necessary or 
 convenient and mav do and execute everv other work and thins: 
 necessary or convenient for any of the purjioses aforesaid. 
 
 10 — 11. [Poicer to the Board to make subsidiary icorks, and to 
 alter water, gas, and other pipes. Spent.] 
 
 12. The Board may from time to time make such regulations Power to 
 with respect to the navigation of the River Thames at and near '^'^^^^ to 
 Hammersmith Bridge . . . by this Act autln'rised as they may na^Latton 
 think necessary or expedient. Provided always that no such regula- near works 
 tion shall be of any force or effect unless and until the same has ]}}, ^•^^'^ 
 
 *' Thames. 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 ct 52 Vict. c. -tl, s. 40 (2).
 
 622 
 
 [Chap, clxxni.] 
 
 Carriage and 
 footways 
 maintenance 
 repair and 
 lighting. 
 
 Lights to be 
 exhibited on 
 bridges and 
 works. 
 
 Towing path 
 and access to 
 be kept open. 
 
 As to dredg- 
 ing near 
 Hammer- 
 smith Bridge. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (^Bridges, etc.) Act 18b3. 
 
 [46 & 47 Vict.] 
 
 been approved by the Conservators. [ Words omitted (•' and the 
 temporal)/ bridge ") spent ^ 
 
 13 — 14. \_Poicer to the Board to deviate and to stop traffic during 
 works. Spent ^ 
 
 15. The Board may cause such parts of Hammersmith Bridge 
 when altered and reconstructed as aforesaid and the approaches 
 thereto to be laid out for carriageways and such parts thereof for 
 footways as they may think jjroper and may sewer level pave metal 
 flag channel and complete such roads and ways and the said bridge 
 when altered or reconstructed and laid out as aforesaid and the roads 
 and footways over the same shall be public highways but the said 
 bridge shall not be or become a county bridge * and the said bridge 
 and the roads and ways over the same shall be maintained and 
 repaired by the Board and the approach roads to the said bridge so 
 altered and reconstructed as aforesaid shall be public highways and 
 shall be maintained and repaired and lighted as other public high- 
 ways by the road authorities of the districts in which the same shall 
 be situate respectively. Provided always that the Board may 
 execute all such works and do all such acts in under or upon the 
 approach roads to the said bridge as they may think proper for 
 preserving and improving the said bridge and the works connected 
 therewith and the stability thereof and may for such purpose enter 
 upon break and open the soil and pavement of such aj)proach roads 
 and any sewers drains or tunnels within or under such approach 
 roads causing as little inconvenience as may be in the execution of 
 the powers hereby conferred and restoring the said roads and sewers 
 drains or tunnels to the same condition as they were in before such 
 breaking and opening. 
 
 16. During the alteration and reconstruction of Hammersmith 
 Brido:e . . . authorised bv this Act and of the works connected 
 therewith respectively the Board shall hang out or exhibit 
 thereat or near thereto and for ever after the completion of 
 the alteration and reconstruction as aforesaid of Hammersmith 
 Bridge the Board shall hang out or exhibit upon such bridge every 
 night from sunset to sunrise lights to be kept burning by and at the 
 expense of the Board and proper and sufficient for the navigation 
 and safe guidance of vessels and the lights shall be from time to 
 time altered by the Board in such manner and be of such kind and 
 number and be so placed as the Conservators shall by writing under 
 the hand of their secretary ai:»prove and in case the Board neglect 
 to exhibit or keep such lights burning as aforesaid they shall forfeit 
 and pay for every such offence the sum of ten pounds. [Part 
 omitted (cis to the teinporarg bridge) spent~\ 
 
 17. The Board shall not at any time interfere with the existing 
 towing-path on the Surrey side of the river underneath Hammer- 
 smith Bridge so as to prevent the effective use thereof . . . and 
 shall for ever afterwards keep open for the whole width of the altered 
 or reconstructed bridge a towing-path and means of access thereto 
 on the Surrey side of the river of the same width respectively as now 
 existing. \Fart omitted {as to access to toicing pjath during works) 
 spent?\ 
 
 18. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Conservators from 
 dredging from time to time and at all times in the channel of the 
 River Thames under and near the existii _ 
 
 * See 58 & 59 Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 46 
 
 Hammersmith Bridge
 
 r,n A-'^T -1 Metropolitan Board of Works rr^„,^ i •; -i «oq 
 
 [40 & 4 . Vict.] ( //,-rf^,,, etc.) Act 1883. t^^^^^" ^^^^^""^ ^^^ 
 
 the altered or reconstructed bridfje ... to u depth of twenty feet 
 below Trinity hi^h water level. Provided that they shall not lower 
 the bed of the river to any greater depth than twelve feet below 
 Trinity high water within iifty feet of the north pier of the said bridge 
 and shall not d('e])en the bed of the river beh^w its ])resent k'vel on 
 the north side of the northern ])ier or on the southern side of the 
 southern pier of the reconstructed bridge. \J?art omitted (as to the 
 temporary bridge) spentJ] 
 
 19 — 22. [ Wor/cs on the river to he executed under direction of the 
 Conservators — As to interference with and taking gravel from the bed 
 of the river. Spent.'] 
 
 23. \_Saving the rights of the Conservators.] 
 
 24. [_As to the removal of the temporanj bridge and sale of 
 materials thereof Spent.']\ 
 
 25. AVith res])ect to the alteration reconstruction and main- For the pro- 
 tenance of Hammersmith Bridge ... by this Act . . . autliorised ^^''^'^^^ ^^ 
 the folh)wing provisions for the protection of the Comj)any of ^jl^i^j^gggj^ 
 Proprietors of the AVest Middlesex Waterworks * (hereinafter Waterworks 
 called the Water Company) and of the reservoirs embankments Company, 
 mains sluices and other works of the Water Company situate in the 
 
 parish of Barnes shall apply and be observed unless otherwise 
 agreed between the Water Company and the Board : — 
 
 (1) In the construction or for any purpose of their said works 
 
 respectively the Board shall not dig excavate remove or 
 otherwise (except as hereinafter expressly provided) inter- 
 fere with any ])art of the reservoir of the Water Company 
 shewn on the de])Osited plans or of the embankment thereof 
 or of the main for supplying the same with water or the 
 sluice connected with the said main or any other work of 
 the Water Company ; 
 
 (2) The south-west abutment of the reconstructed bridge and the 
 
 foundation or anchorage for the chains of the said bridge 
 and the excavation and other works and operations for the 
 purposes thereof and connected therewith shall be executed 
 in such a manner as not to damage the said reservoir and 
 in executing the same the Board shall not interfere with 
 the said embankment further than is actually necessary ; 
 
 (6) The sluice for regulating the supply of water to the said 
 
 reservoir and the sj)indle ot such sluice shall be protected 
 by a proper and sutKcient cover or guard-box in such a 
 manner that it shall be at all times capable of being worked 
 by the Water Company or their officers or servants ; 
 
 (7) All the works hereinbefore provided for shall be executed 
 
 to the reasonable satisfaction of the Water Company's 
 engineer and the Board shall pay the reasonable expenses 
 incurred by the Water Company and their engineer in or 
 about or in any way relating or preliminary to the matters 
 provided for by this section ; 
 
 (8) If by reason of the execution of any of the works or any 
 
 ])roceedings of the Board or the tailure of any works or 
 any act or omission of the Board or of the contractor or 
 of any jierson in the employ of the Board or of tlieir 
 contractors or otherwise any works of the AVater Company 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 an A m„. 1 ••-! Metropolitan Board of Works r^o p ^-ir ->. 
 
 624 [Chap, clxxvii.] ^Bridges, etc.) Act ] 883. ^^^^^^ ^'^'''^ 
 
 shall be injured or damaged such injury or damage shall 
 be forthwith made good and such works shall be restored 
 by the Board at their own expense to the reasonable satis- 
 faction of the Water Company's engineer or in the event 
 of the Board failing to make good such injury and restore 
 such works then the Water Company may make good and 
 restore the same and the Board shall pay to the Water 
 Company all costs and expenses to which that Company 
 may be put as well as full compensation for the loss and 
 inconvenience sustained by them by reason of any such 
 injury or damage such costs expenses and compensation to 
 be recoverable from the Board in any court of competent 
 jurisdiction ; 
 
 (9) If any difference shall arise between the Board and the Water 
 
 Company touching or concerning the true intent and mean- 
 ing of this section or the mode of giving effect thereto 
 every such difiFerence shall be settled by arbitration in 
 accordance with the provisions of the Companies Clauses 
 Consolidation Act 1845 with resj^ect to the settlement of 
 disputes by arbitration ; 
 
 (10) Except as in this Act specially provided nothing in this Act 
 
 shall prejudice diminish alter or take away any of the 
 rights privileges powers or authorities of the Water 
 Company. 
 [Pa^t omitted (as to the temporary bridge^ spent.'] 
 No main or 26. Notwithstanding anything in any Act to the contrary it shall 
 laid on Ham- ^^^ ^® lawful (except in cases of emergency arising from accidental 
 mersmith causes) for any company or person to enter upon break up or inter- 
 Bridge except fere with Hammersmith Bridge after the alteration and reconstruction 
 ^f Board*^"^ thereof as aforesaid or the roads and footways over the same respec- 
 tively for the purpose of laying down any main or pipe or executing 
 any work therein thereon or thereunder except with the consent of 
 the Board in writing which shall not be unreasonably withheld and 
 in accordance with such reasonable terms and conditions not being 
 the exaction of any rent as the Board may determine. Provided 
 that nothing in this section contained shall alter or affect any of the 
 provisions of the Telegraph Act 1878. 
 
 Providing for 27. In reconstructing Hammersmith Bridge the Board shall leave 
 gas mains. ^ space Under the footway on each side of the bridge sufficient to 
 accommodate one gas main or pipe with a diameter of one foot. 
 
 28. [Period for completion of icorks limited to 6 years. Spent^ 
 
 29 — 43. \_Errors and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to 
 enter and survey lands to be taken — As to acquisition of lands — 
 Deficiencies in land tax during ivorks — Poiver to the Board to sell 
 materials, and to lease surplus lands — As to sale of ground rents 
 and reversions of such lands — Power to sell such lands without 
 leasing, and. to let or exchange and to sell such lands — Receipts of 
 the Board to be effectual discharges — Period for compulsory j^urchase 
 of lands limited to 3 years. Spent^ 
 
 44—49. \_Board to purchase the undertaking of the Greemvich and 
 Poplar Perry Company {Potter s Ferry) — Procisions as to purchase 
 and application of consideration — Winding up of Company. Spent.] 
 
 Certain 50. The transfer of the undertaking of the Poplar and Greenwich 
 
 licenses and Yqux Company under this Act shall be subject to the following
 
 FAne A--\T n Mefrnpobtan Board, of \\ ork.'i ^n i •• i aok 
 
 [46 & 4/ Vict. I / // / ^ ^ \ /icw^ iCHAr. clxxvii.l 62d 
 
 L -• {Jhtdyes, etc.) Act Ibb-i. i- -^ 
 
 licenses for the enjovraent of easements granted by the said Company contract 
 thatistosav- ^ ' cominud. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Millwall Dock Company 
 
 Millwall Iron Works . 
 
 Do. 
 Cutler and Sons . 
 
 Date. 
 
 16th August 1875 . 
 
 27th November 1875 
 
 29th August 1879 . 
 2Hth December 1878 
 
 Nature of p]a8ement. 
 
 AlllDMIlt of 
 
 Kent. 
 
 Drainage under East £1 per year. 
 
 Ferry Road. 
 
 Tramway across West £1 per year. 
 
 Ferry Itoafl. 
 
 Do. £2 per year. 
 
 • Do. £2 per year. 
 
 All which licenses shall continue in force for the full term which 
 they shall then respectively have to run and shall in all respects be 
 binding upon the Board of Works for the Poplar District.* 
 
 51. \ Company's books to be evidence for distribution of their assets. 
 
 Sjn:nt.\ 
 
 52. When the receipt for the amount of the consideration agreed Transfer of 
 upon or so ascertained as aforesaid to be paid for the purchase of "°^^'''^^'^^°&- 
 the undertaking of the Poplar and Greenwich Ferry Company has 
 
 been signed in manner directed by this Act then the said under- 
 taking shall by virtue thereof and of this Act be transferred to and 
 shall vest in the 13oard and excei)t as Ijy this Act expressly ])rovided 
 they shall be entitled to immediate possession and have absolute 
 control of tlie said undertaking freed and discharged from all leases 
 contracts debts charges and liabilities whatsoever of the said Com- 
 ])any affecting the same and thereupon all duties obligations and 
 liabilities of the said Company in respect of the same including any 
 duty obligation or liability as to the ferry shall save as by this Act 
 ex])ressly provided alisolutely cease and determine but thereafter no 
 tolls or charges shall be demanded or taken and no rates or assess- 
 ments shall be made laid assessed or levied by the Board under the 
 Ferry Acts and the powers of the said Acts with respect thereto 
 shall be extinguished and the Board shall not be required or 
 compelled to provide any ferry across the River Thames. l*rovided 
 always that the transfer of the undertaking in manner aforesaid 
 shall be subject to the lease of 1868 and the same shall during the 
 continuance of the term of 48 years thereby limited continue in full 
 force and etTcct as tliongh this Act had not been passed and all lauds 
 tenements and hereditaments antl all the estate and interest therein 
 and all rights powers authorities privileges benefits and advantages 
 thereby granted or demised shall continue unaffected by this Act 
 and as though this Act had not been passed and from and after the 
 said transfer the said lease shall l)e read as though the Board were 
 the lessors instead of the Poplar and (Jreenwich Ferry Company. 
 From and after the transfer of the said undertaking to the Board as 
 hereinbefore provided the roads known as the East and West Ferry 
 Poads in the ]):irish of Poplar shall by virtue of this Act be trans- 
 ferred to antl shall vest in the Board of ^Vorks for the district of 
 Poplar * and all tolls and charges in respect of the use of the said 
 East and West Ferry Poads shall cease to be levied thereon and the 
 said East and West Ferry Poads shall be dedicated to the public 
 and may be used free from tolls or charges and the said roads shall 
 be maintained repaired and lighted in the same manner as other 
 highways within the jurisdiction of the said Board of Works for the 
 District of Poplar.* 
 
 * Now the Council of tlic Metropolitan Borough of Poplar. See 62 Jt G:i Vict. c. 14, 
 s. 4. 
 
 40
 
 626 
 
 [Chap, clxxvii.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 {Bridges, etc.) .-4c-/' "1883. 
 
 [46 & 47 Vict.] 
 
 Greenwich 
 
 Ferry 
 
 Company. 
 
 53. \_As to pejiding actions and proceedings. Spent.'] 
 
 tion t*o°^*' 54. AVheu the Board has acquired absolute control of the under- 
 
 officers etc. taking of the Poijlar and Greenwich Ferry Company subject to the 
 of Poplar and lease of 1868 the Board shall grant by way of compensation for 
 the abolition of office an allowance to the clerk and to the surveyor 
 and tolls manager of the said Company subject to the following 
 conditions : — 
 
 (1) That such clerk and surveyor and tolls manager shall be in 
 the actual em|)loyment of the said Company immediately 
 before the Board obtained absolute control of the said 
 undertaking and shall have been in such employment for 
 a continuous period of not less than two years j^revious 
 to the first day of January one thousand eight hundred 
 and eightv-three : 
 
 (2) That the amount of such allowance shall be such as would be 
 payable on retirement to such clerk and surveyor and tolls 
 manager under section two of the Superannuation Act 
 1859 in the event of his having served in an established 
 capacity in the permanent civil service of the State for the 
 same time as in the service of the said Company, and if ten 
 years were added to the number of years he may have 
 actuallv served ; 
 
 (3) That in estimating such allowance the amount of the salary 
 upon which the same shall be calculated shall be taken on 
 the average of the salary actually received by the person 
 to be compensated during the two years next preceding 
 such first day of January one thousand eight hundred 
 and eighty-three ; 
 
 (4) That no such allowance shall exceed two-thirds of the salary 
 upon which the same shall be estimated. 
 
 Every such allowance shall be payable by two equal half-yearly 
 payments the first of such payments to be made at the expiration 
 of six months from the date when the Board shall have acquired 
 absolute control subject to the lease of 1868 over the said under- 
 taking. Provided always that the Board may at any time agree with 
 any person entitled to any allowance under this enactment for the 
 commutation of such allowance and that where any such allowance 
 is payable to any person in respect of more than one office or in 
 respect of the duties of offices which may have been consolidated 
 into one office the allowance shall be estimated separately in respect 
 of each of the said offices or of the duties of each of the said offices 
 so consolidated into one. 
 
 55. [^Dissolution of the Ferry Company. Spejit.'] 
 
 56. Where after the neglect or default of any vestry district board 
 or other Ixjdy or person to pay the amount or any part of the amount 
 required by any precept to be paid to the Board by such vestry 
 district board or other body or j^erson within the time specified in 
 such i)rece2)t the Board have obtained any copy of any rate or of 
 any copy of any rate contained in any book in pursuance of the 
 provisions of the fifteenth section of the Metropolis Management 
 Amendment Act 1862 then and in every such case where not less 
 than fourteen days previous notice of the intention to procure a copy 
 of such rate has been given by the Board to the vestry district 
 board or other body or person so neglecting or defaulting the Board 
 may charge the expenses incurred by them in obtaining such copy 
 
 Expenses 
 incurred by 
 Board in 
 obtaining a 
 copy of poor 
 rate to be 
 either paid 
 as general 
 expenses or 
 charged upon 
 vestry etc. 
 making 
 default.
 
 [46 & 47 YiCT.] ^l/^^'-^/^^^^-^«'^j5^'-^^'^<^ J^7>^-^^'^^^'^^* [Chap, clxxviii.] 627 
 
 iipon the vestry district Loard or otlier Ijody or person so neglecting 
 or defiiulting and iuclude tiie same amongst the moneys which such 
 vestry district board or other Ijody or person may be required to 
 raise and collect by virtue of any i)rec('pt issued by the Board and 
 directed to such vestry district board or other body or person. 
 
 57. \_Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 CHAPTER CLXXVIII. 
 An Act foe enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 
 MAKE certain NeW IStREETS AND StREET IMPROVEMENTS IN 
 
 THE Metropolis and for other Purposes. 
 
 [;>ncl August 1883.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that the Metropolitan Board of 
 
 Works have caused to be deposited icith the Clerks of the Peace for 
 
 Middlesex and Surrey plans and sections and « book of reference 
 
 {(lescribing the new streets and the street impi-orpments), herein 
 
 referred to as the deposited plans sections and book of reference.] 
 
 1. This Act mav be cited as the Metropolitan Street Improvements Short title. 
 Act, 1883. 
 
 2. [Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.] 
 
 3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the interpreta- 
 several meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be some- ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that 
 
 is to say) : 
 
 " The Board " means the Metropolitan Board of "Works * ; 
 " Metropolis " means the metropolis as detined by the Metropolis 
 Management Act 1 855 ; 
 
 ■ ••••• 
 
 ^' Improvements " means the new streets widenings and improve- 
 ments of streets and works connected therewith respectively 
 by this Act authorised ; 
 
 *' Street " shall have the meaning assigned to that term in the 
 Metropolis Management Act 1855 and the Acts amending the 
 same ; 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 "[Part omitted {definitions of ^^ Justice" '■^ two Justices,"'' ^'lessee," 
 and '^ person," and as to meanings of words in Acts incorporated) 
 spent. 
 
 4 — 5. [Board to execute Act — Power to act bg committee. Super- 
 ■ sed('(/ bg the Mu?iicipal Corporations Act 1882, 6\ 22 (see Appendix), 
 and 51 vt 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 a?id 75.] 
 
 6. Subject to the provisions of this Act in the lines according to Power to 
 the levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited Board to 
 plans and sections the Board may make and carry into execution all ™reet°.^nd 
 or any of the new streets widenings and im])rov('ments of streets in street im- 
 the counties of Middlesex! and Surrey f herein-after described (that provements. 
 is to say) : — 
 
 * Now the London County CounciL See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S). 
 t Now the county of London, bee 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 ncto rn^.^ 1 ••• ^ Metropolitan Street Improcements r^^ p ^-^tt t 
 
 628 [Chap, clxxvm.] ^ 1^/^1883 [40 & 47 Vict.] 
 
 In the County of Middlesex.* 
 
 1. — Widening of Upper Street Islington. 
 
 The widening of Upper Street Islington wholly in the parish of 
 St. Mary Islington partly on the east and partly on the west 
 side of Upper Street. The widening on the east side com- 
 mencing at the north end of Islington Green and terminating 
 at the Unitarian Chapel between Cross Street and Florence 
 Street. The widening on the west side commencing opposite 
 the police station which adjoins the said Unitarian Chapel 
 at the junction of Waterloo Terrace with Upper Street and 
 terminating at the junction of Barnsbury Street with Upper 
 Street. 
 
 2. — Widening of Green Street Bethnal Green. 
 The widening of, Green Street Bethnal Green in the parish of 
 St. Matthew Bethnal Green on the north side commencing at 
 Victoria Park Square and terminating at Globe Road. 
 
 3. — Widening of Little York Street Bethnal Green. 
 
 The widening of Little York Street at the eastern end and on the 
 north side wholly in the parish of St. Matthew Bethnal 
 Green and extending for a distance of about 20 yards from 
 the junction of Little York Street with Club Row. 
 
 4. — Tower Hill Improvement. 
 
 A new street in continuation of the street authorised by the 
 Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways (City Lines 
 and Extensions) Act 1879 commencing within the district or 
 liberty of the Tower at or near the junction of that street 
 with Trinity Square and terminating in the district or liberty 
 of the Tower or the precinct of Old Tower without at the 
 drinking fountain at the southern end of the Minories. 
 
 And in connexion with the said last-mentioned improvement and 
 for the purposes thereof the alteration and setting back of 
 part of the fence enclosing the ornamental garden in Trinity 
 Square and the appropriation and utilisation of a portion 
 of the said garden within the said district or liberty of the 
 Tower. 
 
 5. — Hammersmith Imjirovement. 
 The widening of King Street East on its north side in the parish 
 of St. Peter and St. Paul Hammersmith such widening to 
 commence at the Broadway and to terminate at a point about 
 130 yards to the east of Rowan Road. Also the widening of 
 Brook Green Road on its west side, in the same parish, such 
 widening to commence at the Broadway and to terminate at 
 the south side of the fire brigade station in Brook Green Road. 
 
 6. — Hampstead Improvements. 
 A new street wholly in the jiarish of St. John Hampstead com- 
 mencing in High Street Hampstead opposite its junction 
 with Heath Street consisting in part of a widening of Church 
 Place on its east side and terminating at the junction of 
 Church Place with Church Lane. 
 The widening of High Street on its west side commencing at its- 
 junction with the intended new street lastly hereiu-before 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 [46 & 47 Vict.] ^Metropolitan Stj^eet^Tmpr^^^^^^^ ^P^^^._ ^ixxviii.] 629 
 
 described and terminating at a point 60 yards or thereabouts 
 to the north of (Jhurch Lane top^ether with a Ibotu'uy to 
 connect the said new street witli iligh Street as widened in 
 or about the line of AVells Buildings. 
 
 In the Countv of Surrey.* 
 7. — Bermondsey Improvement. 
 A street improvement wholly in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen 
 Bermondsey commencing at the junction of Star Corner with 
 Abbey Street and terniiiiating at the junction of Bermondsey 
 New iioad with Uothsay Street consisting of tlie widening of 
 Star Corner on the eastern side from Abbey Street to Grange 
 Road and the widening of the liermondsey New Road on the 
 western side from Edward Street to Rothsay Street. 
 
 8. — Widening of Walworth Road. 
 
 The widening of Walworth Road on the south-western side 
 wholly in the parish of St. Mary Xewingtou commencing 
 at Hampton Street and terminating at Thomas's Place. 
 
 And in connexion with the said last-mentioned improvement and 
 for the purposes thereof 
 
 The alteration of the bridge carrying the London Chatham and 
 Dover Railway over Walworth Road between the commence- 
 ment and termination of the said widening and the setting 
 back of the pier or abutment on the south-western side of 
 the said bridge. 
 
 9. — South Lambeth Im])rovement. 
 A new street wholly in the parish of St. Mary Lambeth com- 
 mencing: on the western side of the South Lambeth Road at 
 the junction therewith of Wilcox Road and terminating in 
 the South Lambeth Road opposite Walton Terrace. 
 
 V. . . . • • • For the pro 
 
 U by reason of the execution of any of the works of the tection of the 
 Board or the failure of any such works or any act or omission jfJii^ay^^^^'^ 
 of the Board or of their contractors or otherwise the railway Company, 
 or any of the works connected therewith shall be injured or 
 damaged such injury or damage shall be forthwith made 
 good by the Boaril at their own expense or in the event of 
 their failing so to do then the Railway Company may make 
 good the same and recover the expense thereof with full costs 
 Against the Board in any court of competent jurisdiction and 
 if any interruption shall be occasioned to the traihc of the 
 Railway Company by reason of any of the matters or causes 
 aforesaid the Board shall pay to that Company all costs and 
 expenses to which that Company may be i)Ut as well as full 
 com])i'nsation for the loss and inconvenience sustained by them 
 by reason of any such interruption such costs expenses and 
 compensation to be recoverable with full costs by that Com- 
 pany from the Board in any court of competent jurisdicti<in. 
 Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to diminish prejudice 
 alter or take away any of the rights privileges or powers of 
 the Railway Company otherwise than as is herein expressly 
 provided. 
 
 \_Parts omitteif {certain lands not to be taken and provisions apphj- 
 
 ing during execution of icorks) spenti] 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 630 
 
 For protec- 
 tion of 
 London 
 Chatham 
 and Dover 
 Kailway 
 Company. 
 
 [Chap, clxxviii.] ^Metropolitan Stre^t^m^^^^^ ^^^ ^ 4. ^^^^^ 
 
 8 — 10. {Poioer to the Board to stop up tvays during works, to- 
 raise or lower streets, and to deviate. Spent^ 
 
 11. [Poiver to the Board to make subsidiary works and to alter 
 drains and sewers on providing substitutes, which are to be under the 
 same management as existing drains and sewers^ 
 
 12 — 13. [Poorer to the Board to alter water, gas, and, other pipes 
 and. to lay out carriageways and footways, etc. Spent.'] 
 
 14. [^'5 to the laying of pavements and vesting of the same when 
 laid in and as to the maintenance thereof hy the vestry^ or board of 
 works* of the parish or district in ivhich the same is situate.'] 
 
 15. [Poiver to the Board to fill up seivers and drains on pro- 
 tiding substitutes, ivhich are to be under the same management as^ 
 existing sewers and drains.] 
 
 16. [Power to the Board to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent.] 
 
 17. [Ground laid into the streets to form part thereof and to be 
 maintained by the vestry* or board, of tvorks* of the parish or 
 district within tvhich the same is situate.] 
 
 18 — 23. [Period, for completion of works limited to 7 years — 
 Brrors and omissions in jjlans — Power to survey property to be 
 taken — Power to take lands — Removal of human remains from the 
 churchyard of St. Alary Islington. Spe?it.] 
 
 24. With respect to the widening of the Walworth Road by thi& 
 Act authorised and the alterations thereby rendered necessary in 
 the structure of the bridge carrying the railways of the London. 
 Chatham and Dover Railway Company over the Walworth Road 
 the following provisions shall apply : — 
 
 The Board shall be responsible for and make good to the said' 
 Railway Company all costs losses damages and expenses which mar 
 be occasioned to that Company or to any of the works or property^ 
 thereof or to the traffic thereon or otherwise by reason of the execu- 
 tion or failure of the works by this Act authorised under the railways^ 
 of the said Railway Company or of any act or omission of the Board 
 or of their contractors or of the persons in their employ and the 
 Board shall effectually indemnify and hold harmless the said Rail- 
 way Company from all claims and demands upon or against them 
 by reason or arising out of such execution or failure or of any such 
 act or omission. 
 
 Any difference which may arise between the Board and the said 
 Railway Company as to any matter under this section shall be from 
 time to time referred to and determined by an arbitrator to be 
 agreed on by the parties within one week after such difference has- 
 arisen or as failing such agreement to be appointed on the applica- 
 tion of either party by the Board of Trade and the costs of the 
 arbitration shall be borne as the arbitrator shall direct. 
 [Parts ofnitted {provisioJis applying during execution of works^ spent^ 
 
 25 — 29. [Poiver to the Board to take ^xirts only of the properties 
 merdioned in the schedule to the Act — As to arbitration — Deficiencies- 
 in land tax during works — Poiver to sell materials. Spent?] 
 
 30 — 32. [Power to the Board to lease surplus lands — As t& 
 sale of ground rents and reversions thereof — Poiver to sell suck 
 lands without leasing. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict. c. ccxxxvii- 
 6-. 23. See ibid. ss. 19—22.] 
 
 * Now the council of the metropolitan borough. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [46 & 47 Vict.] M^irojManJitreH^^^^^^^ ^^ .^^^_ ^^^^^...^ ^^3^ 
 
 33. The Board may iVom time to time let either from year to year Board may 
 or for a term at rack rent (^r ex(!hange or otherwise dispose of any ^*^^ ^t^^^- 
 bnildin<2: or lands or any part thereof acquired by them under the 
 ])Owers of this Act and not re(|uired for any of the purposes of 
 
 this Act and may execute and do any deed act or thinji^ proper for 
 effectuating any such lease exchange or other disposition. 
 
 34. \_Board to sell surplus lands wit hi n .v.ich time as they think 
 Jit. Superseded 47 & 48 Vict. c. 50, .s-. 23.] 
 
 35. The receipt of the ]5oard or of any person duly authorised by lieceipts of 
 the lioard for any purchase-moneys rents or profits or other money effectual 
 payable to the Board by virtue of this Act shall be a sufficient and (ibcharges. 
 effectual discharge for the money in such receipt expressed or 
 acknowledged to be received and the person to whom the same 
 
 shall be given shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable 
 for the raisaj)]ilication or non-a]»])licatiou of the money in such 
 receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received. 
 
 36 — 38. [Period for rompulsor;/ purchase of lands limited to 
 5 years — Rehousing of ivorkimj class persons. Spent.'] 
 
 39. [Separate accounts as to Ilanipstead improvements. Super- 
 seded 51 ct 52 Vict. c. 41. .s. 71.] 
 
 40 — 41. [Ildinpstcad Vp.^tni to contribute to the Ilampstead 
 iniproci'nirnts up to one-half the cost thereof. Spent.'] 
 
 42. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may at any rower to take 
 time within two years from the passing of this Act purchase and f"o'bndges 
 take the footbridge over the Grand Junction Canal in the parish of junction ' 
 Paddington wliich connects Ranelagh IJoad with Formosa Street CanaL 
 
 and also the footbridge over the said canal in the j)arish of St. Luke 
 Chelsea (detached) known as the Wedlake Street Footbridge which 
 connects Wedlake Street with the Harrow Road together with the 
 approaches thereto and the stairs and works connected therewith 
 respectively as shown on the def)0sited ])lans and described in the 
 deposited book of reference and the right or easement to maintain 
 alter widen or improve for the use of the public the said footbridges 
 respectively or two other footbridges in lieu thereof but in the same 
 respective ])Ositions across the said canal and towing-paths thereof 
 and the owners of and i)arties interested in the same respectively 
 shall when re(iuired so to do by the Board sell and grant the same 
 to the Board provided always that the Board shall not acquire any 
 estate or interest in any land or property of the Company of Pro- 
 prietors of the Grand Junction Canal other than the right or 
 easement before-mentioned. 
 
 [Part omitted {as to assessme?it of consideratioti) spent.] 
 
 43. Forthwith after the Board have acquired the said footbridge Footbridge in 
 (in the parisli of Paddington) and the said a]q)roaches thereto and ^'"fish°fft*e'J 
 the works connected therewith and such right or easement in res])ect it's acquisi- 
 thereof as aforesaid the same shall by virtue of this Act be deemed tion by Board 
 to be transferred to and shall vest in the vestry of the parish of fgrred^ ^q"*' 
 Paddington* and they shall be entitled to immediate ](Ossession vestry of 
 thereof and they shall subject to the other jirovisious of this Act Paddington 
 have absolute control of the said footbridge freed and discharged 
 
 from all leases contracts debts charges and liabilities whatsoever 
 affecting the same and thereupon all tolls and charges previous to 
 
 * Now tlie Coimcil of the Metropolitan Buiouirh of I'addiugton. See G2 &. 63 Vict. 
 0. 14, s. 4.
 
 632 
 
 [Chap, clxxviii.] ^iet>-opolitan^re^^Baprovemerd8 ^^^. ^ ^^ ^^^^.^ 
 
 Wedlakel 
 Street foot- 
 bridge after 
 its acquisi- 
 tion to be 
 
 Chelsea, 
 
 Power to 
 
 vestries to 
 repair and 
 rebuild foot- 
 bridges. 
 
 the passing of this Act demanded or taken in respect of the nse 
 of the same shall cease to be demanded or taken and the said foot- 
 bridge and approaches shall be dedicated to the public as a public 
 highway free from toll and shall be maintained repaired and lighted 
 by the said vestry in the same manner as other public highways in 
 the said parish. 
 
 44. Forthwith after the Board have acquired the said AVedlake 
 Street footbridge and the approaches thereto and the works con- 
 nected therewith and such right or easement in respect thereof as 
 aforesaid the same shall by virtue of this Act be deemed to be 
 
 Y^trv^of^ ° transferred to and shall vest in the vestry of the parish of Chelsea * 
 and they shall be entitled to immediate possession thereof and they 
 shall subject to the other provisions of this Act have absolute 
 control of the said footbridge freed and discharged from all leases 
 contracts debts charges and liabilities whatsoever affecting the same 
 and thereupon all tolls and charges previous to the passing of this 
 Act demanded or taken in respect of the use of the same shall cease 
 to be demanded or taken and the said footbridge and approaches 
 shall be dedicated to the public as a public highway free from toll 
 and shall be maintained repaired and lighted by the said vestry in 
 the same manner as other public highways in the said parish. 
 
 45. For the purposes of maintaining repairing altering improving 
 widening or rebailding either of the said footbridges the vestry 
 of the parish f in which such footbridge is situated shall have and 
 may exercise all such powers for executing works and otherwise in 
 relation thereto as they may from time to time require and may 
 from time to time enter upon and use the said Grand Junction Canal 
 the towing paths and the banks thereof and may do and execute all 
 such works acts matters and things as may be necessary for any of 
 the purposes aforesaid. Provided always that all works executed 
 by such vestry under the authority of this Act which shall affect 
 the said canal towing paths and banks or other property of the 
 Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal or structurally 
 affect the said footbridges shall be done under the superintendence 
 of an engineer to be from time to time appointed for the purpose of 
 such superintendence by the said Company at the request in writing 
 and at the cost of such vestry unless the said Company refuses or 
 neglects to give such superintendence at the time specified in such 
 request or discontinue the same during the execution of such works 
 and that such works shall be executed according to plans sections 
 and specifications previously submitted to and reasonably approved 
 by and to the reasonable satisfaction of such engineer and that 
 the said footbridges shall at all times remain and be used as foot- 
 bridges only and provided that no works shall be executed under 
 the authority of this Act which shall lessen the clear span or 
 headway of the present bridges or the width of the towing paths 
 under the same and that in the event of the said bridges or either 
 of them being rebuilt the same shall be constructed so as to be 
 carried across the said canal and the towing paths on each side 
 thereof by single spans with a clear headway at every point of not 
 less than ten feet above the weir level of the said canal at the point 
 of crossing and that all works and operations of such vestry their 
 agents contractors servants and workmen under this Act shall be 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea. See 62 k. 63 Vict. 
 c. 14, s. 4. 
 f Xow the council of the metropolitan borough. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 1-1, s. 4.
 
 r^P I' A-^T n Metropolitan Street Improvements v■l^„^^ «k...^;,-,- n aqq 
 
 [46 & 4 / VICT.] ^ /4 •/ 188'3 [LEAP. clxxviu.J odJ 
 
 carried out so as not at any time to oljstrnct or imperle the free 
 passaj^^e of boats barges or other vessels along the said canal or 
 of the horses or other animals towing the same or to caase any 
 damage to the said canal, or the towing paths or works thereof or 
 any leakage or escape of water from the said canal. Provided also 
 that in the event of the said bridges or either of them or any future 
 bridges being ut any time out of repair or of any obstruction or 
 imi)ediment being caused to the free navigation of the canal or the 
 traffic along the towing ])aths or of any damage to the said canal 
 or towing patlis or works thereof or of any leakage or escape of 
 water from the said canal being occasioned by the works or 
 operations of such vestry or their agents contractors servants or 
 workmen such vestry shall forthwith repair such bridges remove 
 such obstruction or imi)ediment restore and make good such damage 
 or prevent such leakage or esca])e of water as the case may be, and 
 in their default or in case of emergency the said Company may do 
 the same and the said Company may recover from such vestry in any 
 court of comjjetent jurisdiction any costs incurred by them under 
 this Act and any damages or expenses which they may sustain or 
 be put to in consequence of any of tlie before-mentioned matters and 
 ])rovided further that compensation shall be made by such vestry 
 for any lands entered upon or used or injuriously affected under 
 the authority of this section and that except as otherwise expressly 
 provided nothing in this Act contained shall take away diminish or 
 affect any of the rights privileges or powers vested in the said 
 Company by Act of Parliament or otherwise. 
 
 * 46. The vestry of the parish of Chelsea t shall keep sejoarate As to contri- 
 
 accounts of all expenses incurred by them in each and every year ^"^^^o"'* '^y 
 
 terminating at the end of their financial year in relation to the i-atidington 
 
 AVedlake Street footbridge and for carrying into effect the pro- and Keusing- 
 
 visions of this Act with resj^ect thereto (herein-after referred to as *°" ^^^'^^'r^ 
 
 ^' footbridge expenses ") and the said vestry shall furnish a copy relation to 
 
 of every such yearly account when audited to the vestries t of the Wcdlake 
 
 parishes of Paddinu-tun and Kensington within ten days after the ,^M'^^^ ^^^^' 
 ^ J., n ,, ° ° -^ bridge, 
 
 audit 01 the same. 
 
 The vestries of the parishes of Paddingtou t and Kensington f shall 
 contribute towards the amount of the footbridge expenses from 
 time to time incurred by the said vestry of the parish of Chelsea! 
 in each and every year such sums as may from time to time be 
 agreed upon between the said three vestries or as failing such 
 agreement may be determined by the Board at the request of 
 any of the suicl vestries. 
 
 The Board for the ])urpose of determining any question arising 
 under this section shall refer the same to some committee of the 
 Board then a[)pointed and such committee shall have full power and 
 autliority to hear and determine such ([uestion antl may order the 
 costs of such hearing and determination to be borne and paid by all 
 or any such vestries and in such proportions as tbey may think tit. 
 
 The sums from time to time agreed or determined as by this Act 
 provided to be ])aid by the vestries of Paddingtou f and Kensington t 
 by way of contribution towards the footbridge expenses incurred 
 by the said vestry of the parish of Chelsea shall be deemed to be 
 
 * The contributions referred to in tliis section have not been dealt with in any 
 adjustineut scheme under 62 A: i>8 Vict. c. 11. 
 
 t Now the Councils of tlie Metropolitan Boroughs of Chelsea and Paddington and 
 the Eoval Borousrli of Kensinston.
 
 634 
 
 [Chap. 5.] 
 
 Valuation Qletropoliii) Amendment 
 
 Act 1884. 
 
 [47 & 48 Vict.] 
 
 part of the expenses incurred by the said vestries respectively in 
 the maintenance and repair of highways within the said parishes 
 respectively and may be raised accordingly and all moneys raised 
 by the said vestries respectively from time to time for the purpose 
 of defraying the expenses incurred by them in the maintenance and 
 repair of highways within the said parishes respectively shall be 
 applied in the first instance towards the payment of all moneys 
 from time to time due by them on account of the said sums payable 
 by them under this Act by way of contribution towards the said 
 footbridge expenses. 
 
 47. The Board may subject to the provisions of this Act from 
 time to time enter into and carry into effect agreements with any 
 person being the owner of or interested in any lands houses or 
 property abutting on any portion of any of the improvements with 
 
 property, etc. pespect to the Sale by the Board to such person of any lands or 
 property (including any street or thoroughfare or any part of a 
 street or thoroughfare acquired by the Board under the powers of 
 this Act and not required for any of the purposes of this Act) for 
 such consideration as may be agreed upon between the Board and 
 such person and the Board may accept as satisfaction of the whole- 
 or any part of such consideration by such person the grant of any 
 lands or other property required by the Board for the purposes of 
 this Act. 
 
 48. \_Saving the rights of the Crown.'] 
 
 49. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent^ 
 
 Schedule. [Description of properties of which the Board ma'>/ 
 take parts only. Spent.] 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 make agree- 
 ments with 
 owners of 
 
 47 & 48 VICTORIA. A.D. 1884. 
 
 Short title 
 and con- 
 struction. 
 
 Enabling 
 owners and 
 lessees to 
 appeal. 
 
 CHAPTER 5. 
 
 An Act to amend the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869, by 
 
 GIVING greater FACILITIES FOR ApPEAL TO OwNERS AND LESSEES 
 
 or Houses paying Rates and Taxes in the place of the 
 Occupiers. \2^th March 1884.} 
 
 [Preamble {reciting 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Valuation (Metropolis) Amend- 
 ment Act, 1884, and shall be read and construed as one Act 
 with the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869 (herein-after called the 
 principal Act). 
 
 2. [Repeal of s. 70 o/ 32 & 33 Vict.c. 67.] . . . Where the owner 
 or lessee of any hereditament is liable to be assessed for any rate or 
 tax in the place of the occupier or tenant,* or does in fact pay any 
 such rate or tax in his place under any contract or arrangement 
 with him, such owner or lessee shall for the purposes of this x\ct 
 and the Acts incorporated therewith be deemed to be the occupier of 
 such hereditament, and the person referred to as the ratepayer in 
 sections nineteen and thirty-two of the principal Act, and the 
 
 * See the Poor Ptate Assessment and Collection Act 1869, ss. 3—4 (see Appendix).
 
 [47 & 48 Vict.] Metropolitan Police Act 1884. [Chap. 17.] 635 
 
 person who is to make to the overseers of his jiarish the statement 
 or return referred to in the fifty-hfth section of the principal Act. 
 
 Provided, that any form of return, order, notice, or document 
 required to he ji^iven to or served on the occupier under the jtrin- 
 cipal Act shall, exce])t where the owner or lessee is liable to be 
 assessed to or to ])ay any rate or tax in the place of the occupier, be 
 deemed to be sufficiently given or served, notwithstanding this Act, 
 if addressed to such occupier and left on the ])remises to whicli the 
 return, order, notice, or document relates. [Part omitted [repeal 
 of a. 70 ofWZ k 33 Vict. c. (57) rep. Gl k 02 Viet. e. 22 {S.L.R.}.'] 
 
 3. Where any occuj)ier or ratepayer, or any owner or lessee One notice 
 deemed to be an occupier or ratepayer within the meaning of ""^ ^^J^^'^^"^ 
 section two of this Act, shall object to the valuation li.st in resi)ect one or more 
 of any hereditaments, whether consisting of a house or houses separately 
 snbdivided into tenements separately assessed as hereditaments or a^^sessffd 
 of se})arate houses or tenements not so subdivided, it shall be lawful ments. 
 for him to include in any one notice made in pursuance of section 
 thirty-three of the ])rincipal Act or otherwise, or in any one 
 objection, appeal, or other proceeding under the principal Act and 
 the Acts incorporated therewith, the whole or any one or more of 
 the hereditaments separately assessed and comprised in one valuation 
 list of which he is or is deemed to be the occupier or ratepayer. 
 
 CHAPTEK 17. 
 
 An Act to provide for the Appointment of an additional 
 Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and 
 FOR other Purposes relating to the Commissioner and 
 Assistant Commissioners of such Police. 
 
 [23;y/ June 1884.] 
 
 {^Preamble {reciting 19 k 20 Vict. c. 2, and 31 & 32 Vict. c. 67) 
 rep. 61 & 62 Viet. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Act, 1n>:4. ^iiort title. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \_Part omitted (assignment of short titles to the Acts in the schedule 
 and. provision that this Act and those Acts may he cited as the Metro- 
 jjolitan Police Acts 1829—1884) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 2. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint a fit person to Appointment 
 be a third assistant commissioner* of jmlice of the metropolis, and assbtant°°^ 
 the Metropolitan Police Act, 18r)(), and the Police Pate Act, 1868, commi<;. 
 shall apply in like manner as if three assistant commissioners of *|o°ej- 
 police of the metropolis were therein mentioned instead of two. ^"^2 " ^^^' 
 
 Provided that the salary and allowances of the assistant commis- :u jt 82 Viet, 
 sioner apj)ointed in ])ursuance of this Act sliall be paid as part of '^■•*^'- 
 the expenses of the Metropolitan Police, [^Proi'iso rep. 62 & 63 
 Vict. c. 26, s. 1, with saving for existing officers.'] 
 
 3. (1.) Section three of the Police Rate Act, 1868, with respect --Amendment 
 
 to the allowances to an assistant commissioner of police shall apply 3^ ,;. 30 yj^^ 
 
 as if the commissioner of jwlice of the metropolis were therein c. G7. 
 
 mentioned as well as the assistant commissioners. ^- "^' ^^^ 
 
 • 38 & 39 Vict. 
 
 (2.) The Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act, 1875, c. 28. 
 shall ap]»ly to the commissioner and assistant commissioners of the
 
 636 
 
 [Chap. 50.] ''""''"iflXfZiiii''"'''" [47 & 48 Vict.] 
 
 Metropolitan Police so far as respects any salary, remnneration, or 
 emolument received or enjoyed by any of them out of the expenses 
 of the Metropolitan Police Force. 
 
 \_Subsection (1) 7-ep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 26, s. 1 (4), with saving for 
 existing officers?^ 
 
 Schedule. \_Setting out the short titles assigned to\0 Geo. 4, c. 44 ; 
 2 .t 3 Vict. ^. 47 ; 19 & 20 Vict. c. 2 ; 20 & 21 Vict. c. 64 ; 24 & 25 
 Vict. c. 124 ; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 67 ; a7id 38 & 39 Vict. c. 28. Eejj. 
 61 & 62 176'^. c. 22 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 CHAPTER 50. 
 
 An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the raising 
 OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and 
 FOR OTHER PURPOSES. \jth August 1884.] 
 
 \_Preamble rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 i^S.L.R.).'] 
 Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Money) Act, 1884, and the Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) 
 Acts, 1875 to 1883, and this Act, may be cited together as the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Moneyj Acts, 1875 to 1884. 
 Construction 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the 
 of Act. Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871, and the 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1883. 
 
 3—7. \_I)ef nit ions of the expressions " Parks and Open Spaces 
 
 Acts'' and ^^ Main Drainage Acts''— Amendment of ss. 11 and 12 
 
 of 46 & 47 Vict. c. 27 — Power to the Board to expend moneys for 
 
 sundry purposes during the year 1885. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 
 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 Special power 8. . . . All the provisions of the Main Drainage Acts and the 
 
 mn^^^for Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts altering or 
 
 ^u^rpSes^of amending the same, for the time being in force relating to the 
 
 naain drain- execution of works authorised by the said Acts respectively shall 
 
 age and main continue in force, and shall extend and apply respectively to the 
 
 works executed by means of money raised for the purposes of this 
 
 section ; and all stock created under the authority of this Act for 
 
 such purposes shall be deemed to be created for the purposes of 
 
 the above-mentioned Acts respectively. \_Part omitted {as to poiver 
 
 to expend money for purposes of main drainage and main sewers) 
 
 rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.)?\ 
 
 Power to lend 9. . . . <i . 
 
 to vestries, Money lent by the Board under this section shall, notwith- 
 
 boarScorpo- standing anything in any other Act, be repaid to them, with 
 
 rations' burial interest, within such time after the borrowing as the Board and the 
 
 boards, etc. borrowers with the approval of the Treasury agree : Provided that 
 
 the time after the borrowing within which such moneys shall be 
 
 repaid to the Board shall not exceed in the case of a loan for 
 
 parposes of improvements effected by the widening of streets or 
 
 bridges, or for the purpose of purchase of land in fee simple, sixty 
 
 years, and for any other purpose thirty years. Provided further 
 
 that nothing in section twelve of the Metroi)olitan Board of Works 
 
 (Money) Act, 1879 ; in section eleven of the Metropolitan Board 
 
 of Works (Money) Act, 1880 ; in section fifteen of the Metropolitan 
 
 Board of Works (Money) Act, 1881 ; in section thirteen of the 
 
 Metropolitan Board of VVorks (Money) Act, 1882 ; in section ten
 
 rt'-c Ao\r -1 Metropolitan Board of Works rr'o»t> nn i p.-^i 
 
 [4. & 48 Vict.] {Mo,u';j) Act 1884. t^^^«^^- '^^"'•^ ^'^^ 
 
 of the Act of 1883, or in this section, shall be deemed to have 
 prevented or to prevent the Board from agreeing that any such loan 
 as is in the said sections respectively mentioned, and which has 
 been or may be made by the Board to any vestry or district board, 
 shall be repaid by such instalments or otherwise, and at such time 
 or times (not exceeding the times by the said sections respectively 
 prescribed) as the Board may think fit and the Treasury may approve. 
 n^irf omitteil {poircr to the Board to lend to vetitrics arid, di-itrict 
 boards, etc., till '.Mst JJeccmher 1885) rep. 01 & 02 \'ict. c. 22 
 {S.L.IL).-] 
 
 10. \_roiver to the Board to lend to guardians till Zlst December 
 1885. Rep. 61 and 02 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.). — Provision for repa>/- 
 ment icitJnn a time to he approved b;/ the Treasun/ not exceeding 'M) 
 years. Identical ivith such provision in 38 & 3'J Vict. c. 65, s. 5.] 
 
 11. [^Extension of amount ichich the Board may lend, to the 
 Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. Rep, 61 k 02 Vict, 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 12. [^Power to the Board to lend till 2>\st December 1885 to the 
 School Board for London. Rep. 01 and 02 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.). — 
 Provision as to repayment within a period not exceeding 50 years. 
 Superseded 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, s. 5, and 2nd schedule, and 3 Edw. 7, 
 c. 24, s. 1.] 
 
 J.O. ...... 
 
 Where the Board under the authority of this Act create con- Power to 
 solidated stock to raise money for the purpose of the Fire Brigade ^^|j^^^*^g^{ 
 Act, 1805, or to enable them to make a loan repayable within thirty stock. 
 years from the date of such loan, the Board shall from time to 
 time carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sums as the Treasury 
 approve as being in their opinion sufficient to redeem within the 
 period of thirty years from the date of the creation of such stock, 
 or in the case of any such loan within any lesser period for which 
 the same may be made, an amount of consolidated stock equal to 
 that so created : and 
 
 Where the Board are by this Act authorised to make a loan, the 
 Board, instead of raising money for any such loan by the creation 
 of consolidated stock, may use for any such loan any moneys for 
 the time being forming part of the Consolidated Loans Fund, and 
 not required for the i)aymcnts of the dividends on consolidated stock. 
 Provided that no such moneys shall be used for any such loan 
 which shall be repayable at any date later than the date at which 
 such moneys will be required by the Board to pay off consolidated 
 stock ; and 
 
 Where the Board raise consolidated stock for the jnirpose of any 
 scheme made by the Board under the authority of the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875,* or the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings Im))rovemeut Acts, 1875 to 1882,* and con- 
 firmed by Provisional Order and Act of Parliament, there shall be 
 repaid (as providetl by the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings 
 Improvement Act, 1875,*) to the consolidated rate out of the local 
 rate as defined by the said last-mentioned Act, all mt)neys required 
 for payment of dividends on and the redemption of all consolidated 
 stock created for such purpose. 
 
 [Part omitted {as to power to the Board to create consolidated stock 
 for the purposes of this Act) rep. 61 & 62 ]'ict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 * Eep. and replaced bv the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.
 
 Eepayments 
 to be carried 
 to Consoli- 
 dated Loans 
 Fund. 
 
 As to sale of 
 
 superfluous 
 
 lands. 
 
 /'oo m„. ---i Metropolitan C oynmons Supplemental r/c-p^ioTr t 
 
 638 [Chap, ii.] ^ ^^^ ^ ^g^^ ^ ^ [4 / & 48 Vict.] 
 
 14 — 20. \_As to ratification of the BoarcPs expenditure for fire 
 brigade purposes till d\st December 1883, and as to Metropolitan 
 Bills. Rep 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 21. All sums received hj the Board in respect of interest on or 
 principal of any loan made by them under this Act shall be carried 
 to the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 22. \_As to limit to the exercise of borrowing powers. Rep. 61 & 62 
 Vict. c. 22 (^.L.i?.).] 
 
 23. Notwithstanding anything in any Act of Parliament contained 
 the prescribed period within which the Board shall absolutely sell 
 and dispose of any lands acquired by the Board for the purposes 
 of any street improvement or widening, or for the j^urposes of any 
 apjjroach to any bridge, and not required for such purposes under 
 any Act of Parliament jjassed before the first day of January one 
 thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, shall be the sixth day of 
 October one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and as to 
 any Act of Parliament passed in or subsequently to the year one 
 thousand eight hundred and eighty-one shall be the first day of 
 February one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, being the 
 respective dates at which the consolidated stocks raised to defray 
 the expenses of the Board in carrying into effect the said purposes, 
 are respectively by law required to be redeemed. Provided always, 
 that the Board may sell and dispose of any such superfluous lands 
 at any time within the respective periods hereiu-before prescribed. 
 All moneys received by the Board from the sale or disposition 
 of such superfluous lands shall (except where otherwise specially 
 provided by any Act) be carried by the Board to the Consolidated 
 Loans Fund. \_See also 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, s. 27 ; and 53 & 54 
 Vict. c. 41, s. 24.] 
 
 First Schedule. \_Particulars of neio money poicers corf erred by 
 this Act. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.)?^ 
 
 Second Schedule. \_List of the Parks and Ojien Spaces Acts 
 referred to in s. 3. Rep. 61 k Q2 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Scheme as to 
 .Streatham 
 Common 
 confirmed. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Ax Act to confiem a Scheme under the Metropolitan 
 Commons Act, 1866, and the Metropolitan Commons 
 (Amendment) Act, 1860, relating to Streatham Common. 
 
 [2^th April 1884.] 
 
 \_Preamble recites that the Land. Commissioners for England have, 
 
 in prursuance of the Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866, and the 
 
 Metropolitan Commons Amendment Act, 1869, duly certified a Scheme 
 
 for the establishment of local management with respect to Streatham 
 
 Common, situate in the county of Surrey. *~\ 
 
 1. The Scheme for the establishment of local management with 
 respect to Streatham Common, situate in the county of Surrey,* 
 certified by the Land Commissioners for England t under their seal 
 on the twenty-ninth day of December one thousand eight hundred 
 and eightv-three, and contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, 
 is hereby confirmed. 
 
 ♦ Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 t Now the Board of Agriculture. See the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, s. 2.
 
 rA,vB Ac-vr -1 Metropolitan i^oinmoni^ ^iapnlemental rr'rr.^ ,•; i pqo 
 
 [47 & 48 Vict.] ^ ^^^ ^ ^g^_ ^ ^ [Chap, u.] 039 
 
 2. This Act may l)e cited for all purposes as the Metropolitan f»bort title. 
 Commons Supplemental Act, 1884. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Metkopolitan C<>m.m()Ns Acts, 180G awl 18G9. 
 
 Scheme with respect to Streatham Commoii. 
 
 1. Streatham Common, hei-ein-after called "the Common," in the county of 
 Surrey,* as the same is delineated in a plan deposited with the Land Commis- 
 sioners for England, shall henceforth for all the purposes of this Scheme be 
 repfulated and managed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, t herein-after 
 termed '' the Board." 
 
 2. [^Pnwev til (ipjxiint and rer/uldfe ojffirerx. Superseded by the Municiprd C'or- 
 jKiratiiuix Act 1HH2, s.s. li) and "10 {see Apjicndix), and 51 & 52 Va-t. c. 41, s. 75. 
 See also 18 A: ID Vict. c. 120, ss. 202 and 203.] 
 
 '^. The Board may execute any works of drainage and improvement of the 
 Common so far only as may be required for the purposes of the Metropolitan 
 Commons Acts, and may, subject to such notices and proceedings (if any) as 
 are by law required, divert, alter, and stop up existing footpaths and ways, and 
 may lay out and make new footpaths and ways in substitution for or in addition 
 to the same, and shall preserve the turf and grass, and for this purpose may 
 enclose by fences for short periods, such portions as may require rest to revive 
 the same, and shall also preserve the trees, shrubs, and plants, and so much of 
 the gorse as they may deem desirable ; and they may plant or otherwise beautify 
 the Common, and may provide and place seats and other conveniences for the 
 accommodation of the public in suitable parts of the same, but shall do nothing 
 that shall otherwise vary or alter the natural features or aspect of the Common. 
 Ko house or any other building shall be erected on the Common, excejjt such 
 lodges or other buildings as may be necessary for the maintenance or manage- 
 ment of the Common. The Board may from time to time erect on the Common 
 such lodges and other buildings as maybe necessary for the maintenance or manage- 
 ment of the Common. [Xce also oO & 51 Vict. c. cvi. s. 50, a/id i)8 S: 5',* 1'/'^ 
 c. cxxvii. s. 45.] 
 
 4. The Board shall maintain the Common as delineated in the said plan 
 deposited with the Land Commissioners,t and therein described as the Upper 
 Common and the Lower Common, free of all encroachment, and shall permit no 
 trespass on or partial or other enclosure of any part thereof, and no fences, posts, 
 rails, or other matters or things shall be maintained, fixed, or erected thereon 
 without the consent in writing of the Board, but nothing in this section con- 
 tained shall prevent the lords of the manor or their tenants or others, upon 
 one month's notice given by such lords to the Board, from fencing off and 
 appropriating the strip of land between the roadway and the plot of ground 
 numbered six hundred and eighty-one on the said plan. 
 
 5 — 6. [.4.-,' to byelaivx. Superseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21, and 01 & 
 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. .s'. Gl.] 
 
 7. The Board shall permit under regulations cricket and football to be played 
 upon any part of the Lower Common, except the portions to be appropriated for 
 riding purposes and the local cricket clubs, as herein-after mentioned, and the 
 Board may restrict or prohibit or permit under regulations, as the Board may 
 think fit, the playing of other games on the Upper Common, and except as 
 aforesaid on the Lower Common. 
 
 8. The piece of ground now enclosed with chains at or near the spot marked 
 C on the said plan having for a long series of years been kept in order by the 
 local cricket clubs for matches, the Board shall reserve the said i)iece of ground 
 exclusively for the matches of the clubs now using it, and of such other loc;il 
 clubs as shall be authorised by the Board before the first day of February in 
 any year, so long as such clubs or some of them shall keep the said piece of 
 ground m order, or at the option of the Board shall contribute in equal shares 
 such sums as shall be required for that purpose. 
 
 9. The Board shall appropriate for riding, and under regulations the exercise 
 of horses, the strip or piece of ground forming the outer margin of the Lower 
 Common, to the width of forty feet, and shall also permit riding on the piece of 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 A: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 ii 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 640 [Chap, ii.] ^Metropolitan (^^ommom Supplemental j-^. ^ ^^ ^^^^-^ 
 
 ground of the same width crossing diagonally the Upper Common, and marked 
 "ride " on the said plan. 
 
 10. Except for the owner or owners for the time being of the soil, it shall not 
 be lawful, without the consent in writing of the Board, to form, build, or lay 
 any sewer, drain, pipe, waterway, or other matter of like nature, in, into, or under 
 any part or parts of the Common. 
 
 11. Except for those persons who now by law are entitled to do so. and whose 
 rights shall not be purchased, acquired, or extinguished by the Board under this 
 Scheme, it shall not be lawful to turn out on the Common for grazing any cattle, 
 sheep, or other animals. 
 
 12. Xothing herein contained shall be construed as placing any of the public 
 roads or highways on, across, or adjoining the Common under the care of the 
 Board, or shall prevent the Yestry of Streatham* or the legally constituted road 
 authority, by their officers and servants, taking such portions of the Common as 
 they may require for the purpose of widening, with the consent in writing of 
 the Board, the said roads or highways to the width of forty feet : but it shall 
 not be lawful for the said Vestry or any other person or persons to make or form 
 any new roads over and across the Common without the consent in writing of 
 the Board. 
 
 13. l^Expeni^es of olituhung and of executing Scheme. Spent in part Remr. super- 
 seded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, p)('''f' i^"-5 «'*'^ ^'J ift^ London Count)/ Coimcil {Mcrney) 
 Acts 1885—1904.] 
 
 14. The Board shall be at liberty to receive and apply for the purposes of 
 this Scheme, or any of them, any subscriptions or donations applicable thereto 
 respectively that may come to their hands. 
 
 15. Xo proceeding touching the conviction of any offender under this Scheme, 
 nor any order or other matter or thing whatsoever made, done, or transacted 
 in or relating to the execution of this Scheme, shall be vacated, quashed, or set 
 aside for want of form. 
 
 16. Saving always to all persons and bodies politic and corporate, and their 
 respective heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, all such estates, 
 interests, or rights of a profitable or beneficial nature in. over, or affecting the 
 Common, or any part thereof, as they or any of them had before the con- 
 firmation of this Scheme by Act of Parliament, or could or might have 
 enjoyed if this Scheme had not been confirmed by Act of Parliament, except 
 only so far as any such estates, interests, or rights shall be purchased, acquired, 
 or extinguished by the Board, whether by agreement or compulsorily, as 
 herein-after provided. 
 
 17. The lords of the manor of Fauxhall, otherwise Vauxhall, in the county 
 of Surrey ;■'" claim the soil and freehold of the Common, and the mineral and 
 valuable strata in or under the same. Rights of common of pasturage are 
 claimed by certain owners and occupiers of freehold and copyhold lands and 
 tenements within the manor as appendant or appurtenant to such lands and 
 tenements. The right to take ice from one of the ponds on the Common is 
 also claimed by the occupier of the messuage and premises known as " the 
 Rookery," adjoining the Common. 
 
 18. The Scheme affects the .several estates, interests, and rights of a profitable 
 or beneficial nature, in, over, and affecting the Common only so far as is abso- 
 lutely necessary for the purposes of the Scheme, that is to say, by conferring on 
 the Board powers of management, improvement, and control as herein-before 
 provided, and for such purposes the power of restricting, diminishing, or ex- 
 tinguishing such estates, interests, or rights, or any of them, whenever it shaU 
 appear to the Board that the continuance of such estates, interests, or rights- 
 will interfere with the control, preservation, or improvement of the Common by 
 the Board, or with any of the purposes of this Scheme, upon payment by the 
 Board of compensation to the bodies or persons severally interested in such 
 estates, interests, or rights. The amount (if any) to be paid by the Board to 
 such bodies or persons as and for compensation in respect of the restriction, 
 diminution, or extinction of such estates, interests, and rights shall be settled by 
 agreement, or failing agreement, then under the provisions of the Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same, so far as the same 
 relate to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, including 
 therein the several provisions relating to the compensation for common or waste 
 lands, and thereupon the several provisions of such portion of the Lands Clauses 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth. See 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Yict. c, 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 n'^ Sr 4 ^r^^r^i Metropolitan Board of Works rn — i /»ii 
 
 [4 / & 4h Vict.] ^ yj.^^^^ ^,^^^^,^.^^ ^j;{^ ^^^^ [Chap, ccxxiii.] C41 
 
 <!)onsoIidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same, shall apply as if in all 
 cases the word " lands " included interests, rights, and easements. 
 
 19. The lords of the manor assent to their rights being affected in the 
 manner and to the extent herein expressed, but subject and without prejudice 
 to the rit^hts of the said lords of the manor to the gravel, mines, and minerals 
 in and under the Common, and so that in the event of any parts of the Common 
 being required by any railway company or any other public company or body 
 •under any legislative compulsory powers but not otherwise for the purposes of 
 their undertaking the lords of the manor shall be entitled to the purchase 
 money or compensation for the same, which they would have been entitled to 
 receive in case this Scheme had not been made, their rights being only affected 
 during and for the purposes of this Scheme, and also upon the express under- 
 standing that if at any time the said lords of the manor desire to fence off 
 And appropriate or allow their tenants or others to fence off and appropriate the 
 «trip of land between the plot of ground numbered six hundred and eighty-one 
 •on the said plan and the roadway, they shall be permitted to do so after one 
 month's notice in writing given to the Board. The several owners and occupiers 
 who claim rights of common over the Common have not a.ssented to or dissented 
 from the Scheme. 
 
 20. Printed copies of the Sclieme shall at all times be sold at the office of 
 the Board, to all persons desiring to buy the same at a price not exceeding 
 sixpence each. 
 
 The Land Commissioners for England, pursuant to the provisions of the 
 Metropolitan Commons Acts, 18GG and 18(J"J, hereby certify the foregoing 
 Bcheme. 
 
 In witness whereof they have hereunto affixed their official seal this twenty- 
 jiinth day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. 
 
 CHAPTER CCXXIII. 
 
 An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 
 MAKE certain NeW StREETS IN THE METROPOLIS ; FOR 
 
 amending the Metropolitan Street Improvements Act 
 1877 J for conferring further Powers upon the said 
 Board with respect to Plumstead Common and Hackney 
 Commons ; and for other Purposes. \lth August 1^84.] 
 
 \_Preamble recites (inter alia) 35 & 36 Vict. c. xliii. ; 4U & 41 Vict. 
 c. ccxxxv. ; a)id 44 & 45 Vict. c. cxlviii.] 
 
 Part 1. 
 Freliminarij. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of ^Vorks Short title. 
 (Various Powers) Act 1884. 
 
 2. Ill this Act the following words and expressions liave the Interpreta- 
 several meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be some- ""^"^ o^ '^I'^S' 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that 
 
 is to say) : — 
 
 " The Board '' means the Metropolitan Board uf Works * ; 
 
 " The Act of 1877 " means the Metropolitan Street Improvements 
 Act 1877 ; 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 "The improvements" means the new streets and the works 
 connected therewith respectively by this Act authorised. 
 
 * Now the Londoa County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8). 
 
 41
 
 642 
 
 Division of 
 Act into 
 parts. 
 
 rri •■• -] Metropolita7i Board of ^\ orks 
 
 Chap. CCXXlll. /t- ■ t> ^ a 4^QO^ 
 
 •- ( ' cmoas Fowers) Act 1684. 
 
 [47 & 48 Vict.} 
 
 " Street " shall have the meaning assigned to that term in the 
 Metropolis Management Act 1855 and the Acts amending 
 the same. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \_Pa7'ts omitted {definitions of " the Lands Clauses Acts,^^ " metro- 
 polis,'^ " Justice" " lessee,'^ and '■'■ person^'' and as to the meanings of 
 words in Acts incorporated) spent. ~\ 
 
 3. This Act is divided into parts as follows — 
 
 I. Preliminary. 
 II. New Streets. 
 
 III. Amendment of Act of 1877. 
 
 IV. Acquisition of Lands. 
 V. Hackney Commons. 
 
 VI. Miscellaneous. 
 
 4. \Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 5 — 6. [Board to execute Act — Board may ax-t hj committee. Super- 
 seded hy the Municijjal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 {see Appe?idix)y 
 and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 make new 
 streets. 
 
 Paet II. 
 
 ]!!\ew Streets. 
 
 7. Subject to the provisions of this Act in the lines according to- 
 the levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the de- 
 jiosited plans and sections the Board may make and carry into 
 execution all or any of the new streets herein-after described (that, 
 is to say) : — 
 
 In the County of Middlesex.* 
 1. St. Pancras Lmpro'cement. 
 
 A new street in continuation of Clarence Eoad commencing in- 
 the Kentish Town Road at the junction therewith of Clarence- 
 Eoad and terminating at the junction of Great College Street, 
 and King's Road wholly in the parish of St. Pancras. 
 
 2. Poplar Lmprovement. 
 
 A new street connecting Cotton Street with Preston's Road all in 
 the parish of All Saints' Poplar commencing in Cotton Street 
 at its junction with Wells Street, and terminating in Preston's. 
 Road at its junction with Bedford Street. 
 
 8 — 10. [Power to the Board to stop up ways during works, to- 
 raise or lower streets, and to deviate. Spent.l 
 
 11. [Power to the Board to make subsidiary works, to stop up 
 and a/ppropjriate streets, to alter sewers and drains on 'prodding 
 substitutes, tvhich are to be under the sa7ne management as existing 
 sewers and drains7\ 
 
 12 — 13. [Power to the Board to alter water, gas, and other pijjes, 
 a/nd to lay out carriageways and footways, and to ptrozide raults and 
 other works and conveniences. Spent.] 
 
 14. [As to laying of pavements and vesting the same when laid in 
 the vestry or the district board, of the parish t or district f icithin 
 which the same are situate with the liability to repair the same.] 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict, c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 t Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [^7 & 48 Vict.] ^^fopolitan Board of Works ^^.^^^._ ^^^^... -j ^,^3 
 
 -J {\ arious Foicers) Act \bi:>\. •- -J 
 
 15. [Poiver to the Hoard to fill up sewers and drains on providing 
 substitutes, irJach are to be under the same management «.s exiMing 
 sewers and drains^ 
 
 16. [^Poiver to the Board to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. Spent.'] 
 
 17. \_Ground laid into streets to form part thereof and to be under 
 the management of the testrg of the parish * or district board of the 
 district * within which it is situate.'] 
 
 18 — 31. SfFime for completion of works limited to Zi years — Errors 
 and omissions in plans — Powers to the Board, to enter upon and 
 survey lands to be taken, and to take lands, and to appropriate to the 
 Poplar improvement so much of the lands authorised to be acquired 
 by 42 & 43 Vict. c. Ixxix. as is tvithin the limits of derintion for the 
 Poplar improvement — Provisions as to acquisition of land a and as to 
 compensation — Board to redeem land tax on lands acquired loithin 
 6 montlis after the acquisition thereof— Power to the Board, to sell 
 materials, to grant building leases of lands not tvanted — Ground 
 rents and reversions thereof to be sold — Power to sell such land 
 without leasing, and to let or exchange lands — Board to sell surplus 
 lands within such time as they think fit. Spent.] 
 
 32. \_Receipts of the Board to be effectual discharges.] 
 
 33. \Periodfor compulsory jjurchase limited to 3 years. Spent.] 
 
 34. The Board may su])ject to the provisions of this Act from time fower to 
 to time enter into and carry into effect agreements with any person ^^^^'^ ^° 
 being the owner of or interested in any Lands houses or property ments with 
 abutting on any portion of any of the improvements with respect owners of 
 to the sale by the Board to such person of any lands or property P^^P^^^J" ^^^' 
 (including any street or thoroughfare or any part of a street or 
 thoroughfare acquired by the Board under the powers of this Act 
 
 and not required for such of the improvements) for such considera- 
 tion as may be agreed ui)on between the Board and such person and 
 the Board may accept as satisfaction of the whole or any part of 
 such consideration by such person the grant of any lands or other 
 property required by the Board for the purposes of this Act. 
 
 35 — 37. \_Board to keep separate accounts of the Poplar improve- 
 ment — Poplar District Board to contribute up to half the cost of 
 the same. Spent.] 
 
 Paet III. 
 
 Amendment of xlct of 1877. 
 
 38 — 41. [Extefisionfor 3 yea?'S of the period limited by 40 & 41 
 \'ict. c. ccxxxv. s. 3\ for taking lands, and amendment of s. 33 
 thereof {provision of labouring class dwellings). Spent.] 
 
 Part IV. 
 
 Acquisition of Lands. 
 
 Gray^s Inn Road Improvement. 
 
 42. \_Power to the Board within 3 years from the passing of this 
 Act to take the lands in St. Andrew, Holborn, shown on the deposited 
 plans for the purpose of the Gray^s Inn Road improvement authorised 
 by 40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxv. Amended 50 ct 51 Vict. c. cvi. s. 51, a7id 
 
 spent.] 
 
 *Now the Council of the Metropolitan Boioagh. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 644 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 improve 
 Plumstead 
 Common. 
 
 [Chap, ccxxiii.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 {Various Powers^ Act 1884. 
 
 Plumstead Common. 
 
 [47 & 48 Vict.] 
 
 43. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may enlarge 
 and improve Phimstead Common by the addition thereto of certain 
 waste hinds known as Sot's Hole in the parish of Plumstead and 
 county of Kent * delineated on the deposited plans and described in 
 the deposited book of reference and may for such purpose enter 
 upon take and use the said lands. 
 
 All lands in the parish of Plumstead acquired by the Board under 
 the powers of this Act shall forthwith thereafter be added to become 
 and be part of Plumstead Common and the same shall be subject 
 to the exercise of all rights in over or upon Plumstead Common 
 in all respects as though the said lands so added formed jmrt of 
 the lands immediately before the passing of this Act subject to the 
 provisions of the Plumstead Common Act 1878 and the provisions 
 of the said Act shall extend and apply to the lands so added as 
 though the same were included in the lands immediately before the 
 passing of this Act subject to the provisions of the said Act. . . . 
 \_Pai't omitted {as to bijelaivs^ superseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. 
 ss. 14 — 21, and 01 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 Hackney 
 Commons. 
 
 Testing of 
 Hackney 
 Commons in 
 the Board. 
 
 Part V. 
 
 Hacknej/ Commons. 
 
 Interpreta- 44. In this part of this Act the expression " Hackney Commons 
 
 tion of term as shown ou the deposited plans " means the several pieces of land 
 shown on the deposited plans coloured green thereon and thereon 
 described as lands intended to be treated as part of " Hackney 
 Commons." 
 
 45. From and after the passing of this Act all such parts of 
 Hackney (Jommons as shown on the deposited plans as were not 
 immediately before the passing of this Act absolutely vested in the 
 Board in fee simple are hereby vested absolutely in the Board in 
 fee simple and the Board shall from and after the passing of this 
 Act hold Hackney Commons as shown on the deposited plans 
 (excepting any highways thereon) discharged from all estates 
 interests rights titles charges and incumbrances whatsoever in to 
 over or affecting the same or any part thereof but subject to the 
 provisions contained in the Metropolitan Commons Supi)lemental 
 Act 1872 and the scheme thereby confirmed with reference to 
 Hackney Commons as defined by the said last-mentioned Act and 
 scheme and the Acts altering amending or affecting the same as 
 varied by this part of this Act and the Metropolitan Commons 
 Supplemental Act 1872 and the said scheme and the Acts altering 
 amending or affecting the same. . . . \_Part omitted (as to bf/elaws) 
 sujjerseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21, and 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. ccxxi. s. 61. See also ibid. s. 47.] 
 
 46 — 47. [^Provisions as to compensation. Spent.'] 
 
 48. For the purpose of determining the amount of compensation 
 in respect of any claim by this part of this Act directed to be deter- 
 mined by arbitration there shall be a standing arbitrator appointed 
 and acting as follows (that is to say) : — 
 
 (1.) The Board of Trade shall as soon as may be after the passing 
 of this Act by writing under the hand of a secretary or an 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 Appointment 
 of standing 
 arbitrator.
 
 r47 & 48 Vict 1 Metropolitan Board of Works ^^ ..^ -, .^ . 
 
 [4 . &. 4» V iCT.j ^ Various Foivers) Act 1884. V-^^^- ccxxm.j u^o 
 
 assistant secretary of the said Board appoint a person to act 
 as such standin<^ arbitrator. 
 (2.) Any standing arbitrator may be removed from his office by 
 tlie Board of Trade by writing under the liand of a secretary 
 or an assistant secretary of the said Board. 
 (3.) If any standing arbitrator dies or resigns or is removed from 
 office the Board of Trade shall in manner aforesaid within 
 one niontli after notice of his death resignation or removal 
 a])point another person to be a standing arbitrator in his 
 jdace. 
 Before any standing arliitrator enters upon the duties of his office 
 he shall in the ])resence of a Justice make and subscribe the following 
 declaration (that is to say) : — 
 
 I AJJ. do solemnly and sincerely declare that 1 will faithfally 
 and honestly and to the best of my skill and ability hear and 
 determine all matters which may from time to time be referred 
 to me under the provisions of Part V. of the Metro})olitan 
 Board of Works (Various Powers) Act 1884. 
 And if a standing arbitrator having made such declaration wilfully 
 acts contrary thereto he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 49. The Board may from time to time as the consideration or Power to 
 part of the consideration for the purchase of lands or for any ^^Tnt rights 
 consideration which they may deem of public advantage grant (for br easements 
 a limited time or in perpetuity) to any person upon such terms and over Hackney 
 conditions as may be agreed upon between the Board and such Commonf,. 
 person any right or easement in over or affecting Hackney Com- 
 mons as shown on the deposited plans or any part thereof. Provided 
 that the standing arbitrator shall at the request of the Board award 
 that instead of making compensation for any private right of way 
 over Hackney Commons the Board shall permit such private right 
 of way to be exercised and enjoyed by any person entitled thereto 
 as before the passing of this Act. 
 
 And the standing arbitrator may if he thinks fit at the request of 
 the Board and with the consent of any person entitled to compen- 
 sation under this part of this Act award that the Board shall grant 
 and thereupon the Board shall grant any such right or easement as 
 aforesaid to such person in satisfaction wholly or in part of such 
 compensation. Provided that no such right or easement shall be 
 such as in the o})inion of the Board shall be inconsistent with the 
 due execution by the Board of the provisions of the Metropolitan 
 Commons Sup])lemental Act 1872 and the scheme thereby confirmed 
 as varied by this ])art of this Act. 
 
 The Board may from time to time by agreement with any person 
 who may by or by virtue of any such agreement or award as 
 aforesaid for the time being be entitled to any such right or 
 easement in over or affecting TIacknev Commons as shown on the 
 deposited plans jjurchase or aci{uire such right or easement on such 
 terms and conditions as the Board shall think fit. 
 
 Any person empowered by the Lands Clauses Acts or the Settled 
 Land Act 1882 to sell and convey or release lands may subject to 
 the provisions of the said Acts enter into any such agreement with 
 the Board for the sale or release of any such right or easement as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 50. The Board may from time to time by agreement with any rower to 
 person exchange any lands forming part of Hackney Commons as ^^^
 
 646 
 
 exchange 
 lands. 
 
 [Chap, ccxxviii.] 
 
 Powers of 
 Board as to 
 roads over 
 Hackney 
 Commons. 
 
 Metropolitan Board of ^yorks 
 (Bridges) Act 1884. 
 
 [47 & 48 Vict.] 
 
 shown on the deposited ])lans for any other lands adjoining which 
 the Board may think it desirable to substitute for such first- 
 mentioned lands. 
 
 Any lauds given by the Board in exchange under the authority 
 of this part of this Act shall thereupon cease to form any part of 
 Hackney Commons as shown on the deposited plans although the 
 same be shown on the deposited plans as part thereof. 
 
 Any lands taken by the Board in exchange under the authority 
 of this part of this Act shall thereupon be deemed to be and shall be 
 held by the Board together with and as though the same were part 
 of Hackney Commons as shown on the deposited plans and this 
 part of this Act shall be construed accordingly. 
 
 Any person emj^owered by the Lands Clauses Acts or the Settled 
 Land Act 1882 to sell and convey or release lands may subject to 
 the provisions of the said Acts enter into any such agreement with 
 the Board for exchange of lands as aforesaid. 
 
 51. The Board may from time to time open or make or permit 
 and suffer any person (upon such terms and conditions as the Board 
 may think fit) to open or make any foot carriage or other way over 
 Hackney Commons as shown on the deposited plans or any part 
 thereof which the Board may deem proper for the use of the public. 
 Provided always that until such way shall become repairable by 
 the inhabitants at large the same shall continue subject to all bye- 
 laws for the time being in force with respect to Hackney Commons 
 as shown on the deposited plans. 
 
 52. \Pending actions concerning Hackney Commons may he 
 pursued, as though this Act had not been passed. Sj^eiit.'] 
 
 53. \_Saving for the Great Bastern Raihvay Company^ 
 
 Part VI. 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 54. {Expenses of executing Act. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict.c. 41, 
 part iv., and by the London County Council Money Acts 1885 — 1904.] 
 
 55. \_Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 Schedule. {Description of properties to be taken, to which s. 92 of 
 the Lands Clauses Act 1845 is not to apply. Spe)it.^ 
 
 Short title. 
 
 CHAPTER CCXXVIII. 
 
 An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works to 
 ALTER the Situation of the new Battersea Bridge autho- 
 rised BY the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881 and for 
 other Purposes. 
 
 {Preamble recites that by 44 & 45 Vict, 
 were empotvered (inter alia) to construct a 
 
 Thames at Battersea with approaches but have not yet constructed 
 the same, and that it is expedient that the bridge should be con- 
 structed in an altered position, and recites the dej)Osit of [dans with 
 the Clerks of the Peace for Middlesex and Surrey7\ 
 
 1. This Act mav be cited as the Metropolitan Board of "Works 
 (Bridges) Act 1884. 
 
 {fith August 1884.] 
 
 c. cxcii. the Board 
 neiv bridge over the
 
 rA" s Ao^T n Metropolitan Board of Works rrt — i z.*- 
 
 [4. & 48 Vict.] (Bridge,) Act 1884. t^^^"^^' ^'C^^viii.] 64. 
 
 2. In tliis Act tlie following words and expressions have the Ipterpreta- 
 several meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be something ^^^^ of terms. 
 in the subject or context repugnant to such constrnction (that is to 
 
 say) : — 
 
 " The Board " means the Metropolitan Board of "Works * ; 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 " The Act of 1881 " means the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881 ; 
 
 "The Act of 1S83" means the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Bridges, etc.) Act 188:5 ; 
 
 ^' The works by this Act authorised " includes the new Battersea 
 Bridge and the widening of Battersea Bridge Road and the 
 new road in the parish of St. Mary Battersea by this Act 
 resj)ectiv('ly authorised and the viaducts embankments piers 
 walls fences drains stairs buildings w^orks and conveniences 
 connected with the said new bridge and widening and with 
 the said new road respectively by this Act authorised ; 
 
 \Farts omitted {definitions of " Lands Clauses Acts,^'' " Justice^'' 
 " lessee,''^ and " personi^'' and. as to meanings of words in Acts 
 incorporated) spent.'] 
 
 3. {^Incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.] 
 
 4 — 5. [^Board to execute Act — Board may act hj committee. 
 Superseded bij the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 (see 
 Appendix), and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 4ij and 75.] 
 
 6. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board mav make Power to 
 new Battersea Bridge authorised bv the Act of 1881 in the 'altered ™^^^^i^^'^- 
 
 , ° , -, • 1 'i • 1 /• • 1 • • tion as to 
 
 position shown on the deposited plans instead oi in the position new Batter- 
 shown on the plans deposited for the purposes of the Act of IS^l sea Bridge 
 and may in the lines according to the levels and within the limits A°\^°fi881^^ 
 of deviation shown on the deposited plans make and (except as 
 otherwise by this Act expressly provided) maintain the said bridge 
 and the new road and road widening hereinafter mentioned that is 
 to say : — 
 
 A new road wholly in the parish of St. Mary Battersea com- 
 mencing in the Battersea Bridge Road at its junction with 
 Little Europa Place continued along the present line of the 
 said place to a point in line with and thence to and along 
 Cottage Place and terminating at the northernmost end of 
 Cottage Place w^here it joins " The Folly " and 
 The widening of Battersea Bridge Road in the same parish on the 
 western side thereof from the termination of new Battersea 
 Bridge to Bridge Road West. 
 And in connection therewith all such viaducts embankments piers 
 wharves walls fences drains stairs buildings and all such works and 
 conveniences as they may deem ])ro})er. And all the provisions 
 of the Act of 1881 as amended ])y this Act with res])ect to new 
 Battersea Bridge and the works connected therewith shall extend 
 and apply to the works authorised by this Act as though the same 
 were authorised by the Act of 1881. Provided always that the 
 works authorised by the Act of 1881 and therein described as new 
 Battersea Bridge shall not (so far as they are ditierent from the 
 "works by this section authorised) be made by the Board and that 
 the Board shall not make the approai-h road to new Battersea 
 Bridge in the county of Surrey f and parish of St. Mary Battersea 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 v<c 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 40 (8). 
 f Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2;.
 
 648 
 
 [Chap, ccxxviii.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 {Bridges) Act 1884. 
 
 [47 & 48 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 appropriate 
 roads to use 
 of the public. 
 
 No main or 
 pipe to be 
 laid on works 
 authorised 
 except with 
 consent of 
 Board. 
 
 Board may 
 let or ex- 
 change lands 
 
 Board to 
 dispose of 
 lands not 
 wanted. 
 
 shown on the plans and sections deposited for the purposes of the 
 Act of 1881. 
 
 7. l^Power to the Board to remove the existing Battersea Bridge. 
 Spef'ft.} 
 
 8 — 12. {_As to property of William Farnell Watson, the London 
 Steamboat Company, Ltd., and Mr. Hazell — Power to the Board to- 
 deviate, to stop up streets during works, and to alter steps, areas,, 
 and pipes. Spe?it.^ 
 
 13. The Board may appropriate and dedicate to the use of the- 
 public the whole of any road or w^ay whether a thoroughfare or not 
 within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans and 
 forthwith thereafter the same shall be a public highway and shall 
 be maintained repaired and lighted as other public highways by the- 
 road authority of the district in which the same is situate. Provided 
 always that the Board shall not be liable to make comjiensation to- 
 any person in respect of the appropriation or dedication of such road 
 or way or in respect of the site or soil of such road or way or of anjr 
 part thereof. 
 
 14. Notwithstanding anything in any Act to the contrary it shall 
 not be lawful for any company or person to enter upon break up 
 or interfere with the bridge by this Act authorised or the road and 
 footways over the same for the purpose of laying down any main 
 or pipe or executing any work therein thereon or thereunder except 
 with the consent of the Board in writing and in accordance with 
 such terms and conditions not being the exaction of any rent as the 
 Board may determine. Provided that nothing in this section con- 
 tained shall alter or affect any of the provisions of the Telegraph 
 Act 1878 or of the Electric Lighting Act 1882. 
 
 15 — 23. [Period for completion of ivorks limited to 4 years — 
 Errors and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to enter and 
 survey lands to be taken — As to acquisition of lands — Board to 
 redeem land tax on lands acquired within 6 months after the 
 acquisition thereof — Power to the Board to sell materials. Spent. ~\ 
 
 24 — 26. [Power to the Board to grant building leases of surplus 
 lands — As to sale of ground -rents and reversions thereof — Power 
 to sell such lands ivithout leasing. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. ccxxxvii. s. 23. See ibid. ss. 19 — 22.] 
 
 27. The Board may from time to time let either from year ta 
 year or for a less period or for a term at rack-rent or exchange 
 or otherwise dispose of any building or lands or any part thereof 
 acquired by them under the powers of this Act and not required for 
 any of the purposes of this Act and may execute and do any deed 
 act or thing proper for effectuating any such lease exchange or other 
 disposition. 
 
 28. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board shall within 
 such period as they may think fit (which period shall be the 
 prescribed period for the purposes of section one hundred and 
 twenty-seven of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845) after 
 the completion of any of the works by this Act authorised for the 
 purposes of which any lands have been acquired sell and dispose of 
 to any person or persons and grant and convey such parts of such 
 lands as they may have acquired under the powers of this Act and 
 which shall not be required for any of the purj)Oses of this Act. 
 [See also 47 & 48 Vict. c. 50, s. 23.]
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] Metropolis ^^^^y^^^^rd Amendment ^^^^^ 33 -j ^^^^ 
 
 29. Tiie receipt of tlie Jioard or of any person duly authorised I^^ce'Pts of 
 by the Board for any jiurchase-moneys rents or profits or money effectual ^ 
 payable to the ]?oard by virtue of the Act of 1881 the Act of 1883 discharges, 
 or this Act shall be a sufficient and effectual dischar<;e for the money 
 in sucli receipt ex])ressed or acknowledj^ed to be received and tlie 
 person to wliom tJie same shall be <i;iven shall not afterwards be 
 answerable or accountable for the misapplication or non-application 
 of the money in such recei])t expressed or acknowled<ced to be 
 received and sucli money shall Ijc ap))lied Ity the Board towards the 
 expenses of the l>oard in executing the works by the said Acts and 
 this Act authorised. 
 
 30—32. [Period for compulsory purchase of lands limited to 
 3 years — As to rehousing working class persons. Spent.~\ 
 
 33. [Power to theBoard to make agreementswith ownersqf property. 
 Identical with such powers in 46 & 47 Vict. c. clxxviii. s. 47.] 
 
 34. The Board may defray the expenses from time to time incurred Power of 
 by them after the ])assing of this Act in the execution of the Act {i{^'>^^^^o 
 1881 the Act of 1883 (except section fifty-six thereof and including penl^^s under 
 the expenses of lighting the bridges required by the said Acts to be Act of I8SI 
 maintained by the Board) and of this Act and not by either of the ^^t of 1S83 
 said Acts or this Act or any other Act otherwise expressly provided ^^{\ raisirn^ 
 for. . . . [Part omitted {expenses to he defrayed as if expenses of ot^aivaehy 
 the Board under 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120) superseded 51 & 52 Vict. ^. general rate. 
 41, })art iv.] 
 
 35. [Saving the rights of the Commissioners of Works.'] 
 
 36. [Saving the rights of the Crown.'] 
 
 37. [/'Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 48 & 49 VICTORIA. A.D. 1885. 
 
 CHAPTER 33. 
 An Act to amend the Metropolis Management Acts. 
 
 [31*^^ July 1885.] 
 [Preamble {reciting 18 ct 10 Vict. c. 120) rep. 01 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 (&Z./t'.).] 
 
 1. [Vestries of St. Mary Islington., Lambeth^ St. Pancras, 
 St. Mary Abbott Kensington, and the Wandsworth District Board 
 of Works to each elect 3 members, and the Vestries of Camherwell 
 and Paddington and the District Boards of Works of Greenwich, 
 Hackney, and Poplar to each elect 2 members of tlie Metropolitan 
 Board of Works. Pep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (6'.L.iA).] 
 
 2. [The districts of Plumstead and Leicisham to cease to be united 
 for the purpose of electing a member of the Metropolitan Board of 
 
 Works and to each elect a separate member. Pep. 61 & 62 Vict, 
 c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 3. . . . The vestries of the respective parishes of St. Peter and separation of 
 St. Paul, Hammersmith and Fulham, shall ... be incorporated, fj^^JJjjJJ" ''^"'^ 
 and shall have all such powers and be subject to all such provisions smith. 
 as if they had been named in Part II. of Schedule A. to the said 
 recited Act. [See 62 cV:. 63 Vict. c. 14, 6\ 1.] 
 
 [Parts omitted (dissolution of the Fulham District Board of Woi-ks 
 
 lammer-
 
 650 
 
 Acts to be 
 construed as 
 one Act. 
 Hammer- 
 smith and 
 Fulbam Dis- 
 trict Board. 
 
 Fulham dis- 
 trict officers. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 [Chap. 50.] 
 
 Met)'Opolitan Board of Works 
 {Money) Act 1885. 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] 
 
 {from and after 2>\th March 1886) and as to election of members of 
 the Metropolitan Board, of Works) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (/S'.L.it'.).] 
 
 4 — 5. \A8 to term of office and election^ etc. of members of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R^.'\ 
 
 6. The said recited Act, and the Acts amending the same, and 
 this Act shall be construed together as one Act. 
 
 7. All byelaws and regulations made by the Board of Works for 
 the district of Fulham, and subsisting at the dissolution of the said 
 Board, shall continue in force in the parishes of Saint Peter and 
 Saint Paul, Hammersmith, and Fulham, until repealed or altered 
 in accordance with the law applicable thereto. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [fart omitted (as to ap2J07^tionment of property, claims, demands, 
 debts, and liabilities) re'p. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 8. If any of the officers in the service of the Board of Works for 
 the district of Fulham* shall, within one year from the dissolution 
 of the said District Board, be appointed to an office in the service 
 of the vestry of either of the said parishes of Saint Peter and Saint 
 Paul, Hammersmith, or Fulham, the time during which he shall 
 have been in the service of the said District Board shall, in com^ 
 puting the time of his service for the purpose of superannuation 
 under the Act passed in the twenty -ninth year of Her present 
 Majesty, chapter thirty-one, intituled " An Act to provide for 
 Superannuation Allowances to Officers of Vestries and other Boards 
 within the area of the Metropolis Local Management Act," be 
 added to the time during which he shall have been in the service 
 of such vestry. 
 
 9. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Metropolis 
 Management Amendment Act, 1885. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Construction 
 of Act. 
 
 Special power 
 to expend 
 money for 
 purposes of 
 main drain- 
 age and main 
 sewers. 
 
 CHAPTER 50. 
 
 An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the raising 
 OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and 
 FOR OTHER PURPOSES. [Qth August 1885.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money) Act, 1885, and the Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) 
 Acts, 1875 to 1884, and this Act, may be cited together as the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1885. 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have eftect as one with the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871, and the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1884. 
 
 3 — 9. [Interpretation of the exp)ressions " Parks and Open Spaces 
 Acts''^ a/nd '■''Main ])rainage Acts'''' — Amendment of ss. 7, 10, and 
 12 of 4:7 & 48 Vict. c. 50 — Pof^ier to the Board to expend moneys for 
 sundry purposes during 1885. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).] 
 
 10. . . . All the provisions of the Main Drainage Acts and the 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts altering or amend- 
 ing the same, for the time being in force relating to the execution 
 of works authorised by the said Acts respectively shall continue in 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Fulbam. See 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4.
 
 T4S & 49 Vict 1 ^^^etropolitan Board of Work., ., . 
 
 ^_45 &, 4J V icT.j {Mone^j) Act 1885. L*""^^- '^^'-l ''•^' 
 
 force, and shall extend and ap])ly respectively to the works exeented 
 by means of money raised for the })nrposes of this section ; and all 
 stock created under the authority of this Act for such i>urposes 
 shall he deemed to he created for tlie jiurposes of the above-men- 
 tioned Acts respectively. \_Porf omifffd (a.s to power to the Boord 
 to expend not exceeding £'80,<J00 duriiuj the year endiiuj '.^\st December 
 1886 for the purposes of main drainage and mairi seivers) rep. 
 01 & 02 Vict. c. 22 OS'.L'.T?.)-] 
 
 11. ...... Power to lend 
 
 Money lent by the Board under this section shall, notwith- ^^. ^est^ne-s 
 
 standing anything in any other Act, be repaid to them, with boards 
 interest, within such time after the borrowing as the Board and the corporations, 
 borrowers with the approval of the Treasury agree : Provided that ^^""al boards, 
 the time after the borrowing within which such moneys shall 1)6 
 repaid to the Board shall not exceed in the case of a loan for pur- 
 poses of improvements in relation to streets or bridges, or for the 
 purpose of purchase of land in fee simple, sixty years, and for any 
 other purpose thirty years : Provided further, that nothing in this 
 section siiall be deemed to prevent the Board from agreeing that 
 any such loan as is in this section mentioned, and which may be 
 made by the Board to any vestry or district board, shall be repaid 
 in one sum or by such instalments or otherwise and at such time or 
 times (not exceeding the times by this section prescribed) as the 
 Board may think fit and the Treasury may approve. 
 \_Part omitted {as to power to the Board to lend till 31. s-^ December 
 1886 to vestries and district boards and other piiblic bodies levying 
 rates in the metropolis) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 12. \_Power to the Board to lend to guardians till ^\st December 
 1886. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22(S.L.i{.). — Provision for repayment 
 
 within a time to be approved by the Treasury not exceeding 30 years. 
 Identical with such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, s. 5.] 
 
 13. [Extension of amount which the Board may lend to the Managers 
 of the Metropolitan Asylum District. Rep. 01 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 
 (^./..7?.).J 
 
 14. [Power to the Board to lend till ^Ist December 18S6 to the 
 School Board for London. Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.). — Pro- 
 vision as to repayment within a period not exceeding 5'> '/ears. 
 Superseded 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, s, 5, and 2nd schedule ; and 3 Edw. 7, 
 C.24, s. 1.] 
 
 15. Where under the authority of this or any other Act the Protection of 
 Board lend any moneys to any corporation, body of commissioners. Board in 
 public body, or persons, tiie exercise of whose powers of borrowing ^^^^^j^^g"^' 
 is subject to the consent of the Local Government Board, the 
 sanction of that Board to the borrowings of such monevs shall in 
 
 everv such case be conclusive evidence that such corporation, bodv 
 01 commissioners, public body, or })ersons had power to borrow such 
 monevs. 
 
 ^Wt •••••• 
 
 "Where the Board under the authority of this Act create con-i'o^erto 
 solidated stock to raise money for the purpose of the Fire ^uda'ted" 
 Brigade Act, 1865, or to enable them to make a loan repayable stock, 
 within thirty years from the date of such loan, the Board shall from 
 time to time carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sums as the 
 Treasury approve as being in their opinion sufficient to redeem
 
 AKo rn^.T. ^r\-\ Metropolitan Board of Wor/is r^of ^aat -i 
 
 652 [Chap. oO.] (Mone^) Act 1885. ^"^^ ^ ^^ ^^^^-^ 
 
 within the period of thirty years from the date of the creation of 
 such stock, or in the case of any such loan within any lesser period 
 for which the same may be made, an amount of consolidated stock 
 equal to that so created ; and 
 
 Where the Board are by this Act authorised to make a loan, the 
 Board, instead of raising money for any such loan by the creation 
 of consolidated stock, may use for any such loan any moneys for 
 the time being forming part of the Consolidated Loans Fund, and not 
 required for the payments of the dividends on consolidated stocks 
 Provided that no such moneys shall be used for any such loan which 
 shall be repayable at any date later than the date at which such 
 moneys will be required by the Board to pay off consolidated stock ; 
 and 
 
 AVhere the Board shall be of opinion that any moneys by this 
 Act authorised to be raised for any purpose should be paid off 
 within a period of thirty years or any lesser period, the Board 
 instead of raising such moneys by the creation of consolidated stock 
 may with the approval of the Treasury, use for such purpose any 
 moneys for the time being forming part of the Consolidated Loans 
 Fund, and not required for the payments of the dividends on con- 
 solidated stock. Provided that no such moneys shall be so used 
 unless provision shall be made in such manner as the Treasury 
 approve for paying off the same at or before the date at which such 
 moneys will be required by the Board to pay off consolidated stock ; 
 and in every such case the Board shall from time to time raise as 
 part of the consolidated rate such sums as the Treasury approve as 
 being in their opinion sufficient for the payment of the interest on 
 and for paying off the moneys used for such purpose at the date 
 approved by the Treasury as aforesaid, and such sums shall from 
 time to time be carried by the Board to the Consolidated Loans 
 Fund. 
 
 Where the Board raise consolidated stock for the purpose of any 
 scheme made by the Board under the authority of the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875,* or the Artizans and 
 Labourers Dwellings Lnprovement Acts, 1875 to 1882,* and con- 
 firmed by Provisional Order and Act of Parliament, there shall be 
 repaid (as provided by the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Im- 
 provement Act, 1875,*) to the consolidated rate out of the local rate 
 as defined by the said last-mentioned Act, all moneys required for 
 ])ayment of dividends on and the redemption of all consolidated 
 stock created for such purpose. 
 
 [Part omitted {as to power to raise consolidated stock for the 
 2)urposes of this Act) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (/S.Z.i?.).] 
 
 Power for 17. The Board may from time to time within twelve months after 
 
 Board after ^j^g issue of consolidated stock carry to the dividend account in the 
 tcf apply^ ^^ Consolidated Loans Fund for the purpose of providing for the pay- 
 moneys ment of dividends on such stock from the dates fixed at the time of 
 raised by g^^ch issue though the same may be earlier than the dates fixed for 
 ^p (jjyjjj™^/ receiving the cash instalments on account of such loan so much of 
 from fixed the moneys arising from the issue of such stock as they may require 
 dates. fV,]- that purpose, and as the Treasury approve and may from time to 
 
 time apply the moneys so carried to such dividend account to the 
 
 payment of such dividends. 
 
 18 — 24. [Ratification of the Board's expenditure for Fire Brigade 
 
 * Pvep, and replaced by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.
 
 rioc ^r.tr -1 Metropolis Board of Works rn„.^ ?;m «ko 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ /gg^^ [Chap. oO.] 6o3 
 
 purposes till 'i\st December 1884 — Foicer to tJw Board to raise 
 raoneij by metropolitan bills and pjrovisions relating thereto — Limit 
 on borrowing in s. 38 of "^2 k 33 Vict. c. 1(J2, not to extend to moneys 
 raised under this Act. Hep. 01 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (-S'. A. //.)■] 
 
 25. All snras received Ly the Board in respect of interest on or Repayments 
 principal of any loan made liy them under this Act shall be carried ^^^^ consoH***^ 
 to the Consolidated Loans Fund. dated Loang 
 
 26. \_Limit to exercise of borroiving poaers. Rep. Gl & G2 Vict.^^^"^' 
 c. 22 {S.L.li.):] 
 
 27. In the following provisions of this Act relating to unclaimed ipterpreta- 
 stock, unclaimed dividends, and unclaimed redemption moneys, the g^^^i^ fy[JJ,J; 
 words, terms, and expressions following shall have the meanings ing pro- 
 herein-after assigned to them respectively, that is to say : visions as to 
 
 "Stock" shall mean any metropolitan consolidated stock here- ""^^^.^'"1^1. 
 tofore created by the Board, or wliich the Board may hereafter dends, and 
 be authorised to create, and includes any share or interest redemption 
 
 .1 • moneys, 
 
 therein ; •' 
 
 " The bank " means the persons or body corporate who keep the 
 books for the transfer of stock ; 
 
 " The books of the bank " means the books for the transfer of 
 stock. 
 
 Provided, that in the event of the Bank of England ceasing to be 
 the bank within the meaning herein-before assigned to the same 
 term, the terms Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of 
 England shall be construed to mean res])ectively manager and 
 assistant-manager of the bank, and the terms Accountant-General 
 and Deputy Accountant-General of the Bank of England shall be 
 construed to mean respectively the secretary and assistant-secretary 
 of the bank. 
 
 28. All stock, no dividend whereon is claimed for ten years or Transfer of 
 more (except where payment of dividend has been restrained by a "."'^^^^^^^'^ 
 court of justice) shall be transferred in the books of the bank to the Board. 
 Board to an account to be entitled " The Metropolitan Board of 
 AVorks Unclaimed Stock Account." 
 
 29. Immediately after every such transfer the name in which List of names 
 the stock stood immediately before the transfer, the residence and f^ock Trans- 
 description of the parties, the amount transferred, and the date of ferred. 
 transfer shall be entered in a list to be kept for the purpose by the 
 
 bank. The bank shall during the six mouths next previous to such 
 transfer, give notice in writing to the stockholder at his registered 
 address, of the impending transfer to the Metropolitan Board of 
 "Works. 
 
 30. Every such transfer shall be made and signed by the ^o^e of 
 Accountant-General or the Deputy Accountant-General of the Bank ^'^^'^^fer. 
 of England, and shall be as effectual to all intents as if signed by the 
 person in whose name the stock then stands. 
 
 31. Where stock is transferred under this Act, all dividends ^J'^^i^e'irdTon 
 accruing thereon after the transfer shall be paid to the Board, and j;tock trans- 
 shall be from time to time carried to the Consolidated Loans Fund, ferred to be 
 and may be applied by the Board to any of the purposes to which i"^*?*ted, etc. 
 cajjital moneys forming i)art of the said fnnd are aiii)licable : 
 Provided always that the Consolidated Loans Fund shall thereafter 
 
 be charged with the })ayment of the claims of the persons entitled to 
 any of the monevs carried to the said fund under this section.
 
 aKi rn«»T. r\r\i Metropolitan Board of Works rtos acwt t 
 
 654 [Chap. oO.] \Momif) Act 1885. ^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^'^-3 
 
 Re-transfer 32. The Governor or the Depntj-Governor of the Bank of England 
 to pe^-so™^"^* may direct the Acconntant-General or the Deputy Accountant- 
 showing title. General of the Bank of England to re-transfer any stock transferred 
 under this Act to any person showing his right thereto to the 
 satisfaction of the Governor or the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of 
 England, and to pay the dividends due thereon as if the same had not 
 been transferred or paid to the Board, and all moneys so jjaid on 
 account of such dividends shall forthwith after notice of the payment 
 of the same be repaid by the Board to the bank. 
 
 But in case the Governor or the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of 
 England is not satisfied of the right of any person claiming to be 
 entitled to any such stock or dividends, the claimant may by 
 petition in a summary way state and verify his claim to the 
 Chancery Division of the High Court. . . . 
 
 The petition shall be served on the Board, and the Court shall 
 make such order thereon (either for re-transfer of the stock to which 
 the petition relates, and payment of the dividends accrued thereon 
 or otherwise) and touching the costs of the application as to the 
 Court seem just. 
 
 All costs and expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Board in 
 resisting or appearing on any such petition, if not ordered by the 
 Court to be paid out of the stock and dividends thereby claimed, 
 shall be paid by the Board out of the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 AVhere any re-transfer or payment is made to any such claimant,, 
 either with or without the authority of the Court, the bank shall 
 give notice thereof to the Board within three days after making 
 the same. 
 IWords omitted (" of Justice'') rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'\ 
 
 Three months 33. Stock exceeding the sum of twenty pounds shall not be 
 
 re'-Vransfe^cTr rc-trausferred from the Board under this Act, nor shall dividends 
 
 payment. exceeding twenty pounds in the whole be paid to a claimant under 
 
 this Act until three mouths after application made for the same nor 
 
 until public notice has been given thereof, as in this Act is provided. 
 
 Advertise- 34. The bank shall require the api:)licant to give such public 
 
 reTransfer OT- ^^oticc as they think fit by advertisement in one or more newspapers 
 payment. circulating in London and elsewhere. 
 
 Every such notice shall state the name, residence, and description 
 of the person in whose name the stock stood when transferred to the 
 Board, the amount thereof, the name of the claimant, and the time 
 at which the re-transfer thereof and payment of dividends will be 
 made if no other claimant sooner appears and makes out his claim. 
 
 Where any such re-transfer or repayment is ordered by the 
 Chancery Division of the High Court . . . , the notice shall also 
 state the purport of the order. [_Note to s. 32 applies7\ 
 
 Application 35. At any time before re-transfer of stock or payment of 
 
 rescindorder dividend as aforesaid to a claimant, any person may apply to the 
 
 Chancery Division of the High Court . . . , by motion or jjeti- 
 
 tion, to rescind or vary any order made for re-transfer or payment 
 
 thereof. \fSote to s. 32 applies.'] 
 
 Bank not 36. Where any stock or dividends having been re-transferred or 
 
 toTecond^^ paid as aforesaid to a claimant by the bank, is, or are afterwards 
 
 claimant. claimed by another person, the bank and their officers shall not be 
 
 responsible for the same to such other claimant, but he may have 
 
 recourse against the person to whom the re-transfer or payment 
 
 was made.
 
 no f xmr.^r.,1 Metropolitan Board of Works rr< -at n~~ 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] ^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^.^ j^-^._ [Chap. oO.] Goo 
 
 37. If in any ease a new claimant establishes his title to any Order in 
 stock or dividends re-transferred or paid to a former claimant, and second °^ 
 is unable to obtain transfer or payment thereof from the former claimant 
 claimant, tlie ( "hancorv Division of the Hio:h Court . . . sliall, ^bowing 
 on a])plication by petition by the new claimant verified as the Court 
 requires, order the I'oard to jtay to him such moneys in resi)ect of 
 
 the stock and for dividend as the Court thinks jnst. 
 
 Such payment shall be made out of the Consolidated Loans Fund 
 or from other money at the disposal of the Board. 
 \_^yote to s. 32 applirs.~\ 
 
 38. Where any dividend accrued due on any sum of stock is not F'ayment of 
 claimed for ten years or more, the dividend so unclaimed and all ^"^1^^°)^^*^) 
 dividends subseciuently accrued due in respect of the same sum of Board, 
 stock and unclaimed shall be paid to the Board. 
 
 All such dividends sliall l)e held and dealt with in like manner as 
 nearly as may be as the dividends accruing on stock transferred to 
 the Board under this Act after the transfer, and this Act shall 
 accordingly liave effect in relation thereto, and to the application 
 thereof, and claims to the same as if the foregoing provisions of this 
 Act with respect to the dividends accruing on stock transferred 
 to the Board under this Act were repeated and in terms made 
 applicable thereto respectively. 
 
 39. All principal sums of money payable to any holder of stock Unclaimed 
 redeemed bv the Board which shall not be claimed for ten years redemption 
 after the day on which the same became due to such holder or for 
 
 ten years after any dividend which accrued on such stock shall 
 have been last claimed (except where payment of such principal 
 sum or dividend shall have been restrained by a Court of Justice) 
 shall together with all dividends due thereon be paid to the Board, 
 and the receipt of the cashier of the Board for any such moneys 
 shall be as effectual to all intents as if signed by the person in 
 ■whose name the stock redeemed then stands, and thereupon the 
 stock so redeemed shall be cancelled and all dividends and interest 
 in respect thereof shall be extinguished, and all such moneys when 
 received by the Board shall be from time to time carried to the 
 Consolidated Loans Fund and may be applied by the Board to any 
 of the purposes to which capital moneys forming part of the said 
 fund are applicable. Provided always that the Consolidated Loans 
 Fund shall thereafter be charged with the payment of the claims of 
 the persons entitled to any of the moneys carried to the said fund 
 under this section. 
 
 40. The Board may from time to time empower the bank to investigation 
 
 investigate the circumstances of any stock or dividends remaining °f "^^'"'^"^: 
 ... ^ ^ sttiDccs or 
 
 unclaimed with a view to ascertain the owners thereof and allow unclaimed 
 to them such comi)ensation as to the Board seems just for their dividends, 
 trouble and expenses in that behalf. 
 
 41. The Board may from time to time allow to the bank a Allowance 
 reasonable com})ensation for all expenses incurred by them in and °^ ^^^^^°^^^ 
 about notices and advertisements directed by this Act and other 
 services required or authorised by this Act. 
 
 42. Compensation allowed by the Board under this Act may be Taymcnt of 
 deducted rateably from the stock and dividends from time to time tkm^nowed 
 re-transferred or paid with reference to which the trouble, expenses, 
 
 and services have been incurred and performed by the bank, or the
 
 656 
 
 Indemnity 
 to bank. 
 
 [Chap. 68.] 
 
 Metropolitan Police Stajf 
 Superannuation Act 1885. 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] 
 
 same may be paid by the Board out of unclaimed stock or dividends 
 transferred to or received by them. 
 
 43. The bank and the Governor or the Deputy-Governor of the 
 Bank of England are hereby indemnified in respect of every transfer 
 or re-transfer of stock or payment of dividends or moneys under 
 this Act and shall not be in any manner responsible to any person 
 having or claiming any interest therein. 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 First Schedule. \_Particulars of new money powers conferred by 
 this Act. Rep. 01 & 62 Vict. c. 2^\S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Second Schedule. [List of Parks and Open Spaces Acts re- 
 ferred to in s. 3. Re'p. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Amendment 
 of Order 
 tinder 
 
 CHAPTER 68. 
 *Ax Act to amend the Metropolitan Police Staff Super- 
 annuation Act, 1875. \_Y^th August 1885.] 
 
 {Preamble {reciting 38 & 39 Vict. c. 28) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 (-S.L./^.).] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Staff 
 Superannuation Act, 1885. 
 
 This Act shall be construed as one with the Metropolitan Police 
 Staff Superannuation Act, 1875, and together with that Act may be 
 cited as the Metropolitan Police Staff Superannuation Acts, 1875 
 and 1885. 
 
 2. The Secretary of State may from time to time make a new 
 Order in pursuance of section one of the Metropolitan Police Staff 
 
 sslTsgYict. (Superannuation) Act, 1875, and may thereby revoke or vary any 
 c. 28. Order previously made in pursuance of that section, whether before 
 
 or after the passing of this Act. 
 Provided that — 
 
 ia) any such Order shall not apply without his consent to any 
 person holding office at the time when the order is made ; 
 and 
 {Jj) if any superannuation allowance has been granted before the 
 making of the Order to any ofticer in pursuance of an Order 
 made under the said Act the Secretary of State may, if he 
 think fit, grant to such oflicer on his application a super- 
 annuation allowance in accordance with the new Order in 
 lieu of the superannuation allowance previously granted. 
 
 3. The regulations contained in the schedule to this Act shall have 
 effect as if contained in an Order made by the Secretary of State in 
 pursuance of the Metropolitan Police Staff" (Superannuation) Act, 
 1875, as amended by this Act, and they shall accordingly be subject 
 to the provisoes subject to which an Order made in pursuance of this 
 Act is subject. 
 
 Order in 
 schedule. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Regulations. 
 
 Paragrajjh thirteen of the Order made by the Secretary of State 
 in pursuance of the Metropolitan Police Staff Superannuation Act, 
 
 * Amended 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26, s. 5.
 
 Metropolis ( Ilufjlies Fields^ 
 [48 & 40 Vict.] Veptford) Provisional Order [Chap, xcix.] 057 
 
 Co/ijinrtation Act 1885. 
 
 1875, and dated the first day of January one thousand eight hundred 
 and seventy-six, shall l)e revoked, and the followiiifr y)aragra{>h shall 
 have effect as if inserted in the Order in lieu thereof: 
 III .sidi.sfifafionj'or PfiragropJ) 13. 
 "Where an officer holding any employment remunerated out ofliightto 
 public moneys, and not in the police service, is appointed to the sup^'rannua- 
 })f)lice service, the Secretary of State may grant to snch officer, npon ^nce of 
 his ultimate retirement from the police service, the same super- officer 
 annuation, compensation, gratuity, or other allowance as he might ^J^^"*^^^"®*^ 
 have granted under this order if the whole period of the service of public em- 
 such officer in employments remunerated out of public moneys ployment to- 
 which has been jiractically continuous had been in the police service, pol'^e 
 subject nevertheless to a deduction of the amount of such pension, 
 gratuity, or other allowance as may be otherwise allowed him in 
 respect of his i)revious employment remunerated out of public 
 moneys : Provided that if his service in his former employment 
 has formed his qualification under an Order made in pursuance of 
 Regulation four of this Order, either the period of his service in 
 such emjiloyment or the number of years added by such Order may 
 be reckoned, Init ])oth shall not be reckoned for the pur])Ose of any 
 such su])erannuation, compensation, gratuity, or other allowance to 
 be granted in pursuance of this Order. 
 
 CHAPTER XCIX. 
 An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Im- 
 provement of an unhealthy Area situated at Deptford 
 within the Metropolis. {2^nd Juli/ 1S85.J 
 
 [Preamble.'] 
 
 1. The Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed is hereby 
 
 confirmed. Order in 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Hughes Fields, schedule 
 Deptford) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, Isso. confirmed. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 The Mktropolis (Hl-ohes Fields, Deptfokd) Improvement, 1885. 
 
 [Provisional Order of the Home Secretary dated 2^rd April 1885, confirming 
 a Scheme of 'ilnt October 1884, prepared by the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 nuder the Artizans ami Labourers DxcelUngs Improvement Acts 1875 — 1882, 
 for the improreiitetit (f an unhealthy ana in the jjarishes of St. Nicholas ami 
 St. Paul, Deptford, in the di.itrict of Greena-ich. The Order recites that the 
 tiumber of persons of the icorking class to be displaced by the Scheme is estimated 
 at 1,040, and tluit in addition there is accommodation for 140 persons in registered 
 lodging luntses. The Order provides for clearing the improvement area and for 
 the erection thereon of direllings to accommodate not less than 1,786 persons 
 of the icorking class, and also requires the widening of Butcher Row, so far as 
 affected by the Scheme, as nearly as may be to '60 feet ; and <f New Street as nearly 
 as may be to 30 feet from Wellington Street to a point south of New Court, and 
 from that point its diversion as shown on the pkvi No. 22l{ referred to in the Order, 
 and its continuation of a width of 30 feet into a new street {No. 1) hereinafter 
 described; the formation of a new street (No. 1) from Watergate Street to 
 Butcher Row, a netu street {No. 2) in continuation of Prince Street from Watergate 
 Street to Neio Street, a new street (No. 3) from New Street to Hughes Fields, a new 
 street (No. 4)/roH^ Watergate Street to Neio King Street, each of such streets to he 
 30 feet wide; and a footway over part of Frenches' Fields about IS fett wide 
 from the new street (No. 1) to the new street (No. 3). Spent.] 
 
 42
 
 658 
 
 TChap. clxvii 1 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 ■-' {Various Powers^ Act 1885. 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] 
 
 Order in 
 schedule 
 confirmed. 
 
 .Short title. 
 
 CHAPTER a 
 
 An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Im- 
 provement of an unhealthy Area situated at Newington 
 WITHIN THE Metropolis. \2%nd July 1885.] 
 
 \P)-eamhlc7\ 
 
 1. The Order set out in the scLednle hereunto annexed is hereby 
 confirmed. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Tabard Street, 
 Newington) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1885. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 The Metropolis (Tabard Street, Newington) Improvement, 1885. 
 
 [Provlsio>ial Order of the Home Secretary dated 2?>rd April 1885, confirming 
 a Scheme of 31.s< October 1884, prepared by the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 under the Artizans and Labourers Dioellings Improvement Acts 1875 — 1882, 
 for the improvement of an unhealthy area in the 2)arish of St. Mary Newington. 
 The Order recites that the number of 2^ersons of the loorking class to be disp)laced by 
 the Scheme is estimated at 194. The Order provides for clearing the imiprovement 
 area and for the erection of dwellings thereon to accommodate 7iot less than 220 
 persons of the worki7ig class, and for the formation of a new street, 40 feet wide, 
 from Tabard Street to Great Dover Street. Spent^ 
 
 CHAPTER CLXYII. 
 
 An Act to confer Powers on the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works with respect to the making of a new Street in the 
 Parishes of St. Andrew Holborn and of St. James and 
 St. John Clerkenwell, the establishing and regulating 
 of a Ferry across the River Thames at Woolwich, the 
 PROVIDING OF Recreation Grounds for the Public, and for 
 other Purposes. [6M August 1885.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that it is expedient that the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works {hereinafter called the Board) should 
 be authorised to make the new sti-eet hereinafter mentioned ; and recites 
 that the establishment of a ferry across the Tha?nes at Woolwich to be 
 used free of tolls tvould be attended toith great local and. public 
 advantage., and that it is expedient that the Board should be authorised 
 to establish, maintain, and regulate the said ferry ; and recites that it 
 is expedient that the Board should be authorised to acquire certain 
 lands delineated on the deposited plans and described as Highbury 
 Fields, and to maintain the same for the perpetual use thereof by 
 the public for exercise and recreation ; and recites that the Estates 
 (jrocernors of Dulwich College are desirous of transferring as a gift 
 to the Board, certain lands in Camberwell to he held, by the Board as a 
 public park for the perpetual use thereof by the public for exercise and 
 recreation ; and recites that by the Education Department Provi- 
 sional Order Confirmation {Londoti) Act 1884 the School Board for 
 London obtained power to acquire two pieces of land forming part 
 of Plumstead Common ; and that the Board acquiesced in the said
 
 r48 & 49 Vict 1 Metropolitan Board of Work,, . . , 
 
 po'irers bcimj obtained in connidfration of an arrangement that they 
 i<.hoidd onlij be partiall;/ exercised and that certain other lands 
 adjoining Flumsteud Common {the property of flie said Scliool 
 Board) should be added to Plumstead Common in exchange for the 
 small pieces thereof to be appropriated hy the School lioard^ and that 
 it is expedient that the provisions in this Act for giving effect to such 
 arrangement should be made ; and that a plan {marked A) of the 
 said land at Flamstead Common upon which the land to be acquired 
 and rested in, tfi.e School Hoard i.s <lelineated and numbered 3 and 4 
 {tJie land to be vested in the Board instead thereof beinq delineated 
 and numbered 1 and 2) has been signed by the lliifld Honourable 
 Frederick Lygon, Karl Beauchamp, the Chairman of the Committee 
 of the House of Lords to ivhom the Bill for this Act was referred ; 
 and recites that it is expedient to confer further powers upon the 
 Board for enforcing the due observance in the metropolis of the 
 provisions of the Disused Burial Grounds Act 1884 ; aiid recites the 
 deposit with the Clerks of the Feace for Middlesex, Surrey, and 
 Kent of plans and sections describing the lines and levels of the 
 new street and ferry and lands to be taken for the jnirposes thereof, 
 and of the lands at Highbury Fields in this Act mentioned, and a book 
 of reference to such plans in this Act called respectively the deposited 
 plans, sections, and book of reference.'] 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Peeliminaky. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works Short title. 
 (Various Powers) Act ISSo. 
 
 2. In this Act the following words and expressions have the Intcrpreta- 
 several meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be some- ^"^^^ o^ terms, 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that 
 
 is to say) : — 
 
 " The Board " means the Metropolitan Board of Works * ; 
 
 " The street improvement " means the new street from Gray's 
 Inn Poad to St. John Street Poad and the works connected 
 therewith by this Act authorised ; 
 
 " The ferry improvements " means the ferry across the River 
 Thames and the pontoons a])proaches landing stages works 
 appliances and conveniences connected therewith ; 
 
 " The street and ferry improvements " means the street improve- 
 ment and the ferry improvements ; 
 
 " The Conservators " means the Conservators of the River 
 Thames ; 
 
 " Dulwich College" means the foundation known as Alleyn's 
 College of God's Gift at Dulwich in the county of Surrey f ; 
 
 " The Governors of Dulwich College " means the jiersons acting 
 as the Estates Governors and the College Governors respec- 
 tively in the execution of the Dulwich College Scheme 
 approved by Her Majesty in Council on the eighteenth day 
 of August one thousand eiglit hundred and eighty-two ; 
 
 ■" Dulwich College lands " means the hinds in the parish of 
 Camberwell and county of Surrey t lying between Dulwich 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (>). 
 t Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 660 rCHAP clxvii "1 ^Metropolitan Board of Works r^g „ . q y -. 
 
 ODU L^HAP. cixvii.j ^ Various Poivers) Act 1885. L*^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^^'J 
 
 Common Road on the south Lordship Lane and Court Lane 
 on the north-east and College Road on the west delineated on 
 the plan (marked B) signed by the Honourable Algernon 
 Fulke Egerton the Chairman of the Committee of the House 
 of Commons to whom the Bill for this Act was referred ; 
 
 " The Lands Clauses Acts " means the Lands Clauses Consolida- 
 tion Acts 1845 1860 and 1869 (except section 133 of the 
 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845) as the same are 
 amended by the Commonable Rights Compensation Act 1882 
 and the Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act 1883; 
 
 " Metropolis " means the metrojjolis as defined by the Metropolis 
 Management Act 1855 ; 
 
 " Street " has the meaning assigned to that term in the Metropolis 
 Management Act 1855 and the Acts amending the same ; 
 
 " Street authority " means with respect to any parish mentioned 
 in Schedule A. to the Metropolis Management Act 1855 or to- 
 any district formed by the union of the j^arishes mentioned 
 in Schedule B. to the said Act the vestry of such parish * or 
 the board of works for such district * as the case may be 
 and the term " district " in relation to a street authority 
 means the area subject to the jurisdiction of such street, 
 authority. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 And the several words and expressions to which by the Acts 
 
 wholly or partly incorporated herewith meanings are assigned 
 
 have in this Act the same respective meanings unless there 
 
 be in the subject or context something reiragnant to or 
 
 inconsistent with such construction : 
 
 Provided always that for the purposes of this Act the expression 
 
 "the i^romoters of the undertaking " in the Lands Clauses Acts shall 
 
 be construed to mean the Board and the expression " Lands Clauses 
 
 Act " and " Lands Clauses Act 1845" in the Commonable Rights 
 
 Compensation Act 1882 shall be construed as tliough the same had 
 
 been thereby declared to mean the Lands Clauses Consolidation 
 
 Act 1845 and that for the purposes of this Act the expression 
 
 " superior courts " or " court of competent jurisdiction " or any other 
 
 like expression in this Act or any Act wholly or partly incorporated 
 
 herewith shall be read and have effect as if the debt or demand with 
 
 respect to which the expression is used were a simple contract debt 
 
 and not a debt or demand created by statute. 
 
 [Parts omitted {definitions of " Justice,'" " two Justices, ^^ " lessee,* 
 and '■fjerson ") spent^ 
 
 Division of 3. This Act is divided into parts as follows : — 
 
 ^^V°^° I.— Preliminary. 
 
 11. — Street and Ferry Improvements. 
 
 111. — Recreation Grounds. 
 
 IV. — Miscellaneous. 
 
 parts. 
 
 Incorporation 4. The Lands Clauses Acts are (except where expressly varied by 
 Classes Acts ^^^^ ^^^) incorporated with and form part of this Act. 
 
 5 — 6. \_Board to execute Act — Power to act hy committee- 
 Superseded by the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 {see^ 
 Appendix), and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 iTAoe An\r -} Metropolitan Board of Work.'i rn i •• -i nm 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] . ,.J. r.. ,■. , ..- [Chap, clxvii.] 661 
 
 (^Variouii Powers) Act 1885 
 
 PART 11. 
 Street and Ferry Improvements. 
 
 Street Improvement. 
 
 7. Snhiect to tlio provisions of this Act in the lines according: to Power to 
 
 tlie levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited ^'°^^'^^° 
 I 1 i^- ii i> 1 11 , 1 • /. make new 
 
 plans and sections the noard may make the new street herein-atter street. 
 
 described (that is to say) : — 
 
 A new street ])artly in the parish of St. Andrew Holborn ami 
 partly in the parish of St. James and St. John Clerkenwell 
 in the county of Middlesex * commencing in the parish of 
 St. Andrew Holborn o])posite to the north-western angle 
 of the Holborn Town Hall at the junction of Clerkenwell 
 Koad and (Cray's Inn Road constructed in part on viaduct 
 and terminating in the ])arish of St. James and St. John 
 Clerkenwell in St. John Street Road about 30 yards to the 
 north-west of the junction of Myddleton Place therewith. 
 
 8. {^Saving for lands of the Metropolitan Railway Compamj. 
 
 'Spent.] 
 
 9. In making the new street and executing the works for the For the pro- 
 street improvement the following provisions shall have effect for ^^ction of 
 the protection of the railway of the Metropolitan Railway Company iiaiiwav 
 which passes under the roadway of Exmonth Street and Farringdon Compariy. 
 Road and also under houses and other property in the parish of 
 
 St. James and St. John Clerkenwell in the countv of Middlesex * — 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 If bv reason of the execution of anv of the works of the Board or 
 the failure of any such works or any act or omission of the 
 Board or of their contractors or otherwise the railway or any 
 of the works connected therewith shall be injured or damaged 
 such injury or damage shall be forthwith made good by the 
 Board at their own expense or in the event of their failing so 
 to do then the Railway Comjiany may make good the same 
 and recover the expense thereof with fall costs against the 
 Eoard in any court of competent jurisdiction and if any 
 interrui)tion shall be occasioned to the traffic of the Railway 
 <Jompany by reason of any of the matters or causes aforesaid 
 the Board shall pay to that Company all costs and ex})en8es 
 to which that Company may be put as well as full compen- 
 sation for the loss and inconvenience sustained by them by 
 reason of any such interruption such costs expenses and 
 compensation to be recoverable with full costs by that Company 
 from the Board in any court of com})etent jurisdiction. 
 
 l_Parts omitted {provisions applying during execution of works) 
 
 spent.~\ 
 
 10 — 13. [Right of p?'e-e)?iption of certain lands for the Metro- 
 politan Railwag Company within (5 months of the completion of the 
 new street — For the protection of the Sew River Company — For the 
 protection of Cold Bath Fields House of Correction — Saving for 
 lands of the Marquess of Northampton. Spent.'] 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 &: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 662 
 
 [Chap, clxvii.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 ( Various Poioers) Act 1885. 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 establish 
 ferry across 
 the Thames. 
 
 Facilities for 
 traffic over 
 ferry. 
 
 As to time 
 for working 
 the ferry. 
 
 Ferry Improvements. 
 
 14. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may establish 
 maintain work and regulate a ferry across the River Thames at 
 Woolwich and may construct in the lines according to the levels 
 and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans 
 and sections and provide and maintain for the purpose of the said 
 Ferry — 
 
 On the northern side of the river in the parish of Woolwich and 
 county of Kent * : — 
 
 (1) A^ landing-place on the river bank parallel to Stanley 
 
 Road commencing at a point about one hundred and ten 
 yards to the west of the junction of Stanley Road and 
 High Street opposite the North Woolwich Station of the 
 Great Eastern Railway and terminating about one hundred 
 and seventy yards to the west of the said junction of 
 Stanley Road and High Street ; 
 
 (2) A pontoon in the river opposite the point where the said 
 
 landing-stage is herein-before described as terminating 
 situate about eighty yards from the bank of the river 
 opposite the said point of termination and connected with 
 the said landing-place by a stage or bridges ; and — 
 On the south side of the river in the said parish of Woolwich : — 
 
 (3) A pontoon with an approach road leading thereto com- 
 
 mencing in High Street Woolwich immediately to the 
 
 eastward of Nile Street and terminating on the bank of 
 
 the river immediately to the eastward of the stairs leading-^ 
 
 down to the river from the said street. The said pontoon 
 
 to be situate in the river at a distance of about eighty 
 
 yards from the bank at the termination of the said approach 
 
 road and to be connected therewith by a landing-stage or 
 
 bridges. 
 
 And the Board may also make provide and (except as otherwise 
 
 by this Act expressly provided) maintain all necessary approaches 
 
 landing-stages dolphins bridges works and other conveniences for 
 
 the purposes of and connected with the said ferry. 
 
 15. The Board may within the limits of deviation shown on the 
 deposited plans if they think fit from time to time construct and 
 maintain other landing-places stages works and appliances at the 
 points at Woolwich mentioned in the preceding section so far as 
 may be necessary for the purpose of enabling traffic at and over the 
 said ferry to be raised and lowered between the ferry boats and the 
 landing-places by means of slipways or hoists or other machinery 
 worked by steam hydraulic or mechanical power and the Board may 
 from time to time provide all such steam hydraulic or mechanical 
 power as may in their opinion be necessary or convenient for the 
 purposes aforesaid or any of them. 
 
 16. From and after the opening of the ferry by this Act authorised 
 the Board shall (weather permitting and unless prevented by 
 accident or other unavoidable interruption) work a ferry-boat across 
 the river each way at such ferry on every day between the hours 
 and at the intervals herein-after prescribed. 
 
 On week days — 
 
 Between the hours of 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. at regular intervals 
 not greater than 20 minutes. 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 r^op ^f, -vr -\ Metropolitan lioard of \\ orka ^(^ , •• t aort 
 
 [48 & 49 VICT.] ,Tr '. ,. V ^^ivw- rCHAP. clxvii.J 663 
 
 Between the hours of 11 p.m. and 12.30 a.m. at intervals of 
 half an hour. 
 On Sundays — 
 
 Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. at regular intervals 
 not <^reater than half an hour. 
 
 17 — 18. [^l.v to coiN/)t'n.s(it>Oii to till' London <j'- BlnrhiraU and 
 Great Eastern Uailicaij Coinj^anics and the R'uer Thamca Steandjoat 
 Co., Ltd., as ferry owners. Spent. '\ 
 
 19. For the purpose of maintaining and working the said ferry Board may 
 the ]?()ard may from time to time provide all necessary things P™^,i<|p ^'''^ 
 including vesscds and boats propelled by steam or otherwise with ^Q^^g g^t^"^^ 
 all j)r()per and sullicient tackle gear ajjparatus and conveniences 
 connected therewith and the Board may from time to time appoint 
 remove and remunerate such officers and servants as may in their 
 ojjinion be required for such i)urposes and may convey jjassengers 
 animals veiiicles and goods free of all tolls rates or charges across 
 
 the Kiver Thames by means of such vessels or boats. 
 
 20. ...... Limiting 
 
 (7.) The Board shall hang out and exhibit at or near to the ferry S°"*'i^ ^^ ^^^ 
 
 imj)rovements and other works in connexion therewith by this Act interfere 
 authorised every night from sunset to sunrise lights to be kept with the 
 burning by and at the ex])euse of tlie Board and proper and sufficient "^'®^- 
 for the navigation and safe guidance of vessels and the lights shall 
 from time to time be altered by the Board in snch manner and be 
 of such kind and number and be so placed and used as the Con- 
 servators by writing under the hand of their secretary shall approve 
 and direct and in case the Board ftiil so to exhibit and keep burning 
 the lights they shall for every such offence forfeit ten pounds and 
 further the Board shall exhil)it under a like penalty lights to be 
 similarly apj)roved by the ( 'onservators upon any temporary works 
 or materials which may be placed on the river by the Board during 
 the making of the said ferry improvements and works connected 
 therewith. 
 
 \_Remainder of provisions {limiting the poicer of the Board to interfere 
 icith the ricer during the construction of ferrg improcements) spejit.~\ 
 
 21. The Board may if they think fit from time to time but so as Board may 
 not to interfere with the use of the ferry by this Act authorised or permit vessels 
 the vessels or boats used for the purposes thereof permit any pier ^^ la^ndin"- 
 landing place or other work acquired or constructed by the Board places on 
 
 as part of or in connexion with the ferry im})rovements to be used terms. 
 by vessels or boats (other than vessels or boats used for the purposes 
 of the ferry by this Act authorised) and for the lauding and embark- 
 ing of passengers animals vehicles and goods from or on vessels or 
 boats (other than vessels or boats used for the purposes of the said 
 ferry) upon such reasonable terms and subject to such reasonable 
 conditions as the Board may from time to time prescribe and the 
 Board may from time to time revoke any such })ermission. Provided 
 that the conservators may have free access at all times to the })iers 
 and landing places with their boats officers and servants anything 
 in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 22. The Board may from time to time appoint a sutficient number Persons may 
 of })ersons to preserve order on or at any piers landing places or ^'^ p^J^^^^'^.g®^ 
 other work acquired or constructed by the Board as jjart of or in order etc. at 
 connexion with the ferry imiu'ovemeuts and the ai>proaches thereto piers. 
 
 and to prevent the intrusion thereon of improper persons or persons
 
 664 
 
 rri ^ •• 1 Metroijohtan Board of Worka 
 
 [Chap, clxvii. ,.^ ^. n \ i ,,100^ 
 
 L -■ (I arwtfs Fowets) Act ISSd. 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] 
 
 Byelaws as 
 to ferry. 
 
 Saving rights 
 of Water- 
 men's and 
 Lightermen's 
 Company. 
 
 Limiting in- 
 terference 
 ■with piers at 
 Woolwich. 
 
 who have no intention of embarking on board any vessel or boat 
 from such piers landing places or other works and to remove any 
 persons who may unnecessarily linger or loiter on or abont such 
 piers landing places or other work and to assist any vessel or boat 
 in making fast to such piers landing places or works. 
 
 23. The Board may subject to the provisions of this Act from 
 time to time make alter repeal vary amend and enforce byelaws 
 with respect to the ferry improvements and any piers landing 
 places or other works acquired or constructed by the Board in 
 connexion with the same for all or any of the purposes following 
 (that is to say) : — 
 
 For regulating controlling and limiting the use of such improve- 
 ments piers landing jjlaces and works ; 
 For preventing the commission of any nuisances in or upon any 
 
 of such improvements piers landing places or works ; 
 For preserving such improvements piers landing places or works 
 
 and preventing injuries and damages to the same ; 
 For regulating the duties and conduct of all persons as well the 
 officers and the servants of the Board as others who shall be 
 employed in and about such improvements piers landing places 
 and works and in and about the vessels or boats used for the 
 purposes of the ferry by this Act authorised ; 
 For regulating the conveyance of passengers animals vehicles and 
 goods in or upon any vessels or boats at such ferry piers landing 
 places and works respectively and the embarkation and disem- 
 barkation of the same respectively and for prohibiting the 
 embarkation of any animals vehicles or goods in any vessels or 
 boats used for the purposes of the ferry by this Act authorised 
 which may in the oi:)inion of the Board be injurious to or 
 prejudicially affect the use of such vessels and boats or the 
 traffic to be carried therein. 
 ISee also 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 202 ; .55 & 56 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. 
 s. 39 ; and 57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. ss. 5 — 7.] 
 
 24. Except as by this Act is expressly enacted nothing in this 
 Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prejudice or 
 derogate from the charters and grants of the "Watermen's Company 
 or the provisions of the Watermen's and Lightermen's Amendment 
 Act, 1859 or such of the provisions of the Thames Conservancy Act 
 1864 * as relates to the Watermen's Company. 
 
 25. \_Poiver to the Board to stop up ivays temjjorarily for the 
 purposes of the street and. ferry improvements. Spent.'] 
 
 26. Nothing in this Act contained shall enable the Board in the 
 construction of the piers 'landing j^laces pontoons and works by this 
 Act authorised to interfere either temporarily or permanently (except 
 so far as may be absolutely necessary for the due and proper con- 
 struction of the same) with any piers landing places works and 
 conveniences belonging to or leased to the Great Eastern Railway 
 Company or to the River Thames Steamboat Company (Limited) 
 at North or South Woolwich or there used by the River Thames 
 Steamboat Company (Limited) and the Board shall compensate the 
 said Companies respectively for any interference damage or injury 
 caused to their said piers landing places works and conveniences or 
 to the access thereto by the construction of any of the works by 
 this Act authorised. Any dispute which may from time to time 
 
 * Rep. and replaced 57 & 58 Yict. c. clxxxvii. (see Appendix).
 
 r48&49ViCT.1 /,'■'• n . //iw - [Chap. clxvii.J 660 
 
 arise l)etween tlic Board on the one hand and the said Companies 
 ■or either of them under the provisions of this section on the otlier 
 hand shall he determined by a single arl)itrator to be appointed 
 by the Board of Trade and the provisions of the Railway Companies 
 Arbitration Act 1809 shall apply to any such arbitration as if the 
 Board were a railway company. \_See 4 Edw. 7, c. cciii. s. 14.] 
 
 27—28. \l*oicer to the Board to raise or lower streets and to 
 deviate not exceeding 3 feet from the lecela defined, on the deposited 
 sections. Spent.~\ 
 
 29. [Power to f/n' lUuird to make subsidiary/ works to stop up and 
 appropriate .streets and to alter drains and sewers on providing 
 ■substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 drains and sewers.^ 
 
 30. The Board shall not interfere with or obstruct any road Access to 
 footi)ath or wav leading to the North Woolwich station of the Great certain 
 
 E^,t i> -I " /( • I J. X J.1 stations not 
 
 astern Itailway Company in such a manner as to prevent the to be inter- 
 access to and egress therefrom or to stop np any street road or fered with, 
 footway necessary for the i)urpose of such access and egress without 
 first providing a sufficient substitute therefor. 
 
 31 — 32. [Pofce/- to the Board to alter water., gas., and other jjipes, 
 and to lay out carriageways, footways.^ etc. Spent.\ 
 
 33. [-l*' to laying of pavements, and vesting the same ichen laid in 
 and as to the maintenance thereof by the street authority in ichose 
 district they are situate.~\ 
 
 34. [Power to the Board to fill up sewers and drains on providing 
 substitutes, ivhich are to be under the same management as existing 
 setvers and drains.^ 
 
 35. [Foicer to the Board to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. — Parts 
 of street and ferry improvements laid out for carriageways or foot- 
 loays to be public streets, the soil the^-eof to be vested in the Board, but 
 the maintenance thereof to be under the management of the street 
 authority of the district in ichich the same are situate.'] 
 
 36. [ Vestry of St. James and St. .John, Clerkenwell,* to maintain 
 the new street from Grays Inn Road to St. John Street Road, and 
 also the viaduct foundations or substructures retaining ic alls and 
 loorks connected therewith.'] 
 
 37 — 38. [Periods for completion of icorks limited to and for 
 compulsory jjurchase of lands to 3 years.] 
 
 39. [For protection of the Havering and Dagenham, etc.. Commis- 
 sioners of Sewers. Semble not applicable within London. See the 
 Land Drainage Act 1861, s. 2.] 
 
 40. [Expenses of executing Act (as regards ferry improvements)^ 
 Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, part iv.] 
 
 PART III. 
 
 Recreation Grounds. 
 Highbury Fields. 
 41. Snbjoct to the jirovisions of this Act the Board may appro- Power to 
 priate and maintain in the jjarish of St. ]\lary Islington as an open ^'^''^i"^ *" 
 space to be dedicated to the perpetual use thereof by the public mghbury 
 for exercise and recreation as by this Act provided the lands known Fields as' an 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsburv. See 62 & G3 Vict. °^^ space, 
 c. 14, s. i.
 
 me 
 
 rp 1 •• 1 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 "- • - -J {Various Powers) Act 18S6. 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] 
 
 as " Highbury Fields " (and which are herein-after referred to as 
 " Highbury Fields ") which are delineated on the deposited plans 
 and described in the deposited book of reference and they may for 
 such purpose enter upon take use hold and acquire all or any of the 
 said lands and shall hold and maintain Highbury Fields as and 
 when they obtain actual possession of the same for the perpetual use 
 thereof by the public for exercise and recreation and may from time 
 to time fence and enclose the same or any part of the same and make 
 such provision as may be necessary for maintaining and protecting 
 the same for such use as aforesaid, but they shall not erect over the 
 Great Northern Railwav or anv of the said lands belonging: to the 
 Great Northern Railway (Company any dwelling-house stables or 
 other permanent building of any kind whatever and any sewers 
 drains or watercourses constructed under the powers of this Act 
 over the said railway shall be laid and constructed to the satisfac- 
 tion of the principal engineer for the time being of the Great 
 Northern Railway Company. 
 
 42 — 43. \Confirmation of the agreement set forth in the first schedule 
 to the Act — As to payment of consideration thereunder. Spe?it.j 
 
 44. When the Board have purchased or acquired under this Act 
 any interest or right in over or affecting Highbury Fields they may 
 as they think most expedient with a view to securing the use of 
 Highbury Fields by the public for the purposes by this part of this 
 Act prescribed either extinguish the same or retain hold and 
 exercise the same wholly or jiartially, 
 
 45. Nothing in this part of this Act contained shall limit or affect 
 any powers which the Great Northern Railway Company may now 
 have of entering upon Highbury Fields for the purpose of opening 
 and breaking up the said fields for the purpose of constructing 
 thereunder any tunnel or tunnels in addition to the existing tunnel 
 constructed by them under the said fields or for the purpose of the 
 maintenance repair enlargement widening or extension and improve- 
 ment of the tunnels railways and works of the said Company for the 
 time being situate in and under Highbury Fields : 
 
 Provided that the said Company shall not permanently alter or 
 disturb the surface of any part of Highbury Fields and that whenever 
 in the exercise of the powers by this section conferred upon them 
 they break open or disturb the surface of any lands being part of 
 Highbury Fields they shall as soon as may be thereafter make good 
 and restore the same to the same condition as they were previously 
 to such breaking up or disturbance. 
 
 46. [^6- to separate accounts. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41,. 
 
 s. 68.] 
 
 47. [ Vestry of St. Mary, Islington, to contribute up to one-haAf of 
 the cost of acquiring Highbury Fields. Spent.'] 
 
 DuLwicH College Lands. 
 
 Transfer of 48. From and after the twenty-ninth day of September one 
 
 r"/w*^^ thousand eight hundred and eighty-five all the estate and interest 
 
 to Board for ^f the Governors of Dulwich College respectively in or to the 
 
 public park. Dulwich College lands shall by virtue of this part of this Act be 
 
 transferred to the Board by way of gift and the same shall become 
 
 vested in the Board absolutely and the Board shall hold the said 
 
 lands and every part of the same (as and when they obtain actual 
 
 Power to 
 
 extinguish 
 rights etc. 
 when pur- 
 chased. 
 
 Protection 
 of Great 
 Northern 
 Piailway 
 Company.
 
 rAoSrACi^r. 1 Metropolitan Hoard of Work.-i rr^ ^ •• t /»/»- 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] ^ yj^^^^ ^,^^^^^.^^ ^^ ^ ^3 . _ [Chap, clxvii.] 66 . 
 
 possession of the same respectively) and from time to time lay ont 
 maintain and ])re8erve the same and every part of the same as a 
 public park for the perpetual use thereof by the public for exercise 
 and recreation And the said twenty-ninth day of September one 
 thousand eijj;ht hundred and ('i<,'-hty-five is herein-after referred to 
 in relation to the Dulwicli College lands as '* the day of transfer " : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \Part omitted {as to rents till the Board obtain possession) spent.'] 
 
 49. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may Irom I'o^^'^''' to 
 time to time after the day of transfer jjurchase by agreement but fj"^5^j^g^^ 
 not otherwise all such estates interests and rights in over or atfe(,'t- in Duiwich 
 ing the Duiwich College lands as they think it requisite to acquire College lands. 
 for the better execution of this part of this Act with respect to the 
 
 use maintenance and preservation of the Duiwich C)ollege lands for 
 the ])ur])()ses prescribed by tiiis part of this Act and for the j)urpose 
 of ai)i)lying to any such purchase the ])rovisions of the Lands Clauses 
 Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of lands by agreement 
 the term "lands" in the said provisions shall be construed to include 
 such estates interests and rights. 
 
 50. When the Board liave jmrchased nii<ler this Act any estate l^'^^'^'" to 
 interest or right in over or affecting Duiwich (.College lands they rjhtfet? 
 may as they tliink most expedient with a view to securing the use wi.en pur- 
 of Duiwich College lands by the public for the purposes prescribed chased, 
 by this ])art of this Act either extinguish the same or retain hold and 
 exercise the same wholly or parliully. \_ISee also 40 A: 5t.» Vict. 
 
 c. cxii. s. 37 (6), and 51 & 52 Vict. c. clvi. s. 30.] 
 
 Alteration of Plumstead Common, 
 
 51. Notwithstanding anything in the Education Department Arrangement 
 Provisional Order Confirmation (London) Act 18N4the School Board as to land at 
 for London * shall not be entitled to take or acquire any greater common, 
 extent of Plumstead Common than the pieces of land respectively 
 delineated on the said plan marked A signed as aforesaid which are 
 described thereon and in the deposited l)Ooks of reference as Nos. 3 
 
 and 4 in the i)arish of Plumstead. 
 
 The School Board for London * shall as soon as may be after the 
 passing of this Act convey to the l^oard the pieces of land shown 
 on the said plan and described thereon and in the deposited books 
 of reference as Nos. 1 and 2 in the parish of Plumstead and the 
 School Board for London * shall not acquire any right or interest in 
 the said pieces of land numbered 3 and 4 until they shall have 
 conveyed to the Board the said pieces of land numl)ered 1 and 2 : 
 
 And the Board and the School Board for London * respectively 
 shall suliject to the i)rovisious of this part of this Act have and 
 may exercise all such powers and do and execute all such acts 
 matters and things as may be necessary to effect the vesting of the 
 said i)ieces of land in them respectively in accordance with this 
 part of this Act. 
 
 52. From and after the vesting in the School Board for London * I'icces of Land 
 of the said pieces of land immbered 3 and 4 on the said plan the transferred to 
 said lands shall be freed and discharged from all rights of common to bTbeld^" 
 rights of way and all ])ublic rights in over or affecting the same and for purposes 
 all such rights shall be and the same are hereby extinguished and of new 
 
 the said pieces of land shall cease to be or form part of Plumstead ^^ 
 * Now tbe London County Council. See 3 Edw. 7. c. 24.
 
 668 
 
 [Chap. clxvii.J 
 
 Metropolitari Board of Works 
 (Various Powers) Act 1885. 
 
 [48 & 49 Vict.] 
 
 Pieces of 
 land in parish 
 of Plumstead 
 acquired by 
 the Board to 
 f'irm part of 
 Plumstead 
 Common. 
 
 Common and to be subject to the provisions of the Plumstead 
 Common Act 1878 or any Act alterino; amending: or affecting: the 
 same and the said Acts shall be construed accordingly and the said 
 pieces of land shall be held by the School Board for London * with 
 the same powers and for the like purposes as if the said pieces of 
 land had been acquired by them under the said provisional order con- 
 firmed bv the Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation 
 (London) Act 1884. 
 
 53. The pieces of land in the parish of Plumstead acquired by 
 the Board under the powers of this part of this Act shall forthwith 
 thereafter be added to become and be part of Plumstead Common 
 and the same shall be subject to the exercise of all rights in over or 
 upon Plumstead Common in all respects as though the said pieces 
 of land so added formed part of the lands immediately before the 
 passing of this Act subject to the provisions of the Plumstead 
 Common Act 1878 and the provisions of the said Act shall extend 
 and apply to the land so added as though the same were included 
 in the lands immediately before the passing of this Act subject to 
 the provisions of the said Act . . . : Provided that nothing in this 
 Act shall prohibit the Board from utilising the said piece of land 
 numbered 2 or part thereof for the widening of Farm Lane. [Part 
 omitted (as to hjelaws) superseded. 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 
 14 — 21, and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. 6-. 61.] 
 
 54. [Confirmation of the agreement set forth in the second schedule 
 to the Act. Spent.'] 
 
 General. 
 
 55. 
 
 Highbury 
 
 Duiwich"^^ Provided always that no public meeting or assembly shall be held 
 
 College lands on any part of Highbury Fields or of the Dulwich College lands and 
 
 to be subject that no music shall be played thereon. 
 
 ofMetto'X \.P^^'^ omitted {as to b/elaws) superseded. See 53 & 54 Vict. 
 
 tan Board of c. ccxliii. SS. 14 — 21 ; 59 k 60 Vict. c. clxxxviii. s. 33 ; and 61 i: 62 
 
 Works Act Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 1877 as to 
 
 bvelaws. 
 
 PART lY. 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Board to be 
 the authority 
 to enforce 
 the Disused 
 Burial 
 
 Grounds Act 
 1884. 
 
 Piegulations 
 
 respecting 
 
 bvelaws. 
 
 56. The Board shall be and they are hereby constituted the 
 authority for preventing the violation and for enforcing the due 
 observance of the provisions of the Disused Burial Grounds Act 
 1884 within the metropolis and they may from time to time 
 institute and i^rosecute all such legal proceedings and do all such 
 acts matters and things as may in the opinion of the Board be 
 necessary or expedient for ^jreventing the violation by any person 
 and for enforcing the due observance by all persons of the provisions 
 of the said Act within the metropolis. 
 
 57. The provisions of the Metropolis Management Act 1855 
 respecting the making contents confirmation approval publication 
 and evidence of byelaws and of proceedings before Justices and 
 recovery of penalties thereunder shall except where otherwise 
 expressly provided extend and apply to byelaws under this Act 
 and except as aforesaid byelaws under this Act shall be deemed 
 byelaws within the Metropolis Management Act 1855 and the Acts 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24.
 
 r^o p ,imf 1 Metropolitan Jioard 0/ Works rr<TT»D ^.u-ttJ; 1 c\PSt 
 
 148 & 49 Vict. / ir • d \ .< * took K-hap. clxvii. ooy 
 
 L'^"^ -I {Various Powers) Act IHV)^, •- -■ 
 
 amending the same. Provided always that no byehiw with respect 
 to the ferry improvements or any of them made by the Board nnder 
 the authority of this section shall come into ojieration until the 
 same be confirmed by the Board of Trade but sucli confirmation 
 shall be instead of the ai)])rovul by one of Her Majesty's principal 
 Secretaries of State prescribed by the Metrop(dis Management Act 
 1855. {Superseded {as regards hyelaws as to Dulivich Common 
 lands and Plumstead Common lands') 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. 
 as. 14 — 21, and Gl & G2 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 01.] 
 
 58 — 67. {^Poiver to the Jioard to take lands and to acquire ease- 
 ments — Uehousiny of labouring class persons — As to acquisition of 
 lands — Eri'ors and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to enter 
 and survey lands to be taken — As to arbitration — liedemption of 
 Land Tax — Power to the Board to sell materials. Spent.'] 
 
 68 — 70. [_J*oicer to the Board to lease surplus lands — .l.s to sale 
 of (/round rents and reversions thereof- — Power to the Board to sell 
 such lands without leasing. Superseded 02 & 03 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. 
 s. 23. See ibid. ss. 19—22.] 
 
 71. Tlie Board may from time to time let either from year to Board may 
 year or for a less period or for a term at rackrent or exchange or JjJ^^^^^j^^^^g^ 
 otherwise dispose of any building or lands or any part thereof 
 acquired by them under the powers of this Act for any of the street 
 
 and ferry improvements and not required for such improvements 
 and may execute and do any deed act or thing proper for effec- 
 tuating any such lease exchange or other disposition. 
 
 72. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board shall within Board to 
 such period as they may think fit which period shall be the pre- f^jQ^^not 
 scribed period for the purposes of section one hundred and twenty- wanted, 
 seven of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 after the 
 completion of any of the street and ferry improvements for the 
 purposes of which any lands have been acquired sell and dispose 
 
 of to any person or persons and grant and convey such parts of 
 such lands as they may have acquired under the powers of this Act 
 and which shall not be required for any of such improvements. 
 [^See 47 & 48 Vict. c. 50, s. 23.] 
 
 73. The receipt of the Board or of any person duly authorised Receipts of 
 by the Board for any purchase moneys rents or profits or money ^gg^fu^ ^^ 
 payable to the Board by virtue of this Act shall be a suflicient and discharges, 
 effectual discharge for the money in such receii)t expressed or 
 acknowledged to be received and the person to whom the same 
 
 shall be given shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable 
 for the misapplication or non-applicatiou of the money in such 
 receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received. 
 
 74. The Board may subject to the provisions of this Act from Power to 
 time to time enter into and carry into effect agreements with any ^^^'^^ a?ree- 
 ]ierson being the owner of or interested in any lands houses or ments with 
 jirojjcrty abutting on any portion of any of the street ami ferry owners of 
 imi)rovements with respect to the sale by the Board to such person P^oP^^^^y ^ °- 
 of any lands or proi)erty (including any street or thoroughfare or 
 
 any part of a street or thoroughlare acquired by the Board under 
 the powers of this Act and not reipiired for such of the improve- 
 ments) for such consideration as may be agreed upon between the 
 Board and such person and the Board may accept as satisfaction of 
 the whole or any part of such consideration the grant by such person
 
 670 [Chap. 22.] Metropolitan Police Act 1886. [49 & 50 Vict.] 
 
 of any lands or other jiroperty required by the Board for the purposes 
 of this Act. 
 
 Application 75. All moneys received by the Board on account of any sale 
 
 of «ale of^^ ^^ disposition of any lands building or other materials paving or 
 
 lands metalling acquired by the Board under this Act shall after deducting 
 
 materials etc. the costs of such Sale or disposition be carried bv the Board to the 
 
 bT the Board. Consolidated Loans Fund under the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Loans) Acts 1869 to 1871 except where such property has been 
 
 acquired by the Board in relation to the ferry improvements and in 
 
 such last-mentioned case all such moneys shall be applied by the 
 
 Board towards the expenses of the Board under this Act. \_See 
 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. 41, s. 25.] 
 
 76. [Expenses (other than as to ferry improvements') of execution 
 of Act. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. (?. 41, 5. 68.] 
 
 77. \_Saring the rights of the Conservators.'] 
 
 78. \_Savi7ig the rights of the Crown.'] 
 
 79. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 First Schedule. \_Agreement made the 23rd October 1884 between Daniel 
 Watiiey, as agent for Charles Willoch Daives (the vendor), and George VulUamy, 
 as agent for the Metro^wlitan Board of Works {the purchasers), for the sale of 
 Highbury Fields for £60,000. Spent:] 
 
 Second Schedule. \_Agreen1e71t made the 27th January 1885 between the 
 Woolwich Local Hoard and the Metropolitan Board of Works for the sale by the 
 former to the latter of certain rights of digging gravel, earth, or other minerals upon 
 or under Plumstead Common for £500. Spent.] 
 
 49 & 50 VICTORIA. A.D. 1886. 
 
 CHAPTER 22. 
 
 *An Act to amend the Enactments relating to Offices, 
 Stations, and Buildings for the Metropolitan Police 
 Force. [Uh June 1886.] 
 
 [Preamble {reciting 20 & 21 Vict. c. 64) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 
 (.S'.Z.i?.).] 
 
 Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Act, 1886. 
 
 10 Geo. 4. ... 
 
 V^' V ■'-^^^ ^*-'^ ^^""^ ^^^ Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1884, and 
 
 J. Yi. ^^ ' ^^6 Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, and the Police 
 
 Expenses Act, 1875,t so far as it relates to the Metropolitan Police 
 
 Force, may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 
 
 to 18^6. 
 
 [Part omitted {giving short titles to the Acts in the first schedule^ 
 
 rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (6'.Z.i?.).] 
 
 Power of 2. The Police Receiver from time to time may provide, by building 
 
 Receiver with ^j. otherwise, a central office and such police stations, offices, houses, 
 construction 3,nd buildings as are required for the purposes of the Metropolitan 
 of buildings Police Force, and the execution of the enactments relating to such 
 ^f la^d^^^^^^ force, and may improve, enlarge, fit up, and provide proper access, 
 yards, and other appurtenances for, any offices, stations, houses, 
 
 * See 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26, s. 4. 
 
 t Eep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 (S.L.E.).
 
 [49 & 50 Vict.] Metropolitan Police Act 1886. [Chap. 22.] 071 
 
 and baildiiigs provided either before or after tlie passing of this 
 Act for the above purposes, or any of them, and may purchase and 
 take on lease and hold for the said ])nrposes any land and any 
 rights or easements from over or upon that or any other land, (jr may 
 exercise any of such powers. \^Ame//f/t''/ ;")() & f)! IVr/. r. 4."), s. -i.] 
 
 3. — (1.) For the ])urpose of any jturchase under this Act, and of Power to 
 anv works under this Act which the Police Iteceiver, with such '^^^^^OO'jjwz. 
 
 1 • , • A , i • 1 1 ■ in J. "^n mortgage 
 
 approval as m this Act mentioned, determines to be ot a permanent of Metropoiu 
 
 character, the Police Receiver mav from time to time borrow, on the tan Police 
 security of the Metropolitan Polic(! Fund, and of the property vested *'"'^'^- 
 in the Police Keceiver or any part or parts thereof, any sum or 
 sums, so that the aggregate principal sums for the time being 
 due under this section do not exceed in the whole two hundred 
 thousand ])ounds. 
 
 (2.) All sums so borrowed shall be paid into the Bank of England 
 to the account of the Police Receiver, and shall be repaid with the 
 interest thereon within a period not exceeding thirty, or in the case 
 of a sum borrowed for tiie ])urchase of freehold land, sixty years 
 from the date at which the same are borrowed. 
 
 (3.) Such money may be borrowed in manner provided by the 
 Local Loans Act, 1875, and any Act amending the same, by the 38 & 39 Vict, 
 issue of any of the securities in the said Acts mentioned, and for ^- ^'^' 
 the purposes of such borrowing a sinking fund may be created, and 
 the provisions of the said Acts shall apply as if " Secretary of 
 State " were therein substituted for " Local Government Board," 
 and as if the Police Receiver were a local autliority and the Metro- 
 politan Police Fund a local rate as tlierein defined. 
 
 (4.) The Metropolitan Board of Works * may lend any money 
 authorised by this Act to be borrowed by the Police Receiver. 
 \_Amended 50 & 51 Vict. c. 45, s. 2 ; and 60 & 61 Vict. c. 42, s. 1. 
 See also 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26, s. 4.] 
 
 4. — (1.) For the purpose of the purchase of land by the Police Purchase of 
 Receiver, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts g^^^^g yict 
 amending the same, (in this section referred to as the Lands Clauses c.'i8. 
 Acts), shall be incorporated with this Act, except the provisions 
 relating to access to the special Act, and, except section one 
 hundred and twenty-seven of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 
 lb45, relating to the sale of superfluous land, and in construing the 
 Lands Clauses Acts for the purpose of this section, the special Act 
 shall be construed to mean this Act, and the promoters of the 
 undertaking shall be construed to mean the Police Receiver, and 
 land shall be construed to include any right over land. 
 
 (2.) The Police Receiver, before putting in force any of the powers 
 of the Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking 
 of land otherwise than by agreement, shall — 
 
 (a.) pnl)lish, once at the least during three consecutive weeks in 
 the months of Se])tember, October and November, or any 
 of them, in some one and the same newspaper circulating 
 in the locality, an advertisement describing shortly the 
 object for which the land is ])ro})()sed to be taken, naming 
 a place in the neighbourhood of the land ])roposed to be 
 taken, where a plan of such land may be seen at all 
 reasonable hours, and stating the quantity of such land, 
 and shall further, 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 40 (8).
 
 672 [Chap. 22.] Metropolitan Police Act 1886. [49 & 50 Vict] 
 
 (b.) during the month next following the month in which such 
 advertisements are published, serve a notice in manner 
 mentioned in this section on every owner or reputed owner, 
 lessee, or reputed lessee, and occupier of such land, so far 
 as such owners, lessees, and occupiers can be reasonably- 
 ascertained, defining in each case the land intended to be 
 taken, and requiring an answer stating whether the person 
 so served assents, dissents, or is neuter in respect of taking 
 such land : and 
 (c.) where any person above-mentioned as required to be served 
 is absent abroad or cannot be found, the notice may be 
 served on his agent, or if no agent can be found, by leaving 
 the same at the premises, 
 (d.) Service of a notice on a person whether principal or agent 
 may be made — 
 
 (i.) by delivery of the same personally to such person ; 
 
 or 
 (ii.) by leaving the same at the usual or last known 
 place of abode of such person, or by forwarding 
 the same by j^ost in a prepaid letter, addressed 
 to the usual or last known place of abode of such 
 person ; and 
 (iii.) one notice addressed to the occupier or occuj^iers 
 of a house without naming him or them, and left 
 at that house shall be deemed a notice served on 
 that occupier, and on all the occupiers of that 
 house, 
 (iv.) A notice required to be served on a number of 
 persons having any right in common, in, over, 
 or on land may be served on any three or more 
 of such persons on behalf of all of such persons, 
 (v.) Where a notice is served by post it shall be deemed 
 to have been served at the time when the letter 
 containing the same would be delivered in the 
 ordinary course of post, and in proving such 
 service it shall be sufhcient to prove that the 
 letter containing the same was properly addressed 
 and put into the post. 
 \_See the Interpretation Act 1889, s. 26 {see Appeiidix).'] 
 
 (3.) Upon comjjliance as respects any laud with the provisions 
 contained in this section with respect to advertisements and notices, 
 the Police Receiver may, if he think fit, present a petition to the 
 Secretary of State ; the petition shall describe the said land, and 
 state the purposes for which it is required, and the names of the 
 owners and lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and occupiers of 
 land who have assented, dissented, or are neuter in respect of the 
 taking of such land, or who have returned no answer to the notice, 
 and shall pray for an order authorising the Police Receiver with 
 reference to such land to i)ut in force the powers of the Lands Clauses 
 Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of land otherwise than 
 by agreement, and the petition shall be sujjported by such evidence 
 as the Secretary of State may require. 
 
 (4.) If, on consideration of the petition and jDroof of the publica- 
 tion of the proper advertisements and service of the proper notices, 
 the Secretary of State thinks fit to proceed with the case, he may, 
 if he thinks fit, appoint some person to inquire in the locality in
 
 [49 & 50 Vict.] Metropolitan Police Act 1886. [Chap. 22.] 073 
 
 which the laud is situate re.spectinj^ the proj)riety of making the 
 
 order prayed foi", and also direct such person to hold a ]jiil)lie 
 
 inquiry, and if a public inquiry is held, the person holding the saiue 
 
 shall liave the same ])0wers as an inspector of the Local (xoverniucnt 
 
 ]5oar(l has uy)on holding a local ini[niry under the Public Health ^^^^^ 39 Vict. 
 
 Act, 187."). [See Appendi.x.] ' ^- ^^• 
 
 (5.) After such consideration and proof, and if there is an inquiry 
 after receiving the re})ort made upon such inquiry, the Secretary of 
 State may make an order authorising the Police Receiver to put 
 in force with reference to the land referred to in the petition, or 
 «uch part thereof as is described in such order, the powers of the 
 Lands Clauses Acts witli resj)ect to the purchase and taking of land 
 otherwise than by agi-eement, or any of them, and that either 
 absolutely or with such conditions and modifications as he may 
 tiiink fit, and it shall l)e the duty of the Police Receiver to serve a 
 copy of any order so made in the manner and U})on the persons in 
 which and upon whom notices in respect of the land to which the 
 order relates are recpiired by this Act to be served. 
 
 (6.) An order so made shall not be of any validity unless the 
 same has been confirmed by Act of Parliament ; and it shall be 
 lasvful for the Secretary of State, as soon as conveniently may be, 
 to ol)tain such confirmation. If while the Bill confirming such order 
 is pending in either House of Parliament a petition is presented 
 against the order, the Bill, so far as it relates to such order, may be 
 referred to a Select Committee, and the petitioner shall be allowed 
 to appear and oppose, as in the case of ])rivate Bills, and the Act 
 confirming such order shall be deemed to be a public general Kct of 
 Parliament. 
 
 (7.) An order made in pursuance of this section, when confirmed 
 by Parliament with such modifications as seem fit to Parliament, 
 shall have full effect. 
 
 (8.) A Secretary of State, in case of refusing or modifying the 
 order prayed for, may make such order as he thinks fit for the 
 allowance of the reasonable costs, charges, and expenses which any 
 j)erson whose land was proposed to be taken has properly incurred 
 in opposing the order. 
 
 (U.) All costs, charges, and expenses incurred by the Secretary 
 of State in relation to any order under this section shall, to such 
 amount as the Treasury think pro])er to direct, and all costs, 
 •charges, and expenses of any person which are so allowed by 
 the Secretary of State as aforesaid, shall be a charge upon the 
 Metropolitan Police Fund, and be ])aid to the Treasury or to such 
 person respectively, by the Police Receiver, either in one ])ayment 
 or by annual instalments not exceeding five, and if by instalments 
 toorether \vith interest after the vearlv rate of four i»t)unds in the 
 hundred, to be computed from the date of any such direction oi 
 the Treasury, or allowance of such costs, charges, and expenses 
 respectively upon so much of the ])rincipal sum due as may from 
 time to time remain unpaid. 
 
 (lU.) Any land ])urcliased in ])ursuance of any order under this 
 section, confirmed by Act of Parliament, shall be purchased within 
 three years after the passing of that Act. 
 
 (11.) The ])rovisious of this Act with respect to the purchase of 
 iand by the Police Receiver shall extend to the purchase cf land 
 of which such Receiver is lessee or occupier in like manner as if 
 another person were for the time being lessee or occupier of such 
 
 43
 
 674 
 
 [CHAr. 22.] 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 1886. [49 & 50 Yict.] 
 
 Approval of 
 Secretary of 
 State for 
 purchases 
 and loans. 
 
 Definitions. 
 
 land, save tbat the provisions with respect to the notices to, and the 
 assent or dissent of, and the service of a copy of the order on, lessees 
 and occnpiers shall not apply so far as respects the Police Receiver, 
 and save that after an order under this section for purchasing 
 such land is confirmed by Parliament, the Police lieceiver may give 
 notice to and pnrchase the estate, right, or interest of some one- 
 or more only of the parties interested in the land, but in that 
 case he shall, if any other of such parties, by notice in writing:, so 
 requires him, purchase the estate, right, or interest in the land of" 
 snch party. 
 
 5. \_As to rehousing of persons belonging to the labouring classes. 
 Superseded by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1903.] 
 
 6. Every purchase, sale, scheme, or lease by the Police Receiver 
 under the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1S29 to 1884, or this Act, and 
 the raising of anv loan bv the Police Receiver under this Act, shall 
 be subject to the approval of a Secretary of State, and also, in the 
 case of a loan, of the Treasury : provided that it shall not be 
 necessary for any vendor, purchaser, lessor, lessee, or lender to 
 ascertain that such approval has been given. 
 
 7. In this Act— 
 
 The expression '' Police Receiver " means the Receiver for the 
 
 Metropolitan Police District. 
 The expression " Metropolitan Police Fund " means the rates, 
 contributions, and funds for the time being applicable for 
 defraying the expenses of the Metropolitan Police Force. 
 [Part omitted {def rations of ^^ Secretary of State^'' a.nd '•' Treasury''''')- 
 rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.)^, 
 
 8. [Repeal of Act in second schedule to the extent therein specif ed. 
 Rep. 61 & 62 Yict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 First ScHEorLE. 
 
 Metropolitan Police Acts referred to. 
 
 Se-ssion and Chapter. 
 
 23 & 24 Vict. c. 135. 
 
 24 & 25 Vict. c. 51. 
 
 30 & 31 Vict. c. 39. 
 
 Title 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 An Act for the employment of the Metro- 
 politan Police Force in Her Majesty's 
 yards and miUtary stations. 
 
 An Act for granting pensions to some 
 officers and men in the Metropolitan 
 Police Force, and for other purposes. 
 
 An Act for amending the law with 
 respect to the accounts of the Receiver 
 for the Metropolitan Police District, 
 and for other purposes relating to the 
 Metropolitan Police. 
 
 The Metropolitan 
 Police Act, 1860, 
 
 The Metropolitan 
 Police Act, 1861. 
 
 The Metropolitan 
 Police (Receiver) 
 Act, 1867. 
 
 [See aho the Short Titles Act 189G.] 
 
 Second Schedule. [Act reppaJcd, viz. 20 & 21 Vkt. c. 64 {excejjt ss. 11 — 15, 
 hoth inclusive). Rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).']
 
 na s -l,^.T.^„.-\ Metropolif cm Board of Works rr<o4T> .n n a-?; 
 
 r49 & ;)(J Vict.] ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^.^^.^ ^^^^^ [(.hap- 44.] 6.5 
 
 CHAPTKH 44. 
 
 An Act further to amend thk Acts relating to the raising 
 OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Wokks ; and 
 
 FOR OTHER PURPOSES. [20^/; Jutie 1886.] 
 
 [Preamble recitex. (inter alia) 48 k 40 Viet. c. 50 {in this Act 
 referred to as '' t/te Act oj' I8<s5 ").] 
 
 1. This Act may lie cited as tlie ^Metropolitan Board of Works Short title. 
 (]\I()iiey) Act, 1886, and the Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) 
 
 Acts, 1875 to 1885, and this Act, may be cited to<^etiier as the 
 Metropolitan Board of AVorks (Money) Acts, 1875 to lx?<r;. 
 
 2. This Act shall he read and have effect as one with the Construction 
 Metrojjolitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1860 to 1871, and ^"^ ^^^• 
 
 the Metru])olitan Board of Works (^loney) Acts, 1875 to 1885. 
 
 3Interpreta- 
 
 The expression "Main Drainage Acts" in this Act shall have 
 the same meanin<r as is assigned to the same term in the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 1860. 
 
 \_Part omitted {definition of the expression " Parks and Open 
 Spaces Acts ") spent. '\ 
 
 4 — 8. \_Amen(h7ient of ss. 9, 10, 11, and 12 (>/48 & 49 Vict. c. 50 — 
 Power to the Board to expend moneys till '^\st December 1887 for 
 the purposes of ¥.) &, 50 Vict. c. cxii. Spenti] 
 
 9. [Poiver to the Board to lend money till '^\st December 1887 
 to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police. Rep. 50 & 51 Vict. c. 
 31, .s. 8.] 
 
 10. \fPou'er to the Board to expend moneys for sundry purposes 
 duriiHj 1887. Spent.'] 
 
 11. ... All the provisions of the :\Iain Drainage Acts and the fP^^^'^gP^'^^'' 
 Metroi)olis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts altering or amend- money for 
 ing the same, for the time being in force relating to the execution purposes of 
 of works anthorised by the said Acts respectively shall continne in "^^^" dram- 
 force, and shall extend and ap])ly resjiectively to the works executed sewers. 
 
 by means of money raised for the ]»nrp()ses of this section ; and all js ^ y\ yjcf 
 stock created under the authority of this Act for such purposes shall c 120. 
 be deemed to be created for the purposes of the above-mentioned 
 Acts respectively. [/V/y^ omitted (as to poicer to the Board to 
 expend not exceeding £340,000 during the year ending '^Ist December 
 IbSl for the purposes of main drainage and main sewers) spent. ^ 
 
 12. [Poicer to the Board to lend £5,000 to the Vestry of St. George, 
 Hanover Square, for the jmrchase of lands and the erection of 
 buildings for the accommodation of the vestry and guardians. Spent.] 
 
 -t o Power to lend 
 
 XO« • • • " • • A. A. • 
 
 to v^^triGS 
 
 Money lent by the Board under section twelve and this district ' 
 section shall, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, be repaid boards, 
 to them, with interest, within such time after the borrowing as the t-orporations, 
 
 -n 1 1 1.1 1 -.1 ...I 1 r i.1 T ^ burial boards, 
 
 Botird and the borrowers, with the approval ot the Ireasury, agree : ^.j^ 
 
 Provided that the time after tlu' borrowing witliin which such 
 
 moneys shall be repaid to the Board shall not exceed in the case 
 
 of a loan for purposes of improvements in relation to streets or 
 
 bridges, or for the jtnrpose of ])nrchase of land in fee simple, sixty 
 
 years, and for any otlicr purpose thirty years : Provided further, 
 
 that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the Board 
 
 from agreeing that anv such loan as is in this section mentioned,
 
 Protection of 
 Board in case 
 of certain 
 loans. 
 
 676 rC'H AP 44 1 Metropolitan Board of Works ..^ o ^^ y -, 
 
 i b [L HAP. 44.J (Money) Act 1886. L*^ <s. ou v ict.j 
 
 and which mav be made bv the Board to anv vestrv or district 
 board, shall be repaid in one sum or b}- such instalments or otherwise 
 and at such time or times (not exceeding the times Vjy this section 
 prescribed) as the Board may think fit and the Treasury may 
 approve. [Part omitted (as to power to the Board till '2>\st JJecemher 
 1887 to lend to vestries and district boards a.nd other public bodies 
 levying rates in the metropolis) spent^ 
 
 14. [^Poicer to the Board to lend to boa.rds of guardians in the 
 metropolis till "i^Ast December 1887. Spjent. — Provision for repay- 
 ment u-itJdn a time to be approved, by the Trea.sury not exceeding 
 30 years. Identical with such provision in 38 & 39 Vict. c. 65, .s-. 5.] 
 
 15. [^Extension of the amount which the Boa.rd may lend to the 
 Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. S<pent?\ 
 
 16. \_Poicer to the Board to lend till V^st December 1887 to the 
 School Boaj-d for London. Spjent. — Provision as to repayment 
 icithin a period not exceeding 50 years. Superseded. 2 Edw. 7, 
 c. 42, and second schedule ; and 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, s. 1.] 
 
 17. ^Vhere under the authority of this or any other Act the Board 
 lend any moneys to any corporation, body of commissioners, public 
 body, or persons, the exercise of whose powers of borrowing is 
 subject to the consent of the Local Government Board, the sanction 
 of that Board to the borrowing of such moneys shall in every such 
 case be conclusive evidence that such corporation, body of commis- 
 sioners, public body, or persons had power to borrow such moneys. 
 
 lo. ...... 
 
 Where the Board under the authority of this Act create con- 
 solidated stock to raise money for the purpose of the Fire Brigade 
 Act, 1865, or to enable them to make a loan repayable within tliirty 
 years from the date of such loan, the Board shall from time to 
 time carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sums as the Treasury 
 approve as being in their opinion sufficient to redeem within the 
 period of thirty years from the date of the creation of such stock, 
 or in the case of any such loan within any less period for which the 
 same may be made, an amount of consolidated stock equal to that so 
 created ; and 
 
 "Where the Board are by this Act authorised to make a loan, the 
 Board, instead of raising monev for anv such loan bv the creation of 
 consolidated stock, may use for any such loan any moneys for the 
 time being forming part of the Consolidated Loans Fund, and not 
 required for the payments of the dividends on consolidated stock. 
 Provided that no such moneys shall be used for any such loan which 
 shall be repayable at any date later than the date at which such moneys 
 will be required by the Board to pay off consolidated stock ; and 
 
 "Where the Board shall be of opinion that any moneys by this Act 
 authorised to be raised for any purpose should be paid off within a 
 period of thirty years or any less period, the Board instead of raising 
 such monevs bv the creation of consolidated stock mav with the 
 approval of the Treasury, use for such purpose any moneys for the 
 time being forming part of the Consolidated Loans Fund, and not 
 required for the payments of the dividends on consolidated stock. 
 Provided that no sucli moneys shall be so used unless provision 
 shall be made in such manner as the Treasury approve for paying 
 off the same at or before the date at which such moneys will be 
 required by the Board to pay off consolidated stock ; and in every 
 such case the Board shall from time to time raise as part of the 
 
 Power to 
 raise con- 
 solidated 
 stock.
 
 r^f, prmr n Metropolitan Board of Works rr'a*i, /.vJi 1 a — 
 
 149 & 50 Vict. I , r- • r. \ < ^ i .o/-. uhap. cxii. o/ / 
 
 l^.j a, ou y iv.i.j ^ y a?vfl?/.s' Po/rcr.s) Act 1880. ^ -" 
 
 consolidated rate snch sums as the Treasury a})prove as Leinc^ in 
 their opinion sufficient for the payment of the interest on and for 
 paving off the moneys used for such purpose at the date approved 
 l)y the Treasury as aforesaid, and such sums shall from time to time 
 be carried by the Board to the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 
 Where the Board raise consolidated stock for the purpose of 
 anv scheme made 1)v the Pjoard under the authority of the Artizans 38 & 39 Vict, 
 anil Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875,* or the Artizans c 3G. 
 and Labourers Dwellings Im])rovement Acts, 1875 to 1882,* and 
 confirmed by Provisional Order and Act of Parliament, there shall 
 be re})aid (as provided i)y the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings 
 Lnprovement Act, 1875,*) to the consolidated rate out of the local 
 rate as defined by the said last-mentioned Act, all moneys required 
 for payment of dividends on and the redemption of all consolidated 
 stock created for such ])nrpose. 
 
 [Part omitted {powers to the Hoard to raise consolidated stock for 
 the purposes of this Act) spent.'] 
 
 19. The Board may from time to time within twelve months after Power for 
 the issue of any consolidated stock carry to the dividend account ^g^g^of gto^^.^ 
 in the Consolidated Loans Fund for the jmrpose of providing for the to apply 
 payment of dividends on such stock from the dates fixed at the time moneys 
 
 of "such issue though the same may be earlier than the dates fixed g^ock^omake 
 for receiving the cash instalments on account of such loan so much up dividends 
 of the moneys arising from the issue of such stock as they may from fixed 
 re(|uire for that purpose, and as the Treasury approve, and may '^^^^^• 
 from time to time apply tlie moneys so carried to such dividend 
 account to the payment of such dividends. 
 
 20. [^Ratification of the Board's expenditure for Fire Brigade 
 ])urposes till 'ilst December 1885. Spent.'] 
 
 21. [1\ at i feat ion of Board's crpendittirc on opposition to the Bills of 
 th(' SoKfhtcark and Vauxhall a/id the Kent Water Companies. Spent.] 
 
 22 — 26. [Poicer to the Board to raise money hy metropolitan bills 
 and provisions relating thereto. Spent.] 
 
 27. [Limit on borrowing in s. 38 of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102 not to 
 extend to moneys raised under this Act. Speid.] 
 
 28. All sums received by the Board in respect of interest on or Repayments 
 principal of any loan made by them under this Act shall be carried [q cons^oH-^*^ 
 to the Consolidated Loans Fund. dated Loans 
 
 29. [Limit to exercise of borrowing powers. Speid.] Fund. 
 
 30. Sections twenty-seven to forty-three inclusive of the Act of Incorporation 
 1885 shall be deemed to be incorporated with this Act. 27 to'^ls'of 
 
 First Schedule. [Particulars of new monei/ powers conferred in 48 & 49 Vict. 
 this Act. Spent.] ' «=. 50. 
 
 Second Schedule. [LJst of Parks and Open Spaces Acts 
 referred to in s. 3. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER CXIL 
 
 An Act to confek further Powers on the Metropolitan 
 
 Board of Works as to Streets and ofen Spaces : and 
 
 FOR other Purposes. [2oth June 1886.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that it is expedient that the ^fetro- 
 
 politan Board of Works] {hereinafter referred to as the Board) 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by tlie Hoiisin<i- of the Workinir Classes .\ct 1S90. 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 ^^ 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S).
 
 /i-o m„.^ •• n Metropolitan Board of Works VAn s kcw ^ i 
 
 6/8 Chap. cxii. I . rr '■ ,, x ."^^loo^ 49 & 50 Vict. 
 
 ■- -" (^\ ariom rowers) Act \^^^. ^ -^ 
 
 should be authorised to make the street improvements and works 
 hereinafter mentioned^ and the deposit with the Clerks of the Peace 
 for Middlesex and Surrey of plans and, sections and a hook of 
 reference {in the Act referred, to as the deposited plans^ sections, 
 and book of reference) ; and recites the vesting in the Board under 
 
 42 & 43 Vict. c. clx. of certain lands, being part of Wormwood 
 Scrubs, formerly tvaste of the manor of Fulham, and that the 
 Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in tchom the manor is vested, have 
 offered to transfer to the Boa,rd without consideration, 22 acres, other 
 part of Wormivood, Scrubs shoiun on the deposited jjlans, but severed 
 from the remainder by the West Jjondon liailway, to be used, as an 
 
 Open space ; and that the homage jury of the said manor have agreed 
 to transfer to the Board for £2,000 the rights of pasture in the 
 said 22 acres of the copyhold tenants of the manor ; and also recites 
 
 43 Geo. 3, c. cxxxi. ; 40 & 41 Vict. c. xcix. ; 44 & 45 Vict. <?. cxcii. 
 and 48 & 49 Vict. c. clxvii. {in this Act called the Act of 1885).] 
 
 PART I. 
 Preliminary. 
 
 Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan P>oard of Works 
 
 (Various Powers) Act 1886. 
 Interpreta- 2. In this Act the following words and expressions have the 
 
 tion of terms. gg^.^,^,-i^l meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be some- 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that 
 is to say) : — 
 
 " Dulwich College lands " means the lands in the parish of 
 Camberwell and county of Surrey* lying between Dulwich 
 Common Poad on the south Lordship Lane and Court Lane 
 on the north-east and College Road on the west delineated 
 on the plan (marked B) referred to in the Act of 1885 ; 
 
 " Street" has the meaning assigned to that term in tlie Metropolis 
 Management Act 1855 and the Acts amending the same ; 
 
 "Street authority " means with respect to any parish mentioned 
 in Schedule A to the Metropolis Management Act 1855 or to 
 any district formed by the union of the parishes mentioned 
 in Schedule B to the said Act the vestry of such parish f or 
 the board of works for such district f as the case may be and 
 the term " district " in relation to a street authority means the 
 area subject to the jurisdiction of such street authority. 
 
 \Parts omitted {definitions of " Lands Clauses Acts,'''' " metropolis^'' 
 ''''Justice^'' '•''two JiL^ticesT '"'■ lessee,^' and '-'' pjerson^'' and as to 
 meanings of words in Lands Clauses Acts incorporated) spent. ^ 
 Division of 3. This Act is divided into parts as follows : — 
 
 m°*° I.— Preliminary. 
 
 IL — Street Improvements. 
 III. — Open Spaces etc. 
 IV. — Miscellaneous. 
 
 4. \_l nc or p or ati 071 of La7ids Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 5 — 6. \_Boa7'd to execute Act, a7id may appoi7it a C07n77iittee there- 
 for. Superseded by the Municipal Cor2>o/-ations Act 1882, s. 22 
 {see Appendix), and 51 & 52 Vict. c. A\, ss. 40 a7ul 75.] 
 
 * Now the count}' of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 t Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough. See 62 & Go Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 parts.
 
 TAn Q ^f, AT n Metropolitan Hoard of Works rn •• n a-n 
 
 f49&oOVicT.| /I- ''• r» V /^ loor- IChap. cxii. I 6/9 
 
 PART II. 
 
 Street Impuovements. 
 
 7. Snl)ject to the provisions of this Act in the linos according to Tower to 
 
 the levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited ro^^^^e ^"ertain 
 1 1 i^- ^1 i» 1 1 1 • -11 street works, 
 
 plans and sections tlie J^oanl may make and cari'v into execution all 
 
 •or anv of the works described in this section (whicli are in this Act 
 
 referred to as the street improvements) (that is to say) : — 
 
 Widening of Cold Harbour Lane. 
 
 The widening of Cold Harbour Lane on the eastern side thereof 
 in the })arish of Lambeth and county of Surrey * commencing 
 at a point about one chain north of the junction of Denmark 
 Passage with Cold Harbour Lane and ferminating at the 
 northern end of the triangular enclosure at the junction of 
 Cold Harbour Lane and Denmark Hill. 
 
 Victory Place Improvement. 
 
 A new street in the parish of St. Mary Newington in the county 
 of Surrey * commencing at the junction of Paragon Kow and 
 Henshaw Street and terminating by a junction with the new 
 road known as Muuton Koad. 
 
 Staircase at Charing Cross. 
 
 And subject as aforesaid the Beard may make and maintain in 
 the ])arisli of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and county of jMiddlesex* a 
 staircase to form an access for foot jjassengers to the footway along 
 the north-eastern side of the bridge whicli carries the South-eastern 
 Railway over the River Thames which staircase will be on the north- 
 western side of the roadwav of the Victoria Embankment com- 
 mencing on the surface of the ground on the Victoria Embankment 
 with an approach from the Embankment roadway and terminating 
 in the said existing footway along the said bridge : 
 
 And subject as aforesaid the Board may construct such railing 
 and form such enclosure around and in the neighbourhood of the 
 said staircase as they may think lit. 
 
 8. Before raising the level of Cold Harbour Lane to any extent For protec- 
 exceeding six inches or before lowering the level of the said lane in *^o" o^ South- 
 •exercise of the powers conferred for that ])urpose by this Act the Yauxh°n 
 Board shall give three months notice in writing to the Southwark Water 
 
 and Vauxhall Water Comj)any f (in this section referred to as the Company. 
 Water Company) of their intention to commence such Avorks and 
 thereupon the following provisions for the protection of the "Water 
 Oomj)aiiy shall be in force and take effect (that is to say) : — 
 
 (<() The A\'ater Company shall be at liberty forthwith to remove 
 so much of their main or mains now laid in Cold Harbour 
 Lane and High Street as lies to the north of the road 
 known as Denmark Passat::e and shall be at libertv to 
 lay and maintain a main or mains through or in Denmark 
 Passayre in lieu thereof. 
 
 'o^ 
 
 \Fart omitted (provisions appli/ing during execution of works) spent.'\ 
 
 9 — 11. \_Power to the Board to stop up frat/s temporaribj^ to 
 raise or lower streets, and to deviate. Spent.'] 
 
 * Now the county of London. Sec 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 f Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 6S0 
 
 Ground laid 
 into the 
 streets to 
 form part 
 thereof. 
 
 For protec- 
 tion of the 
 South-easter 
 and Metro- 
 politan 
 District 
 Railway 
 Companies. 
 
 rn •■ -1 Metropolitan Board of Works r^io x. ?;n Vt^t,! 
 
 L J ( \ artous jroiccrs) Act iobO. '- -^ 
 
 12. [P6>«r;' to the Board to make sidjsidiary works, to alter streets 
 and to alter drains or sewers on jjrozid'mg substitutes, ichich are to 
 be under the same management as existing sewers and drains.'] 
 
 13 — 14. [Power to the Board to alter tcater, gas, and other pipes, 
 and to lay out carriageways, footways, etc. Spent.'] 
 
 15. [As to laying of pavements and testing the same tchen laid 
 in and as to maintenance thereof by the street authority in whose 
 district they are situate or other persons liable to repair the same.] 
 
 16. {Poicer to the Board to Jdl up sewers or drains on providing 
 substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and, drains.] 
 
 17 — 19. [Power to the Board to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. — 
 Period for completion of street improcements limited to 3 and for 
 compulsory purchase of lands to 2 years. Spent.] 
 
 20. When the street improvements are made so much of the 
 same as shall be laid out for carriageways or footways of any street 
 shall form part of such street and may he used by the public 
 accordingly but the soil thereunder shall continue to be and be 
 vested in the Board and the paving maintenance repair cleansing- 
 and lighting of such street shall in the case of the Cold Harbour 
 Lane and Victory Place improvements by this Act authorised be 
 under the care management control and jurisdiction of the street 
 authority of the parish in which the same are respectively situate. 
 
 21. [As to provisio?i of access to houses in Victory Place during 
 works. Spent.] 
 
 22. With regard to the staircase at Charing Cross by this Act 
 authorised the following provisions for the protection of the South- 
 eastern Railway Company (in this Act called the South-eastern 
 Company) and of the Metropolitan District Eailway Company (in 
 this Act' called the District Company) shall unless otherwise agreed 
 on between the Board and the said two Companies respectively have 
 eiFect viz. : — . 
 
 For the Protection of both Companies. 
 
 (1.) The Board shall not acquire any ownership of or in any land 
 or property of either of the two Companies but the Board 
 may subject to the ])rovisions of this section mahe and 
 maintain the said staircase in manner by this Act 
 authorised : 
 
 (2.) {a) If and so far as for the purpose of making and main- 
 taining the said staircase and works connected therewith 
 it shall be necessary for the Board to interfere with the 
 structure of the Charing Cross Bridge or to enter upon use 
 or interfere with any property of the South-eastern Com- 
 pany the Bf)ard may ])urc"hase and the South-eastern 
 Company shall sell an easement or right of making and 
 maintaining the said staircase in manner aforesaid : 
 {b) If and so far as for the purpose of making and maintaining- 
 the said staircase it shall be necessary for the Board to 
 erect the same or any part thereof upon or overany land 
 or property station or works of the District Company the 
 Board may purchase and the District Company shall sell 
 an easement or right of making and maintaining the said 
 staircase in manner aforesaid :
 
 [49 & 50 Vict.] ^I'^ropolitx,^ Board of Works j-^-.^^^, ^^..-^ ^gl 
 
 (4.) — (5.) \^/*l(f/t.s of sfairrrtse and icorks in coiwexion therewith to 
 be submitted to and apjjrorad b;/ the said tu'O companies 
 before such staircase and icorks are commenced, and ami 
 difference with respect to such plans or arising under this 
 section to be referred to an engineer to be agreed tipon, or 
 failing agreement to be appointed, bg the Board, of Trade — 
 Approval of plans not to reliece the Board from respon- 
 sibilitg as to execution or maintenance of works.'] 
 
 (0.) The Siiid staircase and all works eonnected therewith shall 
 be coiistrncted witliiii the limits of deviation authorised 
 by this Act and all jjermancnt works shall at all times 
 thereafter be maintained by the Board in accordance with 
 the plans elevations sections and particulars agreed upon 
 or a|)i)roved by arbitration as hereiu-before ])rovided and 
 to the reasonable satisfactiou of the engineers of the two 
 Companies who shall have access to the works of the Board 
 at all reasonable times : 
 
 • • • • ■ • 
 
 (9.) The Board shall from time to time be responsible for and 
 make gooil t(^ the two Companies respectively all costs 
 losses damages and expenses from time to time occasioned 
 to those Companies respectively or to their respective 
 railways or to the tratKc thereon or to any person or 
 persons using the same or otherwise by reason of the 
 execution or failure of any of the works of or incidental 
 to the said staircase or any act or omission of the Board 
 or of any contractor or any ])erson in the em])loy of them 
 or him and the Board shall effectually indemnify and hold 
 harmless the two Companies respectively from all claims 
 and demands upon or against them by reason of any such 
 execution or failure and of any such act or omission : 
 
 (lU.) After the execution of the works by this Act authorised 
 they shall not be altered added to or reduced except in 
 such manner and on such terms as shall be agreed 
 between the Board and each of the said two Companies 
 resjiectively or failing agreement as may be prescribed 
 by arbitration : 
 
 (11.; The reasonable costs charges and ex})enses of the said two 
 Com])auies and their res])ective engineers in reference to 
 the matters aforesaid shall be defrayed by the Board : 
 
 (12.) Any dis]tute or ditference which may from time to time 
 arise between the Board on the one hand and the said 
 two Companies or eitiier of them on the other hand with 
 reference to any works referred to in this section or any 
 matter arising out of the ])rovisions of this section shall 
 be referred to an engineer to be ajipointed upon the 
 ai)plication of either ])arty by the Board of Trade and the 
 decision of such arbitrator shall be final and conclusive 
 and the costs of and incidental to such arbitration shall 
 be borne and defrayed as he may direct : 
 
 (13.) Nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice take away 
 
 lessen or interfere with any of the property rights powers 
 
 interests or privileges of either of the said two Companies 
 
 otherwise than is herein ex])ressly provided. 
 
 [Farts omitted (as to consideration for the easement referred to in subs. 
 
 2 {b) and provisions applying during construction of works) spent.]
 
 {\RO rOHAP pxii 1 ^letropoUtan Board of Works p^g » .^ y -. 
 
 58^ LL HAP. cxii.J ^ r«/v-oe/6- /^(?£/'grs) A(j« 1886. L^^ ^ ^ -• ^ ^^^'-l 
 
 FoK THE Protection of the South-eastern Company. 
 
 (2.) Nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed to prejudice 
 alter or diminish the riijht to close the Charing Cross 
 footbridge now claimed to be exerciseable by the South- 
 eastern Company nnder the provisions of section 3'J of the 
 Metropolis Toll Bridges Act 1877 and the said right of 
 closure shall subject to the conditions in the said section 
 mentioned relating to the said footbridge extend to the 
 staircase and works connected therewith by this Act 
 authorised and may be exerciseable by the Company in as 
 full and complete a manner as if the said staircase and 
 works had been included in the said section : 
 (3.) If and whenever the South-eastern Company desire to widen 
 or alter their Charing Cross Bridge on the northern side 
 thereof so as to render necessary or expedient any inter- 
 ference with the said staircase and works the South-eastern 
 ('ompany may execute such widening or alteration as they 
 shall think proper in all respects as if no staircase or 
 works of the said Board existed : 
 (4.) If such widening or alteration shall necessitate the removal 
 alteration or re-erection of the said staircase and works the 
 South-eastern Company shall give all reasonable facilities 
 for the alteration and re-erection thereof by the Board at 
 their expense in all things provided that no such alteration 
 or re-erection shall be made on any lands or property or 
 so as to involve any interference with any works of the 
 District Company otherwise than in such manner and on 
 such terms as may be agreed by that Company or settled 
 by arbitration. 
 [Part omitted {the staircase and the works connected therewith to be 
 executed to the reasonable satisfaction of the South-eastern Company'' s 
 engineer) spent.'] 
 
 For the Protection of the District Co.mrany. 
 
 (1.) So far as the said staircase and the works connected there- 
 with shall be upon or over any property station or works 
 of the District Comjiany or involve any interference there- 
 with the same shall be executed under the supervision 
 and to the reasonable satisfaction of the principal engineer 
 for the time being of the District Company and shall be 
 at all times maintained (subject to the j^rovisions of this 
 section) in like manner: 
 
 (2.) The said staircase shall be made in such manner and of such 
 materials as will obstruct as little as jwssible the access 
 of light and air to the District Company's station and 
 before commencing the same the Board shall erect proper 
 screens or other means to ])rotect the roof and other 
 structures of the District Company from damage during 
 the construction of the said staircase and after the com- 
 pletion of the said staircase the Board shall make and 
 maintain such provision by a screen or other means as 
 may be reasonably required to protect the said roof and 
 structures from damage. 
 
 • *•••• 
 
 [Part omitted (compensation by the Board for damage to light and 
 air (if oyny) by icorks) spent.]
 
 rACi t -A T7 -1 ^fetropobtaii liodvd of Works. rr^ •• n coo 
 
 r49&oUVicT.| f.r ■ 7> V I / iww/' iChap. cxn.] 683 
 
 23. [.1-s fo spparate nccounts of utreet improvements. Superseded 
 51 k i)'Z Vict. c. 41, ss. Os ^/W 71.] 
 
 24 — 25. \_La7nht'th Veafnj to ronfrihufi' Imlf tlw i-ost of the ('old 
 Harbour Lane, and Vestry of St. Mani Sewington half the cost oj 
 the Victory Place improvements. Spent.'] 
 
 TAUT 111. 
 (JTEN Spaces, etc. 
 
 26. Ill this Act tlie expression Little Wormwood Scrubs means Defining 
 tlic siiid jtiece of land containinjj: al)out twenty-two acres shown on I-^i^tle ^^ orm- 
 the deposited plans under the lieadinj; Little (Wormwood) Scrubs 
 
 ftnd within the dotted line thereon marked " limits." 
 
 27. Little Woi'mwood Scrubs shall upon the ])assing of this Little Worm- 
 Act vest in the Board and their successors in fee simT)le in T)0sses- wood Scrubs 
 
 vcsiGfl in toe 
 
 sion free from all rights of copyholders common commonable or Board, 
 other similar rights in over or affecting the same and the Board 
 i^hall bold the same upon trust for the perpetual nse thereof by the 
 inhal)itants of the metropolis for exercise and recreation. The 
 Board may from time to time lay out drain level j)lant and im})rove 
 Little "Wormwood Scrubs and may exercise all necessary powers 
 for the maintenance and preservation of the same as an open space. 
 
 28. \_As to compensation for riglds in Little Wormwood Scrubs. 
 
 Sjjcnt.'] 
 
 29. \_As to byeluics. Superseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14—21, 
 ■and 01 ct 02 }'ict. c. ccxxi. s. 01.] 
 
 30. Tlie Board shall lay out and form along the southern side Board to 
 of Little Wormwood Scrubs when vested in them under this Act a ^*"^^ ".^V -..i 
 
 If.,,.,. . 1 , , xi 1 -11 • road at Little 
 
 road torty leet m width as shown on the deposited ])hins in con- Wormwood 
 tinnation of the archway under the West London Railway at about Scrubs, 
 ten chains north of the North Pole Road And shall metal gravel 
 kerb channel pave sewer and comi)h'te the said new road in the 
 «ame manner as other new roads in the metropolis and shall 
 properly maintain the said new road and the sewer to be formed in 
 the same until the said new road shall have been completed and 
 opened to the })ul)lic and the said road shall for the purpose 
 of byelaws and other purposes be part of Little Wormwood Scrubs 
 But nothing in this Act or any such byelaw shall authorise the 
 ]3oard to close the said road at any time after it shall have been 
 ■completed. 
 
 ' 3L It shall be lawful for the vicar of St. Clement Kensington As to build- 
 and his successors or other the owner of the piece of glebe land on "Jfthe"'^'lebe 
 the south side of and fronting on the new road to be formed by land fronting 
 the Board (as directed in the ])revious section) to build on the said the new 
 l)iece of glebe land houses fronting on the said new road and also to '" • 
 lay sewers or drains to connect with the sewer under the said new 
 road and he and they and all persons authorised by him or them 
 shall have free right of access at all times to and from the said new 
 road : Provided always that except with the consent of the Board 
 no house shall be built fronting on the said new road which shall 
 l)e of less annual value than ibrty pounds or of a less prime cost 
 value (in labour and materials) than three hundred and fifty 
 pounds. 
 
 32. Xotwithstanding anything shown on the deposited plans ^-p'^^/^ondon 
 nothing in this Act shall enable the Board in any way to interfere itailwaV.
 
 aoA rr<,. •• i Metropolitan Board of Works rA<\s t^^t -» 
 
 684 [Chap, cxii.] /t- • v r,\ a * To<ja 149 & oO Vict, [ 
 
 •- -J {\ arious Fotvers) Act ISSb. •- J 
 
 with any part of the West London Railway or transfer to the 
 Board any of the Land or property belongincr to the owners of that 
 railway but the strip of land shown on the deposited plans and 
 numbered thereon and in the deposited books of reference 3 in 
 the parish of Haiumersmith (part of which lies under the West 
 London Kailway) may be used as a public way as part of Little 
 Wormwood Scrubs and subiect to the bvelaws of the Board relatinfj; 
 thereto. [See note to s. 29.] 
 
 Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Great Western and LondoQ 
 and North-western Railway Companies from constructing over the 
 said strip of land or the roadway ibrmed along the same such 
 works as mav be necessarv for the widening of the said railway 
 or tbe constructing of additional lines of rails platforms or 
 buildings thereon or shall entitle the Board to call upon the 
 said two Companies or either of them to make any money pay- 
 ment in respect thereof And notwithstanding anything in this 
 Act the said two Companies may enter upou the said strip of land 
 if it be necessary for the purpose of altering repairing maintaining 
 renewing or extending the archway over the same : 
 
 Provided that except in case of emergency the said two Companies- 
 shall give 48 hours previous notice in writing to the engineer of 
 the Board of their intention to enter upon the same and shall be 
 subject to such reasonable conditions and regulations as he may 
 prescribe for preventing traffic through the said archway from 
 being interfered with And provided also that if the said railway 
 be widened over the road to be formed along the said strip of land 
 then such widening shall (unless otherwih;e agreed by the Board in, 
 writing under their common seal) be constructed so as not to lessen 
 the clear width of the said road and any footways along the same 
 and so as to leave a headway at least as high as that of the existing- 
 archway. 
 
 33. \_Saving the rights of the Great Western and London /" North- 
 Western Railiuay Companies.'] 
 New road to 34. As from the time when the said new road is completed 
 be public. j^^(^[ open to the public the same shall become and be a public road 
 and repairable and maintained by the street authority of the district, 
 in the same manner as other public roads and streets in their district. 
 
 DuLwicH Park. 
 Definitions. 35. For the purpose of this Act the expression " the amended 
 park plan " means the plan of Dulwich Park which has been pre- 
 pared for the purposes of this Act and signed by Leonard H. 
 C'oartney the Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons 
 to whom the Bill for this Act was referred of which one copy ha& 
 been deposited in tbe Parliament Office of the House of Lords and 
 one other copy has been deposited at the Private Bill Office in the 
 House of Commons and of which copies are also deposited with the 
 Governors of Dulwich College and with the Board. 
 
 The expression " the Governors " means the persons acting as- 
 the Estates Governors in the execution of the Dulwich College 
 scheme approved by Her Majesty in Council on the ISth day of 
 August one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. 
 
 The expression " Dulwich Park " means the Dulwich College 
 lands transferred to and vested in the Board by the Act of 1885 as 
 intended to be laid out hy the Board as a park and as shown on the 
 amended park plan by the colours light green and blue.
 
 rtr. i> -ATT -\ Metro/jolitari Board of W or Its rn„,^ 4: n ckqk 
 
 r40 iV: .)0 YicT.] ,T^ '. rj \ 1 ,> ivw<- I Chap, cxii.] 680 
 
 *- -J (various Powers) Act i>i>>b. >- -^ 
 
 36. In laviiiti: out the Dulwich Collej^e lands as a public park further 
 the Board may from time to time sjihject to tlie })rovisions of this i*jy[wicir 
 Act divert and alter any existinf^ footpaths and rij^hts of way over I'ark. 
 the sam(; and may stop up and (dose any sucli ]iaths and rij^hts of 
 
 way or entrances or meuns of access to the said lands as they may 
 think tit : 
 
 Provided that they shall not stop up or divert anyexistinir public 
 footpath on or over the said hinds until they shall have provided a 
 reasonably convenient substitute for tiie same. 
 
 The iJoard may every ni,i!:ht during such hours as they may from 
 time to time tliink fit between sunset and six a.m. from the first 
 •day of April to the first day of October and between sunset and 
 seven a.m. durino; the rest of tlie year close the park formed by 
 them on the Dulwich College lands or any part or ])arts thereof of 
 ■which they shall from time to time have obtained possession. 
 
 37. \Virli reference to the Dulwich College lands the following Further pro- 
 
 1 1 1 1 visions as to 
 
 provisions shall aj.i.ly:-^ .,,,,,. • lavin-out 
 
 (l.j The lioard shall lorni and lay out and shall tiiereaiter repair Dulwich 
 and maintain upon the site coloured yellow on the I'ark. 
 amended park plan between the })oints marked N and F 
 a roadway fifteen feet in width for the ])urpose of affording 
 access for all purposes from the College Road to the 
 pro])erties situate l)etween the said roadway and the said 
 College Road and also a roadway fifteen feet in width 
 for tlie purpose of affording access for all purposes from 
 the point marked Q at the north-west corner of tlie park 
 to the two properties abutting on the College Koad at the 
 points marked L and M on the amended park plan : 
 
 (2.) The Board shall also form and lay out and thereafter repair 
 and maintain n])on the site coloured brown on the 
 amended park plan a footpath twenty feet in width 
 between the Dulwich Common Road and Lordship Lane 
 and the said footpath shall be deemed to be in substitution 
 for the existing footpath between Dulwich Common lioad 
 and Lordship Lane which is shown on the said plan and 
 thereon marked ''footpath to be abolished": Provided 
 that the line and dimensions of the said roadways and 
 footpath respectively may be varied by agreement between 
 the Board and the Governors : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 (5.) The Board shall in laying out Dulwich Park ]irovide ou the 
 south side of the park at the point marked P on the 
 amended i)ark j)lan a gateway of sufficient dimensions for 
 the admission of carriages and they shall also provide a 
 like gateway on the northern side of the park at the point 
 marked H on the said plan or at some })lace not more 
 than one hundred yards therefrom And when the 
 Governors shall have ]irovided to the satisfaction of the 
 Board land ft»r approaches to the said gates respectively froui 
 Dulwich Common Road and Court Lane the Board shall 
 form and make uj) such approaches. The lioard shall also 
 provide a iratewav suitable for the admission of carriages 
 into the said park from the Dulwiidi Common Road at 
 the south-eastern corner of the park between the line of 
 the proposed footi)ath coloured brown on the said plan and 
 the property called '' The Elms " also shown thereon and a
 
 686 
 
 rCHAP cxii 1 ^Metropolitan Board of Works .,^ o ,- y -i 
 
 H-HAP. cxii.j Various Foicers) Act 1886. L^^ ^ '' ^ ^ ^^^'-^ 
 
 ) 
 
 Transfer to 
 Board of 
 power and 
 obligations 
 for opening 
 drawbridge 
 in Deptford 
 Creek Bridge. 
 
 Power to 
 certain per- 
 sons to grant 
 easements 
 etc. bv 
 agreement. 
 
 like satewav for the admission of carria2:es to Dnlwich Park 
 from the College Road on the western side of the park: 
 (6.) On the first day of October immediately following the 
 passing of this Act the piece of land which is colonred 
 ])ink on the amended park plan and which now forms 
 part of the Dnlwich College lands transferred to and 
 vested in the Board under the Act of 1885 shall by virtue 
 of this Act become and be re-transferred to and vested in 
 the governors and the piece of land coloured blue on the 
 amended park plan together with so much of the site of 
 the foot])ath coloured brown thereon as now belongs to 
 the governors shall by virtue of this Act be transferred 
 to and vest in the Board in the same manner and for the 
 same intent and purposes as the said Dnlwich College 
 lauds transferred to and vested in them by the Act of 
 1885 to the intent that the said piece of land coloured 
 pink as aforesaid shall be exchanged for the pieces of 
 land coloured blue and brown as aforesaid. 
 
 [Pai'ts omitted (as to closing a certain gateway and jjromsions as to- 
 
 the fencing of Didtvich Park) spent7\ 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 38. \_Poicer to the Board to repurchase certain lands acquired 
 hi them under 40 & 41 Vict. c. ciii. and sold to one Frederick 
 Snelling, and to resell or lease the same for labou?ing class 
 dtcellings. Spent.'] 
 
 39. As from the passing of this Act all the powers duties and 
 obligations of the Deptford Creek Bridge Company under the said 
 Act of George III. with resjiect to the opening or removal of the 
 drawbridge or swingbridge in the Deptford Creek Bridge for the 
 passage of ships and other vessels through the same (which were 
 transferred to the Greenwich Board by section 24 of the Metropolis. 
 Toll Bridges Act 1877) shall be transferred to and be exercised and 
 performed by the Board and section 20 of the Metropolitan Bridges- 
 Act 1881 shall be repealed. 
 
 [Part omitted (as to repayment of wages, etc., paid by the Greenicich 
 Board during the period bet ween the reconstruction of the bridge 
 and the passing of this Act) spent7\ 
 
 40 — 42. [Extension till Wth June 1887 of the time limited in 
 40 (fc 41 Vict. c. ccxxxv. for the purchase of certain lands described 
 in the schedule and of the time limited in 44 & 45 Vict. c. cxcn.fo?' 
 the purchase of lands in connection loith the new Battersea Bridge — 
 Poicers to the Board, to take lands for the street improvements — 
 As to reJiousing persons of the labouring class7\ 
 
 43. Persons empowered by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 
 1845 to sell and convey or release lauds may if they think fit subject 
 to the provisions of that Act and of the Lands Clauses Consolida- 
 tion Acts Amendment Act 1S60 and of this Act grant to the Board 
 any easement right or privilege (not being an easement of water) 
 required for the purposes of this Act in over or afiecting any such 
 lands and for the purposes of this Act the provisions of the said 
 Acts with respect to lands and rentcharges so far as the same are 
 applicable in this behalf shall extend and apply to such easements 
 rights and privileges as aforesaid and to any grant of the same 
 respectively.
 
 [r)OViCT.] I [(tmpstead Heath Enlargement Act \^^Q. [Chap, xli.] 687 
 
 44 — 48. [Ki^roT'S and omissions in plans — Poicer to the Board to 
 enter and surrey lands to be taken — As toarbitration — Board to redeem 
 land tax on lands taken — Power to the Board to sell materials. Spent. "] 
 
 49 — 51. \ Poicer to the linnrd to grant building lea.^es of surplus 
 lands — vl.s' to sale of ground-rentx, and. rercrsions thereof — Power 
 to sell such lands without U'dt^iiuj. Superseded 02 ct O^i Vict, 
 c. ccxxxvii. s. 23. See ibid. .s.v. 10—22.] 
 
 52. Tho Board may from time to time let either from year to Boarrl may 
 year or for a less period or for a term at rackrerit or exchanL''e ^'>'^ ^^a f^ ff^ 
 otherwise dispose of any building- or lands or any part thereof 
 ae(piired by them under the powers of this Act for any of the street 
 improvements and not required ior such improvements and may 
 execute and do any deed act or thing ])roper for effectuating any 
 
 such lease exchange or other disf)osition. 
 
 53. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board shall within Board to dis- 
 sucli period as they may thiidc lit which period shall be the P*^^^ °^ ^^"*^ 
 prescribed period for the purposes of section one hundred and 
 twenty-seven of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 184.3 after the 
 completion of any of the street improvements for the purposes of 
 
 which any lands have been acquired sell and dispose of to any 
 person or persons and grant and convey such parts of such lands as 
 they may have aciiuired under the powers of this Act and which 
 shall not be re([uired ibr any of such imj)rovements. \_See 
 47 it 48 Vict. c. o(), .s'. 23.] 
 
 54. \lUceipts of Board to be effectual discharges. Identical icith 
 4s ct 4'.) Vict. c. c'lxvii. s. 73.] 
 
 55. The Board may subject to the provisions of this Act from ^'ower to 
 
 time to time enter into antl carrv into effect agreements with anv ^^^"^^ ^° 
 
 1 • \ f ■" i^ 1 • 1 1 1 ' make agree- 
 
 person being the owner or or interested in any lands houses or ments with 
 
 property abutting on any portion of any of the street improvements owners of 
 
 with resj)ect to the sale by the Board to such person of any lands P'^op^^y. etc 
 
 or property (including any street or thoroughi'are or any part of a 
 
 street or thoroughfare acquired by the Board under the powers of 
 
 this Act and not re([uired for any of such improvements) for such 
 
 consideration as may be agreed upon between the Board and such 
 
 person and the Boai'd may accept as satisfaction of the whole or any 
 
 part of such consideration the grant by such person of any lands or 
 
 other property required ])y the Board for the purposes of this Act. 
 
 56. \_Expenses of executing Act. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 jturt iv.] 
 
 57. Expenses of obtaining Act. Spetit.'] 
 
 Schedule. [Description of lands as to which the time for purchase 
 is extended. Spent. ^ 
 
 50 VICTORIA. A.D. 1886. 
 
 CHABTEU XL I. 
 An Act to provide for the acquisition of Parliament Hill 
 
 AND OTHER LaNDS AXD THKIR ADDITION TO HaMPSTEAD HeATH. 
 
 [2^)fh September li<b(3.] 
 [Preamble recites 34 & 35 Vict. c. Ixxvii.] 
 1. This Act mav be cited as the Hampstead Heath Enlargement short title. 
 Act 1880. 
 
 ii. ...... 
 
 " The Board " means the Metropolitan Board of Works.* Interpreta- 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 cV 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 688 
 
 [Chap, xli.] Ilampstead Heatli Enlargement Act 1886. [50 Vict.] 
 
 Powers of 
 
 sale and 
 purchase. 
 
 Powers of 
 Board in the 
 event of their 
 acquiring the 
 said lands. 
 
 Further 
 powers as to 
 added lands. 
 
 '[Po,rt omitted (flefinition of " the Par-liament Hill Estates ") rejj. 
 51 & 52 176'^ c. cli. &. 2. See ibid. s. 3.] 
 
 3. It shall be lawful for the owners of the Parliament Hill 
 E.states or the persons who under section seven of the Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Act 1845 are or will be empowered to sell and convey 
 the said estates or any part thereof or any one or more of such 
 owners or persons on the one hand and the Board on the other hand 
 to enter into and carry into effect any agreement or ng;reements for 
 the acquisition by the Board of the Parliament Hill Estates or any 
 part or parts thereof res])ectively with a view to their being pre- 
 served and maintained for ever as an open space : Provided always 
 that any such sale or purchase shall be evidenced by a deed of 
 conveyance duly stamped. 
 
 4. \_Poicers to any vestry or district board in the metropolis to 
 contribute such amount as they think Jit toivards the purchase by 
 the Board of tlie Parliament Hill Estates. Spent.'] 
 
 5. \Power to the CJiarity Commissioners for England, and Wales 
 to contribute to the purchiase of the Parlia^ment Hill Estates not 
 exceeding £50,000 out of charity funds dealt with by the City of 
 London ParocJdal Charities Act 1883.* Spent.] 
 
 6. In the event of the Board acquiring the Parliament Hill 
 Estates or any part or parts thereof then as from the date of such 
 acquisition the Board shall for ever keep the same open uninclosed 
 and unbuilt upon except as regards such parts thereof as may be 
 inclosed or built on at the date of such acquisition and shall by all 
 lawful means prevent resist and abate all or any encroachments and 
 attempted encroachments on the said estates and preserve them as 
 an open space and resist all proceedmgs tending to the inclosure or 
 appropriation for any purpose of any part thereof. 
 
 7. {Incorporation of the Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.] 
 
 8. The sections of the Hampstead Heath Act 1871 specified in 
 the schedule to this Act shall be incor])orated with and form part of 
 this Act and the expression " the Heath " in the said sections shall 
 be deemed to include the Parliament Hill Estates as and when they 
 are acquired by the Board. 
 
 9. {L^xpenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 t SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing Act. 
 
 No. of 
 Section. 
 
 13 
 14 
 
 15 
 16 
 18 
 21 
 22 
 23 
 24 
 25 
 26 
 27 
 28 
 37 
 
 Marginal Note. 
 
 Prohibition of alienation etc. 
 
 Prohibition of sale of turf gravel etc. 
 
 Power to drain etc. 
 
 Preservation of turf etc. 
 
 Power to build Heath keepers lodges etc. 
 
 Power to make byelaws. 
 
 Regulations respecting byelaws. 
 
 Allowance of byelaws. 
 
 Byelaw as to prohibition of drill. 
 
 Appointment of constables etc. 
 
 Powers and duties of police over Heath. 
 
 Arrest of transient offenders. 
 
 Penalty for assaultinjf constables etc. 
 
 Power to apply existing funds. 
 
 * Rep. 61 & 62 Vict c. 22 (J^.L.R.). 
 
 t See notes in 34 & 35 Vict. c. Ixxvii. on the sections mentioned in this schedule 
 which apply here.
 
 T-o p -1 ir -\ Metropolifi ^fanaqement (Jiattersea f-r^ i-n eon 
 
 [50 & ol Vict.] J, ^y,,,-J,,. aJiHHI. C^^"^^- ^ ' ^^^ 
 
 a/t(/ Westminster) Act 188' 
 50 & 51 VICTORIA. A.D. 1887. 
 
 CHAPTER 17. 
 
 An Act to amend thk ]\rKTH()i'OLis Management Acts. 
 
 [12/// .////'/ 1887.] 
 
 [^Preamhle recites (inter alia) that since the date o/' 18 «k 19 Vict, 
 c. 120 (/■/< this Act called " the principal Act''"') the parish of Saint 
 Man/ Battersea has greatlij increased in the number of inhabited 
 houses, in popidation, and in rateable value, so as to entitle the 
 .said parish to a more complete control and management of its local 
 ajfairs, and that it is therefore expedient to amend the principal 
 Act ; and that under the principal Act the parishes of Saint Ma?'- 
 garet and Saint John the Evangelist Westminster were united, and 
 form the Westminster district, and that there is a board of irorhs 
 for that district constituted as in the said Act provided and acting 
 under the provisions of that Act ; and that under 25 Geo. 2, c. 23 
 {in this Act called the Act of George the Second) it is provided that 
 the vestry of the said parishes shall assemble at the parish church 
 or vestn/ roan of St. Margaret, and that it is expedient that this 
 should be amended?^ 
 
 1. In this Act — 
 
 "The Battersea Vestry"* means the Vestry of the parish of Jj^t^^'^P'^eta- 
 Saint Mary Battersea excluding Penge as incorporated by 
 this Act ; 
 
 ^'The Wandsworth District Board " t means tlie Board of Works 
 for the Wandsworth district as constituted by the princij)al 
 Act and as it will be constituted after the twenty-fifth day of 
 March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. 
 
 2. The principal Act as amended by any subsequent Act and this Qf°^^p*J""'^^^°° 
 Act shall be construed together as one Act. 
 
 3. The Act passed in the twenty-ninth year of Her present f J°^^.*"Jf gj 
 Majesty chapter thirty-one intituled " An Act to provide for " 
 euperannnation allowances to officers of vestries and other boards 
 
 within the area of the Metropolis Local Management Act " may for 
 the ])nrposes of this Act and for all other ])urposes be cited as the 
 iSuperannuation (Metropolis) Act 18G6. 
 
 Battersea. 
 
 4. From and after the twentv-fifth dav of March one thousand Separation 
 €ight hundred an.l eighty-eight: ' fromtLr^'' 
 
 (1.) The parish of ;Saint Mary Battersea excluding Penge shall ^van^j^^orth 
 cease to be united with the parishes mentioned in Schedule district. 
 " B." of the princi})al Act as forming the AVandsworth 
 district and the i)rincipal Act shall l»e road and have ellect 
 as if the said parish excluding Penge had been named in 
 Pai-t II. of Schedule ''A." of the said Act and the vestry 
 of the said parish shall become and be a body corporate 
 by the name of the Vestry of the parish of Saint Mary 
 Battersea * ; 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borongb of Battersea. See G2 k. G3 Vict. 
 <5. 14. s. A. 
 
 t Now the Cuuncil of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth. See G2 k. 63 
 Vict. c. li, s. 4. 
 
 44
 
 ^n,-, r/-i 1-n Metropolis Manaqement (Battersea r^w» «- f;i Vt^.^ i 
 
 690 [Chap. 1 . .] J^^ WestmnLr) Act 1887. t^'^'^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^^'^ 
 
 (2.) The parishes named in the said Schedule " B." (other than 
 the said jtarish of Saint Mary Battersea) as forming the- 
 AVandsvvorth district shall form the Wandsworth district 
 for the purposes of the said Act ; 
 
 (3.) The Board of Works for the Wandsworth district shall 
 continue to be a body corporate by the name of the Board 
 of Works for the Wandsworth district * ; 
 
 (4.) No person elected a member of the Wandsworth District 
 Board by the Battersea Vestry shall remain a member of 
 that Board and the power of that Vestry to elect any 
 member of that Board shall as from that date cease. 
 
 5 — 7. \_As to election of members of the Metropolitan Board of 
 ^yorks by the Battersea Vestry and the Wandsworth Distinct 
 Board. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 2.] 
 
 Byelaws, etc. 8. All byelaws and reg'ulations made by the Wandsworth District 
 in Battersea. j^Q^rd and subsisting on the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand 
 eight hundred and eighty-eight shall continue in force in the parish 
 of Saint Mary Battersea and be enforceable by the Battersea Vestry 
 instead of the Wandsworth District Board until repealed or altered 
 in accordance with the law applicable thereto. 
 
 9. \_Vesting in the Battersea Vestry of the hereditaments.^ offices., 
 and buildings of the Wandsu-orth District Board situate in Battersea 
 Rise, Battersea, and the furniture and fittings thereof ; of all here- 
 ditaments belonging to the Wandsworth District Board situate 
 ■within tlte parish of Saint Mary Battersea; and. of all chattels 
 belonging to the Wandsn-orth District Board used solely for the 
 jnir poses of the said parish of St. Mary Battersea ; and requiring 
 the said, Vestry to pay to the Wandsworth District Board. £2,176 
 for the said premises in Battersea Rise and the said furniture and 
 the fittings thereof ; and as to apportionment of claims, debts, and 
 expenses. Spent.'] 
 
 As to paro- IQ. Any officers in the service of the Wandsworth District Board 
 chial officers. ^;[^Q^g duties are confined solely or mainly to the parish of Saint 
 Mary Battersea or whom the said District Board at any time pre- 
 viously to the said twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight 
 hundred and eighty-eight shall by resolution declare ought fairly 
 to be transferred to the service of the Battersea Vestry shall be 
 transferred to the service of the said vestry upon the terms and. 
 conditions in each case of the appointment under the said District 
 Board ; and with respect to every such officer and to any other 
 officer of the said District Board who shall within one year from the 
 said day be aj)pointed to an office in the service of the Battersea 
 Vestry the time during which he shall have been in the service of 
 the Wandsworth District Board shall in computing the time of his 
 29 & 30 Vict, service for the purjiose of suj)erann nation nnder the Superannuation 
 c. 31. (Metropolis) Act lb06 be added to the time during which he shall 
 
 have been in the service of the Battersea Vestry provided that 
 every such resolution shall state the grounds on which the Wands- 
 worth District Board considers that the officer or officers named 
 therein ought fairly to be transferred to the service of the Battersea 
 Vestry. 
 
 11. \_As to arbitration in case of difference arising as to appor- 
 tionment. Spent.'] 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth. See 62 & 63 A'ict. 
 c. 14, s. 4.
 
 r-,. f K1 Tr -\ Metro i)oli s .\fanaqement (Battersea rrvr.r, i-n aqi 
 
 roU&51 Vict. I ' , .,-, . • •- s iJ li^s^- Iuhap. l/.J 091 
 
 L -J a/i« \\ estim lister) Act lb>i(. •- -^ 
 
 Westminster. 
 
 12. From and after tlu; twenty-fifth day of March one thousand Dissolution 
 eij^'ht liiiiidrt'il and ciVhty-ei^^ht the Westminster district as ^'^"- R^^^^f "f^*^ 
 stitnted by and for the pnrposes of the priiicii)al Act shall cease to Westminster 
 exist and the Board of Works for that district shall he dissolved and incor- 
 and the said Act shall Ix' read and have effect as if the jiarishes ^^f g°J^|te^° °^ 
 Saint Martjaret Jind Saint .Joliii thc^ p]vany:elist Westminster had ygstry. 
 been named in Part II. of Schedule A. of the said Act . . . and the 
 vestries of tlie said ])arishes shall from that date become and be 
 
 a body corporate by the name of the United Vestry of the parishes 
 of Saint JMargaret and Saint John the Evangelist Westminster.* 
 \_Fart otnitted (as to election of a member of the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works') superseded 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 2.] 
 
 13. From and after the said twenty-fifth day of March one Property, 
 thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight all property claims of'^ve^Jtmi'n. 
 assets debts liabilities and obligations of the Board of Works for ster Board 
 the Westminster district together with all duties and powers of the to vest in the 
 said Board shall vest in and be assumed by tlie United Vestry of ^^^*'^* 
 
 the ])arishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist 
 Westuiiuster.* 
 
 14. All byelaws and regulations made by the Board of Works Byelaws, etc. 
 for the Westminster district and subsisting on the twenty-fifth day in West- 
 
 of ^larcli one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight shall °^'"'*'^'"- 
 continue in force in the parishes of Saint 3Iargaret and Saint John 
 the Evangelist AVestminsterf and be enforceable by the said United 
 Vestry until repealed or altered in accordance with the law applicable 
 thereto. 
 
 15. All purcluises sales conveyances grants assurances deeds --^s to con- 
 contracts bonds and agreements made and entered into before the ^^^^^^''actions 
 twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty- of Westmin- 
 eight by to or with the Board of Works for the Westminster *ter Board 
 district f shall be as binding and of as full force and effect in every pas*sL^g of 
 respect against or in favour of tlie said United Vestry and may be Act. 
 enforced as fully and effectually as if instead of the said District 
 
 Board the said United Vestry had been a i)arty thereto. . . . [Part 
 omitted (as to pending actions) spent.] 
 
 16. The officers in the service of the Board of Works for the Westminster 
 Westminster district on the said twenty-fifth day of ]\Iarch one Board officers, 
 thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight shall on that day be 
 transferred to the service of the United Vestry of the said parishes 
 
 upon the same terms and conditions and for the performance of the 
 same duties in each case as those under and for the performance of 
 wliich they hold their ap])ointment under the Board of ^Vorks for 
 the said district ; and with respect to every such officer and to any 
 other officers of the said Board of Works who shall within one year 
 from the ])assing of this Act be ap])ointed to an office in the service 
 of the said Unitetl Vestry the time during which lie shall have been 
 in the service of the-said District Board shall in computing the time 
 of his service for the purpose of the Superannuation (^letropolis) 
 Act 18()G be added to the time during which he s.'iall have been in 
 the service of such Vestry. 
 
 * Now the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the City of Westminster. See 02 Sc 
 G3 Vict. c. 14, s. 4 ; and Letters Patent dated 27th October 1900. 
 
 t Now a 2>art of the city of Westminster. See G2 l<c G3 Vict. c. 14, s. 4 and 1st 
 
 Schedule.
 
 692 
 
 [Chap. 31.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Mone//) Act 1887. 
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] 
 
 Altering 17, go miich of the Act of Georcre the Second* as requires the 
 
 plTceTf meetings of churchwardens overseers of the poor and vestrymen 
 
 Westminster and Other inhabitants of the parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint 
 
 Vestry 
 meetings. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 John the Evangelist Westminster therein mentioned to be held in 
 the parish church or vestry room of Saint Margaret at the times 
 therein mentioned is hereby repealed and instead thereof the said 
 meetings shall be held at the Town Hall Caxton Street in the city 
 of Westminster. . . . \_Part omitted {as to first and second meet- 
 ings) spent.'] 
 
 18. \^As to payment of rate collectors under 25 Geo. 2, c. 23.* 
 SpentT] 
 
 19. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Metropolis 
 Management (Battersea and Westminster) Act 1887. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Construction 
 of Act. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion. 
 
 Composition 
 for stamp 
 duties. 
 
 Power to lend 
 to the 
 Receiver of 
 the Metro- 
 politan 
 Police. 
 
 CHAPTER 31. 
 
 An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the raising 
 OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and 
 FOR OTHER PURPOSES. [23rf/ Aiigust 1887.] 
 
 [^Preamble recites 49 & 50 Vict. c. 44 (in this Act referred to as 
 ''the Act of \^SQ '').'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money) Act, 1887, and the Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) 
 Acts, 1875 to 1886, and this Act, may be cited together as the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1887. 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871, and 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1886. 
 
 q 
 
 The expression " Main Drainage Acts " in this Act shall have the 
 same meaning as is assigned to the same term in the Metropolitan 
 Board of W^orks (Loans) Act, 1869. 
 [Part omitted {definition of " Parks and Open Spaces Acts ") spent^ 
 
 4—5. [Amendment of ss. 8 and 10 ^49 & 50 Vict. c. 44 — Power 
 to the Board to expend, moneys for the purposes of 50 & 51 Vict, 
 cc. 34, cvi., ayid. clxxii. Spent.] 
 
 6. For the purposes of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 
 1887, the Board may from time to time pay out of the Consolidated 
 Loans Fund (notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-eight 
 of the Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 1860) such sums 
 as shall be charged under that Act by way of composition for stamp 
 duties on stock and annuities issued or granted after the first day 
 of August one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. 
 
 7. [Power to the Board to lend till 3l6-/^ December 1888 to the 
 Vestry of Saint Pancrasfor j^urjjoses authorised by the St. Pancras 
 Loans Amendment Act 1887. Spent.] 
 
 8. Section nine of the Act of 1886 is hereby repealed, and the 
 Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District may borrow from the 
 Board, and the Board may from time to time up to the thirty-first 
 day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty- eight lend 
 to the Receiver on the security of the Metropolitan Police Fund as 
 defined by section seven of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1886, such 
 
 * This Act (25 Geo. 2, c. 23) is rep. by the Westminster Order in Council 1901 
 made under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14.
 
 r-A p Ki ir -\ Metropolitan Board of Wor/is rr^ o^ i /ir\r> 
 
 [oO & 51 Vict.] /^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ jj^^„_ [Chap. 31.] 693 
 
 sums as the Receiver is from time to time authorised to borrow- 
 not excee(liii«( in the whole the sura of five hundred thousand 
 ]>()ini<ls, and for the purpose of securing the repayment of any such 
 sums and interest the Receiver may mortgage to the Board the 
 Metropolitan Police Fund as so defined. 
 
 Money borrowed from and lent by tlie Board under this section 
 may, notwithstanding anything in any otiier Act, be made repayable 
 either in one sum or by instalments as the Board and the Receiver 
 shall agree, and in either case shall be rei)aid to the Board with 
 interest within sucli time after borrowing as the Receiver with the 
 sanction of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State and 
 the Board with the approval of the Treasury may agree. 
 
 Provid(Ml tliat tlie time after the borrowing within which such 
 moneys shall be repaid to the Board shall not exceed in the case of 
 a loan for the purchase of freehold land sixty years, and for any 
 other ])nrpose thirty years. 
 
 9. [^Poicer to the Board to expend moneys for sundry purposes 
 durhuj 1888. S^pent^ 
 
 10. . . . All tlie ])rovisions of the Main Drainage Acts and the Special power 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts altering or amend- ^ ^^^"^^^ 
 ing the same for the time being in force relating to the execution purposes of 
 of works authorised by the said Acts respectively shall continue in main drain- 
 force, and shall extend and a])plv respectively to the works executed ^^'^ ^"^ °^^^^ 
 by means of money raised for the purposes of this section ; and all ^^ x- iq y- *• 
 stock created under the authority of this Act for such purposes c. 120. 
 shall be deemed to be created for the purposes of the above- 
 mentioned Acts respectively. [Fart omitted (as to poicer to tlie 
 
 Board to expend, not exceeding £37U,0(JU during the year ending 
 2>\st December 1888^(9/' the purposes of main drainage and main 
 sewers) spent.'] 
 
 11. ...... Power to lend 
 
 (iii.) Money burrowed from and lent bv the Board under this ^^ T^-'''."^^' 
 • " • ^ T !••" ii 4 1 cUstrict 
 
 section may, notwithstandmg anything in any other Act, be made boards, 
 
 repayable either in one sum or by instalments, as the Board and corporation, 
 the borrowers shall agree, and in either case shall be repaid to ers™burfal°' 
 the Board with interest within such time after the borrowing as the boards, or 
 Board and the borrowers, with the approval of the Treasury, other public 
 shall agree : Provided that the time after the borrowing within ^°^^^^- 
 which such money shall be repaid to the Board shall not exceed 
 in the case of a loan for the {lurpose of improvements in relation 
 to streets or bridges, or for the purpose of purchase of land in fee 
 simple, sixty years, and for any other purpose thirty years. 
 
 (iv.) Section thirteen of the Metropolitan Board of "Works 
 (Money) Act, 1880, and tlie corres])onding sections in the Metro- 
 })olitan Board of "Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1885, shall be 
 ileemed to have authorised and to authorise any such corporation, 
 commissioners, burial boards, or other public body as last afore- 
 said to borrow from the Board and the Board to lend, upon the 
 term of the repayment of the money borrowed being spread over a 
 series of years, whether such corporation, commissioners, burial 
 board, or other public body had or have, or had or have not other- 
 wise power to borrow upon the terms of the repayment of the 
 money borrowed being spread over a series of years, and commis- 
 sioners for jniblic libraries and museums appointed or hereafter to 
 be appointed under the Public Libraries Act, 1855,* by the vestry is & 19 Vict 
 
 c 70 
 • Rep. and replaced by the Public Libraries Act 1892.
 
 rower to lend 
 to boards of 
 guardians. 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 120. 
 
 „^. rri oi -\ Metropolitan Board of Works r^.^. o ^.i -ir.^^ -i 
 
 694 [Chap. 31.] ^Money) Act 1887. ^'^'^ ^ '^^ ^^^^-^ 
 
 of aDv parish in the metropolis as defined by the Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, 1855,* are hereby declared to be commissioners duly 
 ajjpointed, notwithstanding that such ])arish may be a ])urish in 
 Schedule B. to the last-mentioned Act, and any loan by the Board 
 to commissioners so a])pointed, and any security given by such com- 
 missioners to the Board, shall be deemed in all respects valid and 
 effective, provided the sanction of the vestry and the Local Govern- 
 ment Board be given to the borrowing by the commissioners. 
 [Part omitted (as to power to the Board to lend till 31.s^ December 
 1888 to vestries and district boards and other public bodies levying 
 rates in the metropolis^ spent^^ 
 
 i<5, ... ... 
 
 Money borrowed from and lent by the Board under this section 
 shall, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, be repaid to the 
 Board, with interest, within sucli time after the borrowing as the 
 borrowers with the consent of the Local Government Board, and 
 the Board with the approval of the Treasury, shall agree, not 
 exceeding thirty years. 
 
 \J?art omitted, (as to power to the Board, to lend to boards of 
 guardians in the metrojjolis till 31 s^ December 1888. Spent7\ 
 
 13. {Extension till Z\st December 1888 of the amount ivhich the 
 Board may lend to the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum 
 District. Spent.'] 
 
 14. [Power to the Board to lend till '^Ist December 1888 to the 
 School Board for London — Provision as to repayment within not 
 exceeding 50 years. Superseded 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, s. 5, and, second 
 schedule^ and 3 Kdio. 7, c. 24, s. 1.] 
 
 Protection of 15. Where under the authority of this or any other Act the 
 Board m^case gQ^i'd lend any moneys to any corporation, body of commissioners, 
 public body, or persons, the exercise of whose powers of borrowing is 
 subject to the consent of the Local Government Board, the sanction 
 of that Board to the borrowing of such moneys shall in every such 
 case be conclusive evidence that sucli corporation, body of commis- 
 sioners, public body, or persons had power to borrow such moneys. 
 i.o, ...... 
 
 (i.) Where the Board under the authority of this Act create 
 consolidated stock to raise money for the purpose of the 
 Fire Brigade Act, 1865, or to enable them to make a loan 
 repayable within a period not exceeding thirty years from 
 the date of such loan, the Board shall from time to time 
 carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund such sums as the 
 Treasury approve as being in their opinion sufficient to 
 redeem witliin tlie period of thirty years from the date of 
 the creation of such stock, or in the case of any such loan 
 within any less period for which the same maybe made, an 
 amount of consolidated stock equal to that so created ; and 
 (ii.) Where the Board are by tiiis Act authorised to make a loan, 
 the Board, instead of raising money for any such loan by 
 the creation of consolidated stock, may use for any such 
 loan any moneys fur the time being forming part of the 
 Consolidated Loans Fund, and not required for the pay- 
 ments of the dividends on consolidated stock : Provided 
 that no such moneys shall be used for any loan repayable 
 at a date later than the date at which the consolidated 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough. See G2 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 of certain 
 loans. 
 
 Power to 
 raise consoli- 
 dated stock.
 
 tka p - 1 1^ T Metropolitan Hoard of Works ,-r< 01 t /»f.- 
 
 stock redeemable Ijv means of the moDevs so used is 
 required to be redeemed at par. 
 (iii.j Where the Board are authorised by the Act of 1880 or this 
 Act to raise money for any purj)ose, the Board, instead of 
 raisinjr such ujonev bv the creati(ni of consolidated st()ck, 
 may, with the api^roval of the Treasury, use for such 
 ])urj)0se any moneys for the time being forming part of the 
 ( "onsolidated Loans Fund, and not rcfjuired for the payment 
 of the dividends on Cfjnsolidated stock: Provided that no 
 such moneys shall be so used unless provision shall be 
 made in such manner as the Treasury approve for repaying 
 the same to the Consolidated Loans Fund at or before the 
 date at which (consolidated stock redeemable by means of 
 .such moneys is required to Ije redeemed at par, and in 
 ■every such case the Board shall from time to time raise as 
 part of the consolidated rate such sums as tlie Treasury 
 approve as being in their ojtinion sufficient for the repay- 
 ment at or before the date aforesaid of the moneys used 
 for such purpose and for the payment of the interest on 
 the moneys so used, and such sums shall from time to 
 time be carried by the Board to the Consolidated Loans 
 Fund, 
 (iv.) Where the Board raise consolidated stock for the purpose of 
 any scheme made by the Board under the authority of the 
 Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 187o,* 
 or the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement 
 Acts, 187.3 to 1885,* and confirmed by Provisional Order 
 and Act of Parliament, there shall be repaid (as provided 
 •by the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement 
 Act, 1875,*) to the consolidated rate out of the local rate 
 as defined by the said last-meutionetl Act all moneys 
 ■required for payment of dividends on and the redemj)tiou 
 •of all consolidated stock created for such purpose. 
 
 \Fart omitted {power to the Board to raise consolidated stock for 
 
 the purposes of this Act) spent.'] 
 
 17. [^Pofcer to the Board within 12 motiths after the issue 0/ stock 
 to CLppl'j monej/s raised btj stock to make up di>:idends from certain 
 fixed dates. Spent.] 
 
 18 — 22. l^Power to the Board to raise money b>/ metropolitan bills, 
 and procisions relating thereto. Spent.] 
 
 23. \_Limitation of poiver of borrowing in s. 38 of32& 33 Vict. 
 <c. 1U2 not to extend to monei/s raised under this Act. Spent.] 
 
 24. All sums received by the Board in respect of interest on or Repayments 
 a)riuci])al of anv loan made bv them under this Act shall be carried [° |?,^ earned 
 
 1 i.1 /< 1- 1' i 1 T y * 1 to Consoli- 
 
 to tne L onsolidated Loans b und. dated Loans 
 
 25. [Limit to exercise of borrowing powers. Spent.] Fund. 
 
 26. Sections tweutv-seveu to fortv-three inclusive of the Metro- Incorporation 
 politan Board of Works (Money) Act, 1885, shall be deemed to be °^ ^3''J,^°''^ "' 
 incorporated with this Act. 48 ^ 4.) yict 
 
 First Schedule. [Particulars of new moneg powers conferred by ^' ^^' 
 this Act. Spent.] 
 
 Second Schedule. [List of Parks and Open Spaces Acts referred 
 to in s. 3. Spent.] 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.
 
 696 [Chap. 32.] Open Spaces Act 1887. [50&51 Vict.] 
 
 CHAPTER 32. 
 
 An Act for extending certain Provisions of the Metropolitan 
 
 Open Spaces Acts, 1877 and 1881, with Amendments, to 
 
 Sanitary Districts throughout England, Wales, and 
 
 Ireland; and for other Purposes. \2'ird Aug tist I'fi'^l ?i^ 
 
 [^Preamble recites 40 & 41 Vict. c. 35, and 44 & 45 Vict. c. 34 
 
 (in this Act called " the principal Acts'"').'] 
 
 1. \_The expressions '■'urban sanitari/ district''' and '■'•urban 
 
 authointi/'' and, '■'rural sanitari/ district''' and "rural authority'''' 
 
 to have in this Act the meanings assigned to them respectively by the 
 
 Public Health Act 1875. Not applicable to London^ 
 
 Amendment 2. (1.) The Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, is hereby re- 
 
 of 4-1 & 45 pealed to the extent mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, and the 
 
 ^^^' ^' ' second section of the said Act is hereby amended, as follows (that 
 
 is to say), the purchase money paid for or in respect of the purchase 
 
 of any open space as therein mentioned shall be held in trust,. 
 
 either as in the said section mentioned, or as the case may be, for 
 
 the benefit of the objects to which any rates previously imposed ini 
 
 respect of such open space had been applied. 
 
 (2.) The playing of any games or sports shall not be allowed in 
 any churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground in or over which any 
 estate, interest, or control is acquired under section five of the 
 Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881. 
 Provided that — 
 
 (a.) In the case of consecrated ground, the bishop, by any license 
 or faculty granted under the Metropolitan Open Spaces- 
 Act or this Act, and 
 {b.) In the case of any churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground 
 which is not consecrated, the body from which any such 
 estate, interest, or control as aforesaid is acquired 
 may expressly sanction any such use of the ground, and may specify 
 any conditions as to the extent or manner of such use. 
 Provision as 3. In the case of any disused churchyard, cemetery, or burial 
 to removal of o-round, at least three months before any tombstone or monument i& 
 
 tombstones ° ijir>ii- ^ \ ^^ ^ i. ■[ " 
 
 and monu- moved, the lollowing steps shall be taken : 
 
 ments. (ci.) A statement shall be prepared sufficiently describing by the 
 
 name and date appearing thereon the tombstones and 
 monuments standing or being in the ground, and such other 
 particulars as may be necessary ; 
 {b.) Such statements shall be deposited with the clerk of the board* 
 or vestry,* and shall be open to inspection by all persons ; 
 {c.) An advertisement of the intention to remove or change the 
 ])osition of such tombstones and monuments shall be 
 inserted three times at least in some newspaper circulating 
 in the neighbourhood of the burial ground, and such 
 advertisement shall give notice of the deposit of such 
 statement as is hereinbefore described, and of the hours 
 within which the same may be inspected ; 
 (d.) A notice in terms similar to the advertisement shall be 
 placed on the door of the church (if any) to which such 
 churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground is attached, and 
 shall be delivered or sent by post to any person known or 
 believed by the board* or vestry* to be a near relative of 
 
 * Now the Clerk of the London County Council (see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S)) or 
 the Town Clerk of the Metropolitan Borough (see 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4), as the case 
 may be.
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] Open Spaces Act 1^87. [Chap. 32.] 697 
 
 any person whose death is recorded ou any such tombstone 
 or monument. 
 
 In the case of any consecrated <i^ronnd no apjilication for a 
 faculty shall be made until the e.xjjiration of one month at least 
 after the apjfearance of the last of such udvertisemcnts as aforesaiii. 
 
 Provided that on any application for a faculty, nothin<( shall 
 prevent the bishop from directing or sanctioning the removal of 
 any tombstone or monument if he is of opinion that reasonal)le steps 
 have been taken to bring the intention to eifect such removal to the 
 notice of some person having a family interest in snch removal, 
 
 4. In the Disused liurial Grounds Act, 1884, and this Act. the Amendment 
 expression "burial ground" shall have the same meaning as in the yj^^' ^ ^2 
 Metro])olitan Open Sj):ices Act, Is.sl, as amended by this Act, and the 
 ex])ression " disused burial ground " shall mean any burial ground 
 
 which is no longer used for interments, whether or not such ground 
 shall have been partially or wholly closed for burials under the 
 ])rovisions of any statute or Order in Council, and the ex])ression 
 " building " shall include any temporary or moveable building. 
 
 5. \_Exfension of certain provisions of the Metropolitan Open 
 Spaces Acts to urban and certain rural sanitary districts. Not 
 applicable to London.'] 
 
 6. All powers and duties conferred upon the Metropolitan Board * Extension of 
 by the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, ls77, may, after the passing ^ j^ W 
 of this Act, be exercised and performed by any vestry or district vestries and 
 board of works for the parishes and districts specified in Schedules district 
 
 A. and B. of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, as amended by boards, 
 subsequent Acts.f 
 
 7 — 8. [Power to any corporation (jiot being a municipal corpora- 
 tion^ to make over lands for open spaces to any urban or rural 
 authority — As to expenses of urban and rural authorities incurred 
 under this Act. Not applicable to London.] 
 
 9. This Act shall not extend to any land belon<ring to Her Saving for 
 Maiestv in riu'ht of her Crown or of her Duchv of Lancaster, or ^''""''^ ^^°'^^- 
 to anv garden or ornamental ground for the time being- under the 
 management of the Commissioners for the time being of Her 
 Majesty's Works and Public Buildings. 
 
 10. [-1*' to byelaws of urban and rural authorities. Not applicable 
 to London?^ 
 
 11. The Metropolitan Board* . . . may exercise all the powers Power over 
 given to them by the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, or this open spaces 
 Act respecting open spaces, churchyards, cemeteries, antl burial vest'ed'in 
 grounds transferred to them in ]»ursuance of the said Act or of this sanitary 
 Act in respect of any open spaces, churchyards, cemeteries, and '^"thority 
 burial grounds of a similar nature which are or shall be vested in 
 
 them in pursuance of any other statute, or of which they are other- 
 wise the owners. [Words omitted i^" or the sanitary authority'') 
 not apf)licable to London.'] 
 
 12. The Metropolitan Board* may purchase or take on lease, lay I'ower of 
 out, plant, improve, and maintain lands for the purpose of being used >letropohtan 
 as })ublic walks or pleasure grounds, and may support or contribute jp'^t to 
 to the sujiport of public walks or j)leasure grounds provided by any public walks 
 person wliomsoever. or pleasure 
 
 ■inri' •; ••?! /7i t i /n grOUnds. 
 
 13. [Lxtension oj the principal Acts and this Act to Ireland.] 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 11, s. 40 (8). 
 
 t Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough. See 62 i: 63 Vict. c. 14. s. 4.
 
 698 
 
 [Chap. 34.] London FarLs and Wor/c,^ Act 18-^7. [50 & 51 Vict.] 
 
 Short title 
 and con- 
 struction. 
 
 14. This Act may be cited as the Open Spaces Act, 1887, and 
 may be read with the principal Acts as one Act. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Portions of the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, repealed. 
 
 In section one, the following words occurring in the definition of an " open 
 space," viz., " imt shall not include any enclosed land which has not a public road 
 or footpath completely round the same." 
 
 In the same section, the following words occurring in the definition of a 
 " burial ground,*' viz., " and in which interments have taken place since the 
 year 1800.'' 
 
 In the second paragraph of section five, the words, " but such metropolitan 
 board, vestry, or district board shall not allow the playing of any games or sports 
 therein." 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Transfer of 
 certain 
 London 
 parks and 
 works. 
 
 CHAPTER 34. 
 
 An Act foe the Teansfer to the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 AND the Maintenance of certain Public Parks and Works 
 
 IN the Metropolis. [2d7Yi August 1881 .'] 
 
 \_Preamble recites that the parks, garden, bridge, and emhanhnent 
 hereinafter mentioned, hate hitherto been maintained at the cost of 
 the Exchequer, and that it is expedient that they should he main- 
 tained out of local rates.^ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the London Parks and Works Act, 
 1887. 
 
 2.— (1.) From and after the date of transfer the management and 
 control of the parks, warden, embankment, and bridge herein-after 
 mentioned, and in this Act referred to as the parks and works ; 
 that is to say, 
 
 Victoria Park, 
 
 Battersea Park, 
 
 Kennington Park,* 
 
 Bethnal Green Mns3um Garden, 
 and 
 
 Chelsea Embankment, 
 as the same are particularly delineated and specified on certain 
 plans signed in dni)licate by the Right Honourable David Plunket, 
 the Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons, to whom 
 the Bill for tliis Act was referred (one copy of the said plans being 
 deposited at the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, and 
 one co})y at the office of the Metropolitan Board of Works t), and 
 Westminster Bridge, with the foundations, structure, and materials 
 thereof and thereon, and the approaches thereto on either side, so 
 far as such apjiroaches are coloured on a ])lan signed and deposited 
 as albresaid, shall be transferred from the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Works and Pal)lic Buildings (in this Act referred to as 
 the " Commissioners of Works ") to the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works t (iu this Act referred to as the " Board "), and the Board 
 shall have and may exercise the same rights, ])owers, and control 
 over any licensees or contractors as the said Commissioners have 
 and may exercise at the date of transfer, and the parks and works 
 shall as from such date vest in the Board without any conveyance, 
 assignment, or transfer for the same estate and interest and (save 
 
 * See also 51 &c 52 Vict. c. clvi. s. 28. 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 10 (8).
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] London Parks ami Worh:^ Act 1.^87. [Chap. 34.] 699 
 
 as by this Act otherwise expressly provitledj subject to and with 
 the benefit of the same covenants, aj^reements, limitations, and 
 rights for and siil)ject to wiiich the same were vested in the said 
 <Jommissi()ncrs and the Sitience and Art Department res})ectively 
 immL'(Hately ])i'ior to the date of transfer, but freed and discharged 
 from all mortgages, debts, and incumbrances ; and the parks and 
 works shall for ever thereafter be kept open and managed, main- 
 tained, and re])aired by the J^oard for tlie use of the jiublic, with 
 tlie same liability and to the same extent as tlie same are at the 
 •date of transfer kei)t ofjon and managed, maintained, and repaired 
 bv the Commissioners of Works: Provided iilwavs, that nothing 
 in this section sliall be deemed to affect the estate, rights, and 
 privileges of Her Majesty in right of her C-rown in Victoria Park. 
 \JSee 35 it 30 Vict. c. Ixvi. .s-. 3, and note thereon.'] 
 
 (2.) The cost of keeping ojjen, managing, maintaining, and 
 repairing the parks and works shall be j)aid by the Board out of 
 the C()nsoli(Ui,ted rate,* and no ])art of the metropolis shall be 
 •entitled to any exemption from such part of the consolidated rate* 
 as is rei^uired ibr the purpose of defraying such cost. . . . [^Part 
 omitted (as to the manner in ivhich expenses of permanent improve- 
 ments or alterations in the parks and. tvorks are to be defrayed^ 
 superseded hij the London County Council (Money) Acts 1888 — 1904.] 
 
 3. . .... Byelaws. 
 {'Z.) All the ])rovisions of section forty-one of the Metropolitan ^ ^jii 
 
 Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1882, with regard to the 45 & 46 Vict, 
 making, alteration, revocation, contents, confirmation, ])ublication, ^- ^^'i- 
 iind evidence of bvelaws relating to l)ridges and eml)ankments, and 
 to securing the observance of such byelaws, and to penalties and 
 proceedings before Justices, and the recovery and application of 
 penalties in relation thereto, shall extend and apply to the embank- 
 ment and bridge the management and control of which are 
 transferred to the Board under this Act. The . . . byelaws made 
 under the Act of 1882 for the management and regulation of 
 bridges and embankments, and confirmed by the Home Secretary 
 •on the twenty-eighth day of November one thousand eight hundred 
 and eighty-four, shall, unless and until and except in so far as they 
 may be altered or limited by byelaws made under . . . the said 
 Act[s] as amended by this Act, apply ... to the embankment and 
 bridge .... the management and control of which are transferred 
 to the Board under this Act. Provided that no byelaws made 
 under . . . the said Act[s] as amended by this Act shall come into 
 force in res})ect of or affect any of the parks and works until the 
 date of transfer. 
 
 Imparts omitted {application to the parks, (jarden, and embankment 
 of the byelaws then in force under the ^Letropolitan Board of Works 
 Act 1877) superseded 53 k 54 \'ict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21, and 
 ijl k 02 Met. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 4. \_Cesser of obligations of the Commissioners of Works as to the 
 parks and works transferred, and cesser of application thereto of 
 laws, prorisions, byelaws, rules, and regulations with respect to 
 royal j/arks. Spent.'] 
 
 5. From and after the date of transfer section one of an Act Amendment 
 passed in the session of Parliament held in the thirty-fifth Ji'iitl vijj^ J. 53. 
 thirty-sixtli years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, 
 
 * Now the county rate. See 51 dw 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 68.
 
 TOO 
 
 [Chap. 45.] 
 
 Metropolitan Police Act 1887. [50 & 51 Vict.J 
 
 Transfer of 
 officers. 
 
 Date of 
 transfer. 
 
 "An Act to coDfirm an agreement for the purchase by the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works of certain land adjoining Victoria Park and 
 for the appropriation of such land as part of the same park " shall 
 be read and construed as though the words " and the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works shall not be liable to the payment of any taxes^ 
 tithe rentcharges, or other outgoings for the same," had been, 
 omitted therefrom. 
 
 6. Every person holding any office (whether as park keeper^ 
 gardener, superintendent, or otherwise) under the Commissioners 
 of Works in connexion with the parks and works transferred by 
 this Act to the Board, shall, if so required by the Commissioners of 
 Works, become an officer of the Board, and shall continue to hold 
 his office by the present tenure and be bound to perform his present 
 duties and shall be entitled while holding such office and per- 
 forming such duties to receive not less salarv or remuneration than 
 at present, and if he has at the passing of this Act, or would have 
 if he continued to serve under the Commissioners of Works a right 
 to a pension, he shall be entitled on his retirement to not less 
 pension than if he had continued to serve the Commissioners of 
 Works, and for the purpose of such pension may reckon his service 
 under the Commissioners of Works and also his service under the 
 Board, and every such pension shall, in the first instance, be paid 
 by the Board : Provided that there shall be repaid to the Board, 
 out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, so much of such 
 pension as is payable in respect of the person's service before the 
 date of his transfer under this Act, regard being had to the amount 
 of salary then paid, but without taking into account any number of 
 years added to his service on account of abolition of office. 
 
 The Board may neverthless from time to time distribute among- 
 the said officers and any other officers appointed by them the duties 
 to be performed by them, and deal with the said officers in such 
 manner by way of remuneration, supersession, and variation of 
 duties as they think expedient for the public interest and just ta 
 such officers, so however that an officer transferred shall not be 
 required without his consent to perform dnties which are not the 
 same as or analogous to his duties at the passing of this Act. 
 
 7. The date of transfer of the jDarks and works transferred by 
 this Act shall be the first day of November one thousand eight 
 hundred and eighty-seven. 
 
 CHAPTER 45. 
 
 An Act for fuether amending the Enactments relating to 
 Offices, Stations, and Buildings for the Metropolitan 
 Police Force. \\Qth September 1887.3 
 
 [Preamble recites 49 & 50 Vict. c. 22.] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Act, 1887^ 
 and this Act and the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1886, may 
 be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1887. 
 
 2. — (1.) For the purposes referred to in section three of the 
 powers under Metropolitan Police Act, 1886, the Police Receiver shall have power 
 49 Vict, c, 22. to borrow further sums not exceedino- in the aggregate three hundred 
 ^- ^' thousand jjouuds, and that section shall have eifect as it five 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Extension of
 
 Metropolis {Cable Street, Shadicell) 
 [50 & ."> 1 Vict.] Provisional Order Confirmation [Chap, ci.] Tol 
 
 Act 1887. 
 
 hiuulnMl tliousiind poiiuds were therein substitutcfl for two hnndred 
 thousand pounds. 
 
 (2.) The purposes referred to in that section shall include the 
 pur(rhase of fiiniitiire and iittiiij^s fc^r tlie said central office, bur 
 till sums borrowed for tlie j)urcliase of furniture or fittings sliall 
 be repaid, with the interest thereon, within a period not exceeding 
 fifteen years. 
 
 (3.) A lender shall not be concerned to see or inquire for wliat 
 purpose any money is borrowed under the said Act as amended l)y 
 tliis Act. 
 '\_Atnendedm & 61 Vict. c. 42, s. 1.] 
 
 3. The Police Receiver mav from time to time, with the approval I'ower to 
 •of one of Her Majesty's princiT)al Secretaries of State, grant leases, n^^^^^e- 
 for such terms as the Secretary of State may approve, of land for diatelv 
 the time being held by the Police Receiver and a[)pearing to tlie required. 
 Secretary of State to be not immediately recpiired for the purposes 
 
 for which the Police Receiver is authorised to hold land. \_See 
 m (k 61 Vict. c. 26, s. 4.] 
 
 4. Whereas a small piece of land, being an extension of Cannon Provision as 
 How, and containing sixty-three suj)erficial yards or thereabouts, is to piece of 
 bounded on three sides by land vested or about to be vested in the ino- from 
 Police Receiver, and is believed to be vested in the Board of Works Cannon Row. 
 for the Westminster district, and is not re([uired for the purposes for 
 
 which that l^oard is authorised to hold land, but doubts have been 
 •entertained whether that Board has power to transfer the said piece 
 of land to the Police Receiver and to extinguish the rights (if any) 
 of the pul)lic over the same, and it is expedient to remove those 
 doubts ; lie it therefore enacted tliat the said Board may by agree- 
 ment transfer tlie said piece of land to the Police Receiver, and 
 thereupon all public rights (if any) over the said piece of laud shall 
 i>e extinguished. 
 
 CHAPTER CI. 
 
 An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Improve- 
 ment of an unhealthy Area at Shadwell within the 
 Metropolis. [12M Jid^ 1887.] 
 
 [^Prea?ndle.'\ 
 
 1. The Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed is herebv ^ , . 
 
 r: 1 ' Order in 
 
 .continued. schedule 
 
 2. This Act mav be cited as the Metropolis (Cable Street, ^^'''^''^'''^■ 
 •Shadwell) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1887. short title. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 The Metropolis (Cable Street, Shadwell) Imtkovement, 1886. 
 
 {^Provisional Order of the Home Secretary dated 23rd May 1887 confirming 
 a Scheme of the X'lth Xorcmher 188() prepared b// the ^fetrnJ)^>lita^^ Board of 
 Works under the Artizaiisand Labourers Dwellings Improvement Acts 1875 — 1885, 
 for the improvement of an unhealthi/ area in the parish of St. Paul, Shadwell, 
 in the district of Limehouse. The Order recites that the number of j)ersons 
 of the ivorking class to be displaced by the Scheme is estimated at 910, and 
 ■that there are three empty houses, six houses and shops not occupied by persons
 
 702 
 
 [CHAr. cii.] 
 
 Metropolis {Sheiton Street, St. Giles) 
 Provisional Order Confirmation [50&51 Vict. J 
 Act 1887. 
 
 Order in 
 schedule 
 confarmed. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 of the n-orking clann, and a common lodging Jiouae registered for GO pemom;,. 
 HO that the total immher of occupants^ in dwellings and registered lodging houses: 
 is 970. The Order jtrovides for clearing the imjjrovement area and for the 
 erection thereon of direllings to accommodate 'dlQ persons of the v:o7-king class, and 
 provides for the iridening, as shoirn hij dark red lines on the plan No. 24b antiexed 
 to the Order, of Victoria Street, so far as affected hy the Scheme, on the east side- 
 thereof hy about 4: feet, and for the formation of a new street, 30 feet wide, in sub- 
 stitution for Angel Gardens, and for its continuation, as shoioi o?t the plan to the rear 
 of the houses in High Street, Shulu-ell, and fir the formation of a new ^ttrcet, 30 feet 
 wide, to connect Victoria Street icith Albert Street, crossing the proposed new street.- 
 Spent."] 
 
 CHAPTER CII. 
 
 * An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her 
 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Improve- 
 ment OF AN UNHEALTHY AreA AT St. GiLES-IN-THE-FiELDS 
 
 within the Metropolis. [\2th Jul)/ 1887.3 
 
 \_Preamble.'\ 
 
 1. The Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed is hereby 
 confirmed. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis (Sbelton Street,. 
 St. Giles) Provisional Order C-onfirmation Act, 1887. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 The Metropolis (Shelton Street, St. Giles) Improvemext, 1886. 
 
 [Provisional Order of the Home Secretary dated 23rd J\/ay 1887 confirming- 
 a Scheme of the 12th November 1886, jrrepa red by the Jletrojwlitan Board of Works 
 under the Artizans and Labourers DwelVmgs Imp>rovement Acts 1875 — 1885, for 
 the imjjrovemoit of an unhealthy area in the j^arish of St. Giles-i)i-the- Fields, 
 in the district of the St. Giles District Board of Works. The Order recites 
 that the number of persons of the working class to be dis2)laced by the Scheme- 
 is estimated at 861, and that there air. 5 houses and shops not occupied by persons 
 of the workinff class, and 12 common lodging houses registered for 347 persons, so 
 that the total number of occupaids in dwellings and registered lodging houses is 
 1,208. T'he Order provides for clearing the improvement area and for the erection 
 thereon of dwellings to accommodate Q'oO persons of the working class, and requires 
 the widening <f Shelton Street to about SO feet from Drury Lane to No. 36, as shoivn- 
 by a dark red line on the plan 23 B referred to in the Order. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER CVI. 
 
 An Act to confer further Powers on the Metropolitan- 
 Board OF Works as to Streets Bridges and open Spaces 
 as to the Drainage of a detached Portion of Clerkenwell 
 Parish and for other Purposes. [\2th July 1887.] 
 
 \_Pream.ble recites (inter alia) that it is expedient that the Metro- 
 politan Board of Worhsf (in this Act called'^ the Board'') should de- 
 authorised to 7nake the street improvements and ivorks in the Act 
 mentioned, and that plans hate been deposited with the Clerks of the 
 Peace of Middlesex, Kent, and Surrey, and recites 34 and 35 Vict^ 
 c. clxxxi. ; 4») a7id 41 Vict. c. ccxxxv. ; 44 and 45 Vict. c. cxcii. ; 
 45 and 46 Vict. c. ccxxii. ; and 47 & 48 Vict, c. ccxxviii.] 
 
 * ITiis Act is amended by 54 Vict. c. liii. 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 and 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 r-A p -1 -17 -I MetropoUtan Board of Works rr<„.„ „„: n -no 
 
 foO & Ol VICT. I /I' • I, \ 1 / loo-r M'HAP, CVl.J < 03 
 
 I- ( ^ arious rowers) Act 1887. •- -" 
 
 PART I.— ]'!{[•: LI. MIX ARY. 
 
 1. This Act raay be cited as tlie Metropolitan Board of Works «hort title. 
 (Various Powers) Act 1887. 
 
 2. In this Act the folhiwiuf^ words and expressions have the several Interprcta 
 meanii)u-s hereby assitrned to thein unless there be somcithing in the*''°'^*^ °^''' 
 subject or context repugnant to such construction (that is to say): — 
 
 ''The street imjirovements " moan Canterbury Itoad Itridgc; and 
 ap[)roaches and the widening of Ehn Street autiiorised by 
 this Act ; 
 
 " A\'andsworth ( 'ommon conservators " ineans the body of con- 
 servators incorporated under the AVandsworth Common Act 
 1871 ; 
 
 " The detached portion of Clerkenwell parish " means the 
 detached portion of the ]iarish of Clerkenwell which is 
 situate at 3Iuswell Hill and joins the local board districts 
 of Tottenham Hornsey and Friern Barnet ; 
 
 " The Gray's Inn Road ])lan " means the plan deposited under the 
 Metropolitan Street Improvements Act 1877 (Amendment) 
 Act 1882 with the res])ective Clerks of the Peace for the 
 Countv of Middlesex and the Citv of Westminster : 
 
 " The Lands Clauses Acts " means the Lands Clauses Consolida- 
 tion Acts 1845 1860 and 1869 (except section 133 of the 
 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845) as amended by the 
 Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act 1883 ; 
 
 " Metropolis " means the metropolis as defined by the Metropolis 
 Management Act 1855 ; 
 
 " Street " has the meaning assigned to that term in the Metro- 
 polis Management iVct 1855 and the Acts amending the 
 same ; 
 
 " Street authority " means with respect to any parish mentioned 
 in Schedule A to the Metropolis Management Act 1855 or to 
 any district formed by the union of the ])arishes mentioned 
 in Schedule B to the said Act the vestry of such parish * or the 
 board of works for such district * as the case may be and the 
 term "district" in relation to a street authority means 
 the area subject to the jurisdiction of such street authority ; 
 
 \Part omitted {dejinitions of " Justice^'' " two Justices,"" " lessee," 
 and ^^ perso?i," and as to meanings of words in Acts incorporated) 
 spent.'] 
 
 3. This Act is divided into parts as follows : — Division of 
 L— Preliminary. '^''rtl"^'' 
 11. — Street Improvements. 
 
 III. — Open Spaces etc. 
 
 IV. — Disposal of Sewage in the the detached portion of 
 
 Clerkenwell Parish. 
 V. — ]\Iiscellaneous. 
 
 4. The Lands Clauses Acts are ('exce])t where expressly varied incorporation 
 by this Act) incorporated with and form })art of tiiis Act. cia^tfses Acts 
 
 5. \_Board may appoint committees to execute the Act. Superseded 
 hij the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 {see Appendix), and 
 51 and 52 Vict. <?. 41, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 * Now the council of the metropolitan borough. iSee G2 & C3 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 ^.^. rn • -1 Metropolitan Board of Works r-/v p -i tt- -\ 
 
 <04 [ Chai'. cvi. I .r^ '. J, . 1 ^ TOO- foO & ol ViCT.l 
 
 PART IL— STREET IMPROVEMENTS. 
 
 Power to 6. Subject to the provisioDS of this Act in the lines accordiuo^ to 
 
 make certain ^]^g levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited 
 plans and sections the Board may make and carry into execution 
 all or any of the works described in this Act that is to say: — 
 
 Canteebury Road Bridge and Approaches. 
 
 A brido:e over the Grand Snrrev Canal on the site of the existingr 
 swing bridge over the same at the northern end of the Canter- 
 bury Road partly in the parish of St. Paul Deptfoixl and partly 
 in the parish of Camberwell in the county of Surrey* with 
 approaches thereto as follows : — 
 
 On the south side commencing in the said Canterbury Road 
 at or near the boundary between the said two parishes 
 opposite the junction of Penarth Street and Canterbury 
 Road and terminating at the said bridge. 
 On the north side commencing at the southern end of 
 Ilderton Road at or near its junction with Yerney Road 
 in the parish of Camberwell and terminating at the said 
 bridge at or near the boundary between the said two 
 pari s lies. 
 An approach road commencing at the bridge carryinff the 
 South London line of the London Brighton and South 
 Coast Railway over the site of a new road called Stockholm 
 Road between the said canal and Zampa Road in the 
 parish of St. Paul Deptford and terminating in the said 
 ])arish of Camberwell by a junction with the approach last 
 hereinbefore described about two chains northward of the 
 said bridge and the Board in constructing the said bridge 
 and approaches may construct dams or other works in the 
 Grand Surrey Canal. 
 
 Widening of Elm Street. 
 
 The widening of Elm Street on tlie southern side thereof between 
 Gray's Inn Road and Mount Pleasant in the parish of 
 St. Andrew Holborn. 
 
 For the 7. In exercising the powers by this Act conferred the Board and 
 
 protection of ^]] other persons exercising or claiming to exercise such powers 
 
 Commercial shall be subject to the following provisions for the protection of the 
 
 Dock Com- Surrey Commercial Dock Company (hereinafter called the Dock 
 
 pany- Comj^any) and of the Surrey Canal (hereinafter called the Canal) : — 
 
 (\.) Nothing in this Act shall empower the Board to purchase or 
 
 take any land or property of the Dock Company but the 
 
 Board shall have without payment the easement or right 
 
 of constructing maintaining and from time to time repairing 
 
 and renewing the bridge and works authorised by this 
 
 ])art of this Act and the approaches thereto and the works 
 
 connected therewith so far as they will be made across or 
 
 upon the canal towing-path and lands of the Dock 
 
 Company. 
 
 • ••«•• 
 
 (6.) The Board shall leave on the south side of the bridge an 
 opening through the ajjproach having a clear span of not 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 and 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 r^tv V CI 17 1 Metropolitan Board of \\ orlfii rnrT»« r,-n\i '~(\'\ 
 
 roO & 51 VICT. 1 /,r A I, \ ^ . IQQ'- I Lhap. CVl.J <'-»•> 
 
 less than thirteen feet and a clear headway of not less than 
 twelve feet in every part and shall form a carriafjeway nnder 
 the same and u})proaclies thereto witli (gradients not steejjer 
 than one in twenty with ])roj)er jnovisions for draina^^e. 
 
 (8.) Dnrin<4- the makinjj; of the bridge and any repair or renewal 
 thereof there shall at all times be left open and uiiinter- 
 rn])ted a navigalde waterway in the Canal of not less than 
 nineteen feet in width and an open and nninterrni)ted 
 passage which shall not without the written consent of the 
 engineer of the Dock Company have a less headway than 
 ten feet clear above the toj) water level of that Canal and 
 there shall also be left open and uninterrupted a jjassage 
 of not less than five feet in width for the towing-path. 
 
 • • • • ■ • 
 
 (10.) The Dock Com])anyand all j)ersons authorised by them from 
 time to time shall have under the said side bridge on the 
 south side of the canal the same rights of passage and 
 way as are now vested in the Dock (Jompany in respect of 
 the bank of the Canal which will be covered by the said 
 side bridge. 
 
 (11.) The Board shall at all times (subject to the provision 
 hereinafter contained) maintain and keep in proper repair 
 the bridge and approaches and all works under the 
 authority of this Act on over or affecting the Canal and 
 the land of the Dock Company and shall make good all 
 damage that may be occasioned to the canal or works of 
 the Dock Company by or in consequence of the removal of 
 the said existing swing bridge or the piers thereof or of any 
 default in constructing maintaining or keeping in pro])er 
 repair the bridge and works by this Act authorised and if 
 for seven days after notice in writing given to the Board 
 by the Dock Company the Board neglect to proceed with 
 due diligence to make good such damage the Dock 
 Company may if they think fit and without prejudicing 
 their remedies against the Board for any neglect default 
 or omission on their ])art make good the same and the 
 amount expended by them in so doing and any incidental 
 costs and expenses shall on demand be paid to them by the 
 Board as damages Provided alwavs that in anv case of 
 pressing necessity the Dock Company may proceed to make 
 good such damage without giving such notice as aforesaid 
 but without ])rejudice to their aforesaid remedies and 
 without prejudice to their right to claim and recover 
 repayment from the Board on demand of the amount so 
 expended by the Dock Company. 
 
 <(12.) If by reason of any acts of the Board otherwise than as 
 authorised by this Act or of the want of re})air of any of 
 the works by this Act authorised the Canal or the said 
 towing-path shall be so obstructed that vessels boats or 
 barges or the horses drawing the same shall not be able 
 freely to pass along that Canal or towing-path as heretofore 
 the Board shall i)ay to the Dock Company as licpiidated 
 damages hfty ])ounds for every day on which such 
 obstruction shall occur or continue together with full costs 
 of action. 
 
 45
 
 -»A^ rrir,.^ „ -1 Meti^opolitan Board of Works tka p ^i tt- , -r 
 
 706 [Chap, cvi.] ^ yj^^^^ ^^^^^^^.^^ ^^^ ^g^.^ [50 & ol VictJ 
 
 (13.) As from the date when under the provisions of this Act the 
 maintenance and repair of the bridge and approaches so far 
 as they will be situate over the canal towing-path and land 
 of the Dock Company shall become vested in the Vestry of 
 the parish of Camberwell * or the Board of Works for the 
 Greenwich t district such Vestry or District Board as the 
 case may be shall become liable to the obligations with 
 respect to the maintenance and repair of the said bridge 
 and approaches so far as they affect the canal towing-path 
 and lands of the Dock Company to w^hich the Board are 
 made liable under this Act instead of the Board and the 
 Board shall be relieved therefrom. 
 
 (14.) If any difference or dispute shall arise between the engineer 
 of the Board or of the said Vestry or District Board and the 
 Dock Company's engineer as to the execution of the works 
 to be done by the Board or such Vestry or District Board 
 under this Act the same shall be from time to time referred 
 to and settled by an engineer to be agreed u])on between 
 the Board or such Vestry or District Board and the Dock 
 C'ompany or in case of difference to be appointed on the 
 application of either the Board or the Dock Company by 
 the President for the time being of the Institution of Civil 
 Engineers and the costs of such arbitration shall be in the 
 discretion of the arbitrator. 
 
 (15.) Except as by this Act expressly provided nothing in this 
 Act contained shall take away lessen prejudice alter or 
 affect any of the rights privileges or property powers or 
 authorities of the Dock Company. 
 [Parts omitted {as to removal of existing siving bridge, con- 
 struction of tvorks, and the jjrovidijig of culverts^ spent7\ 
 
 8 — 10. [^Contributions by Camberwell Vestry and Greenivich 
 JJistrict Board, towards Canterbury lioad bridge and approaches — 
 Power to the Haberdashers'' Company to assist in the construction of 
 the bridge by gifts of land or money. Speid.'] 
 
 The bridge 11. When the bridge and apjn-oaches authorised by this Act are 
 
 and ap- made a certificate thereof shall be passed under the common seal 
 
 form'a's^treet. ^^ ^^^ Board and any copy of such certificate certified under the hand 
 of the clerk of the Board shall in all proceedings and for all pur- 
 poses be admissible and received as evidence that such certificate has 
 been duly made and so much of the said bridge and approaches as 
 shall have been laid out for carriageways or footways shall form a 
 street and may be used by the public accordingly The soil under 
 the said approaches except in so far as it belongs to the Dock 
 Company shall be vested in the Board and the j:)aving maintenance 
 repair cleansing and lighting of the bridge and approaches shall 
 be under the care management control and jurisdiction of the street 
 authority of the district in the same manner as other public roads 
 and streets in their district but the Board may order that the whole 
 or any part of the said bridge and approaches as to paving main- 
 tenance repair cleansing and lighting shall be under the exclusive 
 care management control and jurisdiction of either the Vestry of 
 the parish of Camberwell * or the Board of Works for the Greenwich 
 
 • Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell. See 62 & 63 Vict. 
 c. H, s. 4. 
 
 T Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich. 8ee 62 it 6.'5 Vict 
 c. 14, s. 4.
 
 district* in tlio same niiinnor as othor pnhlin roads and streets in 
 their respective districts on such terms and subject to such con- 
 ditions as may be a^'roed npon between the Vestry and the District 
 lioard or in the event of dirterence as shall be settled Ijy the Board. 
 
 12. [NothitKj ill 45 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxii. .s. :'> to a/Ject the powers 
 (five II to f/ic lioiinl In/ 40 it 41 Viet. r. ccxxxv. .s. 33,] 
 
 13. From and after tiie ])assinf,^ of this Act section 2 of tl)e Substitution 
 MetrojM.litan Street Improvements Act 1877 (Amendment) Act l.ss2 llppr^pHated^ 
 so far as it imposes obliterations upon the Board not to remove the to en-ction 
 buildin<i-s on tlie land coloured jmrple on the Gray's Inn Road ]»lan "f artizans' 
 until artizans' d\v(!llinu;s have been erected on the lands coloured ''^^^'^'"S'^- 
 <jreen on the said })lan and to a])])ropriate the said land coloured 
 
 purple to the erection of artizans' dwellin<i^s is repealed : 
 
 And the Board shall ac([uire and a]»])roj)riate for the erection of 
 artizans' dwellings so much of the land on the south side of Elm 
 Street shown on the deposited jdans iind coloured purple on the 
 (irav's Inn Hoad ])lan and of the lands which the Board are em- 
 j)owered to j)urchase and ac([uire under the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works (Various Powers) Act 1884 as is not recpiired for the widen- 
 iuir of Elm Street and as will with the lands coloured blue and 
 green on the Gray's Inn Road plan be sufficient to accommodate 
 not less than one thousand two hundred persons belonging to the 
 labouring classes. 
 
 The Board may upon the passing of this Act remove buildings 
 from and may sell in fee sim])le or for any less estate or let such 
 portion of the said jneces of land before mentioned or any part or 
 parts thereof to any })urchasers or lessees for the purposes and under 
 the condition that such purchasers or lessees will on the land so 
 ])urchased by or leased to them erect artizans' dwellings and in ])ar- 
 ticular the I^oard may insert in any grant or lease of any part of 
 such })ieces of land ])rovisi()ns binding the grantee or lessee to build 
 thereon as in the grant or lease prescribed and to maintain and 
 repair the buildings and ])rohibiting the division of ])uildings and 
 any addition to or alteration of the character of buildings without 
 the consent of the l>oard and for the re-vesting of the land in the 
 Board or their re-entry thereon on breach of any provision in the 
 grant or lease. 
 
 14 — 16. \_Powe7' to the Board to stop up ivays during tvorlts, to 
 raise or lower streets, and to deviate. Spent^ 
 
 17. \_Po/rei- to the Hoard to stop up and appropriate the streets 
 shotcn on the deposited plans, andto interjere with drains and sewers 
 on proridinq substitutes, ichich are to he under the same management 
 as existing sewers and drains.'] 
 
 18 — 19. \_l'oirer to the Board to alter water, gas, and other pipes, 
 andto lag out carriageways, footways, etc. Spent.'] 
 
 20. [^1^' to layinq of pareinents and resting the same, when laid, in 
 and as to the maintenance thereof by the street authority of the 
 district in which they are situate or in suck street authority as the 
 Board may order or in any other persons liable to repair the sa7ne.] 
 
 21. \_Power to the Board to Jill up seivers and drains on providing 
 substitutes, which are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drains.] 
 
 * Now the Council of the Metropolitan Boroutcli of Greeawic!). See 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4.
 
 ro8 
 
 [Chap, cvi.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 {Various Poivers) Act 1887. 
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] 
 
 Transfer of 
 power of 
 Wandsworth 
 Common 
 Conservators 
 to Board 
 and vesting 
 of Common 
 in Board. 
 
 Board shall 
 preserve the 
 Common as 
 an open 
 space. 
 
 I'ower to 
 purchase a 
 piece of land 
 to the north 
 of Bostall 
 Heath in 
 the parish of 
 Plumstead, 
 
 Vesting in 
 the Board a 
 piece of 
 land near 
 Brook 
 Green. 
 
 22 — 24. \_Foiver to the Board to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. — 
 Periods for completion of works limited to 4 and for compulsory/ 
 jmrchase of lands to 3 years. Spent.'\ 
 
 PART III.— OPEN SPACES, etc. 
 Wandswokth Common. 
 
 25. Subject to the provisions of this Act all the rights property 
 l)0wers functions privileges authorities liabilities and obligations 
 granted to or imposed on the Wandsworth Common Conservators 
 by the Wandsworth Common Act 1871 except the levying of a rate 
 shall be transferred to and vested in the Board and Wandsworth 
 Common as defined by the Wandsworth Common Act 1871 together 
 with any land pm'chased accepted or held by the Conservators under 
 the authority of that Act shall upon the passing of this Act vest in 
 the Board for all the estate and interest therein which immediately 
 before the passing of this Act were vested in and belonged to the 
 Conservators. 
 
 26. \_Board to discharge liabilities and obligations of Conservators. 
 
 Spent.'] 
 
 27. The Board shall at all times preserve Wandsworth Common 
 (including any land of the said Conservators vested in the Board 
 under this Act) as an open space for the perpetual use thereof by 
 the inhabitants of tlie metropolis for exercise and recreation and 
 may exercise all necessary powers for maintaining and preserving 
 the same as an open space. 
 
 28. \_As to byelaiDs. Superseded 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21, 
 and. 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 29. \_As to compensation to the clerk of Conservators. Spent {see 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works Minutes, 21 th April 1888).] 
 
 B08TALL Heath. 
 
 30. The Board may purchase and acquire a piece of land situate 
 on the north side of Bostall Heath shown on the deposited plans 
 and thereon coloured red and described in the deposited book of 
 reference and the said piece of land shall vest in the Board and 
 shall l)e added to and form part of Bostall Heath as the same is 
 defined in the Scheme confirmed by the Metropolitan Commons 
 Supplemental Act 1877 and for all purposes of improvement 
 management and bye-laws the said piece of land shall be con- 
 sidered to form part of Bostall Heath and to be subject to the 
 provisions of the said Scheme in all respects as though it had been 
 comprised therein. 
 
 Brook Green. 
 
 31. Upon the passing of this Act a piece of open land at Brook 
 Green in the parish of Hammersmith lying on the western side 
 of Shepherd's Bush lload and shown on the deposited plans and 
 thereon coloured green and described in the deposited book of 
 reference shall vest in the Board free from all rights in over or 
 affecting the same and shall be added to and form part of Brook 
 Green and for all purposes of improvement management and bye- 
 laws the said piece of land shall be considered to form part of 
 Brook Green and all bye-laws and regulations in force with regard 
 to Brook Green shall apply to and be in force with regard to the 
 said piece of land.
 
 r-n p K1 "17- ^ n MetrO/joUtau Hoard of Worl;.^ r/i -n -,>ri 
 
 [oO & 51 Vict.] ^ ^.^^/^^^^ ^,^^^^.^^ ^^^^ ^^^.^ [Chap, cvi.] .09 
 
 Ravenscourt Park. 
 
 32. The Board may jjiirclnise and acquire by agreement certain rower to 
 honses buildings and lands comprising about thirty-two acres known i'»rchase 
 as " liavenscourt Park " and ii' and wlien the Board sliull liave \\\\\- j-arkby^ 
 (aliased tlic same tlie Board shall su]>ject to the provisions ol" this agreement. 
 Act hold the same and every ])art thei'cof as a j)ark and open space 
 
 and shall lay out maintain and preserve the same and every {)art 
 thereof as a ])ark and open space for the perpetual use thereof by 
 tlie public for exerctise and recreation and may from time to time 
 exercise all necessary j)Owers for the maintenance and pr(\servation 
 of the same as a park and open space. 
 
 33. The Board may maintain the mansion house and any other Power to 
 houses or l)nikling8 in Ravenscourt Park and may use the same "i^jntam 
 or allow the same to be used for any public ])urpo8es or in connec- certain 
 tion with the maintenance of Ravenscourt Park as a park or open buildings. 
 sj)ace and may erect and maintain in Ravenscourt Park such con- 
 venient or ornamental buildings as they may think requisite for the 
 accommodation of keepers constables and other officers or as lodges 
 
 sheds or toolhouses to be used in connection with the maintenance 
 of Ravenscourt Park as a park and open sj)ace. 
 
 34. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may from rower to 
 time to time after purchasing Ravenscourt Park purchase l)y agree- purchase 
 ment any estates interests and rights in over or affecting the same ofeJ. Ravens- 
 for the better execution of this part of this Act with respect to the court Park, 
 maintenance and ])reservation of Ravenscourt Park as a park and 
 
 open sj)ace and for the purpose of applying the ])rovisions of the 
 Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of lands 
 by agreement under this Act the term " lands " in the said pro- 
 visions shall be considered to include such estates interests and 
 rights. 
 
 35. When the Board have jmrchased under this Act any estate Power to 
 interest or right in over or alfecting the land of Ravenscourt Park '^^^^tinguish 
 they may as they may think most expedient with a view of securing when^pur- 
 the use of Ravenscourt, Park by the public for the purposes prescribed chased, 
 by this part of this Act eitlier extinguisii the same or niiain hold 
 
 and exercise the same wholly or partially. 
 
 36. [.l.s to byelaws. Superseded ')'i & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. s.s, 14 — 'Jl, 
 aru/ 01 & (52 Vict. c. ccxxi. .>•. 01.] 
 
 37. \_Afi to contribution by the Hammersmith Vestry of half the 
 cost of the acquisition of Ravenscourt Park. 8pe)d7\ 
 
 38—43. \^As to Penge Recreation Ground. Not ajfecting London. 
 See Lo)idon (Penge) Order in Council 1900, and the Lewisha?n and 
 Penge {Adjustment) Order in Council 1902, made under 62 &6'd Vict. 
 
 r. 14.] 
 
 PART IV. — DISPOSAL OF SEWAC^E IX THE DETACHED 
 PORTION OF CLERKENWELL PARISH. 
 
 44—49. [A.s to Clerkenirell {detached) se/rerage. Not afectino 
 London. i<ee the London {ClerkenwelL Detarhecf) Order in Council 
 1900, and Ilornset/ Drainage Order in Council 1901, made under 
 C2 & 63 Virt. c. 14.]
 
 10 
 
 [Chap, cvi.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 {Various Powers) Act 1887. 
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] 
 
 Power of 
 Board to 
 erect and 
 maintain 
 convenience? 
 in parks 
 and open 
 spaces. 
 
 Board may 
 let or ex- 
 change lands. 
 
 Board to 
 dispose of 
 lands not 
 wanted. 
 
 Receipts of 
 Board to be 
 effectual 
 discharges. 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 
 PART v.— MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 50. The Board may erect and maintain in proper and convenient 
 situations on any part of the lands maintained by them as parks or 
 open spaces nrinals waterclosets and other conveniences for public 
 accommodation and may provide and employ attendants thereat 
 and may pay the same such salary or wages as the Board may think 
 fit and may charge for the use of such waterclosets and other con- 
 veniences for public accommodation such fees as the Board with the 
 sanction of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State maj" 
 from time to time fix and determine. [Sre also 58 & 59 Vict, 
 c. cxxvii. s. 45.] 
 
 51 — 61. \_Extension till \st August 1888 of the period for the 
 conipulsonj purchase of lands under 40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxv., 
 44 & 45 Vict. c. cxcii., 47 & 48 Vict. c. ccxxiii., and 4~i & 48 Vict. 
 c. ccxxviii. ; and till \st August 1889 of the period limited for the 
 completion of the Graffs Inn lioad imprrorement under 40 & 41 Vict, 
 c. ccxxxv. ; and till \st Augaat 1890 of the period limited hg 4^4: & 45 
 ]^ict. c. cxcii. and 47 & 48 Met. c. ccxxviii. for compAeting the 
 Vauxhall and New Battersea Bridges woi-h.s — Power to the Board 
 to take lands — As to rehousing persons of the labouring class — ^6- 
 to purchase of easements — As to purchase of an easement over the 
 Grand Surrey Canal — Errors and omissions in plans — Poiver to 
 Board, to enter and survey lands to he taken — .I* to arbitration — 
 Boaid to redeem land tax on lands taken — Power to the Board to 
 sell materials. Spent?^ 
 
 62 — 64. \Power to the Board to grant huilding leases of surplus 
 lands — As to sale of ground-rents and rerersions thereof — Pon-er to 
 .sell such lands without leasing. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. 
 s. 23. See ibid. ss. 19—22.] 
 
 65. The Board may from time to time let either from year to 
 year or for a less period or for a term at rack rent or exchange or 
 otherwise dispose of any building or lands or any part thereof 
 acquired by them under the powers of this Act for any of the street 
 improvements and not required for such improvements and may 
 execute and do any deed act or thing jn-oper for effectuating any 
 such lease exchange or other disposition. 
 
 66. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board shall on or 
 before the first day of February in the year one thousand nine 
 hundred and forty-one which period shall be the prescribed period 
 for the purposes of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the 
 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 sell and dispose of all lands 
 acquired by them under the powers of this Act and which shall not 
 be required for anv of such improvements. \_See also 47 k, 48 176-^. 
 c. 50, s. 23.] 
 
 67. The receipt of the Board or of any person duly authorised by 
 the Board for any purchase-moneys rents or profits or money payable 
 to the Board by virtue of this Act shall be a sufficient and effectual 
 discharge for the money in such receipt expressed or acknowledged 
 to be received and the person to whom the same shall be given shall 
 not afterwards be answerable or accountable for the misapplication 
 or non-application of the money in such receipt expressed or 
 acknowledged to be received. 
 
 68. The Board may subject to the provisions of this Act from 
 time to time enter into and carrv into effect agreements with anv
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] ^'^'"''^'^ ^^"1/^887 ^^'^'"''^^"''^ [Chap, cxxxvii.] 711 
 
 person beiiif^ the owner of or interested in any lauds houses or ni^ke agree- 
 property aljiittinj; on any portion of any of tlie street improvements ^"ers^f* 
 with respect to the sale by the Board to such person of any lands or property etc. 
 property (includin<; any street or thoron<^hfare or any part of a street 
 or thoron<j:;hfar(' ac([nired by the; I>oard under the ])o\vers of this Act 
 and not required for any of such improvements^ for such considera- 
 tion as may be agreed upon between the lioard and such person and 
 the Board may accejjt as satisfaction of the whole or any part of 
 sucli consideration the ^-rant by such person of any lands or other 
 property reipiired by the Board fur the jjurpuses of this Act. 
 
 69. [.l.s to stamps on conveyances. Spent. '] 
 
 70. l/'Jupenses of executing Act. Superseded 51 & 52 Vict, c 41, 
 jturt iv., and htj the London County Council i^MoiwiJ) Acta 
 1888— 1UU4.] 
 
 71. {Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 ScHEDL'LE. \_Description of lands in respect of which compulsory 
 powers are extended. Spent.] 
 
 CHAPTER CXXXVII. 
 
 An Act to authorise the Acquisition of Clissold Park Stoke 
 Newington and its Utilisation for public Purposes. 
 
 [19M July 1887.] 
 
 [^Preamblt'.'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Clissold Park (Stoke Newinu'ton) Short title. 
 
 Act 1887. 
 
 2. In and for the purposes of this Act the expression " Clissold Ipterpreta- 
 Park " means the lands partly in the parish of Saint Mary Stoke *'°°* 
 Kewington and ]iartly in the parishes of Islington and Hornsey in 
 
 the county of Middlesex commonly known as " Clissold Park " or 
 " Stoke Newington Park " comprising together about fifty-three 
 acres which are included in an area bounded on the north by 
 Lordshij) Park and Manor lioad on the east by Queen Elizabeth's 
 AValk on the west by the Green Lanes and on the south by Church 
 Street and Paradise liow : 
 
 The "Metropolitan Board" means tlie Metropolitan Board of 
 ^^'orks * : 
 
 The "Hackney District Board" means the Board of AVorks for 
 the Hacknev district constituted under the Metrojjolis Manairement 
 Act 1855 1": 
 
 The " Vestry of Stoke Newington '" means the Vestry of the i)aiish 
 of Saint ]\Iarv Stoke Newington in the countv of Middlesex, i 
 
 3. It shall be lawful for the Ecclesiastical < 'ommissioners for Power to 
 England by a deed of conveyance duly stamped to sell and convey ^..^'^j'^^^^^^^^lg^ 
 all their estate and interest in Clissold Park to the ]\Ietropolitan sioners to 
 Board and the Hackney District l^oard or to either of them or '^fH ^'lissold 
 partly to the Metroj)olitan Board and i)artly to the Hackney District ^^ " 
 Board and the ]\Ietropolitan Board and the said District Board or 
 
 either of them may by agreement with the said Ecclesiastical 
 
 * Now the London County Cuiuu-il. See 51 \; o2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S). 
 
 t Now the C'oiiniil of tlu- Metroix)lit;in l>oroin,'li of Hacknev. ^eo 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 J Now the Council of tlie Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington. See 62 i: 63 
 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 '^lo rnTTAT, ^.-.-,.T,^- 1 Clissold Park (Stoke Newinqton) r^n * n tt t 
 
 /12 [Ohap. cxxxvii.J ^(?M887 [50 & 51 Vict. J 
 
 Purposes for 
 which land 
 ruay be used. 
 
 Eeservation 
 of a site for 
 pubUc 
 buildings. 
 
 Commissioners purchase their estate and interest in Clissold Park 
 or any part thereof and hold the same. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \_Part omitted {as to stamping of conveyance) spent.'] 
 
 4. In the event of any sale of Clissold Park or any part thereof 
 under the powers of this Act the same shall (subject as herein-after 
 provided) as from the date of any such sale become and be open to 
 public use for purposes of exercise and recreation and it shall there- 
 after be the duty of the Metropolitan Board to keep the same lauds 
 open uninclosed and unbuilt on and to j^revent resist and abate by all 
 lawful means all or any encroachments or attempted encroachments 
 on the said lands and to preserve them as an open space and to resist 
 all proceedings tending to the inclosure or appropriation for any 
 purpose of any part thereof. \_See 52 & 53 Vict. c. cxlvii. s. 0.] 
 
 5. If the Metropolitan Board and Hackney District Board or 
 either of those Boards purchase or agree to purchase Clissold Park 
 or any part thereof which shall include the site of the houses and 
 buildings at the south-eastern corner thereof and lands surrounding 
 the same not exceeding two acres it shall be lawful for the Vestry of 
 Stoke Newington to resolve that the said site and land not exceeding 
 two acres herein-after called the " reserved site " shall be set apart 
 as a site for a vestry hall public museum free library baths and 
 washhouses or any of those purposes or any other like ])urposes for 
 the use of the inhabitants of the parish of Stoke Newington and of 
 any other parish combining with them for these purposes or any of 
 them and the following provisions shall apply thereto : — 
 
 (i) If the purchase of Clissold Park be made or agreed to be 
 made by the Metropolitan Board the Vestry of Stoke 
 Newington may by notice in writing to the Hackney 
 District Board require the said District Board to purchase 
 the reserved site from the Metropolitan Board and there- 
 upon the Hackney District Board shall purchase and the 
 Metropolitan Board shall sell the reserved site accordingly : 
 
 (ii) If the purchase of Clissold Park be made or agreed to be 
 made by the Hackney District Board the said Vestry may 
 by notice in writing to the Hackney District Board require 
 the said District Board to set apart the reserved site 
 accordingly : 
 
 (iiij Any buildings on the reserved site may be used altered or 
 adapted for the purposes aforesaid or any of them or may 
 be removed and others substituted for the said purposes : 
 
 (iv) If the reserved site be purchased by the Metropolitan Board 
 and sold by them to the Hackney District Board pursuant 
 to the provisions of this Act the amount of the purchase 
 money to be paid for the same shall be such as if not 
 agreed between the Vestry of Stoke Newington on the one 
 hand and the Metropolitan Board on the other hand shall 
 be determined by arbitration in the same manner as a 
 question of disputed compensation under the Lands Clauses- 
 Consolidation Act 1845 and the Acts amending the same : 
 
 (v) If the reserved site be originally bought by the Hackney 
 District Board then the proportion of the purchase money 
 to be attributed to the reserved site shall if not agreed upon 
 between the said Vestry and the said District Board be 
 determined by arbitration in like manner :
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] Clisnold rarkiS^oke^ [Chap. cxxxvii.J 713 
 
 (vi) The reserved site shall after the said ])urchase be vested in 
 the Hackney District Board hut shall ije under the exclusive 
 control and iuana<,^eiuent of the Vestry ol" Stoke Xewingtou 
 subject as herein-after ])rovided : 
 
 (vii) If commissioners for j)ublic liljraries and museums for the 
 parish of Stoke Newington or for tlie ])aris]i of Stoke 
 Newington and any other parish combining with tiiem for 
 that purpose be apjminted a public library and museum or 
 a site for the same shall be provided ^m the reserved site and 
 any buildings now existing thereon may be utilised or altered 
 and adapted for that ])uri)Ose and for ])rovidiug schools for 
 science and art or any purposes of the Tublic Libraries 
 Act 1855 : 
 
 (viii) If commissioners for ])u])lic ])aths and washhouses for the 
 parish of Stoke Newington or for tlie said parish and any 
 other adjoining })arish combining with them for tiiat 
 purpose shall be appointed a site for public baths and 
 washhouses shall be })rovided for such commissioners upon 
 the reserved site : 
 
 (ixj Such sites or buildings respectively shall be liired by such 
 respective commissioners at such rents respectively as if 
 not agreed upon between such commissioners and the 
 Vestry of the parish of Stoke Newington and tlie Hackney 
 District lioard shall be determined by an arbitrator to be 
 appointed on tlie application of either of them by one of 
 Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State or by agreement 
 they may be respectively purchased by such respective 
 commissioners : 
 
 (x) Such rents shall be paid to the Hackney District lioard and 
 applied by them in or towards the payment of interest and 
 repayment of principal in respect of any moneys borrowed 
 by the Hackney District Board for the ])urchase of the 
 reserved site and incidental thereto and such further sums 
 of money as shall be required by the said District Board for 
 the payment of interest and repayment of principal in 
 respect of moneys borrowed for these purposes shall lie 
 levied by the overseers of the poor of the said ])arisli in the 
 same manner and with the same incidents in all respects as 
 any yearly rent or other moneys would be payable by the 
 overseers of the said parish nnder the Act " to enable 
 overseers in populous parishes to ]»rovide offices for the 
 l)roper discharge of })arochial business " passed in the 
 24th and 'Z^)\\\ years of Her present Majesty chapter 125 
 as if they were rent for public offices and any sums received 
 by the said District Board by way of ]»urchase money for 
 any ])art of the reserved site t>r buildings thereon shall be 
 api)lied in reduction of the debt incurred for the purchase 
 thereof. 
 
 6. Nothing in this Act contained shall confer or impose upon '•'or.tli*' pro- 
 the Metropolitan Board anv ])Owers duties or obliirations as to the M^r.^'lulo"!® 
 control or management oi any part oi I'lissold I ark unless The p.oard. 
 exclusive control and management of so much thereof as is to 
 
 become open to public use are vested in the said Board. \_See also 
 62 & 53 Vict. c. cxlvii. .s-. 9.] 
 
 7. [-4s to byclaws. Superseih'd 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. i>,!>-. 14 — "Jl, 
 and 61 & 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 01.]
 
 714 [Chap, clxxii.] Thames Tunnel (Blackwall) Act 1 887. [50 & 51 Vict.] 
 
 8 — 10. \Poiuer to the vestries and (Hstrict hoards of the metro- 
 polis to contribute to the purchase of the Park, and as to levying 
 expenses of and borrowing such co7itributions. SpentJ] 
 
 11 — 20. \_Power to the Local Board of South Hornse;/ to con- 
 tribute to the purchase of the Park and to borrow such contributions 
 — As to lery of charges therefor and provisions as to such borrowing ^ 
 and rrs to the sinking fund in respect thereof. Spent.'] 
 
 21. \_The Charity Commissioners of England and Wales to con- 
 tribute £47,500 toicards the purchase of the Park out of charity 
 
 finds dealt with b»/ the City of London Parochial Cha.rities Act 
 1883.* Spent?^ 
 
 22. {Incorporation of Lands Clauses Act. Spent.'] 
 
 23. Nothing in this Act shall extend to take away prejudice 
 diminish alter or affect any of the rights remedies privileges powers 
 authorities exemptions and benefits vested in or granted or reserved 
 to or now enjoyed or exercised by the Governor and Company of the 
 New Eiver brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London f by or 
 by virtue of any royal charter letters patent Act of Parliament 
 agreement prescription usage or otherwise howsoever. 
 
 24. \_Lxpenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 Saving for 
 the New 
 Eiver Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 
 CHAPTER CLXXII. 
 
 t An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 TO MAKE a new MEANS OF COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE RiVER 
 
 Thames by means of a Tunnel or Subway at Blackwall. 
 
 [Sth August 1887.] 
 
 yPreandjle recites that the making of a neii: means of communica- 
 tion across the Liiver Thames at Blackwall by means of a tunnel or 
 subwai/ icould be attended with great local and public advantage, and 
 that it is expedient that the Metropolitan. Board of Works § {in this 
 Act called the Board) should be authorised to make the same, arul 
 also recites the deposit of plans ivith the Clerks of the Peace for 
 Middlesex and Kent.] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Thames Tunnel (Blackwall) 
 Act 1887. 
 
 2. In this Act the following words and expressions have the 
 tion of terms, ggygj..^] meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be some- 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that 
 is to say) : — - 
 
 " Street " has the meaning assigned to the same term in the 
 Metropolis Management Act 1855 and the Acts amending 
 the same ; 
 
 " Road authority" and "district " in relation to a road authority 
 have respectively the same meanings as are assigned to the 
 same terms respectively by the Tramways Act 1 870 ; 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 \_Parts omitted {clefinitions of " Lands Clauses Acts^'' " Justice^'' 
 
 * Rep. t;i & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.) 
 
 f Now the ^Metropolitan AVater Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 X Powers to take additional land.s for the purpose of the tunnel were obtained by 
 51 & r)2 Vict. c. Ivii., which is now wholly spent. 
 
 § Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 ,[50 & 51 Vict.] Thames Tunnel {Blackwall) Act 1887. [Chap, clxxii.] 715 
 
 " ttvo JtiMice.H,^'' " leasee,''' and ^^ person," and as to meanings of //wv/.-f 
 /// Lands Clauses Acts incorporated) spent.'\ 
 
 3. \_Fncorporation of Lands Clauses Acts. Spent.'] 
 
 4. \_T/>r Board mail a pjioint a committee to execute Act. Super- 
 seded hij the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s. 22 {see Appendix), 
 (I lid .")1 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 40 and 75.] 
 
 5. Snl)ject to the ])rovisions of this Act the Board may in the Power to 
 lines or situation shown on the (le])Osited plans and according to ™r^^uJ^°"^* 
 the levels sliown on the deposited sections make a new means of and works 
 communication across tlio River Tiiames at Blackwall (•om])risin<4- connected 
 the tunnel or subway under the lliver Thames with the roads and "^"^rewith. 
 approaches thereto as herein-after described nanndy : — 
 
 (A) A road commencing in the county of Middlesex* in the ])arisli 
 
 of All Saints Poplar at the east end of the East India Dock 
 Road passing to and under the River Thames and ter- 
 minating in the parish of Greenwich by a junction with 
 the main road between (ireenwich and Woolwich nearly 
 oi)})osite the western end of the Greenwich Union AVork- 
 house ; 
 
 (B) A road in the said parish of Greenwich commencing by a 
 
 juncti(ni with the new road (A) herein-before described 
 and terminating by a junction witli the said main road 
 between Greenwich and Woolwicli at the junction therewith 
 of Horn Lane and Coombedale Road ; 
 •(C) A tunnel or subway by means of which the new road (X) 
 herein-before described will be carried under the River 
 Thames commencing on the north in the county of 
 Middlesex* and ])arish of All Haints Poj)lar near the 
 eastern end of High Street Poplar and terminating on 
 the south in tiie county of Kent* and parish of Greenwich 
 near the northern end of Ordnance Road where it joins 
 Blackwall Lane which tunnel or subway is in subset^ueut 
 provisions of this Act referred to as " the tunnel " ; 
 (D) A widening of the said main road from (jreenwich to Wool- 
 wich commencing at the termination of tlie road (A) herein- 
 before described nearly opposite the western end of the 
 Greenwich Union Workhouse and terminating on the 
 eastern side of the street known as Church Street or 
 Christ Church Street where it ioins Traialgar Road : 
 •(E) The alteration and diversion of Teddington Phice in the said 
 parish of (Greenwich between Ordnance Road and Blackwall 
 Lane. 
 The Board may also in connexion with the said works subject to 
 'the i)rovisions of this Act construct all such a])proaches vaults 
 ■cellars arches sewers drains subways and other incidental works a> 
 may be necessary or convenient including stairs or })assagesas means 
 •of ingress or egress for foot passengers. 
 
 6. Subject to the ])rovisions of this Act the Board may for tlie '^-^ ^^ f.^tain 
 purposes of constructing maintaining renewing anil repairim: the ^yj^^'"" '° ' ® 
 works by this Act autlioriseil alter or interfere with the banks bed 
 
 soil and foreshore of the River Thames at or near any of such works 
 and make borings therein and may ])lace dams and caissons and 
 drive piles in the bed of the said river and may erect such temporary 
 staging and caissons in upon or over the said river as may be 
 * Now the comity of London. See 51 k. o2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 716 
 
 [Chap, clxxii.] Thames Tannel {Blackwall) Act 1887. [50 & 51 Vict.} 
 
 Board em- 
 powered ur 
 may be re- 
 quired to 
 underpin or 
 otherwise 
 strengthen 
 houses near 
 works. 
 
 necessary or convenient and may do and execute every other work 
 and thing necessary or convenient for any of the purposes aforesaid. 
 
 7 — 12. \_Poiver to the Board to make subsidiary uwrhs ; to alter 
 water, yas, and other pipes, and to deviate ; to stop up tvays during 
 works ; to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. : to appropriate roads to the 
 use of the public. Spent.'] 
 
 13. Whereas in order to avoid in the execution and maintenance 
 of any of the works by this Act authorised injury to the houses and 
 buildings within one hundred feet of such works it may be neces- 
 sary to underpin or otherwise strengthen the same the Board at 
 their own costs and charges may and if required by the owners and 
 lessees of any such house or building shall (subject as herein-after 
 provided) underpin or otherwise strengthen the same and the 
 following provisions shall have effect (that is to say) : — 
 
 (1) At least ten days notice shall unless in case of emergency be 
 
 given to the owners lessees and occupiers or by the owners 
 and lessees of the house or building so intended or sa 
 required to be underpinned or otherwise strengthened ; 
 
 (2) Each such notice if given by the Board shall be served in 
 
 manner prescribed by section 19 of the Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Act 1845 and if given by the owners or 
 lessees of the premises to be under])inned or strengthened 
 shall be sent to the principal office of the Board ; 
 
 (3) If any owner lessee or occupier of any such house or building 
 
 or the Board as the case may require shall within seven 
 days after the giving of such notice give a counter-notice- 
 in writing that he or they as the case may be disputes the 
 necessity of such underpinning or strengthening the ques- 
 tion of the necessity shall be referred to an engineer to be 
 agreed ujjon or in case of difference to an engineer ta 
 be appointed at the instance of either party by the Board 
 of Trade ; 
 
 (4) Such referee shall forthwith upon the application of either 
 
 party proceed to inspect such house or building and deter- 
 mine the matter referred to him and in the event of his 
 deciding that such underpinning or strengthening is neces- 
 sary he may and if so required by such owner lessee or 
 occupier shall prescribe the mode in which the same shall 
 be executed and the Board may and shall proceed forthwith 
 so to underpin or strengthen the said house or building ; 
 
 (5) The cost of the reference shall be in the discretion of the 
 
 referee ; 
 
 (6) The Board shall be liable to comj)ensate the owners lessees 
 
 and occupiers of every such house or building for any 
 inconvenience loss or damage which may result to them^ 
 by reason of the exercise of the powers granted by this- 
 enactment ; 
 
 (7) If in any case in which any house or building shall have been 
 
 underpinned or strengthened on the requisition of the 
 Board such underpinning or strengthening shall prove 
 inadequate for the support or protection of the house or 
 building against further injury arising from the execution 
 or use of any of the works by this Act authorised then and 
 in every such case unless such underpinning or strengthen- 
 ing shall have been done in the mode prescribed by the
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] Thames Tunnel {Blackivall) Art 1 8^7. [Chap, clxxii.] 71 7 
 
 referee the Board shall make compensation to the owners 
 lessees and occuj)iers of sucli house or Luildint:' for such 
 injury provided the claim for comj)ensation in respect 
 thereof be made; witliin six months from the discovery 
 thereof ; 
 
 (8) Nothing in this enactment contained nor any dealing with 
 
 the said jjroperty in pursuance of this enactment shall 
 relieve the Board from the liability to compensation under 
 the sixty-eighth section of the Lands Clauses Consolidation 
 Act 1l>45 or under any other Act ; 
 
 (9) Every case of com})ensation to be ascertained under this 
 
 enactment shall be ascertained according to the provisions 
 contained in the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 ; 
 
 (10) Nothing in this section shall rej)oal or affect the aj)pli- 
 
 cation of the ninety-second section of the Lands < 'lauses 
 Consolidation Act 1845. 
 
 14. The Board may lay out the tunnel and the ruuds forming Making 
 the approaches thereto by this Act authorised or any part of the uiainteaance 
 same for carriage-roads and for footways as they may think i)roper [fihtTng^of 
 and may sewer level pave metal flag channel and com])lete such roads and 
 <'arriaoje-roads and footwavs and the Board mav from time to time works, 
 execute all such works and do all such acts in under or upon any of 
 the roads forming part of the works by this Act authorised as they 
 may from time to time think i)roper for preserving repairing and 
 improving the tunnel and the works connected therewitli and may 
 for that purpose enter upon and break open the soil and pavement 
 of such roads and any sewers drains or tunnels within or under such 
 roads causing as little inconvenience as may be in the execution of 
 the powers hereby conferred and restoring the said roads and sewers 
 drains or tunnel as nearly as })racticable to the same condition as 
 they were in before such breaking and opening The Board may 
 also at any time (if they think it expedient so to do) close the tunnel 
 wholly or in part for the purpose of repairing the same or any part 
 thereof and for the purpose of sewering levelling paving flagging 
 and channelling the carriage and foot wav throuo:h the same or auv 
 part thereof or of the approaches thereto so far as they are to be 
 maintained and repaired by the Board : 
 
 And for the purj)oses mentioned in tliis sei-tion or any of them the 
 Board may (in addition to any other j)owers by tliis Act conferred) 
 exercise the same powers and authorities as are vested in and shall 
 be subject to the same liabilities only (if any) as are imposed upon 
 any vestry* or district board* within the metroi)()lis when they stop 
 up temporarily any thoroughfare or any \rM't thereof for repairing or 
 repaving the same The tunnel and the road and footways through 
 the same and the approaches thereto when completed as aforesaid 
 shall be public highways but the soil thereunder other than the soil 
 or bed of the River Thames vested in the Conservators of the River 
 Thames shall remain vested in the Board and the tunnel and the 
 road and footways through the same and the immediate approaches 
 thereto shall subject to the provisions of this Act be maintained 
 repaired and lighted by the Board and the remainder of the 
 ajjproaches and the road and footways thereof shall be maintaineil 
 repaired and lighted as other ])ublic highways by the road authori- 
 ties of the districts in which they will be respectively situate and 
 
 * Now the councils of the metropolitan boroughs. t>ee 62 k 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 1.
 
 '18 
 
 [Chap, elxxii.] Thames Tunnel {Blackwall) Act 1887. [50 & 51 Vict.] 
 
 Tunnel not 
 to be broken 
 tip for laying 
 mains or 
 pipes except 
 with consent 
 of Board. 
 
 Board may 
 let or ex- 
 change lands, 
 
 Board to dis- 
 pose of lands 
 not wanted. 
 
 Receipts of 
 Board to be 
 effectual dis- 
 charges. 
 
 the Board may by order under their common seal define the points 
 between which the respective obb'gatious of the Board and the said 
 road authorities as to repair maintenance and lighting shall extend 
 A copy of any such order certified as such under the hand of the 
 clerk of the Board shall in the absence of evidence to the contrary 
 be accepted as evidence of the due making of such order. 
 
 15. Notwithstanding anything in any Act to the contrary it shall 
 not be lawful for any company or person to enter upon break up or 
 interfere with the tunnel or the road and footways through the same 
 respectively for the purpose of laying down any main or pipe or 
 executing any work therein thereon or thereunder except with the 
 consent of the Board in writing and in accordance with such terms 
 and conditions as the Board may determine Provided that this 
 section shall not extend to prejudice or affect the rights powers and 
 authorities conferred upon Her Majesty's Postmaster General by the 
 Telegraph Acts 1863 to 1885. 
 
 16 — 27. [Period for completion of works limited to 7 years — 
 Errors and omissions in plans — Power to the Board to enter upon 
 and. snrreij lands to be taken and to occupy lands temporarily — As 
 to acquisition and extinguishment of easements — ^1^ to the mode of 
 forming tunnel — Board to redeem the land tax on lands taken — 
 For the protection of Messrs. Forbes, Abbott, and Lennard — As to 
 arbitration — Power to the Board to sell materials. Spent."] 
 
 28 — 30. [Power to the Board to lease surplus lands — As to sale 
 of ground, rents and. reversions thereof — Power to sell such lands 
 without leasing. Superseded 62 & 63 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. ^. 23. See- 
 ibid. 6S. 19—22.] 
 
 31. The Board may from time to time let either from year to 
 year or for a less period or for a term at rackrent or exchange or 
 otherwise dispose of any building or lands or any part thereof 
 acquired by them under the powers of this Act and not required for 
 any of the purposes of this Act and may execute and do any deed 
 act or thing proper for effectuating any such lease exchange or other 
 disposition. 
 
 32. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board shall on or 
 before the first day of February in the year one thousand nine 
 hundred and forty-one (which period shall be the prescribed period 
 for the purposes of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the 
 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845) sell and dispose of all lands 
 acquired by them under the powers of this Act for the purposes of 
 the roads by this Act authorised and which shall not be required for 
 any of the purposes of this Act. [See also 47 & 48 Vict. c. .50, s. 23.] 
 
 33. The receipt of the Board or of any person duly authorised 
 bv the Board for anv purchase mouevs rents or profits or monev 
 paya])le to the Board by virtue of this Act shall be a sufficient and 
 effectual discharge for the money in such receipt expressed or 
 acknowledged to be received and the person to whom the same shall 
 be given shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable for the 
 misapplication or non-apj)lication of the money in such receipt 
 expressed or acknowledged to be received and such money shall 
 be applied by the Board towards the expenses of the Board in 
 executing the works by this Act authorised. 
 
 34. [Period for compulsory purchase of lands limited to 5 years, 
 Spent.~\
 
 [50 & m Vkt.] !'/>(, ,ih:s Tunnrl (Blac/acaU) Act 1887, [( 'hai-. clxxii.] 719 
 
 35. The Board may subject to the ])rovisions of this Act from Po^'^r to 
 time to time enter into and carry into effect a<i:reements with any J't!r^^,?,„^ 
 person ]j('in<^ the owner oi or interested m any hinds riouses or m.-nts with 
 jjroperty alnittin*^ on any poi'tion of any of the works autliorised by owners of 
 this Act, with respect to'the sale by the Jioard to such person of any P^^P®"^ *^^- 
 lands or projjcrty (inchidin<i^ any street or thoron^^hfare or any part 
 
 of a street or tliorouj^iilare ac(|uired by tlie ]>oard under the powers 
 of this Act and not r('(|uir('d for any of th(! pui'poscs of this Act) for 
 such consideration as nuiy l)e agreed ni)on between tlie B(jard and 
 siicli person and tlie ]k)ard may accej)t as satisfaction of the whole 
 OI- any ])art of such consideration the grant by such person of any 
 lands or other property re<|uired by the Boai'd foi- the jiurposes of 
 this Act. 
 
 36. Any temporary or ])ermanent works other than the tunnel Works on 
 and api)roaches executed by the lioard under the powers of this f'i^ Hiyer 
 Act so far as the same may affect the navigation of the River j^g exerutefl 
 Thames or the banks bed or foreshore thei-eof un<ler the jurisdiction undfr the 
 of the Conservators of tiie said river shall i^e executed at-cording to '[■'"^^f"^" '^^ 
 a j)lan and elevation to be approved in writing by the said ( 'onser- vators of 
 vators and deposited at their office and any works in the River the River 
 Thames shall be executed and j)erfoi-med to the reasonable satis- 'I'l^™^^- 
 faction of the engineer for the time; being of the said Conservators 
 
 and the traffic of the saiil River Thames shall not be interfered with 
 
 more than may be absolutely necessary in tlie construction of such 
 
 works and the Board shall after completion of the permanent works 
 
 within fourte(Mi days after notice from the said Conservators so to 
 
 do j)roceetl with all rensonable despatch to remove any materials 
 
 for temporary works which may have been placed in the river by 
 
 the Board and on their failing to do so the said Conservators may 
 
 remove the same charging tlie Board with the expense of so doing 
 
 and tiie Board shall fortiiwith repay to the said Conservators all 
 
 expenses so incurred and in default of j)ayment the amount due 
 
 may be recovered with full costs by tlie Conservators from the 
 
 Board in any court of competent iurisdiction. 
 
 -,; , 1 1, 1 1 , Board not to 
 
 37. The Board shall not make or commence any work under or commence 
 
 on the shore or bed of the River Thames without the consent of the ^^y ^o>*^ "° 
 
 Conservators of the River Thames signified in writing under the.|.,'J^,'^°^ ^^j^ 
 
 hand of their secretary until the exjiiration of one calendar month notice givea 
 
 after notice in writing to the Conservators of the River Thames. to Cooser- 
 
 vators. 
 
 38. The Board shall hang out and exhibit at or near to aii}' u r^ts to be 
 works in or on the River Thames by this Act autliorized every night exhibited 
 from sunset to sunrise lights to be kept burning by and at the "piJ" worlu. 
 expense of the 15oard proper and sufficient for the navigation and 
 
 safe guidance of vessels and the lights shall from time to time be 
 altered by the B)oard in such manner and be of siudi kind and number 
 and be so placed and used as the Conservators of the River Thames 
 by writing under the hand of their secretary shall approve and 
 direct and in case the Board fails so to exhiliit and keep burning the 
 lights they shall for every siudi offence forfeit every day the sum of 
 ten pounds and further the Board shall exhibit under a like penalty 
 lights to be similarly ap{)roved by the said Conservators upon any 
 temporary works which may be jjlaced in the river by the Board 
 during the making of the tunnel or works connected therewith. 
 
 P 
 
 39 — 40. \_Af> to interference icith the bed of the river and tahinq 
 atcl and materiaU therefrom dnrinq construction of irorh. Spentr\
 
 720 [Chap, clxxii.] Thmnes Tunnel {Blackwall) Act 1887. [50 & 51 Vict.] 
 
 41. \_Saving the rights of the Thames Consei^vators.'] 
 
 42. [For the protection of the South Metropolitan Gas CompoMy. 
 
 Spent. '^ 
 
 Forpro- 43. In constrnctiDg and maintaining the tunnel and works 
 
 th^^M^i?^ d ^^^thorised by this Act where the same will pass under or in 
 Railway ^oy wise affect the railways sidings works buildings and lands 
 
 Company. belonging to the Midland Railway Company the Board shall be 
 subject to the following conditions videlicet : — 
 
 1. All works affecting the said railway sidings works buildingrs 
 and lands shall be executed at the expense of the Board 
 under the superintendence and to the reasonable satisfaction 
 of the principal engineer of the 3Iidland Railway Company 
 and according to plans and specifications to be preyiously 
 submitted to such engineer and reasonably approved by him 
 in writing Provided that if such engineer shall not have 
 expressed his approval or disapproval of the said plans and 
 specifications within one month after the same shall have 
 been submitted to him he shall be deemed to have approved 
 thereof. 
 2. The works shall be constructed and maintained so that the 
 traffic upon the Midland Railway shall not be in anywise 
 impeded or interfered with and such maintenance shall be 
 effected under the superintendence and to the reasonable satis- 
 faction of the engineer of the Midland Railway Company and 
 in all things at the expense of the Board. 
 
 4. If by reason of the construction or maintenance of the works 
 
 or any of them or the failure of any of the works or of the 
 maintenance thereof the said railway sidings and buildings 
 or the works connected therewith shall be injured or the 
 traffic thereon impeded the Board shall compensate the 
 Midland Railway Company for all costs to which that Com- * 
 pany may be put in repairing the said damage and shall also 
 pay by way of liquidated damages to the Midland Railway 
 Company ten pounds for every hour during which such traffic 
 shall be impeded. 
 
 5. The Board shall also indemnify the Midland Railway Company 
 
 for any damage or compensation which may be recovered 
 against them by reason of the interruption of the traffic 
 on the said railway or by reason of any accident on the 
 said railway which interruption or accident shall have been 
 occasioned Ijy the acts or defaults of the Board or any of 
 their contractors or their respective servants or workmen. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Faints omitted (as to construction of works ojid acquisition of 
 easement or right of constructing and maintaining tunnel) spent. ^ 
 
 Forpro- 44. The following provisions for the protection of the North 
 
 th^^N°rtf London Railway Company shall apply and have effect : — 
 
 London ...... 
 
 Railway (3.) The Board shall so construct their works by this Act autho- 
 
 Company. rised as not in any way to cause any leakage or escape 
 
 of water from the docks of the North London Railway 
 Company . . . 
 (4.) The Board and their contractors agents servants or work- 
 men shall not in the execution of any works by this Act
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] Thames Timnel {Blac/acall) Act 1887. [Chap, clxxii.] 721 
 
 anthorised ohstrncf. im])e<]f' or interfere with tlie free and 
 iininterrupted and safe use of tlie docks railways and other 
 works belonging to the Nortli London iiailway Company 
 or any traffic thereon. 
 
 {5.) If by reason of tlie constrnetion or failnre of the tunnel and 
 the works in connexion therewith or of any act or omission 
 of the Board or of any of the persons in their employ or of 
 their contractors or others acting by their authority and 
 notwithstanding the ap])roval of the said plans sections 
 and sj>ecitications as aforesaid and the construction of tln' 
 tunnel in accordance therewith any damage or injury shall 
 arise to the docks warehouses or other works or to the 
 other pro])erty of the North London Railway Company by 
 subsidence or by the escaj)e of water from the said docks 
 or otherwise or any ol)struction or interference shall be 
 ■caused to the traffic on tlie lines of railway of the North 
 London Railway Company in connexion with their said 
 docks and warehouses the Roard shall be responsible for 
 and forthwith upon notice from the Comj)any make good 
 «nch damage or injury and shall also pay to the North 
 London Railway Comj)any all costs losses and expenses 
 which may be occasioned to or sustained by that Company 
 or any other company working over their lines by reason 
 ■of the matters aforesaid and the Board shall effectually 
 indemnify the North London Railway Company from all 
 •claims w^hich may be sustained against them and liabilities 
 properly incurred by them l)y reason or arising out of the 
 matters aforesaid. 
 
 (6.) AVhenever the Board fail to make good any damage or injury 
 to the docks warehouses and other works and property of 
 the North London l^iilway Company caused or arising as 
 aforesaid the said Company may make and do in and upon 
 as well the lands of the Board as their own lands all such 
 >works repairs and things as they may think rcfpiisite in 
 that behalf and the sum reasonably expended from time to 
 time by that Company upon such works shall W repaid to 
 that Company by the Board and in default may be recovered 
 by them from the Board with full costs in any court of 
 competent jurisdiction. 
 
 (7.) The Board and the North London Railway Company may 
 agree in writing under their resj)ective common seals upon 
 any variation or alteration of the provisions of this section. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 (9.) Excej)t as by this Act exjjressly authorised nothing in this 
 
 Act contained shall extend to })rejudice alter or take away 
 
 any of the rights privileges or powers of the North London 
 
 Railway Com])any. 
 
 [Parts omitted (as to conKtrucflon of trorhs, certain lands of the 
 
 Railwai/ Compan?/ not to be tahen, and u-orhs between the railway 
 
 and the Thames to be in accordance icith plans approved by the 
 
 Company s engineer') spent.'] 
 
 45. The following ])rovisions for the protection of the London ,\!^',jon°of ,1,^ 
 
 and North-western l^iilway Com])any (herein-nfti'r called the North- i.ondonand 
 
 western Company) shall aiiplv and have effect :— Nnrth- 
 
 ^ ' ^ ^ ^ • western 
 
 (4.) The Board shall not except so far as may be temi)orarily company. 
 
 4<;
 
 22 [Chap, clxxii,] Thames Tunnel {Blackwall) Act 1887. [50 k ;j1 Vict.] 
 
 i t^f^ 
 
 necessary during the execution of the works by this Act 
 authorised stop up or in any way interfere with the free 
 and uninterrupted use of the roads or thoroughfares known 
 respectively as Russell Street Preston Road and Blackwall 
 respectively or any part of either of the said roads If the 
 Board find it necessary so far to interfere with either of 
 the said roads temporarily as to render it impassable or 
 dangerous or extraordinarily inconvenient to passengers 
 or carriages or to the persons entitled to the use thereof 
 the Board shall before doing so cause a sufficient temporary 
 road to be made instead of the road to be interfered with 
 and shall at their own expense maintain such substituted 
 road so long as such interference shall continue. 
 
 (5.) The Board shall not except temj^orarily during the execution 
 of the works sink any shaft or construct any works in the 
 bed or foreshore of the Thames opposite any land of the 
 Xorth-western Company south of Russell Street which 
 shall or might in anv wav interfere with the use bv the 
 !North-western Company of their said land or any part 
 thereof for the purposes of a wharf landing or shipping place. 
 
 (6.) Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained the Board 
 shall be responsible for and make good to the Xorth- 
 western Company all costs losses damages and expenses 
 which may be occasioned to that Company or to their 
 works or property by reason of the execution or failure 
 of the tunnel or the works in connexion therewith or of 
 any act or omission of the Board or of any of the persons 
 in their employ or of their contractors or others and the 
 Board will effectually indemnify and hold harmless the 
 Xorth-western Company from all claims and demands 
 upon or against them by reason of such execution or 
 failure and of such act or omission. 
 
 t • , • • « • 
 
 [Parts omitted {as to construction of works) spent. 1 
 
 46. For the protection of the East and West India Dock Company * 
 
 For pro- (herein-after called "the Dock Companv ") the following provisions- 
 
 tection of ^, n i i . / o i 
 
 the East and ^l^all apply :— 
 
 West India ...... 
 
 Dock Com- ^3^-^ ijj^g Board shall not for the jDurpose of any of the works hj 
 
 this Act authorised stop up or in any way interfere with 
 the free use by the Dock Company of the thoroughfares 
 known respectively as Preston's Road and Brunswick 
 Street or any part of either of the said thoroughfares. 
 (4.) Nothing in this Act contained shall in any way abridge 
 or affect the rights and powers of the Dock Company 
 under the provisions of the 73rd section of the Act 
 1 & 2 William IV. cap. 52 entitled "An Act to con- 
 solidate and amend the several Acts for making the West 
 India Docks " to enter on deei)en and scour out the beach 
 and bed of the River Thames But the Dock Comj^any shall 
 not dredge deepen or scour over the site or within fifty 
 yards on either side of the tunnel to a level lower than 
 
 * Amalgamated in 1900 with the London & St. Katharine's Dock C'omiDany under 
 the name of the " London &; India Docks Company." See the " London and India 
 Docks Amalgamation Act," 1900.
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] Thames Tunnel {Blaelcwall) . \rt 1 887. [Chap, clxxii.] 72^ 
 
 thirty feet below Trinity lii^rh-watcr mark except with the 
 consent of the Board (which shall not be unreasonably 
 withheld) and the Dock (Company shall nr)t execute any 
 snch (IrcdYnnj^ (l('('[(('niii<:: or scouriiif^ lower than thirty feet 
 below Trinity higii-water mark in any manner or to any 
 extent which in the ojjinion of the engineer of the Board 
 and u])on notice thereof in writing? beinf^ given to the 
 Dock Company may involve any danger to or interference 
 with the tnnnel. 
 
 [Parts omitted {prorisions as to construction of works and as to 
 damage within 5 years after completion thereof^ spent J\ 
 
 47. Whereas the London and 1 51ack wall Railway and the works ^"^ protec- 
 buildings lands and conveniences C()nn('ct('(l tlieicwith (which railway jj^n.ion and 
 works bnildings lands and conveniences are herein-after included in Blackwall 
 the expression the "■ IMackwall Railway") are leased bv the London ^"'^ ^^'■<^^^ 
 and I'lackwall Railway Company to the Great Eastern Railway iiaji^av 
 Com])any for a term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years under Companies 
 the provisions of the London and IMackwall Railway Lease Act 
 1865 And whereas the I'hickwall Railway will be interfered with 
 by the construction of the works by this Act authorised Therefore 
 the following provisions for the ])rotection of the London and 
 Blackwall Railway Company (in this sec^tion called "the Blackwall 
 Company'') and the Great Eastern Railway C'om})auy (in this section 
 called "the Great Eastern Company") shall unless otherwise agreed 
 in writing be observed and have efifect that is to say : — 
 
 (1.) Belbre the Board shall for the purpose of making and 
 maintaining or for any j)nrpose connected with the works 
 authorised by this Act (so far as affects the Blackwall 
 Railway) take use enter u])on interfere with or afiect either 
 temporarily or permanently any })art of the Blackwall 
 Railway the Board shall furnish to the Great Eastern 
 Company proper and snllicient plans sections and s})eciti- 
 cations of the works ])ro])osed to be made by the Board 
 which will affect the Blackwall Railway and such plans 
 sections and s})ecifications shall be settled and agreed u])on 
 between the en<iineer of the Board and the en<rineer of 
 the Great Eastern Company or settled by arbitration as 
 herein-after ])rovided and such works shall be carried 
 into efiect only in accordance with such agreement or the 
 decision in such arbitration and under the sujierintendence 
 and to the reasonable satisfaction of the said engineer to 
 the Great Eastern Company. 
 (2.) The Board shall not for any purjiose whatsoever connected 
 with the works by this Act authorised enter upon the 
 Blackwall Railway without giving seven days jirevious 
 notice in writing to the Great Eastern Company except 
 in cases of urgency. 
 (3.) The Board shall at all times at their own exj)ense maintain 
 the works by this Act authorised and all i-onveniences con- 
 nected therewith so far as the sanu' lie under or affect the 
 Blackwall Railway in substantial re})air and gooil onler 
 and condition to the reasonable satisfaction in all respects 
 of the engineer of the Great Eastern Company. 
 (4.) The Board shall not for any purpose whatsoever connected
 
 724 [Chap, clxxii.] Thames Tunnel {Blackwall) Act 1887. [50 & 51 Vict.] 
 
 with the works by this Act authorised without the consent 
 in writing of the Blackwall and Great Eastern Companies 
 under their respective common seals take acquire use enter 
 upon or interfere with any part of the Blackwall Railway 
 except so far as the Board may take and use enter upon or 
 interfere with the same for the purpose of constructing 
 and maintaining the said works in accordance with the 
 provisions of this section. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 (6.) The Board shall not for the purpose or during the construc- 
 tion of any of the works by this Act authorised stop up 
 obstruct or interfere with or cause to be stopped up 
 obstructed or interfered with the carriageway and foot- 
 ways of the street shown on the deposited plans and 
 known as Brunswick Street. 
 
 (9.) If by reason of the construction or maintenance of the works 
 by this Act authorised or any of them or the failure of any 
 of the said w^orks or of the maintenance thereof the Black- 
 wall Railway shall be injured or damaged such injury or 
 damage shall be forthwith made good by the Board at 
 their own expense to the satisfaction of the engineer of 
 the Great Eastern Company or in the event of their failing 
 so to do the Great Eastern Company may make good the 
 same and recover the cost thereof from the Board with 
 the full costs of suit in any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 (10.) The Board shall not in making and maintaining the works 
 by this Act authorised or in the exercise of any of the 
 powers of this Act in any manner obstruct hinder or inter- 
 fere wath the free uninterrupted and safe user of the 
 Blackwall Railway or any traffic thereon. 
 
 • •••■■ 
 
 (12.) Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained the Board 
 . ^ shall be responsible for and make good to the Great 
 
 Eastern Company all damage loss costs and expenses 
 which may be occasioned to the Blackwall Railway or to 
 the traffic thereon or to any person or persons using the 
 same by reason of the execution or failure of any of the 
 works by this Act authorised or connected therewith or 
 any part or parts thereof or of any act or omission of the 
 Board or of any of the persons in their employ or of 
 their contractors or others and the Board shall effectually 
 indemnify and hold harmless the Great Eastern Company 
 from all claims sustained against and liabilities incurred 
 by them by reason of such execution or failure and of any 
 such act or omission. 
 (13.) The provisions of this section for the protection of the Great 
 Eastern Company shall apply and have effect mutatis 
 mutandis for the protection of the Blackwall Company 
 upon the expiration or sooner determination of the lease 
 of the Blackwall Railway to the Great Eastern Com- 
 pany under the provisions of the London and Blackwall 
 Railway Lease Act 1865. 
 \Part8 omitted (as to construction of works) spent.'] 
 Arbitration 48. Any difference which may from time to time arise between 
 
 as to plans ^.j^g Board on the one hand and the East and West India Dock 
 and works.
 
 [50 & 51 Vict.] Thames Tunnel {Blachwall) Act 1 H87. [Chap, clxxii.] 725 
 
 Company* the Xortli London Railway Company tlie London and 
 North-western Railway Conijiany tlie Midland Railway (Jompany 
 the London and IMackwali Railway (company the (ireat Eastern 
 Railway Company and the JSonth Metrop(ditan Gas Company or 
 any or either of them on the (jther hand as to any questions arising 
 under the six ])reeedin<,' sections of tliis Act or any of them shall 
 from time to time be referred to and settled by a sin<;lc aibitrator 
 who shall unless agreed between the parties in difference be 
 nominated by the President for the time being of the Institution 
 of Civil Engiiu'crs on the application (»f eiflier of them and the 
 provisions of the Railway Companies Arbitration Act IsW.) shall 
 so far as ap])lical»le apfily to every such arljitration and shall apjily 
 to the Board as if the Board were a railway company. 
 
 [Part omitted {section not to (t/>]jt;/ to comjjenaation under JAin(l» 
 Clauses Acts or s. 40 (G) of this Act) spent.'] 
 
 49. \_As to rehousing labouring class persons. Spent.] 
 
 50. The Board may subject to the provisions of this Act from Byelaws. 
 time to time make alter repeal vary amend and enforce byelaws 
 
 with respect to the tunnel and approaches for all or any of the 
 purposes following (that is to say) : — 
 
 For regulating and limiting the speed at which carts carriages 
 and other vehicles shall proceed through or over the tunnel 
 and a})proaches ; 
 
 For regulating and limiting the route to be taken by all carts 
 carriages and other vehicles passing to from in or through 
 the tunnel and a]){)roaclies ; 
 
 For regulating and limiting the space to be used by foot passen- 
 gers and the line to be kept by persons riding on horseback 
 or driving or conducting any cart carriage or other vehicle to 
 from in or througli tlie tunnel and approaches ; 
 
 For preventing the commission of any nuisances in or upon the 
 
 tunnel and approaches ; • • 
 
 For preserving and ])reventing injuries and damages to the tunnel 
 and approaches. 
 [See also 03 tt 04 \'ict. c. cclxviii. ss. 25 — 27.] 
 
 51. The provisiDus of the ^Metropolis ^ranngemont Act 1n55 Re<ruhtions 
 respecting tlie making contents contirmation approval ])ublication f^fff^'^i^^ 
 and evidence of byelaws and of proceedings before Justices and ^'^'^^'^ 
 recovery of ])enalties thereunder sliall extend and apply to byelaws 
 
 under this Act and byelaws under tliis A(^t shall be deemed byelaws 
 within the ^letropolis Management Act 1:^55 and the Acts amending 
 the same. \_See 18 & 19 Vil't. c. 12u, ss. 202, 2ii3, 227, and 231.] 
 
 52. [Expenses of executing Art. Superseded 51 »fc 52 Vict, c 41, 
 part iv., andbg the London Countg Council (Monet/) .IcV^ 1888— 1004.] 
 
 53. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.] 
 
 * Amalgamated in 1!)00 with the London & St. Katliariac'.s Dock Compjiny under 
 the name of the " I^omlon &. India Docks Company." See the "London and India 
 Docks Amalgamation Act " 1900.
 
 i26 
 
 [Chap. 40.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 {Mone;/) Act 1888. 
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 51 & 52 VICTORIA. A.D. 1888. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Construction 
 of Act. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion. 
 
 Special power 
 to expend 
 money for 
 purposes of 
 main drain- 
 age and 
 main sewers. 
 
 18 oi: 19 Vict. 
 c. 120. 
 
 Power to lend 
 to vestries, 
 district 
 boards, corpo- 
 rations, com- 
 missioners, 
 bnrial >)oards, 
 or other 
 public 
 bodies. 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 70. 
 
 CHAPTER 40. 
 
 An Act to further amend the Acts relating to the raising 
 OF Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works, and for 
 other Purposes. [13^/^, August 1888.] 
 
 \_Preamble.'\ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 (Money) Act, 1888, and the Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) 
 Acts, 1875 to 1887, and this Act may be cited together as the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1888. 
 
 2. This Act shall be read and have effect as one with the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works (Loans) Acts, 1869 to 1871, and the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Acts, 1875 to 1887. 
 
 The expression " Main Drainage Acts" in this Act shall have the 
 same meaning as is assigned to the same term in the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works (Loans) Act, 1869. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \^Parts omitted {definitions of the expressions " Parks and Open 
 Spaces Acts " ajid " Artizans' and Labourers'' Dwellings Improve- 
 ment Acts ") spent.'] 
 
 4—5. \_Amendment of ss. 9, 10, and 11 of ^i) & 51 Vict. c. 31, s. 9 — 
 Power to the Board to expend monei/s till 'Mst December 1889^0/' 
 the purposes of 50 Vict. c. xli. ; 50 & 51 Vict. c. cxxxvii. ; 51 & 52 
 Vict. cc. Ivii., cli., and clvi. ; Brixton Park Act 1888*; ajid 
 Vauxhall Park Act 1888.* Spent.'] 
 
 6. [Power to the Board to expend money for sundry purposes 
 during 1889. Spent.] 
 
 7. . . . All tlie provisions of the Main Drainage Acts and the 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts altering or amend- 
 ing the same for the time being in force relating to the execution of 
 works authorised by the said Acts respectively, shall continue in 
 force and shall extend and apply respectively to the works executed 
 by means of money raised for the purposes of this section, and all 
 stock created under the authority of this Act for such purposes shall 
 be deemed to be created for the purposes of the above-mentioned 
 Acts res])ectively. [Pa/i omitted {as to power to the Board to 
 expend during the year ending ?>\st December 1889, not exceeding 
 £142,000^ for the purposes of main drainage and main sewers) 
 spent.] 
 
 (iii.) Commissioners for public libraries and museums, appointed 
 or hereafter to be appointed under the Public Libraries Act, 1855,t 
 by the vestry % of any parish in the metropolis as defined by the 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, are hereby declared to be com- 
 missioners duly appointed, notwithstanding that such parish may be 
 a parish in Schedule B. to the last-mentioned Act, and any loan 
 by the Board under this Act to commissioners so a})])ointed, and any 
 
 * The powers vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works by these Acts were not 
 acted upon. 
 
 t Rep. by the Public Libraries Act 1892. 
 
 i Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 4 4ii 
 
 r-1 p -o -ir 1 Metropolitan Board of Works rra»T, Af\^ 
 
 [ol & o2 ViCT.J [^f^^^^^^^ ^^^^ l,,^g^ [Chap. 40.] 
 
 security given by such commissiotiers to the Board shall Le deemed 
 in all res])ects valid and etK'ctivo, jjrovidcd the Kanctiou of the vestry 
 and the Local Government Board be given to the borrowing by the 
 commissioners. 
 
 (iv.) Money borrowed from and lent by the lioard under this 
 section may, notwithstanding anytliing in any other Act, be made 
 repayable, either in one sum or l»y instalments, as the l>oard and 
 the borrowers shall agree, and in either case shall be repaid to the 
 Board with interest within such time after the born)wing as the Board 
 and the borrowers, witli the approval of the Treasury, shall agree. 
 Provided that the time after the itorrowing within which such 
 money shall be repaid to the Board shall not exceed, in the case 
 of a loan for the purpose of improvements in relation to streets or 
 bridges, or for the purpose of ])urchase of land in fee simple, sixty 
 years, and for any other ])urpose tliirty years. [^I'o.rt omitted (a.s to 
 power to the Board to lend ditrimj the ijear ending "^Xat J December 
 1889 to vestries ai2d district boards and other public bodies levying 
 rates in the metropolis) spent.'] 
 
 Money borrowed from and lent by the Board under this section Power to 
 shall, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, be repaid to the o^guard^rns^ 
 Board with interest within such time after the borrowing as the i>i & 19 yict." 
 borrowers, with the consent of the Local Government Board, and c. 120. 
 the Board, with the approval of the Treasury, shall agree, not 
 exceeding tliirty years. \^l*art omitted (as to power to the Board 
 to lend till 'Slst December LS8U to boards of guardians in the 
 metropolis) spent.'] 
 
 10. \_Extension till ^\st December 1889 of the amount ich.ich the 
 Board maij lend to the Managers of the Metropolitan Asglum 
 District. Spent ^ 
 
 11. [Power to the Board to lend to the School /hard for Londo7i 
 all '6\st December 1889. Spent. — Prorision as to repagment within 
 not exceeding 50 gears. Superseded 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, 2nd schedule ; 
 and 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, s. 1.] 
 
 12. [Power to the Board to lend till ^Ist December 1889 to the 
 Meceicer of the Metropolitan Police District. Spent.] 
 
 13. [Power to the Board to lend up to ^\st December 1880 to 
 the Vestrg of St. Pancras. Spent. — Prorisionfor repayment within 
 a time to he approved by the Treasury not exceeding 50 yeai'S. 
 Identical with such provision in 50 & 51 Vict. c. 31, .n\ 7.] 
 
 14. Where, under the authority of this or any other Act, the Protection of 
 Board lend any money to any corjjoration, body of i-ommissioners, of'^J^^i*^® 
 ])ublic body, or persons, the exercise of whose ])0wers of borrowing loans. ' 
 
 is subject to the consent of the Local Government Board, the 
 sanction of that Board to the borrowing of such money shall in 
 every such case be conclusive evidence that such cor})oration, body 
 of commissioners, public body, or ])ersons Innl powt-r to l)orrow 
 such money. 
 
 15. ...... Power to 
 
 ,(i.) Where the Board under the authority of this Act ^'^'^^^^ "^^i^l^l"^^^' 
 
 consolidated stock to raise money for the j)urpose of the 
 Fire Brigade Act, ls(;.">, or to enable them to make a loan 
 re])ayable within a jieriod not exceedin<r thirty years from 
 the date of such loan, the Board shall from time to time
 
 r9« rPTT.T. (A 1 Metropolitan Board of Works r-i p -o tt- n^ 
 
 ^28 [Chap. 40 ,] |^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ jg-/g_ [ol & o2 Vict.] 
 
 carry to the Consolidated Loans Fund snch sums as the- 
 Treasury approve, as being- in their opinion sufficient to 
 redeem within the period of thirty years from the date of 
 the creation of such stock, or in the case of any such loan 
 within any less period for which the same may be made, an 
 amount of consolidated stock equal to that so created ; and 
 (ii.) Where the Board are by this Act authorised to make a loan^ 
 the Board, instead of raising money for any such loan by 
 the creation of consolidated stock, may use for any such 
 loan any money for the time being forming part of the 
 Consolidated Loans Fund, and not required for the pay- 
 ments of the dividends on consolidated stock. Provided 
 that no such money shall be used for any loan repayable 
 at a date later thau the date at which the consolidated 
 stock redeemable by means of the money so used is 
 required to be redeemed. 
 
 (iii.) Where the Board shall be of opinion that any money by 
 this Act authorised to be raised for any purpose should be- 
 paid off within a period of thirty years, or any less period, 
 the Board instead of raising such money by the creation of 
 consolidated stock may, with the approval of the Treasury,, 
 use for such purpose any money for the time being forming 
 part of the Consolidated Loans Fund, and not required for 
 the payment of the dividends on consolidated stock. Pro- 
 vided that no such money shall be so used unless provision 
 shall be made in such manner as the Treasury approve for 
 repaying the same to the Consolidated Loans Fund at or 
 before the date at which consolidated stock redeemable by 
 means of such money is required to be redeemed, and in 
 every such case the Board shall from time to time raise as 
 part of the consolidated rate such sums as the Treasury 
 approve, as being in their opinion sufficient for the repay- 
 ment at or before the date aforesaid of the money used for 
 such purpose, and for the payment of the interest on the 
 money so used, and such sums shall from time to time be 
 carried by the Board to the Consolidated Loans Fund. 
 (iv.) Where the Board raise consolidated stock for the purpose 
 of any scheme made by the Board under the authority of 
 the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Acts, 
 there shall be repaid (as provided by tlie Artizans' and 
 Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875*) to the con- 
 solidated rate out of the local rate as defined by the said 
 last-mentioned Act, all money required for payment of 
 dividends on and the redemption of all consolidated stock 
 created for such purpose. 
 
 \^Part omitted {poicers to the Board to raise consolidated stock for 
 
 the purposes of this Act) spent.~\ 
 
 16. [Power to the Board unthin 12 months after the issue of 
 stock to apply the money raised, by stock to make up dividends from 
 fixed dates. Spjent.'] 
 
 17 — 21. \_Power to the Board to raise money by metropolitan billsy. 
 and provisions relating thereto. Spent; see noiv 60 & 01 Vict^ 
 C. CCXX. 6'. 21. 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Gocemment Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 729 
 
 22. [^Limitation of power of borrowing in a. 38 of 32 & 33 
 
 Vict. c. 1<J2, not to extend to monc)/ rained under thin Act. Spent.~\ 
 
 23. All snms received by the lioard in respect of interest on or liepayments 
 ])rincipal of any loan made by tliem undei' this Act shall be '"iirrit'd ^ ,,^j^^^jj_ 
 to the (Jonsolidated Loans Fund. dated Loans 
 
 24. \_Llm,it to exercise of borrowing poiver.s. SperdS\ 
 
 25. Sections twentv-seven t«» fortv-three inclusive of the Metro- Incorporation 
 politan JJoard of WoVks (Money) Act, 1885, shall be deemed to be ^^^ ^J^'^J";^ 
 incorporated with this Act. 48 u 49 Vict. 
 
 First Schkdulk. [Particulars of new monaj powers conferred b>/ ^- "^ ' 
 this Act. >Spenf.'\ 
 
 Second and Third Schedules. [List of Par h.^ and Open Spaces 
 Acts and Arti^an.i and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Acts 
 referred to in s. 3. Spent. ^ 
 
 CHAPTER 41. 
 
 * An Act to amend the Laws relating to Local Government 
 IN England and AVales, and for other Purposes con- 
 nected therewith. [Vit/t August 1888.] 
 
 PART I. 
 
 County Councils. 
 Constitutio)t of County Council. 
 
 1. A council shall be established in every administrative county Establish- 
 as defined by this Act, and be entrusted with the management of"ientof 
 the administrative and financial business of that county, and shall ^^^^Jj 
 consist of the chairman, aldermen, and councillors. 
 
 2. — (1.) The council of a county and the members thereof shall Composition 
 be constituted and elected and conduct their proceedings t iu li^^^ ^f co^un^-j°° 
 manner, and be in the like position in all respects, as the council of and position 
 a borough divided into wards, subject nevertlieless to the provisions of chairman, 
 of this Act, and in particular to the following provisions, that is 
 to say : — 
 
 (2.) As respects the aldermen or councillors — 
 
 («.) clerks in holy orders and other ministers of religion shall 
 not be dis(jnalified for being elected and being aldermen or 
 councillors ; 
 (i.) a person shall be qualified to be an alderman or councillor 
 who, though not qualified in manner ]>rovided by the 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1SS;2.? as a]»]ilied by this Act, -t'*;^ ^«J "^''c^- 
 is a j>eer owning projjcrty in the county, or is registered *^' "* ' 
 as a parliamentary voter in respect of the ownership of 
 ])roperty of whatsoever tenure situate in the county ; 
 (<?.) the aldermen sluiU be called county aldermen, and the 
 councillors shall be called county councillors : anil a county 
 alderman sliall not, as such, vote in the election (»f a county 
 alderman ; 
 
 * This Act is set out omitting the parts which are not applicable to London. 
 t See St; & 57 Vict, ccxxi. s. lU. 
 \ See Appendix.
 
 730 
 
 [Chap 41.] 
 
 Local Go-Gernment Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 (r/.) the county councillors shall be elected for a term of three 
 
 years, and shall then retire together, and their places shall 
 
 be filled by a new election ; and 
 (e.) the divisions of the county for the purpose of the election 
 
 of county councillors, shall be called electoral divisions and 
 
 not wards. ... 
 
 51 & 52 Vict, 
 c. 10. 
 
 Transfer to 
 county 
 council of 
 administra- 
 tive business 
 of quarter 
 sessions. 
 
 . (4.) As respects the electors of the county councillors — 
 
 the persons entitled to vote at their election shall be . . . the 
 persons registered as countv electors under the Count v 
 Electors Act, 1888 : \See also 63 & 64 Vict. c. 29.] 
 (5.) As respects the chairman of the county council — 
 («.) he shall be called chairman instead of mayor ; and 
 (^.) he shall, by virtue of his office, be a Justice of the Peace for 
 the county ; but before acting as such Justice he shall, if he 
 has not already done so, take the oaths required by law to 
 be taken by a Justice of the Peace other than the oath 
 respecting the qualification by estate. 
 (6.) The county council may from time to time appoint a member 
 of the council to be vice-chairman, to hold office during the term of 
 office of the chairman, and, subject to any rules made from time to 
 time by the county council, anything authorised or required to be 
 done by, to, or before the chairman may be done by, to, or before 
 such vice-chairman. 
 
 \_Parts omitted (as to the numher of councillors and electoral 
 difisio7is) not ajtjdicable to London. See s. 40 (4).] 
 
 Powers of County Council. 
 
 3. There shall be transferred to the council of each county on 
 and after the appointed day, the administrative business of the 
 Justices of the county in quarter sessions assembled, that is to 
 say, all business done by the quarter sessions or any committee 
 appointed by the quarter sessions, in respect of the several matters 
 following, namely, — 
 
 (i.) The making, assessing, and levying of county, police,* 
 hundred, and all rates, and the application and expenditure 
 thereof, and the making of orders for the payment of sums 
 payable out of any such rate or out of the county stock or 
 county fund, and the preparation and revision of the basis 
 or standard for the county rate ; [_See the Countij Rates 
 Act 1852 and the Count); Rate Act 1866 (see Appendix).'] 
 (ii.) [Borrozving of money. Not applicable to London. See 
 the London County Council {Money) Acts 1875 — 1904.] 
 (iii.) The passing of the accounts of and the discharge of the 
 
 county treasurer ; \_See also s. 75 (16) C/).] 
 (iv.) Shire halls, county halls, assize courts, judges lodgings, 
 lock-uj) houses, court houses, justices rooms, police 
 stations,* and county buildings, works and property, 
 subject as to the use of buildings by the quarter sessions 
 and the Justices to the provisions of this Act respecting 
 the joint committee of quarter sessions and the county 
 council ; 
 (v.) The licensing under any general Act of houses and other 
 I)laces for music or for dancing, and the granting of 
 
 * Not applicaVjle to London. See s. 1)3.
 
 £51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 731 
 
 licences under the Racecourses Licensing Act, isTO ; 42& 43 Vict. 
 [_See 25 (iro. 2, r. :{(I.] ^- ^^■ 
 
 (vi.) The provision, enhirgonicnt, maintenance, raanagement, and 
 visitation of and other dealing with asylums for pauper 
 lunatics ; \_See the Lunaci/ Acts 189U ant/ 1891.] 
 
 (vii.) The estahlishmont ;iiid nuiinteiuince of and the contribution 
 to refornmtory untl industrial schools ; [-SVv the Jitjorn/a- 
 tonj Schools Act 1866 ; the Iiidastnal Schools Act 1866 ; 
 and the Reformatory/ and Industrial Schools Amendment 
 Art 1872.]" 
 
 (viii.) Bridges and roads re])airable with bridges, and any powers 
 
 vested by the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) ^^^ 42 Vict. 
 Act, 1878,-f- in the county authority ; \^See the Statutes of^' '^' 
 Bridges 1530 and 1102 \ the Count*/ Rates Act 1738; the 
 Bridjes Acts 1740, LS03, 1812, lsl4, 1S15; th' Ilif/hn-m/s 
 Acts ls35, 6*5. 21 and 22 ; and the Jliyhtvai/s and 
 Locomotives {Amendment^ Act 1878, s. 21.] 
 
 '(ix.) The tables of fees to be taken by and the costs to be allowed 
 to any inspector, analyst,* or person holding any olKce in 
 the county other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks 
 of the Justices ; 
 
 (x.) The appointment, removal, and determination of salaries, of 
 the county treasurer, the county surveyor, the ])ublic 
 analysts,* any officer under the Explosives Act, ls75,t ■"'''^ ■■^•^^ Vict, 
 and any officers whose remuneration is paid out of the *"■ '' 
 county rate other than the clerk of the ])eace and the 
 clerks of the Justices ; 
 
 (xi.) The salary of any coroner whose salary is payable out of the 
 county rate, the fees, allowances, and disbursements 
 allowed to be paid by any such coroner, and the division 
 of the county into coroners' districts, and the assignment 
 of such districts ; [Seethe Coroners Acts 1844, I860, 1>>87, 
 and 1SI»2.] 
 
 '(xii.) The division of the county into polling districts for the 
 I)urposes of parliamentary elections, the appointment of 
 places of election, the places of holding courts for the 
 revision of the lists of voters, and the costs of and other 
 matters to be done for the registration of parliamentary 
 voters ; 
 
 '(xiii.) The execution as local authority of the Acts relating to 
 contagious diseases of animals,t to destructive insects.f to 
 tisli conservancy ,J to wild binls, to weights and measures, 
 and to gas meters, § and of the Local Stamp Act, 1869; '-^^^ 33 vict. 
 
 <xiv.) {flatters under the Riot {Damages) Act 1886. Sot''-^'^- 
 ai>/)lic(d)lc to London. See s. 93 (2).] 
 
 (xv.) The registration of rules of scientific societies under the Act 
 of the session of the sixth and seventh years of the reign 
 
 * Not applicable to London, wherein tlie Corporation of the t'itv of London and 
 the vestries and di.><triet boards (now the Metropolitan Borough Councils) appoint 
 the analysts under the Food and Drugs Act 1S73, s. 10. 
 
 t These Acts were at the passing of this Act administered in London bv the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works. See s. JO (S); and see the Destructive Insects Act 
 1S77 and the Diseases of Animals Act ls;t4. 
 
 X Semble not applicable to London. See the Lea Conservancy Act 1868 .ind 
 -57 & oS Vict. c. clxx.xvii. (see Appendix). 
 
 § The powers of the Justices under the Sale of Gas Act 1860 were, so far as relating 
 to the metropolis, transferred to the Metropolitan Board of Works by the Metropolis 
 -Gas Act ISGL
 
 732 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.} 
 
 Transfer of 
 certain 
 powers under 
 local Acts. 
 
 of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-six ; the registra- 
 tion of charitable gifts under the Act of the session of the 
 fift^'-second year of the reign of George the Third, chapter 
 one hundred and two ; the certifying and recording of 
 places of religious worship under the Act of the session of 
 the fifty-second year of the reign of George the Third, 
 chapter one hundred and fifty-five ; the confirmation and 
 record of the rules of loan societies under the Act of the 
 session of the third and fourth years of the reign of Her 
 present Majesty, chapter one hundred and ten ; and 
 (xvi.) Any other business transferred by this Act. 
 
 4. AVhere it appears to the Local Government Board that any 
 powers, duties, or liabilities of any quarter sessions or Justices, or 
 any committee thereof, under any local Act are similar in character 
 to the powers, duties, and liabilities transferred to county councils 
 by this Act, or relate to property transferred to a county council 
 by this Act, the Board may, if they think fit, make a Provisional 
 Order for transferring such powers, duties, and liabilities to the 
 county council. 
 Appointment 5,_(i^) After the appointed day a coroner for a county shall not 
 be elected by the freeholders of the county, and on any vacancy 
 occurring in the office of a coroner for a county, who is elected to 
 that office in pursuance of a writ de coronatore eligendo, a like 
 writ for the election of a successor shall be directed to the county 
 council of the county instead of to the sherifi", and the county 
 council shall thereupon appoint a fit person, not Ijeing a county 
 alderman or county councillor, to fill such office, and in the case of 
 a county divided into coroners districts shall assign him a district ; 
 and any person so appointed shall have like powers and duties, and 
 be entitled to like remuneration, as if he had been elected coroner 
 for the county by the freeholders thereof. 
 
 (2.) Where the district of any such coroner is situate wholly 
 within any administrative county, the council of that county shall, 
 subject as herein-after mentioned, appoint the coroner. 
 
 of coroners 
 by county 
 council. 
 
 50 & 51 Vict, 
 c. 71. 
 
 Power of 
 council as to 
 bridges. 
 
 (5.) Nothing in this Act respecting the appointment of a coroner 
 shall alter the jurisdiction of a coroner for the entire county, or 
 any power of removing such coroner, whether by writ de coronatore 
 exonerando or otherwise, and all writs for the election or removal of 
 a coroner shall be altered so as to give efiect to this section. 
 
 (6.) Sections eleven and fourteen and the First Schedule of the 
 Coroners Act, 1887, and any other enactment relating to the 
 election of a coroner for a county by the freeholders of such 
 county or any district thereof, are hereby rei)ealed as from the 
 appointed day, without prejudice to anything done or suffered, or 
 any legal proceeding commenced or penalty incurred before such 
 repeal takes effect. 
 
 (7.) A i)erson who holds the office of coroner shall not be qualified 
 to be elected as a county alderman or county councillor for the 
 county for which he is a coroner. 
 
 [^Parts omitted (as to coroners' districts extendim/ into more than 
 one coantij) not applicable to London. See s. 114.] 
 
 6. The county council shall have ])Ower to purchase, or take 
 over on terms to be agreed on, existing bridges not being at present 
 county bridges, and to erect new bridges, and to maintain, repair.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Loral fiorernmerd Act \mS. [Chap. 41.] 733 
 
 and improve any bridges so i)urchased, taken over, or erected. [^See 
 ^. 3 (viii.) and note thereon^ 
 
 7. Tliere shall Le transferred to the connty council on and after Transfer to 
 the appointed day the business of the Justices of the county out ^"^"'^^^j , 
 
 of session — certain 
 
 (a.) in respoct of the liconsuif; o( houses or places for the pulilie powers of 
 
 • ^e L 1 re w' '/•/ . . i , ,., Justices 
 
 j»erioiiniince 01 s — 
 
 {see Appendix).^ 
 
 j»erfoiiniince of stage phiys. ^See the T/mitre.'i Art 1.S43 '^j"^*''^^^ «"*^ 
 
 session. 
 
 \^Part omitted {transfer of potrers a.s local author it ij under the 
 Kxplofiives Act 1875) not applicable to London. See s. 3 (x.) and 
 note thereon.'] 
 
 8. — (1.) Notiiingin this Act shall transfer to a county council iiny Reser^-ation 
 business of the quarter sessions or Justices in relation to appeals °^ business 
 by any overseers or persons against the basis or standard for the sessi'cms.^'^ 
 county rate or against that or any other rate. \_See the Count>/ Rates 
 Act 1852, .s.v. 17 and 22 {see Appendix), and 32 amf 33 \'iri. r. 07.] 
 
 (2) All business of the (juarter sessions or any committee thereof 
 not transferred by or in j)ursuance of this Act to the county 
 council shall be reserved to and transacted by the quarter sessions 
 or committee thereof in the same manner, as far as circumstances 
 admit, as if this Act had not i)assed. 
 
 9. \_Powers as to police. Not applicable to Loudon. See s. 93.] 
 
 10. — (1.) After the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Transfer to 
 Local Government Board to make from time to time a Provisional ^'^"°^-T 
 Order for transferring to county councils — powers of 
 
 {a) any such j)owers, duties, and liabilities of Her Majestv's certain 
 
 >rivy Council, a Secretary of State, the Board of Trade, ^'e''arTnTen'ts 
 the Local Government Board, or the Education Depart- ana^other^ *" 
 ment, or any other Government department, as are con- authorities. 
 ferred by or in pursuance of any statute and appear to 
 relate to matters arising within the countv, and to be of 
 an administrative character : also 
 {b) any such powers, duties, and liabilities arising within the 
 county, of any commissioners of sewers, conservators, or 
 other public body, cor})orate or unincorporate (. . . not 
 being a board of guardians) as are conferred by or in 
 l)urs nance of any statute ; 
 and such Order shall make such exceptions and moditications as 
 appear to be expedient, and also such provisions as api)ear necessary 
 or proper for carrying into eifect such transfer, and for tliat i»urpos'e 
 may transfer any power vested in Her Majesty in Council : 
 
 (2.) Provided that before any such Order is made, the draft 
 thereof shall be ai)proved, if it relates to the powers, duties, or 
 liabilities of a Secretary of State, or the Board of Trade, or any 
 other Government dej)artment, by such Secretary of State, Board, 
 or department, and approved, if it atfects the powers, duties, or 
 liabilities of any commissioners, conservators, or body, corporate or 
 unincorporate, by such commissioners, conservators, or body ; and 
 every such Provisional Order shall be of no effect until it is con- 
 firmed by Parliament. 
 
 (3.) If any such powers, duties, or liabilities as are referred to in 
 any Provisional Order under this section arise within two or more 
 counties, they may be transferred to the county councils of such
 
 734 [Chap. 41.] Local Gocernmeid Act 1888. [51 k 0"-2 Vict.] 
 
 two or more counties jointly, and may be exercised and discharged 
 by a joint committee of such councils. 
 
 (4.) The Act of Parliament confirming any Provisional Order 
 made under this section shall be a public treneral Act. 
 [Amended hy the Local Gocerninent {Tran.^fer of Powers) Act 
 l^aZ {see Appendix). Words omitted Q^ 7iot being the corporation 
 of a municipal borough or an urban or rural authority or a school 
 board, and^'') not applicable to Londo/'~\ 
 Entire main- ^1' — ^-^O Every road in a county, which is for the time being 
 tenance of a main road within the meaning of the Highways and Locomotives 
 main roads (Amendment) Act, 1878,* inclusive of every bridge carrying such 
 council. " road if repairable by the highway authority, shall, after the 
 41 & 42 YicT. appointed day, be wholly maintained and re])aired by the council 
 ^- ''• of the county in which the road is situate, and such council, for 
 
 the purpose of the maintenance, repair, improvement, and enlarge- 
 ment of, and other dealing with such road, shall have the same 
 powers and be subject to the same duties as a highway board, and 
 may further exercise any powers vested in the council for the 
 purpose of the maintenance and repair of bridges, and the enact- 
 ments relating to highways and bridges shall apply accordingly ; 
 and the county council shall have the same powers as a highway 
 board for preventing and removing obstructions, and for asserting 
 the right of the public to the use and enjoyment of the roadside 
 wastes : and the execution of this section shall be a general county 
 purpose, and the costs thereof shall be charged to the general 
 county account. \_See also s. 41 (4), and G2 k 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 6.] 
 
 (2.) Provided that any urban authority may, within twelve 
 months after the ajjpointed day. or in case of a road in the district 
 of such authority becoming a main road at any subsequent date 
 then within twelve months after that date, claim to retain the 
 powers and duties of maintaining and rejiairing a main road within 
 the district of such authority, and thereupon they shall be entitled 
 to retain the same, and, for the purpose of the maintenance, repair, 
 improvement, and enlargement of, and other dealing with such 
 road, shall have the same powers and be subject to the same duties 
 as if such road were an ordinary road vested in them, and the 
 
 * Ss. 13 — 15 of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878 are as 
 follows : — 
 
 "13. For the purposes of this Act and subject to its provisions, anv road which has, 
 within the period between the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight 
 hundred and seventy, and the date of the passing of this Act, ceased to be a turnpike 
 road, and any road which, being at tlie time of the passing of this Act a turnpike 
 road, may afterwards cease to be such, shall be deemed to be a main road. . . . 
 [Fart omitted rep. 57 and 58 Vict. c. 56 (<J?.i.iZ.).] 
 
 " 14. The following areas shall be deemed to be highway areas for the pm-poses of 
 this Act; (that is to say,) 
 
 (1.) Urban sanitary districts : 
 
 \Part omitted, not applicable to London.'] 
 
 " 15. 'Where it appears to any highway authority that any highway within their 
 district ought to become a main road by reason of its being a medium of communica- 
 tion between great towns, or a thoroughfare to a railway station, or otherwise, such* 
 highway authority may apply to the county authority for an order declaring such 
 road, as to sTich parts as aforesaid, to be a main road ; and the county authority, if 
 of opinion that there is probable cause for the application, shall cause the road to 
 be inspected, and, if satisfied that it ought to be a main road, shall make an order 
 accordingly. 
 
 "A copy of the order so made shall be forthwith deposited at the office of the clerk 
 of the peace of the county, and shalhbe open to the inspection of persons interested 
 at all reasonable hours ; and the order so made shall not be of any validity unless 
 and until it is confirmed by a further order of the county authority made within a 
 period of not more than six months after the making of the first-mentioned order."
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Gocernmeid Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 735 
 
 council shall make to such authority ao annual payment towards the 
 costs of the maintenance and repair, and reasonable improvement 
 connected witli the maintenance and repair of such road. 
 
 (li) The amount of such payment shall he such annual sum as 
 may be from time to time agreed on, or in the absence of agreement 
 may he deter-mined b;/ arbitration of the Local Government Board* 
 
 (4.) The county council and any district council may from time 
 to time contract for the undertaking by tlie district council of tiie 
 maintenance, re})air, improvement, and eulargement of, and other 
 dealing with any main road, and, if the county council so require, 
 the district council shall undertake the same, and such undertaking 
 shall be in consideration of such annual ])ayment by the county 
 council lor the costs of the undertaking as may iVom time to time 
 be agreed upon, or, in case of difierence, be determined by arbitration 
 of the Local Gocernment Board * ; and for the jjurposes of such 
 undertaking the district council sliall have the same powers and be 
 subject to the same duties and liabilities as if the road were an 
 ordinary road vested in them. 
 
 (5.) Provided that in no case shall a county council make any 
 payment to a district council towards the costs of such nndertaking 
 as respects any road, or towards the costs of the maintenance, 
 repair, or im})rovement of any road by an urban authority, until 
 the county council are satistied by the report of their surveyor, 
 or such other person as the county council may appoint f(jr the 
 pnrjiose, that the road has been properly maintained and rei)aired, 
 or that the im})rovement or enlargement of or other dealing with 
 the road, as the case may be, has been properly executed. 
 
 (6.) A main road and the materials thereof, and all drains 
 belonging thereto, shall, except where the urban authority retain 
 the powers and duties of maintaining and repairing such road, vest 
 in the county council, and where any sewer or other drain is used 
 for any purpose in connexion with the drainage of any main road, 
 the county council shall continue to have the right of using such 
 sewer or drain for such purpose, and if any difference arises between 
 a county council and any iiighway or sanitary authority as respects 
 the authority in whom the drain is vested, or as to the use of any 
 sewer or other drain, the council or the higiiway or sanitary 
 authority may require such difference to be referred to arbitration, 
 and the same shall be referred to arbitration in manner provided by 
 this Act. 
 
 (7.) Where a county council declare a road to be a main road, 
 such declaration shall not take effect until the road has been ])laced 
 in proper re])air and condition to the satisfaction of the county 
 council. 
 
 (8.) If at any time the county council are satisfied, on the report 
 of their surveyor or other })erson appointed by them for the pur{)ose, 
 that any })ortion of a main road, the maintenance and repair of 
 which are undertaken by any district council, is not in proper repair 
 and condition, the county council may cause notice to be given to 
 such district council, re([uiring them to place the road in })roper 
 rej)air and contlition ; anil, if such notice is not com])lied with 
 within a reasonable time, the county council may do everything that 
 seems to them necessary to place the road in proper repair and 
 
 * The words " be determined by the Local Government Board either as arbitrators 
 or otherwise at tlie option of the Board " are substituted for the words in italics by 
 the Local (_iovernment (Determination of Differences) Act 18%.
 
 '36 
 
 [CHAr. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 condition, and the expenses of so doing shall be a debt of the said 
 district council to the county council. 
 
 (9.) If any difference arises under this section between a county 
 council and a district council as to the refusal of the county councii 
 to make a payment under this section to the district council in 
 respect of any undertaking or road, or as to a road having been 
 placed in proper repair and condition previously to its becoming 
 a main road, or as to any notice given to the district council by the 
 county council to place abroad in proper repair and condition, such 
 difference shall, if either council so require, be 'referred to the 
 arbitration of the Local Government Board. \Sote on sub-ss. (3) 
 and (4) a/jjAies.~\ 
 
 (10.) The county council may, if they think fit, contribute towards 
 the costs of the maintenance, repair, enlargement, and improvement 
 of any highway or public footpath in the county, although the same 
 is not a main road. 
 
 (11.) Every authority having any power or duty to light the 
 roads in their district shall have the same jjower and duty to light 
 any main road in their district. 
 
 (12.) Anything authorised or required by law to be done by or 
 to a highway or road authority shall, as respects a main road 
 maintained by a county council, be authorised or required to be 
 done by or to that council ; and every authority having any power 
 to break up any road in their district for the pur])Ose of sewerage 
 or otherwise shall have the like power of breaking up any main 
 road in their district, but if the road is broken up the authority 
 shall repair it to the satisfaction of the county council maintaining 
 such road, and if it is not repaired to the satisfaction of the county 
 council, that council may cause the necessary repairs to be done and 
 may charge the costs against the authority, and the same shall be a 
 debt due from the authoritv to the council. 
 
 Power to 
 county 
 council to 
 enforce pro- 
 visions of 
 39 ic 40 Vict. 
 c. 75. 
 
 [Poj^t omitted {cipplying s. 20 of the Highicays and Locomotixes 
 {Amendment) Act 1878) not applicable to London.~\ 
 
 12 — 13. \_As to roads in the Isle of Wight and South Wales. 
 ISot applicable to London.^ 
 
 14. — (1.) On and after the appointed day a county council shall 
 have power, in addition to any other authority, to enforce the pro- 
 visions of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876 (subject to the 
 restrictions in that Act contained), in relation to so much of any 
 stream as is situate within, or passes through or by, any part of 
 their county, and for that ])urpose they shall have the same powers 
 and duties as if thev were a sanitarv authoritv within the meanino; 
 of that Act, or any other authority having power to enforce the 
 provisions of that Act, and the county were their district. 
 
 (2.) Any county council shall have power to contribute towards 
 the costs of any prosecution under the said Act instituted by any 
 other county council. . . . 
 
 (3.) The Local Government Board, by Provisional Order made 
 on the application of the council of any of the counties concerned, 
 may constitute a joint committee or other body representing all the 
 administrative counties throuo^h or bv which a river, or anv specified 
 portion of a river, or any tributary thereof, passes, and may confer 
 on such committee or body all of the powers of a sanitary authority 
 under the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, or such of them
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 73^ 
 
 as may be specified in tin; Order ; and the Order may contain such 
 provisions respectin<i: the constitution and proceedings of the said 
 committee or body as may seem projjcr, and may provide for the 
 payment of the expenses of snch committee or body by the adminis- 
 trative counties represented by it, and for the audit of the acc<junts 
 of snch committee or l)ody, and their olHcers. 
 
 \_]\'or(ls oiidtti'd Q^ or hi/ ainj arhan or rural authoriti/'") not 
 applicable to London.'] 
 
 15. The county council of an administrative county shall have Council to 
 the same powers of opposin<^ Bills in Purliuinent, and of ])rosecuting have power 
 or defending any legal proceedings necessury lor the j)romotion or Bills in 
 protection of the interests of the inhabitants of the county, as are Parliament, 
 conferred on the council of a municipal borough by the Act of the 
 thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of Victoria, chapter ninety-one,* 
 and subject as herein-after provided the ])rovisions of that Act shall 
 extend to a county council as if such c(juncil were included in the 
 expression " governing body," and the administrative county were 
 the district in the said Act mentioned. \_Ajnended by the Count)/ 
 Councils {Bills in Parliament) Act 1U03 {see A/)pendix). See also 
 the Railway and Canal Tral/ic {Provisional Orders) Amendment 
 Act ISO 1,6-. 1.] 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 {a.) No consent of owners and ratepayers shall be re(piired for 
 any proceedings under this section. 
 
 IPart omitted {county councils not to promote Bills) rep. by the 
 CourUy Councils {Bills in Parliament) Act 1903, .s. 1 (5) {see 
 Appendix).] 
 
 16. — (1.) A county council shall have the same ])0wer of making Power of 
 byelaws in relation to their county, or to any specified part or ''°""*-T 
 parts thereof, as the council of a borough have of making bye- niake^bve'- 
 laws in relation to their borough under section twenty-three of laws, 
 the ]\[unicipal Corporations Act, 1882, and section one hundred 43 .t 46 Vict, 
 and eightv-seven of the I'ublic Health Act, 1875, shall a])plv to ^- ■"'"• 
 
 1 1 ^ 1 ' * 38 & 39 \ ict. 
 
 such byelaws. c 55 
 
 [Part omitted {byelaws made under this section not to ap/dy in a 
 horouqh) not applicable to London.] 
 
 17. — (1.) The council of any county may, if they see fit, appouit ^"^^er of 
 and pay a medical officer of health, or medical officers of bfalth, [;°""[.[jgj.^ 
 who shall not hold any other appointment or engage in private appoint 
 practice without express written consent of the council. medical 
 
 ^ officer of 
 
 • • • • health. 
 
 \_Part omitted {as to arrangements between county councils and. 
 district councils with respect to medical officers of health) not 
 applicable to London.] 
 
 18. Except wliere the Local Government Board, for reasons Qualification 
 brought to theii- notice, may see fit in ])articular cases specially to o^^^rs^of 
 allow, no person shall hereafter l)e a])])ointed the medical officer of health, 
 health of any county or county district, or combination of county 
 •districts, or the deputy of any such officer, unless he be legally 
 qualified for the practice of medicine, surgery, and midwifery. 
 
 (2.) No person shall after the first day o^ Jatmary one thousand 
 •eight hundred and ninety-two be appointed the medical officer of 
 * I.e. the Borough Funds Act 1872. See Appendix, 
 
 47
 
 738 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.} 
 
 49 & 50 Vict. 
 c. 48. 
 
 Power of 
 county 
 council as to 
 report of 
 medical 
 oificer of 
 health. 
 
 Payment to 
 county 
 council of 
 proceeds of 
 duties on 
 local taxa- 
 tion licences. 
 
 liealtli of any county or of any such district or combination of 
 districts, as contained, accordin^i; to the last published census for 
 the time being, a population of fifty thousand or more inhabitants, 
 unless he is qualified as above-mentioned, and also eitlier is regis- 
 tered in the medical register as the holder of a dij)loma in sanitary 
 science, public health, or State medicine under section twenty-one 
 of the Medical Act, 1886, or has been during three consecutive 
 years preceding the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
 two a medical officer of a district or combination of districts, with a 
 population according to the last published census of not less than 
 twenty thousand, or has before the passing of this Act been for not 
 less than three years a medical officer or inspector of the Local 
 Government Board. 
 
 19. — (1.) Every medical officer of health for a district in any 
 county shall send to the county council a copy of every periodical 
 report of which a copy is for the time being required by the regu- 
 lations of the Local Government Board to be sent to the Board^ 
 and if a medical officer fails to send such copy the county council 
 may refuse to pay any contribution, which otherwise the council 
 would in pursuance of this Act pay, towards the salary of such 
 medical officer, 
 
 (2.) If it appears to the county council from any such report that 
 the Public Health Act, 1875, has not been properly put in force 
 within the district to which the report relates, or that any other 
 matter aifccting the public health of the district requires to be 
 remedied, the council may cause a representation to be made to the 
 Local Government Board on the matter. 
 [_See 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, ss. 14 (2), 21 (5), 114, and 129.] 
 
 Financial Relations between Excheqiier and Count i/, and i.'ontri- 
 bations by Comity for Costs of Union Officers. 
 
 20. — (1.) After the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of 
 March next after the passing of this Act, the Commissioners of 
 Inland Revenue shall from time to time, in such manner and under 
 such regulations as the Treasury from time to time prescribe, pay 
 into the Bank of England to such account (in this Act referred to as 
 the Local Taxation Account) as may be fixed by the regulations, 
 such sums as may be ascertained in manner provided by the regu- 
 lations to be the proceeds of the duties collected by those Commis- 
 sioners in each administrative county in England and Wales on the 
 licences (in this Act referred to as local taxation licences) specified 
 in the First Schedule to this Act, and for the purposes of this section 
 all penalties and forfeitures recovered in respect of the said duties 
 shall be considered as part of the proceeds of the duties. 
 
 (2.) The amount ascertained as aforesaid to have been collected 
 in each county in resi)ect of duties on local taxation licences shall, 
 from time to time, be certified by the Commissioners of Inland 
 Revenue, and paid under the direction of the Local Government 
 Board out of the Local Taxation Account to the council of such 
 county. The Commissioners may, if they think fit, vary such 
 certificate, but unless so varied, their certificate shall be conclusive. 
 
 (3.) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen from time to 
 time by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the 
 Treasury to transfer to county councils as from the date specified in 
 the Order the power to levy the duties on all or any of the local
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Goferumcfd Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 739 
 
 taxation licences, uml alter snch date every county conncil and 
 their officers ishall (subject nevertheless to any excejitions and 
 modifications contained in the Order) have within their county, for 
 the j)urj)()S(' of l(;vyin<( the duties transferred, the? same jjowers, 
 duties, and liabilities as the ( "(Mumissioners of Inliuid Kcvenue and 
 their olli(;ers have with respect to the duties transferred, and to the 
 issue and cancellation of licences on wliich the duties are imposed, 
 and other mutters under the Acts relatin<r to those duties and 
 licences, and all enactments relating to those duties and licences, 
 and to punishments and penalties connected therewith, shall ajfply 
 accordin»j:ly. 
 
 (4.) Provided as follows : — 
 
 (i.) All ])enalties and forfeitures recovered by a county council 
 in [)ursuance of this section shall, instead of liein^^ paitl to 
 the Exchequer, be paid to the county fund, and carried to 
 the same account as the duties, 
 (ii.) The county council shall have, as respects the said duties 
 and licences, the jjower given by the said Acts to the 
 Treasury for the restoration of any forfeiture, and the 
 mitigation (u- remission of any penalty or any part thereof, 
 (iii.) Nothing in this section shall confer on the county council 
 any special privileges of the Crown as respects legal 
 proceedings. 
 (5.) On a transfer under this section of the power to levy the 
 duties on any licence — 
 
 (a.) the county council shall ])rovide for issuing, in diiferent parts 
 of their county, their licence for the same purpose, so as to 
 enable persons to obtain it near their residences ; and 
 (b.) if such licence has operation in any place in the United 
 Kingdom outside the county in which it is issued, the 
 licence of a county council for the same pur[)Ose shall 
 continue to have the like operation outside the county in 
 such place. 
 [See also the Locomotii'es on JIightca;/s Act 1896, s. 8,* and the 
 Agricultural Rates Act 1896, s. 2.t] 
 
 * S. 8 of the Locomotives on Highways Aft ISOC is as follows: — 
 
 "8. (1) On and after the lirst (hiy of January next after the passing of this Act Excise ilnty 
 there shall be granted, charged, and paid in Great Britain for every light locomotive, ""«*■■"« '" 
 which is liable to duty cither as a carriage or as a hackney carriage under section 
 four of the Customs and Inland Hevunue Act, isss, an adilitiunal duty of excise at 
 the following rate ; namely : — 
 
 If the weight of the locomotive exceeds one ton unladen, but does not £ s. d. 
 exceed two tons unladen . . . . . . . . .220 
 
 If the weight of the locomotive exceeds two tons unlailen . . . 3 ;5 
 
 " (2) Every such duty shall be paid together with the duty on the licence for the 
 
 locomotive as a carriage or a hackney carriiige, and shall in England be dealt with in 
 
 manner directed with respect to duties on lociil taxation licences within the meaning 
 
 of the Local CJovernment Act, 1SS8. . . ." 
 
 t S. 2 of the Agricultural ll-ites Act 18516 is as follows : — 
 
 "2. (1) In respect of the deficiency which will arise from the provisions of this Act Payujcm out of 
 in the produce of rates made by the spending authorities in England, as hereinafter '"*^'' t'«»tiun 
 defined, there shall during the contmuance of this Act— '^^c" of* 
 
 " (<f ) lie paid to the lucal taxation account an annual sum (in this Act referred to <lctici*ur.v 
 
 as "the annual irrant ") of such amcunl as is certitied under the provisions '"■'»'">>' I'"""* 
 hereinafter containeil, and ' 
 
 "(b) Be issued from the local taxation account by half-yearly payments out of 
 the annual grant to each such spending authority a share of that grant of 
 such amount as is certitied under the [uovisions hereinafter contained. 
 "(2) The commissioners of Inland llevenue, in such manner, by suci» payments, and Inlaml Keveu^ic 
 under such regulations, as the Treasury direct, shall pay to the local taxation account, P«y«»ieuto 
 out of the proceeds of the estate duty derived in England from personal propc-rty, 
 the annual sum required by this section to be paid to that account."
 
 740 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.1 
 
 Grant to 
 county 
 council of 
 portion of 
 probate dutj. 
 
 44 k. 45 Vict. 
 c. 12. 
 
 Distribution 
 of probate 
 dutv grant. 
 
 21. After the tioancial year ending the thirty-first day of March 
 next after the passing of this Act, the Commissioners of Inland 
 Revenue shall, from time to time, in such manner and under such 
 regulations as the Treasury may from time to time prescribe, pay 
 into the Bank of England to the Local Taxation Account, such sums 
 as may be ascertained in manner provided by the regulations to be 
 four fifth parts of one half of the proceeds of the sums collected by 
 them in respect of the probate duties, and for the purpose of this 
 section " i)robate duties " means the stamp duties charged on the 
 affidavit required from persons applying for probate or letters of 
 administration in England, "Wales, or Ireland, and on the inventory 
 exhibited and recorded in Scotland, and also the stamp duties 
 charged on such accounts of personal and movable property as are 
 specified in section thirty-eight of the Customs and Inland Revenue 
 Act, 1881, and also includes the proceeds of all penalties and 
 forfeitures recovered in relation to such stamp duties. \_See the 
 Finance Act 1894, 8. 19.] 
 
 22. — (1.) The sums paid in pursuance of this Act to the Local 
 Taxation Account, in respect of the proceeds of the probate duties 
 (in this Act referred to as the •'• probate duty grant "), shall, until 
 Parliament otherwise determine, be distributed among the several 
 counties in England and Wales in proportion to the share which 
 the Local Government Board certify to have been received by each 
 county during the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March 
 next before the passing of this Act out of the grants heretofore 
 made out of the Exchequer in aid of local rates, which will cease 
 to be granted after the passing of this Act, and the share to be so 
 certified shall be estimated in such manner as the Local Government 
 Board direct. 
 
 probate duty 
 grant 
 
 (3.) The proportion to be paid to each county shall from time to 
 time be paid under the direction of the Local Government Board 
 to the county council out of the Local Taxation Account. The 
 Board may, if they think proper, vary their certificate, but unless 
 it is so varied, their certificate shall be conclusive. 
 \_Part omitted {special provisions, as to South Wales and the Isle of 
 Wight) not applicable to London^ 
 
 Application 23. — (1.) All sums from time to time received by a countv council 
 
 I'o'callaxatl'on i^ respect of- 
 
 licences, and («.) the duties ou the local taxation licences, whether collected 
 
 by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or by the county 
 council : and 
 (h.^ the probate duty grant, 
 shall be i)aid to the county fund and carried to a separate account, 
 in this Act referred to as the Exchequer Contribution Account. 
 
 (2.) All sums for the time being standing to the Exchec^uer 
 Contribution Account shall be applied — 
 
 (i.) in paying the costs incurred in respect thereof, or otherwise 
 
 chargeable thereon ; and 
 (ii.) in payment of the sums required by this Act to be paid by 
 
 the county council in substitution for local grants ; and 
 (iii.) in payment of the grant required by this Act to be made 
 by the county council in respect of costs of union officers ; 
 and 
 (iv.) in repaying to the general county account of the county
 
 [ol & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 741 
 
 fund tlie costs on account of general county jmrposes for 
 wliicli tlic whole (tf the area of the county is liable to be 
 assessed to county c(jntributions ; 
 
 and shall be so applied in the order above mentioned. \_See the 
 
 Technical Lnntruction Act 1801, .f. 2.] 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 '[Pa/'fs omitted {as to iiainacnt of ><iir/du.s a,fti'r /Ho/ing costs and .sui/us 
 referred to in sub-s. 2 to councils of ijuarter sessions horouifhs^ 
 to borough and county police^ and to district councils) not a^plicahle 
 to London.'] 
 
 24. ^Vlle^eas certain grants heretofore made oat of the Exchequer I'ayments by 
 in aid of local rates (in this Act referred to as local grants) will bv ''^^^% . 
 
 • . . o / »/ Council in 
 
 reason of the duties on the local taxation licences and the probate substitution 
 
 duty grant being by this Act made payable to local authorities, for annual 
 cease, it is therefore hereby enacted as follows: — loail grants 
 
 (1.) ho much 01 any enactment as requires or authorises payment Exchequer 
 out of the Exche(|uer of any local grant in substitution for which the '" a'<l of 
 county council is riMpiired by this Act to make any [juyment is hereby ^"^^ ^^'^^^' 
 repealed as from the thirty-first day of March next after the ])assing 
 of this Act without prejudice to any right accrued before that day. 
 
 (2.) In substitution for local grants, the council of eacii county 
 shall from time to time as from the said day pay out of tlie county 
 fund and charge to the Exche(pu'r ( 'untribution Account the follow- 
 ing sums, that is to say — 
 
 (a.) they shall ])ay to the guardians for every poor law union or 
 officer for anv other area wholly or partly in the countv 
 (as the case may be) such sums as the Local Government 
 Board from time to time certify to be due from the said 
 council in substitution for the local grants towards the 
 remuneration of teachers in poor law schools, and for 
 payments to public vaccinators under section live of the 
 Vaccination Act, IsGT ; and 30 & 31 Vict. 
 
 (b.) they shall })ay to the guardians of every poor law union " ' 
 tlie school fees paid for ])auper children sent from a work- 
 house to a ])ul)lic elementary school outside the workhouse ; 
 and 
 {c.) they shall j)ay to every local authority, for any ar(;a wholly 
 or })artly in the county, by whom a meilical officer of 
 health or insjicctor of nuisances is ))aid, one half of the 
 salary of sucii ollicer, where liis (jualilication, appointment, 
 salary, and tenure of office are in accordance with the 
 regulations made liy order under the Pulilir Health Act, 'l'^:^ "^^ ^'^*' 
 1875,* or any Act rei»ealed by that Act, but if the Local 
 Government Board certify to the council that sncli medical 
 officer has failed to send to the Local (Jovernmeiit IJoard 
 such re})ort and returns as are for the time being required 
 by the regulations respecting the duties of such officer 
 made by order of the Board under any of the said .Vets, a 
 sum ecpial to such half of the salary shall be forfeited to 
 the Crown, and the council shall pay the same into Her 
 Majesty's Exchcfjuer and not to the said local authority ; 
 ami 
 (f/.) they shall jiay to the guardians paying the registrars of 
 births and deaths for anv district whoUv or imrtlv in the 
 
 * See 5-1 & .")."> Vict. c. 7t3, s. lOS. 
 
 c. ;>o.
 
 742 [Chap. 41.] Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 county a sum equal to the amount paid out of local grants 
 towards the remuneration of the registrars paid by those 
 guardians during the financial year ending on the thirty- 
 first day of March next after tlie passing of this Act ; and 
 (('.) they shall transfer to that account of the county fund to which, 
 the maintenance of any pauper lunatic chargeable to the 
 county is charged, a sum equal to four shillings a week 
 for each such pauper lunatic, for whom the net charge 
 upon the county council, after deducting any amount 
 received by the county council for the maintenance of such 
 lunatic from any source other than local rates, is equal to 
 or exceeds four shillings a week throughout the period of 
 maintenance for which the sum is so transferred ; and 
 (_/.) tliey shall pay to the guardians of every poor law union 
 wholly or partly in the county a sum equal to four 
 shillings a week for each pauper lunatic chargeable to that 
 union, and maintained in an asylum, registered hospital, 
 or licensed bouse, for whom the net charge upon the 
 guardians, after deducting any amount received by them 
 for the maintenance of such lunatic from any source other 
 than local rates, is equal to or exceeds four shillings a 
 week throughout the period of maintenance for which the 
 sum is so paid ; and 
 (g.) they shall pay to the council of each borough * to which the 
 maintenance of any pauper lunatic is chargeable, a sum 
 equal to four shillings a week for each such pauper lunatic 
 for whom the net charge upon the council of the borough, 
 after deducting any amount received by them for the 
 maintenance of such lunatic from any source other than 
 local rates, is equal to or exceeds four shillings a week 
 throughout the period of maintenance for which the sum 
 is so paid ; and 
 (/^) they shall transfer to that account of the county fund to 
 which the compensation payable to the clerk of the peace 
 of a county, or any other officer of quarter sessions for the 
 county, under section eighteen of the Act of the session of 
 the eighteenth ,and nineteenth years of the reign of Her 
 present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-six is 
 charged, the amount of such compensation ; and 
 {i.j.) [As to police. Not applicable to London. See s. 93.] 
 (/'.) they shall, if within their county sums are raised by rates 
 for the purpose of the Metropolitan Police, pay to the 
 Ileceiver for the Metropolitan Police District in each year, 
 a sum bearing such proportion to the sum actually raised 
 in the same year by rates from the parishes in that county 
 for the said purpose as a Secretary of State certifies to be 
 the proportion which would have been contributed out of 
 the Exchequer under the arrangement in force during the 
 financial year next before the passing of this Act. [See 
 31 & 32 Vict. e. 67.] 
 (3.) A reference in sections one hundred and eighty-nine and one 
 hundred and ninety-one of the Public Health Act, 1875, to officers 
 any portion of whose salary is paid out of moneys provided by 
 Parliament shall be construed to refer to those officers in respect of 
 whose salaries payment is made by a county council in pursuance 
 * See s. 41 (2), and the Lunacy Act 1890, ss. 28ti and 290.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 743 
 
 of this section. ySce also s. 88, and i)4 & 5") V/rf. r. 7G, .s. loCt, 
 et ^«/.] 
 
 (4.) \As to payments to county and borouijh jjolice. Sot 
 applicmU' to London. See s. 03 (~.).] 
 
 (5.) Whore u sum is ])ayable nndor this soction to the irnardians, 
 authority, or oiHcer of u union or other area, and such union or area 
 is situate in more administrative counties than one, a ijroportionate 
 ])art only of the sum otherwise payable shall be ])aid by the council 
 of each of sucii counties to the t^uardians, authority, or officer, and 
 the Local (iovernment Board shall certify the j»roj)ortionate part 
 due from the council of each such county. 
 
 (6.) The guardians, authority, or olHcer to whom a sum is ])ayable 
 under tliis secti(jn on the ccrtilicate of the Local Government Board, 
 shall submit to the Board their claim to the ])ayment in such 
 manner, and ])roduce such evidence and comply with such rules as 
 the Board from time to time re(juire or make, and the Board shall 
 fix the amount due on the like principles, and may impose the like 
 <'onditions for the ])aym('nt thereof as before tlie ])assin<r of this Act. 
 
 (7.) The Local Government Board may, if they think lit, vary a 
 certificate granted for the purposes of this section, but, unless so 
 varied, it shall be conclusive. 
 
 25. \_As to police. Not applicable to London. See s. 93 (2).] 
 
 26. \_As to qrant by county councils otlwr than the London County 
 Council towards costs of officers of poor law unions. Sot applicable 
 to London. See s. 43.] 
 
 27. — (1.) When a county council are re(juired under the provisions Supple- 
 of this or any other Act to pay any sum into Her Majesty's Ex- J^^jJ^' P^^"'^ 
 chequer, or to the Treasury, or to the Receiver for the Metropolitan locai mxatiun 
 Police District, such sum shall be deducted from the amount })ayable account and 
 «nder the i)rovisions of this Act out of the Local Taxation Account to Exchequer 
 
 1 -1 1 • i 1 1- 1 • • 1 xi J. -I contribution 
 
 sucii county council, and instead of being paid to the county council, account. 
 
 shall be paid into Her Majesty's Exchequer, or to the Receiver for 
 
 the Metropolitan Police District, as the case re<piires. 
 
 (L*.; The account of the receipts and ex])enditure of the Local 
 Taxation Account shall be audited as a })ublic account by the ( 'omp- 
 troller and Auditor-General in accordance with such regulations as 
 the Treasury may from time to time make. 
 
 (■3.) Ifatanvtime in anv financial vcar the monevs standinu' to 
 the Local Taxation Account are insuihcient to meet such sums as the 
 Local Government Board consider ])roper for the time being to pay 
 thereout, the Local Government Board may borrow temporarily on 
 the security of the said account and of moneys becoming payable 
 thereto such sums as they rcfiuire for the pur])ose of meeting such 
 deficiency, and the Bank of Lnglanil may lend such sums, but all 
 sums so borrowed shall be repaid with the interest thereon during 
 the same financial year out of moneys payable to the said account. 
 
 General I'l-ocisions as to L'riinsjcr. 
 
 28. — (1.) The county council shall, as respects the business by General pro- 
 this Act transferred to them from ([uarter sessions or tlie Justices visions as to 
 out of sessions, be subject to the ])rovisions and limitations in this P^j^^p^f^j.j.g^ 
 Act specified, but, save as aforesaid, shall have and be subject to all to countj- 
 the powers, duties, and lial)ilities, whii'h the (piarter sessions, or council, 
 any committee thereof, or any Justice or Justices had or were subject 
 to in respect of the business so transferred.
 
 744 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict. J 
 
 38 & 39 Vict 
 c. 17. 
 
 Summarv 
 proceeding 
 for deter- 
 mination of 
 questions as 
 to transfer 
 of powers. 
 
 Standing 
 joint com- 
 mittee of 
 quarter 
 sessions and 
 county 
 council for 
 the purpose 
 of police, 
 clerk of the 
 peace, 
 oflBcers, etc. 
 
 32 & 33 Vict. 
 0.49. 
 
 (2.) The connty conncil shall, with the exceptions herein-after 
 mentioned, have power to delegate, with or without any restrictions 
 or conditions as they may think fit, any powers or duties transferred 
 to them by or in pursuance of this Act, ... to any committee of 
 the county council appointed in pursuance of this Act . . . ; the 
 connty council may also, without prejudice to any other power 
 whether to appoint committees or otherwise, delegate to the Justices 
 of the connty sitting in petty sessions any power or duty transferred 
 by this Act to the county council in respect of the licensing of 
 houses or places for the public performance of stage plays, and in 
 respect of the execution as local authority of the Explosives Act, 
 1875, or of the Act relating to contagions diseases of animals. 
 
 (3.) Provided that the county council shall not under this section 
 delegate any power of raising money by rate or loan. 
 \Fart omitted {as to delegation of powers to district council) not 
 applicable to London. See also s. 75, and the Municipal Corporations 
 Act 1882, s. 22 {see Ajjpendix).'] 
 
 29. If any question arises, or is about to arise, as to whether any 
 business, power, duty, or liability is or is not transferred to any county 
 council or joint committee under this Act, that question, without 
 prejudice to any other mode of trying it, may, on the application of 
 a chairman of quarter sessions, or of the county council, committee, 
 or other local authority concerned, be submitted for decision to the 
 High Court of Justice in such summary manner as subject to any 
 rules of court may be directed by the court ; and the court, after 
 hearing such parties and taking such evidence (if any) as it thinks 
 just, shall decide the question. 
 
 30. — (1.) For the purpose of . . . the clerk of the peace, and of 
 clerks of the justices, and joint officers, and of matters required to 
 be determined jointly by the quarter sessions and the council of a 
 county, there shall be a standing joint committee of the quarter 
 sessions and the county council, consisting of such equal number of 
 Justices appointed by the quarter sessions and of members of the 
 county council appointed by that council as may from time to time 
 be arranged, between the quarter sessions and the council, and in 
 default of arrangement such number taken equally from the quarter 
 sessions and the council as may be directed by a (Secretary of State. 
 (2.) The joint committee shall elect a chairman, and, in the case 
 of an equality of votes for two or more persons as chairman, one of^ 
 those persons shall be elected by lot. 
 
 (3 ) Any matter arising under this Act with respect ... to the 
 clerk of the peace, or to clerks of the justices, or to olficers who 
 serve both the quarter sessions or justices and the county council, 
 or to the provision of accommodation for the C[uarter sessions or 
 justices out of session or to the use by them ... or the said clerks 
 of any buildings, rooms, or premises, or to the application of the 
 Local Stamp Act, 1869, to any sums received by clerks to Justices, 
 or with respect to anything incidental to the above-mentioned 
 matters, and any other matter requiring to be determined jointly by 
 the quarter sessions and county council, shall be referred to and 
 determined by the joint committee under this section ; and all such 
 exjjenditure as the said joint committee determine to be required 
 for the purposes of the matters above in this section mentioned,, 
 shall be paid out of the county fund, and the council of the county 
 shall provide for such payment accordingly. 
 \_Parts omitted {as to police) not applicable to London. See s. 93.}
 
 [61 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.j 745 
 
 PAUT II. 
 
 Application of Act to Boroughs, the Metropolis, and 
 CERTAIN Special Counties. 
 
 Application of Art to lUn-ouyhs. 
 
 31 — 34. [J'/wisio/is as to coiniti/ horouqhs. Sot ap/jliry>ljli' to 
 London.'] 
 
 35. Ill the case of a (juarter sessions borough, iif)t being one of Application 
 the boroughs named in the Third Scheilule to this Act, but cnn- !^^ -^'-'^ ^'^ 
 
 A • • 1- i J.1 L- ^1 1 • 1 Z 1 II lart^er quarter 
 
 tainnig, acconnng to the census oi one thousand eight Innidred sessions 
 
 and eiglity-one, a i)0i)nlatiun of ten tlionsand or ni)Wurds, the boroughs 
 
 following provisions shall, on and after the appointed day, apply : "*'' county 
 
 (1.) Nothing in this Act shall transfer to the county council 
 
 any power of the council of the borougli as local authority 
 
 under any Act. . . . [-6^6' .;>•. 41.] 
 
 • • • • • « 
 
 [Pai't omitted (as to county boroughs) not applicable to Londo)i.'] 
 
 36. — (1.) Where a borougb has a separate commission of the peace, General ap. 
 whether a quarter sessions borough or not (and is not a Ijorough Plication 
 named in tlie Third Schedule to this Act), then, subject to the borouirbs 
 provisions of this Act, all such powers, duties, and liabilities of the witL separate 
 court of quarter sessions or Justices of the borough, as in the case '^o^mi-'Sion 
 of the county are by this Act transferred to the county council, sliall *" peace, 
 cease, and the county council shall have those ])0wers, duties, and 
 liabilities within the area of the borough in like manner as in the 
 rest of the county. 
 
 • • • • ■ • 
 
 [Part omitted {as to count)/ boroughs) not applicable to London.'] 
 
 37. [Application of the Act to quarter sessions boroughs hereafter 
 created. Sot applicable to London.] 
 
 38. [Application of the Act to smaller quarter sessions boroughs 
 with a population under lo,0(J<>. Xot applicable to London.] 
 
 39. [Application of Act to all boroughs with a population under 
 lUjOuu. j^ot applicable to London.] 
 
 Application of Act to Metropolis. 
 
 40. In the a])plication of this Act to the metropolis, the following Application 
 provisions shall have effect : — of Act to 
 
 (1.) The metrojiolis shall, on and after the apj)ointed day, be an as county of 
 administrative county for the j)urposes of this Act by the London.' 
 name of the administrative county of London. 
 
 (2.) Such portion of the administrative county of London as 
 forms part of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, 
 shall on and after tiie apjtointeil <lay be severed from those 
 counties, and form a separate county for all non-administra- 
 tive ])urposes by the name of the County of London : and 
 it shall be lawful for Her ^Majesty the Queen to appoint a 
 sheriff of tliat county, and to grant a commission of the 
 ])eace and court of quarter sessions to that county : and, 
 subject to the })rovisions of this Act, all enactments, 
 laws, and usages with respect to counties in England 
 and "Wales, and to sherilfs, justices, and quarter sessions 
 shall, so far as circumstances admit, ajiply to the county 
 of Loudon :
 
 746 [Chap. 41.] Local Gomrnmejit Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 (3.) Provided that, for the purpose of the jurisdiction of the 
 Justices under such commission, and of such court, as well 
 as other non-administrative i)urposes, the county of the 
 city of London shall continue a separate county, hut if and 
 when the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of the city 
 assent to jurisdiction being conferred therein on such 
 Justices and court may by commission under the Great 
 Seal be made subject to the jurisdiction thereof. 
 
 (4.) The number of the county couDcillors for the administrative 
 county of London, shall be double the number of members 
 which at the passing- of this Act, the parliamentary 
 boroughs in the metropolis are authorised by law to return 
 to serve in Parliament : and each such borough, or if it is 
 divided into divisions, each division thereof, shall be an 
 electoral division for the purposes of this Act, and the 
 number of county councillors elected for each such 
 electoral division, shall be double the number of members 
 of Parliament which such borough or division is at 
 the passing of this Act entitled to return to serve in 
 Parliament : 
 
 (5.) Provided that the numlier of county aldermen in the ad- 
 ministrative county of London, shall not exceed one-sixth 
 of the whole number of county councillors. 
 
 (6.) The provisions of this Act with respect to the powers, duties, 
 and liabilities of county councils, and the transfer of 
 property, del its, and liabilities of counties to county 
 councils, shall apply to the administrative county of 
 London in like manner, so nearly as circumstances admit, 
 as if the quarter sessions, justices, and clerks of the peace 
 of the connties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent had been, 
 so far as regards the metropolis, the quarter sessions, 
 justices, and clerk of the peace for the administrative county 
 of London : 
 
 (7.) Provided that any property, debts, or liabilities of the county 
 of Kent shall not, by reason only of this enactment, be 
 vested in the County C'ouncil of London, but such property, 
 debts, and liabilities, and also the property, debts, and 
 liabilities of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, shall 
 be apportioned between the portions of those connties 
 situate within the metropolis and the portions situate 
 outside the metropolis in such manner as may be deter- 
 mined by agreement between the respective county councils, 
 or in default of agreement by the Commissioners under this 
 Act, and the property, debts, and liabilities apportioned to 
 the ])ortions witliin the metropolis shall be the property, 
 debts, and liabilities of the whole of the administrative 
 county of London. \Spent as regards apportionmentT^ 
 
 (8.) There shall also be transferred to the London County Council 
 the powers, duties, and liabilitiesof the Metropolitan Board 
 of Works, and after the appointed day that Board shall 
 cease to exist, and the })roperty, debts, and liabilities 
 thereof shall be transferred to the London County Council, 
 and that (Council shall be in law the successors of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works. 
 
 (9.) If the London County Council borrow for the purposes 
 of this Act they shall borrow in accordance with the
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 747 
 
 jirovisions of the Acts relating to tlie MetrojKjlitan I>i>anl 
 of AN'orks, Init save as aforesaid Part Four of this Act 
 shall apply to the London <'(tnnty ('onncil when actinj; as 
 successors of the Metropolitan Hoard of Works, and the 
 costs incurred when so acting shall \ni paid out of thi- 
 county fund, and the payment thereof shall be a general 
 county purpose. \_Si'r s. 4! (3).] 
 
 41. — (1.) Of the powers, duties, and liahilifies of the court of Position of 
 quarter sessions and Justices of the citv ol Jjondon — city of 
 
 («.) such ot them as would, it the city were a (piarh^r sessions application of 
 borough, with a jiopulation exceeding ten thousand, be Hi^hway 
 exercised by virtue of this or any other Act by the coun(ul of '^^'''' 
 the borough, "shall be transferred to the mayor, commonalty, 
 and citizens of the city acting by the council (in this Act 
 referred to as the Common Council) ; and 
 (h.) such of them as wouhl, in the said case, be by virtue of this 
 Act exercised and discharged by the County Council shall 
 cease, and the County Council shall, subject to tin- jtro- 
 visions of this Act, have those ])0wers, duties, and liabilities 
 within the city of London in like manner as within the 
 rest of the administrative county of London. 
 (2.) The ])rovisioiis of this Act with respect to the transfer to a 
 ■county council shall upply with the necessary moditications to such 
 transfer to the C'ommon Council, and the Common ( 'ouncil shall be 
 entitled to receive from the London County Council in resjtect of 
 ■each ])auper lunatic, the same amount as is required l)y this Act to 
 be paid bv anv other countv council to the council ot" a borough. 
 ISee s. 2^ (2) C^).] 
 
 (3.) A\ here at the passing of this Act the Metropolitan lioard of 
 ^Vorks or the Quarter Sessions of ^liddlesex are authorised to incur 
 ■costs for any pur])Ose, and the Common Council of the city are not 
 liable to contribute to such costs, the ])arishes in the city of 
 London shall not, save as in this Act expressly mentioned, be liable 
 to be assessed to county contributions in respect of costs incurred 
 by the County Council for such ])urpose, but this exemption shall 
 not extend to any costs incurred for the jJuriKjse of any power>. 
 iluties, or liabilities of the quarter sessions or Justices of the city 
 of London, which will be exercised and discharged by the London 
 County ( 'ouncil. 
 
 (4.) The provisions of the Highways and Locomotives ; Amend- 'i -v 42 Vict, 
 ment) Act, iSTiS, with respect to main roads, as amended by this'' " 
 Act, shall extend to the metropolis in like manner as if the 
 ■expression '' urban sanitary distrit-.t " in that Act included, as 
 respects the metropolis, the I'ity of London, and a jiarish in 
 .Schedule A., and a district in Schedule V>. of the .Metropolis •"" ■^l^ ^'ict^ 
 Management Act, 1855, as amended by subsequent Acts, and as if "^^ 
 the Commissioners of Sewers,* or vestry ,t or district board t (as the 
 case may be) were the urban sanitary authority: Provided that — 
 (f^) in the city of London the Common Council shall have the 
 power under the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) 
 Act, 1878,1 of making byelaws respecting locomotives, and 
 authorising locomotivi's to be used on anv nuid within the 
 
 * Now the Mayor, Commonalty, ami Citizens of the City of London. See the City 
 of London t^e\veI•s Act IS<I7. 
 
 t Now the CduiioII «>f the Metropolitan Horouirh. See t'>L' 4: t;.3 Vict. c. 1 i, .■< 4. 
 ^ But see now the Locomotives Act, Isyf, ss. \S, 7, \\ and 17.
 
 ^48 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 Arrange- 
 ments for 
 paid chair- 
 man and 
 sitting of 
 quarter 
 sessions 
 for London. 
 
 city, save that if any difference is made by sncli byelaws or 
 authority between any main road maintained by the County 
 Council and the other roads in the city, such authority and 
 byelaws shall re(j[uire the approval of the County Council ; 
 and 
 (/-.) the Common Council in the city of London, and in any 
 other part of the metropolis, the vestry,* or district board,* 
 shall be deemed to be a district council and an urban 
 authority within the meaning of the provisions of this 
 Act with respect to main roads, and may accordingly 
 claim to retain the power of maintaining and repairing a 
 main road, and in such case shall have all such powers 
 and duties of maintaining, repairing, improving and 
 enlarginir, and otherwise dealing with the main road as 
 they would have if it were an ordinary highway repairable 
 by them, and such powers and duties shall in the city of 
 London be discharged by the Commissioners of Sewers.f 
 \See note to section 11 (1), and see 62 and 63 Vict. c. 14, 
 s. 6 (1).] 
 
 (5.) The payment of the costs of assizes and sessions shall be a 
 general county purpose for which the parishes in the city may 
 be assessed to county contributions, and all such costs of prosecutions 
 in the city as are by law payable out of the county rate shall be 
 paid out of the county fund. 
 
 (6.) The county councillors elected for the city, shall not act or- 
 vote in respect of any question arising before the County Council as 
 regards matters involving expenditure on account of which the 
 parishes in the city are not for the time being liable to be assessed 
 etjually with the rest of the administrative county to county 
 contributions. \_See 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. .s-. 23.] 
 
 (7.) The London County Council, and the Common Council of 
 the City of London may agree for the cessation in whole or 
 in part of any exemption under this section from assessment, 
 in consideration either of payment by the County Council of a 
 capital sum, or of an annual payment, or of a transfer of property 
 or liabilities, or of the C'ounty Council undertaking, in substitution 
 for the Common Council, any powers or duties, or partly for one 
 consideration and partly for another, or in any other manner, 
 according as may be determined. 
 
 (8.) The sheriffs of the city of London shall not have any 
 authority except in the city. 
 
 X 42.— (1.) If the London County Council petitions Her Majesty 
 the Queen in that behalf, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from 
 time to time to appoint a barrister of not less than ten years' 
 standing to be paid chairman or deputy chairman, or one of the 
 paid deputy chairmen, as the case may be, of the quarter sessions 
 for the county of London. 
 
 (2.) Any person so appointed shall hold office during good 
 behaviour, and shall by virtue of his office be a Justice of the Peace 
 for the county of London. 
 
 (3.) There shall be paid to him out of the county fund as a 
 
 * Now the <'ouncil of the Metropolitan Borough. See G2 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 T Now the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of ]jondon. See the City.' 
 of London Sewers Act 1897. 
 
 \ See also 59 and (50 Vict. c. 55.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Loral Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 740 
 
 general ronnty pnrpose such yearly salary not oxceedinLT tliat 
 stated in the petition in conseciuenee ol" which the appointment 
 was made, as Her Majesty directs. 
 
 (4.) Such chairman or deputy chairman shall not, during his 
 office, he eligible to serve in Tarliament, and shall not during his 
 continuance in office practise as a hanister. 
 
 (5.) AVhere tliere is any such jiaid chairman or deputy chair- 
 man of the rpiarter sessions, the court may be held before such 
 chairman or de])uty cliaii-niaii alone. 
 
 (0.) Separate courts of (juarter sessions may be held at different 
 parts of the county of London at the same time if so directe<l l)y 
 the County Council with the approval of a Secretary of State, and 
 every court of general sessions of the ])eace for the county of 
 London and every adjourniuent thereof shall have the same juris- 
 diction in all respects, including the power of hearing and deter- 
 mining a])}ieals, as if such court were (puirter sessions. 
 
 (7.) The London County Council may from time to time 
 sulDmit to a Secretary of State a scheme * for regulating the 
 holding of courts of (piarter sessions in London either at any one 
 place or at difl^Vrent i)laces, and in the latter case eitlier at the 
 same time or at different times, and for determining the legal 
 character of each sessions so held, that is to say, whether (puirter. 
 general, original, or adjourned sessions, or otherwise, and for making 
 such regulations respecting committals for trial, recognisances, depo- 
 sitions, and other matters as are necessary or proper for giving etiecr 
 to the scheme, and such scheme, when ajjproved by a Secretary of 
 State, shall be published in the London Gazette, and thereupon 
 shall have effect as if it were enacted in this Act. 
 
 (8.) Until the quarter sessions for the county of London constitute 
 special sessional divisions, every petty sessional division of the 
 counties of ^Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent existing at the appointed 
 day, or so much of such division as is situate in the county of 
 London, shall form a special or petty sessional division of the 
 county of Loudon. 
 
 (9.) [.In to f>efi,'iional tlichioits in MiililUsej., ISunei/, and Kent. 
 J^ot applicable to London.] 
 
 (10.) The ([uarter sessions for the county of London * shall be 
 substituted for the geueral assessment sessions under the Valuation 32 a: 33 Vict 
 (Metropolis) Act, 18'')9, and have all the jurisdiction vested in those c. G7. 
 sessions, and shall exercise the same within the same area. Upon 
 the hearing of any ap})eals in relation to property in the city of 
 London, such two members of the court of quarter sessions of the 
 city of London as nuiy be aj>pointed by that court for the ]iurj)i>s<', 
 shall be entitled to atten<l and sit as members of the quarter 
 sessions for the county of London. 
 
 (11.) [.l.s to sessions of the peace for Middlesex. Not applicable 
 to I^ondon.^ 
 
 (12.) [A.-< to t/uffrter .^ession.^ /'or Middlesex, Surre'/y and Kent. 
 Sot applicable to Londo)i.~\ 
 
 (13.) Nothing in this Act shall alter the powers or duties of the 
 justices, quarter sessions, recorder, or common serjeant of the city 
 of London, further or otherwise than is expressly ]»rovided or than 
 the powers and duties of the justices ov quarter sessions of any 
 county are altered. 
 
 * See the Quarter Sessions Scheme approved by the Council on the li*t ^larch lOOo
 
 750 [Chap. 41.] Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 (14.) Provided that from and after the appointed day the rights 
 claimed by the Court of Common Council to appoint to the offices 
 of common serjeant, and judge of the City of London Court shall 
 cease, and in any future vacancy in each of the said offices, it shall 
 be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen to a])point a duly qualified 
 barrister to be such common serjeant, or judge, and from and 
 after the next vacancy no recorder shall exercise any judicial 
 functions unless he is appointed by Her Majesty to exercise such 
 functions. 
 
 Grant by 43. — (1.) In the administrative county of London the countv 
 
 County Coun- ^'0^^" cil :— 
 
 cil to poor {'(•) shall pay to the guardians for every poor law union wholly 
 
 law unions. in the county such sums as the Local Government Board 
 
 from time to time certify to be due from the said Council 
 in substitution for the local grants towards the remunera- 
 tion of poor law medical officers, and towards the cost of 
 drugs and medical appliances ; and 
 {h,) shall grant to the guardians of every poor law union wholly 
 in their county an amount equal to fourpence a day per 
 head for every indoor pauper maintained in that union, 
 and such grant, during the five local financial years 
 beginning on the appointed day, shall be reckoned 
 according to the average number of indoor paupers so 
 maintained during the five financial years ending on the 
 twenty-fifth day of March next before the passing of this 
 Act, and shall, after the end of the said five local financial 
 years, unless Parliament otherwise determine, continue to 
 be reckoned in accordance with the same average number. 
 {c.) [As to jMI/wents to guardians of jyoor laiu unions^ of w/dch 
 portions only are situate in the county. Not applicable to 
 London*~\ 
 (2.) For the purposes of this section the expression '^ indoor 
 pauper" includes all paupers maintained in a workhouse, and all 
 panpers maintained in any district school, separate school, separate 
 infirmary, sick asylum, hospital for infectious diseases, or institution 
 for the deaf, dumb, blind, or idiots, or in any certified school under 
 the Act of the session of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years of 
 the reign of Her Majesty, chapter forty-three, and includes any 
 children boarded out, whether within or without the limits of the 
 union, and in the metropolitan asylum district includes all inmates 
 of any asylum for imbeciles provided by the managers of that 
 district, but excludes paupers relieved in casual wards, and such 
 number of indoor paupers in a workhouse or in a district or separate 
 school or in a separate infirmary or asylum, as exceeded the number 
 prescribed by the Local Government Board for that workhouse, 
 school, infirmary or asylum, and also excludes paupers maintained 
 for part only of a day : Provided always, that any paupers main- 
 tained under any contract or agreement in a workhouse other than 
 that of the union to which they are chargeable, shall be included 
 only in the number of indoor paupers of the union to which they 
 are so chargeable. 
 
 (3.) The average number of paupers shall be estimated in such 
 manner as the Local Government Board direct, and shall be certified 
 
 * Croydon Union was the only union of which a portion only (viz. the hamlet of 
 Penge) was situate in the metropolis. By the Penge Scheme 1900, made under 
 62 k. 63 Vict. c. 14, Penge ceased to be a portion of London.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 751 
 
 by the Board. The Board may, if tliey think jjroper, vary their 
 certificate, but unless it is so varied, their certificate sllall be 
 conclusive. 
 
 44. On and after the a})])(»inted day all powers und duties of the Transfer of 
 clerk to the Mana«iers of the Metronr.litan Asvlunis District und<*r ''"^'^f,""'?'^'' 
 the Valuation (Metrojiolis) Act, iNfi'.t, siiall be transferred to the c"c7 of clerk 
 clerk of the county council of London, and the said Act sljall be of Metropo- 
 construed as if the county council were substituted therein for the J.'*^'^ '^'^y'"'" 
 Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums District. ' nagers. 
 
 45. [JtS to ,'<la//(///tt'/--/iOUSe.s in the metropolis. I'tji. 54 i^' 55 Viet, 
 c. TO, .s. 142. See ibid. s. 20.] 
 
 Application of Act to Special Counties and to Liberties. 
 
 46. For the purposes of this Act there shall be enacted the Application 
 provisions following ; that is to say, ceruin^^ 
 
 iipecial 
 
 (6.) From and after the appointed day the right of the mayor, counties, 
 commonalty, and citizens of the city of London to elect 
 the sheriff of Middlesex shall cease, and it shall be lawful 
 for Her IMajesty the Queen to apj)oint a sherifl" of the 
 county of Middlesex, and the law relating to sheriffs shall 
 apply in the case of the county of Middlesex in like 
 manner as in the case of any other county. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \_Parts omitted apply to counties other than London.'] 
 
 47. \_Samng for Manchester Assize Courts Act 1858.] 
 
 48. — (1.) For all purposes of this Act, every liberty and franchise ^'ergerof 
 of a county, wholly or partly exemjit from contribution to the Jq^'^^j^^* *° 
 county rate, shall, save as may be otherwise provided by or in 
 pursuance of this Act, form })art of the county of which it forms 
 part for the ])urposes of })arliamentary elections. 
 
 (2.) The provisions of this Act with respect to the transfer to the 
 county council of the powers, duties, and liabilities of the (juarter 
 sessions and Justices of a county, and of their property, debts, and 
 liabilities, whether vested in or attaching to the clerk of the peace 
 or any Justice or Justices or otherwise on behalf of the county, shall 
 apply to every such liberty antl franchise as above mentioned in 
 like manner in all respects as if they were herein re-enacted and in 
 terms made ap])licable to such liberty and franchise ; and the county 
 council shall have and exercise in every such liberty and franchise 
 the j)Owers and duties transferred to them by this Act from the 
 quarter sessions and Justices of the county ; 
 
 [Parts omitted (as to police and the Cinque Forts) not applicable to 
 London. See (as to police) s. 93.] 
 
 49. [^l^' to the Scillt/ Inlands. Sot ajt/jlii-able to London.] 
 
 PART 111. 
 
 JJoundaries. 
 
 60 — 53. [-Lv to boundaries of counties other than London for the 
 purposes o/\tirst elections — As to constitution of electoral divisions — 
 As to certain borough and urban sanitary districts — -^1^ to alterations 
 of boundaries. Sot applicable to London.]
 
 752 [Chap. 41.] Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 Future 54. — (^1.) Whenever it is represented bv the council of any 
 
 boundarS °^ ^^""^^' ... to the Local Government Board— 
 
 (ft) that the alteration of the boundary of any county ... is 
 
 desirable * ; or 
 (1^) that the union, for all or any of the purposes of this Act, of 
 
 a county borongh with a county is desirable ; or 
 (r) that the union, for all or any of the purposes of this Act, of 
 any counties or boroughs or the division of any county is 
 desirable ; or 
 
 (f) that the alteration of the boundary of any electoral division 
 of a county, or of the number of county councillors and 
 electoral divisions in a county, is desirable ; or 
 
 ( /") that the alteration of any area of local government partlv 
 situate in their county ... is desirable ; 
 the Local Government Board shall, unless for special reasons they 
 think that the representation ought not to be entertained, cause to 
 be made a local inquiry, and may make an order for the proposal 
 contained in such representation, or for such other proposal as they 
 may deem expedient, or may refuse such order, and if they make 
 the order may by such order divide or alter any electoral division. 
 
 (2.) Provided that in default of such representation by the council 
 of any county . . . before the first day of November one thousand 
 eight hundred and eighty-nine, the Local Government Board may 
 cause such local inquiry to be made, and thereupon may make such 
 order as they may deem expedient. 
 
 (3.) Provided that if the order alters the boundary of a county 
 . . . , or provides for the union of a county borough with a county, 
 or for the union of any counties or boroughs, or for the division of 
 any county, ... it shall be provisional only, and shall not have 
 eifect unless confirmed by Parliament. 
 
 (5.) At any time before the appointed day, the Local Government 
 Board may make an order in pursuance of this section without any 
 such representation as in this section mentioned. 
 [Parts omitted {as to boroughs) not applicable to London.~\ 
 
 55. \_As to procisional order amalgamating two county boroughs. 
 Not applicable to London.'] 
 
 Procedure for 56. Where a petition is presented to Her Majesty the Queen by 
 charter of the inhabitant householders of any town or towns or district, in 
 new orougi. pQpg^;iajj(,g gf ^he Municipal Corporations Act, 1882,t for the grant 
 of a charter of incorporation, notice of such petition shall be given 
 to the county council of the county in which such town, towns, or 
 district is or are situate, and shall also be sent to the Local Govern- 
 ment Board, and the Privy Council shall consider any representa- 
 tions made by such county council or the Local Government Board, 
 together with the petition for such charter. 
 Future 57. — (1.) Whenever a county council is satisfied that a prima 
 
 alteration i-Acio, case is made out ... as respects any parish, for a proposal 
 districts and ^^r all or any of the following things ; that is to say — 
 parishes and (a) the alteration or definition of the boundary thereof ; 
 wards and /^\ ^he division thereof or the union thereof with anv other 
 
 future estab- ^ '' ., ., -i. pi» . c ' • ^ ^ 
 
 lishment • • • parish or parishes, or the transfer 01 part or a parish to 
 
 of urban another parish; 
 
 •districts. 
 
 See 3 Edvv. 7, c. Ixxxi. •]■ See Appendix.
 
 1_i)l & Tjij Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 753 
 
 the connty conncil may canse such inquiry to be mufle in the 
 locality, and such notictc to he given, hotii in the locaHty, and to tiie 
 Local Government Board, Education Department, or other (iovern- 
 ment department as may be prescribed, and such other inquiry and 
 notices (if any) as they think tit, and if satisfied tliat siu-Ji proposal 
 is desirabh', mav maiv<' an (jrder for the same accordiru'lv. 
 
 (2.) Notice ot the j)rovisions of the order sluiil be given, and 
 <-opies thereof shall be sui)plied in the prescribed manner, and 
 otherwise as the county council think tit. . . . 
 
 (3.) . . . The order siiall ])e sul)mitted to the Local Government 
 Board: and if within three months* after such notice of the 
 provisions of the order as the Local Government Board determine 
 to be the first notice, . . . or if the order relates only to a parish, 
 any number of county electors registered in that ])arish, not being 
 less than one sixtii of the total number of electors in that parish, 
 petition the Local Government Board to disallow the order, the 
 Local Government Board shall cause to be made a local in(iuiry, 
 and determine whether the order is to be confirmetl or not. 
 
 (4.) If any such ])etition is not presented, or being presented is 
 withdrawn, the Local Government 13oard shall confirm the order. 
 
 (5.) The Local Government Board, on confirming an order, may 
 make such modifications therein as they consider necessary for 
 carrying into eftect the objects of the order. 
 
 (0). An order under this section, when confirmed by the Local 
 'Government Board, shall be forthwith laid upon the table of both 
 Houses of Parliament, if Parliament be then sitting, and, if not, 
 forthwith after the then next meeting of Parliameut. 
 
 (7.) This section shall be in addition to, and not in derogation 
 of, any jiower of the Local Government Board in respect of the 
 union or division or alteration of parishes. 
 
 [Farts omitted (as to urban and rural sanitari/ districts) not 
 applicabh' to London.~\ 
 
 58. [^Additional powo's to the Local Government Board as to poor 
 law anions in more than one coutdj. Sot applicable to London. 
 See note on s. 43 (1) (<?).] 
 
 59. — (1.) A scheme or order under this Act may make such Supplemental 
 administrative and judicial arrangements incidental to or conse- pro^isi*'!!-"* 
 (juential on any alteration of boundaries, authorities, or other tion of areas, 
 matters made bv the scheme or order as mav seem exi)edient. 
 
 (2.) A place which is part of an administrative county for the 
 purposes of this Act shall, subject as in this Act mentioned 
 form jtart of that county for all jiurposes, whether sheriff 
 lieutenant, custos rotulorum, Justices, militia, coroner or other; 
 Provided that — 
 
 (c.) This enactment shall not affect parliamentary elections nor 
 the right to vote at the election of a member to serve in 
 Parliament, nor land tax, tithes, or tithe reutcliarge, nor 
 the area within which any bishop, parson, or other eccle- 
 siastical person has any cure of souls or jurisdiction. 
 (3.) For the purposes of parliamentary elections, and of the 
 registration of voters for such elections, the sheriff, clerk of tlie 
 peace, and council of the county in which any place is comi)rised 
 at the jiassing of this Act for the purpose of parliamentary elections 
 
 * Now six months. See the Local Government Act 1894, s. 41 (see Apiiendix). 
 
 48
 
 754 [Chap. 41.] Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 shall, save as otherwise provided by the scheme or order, or by 
 51 & 52 Vict, the County Electors Act, 1888,* or this Act, continue to have the 
 ^- 10- same powers, duties, and liabilities as they would have had if no 
 
 alteration of boundary had taken place. 
 
 (4.) Any scheme or order made in pursuance of this Act may, so 
 far as may seem necessary or proper for the purposes of the scheme 
 or order, provide for all or any of the following matters, that is tO' 
 say,— ■:, 
 
 (a) may provide for the abolition, restriction, or establishment^ 
 or extension of the jurisdiction of any local authority in or 
 over any part of the area affected by the scheme or order, 
 and for the adjustment or alteration of the boundaries of 
 such area, and for the constitution of the local authorities 
 therein, and may deal with the powers and duties of any 
 council, local authorities, quarter sessions, Justices of the 
 Peace, coroners, sheriff, lieutenant, custos rotulorum, clerk 
 of the peace, and other officer therein, and with the costs 
 of any such authorities, sessions, persons, or officers as 
 aforesaid, and may determine the status of any such area 
 as a comjionent part of any larger area, and provide for 
 the election of representatives in such area, and may 
 extend to any altered area the provisions of any local Act 
 which were previously in force in a portion of the area ; 
 and 
 (Ij) may make temporary provision for meeting the debts and 
 liabilities of the various authorities affected by the scheme 
 or order, for the management of their property, and for 
 regulating the duties, position, and remuneration of officers 
 affected by the scheme or order, and applying to them the 
 provisions of this Act as to existing officers ; and 
 
 (c) may provide for the transfer of any writs, process, records, 
 
 and documents relating to or to be executed in any part of 
 the area affected by the scheme or order, and for determin- 
 ing questions arising from such transfer ; and 
 
 (d) may provide for all matters which appear necessary or 
 
 l>roper for bringing into ojjeration and giving full effect to 
 the scheme or order ; and 
 
 (e) may adjust any property, debts, and liabilities affected by 
 
 the scheme or order. 
 
 (5.) Where an alteration of boundaries of a county is made by 
 this Act an order for any of the above-mentioned matters may, if 
 it appears to the Local Government Board desirable, be made by 
 that Board, but such order, if petitioned against by any council, 
 sessions, or local authority affected thereby, within three months 
 after notice of such order is given in accordance with this Act, 
 shall be provisional only, unless the petition is withdrawn or the 
 order is confirmed by Parliament. 
 
 (6.) A scheme or order may be made for amending any scheme 
 or order previously made in jjursuauce of this Act, and may be 
 made by the same authority and after the same procedure as the 
 original scheme or order. Where a provision of this Act respecting 
 a scheme or order requires the scheme or order to be laid before 
 Parliament, or to be confirmed by Parliament, either in every case 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Load Gocenime/'f Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 755- 
 
 or if it is j)etitioiied against, such scliorae or order may amend 
 any local and personal Act. 
 
 [Fart.i omitted /-elate to countieif other than London and to cities and 
 boroughs outaide Loiidot>.'] 
 
 60. In every alteration of boundaries effected under the authority General pro- 
 of tliis Act, care shall be taken that, so far as practicable, the .^^j^g^"^^,'^,^'^^^ 
 boundaries of an area of local government shall not intersect the boundario-. 
 boundaries of any other area of local government. 
 
 61. \^.\p/J0intment of commiasionerH for determination of certain 
 matters a risinq under this Act — (.'ommisiiioner.s powern to cea.se on 
 31.s^ December 1^00. ^Spent*'] 
 
 62. — (1.) Any councils and other authorities att'ected by this Act Adjustment 
 or by any scheme, order, or other tiling made or done in jiursuunce o^ F^perty 
 of this Act, may from time to time make agreements for the liabilities, 
 purpose of adjusting any ])ro])crty, income, debts, liabilities, and 
 expenses, so far as affected by this Act or sucii sclieme, order, or 
 thing, of the parties to tlie agreement, and tlie agreement and any 
 other agreement authorised by this Act to be made for the purpose 
 of the adjustment of any property, debts, liabilities, or financial 
 relations, mny ])rovide for the transfer or retention of any |troperty, 
 debts, and liabilities, with or without any conditions, and fur the 
 joint use of any property, and for the transfer of any duties, and for 
 payment by either party to the agreement in respect of property, 
 debts, duties, and liabilities so transferred or retained, or of such 
 joint user, and in respect of the salary, remuneration, or com})ensa- 
 tion payable to any officer or person, and that either by way of 
 a cajjital sum, or of a terminable annuity for a period not exceeding 
 that allowed by the ('ommissioners under this Act or tlie Local 
 Government I^oard. 
 
 (2.) In default of an agreement as to iiny matter requiring 
 adjustment for the purpose of this Act, or any matter which, in 
 case of difference, is to be referred to arbitration, then, if no other 
 mode of making such adjustment or determining such difference is 
 provided by this xVct, such adjustment or tlilference may be made 
 or determined by an arbitrator ajipointed by the parties, or in case 
 of difference as to the appointment, appointed by the Local Govern- 
 ment Board. 
 
 (3.) An arbitrator a])j)ointed under this Act shall be deemi'd to 
 be an arbitrator within the meaning of the Lands Clauses Con- 8 4: ;• Vict, 
 solidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same, and the ^'- ^^^ 
 provisions of those Acts with respect to an arbitration shall ajiply 
 accordingly : and, further, the arbitrator may state a sjiecial case, 
 and notwithstaniling anything in the said Acts, siiall determine the 
 amount of the costs, and shall have power to disallow as costs in 
 the arbitration the costs of any witness whom he considers to have 
 been called unnecessarily, and any other costs which he considers to 
 have been incurred unnecessarily. 
 
 (4.) Any award or order matle by the Commissioners or any 
 arl)itrator under this Act mav provide for anv matter for which an 
 agreement might have provided. 
 
 (5.) Any sum reipiired to be paid for the }tur})ose of ailjustuient, 
 or of any award or order made by the Commissioners or an arl>i- 
 trator under this Act, may be paid out of tiie county . . . fund or 
 
 * These powers were continued bv the Expiring Laws Continuance Acts 1S90 and 
 1891 till 30th June 1902.
 
 756 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 ont of such other special fnnd as the council, with the approval 
 of the Commissioners under this Act or of the Local Government 
 Board, may direct. [Wojvls omittec^ {^^ 07^ borough''') not applicable 
 to London.'] 
 
 (6.) The payment of any capital snm required to be paid for the 
 purposes of the adjustment or of an agreement under this Act, or 
 of any award or order made upon any arbitration under this Act, 
 shall be a purpose for which a council may borrow under this Act. 
 . . , \Part omitted (as to method of borrowing) not a/pplicable to 
 London. See s. 40 (8), and the London County Council (Money) 
 Acts 1899—1904.] 
 
 (7.) Any capital sum paid to any council for the purpose of any 
 adjustment, or in pursuance of any order or award of an arbitrator 
 under this Act shall be treated as capital, and applied, with the 
 sanction of the Local Government Board, either in the repayment 
 of debt or for any other purpose for which capital money may be 
 ajDplied. 
 
 63. Where the Local Government Board are required in jmr- 
 suunce of this Act to decide * any difference or other matter referred 
 to arbitration in pnrstiance of this Act, the provisions of the 
 31 & 32 Vict. Eegulation of Railways Act, 1868, respecting arbitrations by the 
 c. 119. Board of Trade, and the enactments amending those provisions, 
 
 shall apply as if they were herein re-enacted, and in terms made 
 applicable to the Local Government Board and the decision of 
 differences and matters under this Act. 
 
 Arbitration 
 by Local 
 Government 
 Board. 
 
 Transfer of 
 county pro- 
 perty and 
 liabilities. 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 Finance. 
 
 Property Funds and Costs of County Council. 
 
 64. — (1.) On and after the appointed day all property of the 
 quarter sessions of a county, or held by the clerk of the peace, or 
 any Justice or Justices of a county, or treasurer, or commissioners, 
 or otherwise for any public uses and purposes of a county, or any 
 division thereof, shall pass to and vest in and be held in trust for 
 the council of the county, subject to all debts and liabilities affecting 
 it, and shall be held by the county council for the same estate, 
 interest, and purposes, and subject to the same covenants, conditions, 
 and restrictions, for and subject to which that property is or would 
 have been held if this Act had not passed, so far as those purposes 
 are not modified by this Act. Provided that — 
 
 {a) the existing records of or in the custody of the court of 
 quarter sessions shall, subject to any order of that court, 
 remain in the same custody in which they would have been 
 if this Act had not passed ; and 
 {b) where any property belongs to a charity, nothing in this Act 
 shall affect the trust of such charity, and until otherwise 
 directed by the Charity Commissioners for England and 
 Wales, the trustees or managers of the charity shall be 
 appointed in like manner as if this Act had not passed ; 
 and 
 (f) the Justices of any county may retain any pictures, chattels, 
 or property on the ground that the same have been pre- 
 sented to them or purchased out of their own funds or 
 
 * The words " determine as arbitratoi-s " are substituted for the words in italics 
 by the Local Government (Determination of Differences) Act 1896.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 18h8. [Chai-. 41.] 757 
 
 otherwise IffKnig to them, and are not liehl lor ])ulUic 
 ]mrj)Ose.s of the county, and any dijl'erence arising between 
 the county council and the Justices witli n-spect to any 
 such retention shall he referred to and determined by the 
 Commissioners under tliis Act. 
 
 (2.) On and after the ajjpointed day all debts and liabilities of 
 the quarter sessions, or of the clerk of tiie jjeace, or any Justice 
 or Justices, or treasurer, nr commissioners, incurred for county 
 pnr]ioses, shall become debts and liabilities of the county council, 
 and shall, subject to the provisions (jf this Act, be defrayed by tiiem 
 out of the like property and I'unds out of which tiiey would have 
 been defrayed if this Act had not ])assed. 
 
 (3.) The county council shall have full power to manage, alter, 
 and enlarge, and, with the constant of the Local G(jvernment Board, 
 to alienate any land or buildings transferred by this section, or 
 otherwise vested in the council, Ijut shall j)rovide sucii accommoda- 
 tion and rooms, and such furniture, books, and other things as may 
 from time to time be determined by the standing joint committee of 
 (jiiarter sessions and the county council, to be necessary or ])roper 
 for the due transaction of the business, and convenient keeping of 
 the records and documents, of the (piarter sessions and Justices out 
 of sessions, or of any committee of such quarter sessions or Justices. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 \_l'arts omitted are special procisiott.s for jdaces other than Lou(hn.~\ 
 
 65. — (1.) A county council may, from time to time, for the Power to 
 purj)ose of any of their powers and duties, including those which ^*^^"'r'-"^*°^^- 
 are to be executed through the standing joint committee, acquire, 
 purchase, or take on lease, or exchange any lands or any easements 
 or rights over or in land, whether situate within or without the 
 county, and may acquire, hire, erect, antl furnish .such halls, build- 
 ings, and offices as they may from time to time require, whether 
 within or without their county. 
 
 (2.) For the purpose of the })urchase, taking on lease, or exchange 
 of such lands, sections one hundred and seventy-six, one hundred 
 and seventy-seven, and one hundreel and seventy-eight of the Fubiic 
 Health Act, 1875,* sliall a{)ply as if they were herein re-enacted, 
 and in terms made a})[)licable to the county council. 
 
 (3.) Where the county council, with the consent of the Local 
 Government l*)oard, sell any land, tlie jiroceeds of such sale shall be 
 applied in such manner as the said Uoard sanction towards the dis- 
 charge of any loan of the council, or otherwise for any purpose for 
 which capital may be applied by the council. 
 
 66. All costs incurred by the quarter sessions or the Justices out f'ostf cf 
 of session of a county, and all costs incurred by any Justice . . . i" pj"vableout 
 defending any legal jiroceedings taken against him in respect of any of county 
 order made, or act done, in the execution of his duty as sucii Justice, fund. 
 . . . shall, to such amount as may be sanctioned by the standing 
 joint committee of the county council and ([uarter sessions, and, so 
 iar as they are not otherwise ])rovided for, be ])aid out lU' the county 
 fund of the county, and the council of the county shall provide fur 
 such payment accordingly. \_Parts omitted (as to police) not ap- 
 plicable to London. See s. 03. See also s. 75, and the Muniripal 
 Corporations Act 1882, .»•. 22<» {!<ee Appei'di.r.).'] 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 758 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 Adjustment 
 of law as 
 respects costs 
 ordered by 
 quarter 
 sessions or 
 Justices to 
 be paid. 
 
 Funds of 
 
 countr 
 
 council. 
 
 67. Any order of a court of quarter sessions, or of any Justices 
 or Justice out of session, for the payment by the county treasurer 
 of costs in criminal proceedings or of costs under the Act of the 
 forty-eighth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter 
 seventy-five, shall be obeyed by the county treasurer in like manner 
 as heretofore, and the county council shall cause the treasurer, or 
 some other person on his behalf, to attend at every court of quarter 
 sessions for the purpose of paying such sums as may be ordered by 
 the court to be so paid. 
 
 68.— (1.) All receipts of the county council, whether for general 
 or special county purposes, shall be carried to the county fund, and 
 all payments for general or special county purposes shall be made 
 in the first instance out of that fund. 
 
 (2.) In this Act the expression " general county purposes " means 
 all purposes declared by this or any other Act to be general county 
 purposes, and all purposes for contributions to which the county 
 council are for the time being authorised by law to assess the 
 whole area of their administrative county, and the expression 
 "general county account" means the account of the county fund 
 to which the contributions so raised are carried, and any costs 
 incurred for a general county purj^ose shall be general expenses, 
 and all costs incurred by the county council in the execution of 
 their duties which are not by law made special expenses shall be 
 general expenses. 
 
 (3.) In this Act the expression " special county purposes " means 
 any purposes from contribution to which any portion of the county 
 is for the time being exempt, and also includes any purposes 
 where the expenditure involved is by law restricted to a hundred, 
 division, or other limited part of the county, and the expression 
 "special county account" means any account of the county fund 
 to which contributions for special county purposes are carried, 
 and any costs incurred for a special county purpose shall be special 
 expenses. 
 
 (4.) If the moneys standing to the general county account of the 
 county fund are insufficient to meet the expenditure for general 
 county purposes, county contributions may be levied to meet the 
 deficiency on the whole administrative county, and shall be assessed 
 on all the parishes in the county. 
 
 (5.) If the moneys standing to any special county account of 
 the county fund are insufficient to meet the expenditure for the 
 special county purposes chargeable to that account, county con- 
 tributions may be levied to meet the deficiency on any parishes 
 in the county liable to be assessed to county contributions for those 
 purposes. 
 
 (6.) Any precept for county contributions may include as separate 
 items a contribution for general county purposes, and a contribution 
 for any special county purpose or purposes, and sul)ject as in this or 
 any other Act mentioned, county contributions, whether for general 
 or special county purposes, which are liable to be assessed on 
 the parishes, shall be assessed on such parishes in pro])ortioii to the 
 annual value thereof, as determined by the standard or basis for the 
 county rate, and all enactments applying to such standard or basis 
 or to county rate shall (save as altered by this Act) apply so 
 far as may be, consistently with the tenor thereof, to county 
 contributions. . . .
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act \>im. [^'hai'. 41.] 759 
 
 (7.) The county oonncil shall koc]) siicli accounts as will j)revent 
 the whole administrative county from l)ein<r charjred with cxiien- 
 ditnre |)ro})erIy ])ayiil)le by a portion only of the county, ami will 
 prevent any sums raised in a portion only of the county being 
 applied in reduction of ex])enditure i)roperIy payable by the whole 
 or a lartjer part of the county, and will further secure any such 
 exemption as above in this section mentioned, and will prevent 
 any sums by law specifically a]i])licable to any particular jturpose 
 from being apjjlied to any other purpose. 
 
 (8.) In determining the amount of expenditure for any particular 
 county })nrpose, general or special, :i jjropcr proportion of the cost of 
 the ofHccrs and buildings and cstablislmient of the county council 
 may be added to the expenditure directly expended for that pur[)Ose. 
 
 (9.) County contributions may be made retrospective in order to 
 raise money for the j)ayment of costs incurred, or having become 
 payable at any time within six months before the demand of the 
 vontributions. 
 l^Part omitted {as to boroughs) not applicable to London.] 
 
 69. — (1) The county council may from time to time, with the Borrowing 
 consent of the Local (Government Board, borrow, on the security of ^y^^"!"'-^' 
 the countv fund, and of anv revenues of the council, or on either 
 such fund or revenues, or any part of the revenues, such sums as 
 may be re([uired for the following purposes, or any of them, that is 
 to sav : 
 
 i(l) for making advances (wliich they are hereby authorised to 
 make) to any persons or l)odies of persons, corporate or 
 unincorporate, in aid of the emigration or colonisation of 
 inhabitants of the county, with a guarantee for repayment 
 of such advances from anv local authoritv in the countv, or 
 the Government of any colony ; 
 
 but neither the transfer of powers by this Act nor anything else in 
 this Act shall confer on the county council any power to borrow 
 without the consent above mentioned, and that consent shall dis- 
 pense with the necessitv of obtaining anv other consent which mav 
 be required l>y the Acts relating to such borrowing, and the Local 
 -Government Board, before giving their consent, shall take into 
 consideration any representation made by any ratepayer or owner 
 of property rated to the county fund. 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 {Parts omitted (as to borrowing by county councils) not applicable 
 to London. See section 40 (S) and (9).] 
 
 70. [-U to issue of stock. Not applicable to Ljondon. See the 
 London County Council {Money) Acts 1889—1904.] 
 
 71. — (1.) The accounts of the receipts and expenditure of county Audit of 
 •councils shall be made up to the end of each local tinancial yes"" ^1^5;^"°^ °^ 
 as detined by this Act, and be in the form for the time being council, 
 prescribed by the Local Government Board. 
 
 (2.) The provisions of the ^Municipal Corporations Act, lss2,* 
 with respect to the return to the Local Government Board of the 
 nccounts of a council of a borough and to the accounts of the 
 treasurer of the borough, and to the inspection and abstract 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 760 [Chap. 41.] Local Goternment Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.J 
 
 thereof shall apply to the accounts of a county council, and of the 
 treasurer and officers of such council, and the said ])rovisions 
 respecting the return to the Local Government Board shall extend 
 to the return to that Board of a printed copy of the abstract of 
 the said accounts. 
 
 (3.) The accounts of a county council and of the county treasurer 
 
 and otiicers of such council, shall be audited by the district auditors 
 
 appointed by the Local Goverunaent Board in like manner as accounts 
 
 38 k 39 Vict, of an urban authority aud their officers under sections two hundred 
 
 ^' • aud forty-seven and two hundred and fifty of the Public Health Act 
 
 1875,* and those sections and all enactments amending them or 
 
 applying to audit by district auditors, including the enactments 
 
 imposing penalties and providing for the recovery of sums, shall 
 
 apply in like manner as if, so far as they relate to an audit of the 
 
 accounts of an urban authority and the officers of such authority, 
 
 they were herein re-enacted with the necessary modifications, and 
 
 accordingly all ratepayers and owners of property in the county 
 
 42 & 43 Vict, shall have the like rights, and there shall be the same appeal as in 
 
 ^" ^" the case of such audit. Provided that the First Schedule to the 
 
 District Auditors Act, 1879, shall be modified in manner described 
 
 in the Second Schedule to this Act. 
 
 72. [^Adaptation of part v. of the Municipal Corporations Act 
 1882 as to corporate property and liabilities in boroughs and f-oiinty 
 boroughs. Not applicable to London.'] 
 
 Local Financial Year and Annual Budget. 
 
 Fixing of 73. — fl.) After the appointed day, not being more than three 
 
 yS?amf°^^^^ 1^'^^^ ^ft<^i' t^6 passing of this Act, the local financial year shall be 
 consequent the twelve months ending the thirty-first day of March, and the 
 adjustments, accounts of the receipts and expenditure of every county council 
 shall be made up for that year. . . . 
 
 (2.) All enactments relating to accounts of local authorities, or 
 the audit thereof, or to returns touching their receipts and ex- 
 penditure, or to meetings, or other matters, shall be modified so far 
 as is necessary for adapting them to the provisions of this section^ 
 and the Local Government Board shall from time to time give such 
 orders and make such arrangements as ajjpear to the Board to be 
 necessary or proper for eftecting such adaptation, and giving effect 
 to the provisions of this section. 
 [Part omitted {temporary i^rotisions till the appointed day) spent^ 
 
 Annual 74. — (1.) At the beginning of every local financial year, every 
 
 budget of county council shall cause to be submitted to them an estimate of 
 
 councils. the receipts and expenses of such council during that financial 
 
 year, whether on account of proj^erty, contributions, rates, loans, or 
 
 otherwise. 
 
 (2.) The council shall estimate the amount which will require to 
 be raised in the first six months, and in the second six months of 
 the said financial year by means of contributions. 
 
 (3.) If at the expiration of the first six months of such financial 
 year it appears to the council that the amount of the contribution or 
 rate estimated at the commencement of the year will be larger than 
 is necessarv or will be insufficient, the council mav revise the estimate 
 and alter accordingly the amount of the contribution or rate. 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 761 
 
 PAKT V. 
 
 SUPPLKMENTAL. 
 
 j\.pjjli cation of Acts. 
 
 75. For the purpo.se of the provisions of this Act with respect to Application of 
 county councils, and to the chuirnien, ru embers, committees * and ^''.^ **' ^'^^- 
 officers of such councils, and oHicrwise for the j)urp()se of carrying countv 
 this Act into effect, tlic following- portions of the Municipal ('or- councils and 
 porations Act, 1882,t namely. Tart Two, Part Three, Part Four (as ^^^'l/'^^y-^^^ 
 amended by the Municipal Elections (Corru])t Practices) Act, 1884), c. 70. 
 section one hundred and twenty-four in Part Five, Part Twelve, Part 
 Thirteen, the Second Schedule,! Part Two and Part Thre*; of the 
 Third Schedule, and Part One of the Eighth Schedule shall, so far 
 as the same are unrepealed and are consistent with the provisions of 
 this Act, apply as if they were herein re-enacted with the enact- 
 ments amending the same in such terms and with such modifications 
 as are necessary to make them applicable to the said councils and 
 their chairmen, members, committees, and officers, and to the other 
 provisions of this Act. 
 Provided as follows : — 
 
 (1.) \_hUectious oj count ij councillor.'<. and borough councillor.-i to 
 be conducted together. Rep. bij the County Councils 
 {Elections) Act 1891 (see Appendix).'] 
 (2.) Such })erson as the county council may a])])oint shall be the 
 returning officer for the election of county councillors of 
 the county council, in substitution for the mayor, and for 
 the aldermen assigned for that purpose by the council. 
 (3.) The returning officer, without prejudice to any other power, 
 may by writing under his hand a])])oint a fit person to be 
 his deputy for all or any of the ])urposcs rcdating to the 
 election of any such councillor, and may by himself or 
 such deputy exercise any powers and do any things which 
 a returning officer is authorised or reciuired to exercise or 
 do in relation to such election, and shall for the ])urposes 
 of the election have all the powers of the sheriff. 
 (4.) A reference in this Act, or in the enactments applied by this 
 Act, to the returning officer or to the mayor or to the 
 alderman shall, so far as relates to the election of any 
 such councillor, be construed to refer to the returning 
 officer, and any such deputy as above mentioned. 
 (5.) A reference in the said enactments to the town clerk so fiir 
 as respects the election of any such councillor shall be 
 construed to refer to the returning officer or his deputy, 
 and as respects matters subsefpieut to the election, shall 
 be construed to refer to the clerk of the county council. 
 (6.) [_As to returning ojlicers at elections of borough councillors. 
 Rep. by the Count g Councils {Elections) Act IbOl {see 
 Appendix).^ 
 (7.) Some place fixed by the returning officer shall ... be 
 substituted for the town clerk's office, and, as res])ects 
 the hearing of objections to nomination ])a]iers, for the 
 town hall, but such place shall . . . be in the electoral 
 
 * See 8. 28 (2). 
 t Soe Appendix. 
 
 j Superseded (as regards the London County Council) by 5G k 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. 
 s. 10.
 
 762 [Chap. 41.] Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 division or in an adjoining electoral division. [Part omitted 
 (as to elections in boroughs) not a/jjjjlicaMe to London.'] 
 (8.) The returning officer shall forthwith after the election of 
 county councillors for the county return the names of the 
 persons elected to the clerk of the county council. 
 (9.) \_As to period between nomination and. election. Liejj. by the 
 
 County Councils {Elections) Act 1891 (see Appendix).'] 
 (10.) An outgoing alderman shall not as alderman vote in the 
 election of a chairman. 
 48 & 49 Vict. (-11,) The hours of the poll shall be those fixed bv the Elections 
 ^•^^- (Hours of Poll) Act, 1885. 
 
 (12.) Section eleven of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, 
 with respect to the qualification of a county councillor 
 by reason of his being entered in the separate non-resident 
 list, shall include, for the purposes of this Act, all persons 
 entered in such separate list in any municipal borough by 
 reason of occupation of property in the borough, and all 
 persons entered in such separate list for any part of a 
 county not in a municipal borough by reason of the 
 occupation of property in that part. 
 (13.) \_As to date of election of chairman and county aldermen. 
 Rep. by the County Councils {Elections) Act 1891 {see 
 Appendix).] 
 (14.) Ten days* shall be substituted for five days in section 
 thirty-four of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, as 
 the time within which a person elected to a corporate 
 office is to accept that office, and twelve months shall 
 be substituted for six months in section thirty-nine of 
 the said Act, as the period of absence which disqualifies 
 an alderman or councillor. 
 (15.) The quorum of the council shall be one-fourth of the whole 
 number of the council. . . . \_Part omitted {substituting 
 for the purposes of this section one-fourth for one-third, in 
 par. 10 of the 2nd schedule to the Municipal Corporations 
 Act 1882) not applicable to London. See 56 & 57 Vict, 
 c. ccxxi. s. 10.] 
 (16.) Nothing in the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, as applied 
 by this section — 
 (r/) shall alter the application of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture 
 
 recoverable in a summary manner ; or 
 {b) shall apply any of the provisions of the Municipal Corpora- 
 tions Act, 1882, with reference to boundaries or the 
 alteration of wards or borough auditors, nor any of 
 the following provisions, namely, sub-section five of 
 section fifteen, section sixteen, section two hundred and 
 fifty-one, or section two hundred and fifty-seven ; or 
 ic) shall render any person elected to a corporate office without 
 his consent to his nomination being previously obtained 
 liable to pay a fine on non-acceptance of office, or render 
 a chairman or deputy chairman disqualified as such by 
 reason of absence ; or 
 {d) [Casual vacancies icithin 6 months of new election not to 
 be filled. Liep. by the Co^lnty Councils {Elections) Act 
 1891 {see Apvendix).] 
 
 * Now three months. See the County Councils (Elections) Act 1891, s. 5 (see 
 Appendix).
 
 [51 & 52 YiCT.] Local Gorernment Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 703 
 
 {c) shall apl'ly to a connty council section seventeen of the said 
 Act with respect to the town elerk, nor, unless the 
 county council so resolve,* section eighteen respecting 
 the treasurer, but, if the county council so resolve,* 
 section eigliteen shall supersede the existing enactments 
 with res})ect to the county treasurer ; or 
 (/) shall require the acts and proceedings of the standing 
 joint committee of the county council and (piarter 
 sessions to be submitted to the county council for 
 their a])proval ; or 
 {(j) shall ])revent tiie use of schools and public rooms for the 
 purpose of taking the poll at elections under this Act, 
 laut section six of the Ballot Act, 1872, shall apjdy in 35 jc :}6 Vict, 
 the case of elections under this Act, and the n-rurning ^- "***• 
 officer may, in addition to using such rooms free of 
 charge for taking the poll, use the same free of charge 
 for hearing objections to nomination papers and for 
 counting votes. 
 {17.) All costs properly incurred in relation to the holding of 
 elections f)f councillors of county councils, so far as not 
 otherwise provided for by law, shall be paid out of the 
 county fund as general expenses. 
 (18.) The said costs shall not exceed those allowed by Part I. of 
 
 the First Scliedule to the Parliamentary lOlecrions 'Return- 38 k 39 Vict. 
 ing Officers) Act, 1875, as amended by the Parliamentary ^'^''^■.q y 
 Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1885, or by such scale c! 62. 
 as the county council may from time to time frame. 
 (19.) Sections four, live, six, and seven of the Parliamentary 
 Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1875, as amended by 
 the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act -^^j^ "'O '^'ict 
 (1875) Amendment Act, 1886, shall api)ly as if they were ''• "*'■ 
 herein re-enacted with the necessary modifications, and in 
 ])articular with the substitution of the county council for 
 the person from whom payment is claimed, and of one 
 month for the period of fourteen days within which 
 application may be made for taxation. 
 '(20.) A county council shall, on the request of the returning officer, 
 prior to a poll being taken at any election of a councillor 
 of such council, advance to hira such sum not exceeding 
 ten ])()unds for every thousand electors at the election as 
 he may require. 
 (21.) The meeting of a county council, or of any committee 
 thereof, may be held at such place either within or with- 
 out their county, as the council from time to time direct. 
 76. — (1.) The ])rovisions of section four of the County Electors Am<^ndment 
 Act, 1888, with resi)ect to the framing of the lists and register of v/. "'^ -^ ^- 
 voters in parts shall extend to parishes situate within a parliamentary 
 borough. 
 
 (2.) \_As to appliratioit of rrrfnin jn-orision.^ of .v. 4 of the Coit))t>j 
 Electors Art I^n^. A'o/ ii})}>lic<ihl,' to Londor.'] 
 
 (3.) The names of the })arliamentary electors and county electors 
 in the lists in each polling district may be numbered consecutively, 
 •and such portion of those lists as consists of the names of ])arlia- 
 mentary electors may be taken to form the register for the purpose 
 of parliamentary elections, and such portion of those lists as 
 * The London County Council so resolved on 7th May, 1889.
 
 764 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.} 
 
 Residential 
 qualification 
 of county 
 electors in 
 administra- 
 tive county 
 of London. 
 
 Construction 
 of Acts re- 
 ferring to 
 bu.siness 
 transferred. 
 
 contains the names of connty electors may be taken to form the- 
 register of county electors. 
 
 (4.) For the purpose of the provisions of the Acts relating to the 
 appointment of revising barristers, and of section nine of the Connty 
 Electors Act, 1888, the county of Surrey and such portion of the 
 county of London as is situate south of the Thames shall be deemed 
 to be separate counties forming part of the south-eastern circuit ; 
 and such portion of the administrative county of London as is 
 situate north of the Thames shall be deemed to form part of the 
 county of Middlesex ; and the county of Middlesex, inclusive of 
 that portion, shall be deemed to be a separate county on a circuit ; 
 but any sum payable by the London County Council in respect of 
 either of the said portions of the county, shall be paid as for a 
 general county purpose. 
 
 (5.) \_As to payments under the County Electors Act 1888 in 
 ]s8s. Spent^ 
 
 (0.) \_Section VZ of the Count;/ Electors Act 1888 not to apply 
 to persons occupying property ivitJnn a borough. Not applicable to 
 London r^ 
 
 (7.) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen, by Order in 
 Council,* from time to time to alter the instructions, precepts,, 
 notices, and forms under the Registration of Electors Acts, in such 
 manner as appears to Her Majesty necessary for carrying into effect 
 this Act and the County Electors Act, 1888, and any other Act for 
 the time being in force amending or affecting the Acts mentioned in 
 tliis sub-section, and the instructions, precepts, notices, and forms 
 si:)ecified in any such Order in Council shall be observed and be valid 
 in law, and clerks of the peace, and town clerks, and other officers- 
 shall act accordingly. 
 
 (8.) \_As to appeal from rerisitig barristers in 1888. Spent.'] 
 77. A person who is entitled to be registered as a county elector 
 in respect of any qualification in the administrative county of 
 London, in all respects except that of residence, and is resident 
 beyond seven miles but within fifteen miles of the county, shall be 
 entitled to be registered as a county elector. 
 
 78. — (1.) All enactments in any Act, whether general or local 
 and personal, relating to any business, powers, duties or liabilities 
 transferred by or in pursuance of this Act from any authority to a 
 county council, either alone or jointly with the quarter sessions, or 
 to any joint committee, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, 
 and so far as circumstances admit, be construed as if — 
 
 (a.) any reference therein to the said authority or to any com- 
 mittee or member thereof or to any meeting thereof (so far 
 as it relates to the business, powers, duties, or liabilities 
 transferred) referred to the county council or to a committee 
 or member thereof or to a meeting thereof, as the case 
 requires, and as if — 
 (b.) a reference to any clerk or officer of such authority referred 
 to the clerk or officer of a county council or committee 
 thereof, as the case requires, 
 and all the said enactments shall be construed with such modifica- 
 tions as may be necessary for carrying this Act into effect. 
 
 (2.) Provided that the transfer of powers and duties enacted by 
 this Act shall not authorise any county council or any committee or 
 member thereof — 
 
 * See " The Registration Order 18'J5 " made under this sub-section.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 18^8. [Chap. 41.] 765 
 
 (a.) to exercise any of the powers of a court of record ; or 
 
 (d.) to administer an oatli ; or 
 
 (c.) to exercise any jurisdiction under the Summary Jurisdiction 
 
 Acts, or jx'rfurm any judicial Ijusincss, or otherwise act as 
 
 Justices or a dusticL' of the Peace ; 
 
 but this enactment shall be without prejudice to the position of the 
 
 chairman of the county council as Justice of the Peace during his 
 
 term of olHce. 
 
 (3.) Where under any sucli enactment as in this section mentioned, 
 any powers, duties, or lial^ilities are to be exercised or discharged 
 after any presentment or in any j)articuhir manner, or at any ]»ar- 
 ticular meeting, or suhject to any other C(»nditions, the county 
 council may, by tlie standing orders for the regulation of tiieir 
 ])roceedings, provide for the exercise and discharge of those powers, 
 duties, and liabilities without any such prior presentment or in a 
 difiFerent manner, or at any meeting of the council fixed bv the 
 standing orders,* or without such other conditions ; and until such 
 standing orders take elfect shall exercise and discharge them in the 
 like manner, and at the like time, and subject to the like conditions. 
 80 nearly as circumstances admit ; and a i)resentment by a grand 
 jury in relation to any such powers, duties, or liabilities, shall cease 
 to be made otherwise than by way of indictment. 
 
 (4.) For the purposes of this section the ex])ression " authority" 
 means a Secretary of State, the Board of Trade, the Local Govern- 
 ment Board, and any Government Department, also any commis- 
 sioners, conservators, or public body, corj)orate or uniiicorporate. 
 specified in a Provisional Order transferring any powers, duties, or 
 liabilities to the county council, also any ({uarter sessions and any 
 Justices, also the Metropolitan Board of Works, or other local 
 authority mentioned in this Act ; and the ex})ression " member of 
 an authority " includes, where the authority are quarter sessions or 
 Justices, any Justice, and the expression " meeting of an authority" 
 includes a court of quarter sessions and the assembly of Justices in 
 s])ecial or petty sessions ; and the expression " clerk of an authority " 
 includes in relation to any ([uarter sessions or Justices, the clerk of 
 the peace or the clerk to a Justice as the case re(|uires. 
 
 This section shall apply as if a joint committee were a committee 
 of the county council. 
 
 Proceedings of Councils and Committees. 
 
 79. — (1.) The council of each county shall be a body corporate by Incorporation 
 the name of the county council with the addition of the name of the ^o^^^^' 
 administrative county, and shall have perpetual succession and a 
 common seal anil power to acquire and liohl land for the purposes of 
 their constitution without licence in mortmain. 
 
 (2.) All duties and lialiilities of the inhabitants of a count} AxaW 
 become and be duties and liabilities of the council of such c<^>unty. 
 
 (3.) AVhere any enactment (whether relating to lunatii- asylums 
 or bridges, or other county })urposes,or to (]uarter sessions,) retjuires 
 or authorises land to be conveyed or granted to. or anv contract or 
 agreement to be made in the name of, the clerk of the ])eace, or any 
 Justice or Justices or other jierson, on behalf of the county or ([uarter 
 sessions, or Justices of the county, such land shall be conveyed or 
 granted to, and such contract and agreement shall be made with, the 
 council of the administrative county concerned. 
 
 * See 56 & 57 \k'X. c. cc.xi. s. 10, and schedule.
 
 f66 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Gocernment Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 coiinty 
 council 
 
 S'fimT^^d"^ 80.— (1.) All payments to and out of the county fund shall be 
 finance com- ^^^^ ^o and by the county treasurer, and all payments out of the 
 mittee of fund shall, unless made in pursuance of the specific requirement of 
 an Act of Parliament or of an order of a competent court, be made 
 in pursuance of an order of the council signed by three members 
 of the finance committee present at the meeting of the council and 
 countersigned by the clerk of the council, and the same order may 
 include several payments. Moreover all cheques for jjayment of 
 moneys issued in pursuance of such order shall be countersigned by 
 the clerk of the council or by a deputy approved by the council. 
 
 (2.) Any such order may be removed into the High Court of 
 Justice by writ of certiorari, and may be wholly or partly disallowed 
 or confirmed on motion and hearing with or without costs, according 
 to the judgment and discretion of the court. 
 
 (3.) Every county council shall from time to time appoint a 
 finance committee for regulating and controlling the finance of their 
 county ; and an order for the payment of a sum out of the county 
 fund, whether on account of capital or income, shall not be made by 
 a county council, except in pursuance of a resolution of the council 
 passed on the recommendation of the finance committee, and (subject 
 to the provisions of this Act respecting the standing joint committee) 
 any costs, debt, or liability exceeding fifty pounds shall not be 
 incurred except upon a resolution of the council passed on an 
 estimate submitted by the finance committee. 
 
 (4.) The notice of the meeting at which any resolution for the 
 payment of a sum out of the county fund (otherwise than for 
 ordinary periodical payments), or any resolution for incurring any 
 costs, debt, or liability exceeding fifty pounds will be proposed, 
 shall state the amount of the said sum, costs, debt, or liability, and 
 the purpose for which they are to be paid or incurred. 
 
 (5.) \_This section not to (ipplj/ to county horouyhs. Sot applic- 
 able to London.'] 
 
 81. — (1.) Any county council or councils, and any court or courts 
 of quarter sessions, may from time to time join in appointing out of 
 their respective bodies a joint committee for any purpose in respect 
 of which they are jointly interested. 
 
 (2.) Any council or court taking part in the appointment of any 
 joint committee under this section, may from time to time delegate 
 to the committee any power which such council or court might 
 exercise for the purpose for which the committee is appointed. 
 
 (3.) Provided that nothing in this section shall authorise a 
 council to delegate to a committee any power of making a rate or 
 borrowing any money. 
 
 (4.) Subject to the terms of delegation, any such joint committee 
 shall, in respect of any matter delegated to it, have the same power 
 in all respects as the councils and courts appointing it, or any of 
 them, as the case may be. 
 
 (5.) The members of a joint committee appointed under this Act 
 shall be appointed at such times and in such manner as may be 
 from time to time fixed by the council or court who appointed 
 them, and shall hold office for such time as may be fixed by the 
 council or court who appointed them, so that where any members 
 of the committee were appointed by the county council, such com- 
 mittee do not continue for more than three months after any 
 triennial election of councillors of such county council. 
 
 (6.) The costs of a joint committee shall be defrayed by the 
 
 Appointment 
 of joint 
 committees.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 767 
 
 council by whom any of its members were appointed, or if appointed 
 by more than one council in the proportion a<;reed to by them ; and 
 the accounts of such joint commit.tee and tlieir olHcers shall, for the 
 purposes of tlie jirovisions of this Act, be deemed to be accounts of 
 the county council and their officers. 
 
 (7.) [^Application of aection to count'/ boroughs. Not applicable to 
 London.'] 
 
 fS.) This section shall apjdy to the standinii;- joint committees. 
 
 82. — (1.) A county council appointinu^ under this Act any com- Proceedings 
 mittee may from time to time make, vary, and revoke regulations l^j^t^^g' 
 respecting the quorum and proceedings of such committee, and as 
 to tlie area (if any) within which it is to exercise its authority ; and 
 subject to such regulations the proceedings and quorum and the 
 place of meeting whether within or without the connty, shall be 
 such as the committee may from time to time direct, and the 
 chairman at any meeting of the committee shall have a second or 
 casting vote. 
 
 (2.) Every committee shall report its proceedings to the council 
 by whom it was appointed, but to the extent to which the council so 
 direct, the acts and proceedings of the committee shall not be 
 required by the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, 
 to be submitted to the council for their approval. 
 
 (3.) In the case of a joint committee the councils and courts 
 appointing the joint committee shall jointly have the powers given 
 by this section, and the provisions of this section shall ajjply 
 accordingly. 
 
 Officers. 
 83. Subject to the provisions of this Act for the ])rotection of Clerk of the 
 clerks of the peace holding office at the passing of this Act, the P^go^n^ty 
 following provisions shall have effect : — council. 
 
 (1.) The clerk of the peace of a county, besides acting as clerk of 
 the peace of that county, shall also (subject to the pro- 
 visions of this Act as res])ects jnirticular counties) be the 
 clerk of the county council, and in that capacity is referred 
 to in this Act as the clerk of the county council. \_See 
 )iub-s. 11.] 
 (2.) He shall be from time to time aj)pointed by the standing 
 joint committee of the county council and the ([uartt-r 
 sessions, and may be removed by that joint committee. 
 (3.) \_Clerk of' the peace to be responsible for records and 
 document.'^ of the county. Not applicable to London. 
 !See sfdj-.-<. 1 1 (")■] 
 (4.) The joint committee may ap])oint a deputy clerk to hold office 
 during their })leasure, and to act in lieu of such clerk in 
 case of his death, illness, or absence, or in such (.)ther cases 
 as may be determined by the joint t-ommittee, and wherever 
 the deputy so acts, all things autliorised or reipiircd to be 
 done by, to, or before the clerk of the peace, or clerk of the 
 county council, may be done by, to, or before any such 
 dejjuty ; without ])rejudice to the appointment of a dejjuty 
 clerk ibr the ]iurj)t)se of a second court on the division of 
 the court of quarter sessions lor judicial business. [See 
 sub-s. 11 (<{•).] 
 (5.) The council shall ))ay to the clerk of the peace in respect of 
 his services as clerk of the peace and as clerk of the county
 
 768 [Chap. 41.] Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 council, such salary as may be from time to time fixed 
 under the enactments relating thereto, and all fees and 
 costs payable to the clerk of the peace which are not 
 excluded when the salary of the clerk of the peace is fixed 
 shall be paid to the county fund, and for the purpose of the 
 enactments relating to such salary and fees, the standing 
 joint committee of the county council and the quarter 
 sessions shall be substituted for the quarter sessions and 
 the local authority respectively. 
 (6.) The clerk of the peace, when acting in relation to any 
 business of the county council, and when acting under the 
 Acts relating to the registration of parliamentary voters, 
 or to the deposit of plans or documents, or to jury lists, or 
 to any registration matters, shall act under the direction 
 of the county council, and all enactments relating to such 
 business, registration, or deposit, shall be construed as if 
 clerk of the county council were therein substituted for 
 clerk of the ])eace. 
 
 (11.) The clerk of the peace for the county of London shall be a 
 separate officer from the clerk of the county council for the 
 administrative county of London, and 
 («) the clerk of the peace shall, subject to the directions of 
 the quarter sessions, have charge of and be responsible 
 for the records and documents of those sessions and of 
 the Justices out of session, and the clerk of the county 
 council shall, subject to the directions of the council, 
 have charge of and be responsible for all other documents 
 of the county ; and 
 (J)) the council may from time to time appoint a deputy clerk 
 of the council, and the foregoing provisions of this section 
 with respect to the deputy clerk shall apply ; and 
 (c) the council shall pay to the clerk of the council such salary 
 as may be from time to time fixed by them. 
 (12.) The county council shall cause their clerk or other officer 
 from time to time to send to a ^Secretary of State or the 
 Local Government Board such returns and information as 
 may from time to time be required by either House of 
 Parliament. 
 (13.) Provided always, that no paid clerk or other paid official in 
 the permanent employment of a county council who is 
 required to devote his whole time to such employment 
 shall be eligible to serve in Parliament. 
 [Part omitted {special provisions as to counties other than London).'] 
 
 Appointment 84. (1.) — The salaried clerk of every petty sessional division 
 
 j^ ^^® , shall be from time to time ap{)ointed, and removed, as heretofore. 
 
 clerks and \_See the Justices Clerhs Act 1877, s. 5.] 
 
 clerks of (2.) The county council shall pay to the salaried clerks of petty 
 
 sessional divisions such salaries as maybe fixed under the enact- 
 ments relating to those clerks, and all fees and costs payable to 
 such clerks which are not excluded in the fixing of their salaries 
 shall be jjaid into the county fund, and in the enactments relating 
 to such salaries and fees the standing joint committee shall be 
 substituted for the quarter sessions Justices and the local authority 
 respectively. 
 
 committees.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 769 
 
 Regulations for Bicycles, etc. 
 
 85. — (1.) Tlie provisions of section twftity-six, snb-sectioii five, Rcf^ulatioas 
 of thf Highways and Locomotives (Aiuetulineiit) Act, \><~H, and f''''^J'^'>'^'^*' 
 section twenty-three, sub-section one, of the Municipal (Jorporations 
 Act, 1>^S2, in 80 far as it gives power to the council to make bye- 
 laws regulating the use of carriages iicrein referred to, and all other 
 provisions of any public or private Acts, in so far as they give 
 power to any lo^al authority to make byelaws for regulating the 
 nse of bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, and other similar machines, 
 are hereby repealed, and bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, and other 
 .similar macthines are hereby declared to be carriages within the 
 meaning of the Highway Acts ; and the following additional regu- 
 lations shall be observed by any person or })ersons riding or being 
 .upon such carriage : — 
 
 (fi.') l')uring tlie period between one hour after sunset and one 
 
 hour before sunrise, every person riding or being u])on 
 
 such carriage shall carry attached to the carriage a lam]), 
 
 which sliall be so constructed and placed as to exhibit a 
 
 light in the direction in which he is ])roceeding, and so 
 
 lighted and kept lighted, as to aiford adeijuate means of 
 
 signalling tlie ap])roach or position of the carriage ; 
 
 ip.) Upon overtaking any cart or carriage, or any horse, mule, 
 
 or other beast of burden, or any foot passenger, being on 
 
 or ])rocecding along the carriage way, every such ]terson 
 
 shall within a reasonable distance from and before ]jassing 
 
 such cart or carriage, horse, mule, or other ])east of burden, 
 
 or such foot passenger, by sounding a bell or whistle, or 
 
 otherwise, give audible and sufficient warning of the 
 
 approach of the carriage. 
 
 •(■2.) Any person summarily convicted of offending against the 
 
 regulations made l)y this section, shall for each and every such 
 
 offence, forfeit and j)ay any sum not exceeding forty shillings. 
 
 Adaptation of Acts. 
 86. For the j)urpose of adapting the Acts relating to ])aui)er Adaptation 
 lunatic asvlums to the provisions of this Act, the following provisions °/.!i?"f^l';., 
 shall have ettect : — 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 (5.) Any asylum jirovided in whole or in ])art at the cost of a 
 county shall for the purposes of this Act be included in 
 the expression " county lunatic asylum." 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 l^Parts omitted (a,s to the adaptation of the Lunatic Asylum Acts 
 lo the procisionfi of this Act) rep. by the Lunacy Act ls90, .n-. 342.] 
 
 87. — (1.) Where the Local Government Board are authorised by Application 
 this Act to make any imiuirv, to determine anv difference, to make '^H'™"!;'.?"^ 
 or confirm any order, to frame any scheme, or to give any consent, vict. c. 5'. 
 sanction, or approval to any matter, or otherwise to act under this as to local. 
 Act, thev mav cause to be made a local imiuirv, and in that case, »'»q"|r|es and 
 and also in a case where they are retjuired by this Act to cause to orders, 
 be made a local impiiry, sections two hundred and ninety-three to 
 two hundred and ninety-six,* both inclusive, of the Public Health 
 Act, l;?i7o, shall aiiply as if they were herein re-enacted, and in 
 -terms made applicable to this Act. 
 
 • See 54 &, 55 Vict. c. 76, 1st schedule. 
 
 49
 
 :u 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Goveniment Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict .J 
 
 Adaptation 
 of Act to 
 metropolis. 
 
 (2.) Sections two hnudred and ninety-seven and two hundred and 
 ninety-eight* of the Public Health Act, 1875 (which relate to the 
 making of provisional orders by the Local Government Board)^ 
 shall apply for the purposes of this Act as if they were herein 
 re-enacted, and in terms made applicable thereto. 
 
 (3.) Provided that, where a provisional order transfers to county 
 councils generally any powers, duties, or liabilities of Her Majesty's 
 Privy Council, a Secretary of State, the Local Government Board,, 
 or other Government department, it shall not be necessary to hold 
 a local inquiry nor to advertise in any local newspaper. 
 
 (4.) Where any matter is authorised or required by this Act to be 
 prescribed, and no other provision is made declaring how the same 
 is to be prescribed, the same shall be prescribed from time to time 
 by the Local Government Board. 
 
 (5.) Where the Board cause any local inquiry to be held under 
 this Act, the costs incurred in relation to such inquiry, including' 
 the salary of any inspector or officer of the Board engaged in such 
 in(|uiry, not exceeding three guineas a day, shall be paid by the 
 councils and other authorities concerned in such inquiry, or by such 
 of them and in such proportions as the Board may direct, and the 
 Board mav certifv the amount of the costs incurred, and anv sum 
 so certified and directed by the Board to be paid by any council 
 or authority shall Ije a debt to the Crown from such council or 
 authority. 
 
 88. In the administrative county of London the following 
 ])rovisions shall have effect : 
 
 («.) The county council may from time to time appoint any fit 
 person to be deputy chairman, and to hold office during 
 the term of office of the cliairman, and may pay to such 
 deputy chairman such remuneration as the county council 
 may from time to time think tit ; 
 
 {b.) Subject to any rules from time to time made by the county 
 council, anything authorised or required to be done by, to^ 
 or before the chairman, may be done by, to, or before such 
 deputy chairman. 
 
 Adjustment 
 of law as 
 regards 
 courts, juries, 
 sittings, and 
 legal proceed- 
 ings in 
 Middlesex 
 and London. 
 4 & 5 Will. 4, 
 c. 36. 
 6 Geo. 4. c. 50. 
 
 [Part omitted {applying s. 191 of the Public Health Act 1875 to 
 the Metropolis and as to medical ojficer of health) rep. 54 k 55 Vict, 
 c. 76, s. 142.] 
 
 89. — (1.) The Centra] Criminal Court Act, 1834, shall be con- 
 strued as if the county of London were throughout mentioned 
 therein as well as the county of Middlesex. 
 
 (2.) The County Juries Act, 1825, and the Acts amending the 
 same, shall apply to the county of London in like manner as they 
 apply to the county of Middlesex, and persons shall be qualified to 
 serve as jurors, and lists of jurors shall be made out in like manner, 
 so nearly as circumstances admit, as in that county ; and the 
 present exemption of inhabitants of the liberty and city of West- 
 minster from serving on juries at quarter sessions for the county of 
 Middlesex shall cease ; but nothing in this section shall alter the 
 qualification of persons to serve as jurors within the city of London. 
 
 (3.) Subject to rules of court made by the authority having power 
 to make rules for the Supreme Court of Judicature, the county of 
 London and the countv of Middlesex shall be deemed to be one 
 
 V 
 
 * See Appendix.
 
 [51 &52 Vict.] Local Govemmfiid Art 1888. [Chap. 41.J 771 
 
 county for the purpose of all legal proceedings, civil or criminal, iu 
 the Supreme Court or ("entral Criminal Conrt, or any other court 
 except the court of <|uarter sessions, and also for the purpose of 
 the sittings of the Supreme (!ourt, Central ( 'riminal Court, or such 
 other court as aforesaid, or of any judge of any of such courts, and 
 also for the i)ur];)ose of any jury, and of any court of assize, oyer 
 and terminer, and gaol delivery ; and all enactments, rules, orders, 
 and documents referring to IMiddlcsex sliall he construed so as to 
 give efiV'ct to this section ; and rules of court may he from time to 
 time made for the ])urpose of carrying this section into effect, and 
 for regulating the issue of precepts to the sheriffs of the counties of 
 London and jMiddlesex for the return of jurors, and tlie jurors so 
 returned shall have the same ])owcrs, duties, and lial)ilities as if the 
 two counties were one county. 
 
 90. [/// the adjastment between the counties of Surrey and Middle- 
 sex and London^ the annual sums jjat/able hj Surrey and Middlesex 
 in respect of certain hridye.s in pursuance of the Metropolis loll 
 liridqes Act 1S77 were to he deemed liabilities and to he considered 
 Upon such adjustment. Spt'ntJ] 
 
 91. The Acts relating to the general and local militia of the rest Adjustment 
 of England and Wales shall applv to tlie whole of the countv of ?;" ff e^rds the 
 
 o. 11 iii 1 -'lUitia Acts. 
 
 London m like manner as they apply to any county at large ; and 
 accordingly Her Majesty shall from time to time a])])oint a lieutenant 
 of the county of London, provided that nothing in this section shall 
 affect section fifty of the Militia Act, 1882. 45&4t3 Vict. 
 
 ^ ' c. 49. 
 
 Savifiys. 
 
 92.— CI.) Nothing in this Act, nor anything done in pursuance of 'having for 
 this Act, shall alter the limits of any parliamentary borough or parUa. 
 parliamentary county, or the right of any person to be registered as mentary 
 a voter at any parliamentary election. elections. 
 
 (2.) AVhere ])y virtue of the provisions of this Act with respect to 
 the county of London ... a })lace situate in a ])arliamentary county 
 becomes i)art of the county of a council other than the council 
 having authority over the largest part of the parliamentary county, 
 that is to say, the part which contains the largest number of occu- 
 pation voters, then, for the ])urpose of making out and revising the 
 lists of voters, of conducting any ])arlia!neutary eh'ction, of jKjlling 
 districts, and assigning polling ])Iact's, and for all |»urposes of and 
 incidental to such matters, including the payment of expenses, such 
 place shall be deemed to be ]>art of the same county as the said 
 largest j)art of the said parliamentary county, and the sheriff, 
 council, clerk of the peace,* authorities, and officers of that county 
 shall have authority accordingly in the said place, and the provisions 
 of the Registration Act, 18^5, with respect to parliamentary counties -i^^^fc 4it Vi.t. 
 extending into more county ({uarter sessional areas than one, sliall 
 api)ly with tlie necessary modifii'ations. 
 
 (3.) Provided that the clerk of the peace * who receives from the 
 revising barrister the lists of voters in any such place shall supply 
 to any other clerk of the jieace * or other officer such number of 
 revised lists as he may require for the j)urpose of making up a 
 register of county electors. 
 
 {_Part omitted (as to certain urban sanitary districts) not applicable 
 to London."] 
 
 * See the County Electors Act 1888, s. 14. (^See Appendix.)
 
 112 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Loca'i Goveniment Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 Saving for 
 Metropolitan 
 and City 
 Police. 
 
 49 & 50 Vict. 
 c. 38. 
 
 Saving for 
 Metropolitan 
 Common 
 Poor Fund. 
 
 Saving as to 
 Middlesex, 
 Surrey, and 
 Kent. 
 
 Saving for 
 Middlesex 
 Land 
 Registry. 
 
 Saving as to 
 liability for 
 main roads. 
 
 Saving for 
 powers of 
 Commis- 
 sioners of In- 
 land Pvevenue 
 and Customs. 
 
 Definition of 
 '• written." 
 
 93. — (1.) Nothing in this Act shall alter the metropolitan yjolice 
 district, nor (save as is expressly provided with respect to 
 contributions in substitution for local grants) affect the Metropolitan 
 Police Force, or the raising of money for the same, and nothing in 
 this Act shall affect the police of the city of London. 
 
 (2.) Nothing in this Act shall authorise any county council to 
 raise any sum for the purposes of any police force by any contri- 
 bution or rate levied within the metroj)olitan police district ; and 
 nothing in this Act shall alter the authority under the Riot 
 (Damages) Act, 1886, within the metropolitan jjolice district or 
 the city of London. 
 
 94. The grant made by the County Council of London in respect 
 of indoor paupers shall be in addition to any payment made out of 
 the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and nothing in this Act shall 
 affect the enactments relating to the fund. \_See s. 43, and 30 & 31 
 Vict. c. 6, ss. 66 and 72.] 
 
 95. — (1.) Any enactment providing that any magistrate, com- 
 missioner, or other officer shall be a Justice of the Peace for 
 Middlesex, shall be construed to refer to the county of London as 
 well as the county of Middlesex. 
 
 (2.) Where any enactment, deed, instrument, or document refers 
 to the county of Middlesex, Surrey, or Kent, such enactment, 
 deed, instrument, or document shall be construed to apply to the 
 same area to which it would have applied if this Act had not 
 jmssed, except where such application is inconsistent with this 
 Act, or where the object of such enactment, deed, instrument, or 
 document requires that it shall be construed to apply to the county 
 of London. 
 
 96. Nothing in this Act shall alter the area to which the enact- 
 ments relating to the registration of land in the county of Middlesex 
 apply, and any reference in those enactments or in any deed, 
 instrument, or document made or issued under or" for the purpose 
 of those enactments, to the county of Middlesex, shall be construed 
 to apply to the same area to which it would have applied if this Act 
 had not passed. 
 
 97. Nothing in this Act with respect to main roads shall alter 
 the liability of any j^erson or body of persons, corporate or unin- 
 corporate, not being a highway autliority, to maintain and repair 
 any road or part of a road. 
 
 98. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing sections of this 
 Act, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue and the Commissioners 
 of Customs, and the officers of those Commissioners respectively, 
 shall have the same powers in relation to any articles subject to any 
 duty of customs or excise, manufactured, imported, kept for sale, or 
 sold, and any premises where the same may be, and to any machinery, 
 apparatus, vessels, utensils, or conveyances used in connexion there- 
 with or the removal thereof, and in relation to the person manu- 
 facturing, importing, keeping for sale, or having the custody of the 
 same, as they would have had if this Act had not passed, and any 
 licences transferred in pursuance of this Act had continued to be 
 granted by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue. 
 
 Definitions. 
 
 99. All notices and documents required by this Act to be in 
 writing may be in writing or print, or partly in writing and partly
 
 [51 & o2 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 773 
 
 in i)ririt, and for the pnrposps of this section " print " includes any 
 mechanical mode of reproduction. [_See ai.so tin- Interpretation Art 
 1889, .s. 20.] 
 
 100. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, tlie Interpreta- 
 following terms have the meanings herein-after respectively |.g^^jj ^^.^^^^ 
 assigned to them ; that is to say : in the Act. 
 
 The expression "county '" d(j(;s not include a county oi' a city or 
 county of a town : 
 
 The expression " entire county " means, in the case of a county 
 divided into administrative counties, the whole of the county 
 formed by those administrative counties : 
 
 The expression '* division of a county," in the provisions ol' this 
 Act resj)ecting the property of quarter sessions, includes any 
 hundred, lathe, wa])entake, or other like division : 
 
 The expression "administrative county," means the area for 
 which a county council is elected in pursuance of this Act, 
 but does not (except where expressly mentioned) include a 
 county borough : 
 
 The expression " metro]iolis " means the city of London and the 
 parishes and places mentioned in Schetlules A., B., and < '. 
 to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, as amended byi8&i9Vict. 
 subse({uent Acts : ^* 
 
 \_T/ie e.r/jres.v'on '•^ horancili'''' means an;/ plare for the time heini/ 
 subject to the Muniripal (Corporations Act, 1882, and tiny 
 reference to the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of a borough 
 shall include a reference to the mayor, aldermen, and citizens 
 of a city : 
 
 The expression " quarter sessions borough " meana a borough 
 hacing a separate court of (piarter ses.sions and includes a 
 county of a city and a county of a town, subject to the 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 :] 
 
 The expression " quarter sessions " as respects any county, riding, 
 division, or liberty, means the Justices in quarter or general 
 sessions assembled, and includes Justices assembled in gaol 
 sessions, annual general sessions, and adjourned sessions, «//^/ 
 «* respects any borough, mean.s any court oj (piarter or 
 general sessions held for the borough or for any county of a 
 city or toicn consisting of the borough, whether held by the 
 recorder or by Justices, and as respects the city of London, 
 means the court of the mayor and aldermen in the inner 
 chamber : 
 
 The exjjression " parish " means a place for which a separate 
 overseer is or can be a]»pt>inted, and where part of a parish is 
 situate within, and ]»art of it without, any county, borough, 
 nrbiin sanitary district, or other urea, means each such 
 part : 
 
 The expressions " jiarliamentary county," and " j)arliameutary 
 election," and " ])arliainentary voters," have the same 
 meaning as in the Kegistration Act, 1x8."^ and the Acts^'j. 
 therein referred to : 
 
 The expression " Secretary of State " means one of Her Majesty's 
 principal Secretaries of State : 
 
 The expression "Treasury" means the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Treasury : 
 
 The expression -Bank of England" means the Governor and 
 Company of the Bank of England :
 
 4 &; 5 W. i 
 c. 76. 
 
 c 
 
 774 [Chap. 41.] Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 The expression " existing " means existing at the time specified 
 in the enactment in which the expression is used, and if no 
 such time is expressed, tlien at the day appointed to be for 
 the purpose of such enactment the appointed day : 
 
 The expression " guardians " means guardians elected under the 
 Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, and the Acts amending the 
 same, and includes guardians or other bodies of persons per- 
 forming under any local Act the like functions to guardians 
 under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 : 
 
 The expression " poor law union " means any parish or union of 
 parishes for which there is a separate board of guardians : 
 
 The ^expressions ''district council" and " county district " mean 
 respectively any district council established for purposes of 
 local government under an Act of any future session of 
 Parliament, and the district under the management of such 
 council, and until such council is established, mean respec- 
 tively — 
 {a.) as regards the provisions of this Act relating to highways 
 and main roads, a highway authority and highway area ; 
 and 
 (^.) save as aforesaid, an urban or rural sanitary authority 
 38 & 39 Vict. within the meanino: of the Public Health Act, 1875, and 
 
 the district of such authority : 
 
 The expression " highway area,'' means, as the case may require, 
 an urban sanitary district, a highway district, or a highway 
 parish not included within any highway or urban sanitary 
 district : 
 
 The expression " highway authority" means, as respects an urban 
 sanitary district, the urban sanitary authority, and as respects 
 a highway district, the highway board, or authority having 
 the powers of a highway board, and as respects a highway 
 parish, the surveyor or surveyors of highways or other officers 
 performing similar duties : 
 
 The expression " urban authority " means, until the establishment 
 of district councils as aforesaid, an urban sanitary authority ; 
 and after their establishment, the district council of an urban 
 county district : 
 
 \_The expression '-'■ rural authority'''' means, nntil the establishment 
 of district councils as aforesaid, a rural sanitary authority ; 
 and, after their establishment, the district council of a rural 
 county district ;] 
 
 The expression " person " includes any body of persons, whether 
 corporate or unincorporate : \Jiee also the Inter^jretation Act 
 1889, s. 19.] 
 
 Any expression referring to the value of any parish, borough, or 
 area as ascertained by the standard or basis for the county 
 rate or contributions shall, where any rateable value has been 
 fixed by agreement between the councils of any county and 
 county boroughs be that value, and subject thereto shall, in 
 the case of any parish, borough, or area for which there is no 
 such standard or basis, refer to the total rateable value as 
 determined by the last valuation lists, or if there is no 
 valuation list, by the last poor rates for such parish or the 
 parishes comprised in such borough or area ; and where an 
 area is authorised or directed by this Act to be assessed to 
 any contributions or rates, the same shall, unless otherwise
 
 ,[51 & 52 Vict.] Local Govemmenf Art 1888. [Chai'. 41.] 
 
 provided by law, be assessed according to the staridard or 
 basis for the county rate : 
 
 The expression "})roperty" includes all propfrty, real and per- 
 sonal, and all estates, interests, easements, and ri<rlits, wliethei 
 e([uital)le or legal, in, to, and out of j)i-operty real and personal, 
 including things in action, and registers, books, and docu- 
 ments ; and when used in relation to any (juarter sessions, 
 ■clerk of the peace. Justices, board, sanitary authority, or other 
 iiuthority, includes any property whicii on the a])pointed <lay 
 belongs to, or is vested in, or held in trust for, (jr would but 
 for this Act have, on or after that day, belonged to, or been 
 vested in, or held in trust for, such (piarter sessions, clerk of the 
 peace, Justices, board, sanitary authority, or otlier authority : 
 . . . \_Part oinifti'(/ i.s .sprridl to fill' coa/it'/ of ('ln'.st('r.~\ 
 
 'The expression " powers " includes rights, jurisdiction, caj)acities, 
 privileges, and immunities : 
 
 'The expression " duties " includes res])onsibilities and obligations : 
 
 The expression "liabilities" inchuh's lialjility to any proceeding 
 for enforcing any duty or for punishing the breacii of any 
 dutv, and includes all debts and liabilities to which anv 
 authority are or would but for this Act be lial)le or subject to, 
 whether accrued due at the date of the transfer or subse- 
 quently accruing, and includes any obligation to carry or 
 apply any money to any sinking fund or to any particular 
 purpose : 
 
 The expression " powers, duties, and liabilities." includes all 
 powers, duties, and liabilities conferred or imposed by or 
 arising under any local and personal Act : 
 
 The expression " ex])enses " includes cost and charges : 
 
 The ex})ression " costs " includes charges and expenses : 
 
 The costs of assizes and of (puirter and ])etty sessions include 
 such of the following costs as are aj)]ilicable, that is to say, 
 the costs of maintaining and providing the courts and offices 
 and the Judge's lodgings, the salaries and reuiuneration of a 
 <;hairmau of quarter sessions, clerks of assize, clerks of the 
 peace, clerks of the Justices, and other officers, the costs of 
 the jury lists, the costs of rewards ordered to be paid by the 
 court, the costs of prosecutions including the costs of the 
 defendant's witnesses, and all other costs incidental to the 
 assizes, quarter sessions, petty sessions, or the Judges : . . . 
 [Part omitted (as to ijuarter sessio/is borouifhs) not applicable 
 to London. ~\ 
 
 The ex})ression *' assizes " includes the Central Criminal Court : 
 
 The ex])ression " pension " includes any superannuation allowance, 
 gratuity, or other payment made on the retirement of any 
 officer : 
 
 The expression "office" includes any place, situation, or employ- 
 ment, and the expression " othcer " shall be construed 
 accordingly : 
 
 The expression "main road" when used in relation to the district 
 of any highway or road authority, means so much of the 
 main roail as is situate within the district of such authority. 
 
 In relation to the election of county councillors, the day of 
 nomination shall be deemed to be the day on which the names of 
 the persons nominated are iixed on the Town Hall or other con- 
 spicuous })lace.
 
 <76 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict. J 
 
 Extent of 
 Act. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Appointed 
 dav. 
 
 As to com- 
 mission of 
 t}ie peace for 
 London. 
 
 \Parts in italics and parts omitted {definitions of " divisions of 
 Lincolnshire " and of " County and Borough Police Act 
 1856 ") 7iot applicable to L^ondoti.'] 
 
 101. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. 
 
 102. This Act may be cited as the Local Government Act, ISSS^ 
 
 PART YI. 
 
 Tkansitory Provisions. 
 103 — 108. \_As to first election ofi county councillors — Retirement 
 ofi first county councillors — First proceedings of provisional council 
 — Casual vacancies at first election — Potrer of Local Government 
 Board to remedy defects. Spent. ~\ 
 
 Appointed Day. 
 
 109. — (1.) Subject as in this Act mentioned, the appointed day 
 for the purposes of this Act shall in each county be the first day of 
 April next after the passing thereof, or such other day, earlier or 
 later, as the Local Government Board (but after the election of 
 county councillors for such county on the application of the pro- 
 visional council or county council) may appoint, either generally or 
 with reference to any particular provision of this Act, and different 
 days may be appointed for different purposes and different provisions 
 of this Act, whether contained in the same section or in different 
 sections or for different counties. 
 
 (2.) Auv enactment of this Act authorising; anvthino- to be done 
 by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or the Local Government 
 Board, or relating to the registration of electors, or to the elections,. 
 or to any matter required to be done for the pur])Ose of bringing this 
 Act into operation on the appointed day, shall come into effect on the 
 passing of this Act ; but, save as aforesaid, and save so far as there 
 may be anything in the context inconsistent therewith, any enactment 
 of this Act shall come into operation on the appointed day. 
 
 110 — 112. [^Transitional proceedings as to current rates and 
 jury lists, lunatic asylums, and the Contagious Diseases (A7iimals) 
 Acts. Spent. ^ 
 
 113. \_Transitory provisions as to the sheriffs of London and 
 Middlesex. Speiit.'] 
 
 114. \_As to existing coroners for Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, 
 S/jent. See Orders in Council dated 2bth August 1892 and 2lst 
 May 1894.] 
 
 115. ...... 
 
 (5.) The fees payable to the clerk of the peace and clerks of the 
 Justices, and other officers and authorities in Middlesex, at the 
 passing of this Act, shall be the first fees which may be taken in 
 the county of London by the clerk of the peace, the clerks to the 
 Justices, and other officers and authorities in the county of London, 
 and may continue to be taken until they are abolished or altered in 
 manner provided by law with respect to the abolition and alteration 
 of such fees. 
 
 [Part omitted (as to commission of the peace for London) super- 
 seded by Order of the Secretary of State, dated 2Ath March 1892.] 
 
 116. [As to places for holding quarter sessions. Superseded. 
 See s. 42 (7) and Scheme thereunder approved by the Secretary of 
 State on the 2Ath March 1892.]
 
 [5] & 02 Vict.] Local Gocemment Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 777 
 
 117. — (1.) Notliitiji- ill tliis Act sliiill prevent a person who is an Astoexist- 
 existin*^ Justice of the Peace for any of the counties of Middlesex, jn^me'trorioUfi. 
 Surrey, or Kent, from continninj; to be a Justice of the Peace for 
 that county, and every such person and also every person who at 
 the ap])ointed day is a Justice of the Peace for the liherty and city 
 of Westminster, the liberty of the Tower of London, or anv liberty 
 which by virtue of this Act becomes part of the county of London, 
 shall, if and so long as he is resident or occupies })roperty in the 
 county of London, be a Justice of the Peace for that county in like 
 manner as if he were assi^nied ])y a commission of the })eace, but 
 a j)erson shall not al'ter the passing of this Act be named in any 
 commission as a Justice of the Peace for any liberty which by virtue 
 of this Act becomes part of the county of London. 
 
 (2.) Provided always, that the ])rovisions of this set'tion shall 
 not apply to any Justice of the Peace of the counties of Surrey, 
 Kent, or Middlesex, or either of them, so long as he shall hold any 
 office connected with any court of quarter sessions of the county of 
 London. 
 
 (:i.) [.l5 to existing visiting committees of j) 7- i sons in the count;/ of 
 London. Spent.'] 
 
 (4.) Where a person is a Justice of the Peace in and for the 
 county of London by reason of his being personally declared by this 
 Act to be a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of London, 
 the Lord High C'hancellor shall have the same power of removing 
 such })erson from being a Justice of the Peace as if he were named 
 in a commission of the peace. 
 
 (5.) \_Assistant Judge of the sessions of the peace for Middlesex to 
 be thefrst cJiairnum of London Quarter Sessions. Spent.] 
 
 (6.) Nothing in this Act shall affect existing deputy lieutenants 
 a])pointed by the Constable of the Tower of London as Lord 
 Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. 
 
 Existing Officers. 
 
 118. — (1.) A person holding office at the apjiointed day as clerk Existing 
 of the j)e<ice of a county, . . . if a])pointed before the ])assing of this ^^"^.^^^jj^^ ® 
 Act shall, notwithstanding anything in this Act, hold his. offices otLtr officers. 
 by the same tenure and have the same power of appointing and 
 acting by a deputy as heretofore in his ca])acity of clerk of the peace. 
 [/Va/Y omitted {existing clerks of the peace of counties to be clerks of 
 the countg councils) not (ijjplicable to London. See s. S3 (11).] 
 
 (2.) A person holding office at the passing of this Act as clerk of 
 the peace, clerk of the general assessment sessions, or salaried clerk 
 of a petty sessional division, shall be deemed to be an existing 
 officer within the meaning of the i)rovisions of this Act relating to 
 compensation to existing officers who suffer jjccuniary loss. 
 
 (3.) — (7.) \_As to Clerks of the Peace for Sussex, Sujfolk, and 
 Lancaster.] 
 
 (8.) The person who, at the appointed day, is Clerk of the Peace 
 for Middlesex, if he held offii-e at the ]iassing of this Act, shall 
 continue to be that clerk, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, 
 shall also be the tirst Clerk of the Peace for the county of London, 
 and shall, notwithstaudint; anything in this Act, hold the office of 
 clerk of the peace for each of the said counties by the same tenure 
 and have the same power of appointing and acting by a deputy as 
 heretofore.
 
 778 [Chap. 41.] Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 (9.) [.4^- to the Clerks of Gaol Sessions in Yorkshire and Lincoln- 
 shire?^ 
 
 (lo.) {_As to existing Clerk of the Peace for Surre>j. Spent.'] 
 
 (11.) The persons who at the appointed day are salaried clerks 
 for the petty sessional divisions, wholly or in part in the county of 
 London shall, if appointed before the passing of this Act, be as to 
 so much of such divisions as are in the county of London, the first 
 salaried clerks of the petty sessional divisions of the county of 
 London, and as to so much of such divisions as are not in the 
 county of London, such persons shall also be the first salaried clerks 
 of the petty sessional divisions of the counties in which such parts 
 are situate. 
 
 (12.) In the case of any of the following persons who, by virtue 
 of this Act, become Clerk of the Peace for the county of London or 
 salaried clerks of petty sessional divisions for the county of London, 
 . . . their services as such clerks after the appointed day in the 
 county of London, . . , shall be deemed to be a continuous service 
 with their service as clerks of the peace and clerks of petty sessional 
 divisions in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent respec- 
 tively. . . . \_P arts. omitted relate speciallij to the existing clerks of 
 the peace for Surrey, Sussex, and Suffolk!] 
 
 (13.) All persons who at the appointed day hold ofiice as county 
 treasurer, . . . county solicitor, or county surveyor, or are officers 
 (whether inspectors of weights and measures, ... or other) of the 
 quarter sessions or Justices of the county, or of the assessment 
 sessions in the metropolis, or any committee of such Justices or any 
 committee of visitors for lunatic asylums, or are servants under 
 such sessions or Justices and perform any duties in respect of the 
 business transferred by or in pursuance of this Act to the county 
 council, shall become the officers and servants of the county council. 
 [Paj'ts omitted {as to county auditor, public analysts, inspectors of 
 'petroleum and explosi):es) not applicable to London.] 
 
 (14.) All persons who at the appointed day are officers and servants 
 of the Metropolitan Board of Works shall become the officers and 
 servants of the London County Council. 
 
 (15.) — (16.) \_As to police. Xot aprplicable to London. See s. 93.] 
 
 As to officers 119.— (1.) The officers and servants of the quarter sessions or 
 transferred o;eneral assessment sessions, or Justices, or any committee of such 
 councils.' sessions or Justices, or of any committee of visitors for lunatic 
 asylums, or of the Metropolitan Board of AVorks, or other authority, 
 who held office at the passing of this Act, and who by virtue of this 
 Act become officers and serv'ants of a county council (in this Act 
 referred to as existing officers), shall hold their offices by the same 
 tenure and upon the same terms and conditions as if this Act had 
 not passed, and while performing the same duties, shall receive not 
 less salaries or remuneration, and be entitled to not less pensions 
 (if any), than they would have if this Act had not passed, and 
 where any such officer can only be removed with the consent of 
 a Secretary of State or the Local Government Board, such consent 
 shall be part of the tenure of his office. 
 
 (2.) The county council may distribute the business to be per- 
 formed by existing officers in such manner as the council may think 
 just, and every existing officer shall perform such duties in relation 
 to that business as may be directed by the council. 
 
 (3.) The county council may abolish the office of any existing
 
 [5J & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1^88. [Chap. 41.] 779 
 
 officer whose office they may deem unnecessary, ViTif such officer 
 shall be entitled to compensation under this Act. 
 
 (4.) \_Ah to police. Not applirahb' to Lorulon. See a. 93.] 
 
 120. — (1.) Every existing officer declared l>y this Act to he Compensation 
 entitled to compensation, and every other existing officer, whether to existing 
 before mentioned in this Act or not, who by virtue of this Act, or ^ ^^^' 
 anything done in pursuance of or in conserjuence of this Act, snffVrs 
 any direct j)ecuniary loss by abolition of office or by diminution 
 or loss of fees or salary, shall be entitled to have compensation paid 
 to him for snch pecuniary loss by the county council, to whom the 
 powers of the authority, whose officer he was, are transferred under 
 this Act, regard being had to the conditions on which his apj)oint- 
 ment was made, to the nature of his office or em])loyment. to the 
 duration of his service, to any additional emoluments which he 
 acquires by virtue of this Act or of anything done in pursuance of 
 or in consequence of this Act, and to the emoluments which he 
 might have ac(|uired if he had not refused to accej)t any office 
 offered by any council or other body acting under this Act, and to 
 all the other circumstances of the case, and the compensation shall 
 not exceed the amount which, under the Acts and rules relating 
 to Her Majesty's Civil IService, is paid to a person on abolition 
 of office. 
 
 (2.) Every person who is entitled to compensation, as above 
 mentioned, shall deliver to the county council a claim under his 
 hand setting forth the whole amount received and exj)ended by him 
 or his predecessors in office, in every year during the j)eriod of five 
 years next before the passing of this Act, on account of the emolu- 
 ments for which he claims compensation, distinguishing the offices 
 in respect of which the same have been received, and accompanied 
 bv a statutorv declaration under the Statutorv Declaration Act, 5x0 Will. 4. 
 1835, that the same is a true statement according to the best of his ^- *^2. 
 knowledge, information, and belief. 
 
 (3.) Such statement shall be submitted to the county council, 
 who shall forthwith take the same into consideration, and assess 
 the just amount of compensation (if any), and shall forthwith 
 inform the claimant of their decision. 
 
 (4.) If a claimant is aggrieved by the refusal of the county 
 council to grant any comj)ensation, or by the amount of com- 
 pensation assessed, or if not less than one third of the members 
 •of such council subscribe a protest against the amount of the com- 
 pensation as being excessive, the claimant or any subscriber to such 
 protest (as the case may l)e) may, within three months after the 
 decision of the council, apjteal to the Treasury, who shall ennsider 
 the case ami determine whetiier any coni])ensation, and if so, what 
 .a,mount ought to be granted to tin* claimant, and such determination 
 shall be final. 
 
 (5.) Any claimant under this section, if so re(|uiied by any 
 member of the county council, shall attend at a meeting of the 
 ■council and answer u]»on oath, which any .lustice present may 
 administer, all questions asked by any member of the council 
 touching the matters set forth in his claim, and shall further 
 produce all books, pa])ers, and documents in his possession c»r 
 •imder his control relatiui; to such claiui. 
 
 (6.) The sum payable as compensation to any j)ersou in pursuance 
 of this section shall commence to be payable at the date fixed by
 
 780 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Goceniment Act 1888. [51 & 52 Yict.^ 
 
 the council on granting the compensation, or, in case of appeal, by 
 the Treasury, and shall be a specialty debt due to him from the 
 county council, and may be enforced accordingly in like manner a& 
 if the council had entered into a bond to pay the same. 
 
 (7.) If a person receiving compensation in pursuance of this section 
 is appointed to any office under the same or any other county council, 
 or by virtue of this Act, or anything done in pursuance of or in con- 
 sequence of this Act, receives any increase of emoluments of the 
 office held by him, he shall not. while receiving the emoluments 
 of that office, receive any greater amount of his compensation, if 
 any, than, with the emoluments of the said office, is equal to the 
 emoluments for which compensation was granted to him, and if 
 the emoluments of the office he holds are equal to or greater 
 than the emoluments for which compensation was granted, his 
 compensation shall be suspended while he holds such office. 
 
 (8.) All expenses incurred by a county council in pursuance of 
 this section shall be paid out of the county fund, as a payment 
 for general county purposes. 
 
 121. \_Tempo)'ary procision as to grant from the Exchequer for 
 the year ending 31.5/' March 1889. Spent.'] 
 
 Sacings. 
 
 Saving for 
 existing 
 
 122. — (1.) Nothing in this Act shall prejudicially affect any 
 securities granted before the passing of this Act on the credit of 
 disSgeof^^^y rate or of any property by this Act transferred to a county 
 debts. council : and all such securities, as well as all unsecured debts, 
 
 liabilities, and obligations incurred bv anv authoritv in the exercise 
 of any powers or in relation to any property transferred from them 
 to the county council under this Act shall be discharged, jmid, and 
 satisfied by such council. 
 
 (2.) "Where for the purpose of satisfying any such security or any 
 debt or liability, it is necessary to continue the levy of any rate or 
 the exercise of any power which would have existed but for the 
 provisions of this Act, such rate may continue to be levied and 
 j)Ower to be exercised either by the authority who otherwise would 
 have levied or exercised the same or by the county council as the 
 case may require. 
 
 (3.) It shall be the duty of every authority whose powers, duties,, 
 and liabilities are transferred to any council by this Act to liquidate 
 so far as practicable before the appointed day all current debts and. 
 liabilities incurred by such authority. 
 
 123. All such byelaws, orders, and regulations of the Privr 
 Council, Secretary 'of State, Board of Trade, Local Government 
 Board, or Government department, or of any quarter sessions, 
 council of a borough, the Metropolitan Board of Works, or other 
 authority, whose j)Owers and duties are transferred by or in pur- 
 suance of this Act to any county council, as are in force at the time 
 of the transfer, shall, so' far as they relate to or are in pursuance of 
 the powers and duties transferred, continue in force as if they had 
 been made by such council, subject, nevertheless, to revocation or 
 alteration by such council in the manner in which byelaws can be 
 made by such council, and also to any exceptions or modifications 
 which may be made at the time of the transfer. 
 
 Saving for 
 
 existing 
 
 bvelaws.
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] Local Government Act 1888. [Chap. 41.] 781 
 
 124.— (1.) If at the date of the transfer ill this section mentioned having for 
 any action or ymxiet'djng, or any cause of action or proceeding, is a^"ioI^f con- 
 pending or existing by or against any authority in relation to any tracts, et*.-. 
 pow(M-s, duti(!S, lial)ilities, or property by this Act transferred to the 
 <'ounty council, the same shall not be in anywise prejudicially 
 alfected by reason of the passing of this Act, but may ]>e continued, 
 prosecuted, and enforced by or against such council as successors 
 of the said authority in like manner as if this Act had not been 
 passed. 
 
 (2.) All contracts, deeds, bomls, agreements, and other instru- 
 ments entered into or made andsul)sisting at the time of the transfer 
 in this section mentioned, and atfecting any such powers, duties, 
 liabilities, or ])roperty of any authority as are by this Act trans- 
 ferred to a county council, shall bo of as full force and effect 
 atrainst or in favour of the council, and mav be enforced as fuUv 
 and effectually, as if, instead of the authority, the said council liad 
 been a party thereto. 
 
 (3.) AH contracts or agreements which prior to the ajipointed 
 day have been made by the clerk of tlie ])eace or any Justice or 
 Justices or otherwise on behalf of a county, or any division or 
 part of a county, shall have effect as if the council of that county 
 liad been named therein instead of the clerk of the peace or such 
 Justice or Justices, and may be enforced by or against the county 
 ■council accordingly. 
 
 (4.) This section shall ap})ly in the case of a committee of any 
 authority in like manner as if the committee were such authority, 
 and the committee of a county council were that council, and as if 
 contracts and agreements l)y any such committee appointed by 
 quarter sessions were contracts and agreements on behalf of a 
 •county. 
 
 125. Save so far as may be necessary to give effect to this Act ^saving for 
 or any scheme or order or other thing made or done thereunder J^^caVActs 
 nothing in this Act shall prejudicially alter or affect the powers, etc. 
 rights, privileges, or immunities of any municipal corporation, or 
 
 the operation of any municipal charter, local Act of Parliament, 
 or order confirmed by Parliament, which immediately before the 
 passing of this Act was in force. 
 
 Repeals. 
 
 126. All enactments inconsistent with this Act are hereby Kepal of 
 repealed; Provided that — 
 
 (1.) Any enactment or document referring to any Act or enact- 
 ment hereby repealed shall be construed to refer to this 
 Act, or to the corresponding enactment in this Act : 
 (2.) This repeal sluill not affect — 
 
 (a.) The past operation of any enactment hereby repealed, 
 nor anything duly done or suffered under any enaitment 
 hereby repealed ; or 
 
 {b.) Any right, privilege, obligation, or liability ac([uired, 
 accrued, or incurred under or in accordance with any 
 enactment hereby repealed : or 
 
 {c.) Any penalty, forfeiturt', or punishment incurred in resj)ect 
 of auA' offence committed ajjainst anv enactment herebv 
 repealed ; or 
 
 Acts.
 
 782 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1888. [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 Section 20. 
 
 Section 71. 
 
 {(l.) Any power, investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in 
 respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, 
 penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid ; and any 
 such power, investigation, legal proceeding, and remedy 
 may be exercised and carried on as if this Act had not 
 passed. 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 FIRST SCHEDULE. 
 
 Local Taxation Licences. 
 
 Licences for the sale of intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises ; 
 Retailers of spirits (publicans). 
 
 Retailers of spirits, occasional Retailers of cider. 
 
 licences. Retailers of wine. 
 
 Retailers of beer. Retailers of wine, occa- 
 Retailers of beer, occasional sional licences. 
 
 licences. Retailers of sweets. 
 Retailers of beer and wine. 
 
 Licences for the sale of intoxicating liquor by retail, by persons not licensed to 
 deal therein, for consumption off the premises ; 
 
 Retailers of beer. Retailers of wine. 
 
 Retailers of beer and wine. Retailers of sweets. 
 
 Retailers of cider. Retailers of table beer. 
 
 Licences to deal in game. 
 
 Licences for — 
 Beer dealers. 
 Spirit dealers. 
 Sweets dealers. 
 Wine dealers. 
 
 Refreshment house keepers. 
 Dogs. 
 
 Killing game. 
 Guns. 
 Appraisers. 
 Auctioneers. 
 Tobacco dealers. 
 
 Carriages. 
 Trade carts. 
 Locomotives. 
 Horses and mules. 
 Horse dealers. 
 Armorial bearings. 
 Male servants. 
 Hawkers. 
 House agents. 
 Pawnbrokers. 
 Plate dealers. 
 
 SECOND SCHEDULE. 
 
 Alteration of Schedule to District Au(lifor.<^ Act, 1879. (42 & 43 Vict. c. 6.) 
 
 The following scale shall, until otherwise determined by Parliament, be 
 substituted for so much of the scale set forth in the First Schedule to the 
 District Auditors Act, 1879, as relates to expenditure amounting to 100,000/. 
 and upwards. 
 
 Where the Total of the Expenditure comprised in 
 the Financial Statement is 
 
 The Sum shall be 
 
 100,000Z. and under 150,000Z 
 
 150,000/. and under 200,000/ 
 
 200,00U/. and upwards 
 
 50/. 
 60/. 
 
 15/. in addition for every 
 50,000/. or part thereof. 
 
 Third Schedule. [List of county boroughs referred to in ss. 31, 34, 35, 36, 
 and 69. Not a^jplicable to London!]
 
 [51 & o2 Vict.] /, , ..-. j,io^^ LChap. cli.J /83 
 
 •- ' yAiatnaiaviit) Act iss>>. •- -■ 
 
 CHAPTER XXXll. 
 
 An Act to confirm a Provisional Ohi)p:u madk uy onk of Hek 
 Majesty's Principal Skckktauies of State fou modifying 
 THE Metropolis (Whiteciiapel and Limehouse) Improve- 
 ment Scheme, 1876. \txfh .hnie 1888.] 
 
 [Preamble.'] 
 
 1. The Order set out in the Schedule hereunto annexed is hereby (^rAftr in 
 
 COnhrmcd. confirmed. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the ^Metropolis (Whitochapel and short title. 
 Limehouse) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1>>Sn. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 METROPOLIS (WniTFXiLA.VKi. AND Limkhousk) Improvemkxt Scukme 
 
 CitNFIRMATION AcT, 1870. 
 
 [Pmvis/oiKil Order of the Iloine SecreUiry of the 2'dr(l Fehntarif ISSS jjerniittiutj 
 the Metropolititn Hoard of Works, being the local authoriti/ with respect to the 
 Scheme anthorixi'd h>/ 30 a/id 40 Virt. c. re, to iiiodifij the xaiil Scheiur by j/unhusbiff 
 by agreement the pnblir lioiixr knoivn as " the Croicn,'' ond authorisiiif/ the addition 
 of the land .10 acquired t'> the improvement area to which the soul Scheme 
 relates. Spent. 1 
 
 CHAPTER CLI. 
 
 An Act to amend the Hampstead Heath Enlargement Act 
 1886. [T/// Au(/>/st 1N8N.] 
 
 [Preamble recites {inter alia) 50 I'icf. c. xli. {in tJiis Act 
 referred to as " the principal Act ") ; and that the Vestries of 
 Hampstead^ St. Pancras, and St. Marylebone hare resolved to 
 contribute £20,00U, £30,000, aiul £5,000 respectii-eh/ towards the 
 expense of ac(jiiirin(j the Parliament Hill Estates ; and that the 
 Charity Commissioners are prepared to exercise the powers given 
 them by the principal Act ; and that the owners of the lands referred 
 to in such Act as the " Parliament Hill Estates " have offered to 
 sell for the purposes of the principal Act all the land originally 
 intended to be acquired for those purposes with the exception of 
 certain small pieces of land /or tchich other pieces of land of about 
 equal area are intended to be substituted ; ajid that the Parliament 
 Hill Estates were intended to be indicated on the plan signed by 
 Leonard Henry Courtney, the Chairman of the (^ommittee if the 
 House of Commons to which the Pill for the jjrincipal Act was 
 referred, by the colour green, but that the said colour was extended 
 to cover certain land not intended to be included.'] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Ilamjjstead Heath Enlarirement Short title. 
 (Amendment) Act 1888 and the jtrinci^ial Act as amended by this Act to be 
 Act and this Act shall be read and have elK'ct togcthtT as one Act "^^^ '^'^^^ 
 and may be cited together as the Hamjjstead Heath Enlargement Act"^'^* 
 Acts 1886 and 1888. „ ' ,. 
 
 2. Section 2 of the ])rincipal Act so far as it defines the expression definition of 
 " the Parliament Hill Estates " is hereby repealed. Parliament 
 
 „ , . ' • , . 11-4 1 llill Estates. 
 
 3. In and for the purposes of the ])rinci])al Act and this Act the j-j.^^ of 
 
 expression '' the Parliament Hill Estates'' means the lands partly parliament 
 in the parish of Saint Joiin Hampstead and partly in the parish of Hill Estates.
 
 784 
 
 Proceedings 
 not to be 
 invalid. 
 
 [Chap, clvi.] 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Works 
 {Various Powers) Act 1888. 
 
 [51 & 52 Vict]. 
 
 Saint Pancras in the connty of Middlesex* commonly known as Par- 
 liament Hill Parliament Fields the Elms Estate and the East Park 
 Estate comprising together about two hundred and sixtj'-one acres 
 as the same are defined upon a plan signed by Leonard Henry 
 Courtney the Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons 
 to whom the Bill for this Act was referred copies of which plan 
 (headed with the title of this Act) have been deposited in the 
 Parliament Office of the House of Lords and the Private Bill 
 Office in the House of Commons. 
 
 4. \^Ss. 4, 5, and 9 of the principal Act to he read as if the words 
 " or any part or parts thereof" had been inserted therein after the 
 word " estates " wherever occurring therein. SpentI] 
 
 5. All acts done proceedings taken and resolutions passed in pur- 
 suance of the provisions of the principal Act prior to the passing of 
 this Act shall be as valid binding and of as good effect as if they 
 had been done taken or passed after the passing hereof. 
 
 6. \_Expenses of obtaining Act. Spent.'] 
 
 CHAPTER CLVI. 
 
 An Act to confer Powers on the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works with respect to the Improvement of Streets 
 AND Bridges the providing and extending of Recreation 
 Grounds and for other Purposes, \jth August 1888.] 
 
 [fPreamhle recites (inter alia) that it is expedient that the Metro- 
 j)olitan Board of Works f {in this Act referred to as the Board) 
 shoidd be authorised, to make certain tvorks, and also recites the deposit 
 tvith the Clerks of the Peace for Middlesex, Kent, and Surrey, of 
 plans and sections showing tlie proposed works and kinds to be taken, 
 and a book of reference.'] 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Preliminary. 
 
 Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works 
 
 (Various Powers) Act 1888. 
 
 Interpreta- 2. In this Act the following words and expressions have the 
 
 tion of terms, ggygj-a^} meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be some- 
 thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction 
 (that is to say) : — 
 
 " The street improvement " means the widening of Church Street 
 
 authorised by this Act ; 
 " The bridge improvements " means the construction or improve- 
 ment as the case may be of the Culvert Road Bridge and 
 the bridge over Latchmere Road as authorised by this Act ; 
 " Street and bridge improvements " means the street improve- 
 ment and the bridge improvements ; 
 " The Lands Clauses Acts " means the Lands Clauses Consolida- 
 tion Acts 1845 1860 and 1869 (except section 133 of the 
 Lands Clauses (Jonsolidation Act 1845) as amended by 
 the Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act 1883 ; 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict, c 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 f Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [ni & 52 Vict.] ^j'^f^roHtan Board of \nrks .^ ^ . 
 
 L -J {\ anoKH J^ouwrs) Act \>6bH. L'-^nAi . civi.j too 
 
 "The Mctroi)oIis I\riina<!:emont Act" means tho Metropolis 
 Mtuuigcmeut Act Is.").") and any Art nmendinj^ the same ; 
 
 "Street" has tho mcaiiitif^ assi<^iio(l to that terra in the Mt-tnj- 
 l)olis Maiia<,a'nu'iit Act and the Acts amending the same ; 
 
 " Street anHiority " means witli respect to any parish under the 
 control of a vestry actinti: under the IMetropolis ManaL'^ement 
 Act the vestry dl'sucii parish* and with resjiect to any parishes 
 under the control of a district Loard of works acting under 
 that Act the board of works for such district* and the term 
 "district" in relation to a street authority means the area 
 subject to the jurisdiction of such street authority ; 
 
 And the several words and ex})rcssions to which l)y the Acts 
 wholly or j)artly incorporated herewith meanings are assigned 
 have in this Act the same respective meanings unless there 
 be in the subject or context sometiiing repugnant to or 
 inconsistent with such construction : 
 Provided always that for the ])urposes of this Act the expression 
 " the ])romoters of the undertaking " and " the ('ompany ■" in the 
 liands (Mauses Acts shall be construed to mean the Board and that 
 for the j)urposes of this Act the expression "superior courts" or 
 " court of competent jurisdiction " or any other like expression in 
 this Act or any Act wholly or partly incorporated herewith shall be 
 read and have effect as if tho debt or demand with respect to which 
 the expression is used were a simple contract debt and not a debtor 
 demand created by statute. \_Parts omitted {(lefiiiitiona of ^^ metro- 
 polis,''' ^'■Justice,'"' " lessee,'' and '•^ person"") spenf]. 
 
 3. This Act is divided into parts as follows : — Division of 
 
 I. — rreliminary. Act into 
 
 II. — Street and Briilgo Improvements. parts. 
 
 III. — Open Spaces etc. 
 IV. — Miscellaneous. 
 
 4. The Lands ( 'lauses Acts are (except where expressly varied Incorporation 
 by this Act) incorporated with and form ])art of this Act. ^\ i^nds 
 
 ^ '^ '■ Clauses Acts. 
 
 5. [J^o/iwr to the Board to act b)f committee. Superseded htf 
 fil&W r?>^ r. 41, .s. 2S (2). See ibid. ss.\^\ and -:-^.'\ 
 
 PAHT 11. 
 Street and Ijuiih;k Imi'iiovemknts. 
 
 6. Subject to the ]irovisions of this Act in the lines according to Power to 
 the levids and within the limits i»l' ileviation shown on the depositcil Hoanl to 
 ])lans and sections the Boanl mav make and carrv into execution all '"'''^,*^ certain 
 
 1 ^ *■ V works 
 
 or any of the works described in this Act (that is to say) : — 
 
 The Widening oi" I'mitcii Stkeet. 
 
 The widening of Church Street in the parish of Fulliam in the 
 
 county of IMiddlesex f : 
 On the south side commencing at the western end of Church 
 
 Street where it joins Pligh Street and terminating opposite 
 
 the end of King's Boad ; and 
 
 * Now the Council of the ^lotropolitan lionnigh. See (>- ^V: tl^i Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 f Now the county of London. See ill i: r>2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 786 
 
 [Chap, clvi.] 
 
 For protec- 
 tion of the 
 London 
 Chatham 
 and Dover 
 and West 
 London 
 Extension 
 Railway 
 Companies. 
 
 yietropolitati Board of Works 
 (^Various Foivers) Act 1888. 
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 On the nortli side commencino: at the western side of tlie school 
 
 liouse bnildinj 
 Road. 
 
 and terminating- op})Osite the end of King's 
 
 Culvert Road Bridge. 
 
 A new bridge over the West London Extension and London 
 Chatham and Dover Railways between Calvert Road and 
 Eversleigh Road in the j)arish of St. Mary Battersea in the 
 county of Surrey* commencing in Culvert Road on the north 
 side of the West London Extension Railway and terminating 
 in the said road or the continuation thereof leading into 
 Eversleigh Road alongside and on the south side of the 
 London Chatham and Dover Railway. 
 
 Bridge over Latchmere Road. 
 
 The improvement and widening of the span of the bridge which 
 carries the West London Extension Railway over Latchmere 
 Road in the ])arish of St. Mary Battersea about forty yards 
 northward of the end of Knowsley Road and the widening 
 and lowering of the roadway beneath and on both sides of 
 the said bridge. 
 
 7. With regard to the Culvert Road Bridge over the London 
 Chatham and Dover and West London Extension Railways by this 
 Act authorised the following })rovisions for the protection of the 
 London ('hatliani and Dover Railway Company and the West 
 London Extension Railway Company shall unless otherwise agreed 
 on between the Board and the said C'ompanies have effect viz. : — 
 
 (2.) The said bridge and all works connected therewith shall be 
 constructed by the Board (or by the said two Companies or 
 either of them if so agreed with the Board) in accordance 
 with the plans elevations sections and particulars agreed 
 on or approved by arl)itration as herein-after provided and 
 to the reasonable satisfaction of the engineers of the said 
 Companies who shall have access to the works of the Board 
 at all reasonable times and the said bridge and works shall 
 (after the vesting of the same in the street authority as by 
 this Act provided) be thenceforth maintained to the like 
 satisfaction by the street authority. 
 
 (3.) In constructing the said bridge over the said railways and 
 lands the Board shall not acquire any ownership of or in 
 the railway land or property of either of the two companies 
 but the Board may for the purposes thereof purchase and 
 acquire and the said two Companies respectively shall sell 
 such easement or right as may be necessary for making 
 and maintaining the said bridge and works connected 
 therewith. 
 
 (6.) During the construction of the said bridge and works the 
 Board sliall from time to time be responsible for and 
 make good to the two Companies respectively all costs 
 losses damages and expenses from time to time occasioned 
 to them or to their respective railways or to the traffic 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 PRi ^, so Ar,^„, T Mifroiiolitan Board of \\ orlta rn i -n 
 
 1 51 & o2 ViCT. /I' • /> V 1 , icwo K'hap. clvi.l 
 
 tliRrcoii or to any porsoii or j)ersons usintr flic sumo or 
 otlierwise by r(!iis(jii ot" tlie execution or i'ailnre of the 
 works of or incidentiil to the said hridj^e or any act or 
 omission of the Hoard or' of any innlractor or any person 
 in the cnij)l<)y of them or him and {\u\ Hoard shall 
 elfectually indcMunify and hold harmless the said ( 'om- 
 panies rcspec-tively from all claims and demands npon or 
 against them by reason of any snch exccntion ni- failure 
 or of any snch act or omission and sifter the completion of 
 the said bridue the street authority shall in like manner 
 be responsible for and make ^'<jod to the two ('ompanies 
 respectiv(dy all costs losses damau^es and exfteiises occa- 
 sioned l)y reason of tlic iiisulliciency or failnre of the 
 said brid«,^(^ or works and shall in like nisinner indemnify 
 and holil hai'mlcss tin; said ('onipanies respectively from 
 all snch claims and demands as aforesaid. 
 
 (7.) If diii'iiiu^ the construction of the said brid<;e and the 
 approaches thereto or of any temporary works or by the 
 acts omissions or defaults of the Hoard oi' of any contractor 
 or other ])erson emj)loye(l by tin; Hoard any stof)j)aj;e or 
 interruption of the tratHc npon either of the said railways 
 sliall arise the Board shall pay to the Company to whom 
 such railway belonir^^ the sum of thii'ty ])ounds for each 
 and every hour during" which such sto[)pa<,fe or interrnj)tion 
 shall continue as and for liipiidated dama<(es and the same 
 may be recovered by the (V)m])any to whom sucli railway 
 belonu's as any simple contract debt of the liki' amount and 
 if after the completion of the said i)rid,ue and works and 
 the vesting thereof in the street authority any like sto{)page 
 or interruption shall occur by reason of the insulHcieucy 
 or failure of the works or during any works of rejiair or 
 maintenance thereto the street authority shall l)e liable to 
 the like payment to the Company to whom the railway 
 belongs which may be recovered in like niaiinei'. 
 
 (8.) After the comi)letion of the said bridge and works they shall 
 not be altercil added to or reduced excejtt in such manner 
 and on such terms as shall be agreed between the street 
 authority and the said two Comj)anies or failing agree- 
 ment as may be prescribed by arbitration as herein-after 
 provided. 
 
 (0.) The reasonable costs charges and exj»enses of the said two 
 Coni}>anies and each of them and of their respective 
 enginei'rs in reference to the matters aforesaid shall be 
 defrayed by the Board until the completion of the said 
 bridge and works and the vesting thereof in the street 
 authority and thereafter by the stret't authority. 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 (11.) Any dispute or dilference which may from time to time arise 
 between the Board or the street authority on the one hand 
 and the two Companies or either of them on the other 
 hand with reference to the plans elevations sections and 
 j)articulars aforesaid or to any other matter arising out 
 of the provisions of this section shall be referred to an 
 engineer to be appointed on the a]>])licati(Mi of either ])arty 
 by the Board of Trade and the decision of such arbitrator 
 shall be tinal and conclusive and the costs of and incidental 
 
 t^i
 
 "88 
 
 [Chap, civi.] 
 
 Metrojjolitan Board of Works 
 ( Various Powers) Act 1888. 
 
 [51 k o2 Vict.] 
 
 to sncli arbitration shall be borne and defrayed as he may 
 direct. 
 
 (12.) If and whenever either of the said two Companies desire to 
 widen or alter their railway so as to render necessary or 
 expedient any interference with the said bridge snch 
 Company may on giving not less than two months notice 
 to the Board and the street anthority widen or alter the 
 said railway and bridge as they think proper Ijnt any 
 alteration in the said bridge shall be made snbject to the 
 reasonable control of the engineer of the street anthority 
 upon snch terms and conditions as may be agreed npon 
 between the street anthority and snch Company or may be 
 settled by an arbitrator appointed as aforesaid. 
 
 As to 
 
 northern 
 
 approach to 
 
 Culvert 
 
 Road 
 
 Bridge, 
 
 For protec- 
 tion of the 
 West London 
 Extension 
 Railway 
 Company at 
 Latchmere 
 Road. 
 
 [^Parts omitted {provisions apphjing during the construction of the 
 bridge and as to stopping up the existing footbridge over the railioays 
 tvhen tlie new bridge is constructed.) spent.~\ 
 
 O* * ■ • • • • 
 
 The said Company may at their own expense form a means of 
 communication by steps or otherwise between tlieir railway and the 
 northern approach of the said bridge and also between their railway 
 and the top of the central pier of the said bridge and for that 
 purpose may make such openings as they may consider necessary in 
 the parapet of the said northern approach and over the said central 
 pier in such manner as may be agreed between tlie Board and the 
 said Company or failing agreement as may be settled by arbitration 
 as provided in the next following section. 
 
 [^Part omitted (the northern approach to Culvert Road Bridge not 
 to be upon certain land unless otiierwise agreed between the Board 
 and the West London Extension Railway Company) spent.^ 
 
 9. With regard to the improvement and widening of the span of 
 the bridge carrying the West London Extension Bail way over 
 Latchmere Road as by this Act authorised the following provisions 
 for the protection of the West London Extension Railway Company 
 and with reference to the construction of the said works shall 
 unless otherwise agreed on between the Board and the said 
 Company have effect viz. : — 
 
 (2.) In carrying out the said works the Board slmll not acquire 
 any ownership of or in the railway land or property of 
 the West London Extension Railway Company but the 
 Board shall have and the Company shall grant to the 
 Board an easement or right of public way beneath 
 the said bridge and works as altered and made under 
 the provisions of this section and as the purchase money 
 or consideration for such easement or right the Board' 
 shall pay to the said Company the sum of fifty pounds 
 sterling. 
 
 (4.) The said bridge and works as altered and made under the 
 provisions of this section and the materials used therein 
 shall be and remain the property of the West London 
 Extension Railway Company and shall be maintained by 
 them as part of their railway and works but the road and
 
 rtri e -». T7- -I }fifro/)olitnii Board of \Vor/,:s r/<„.. i -n -on 
 
 r51&o2ViCT.1 /K • n^ \ I , i^^< [Chai'. clvi.J /89 
 
 footways niider the same shall lie Ibrined paved metalled 
 channelled and flagged hy and at lli(3 expense of the 
 Board. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 [Partfi omitted {ijromsiom apphjimi duriiiff the coiiatruction of the 
 oridge) s/jentJ] 
 
 10. [J' Of the protection of the Metropolitan District linilira>i 
 ('omp(i)ii/ n.s to landa to be arquired from the Compuni/ for wideniiKf 
 Church tStreet, Fidhani. Spent.'] 
 
 11. [Separate account.'^ to be hept in respect of street, (md 
 bridyc iniprorcmcnts. Superseded .51 & .52 Vict. c. 41, ,«$. 71.] 
 
 12 — 15. \As to contributions b;/ Fulham Vestn/ towards the 
 ividenim/ of Church Street, and by the Vestrij of St. Manj, Battersea, 
 toirnrds the expenses of constructing the Culrert I'o 'd Ih-idge and. 
 towards the widening of the span of the bridge o>:er Latchinere Road. 
 Sj)ent.'] 
 
 16. When the street and bridge improvements authorised by The street 
 this Act or any one of them are made a certificate thereof shall be f,"prove-*''^ 
 issned under the common seal of the lioard ;ind any copy of such ments to 
 certificate certified under the hand of the clerk of the Hoard shall f-Jim a street 
 in all proceedings and for all purposes be admissible and received ^'^P^"" '^'^'^" 
 as evidence that such certificate has been duly )uade and so much 
 of the said improvements as shall have been laid out for carriage- 
 ways or footways shall form a street and may be used by the i)ublic 
 accordingly-. The soil under the said imiirovemeiits except where 
 an easement only shall have been ac([uired by the l^oard shall be 
 vested in the Board. The new bridge over the "West London 
 Extension and T/)ndon Chathaiu and Dover Ivaihvays by this Act 
 authorised sliall when completed be vested in the street authority 
 of the district in which it is situate and the maintenance repair 
 paving cleansing and lighting of the said bridge and of the roadway 
 under the Latchmere Boad Bridge when altered under the ]>rovisions 
 of this Act and of the api)roaehes thereto respectively and of the 
 widening of Church i!>treet shall be under the care management 
 control and jurisdiction of the street authority of the district in 
 whicli they are respectively situate in the same manner as other 
 public roads and streets in their district. 
 
 17-19. [Power to the Board to stop up wags temporarilg, to 
 raise or lower streets, and to deviate. Sjwnt^ 
 
 20. [Power to the Board to alter or appropriate streets, and to 
 interfere with drains and sewers on providing substitutes, ichich are 
 to be under the same management as existing drains and sewers.'] 
 
 21 — 22. [Power to the Board to alter water, gas, and other 
 pipes, and to lag out carriageways, footwags, etc. Spent.] 
 
 23. [As to laginq of parements and resting the .^au/e when laid in 
 and as to the maintenance thereof bg the street authority oj the district 
 in whicft the same are situate.] 
 
 24. [Power to the Jioard to fill up sewers and drains on providing 
 substitutes, ivhich are to be under the same management as existing 
 sewers and drains.] 
 
 25—27. [Power to the Board to alter steps, areas, pipes, etc. — 
 Periods for completion of street and bridge improvements limited to 
 4 years, and for compulsory taking of lands to 3 years. Spcnt^
 
 790 
 
 [Chap, clvi.] 
 
 Mefropolitari Board of Works 
 (Va/-io(is rowers) Act 1888. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] 
 
 Power to pur- 
 chase a piece 
 of land north 
 of Kcnning- 
 ton I'ark. 
 
 As to widen- 
 ing streets at 
 Kennington. 
 
 Approaches 
 to Duhvich 
 I'ark. 
 
 Further 
 
 provisions as 
 to laying out 
 approaches. 
 
 Open Spaces, etc. 
 
 Kennington Paek. 
 
 28. The Board may purchase and acquire a piece of land situate 
 on tlie northern side of Kennington Park partly in the parisli of 
 St. Mary Lambeth and jiartly in the parish of St. Mary Newington 
 in the county of Surrey * shown on the deposited plans and thereon 
 coloured red and described in the deposited book of reference and 
 the said ])iece of land shall thereupon vest in the Board and be 
 added to Kennington Park and shall be considered for all purposes 
 to form j)art of Kennington Park : And all byelaws and regulations 
 from time to time in force with regard to Kennington Park shall 
 apply to and be in force with regard to the said piece of land. \_See 
 50 & 51 Vict. c. 34.] 
 
 29. The Board shall widen South Place and Newington Terrace 
 where they abut upon the said piece of land so that both those 
 thoroughfares so far as they will abut upon the said piece of land 
 shall be forty feet clear in width with proper footpaths kerbs and 
 channelling and for that purpose shall throw into the said highways 
 respectively as much of the said land as will be necessary for that 
 purpose. 
 
 DULWICH PaPvK. 
 
 30. The two pieces of land in the parish of Camberwell in the 
 county of Surrey* shown on the deposited plans and thereon coloured 
 red and described in the deposited book of reference are by virtue 
 of this Act transferred to and vested in the Board for the purpose 
 of enabling the Board to form ap})roaches to Dulwich Park and 
 the said jiieces of land shall be added to Dulwich Park and shall for 
 all purposes be considered to form part of Dulwich Park and all 
 bvelaws and regulations from time to time in force with regard to 
 Dulwich Park shall apj)ly to and be in force with regard to the said 
 pieces of land. . . . \_Fa)-t omitted (as to compensation) spent r\ 
 
 31. With reference to the ajiproaches to Dulwich Park formed 
 by the Board upon the said two pieces of land in the parish of 
 ( -amberwell the following provisions shall be observed and have 
 effect :■ — 
 
 (1.) The Board shall plant and maintain on each side of the 
 api)roach road to be formed by them from (^ourt Lane to 
 Dulwich Park upon the piece of land in the parish of 
 Camberwell coloured red on the deposited ])lans and 
 numbered 1 thereon and in the dej)osited books of reference 
 a belt of trees and shrubs twenty feet wide. 
 
 (2.) Each side of the approach road from Dulwich Common Road 
 to Dulwich Park to l)e formed by the Board upon the 
 pieces of land also coloured red on the dejtosited plans and 
 numbered 2 3 4 and 5 on the said plans and in the 
 dei)Osited books of reference shall be laid out in a manner 
 approved on l)ehalf of the Governors of Dulwich College 
 by Charles Barry of Number One Westminster C'hambers 
 Victoria Street S.W. or other person to be apijointed by 
 them for that purpose. 
 
 (3.) The Board shall not take down any of the trees standing on 
 the said pieces of laud except such as it may be necessary 
 * Now the county of London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2).
 
 rn i' -o T7- -I Metropolitan Board of Works rn i -n »>.<-, i 
 
 K)! it ;)v; ViCT.1 /ir- J, \ a\ tooo IChap. clvi. I 791 
 
 •- -• {\ arious J 'owers) Act IHS8. ^ -• 
 
 i'or tlicm to remove I'or the })iiri)o.s(i of ioi'iuiiii^ tlie said 
 approach road and the trees and shriiljs remuiiiiiij^ on tlie 
 said ]>ieces of hind and to l)e planted there from time to 
 time hy the Board shall be j)reserveil and renewed by the 
 Txjard iVom time to time. 
 (4.) Any jj^ates bars lence or railings erected by the liuard 
 abutting on Dnhvich ( 'onimon Road shall be of a design 
 and mat(!rials to be j)revionsly approved by the said 
 ( 'hailrs I'arry or other jierson to be a]ipointe(| on behalf 
 of the said (Governors, 
 (o.) The l^oard may (dose the gates between the lane known as 
 Snakes Lane numbered on the depositetl plans o in the 
 parish of Camberwell and tlie enclosure on the eastern 
 side thereoi". 
 
 [See also 48 & 4l> \'/rf. c. clxvii. .ss. 48— r)(j ; ufid 4'J k r)(j I'ut. 
 
 c. cxii. s.s. 35 — 37.] 
 
 Lands at TjEwistiam. 
 
 32. The l>oard may ])urchase and acquire certain lands in thel'owerto 
 ])arish of Lewisham in the county ol" Kent * shown on the deposited P^rrhase 
 plans and thereon colourctl red and described in the deposited book /x-wisham 
 of reference and when the IJoard shall have })nichased the same 
 they shall vest in the Board and the Board shall hold the same and 
 every i)art thereof as an open space and shall lay out maintain and 
 ])reserve the same and every part thereof as an oj)en space; for the 
 perpetual use thereof by the public for exercise and recreation and 
 may from time to time exercise all necessary ])0wers ibr the 
 maintenance and ])reservation of the same as an ojien space : 
 Provided that the lioard may if they think iit enclose tlie said lands 
 or any ]mrt thereof with a view to the better or more etiectual 
 ^(reservation thereof for public use. [See also the S/tortlam/n and 
 Nimhead Railwaii^ Act 1889, s. l'-*4] 
 
 * Now the county of London. See 'A &. r)2 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (2). 
 
 \ Now vested in the London Chatliam & Dover llailway Company. See the 
 London Cliatliam &. Dover Itailway (Further I'owcrs) Act iSitti, s. 4. 
 
 \ S. !;• of the ShDrtlands anil Nunliead Itaihvay Act IHSSt provides as follows : — 
 
 l9. (a) \_Thi' Sliortlaiuls and Aunhcad Ilailuuij Company i^hireitiaftfr called the 
 ('oiiipanij) to divert the line of railiray hctween the points A and Ji to the extent shoiim 
 bij the red line on the plan sit/ned in diiplii-ate hij Thomas Lord liraxsry the Chairman 
 of the Committee of the Jlaiisc of Lords to whom the Hill for the Act leas durinij 
 its iiassaijf through Parliament re/erred and deposited in the I'arliament Ojliee and 
 Prieate Jiill UlHee of the Jloiise of Commons in the manner shoun on that plan. 
 Spent.] 
 
 (b) [7'/«' Comjmny to earnj the said diverted liiw of railiray over the Hirer 
 llavens'hoierne and the jiirrtion of the existing rcereation ground between the points i' 
 and' IJ on the said plan by means oj a bridge approved by the London County Council. 
 Spent.] 
 
 (c) \_The Company not to acquire more of the said recreation groinul than one rood 
 and eight perches.] 
 
 (D) The I'onipauy .sliall acquire the land lying westward of the embankment of the 
 said diverted railway and between it and the existing boundary of the .^aiil recreation 
 ground estiniate<l at one acre one rooil and iwenty-.seven j>erciies and coloured pink 
 on the signed plan in exchange for the portion nf tlie recreatit)n ground ri'ipiireil by 
 the Conipany and estiuuited at one rood and eight perches and shall transfer and vest 
 the said tirst -named area of land to and in the Lomlon County t'ouneil ami sucli lan<l 
 shall at all times thereafter be hehl by the said L'ounty Council as part of the Kiid 
 recreation ground. 
 
 (ij) The (.'onipany shall not erect .iny telegraph i>o>ts on the railway between tlie 
 j)oints A and !'• so as to be visible from the recreatinn grounil but shall carry their 
 telegrapli wires below tiie level of the upper surface of the embankment of the 
 railway. 
 
 (F) For the purpose of affording access to the recreation ground the Conipany shall 
 (if so required bj' the London (^ounty Council at wny time Iwfore they commence the 
 construction of the portion of the railway lying between the points \ and B) construct
 
 792 
 
 r, , 1 . -, Metropolitan Board of Works rn i m -it -i 
 
 ( Various Powers) Act 1888 
 
 Power to pur- 33. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may purchase 
 chase rights ^^^^ ac(iuire any estates interests and riojhts in over or affectin": the 
 
 over JiiidStit "•■ 
 
 Lewisham. s^id lands at Lewisham for tlie Letter execution of this part of this 
 Act with respect to the maintenance and preservation of the said 
 hinds as an open si)ace and for the purpose of applying the j)ro- 
 visions of the Lands ( Uauses Acts under this Act the term " lands " 
 in tlie said })rovisions shall be considered to include such estates 
 interests ancl rights and when the Board have purchased any sucli 
 estate interest or right they may either extinguish the same or 
 retain hold and exercise the same wholly or j)artially. 
 Power to 34. The Board may construct and maintain a footbridge across 
 
 Board to the Mid-Kent liailway * as shown on the deposited jdans for the 
 footbridse. purpose of alfordiug communication between those ])arts of the said 
 lands which are on either side of the said railway and the said foot- 
 bridge when constructed shall belong to and be maintained by the 
 Board and for the purpose of constrnctiug such bridge the Board 
 may purchase or take an easement or right of constructing such bridge 
 where the same i)asses over the Mid-Kent Railway* and shall not be 
 required to purchase any part of the railway or of the soil thereof. 
 For the pro- 35 ^Vith regard to tlie footbridge across the Mid-Kent Railwav* 
 sTuth°eastern ^^3' '^^''^ -^"^^ authorised the following provisions for the protection 
 Paiiway of the Soutli-eastern Railway Company (in this Act called the 
 Company. Soutii-castern Conjpany) shall unless otherwise agreed on between 
 the Board and the South-eastern Company have eifect viz. : — 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 (2.) The span of the said footbridge shall be of sufficient width 
 for four lines of permanent way of the said railway there- 
 under and shall be constructed at such place u|)on the 
 lands in the said parish shown upon the deposited plans 
 and described in the deposited books of reference as the 
 engineer of the South-eastern Company shall determine 
 and the said footbridge and all works connected therewith 
 shall be of a reasonably ornamental character and sliall be 
 
 at the point marked E on the signed plan a bridge of not less than forty feet in width 
 and having a headway of not less than thirteen feet throughout the span and at the 
 point marked H on the said plan a bridge of not less than twenty feet in width and 
 having a headway of not less than thirteen feet throughout the span. Provided that 
 the Company and the said County Council may agree on other means of communication 
 between the recreation ground and Adenmore Gardens in substitution for the bridges 
 above referred to. The wing or retaining walls of the bridge at the point marked E 
 shall be so constructed as to leave a clear space of not less than fifteen feet between 
 the railway works and the river Iiavensbourne. 
 
 (G) The Company shall to the satisfaction of the County Council divert as shown 
 on the plan or as nearly as maj' be thereto the Riv^er Iiavensbourne at the point of 
 crossing and fill up the bed thereof where diverted so that it shall not interfere with 
 communication through the said bridge between the several portions of the recreation 
 ground. And the piece of ground which will intervene between the portion of the 
 river so diverted and the recreation ground shall be thrown into and form j^art of the 
 recreation ground. 
 
 (h) The Company shall plant the embankment of their railway for the whole of its 
 length adjoining the recreation ground with shrubs aud trees in an ornamental 
 manner and to the reasonable satisfaction of the said County Council and such planting 
 shall be from time to time maintained and renewed by and at the expense of the 
 Company to the satisfaction of the Council. 
 
 (I) The Company shall not without the consent of the Countj- Council deviate the 
 levels of their railway between the jjoiuts A and B shown on the signed plans to a 
 greater extent upwards than two feet nor to any extent downwards. 
 
 (J) If any difference arise touching the provisions of this section the same shall be 
 referred to an arbitrator to be appointed on the application of any of the parties by 
 the Board of Trade. 
 
 * Now amalgamated with the South-eastern Company's undertaking. See the 
 South-eastern Railway Company's Acts 18G4 and 186G.
 
 r^^i i. <-.'> Vir^'nT Mi'troi>o}it<in Board of Works r-^, . . -, „,,, 
 
 [51 <L o. Vicr.] ^ ,.^^^/.^^^_^ ^,^^^.^,^.^^ ^j-/^ j^yj^ [r HAP. civ..] .03 
 
 const iMicf 0(1 and at all times licrcaf'tcr niainiaint'd hv the 
 Board in accordance with tiic jihins elevations sections and 
 particulars a;:ree(l on or amirovod by arhitration as lierein- 
 al'tcr jirovided and to the roasonalde satisfaction of the 
 enj^ineer of the South-eastern ('onij)any who shall have 
 access to tiie works of the Board at all reasonalile times. 
 (;3.) In constru(;tin<? and maintaining^ the said loothriilj^e over the 
 said railway and lands tin; Board shall not ac(juir(! any 
 ownership ol' or in tin! railway land or jiroperty of the 
 South-eastern ('ompany hut the Jioard may for tin; pur- 
 pf)ses thereof ])urclias(! and acijuire and the South-eastern 
 Company shall sell an easement or right of making and 
 maintaining the said footbridge. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 (o.) In carrying into execution any works or any of the powers 
 of this Act the I>oard shall not cause any obstruction of 
 or interference with the railway or the tralHc thereon or 
 the railway signals of the South-eastern Company. 
 
 (0.) The Board >hall from time to time be responsible for and 
 make good to the South-eastern Company all costs losses 
 damages and ex})enses from time to time occasir)neil to 
 the South-eastern (_'om])any or to their railway or to the 
 tralHc thereon or to any person or persons using the same 
 or otherwise by reason of the execution or failure of the 
 works of or incidental to the said footliridge or any act or 
 omission of the J>oard or of any contractor or any person 
 in the employ of them or him or of any new signals or 
 of the re-erection or alteration of signals which mav be 
 rendered necessary by the said works and the I'oard shall 
 ett'ectually indemnify and hold harmless the South-eastern 
 Company from all claims and demands upon or against, 
 them by reason of any such execution or failure and of 
 any such act or omission. 
 
 (7.) If in the construction and maintenance of the said footbridge 
 or of anv temporarv works or bv the user thereof or bv 
 reason of the insnlHciency or failure thereof resj)ectively 
 or by the acts omissions or defaults of the said Jioard 
 or of any contractor or other ])ersons employed by the 
 said I^oard any stopjuige or interruption of the trafKc 
 u})on the said railway shall arise the Board shall pay 
 to the South-eastern Comi)auy the sum of thirty j)ounils 
 for each and every hour during which such stoppage or 
 interruption shall continue as and for li(|uidated damages 
 and the same may be recovered by the ('ompany as any 
 ordinary simple contract debt of the like amount. 
 
 (8.) After the execution of the works by tiiis Act authorised 
 they shall not be altered added to or reduced excejit in 
 such manner ami on such terms as shall be agreed between 
 the Board and the South-eastern Company or failing 
 agreement as may be prescribed by arbitration as lierein- 
 after provided. 
 
 (9.) The reasonable costs charges and exjienses of the South- 
 eastern Comjtany and of their enuineer in reference to the 
 matters aforesaid shall be defrayed by the Board on 
 request by the South-eastern Company. 
 
 ol
 
 _^. rr^ 1-1 Met7^0))ohta)i Board of \\orks r-i i -o Tr ■^ 
 
 794 rCHAP, clvi. I (M '■ 73 \ ,\\ 1QQO fol <te o2 ViCT.1 
 
 L -J ( Various, towers) Act 1888. i- -J 
 
 (10.) Any dispute or difference which may from time to time 
 arise between the Board on the one hand and the South- 
 eastern Company on the other hand with reference to the 
 phins elevations sections and particulars aforesaid or to 
 any other matter arising out of the provisions of this 
 section shall be referred to an engineer to be appointed 
 u})on the ai)plication of either party by the Board of Trade 
 and the decision of such arbitrator shall be final and con- 
 clusive and the costs of and incidental to such arljitration 
 shall be borne and defrayed as he may direct. 
 
 (11.) Nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice take away 
 lessen or interfere with any of the property rights powers 
 interests or privileges of the South-eastern Company 
 otherwise than is herein expressly provided. 
 
 • . • • • • 
 
 (13.) If and whenever the South-eastern Company desire to 
 widen or alter the said railway so as to render necessary 
 or expedient any interference with the said footbridge the 
 South-eastern Company may on giving not less than two 
 months notice to the Board widen or alter the said railway 
 and bridge as they think proper and if in executing such 
 widening or alteration it becomes necessary to make any 
 alteration in the said footbridge such alteration shall be 
 made subject to the reasonable control of the engineer of 
 the Board upon such terms and conditions as may be 
 agreed upon between the Board and the South-eastern 
 Company or may be settled by an arbitrator appointed as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 \_Parts omitted {provisions applying during construction of the 
 
 footbridge) spenti] 
 
 Power to 36. The Board may erect and maintain on or near the said lands 
 
 erect certain such convenient or ornamental buildings as they may think requisite 
 
 and make ^'*^^' ^^^ accommodation of keepers constables and other officers and 
 
 certain com- huts or lodges to be used in connexion with the maintenance of the 
 
 munications. j^^id lands as an open space and may erect and maintain such 
 
 bridges as they may think necessary for the purpose of affording 
 
 communication between those parts of the said lands which are on 
 
 either side of the River Ravensbourne and any such bridge when 
 
 constructed shall belong to and be maintained by the Board. \_See 
 
 also 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. .s-. 50, and 58 it 5U Vict. c. cxxvii. s. 45.] 
 
 Byeiaws as 37. From and after the purchase of the said lands by the Board 
 
 as in this Act provided all the provisions of the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works Act 1877 with respect to the making contents 
 confirmation approval allowance publication and evidence of bye- 
 laws and of securing the observ^ance of the same and the penalties 
 and j)roceedings before Justices and the recovery and application of 
 I)enalties and generally with respect to the parks and heaths and 
 commons shall extend and apply to the said lands as if they had 
 been included among the parks heaths and commons in respect of 
 which byelaws were by the Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1877 
 authorised to be made by the Board and for the purpose of this 
 section any footbridges constructed by the Board over the Mid-Kent 
 Railway and the River Ravensbourne shall be deemed to form part 
 of the said lands. \See also 53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. ss. 14 — 21, 
 and 01 k 62 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 61.] 
 
 to lands at 
 I>e\visham
 
 rm Sr no ^t. "i Metropolitan l>o<ir<l of Worha p., . . -. „,_ 
 
 [51 & 52 Vict.] ^ yj.^^^ j,^^^^^,^^ ^^[_^ j^^^^ [Chak civ,.] 790 
 
 38 — 39. \_Aii to contribution hij the Lewi.s/i(tm JUatriet Hoard of 
 not exceediny onc-lialj of the coat of the acqainition oj the no id Imids 
 in Lewiaham — An to stamping of conveyances. Spent.'\ 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 Miscp:llankous. 
 
 40. [^Cost of maintain iny and re/jairiny Wrst minster Hridye and 
 aj)p roaches to be raised as a yeneral rate, ^iuperseded ^A k 52 Vict. 
 c. 41, 6*. 3 (viii.).] 
 
 41 — 51. [Extension till 6tk Auyust 1889 of the period for com- 
 pulsory takiny of lands ^ and till iUh Auyust 1><91 of the period for 
 completion of works autliori.^ed by 48 & 49 Vict. c. clxvii. — Incor- 
 poration of part ii. of Hail ways Clauses Act 1803 — Power to the 
 Hoard to take lands — Rehousiny of labouriny class persons — As to 
 acquisition of easements — Errors and otnissions in plans — Power to 
 the Board to enter and survey lands to be taken — As to arbitration — 
 As to takiny part only of certain property — The Board to redeem 
 land tax on lands taken — Power to the Board, to sell materials. 
 Spent^ 
 
 52 — 58. \_Poiver to the Board to lease surplus lands — As to sale 
 of yround rents and reversions thereof — Power to sell such lands 
 without leasiny and to let or exchanye such lands — Such lands to be 
 sold before 1st February 1941 — lieceipts of the Hoard to be ejfectual 
 discharyes — Power to the Board to make ayreements with owners oJ 
 property. Spent.~\ 
 
 59. [Expenses of executiny Act. Superseded ^\ «k 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 }Hirt iv., and by the London County Council {Money) Acts 18i>9 — 
 19(14.] 
 
 60. [Expenses of obtaiidny Act. Spent.'\
 
 APPENDIX.
 
 [6 & 7 Vict.] The Theatres Act 1843. [Chap. 68.] 799 
 
 APPExNUiX. 
 6 & 7 VICTORIA. A.D. 1843. 
 
 CHAPTER 68. 
 An Act kok keuulating Theatres.* \2'ld August 1843.] 
 
 [Pj-eavible. | 
 
 1. [J^ej>eal of 3 Jac. 1, c. 21, lU (/eo. 2, c. 19 (in part), 10 Geo. 2, c. 28, 
 and 28 (?eo. 3, c. 3U. Proviso that licences granted under tlie last recited Act 
 shall co)itiniie in force for the times for irhich or imtil revoked hi/ the 
 authoriti/ by which tltey were granted. Rep. 37 &, 38 Vict. c. 9G {-S.L.Ii'.).^ 
 
 2. . . . It shall not be lawful for any person to have or keep All theatres 
 any liousf or other place of public resort in Great Britain for the fur the per- 
 public performance of stage plays, without authority by virtue formance of 
 of letters patent from lier ^Nlajesty, her heirs and successors, or ^^ jioensed 
 predecessors, or without licence from the Lord Chamberlain of Her 
 Majesty's Household for the time being, or from the Justices of the Peace t 
 
 as hei-ein -after provided ; and every person who shall olFend against this 
 enactment shall be liable to forfeit such sum as shall be awarded by the 
 court in which or the Justices by whom he shall be convicted, not exceed- 
 ing twenty pounds for every day on which such house or place shall 
 have been so kept open by him for the purpose aforesaid, without legal 
 authority. 
 
 3. . . . The authority of the Lord Chamberlain for granting licences What licences 
 shall extend to all theatres (not being patent theatres) within the shall be 
 parliamentary boundaries of the cities of London and Westminster, and of g'^ated by 
 the boroughs of Finsbury and Marylebone, the Tower Hamlets, Lambeth, chamberlain 
 and Southwark, and also within those places where her Majesty, her 
 
 heirs and successors, shall, in their royal persons, occasionally reside : 
 Pi'ovided always, that, except within the cities and boroughs aforesaid, 
 and the boroughs of New Windsor in the county of Berks, and Brighthelm- 
 stone in the county of Sussex, licences for theatres may be gi-anted by 
 the Justiccst as herein-after provided, in those places in whicli Her 
 Majesty, her heirs and successors, shall occasionally reside : but such 
 licences shall not be in force during the residence there of Her Majesty, 
 her heirs and successors ; and during such residence it shall not be 
 lawful to o[)fn such theatres as last aforesaid (not being patent theatres) 
 without the licence of the Lord (.'hamberlain. 
 
 4. . . . For every such licence granted by the Lord Chamberlain Fee for Lord 
 a fee, not exceeding ten shillings for each calendar month during which J-'haniber- 
 the theatre is licensed to l)e kept open, according to such scale of fees as ^^^^ icence. 
 shall be fixed by the Lord Chamberlain, shall be paid to the Lord Cham- 
 berlain. 
 
 6. . . . The Justices of the Peace t within every ct)unty, riding. Licences 
 division, liberty, cinque i>ort, city, and borough in Creat Britain may be 
 beyond the limits of the authority of the Lord Chamberlain, in which granted by 
 application shall have been made to them for any such licence as is 
 herein-after mentioned, shall, irithin tirentij-oiie days next after such 
 application shall have been made to them in writing signed by the party 
 making the same, and countey'signed by at least two Justices acting in and 
 
 * Short title. " The Theatres Act, 1S43." See the Short Titles Act 1S96. 
 f Now the county councils. See 51 i. 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 7 and 8.
 
 800 
 
 [Chap. 68.] 
 
 The Theatres Act 1843. 
 
 [6 & 7 Vict.] 
 
 Fee for 
 
 Justices 
 
 licence. 
 
 To wliom 
 licences 
 shall be 
 granted. 
 
 Rules for 
 the theatres 
 under the 
 control of 
 the Lord 
 Chamberlain. 
 
 Rules for 
 enforcincj 
 order in the 
 theatres 
 licensed by 
 the Justices. 
 
 for the, division within ivhich the property 'propone/l to he licensed shall he 
 situate, and delivered to the clerk to the .said Ju.sticos,* hold a special 
 session in the division, district, or place for which they usually act, for 
 granting licences to houses for the performance of stage plays, of the 
 holding of which se.ssion seven days notice shall be given Ijy their clerk* to 
 each of the Ju.stices acting within such division, district, or place ; and. 
 every such licence shall be given under the hands and seals of four or more 
 of the Justices t assembled at such special session, and shall he signed, and 
 sealed in open court, and afterivards shall he jiuhlicly read by the clerk, loith 
 the names of the Justices subscribing the same. \_As regards words i7i 
 italics, see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 78 (3), and the Council's Standing Orders.] 
 
 6. . . . For every such licence granted by the Justices t a fee, not 
 exceeding five shillings for each calendar month during which the 
 theatre is licensed to be kept open, according to such scale of fees as shall 
 be fixed by the Justices,t shall be paid to the clerk of the said Justices.* 
 
 7. . . . No such licence for a theatre shall be granted by the Lord 
 Chamberlain or Justices f to any person except the actual and responsible 
 manager for the time being of the theatre in respect of which the licence 
 shall be granted; and the name and place of abode of such manager 
 shall be printed on every play bill announcing any repi'esentation at such 
 theatre ; and such manager shall become bound himself in such penal 
 sum as the Lord Chamberlain or Justices! shall require, being in no case 
 more than five hundred pounds, and two sufficient sureties, to be 
 approved by the said Lord Chamberlain or Justices,! each in such penal 
 sum as the Lord Chamberlain or Ju.stices f shall require, being in no case 
 more than one hundred pounds, for the due observance of the rides 
 which shall be in force at any time during the currency of the licence 
 for the regulation of such theatre, and for securing payment of the 
 penalties which such manager may be adjudged to pay for breach of the 
 said rules, or any of the provisions of this Act. 
 
 8. ... In case it shall appear to the Lord Chamberlain that any riot 
 or misbehaviour has taken place in any theatre licensed by him, or in any 
 patent theatre, it shall be lawful for him to suspend such licence or to 
 order such patent theatre to be closed for such time as to him shall .seem 
 fit ; and it shall also be lawful for the Lord Chambei'lain to order that any 
 patent theatre or any tlieatre licensed by him shall be closed on such 
 public occasions as to the Lord Chambei-lain shall seem fit ; and while any 
 such licence shall be suspended, or any such order shall be in force, the 
 theatre to which the .same applies shall not be entitled to the privilege of 
 any letters patent or licence, but shall be deemed an unlicensed house. 
 
 9. . . . The said Justices of the Peace f at a special licensing se.ssion 
 or at some adjournment thereof, .shall make suitable rules for ensuring 
 order and decency at the several theatres licensed by them within their 
 jurisdiction, and for regulating the times during which they shall 
 .severally be allowed to be open, and from time to time, at another 
 special ses.sion, of which notice shall be given as aforesaid, may rescind or 
 alter such rules ; and it shall be lawful for any one of Her Majesty's 
 principal Secretai'ies of State to rescind or alter any such rules, and also 
 to make such other rules for the like purpose, as to him .shall seem fit ; 
 and a copy of all rules which shall be in force for the time being shall be 
 annexed to every such licence ; and in case any i-iot or breach of the said 
 rides in any such theatre shall be proved on oath before any two Justices 
 usually acting in the jurisdiction where such theatre is situated, it shall 
 be lawful for them to order that the same be closed for such time as to the 
 said Justices .shall .seem fit ; and while such order shall be in force the 
 theatre so ordered to be clcsed shall be deemed an unlicen.sed hou.*e. 
 
 10. [Special provisions applying to the universities of Oxford and 
 Cambridge and vnthin 14 miles of the city of Oxford or town of Cambridge.] 
 
 * Now the clerk of the county council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 7 and 83. 
 t Now the county councils. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 7 — 8.
 
 [6 & 7 Vict.] The Theatres Act 1843. [Chap. 68.] 801 
 
 11. . . . Every person who for hiie sball act or present, or cause, Penalty on 
 permit, or suffer to be acted or presented, any part in any stage play, in P^^rsons per- 
 auy place not being a patent theatre or duly licensed as a theatre, °''™^'^" |° 
 shall forfeit such sum as shall be awarded by the court in which or the places. 
 Justices by whom he shall be convicted, not exceeding ten pounds for 
 
 every day on which he shall so offend, [.See 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, «. 46.] 
 
 12. . . . One copy of eveiy new stage play, and of every new No new 
 act, scene, or other part added to any old stage play, and of every plavs or 
 new prologue or epilogue, and of every new part added to an old ^'/''^''''^'^^ ^o 
 prologue or epilogue intended to l^e produced and acted for hire ^g acted 
 
 at any theatre in Great Britain, shall be sent to the Lord Chamlx?rlain until sub- 
 of Her ^Majesty's Household for the time being, seven days at least mitted to 
 before the tir.st acting or presenting thereof, with an account of the *||^ ^'^'^i ■ 
 theatre where and the time when the same is intended to be first acted *™ er am. 
 or presented, signed by the master or manager, or one of the masters or 
 managers, of such theatre ; and during the said seven days no person 
 shall for hire act or present the same, or cause the same to be acted or 
 pi-esented ; and in case the Lord Cliamberlain, either before or after the 
 expiration of the said period of seven days, shall disallow any play, or 
 any act, scene, or part thereof, or any prologue or epilogue, or any part 
 thereof, it shall not be lawful for any person to act or present the same, 
 or cause the same to be acted or presented, contrary to such disallowance. 
 
 13. ... It shall be lawful for the Lord Chamberlain to charge such Fees to be 
 fees for the examination of the plays, prologues and epilogues, or parts pai<l for 
 thereof, which shall be sent to him for examination, as to him from time 6^^™i"^tio° 
 to time shall seem fit, according to a scale which shall be fixed by him, ^ ^ ^*' 
 such fee not Ix^ing in any case more than two guineas, and such ftes 
 
 .shall be paid at the time when such plays, prologues, and epilogues, or 
 parts thereof, shall be sent to the I^ord Chamberlain ; and the said period 
 of seven days shall not begin to run in any case until the said fee shall 
 have been paid to the Lord Chamberlain, or to some cihcer deputed by 
 him to receive the same. 
 
 14. ... It shall be lawful for the Lord Chamberlain for the time Tlie Lord 
 being, whenever he shall be of opinion that it is fitting for the preserva- Chamberlain 
 tion of good manners, decorum, or of the public peace so to do, to forbid "^^-^ forbid 
 the acting or presenting any stage play, or any act, scene, or part ^'^^ ^ ^^' 
 thereof, or any prologue or epilogue, or any part thereof, anywhere in 
 
 Great Britain, or in such theatres as he shall specify, and either absolutely 
 or for such time as he shall think fit. 
 
 15. . . . Every person who for hii-e shall act or present, or cause to be Penalty for 
 acted or presented, any new stage play, or any act, scene, or part acting pLivs 
 thereof, or any new prologue or epilogue, or any part thereof, until the '^'^^ore they 
 same shall have been allowed by the Lord Chamberlain, or which shall have or^after^hev 
 been disitllowed by him, and also every person who for hire shall act or have been 
 present, or cause to be acted or presented, any stage play, or ain* act, disallowed, 
 scene, or part thereof, or any prologue or epilogue, or any part thereof, 
 contrary to such prohibition as afore.^aid, shall for every such offence 
 
 forfeit such sum as shall be awarded by the court in which or the Justices 
 by whom he shall be convicted, not exceeding the sum of fifty pounds; 
 and every licence (in case there be any such) by or under which the 
 theatre was opened, in which such offence shall have been committed, 
 shall become absolutely void. 
 
 16. ... In every case in which any money or other reward shall l)e What shall 
 taken or charged, directly or indirectly, or in which the purchase of any be evidence 
 article is made a condition for the admission of any person into any ° a<^"tui& 
 theatre to see any stage play, and al.so in every case in which any stage 
 
 play shall be acted or presented in any house, room, or place in which 
 distilled or fermented exciseable liquor shall be sold, every actor therein 
 
 shall be deemed to be acting for hire. 
 
 52
 
 802 
 
 [Chap. 81.] 
 
 The County Rates Act 1852. [15 & 16 Vict.] 
 
 Proof of 
 licence in 
 certain 
 cases to lie 
 on the partj 
 accused. 
 
 Penalties 
 how to be 
 recoTei"able. 
 
 Appeal. 
 
 Appropria- 
 tion of 
 penalties. 
 
 Limitation 
 of actions. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of Act. 
 
 Limits of 
 the Act. 
 
 17. ... In any pi'oceedings to be instituted against any per.son for 
 having or keeping an unlicensed theatre, or for acting for hire in 
 an unlicensed theatre, if it shall be proved that such theatre is used for- 
 the public performance of stage plays, the burden of proof that such 
 theatre is duly licensed or authorized shall lie on the party accused, and 
 until the contrary shall be proved such theatre shall be taken to be- 
 unlicensed. 
 
 18. \As to discontinuance of proceedings begun before the passing of this 
 Act. Rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96. (,S'.Z./^.).] 
 
 19. . . . All the pecuniary penalties imposed by this Act for offences; 
 committed in England may be recovered in any of Her Majesty's Courts 
 of Record at Westminster, ... or for offences committed in any part of 
 Great Britain in a summary way before two Justices of the Peace for any 
 county, riding, division, liberty, city, or borough where any such 
 offence shall be committed. . . . [^Parts omitted^ (as to offences in Scotland) 
 not ajiplicable to London aiul [as to distress and imprisonment) rej). 55 & 56 
 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 20. ... It shall be lawful for any person who shall think himself 
 aggrieved by any order of such .Justices of the Peace to appeal therefrom 
 to the next General or Quarter Session of the Peace to be holden for the 
 said county, riding, division, liberty, city, or borough, whose order 
 therein shall be final. \_See the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1879, ss. 
 31 & 32.] 
 
 21. . . . The said penalties for any offence against this Act shall 
 be paid and applied in the first instance toward defraying the expenses, 
 incurred by the pi-osecutor, and the residue thereof (if any) shall be paid 
 to the use of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors. 
 
 22. Provided always, that no person shall be liable to be prosecuted for 
 any offence against this Act unless such prosecution shall be commenced 
 within six calendar months after the offence committed. 
 
 23. ... In this Act the word " stage play " shall be taken to include 
 every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, melodrama, 
 pantomime, or other entertainment of the stage, or any part thereof : 
 Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply 
 to any theatrical representation in any booth or show which by the 
 Justices of the Peace, or other persons having authority in that behalf, 
 shall be allowed in any lawful fair, feast, or customary meeting of the 
 like kind. 
 
 24. . . . This Act shall extend only to Great Britain. 
 
 25. [This Act may be amended^ by any Act of this session. Spent.^ 
 
 15 & 16 VICTORIA. A.D. 1852. 
 
 CHAPTEPv 81. 
 
 Ax Act to consolidate and amend the Statutes relating to the 
 Assessment and Collection of County Pates in England and 
 Wales.* [30tk June 1852.] 
 
 \_Prea7nble?\ 
 
 1. {Repeal of 12 Geo. 2, c. 29 ; 13 Geo. 2, c. 18 ; 37 Geo. 3, c. 65; 55 
 Geo. 3, c. 51 ; 56 Geo. 3, c. 49; 57 Geo. 3, c. 94 ; 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 85; 
 1 Will. 4, c. xlviii. ; 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 48 ; 8 & 9 Vict. c. Ill; aivd {in 
 part) 12 & 13 Vict. c. 65. Rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 2 — 3. [-Tustices at sessions to aj^point committees for preparing a basis 
 or standard, for assessing county rates, and as to meetings of such committees. 
 Rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 * Short title, " The County Rates Act, 1852." See the Short Titles Act 1896.
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] The County Rates .ict 1852. [Chap. 81] 
 
 803 
 
 4 — 20. [Provisions relatintj to the pi-eparatioii of tlve basis or sUmdard 
 for count)/ rates so fur as relatiiuj to London. Htp. 32 »t 33 Vict. c. G7, 
 
 8 77. 1 
 
 21. From and after the pa.ssing of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Justices in 
 Justices of the Peace* of the several cotmties, or divisions of counties in ''«="eralor 
 England and Wales, a.ssenil)lcd at their General or Ouartt-r Sessions * ';;''^';^*^'" 
 
 or at any adjournment or adjournments thereof, anil they are hereby rnako a fair 
 authoiized ami empowered, whenever circumstances shall appear to and equal 
 require it, to order and tliiect a fair and eijual county rate to be mad«-, C'JU"'.v rate, 
 for all the purposes to which the county stock or rate Is now or shall ^^''•^'"•^^'*='' 
 hereafter be made liable by law, according to the basis or standard for stances" 
 the time being in force in such county or division of a countv+; and appear to 
 for that purpose to assess and tax every j>arish, township, and other rt:quire it. 
 place, whether parochial or extra-parocldal, within the respective limits 
 of their commissions, or within such divisions, rateably and eipuiUy, 
 accoidnig to a certain pound rate (to be from time to time fixed and 
 puMicly declared by such Justices *), upon the basis or standard herein- 
 before mentioned, of the full and fair annual value of the pro()erty, 
 me.ssuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments rateable to the relief of 
 the poor therein, or which in any place not maintaining its poor would Ixj 
 liable to be rated for the relief of the poor if the .said last-mentioned place 
 were a parish, any law or statute to the contrary thereof notwith- 
 standing ; and the Justices of the Peace* shall in all cases where the 
 same may be necessary appoint pi-oper persons witliin such extra-parochial 
 or other places for the a.ssessing, taxing, and rating such extra-parochial 
 property, messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and levying, 
 collecting, and paying over such assessment, taxes, or rates. 
 
 22. If the churchwarden or churchwardens, overseer or overseers of Parishes 
 the poor,i or other inhabitant or inhabitants of any parish, township, or ^^'"t-'^ed 
 place, whether parochial or otherwisf, where there is no churchwarden or '"''^ appeal, 
 overseer, or jjcrson appointed to act as such, shall at any time thereafter 
 
 have reason to think that such parish, township, or place is aggrieved by 
 any rate or a.^-sessment now existing, or hereafter to be made upon the 
 ba.sis or standard hereinbefore mentioned, either in pursuance of this Act 
 or of any Act or Acts now in force, whether it be on account of the 
 proportions assessed upon the respective parishes, townships, or places 
 being unequal, or on account of some one or more of them l>eing without 
 sutKcient cause omitted altogether from the rate, or on account of such 
 parish, township, or place being rated at a higher proportion of the pound 
 sterling according to the fair annual value of the rateable property 
 therein, or on account of some other parish or pai'ishes, township or tnwn- 
 ships, place or places being rated at a lower proportion of the pound 
 sterling according to the fair aniuial value of the rateable propertv 
 therein than has been ii.xed and declared by the Justices of the Peace of 
 the said county in se.ssions* a.ssembled as the basis of the rate of tiie .sjiid 
 county, or on account of the altered state of the value of the proj)erty 
 as.se.ssed, or any part theieof, or shall havt> any other just cau.^f of 
 complaint what.soever, it shall be lawful for such churchwarden or church- 
 wardens, overseer or overseers of the poor, or other inhabitant or 
 inhabitants where there is no churchwarden or overeeer, X or |>ei*son 
 appointed to act as such, to api^eal to the Justices of the P»'ace for 
 the county at the next Quarter Se.^^sions of the Peace after such cjiu.se 
 of appeal shall have arisen, against such part of the rate only as uuiy 
 affect the parish or parishes, town.><hip or townships, place or places 
 vehich are unequally rated, or which shall appear to be over rated or 
 under-rated, or omitted altogether from the rate : Provided always, that 
 fourteen clear days notice in writing previous to the lii"st day of such 
 
 * Now the cnnnty councils. See 51 i: 512 Vict. c. 41, s. 3 (1). 
 
 t See 32 & 33 Vict. c. 57, s. 45 (1). 
 
 X See 62 &.63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 11 and 23 (3).
 
 804 
 
 [Chap. 81.] 
 
 The County Rates Act 1852. [15 & 16 Vict.] 
 
 Rate to le 
 raised, not- 
 withstanding 
 appeals, 
 until deter- 
 mination of 
 Justices. 
 
 57 G. 3. c. 94. 
 s. 2. 
 
 In case Jus- 
 tices order 
 rate to be 
 set aside, 
 decreased or 
 lowered ; 
 
 Money paid 
 subsequent 
 to the time 
 of appeal to 
 be returned 
 out of the 
 general 
 county rate. 
 
 Expenses of 
 appeals or 
 proceedings 
 at law shall 
 be paid in 
 such propor- 
 tions as the 
 Justices or 
 Courts of 
 Law shall 
 award. 
 
 Costs may 
 be awarded 
 upon notices 
 of appeal 
 not pro- 
 secuted. 
 
 last-mentioned Quarter Sessions shall be given by the parties intending 
 to appeal to the parties against whose rate the appeal is to be made, 
 also to the clerk of the peace of the county, and the hundred constable, 
 of tlie grounds of such appeal and the intention to try such appeal at 
 such Quarter Session of tlie Peace ; and the said J ustices are hereby 
 empowered to hear and finally determine the same, and either to confirm 
 such parts of the rate as have been appealed against, or to correct such 
 inequalities, disproportions, or omissions as shall be proved to exist 
 therein, as well in respect of the basis or standard as in the assessment of 
 the rate made thereon in such manner as to them the said Justices shall 
 appear fail-, just, and equitable, anything in this Act, or any former Act 
 or Acts, or any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary thereof notwith- 
 standing : Provided, nevertheless, that upon such appeal no such rate shall 
 be quashed or destroyed in regard to any other parish, township, or 
 place, vinless in cases where the Justices of the Peace of any county in 
 Quarter Sessions assembled, or the major part of them, shall deem it 
 necessary to proceed to the making of an entire new rate, and shall 
 proceed therein, according to the provisions of this Act. 
 
 23. Prom and after the passing of this Act, the county rate or rates 
 made upon any parish, township, or place (whether extra-parochial or 
 otherwise) shall be paid, and shall and may be levied, recovered, and 
 received, notwithstanding any appeal or appeals may have been made to 
 the Quarter Sessions of the Peace against any such rate or rates, and such 
 rate or i-ates shall continue to be raised, levied, and received until the 
 decision of the Justices shall be made upon such appeal or appeals : 
 Provided always, that if upon the hearing of any such appeal or appeals the 
 Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace shall order any I'ate or assessment 
 to be set aside, decreased, or lowered, and it shall appear to the said court 
 that any parish, township, or place have or hath, previously to the 
 determination of such appeal or appeals, paid any sum or sums of money 
 in consequence of such rates or assessments which ought not to have been 
 paid or charged therein, then and in every such case the said court shall 
 order such projoortion of such sum or sums of money as shall have been 
 so paid by any person or persons, parish, township, or place, subsequently 
 to the notice which shall have been given of such last-mentioned appeal or 
 appeals, to be repaid and returned to the person or persons, parish, 
 township, or place which have or hath paid the same respectively, out 
 of the general rate of the county in which the cause of appeal shall 
 have arisen. 
 
 24. Save as hereinbefore otherwise provided, in case of any appeals, 
 actions, suits or proceedings at law respecting anything done in pursuance 
 of this Act, or any other Act or Acts relating to the county rate, the 
 expenses of all such appeals, actions, suits, or proceedings at law shall be 
 borne and paid by such respective parishes, townships, places, and persons, 
 or such of them, and in such proportions, as the said Justices shall, as 
 they are hereby authorized to do, upon any appeal, in their Quarter 
 Sessions award and order, or as such courts wherein such actions, suits, 
 or proceedings shall be instituted shall, as they are hereby authorized to 
 do, adjudge and order. 
 
 25. And for the more effectual preventing of frivolous appeals, be it 
 enacted, That the Justices of the Peace in their Quarter Sessions 
 assembled, upon proof before them there to be made of notice of any 
 appeal having been given as herein-before authorized by any churchwarden 
 or churchwardens, overseer or overseers,* or other person or persons 
 (though he or they did not afterwards prosecute such appeal), shall and 
 may at the same sessions award and order to the party to whom such 
 notice shall appear to have been given, such costs and chai'ges as by the 
 said Justices in their discretion shall be thought reasonable and just to be 
 
 * See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 11 and 23 (3).
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] T/ie Counts/ Rates Act 1852. [Chap. 81.] 805 
 
 pai<l l)y tlif churchwardens, ovrrseers,* or anv other [ erson by whom such 
 noticr .sliall luive been given. 
 
 26. When and as often as the; Justices of the Peace + witliin the Justices of 
 
 respective Hmits of their commissions in EtiLrlnul have made a county '[it^ » <^''ict: 
 / .,,,.,, c ,, . , , , , , , , .-hall st-nd 
 
 rate, a printed hst * oi tli(* j)anslies and placts assessed to sucli rate, pr^-cents 
 
 and the auiount of tlie rateaUe \ahie upon wliich each such parish and direttly to 
 
 place shall have been respectivt ly asse.ssed, shall be sent to the overseers guardians of 
 
 of the po(jr,* constables, or other persons charged with the collection or "'^""'^'' '<^'" 
 
 levy of the county rate in every pai-ish and place within the county, and „f*(.oui",»v^" 
 
 such Justices, as.senibled at their General or Quarter 8i ssions,t or at any rates. 
 
 adjoiuTiment thereof, shall order precepts § in the form shown in the 
 
 8ch('did(' annexed to this Act, or as near thereto as may be, to be issued 
 
 to the guaitlians of every iniion of parishes, of which union any parish is 
 
 situate within such limits, stating the sum or sums as.sessed and charged 
 
 for each such i-ate on i ach parish in the union the whole of which parish 
 
 is situate witliin such limits, and to the guardians of every single parish 
 
 situate within such limits, stating the sum or sums as.sessed and charged 
 
 on such parish for each such rate, and requiring the guardians of such 
 
 union or parish respi ctively, within such time as uiay bo limited in 
 
 such piecepts, to cause the aggregate of the said several sums so stated to 
 
 be paid by them, out of the monies held by them on behalf of each such 
 
 parish, to the treasurer of the county or place for which such Justices t 
 
 act, and may cause such precepts to be .sent, by post or otherwise, to such 
 
 guardians ; and such pi'ecepts shall have force in every such union, so far 
 
 as concerns such parishes as are within the limits of the couimi.ssion of 
 
 the said Ju.stices, notwithstanding that the place of meeting of such 
 
 guardians may not be situated witliin such limits, and without being 
 
 endorsed with the signature of any Justice of the Peace having ordinary 
 
 jurisdiction in tlie j>Iace of meeting of the guardians ; and such guardians Guardians to 
 
 shall raise the monies recpiired by such precc pts to be paid in like manner P^-'*' '""^^ 
 
 as the money required by such guardians for the relief of the poor, and 
 
 shall pay such monies at the time limited and in the manner presci-ibed 
 
 by such precepts ; and if tlie treasuier of such guardians, or any P6''=>on j^'^^^^^-^.^^. ^ 
 
 on his or their behalf, tender to the treasurer of the county or [dace for receive the 
 
 which such Justices + act the aggregate of the said sevei'al sums, or if he same. 
 
 .so tender the whole sum assessed on any such parish or parish* s in respect 
 
 of any such rate or late.s, together with a copy of such precept in which 
 
 are specified the parish or parishes and the rate or late^ in respect 
 
 of which the same is so tendered, the treasurer of the county shall receive 
 
 the sum so tendered, notwithstan<ling that the sums required to be 
 
 paid on behalf of other of such parishes or of other of such rates be not 
 
 then tendered, and shall give a receipt for the sum or sums received 
 
 by him accordingly, but he shall not receive any sum on behalf of any 
 
 such parish less than the whole of the sum asse.^.sed and charged thereon 
 
 in respect of one such rate ; and the receipt of the ti-easurer of such 
 
 county or place shall be a good discharge for the payment of the sums 
 
 specified in any such precept or of any of them. 
 
 27. lu case guardians do not pay within the time limited in such If the guar- 
 precept the sum or sums of monev therein required to be i>aid on behalf lunns tail to 
 of any parish, the said Justices assembled as aforesaid t may cau.se to be j.'^j^^ ^j^^ 
 issued and sint, by post or otherwise, to the overseers of the poor* of such Justices may 
 parish, or to the petty constable or peace oHicer, or other pei-son t)r pei-sons issue war- 
 empowertd in any place to rate and levy the monies assessed as such rants to the 
 county rate, warrants to collect and pay to the treasurer of the county or ^r[shes*etc 
 
 * See G2 Sc (JS Vict. c. li, ss. 11 and 23 (3). lame"^ *^^ 
 
 t Now the county councils. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 11, .-. 3(1). 
 
 X S. 2 of 'the County Rate Act 1S66, enacts that "the said printed lists shall, 
 unless the Justices otherwise direct, be j^ent only on the occasion wlion a new basis 
 or standard for a county rate or an alteration in the existing basis or standard has 
 been allowed anil contirmed." 
 
 § See 62 & 153 Vict. c. 14, s. 11 (.2).
 
 806 
 
 [Chap. 81.] 
 
 The County Rates Act 1852. [15 & 16 Vict.] 
 
 If the over- 
 seers, etc. 
 fail to pay, 
 the Justices 
 may levy the 
 rate by dis- 
 tress and 
 sale. 
 
 Parishes not 
 in arrear 
 with contri- 
 butions to be 
 reimbursed 
 by those 
 which are 
 in arrear. 
 
 Justices may 
 issue pre- 
 cepts to the 
 overseers of 
 parishes, 
 etc. not 
 comprised 
 in unions, 
 or only 
 partly within 
 the jurisdic- 
 tion of the 
 Justices. 
 
 place in which such Justices * act, within a time to be named and limited 
 in such warrants, the rate or rates charged on such parish or place 
 respectively, together with an addition to such rate or rates in the 
 proportion of one shilling to every ten ; and such additional sum shall be 
 applied and disposed of in like manner as the county rate ; and such 
 overseers of the poor,t petty constables, peace officers, or other persons may 
 reimburse themselves, as well for such additional sums as for the original 
 amount of rate or rates, out of the monies which they are respectively 
 empowered to rate and levy for the purpose of such county rate ; but shall 
 not receive or take fi-om the county rate, or any other rate, any allowance 
 or compensation for their trouble or expenses incurred in collecting, 
 levying, or paying such county rate. 
 
 28. If any overseer,t petty constable, peace officer, or other person as 
 aforesaid refuse, make default or neglect to pay to the treasurer of the 
 county or plnce within the time limited as aforesaid, the sum or sums of 
 money specified in the said warrants, and if the clerk of the peace or 
 treasurer of the county or place make complaint thereof, then any 
 .Justice of the Peace of such county or place may by warrant under his 
 hand levy the same by distress and sale of the goods of the offender ; and 
 the Justices assembled as aforesaid may pay to any clerk, constable, 
 messenger, or other person who may have been employed in making such 
 complaint, or in obtaining, drawing, or executing such warrant, such 
 reasonable compensation out of the county stock as to the said Justices 
 may seem fit. 
 
 29. In every case where any parish comprised in an union has, on or 
 before the day on which any precept % as aforesaid should be obeyed, 
 contributed money sufficient to enable the guardians of the union to pay 
 any sum or sums required by such precept in respect of such parish, 
 as well as to provide for the immediate relief of the poor of such 
 parish, and to satisfy all other obligations of the said guardians in respect 
 of such parish in force on that day, and where, through the default of any 
 other parish or parishes in the same union in contributing money to such 
 guardians, or through the neglect of such guardians to demand sufficient 
 contributions from any other parish or parishes in the same union, the 
 said guardians have applied the money of such first -mentioned parish to 
 the use of such other parish or parishes, and are thereby rendered unable 
 to pay any money so reqviired by such precept on behalf of such first- 
 mentioned parish, and such parish is by reason thereof compelled to 
 pay the additional sum of one shilling in every ten, as herein-before 
 provided, in every such case the guardians of the union shall reimburse 
 such first-mentioned parish such additional sum, and all costs incurred by 
 reason of the premises, out of the monies of such other parish or parishes 
 which may next thereafter come into the hands of such guardians ; and in 
 case more than one palish be in default as aforesaid the said guardians 
 shall charge such additional sum and costs to every such parish, in 
 proportion to the amount of the deficiency of the contribution of each 
 parish respectively on the day on which the said precept should have 
 been obeyed. 
 
 30. In the case of every parish not comprised within any union, and in 
 which the laws for the relief of the poor are not administered by a Board 
 of Guardians, and in the case of every parish comprised in a union, 
 the guardians of which are not empowered to relieve the poor, and in the 
 case of any parish comprised within a union, or in which the laws for 
 the relief of the poor are administered by a Board of Guardians, of which 
 parish a part only is situated within the limits of the commission of any 
 Justices, for which part no separate i-ate is levied for the relief of the 
 poor, or where there are no separate churchwardens or overseers of 
 
 41, s. 3 (1). 
 
 * Now the county councils. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 
 t See (52 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 11 and 23 (3). 
 X See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 11 (2).
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] The County Rates Act 1852. [Chap. 8i.] 807 
 
 the poor, or where no sepanite or distinct rate is made and collected for 
 the relief of the poor of any division or part of any parish, township, 
 •or place situated in and extending into two or more counties, ridinirs, or 
 divisions, and in the ciise of evt-ry place not maintaining its own poor, but 
 liabli- to the payuient of county rates as afoiesaid, tin- .Justices* asseml>led 
 a»s aforesaid may, so soon as any vacancy occurs in the ottice of High 
 Constable, issuer their waiiant to the oversoers,^ petty constables, peace 
 officers, or other perscjus eni{)o\ven'(l by law to rate and levy county rates 
 in such parish, part of a parish, or place, to pay to the county treasurer, 
 or to transmit to him in such manner as the said Justices may fronj time 
 to time direct, within a time limited in such warrant, the county rate, 
 as aforesaid cliarged on tliem, withcnit the agency or intt-rvention of any 
 High Constable, and such Justices may cause such warrant to be sent by 
 post or otherwise ; and in case tlie said overseers, petty constable, peace 
 oHicer, or other person refuse or neglect to pay any such rate within the 
 time limited in such warrant, the same remedy may be had against them 
 as is herein-before provided against overseers, petty constables, peace 
 officers, or other ])ersons refusing, making default, or neglecting to pay to 
 the treasurer of the county or place, within the .time limited, the rate 
 or rates charged upon any parish in union, and omitted to be paid by the 
 guai<lians of such union, in compliance with the precept issued by 
 the Justices as aforesaid. 
 
 31 — 36. \^As to the collection of the cotinti/ rate in parishes extend in<j , 
 
 into two or more counties or situate partly tcithin and partly icithout 
 a borough. Not applicable to London.^ 
 
 36 — 37. \_As to the collection of the county rate v)here the office of High 
 Cunslahle has not become vacant. As to the High Constable giving security. 
 Rep. 55 cfe 5G Vict, c 19 (A'.Z.A'.).] 
 
 38. \_As to repaj/ment by borough treasurers of money expended by 
 comities out of the county rates. Hep. 45 ik 46 Vict. c. 50, s. 5.] 
 
 39. Whenever precepts or warrants, as provided by this Act, are to be Delivery of 
 sent by post, the clerk of the peace t shall send every such precept precepts, 
 or warrant by post as a registered letter, according to the regulations "^ -^^^ 
 of the PostDjaster General in force for the time being in that behalf ; and evidence 
 every precept or warrant delivered or tendered as a registered letter thereof, 
 at the address of the person to whom it is addi-essed, whether a receipt Ije 
 
 _given for the same or not, shall be deemed to have been served on the 
 person to whom the same was so delivered or tendered ; and if delivered 
 or tendered to the clerk or other like officer acting for any guanlians, § 
 shall be deemeil to have been served on the whole of such guardians : and 
 if deli vexed or tendered to any one overseer of a parish shall be deemed to 
 have been served on the whole of the overseers of such parish. 
 
 40 — 43. [As to the appointment of Justices to determine the boundaries 
 bettceen counties, and of a referee in case of difference between such Justwes. 
 Hep., as regards London, 32 it 33 Vict. c. 07, s. 77.] 
 
 44. [Limitation of actions. Semble superseded by 50 .V 57 Vict. c. 61.] 
 
 45. Every person who in any manmr wilfully resists or obstructs any Pcnaltv on 
 overseer, collector, surveyor, or other ptr.son in the execution of his persons 
 
 or their duty under this Act shall forfeit and pay any sum not e.xceediug oygj^prs"^ 
 five pounds, to be prosecuted and recovered l)efore any two or more g^,. 
 of Her Maje.sty's Justices of the Peace for the county wherein the otTenco 
 is committed. 
 
 * Now tbe countv councils. See .51 A: ."i2 Vict. c. 41, :5 t,l). 
 t See 152 c<c 03 ViJt. c. 14, ss. 1 1 and 23 (3). 
 
 + Now, as regards London, tlie Clerk of tbe London County Council. 5?eo .">1 i: 52 
 Viet. c. 41, s. 83 (11). 
 
 § See t)2 & (53 Vict. c. 14, s. 11 (2).
 
 808 
 
 [Chap. 81.] 
 
 The County Rates Act 1852. [15 & 16 Vict.] 
 
 The Act 
 extended to 
 all places 
 having sepa- 
 rate com- 
 mission of 
 the peace, 
 and to all 
 rates of 
 the nature 
 of county 
 rates. 
 
 Construction 
 of the words 
 * parish," 
 "union," 
 "guardians." 
 
 46. [FeruiUies and forfeitures, costs, and charges, raay he levied by 
 distress and sale of offender'' s goods — As to committal of offender, and 
 application of penalties. Rep. and replaced by the Summary Jurisdiction 
 Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 47 — 50. \^As to counties inhere rates have been regulated by particular 
 Acts. — All business relating to the assessment and ajyplicoMon of the county 
 rate to be transacted in ojien court — -Notice thereof to be given — Annual 
 account of 7-eceipts and expenditure to be published. Rep. 55 & 56 Vict, 
 c. 19 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 51. In the construction of this Act the word "county " shall mean and 
 inchide any riding or division having a separate commission of the peace, 
 or sepaiate county treasurer, and any liberty, franchise, or other place in 
 which rates in the nature of county rates may be levied, having a separate 
 commission of the peace, and not subject to the jurisdiction of the county 
 or counties at large in which such liberty, franchise, or place may lie, nor 
 contributing or paying to the county rates made for such county or 
 counties at large ; and that the words " county rate " shall mean and 
 include every rate or, tax assessed in any county or any division of a 
 county as aforesaid for all or any of the purposes to which county rate or 
 stock is or may hereafter be made liable. 
 
 52. The word "parish" shall be construed to include any township, 
 vill, or place maintaining its own poor, whether parochial or extra- 
 parochial, or any part of a parish, township, vill, or other place for which 
 a separate poor rate may be made ; the word "union" shall be construed 
 to mean and include any number of parishes united under the Act j^assed 
 in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the 
 Fourth, " for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws 
 relating to the Poor in England," or under an Act passed in the twenty- 
 second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, " for 
 the better Relief and Employment of the Poor," * or under any local Act ; 
 and the word " guardians " shall mean and include any board of 
 guardians acting under the provisions of the said Act passed in the fifth 
 yeai of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and empowered 
 to relieve the poor of any parish or union, and the visitors, guardians, 
 directois, managers, acting guardians, vestrymen, or other officers in a 
 union appointed to act in the ordering of relief of the poor from the 
 poor rate tinder any general or local Act of Parliament ; and the word 
 "hundred" shall mean and include any hundred, wapentake, wai^d, 
 
 or other di.strict in the nature of a hundred, by whatever name 
 denominated. 
 
 SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. 
 
 County of 
 to wit. 
 
 ! 
 
 Form of Precept. 
 To the Guardians of the 
 
 Union. 
 
 These are to require you, the Guardians of the Union, from 
 
 and out of the monies paid into the hands of the treasurer of your union for 
 the uses and purposes of the said union, to pay or cause to be paid, on 
 or before the day of into the hands of A.B., 
 
 treasurer of the said county, appointed to receive the same, the sum of 
 being the amount of the several and respective sums of 
 money hereunder set down and expressed opposite to and against the names of 
 the several parishes, townships, or places comprised within your said union, 
 the said several sums being respectively charged and assessed thereon as the 
 
 Eep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.).
 
 [15 & ir, Vict.] The Metropolis Water Act 1852. [Chap. 84.] 
 
 proportion of the several parishes townships, or plnces towards the general 
 county rate, at in the pound, mude at the last Quarter 
 
 Sessions [or General Sessions] of the Peace held at iu and for 
 
 the said county. 
 
 [Sifpiature of the Clerk of the Pe/ice.*] 
 
 809 
 
 County Rate, 
 
 at 
 
 in the Pound. 
 
 £ s. 
 
 CHAPTER 84. 
 tAx Act to make uErrEii Pkovisiox respecting the Supply of 
 Water to the Metropoli.s. [Ist July 1852.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. 55 k 56 Vict.c. 19 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 1. . . . It shall not lie lawful for iiiiy c<)mpiinysupplyin<r the uietropoli.s 
 or any part thereof with watei- for domestic vist',:|: ... to take any water 
 for such purpose from any part of the River Thames below Teddington 
 Lock, or from any part of any of the tributary rivers or streams of the 
 River Thames below the highest point where tht- tide flows in such 
 tributary rivers and streams respectively. . . . [Parts omitted {the words 
 '■'■frovi and after the Z\st day of August 1855," and provisions as to 
 thj- Chelsea Water Company) rpp. 38 ct 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L./i'.).] 
 
 2. . . . Every reservoir within a distance in a straight line from Saint 
 Paul's Cathtdial in the city of London of not more than five miles, in which 
 water for the supply for domestic use* of the metropolis or any part thereof 
 is stored or kept by any company, shall be loofed in or otherwLse covered 
 over : Provided always, that this pi-ovision shall not extend to any reservoir 
 the water from whicli is subjected by the company to etiicient filtration 
 after it is discharged from such i-eservoir, and l)efore it is pas.sed into the 
 mains or pipes of the company for disti-ibution, or to any rest-rvoir the 
 whole of the water from which is distributed through distinct mains or 
 pipes for other than domestic purptises, nor to any reservoir whatever the 
 water stored in which shall be used exclusively for other than domestic 
 purposes. [Words omitted C^^ from and after the 3lst day of AtKjtist 1855") 
 rep. 38 k 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 3. . . . -^o water shall be brought or conducted within the metrojxjlis 
 by any companv for the purpose of domestic use :; otherwise than through 
 pipes or through covered aijueducts, unless the same shall be afterwards 
 filtered before di^triliution. [Words omitted {'■\from and after the 'iXst day 
 o/Auynst 1855") rep. 38 i 39 Vict. c. 66 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 4. . . . Every company shall eftectually filter all wat«'r .supplietl by 
 them within the meti'opolis for domestic use,* before the same .shall i»a.ss 
 into the pipes for distriltution, excepting any water which may l:>e punifKnl 
 from wells into a covtied reservoir or aqueiluct. without exjKisure to the 
 atmosphere, and which shall not be afterwards mixed with untiltered 
 water. [See 34 ct 35 Vict. c. 113, s. 36. Words omitted (''from and after 
 the 31«< day of Amjust 1855")re;>. 38 it 39 Vict. c. <^^ {S.L.R.).] 
 
 * Now, as reuards London, tlie Clerk of the London County Council. See 51 A: 52 
 Vict.c. 41. s. 83 (11). 
 
 f Tbe word "said," wlieicver occurring: in tliis .Vet hefon^ " Poanl of Trade,** is 
 repealed by .=55 & 5(5 Vict. c. 19 (S.L.R.). 
 
 X See 64 & 55 Vict. c. 7fi, s. 50. 
 
 Restriction 
 Sis to sources 
 of su[ij)ly of 
 water to the 
 metropolis. 
 
 Reservoirs, 
 within a 
 limited dis- 
 tance, to be 
 covered. 
 
 Water not 
 to be bnjugbt 
 within a 
 limited dis- 
 tance in open 
 aqueducts. 
 
 Every com- 
 pany to tilter 
 all water .-up- 
 plieil by them 
 for domestic 
 use.
 
 810 
 
 [Chap. 84.] The Metropolis Water Act 1852. [15 & 16 Vict. 
 
 Company to 
 give notice 
 to Board of 
 Trade before 
 resorting to 
 new sources 
 of supply, 
 who may 
 thereupon 
 appoint an 
 inspector 
 to report. 
 
 Inspector to 
 give notice 
 to companies 
 of his inten- 
 tion to visit 
 new sources. 
 
 Board of 
 Trade to 
 certify their 
 approval or 
 disapproval 
 of new 
 sources. 
 
 If Board of 
 Trade dis- 
 approve, 
 company not 
 to use new 
 source of 
 supply. 
 
 On complaint 
 as to quantity 
 and quality. 
 Board of 
 Trade may 
 appoint a 
 person to 
 inquire and 
 report. 
 
 Powers of 
 
 person 
 
 appointed. 
 
 Penalty for 
 obstructing 
 inspector. 
 
 If complaint 
 well founded, 
 notice to be 
 given to 
 company. 
 
 5. Three months before any company shall resort to any new source of 
 supply, such company shall give notice in writing thereof to . . . the 
 Board of Trade,* and thereupon, \vithin one month after receipt of such 
 notice, the . . . Board of Trade* shall, if they think fit, appoint a 
 competent person as an insjiector, \yho .><hall report with respect to any 
 sources then specially authorized by Parliament, whether the directions of 
 the special Act have been complied with in reference thereto, and with 
 respect to any new sources not specially avithorized by Parliament, whether 
 the same are capable of supplying good and wholesome water for domestic 
 purposes. [TTorr/s omitted {'■•the Lord^s of the Committee of Privy Council 
 for Trade and Plantations, hereinafter called") rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 
 {S.L.E.).] 
 
 6. The inspector so appointed as aforesaid shall within ten days after 
 such appointment give notice in writing to the company thereof, and of 
 the time at which he proposes to visit and inspect the said sources, and 
 thereupon, in order to enable him to make such report as aforesaid, it shall 
 be lawful for the said inspector to enter the lands wherein such sources 
 respectively are situate, and to examine and make inquiry touching the 
 premises. 
 
 7. The Board of Trade * shall, within twenty-one days after the receipt 
 from the said inspector of his report, send to such company with respect to 
 any such new sources of supply not specially authorized by Parliament a 
 certificate in writing of their appioval or disapproval thereof, and with, 
 respect to any such sources as shall then be specially authorized by 
 Parliament a notice in writing stating whether iu the judgment of 
 the . . . Board of Trade * the directions of the special Act have in 
 reference thereto been complied with. 
 
 8. After the company shall have received a certificate that the . . . 
 Board of Trade * disapproves of any such new source of supply not specially 
 authorized by Parliament as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for the 
 company to use the said source, and after receipt of such notice as aforesaid 
 that in the judgment of the . . . Board of Trade* the directions of the 
 special Act with reference to any sources then specially authorized by 
 Parliament have not been complied with, it shall not be lawful for the 
 company, before complying with such directions with reference to such 
 source, to use the same. 
 
 9. If at any time complaint as to the quantity or quality of the water 
 supplied by any company for domestic use t be made to the Board of 
 Trade * by memorial in writing signed b}" not less than twenty inhabitant 
 householders paying rents for and supplied with water by the company, it 
 shall be lawful for the Board of Trade,* at any time within one month 
 after the receipt of such complaint, to appoint a competent person to 
 inquire into and concerning the grounds of such complaint, and to report 
 to the Board of Trade * thereon. [A/nended 34 & 35 Vict. c. 113, s. 35. j 
 
 10. The person so appointed as aforesaid shall, within three days after 
 such appointment, give notice thereof in writing to the company, and after 
 such notice as aforesaid he shall have power to inspect and examine the 
 waterworks of the company, and to inquire into and concerning the 
 grounds of such complaint ; and the company and their oificers shall afiord 
 all reasonable facilities for such inspection, examination, and inquiry. 
 
 11. Any person obstructing such inspector in the due prosecution of 
 such inspection, examination, or inquiry, shall forfeit and pay any sum 
 not exceeding ten pounds. 
 
 12. If after receipt of such report it shall appear to the Board of Trade * 
 that the said complaint is well founded, the Board of Trade * shall give 
 notice thereof in writing to the company. 
 
 * The Local Government Board is substituted for the Board of Trade wherever 
 the latter expression occurs in this Act by the Public Health Act 1872, s. 35; Public 
 Health Act 1875, s. 343, and Sch. V. Part ill. ; and 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76. s. 142. 
 
 J See 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 50.
 
 [15 & 16 Vict.] The Metropolis Water Act \Hi)2. [Chap. 84.] 811 
 
 13. After the receipt of such notice the company nhall and tliey are C<impany to 
 
 hereliv nuuired williiii a reusonahle time to remove the t'loumls of such '■<-'">ov^* 
 
 -' . 1 ° ^Tourid of 
 
 complaint. c.mi-biut. 
 
 14. Every steam enf^ine, furnace, or other work in which coals which Enfjinea to 
 produce smokt; durinj^ C()ml>usti()n shall l>e consumed by any company for consume 
 tlie piirptwc of tiie wattTworks siiall he constructed on the most ••ilt-ttual tiieir own 
 principlf for consuming its own smoke. [See ulna 5t it 55 Vict. c. 7G, ». 23.] "'Q'^'"-*' 
 
 15. [/'rorisioiix ax to const/int siipp/i/ of' irnfer. liej). 34 it 35 Virt. c. 113» 
 s. 5 (.se« Udd.x. 7) ; 55 <t 56 Y'lct. c. ID [S.L.Jl.) ; and 'l Kdw. 7, c. 41, s. 38.] 
 
 16. Any company which shall violate, refuse, or ne;,'Iect to comply with I'enalty for 
 
 any of the provisions hereinbefore contained shall forfeit to Her Majesty "o''-*-"'"»!''j' 
 ,1 .• . Ill 5 1 1 f ^1 e I 1 *i aij'^e with the 
 
 the sum ot two hniidifd pounds, jind the further sum or one buiulretl ^^^.j^jj^^f 
 
 pounds for every montli during which they shall continue to violate or to the Act. 
 
 refuse or negltct to couiply with the .same after they shall have i-eceived 
 
 notice in writing from the Board of Trade* to discontinue such violation, 
 
 refusal, or neglect as aforesaid. 
 
 17. Every company shall, within one year after the passing of this Map of 
 Act, cause a map to l>e made of the district within whiclj any mains or "." u'^^^^f ^u 
 district mains shall have been laid down or formed by them on a sc;ile not companies 
 less than six inches to a mile, and shall cause to be marked thereon the to be made, 
 course and situation of all existing mains and district mains, and sliall, and kept at 
 within six months from the making of any alterations or additions, cause principal 
 
 xi 1 ^ i_ f ^- X X- i. 1 1 u II-.- A office of each 
 
 the said maj)s to be from time to time corrected, and such inlditions made (.omijanv 
 
 thereto as may show the line and situation of all such mains and district ^nil be open 
 
 mains as may be laid down or formed by them from time to time . . . ; and to insixjction. 
 
 such map, or a copy thereof, with the date expre.ssed thereon of the last 
 
 tiu)e wlien the same shall have been so corrected as afore.said. shall Ije 
 
 kept in the principal otlice of each company, and shall be open to the 
 
 inspection of all pei.sons interested in the same within the said di.strict, 
 
 who shall be at lilx-rty to take copies of or extracts from the same. 
 
 \Amended 34 it 35 Vict. c. 113, ». 49. See also 28 it 2') Vict. c. 90, .s. 32. 
 
 Words omitted {'Uifter tlve passiny of this Act") rep. 55 »t 56 Vict. c. 19 
 
 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 18. Every company, on the application of any person supplied with Cmpanies 
 water by such Company, shall furnish to such person the particulars of "^ ^""",^^. 
 any district main from which such person is supplied, together with o^jii^tricr 
 the names of the streets through which such di.strict main pa.s.se^, and the mains when 
 commencement and termination thereof. [A)iteiided 34 it 35 Vict. c. 113, reiiuiretl. 
 
 s. 49.] 
 
 19 — 22. [Accoitnt of rates levied by comjxiiiies to be open to public 
 inspection — As to jn-oceedim/s to enforce this Act — Cisterns to be supplied 
 tcith p7'oper apparatus. Rep. 34 it 35 Vict. c. 113, s. 5, and 2 Edw. 7, c. 41, 
 s. 38.] 
 
 23. Every cistern or other receptacle for water, ami every closet, soil- Ci.sterns, 
 
 pan, and in-ivate bath which shall be supplied with water bv anv company, ^"'°t^^'; *Pr 
 
 1111 1 1 1 rii x*i* oat ns to t)c so 
 
 shall be so constructeil and useil as elrectually to prevent tJie waste, mis- constructed 
 
 use, or undue consumj)tion of water, and the ilow or return of foul as to prevent 
 
 air or other noi-some or impure matter into the mains or pipes of the w.'u<te or the 
 
 company, or into any pipes connected or communicating therewith; and tl>>w or return 
 
 notwithstamling an\ thing in '" Tlie Waterworks Clauses Act, 1S47," or in mattJr into 
 
 this Act contained, no company shall be bound to supply water into any x\w mains, 
 
 cistern or other receptacle for water, clo.set, soil-pan, or private Imth, etc. 
 
 whicii shall not be so con.structed and u.sed. 
 
 24. No person shall make or lay down, or permit to be made or Restricting 
 
 laid down, anv i>i))e or other means or contrivance for taking, using, or ''""'"".»">''«• 
 
 ..'•^' •..-.i • X »i tion with 
 
 obtaining water to coiiiiminicate with any pipe or J^PP-'rii*""^ <'""'i^**"i^' pipes of the 
 with any of the mains or pipes of any ct)mpany without giving ^^uch j^mpany. 
 notice, and except under such superintendence, and according to such 
 
 • See note to s. 5.
 
 812 [Chap. 84.] The Metropolis Water Act 1852. [15 & 16 Vict.] 
 
 Water may 
 
 be cut off in 
 certain cases. 
 
 Regulations 
 to be made 
 with approval 
 of Board of 
 Trade. 
 
 direction as is provided by "The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847," with 
 respect to the communication pipes to be laid by the inhabitants. [iS'ee 
 the Waterworks Clauses Act 1847, ss. 48 — .52; a)id the Waterworks Clauses 
 Act 1863, s. 19.] 
 
 25. It" any person supplied with water by any company shall wilfully 
 do or cause to be done any act, matter, or thing in contravention of 
 tlie pi'ovisions of this Act, or of the special Act relating to such company, 
 or of any Act incorporated therewith, or shall wilfully omit or neglect to 
 do any matter or thing which under such provisions ought to be done for 
 the prevention of the waste, misuse, or undue consumption, or the 
 contamination of the water of the company, it shall be lawful for 
 the company to turn off the water supplied by them to such person, and to 
 cease to supply such person with water, and also to recover from such 
 person by action or suit in any court of competent jurisdiction the amount 
 of any loss, damage, or injury which such company may sustain by means- 
 or in consequence of any such act, mattei", or thing as aforesaid, or of any 
 such wilful omission or neglect as aforesaid. [See the Waterworks Clauses 
 Acts 1847, ss. 54, 57, & 74, and 1883, s. 16; the Water Companies 
 (Jiegulations of Powers) Act 1887; 34 & 35 Vict. c. 113, s. 32; and 
 54 & 55 Vict. 'c. 76, s. 49.] 
 
 26, It shall be lawful for any company from time to time ... to 
 make such regulations* as shall be necessary or expedient for the purpose 
 
 of preventing the waste or misuse of watei 
 things, to prescribe the size, nature, and 
 
 and therein, amongst other 
 of the pipes, cocks. 
 
 strength 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 cisterns, and other apparatus to be used, and to interdict any arrange- 
 ments, and the use of any pipes, cocks, cisterns, or other apparatus, which 
 may tend to such waste or misuse as aforesaid. \Words omitted {'■^ ivith 
 the approval of the Board of Trade") rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 [S.L.R.).] 
 
 27. [Parish officers, with consent of vestry, may require inhabitants to 
 procure supply of water. Rep. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 113, s. 5, and 2 Edw. 7,. 
 c. 41, s. 38.] ■ 
 
 28. In citing this Act in other Acts and in legal instruments it shall 
 be enough to use the expression "The Metropolis Water Act, 1852." 
 
 29. In the construction of this Act the expression "company" shall 
 mean and include any of the companies herein-after enumerated ; (that is 
 to say,) the Governor and Company of the New Ptiver brought from 
 Chadwell and Amwell to London, commonly called " The New River 
 Company!;" the Company of Proprietors of the East London Water- 
 works t; the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company t; the West 
 Middlesex Waterworks Company f; the Lambeth Waterworks Com- 
 pany t; the Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks?; the 
 Grand Junction Waterworks Company t ; the Company of Proprietors of 
 the Kent Waterworks t ; and the Hampstead Waterworks Company % ; 
 and also any other company, board, commissioner, association, person or 
 partnership, corporate or unincorporate, for the time being supplying 
 the metropolis or any part thereof with water for domestic use§; the 
 expression " the special Act " shall mean and include this Act, and ever}' 
 and any Act of Parliament relating to the company referred to ; and the 
 expression the " metropolis" || shall mean and include all places described 
 or referred to in the Schedule to this Act. 
 
 * See 34 & .^f) Vict. c. 11.3, ss. 17--25. 
 
 t Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41, s. 1. 
 X This company apparently ceased to exist about 1853, and their area was- 
 subsequently .supplied by the New River Company. 
 § See note on s. 1. 
 II See GO & 61 Vict. c. uG, s. 3.
 
 [24 & 25 Vict.] The Forgenj Act IbOl. [Chap. 98.] 813 
 
 The SCHEDULE above referred to. 
 
 All such places l.yiny on the north side or left bank of the River Thames 
 as are within the exterior boundaries of ami are within the ambit formed 
 by the paiislies of Fiilham, Hammersmith, Kensington, I'adiiington, ilimp- 
 stead, Hornsej', Tottenham, Saint Pancras, Inlini^'ton. Stoke Newington, 
 Hackney, Stratford-le-Bow, Broudey, Poplar, and Sliadwell. 
 
 Such part of the parish of Chelsea as lies north of the said parish of 
 Kensin},'t()M. 
 
 And such parts and places lyinj,' on the south side <ir right bank of the said 
 river as are within the exterior boundaries of and are within the ambit formed 
 by the parishes of Woolwieli, Charlton, (Jreonwich. Deptford. Lee, Lewisbam, 
 Camberwell, Lambeth, Strealham, 'i'ootim,', Wundswoitli, and I'utney. 
 
 24 & 25 VICTORIA. A.D. 1861. 
 
 CHAPTER 98. 
 
 An Act to consolidate and amend the Statijte Law of England 
 AND Ireland helatino to indktaule Offences by FoiuiEUY.* 
 
 [ikh Auijust 1861.] 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 As to forging Exchequer Bills, &c. : — 
 
 8. Whosoever shall forge or alter, or .shall olTer, utter, dispo.^e of, or I-'urginf^ Kx- 
 
 put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any Exeln quer bill elieqner bills, 
 
 or Exchequer bond or Exchequer debenture, or anv indorsement on or , " ' ^°'* 
 ' ~ ,-, , ^ , .,, T-« 1 "i J 1.-1 <lebeutaree, 
 
 assignment or any Exche(|uer l)iil or Exchefjuer bond or l".xclie(|uer ^^ 
 
 debenture, or any receipt or certificate for interist accruing thereon, with 
 
 intent to defraud, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof 
 
 shall be liable ... to be kept in penal servitude for lite. . . . [Parts 
 
 omitted {t/ie vords '^ at the discretion of the Court" and as to alternative 
 
 periods of iinprisomnent) rep. 55 <k. 5G Vict. c. 19 {jS.L.L'.), and 5G A: 57 Vict. 
 
 c. 54 {ii.L.H.).] 
 
 9. Whosoever, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof whereof Making 
 
 shall lie on the party accused), shall make or cau.se or procure to be made, plates, etc. in 
 
 or shall aid or a.ssist in makinjx, or shall knowinLdy have in his tu.stodv or iniit^tion of 
 
 .. 1 1 • .L i. u ■ *i • *j those used foi 
 
 possession, any trame, mould, or instrument having therein any words, Kxthequer 
 
 letters, ligures, marks, lines, or devices peculiar to and appearing in the bills, etc. 
 
 substance of any paper provided or to be provided or used for Exchequer 
 
 bills or Exchecpier bonds or Exchequer debentures, or any unichinery 
 
 for working any threads into the substance of any paper, or any such 
 
 thread, and intended to imitate such words, letter-s, figures, marks, lines, 
 
 threads, or devices, or any plate peculiarly enq)loyed for pi inting such 
 
 Exchequer bills, bonds, or ilebentuies, or any die or seal peculiarly used 
 
 for preparing any such plate, or for seaHng such Exche<pier bills, Ixinds, 
 
 or ilebentuies, or any plate, die, or seal intended to imitate any such plate, 
 
 die, or seal as afore.said, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted 
 
 thereof shall be liable ... to be kept in penal servitude for any term 
 
 not exceeding seven years. . . . [See note on s. S.] 
 
 10« Whosoever, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof whereof Making paper 
 shall lie on the party accused), shall make, or cause or procure to be made, in imitation 
 or aid or as.si.st in making, any paper in the substance of which shall -'f that used 
 appear any words, letters, ligures, marks, lines, threads, or other "■^'^^'i'^^* hmj; ^gJ.'^*^"*^'^ 
 peculiar to and appearing in the suKstance of any })aper provitled or to Iw 
 provided or used for such Exchequer bills, IkhuIs, or debentures, or any 
 part of such words, letter.s, figures, marks, lines, threads, or other devices, 
 and intended to imitate the same, or shall knowingly have in his custody 
 or possession any paper whatsoever, in the substance whereof shall appear 
 * Short title, " The Forgery Act, 18G1." See the Short Titles Act 1896.
 
 814 
 
 Having in 
 possession 
 paper, plates, 
 or dies to be 
 used for 
 Exchequer 
 bills, etc. 
 
 [Chap. 103.] 
 
 The Union Assessment Committee 
 Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 any such words, letters, figures, marks, lines, threads, or devices as afore- 
 said, or any parts of such words, letters, figures, marks, lines, threads, or 
 other devices, and intended to imitate the same, or shall cause or assist 
 in causing any such words, letters, figures, marks, lines, threads, or de-sdces 
 as aforesaid, or any part of such words, letters, figures, marks, lines, 
 threads, or other devices, and intended to imitate the same, to appear in 
 the substance of any paper whatever, or shall take or assist in taking 
 any impression of any such plate, die, or seal as in the last preceding 
 section mentioned, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof 
 shall be liable ... to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceed- 
 ing seven years. . . . \_See note on s. 8.] 
 
 11. Whosoever, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof whereof 
 shall lie on the party accused), shall purchase or receive, or knowingly 
 have in his custody or possession, any paper manufactured and provided 
 by or under the directions of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or 
 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, for the purpose of being used 
 as Exchequer bills or Exchequer bonds or Exchequer debentures, before 
 such paper shall have been duly stamped, signed, and issued for public 
 use, or any such plate, die, or seal as in the last two preceding sections 
 mentioned, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof 
 shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term 
 not exceeding three years, with or without hard labour. 
 
 25 & 26 VICTORIA. A.D. 1862. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion. 
 
 Appointment 
 of the 
 Assessment 
 Committee 
 by Board of 
 Guardians. 
 
 CHAPTER 103. 
 
 An Act to amend the Law relating to Parochial Assessments in 
 England. [Ith Avgust 1862.] 
 
 \^Preamhle rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 (.S'.Z.i?.).] 
 
 1. The words used in this Act shall be construed in like manner as the 
 words contained in the Act fourth and fifth of King William the Fourth, 
 chapter seventy-six,* and the word " committee " shall signify the assess- 
 ment committee jDrovided for by this Act ; and this Act shall be termed 
 " The Union Assessment Committee Act, 1862." 
 
 2. The board of guardians of every union, formed under the Act fourth 
 and fifth years of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy- six, shall, ... in 
 everv . . . vear, at their first meeting after the annual election of guardians, 
 appoint from among themselves any number not less than six nor more than 
 twelve to be a committee, ... to be called the assessment committee 
 of the union, for the investigation and supervision of the valuations to 
 be made as herein-after mentioned within such union, and for the per- 
 formance of such said acts and duties as herein-after mentioned. . . . 
 \Hee 32 & 33 Yict. c. 67, s. 5, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 12—13. Parts 
 omitted [the v:ords " as soon as convenient after the jyassiiig of this Act and " 
 and " subsequent," and as to ex-officio (juardians) rep. 56 Vict. c. 14 
 (S.L.R.) and 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 89. See ibid. s. 20.] 
 
 3. [Provision that vjhere a union has the same bounds as a bcn'oiigh 
 the names of the assessment com.mittee are to be transmitted to the town 
 
 * As to meaning of words, see 32 & 3:^ Vict. c. 67 (which incorporates this Act), 
 s. 4. The word "owner," which is not defined in 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 4, is 
 defined in the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 76), s. lOP, as follows : 
 " 109. . . . The word ' owner ' shall be construed to include any person for the time 
 being in the actual occupation of any property rateable to the relief of the poor and 
 not let to him at rack rent, or any person receiving the rack rent of any such property 
 either on his own account or as mortgagee or other incumbrancer in possession ; and 
 the words ' rack rent ' shall be construed to mean any rent which shall not be less 
 than two thirds of the full improvetl net annual value of any property. . . ."
 
 roK s r,f -KT -I The Union Assessment Committee r-r^ mon 01 c 
 
 [25 & 26 ViCT.J j^^ jj^^y^ [Chap. 103.] 815 
 
 council, ii)ho may appoint additional members not exceeding the number 
 appointed by the (juardians. Hep., as reyardn London, ',V1 it 3.i Vict, 
 c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 4. It" the guardians shall neglect or Iw prevented from making sut-h Provision 
 appointment at the meeting above specified, the Poor Law Board * shall ^^^ n»!^rlect 
 by theii- order appoint some other day on which the giuirdians shall make '*^ ''PP^'it- 
 sucli appointment. 
 
 5. It any . . . guardian being a number of the committee cease to be Provision for 
 guardian, or resign his seat at such committee, or die, or become incapable vacancies, 
 of acting as such member, the board of guardians shall with all convenient 
 
 speed appoint a . . . guardian ... to supply the vacancy. ^Purts omitted 
 {as to ex-olficio (j^iardians) rep. 50 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 89. See ibid. s. 20.] 
 
 6. During any vacancy in any as.sessment committee the other or con- Continuing 
 
 tinning njembers of such committee may act, and shall have the same members 
 
 powers and iurisdiction as if no such vacancy had happened. may act 
 
 >■ i J 1 1 (lurinp 
 
 7. The authority of the conunittee appointed for any union under this vacancies. 
 Act shall extend over every parish compri.sed in such union. E.xtent of 
 
 • 1 11 1 1 1 1 • . committee's 
 
 8. ihe comnnttee shall hold their nr.st meeting at tlie board room of autLoritv. 
 
 the union on a day to be fixed by the board of guardians, and the sub- Yiist meet- 
 sequent meetings of the committee shall be holden at such times and at infr, when 
 such place and upon such notice and re(iuisition as the}' .shall from time ^o be holden. 
 to time appoint ; and any guardian of the union may be present at any 
 meeting of the committee, but shall not be entitled to take part in the 
 proceedings thereof. 
 
 9. All acts, orders, matter.s, and things by this Act authorized or Quorum of 
 directed to be made or done by the committee may be made or done by meetings, 
 the major part of the members of such committee who shall be present 
 
 at a meeting, the whole number present together at such meeting not 
 being less than three, and not less in any case than one-third of the whole 
 number of which such committee consists; and when upon anv question 
 there shall be an equality of votes the presiding chairman shall have a 
 second or casting vote. 
 
 10. The committee shall emnlov the clerk or assi.stant clerk of the Committee 
 board of guardians as their clerk, with such rt-muneration for his services i"^^' employ 
 as the Poor Law Board shall sanction. \^See note on s. i.] clerk 
 
 11. Tlie committee shall cause a minute of their proceeding.s, and of the Proceetiings 
 names of the members who attend each meeting, to be dulv made from t'J be entered 
 time to time in books to be provided for that pinpose, which shall be kept '" bo«'ks 
 
 by their clerk, under their superintendence, and every such entry shall be "" '•'&'i^ : 
 
 signed by the presiding chairman of the a-sses-^^ment committee present at 
 
 the meeting at which the proceeding took placet; an<l such entrv, jiur- i^ueh entries 
 
 porting to be so signed, shall be received as evidence in all courts, ;ind ^^•'^^"ce- 
 
 before all Judges, Justices, and others, without proof of such meeting having 
 
 been duly convened or held, or of the pei-sons attending such meeting 
 
 having been or being members of the committee, or of the signatures 
 
 of the members, all of which facts shall be presumed until the contrary 
 
 be proved ; and all such books shall at all .seasonal)!*' times be open to the Pnoks to be 
 
 inspection of every person rated to the relief of the poor in any parish or V^P^'" '« 
 
 place in the union, without any fee being demanded for such ins{iecticm ; '"*'P6'^'*<">- 
 
 and all such persons shall be entitled at all seasonable times to U\ke copies 
 
 or extracts from the said l)ooks, without paying any fee for the sjime ; and 
 
 if, on request made for that purpose, the clerk of the committee refuse to 
 
 permit any such person to inspect any such books, or to take copies or 
 
 extracts therefrom, as aforesaid, such clerk shall for every such ofl'ence be 
 
 * Now the Local Government Board. See the Ix)cal Ciovcrnment Board Act 
 
 1871, s. 2. 
 
 t See, as regards London, 32 i: 33 Vict. c. 67, s;;. G7 ami 74.
 
 816 
 
 [Chap. 103.] 
 
 The Union Assessment Committee 
 Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 Proceedings 
 of com- 
 mittees to be 
 reported. 
 
 Committee 
 mar require 
 returns from 
 overseers, 
 etc. : 
 
 and may 
 require pro- 
 duction of 
 rates, etc., 
 and examine 
 persons 
 attending 
 before them. 
 
 Valuation 
 lists to be 
 deposited for 
 inspection, 
 and after- 
 wards trans- 
 mitted to the 
 committee. 
 
 liable to a penalty not exceeding five ]ioiinds, upon a summary conviction 
 for the same before two Justices of the Peace. [/See 27 & 28 Vict. c. 39, 
 s. 4.] 
 
 12. The board of guardians shall in the month of April in every year 
 report the proceedings of their assessment committee to the Poor. Law- 
 Board. [<S'ee note on s. 4.] 
 
 13. The committee by their order may from time to time require the 
 overseers, assistant overseers, constables, asse.ssors, collectois, and any 
 other persons having the custody of any Vjooks of assessment of any taxes 
 or rates, parliamentary or parochial, or of the valuations of any parish, 
 or having the collection or management of any such taxes or rates, to 
 make returns in writing to the committee, at such times and places as 
 they may appoint, of all such particulars as they may direct in relation to 
 such taxes, rates, or valuations, or an}' property included therein, so far 
 as relates to the union for which they act, and may require the persons 
 having the custody of any such books as aforesaid to make and transmit 
 to the committee copies of or extracts from such books, or to permit such 
 copies or extracts to be made by such persons as the committee may in that 
 behalf direct ; and may from time to time require any persons having the 
 custody of any such books, or the collection or management of any such 
 taxes or rates as aforesaid, to attend before them at a time and place to be 
 mentioned in the order in this behalf, and to produce all parochial and 
 public books of assessment, rates, rate books, valuations, apportionments, 
 tithe and other maps, plans, surveys, and other public documents in their 
 custody or power, and may examine all persons who shall attend before 
 them : Provided always that nothing herein contained shall authorize the 
 production of valuations or asse.ssments which by any provision of law at 
 present are not suffered to be made i)ublic. [See 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 57.] 
 
 14 — 16. \_Overseers to ■j^'^P'^'^'^ valuation lists, ami jjrovisio^is relating 
 tliereto. Hep., as regards London, 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 11. See ibid, 
 ss. 6, et seq.l 
 
 16. [As to enlarging the time for making the first valuation lists, and as 
 to the revision of valuations and valuation lists. Spent in part ; remainder 
 not app>licalle to London.] 
 
 17. The valuation list for each parish, made and signed by the overseers, 
 or delivered to them, as herein-before provided, shall be deposited by the 
 overseers in tlie place in such parish in which rate books are depo.sited 
 or kept, . . . and the overseers shall give public notice of the deposit of 
 such list on the Sunday next following * the deposit of such list, and such 
 notice shall be given in the same manner, and all persons assessed or liable 
 to be assessed to the relief of the poor of such parish shall have the like 
 right of inspecting, and of demanding and taking copies of and extracts 
 from such list, as in the case of a poor rate allowed by the Justices, t and 
 the overseers shall, at the expiration of fourteen days j from the time of the 
 notice given of the deposit of such list, transmit the same to the committee, 
 and any overseer or other ratepayer within the union shall have the right 
 of inspecting and taking copies of and extracts from any of the lists so 
 transmitted. [Woi^ds omitted (" and a copy of such valuation list shall be 
 
 forthvrith delivered to the board of guardians") rep., as regards London, 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 * See 32 & ?,?> Vict. c. 67, s. GG. 
 
 •f See the Poor Rate Act 1743, s. 2, which is as follows : " 2. And . . . the church- 
 wardens and overseers of the poor or other persons authorised as aforesaid, in every 
 parii^h, township, or place, shall permit all and every the inhabitants of the said 
 parish, township, or place to inspect every such rate at all seasonable times, paying 
 one shilling for the same, and shall, upon demand, forthwith give copies of the same, 
 or any part thereof, to any inhabitant of the said parish, township, or place, paying 
 at the rate of sixpence for every twenty-four names." 
 
 + See 32 & 33 Vict. c. G7, s. 42 (2).
 
 [25 & 20 Vict.] ^^^'^ ^'^"'^'^ I'fiso?' -''^'^'^''' [Chap. 103.] 81 7 
 
 18. Any overseer or overseers of any parish in any union who h{iall Ohjectjons to 
 have reason to think that snch parish is aj^grieved by tlie valuation list *aluJ»tion list, 
 of any parish \vitljin such union, or any jicrstjii who may teel himself 
 aggrieved by any valuation list on the gi-ound of unfairness or incorrect- 
 ness in the valuation of any hei-erlitamcnts includctl therein, or on the 
 
 ground of the omission of any rateal)lf hereditament from such list, may 
 at any time after the deposit as aforesaid of such list, and before the 
 expiration of twenty-eight days* after the notice of the deposit as afore 
 said, give to the committee and to the overseers a notice in writing of his 
 olijection, specifying tlie grounds thereof, and where the ground of any 
 objection shall be unfairness or incorrectness in the valuation of any 
 liereditament in respect of which any person, other than the person 
 objecting, is liable to be rated, or the omission of such hereditament, also 
 give notice in writing of such objection, and of the ground thereof, to such 
 other person. 
 
 19. The committee shall liohl such meetings as they may think necessary Committee 
 for hearing objections to the valuation lists, and shall, twenty-eight davs to hold 
 
 at least before holding every meeting for hearing objections to valuation '"*^''^'"&^ 
 lists, other than meetings by adjournment, cause notice of such meeting to objections, 
 be given to the overseers of the several parishes to which such lists relate, 
 and such ovirseers shall, on the Sunday next following the receijjt oi such 
 notice, publish the same in the manner in which notice of a rate allowed 
 by Justices is by law recpiired to be given, and the committee mav at any 
 such meeting hear and determine such objections, or may from time to 
 time adjourn any such meeting, and adjourn or postpone the hearing or 
 finther hearing and determination of any such obj( ctions, and may, where 
 they think lit, direct notice of any such objections to be given by the over- 
 seers or by the persons objecting to third parties before the further hearing 
 thereof ; but the committee shall not be required to hold a meeting for 
 heai-ing objections to the valuation list of any parish, unless such notice in 
 writing as herein-l)efore mentioned of some objection or objections thereto 
 have been given to the committee ; and whei-e a meeting is holden for 
 hearing objections to the valuation list of any parish, the conmiittee shall 
 not hear any objection to such valuation list unless such notice as aforesaid 
 of such objection have been given to the committee and to the ovei-seers ; 
 and where the ground of such objection is unfairness or incorrectness in 
 the valuation of any hereditament of any other person than the person 
 objecting, or the omission of such hereditament, also to such other person 
 by the person objecting, except where the overseers, by themselves or any 
 other person on their behalf, and in the case aforesaid such other person 
 as afoiesaid, by himself or any other person on his behalf, consent to the 
 hearing of such objection, and in such case the committee may, if they see 
 tit, hear the same; and where the committee see (it to hear the same they 
 shall act in relation thereto in like manner as if notice of such objection 
 had been duly given. 
 
 20. The committee may, whether any objection be or \ye not made to Committee 
 any such valuation list, and either before or after anv meeting for hearin}; niay din-ct 
 objtctions, make such alterations in the valuation of any hereditaments ^.„inj^t,oQ 
 included in any valuation list, aiul insert thei-ein any rateable heredita- „,i,i torrect 
 ment omitted therefrom, and make such corrections in names, descriptions, valuation 
 and particulars in any valuation list, and upon such inb>rmation, as to ''•"■'"• ""^'^ 
 them may seem suthcient, autl may, with the consent of tlie guardians as ^\'j'".'^*^'^" 
 aforesaid, appoint or employ a person to survey and value the rati able ^pprQ^g ^jjg 
 hereditaments comprised in any such valuation list or any of them, or same, 
 omitted tlierefrom, or may take such other means as they may think 
 necessary for ascertaining the correctness thereof; ami when the committee 
 
 have heard and determined all such objections as aforesaid, and have made 
 such alterations, insertions, and correctiiMis in any valuation li>t as to 
 them may seem proper, they shall approve the same under the hands of 
 
 • See 32 & 33 Vict, c 67, s. 42 (3). 
 
 53
 
 818 
 
 Valuation 
 list when 
 altered to be 
 deposited, 
 etc. 
 
 [Chap. 103.] 
 
 The Union Assessment Committee 
 Act 1862. 
 
 [25 & 26 Vict.] 
 
 After a 
 
 valuation list 
 is approved 
 no rate to 
 be allowed 
 unless made 
 according to 
 such list. 
 
 In computing 
 amount of 
 contributions 
 to common 
 fund the 
 annual rate- 
 able value to 
 be taken from 
 approved 
 valuation 
 lists. 
 
 Board may 
 allow com- 
 pensation for 
 
 three members of the committee present at the meeting at which the same 
 is approved, with the date of such approval. 
 
 21. Where the committee make any alteration in the valuation of any 
 hereditaments included in, or insert therein any rateable hereditament 
 omitted from, any such valuation list, they shall cause such valuation list, 
 with such alteration or insertion, to be deposited for inspection in manner 
 herein-before provided concerning the valuation list made by or delivered 
 to the overseers, and shall cause the like notice to be given of such deposit 
 as is required in the case of a valuation list so made or delivered as afore- 
 said, and shall appoint a day, not less than seven days nor more than 
 fourteen days from the re-deposit of such valuation list, for the hearing of 
 any objections to the valuation list as so altered ; and when the committee- 
 have heard and determined any such objections, or have made such further 
 alterations, insertions, and corrections in such valuation list, they shall 
 approve the same in manner herein-before provided. 
 
 22 — 27. ^Provisions as to the alteration of valuation lists if a rate, is 
 amended on aj>peal — Custody of valuation list — As to what shall be deemed the 
 valuation list in force, and as to new valuations and supplemental valuation 
 lists. Rep., as regards London, 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 28. . . . Provided always, that where by reason of any alteration in 
 the occupation of any property included in such list such property has 
 become liable to be rated in parts not mentioned in such list as rateable 
 hereditaments, and separately rated therein, such parts may, where a 
 supplemental valuation list showing the annual rateable value of such 
 parts has not been approved and delivered as herein-before required, and 
 whether such list has or has not been made, be rated according to such 
 amounts as shall be fair apportioned parts of the annual rateable value 
 appearing in such valuation list in force as afoi-esaid of the hereditaments 
 out of which such parts have been constituted. \^Part omitted ( ^9?'oi"2sio«. 
 that after a valuation list is a2}pi'oved no rate shall be alloiced unless made 
 according to such list) rep., as regards London, 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 29. [Provision as to places under local Acts. Rep., as regards London,. 
 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 30. When the assessment committee for any union shall have appi-oved 
 valuation lists for all the parishes comprised within such union, the 
 guardians of such union, in computing the amount of contribution to the 
 common fund for the several parishes, shall thenceforward take the annual 
 rateable value of the property in such parishes respectively from the 
 valuation lists for the time being lastly approved of for such parishes 
 respectively, any statute to the contrary notwithstanding : Provided that, 
 in case any parish comprised in any union shall receive any sum of money 
 as a contribution in aid of the poor rate of such parish, for or in respect 
 of government property within such parish and used for public purposes, 
 the annual value of such property according to the estimate (if any) of 
 such value on which the amount of the sum of money so received is com- 
 puted, or, if there be no such estimate, then the annual value of such 
 property, estimated in the mode provided by the Act sixth and seventh 
 William the Fourth, chapter ninety-six, for making an estimate of the 
 annual rateable value of property liable to be rated to rates for the relief 
 of the poor, shall be included by the overseer or overseers in the valuation 
 list of such parish, and shall be added to the annual rateable value of the 
 property in such paiish in computing the amount of contribution to the 
 common fund for the several parishes in such union. 
 
 31 — 36. [-4s to deposit of copies of valuation lists — As to ajjpeals against 
 such lists — 7'he Act not to prevent compositions for rates — Saving of exemp- 
 tions and, special rules of rating. Rep)., as regards London, 32 & 33 Vict, 
 c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 37. The committee may allow such compensation for any returns, 
 copies, or extracts, or any valuation, or valuation list, or other act,.
 
 [26 ViCT.J The Town Gardens Protection Act IHCi'i. [Chap. 13.] 819 
 
 matter, or thin<^ to be made or done in pursuance of their order, and returns, 
 such expenses connected therewith, as to tlie committee in each ca.se ^^- ^"^ 
 seems just. expenseB. 
 
 38. The remuneration allowed by the committee to their clerk and all Komunera- 
 expenses incurred by them for th<^ common use and benefit of the several ^'"J" ''^ clerk 
 parishe.s within the union for whicli tlun' are aj»jK)inted, shall U- paid by ^'"^ ''^'^t^'" 
 the guardians of the said union, and be charged upon the common fund cummittee to 
 thereof. be paid out 
 
 39. [E-rpenses of valuation to be paid out of poor rates. Rep. 32 k 33 Vict, jj^j™™"" 
 
 c. ()7, ,v. 77. 1 
 
 40. Kvciy person who wilfully refuses to attend in obedience to any I'enalty for 
 lawful order of any such committee, or to give evidence, or refuses to non-attend- 
 produco any rate book, a.ssessment, or valuation which may b' lawfully ^P'^^;'.'^'*'' '° 
 required to be produced before such committee, shall for every such offence ^rder of the 
 be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty [jounds upon a summary con- committee, 
 viction for the same before two Justices of the Peace ; and every person injuring, etc. 
 who wilfully injures, defaces, conceals, or destroys such rate bcjok, or who rate book.s 
 upon any exaniinatit)n before any such committee wilfully gives false ^ ™^^'^*^* 
 evidence, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. mcanor. 
 
 41 — 43. [..I* to authenticalion and service of oi'ders and notices. Rep., as 
 reijards London, 32 & 3.) Vict. c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 44. All the powers, authorities, provisions, clause.s, and regulations now I'rovi.sions 
 in force relating to the assessment, collection, and levying of poor rates concerning 
 (save so far as the same are hereby repealed or altered) shall lie good, , assess- 
 valid, and efiectual for the puiposis of as.se.s.sing, levying, collecting, and poor rates to 
 enforcing the payment of such rate and for carrying this Act into be applicable 
 execution. to rates made 
 
 46. [P over for unions tinder 22 Geo. 3, c. 83,* or local Acts to ^e tLis*Act!^ 
 included in this Act. Rep., as regards London, 32 it 33 Vict. c. G7, s. 77.] 
 
 46. This Act shall extend only to England. Extent of 
 
 Act. 
 
 HciiEDULE. — [Forms of valuation list and of declaration to be added to t/ie 
 rate. Superseded, as regards London, 32 &. 33 Vict. c. G7, s. 51, a)ul '2nd 
 Schedule.] 
 
 26 VICTORIA. A.D. 1863. 
 
 CHAPTER 13. 
 
 An Act for the Protection of certain Garden or Ornamental 
 C4ROUNDS IX Cities and BoRouGus.t [ith Muij 18G3.] 
 
 [Preamble.] 
 
 1. Where in any city or l)orough any enclo.sed garden or ornamental Gardens 
 ground has been set apart otherwi.se than by the revoi'able permission of in certain 
 the owner thereof in any public square, crescent, circus, street, or other squares, etc. 
 public place, for the use or enjoyment of the inhabitants thereof, and where ?^'*-^ ^ freed 
 the trustees, commissioners, or other l>ody appointed for the care of the ^.^clroach- ' 
 same have neglected to keep it in proper order, or where such garden nunts, etc.. 
 or ground has not been vested in or placed under the management of any and ve.-tcil iu 
 trustees, commissioners, or other body for the care of the same, and from ^'k-' Metpi- 
 the want of such care, or from any other cause, has been neglected, oYworks^*" 
 the Metropolitan Board of \Vorks,J where the same is in any place under or other 
 their jurisdiction, except the city of London (where the provisions of this curporatc 
 Act shall be carried into ellect by the Corporation of the saiil litv), ''^"'^'"^'''''J'; 
 and the corporate authorities in any other city or borough, shall take 
 
 * Rep. 34 & 3.5 Vict. c. 116 (S.L.R.). 
 
 t Short title, "The Town Gardens Protection Act. 1803." t^ee the Short Titles Act 1S%. 
 
 J Now the London County Council. See 51 ^V: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S).
 
 820 
 
 [Chap. 13.] The Town Gardeiu Protection Act 1863. [26 Vict.] 
 
 or vested in a 
 committee 
 of rated 
 inhabitants. 
 
 Protection of 
 open spaces 
 from en- 
 croachment. 
 
 Expenses 
 how to be 
 defrayed. 
 
 charge of the same, putting up a notice or notices to that effect in such 
 garden or ornamental ground, and if after due inquiry the person entitled 
 to any estate of freehold in the same cannot be found, or if it shall 
 be vested in any person by whom it is held, subject to any condition 
 or I'eservation for keeping the same as and for a garden or pleasure 
 gi'onnd, or that the same shall not be built upon, but not otherwise, 
 shall cause any buildings or other encroachment made therein within the 
 period of twenty years before the passing of this Act to be removed, 
 and (if requested by a majority of two thirds of the owners and of the 
 occupiers of the houses surrounding the same) shall vest such garden 
 or oi'namental ground in a conjmittee consisting of not moie than nine 
 nor fewer than three of the rated inhabitants of such houses to be 
 chosen annually by such inhabitants, in order that the same may be 
 kept as a garden or ornamental ground for the use of such inhabitants ; 
 and the vestry or board of any and every parish or district * within 
 which the same or any part thereof is situate shall from time to time 
 cause to be raised the sums required by such committee for defraying 
 the expenses of the maintenance and management of such enclosed 
 garden or ornamental ground, or of such part thereof as is situate 
 within their parish or district, by an addition to the genei-al rate to be 
 assessed on the occupiers of such houses ; or if the said owners and 
 occupiers shall not agree as aforesaid to undertake the chai-ge of such 
 garden or ornamental ground, the Metropolitan Board of Workst or 
 corporate authority aforesaid shall, within six months after the notice 
 herein-before mentioned shall have been ]iwt up within the same, or 
 within such further time as the said Board or authority may think it 
 expedient to allow for such agreement to be come to, vest the same in such 
 vestries or boards,* who shall thenceforth take charge of and maintain 
 the same as an open place or street in such manner as shall appear to 
 them most advantageous to the public, subject to the approval of the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works t or corporate authority, as the case may 
 require ; saving and always reserving to every person and persons, his and 
 their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, all such estate, right, 
 title, and interest as he, she, or they would or ought to have had and 
 enjoyed of, in, to, from, or out of the gardens and grounds aforesaid in case 
 this Act had not passed. 
 
 2. And whereas it is expedient that the same should be carefully pro- 
 tected from undue encroachment, where any right to require that any 
 garden or ornamental ground as aforesaid be kept and maintained as such, 
 or that the same shall not be built upon, shall belong to any person 
 in right of any house or other property, and he shall by notice in writing 
 signed by him addressed to the Metropolitan Board of Works j where the 
 same is in any place under their jurisdiction, except the city of London, 
 where the same shall be addressed to the corporation of the said city, or to 
 the corporate avithorities in any other city or borough, requesting the said 
 Metropolitan Board of Workst or corporate authority to protect the 
 right before mentioned, the said Metropolitan Board of Works t or 
 corporate authority, after due inquiry, may, if they shall think fit, accede 
 to such request, and then and thereupon the right of such person to 
 require that such garden or ornamental ground to be maintained as such, 
 or that the same shall not be built upon, shall thenceforth be vested in 
 such Metropolitan Board of Workst or corporate authority, who shall 
 bo fully empowered, for and in their own name, to exercise all the rights, 
 powers, and privileges in relation thereto, and take such legal pi'oceediugs 
 for asserting, defending, and protecting the same, as the said person might 
 have exercised or taken. 
 
 3. Any charge incurred l^y the Metropolitan Board of Workst in the 
 
 * Kow, as regards London, the councils of the metropolitan boroughs. See 62 & 63 
 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 
 t Now the Lrndon County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (8).
 
 [26 Vict.] The Town Gardens Protection Act 1863. [Chap. 13.] 821 
 
 execution of this Act shall be deemed to he cxpenseK of the said Board for 
 payment whereof provision is made hy the Act for the Ijetter l(x;al 
 management of the meti'opolis. . . . [,S'e« 25 & 2t5 Vict. c. 102, s. 5, and 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 8. GS. I'art omitted i-elaten to the expenses of municipal 
 corporations.^ 
 
 4. Where any such garden or ground is managed by any Committee of Byelaws for 
 the inhabitants of any scpiare, crescent, circus, street, or place, such "'anagement 
 committee may make, and from time to time revoke and alter, byelaws for g^5* *'"' 
 the management of the same, and foi- the preservation of the trees, 
 shrubs, plants, (lowers, rails, fences, sisats, summer-houses, and other things 
 therein, which byelaws shall be entered in a lx)()k kept for that purptjse by 
 the committee, signed by the chairman of the metting at wliich the same 
 shall be passed, and which book sli.ill and may be produced and read, and 
 taken as evidence of such by( laws, in all courts whatever, and any 
 inhabitant or servant, or other person admitted to such garden by any 
 inhabitant, ofFending against the same, aft<'r they shall liave been duly 
 allowed, as herein-after provided, upon proof thereof before a magistrate 
 acting for the district in which such garden is situate, shall be liable for 
 each offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds : Provided always, 
 that such byelaws shall not come into operation until the same siiall have 
 been allowed by some Judge of one of the superior courts, or by the 
 Justices in Quarter Sessions ; and it shall be incumbent on such Judge or 
 Justices, on the request of such committee, to inquire into any byelaws 
 tendered to them for that purpose, and to allow or disallow the same as 
 they think meet. 
 
 6. Any police constable who shall see any person throwing any rubbish Penalty for 
 into any such garden, or trespassing therein, or getting over the railings or L'^''j.fj"|]^ 
 fence, or stealing or damaging the flowers or plants, or committing any 
 nuisance therein, may apprehend such person, under the authority hereby 
 given to him ; and any person convicted before any magistrate acting for 
 the district shall be liable for each and every offence aforasaid to a penalty 
 not exceeding forty shillings, or to imprisonment for any period not 
 exceeding fourteen days ; and in case it shall be necessary to state in any 
 pi'oceedings the ownership of the property of such garden, flowers, or 
 plants, it shall be sufficient to dt scribe the same as the property of the 
 committee by the name of A.B. and others. 
 
 6. The provisions contained in the two hundred and twenty-fifth, two Certain pro- 
 hundred and twenty-sixth, two hundred and twenty -seventh, and two )!r]j^"9°Vict 
 hundred and twenty-eighth sections of the Act pa.ssed in the session of gioQ^obe 
 Parliament held in the eighteenth and ninetei-nth years of the reign of incorporated 
 Her most gracious Majesty the Queen, chapter one hundred and twenty, with this Act, 
 
 shall be incorporated in this Act, and shall aitplv to anv p.naltv or ^"'^ ^° ^PP^y 
 i" r -x ■ 1 1 xi • A i. 11 1 • ■ ti " «f to penalties, 
 
 forfeiture imposed by this Act, or any byelaw made in pursuancr tliereot, etc. imposed 
 
 in and for every matter or thing done or omitted to be done within the \,y this Act. 
 
 metropolitan district. . . . \^Part omitted applies the Summary Jurisdiction 
 
 Act 1848 as regards other parts of England and Wules.^ 
 
 7. Nothing in this Act shall extend to or include any garden, orna- '^ct not to 
 mental ground, or other land belonging to ller Majesty in right of li^r ' '^^ of 
 crown or of her Duchy of Lancaster, or any garden, ornamental ground, ,1,^ crown or 
 or other land for the time being under the management of the Com- to property 
 missioners for the time being of Ibr Majesty's Works ami I'ublic Buildings, undorthe 
 
 or of the Commissioners for the time being acting under the Crown Estate ^^"^1]^^™^°' 
 Paving Act, 1851, or io any garden, ornament.-il, or other ground, f'^r ,„j^j.j,^^j.^ ^f 
 which special provision is made for the duo care and protection thereof by Works, etc. 
 any public or private Act of Parliament. 
 
 8. [This Act not to extend to Scotland or Ireland.]
 
 822 
 
 [Chap. 39.] 
 
 The Union Asse8sment Committee ro- p 90 v 1 
 Amendment Act 1864. L-^^ & ~» vict.j 
 
 27 & 28 VICTORIA. A.D. 1864. 
 
 Committee 
 mar, with 
 consent of 
 guardians, 
 be co-re- 
 spondents. 
 
 Provision as 
 to costs of 
 committee 
 on appeals. 
 
 Valuation 
 to be made 
 in writing. 
 
 Notice of 
 assessment 
 to be given 
 to certain 
 comijanies. 
 
 Justices 
 in certain 
 cases not 
 disqualified 
 for hearing 
 appeals. 
 
 Expenses of 
 overseers 
 incurred with 
 consent of 
 vestry or 
 allowed by 
 assessment 
 committee 
 may be 
 charged on 
 poor rates. 
 
 CHAPTER 39. 
 
 An Act to amend the Union Assessment Committee Act (1862). 
 
 \\Mli July 1864.] 
 \Preamhle?\^ 
 
 1. \Xoi\ce of appeal against poor rate to be given to tlie assessment 
 committee of union. Req). and rej)laced, as 7'egards London, 32 & 33 Vict, 
 c. 67, s. 11. See ibid. ss. 33 and 42 (12).] 
 
 S. The assessment committee of such union * may, with the consent 
 of the guardians of such union, after notice shall have been sent to 
 every guardian, appear as respondents to such appeal, but in the name 
 of the guardians of such union, in like manner, and with the same 
 incidents, and subject to the same liabilities, and entitled to the same 
 remedies and rights, as in the case of persons other than the overseers 
 to whom notice of appeal may be given. 
 
 3. The costs which the committee may incur in consequence of 
 becoming respondents to such appeal, or of having received notice thereof, 
 shall, if not recovered from the appellants, as well as any costs the com- 
 mittee may be ordered to pay to the appellants, be paid by the guardians 
 and charged to the common fund of the union, unless the court before 
 whom such appeal is heard shall direct that such costs, or any part 
 thereof, shall be charged to the parish, the rate of which is appealed 
 against. 
 
 4. Where a valuer is appointed by the assessment committee he shall 
 make his valuation in writing, showing the particulars of the several 
 hereditaments comprised therein, and the amounts at which he has valued 
 the same respectively, and shall sign such valuation, which shall be open 
 to insjicction in like manner and with the same incidents with respect to 
 the taking of copies or extracts as the minute books of the committee. 
 [See 25 & 26 Vict. c. 103, s. 17, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 14.] 
 
 5. Within fourteen days after the transmission to the assessment 
 committee of any valuation or supplemental valuation list the committee 
 shall give notice to every railway, telegraph, canal, gas, and water 
 company named in such list as the occupier of any property included 
 therein, and not having any office or place of business in the parish to 
 which such list relates, of the sum or sums set down as the rateable 
 value of the property purporting to be occupied by such company or 
 companies, and such notice may be served by being transmitted through 
 the post to the principal office of the company, or one of their principal 
 offices when there shall be more than one. 
 
 6. No Justice of the Peace shall be disqualified for acting in the 
 determination of any appeal against a poor rate at any Quarter or 
 Special Sessions by reason of such Justice being rated, or being liable to 
 be rated, in some other parish in the union than that for which the rate 
 appealed against is made. 
 
 7. When the overseers of any parish incur any expense in making out 
 any valuation list or supplemental list, or in revising or valuing any of 
 the rateable hereditaments of such parish, under the provisions of the 
 Union Assessment Committee Act, 1862, with the consent of the vestryt 
 given by express resolution, after due notice, they may charge such 
 expense, so far as the same may be authoi-ized by the vestry upon the 
 poor rate ; and if no vestry meeting be held, or no decision arrived at on 
 the subject, then to the extent which the assessment committee shall 
 allow : Provided that, as regards the valuation of the property, no expense 
 shall be so charged upon the poor rate unless the consent of such committee 
 
 * I.e. any union to which the Union Assessment Committee Act 1862 applies, 
 t See, as regards London, 62 & G3 Vict, c. 14, ss. 4, 11, and 19.
 
 roo c oo ir 1 I he Poor Jiate A.ssca.^mcnt and rnrr.,. nn &oq 
 
 I 32 & 33 VicT.1 .. ,, ,• ^ , , i^/.f, ILhap. 41.1 823 
 
 •- -^ tolu-cttoti Act IbO'J. •• -J 
 
 to the procuiing of sucli viiliiatioii by the ovei-seere shall have been given 
 previously to the same being made. 
 
 8. It' the assessment conimittee order a valuation, with the consent of I'ower to 
 the board of guardians, to })e made of all the rateable here<litaraent« of ^-'"'Y ."°* 
 any parish, the guardians of the union niay, if they think fit, 'WI'v onler of the 
 to the Poor Jiaw Bcjard* for an order to enable them to Ijorrow the Yuot Law 
 recjuisite amount to pay the cost of such valuation ; and if the said lioard Hoard to 
 shall issue their order, the said guardians may bornnv the same and ^^'^tow 
 charge the poor rates of the several parishes in the union with the v!ji„^ji,jn 
 repayment of the same by not moie than live eijual annual instalments, exi>en>es. 
 and where the parish for which the valuation is made shall, by reason of 
 
 any provisioii in the said Union Assessment Committee Act or this Act, 
 be liable to pay the cost of such valuation, the said guardians shall 
 charge the annual instalments, and the interest payable therewith, 
 to such parish, and uiay recover the same as and with the usual 
 contributions. 
 
 9. [^Clerkii of assessment cununittees to J'ltrnlsh clerks of the ])eure icith 
 totals of valnatioa. Ji'ep., as reijards London, 32 k 33 Vict. c. G7, 8. 77.] 
 
 10. If there be no map or plan of any y)arish available for the use or I'ower to 
 suthcient for the purposes of the assessment committee, the committee {'°°'" ^^*' 
 may, with the consent of the guardians, after notice as aforesaid, ami under f^^dt,- map 
 the authority of an order of the Poor Law Board,* appoint a competent or i>ian to 
 person to make a map or plan of such parish, and the cost thereof shall be made, 
 be charged either to the common fund, or to the parish, as may be 
 directed in' the Poor Law Board.* 
 
 11. [Peiialti/ on overseei's omitting to make declaration or making false 
 declaration. Rep., as regards London, 32 k 33 Vict. c. 67, s. 77.] 
 
 12. The provisions of the Union A.ssessment Committee Act, 1862. 25 4: 2ri Vict, 
 shall, so far as the same are not contrary hereto, be incorporated here- ^- ^^^ '"* 
 with, and the terms used herein shall be construed in like manner as in i^.ere'wUir. 
 that Act. 
 
 13. This Act may be cited as "The Union Assessment Committee Shon tiiie. 
 Amendment Act, I8t)-t." 
 
 32 & 33 VICTORIA. A.D. 1869. 
 
 CHAPTER 41. 
 
 An Act for AMKNmxr. the Law with hespeit to the rating of 
 Occupiers for short Ter.ms, am> the maki.ng and coLLEcriNc. of 
 THE Poor's Rate. [26M J id if 1^69.] Q^cupiers of 
 
 \^Preamble.\ tenements 
 
 1. Tlie occupii-r of any rateable hereditament let to him for a term not (^.^ms may 
 exceeding three months shall be entitled to deduct the amount [lai*! by him deduct the 
 in respect of any poor rate a.ssessed upon such hereditament from the rent poor rate 
 due or accruiu" due to the owner, and every such pavment shall be a valid P"»d by them 
 
 1. 1 i> . 1 ^ i ii ^ ,. c L\ \ 1 fn>m their 
 
 discharge of the rent to the e.\tent ot tlie rate so paiil. rents. 
 
 2. No such occupier .shall be compelle<l to pay to the ovei>eers at one j^nionnt of 
 time or within four weeks a greater amount of the rate than would be due rate ixiyable 
 for one quarter of the year. l>.v occupier. 
 
 3. In case the rateable value of any lu'reditanitiit ilo. s not exct^d Owners may 
 twenty pounds, if the hereditament is situate in the metro[)oli.s, . . . and jj*[^^^J|^ 'j^-^j 
 the owner of such hereditament is willing to enter into an agreement in ^^ aii,,wi.d a 
 writing with the overseers to l)ecome liable to them for the jxHir rates commission, 
 assessed in respect of such hereditament, for any term not being less than 
 
 ♦ Now the Local Government Board. See the Local tJovemmeut Bo.ard Act 
 1871, s. 2.
 
 824 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 The Poor Rate Assessment and 
 Collection Act 1869. 
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 Vestries maj 
 order the 
 owner to be 
 rated instead 
 of the 
 occupier. 
 
 Owners 
 
 omitting to 
 pay rates 
 before the 
 fifth day of 
 June to 
 forfeit 
 commission. 
 
 Eepeal of 
 13 & 14 Vict. 
 c. 99., etc.. 
 so far as 
 the same 
 apply to the 
 poor rate. 
 
 Constructive 
 payment of 
 the rate. 
 
 Where owners 
 omit to pay 
 rates, the 
 
 one year from the date of such agreement, and to pay the poor rates 
 whether the hereditament is occupied or not, the overseers may, subject 
 nevertheless to the control of the vestry, agree with the o%vner to receive 
 the rates from him, and to allow to him a commi.ssion not exceeding 
 twenty-five per cent, on the amount thereof. [ Words oraitted (" or thirteen 
 pounds if situate in any parish v:holli/ or parilij iritJiin tlce horovjjh of 
 Liverpool, or ten pounds if sitvMte in any pansh vjholly or partly v:ithin the 
 city of Manchtester or the borovgh of Birmingham, or eight pounds if situate 
 elsevhere'') not aj)plicahle to London^ 
 
 4. The vestry* of any parish may from time to time order that the 
 owner.s of all rateable hereditaments to which section three of this Act 
 extends, situate within such parish, shall be rated to the poor rate in 
 respect of such rateable hereditaments, instead of the occupiers, on all 
 rates made after the date of such order ; and thereupon and so long as 
 such order shall be in force the following enactments shall have effect : 
 
 1. The overseers shall rate the owners instead of the occupiers, and 
 
 shall allow to them an abatement or deduction of lifteen per 
 centum from the amount of the rate : 
 
 2. If the owner of one or more such rateable hereditaments shall give 
 
 notice to the overseers in writing that he is willing to be rated 
 for any term not being less than one year in respect of all such 
 rateable hereditaments of which he is the owner, whether the same 
 be occupied or not, the overseers shall rate such owner accordingly, 
 and allow to him a further abatement or deduction not exceeding 
 fifteen per centum from the amount of the rate during the time 
 he is so rated : 
 
 3. The vestry * may by resolution rescind any such order after a day to 
 
 be fixed, by them, such day being not less than .six months after 
 the pas.sing of .such resolution, but the order shall continue in 
 force with respect to all rates made before the date on which the 
 resolution takes effect : 
 Provided that this clause shall not be applicable to any rateable 
 hereditament in which a dwelling-house shall not be included. 
 
 5. ^^ hen an owner who has become liable to pay the poor rate omits or 
 neglects to pay, before the fifth day of June in any year, any rate or any 
 in.stalment thereof which has become due previously to the preceding fifth 
 day of January, and has been duly demanded by a demand-note delivered 
 to him or left at his usual or last known place of abode, he shall not be 
 entitled to deduct or leceive any commission, abatement, or allowance to 
 which he would, except for such omission or neglect, be entitled under this 
 Act, but shall be liable to pav, and shall pa}', such rate or instalment 
 in full. 
 
 6. The statute thirteenth and fourteenth "Victoria, chapter ninety-nine,t 
 with respect to the rating of small tenements, and so much of any local 
 statute as relates to the rating of owners instead of occupiers, are hereby 
 repealed, so far as the same apply to any poor rate made after this Act 
 comes into operation. 
 
 7. Every payment of a rate by the occupier, notwithstanding the 
 amount thereof may be deducted from his rent as herein provided, and 
 every payment of a late by the owner, whether he is himself rated in.stead 
 of the occupier, or has agreed with the occupier or with the overseers to 
 pay such rate, and notwithstanding any allowance or deduction which the 
 overseers are empowered to make from the rate, shall be deemed a payment 
 of the full rate by the occupier for the purpose of any qualification or 
 franchise which as regards rating depends upon the payment of the poor 
 rate. [<S'ee also the Assessed Plates Act 1879, s. 2.] 
 
 8. Where an owner who has undertaken, whether by agreement with 
 the occupier or with the overseers, to pay the poor rates, or has other-«-ise 
 
 * Now, as regards London, the councils of the metropolitan boroughs. See 62 & 63 
 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 t Wholly rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.).
 
 roi) p, oo ir, -[ The Poor Tiate A.<<sp.<<M}n>'nf. and rn «i t ooc 
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] Collection Ad l.GO. ^^^^''' ^^^ ^^5 
 
 become liaVjle to pay the Hainc, omits or neglects to pay any Hiich rate, the <'<-<;u piers pay- 
 occupier may pay the same and tle(hict tlie amount from tlie rent due or i"J^ t'je same 
 acci'uing due to the owner, and the receipt for such rate shall F>e a valid the amount 
 discharge of the rent to the extent of the rate so paid. from tberent. 
 
 9. Every owner who agrees with tlu' over.seers to pay the prxjr rat**, or Owners t^> 
 who is rated or liahlo to be rated for any hereditament instead of the ^'''^'" ''.'^'•'* ^^ 
 occupier, shall deliver to the overseers, from time to time, when required !^j,j {'j'lyj y^ 
 by them, in writing, a list containing the names of the actual occupit-rs of jHinalty for 
 the liereditaincnts conijirised in such agroement, oi- for which he is so lated wilful omis- 
 or liable to Ik- rated ; and if any siicli owner wilfully omits to deliver such **'""• 
 
 list when required to do so, or wilfully omits therefrom or mis-states therein 
 the name of any (xcupier, he shall for every such omi.ssion or misstatement 
 be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding two pounds. 
 
 10. Section twenty-eight of " The Representation of the People Act, Notice to 
 18(37," with respect to notice to be given of rates in arrear, shall apply to ^^^'W^^^^^^ 
 occupiers of premises capable of conferring the parliamentary franchise, arrear 
 although the owni'rs of such premises have becoun' liable for the i-ates 
 assessed thereon under the provisions of this Act. 
 
 11. Where the owner has become liable to the payment of the poor rates. Liability of 
 the rates due from hiuj, together with the costs and charges of levying and "wner under 
 recovering tli« same, m;iy be levied on the goods of the owner, and be ^^'^*'^^^™'^'^ " 
 recoveretl from him in the same way as poor rates may be recovered from 
 
 the occupier. 
 
 12. Notwithstanding the owner of any such rateable hereditament as Kecovery of 
 aforesaid has become liable for payment of the poor rates a.sse.ssed thereon, J"^**^ unpaid 
 the goods and chattels of the occupier shall be liable to be di.strained and 
 
 sold for payn)ent of such rates as may accrue during his occupation of the 
 premises, at any time whilst such rates remain unpaid by the owner, 
 subject to the following provisions : 
 
 1. That no such distress shall be levied unless the rate has been 
 
 demanded in wTiting by the overseers from the occupier, and the 
 occupier has failed to pav the same within fourteen days after the 
 service of such demand : 
 
 2. That no greater sum shall be raised by such distress than shall at the 
 
 time of making the same be actually due from the occujuer for 
 rent of the premises on which thr distress is made : 
 
 3. That any sucli occupirr shall l)c- entitled to dednrt the amount of rates 
 
 for which such distraint is made, and the expense of distraint, 
 from the rent due or accruin<; due to the o\\-ner, ;inil everv such 
 payment shall be a valid discharge of the rent to the extent of 
 the rate and expenses ])aid. 
 
 13. Every owner of any hereditament for the rates of which he has Owner may 
 become liable .shall have the same right of apfieal (subject to the same !^^|^.^/"^*°** 
 conditions and consequences) against the valuation lists aiid the poor rates jj'gj, ^^^^j ^^^ 
 as if he were the occui>ier thereof. 
 
 14. The overseers of every parish when they make a poor rate shall set The overseer 
 forth in the title of the rate'the period for which the .same is estimated, '*^'^^*j'jJJ}*f^J'® 
 and if the same is pay;ible by instalments the amount of each instalment „.j,j^j, p,^^ 
 and the date at which each instalment is payable; proviiled that it the rate is made, 
 necessities of the parish .shall re<|uire it another nite nuxy l>e made proviso, 
 before such period shall have elajised. 
 
 15. The overseei-s who make the poor rate for a ]>eriod excelling three Overseers 
 months may declare that the same shall be }iaid by instalments at >uch '"^|.^' '"•^''e 
 times as they shall specify, and tlu'reupon each instalment only shall l^e l^jy^bTg ^v 
 enforceable as and when it falls due, aiul the p.ayment of any such instalments, 
 instalment shall, as respects any (pialilication or franchise depending upon 
 
 the payment of the poor rati', be deemed a payment of such rate in re.spect 
 of the period to which such instalment applies.
 
 826 
 
 Provision for 
 successive 
 occupiers, 
 and for occu- 
 piers coming 
 into unoccu- 
 pied here- 
 ditaments. 
 
 [Chap. 41.] 
 
 The Poor Rate Assessment and 
 Collection Act 1869. 
 
 [32 & 33 Vict.] 
 
 When the 
 poor rate 
 shall be 
 deemed to 
 be made. 
 
 Evidence of 
 making and 
 publication 
 of rates. 
 
 Overseers to 
 insert names 
 of all occu- 
 piers in the 
 rate. 
 
 Penalty for 
 omission. 
 
 Saving of 
 franchises. 
 
 Int-erpreta- 
 tion of terms. 
 
 16. If the cccupier a.ssessed in the rate when made shall cease to occupy 
 before the rate shall have been wholly discharged, or if the hereditament 
 being unoccupied at the time of the making of the rate become occupied 
 during the period for which the rate is made, the overseers shall enter in 
 the rate book the name of the person who succeeds or comes into the 
 occupation, as the case may be, and the date when such occupation 
 commences, so far as the same shall be known to them, and such occupier 
 shall thenceforth be deemed to have been actually rated from the date so 
 entered by the overseer, and shall bo liable to pay so much of the rate as 
 shall be proportionate to the time between the commencement of his 
 occupation and the expiration of the period for which the rate was made, in 
 like manner, and with the like remedy of appeal, as if he had been rated 
 when the rate was made ; and an outgoing occupier shall remain liable in 
 like manner for so much and no more of the rate as is proportionate to the 
 time of his occupation within the period for which the rate was made. . . . 
 [/b'ee the Foot Rate Assessment and Collection Act 1869 Amendment Act 1882, 
 s. 3.* Part omitted {repeal of 17 Geo. 2, c. 38, s. 12) rep. 46 & 47 Vict, 
 c. 39 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 17. A poor rate shall be deemed to be made on the day when it is 
 allowed by the Justices, and if the Justices sever in their allowance then on 
 the day of the last allowance. 
 
 18. The production of the book purporting to contain a poor rate, with 
 the allowance of the rate Ijy the Justices, shall, if the rate is made in the 
 form prescribed by law, be prima facie evidence of the due making and 
 puljlication of such rate. 
 
 19. The overseers in making out the poor rate shall, in every case, 
 whether the rate is collected from the owner or occupier, or the owner 
 is liable to the payment of the rate instead of the occupier, enter in the 
 occupiers column of the rate book the name of the occupier of every 
 rateable hereditament, and such occupier shall be deemed to be duly rated 
 for any qualification or franchise as aforesaid t ; and if any overseer 
 negligently or wilfully and without reasonable cause omits the name of the 
 occupier of any rateable hereditament from the rate, or negligently or 
 wilfully misstates any name therein, such overseer shall for every such 
 omission or misstatement be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not 
 exceeding two pounds ; provided that any occupier whose name has been 
 omitted shall, notwithstanding such omission and that no claim to be rated 
 has been made by him, be entitled to every qualification and franchise 
 depending upon rating, in the same manner as if his name had not been 
 so omitted. 
 
 20. The word " overseer "t shall include every authority that makes 
 an a.ssessment for the poor rate ; the words " poor rate " shall mean the 
 assessment for the relief of the poor, and for the other purposes chargeable 
 thereon according to law, and in the metropolis shall extend to every rate 
 made by the overseers, and chargeable upon the same property as the poor 
 rate; the word " owner "§ shall mean any person receiving or 
 
 claiming 
 
 * S. .S of the I'oor Rate Assessment and Collection Act 18r,9 Amendment Act 1882 
 is as follows : " 3. The provisions of the sixteenth .'section of the Poor Rate Assess- 
 ment and Collection Act, 1869, so far as regards the payment of rates by an outgoing 
 occupier, shall extend and apply to any outgoing occupier assessed in the rate, and 
 such outgoing occupier shall only be liable to pay so much of the rate as shall be 
 proportionate to the time of his occupation within the period for which the rate was 
 made, notwithstanding he may not be succeeded in his occupation by an incoming 
 tenant." 
 
 f See the l*arliamentary and Municipal Registration Act 1878, s. 14 (which enacts 
 that this section "shall be of general application"), and the Representation of the 
 People Act 1884, s. 9 (8). 
 
 X See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14. s. 11 (1). 
 
 § See the Rei)resentation of the People Act 1884, s. 9 (8), which enacts {infer alia) 
 that in the construction of the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act 1S69 "the 
 word ' owner ' shall be deemed to include a person actually rated or liable to be 
 rated."
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] The Tramwaj/8 Act 1870. [Chap. 78.] 827 
 
 the rent of the hereditament for his own use, or repeivin? the same for the 
 use of any c-orporution aj^^'n-^ate, or (jf any public conipiiny, <jr of any 
 landlord or lessee who shall be a minor, a married woman, or insime, or 
 for the vise of any person for whom hi' is acting as a<^ent ; the word 
 " parish " shall signify every place for which a separate overseer can \xi 
 ap])(nnted ; the word " vestry " * shall include not only the vestry of a 
 parish existing under the authority of some general or special Act of 
 Parliament, or by special custom or otherwise, but also the meeting of the 
 inhal)itants of any ttjwnship, vill, oi' place having a s»,'parate overseer, and 
 for which a separate poor rate Ls made, held after notice given in like 
 manner as is required by law in le^'ard to the meetings of vestries ; ami 
 the word "metropolis" shall include only the metropolis as di(iin'd by 
 the Meti'opolis ^lanagement Act, 1850. 
 
 21. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Ireland. Application 
 
 22. This Act may be cited as " The Poor Rate Assessment and ' 
 Coll.ction Act, 18G9." . . . [Part owi tied (connneiicement of Act, 2*Jth Sep-^^^^^^^^^*"- 
 temher 1S69) rep. 56 k 57 Vict. c. bi{S.L.R.).] 
 
 33 & 34 VICTORIA. A.D. 1870. 
 
 CHAPTER 78. 
 
 An Act to facilitate the Construction and to regulate the Working 
 OF Tramways. [^th Aiujust l^li).'] 
 
 Prdhn inanj. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Tramways Act, short title. 
 1870." 
 
 2. [This Act not to extend to Ireland.^ 
 
 3. For the purposes of this Act the terms herein-after mentioned shall intcrpreta- 
 have the meanings herein-after assigned to them ; that is to say, tion of terms. 
 
 The terms " local authority " and " local rate " shall mean respectively 
 the bodies of persons and rate named in the table in Part One of 
 the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed : 
 
 The term " road " shall mean any caniageway being a public highway, 
 and the carriageway of any bridge forming part of or leading 
 to the same : 
 
 The term " road authority " shall mean, in the districts speciBed in the 
 table in Part Two of the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed, the 
 bodies of persons named in the same table, and elsewhere any local 
 authority, board, town council, body corporate, commissioners, 
 trustees, vestry, or otlur body or persons in whom a road as defined 
 by this Act is vested, or who have the power to maintain or repair 
 such road : 
 
 The term "district," in relation to a local authority or read authority, 
 shall mean the area within the jurisiliction of such Iwal authority 
 or road authority : 
 
 The term "prescribed" shall mean prescribed by any rules made in 
 pursuance of this Act : 
 
 The term "two justices" shall, in addition to its ordinary signification, 
 mean one stipendiary or police magistrate acting in any i>olice court 
 for the district. 
 
 Part I. 
 
 4—18. [Provisions relutiivj to p-ocedure by Provisional Order for the 
 construction of tramways.'\\ 
 
 * See 62 & 03 Vict. c. 11. ss. 4 and 19. 
 
 t These sections are omitted, us I'rovisional Order procedure has become unusual 
 in I^oudon.
 
 828 
 
 [Chap. 78.] 
 
 The Tramicays Act 1870. [33 & 34 Vict.] 
 
 Local autho- 
 rity may 
 lease or take 
 tolls. 
 
 s. -z ; 63 & 64 
 
 c. ccxviii. s. 12 
 
 c. ccxxxi. s. 23 ; 
 
 19. . . . Where any local authority has under the provisions of this Act 
 acquired possession of any tramway, such authority may, with the consent 
 of the Board of Trade, and subject to the provisions of this Act, by lease, 
 to be approved of by tlie Board of Trade, demise to any person, persons, 
 corporation, or company, the right of user by such person, persons, 
 corpoi'ation, or company of the tramway, and of demanding and taking in 
 respect of the same the tolls and charges authorised ; or such authority 
 may leave such tramway open to be used by the public, and may in respect 
 of such user demand and take the tolls and charges authorised ; but 
 nothing in this Act contained shall authorise any local authority to place 
 or run carriages upon such tramway, and to demand and take tolls and 
 chai'ges in respect of the use of such carriages. [<S'ee 59 & 60 Vict. c. li. 
 
 irf. c. cclxx. s. 41 ; 1 Edw. 7, c. cclxxi. s. 17; 2 Edw. 7, 
 and c. ccxix. s. 8 ; 3 Edtv. 7, c. ccxix. s. 8 ; 4 Edw. 7, 
 and 6 Edw. 7, c. clxxxi. .s. 54.] 
 
 Notice of the intention to make such lease shall be published by the 
 local authority by advertisement, and a copy of such lease shall be 
 deposited according to the regulations contained in Part I. of the Schedule 
 (C.) to this Act annexed ; and unless such notice is given, and such copy 
 deposited, such lease shall not be approved of by the Board of Trade. 
 
 Every such lease shall be made for a term or for terms not exceeding in 
 the whole twenty-one years. 
 
 On the determination of any lease made under this Act, the local 
 authority may from time to time, with the consent of the Board of Trade, 
 by lease, demise such rights for such further term or terms, not exceeding 
 in any case twenty-one years, as the said Board may approve. 
 
 Eveiy such lease shall imply a condition of re-entry if at any time after 
 the making of the same the lessees discontinue the working of the tramway 
 leased, or of any part thereof, for the space of three calendar months (such 
 discontinuance not being occasioned by circumstances beyond the control 
 of such lessees, for which purpose the want of sufficient funds shall not be 
 considered a circumstance beyond their control). 
 
 The person, persons, corporation, or company to whom any such lease 
 may be made ai'e in this Act referred to as " lessees." 
 
 20. [Powers to local authorities., where they are the promoters of any 
 tramway, to defray the expenses of apphi'ing for, obtaining, and carrying 
 into effect Provisional Orders out of the local rate, and to borrow for such 
 purposes on the credit of such local rate.] 
 
 21. [Poicer to the Metropolitan Board of Works to create additional stock 
 under 32 & 33 Vict. c. 102, not exceeding £300,000, for carrying into effect 
 any Provisional Order obtained by them. *S^;ewi.] 
 
 As to incor- 
 poration of 
 Parts II. and 
 III. of this 
 Act with 
 Provisional 
 Order and 
 Special Acts. 
 
 Part II. 
 
 Construction of Tramways. 
 
 22. Part II. and Part III. of this Act shall apply to every tramway 
 which is hereafter authorised by any Pi'ovisional Order or Act of 
 Parliament, and shall be incorporated with such Provisional Order or Act, 
 and all the said provisions of this Act, save so far as they shall be 
 expressly varied or excepted by any such Provisional Order or Act, shall 
 apply to the undertaking authorised thei-eby, so far as the same shall be 
 applicable to such undertaking, and shall, with the provisions of every 
 other Act or part of any Act which shall be incorporated therewith, form 
 part of the said Provisional Order or Act, and be construed therewith as 
 forming one Provisional Order or Act, as the case may be.
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] The Tramwa>/s Act 1870. [Chap. 78.] 829 
 
 23. In Part II. and Part III. of this Act, the term " spfcial Act" shall "Special 
 be c(jristrnetl to mean any Act of Parliament which sliall be hereafter Act." 
 passed or any Provisional Order authorising the construction of a tramway, 
 
 and with which the said jiarts of this Act shall he incorporated as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 24. The term "the pi'omoters " shall mefin any peison, perMjns, " J'romoters," 
 corporation, company, or local authority authorisetl by sj>ecial Act to 
 construct a tramway. 
 
 25. Every tramway which is hereafter authorised by special Act shall Mode of 
 
 be constructed on such gauj^e as may be prescril)ed by such special Act, formation of 
 and if no gauge is thereby prescribed, on such gauge as will atlmit of the *^'"''™^*J«- 
 use upon such tramways of carriages constructed for use upon railways of 
 a gauge of four feet eight inches and half an inch, and shall be laid and 
 maintained in such manner that the up])ernu)st surface of the rail shall be 
 on a level with the surface of the road, and shall not be openeil for piililic 
 traffic until the same has been inspected and certified to be fit for such 
 traffic, ill the prescribed manner. 
 
 26. The ])romoters from time to time, for the purpose of making, rower to 
 
 forming, laying down, maintaining, and renewing' any tramway <luly l^reak up 
 
 ^1^1 .- ^ 4.\ e .-1 1 1 f streets, etc. 
 
 authonseil, or any part or parts tliereor respectively, may open and break * 
 
 up any road, subject to the following regulations : 
 
 1. They shall give to the road autliority notice of their intention, 
 specifying the time at which they will l^egin to do so, and the 
 portion of road proposed to be opened or broken up, such notice 
 to be given seven days at least before the commencement of 
 the work : 
 
 2.. They shall not open, or break up, or alter the level of any road, 
 except under the superintendence and to the reasonable satis- 
 faction of the road authority, unless that authority 7-efuses or 
 neglects to give sucli superintendence at tiie time sp<cilied in the 
 notice, or discontinues the same during the work : 
 
 3. They shall pay all reasonable expenses to which the road authority 
 
 is put on account of such superintendence : 
 
 4. They shall not, without the consent of the road authority, open or 
 
 bieak up at any one time a greater length than one hundred 
 yards of any road which does not exceed a quarter of a mile in 
 length, and in the case of any road exceeding a (piarter of a mile 
 in length the promoters shall leave an interval of at least a 
 quarter of a mile between any two places at which they may 
 open or break tip the road, and they shall not open or break up 
 at any such place a greater length than one hundred yards. 
 Where the carriageway over any bridge forms part of or is a road within 
 the jurisdiction of a road authority, but such bridge is vested in some person 
 or persons, corporation, or company, disiinct from such road authority, any 
 work which the promoters may be empowered to construct, and which 
 atfects or in anywise interferes with the structural works of such bridge, 
 shall be constructed under the superintendence (at the cost of the pro- 
 moters) and to the reasonable satisfaction of such person, pei-sons, corpora- 
 tion, or company, unless after notice to be given l)y the promoters seven 
 days at least before tlie commencemont of such work such superintendence 
 is refused or witidield. 
 
 Where the carriageway in or upon which any tramway is proposed to 
 be formed or liiid down is crassed y)y any lailway or tramway on the level, 
 any work which the promoters may be empowered to construct, and which 
 ali'ects or in anywise interferes with such railway or tramway, or the tratlic 
 thereon, shall be constructed and maintained under the superintendence 
 ^at the cost of the promoters) and to the reasonable satisfaction of the 
 person, corporation, or company owning such railway or trauiway, unless 
 after notice to be given by the pi'omoters seven days at le;ust before
 
 830 
 
 [Chap. 78.] 
 
 The Tramways Act 1870. [33 & 34 Vict.] 
 
 Completion 
 of work and 
 reinstatement 
 of road. 
 
 Eepair of 
 part of road 
 where tram- 
 way is laid. 
 
 Eoad autho- 
 rity and pro- 
 moters may 
 contract for 
 paving roads 
 
 the commencement of such work such superintendence is refused or 
 
 withheld. 
 
 \See 63 & 64 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. ss. 7 and 11, and the Lowlon County 
 
 CounciVs Tramioays Acts I'iOl — 1906.] 
 
 27. When the promoters have opened or broken up any portion of any 
 road, they shall be under the following further obligations ; namely, 
 
 1. They shall, with all convenient speed, and in all cases within four 
 
 weeks at the most (unless the road authority otherwise consents 
 in writing) complete the work on account of which they opened 
 or broke iip the same, and (subject to the formation, maintenance, 
 or renewal of the tramway) fill in the ground and make good the 
 surface, and, to the satisfaction of the road authority, restore the 
 portion of the road to as good condition as that in which it was 
 before it was opened or broken up, and clear away all surplus 
 paving or metalling material or rubbish occasioned thereby : 
 
 2. They shall in the meantime cause the place where the road is- 
 
 opened or broken up to be fenced and watched, and to be 
 properly lighted at night [see IS & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. Ill] : 
 
 3. They shall iDear or pay all reasonable expenses of the repair of the 
 
 road for six months after the same is restored, as far as those 
 expenses are increased by the opening or breaking up. 
 If the promoters aforesaid fail to comply in any respect with the pro- 
 visions of the present section, they shall for every such offence (without 
 prejudice to the enforcement of specific performance of the requirements 
 of this Act or to any other remedy against them) be liable to a penalty 
 not exceeding twenty pounds, and to a further penalty not exceeding five 
 pounds for each day during which any such failure continues after the first 
 day on which such penalty is incurred. 
 
 S8. The promoters shall, at their own expense, at all times maintain 
 and keep in good condition and repair, with such materials and in such 
 manner as the I'oad authority shall direct, and to their satisfaction, so 
 much of any road whereon any tramway belonging to them is laid as lies 
 between the rails of the tramway and (where two tramways are laid by 
 the same promoters in any road at a distance of not more than four feet 
 from each other) the portion of the road between the tramways, and in 
 every case so much of the road as extends eighteen inches beyond the rails 
 of and on each side of any such tramway. If the promoters abandon theii' 
 undertaking, or any part of the same, and take up any tramway or any 
 part of any tramway belonging to them, they shall with all convenient 
 speed, and in all cases ^dthin six weeks at the most (unless the road 
 authority otherwise consents in writing), fill in the ground and make good 
 the surface, and, to the satisfaction of the road authority, restore the 
 portion of the road upon which such tramway was laid to as good a 
 condition as that in which it was before such tramway was laid thereon,, 
 and clear away all surplus paving or metalling material or rubbish 
 occasioned by such work ; and they shall in the meantime cause the place 
 where the road is opened or broken up to be fenced and watched, and to 
 be properly lighted at night : Pi-ovided always, that if the promoters fail 
 to comply with the provisions of this section, the road authority, if they 
 think tit, may themselves at any time, after seven days notice to the pro- 
 moters, open and break up the road, and do the works necessary for the 
 repair and maintenance or restoration of the road, to the extent in this 
 section above mentioned, and the expense incurred by the road authority 
 in so doing shall be repaid to them by the promoters. [See 63 & 64 Vict. 
 c. ccxxxviii. ss. 7 (2) a7id 11.] 
 
 29. The road authority on the one hand and the promoters on the other 
 hand may from time to time enter into and carry into effect, and from time 
 to time alter, renew, or vary, contracts, agreements, or arrangements with 
 respect to the paving and keeping in repaii* of the whole or any portion of
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] The Trarmvays AH X^'A). [Chak 78.] 831 
 
 the rrtadway of any road on wliioh tlio promoters shall lay any tramway, on wiiich 
 
 and the i)roportion to be paid by either of them of the expense of such ^'^•"w^y* 
 
 , 1 ■ • • "^ ^ are laid, 
 
 pavnig and keeping in repair. 
 
 30. For the purpose of making, forming, laying downi, maintaining, l'ro\'ision as 
 
 repairing, or renewing any of their tramways, the promoters may from '^'f ^^ "^ 
 , . . . . 1 1 c ' J. ' !• , water com- 
 
 tinie to time, wlure and as tar as it is necessary, or may appear expedient .sanies 
 
 for the purpose of prevent iug fi-equent interruption of the trallii; 1;}' re[»airs 
 
 or works in connexion with the same, alter the jxjsition of any mains or 
 
 pipes for the supply of gas or water, or any tube, wires, or apparatus for 
 
 telegraphic or other purposes, subject to tlie provisi(jns of this Act, and 
 
 also subject to the following restrictions ; (that is to say,) 
 
 1. Before laying down a tramway in a road in which any mains or 
 
 pipes, tubes, wires, or ajiparatus may be Iai<l, the promoters 
 shall, whether they contemplate altering the position of any such 
 mains or pipes, wires, or apparatus, or not, give seven days notice 
 to the company, persons, or person to whom such mains or pipes, 
 tubes, wires, or apparatus may belong or by whom they are con- 
 trolled, of their intention to lay down or alter the tramway, and 
 shall at the same time deliver a plan and section of the proposed 
 work. If it should ap[)eaf to any such company or persons that 
 the construction of the tramway as proposed would endanger any 
 such main or pipe, tube, wire, or apparatus, or interfere with or 
 impede the supply of water or gas or the telegraphic or other 
 communication, such company or person (as the case may be) 
 may give notice to the promoters to lower or otherwise alter the 
 position of the said mains or pipes, tubes, wires, or apparatus in 
 such manner as may be considered necessary, and any dilFeience 
 as to the necessity of any such lowering or alteration sliall be 
 settled in manner provided by this Act for the settlement of 
 diflerences between the promoters and other companies or persons, 
 and all alterations to be made under this section shall be made 
 with as little detriment and inconvenience to the company or 
 person to whom such mains or pipes, tubes, wires, or apparatus 
 may belong, or by whom the same are controlled, or to the 
 inhabitants of the district, as the circumstances will admit, and 
 under the superintendence of such company or person or of their 
 surveyor or engineer if they or he think fit to attend, after 
 receiving not less than forty-eight hours notice for that purpose, 
 which notice the promoters are hereby required to give : 
 
 2. The promoters shall not remove or displace any of the mains or pipes, 
 
 valves, svphons, plugs, tubes, wires, or apparatus, or other works 
 belonging to or controlled by :iny such company or j)orson, or do 
 anything to impede the passage of water or gas or the tehgraphic 
 or other communication into or through such mains or pij>es, 
 without the consent of such company or {)erson, or in any other 
 manner than such company or pei-son shall approve, until good 
 and sufficient mains, pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, and other works 
 necessary or proper for continuing the supply of water or gas 
 or telegraphic or other communication, as sutliciently as the same 
 was supplied by the mains or pipes, tubes, wires, or apparatus 
 proposed to be removed or displaced, shall at the exjH>nse of the 
 promoters have been first made and laid down in lieu thereof and 
 ready for use, and to the satisfaction of the surveyor or engineer 
 of such water or gas or other company, or of such person, or, in 
 case of disagreement between such surveyor or engimvr and the 
 promoters, as an engineer appointed l)y the Boartl of Trade shall 
 direct : 
 
 3. The promoters shall not lay down any such pipes contrary to the 
 
 regulations of any Act of Parliament relating to such water or 
 gas or other company, or relating to telegraphs :
 
 832 
 
 [Chap. 78.] 
 
 The Tramways Act 1870. [33 & 34 Vict.] 
 
 For pro- 
 tectiou of 
 sewers, etc. 
 
 Rights of 
 authorities 
 and com- 
 panies, etc. 
 to open 
 roads. 
 
 4. The promoters shall make good all damage done by them to pro- 
 
 perty belonging to or conti-olled by any such company or person, 
 and shall make full compensation to all parties foi' any loss or 
 damage which they may sustain by reason of any interference 
 with such property, or with the private service pipes of any 
 person supplied by any such company or person with water 
 or gas : 
 
 5. If by any such operations as aforesaid the promoters interrupt the 
 
 supply of water or gas in or through any main or main pipe they 
 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds for every 
 day upon which such supply shall be so interrupted. - 
 \See G3 it 64 Vict. c. ccxxxviii. ss. 5, 15, and 16.] 
 
 31. Where in any district any tramway or any work connected there- 
 with interferes with any sewer, drain, watercoui'se, subway, defence, or 
 work in such district, or in any way alFects the sewerage or drainage of 
 such district, the promoters shall not commence any tramway or work 
 until they shall have given to the proper authoi'ity fourteen days previous 
 notice in writing of their intention to commence the same, by leaving such 
 notice at the principal office of such authority with all necessary particulars 
 relating thereto, nor until such authority shall have signified their 
 approval of the same, unless such authority do not signify their approval, 
 disapproval, or other directions within fourteen days after service of the 
 said notice and particulars as aforesaid, and the promoters shall comply 
 with and confoi'm to all reasonable directions and regulations of the said 
 authority in the execution of the said works, and shall provide by new, 
 altered, or substituted works, in such manner as such authority shall 
 reasonably I'oquire, for the proper protection of and for preventing injury 
 or impediment to the sewers and works hei-ein-before referred to, by or by 
 reason of the tramways, and shall save harmless the said authority against 
 all and every the expense to be occasioned thereby ; and all such works 
 shall be done under the direction, superintendence, and control of the 
 engineer or other officer or officers of the said authority, at the reasonable 
 costs, charges, and expenses in all respects of the promoters ; and when 
 any new, altei'ed, or substituted work as aforesaid, or any works or defence 
 connected therewith, shall be completed by or at the costs, charges, or 
 expenses of the promoters, under the provisions of this Act, the same shall 
 thereafter be as fully and completely under the direction, jurisdiction, and 
 control of the said authoi-ity and be maintained by them as any sewers 
 or works. 
 
 32. Nothing in this Act shall take away or abridge any power to open 
 or break up any load along or across which any tramway is laid, or any 
 other power vested in any local authority or road authority for any of the 
 purposes for which such authority is respectively constituted, or in any 
 compan}', body, or person for the purpose of laying down, repairing, 
 
 altering, or 
 
 removing any 
 
 pipe for the supply of gas or water, or any 
 
 tubes, wii-es, or apparatus for telegraphic or other purposes, but in the 
 exercise of such power every such local authority, road authority, company, 
 body, or i:)erson shall be subject to the following restrictions ; (that is 
 to say,) 
 
 1 . They shall cause as little detriment or inconvenience to the promoters 
 
 and lessees as circumstances admit. 
 
 2. Before they commence any work whereby the traffic on the tramway 
 
 will be interrupted they shall (except in cases of urgency, in 
 which cases no notice shall be necessary) give to the promoters 
 and lessees, if there be any, notice of their intention to commence 
 such work, specifying the time at which they will begin to do so, 
 such notice to be given eighteen hours at least before the 
 commencement of the work : 
 
 3. They shall not be liable to pay to the promoters or lessees any 
 
 cotnpensation for injury done to the tramway by the execution
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] The Tramways Act 1870. [Chap. 78.] 833 
 
 of such work, or for loss of traffic- occasioned thereby, or for 
 the reasonable exercise of the powers so vested in them as 
 aforesaid : 
 
 4. Whenever for the purpose of enabling them to execute such work the 
 
 local authority or the road authority shall so require, the 
 promoters or lessees shall either stop traflic on tlie tramway to 
 which the notice shall refer, where it would otherwise interfere 
 witli such work, or shore up and secure the same at their own 
 risk and cost during the execution of the work there : Provided 
 that such work shall always be completed by the loc;il authority 
 or the road authority, as the case may be, with all reasonable 
 expedition : 
 
 5. Any company, body, or person shall not execute such work so far as 
 
 it immediately affects the tramway except under the supi-rin- 
 tendence of the promoters, unless they refuse or neglect to give 
 such superintendence at the time specified in the notice for the 
 commencement of the work or discontinue the same during the 
 progress of the work ; and they shall execute such work at their 
 own expense, and to the reasonable satisfaction of the promotei-s : 
 Provided that any additional expense imposed upon them by 
 reason of the existence of the tramway in any road or place 
 where any such mains, pipes, tubes, wires, or apparatus shall 
 have been laid before the construction of such tramway shall be 
 borne by the promoters. 
 
 33. If any difference arises between the promoters or lessees on the one Difference 
 hand and any local authority or road authority, or any gas or water between 
 company, or any company, body, or person to whom any sewer, diain, tube, f^rf/'^^'^r** 
 wires, or apparatus for telegraphic or other purposes may belong, or any authurit}-, 
 other company, on the other hand, with respect to any interference or etc. 
 control exercised, or claimed to be exercised, by them or him, or on theii' 
 or his behalf, or by the promoters or lessees by virtue of this Act, in 
 relation to any tramway or work, or in relation to any work or proceeding 
 of the local authority, road authority, body, company, or person, or with 
 respect to the propriety of or the mode of execution of any work relating 
 to any tramway, or with respect to the amount of any compensation to be 
 made by or to the promoters or lessees, or on the question whether any 
 work is such as ought reasonably to satisfy the local authority, road 
 authority, body, company, or person concerned, or with respect to any 
 other subject or thing regulated liy oi- comprised in this Act, the matter 
 in difference shall (unless otherwise specially provided by this Act) be 
 settled by an engineer or other lit person nominated as referee by the 
 Board of Trade on the application of either party, and the expenses of the 
 reference shiill be borne and paid as the referee directs. \See 63 h 6-i Vict, 
 c. ccxxxviii. s. 11.] 
 
 Part III. 
 
 General Provisions. 
 
 Carriages. 
 
 34. The promoters of tramways authorised by special Act and their Power for 
 lessees may use on their tramways carriages with flange wheels or wheels promoters to 
 
 •i ui 1 J. ii 1 111 1 4 i^ 1 1 ; * t^ *i,^ "i'e tramwavs 
 
 suitable only to run on the rail luvscribed by such Act ; anil, subject to the ^^.j^j^ tiamre-' 
 
 provisions of such special Act and of this Act, the promoters and their wheeled 
 lessees shall have the exclusive use of their tramways for carriages with carriages, etc. 
 flange wheels or other wheels suitable only to run on the prescril>ed rail. 
 
 All carriages used on any tramway shall be moved by the power 
 prescribed by the special Act, and where no such power is prescribed, by 
 animal power only. 
 
 54
 
 834 
 
 [Chap. 
 
 78.] 
 
 The Tramways Act 1870. [33 & 34 Vict.] 
 
 No carriage used on any tramway which is hereafter authorised by 
 special Act shall extend beyond the outer edge of the wheels of such 
 carriage more than eleven inches on each side. 
 
 \See 63 & 64 Vict. cc. ccxxxviii. s. 3, and cclxx. ss. 36 and 37 ; 1 Edw. 7, 
 c. cclxxi. s. 18 ; 2 Edio. 7, cc. ecxviii. s. 12, atid ccxix. s. 8 ; 3 Edio. 7, 
 c. ccxix. s. 9 ; i Edw. 7, c. ccxxxi. s. 16 ; and 6 Edw. 7, c. clxxxi. s. 6.] 
 
 Licenses 
 to use the 
 traniwav 
 may in cer- 
 tain events 
 be granted 
 to third 
 parties by 
 the Board 
 of Trade. 
 
 In default 
 of payment 
 of tolls 
 licensee's 
 carriages may 
 be detained 
 and sold. 
 
 Licensees to 
 give account 
 of passengers 
 carried by 
 them. 
 
 Licenses to use Tramways. 
 
 35. If at any time after any tramway or j^art of any tramway shall 
 have been for three years opened for public traffic in any district it shall 
 be represented in writing to the Board of Trade by the local authority of 
 such district, or by twenty inhabitant ratepayers of such district, or by the 
 road authority of any road in which such tramway or part of a tramway 
 is laid, that the public ai'e deprived of the full benefit of the tramway, the 
 Board of Trade may (if they consider that, prima facie, the case is one for 
 inquiry) direct an inquiry by a referee under this Act into the truth of 
 the representation, and if the referee report that the truth of the repre- 
 sentation has been proved to his satisfaction, the Board may from time to 
 time grant licenses to any company or person to use such tramway in 
 addition to the promotei-s or their lessees for such traffic as is authorised 
 by the special Act, with carriages to be approved by the Board, subject to 
 the following provisions, conditions, and restrictions ; that is to say, 
 
 1. The license shall be for any period not less than one year nor more 
 
 than three years from the date of the license, but shall be 
 renewable by the Board, if they upon inquiry think fit : 
 
 2. The license shall be to use the whole of such tramway for the time 
 
 being opened for public traffic, or such part or parts of such 
 tramway as the Board, having reference to the cause for granting 
 the license, shall think right : 
 
 3. The license shall direct the number of carriages which the licensee 
 
 or licensees shall run upon such tramway, and the mode in which 
 and times at which such carriages shall be run : 
 
 4. The licenses shall specify the tolls to be paid to the promoters or 
 
 to their lessees by the licensee or licensees for the use of the 
 tramways : 
 
 5. The licensee or licensees, and their officers and servants, shall permit 
 
 one person duly authorised for that purpose by the promoters, or 
 by their lessees, to ride free of charge in or upon each carriage of 
 the licensee or licensees run upon the tramways for the whole or 
 any part of the journey : 
 
 6. The Board of Trade may at any time after the granting of any 
 
 license revoke, alter, or modify the same for good cause shown 
 to them. 
 
 36. If on demand any licensee fail to pay the tolls due in respect of 
 any passengers carried in any carriage it shall be lawful for the promoters 
 or their lessees, to whom the same are payable, to detain and sell such 
 carriage, or if the same shall have been removed from the tramway or 
 premises of such promoters or lessees, to detain and sell any other 
 carriages on such tramway or premises belonging to svich licensee, and out 
 of the moneys arising from such sale to retain the tolls payable as 
 aforesaid, and all charges and expenses of such detention and sale, 
 rendering the overplus (if any) of such moneys and such of the carriages 
 as shall remain unsold to the person entitled thereto. 
 
 37. Every licensee shall on demand give to an officer or servant 
 authorised in that behalf by the promoters or their lessees entitled to be 
 paid tolls by such licensee, an exact account in writing signed by such 
 licensee of the number of passengers conveyed by any and every carriage 
 used by him on the tramways.
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] The Tramways Act 1870. [Chap. 78.] 835 
 
 38. If any such licensee fails to give such account to such oHicer or Licei • - 
 seivuut demanding the same as aforesaid, or if any such licensee with "'^'^ '-'' - 
 intent to avoid the payment of any tolls gives a false account, he shall for ^^^Ij'enl'ers 
 every such ofl'ence forfeit to the promoters, or to their lessees entitled to iarrie<l liable 
 be paid tolls by such licensee, a sum not exceeding five jx^unds, and such to ijenalty. 
 penalty shall bo in addition to any tolls payable in respect of the 
 passengers carried by any such carriage. 
 
 39. If any dispute arise concerning the amount of the tolls due to the DiHputos a« 
 promoters or to their lessees from any licensee, or concerning the charges ^\j"."*^[!'!^ ^ 
 occasioned by any detention or sale of any carriage under the provisions j^,tii(_^i i^y 
 herein contained, the same shall be settled in England by two Justices, and Justice. 
 
 in Scotland by the sheriff or two .Justices, and it shall be lawful for the 
 promoters or their lessees in the meanwhile to detain the carriage, or (if 
 the case so require) the proceeds of the sale thereof. 
 
 40. Every licensee shall be answerable for any trespass or damage Owners of 
 
 done bv his carriages or horses, or bv any of the sei-vants or iiersons carriages 
 " . ' . ./ 1 liable tor 
 
 employed by him, to or upon the tramway, or to or upon the property ^.^^.J^v,^. done 
 
 of any other person, and, without prejudice to the right of action against by tbeir 
 
 the licensee or any other person, every such servant or other person may servanta. 
 
 lawfully be convicted of such trespass or damage in England before two 
 
 Justices, and in Hcotland before the sheriff or two Justices, either by 
 
 the confession of the party offending or by the oath of some credible 
 
 witness ; and upon such conviction every such licensee shall pay to the 
 
 j)ronioters, lessees, or persons injured, as the case may be, the damage, 
 
 to be ascertained by such Justices, so that the same do not exceed fifty 
 
 pounds. 
 
 Discontinuance of Tramways. 
 
 41. If at any time after the opening of any tramway in any district Tramways to 
 for traffic the promoters discontinue the working of such tramway, or \'^ removed 
 of any part thereof, for the space of three calendar months (such tlis- „„ggg 
 continuance not being occasioned by circumstances beyond the control of 
 
 such promoters, for which purpose the want of sufficient funds shall not be 
 considered a circumstance beyond their control), and such discontinuance 
 is proved to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade, the said Board, if 
 they think fit, may by order declare that the powers of the promoters 
 in respect of such tramway or the part thereof so discontinued shall, 
 from the date of such order, l)e at an end, and thereupon the >aid powers 
 of the promoters shall cease and determine, unless the same are 
 purchased by the local authority in manner by this Act provided. Where 
 any such order has been made, the road authority of such district may 
 at any time after the expiration of two months from the date of such 
 order, under the authority of a certificate to that effect by the Board 
 of Trade, remove the tramway or part of the tramway so discontinued, 
 and the promoters shall pay to the road authority the cost of such 
 removal and of the making good of the road by the road authority, such 
 cost to be certified bv the clerk for the time being, or by some other 
 authorised officer of the road authority, whose certificate shall be final and 
 conclusive ; and if the promoters fail to pay the amount so certified 
 within one calendar month after delivery to them of such certificate or a 
 copy thereof, the road authority may, without any preWous notice to the 
 promoters (but without prejuiiice to any other remedy which they may 
 have for the recovery of the amount), sell and dispose of the materials of 
 the tramwav or part of tramway removed, either by public aui-tion or 
 private sale, and for such sum or sums, and to such person or jK-r.^ons, 
 as the road authority may think tit, and may out of the proceeils of such 
 sale pay and reimburse themselves the amount of the cost certifietl as 
 aforesaid and of the cost of s;ile, and the balance (if any) of the proceeds 
 of the sale shall be paid over by the road authority to the promoters. 
 
 42. [Proceedings in case of insolvency of promoters^
 
 836 
 
 Future 
 purchase of 
 undertaking 
 by local 
 authority. 
 
 [Chap. 78.] • The Tramways Act 1870. [33 & 34 Vict.] 
 
 PurcJiase of Tramvmys. 
 43. Where the promoters of a tramway in any district are not the 
 local authority, the local authority, if, by resolution passed at a special 
 meeting of the members constituting such local authority, they so decide, 
 may within six months after the expiration of a period of twenty-one 
 3'ears from the time when such promoters were empowered to construct 
 such tramway, and within six months after the expii-ation of every sub- 
 sequent period of seven years, or within three months after any order 
 made by the Boai'd of Trade under eitlier of the two next preceding 
 sections, with the approval of the Board of Trade, by notico in writing 
 require such promoters to sell, and thereupon such promoters shall sell to 
 them their undertaking, or so much of the same as is within such district, 
 upon terms of paying the then value (exclusive of any allowance for past 
 or future profits of the undertaking, or any compensation for compulsory 
 sale, or other consideration whatsoever) of the tramway, and all lands, 
 buildings, works, materials, and plant of the promoters suitable to and 
 used by them for the purposes of their undertaking within such district, 
 such value to be in case of difierence determined by an engineer or other 
 fit person nominated as referee by the Board of Trade on the application 
 of either party, and the expenses of the reference to be borne and paid 
 as the referee directs. And when any such sale has been made, all 
 the rights, powers, and authorities of such promoters in respect to 
 the undertaking sold, or where any order has been made by the Board of 
 Tiude under either of the next preceding sections, all the rights, powers, 
 and authorities of such promoters previous to the making of such order 
 in respect to the undertaking sold, shall be transferred to, vested in, and 
 may be exercised by the authority to whom the same has been sold, in like 
 manner as if such tramway was constructed by such authority under the 
 powers conferred upon them by a Provisional Order under this Act, and in 
 reference to the same they shall be deemed to be the promoters. 
 
 No such resolution shall be valid unless a month's previous notice of 
 the meeting, and of the purpose thereof, has been given in manner 
 in which notices of meetings of such local authoi^ity are usually given, 
 nor unless two thirds of the members constituting such local authority are 
 present and vote at the meeting, and a majority of those present and 
 voting concur in the resolution. . . . 
 
 The local authority in any district may pay the purchase money and all 
 expenses incurred by them in the purchase of any undertaking under the 
 authority of this section out of the like rate, and shall have the like 
 powers to borrow on the security of the same as if such expenses were 
 incurred in applying for, obtaining, and carrying into effect any Provisional 
 Order obtained by them under this Act. [See s. 20. [ 
 
 t • • • -• • 
 
 Subject and according to the preceding provisions of this section two or 
 more local authorities may jointly purchase any undei-taking or so much 
 of the same as is within their districts. 
 
 [Parts omitted refer to Scotland and to cases v;here the local rate is limited 
 hy lawi\ 
 
 Power of sale. 44. Where any tramway in any district has been opened for traffic 
 for a period of six months the promoters may, with the consent of the 
 Board of Trade, sell their undertaking to any person, persons, corporation, 
 or company, or to the local autliority of such district ; and when any such 
 sale has been made all the rights, powers, authorities, obligations, and 
 liabilities of such promoters in respect to the undertaking sold shall be 
 transferred to, vested in, and may be exercised by, and shall attach to 
 the person, persons, corporation, company, or local authority to whom the 
 same has been sold, in like manner as if such tramway was constructed 
 by such person, persons, corporation, company, or local authority under 
 the powers conferred upon them by special Act, and in reference to 
 the same they shall be deemed to be the promoters.
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] The Tramways Act 1870. [Chap. 78.] 837 
 
 Provided always, that a local authority shall not purchase any under- 
 taking' undei- the pi'ovisions of this section unless they shall decide to make 
 such purcluise by resolution passed at a special Uieeting of the memlx-rs 
 constituting such local authority, which resolution shall be made in 
 the same manner and shall be subject to the same condititjns as to \alidity 
 as resolutions made in regard to the purchases by the next preceding 
 section authorised. 
 
 Whore any purchase is made by any local authority under the 
 provisions of this section, such l(x;al authority may pay the purchase 
 money and all expenses incurred by them in making such purchase out of 
 the like funds, and for such purposes shall have all and the like powers 
 and be subject to all the liktj conditions as if such purchase were made 
 under the authority of the next preceding section. 
 
 Tolls. 
 
 45. The promoters or lessees of a tramway authorised by special Tolls, etc. 
 Act may denumd and take, in respect of such tramway, tolls and charges 
 not exceeding the sums specified in such special Act, subject and according 
 to the regulations therein specified. A list of all the tolls and charges 
 authorised to be taken shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place inside and 
 outside each of the carriages used upon the tramways. [See note to s. 19.] 
 
 Jiyela v:s. 
 
 * 
 
 46. Subject to the provisions of the special Act authorising anv tramway Bvelaws 
 
 and this Act, " ''Vb''*! 
 
 The local authority of any district in which the same is laid down may, ^" ^"^' 
 from time to time, make regulations as to the following matters : 
 
 Tlie rate of speed to be observed in travelling upon the tramway : 
 
 The distances at which carriages using the tramway shall be allowed to 
 follow one after the other : 
 
 The stopping of carriages using the tramway : 
 
 The tratiic on the road in which the tramway is laid : 
 
 The promoters of any tramway and their lessees may from time to time Promoters 
 make regulation..,- . . ^ . . . S^r"' 
 
 For preventing the commission of any nuisance in or upon any carriage, regulations, 
 or in or again.st any premises belonging to them : 
 
 For regulating the travelling in or upon any carriage belonging to 
 them. 
 And for better enforcing the observance of all or any of such regulations, 
 it shall be lawful for such local authority and promoters respectively to 
 make byelaws for all or any of the aforesaid i)urposes, and from time to 
 time repeal or alter such l)yelaws, and make new byelaws, provided tliat 
 such byelaws be not repugnant to the hiws of that part of the United 
 Kingdom where the same are to have eftect : 
 
 Notice of the making of any bvelaw under the provisions of this Act 
 shall be published by the local authority or the promotei-s making the 
 same by advertisement, according to the regulations containetl in Part II. 
 of the Schedule (C.) to this Act annexed, and unless such notice is 
 published in manner aforesaid such byelaw shall be disjilU)wed by the 
 Board of Trade. 
 
 No such byelaw shall have any force or efTect which shall l)e disallowt»<l 
 by the Board of Trade within two calendar months after a true copy of 
 such byelaw shall have been laid before the Board, and a true copy of every 
 such proposed byelaw shall, not less than two calendar months before .such 
 byelaw shall cuine into operation, be sent to the Board of Trade, and shall 
 be delivered to the promoters of such tramway if the same was made by 
 the local authority, and to such local authority if made by the promoters. 
 
 * See also 59 &. GO Vict. c. li. s. 7, and 63 i: 64 Vict, c, ccxxxviii, s. 3.
 
 838 
 
 [Chap. 78.] 
 
 The Tramways Act 1870. [33 & 34 Vict.] 
 
 Penalties 
 may be 
 imposed in 
 byelaws. 
 
 Power 
 to local 
 authority 
 to license 
 drivers, con- 
 ductors, etc. 
 
 Penalty for 
 obstruction 
 of promoters 
 in laying out 
 tramway. 
 
 Penalties for 
 wilful injury 
 or obstruc- 
 tion to tram- 
 ways, etc. 
 
 Penalty on 
 passengers 
 practising 
 frauds on the 
 promoters. 
 
 Transient 
 ofEenders. 
 
 47. Any such byelaw may impose reasonable penalties for offences 
 against the same, not exceeding forty shillings for each oftence, ^\^.th or 
 ■without further penalties for continuing offences, not exceeding for any 
 continuing offence ten shillings for every day during which the offence 
 continues : but all byelaws shall be so framed as to allow in every case 
 pai't only of the maximum penalty being ordered to be paid. 
 
 48. The local authority shall have the like power of making and 
 enforcing rules and regulations, and of granting licenses with respect to 
 all carriages using the tramways, and to all drivers, conductors, and other 
 persons having charge of or using the same, and to the standings for the 
 same, as they are for the time being entitled to make, enforce, and grant 
 with respect to hackney carriages, and the drivers and other persons having 
 the charge thereof, and to the standings for the same in the streets and 
 district of or under the control of the local authority : Provided always, 
 that in any district in which any of the powers aforesaid in relation to 
 hackney carriages and the matters aforesaid in connexion therewith are 
 vested in any authority other than the local authority of such district, such 
 authoi'ity shall have and may exercise the powers by this section conferred 
 upon the local authoritv. [*S'ee 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, s. 10 ; 32 & 33 Vict. 
 c. 115, s. 8 ; 13 & 14 Vict. c. 7, s. 4 ; and l^ t 11 Vict. c. 33, s. 12.] 
 
 Offences. 
 
 49. If any person wilfully obstructs any per-son acting under the 
 authority of any promoters in the lawful exercise of their powers in setting 
 out or making, forming, laying down, repairing, or renewing a tramway, 
 or defaces or destroys any mark made for the purposes of setting out the 
 line of the tramway, or damages or destroys any property of any promoters, 
 
 .lessees, or licensees, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty 
 not exceeding five jjounds. 
 
 50. If any person, without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on 
 him), wilfully does any of the following things ; (namely,) 
 
 Interferes with, removes, or alters any part of a tramway or of the 
 
 vk^orks connected therewith ; 
 Places or throws any stones, dirt, wood, refuse, or other material on any 
 
 part of a tramway ; 
 Does or causes to be done any thing in such manner as to obstruct any 
 carriage using a tramway, or to endanger the lives of persons therein 
 or theieon ; 
 Or knowingly aids or assists in the doing of any such thing ; 
 he shall for every such offence be liable (in addition to any proceedings by 
 way of indictment or otherwise to which he may be subject) to a penalty 
 not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 \_See 63 & 64 Vict. cc. ccxxxviii. s. 24, and cclxx. s. 43, and the London 
 County Council's Tramway Acts 1901 — -1906.] 
 
 51. If any person travelling or having travelled in any carriage on any 
 tramway avoids or attempts to avoid payment of his fare, or if any person 
 having paid his fare for a certain distance knowingly and wilfully proceeds 
 in any such carriage beyond such distance, and does not pay the additional 
 fare for the additional distance, or attempts to avoid payment thereof, or 
 if any person knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects on arriving at the 
 point to which he has paid his fare to quit such carriage, every such person 
 shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty 
 shillings. 
 
 52. It shall be lawful for any officer or servant of the promoters or 
 lessees of any tramway, and all persons called by him to his assistance, to 
 seize and detain any person discovered either in or after committing or 
 attempting to commit any such offence as in the next preceding section 
 is mentioned, and whose name or residence is unknown to such officer or 
 servant until such person can be conveniently taken before a Justice, or 
 until he be otherwise discharged by due course of law.
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] The Tramways Act 1870. [Chap. 78.] 839 
 
 63. No person shall b<! entitled to carry or to require to be carried on Penalty for 
 any tramway any goods which may be of a dangerous nature, and if any ^Jrinj^in^r 
 person send by any ti-amway any such goods without distinctly marking ,,,^^u,m\\xQ 
 
 wise giving n(jtic<; in writing to the book-keeper or rjihur servant with whom 
 the same are left at the time of such sending, he sliall be liable to a penalty 
 not exceeding twenty pounds f(jr every such offence, and it >hall U; lawful 
 for such pruuioters or lt's.sees to refuse to take any parcel that they may 
 suspect to contain goods of a dangeroiLs nature, or require the same to be 
 opened to ascertain the fact. 
 
 64. If any person (except under a lease from or by agreement with the I'fnalty for 
 
 promoters, or under license from the Board of Trade, as bv this Act pro- P*^.'"''^"'* 
 
 •1 i\ i ^ ^\ p -.1 • 1/1 usiiit' tram- 
 
 viued,) us&s a tramway or any i)art thereof with carnages havnig flange ^ays with 
 
 wheels or other wheels suitable only to run on the rail of such tramway, carriages 
 
 such person shall for every such offence be liable to a j)enalty not exceeding with (ianpe 
 
 twenty pounds, wheels, etc. 
 
 M iscella-iieous. 
 
 66. The jiromoters or lessees, as the case may Ix?, shall be answerable fromoiers or 
 for all accident, damages, and injuries happening through their act or ''-'^•'^f* ■"* !"^ 
 defaidt, or through the act or default of any person in their employment f^r'an"' ** 
 by reason or in consequence of any of their works or carriages, and shall damages, 
 save harndess all road and other authorities, companies, or bodies, collec- 
 tively and individuall}', and their officers and servants, from all damage.s 
 
 and costs in respect of such accidents, damages, and injuries. 
 
 56. All tolls, penalties, and charges under this Act, or under any bye- Eecovery 
 law made in pursuance of this Act, may be recovered and enforced as ^^ ^o\\s, 
 follows ; in England before two Justices of the Peace in manner directed ^^°* ^^' 
 by the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of 
 Iler present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled "An Act to facilitate 
 the performance of the duties of Justices of the Peace out of sessions 
 within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and 
 orders," and any Act amending the same. . . . \^Part omitted relates to 
 recovery of penalties in Scotland,^ 
 
 67. Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained the promoters of Right of 
 any tramway shall not ac(|uire or be deemed to acquire any right other ^^^^ only, 
 than that of user of any road along or across which they lay any tramway. 
 
 . . . \^Part omitted (as to turnpike tolls) rep. 5G k 57 Vict. c. 54: (.S'.Z.7i'.).] 
 
 68. [-Is to aqreements between promotei's and tiniipike trustees. Hep. 
 56 c^- 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 69. Nothing in this Act shall limit or interfere with the rights of any Reser^-atioa 
 owner, lessee, or occupier of any mines or minerals lying undtT or adjacent "^ right,-* of 
 to any road along or across which anv tramwav shall lie laid to work such ^'^^''*-|"»® ^• 
 
 ■ 11 1 11 ■ 1 "i • V r 1 1 °' mines, 
 
 mines and minerals, nor sliall any such owner, lessee, or occupier re liable 
 
 to make good or pay compensation for any damage which may be occasioned 
 
 to such tramway by the working in the usual and ordinary course of their 
 
 mines or minerals. 
 
 60. Nothing in this Act shall take away or affect any power which any pji^y^.^^ ,,f 
 
 road authority, or the owners, commissioners, undert^ikei-s, or lessees of any street autbo- 
 
 railway, tramway, or inland navigation, may have by law to widen, alter, rities to 
 
 divert, or improve any road, railway, tramwav, or inland mwigation. widen, etc. 
 
 ' ./ ' . » . ' o roads. 
 
 61. Nothing in this Act shall limit the powers of the loc-al authority or i.,,^^,^ for 
 police in any district to regulate the passjige of any traffic along or across local or 
 any road along or across which any tramways are laid down, and such police autho* 
 authority or police may exercise their authority as well on as off the "ties to 
 tramway, and with respect as well to the trathc of the pix)motei-s or of [^^'^^-^ 
 lessees as to the traffic of other jiei-sons. [See 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s«. 51 roads. 
 
 and 52; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 134, s. 24 ; and 6 Edir. 7, c. dxxxi. .s\ 12.]
 
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 [Chap. 78.] 
 
 The Tramways Act 1870. [33 & 34 Vict.] 
 
 Reservation 
 of right of 
 public to use 
 roads. 
 
 Regulating 
 inquiries 
 before referee 
 appointed by 
 the Board of 
 Trade. 
 
 Rules for 
 carrying Act 
 into effect. 
 
 62. Nothing in this Act or in any byelaw made under this Act shall 
 take away or abridge the right of the public to pass along or across every 
 or any part of any road along or across which any tramway is laid, 
 whether on or off the tramway, with carriages not having Hange wheels or 
 wheels suitable only to run on the rail of the tramway. 
 
 63. Every inquiry which by this Act the Board of Trade are empowered to 
 make or direct shall be made in accordance with the following provisions : 
 
 1. The inquiry shall be held in public before an officer to be appointed 
 
 in that behalf by the Board, herein-after called the referee, and 
 whose appointment shall be by writing, which shall specify all 
 the matters referred to him : 
 
 2. Ten days notice at the least shall be given by the referee to the 
 
 parties upon whose representation the Board of Trade shall have 
 directed the inquiry, of the time and place at which the inquiry 
 is to be commenced : 
 
 3. The inquiry shall be commenced at the time and place so appointed, 
 
 and the referee may adjourn the inquiry from time to time as 
 may be necessary to such time and place as he may think fit : 
 
 4. The referee by summons shall, on the application of any party 
 
 interested in the inquiry, require the attendance before himself, 
 at a place and time to be mentioned in the summons, of any 
 person to be examined as a witness before him, and every person 
 summoned shall attend the referee, and answer all questions 
 touching the matter to be inquired into, and any person who 
 wilfully disobeys any such summons or refuses to ancwer any 
 question put to him by such referee for the purposes of the said 
 inquiry shall be liable to a ^lenalty not exceeding five pounds : 
 Provided always, that no person shall be required to attend in 
 obedience to any such summons unless the reasonable charges of 
 his attendance shall have been paid or tendered to him, and no 
 person shall be required in any case in obedience to any such 
 summons to travel more than ten miles from his place of abode ; 
 
 5. The referee may and shall administer an oath, or an affirmation 
 
 where an affirmation in lieu of an oath would be admitted in a 
 court of justice, to any person tendered or summoned as a witness 
 on the inquiry : 
 
 6. Any person who upon oath or affirmation wilfully gives false evidence 
 
 before the referee shall be deemed guilty of perjury : 
 
 7. The referee shall make his report to the Board of Trade in writing, 
 
 and shall deliver copies of the report upon request to all or any 
 of the parties to the inquii-y. 
 
 64. The Board of Trade may from time to time make, and, when made, 
 may rescind, annul, or add to, rules with respect to the following matters : 
 
 1. The proceedings to be had before the Board under this Act : 
 
 2. The payment of money or lodgment of securities by way of deposits, 
 
 the repayment and forfeiture of the same, the investment of the 
 same, the amount and payment of interest or dividends from 
 time to time accruing due on such deposits. 
 
 3. The plans and sections of any works to be deposited by promoters 
 
 under this Act : 
 
 4. As to any other matter or thing in respect of which it may be 
 
 expedient to make rules for the purpose of carrying this Act 
 into execution. 
 Any rules made in pursuance of this section shall be deemed to be 
 within the powers conferred by this Act, and shall be of the same force as 
 if enacted in this Act, and shall be judicially noticed. 
 
 Any rules made in pursuance of this section shall be laid before 
 Parliament within three weeks after they are made, if Parliament be then 
 sitting, and if Parliament be not then sitting within three weeks after the 
 beginning of the then next session of Parliament.
 
 [33 & 34 Vict.] The Tramways Act 1870. 
 
 [Chap. 78.] 
 
 841 
 
 SCHEDULE A. 
 
 Pakt I. 
 
 Districts of Local 
 Authorities. 
 
 D(f.Ht,Tii)tion (jf L(K;al 
 
 Authority of District set 
 
 opjxjsite its Name. 
 
 The IjOiiaA Rate. 
 
 The city of London and the 
 liberties thereof. 
 
 England and Wales. 
 
 Tlie Mayor, Aldermen, 
 and Commons of the 
 Cit}' of London. 
 
 The Metropolitan Board 
 of Works.* 
 
 The metropolis (1.) . 
 
 [Part omitted relates to anthoritiig, districts, and rates outside London.'] 
 
 The consolifiate<l sewers 
 rate. 
 
 The metropolitan consoli- 
 dated rate. 
 
 Note. — (1.) "The metropolis" sliall include all parishes and places in which the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works * have power to levy a main drainage rate, except tiie 
 city of London and the liberties thereof. 
 
 (2.) [Uejinition of ''borough." Not applicable to London.] 
 
 Part II. 
 
 Districts of Road 
 Authorities. 
 
 Parishes within the me- 
 tropolis (1.) mentioned 
 in Schedule (A.) to 
 the Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, lK55.t 
 
 Districts within the me- 
 tropolis (1.) formed 
 by the union of the 
 parishes mentioned in 
 Schedule (B.) to the 
 Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, 1855.f 
 
 Description of Road 
 
 Authority of Districts set 
 
 opposite its Name. 
 
 The vestries appointed 
 for the purpo.ses of 
 the Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, l><55.f 
 
 The board of works for 
 the district appointed 
 for the purpo.se of 
 the Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, 1855. t 
 
 Note. — (1.) The term " metropolis " has in this part the same meaning as in Part I. 
 of this Schedule. 
 
 SCHEDULE C. 
 
 Part I. 
 
 Notice and Deposit of Lease bi/ Local A uthority. 
 
 One month before any lease is submitted to the Board of Trade, notice of the 
 intention to make such lease shall be given by advertisement. 
 (1.) P]very advertisement is to contain — 
 
 1. The term of the lease. 
 
 2. The rent reserved. 
 
 3. A general description of the covenants and conditions contained therein. 
 
 4. The place where the same is deposited for public inspection. 
 
 (2.) The advertisement is to be inserted once at least in each of twosucce.'-sive 
 weeks in some one and the same newspaper published in the district affected by 
 the proposed lease ; or if there be no such newspaper, then in some one and the 
 
 * Now the London County Council. See 51 .^ 52 Vict. c. 41. s, -10 (M). 
 t Now the metropolitan " borouglis and the councils thereof respectively. See 
 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, sg. 4 and 19.
 
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 [Chap. 113.] The Metropolis Water Act 1871. [34 & 35 Vict. 
 
 same newspaper published in the county in which such district, or some part 
 thereof, is situate ; or if there be none, then in some one and the same news- 
 paper published in some adjoining or neighbouring county. 
 
 (3.) The advertisement is also, in every case, to be inserted once at least in 
 the London or Edinburgh Gazette, accordingly as the district to which it 
 relates is situate in England or Scotland. 
 
 Dejjosit. 
 
 A copy of such lease shall be deposited for public inspection during office 
 hours at the office of the local authority or at some other convenient place 
 within the district to which such lease relates. 
 
 Part II. 
 Notice of Byelaws. 
 
 Within one month after the making of any byelaw notice of the making of 
 the same, and a copy of such byelaw, shall be published by advertisement in 
 manner following : 
 
 (1.) The advertisement is to be inserted once at least in each of two successive 
 weeks in some one and the same newspaper published in the district affected by 
 such byelaw : or if there be no such newspaper, then in some one and the same 
 newspaper published in the county in which such district, or some part thereof, 
 is situate ; or if there be none, then in some one and the same newspaper 
 published in some adjoining or neighbouring county. 
 
 (2.) The advertisement is also, in every case, to be inserted once at least in 
 the London or Edinburgh Gazette, accordingly as the district to which it relates 
 is situate in England or Scotland. 
 
 34 & 35 VICTORIA. A.D. 1871. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 This and 
 recited Act 
 to be as one. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of terms, 
 
 CHAPTER 113. 
 Ax Act to amend "The Metropolis Water Act, 1852;" akd to 
 
 MAKE FURTHER PROVISION FOR THE DUE SUPPLY OF WaTER TO THE 
 
 Metropolis and certain Places in the Keighbourhood thereof. 
 
 [list August 1871.] 
 
 [Preamble (reciting 15 & 16 Vict. c. 84) rep. 56 &. 57 Vict. c. 54 
 
 Preliminary. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Metropolis ^Yater 
 Act, 1871." 
 
 2. This Act and the Metropolis Water Act, 1852, as the same is 
 amended by this Act, shall be read and construed together as one Act. 
 
 3. In this Act,— 
 
 The expression " the metropolis " shall mean the metropolis as defined 
 
 by the Metropolis Management Act, 1855 : 
 The term " company " shall mean and include any of the companies * 
 
 following ; that is to saj', — 
 
 * The Governor and Company of the New River brought from 
 Chadwell and Amwell to London, commonly called " The New 
 River Company ; " 
 
 * The East London Waterworks ; 
 
 * The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company ; 
 
 * The Company of Proprietors of the West Middlesex Water- 
 works Company ; 
 
 The Company of Proprietors of Lambeth Waterworks ; 
 The Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks ; 
 
 * The Grand Junction Waterworks Company ; 
 
 * The Company of Proprietors of the Kent Waterworks ; 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41, s. 1. 

 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] T/ie Metro/Jon's Water Act 1871. [Chap. 113.] 843 
 
 and also any otlier forporation, company, board, c-om- 
 mlssioneis, association, pei-son, i>CTsons, or partnership, for 
 the time being supplying water tor domestic use* within the 
 limits of this Act : 
 The term " person " shall include a corporation aggregate or .sole [see 
 
 52 ct 53 Vict. c. 03, h.2\: 
 The expres.'<ion "water limits" in relation to a company .shall mean such 
 parts of the limits within whicli sucli C(imj)any is authori.'^e<l to 
 su})ply watei- as are within the limits of this Act : 
 The expression "the special Act" in relation to a company shall mean 
 and include every and any Act of Parliament relating to huch 
 company : 
 The expression " metropolitan authority " shall mean, in the places 
 specified in the table in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed, 
 the bodies or ptrsons named in the .same table : 
 The term "district" shall mean the area selecte<l for the purfK)8c^ of 
 constant supply, such area being within the juri.sdiction of a 
 metropolitan authority, and also within the water limits of a 
 company, and being coterminous with some one or more .services 
 of such company : 
 The term " premises " shall mean and include any dwelling-hou.'ie and 
 any part of a dwelling-house, and any stable, yard, or other oflict-s 
 used together or in connexion with any dwelling-house or any part 
 of a dwelling-house : 
 The term " prescribed " shall mean pre.scribed by any regulations made 
 under the authority of this Act : 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 The term " fittings " includes communication pipes, and also all pipes, 
 cocks, cisterns, and other apparatus used or inten<led for supply of 
 water by a company to a consumer, and for that purpo.se placed in 
 or about the premises of the consumer : 
 
 The term " owner " means the person who, for the time being, receives 
 the rackrcnt of the premi.ses with reference to which that term is 
 used, whether on his own account or under or by virtue of any 
 mortgage or charge, or as agent or trustee for any i)erson, or who 
 would so receive the same if the premi.ses were let at a rackrent, 
 and includes every succe.ssive owner from tim<' to time of the 
 ])remi.ses, being such for any part of the time during which 
 the enactment wherein that term is used operates in relation to 
 the prenii.sps : 
 
 Premi.ses shall be deemed to be on the same .service, or on a .service, 
 when water is sujjplied to them by a company from the .sjime 
 service pipe. 
 [Pari omitted {definitio)i of ^' court of siituviari/ jttrisdictiou") rep. 
 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.J,'.). See 52 cV: 53 Vict. c. 63, 'a. 13(11).] 
 
 4. The limits within which the provisions of this Act shall l>e in force Limits of Act. 
 and have effect (in this Act referretl to as " the limits of this Act ") shall 
 
 include the metropolis and the .several places set out in tin- Schedule 
 to the Metropolis Water Ai-t, 1852, which do not form part of the 
 metropoli.s. [See also 60 ct 61 Vict. c. 56, .v. 3.] 
 
 5. [Iiepeal of the parts of the ^fetroJyolis Water Act 1852 specified in 
 Schedale B. Rep. 46 c^- 47 Vict. c. 31) {S.L.ll.).] 
 
 6. . . . Every comi)any shall on Suntlays as on other days supply Supply of 
 sufficient pure and wholesome water for the domestic u.se • of the iidiabitants ^'''*'*;'' °° 
 within their water limits. [Words omitted {"from and after the passing of ' ^° •" 
 this Act ") rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.L.H.).] ' 
 
 • See 54 k 5') Vict. c. 7»>, s. 50.
 
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 [Chap. 113.] The Metropolis Water Act 1871. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 Companies to 
 provide con- 
 stant supply 
 of water. 
 
 Application 
 for constant 
 supply. 
 
 Appeal to 
 Board of 
 Trade, 
 
 Restriction 
 as to com- 
 pulsory 
 supply by 
 companies. 
 
 Constant Sxtjyply. 
 
 7. Subject to the provisions of this Act, every company may, and . . . 
 every company shall, when required so to do, in the manner directed by 
 this Act, provide and keep throughout their water limits, or throughout 
 such parts of such limits as they may be required in manner aforesaid, a 
 constant supply of pure and wholesome water sufficient for the domestic 
 purposes * of the inhabitants within such water limits constantly laid on at 
 such pressure as will make such water reach the top story of the highest 
 houses within such water limits (but not exceeding the level prescribed by 
 the special Act) of such company (which supply is in this Act referred to 
 as a " constant supply ") ; and every such company shall, subject to the 
 provisions of the special Act as the same are amended by this Act, give 
 and continue to give to such inhabitants a constant supply for domestic 
 purposes * in manner prescribed. \Extended as to East Ham hy the East 
 Ham Imjyi'oveTnent Act 1898, s. 51, and as to Leyton hy the Leyton Urban 
 District Council Act 1898, s. 56. Words omitted {^'from, and after eight 
 months from the passing of this Act") rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 [S.L.R.).^ 
 
 8. . . . The metropolitan authority shall, whenever they are of opinion 
 that there should be in any district a constant supply, make application to 
 the company within the water limits in which such district is situate, 
 requiring a constant supply in such district, and any company may with- 
 out any such application propose to the metropolitan authority to give a 
 constant supply in any district. [U'wcZs omitted ['■^ at any time after the 
 expiration of six months from the passing of this Act ") rep. 56 & 57 Vict, 
 c. 54 {.S.L.E.).] 
 
 9. When application has been made to any company requiring such 
 company to provide a constant suppl}', or when any company has given 
 notice to a metropolitan authority of a proposal to give a constant supply 
 in any district, and the company so required, or the metropolitan authority 
 upon whom notice of such proposal has been served, object to such recjuisi- 
 tion or proposal, it shall be lawful for such company or metropolitan 
 authority, within one month after the making of such application or 
 service of such notice, to present a memoi'ial to the Board of Trade,t setting 
 forth their objections to such requisition or proposal, and the party pre- 
 senting such memorial, or such company, shall give notice to the other 
 party of the jiresentation of such memorial, and shall transmit to such 
 party a copy of the same. The Board of Trade t shall, as soon as con- 
 veniently may be after the receipt of such memorial, take the same into 
 their consideration, and may, if they think fit, institute any inquiry in 
 relation thereto, and may hear such company and authority desiring to be 
 heard, and may make such order in reference thereto, and as to the costs 
 thereof and incident to the same, as to them shall seem just. 
 
 10. No company shall be compelled to give a constant supply to any 
 premises in any district until the regulations provided for by this Act are 
 made and are in operation within such district, or if it can be shown by 
 such company that at any time after the expiration of two months from 
 the time of the service of any requisition for constant supply more than 
 one fifth of the premises in such district are not pro\'idtd with the pre- 
 scribed fittings, without prejudice nevertheless to any renewed requisition 
 at a future period. 
 
 In any district in which any default in respect of the prescribed fittings 
 shall be found, the metropolitan authority may by notice in writing 
 require the owner or occupier of any such premises, within a time to be 
 specified in such notice, to provide the pre'5cribed fittings, or to cause the 
 fittings in such premises to be repaired so as to prevent any waste of 
 
 * See 54 & 5.5 Vict. c. 76, s. 50. 
 
 t Now the Local Government Board. See the Public Health Act 1872, s. 35 ; 
 the Public Health Act 1875, s. 343, and Sch. V. Parts 1. and III. ; and 54 & 55 Vict. 
 c. 76, s. 142.
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] The Metropolis Water Ajct\^~A. [Chap. 113.] 845 
 
 water, and if any person fail to comply with the terms of kucIi notice the 
 metropolitan autliority may provide for such premises the prescribed 
 tittinf^s, or repair the fittings within the same, as the case may be. 
 
 The expenses incurred by the metropolitan autliority in providing such 
 fittings or in making such repairs shall Im; paid to them by the |)erson 
 liable to pay the rate for the water supplied, or on whose credit the water 
 is supplied, or by the own<r of the premises. 
 
 All such e.xpenses may be recovered, with costs, from the (jwner, and to 
 the extent of any rent due by the occupier of the premis«'s, from such 
 occupier, by proceedings in a court of summary jurisdiction, or by action 
 in any court having jurisdiction locally in the matter, as if the same were 
 an ordinary simple contract debt ; and any sum and costs .so recovered 
 from an occupier may be deducted by him from the rent payable by him 
 to the owner, and shall Ije allowed by the owner an<l every <Ah»*r person 
 intere.sted in the rent, as if the sann- liad been actually jjaid as rent ; lait 
 if in any case an occupier fails to di.sclose the amount of rent due by him, 
 or the name or address of the owner, he shall lie liable to pay the full 
 amount of such expenses and co.sts : Provided further that as between any 
 such owner and occupier nothing herein contained shall l)e taken to affect 
 any contract made between them resj>ecting the payment of the expenses 
 of any such works as aforesaid. 
 
 11. It shall be lawful for the Board of Trade,* at any time ... to Power to 
 require a constant supply to be provided in an}' district by the company j^*^"* °^ 
 within the water limits of which such district is .situate, upon complaint j-p'^yj^g con- 
 made, and in case it appears to such Board, after due inquiry, — stant supply, 
 
 That the metroitolitan autliority refuses to make or unreasonably delays in certain 
 
 making application for such con.stant supply, or cases. 
 
 That, by reason of the insutliciency of the existing supply of water in 
 such district, or the unwholesomeness of such water in consequence 
 of its being improi)eily stored, the health of the inhabitants of such 
 district is or is likely to be prejudicially atfected. 
 []Vords omitted {^^ after the expiration of six mont/is from the passing of 
 this Act") rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54 {S.LM.).] 
 
 12. Where a constant supply is required in any district, notice to that Notice re- 
 effect shall be served, on behalf of the party requiring the .same, upon the q"inn^ or 
 company required to provide such sujiply ; and where a constant supply is |j*,'^[j'^t'^j 
 l)roposed to be given in any district by any company, notice to that effect supply to be 
 shall be served on behalf of such company upon the metropolitan authority, servetl ujxDn 
 In every such notice shall be stated accurately the district in which such <eni{«inv or 
 constant supply is required or proposed to be given, and the day (not being ^^^j^Qj-^y 
 an earlier day than four months after the date of the service of such notice) 
 
 upon and from which such supply is to commence. 
 
 13. Where a constant supply is required in any district, and tlie com- Extension 
 pany is unable, from want of funds or other cause of any kind, to execute ^[/'"^[^g 
 all the necessary works within the time prescribed by this Act, the Board '^^^""i'" 
 
 of Trade,* if they think lit, may extend the time for the giving of such 
 supply generally, or may extend the time, and direct such supply to be 
 given at different times in succession, to the several parts of such district, 
 in such manner as may be found most convenient : I'rovideii that applica- 
 tion be made by the company for such extension of time within one month 
 after the notice referred to in the last preceding section has been served 
 upon them. 
 
 14. With respect to cases where a group or number of dwelling-hou.ses Provision for 
 are situate in a court or passage, or otherwise in ct>ntiguity with or in close ^^"|j|.'j^' '" 
 neighbourhood to one another, the following further provisions shall have l;^^^^*',.^ 
 effect ; that is to say, 
 
 * See note to s. *.\
 
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 [Chap. 113.] The Metropolis Water Act 1871. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 Provision for 
 case of frost, 
 etc. 
 
 Penalties for 
 non-compli- 
 ance with 
 preceding 
 provisions. 
 
 Company 
 may make 
 regulations. 
 
 Amendment 
 of regula- 
 tions. 
 
 In case of 
 default by 
 companies, 
 Board of 
 Trade may 
 appoint 
 person to 
 report as to 
 regulations, 
 and may 
 make same. 
 
 (1.) If at any time it appears to the Board of Trade,* on the report of 
 the nuisance authority,! as defined by the Sanitary Act, 1866, J 
 that a constant supply cannot be well and effectually provided 
 for that group or number of dwelling-houses, except by means of 
 a stand-pipe or other apparatus placed outside the dwelling-houses 
 the Board of Trade * may from time to time make an order to 
 the effect that such group or number of dwelling-houses may be 
 so supplied, and shall serve the same on the company within whose 
 water limits the dwelling-houses are situate : 
 
 (2.) If the requisite stand-pipe or other apparatus in accordance with 
 the regulations of the company is provided, then the company 
 shall give to those dwelling-houses a supply accordingly by means 
 of the stand-pipe or other apparatus so provided, and on giving 
 such supply shall be entitled to receive and recover water rates 
 or rents from the owners or occupiers of such dwelling-houses as 
 if the supply had been given in the premises. The expense of 
 providing such stand-pipe or other apparatus shall be borne by 
 the owner of the dwelling-houses, or if there is more than one 
 owner then by the respective owners in such proportions as the 
 Board of Trade * shall direct : 
 
 (3,) The Board of Trade * may at any time abrogate, wholly or in 
 part, the order, or may originally grant it only for a limited 
 period. 
 [6'ee 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. s. 21.] 
 
 15. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, a company shall not be 
 subject to any liability for not giving a constant supply if the want of 
 such supply arises from frost, unusual drought, or other unavoidable cause 
 or accident. 
 
 16. Any company which violates, refuses, or neglects to comply with 
 any of the preceding provisions of this Act shall be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding two hundred pounds and to a further penalty not exceeding one 
 hundred pounds for every month during which such violation or refusal or 
 neglect to comply with the said provisions continues after they shall have 
 received notice in writing from the Board of Trade * to discontinue such 
 violation, refusal, or neglect as aforesaid. 
 
 Regidations. 
 
 §17. Every company shall, within six months after the passing of this 
 Act, make regulations for the purpose for which regulations may be made 
 under the authority of section 26 of the Metropolis Water Act, 1852, and 
 the provisions of tlaat section shall apply also to the preventing of undue 
 consumption or contamination of water. 
 
 § 18. Any company, if it thinks tit, or if requested so to do by the 
 Board of Trade,* may repeal or alter any of the regulations made for 
 the purposes aforesaid, or make new regulations instead of any of 
 the same. 
 
 § 19. In case any company does not make regulations within the time 
 specified in this Act, or in case any company, on being requested in writing 
 by the metropolitan authority, or by any ten consumers of the water sup- 
 plied by that company, to repeal or alter any of the regulations for the 
 time being in force, or to make new regulations instead of any of the 
 same, refuses so to do, the Board of Trade * may, if they think fit, appoint 
 a competent and impartial person of engineering knowledge and experience 
 to report to them as to such regulations as may be necessary for the execu- 
 tion of this Act, or as to the expediency of altering or repealing such 
 
 * See note to s. 9. 
 
 t Now, in London, the metropolitan borough councils, established by 62 & 63 
 Vict. c. 14. 
 
 X Rep. and replaced, as regards London, by 54 k. 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 142. 
 § See, as regards ss. 17—25, 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 5 (2).
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] The Metropolis Water Act 1871. [Chai'. 113.] 847 
 
 regulations, or of making new regulations, in conformity with such refjuefct 
 as aforesaid, and on the report of such person the Board of Trade * may 
 make such regulations, repeal, or alterations as they think fit. 
 
 t20. By any re^nihitions niado un<lor the authority of tlu' Metiopolis I't-nalties for 
 Watvr Act, 1852, or of this Act, penultios may be imposed for ofi'L-nces '^^'•\i<^'^ 
 against the same not exceeding in respect of any offence the sum of five "f""/* [■ 
 pounds, so that every such regulation lie so framed as to alhnv part only 
 of the maximum penalty being indicted, and any such penalty shall be 
 recoverable as penalties under this Act are recoverable. 
 
 t21. Within four days after the making of any regulation, or of any reguluiionfl 
 repeal of or alteration in any regulation, notice of the same shall be to be de- 
 served upon the metropolitan authority by the company or person making hvered to 
 the same. metr..i>olitan 
 
 authority. 
 t 22. No regulation, and no repeal or alteration of any regulation, Confirmation 
 made under the authority of the Metropolis Water Act, 1852, or of this of regui^. 
 Act, by a company, shall be of any force or effect unless and until the tions. 
 same be submitted to and confirmed by the Board of Trade,* who may 
 institute such incpiiry in relation thereto as they shall think fit, and who 
 at such inquiry shall hear the metropolitan authority, and the comp:iny, 
 if desiring to be heard, and the said Board shall, if they think fit, or if 
 requested, nominate and have present at such inquiry to advise and assist 
 them a competent and impartial waterworks engineer. The Boanl of 
 Trade * may, after such inquiry, confirm or disallow any such regulation, 
 repeal, or alteration, in whole or in part, or may confirm the same with 
 such modification or alteration as they may think proper ; and no such 
 regulation, repeal, or alteration shall be made by the Board of Trade* on 
 any such report as aforesaid, except after a like inquiry and hearing, with 
 the like advice and assistance as aforesaid : Provided that no such regula- 
 tion, repeal, or alteration shall be confirmed or made (as the case may be) 
 by the Board of Trade * unless notice in that behalf shall have been given 
 by the company to which the same relates, or by such j)erson as the 
 Board of Trade * direct, in the " London Gazette " and in two daily 
 morning newspapers circulated within the limits of this Act, one month 
 at least before the inquiry ; and one month at least before any such 
 inquiry is held a copy of the regulation, repeal, or alteration in question 
 shall be sent by such company or person to the office of the metropolitan 
 authority, and the same shall for one month be kept open during office 
 hours at the respective offices of the metropolitan authority ajul of the 
 said company to the inspection of all persons, without fee or reward, and 
 a copy of the same or of any part thereof shall bo furnished to every 
 person who shall apply for the same, on payment of sixpence for every one 
 hundred words contained in such copy. 
 
 t 23. A printed copy of all regulations in force for the time being shall Publication 
 be kept at the office of the metropolitan authority and of every company "/ reirula- 
 within the limits of this Act, and all persons may at all reasonable times ^'*^°''" 
 inspect such copy without payment, antl each company shall cause to be 
 delivered a printed copy, authenticated l)y their seal, of all regulations for 
 the time being in force to every person applying for the same, on payment 
 of any sum not exceeding one shilling and sixpence for every such copy, 
 and a printed copy of the regulations for the time being in forct> relative 
 to any particular district only to every person applying for the same, on 
 payment of any sum not exceeding threepence for every such copy. 
 
 t24. All regulations, and every repeal of or alteration in any regula- Regulations 
 tion made, shall, after publication in manner by the last proc.'ding section ^'^ ^ binding 
 of this Act directed, be binding upon and be observed by all parties, and "1^^168. 
 shall be sulficiont warrant for all persons acting under the same, and a 
 company shall not be bound under any agreement to supply or continue to 
 
 * See note to s. 9. 
 
 t See, as regards ss. 17—25, G2 J^: t'.li Vict. c. 14, s. 5 (2).
 
 848 
 
 [Chap. 113.] The Metropolis Water Act 1871. [34 & 35 Yict.] 
 
 Evidence of 
 regulations. 
 
 Notice 
 relating to 
 constant 
 supply to be 
 published 
 in London 
 Gazette, etc. 
 
 Company 
 may issue 
 notice upon 
 owners and 
 occupiers to 
 provide 
 prescribed 
 fittings. 
 
 Owner or 
 occupier to 
 provide 
 prescribed 
 fittings. 
 
 In case of 
 default by 
 owner or 
 occupier, 
 company 
 may provide 
 or repair 
 prescribed 
 fittings. 
 
 supply water to any premises unless such regulations as are for the time 
 being in force are duly observed in respect of those premises. 
 
 *25. A printed copy of regulations relating to any company, dated and 
 purporting to be made as aforesaid, and to be authenticated by the seal of 
 such company, shall be conclusive evidence of the existence and of the due 
 making, confirmation, and publication of such regulations in all prosecu- 
 tions or proceedings under the same, without adducing proof of such seals, 
 or of the fact of such confirmation or publication of such regulations or 
 of any of the requirements of this Act relative thereto having been 
 comjjlied with. 
 
 Sujjply of prescribed Fittings. 
 
 26. When notice in relation to a constant supply in any district has 
 been served upon or by any company, the party by whom or on whose 
 behalf such notice shall be served shall, within five days after the service 
 thereof, cause to be published a copy of the same once in the London 
 Gazette, and copies of the same once at least in each of two successive 
 weeks in any two daily newspapers circulated within the limits of this Act. 
 
 27. Where in any district any company is required or has proposed to 
 pro\-ide a constant supply, such company may, at any time after the 
 expiration of one month after the publication in the London Gazette 
 of a copy of the notice requiring or proposing such constant supply, unless 
 a memorial or application has been presented or made to the Board of 
 Trade t objecting to such constant supply or seeking an extension of time, 
 and if any such memorial or application has been presented or made, then 
 at such time after the determination of the Board of Trade + in relation 
 to such memorial or application as such Board shall approve and order, 
 cause to be served on the owner or occupier of any premises within such 
 district a notice requiring such owner or occupier to supply such premises 
 with the prescribed fittings. 
 
 28. Every owner or occupier of premises upon whom notice to that 
 effect has been served shall, within two months after the date of the 
 service of such notice, provide the prescribed fittings, and shall from time 
 to time keep the same in proper repair. 
 
 29. Where in any district any company is required or has proposed to 
 provide a constant supply, and 
 
 Any owner or occupier of premises upon whom notice to provide pre- 
 scribed fittings has been served by such company makes default in providing 
 the prescribed fittings, such company, if they think fit, may provide such 
 fittings ; or 
 
 Where in any such district the fittings of any person are out of order, 
 and not as prescribed, such company may by notice in writing require such 
 person, within twenty-four hours after the date of the ser\T^ce of such notice, 
 to cause the same to be repaired, so as to prevent any waste of water ; and 
 if any person fail to comply with the terms of such notice such company 
 (if they think fit) may repair the fittings of such person. 
 
 The expenses incurred by such company in providing such fittings or in 
 making such repairs shall be paid to them by the person liable to pay the 
 rate for the water supplied or on whose credit the water is supplied by 
 means of .such fittings, or by the owner of the premises. 
 
 All such expenses may be recovered, -with costs, from the owner, and to 
 the extent of any rent due by the occupier of the premises from such 
 occupier, by proceedings in a court of summai-y jurisdiction, or by action 
 in any court having jurisdiction locally in the matter, as if the same were 
 an ordinary simple contract debt; and any sum and costs so recovered 
 from an occupier may be deducted by him from the rent payable by him 
 to the owner, and shall be allowed by the owner and every other person 
 interested in the rent, as if the same had been actually paid as rent ; but 
 
 * See, as regards ss. 17—25, 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 5. 
 f See note to s. 9.
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] The Metropolis Water JcMSTl. [Chap. 113.] 849 
 
 if in any case an occupier fails to disclose the amount of rent due by him, 
 or the name or address of the owner, he shall Uj liable to pav the whole 
 amount of such expenses and costs : Provided, that as between any such 
 owner and occupier nothing herein contained shall be taken to aflect any 
 contract made Ijetween them respecting the paymerit of the exi>ense8 of 
 any such works as aforesaid. 
 
 30. Where in any district any company is required or has projiosed to Power to 
 provide a constant supply, the officers or agents of such company, or of the enu-r pre- 
 jjarty rp(|uiiin<j such supply, or any perscm appointed for such puri>os(' by ^^'^^ fp"" 
 the Board of Trade * may, at all reasonable times, enter any premi.ses anVuepah^ 
 within such district, in order to inspect the premises for the purposes of of tittiuKs. 
 this Act, and examine the same with a view to ascertain whether there 
 
 ai'e in or abt)ut the same the presci-ibed tittings, or, where authorised under 
 the provisions of this Act, to provide or repair the fittings ; and if any 
 person hinder any such officer, agent, or person from entering and making 
 such inspection or examination, or providing or repairing such fittings, 
 every person so otlending shall for every such oilence be liable to a penalty 
 not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 31. In the event of any dispute as to whether the fittings of any pereon Settlement 
 are as jjrescribed, such dispute shall be settleil liy the court of summary <-'f disimtes 
 jurisdiction, on the application of either party, which court may make such ^^ *° ?*"•"- 
 order as to the amount of the costs of the proceedings before such court as ^^^ 
 seems just, and the decision of such court shall be final and bintling on 
 
 all parties. 
 
 32. Where in any district any company is required or has proposed to Penalties for 
 provide a constant supply, — non-com- 
 
 If any person supplied with water by such company wilfully orP "^*'\^y' 
 negligently causes or suffers any fittings to be out of repair, or to be sions of Act. 
 so used or contrived as that the water supplied to him by such company 
 is or is likely to be wasted, misused, unduly consumed, or contaminated, 
 or so as to occasion or allow the return of foul air or othei- noisome or 
 impure matter into any pipe belonging to or connected with the pipes of 
 such company, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding five pounds ; or 
 
 If any person supplied with water by such company wrongfully does or 
 causes or permits to be done anything in contravention of any of the pro- 
 visions of the special Act or this Act, or wrongfully fails to do anything 
 which, under any of those provisions, ought to be done for the prevention 
 of the waste, misuse, undue consumption, or contamination of the water of 
 such company, they may (without prejudice to any remedy against him 
 in respect thereof) cut olf any of the pipes by or through which water is 
 supplied by them to him or for his use, and may cease to supply him with 
 water, so long as the cause of injury remains or is not remedied ; and in 
 every case of so cutting oft' or ceasing to supply, the company shall within 
 twenty-four hours thereafter give to the nuisance authority, t as defined by 
 the Sanitary Act, 186G,t notice thereof. 
 \See also 54 «.t 55 Vict. c. 76, s. 49.] 
 
 33. The absence in respect of any premises of the prescribed fittings Absence of 
 after the prescril)ed time shall be a nuisance, within section II and V^'P*-'"" ^y^**''^ 
 sections 12-19 (inclusive) of the Nuisances Removal Act for England, "r^^^i^o.": 
 1855,i and within all provisions of the same or any other Act applying, be a nuisance, 
 amending, or otherwise relating to those sections ; and that nuisance, if 
 
 in any case proved to exist, shall be presumed to be such as to render the 
 premises unfit for human habitation within section 13 of the Nuisances 
 Removal Act for England, 1855,+ unless and until the contrary is shown 
 to the satisfaction of the Justices acting under that section. 
 
 * See note to s. '.•. 
 f See notes to s. 14. 
 
 j Rep. (except as to the metropolis) by the Public Health Act 1^75. See ibid. 
 ss. 35, ct seq. Whole Act rop. bv 54 -v 55 Vict. c. 7C. See il>i<l. ss. 2 and 142. 
 
 55
 
 850 
 
 [Chap. 113.] The Metropolis Water Act 1871. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 Provision 
 
 respecting 
 
 fire-plugs. 
 
 *34. Section 32 of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act, 1865, shall 
 operate, subject and according to the provisions following ; (that is 
 to say,) 
 
 (1.) In that section and in this provision the term "fire-plug" and the 
 term " plug " shall inchide hydrant and all other apparatus 
 necessary or proper in connexion with the company's pipes for 
 supply of water in case of fire : 
 
 (2.) ^Yhere a company give a constant supply in any part of their water 
 limits they may, if they think tit, give notice thereof to the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works ■^ : 
 
 (3.) If the Metropolitan Board of Works t do not within two months 
 after receipt of any such notice specify, as regards that part of 
 the company's water limits, what plugs for supply of water in 
 case of tire, at what places, of what dimensions, and in what 
 form they require the company to provide, then, at any time 
 after the expiration of that time, the company may, if they 
 think fit, provide in and for that part of their water limits such 
 plugs for sxipply of water in case of fire, at such places, of such 
 dimensions, and in such form as to the company seem necessary 
 or projjer : 
 
 (4,) Thereupon, as regards that part of the company's water limits, the 
 company shall be deemed to have fully discharged all obligations 
 imposed on them by the said section 32 : 
 
 (5.) All plugs provided by a company in pursuance of this provision 
 may, for the purposes of the fire brigade, be used as if they had 
 been provided on the requisition of the Metropolitan Board of 
 Works t under the said section 32 : 
 
 (6.) The pro\'iding of plugs by a company under this provision shall be 
 at the expense of the Metropolitan Board of Works,''" and the 
 costs, charges, and exjjenses of the company in or about the 
 providing of the same shall be paid to the company by 
 the Metropolitan Board of Works,t on demand, out of their 
 general rate.t and in default may be sued for and recovered, 
 Avith costs, by the company in any court of competent jurisdic- 
 tion for the recovery of any ordinary simple contract debt of 
 the like amount. 
 
 Power to 
 Board to 
 appoint per- 
 sons to 
 inquire and 
 report as to 
 quality of 
 water. 
 
 Appointment 
 and duties 
 of water 
 examiner. 
 
 Quality of Water. 
 
 35. The Board of Trade § may at any time, if and when they think fit, 
 appoint a competent person to inquire into and report on the quality of 
 the water furnished by any company, notwithstanding that no complaint 
 has been made and signed b}' twenty inhabitant householders, as prescribed 
 by section 9 of the Metropolis Water Act, 1852 ; and sections 10 and 11 
 and 13, and the other provisions of that Act, shall apply in every respect 
 as if such j^erson were appointed under section 9 of that Act, and as if 
 any matter reported to the Board of Trade § as requiring alteration on 
 the part of a company had been the subject of a complaint by such 
 householders as aforesaid. 
 
 36, There shall be a Avater examiner, being a competent and impartial 
 person, from time to time appointed by and removable bj' the Board of 
 Trade,§ who shall from time to time, in such manner as the Board of Trade § 
 direct, examine the water supplied by any company, in order to ascertain 
 whether or not the comj^any have complied with the requirements of 
 section 4 of the Metropolis Water Act, 1852, and shall from time to time 
 report the results of his several examinations to the Board of Trade § ; and 
 tlie Board of Trade § shall send a copy of ever}- such report to the company 
 
 * See also .57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxii. s. -i. 
 
 t Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41 s. 40 (8) 
 
 1 Now the county rate. 
 § See note to s. 9. 
 
 See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 68.
 
 [34 & 35 Vict.] 1 7^ e Metropolis Water Act IS7\. [Chap. 113.] 851 
 
 to which the same relates, and the comjjany may, if they think fit, on each 
 occasion of such examiniition, be represented thereat by .somt- olhctM-, but 
 such officer shall not interfere in the examination. 
 
 There shall be paid to such water examim-r such remuuL-ratiun bv the 
 companies and in .such proportions as such Uoard ajtpoints. 
 
 37—42. [As to companies' accoutiin. Hep. 2 Edu). 7, c. 41, s. 38. See ibid 
 
 ss. 15— I'l'.J 
 
 Arbitration, 
 
 43. Where any dispute arises between any persoas whai>o<'v< r in J^i-intc-! 
 relation to the t-xecntion of this Act, or to any act, matter, or thing '"■'> '* 
 incident to or consequent upon the e.xecution of the same, and where,"' 
 
 the mt'thod of deteiiuininj,' any such question in dispute is not expressly ** 
 provided for, such (juestion may, if the parties so desire, be settle<l bV 
 arbiti-ation in manner prescribed by the Comi)anies Clau.ses Consolidation 
 Act, 1845, with respect to the settlement of disputes by arbitration. 
 
 Penalties. 
 
 44. Every penalty incurred by any compan}- Ijy reason of non-com- Recovery and 
 pliance with any of the provisions of this Act shall go and Ijelong to the "• ' 
 metropolitan authority within the jurisdiction of which the same has been '^' ■ '' 
 incurred, and may bo sued for aiid recovere<l by such metropolitan authoritv 
 
 in any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of any ordinary 
 simple contract del)t of the like amount, and shall be paid and applied as 
 such metropolitan authority shall from time to time direct. 
 
 Every such penalty shall be borne and paid (to the satisfaction of the 
 auditor appointed as in this Act provided) exclusively by and out of the 
 divisible profits of the company by whom the penalty is incurred, and by 
 way of reduction of dividend. 
 
 45. Except as is by the next preceding section expre.ssly provided, all Summary 
 
 penalties under this Act may be sued for and recovered in the " court of P'"' ' -* 
 
 summary jurisdiction." ^'.'' *"'*• 
 
 J J etc. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 46. Any instrument (including a notice, order, resolution, declaration. Form and 
 requisition, consent, approval, disproval, or other document) made, given, service, etc. 
 delivered, or served luider this Act, or any retrulation thereunder, . . . [f '^f "istru- 
 the instrument of a company, shall be sufficiently authenticated by the 
 
 name of theii* secretary being affixed thereto in . . . writing, or by a 
 stamp on behalf of the company ; and it shall be sufficient in all cases 
 where any such instrument is recpiired to be given to or served on the 
 owner or occujiier of any premises to adilress it to such owner or occupier 
 by his description as owner or occupier (as the case may be) of the premises 
 (naming them) in respect of which it is given or served, without further 
 name or description ; and any such instrument may be addresseil to owner> 
 or occupiers of any number of contiguous or neighbouring premises collec- 
 tively, and when so addressed may be served on more ownei's and occupiei*s 
 than one (so that separate copies be served on the respective owners and 
 occupiers of the several premises concerned ; and any such instrument may 
 be served on any owner, occupier, or other person either pei-sonally or by 
 sending the same through the post in a letter addressed to him by name 
 at his last known place of abode or business, or by delivering the sjime to 
 some inmate at his last known or usual place of abotle or business, or in 
 case of an occupier to any inumt<3 of the premises in resi>ect of which it is 
 given or served, or if the premises are unoccupied, and the place of abode 
 of the person. to be served is, after diligent inquiry, unknown, it shall Ije 
 sufficient to affix it, or a copy thereof, on some conspicuous part of such 
 premises. \]Vords omitted [" inai/ be cither in print or in irritim/ {//- ' ' / 
 litho(jrap/i), or jxirtly in print and parti if in u'ritimj [inclndintj lith''. , ; 
 and " print or)" rep. oG <k 57 Vict. c. 54 {.S.L.Ii.). See also 52 it 53 Vict. c. 03, 
 5.20.]
 
 852 [Chap. 113.] The Metropolis Water Act lS:i. [34 & 35 Vict.] 
 
 Act not to 
 apply to cer- 
 tain property 
 and accounts 
 of the New 
 Kiver Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Incoming 
 tenant not to 
 pay arrears 
 of outgoing 
 tenant, unless 
 by express 
 agreement. 
 
 Amendment 
 of sections 
 17 and IS of 
 Metropolis 
 Water Act, 
 1852. 
 
 Saving for 
 
 ordinary 
 
 powers. 
 
 47. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to apply to any of the landed 
 estate, houses, or property of the New River Company not directly used 
 for or connected with their water supply. . . . [Fart omitted (as to aicdit 
 of Neio Eiver Compcmys accounts) rep. 2 Edio. 7, c. 41, s. 39. See ibid, 
 ss. 15—22.] 
 
 48. In case any consumer leave the premises where water was supplied 
 to him without paying to the company the rate due from him, the com- 
 pany shall not require from the next tenant of the premises payment of 
 the arrears so left unpaid, unless the incoming tenant agreed with the 
 defaulting consumer to pay the arrears, but the company shall, notwith- 
 standing any such arrears, supply water to the incoming tenant, on being 
 required by him so to do. 
 
 49. Sections 17 and 18 of the MetrojDolis Water Act, 1852, shall be 
 read as if instead of the words " district mains " and "district main" in 
 the said sections the words "pipes" and "pipe" were substituted respec- 
 tively ; and every company shall, upon the map, and upon every alteration 
 of the same made in conformity with the provisions of the said section 17, 
 as amended by this section, cause to be marked every screw-cock or 
 apparatus by means of which water is permitted to flow or is prevented 
 from flowing fi'om the main into any pipe within the water limits of such 
 company. 
 
 60. Except as in this Act provided, nothing in this Act shall take 
 away, abridge, or prejudicially afiect any right or power which a company 
 would have had under their special Act or the Metropolis Water Act, 
 1852, or under any chai-ter or otherwise, if this Act had not been passed. 
 
 61. [Expenses of obtaining Act. Be]). 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (<S'.Z.ii.).] 
 
 SCHEDULE A. 
 
 Places. 
 
 The city of London and the liberties 
 thereof. 
 
 The metropolis, except the city of London 
 and the liberties thereof. 
 
 Any place within the limits of this Act 
 not included in the above descriptions, 
 and under the jm'isdiction of commis- 
 sioners, trustees, or other persons in- 
 trusted by any local Act with powers 
 of improving, cleansing, or paving such 
 place. 
 
 Any place within the limits of this Act 
 not included in the above descriptions, 
 and within the jurisdiction of local 
 boards constituted in pursuance of the 
 Public Health Act, 1848,t and the Local 
 Government Act, 1858,t or one of such 
 Acts. 
 
 Any place or parish within the limits of 
 this Act not within the above descrip- 
 tions, and in which a rate is levied for 
 the maintenance of the poor. 
 
 Description of Metropolitan Authority. 
 
 The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of 
 
 the City of London. 
 The Metropolitan Board of Works.* 
 
 The Commissioners, trustees, or other per- 
 sons intrusted by the local Act with 
 powers of improving, cleansing, or 
 paving. 
 
 The local board. 
 
 The vestry, select vestry, or other body 
 of persons acting by virtue of any Act 
 of Parliament, prescription, custom, or 
 otherwise, as or instead of a vestry or 
 select vestry. 
 
 Schedule B. [Sections of 15 & IG Vict. c. 84, repealed— viz. ss. 15 (in i^rt), 
 19—22, a7id 27. Kep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.). See also 2 Edw. 7, c. 41, s. 38.] 
 
 Schedule C. [Dates antecedent to which conqjanies' accounts are not to he 
 investirjaied. Rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 ' Now the London County Council. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (S). 
 t Rep. and replaced by the Public Health Act 1875. See iUd. ss. 5 — 12.
 
 [35 & 36 Vict.] The. Borough Funds Act l^'rl. [Chap. 01 ] S53 
 
 35 & 36 VICTORIA. AD. 1872. 
 
 CllAPTEli 'Jl. 
 An Act to aitrouisk the ArPLicATioN ok Funds of Mdnk-ifal tou- 
 
 POUATION.S and OTHEll GO\ EKN'INU liODIES IN CEUTAIN (.'ASES.* 
 
 [lOM Atujust 1872.] 
 
 [Preamble recites the Municipal Corjioratioiis Acts 1835 1 and 1857 1: 
 and that the Public lleidth Act 1848,J the Lwnl (lovernment Act 1858, J 
 and various Local Acts of J'arliainent, have conJerreJ pou-ers of improving, 
 cleansiny, jxivincj, lightiiuj, and ot/ierwise fjoveiniing places or diatricts upon 
 hoards of health, cominissioiiers, trustees, or other persons : and that it is 
 expedient to extend the poirers oj" govern ing bodies so as to enable them to 
 appill) the borough or otht-r funds under the control of such governing hodi/ 
 tovards such costs, charges, and eaypenses as mag be incurred for the pnrjx>ses 
 and in the maimer herein jyrovided.l^ 
 
 1. Tlie term " govoniing body " § in this Act .shall mean the council of 
 
 any niunicipiil borough, tht* board of health, local Ixjard, cuuimi.-^.siunei-s, Interpreta- 
 trustees, or other body acting under any general or local Act of Parliament *'^° terms, 
 for the management, improvement, cleansing, paving, lighting, and other- 
 wise governing places or districts, and the term "di.strict" shall mean the 
 borough, place, township, or district within which the governing body may 
 for the time being have jurisdiction. . . . [Part omitted relates to the 
 borough of Cambridge.] 
 
 2. ^^'hen in the judgment of a governing body in any district it Ls 
 expedient for such governing body to promote or oppose any local and Costs of 
 personal Bill or Bills in Parliament, or to prosecute or defend any legal fj * r or 
 proceedings necessary for the promotion or protection of the interests of ['■ 
 
 the inhabitants of the district, it shall be lawful for such governing body t:^ 
 to apply the borough fund, borough rate, or other the public funds or rates otlicr pro- 
 underthe control of such governing body to the pavment of the ctvsts and ceedings for 
 T ii i' 1 i.1 If] * li'iifht of m- 
 
 expenses attending the same; and when there are .several tuiuis or rates j . ^^ 
 
 under the control of the governing body, such governing body shall i, ion 
 
 determine out ol which fund or funds, rate or rates, such expense shall ) .ud 
 
 be payable, and in what proportions: Provided that nothing in thi.s Act 1 s 
 
 contained shallauthori.se any governing body to promote any Bill in ^J^^PJ^'^^^ 
 Parliament for the establishment of any gas or water works to compt te 
 with any existing gas or water company established under any Act of 
 Parliament : Provided that no powers contained in this clause shall aj)ply 
 in any case where the promotion of or opposition to a Bill by a governing 
 body has been decided by a Committee of either House of Parliament to be 
 unreasonable or vexatious. [See G2 k 63 Vict. c. 14, *■. (tj).] 
 
 3. No payment to any member of a governing body for acting as Ko jiayment 
 counsel or agent in promoting or opposing any such Bill shall be charged to member of 
 as aroresaid. go^j^. . 
 
 4. Xo expense in relation to promoting or opposing any Bill or BiII-> in so chai>.i-'i. 
 Parliament shall be charged as aforesaid unless incurred in pui-suance of a (-,,^,.; ,,f ^ro- 
 resolution of an absolute majority of the whole numl)er of the governing i, 
 body at a meeting of the governing body, after ten clear days notice <■! I'-i 
 by public advertisement of '^such meeting and of the purpo.se ^•""'"'^'of in |^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ 
 some local newspaper publi.shed or circulating in the district, such notice ^j^^.j,,! 
 to be in addition to the ordinary notices re(iuire<l for summoning such ,uectings 
 meetincr, nor unless such resolution .shall have been published twice in some 
 newspaper or newspapers circulating in the district, and shall have 
 received, in respect of matters within the jurisdiction of the Lo<-al Govern- 
 ment Board, the approval of such Board, and in resj>cct of other matters, 
 the approval of one of Her JIajestfs Secretaries of State, and in ciuse of the 
 
 * Sbort title, " The Borough Funds Act, 1}<"2." See the Short Titles Act 1896. 
 t Kep. by the ^lunicipal Corporations .\ct 1SS2, s. 5. 
 % Kep. by the I'ublic Health Act 1.S75, s. 343. 
 § See 51 ic 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 15. 
 
 ills
 
 854 
 
 [Chap. 89.] 
 
 The Sanitary Law Amendment ro- f oo t- -i 
 J.n874. [3. &38\iCT.] 
 
 Proviso as 
 
 to approval 
 of Local 
 Government 
 Board, etc. 
 to any such 
 resolution. 
 
 Costs to be 
 examined. 
 
 Power to 
 direct local 
 inqiury. 
 
 Saving: clause. 
 
 Act not to ex- 
 tend to Bills 
 if object 
 attainable by 
 Provisional 
 Order. 
 
 Act not to 
 apply to the 
 Metropolis. 
 
 promotion of a Bill in Parliament no further expen.?e shall be incurred 
 or charged as aforesaid after the deposit of the Bill, unless the propriety of 
 such promotion shall be confirmed by such absolute majority at a further 
 special meeting to be held in pursuance of a similar notice not less than 
 fourteen days after the deposit of the Bill in ParHament. . . . [^As to 
 ic'ords in italics see 3 Edw. 7, c. 14, 5-. 8. Part omitted (as to the consent 
 of oivners and ratepayers of the district being required to f/i'^raotions or 
 oppositions) rep. 3 Edv:. 7, c. 14, s. 10. See ibid, s, 1 and 1st S'c/iedide] 
 
 5. The approval of the Local Government Board, . . , .shall not be given 
 to any such resolution as aforesaid until the expiration of seven days after 
 the second publication thereof, as provided by this Act, and in the mean- 
 time any ratepayer within the district of the governing body may give 
 notice in writing to the Local Government Board . . . objecting to such 
 approval. [Wo7'ds omitted (" or one of Her Majesty s prrincipal Secretaries 
 of State, as the case may be" and " or Secretary of State ") rejy. 3 Edv:. 7, 
 c. 14, s. 10.] 
 
 6. All costs, charges, and expenses incurred under the provisions of this 
 Act shall, before the same become chargeable, be examined and allowed 
 by some person to be authorised ... by the Local Government Board 
 . . . \Words omitted, {"by one of Her Majesty s jyi'inc^Kil Secretaries of 
 State or,'' and " as the case may be") rep. 3 EdAc. 7, c. 14, s. 10.] 
 
 7. The Local Government Board . . . shall have power to direct a 
 local inquixy to be held upon any application under this Act, by any 
 person or persons whom they may respectively nominate for the purpose, 
 and to charge the costs and expenses of such local inquiry upon the 
 governing body or the person by whom such application shall be made. 
 [Words omitted {"or one of Her JIajesty's p7'i7ici2)al Secretaries of State") 
 rep. 3 Ediv. 7, c. 14, s. 10.] 
 
 8. Xothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to alter or afiect 
 any special provision which is or shall be contained in any other Act 
 for the pa\Tnent of the costs, charges, and expenses intended to be provided 
 for by this Act, or to take away or diminish any rights or powers 
 now possessed or enjoyed by any governing body, or which are or shall 
 be vested in or exerciseable by the inhabitants of any district under any 
 general or special Act. 
 
 9. [Eepeal of s. 14 of the Towns Imp'rovement Clauses Act 1847. Rep. 
 46 t 47 Vict. c. 39 {S.L.E.).] 
 
 10. The provisions of this Act shall not extend to apj^lications for 
 any Bill in Parliament for any object which woidd, for the time being, be 
 attainable by Provisional Order. 
 
 11. This Act .shall not extend or apply to Ireland or the city of 
 London. . . . [Words omitted (" or the metroj)olitan area as defined 
 by the Metropolitan Local Management Act 1855") rep. 3 Edw. 7, c. 14, 
 s. 10.] 
 
 37 & 38 VICTORIA. A.D. 1874. 
 
 CHAPTER 89. 
 
 An Act to amexd axd extend the Sanitary Laws.* 
 
 [7th Attgust 1874.] 
 
 46. [Regidations to be made by the local authority under s. 9 of 14 k 15 
 Vict. c. 28 to be confirmed by the Local Government Board instead of by a 
 Secretary of State. SjJent. See 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28, s. 9, and note thereon.^ 
 
 * Short title, "The Sanitary Law Amendment Act, 1874." See the Short Titles 
 Act 1896.
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] Public Health Act 1875. [Chap. 55.] 855 
 
 49. Tlio keeper of every common lodging hou.^e which Ls registered Notices cf 
 unih-r the Common Lodging Houses Acts . . . shall, when required to Jo *^°°^™*^'* 
 so Vjy the authoi-ity registering . . . the same, cause a notice with the words i,oif>.'<?s and 
 " Registered Lodging House "... to he affixed on some conspicuous place ;- 
 
 on the outside of the premises where the same can he seen by any in>pc<;tor i j be 
 
 or ofKcer of the sanitary authority. aiti.xed on 
 
 Such notice shall Ije allixed within one month after the registration . . . P^^™"***^- 
 and shall lie c(jiitiimed undefaceil and legible .so long as the premises are 
 used for the purpose. 
 
 Every person who shall make default in this respect, or .shall neglect or 
 refuse to aHix or renew such nntico after requisition in writing from the 
 .sanitary authority, siiall be liable to a penalty not exceediuLT live pounds 
 for every oftence, and of ten shillings for every day that the neglect shall 
 continue after conviction. 
 \^rarts omitted {as to slany /iter -ho uses) rep. 54 it 55 Vict. c. 70, s. 11:2.] 
 
 38 & 39 VICTORIA. A.D. 1875. 
 
 CHAPTER 55. 
 
 An Act for coxsolidating and amending the Acts relating to 
 Public Health in England. [Wth Aiiyust 1875.] 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Prelhninari/. 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Puldic Health Act, L'^75. Short title. 
 
 > • • ■ • • 
 
 4. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following words Definitions, 
 and expressions have the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to 
 them ; that is to say, 
 
 . • • • • 
 
 "Improvement Commissioners" means any commissioners trustees or 
 other persons invested by any local Act with powers of town 
 government and rating : 
 
 " Union " means a union of parishes incorporated or united for the relief 
 or maintenance of the poor under any pul)lic or local Act of Parlia- 
 ment, and includts any parish subject to the jurisdiction of a 
 separate board of guardians : 
 
 " Person " includes any body of persons, wliether corporate or 
 
 iinincorporate : 
 " Local authority " means urban sanitary authority and rural sanitary 
 
 authority : 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 " Lands" and '* promises " include messuages buildings, lands ea.«;ement.s 
 and hereditaments of any tenure : 
 
 " Owner " means the person for the time lieing receiving the rackrent 
 of the lands or preniists in connexion with which the word is used, 
 whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other 
 person, or who would so receive the same if such lands or premises 
 were let at a rackrent :
 
 856 
 
 [Chap. 55.] 
 
 Public Health Act 1875. [38 & 39 Vict.] 
 
 " Eackrent " means rent which is not less than two-thirds of the full 
 net annual value of the property out of which the rent arises ; and 
 the full net annual value shall be taken to be the rent at which the 
 property might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free 
 from all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation 
 rentcharge (if any), and deducting therefrom the probable average 
 annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses (if any) 
 necessary to maintain the same in a state to command such rent : 
 
 • • • • ■ • 
 
 " Drain " means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building 
 only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for 
 the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other 
 like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage 
 of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons 
 is conveyed. 
 
 " Sewer " includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains 
 to which the word " drain " interpreted as aforesaid applies, and 
 except drains vested in or under the control of any authority having 
 the management of roads and not being a local authority under 
 this Act. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 *' Water company " means any person or body of persons corporate or 
 unincorporate supplying or who may hereafter supply water for his 
 or their own profit : 
 
 " Waterworks " includes streams springs wells pumps reservoirs cisterns 
 tanks aqueducts cuts sluices mains pipes culverts engines and all 
 machinery lands buildings and things for supplying or used for 
 supplying water, also the stock in trade of any water compan}^ 
 
 PART III. 
 
 SANITARY PROVISIONS. 
 
 Sewerage and Drainage. 
 
 Regulations as to Sewers and Drains. 
 
 Sewage to 
 be purified 
 before being 
 discharged 
 into streams. 
 
 17. Nothing in this Act shall authorise any local authority to make or 
 use an}'' sewer drain or outfall for the purpose of conveying sewage or 
 filthy water into any natui'al stream or watercourse, or into any canal 
 pond or lake until such sewage or filthy water is freed from all excremen- 
 titious or other foul or noxious matter such as would affect or deteriorate 
 the purity and quality of the water in such stream or watercourse or in 
 such canal pond or lake. 
 
 pLestriction 
 on construc- 
 tion of 
 waterworks 
 by local 
 aathoritv. 
 
 Water Supply, 
 Powers of Local AtUhority in relation to Sii2)2)lij of Water. 
 
 52. Before commencing to construct waterworks within the limits of 
 supply of any water company empowered by Act of Parliament or any 
 order confirmed by Parliament to supply water, the local authority shall 
 give written notice to every water company within whose limits of supph" 
 the local authority are desirous of supplying water, stating the purposes 
 for which and (as far as may be practicable) the extent to which water is 
 required by the local authority. 
 
 It shall not be lawful for the local authority to construct any water- 
 works within such limits if and so long as any such company are able and 
 willing to supply water proper and suflicient for all reasonable purposes 
 for which it is requii-ed by the local authority ; and any difference as to
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] Public Ihalth Act \s::k [Chap. 05.] 8o7 
 
 whether the water whicli any siich company are able and willing to lay 
 ■on is proper and sullicient for the purijose.s for which it in re<juired, or 
 whether the puiposes fur wliit-h it is required are rea.sonahle, or (if and ho 
 far as the charges of the coujpany are not n-giilated by Parliament) as to 
 the terms of supph', shall be settk-d by arbitration in manner providi.-d by 
 this Act. 
 
 108, 116. [-Iv to niiiMiHces, elt\, out oj the district. Stm 54 k. 55 
 Vict. f. 7<i, ]st Scheilnle, n'lipre these sectionn are set out.] 
 
 130, 134, 135, 140. [As to I'egnlatiuns and orclei-a of the Local 
 (joi'cr nine lit Hoard iritlt rtusjject to cholera, or other */>ideinir^ endemic, or 
 infectious diseases. See 54r k 55 Vict. c. 7G, \st Schedule, irhere these 
 sections are set out.] 
 
 I'AKT \. 
 GENERAL PItOVJSK )N8. 
 
 Pl'rciiase of Land.s. 
 
 175. Any local authority may for the purposes and subject to the pi*o- power to 
 visions of this Act purchase or take on lease sell or exchange anv lands, pm 
 whether sitiiatt d within or \\-ithout their district; they may .ilso biiv up ''■*""" 
 any wattT-mill dam or weir which interferes with the proper drainage of 
 
 or the sui)ply of water to their district. 
 
 Any lands actpiired liy a local authority in pursuance of any jK)wei-s in 
 this Act contained and not required for the purpose for which they were 
 required shall, (unless the Local Government Board otherwise direct) be 
 sold at the best price that can be gotten for the same, and the proceeds 
 of such sale shall be a[)plied towards discharge, by means of a sinking 
 fund or otherwise, of any princii)al moneys wliich have been l)orrowed by 
 such authority on the security of the fund oi- rate applicable by them for 
 the general purposes of this Act, or if no such prineipal moneys are 
 outstanding shall be carried to the account of such fund or rate. 
 
 176. With respect to the purchase of lands by a local authority for the Regulations 
 pui-poses of this Act, the following regulations shall be observed ; (that is as to par- 
 to say,) chase of 
 
 (1.) The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, ISUO, and 1869, shall ^"'*- 
 be incorporated with this Act, except the provisions relating to 
 access to the special Act, and except .section one hundred and 
 twenty-seven of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 : 
 (2.) The local authority, before putting in force any of the powers of the 
 said Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts with respect to the puivhase 
 and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, shall 
 
 Publi>,h once at the le.-ist in each of three consecutive weeks in 
 
 the month of November, in some local newspaper circulatetl 
 
 in their district, an advertisement describing shortly the 
 
 nature of the undertaking in respect of which the lands 
 
 are proposed to be taken, naming a place where a plan of 
 
 the proposed undertaking may be .seen at all rea.sonable 
 
 hours, and .stating the (pnintity of lands that they require; 
 
 and shall further 
 
 Serve a notice in the month of December on every owner or 
 
 reputed owner, lessee or reputed lessee, and t)ci"upier of such 
 
 lands, delining in each case the particular lands uitended to 
 
 be taken, and requiring an answer stating whether the |HM-son 
 
 so serveil as.sents, ili.s>ents, or is neuter in i-es|K»ct of taking 
 
 such lands : 
 
 (3.) On compliance with the provisions of this section with i"esj>ect to 
 
 advertisements and notices, the local authority may, if they 
 
 think tit. present a petition under their seal to the Local
 
 858 
 
 [Chap. 55.] 
 
 Public Health Act 1875. [38 & 39 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 
 let lands. 
 
 Provision 
 for lands 
 belonging to 
 the Duchy of 
 Lancaster. 
 
 Government Board. The petition shall state the lands intended' 
 to be taken, and the purposes for which they are required, and 
 the names of the owners lessees and occupiers of lands who have 
 assented dissented or are neuter in respect of the taking such 
 lands, or who have returned no answer to the notice ; it shall 
 pray that the local authority may, with reference to such lands, 
 be allowed to put in force the powers of the said Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of 
 lands otherwise than by agreement, and such prayer shall be' 
 supported by such evidence as the Local Government Board 
 requires : 
 (4.) On the receipt of such petition and on due proof of the proper 
 advertisements having been published and notices served the 
 Local Government Board shall take such petition into considera- 
 tion, and may either dismiss the same, or direct a local inquiry 
 as to the propriety of assenting to the prayer of such petition ; 
 but until such inquiry has been made no Provisional Order shall 
 be made affecting any lands without the consent of the owners 
 lessees and occupiers thereof : 
 (5.) After the completion of such inquiry the Local Government Board 
 may, by Provisional Order, empower the local authority to put in 
 force, with reference to the lands referred to in such order, the 
 powers of the said Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts with respect 
 to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, 
 or any of them, and either absolutely or with such conditions and 
 modifications as the Board may think fit, and it shall be the duty 
 of the local authority to serve a copy of any Order so made in the 
 manner and on the person in which and on whom notices in 
 lespect of such lands are required to be served : 
 Provided that the notices by this section required to be given in the 
 months of November and December may be given in the months of 
 September and October or of Octolier and ZSTovember, but in either of 
 such last-mentioned cases an inquiry preliminary to the Provisional Order 
 to which such notices refer shall not be held until the expiration of one 
 month from the last day of the second of the two months in which the 
 notices are given ; and any notices or orders by this section required to be 
 served on a number of persons having any right in over or on lands in 
 common may be served on any three or more of such persons on behalf of 
 all such persons. 
 
 177. Any local authority may, vdWi the consent of the Local Govern- 
 ment Board, let for any term any lands which they may possess, as and 
 when they can conveniently spare the same. 
 
 178. The Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster for the- 
 time being may, if they think fit, (but subject and ^^-ithout prejudice to 
 the rights of any lessee tenant or occupier,) from time to time contract 
 with any local authority for the sale of, and may (subject as aforesaid)- 
 absolutely sell and dispose of, for such sum as to the said Chancellor and 
 Council may appear sufficient consideration, the whole or any part of any 
 lands belonging to Her Majesty her heirs or successors in right of the said 
 duchy, or any right interest or easement in through over or on any such 
 lands which for the purposes of this Act such local authority from time to 
 time deem it expedient to purchase ; and on payment of the purchase - 
 money, as provided by the Duchy of Lancaster Lands Act, 1855, the said 
 Chancellor and Council may grant and assure to the said authority under 
 the seal of the said duchy, in the name of Her Majesty her heirs or 
 successors the subject of such contract or sale, and such money shall be- 
 dealt with as if such subject had been sold under the authority of the- 
 Duchy of Lancaster Lands Act, 1855.
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] Public Health Act 1875. [Chap. 55.] 859 
 
 Byelaws. 
 
 182 — 186. [As to hi/pJaws. See 54: ik 55 Vict. c. 7G, Ist Sdiedale, v.-here 
 these sections are set oat.^ 
 
 187. Byelaws made by the council of any borough under the provisions Byr-lawg 
 of section ninety of the Act of the sixth year of King William the Fourth, ™"'*e under 
 chapter seventy-six, for the j.revention and suppression of certain ^^*^g*^^^, . 
 nuisances, shall not be required to be sent to a Secretary of State, nor c. Tt; to be* 
 shall they be subject to the disallowance in that section mentioned ; but suhmittea to 
 all the provisions of this Act relating to byelaws shall ajiply Ui the byelaws ^■' ■^' 
 
 so made as if they were made under this Act. \See 45 A: 40 Vict. c. 5(J, ™' ' '• 
 
 s. 23 (G).] 
 
 TAliT \'I. 
 RATING AND BORROWJNG rOWERS, etc. 
 
 A I" KIT. 
 
 Audit of Accounts of Local Authorities. 
 
 247. Where an urban authority are "not the council of a borough the .\udit where 
 following regulations with respect to audit shall bo observed ; (namely,) urban autho- 
 
 (1.) The accounts of the receipts and expenditure under this Act of such ^^^ ^^^ '**'' 
 authority shall be audited and examined once in every year, as conncil. 
 soon as can be after the twenty-fifth day of March, by the 
 auditor of accounts relating to the relief of the poor * . . . 
 [See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 71 (1) cmd 7.3 (1) ; a7id 62 & 03 Vict, 
 c. 14, «. 14]: 
 [Parts omitted (^prorisious applijinij ichere the auditor is a meinher of the 
 autJiority u'kose accounts he is to audit) rep. 42 Vict. c. G, s. 11.] 
 
 (2.) [As to the remuneration of auditors. Rep. 42 Vict, c 0, s. II.] 
 
 (3.) Before each audit such authority shall, after receiving from the 
 auditor the requisite appointment, give at least fourteen days 
 notice of the time and place at which the same will Ije made, and 
 of the deposit of accounts required by this section, by advertise- 
 ment in some one or more of the local newspapers circulated in 
 the district; and the production of the newspaper containing such 
 notice shall 1 e deemed to be suHicient proof of such notice on any 
 proceeding whatsoever : 
 
 (4.) A copy of the accounts duly made up and balanced, together with 
 all rate books account books deeds contracts accounts vouchers 
 and receijits mentioned or referred to in such accounts, shall be 
 deposited in the otlice of such authority, and be open, during 
 office hours thereat, to the inspection of all persons interested for 
 seven clear days before the audit, and all such pei"sons shall be 
 at liberty to take copies of or extracts from the .same, without 
 fee or reward ; and any officer of such authority duly appointed 
 in that behalf neglecting to make up such accounts and books, or 
 altering such .iccounts and books, or allowing them to 1h^ altered 
 when so made up, or refusing to allow inspection thereof, shall be 
 liable to a penalty not exceeding tive pounds [See 45 it 40 Vict, 
 c. 50, *\ 233] : 
 
 (5.) For the purpose of an\' audit under this Act, every auditor may, 
 by summons in writing, require the production before him of all 
 
 * Auditors of accounts relating to the relief of the poor were first appointed under 
 powers conferred by the I'our Law Aintudmont Act ls44. s. '.\'2, nj^on the Poor I-iw 
 Commissioners. The powei-s of appointnieiu thereby coiift-rred wore repealed by the 
 Poor Law Amendment .\ct 1%S, and by s. 24 of tiuit Act conferred upon the Poor I-iw 
 Board, and then devolved.by the Local Government Act lS7L>iI>on the L«x;al Governracnt 
 Board. S. 24 of the Act of l!;il»s is repealed by 42 Vict. c. 6, s. 11 ; see also ibid. s. 4.
 
 860 [Chap. 55.] Fuhlic Health Act 1875. [38 & 39 Vict.] 
 
 books deeds contracts accounts vouchers receipts and other docu- 
 ments and papers Avhich he may deem necessary, and may require 
 any person holding or accountable for any such books deeds con- 
 tracts accounts vouchers receipts documents or papers to appear 
 before him at any such audit or any adjournment thereof, and 
 to make and sign a declaration as to the correctness of the same ; 
 and if any such person neglects or refuses so to do, or to produce 
 any such books deeds contracts accounts vouchers receipts docu- 
 ments or papers, or to make or sign such declaration, he shall 
 incur for every neglect or refusal a penalty not exceeding forty 
 shillings ; and if he falsely or corruptly makes or signs any svich 
 declaration, knowing the same to be untrue in any material par- 
 ticular, he shall be liable to the penalties intiicted on persons 
 guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury : 
 
 (6.) Any ratepayer or owner of property in the district may be present 
 at the audit, and may make any objection to such accounts before 
 the auditor; and such ratepayers and owners shall have the same 
 right of appeal against allowances by an auditor as they have by 
 law against disallowances : 
 
 (7.) Any auditor acting in pursuance of this section shall disallow 
 every item of account contrary to law, and surcharge the same 
 on the person making or authorising the making of the illegal 
 payment, and shall charge against any person accounting the 
 amount of any deficiency or loss incurred by the negligence or 
 misconduct of that person, or of any sum which ought to have 
 been but is not brought into account by that person, and shall 
 in every such case certify the amount due from such person, and 
 on application by any party aggrieved shall state in writing the 
 reasons for his decision in respect of such disallowance or surcharge, 
 and also of any allowance which he may have made * : 
 
 (8.) Any person aggrieved by disallowance made may apply to the Court 
 of Queen's Bench for a writ of certiorari to remove the disallow- 
 ance into the said Court, in the same manner and subject to the 
 same conditions as are provided in the case of disallowances by 
 auditors under the laws for the time being in force with regard 
 to the relief of the poor t ; and the said Court shall have the same 
 powers with respect to allowances disallowances and surcharges 
 under this Act as it has with respect to disallowances or allow- 
 ances by the said auditors ; or in lieu of such aj^plication any 
 person so aggrieved may appeal to the Local Government Board, j 
 which Board shall have the same powers in the case of the appeal 
 as it possesses in the case of appeals against allowances disallow- 
 ances and surcharges by the said poor law auditors : 
 
 (9.) Every sum certified to be due from any person by an auditor under 
 this Act shall be j)aid by such person to the treasurer of such 
 authority within fourteen days after the same has been so 
 certified, unless there is an appeal against the decision ; and if 
 such sum is not so paid, and there is no such appeal, the auditor 
 shall recover the same from the j^erson against whom the same 
 has been certified to be due by the like process and with the like 
 powei-s as in the case of sums certified on the audit of the poor 
 rate accounts, and shall be paid by such authority all such costs 
 and expenses, including a reasonable compensation for loss of 
 time incurred by him in such j^i'oceedings, as are not recovered 
 by him from such person: [>See the Poor Law Amendment Acts 
 
 * See the Local Authorities (Expenses) Act 1887, s. ?,, which is as follows : " 3. Ex- 
 penses paid by any local authority whose accounts are subject to audit by a district 
 auditor shall not be disallowed by that auditor if they have been sanctioned by the 
 Local Government Board." 
 
 t See the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844, s. 35. 
 
 X See the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844, s. 36.
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] Public Health Act 1875. [Chap. 50.] 861 
 
 1834, s. 99, and \iii\, s. 32, and 1849, s. 9; and the Sumviary 
 Jurisdiction Act 1884, «. 11.] 
 (10.) Witliin fourteen clays after the completion of the audit, the auditor 
 shall report on the accounts auditfrl and examined, and shall 
 deliver such report to the clerk of such authority, who shall 
 cause the same to be deposited in their office, and shall publish 
 an abstract of such accounts in some one or more of the local 
 newspapers circulated in the district. 
 Where the provisions as to audit of any l<x;al Act constituting a board of 
 improvement commissioners are repugnant to or inconsistent with those of 
 this Act, the audit of the accounts of such improvement commissioners >liall 
 be conducted in all respects in accordance with the provisions of thi^ Act. 
 
 250. The accounts under this Act of ollicei-s or a.ssistants of any local .Vu<litor 
 authority who are retpiired to receive moneys or goods on Ixjhalf of such ^'> a"'ht 
 authority shall be audited by the auditors or auditor of the accounts of '''■'■''^"^'* 
 such authority, with the same powers incidents and consequences as in the '' ^ ^"' 
 case of such last-mentioned accounts. 
 
 PART VII. 
 
 LEGAL PROCEEDIXCS. 
 
 Prosecution of Oj^ences and Recovery of Penalties^ etc. 
 
 • • • • • ■ 
 
 265. Xo matter or thing done, and no contract entered into by any i r t.. t:ou 
 local authority or joint board or port .sanitary authority, and no matter "f 1'J<-'-'1 
 or thing done by any member of any such authority or by any officer of ='"i''onty 
 such authority or other person whomsoever acting inider the direction of orticere from 
 such authority, shall, if the matter or thing were done or the contract were jx-rsonal 
 entered into bona fide for the purpose of executing this Act, subject them liability, 
 or any of them personally to any action liability claim or demand what- 
 soever ; and any exjiense incurx-ed by any such authority member officer 
 or other person acting as last aforesaid shall be borne and repaid out of 
 the fund or rate applicable by such authority to the general purposes of 
 this Act. 
 
 Provided that nothing in this section shall exempt any member of any 
 such authority from liability to be surcharged with the amount of any 
 payment which may be di.sallowed by the auditor in the accounts of such 
 authority, and which such member authorised or joined in authorising. 
 [See 5 Edio. 1, c. cciii. s. 50.] 
 
 Xotices. 
 
 267. Xotices ordei"S and any other documents reipureil or authorised tv - >f 
 
 be served under this Act may 1»^ served by delivering the sjime to or at the 
 residence of the person to whom they are respectively adilressed, or where 
 addressed to the owner or occupier of premises by delivering the same or 
 a true copy thereof to some jierson on the premises, or if there is no j)erson 
 on the premises who can be so served by fixing the s:ime on some con- 
 spicuous part of the premises ; they may also be served by post by a 
 prepaid letter and if served by post shall be deemed to have been served 
 at the time when the letter containing the same would lx> dflivere<l in the 
 ordinary course of post, and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to 
 prove that the notice order or other document was properly addre.ssed and 
 put into the post. 
 
 Any notice by this Act required to be given to the owner or occupier of 
 any premises may be addressed by the description of the " owner " or 
 " occupier" of the premises (naming them) in respect of which the notice 
 is given, without further name or description. 
 [See 5 Edw. 7, c. cciii. s. 52.]
 
 862 
 
 [Chap. 55.] 
 
 Public Health Act 1875. 
 
 [38 & 39 Vict.] 
 
 PART IX. 
 LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. 
 
 Inquiries hy Board. 
 
 293-296. 
 
 54 ct 55 Vict. c. 
 
 \^As to inquiries by the Local Government Board. 
 76, \st Schedule, inhere these sections are set out.^ 
 
 See 
 
 As to Pro- 
 visional 
 Orders made 
 bv Local 
 Government 
 Board. 
 
 Costs of 
 
 Provisional 
 
 Orders. 
 
 Provisional Orders hy Board. 
 
 297. With respect to Provisional Orders tiuthorised to be made by the 
 Local Government Board under this Act, the following enactments shall 
 be made : — 
 
 (L) The Local Govei-nment Board shall not make any Provisional Oixler 
 under this Act unless public notice of the pvirport of the jiro- 
 posed Order has been previously given by advertisement in two 
 successive weeks in some local newspaper circulating in the 
 district to which such Provisional Order relates : 
 
 (2.) Before making any such Provisional Order, the Local Government 
 Board shall consider any objections which may be made thereto 
 by any persons affected thereby, and in cases where the subject 
 matter is one to which a local inquiry is applicable, shall cause 
 to be made a local inquiry, of -which public notice shall be given 
 in manner aforesaid, and at which all persons interested shall be 
 permitted to attend and make objections : 
 
 (3.) The Local Government Board may submit to Parliament for con- 
 firmation any Provisional Order made by it in pursuance of this 
 Act, but any such Order shall be of no force whatever unless and 
 until it is confirmed by Parliament : 
 
 (4.) If while the Bill confirming any such Oi-der is pending in either 
 House of Parliament, a petition is presented against any Order 
 comprised therein, the Bill, so far as it relates to such Order, may 
 be referred to a Select Committee, and the petitioner shall be 
 allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of private Bills : 
 
 (5.) Any Act confirming any Provisional Order made in pursuance of 
 any of the Sanitary Acts or of this Act, and any Order in Council 
 made in pursuance of any of the Sanitary Acts, may be repealed 
 altered or amended by any Provisional Order made by the Local 
 Government Board and confirmed by Parliament : 
 
 (6.) The Local Government Board may revoke, either wholly or partially, 
 any Provisional Order made by them before the same is confirmed 
 by Parliament, but such revocation shall not be made whilst 
 the Bill confirming the Order is pending in either House of 
 Parliament : 
 
 (7.) The making of a Provisional Order shall be prima facie evidence that 
 all the requirements of this Act in respect of proceedings recjuired 
 to be taken previously to the making of such Provisional Order 
 have been complied with : 
 
 (8.) Every Act confirming any such Provisional Order shall be deemed to 
 be a public general Act. [See the Interpretation Act 1889, s. 9.] 
 
 298. The reasonable costs of any local authority in respect of Pro- 
 visional Orders made in pursuance of this Act, and of the inquiry 
 preliminary thereto, as sanctioned by the Local Government Board, 
 whether in promoting or oj^posing the same, shall be deemed to be 
 expenses properly incurred for purposes of this Act by the local authority 
 interested in or afTecttd by such Provisional Orders, and such costs shall be 
 paid accordingly ; and if thought expedient by the Local Government 
 Board, the local authority may contract a loan for the pui-pose of defraying 
 such costs.
 
 [41 & 42 Vict.] ^%^^"'«y-^- a>a/ Locomofues {Ame»d- .^,^^^ ... 
 •- -^ mi'nt) Act Ih.^. ^ -■ 
 
 41 & 42 VICTORIA. A.D. 1878. 
 
 CHAPTER 77. 
 
 An Act to amknd the Law uelatino to IIiujiwav.s in Kngland anu 
 THE Acts relating to Loccmotives cn Roads ; am> von other 
 PuiiPOSES. [\(Jth Auijust \^1^.^ 
 
 \_Preainhle recites the Locomotives Acts 18G1 and 1865.] 
 
 Freliminari/. 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Highways and Locouiotives (Amend- Short title, 
 ment) Act, 1878. 
 
 2. . . . f^ave as is by this Act expressly provided, Part I. of this Act Application 
 
 shall not apply . . . to any part of the metropolis * . . . of Act. 
 
 TAUT !.* 
 Amendment of lli(;n\vAV Law. 
 
 10. ^^ here complaint is made to the county authority that the Power of 
 hi^dnvay authority of any highway area within their jurisdiction has made t-ounty 
 default in niaintaininji or rt-ijairing all or anv of the highways within ""t'"''''iy 
 their jurisdiction, the county authority, if satisfied after due infpiiry and performance 
 report by their surveyor that the authority has been guilty of the alleged of duty by 
 defaidt, shall make an order limiting a time for the performance of the defaulting 
 <luty of the highway authority in the matter of such complaint. highway^ 
 
 If such duty is not performed by the time limited in the order, and the ''" "^^ • ' 
 liighway authority fail to show to the county authority suflicient cause 
 why the order has not been complied with, the county authority may 
 appoint some person to perform such duty, and shall by order direct that 
 the expenses of performing the same, together with the reasonable 
 remuneration of the pei'son appointed for superintending such performance, 
 shall be l)aid by the authority in default, and any older made for payment 
 of such expenses and costs may be removed into the High Court of Justice, 
 and be enforced in the same manner as if the same were an order of such 
 court. [i>ee also 51 A: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 11 (8).] 
 
 Any person appointed under this section to perform the duty of a 
 defaulting highway authority shall, in the performance and for the purpose 
 of such duty, be invested with all the powers of such authority other than 
 the powers of making rates or levying eontributions l)y precept, and the 
 county authority may from time to time, l)y order, change any person so 
 appointed. 
 
 Where an order has l)een made by ;i county authority for the repair 
 of a highway on a highway authority alleged to be in default, if such 
 authority, within ten days after service on them of tlie t)rder of the county 
 authority, give notice to the clerk of thi' peace + that they decline to 
 •comply with the requisitions of such order until their liability to i-epair 
 the highway in respect to which they are alleged to have made defaidt has 
 
 * Tart I. of this Act does not now apply within London. It was made appli 
 to London with respect to main nxn/.i by 51 i: 52 Viet, c, 41, s. U (4). There v.,.i 
 then in London the following roads whieh liati ceased between the 31st DeccniKT 
 1S70 and the passing of this Act to be turnpike roai'.s, and were ace. miipv-'ly main 
 roads— viz. : Arehwa'y Koad, Coiuiuercial lunul East, Kast Ferry ll.ad, K;ist Im'.i.i 
 Dock Koad, Edgware Road, Finchlcv Koad, Green Lanes, Harrow lUwid. llorseferry 
 Branch Koad. Lea Bridge Koad, West Ferry Koad, and We.-t lu.lia l<ook Koad. 
 Main roads have ceased to exist in London i>y virtue of 02 & 63 Vict. c. H, s. 6 (1). 
 ,Sei! ge>nl)lr that a highway in London might yet become a main road under an 
 Order made under s. IG of "this Act, and I'art L is accordingly inserted in this work 
 so far as it applies to main roads. 
 
 t Semt)le, as regards London, the Clerk of the London County Council. See 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 11 (1) and S3 (G).
 
 864 
 
 [Chap. 77.] 
 
 Highicays and LocomotiKes (^Amend- 
 ment) Act 1878. 
 
 [41 &i42 Vict.]: 
 
 been determiuecl by a jnry, it shall be the duty of the county authority 
 either to satisfy the defaulting authority by cancelling or modifying in 
 such manner as the authority may desire the order of the county 
 authority, or else to submit to a jury the question of the liability of the 
 defaulting anthoiity to repair the highway. 
 
 If the county authority decide to submit the question to a jury they 
 shall direct a bill of indictment to be preferred to the next practicable 
 assizes to be holden in and for their county, with a view to try the 
 liability of the defaulting authority to repair the highway. Until the 
 trial of the indictment is concluded the order of the county authority 
 shall be suspended. On the conclusion of the trial, if the jury find the 
 defendants guilty, the order of the county authority shall forthwith be 
 deemed to come into force ; but if the jury acquit the defendants the order 
 of the county authority shall forthwith become void. 
 
 The costs of the indictment, and of the proceedings consequent thereon, 
 shall be paid by such parties to the proceedings as the court before whom 
 the case is tried may direct. Any costs directed to be paid by the county 
 authority shall be deemed to be expenses properly incurred by such 
 authority, and shall be paid accordingly out of the county rate ; and any 
 costs directed to be paid by the highway authority shall be deemed to be 
 expenses properly incurred by such authority in maintenance of the roads 
 within their jurisdiction, and shall be paid out of the funds applicable to 
 the maintenance of such roads. 
 
 Disturnpiked 
 roads to 
 become main 
 roads. 
 
 Description 
 of highway 
 areas. 
 
 Main Roads. 
 
 13. For the purposes of this Act, and subject to its pi^ovisions, any road 
 which has, within the period between the thirty-first day of December one 
 thousand eight hundred and seventy and the date of the passing of this 
 Act, ceased to be a turnpike road, and any road which, being at the time 
 of the passing of this Act a. turnpike road, may afterwards cease to be 
 such, shall be deemed to be a main road. . . . [Part omitted rep. 57 & 58 
 Vict. c. 56 {S.L.E.).] 
 
 14. The following areas shall be deemed to be highway areas for the 
 purposes of this Act ; (that is to say,) 
 
 (1.) Urban sanitary districts. [See 51 it 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 41 (4).j 
 
 Power to 
 declare 
 ordinary 
 highway to 
 be a main 
 road. 
 
 Power to 
 reduce main 
 road to status 
 of ordinary 
 highway. 
 
 15. Where it appears to any highway authority that any highway 
 within their district ought to become a main road by reason of its being 
 a medium of communication between great towns, or a thoroughfare to a 
 railway station, or otherwise, such highway authority may apply to the 
 county authority for an order declaring such road, as to such parts as 
 aforesaid, to be a main road ; and the county authority, if of opinion that 
 there is probable cause for the application, shall cause the road to be 
 inspected, and, if satisfied that it ought to be a main road, shall make an 
 order accordingly. 
 
 A copy of the order so made shall be forthwith deposited at the office of 
 the clerk of the peace * of the county, and shall be open to the inspection 
 of i^ersons interested at all leasonable houi-s ; and the order so made shall 
 not be of any validity unless and until it is confirmed by a further order 
 of the county authority made within a period of not more than six months 
 after the making of the first-mentioned order. 
 
 16. . 
 
 . . . Where it appears to a county authority that any road within 
 their county which has become a main road in pursuance of this Act ought 
 to cease to be a main road and become an ordinary highway, such authority 
 may apply to the Local Government Board for a Provisional Order 
 
 * Now, as regards London, the Clerk of ihe County Council. 
 c. 4], ss. 11 (1) and 83 (G), 
 
 See 51 i: 52 Vict
 
 m V- i-> v^PT 1 ^Jiyf^if^'d'js iinfl I^ocomoticea (Amend- r^. ..., ^^, 
 
 [41 c^ 4. \ ici.] ^^^^^^ j^^ ^^.^_ [(.HAi-. . ..] 865 
 
 declaring that such road has ceased to be a uuiin road and Ijecom..- an 
 ordinary highway. 
 
 The Local (Government Board, if of opinion that there Is probable caiuse 
 for an application under this section, shall caut-e the road to be insix-cted, 
 and if satisfied that it . . . ought to cease to be a main road and Ijecome 
 an oidinary highway shall make a . . . Order accordingly. . 
 
 All expenses incurreil in or incidental to the making ... of any < )rder 
 under this section shall be defrayed by the county authority applving 
 for such Order. 
 
 [^Parts omitted (jyromsion that vhere it appears to a county aiitlu,rit>i that 
 a road vhich ceased, betireea 3\st Decemher 1870 and the j>ustiin>j of thin 
 Act, to he a tiinipike road, should not become a main road, they shall before 
 \st February 1879 apply to llie Local Government Hoard to so declare by 
 (Jrder, and as to conjirmation of Orders made under this section) rej). and 
 superseded by the Iliyhways and Bi-idtjes Act 1891, s. 4, a7id 59 6i GO Vict, 
 c. clxxxviii. s. 31.] 
 
 • • t 
 
 18, Every highway authority shall keep, in such form as may be A of 
 
 directed by the county authority, a .separate account of the exi)en.ses of ' ' 
 
 the maintenance of the main roads within their jurisdiction, and shall ". 
 
 forward copies thereof to the county authority at such time or times in 
 
 every year as may be required by the county authority, and the accounts 
 
 so kept shall, where the accounts of the highway authority are audited 
 
 under this Act or under section two hundred and forty-seven of the 
 
 Public Health Act, 1875,* be audited in the same manner as the other 
 
 accounts of such authority, a7id vhere the accoxmts of the hiyhuxiy authority 
 
 are not so audited shall be subject to such audit as tJte county a%dhority may 
 
 direct. 
 
 If any highway authority makes default in complying with the 
 provisions of this section, or u-ith any directions given in pursuance tliereof 
 by the county authority, the county authority may withhold all or any 
 part of the contribution payable by them under this Act towards the 
 expenses of the maintenance of main roads by such liighway authority for 
 the year in which such default occurs. 
 \_Words in italics do not apply to London.^ 
 
 Extraordinary Traffic. 
 
 23. Where by a certificate of their surveyor it appears to the I'ower 
 authority •which is liable or has undertaken to repair any highway, "f ri~>M\ 
 whether a main road or not, that, having regard to the average expense au|''0''U>"_to^ 
 of repairing highways in the neighbourhood, extraordinary expenses have ex-i>enscs'of " 
 been ineurred by such authority in repairing such highway by rea-<on of uxtraonli- 
 the damage caused by excessive weight passing along the .same, or nary tmftic. 
 extraordinary traffic thex-eon, such authority may recover in a summary 
 manner from any person by ivhose order such weight or tratlic has been 
 conducted the amount of such expenses as may l>e proved to the 
 satisfaction of the coiu-t having cognizance of the case to have been 
 incurred bv such authority by reason of the damajre arising from such 
 weight or traliic as aforesaid. 
 
 Provided that any person against whom exj>en.ses are or may be 
 recoyeral)lo under this section may enter into an agret^ment with such 
 authority as is mentioned in this section for the payment to them of 
 a composition in respect of such weight or traffic, and thereujKni the 
 persons so paying the same shall not be subject to any proceedings under 
 this section. 
 
 [J'he words '■'■by or in consequence of rchose ordei'" substituted for ^^ by 
 whose orda'," by the Locovwtives Act 1898, s. 12 (1) (c).] 
 
 * See t>2 & 63 Vict. c. 11, s. H and note thereon. 
 
 50
 
 866 [Chap. 77.] ^'^^''''''^' ^^^f^^^^' ^^'^''''^' [41 & 42 Vict.] 
 
 Byelaws hy County Authwity, 
 Power of 26. A county authority may from time to time make, with respect 
 
 county autho- ^^ qI\ qj, g^j^y j^^ain roads or other highways within any highway area in 
 byelaws their county, and when made alter or repeal, byelaws for all or any of the 
 
 purposes following ; that is to say, 
 
 (1.) For pi'ohibiting or regulating the use of any waggon wain cart or 
 carriage drawn by animal power and having wheels of which 
 the fellies or tii-es are not of such width in proportion to the 
 weight carried by, or to the size of, or to the number of wheels 
 of such waggon wain cart or carriage, as may be specified in 
 such byelaws ; and 
 (2.) For prohibiting or regulating the use of any waggon wain cart or 
 other carriage drawn by animal power not having the nails on 
 its wheels countersunk in such manner as may be specified in 
 such byelaws, or having on its wheels bars or other projections 
 forbidden by such byelaws ; and 
 (3.) For prohibiting or regulating the locking of the wheel of any 
 waggon wain cart or carriage drawn by animal power when 
 descending a hill, unless there is placed at the bottom of such 
 wheel during the whole time of its being locked a skidpan slipper 
 or shoe in such manner as to prevent the road from being 
 destroyed or injured by the locking of such wheel ; and 
 (4 ) For prohibiting or regulating the erection of gates across highways, 
 
 and prohibiting gates opening outwards on highways ; and 
 (5.) [As to bicycUs. Rep. 51 & 52 Vict. c. 4t, s. 85 {q.v.).'\ 
 Fines to be recovered summarily may be imposed by any such byelaws 
 on persons breaking any byelaw made under this section, provided that no 
 fine exceeds for any one offence the sum of two pounds, and that the 
 byelaws are so framed as to allow of the recovery of any sum less than the 
 full amount of the fine. 
 
 Weight of 
 locomotives 
 and con- 
 struction 
 of wheels. 
 24 & 25 Vict. 
 c. 70. 
 
 28 & 29 Vict. 
 c. 83. 
 
 1861 AND 1865. 
 
 highway a loco- 
 pro - 
 
 the following 
 
 *PART 11. 
 Amendment of Locomotive Acts, 
 
 S8. ... It shall not be lawful to use on any 
 motive constructed otherwise than in accordance with 
 visions ; (that is to say,) 
 
 (1.) A locomotive not drawing any carriage, and not exceeding in weight 
 three tons, shall have the tires of the wheels thereof not less than 
 three inches in width, w^ith an additional inch for every ton or 
 fraction of a ton above the first three tons ; and 
 
 (2.) A locomotive drawing any waggon or carriage shall have the tires 
 of the driving wheels thereof not less than two inches in width 
 for every ton in weight of the locomotive, unless the diameter 
 of such wheels shall exceed five feet, when the width of the tires 
 may be reduced in the same proportion as the diameter of the 
 wheels is inci-eased, but in such case the width of such tii-es shall 
 not be less than fourteen inches ; and 
 
 (3.) A locomotive shall not exceed nine feet in width or fourteen tons 
 in weight, except as herein-after provided ; and 
 
 (4.) The driving wheels of a locomotive shall be cylindrical and smooth- 
 soled, or shod with diagonal cross-bars of not less than three 
 inches in wddth nor more than three quarters of an inch in 
 thickness, extending the full breadth of the tire, and the space 
 intervening between each such cross-bar shall not exceed three 
 inches. 
 
 The owner of any locomotive used contrary to the foregoing provisions 
 
 * This part does not apply to light locomotives as defined in the Locomotives on 
 Highways Act 1896. See ibid. s. 1.
 
 [41 k 42 Vict.] ^%^^"-«y-^ am/Loco,,wtu,s {Amend- .^ 
 
 '- -^ merit) Act Xfiifi. Lv.maj..<.j oo< 
 
 shall for every such offence be lialjle to a fine not exceeding five pounds : 
 Provided that the mayor, aldermen, and commons in the city of London, 
 and the Metropolitan Board of Works * in the metro|xjli.s, exclusive of the 
 city of Londcm, and the council of any lMjrou<.'h which has a separate court 
 of quarter sessions, und the county authority of any county, may, on the 
 application ui the owner of any locomotive exceeding nine feet in width 
 or fourteen tons in weight, authorise such l(K(jijiotive to be uxhI on any 
 . . . highway within the areas respectively above mentioned, or part of 
 any such . . . highway, under such conditions (if any) as to them may 
 appear flesirable. Provided also, that the owner of a locomotive used 
 contrary to the provisions of subsection two of this section shall not 
 be deemed guilty of an oHence under this section if he proves to the 
 satisfaction of the court having cognizance of the case that such locomotive 
 was constructed before the pas.siiig of this Act, and that the tires of the 
 wheels thereof are not less than nine inches in width. 
 [Words omitted {^^ turnpike road or," occurriny twice, and ^^ road or") rep. 
 61 ^ 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 30. . . . Every locomotive used on any . . . highway shall Ije Steam loco- 
 constructed on the principle of consuming its own smoke ; and any '"otives to be 
 person using any locomotive not so constructed, or not consuming, .so fara.s C"nstructe<i 
 i.- II i. 1 1 11 I 1- 1 1 X i- . 1- ^ so a?* to con- 
 
 practicable, its own smoke, shall \>e liable to a tine not exceedinir hve smue tbeir 
 
 pounds for every day during which such locomotive is used on any such smoke. 
 . . . highway. [Pai-ts omitted {repeal of s. 8 of the Locomotive Act 18G1) '--l *: -5 Vict, 
 rep. 57 A 58 Vict. c. 56 {S.L.R.), and the words ^'■turnpike road or " *^- '"■ 
 occurring twice rep. 61 i 62 Vict. c. 22 (.y.Z./i*.).] 
 
 • ••«•• 
 
 33. This part of this Act shall remain in force so long only as the Duration of 
 
 Locomotive Act, lS65,t continues in force. ^'''^t II. of 
 
 Act. 
 2H & 29 Vict. 
 
 PART III. c- «3- 
 
 Procedure and Dejinitions. 
 
 34. It shall be lawful for the Local Government Board to submit Confirmation 
 any Provisional Order made by them under this Act to Parliament °/ I'rovi- 
 for confirmation, and without such conjirmation a Prorisinnal Order shall *"^'^*' Order. 
 not be of an;/ I'aliditi/. [Words in italics, semble rep. 54 «t 55 Vict. c. 63, g. 4.] 
 
 36. A byelaw made under this Act, and any alteration made therein, Confirmation 
 and any repeal of a byelaw ^hall not be of any validity until it has l>een l^.velaws. 
 submitted to and confirmed by the Local Government Board. 
 
 A byelaw made under this Act shall not nor shall any alteration 
 therein or addition thereto or repeal thereof be confirmed until the 
 expiration of one month after notice of the intention to apply for 
 confirmation of the same has been given by the authority making the 
 same in one or more local newspapers circulating in their county or district. 
 
 36. AH offences, fines, and expen.ses under this Act, or any byelaw j;, f 
 
 made in pursuance of this Act, may be prosecuted, enforced, and re- p : ud 
 
 covered before a court of summary jurisdiction in manner provided by the exi«Ds^- 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts. 
 
 The e.xpression '• court of summary jurisdiction " means and includes 
 any Justice or Justices of the Peace, metropolitan police magistnite, 
 stipendiary or other ni;igi>trate, or officer, by whatever name calleil. to 
 •whom jurisdiction is given by the .Summary Juristliction Acts: Provided 
 that the court, when hearing and determining an information or com- 
 plaint under this Act, sliall be constituted either of two or more Justict's 
 of the Peace in petty sessions, sitting at a place appointed for holding 
 
 • Now the Loudon County Council. See 51 i: oli Vict. c. -11, s. -10 (.S). 
 t This Act is continued in force until the 31st December 1907 by the Expiring 
 Laws' Continuanoe .\ct I90t5.
 
 868 
 
 [Chap. 6.] 
 
 District Auditors Act 1879. 
 
 [42 YiCT.] 
 
 Form of 
 appeal to 
 quarter 
 sessions. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion. 
 
 25 & 26 Vict, 
 c. 61. 
 
 27 & 28 Yict, 
 c. 101. 
 
 38 & 39 Vict, 
 c. 55. 
 
 18 & 19 Vict, 
 c. 120. 
 
 petty session, or of some magistrate or officer sitting alone or with others 
 at some court or other place appointed for the administration of justice, 
 and for the time being empowered by law to do alone any act authorised 
 to be done by more than one Justice of the Peace. 
 
 [See 52 k 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 13 (11). Part omitted {definition of '■'■the 
 Summary Jurisdiction Acts'") rep. fil & 58 Vict. c. 56 {S.L.R.).^ 
 
 37. If any party thinks himself aggrieved by any conviction or order 
 made by a court of summary jurisdiction on determining any information 
 or complaint under this Act, the party .so aggrieved may appeal therefrom 
 ... to the next practicable court of quarter sessions. . . . [Parts omitted 
 {as to procedure on appeal) rep. hy the Sum,mary Jurisdiction Act 1884, s. 4.] 
 
 38. In this Act— 
 
 " County " has the same meaning as it has in the Highway Acts, 1862 
 and 1864, except that every liberty not being assessable to the 
 county rate of the county or counties within which it is locally 
 situate shall, for the purposes of this Act other than those relating 
 to the formation and alteration of higinvay districts, and the 
 transfer of the powers of a highway board, be deemed to be a 
 separate county : 
 
 " County authority " means the Justices of a county in general or 
 quarter sessions assembled * : 
 
 " Highway authority " means as re.spects an urban sanitary district the 
 urban sanitary authority, and as respects a highway district the 
 highway board, and as respects a highway parish the surveyor or 
 surveyors or other officers performing similar duties [see 51 & 
 52 Vict. c. 41,. s. 41 (4)]:. 
 
 " Urban sanitary district " and " urban sanitary authority " mean 
 respectively the districts and authorities declared to be urban 
 sanitary districts and authorities by the Pul)lic Health Act, 1875, 
 except that for the purposes of this Act no borough having a 
 separate court of quarter sessions, and no part of any such 
 borough, shall be deemed to be or to be included in any such 
 district, and where part of a parish is included in such district 
 for the purpose only of the repau'S of the highways such part 
 shall be deemed to be included in the district for the purposes of 
 this Act [see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 41 (4)] : 
 
 " The metropolis " means the parishes and places mentioned in the 
 Schedules A., B., and C, annexed to the Metropolis Management 
 Act, 1855, and any parish to which such Act may be extended 
 by Order in Council in manner in the said Act provided ; also the 
 city of London and the liberties of the said city : 
 
 " Quarter ses.sions " includes general sessions : 
 
 " Locomotive" means a locomotive propelled by steam or by other than 
 
 animal power : 
 " Person " includes a body of persons corporate or unincorporate. 
 [See also 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 2.] 
 
 42 VICTORIA. A.D. 1879. 
 
 An Act to amend the 
 
 CHAPTER 6. 
 Law with respect 
 
 TO District Auditors. 
 [2%th 2Iarch 1879.] 
 
 [Preamble recites (inter alia) that the auditors of the accounts relating to 
 the relief of the poor {in this Act refetn'ed to as district auditors) are tinder 
 t}te Poor Lavj Amendment Act 1868 appointed by the Local Government 
 
 * Now the London County Council so far as relates to main roads in London. [See 
 note on Part I.]
 
 [42 Vict.] District Auditor.^ Art X^^Vd. [Chai'. G.] SC9 
 
 Board, and are h/ that Act declared to he civil HervautH of tJte Slate vithin 
 tJbe opuratiou of the Superannvdtion Act 1H59, but that the remuneration and 
 expenses of such auditors ivhich are hi/ law payahh out of local rattan are i7i 
 fact paid parti 1/ out ff ruonei/s annually provided hij Parliament, and purtli/ 
 out of local rates ; and that it is expedient that in future the u-hole of 
 such reuiuneratioH and expenses shonbl he paid out of uioneifs rutid hy 
 J'arliament. Hep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 50 (S.L./i.).] 
 
 1. Tliis Act may be cited as the District Auditoi-H Act, 1871). Hhort title. 
 
 a. , . . Tlie whole of tlie sahirics or ri'miiiieiatioti ami of the ' 
 expense.s of district auditors, to such amount as may ho sjinctioucd by tlie •' '"• 
 
 Treasury, shall be paid out of moneys provider! by Parliament ; and for .^.'"i"" ^Y 
 the purpose of coiitril)utin<:f to the amount required for the payment .^j^,\ ,jut'gf 
 of such salaries, remutieration, and expenses, there shall be charged on : ' 
 every local authority whose accounts are audited by a district auditor ■ "t 
 
 a stamp duty for the use of Her Majesty, according to the senile contiuned ' 
 in the First Schedule to this Act, and such duty shall l>e It-vied by a stamp '' 
 on the certilicate of the auditor herein-aftfr mentioned. [J'art uuiitted {as 
 to cessation after '25th March 1879 of payments to district atulitors out 
 of any local rate) rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 {S.L.R.).'] 
 
 3. Where the accounts of the receipts and exponditiue of a lo^al 1 
 authority are audited by a district auditor, the local authority shall ^ 
 prepare and submit to the district auditor at every audit (other than ,^ 
 an extraordinary audit lieM in pursuance of section six of the Poor Law <ii>tn. t 
 Amendment Act, 18G(i,) a tinancial statement in duplicate in the auiiitor. 
 prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars; one of such -'•' '■^ ^^ ^'*ct, 
 duplicates shall have the stamp charged under this Act attixe<l thereon, *" ^^3. s. 0. 
 and the auditor at the conclusion of the audit sliall cancel that stamp, and 
 certify on each duplicate, in the prescril)ed form, the amount in words 
 at length of the expenditure so audited and allowed, and further, that the 
 regulations with respect to such statement have been duly complie^l with, 
 and that he has ascertained bv the audit the correctness of the statement. 
 [See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ,v. 71 (1).] 
 
 He shall forthwith send the duplicate so stamped and certified by him 
 to the Local Government Board ; and in such case a return of the receipt.s 23 x 24 Vict, 
 or expenditure coni[)rised in such statement neetl not, unless the Local jj,"^",! ,.• 
 Government Board so require, be sent to the Board in pursuance of the ,. y,; 
 Local Taxation Returns Acts, ISGO and 1877. 
 
 4. The Local (Government Board may from time to time appoint such .\ppointment 
 number of di.strict auditors as they may, with the .sanction of the Treasury, and districu 
 think necessary for the performance of the duties of auditing the accounts «ii-trict 
 which are tor the tune benig by law sul>ject to be audited liy district 
 auditors, and may from time to time remo^-e such auditoi*s. 
 
 The Board may from time to time a.ssign to district auditoi-s their dutie.>. 
 and the districts in which such auditors respectively are to act. and may 
 from time to time change wholly or in part such duties or ilistricts; ainl 
 every district so a.ssigned to a district auditor, whether originally or uik^ii 
 any change, shall be deemed to be an audit district within the me.ming 
 of any enactment relating to di.strict auditoi-s or their district.s, and the 
 auditor to whom any district is assigned shall be deemed to be the district 
 auditor for that district. 
 
 The Board may also, with the consent of the Treasury, appoint from time 
 to time a person or persons, either temporarily or otherwise, to a>si>t a 
 district auditor in the performance of his duties, and any person so app«.>inte*l 
 shall, subject to any exceptions made by the terms of his api>ointment, 
 have the same i>owers and duties and bo subject to the sjime obligations 
 as the district auditor whom he is api)ointed to assist. 
 
 The Board, with the like consent, may a.ssign to a jH^rson so apiK)inted 
 such salary or remuneration and such sum for his expen.ses as may .s^em 
 fit, and such salary, remuneration, and expenses shall be paid out of 
 moneys provided by Parliament.
 
 870 
 
 [Chap. 6.] 
 
 District Auditors Act 1879. 
 
 [42 Vict.] 
 
 Regulations 
 as to audit. 
 
 4 & 5 W. 4 
 c. 76. 
 
 Stamp duties 
 under Inland 
 Eevenue. 
 
 Failure to 
 submit finan- 
 cial state- 
 ment. 
 
 Definitions. 
 
 5. Where any accounts of the receipts and expenditure of a local 
 authority are subject by law to be audited by a district auditor, the Local 
 Government Board may from time to time by order make, and when made 
 revoke and vary, such regulations as seem to the Board necessary or 
 proper respecting the audit of such accounts, including the form of keeping 
 the accounts of the local authority and their officers, the day or days 
 to which the accounts are to be made up,* the time within which they are 
 to be examined by the local authority, the mode in which, if it is so 
 presci'ibed, they are to be certified by the local authority or any officer 
 of that authority, the mode of publishing the time and place of holding 
 the audit, the persons by whom such accounts are to be produced for 
 audit, and the mode of conducting the audit, and an order under this 
 section shall be deemed to be an order within the meaning of section 
 ninety-eight of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834. 
 
 6. The duties charged under this Act .shall be deemed to be stamp duties 
 under the management of the Commissioners of Inland Eevenue, and all the 
 Acts relating to stamp duties, particularly those relating to foi-gery, fraudu- 
 lent dies, and other offences in connexion with stamp 'duties, shall apply 
 accordingly ; and such duties may, if the Commissioners so direct, be denoted 
 by adhesive stamps, to be cancelled by the auditor as provided by this Act. 
 
 7. If a local authority fail to comply with the provisions of this Act 
 with respect to a financial statement, such local authority, or if a clerk to the 
 local authority is appointed, that clerk, and if no clerk is appointed, but there 
 is a treasurer or other officer keeping the accounts which should be com- 
 prised in such financial statement, that treasurer or other officer shall be 
 liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds for each offence, to be recovered 
 by action on behalf of Her Majesty in the High Court of Justice. 
 
 8. In this Act,- — ■ 
 
 The expression "local rate" means the poor rate, the general district 
 rate, and every rate the proceeds of which are applicable to public 
 local purposes, and which is leviable on the basis of a poundage 
 assessment of the value of property, and includes any sum which, 
 though obtained in the first instance by a precept, certificate, or other 
 instrument requiring payment from some authority or officer, is or 
 can be ultimately raised out of a rate as before defined. 
 
 The expression " local authority " means any person or body of persons 
 who receive and expend any local rate, but does not include ovei'seers 
 of the poor. 
 
 The expression "prescribed" means pre.scribed from time to time by the 
 Local Government Board. 
 
 Auditors 
 
 appointed 
 
 under 
 
 repealed 
 
 Acts. 
 
 Saving of 
 certain 
 fees and 
 expenses. 
 
 [Part omitted {definition o/" Treasury'') rej). 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 {S.L.R.).] 
 9 — 10. [The Local Government Board, with the approval of the Treasury, 
 to determine the remuneratio7ifor existhig district auditors, and their allowance 
 for expenses — Provisions as to audit for the year 1879. Pejy. 57 & 58 
 'Vkt. c. 56 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 11. . . 
 
 (2) Any auditor appointed in pursuance of any enactment hereby 
 repealed shall (save as may be prescribed) have the same powers 
 and duties and be subject to the same obligations as if such 
 enactment had not been repealed. 
 
 [Part omitted {repeal of the Acts sjJecified in 2nd Schedule) rep. 57 & 58 
 
 Vict. c. 56 {S.L.R.):\ 
 
 12. Nothing in this Act shall prevent a district auditor from recovering 
 . . . any expenses . . . which he may . . . incur, in any proceedings 
 which he is authorised or required to take or defend under the statutes 
 in that behalf. [Parts omitted {as to expenses in res])ect of an audit held 
 'prior to 25th Jlfarch 1879, a7id the v)07'ds ^^ incurred or " and ^^ hereafter ") 
 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 * See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 71 (1) and 73 (1), and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 14.
 
 Gaslight and Coke and other Gas 
 [43 & 44 Vict.] Companies Acts Amendment [Chap, clxxxi.l 871 
 
 Act 188U. 
 
 FIRST SCHEDULE. 
 
 * Scale of Stavtp Dulie» payable by Local Authorltiex. Section 2. 
 
 Where tlio totiil of the »'X|M'nc]itnrc comnriHed 'i.! u n i 
 
 in th.- finHiuial Jtuteu.ent in ' ''® """" "^^^ ^ 
 
 Under 20^ 0«, 
 
 20/. and un<lci- ;'U.' 10#. 
 
 aOZ. and under 1<H»/ 1^. 
 
 ](!()/. and under n(KV 21. 
 
 :j(IOZ. and under 1,(>(K)/ 3/. 
 
 1,(KW. and under 2,;'1K)/ 4/. 
 
 2,i;(H);. and under ">.( KM 1^. 5/. 
 
 5,(H)()Z. and under m.iMKi/. ' 10/. 
 
 10,00(1/. and under 2().(i( HI/ 15/. 
 
 20,000/. and under oO.OCM)/ 20^ 
 
 50,000/. and under lOO.OOOZ 30/. 
 
 100.000/. and upwards I 50/. 
 
 For the purpose of this Schedule the expenditure comprised in the financial 
 statement shuli be exclusive of any sum paid to another local authority in 
 pursuance of a precept. 
 
 Second Scm;i>ti.r.. [Rrpntl (inter alia) of ng. 36 (uid 87 i>fH)S: 31 Vict. <-. 6 ; 
 «. 247 <:f the riiblir JJfulU, Act \ HI it fro in "/<>/• the L'moii" in snb-it. (1) to 
 "■f-om the place of audit " at the end of mib-s. (2) ; and of g. 9 of the Jlig/iways 
 and LiiroDKitireii (Amrndmenl) Art \S~H from ''for the audit dlxtrict" to 
 *' <s Kitudte,'' and from ''the auditor shall receive such i-emunvration" to "in 
 a summary manner." Hep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.Ii.).} 
 
 43 & 44 VICTORIA. A.D. 1880. 
 
 CHAPTER CLXXXI. 
 
 t An Act to make further Provision for regulating the Supply of 
 Gas by the Gaslight and Coke Company, the Commercial Gas 
 Company, and the South Metropolitan Gas Company, anh to 
 amend the acts relating to the said companies. 
 
 ['20th August 1880.] 
 [J^reamble.] 
 
 1. Tliis Act may he cited for all purposes as the Gaslight .and Coke and .Short title. 
 Other Gas Companies Acts Amendment Act, 1.^80. 
 
 2. In this Act — Interprcta- 
 The expression "the city" means the city of London and the liberties tion of 
 
 thereof : expressions. 
 
 The expression "the Corporation" means the Mayor, Aldermen, and 
 Commons of the City of London in Common Council assembled : 
 
 The expression "the Metropolitan Board" means the Metro|X)litan 
 Board of Works X '• 
 
 The expression " the special Act," in relation to any of the companies 
 to wliich this Act applies, means and inchuKs any and every Act of 
 Parliament relating cxchisively to such company, and so much of any 
 and every other Act of Parliament as aft'ects such company : 
 
 The expres.sion "the district," in relation to any of tlie companies to 
 which this Act apjilies, means the area within the limits of this Act in 
 which sucli company is for the time being authori.sed to supply ga.s ; 
 
 The expression "testing place" shall mean a testing place prescribed 
 and certified by the gas referees: 
 
 The expres.sion " the controlling authority," in relation to any place 
 in the city, means the Corporation, and in relation to any other 
 place within the limits of this Act means the Metropolitan Board. 
 
 * See 51 & 02 Vict. c. 41, s. 71, and 2nd Schedule. 
 
 t See ") Edw. 7, c. civ. 
 
 X ^'o\v the Loudon County Council. See ol k 52 Vict. c. 41, s. -10 (8),
 
 872 
 
 Gaslight and Coke and other Gas 
 [Chap, clxxxi.] Companies Acts Ainendment [43 & 44 Vict.] 
 
 Act 1880. 
 
 Limits of Act, 
 
 18 & 19 Tict. 
 c. 120. 
 
 Application 
 of Act. 
 
 Power to 
 
 gas referees 
 to visit test- 
 ing places. 
 
 Mode and 
 times of test- 
 ing pressure 
 of gas. 
 
 Daily testing 
 for illuminat- 
 ing power 
 and purity. 
 
 What shall 
 be deemed 
 illuminating 
 power for 
 each day. 
 
 Average of 
 testings of 
 purity. 
 
 Company 
 may be 
 represented 
 at testings. 
 
 3. This Act shall not be in force in any place beyond the limits of the 
 metropolis as such limits are defined by the Metropolis Management 
 Act, 1855. 
 
 4. This Act shall extend and apply to the companies following ; (that 
 is to say,) 
 
 The Gaslight and Coke Company ; . 
 
 The Commercial Gas Company ; and 
 
 The South Metropolitan Gas Company ; 
 and throughout the districts of the said companies and for the purpo.ses 
 of its application throughout any one of such districts the expre.ssion " the 
 company " shall be construed to mean such one of the said companies 
 as is for the time being authorised to supply gas in such district, and 
 the expression " the gas referees," " the chief gas examiner," and " gas 
 examiner" shall respectively have the meanings assigned to the same 
 expressions in the special Act of such company, and the special Act of 
 such company, as amended by this Act, and this Act shall be construed 
 together as one Act. 
 
 5. The gas referees shall from time to time, after giving notice to the 
 controlling authority, visit the testing places and examine the apparatus 
 for the purpose of ascertaining that it is kept in good and proper repair 
 and working order. 
 
 6. The gas referees shall from time to time prescribe and certify the 
 mode to be adopted for testing and recoreling the pressure at which gas 
 is supplied by the company, and a gas examiner shall in the mode so 
 prescribed test the pressure at which gas is supplied at such hour anel in 
 such street or part of a street as the controlling authoz'ity may from time 
 to time by an order in writing appoint, and within three days of the 
 receipt of such order. 
 
 7. A gas examiner shall at each testing place make daily such 
 number of tests as the gas referees may prescribe for ascertaining whether 
 during the whole of each day the illuminating power and purity of the 
 gas supplied at such testing place by the company are such as are 
 respectively prescribed under the special Act. Provided that the tests 
 for illuminating power shall be taken at intervals of not less than one 
 hour. [*See 5 Eclv). 7, c. civ. ss. 5 and 10.] 
 
 And in the event of the gas being ascertained to be defective in any 
 such particular, such examiner shall forthwith give notice thei'eof to the 
 company. 
 
 8. The average of all the testings at any testing place on each day of 
 the illuminating power of the gas supplied by the company, at such 
 testing place shall be deemed to represent the illuminating power of such 
 gas on that day at such testing place. [.See cdso 5 Ediv. 7, c. civ, s. 4 (3).] 
 
 9. The average of all the testings at any testing place on any day of 
 the purity of the gas supplied by the company at such testing place 
 shall be deemed to represent the purity of such gas on that day at such 
 testing place. 
 
 Provided always, that if on any one day the gas supplied by the 
 company at such testing place is of less purity than it ought to be under 
 the special Act, the average of all the testings made at such testing place 
 on that day and on the preceding and on the following day shall be 
 deemed to represent the purity of such gas on such one day at such 
 testing place. 
 
 10. The Company may, if they think fit, on each occasion of the 
 testing at any testing place of the illuminating power, purity, and 
 pressure of the gas supplied bj'^ them, be represented by some officer, but 
 such officer shall not interfere in the testing, and the controlling autlioritv 
 shall state at what time it is proposed to make such testings on any
 
 Gasliyht and Coke and other Gas 
 [43 & 44 Vict.] CompanleH Art.i. Auundment [Chai'. clxxxi.] 873 
 
 particular day upon receiving,' a request in writing from the comimny in 
 
 the forcn(Jon of the previoius day. 
 
 11. Each gas examiner shall on each day n)ake and deliver a report t)ai'y r«»p"rt« 
 of the result of the testings of the gas supplied by the company conducte«l '"' 
 
 by him on the immcdiiitely preceding day to tlu' controlling authority, to *'^ 
 the gas referi'i's, to tlie cliii-f gas examiner, and to the ctmipany, ami the 
 books kept by a gas examiner for recording the results of the tenting of 
 such gas by him shall be open at nil reasonable times to the insiK-cticin 
 of the company without payuK-nt. [See 5 Edu-. 7, c. dv. ». 5 (2).] 
 
 12. [-Is to (ippeid t(i chief (JUS t-.m nilni-r. /'ep. and replaced by 5 Edv. 7, 
 
 c. civ. .s. 11.] 
 
 13. Within one week after the end of each (juarter of a year the chief Quarterly 
 
 gas examiner shall make a report to the controlling authority and to the '^I/'^f ^^ 
 company on the results of the daily testings made in that (puirter, and exaiuiuer. 
 shall state therein with respect to gas supplied by the company in that 
 quarter — 
 
 (I.) The illuminating power on each day at each testing placi-. 
 
 {'!.) The amount of inqmrity in each form on each day at each testing 
 place. 
 
 (3.) The results of each testing of pre.ssure. 
 
 14. If on any day the gas supplied by the company at any testing Forfeiture 
 place is of le.ss illuminating power than it ought to be under the special '"^ '"'['^^ 
 Act, the company shall be liable to the following forfeitures: " p«j«er. 
 
 For the first half of a candle of defective power, forty shiUings ; and 
 For the iiivst nnd every sub.sequent candle of defective power, a sum not 
 less than twenty-five pounds and not exceeding one hundred pounds, 
 having regard to the relative (juantities of gas manufactured by the 
 respective companies. 
 Provided always, that the controlling authority of any testing place 
 having recovered one forfeiture in respect of defective illuminating power 
 in the gas su])i)lied by the company at one testing place on any day shall 
 not be entitled to any further forfeiture in respect of defective illumi- 
 nating power in the gas supplied by the company at any other testing place 
 of such controlling authoritv on the same da v. [>V« 5 Kdtr. 7, c. civ. 
 ss. 4 (3) and 12.] 
 
 15. If on any day the gas supplied by the company at any testing Forfeiture 
 place is of h .ss i)uritv than it ourrht to be the companv shall forfeit a , .*'''*^*^*.'* 
 
 Or imDtiritv 
 
 sum not exceeding Hfty pounds for each occjision on which they are so f J' 
 
 in default. 
 
 Provided always, that the controlling authority of any testing place 
 having recovered one forfeiture in resjiect of exce.ss of inqmrity in the gas 
 supplied by the company at one testing place on any day shall not l>e 
 entitled to any further forfeiture in re.>pect of excess of impuiity in the 
 gas supplied by the Company at any other testing place of such con- 
 trolling authoiity on the same day; and provided also, that the average 
 of the testings made at such testing place on that ilay and on the 
 preceding and on the following day sh:ill be deemed to represent the purity 
 of such gas on such one day at such testing place. [.See note on s. 14.] 
 
 16. If at any time (hiring any peiio«l between midnight an<l sunset, or Forfeiture 
 during any period between sunset and miilnight, the gas supplied by the *" '"""*' 
 couqiany is supplied at a pressure less than it ought to be under the , 
 special Act, the company shall in e;ich case forfeit a sum not exceeding ' 
 
 ten pounds. 
 
 Providt (1 always, that the controlling authority having recovei-etl one 
 forfeiture in respect of insutficiency of pre.ssure in the gas supplied by the 
 conqiany during any period of twenty-four houi-s shall not be entitled to 
 any further forfeiture in respect of insuthciency of pre.ssure in the gas 
 supplied by the company during the same periotl. [.S'ee note on s. 14.]
 
 874 
 
 Gaslight and Coke and other Ga.s 
 [Chap, clxxxi.] Companies Acts Amendment [43 & 44 Vict.] 
 
 Act 1880. 
 
 Saving for 
 
 unavoidable 
 
 accident. 
 
 Forfeiture 
 and losses 
 from fraud, 
 etc. 
 
 Eecovery of 
 
 forfeitures. 
 
 etc. 
 
 23 & 24 Vict. 
 
 c. 125. 
 
 Repeal of 
 Acts to the 
 extent 
 .specified in 
 Schedule. 
 
 17. No forfeiture shall be incurred in any case with respect to which it 
 is certified by the chief gas examiner that the defect of illuminating 
 power, excess of impurity, or insufficiency of pre.ssure was occasioned by an 
 unavoidable cause or accident. [.See note on s, 14.] 
 
 18. [As to eimlence of liability to forfeiture. Rep. and replaced hy 
 5 Edv:. 7, c. civ. s. 14.] 
 
 19. Every such forfeiture, and any loss arising from fraud of the 
 servants of the company which the auditor (appointed as in the special 
 Act provided) shall certify has arisen from want of due diligence on the 
 part of the directors, shall be borne and paid to the satisfaction of such 
 auditor exclusively by and out of the divisible profits of the company,, 
 and by way of reduction of dividend. 
 
 20. Every forfeiture imposed by this Act shall be recovered, applied, 
 and appropriated in the manner provided by sections forty-six and fifty- 
 three of the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, and the said sections shall be read 
 and construed as applying to forfeitures and the recovery thereof, and 
 otherwise in relation thereto under this Act, as if such forfeitures were 
 penalties under the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860. [.See 5 Edw. 7, c. civ. 
 ss. 12 ayid 16.] 
 
 21. From and after the passing of this Act the Acts specified in the 
 fii'st column of the Schedule to this Act annexed shall within the limits of 
 this Act be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent specified in 
 the second column of that Schedule. Provided that this repeal shall not- 
 affect — 
 
 (rt.) The past operation of any enactment hereby repealed, nor any- 
 thing done or suffered itnder any enactment hereby repealed ; 
 
 (b.) Any right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or- 
 incurred under any enactment hereby repealed ; 
 
 (c.) Any penalty, forfeiture, or jaunishment incurred in respect of any 
 offence or default committed against any enactment hereby 
 repealed ; nor 
 
 (d.) Any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any 
 such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or 
 punishment as afore.said, and any such investigation, legal proceed- 
 ing, and remedy may be carried on as if this Act had not passed. 
 
 22. [77ie expenses of obtaining this Act to be jkM by the Corporation 
 and the Metropolitan Board in such propm'tion as the Board of Trade may ■ 
 direct. Spent.] 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Setting forth thk Enactments repealed pa' the foregoing Act. 
 
 Acts. 
 
 The Gaslight and Coke Company 
 Act, 1876. 
 
 The Commercial Gas Act, 1875 . 
 
 The South Metropolitan Gaslight 
 and Coke Company's Act, 1876. 
 
 Extent of Repeal. 
 
 So much of sections 27 and 34 as relates to the 
 
 pressure of gas ; and 
 Sections 40 to 56, both inclusive. 
 
 In section 32 the following words " one such place 
 being prescribed for every station from which 
 gas is supplied in the district supplied from such 
 station," and so much of the said section and of 
 section 26 as relates to the pressure of the gas ; ■ 
 and 
 
 Sections 37 to 51, both inclusive. 
 
 So much of sections 28 and 35 as relates to the 
 
 pressure of the gas ; and 
 Sections 41 to 56. both inclusive.
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] Municipal Corporations Act ISSS. [Chap. 51).] 876 
 
 45 & 46 VICTORIA. A.D. 1882. 
 
 CHAPTER 50. 
 
 An Act for coxsolidatinc;, with Amenumexts, Enactments relating to 
 Municipal Corporations in England and Walks. 
 
 [\^tk A>i,ja>it \fifi'2.] 
 
 [Preamble rep. Gl i 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.LK.).] 
 
 PAIIT r. 
 Preliminary. 
 
 1. ThLs Act may be cited as the Municipal Corporation.s Act, 1882. Short title 
 
 2. [Division of this Act into parts.] 
 
 3. [7'his Act not to extend to Scotlarul oi' Ireland.] 
 
 4 — 5. [As to commencement of this Act — Repeal of enactments described in 
 the 1st Schedule. Rep. 61 & 02 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 6. This Act shall apply to every city and town to which the ^lunicipal Application. 
 Corporations Act, 1S35, applies at the commencement of this Act, iuid to 
 any town, district, or place whereof the inhahitants are incorpoi-att-d after 
 the commencement of this Act, and whereto the provisions of the 
 Municipal Corporation Acts are under this Act extended by charter, but 
 to no other place. 
 
 7. — (1.) In this Act — Interpreto- 
 
 tiou and con- 
 
 ,,-.,.., " . „ ' I , i * . ' , , , struction. 
 
 Municipal corporation means the body corporate constituted by the 
 
 incorporation of the inliabitants of a borough : 
 " Municipal Corporations Act, 1835," means the recited Act of King 
 
 William the Fourth, the date of the pa.ssing whereof i.s the ninth 
 
 of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five: 
 "Municipal Corporations Acts" means this Act and any Act to be 
 
 passed amending this Act : 
 " Burgess" includes citizen : 
 
 " Corporate .seal " means the common seal of a municipal corjXJration : 
 "Corporate office" means the office of mayor, alderman, councillor, 
 
 elective auditor . . . : 
 "Corporate land" means land belonging to or held in trust for a 
 
 municipal corporation : 
 " Municipal election " means an election to a corporate office : 
 " Parliamentary borough " means any borough, city, county of a city, 
 
 county of a town, place, or combination of pl.u'es, returning a 
 
 member to serve in Parliament, and not l)eing a county at large, 
 
 or a riding, parts, or division of a county at lai-ge : 
 " Parliamentary election " means an election of a memlier to .serve in 
 
 Parliament : 
 " Parish " means any place for which a separate poor mte is or can be 
 
 made [see 52 ct 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 5] : 
 " Overseers " means overseers of the poor of a parish, township, or 
 
 place, and includt-s all persons who execute the duties of ovirseei-s : 
 " County " does not include a county of a city or county of a town, but 
 
 includes a riding, parts, division, or liliertv of a county [see 
 
 52 ci- 53 Vict. c. 63, *•. 4] : 
 " Trustees " means trustees, commi.ssioners, or directors, or the persons 
 
 charged with the execution of a trust or public duty, however 
 
 tlesignated : 
 " Person " includes a body of persons corpoi-ate or unincorpoitite :
 
 876 
 
 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 "Justice" means one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace : 
 " Boroush ciWl court " means an inferior court of record for the trial of 
 civil actions which by charter, custom, or otherwise, is or ought 
 to be holden in a borough, but does not include a county court : 
 
 " Schedule" means Schedule to this Act, and " part " means part of this 
 Act : 
 
 '• Writing " includes print, and " written " includes printed. [.See 
 52 k 53 Yict. c. 63, s. 20.] 
 
 (2.) Words in this Act referring to a borough, municipal corporation, 
 authority, officer, or ollice, shall be construed distributively as referring to 
 each borough, corporation, authority, officer, or office to which or to whom 
 the provision is applicable. 
 
 (3.) Words in this Act referring to a parL-^h shall be construed, unless 
 a contrary intention appears, as referring to every parish situate wholly 
 or in part in a borough. 
 
 (4.) The Schedules shall be read and have effect as if they were part of 
 this Act. 
 
 [Parts omitted {definitions of " borough," " Treasury,'' " Secretary of 
 State," "■High Court," and ''Bank of Enaland," and the icords "-or revising 
 assessor") rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 22 (S.L.R.).'] 
 
 PAET II.* 
 
 Constitution and Government of Borough. 
 
 Name of 8. The municipal corporation of a borough shall bear the name of the 
 
 municipal mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough, or, in the case of a city, 
 corporation, ^j^g mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city. [See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 79 (1).] 
 
 Burgesses. 
 
 Oualification 9* — i^-) -^ person shall not be deemed a burgess for any purpose of this 
 of burgess. Act unless he is enrolled as a burgess. 
 
 (2.) A person shall not be entitled to be enrolled as a burge.ss unless he 
 is qualified as follows : [See the County Electors Act 1S88, ss. 2 and^ 3.] 
 [a.) Is of full age ; and 
 (b.) Is on the fifteenth of July in am' year, and has been during the 
 
 whole of the then last preceding twelve months.t in occupation, 
 
 joint or several, of any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, 
 
 or other building (in this Act referred to as qualifying property) 
 
 in the borough ; and 
 (c.) Has during the whole of those twelve months t resided in the 
 
 borough, or within seven miles thereof,^ and 
 {d) Has been rated § in respect of the qualifying property to all poor 
 
 rates made during those twelve months for the parish wherein 
 
 the property is situate ; and 
 (e) Has on or before the twentieth of the same July paid all such rates, 
 
 including borough rates (if any), as have become payable by him 
 
 in respect of the qualifying property up to the then last preceding 
 
 fifth of January. 
 (3.) Every person so qualified shall be entitled to be enrolled as a 
 burgess, unless he — 
 (o.) Is an alien ; or 
 
 * See 51 & .52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75. 
 
 t See the Municipal Voters Relief Act LSSu, s. 2, and the Electoral Disabilities 
 Eemoval Act 1891, s. 2. 
 
 + See s. 231, and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 77. 
 
 § See s. 32, and the Poor Rate Assessment Act 1869, ss. 7 and 19,
 
 [45 & 40 Vict.] ^fanicipal Corporations Act 1882. [Chap. Ou.j 877 
 
 (6.) Has within the twelve months aforesaid received union or parochuil 
 
 reHef or other alms * ; or 
 (c.) Is disentitled under any Act of Parliament.t 
 
 Council ; Mai/or, Aldermen, and Councillors. 
 10. [As to constitution of Council, Superseded {ns reyards county 
 councils) hy b\ «i: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 1.] 
 
 11. — (1.) The councillors shall Ijo lit persons electtd hy the ljurge>ses. ' " ' 
 [Seess. 12, 34 (3), and o'J (3).) 
 
 (2.) A person shall not be (iualitied to be elected <»r tu \Hi n councillor, X 
 unless he — 
 
 («.) Is enrolled and entitled to be enrolled its a burgess [see s. 9 (2)] ; or 
 
 (6.) Being entitled to be so enrolh-d in all respects except that of 
 
 residence, is resident beyond seven miles but within fifteen miles 
 
 of the borough, and is entered in the separate non-residt-nt list 
 
 directed by this Act to be made [see 51 it 52 Vict. c. 41, .v. 77J : and 
 
 (c.) In either of those cases, is seised or possessed of real or personal 
 
 property or l>oth, to the value or jimount, in the case of a 
 
 borough having four or more wards, of one thousand pounds, 
 
 and in the case of any other borough, of five hundred pounds, 
 
 or is rated to the poor rate in the borough, in the cai>e of a 
 
 borough having four or more wards, on the animal value of 
 
 thirty pounds, and in the case of any other borough of fifteen 
 
 pounds. [.See 51 &, 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 2 (2) {!>).] 
 
 (3.) Provided, that every person shall be cpialified to be elected and to 
 
 be a councillor, who is, at the time of election, (jualitied to elect to the 
 
 office of councillor ; which last-mentioned cpialitication for being elected 
 
 shall be alternative for and shall not repeal or take away any other 
 
 qualilication. 
 
 (4.) But if a person ijualilied umUr the last foregoing pro\'iso ceases 
 for six months to reside in the borough, he shall cease to be qualitieti 
 under that proviso, and his office shall become vacant, unless he was at 
 the time of his election and continues to be qualilied in some other 
 manner. 
 
 12. — (1.) A person shall be disqualified for being elected and for being Disqualifica- 
 a councillor, § if and while he — tio»s for 
 
 (rt.) Is an electice auditor or a revising assessor,^ or holds any office y^'"^..,, 
 or place of profit, other than that of mayor or sheriff, in the *■ 
 lift or di 
 
 57 tt 58 
 
 isposal of the council [see 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41, «. 4U (2), and 
 ]'ict. c. clxxxvii. N. 3;5| ; or 
 (b.) Is in holy orders, or the regular minister of a dissenting congi-e- 
 gation [see 51 <k 52 Vict. c. 41, *-. 2 (2), and G2 & 63 Vict. c. 14, 
 s. 2 (4)]; or 
 (c.) Has directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or 
 interest in any contract or employment with, by, or on behalf 
 of the council : 
 (2.) But a person shall not be so disqualified, or be deemed to have 
 
 * See s. 83, and the Vaccination Art iSfiT, s. '2{\ ; the Mwlical lU-licf Dis- 
 qualification Kenioval Act l.sis4, ss. 2 (1) anil 4; the Elementary KiUicatinn .\ct 
 187(5, s. 10 ; anil oi ic oo Vict. c. 71), s. SO (4). 
 
 + See the Forfeiture Act ls70, s. 2 ; the I'orrupt and Illegal rrnctices lYevcntion 
 Act 1883, ss. G (3), (4), (10), and 38 (5); the Muniiipal Elections iCorrupt and IIKl-uI 
 Tractices) Act 18S4, ss. 2 (2), 7. 17 (2), 23. and 2s (4); iA k ".2 Vict. c. 41. s. 7.-) ; 
 5i; & 57 Vict. c. 63, s. 48 (3); and the Public Bodies Corrupt Tractices Act 1889, 
 
 s. 2 (d). 
 
 t See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 2 (2). 
 
 § See also ss. 3".t and 124, 51 .\: 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 5 (7); the li.inkruptcy Acts lss3. 
 ss. 32 (1) (d) and 34, and 1890. s. <• ; the Corrupt rmctires Acts iss:!, ss. r., 10, and 
 1884, ss. 2, 7 ; the Felony Act 1870, s. 2; the rublio Bodies (Corruj-t rractico) Act 
 1889^ s. 2; the Arniv Act 1S81, s. lH?; and the Army (Annual) Act ISHl, s. 8. 
 
 II See 51 & 52 Vict' c. 41, s. 75 (If.) (J), and t;2 & 1)3 Vict. c. 14, s. 14. 
 
 IT Words in italics not applicable to London.
 
 878 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 any share or interest in such a contract or employment, by reason only 
 of his having any share or interest, in — 
 
 (ft.) Any lease, sale, or purchase of land, or any agreement for the 
 
 same ; or 
 {!).) Any agreement for the loan of money, or any security for the 
 
 payment of money only ; or 
 (c.) Any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs 
 
 of the borough or council is inserted ; or 
 {d.) Any company which contracts with the council for lighting or 
 supplying with water or insuring against fire any part of the 
 borough ; or 
 (e.) Any railway company, or any company incorporated by Act of 
 25 & 26 Vict. Parliament or Eoyal charter, or under the Companies Act, 1862. 
 
 ^- ^^- [See also the Highways and Bridges Act, 1891, s. 5,* and see the Municipal 
 
 Corporations Amendment Act 1906, s. 2.t] 
 
 13. — (1.) The term of office of a councillor shall be three years. 
 Term of office 
 
 of councillors [Part omitted {as to rotation of councillors) not applicable to London. 
 
 See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 2 (2) (f/) ; 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (5) and (8); 
 
 and 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 20. See also 54 & 55 Vict. c. 68, s. 1 (1) 
 
 and (2).] 
 
 14 — (1.) The aldermen shall be fit persons elected by the council. 
 Number, term r^^^ gj ^ 50 y-^^^ ^^ 4^^ ^ 2 (2) (c).] 
 
 rotation oT (2-) The number of aldermen shall be one third of the number of 
 
 aldermen. councillors. [See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 40 (5), and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, 
 s. 2 (3).] 
 
 (3.) A pei^son shall not be qualified to be elected or to be an alderman 
 unless he is a councillor or qualified to be a councillor. 
 
 (4.) If a councillor is elected to, and accepts, the office of alderman he 
 vacates his office of councillor. 
 
 (5.) The term of office of an alderman shall be six years. 
 (6.) On the ordinary day of election of aldermen in every third year 
 one half of the whole number of aldermen shall go out of office, and their 
 places shall be filled by election. [See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75, a^id 
 62 ^ 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (4).] 
 
 (7.) The half to go out shall be those who have been aldermen for the 
 longest time without re-election. 
 
 16. — (1.) The mayor shall be a fit person elected by the council from 
 Qualification, among the aldermen or councillors or persons qualified to be such. [See 
 term of office, 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 2 (5), and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (4).] 
 cedence,and (2.) An outgoing alderman is eligible. , . , 1 „ 
 
 powers of (3.) The term of office of the mayor shall be one year, but be snail 
 
 mayor. continue in office until his successor has accepted office and made and 
 
 subscribed the required declaration. 
 
 (4.) He may receive such remuneration as the council think reasonable. 
 (5.) [As to 2wecedence of the mayor. Not applicable to London. See 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (16) (b), and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (4).] 
 
 (6) [Savi7ig for mayors of boroughs named in the Schedules to the 
 J/unicipal Corporations Act 1835. iVot applicable to Londo7i.] 
 
 * .S. .5 of the Highways and Bridges Act 1891 is as follows : " 5. No person shall be 
 disqualified for being elected, or for being a member of a county council, by reason 
 only of his having any share or interest in any contract with such county council 
 for' the supply from land, of which he is owner or occupier, of stone, gravel, or other 
 materials lor making or repairing highways or bridges. Provided always that 110 
 such share or interest in any contract shall exceed the amount of fifty pounds in 
 any one year." 
 
 t S. 2 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act 1906 is as follows : " 2. At 
 the end of subsection (e) of section twelve of the Municipal Corporations Act, 
 1882, there shall, by virtue of this Act, be added the words 'or any society 
 registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, 1893 and 1895,' and all 
 other enactments having reference in any manner to the section aforesaid shall be 
 read and have effect accordingly."
 
 ■[45 & 40 Vict.] Manicipal Cor/jnmfionH Act 1882. [Chai'. 50.] 879 
 
 16. [^I^oioer of the mayor to appoint a deputy. Xot applicable to London. 
 ^ee 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (IG) (6), and 62 & 03 Vict. c. 14, «. 2 (4).] 
 
 Officers of Conned. 
 
 17. l-l''- <o tovni clerk. Kot applicable to London. See 51 »k 52 Vict. 
 c. 41, s. 75 (IG) {e),and 02 ik 63 T/c^ c. 14, s. 31.] 
 
 18. (1.) The council sliiiU from time to time appoint a fit person, not a The treasurer, 
 member of the council, to be the treasurer of the borou;.;h. 
 
 (2.) The treasurer shall hold office durinj^ the pleasure of the council. 
 
 (3.) A vacancy in the oflice shall be tilleil within twenty-one (lays after 
 its occurrence. 
 
 (4.) The offices of town clerk and treasurer .shall not be held Ijy the same 
 person. 
 
 [See 51 ct 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (IG) (e), and L.C.C. Minutes of lOt/i 
 March 1889, p. 04.] 
 
 19. The council shall from time to time api)oint such other officers Other 
 a.s have Ijeen usually appointed in the borough, or as the council think t)orough 
 necessary, and may at any time discontinue the appointment of any officer ° *^"*' 
 appearing to them not necessary to be re-appointed. [See 18 & 19 Vict. 
 
 c. 12U, 6'. G2 and note thereon ; 48 it 49 Vict. c. cl.vvii. s. 22 ; 51 it 52 Vict, 
 c. 41, ss. S3 (11), 118, and 119; 53 it 54 Vict. c. ccxliii. s. 17 ; 57 it 58 Vict, 
 cc. ccxii. s. 6, and ccxiii. s. 13G; 59 it 60 Vict. c. li. v. 2 ; and 4 Edw. 7, 
 c. cciii. s. 31.] 
 
 20. The council shall require every officer appointed by them to give Security by 
 such security as they think t)roper for the due execution of his office, and ''"',„ ^t'.t;..n 
 shall allow him such remuneration as they think rea.sonabie. [See also ^f ufficers. 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 65, and 51 it 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 83 (11).] 
 
 21. — (1.) Every officer appointed by the council shall at such times during Accounta- 
 the continuance of his office, or within three months after his ceivsing to ^^^^■' "^ 
 hold it, and in such manner as the council direct, deliver to the council, or "^ ^^^' 
 as they direct, a true account in \\ riting of all matters committed to his 
 charge, and of his receipts and payments, with vouchers, and a list of 
 persons from whom money is due for purpo.ses of this Act in connection 
 with his office, shewing the amount due from each. 
 
 (2.) Every such officer shall pay all money due from him to the treasurer, 
 or as the council direct. 
 (3.) If any such officer — 
 
 («.) Refuses or wilfully neglects to deliver any account or list which he 
 ought to deliver, or any voucher relating thereto, or to make any 
 payment which he ought to make ; or 
 (b.) After three days notice in writing, signed by the town clerk or by 
 three members of the council, givt-n or left at his usual or last 
 known place of abode, refuses or wilfully neglects to deliver to 
 the council, or as they ilirect, any book or document which he 
 ought so to deliver, or to give satisfaction respecting it to the 
 council or as they direct ; 
 a court of summary jurisdiction having jurisdiction where the otKcer is or 
 resides may, by summary order, require liim to make such delivery or 
 payment, or to give such satisfaction. 
 
 (4.) But nothing in this section shall atfect any remcily by action against 
 any such otiicer or his surety, except that the officer shall not be both sued 
 by action and proceeded against sinumarily for the same cause. 
 [See also 18 it 19 Vict. c. 1 20, s. 05.] 
 
 Meetings and Proceedings of Council ; Committees. 
 
 22. (1-) [Rides in the second Schedule to be observed. Superseded {as Quarterly 
 
 o^gards the London County Council) by 50 it 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. ,s-. 10. ^^"^J^^'^jJ^'^'^^j 
 and Sch.] council;
 
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 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 k 40 Vict.] 
 
 appoint- 
 ment of 
 committees, 
 minutes, etc. 
 
 Power of 
 council 
 to make 
 brelaws. 
 
 38 & 39 Vict, 
 c. .55. 
 
 (2.) The council may from time to time appoint out of their own body 
 such and so many committees, either of a general or special nature, and 
 consisting of such number of persons, as they think fit, for any purposes 
 which, in the opinion of the council, would be better regulated and 
 managed by means of such committees ; but the acts of every such 
 committee shall be submitted to the council for their approval. [See 18 <fc 
 19 Ykt. c. 120, ss. 58 and 59 ; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 28, 75 (16) (/), 
 80 (3), 81, and 82; 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 8; and 2 Edw. 7, c. 42, s. 17, 
 and the 2Iidivives Act, 1902, s. 8.] 
 
 (3.) A member of the council shall not vote or take part in the discussion 
 of any matter before the coiuicil, or a committee, in which he has, 
 directly or indirectly, by himself or by his partner, any pecuniary interest. 
 
 (4.) No act or proceeding of the council, or of a committee, shall be 
 questioned on account of any vacancy in their body. 
 
 (5.) A minute of j^roceedings at a meeting of the council, or of a 
 committee, signed at the same or the next ensuing meeting, by the mayor, 
 or by a member of the council, or of the committee, describing himself 
 as, or appearing to be, chairman of the meeting at which the minute is 
 signed, shall be received in evidence withot^t further proof. [-See s. 235, 
 and 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 10, and Sch. par. 10.] 
 
 (6.) Until the contrary is proved, every meeting of the council, or of a 
 committee, in respect of the proceedings whereof a minute has been so 
 made, shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held, and all the 
 members of the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified ; and 
 where the proceedings are proceedings of a committee, the committee shall 
 be deemed to have been duly constittited, and to have had power to deal 
 with the matters referred to in the minutes. 
 
 Byelav)s. 
 
 23. — (1.) The council may, from time to time, make such byelaws as to 
 them seem meet for the good rule and government of the borough, and for 
 prevention and suppression of nuisances not already punishable in a 
 summary manner by virtue of any Act in force throughout the borough, 
 and may thereby appoint such fines, not exceeding in any case five pounds, 
 as they deem necessaiy for the prevention and suppression of oflences 
 against the same. [See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 85 (1).] 
 
 (2.) Such a byelaw shall not be made unless at least two thirds of the 
 whole number of the council are present. [See 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. 
 s. 10, and Scfc. par. 8.] 
 
 (3.) Such a byelaw shall not come into force until the expiration of 
 forty days after a copy thereof has been fixed on the town hall. 
 
 (4.) Such a byelaw shall not come into force until the expiration of 
 forty days after a copy thereof, sealed with the corporate seal, has been 
 sent to the Secretary of State : and if within those forty days the Queen, 
 with the advice of Her Pri-\-y Council, disallows the byelaw or part 
 thereof, the byelaw or part disallowed shall not come into force ; but it 
 shall be lawful for the Queen, at any time within these forty days, to. 
 enlai'ge the time within which the byelaw^ shall not come into force, 
 and in that case the byelaw shall not come into force until after the 
 expiration of that enlarged time. 
 
 (5.) Any oflTence against such a byelaw may be prosecuted summarily. 
 
 (6.) Nothing in this section shall interfere with the operation of section 
 one hundred and eighty-seven of the Public Health Act, 1875 ; and that 
 section shall have eflect as if this section were therein referred to, instead 
 of section ninety of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 ; but nothing 
 in the Public Health Act, 1875, shall be consti'ued as having restricted 
 the meaning or scope of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, or as 
 restricting the meaning or scope of this section, with respect to prevention 
 or stxppres.sion of nuisances. 
 
 [See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. IG (1); 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 182—187; 
 and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 5 (2) and 2nd Sch. Part II.]
 
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 24. The production of :i written copy of a byelaw made by the Evidence of 
 council under this Act, or under any former or present or future {general Ijvelaws. 
 
 or local Act of Parliament, if authenticated by the corporate seal shall, 
 until the contrary is proved, be sutiicient evidence of the due making and 
 existence of the byelaw, and, if it is so stated in the copy, of th*- l>ve- 
 law having been ap[)roved and confirnietl by the authority who.-e appmval 
 or confirmation is required to the making or before the enforcing of the 
 byelaw. \See 52 & 53 Vict. c. 03, .s. 20.] 
 
 Accounts and Attdii, 
 
 25. [lim-ottt/h aiiiUtora. Not ap])licnble to Loni/on. See 51 6: 52 
 Virl. c. 41, 6'. 75 (IG) {/>), and G2 & 03 Vict. c. 14, «. 14.] 
 
 26. The treasuier shall make up his accounts half-yearbj to such dates llalf-vearly 
 as the council, toith the approval of the Local Government Hoard, from time accounts of 
 to time appoint ; and, subject to arn/ suclo apjtointinent, to the dates in use at treasurer. 
 the commencement of tliis Act. \)Vords in italics not applicable to county 
 cotmcils 07' metropolitan boi'ongh councils, whose accounts are made up 
 
 yearly to 'i\st Jfarch. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, .s-. 73 (1), arid 02 (k 03 Vict, 
 'c. 14, s. 14. See also s. 233, and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 71 (2).] 
 
 27. — (1.) The treasurer shall within one month from the date to Audit and 
 which he is required to make up his accounts in each half year, submit pul>lJcation 
 them, with the necessary vouchers and papers, to the borough f'^f^l'iors,'^,^^^''^^^^ 
 and they shall audit tliein. \]Vord,s in italics superseded as regards county 
 councils and tJte metro})olitan borough councils. See 51 Sa 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 71 (3) ; and 02 & 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 14. See also s. 233.] 
 
 (2.) After the audit of the accounts for the second half of each financial 
 year the treasurer shall print a full abstract of his accounts for that year. 
 [See s. 233; 38 & 39 Vlct. c. 55, ss. 247 and 250; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 6'. 71 (3) ; and 02 & 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 14.] 
 
 28. — (1-) The town clerk shall make a return to the Local Government Hctiims 
 Board of the receipts and expenditure of the municipal corporation for each t-J L<->tal 
 
 financial year. BoarT°'*'°^ 
 
 (2.) The return shall be made for the financial year ending on the 
 twenty-fifth of March,* or on such other day as the Local Government 
 Board, on the application of the council, from time to time prescril)e. 
 
 (3.) The return shall be in such form and contain such particulars as 
 the Local Government Board from time to time direct. 
 
 (4.) The return shall be sent to the Local Government Board within 
 one month after the completion of the audit for the second half of each 
 financial year. [Words in italics not applicable to London. See note on s. 20. J 
 
 (5.) If the town clerk fails to make any return required under this 
 section, he shall for each ottence l)e liable to a fine not exceeding twenty 
 pounds to be recovered by action on behalf of the Crown in the Higli 
 Court. 
 
 (G.) The Local Government Board shall in each year prepare an al^tract 
 of the returns made in pursuance of this section, under general heads, and 
 it shall be laid before both Ilou.ses of Parliament. 
 [See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s..-. 71 (2), 75 (5), and 02 .<: 03 Vict. c. 14, .s. H.] 
 
 29. [As to revising assessors. Hep. 01 6c 02 Vict. c. 22 (.S'.Z./i'.).] 
 
 30. [Division of a borough into wards or alteration of wards. Xot 
 applicable to London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, .s-. 75 (10) (6), and 02 k 03 
 Vict. c. 14, ss. 2 (2) and 20.] 
 
 Supplemental and E.vceptional Provision's. 
 
 31. In and for the purposes of this Act — 
 
 {<(.) The terms hou.se, warehouse, counting house, shop, or other Occupation 
 building include any part of a house, where that part is of jxirt of 
 separately occupied for the purposes of any trade, business, ov "ouse. 
 profes.sion ; and any such part may, for the purpo.se of ilescribing 
 * See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 73, and C2 a: 153 Vict. c. 14, s. 14.
 
 88Ji 
 
 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 Claim by 
 occupier to 
 be rated. 
 
 Kules as to 
 qualification 
 of burgess 
 on suc- 
 cession, etc. 
 
 Obligation to 
 accept office 
 or pay fine. 
 
 the qualification, be de.scribed as office, chambers, studio, or by 
 any like term applicable to the case. 
 (6.) Where an occupier is entitled to the sole and exclusive use of any 
 part of a house, that part shall not be deemed to be occupied 
 otherwise than separately by reason only that the occupier is 
 entitled to the joint use of some other part. 
 [See 51 Vict. c. 10, s. 2 (2).] 
 
 32. — (1.) If an occupier of any qualifying property, whether the 
 landlord is or is not lial)le to be rated to the poor rate in respect thereof, 
 claims to be rated to the poor rate in respect thereof, and pays 
 or tenders to the overseers of the parish where the property is 
 situate the full amount of the poor rate last made in respect of the 
 property, the overseers shall put the occupier's name on the rate book in 
 respect of that rate. [>See 32 &, 33 Vict. c. 41, s. 19.] 
 
 (2.) If they fail to do so, he shall nevertheless for the purposes of this 
 Act be deemed rated to that rate. 
 
 33. — (1.) Where a person succeeds to qualifying property by descent, 
 marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or promotion to a benefice or office, 
 then, for the purpose of qualification, the occupancy of the property by a 
 predecessor in title, and the i-ating of the predecessor in resj^ect thereof, 
 shall be equivalent to the occupancy and rating of the successor ; and 
 rating in the name of the predecessor shall, until a new rate is made after 
 the date of succession, be equivalent to rating in the name of the successor ; 
 and the successor shall not be required to prove his own residence, 
 occupancy, or rating before the succession. 
 
 (2.) The qualifying property need not be throughout the twelve months 
 constituting the period of qualification the same property or in the same 
 parish. 
 
 (3.) Where by law a borough rate is payable by instalments, payment 
 by any person of any such instalment shall, as regards his qualification to 
 be ini'olled as a burgess, be deemed a payment of the borough rate in 
 respect of the period to which the instalment applies. 
 
 (4.) A person shall not be disentitled to be enrolled as a burgess by 
 reason only — 
 
 (a.) That he has received medical or surgical assistance from the 
 trustees of the municipal charities, or has been removed, by 
 order of a Justice, to a hospital or place for reception of the sick, 
 at the cost of any local authority ; or 
 
 (b.) That his child has been admitted to and taught in any public or 
 endowed school. \See the Eleme7ita7'y Education Act 1876, s. 10.] 
 [See 51 Vict. c. 1% s. 2 (2).] 
 
 34. — (1.) Every cjualified person elected to a corporate office, unless 
 exempt under this section or otherwise by law,* either shall accept the 
 office by making and subscribing the declai-ation required by this Act 
 within five days t after notice of election, or shall, in lieu thereof, be liable 
 to pay to the council a fine of such amount not exceeding, in case of an 
 alderman, councillor, elective auditor, . . . fifty pounds, and in case of a 
 mayor one hundred pounds, as the council by byelaw determine. [See 
 ss. 7 (1), 35, a7id 36.] 
 
 (2.) If there is no byelaw determining fines, the fine, in case of an 
 alderman, councillor, elective anditor, . . . shall be twenty-five pounds, 
 and in case of a mayor fifty pounds, t 
 
 * See ss. 253 and 257; Excise Management Act 1831, s. 11 ; the Births and 
 Deatlis Registration Act 1837, s. 18; Post Office (Management) Act 1837, s. 12; 
 Medical Act 1858, s. 35; Aliens Act 1870, ss. 2 and 7 ; Customs Consolidation Act 
 1876, s. 9; Factory and Workshops Act 1878, s. 67 ; Dentists Act 1878, s. 30; Army 
 Act 1881, s. 146 ; 'Eeserve Forces Act 1882, s. 7 ; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (16) (c) ; 
 and the Inland Revenue Regulation Act 1890, s. 8. See also s. 12 and note thereon. 
 
 t See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (14), and 54 & 55 Vict. c. 68, s. 5. 
 
 j By the Standing Orders (No. 99) of the London County Council, the fine has 
 been fixed at £ I sterling as regards members elected to the Council.
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] Municipal Corporations Act 1S82. [Chap. 5u.] 883 
 
 (3.) The persons exempt utider this section aiv — 
 
 {a.) Any person disabled by lunacy or iujlx/cilily of mind, or by deafness. 
 
 blindness, or other permanent infirmity of body ; and 
 {b.) Any person who, bein;;^ ab(jve the age of sixty-live years, or having 
 
 witliin live years before tlie day of his election either servi-'l the 
 
 olhce or paid the fine for non-acceptance thereof, claims t-xeuiption 
 
 within five days after notice of his election. 
 (4.) A fine payable inider this section siiall Ix* recoverable summarily. 
 [Words omitted (''^ or revisiiuj assessor") oftsolete. Sve 51 lict. c. lU, «. 4 
 (1) (a). Woi'ds in italics not applicable to London.] 
 
 35. A person elected to a corporate oliice shall not, ui^til he has made Declaration 
 and sub.scribed before two members of the council, or the town clerk, a ^[ "^'^ 
 
 declaration as in the eighth Schedule, act in the office except in adminis- " 
 tering tiiat decltirati(jn. [^Amend'id 54 ifc 55 Vict. c. G3, s. 5. J 
 
 36. — (1.) A person elected to a corporate office may at any time, by Fine on re- 
 writing signed by him and delivered to the town clerk, resign the office, on sig:nation,etc. 
 payment of the line provided for non-acceptance thereof. [.See s. 34.] 
 
 (2.) In any such case the council shall forthwith declare the office to be 
 vacant, and signify the same by notice in writing, signed by three members 
 of the council and countersigned by the town clerk, and dxed on the town 
 hall, and the office shall thereupon become vacant. 
 
 (3.) No person enabled by law to make an aliirmation instead of taking 
 an oath shall be liable to any fine for non-acceptance of office by rea.son 
 of his refusal on conscientious grounds to take any oath or make any 
 declaration rerpiired by this Act or to take on himself the duties of the 
 office. 
 
 37. A person ceasing to hold a corporate office shall, unless disqualified Ke-eligibility 
 
 to hold the office, be re-eligible. of office 
 
 holders. 
 
 38. The mayor and aldermen shall, during their respective offices. Mayor and 
 continue to be members of the council, notwithstanding anything in this aldermen to 
 Act as to councillors going out of office at the end of thiea years. continue 
 
 39. — (1.) If the mayor, or an allerman or councillor — council. 
 
 («.) Is declared bankrupt, or compounds by deed with his creditors, or Avoi.lance of 
 makes an arrangement or composition with his creditors, under ^'*'"« ^y 
 the Bankruptcy Act, 1869,* by deed or otherwise [See also the ^^f^'^^'' 
 Bankruptcy Act 1683, ss. 32 (1) and 34] ; or 32 jc 3;; \ ., , 
 
 (6.) Is (except in case of illness) continuously absent from the lx>rough, c. 71. 
 bein(^ mayor, for more than two months, or, being alderman or 
 councillor, for more than six months: [.See 51 A: 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 75 (14)J 
 he shall thereupon immediately become discpialified and shall cease to hold 
 
 the office. 
 
 (2.) In any such event the council shall forthwith declare the office to be 
 vacant, and signify the same by notice signed by three membei-s of the 
 council, and countersigned by the town clerk, and fi.xed on the town hall, 
 and the office shall thereupon become vacant. 
 
 (3.) Where a [Ki-son becomes so distpialilied by being deidared bankrupt, 
 or compounding, or making an arrangement or composition, as aforesaid, 
 the disiiualitication, as regards subsequent elections, shall, in case of 
 bankruptcy, cease on his obtaining his older of discharge, and .shall, incase 
 of a compounding or composition as aforesaid, cease on piyment of his 
 debts in full, and shall, in case of an arrangement as afore.said, cea^ on 
 his obtaining his certilicate of dischaige. 
 
 (4.) Where a person becomes so disqualilieil by absence, he shall be liable 
 to the same line as for non-acceptance of office, recoverable summarily, but 
 the disqualification shall, as regards subsecpient elections, cease on his 
 
 return. 
 
 * Rep. and replaced by the Bankruptcy Act 1883.
 
 884 
 
 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 Filling of 
 
 casual 
 
 vacancies. 
 
 Penalty on 
 unqualified 
 person acting 
 in office. 
 
 Validity of 
 acts done not- 
 %vithstanding 
 disqualifica- 
 tion, etc. 
 
 Duties of 
 town clerk, 
 deputy, and 
 treasurer, 
 during 
 vacancy or 
 incapacity. 
 
 40.* — (1.) On a casual vacancy in a corporate office, an election shall 
 be held by the same persons and in the same manner as an election to fill 
 an ordinary vacancy ; and the jierson elected shall hold the office until the 
 time when the person in whose place he is elected would regularly have 
 gone out of office, and he shall then go out of office. ]^See 54 & 55 Vict. c. 68^ 
 
 «• 1 (4)-] 
 
 (2.) [As to tioo or more casual vacancies to he filled at the same time. iSot 
 
 apjMcable to county councils or metrojjolitan horovgh coitncils. See 51 & 52 
 
 Vict. c. 41, s. 2 {(l); 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 48 (4); and the MetrojyolitaJi 
 
 Boroughs {Triennial Election of Councillors) Order in Council 1901.] 
 
 41.* — (1.) If any person acts in a corporate office without having made 
 the declaration by this Act required, or without being qualified at the 
 time of making the declaration, or after ceasing to be qualified, or after 
 becoming disqualified, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not 
 exceeding fifty pounds, recoverable by action. 
 
 (2.) A person being in fact enrolled in the burgess roll shall not be 
 liable to a fine for acting in a corporate office on the ground only that 
 he was not entitled to be enrolled therein. 
 
 42. — (1.) The acts and proceedings of a person in possession of a 
 corporate office, and acting therein, shall, notwithstanding his disquali- 
 fication or want of qualification, be as valid and eflfectual as if he had 
 been qualified. [See also ss. 11, 12, 39, aiid 102.] 
 
 (2.) An election of a person to a corporate office shall not be liable to 
 be questioned by reason of a defect in the title, or want of title, of the 
 person before whom the election was had, if that person was then in 
 actual possession of, or acting in, the office giving the right to preside 
 at the election. 
 
 (3.) A burgess roll shall not be liable to be questioned by reason of 
 a defect in the title, or want of title, of the mayor or any revising 
 authority by whom it is revised, if he was then in actual possession and 
 exercise of the office of mayoi* or revising authority. 
 [See 51 Vict. c. 10, ss. 4, 9, and 10.] 
 
 43. If there is no town clerk, and no deputy town clerk, or there 
 is no treasurer, or the town clei-k, deputy town clerk, or treasurer (as the 
 case may be) is incapable of acting, all acts by law authorized or required 
 to be done by or with respect to the town clerk or the treasvirer (as the 
 case may be) may, subject to the provisions of any other Act, be done by 
 or with respect to a person appointed in that behalf by the mayor. [See 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, ss. 2 (5), (G), and 88.] 
 
 The burgess 
 roll and 
 ward roll. 
 
 PART III. 
 Preparations for and Procedure at Elections. 
 Parish Burgess Lists; Burgess Bolls; Ward Bolls. 
 
 44. [As to the preparation and revision of parish burgess lists. Not 
 applicable to London. See 51 Vict. c. 10, s. 4.] 
 
 t45. — (1.) When the parish burgess lists have been revised and signed, 
 the revising authority shall deliver them to the town clerk, and a printed 
 copy thereof, examined by him and signed by him, shall be the burgess 
 roll of the borough. 
 
 (2.) The burgess roll shall be completed on or before the twentieth of 
 October in each year, and shall come into operation on the first of 
 November in that year, and shall continue in operation for the twelve 
 months Vjeginning on that day, 
 
 (3.) The names in the burgess roll shall be numbered by wards or by 
 
 * See also 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 48 (4), and the Metropolitan Borough Councillors. 
 Election Order 1903, Sch. o. 
 t See 51 Vict. c. 10, s. 7 (2).
 
 [45 & 40 Vict.] Murddpal Corporations Act 1882. [Chap. 5u,] 885 
 
 polling,' districts, unless in iiny cuse the counc-il direct that the sjiiue be 
 nuniWeit'd consecutively without reference to wards (jr [jollin;^ districts. 
 
 (4.) [yls to a borough having no wards. Not applicable to London.] 
 
 (5.) Where th(! Ijoroufrh lias wards, tlie hurj.^ess r(jll shall Ix' made in 
 separate rolls, called ward rolls, one for each ward, containing; the names 
 of the persons entitled to vote in that ward, and the wan! rolls collectively 
 shall constitute the burge.ss roll. 
 
 (G.) A biii'ges.s shall not lie eni'ollcil in more than one waiil roll. [,ye« 
 ss. 51 {-2) and 5'J.] 
 
 (7.) Where a duplicate of a burgess list is made under section thirty- 
 one of the Parliamentary ami Municipal Registration Act, \H7H, it shall 
 have the same etl'ect as the original, and may be delivered instead thereof. 
 
 (8.) Every per.son enrolled in the burgess roll shall be deem* d to be 
 enrolled as a burgess, and every pei-son not enrolled in the burge.ss roll 
 shall be deemed to be not enrolled as a Ijurgess. 
 
 (9.) No stamp duty shall Ije payable in respect of the enrolment of a 
 burgess. 
 
 [See G2 it G3 Vict. c. 11, x. 27 (2), a)ul the London Registration Order in 
 Council 19U1.] 
 
 46 — 47. [An'angement of lists and rolls, and correction of burgess roll. 
 Supei'seded (as regards London) by 51 Vict. c. 10, ss. 5 and 6.] 
 
 48. — (1.) The town clerk shall cau.se the parish burge.ss lists, the lists Printing 
 of claimants and respondents, and the burgess roll, to be printed, and '"^"d s-ile of 
 shall ileliver printed copies to any person on payment of a reasonable price ' jji~|jti,j^^ 
 for each copy. ilocuuiciuv 
 
 (2.) Subject to section thirty of the Parliamentary and Municipal 
 Registration Act, 1878, the proceeds of sale shall go to the borough fund. 
 [See 51 Vict. c. 10, s. 7 (2).J 
 
 49. [^1*^ to separate list of persons qualified to be councillors but not 
 to be burgesses. Not applicable to London. See 51 tt 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 77.] 
 
 Election of Councillors. 
 60. [As to boi-ough and ivard elections. Not applicable to London.] 
 
 51. — (1.) At an election of councillors a person shall be entitled to Title to vote, 
 subscribe a nomination paper, and to demand and receive a voting paper, 
 and to vote, if he is enrolled in the burgess roll, or, in the case of a ward 
 election, the ward roll, and not otherwise. 
 
 (2.) No person shall subscribe a nomination paper in or for more than 
 one ward, or vote in more than one ward. 
 
 (3.) Nothing in this section shall entitle any person to do any act 
 therein mentioned who is prohibited by la\v' from doing it, or relieve him 
 from any penalty to which he may be liable for doing it. 
 [See the '3rd Sch., Part II.] 
 
 52. The ordinarv dav of election of councillors shall be the first of Day of 
 November. [See 54 .t 55 Vict. c. 08, s. 1, and G2 .t G3 Vict. c. U, «. 3.] election. 
 
 53. [Returning officer at election. Xot applicable to Lomlon. See 51 it 52 
 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (2)', (3), and 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 48 (2) (vi.).] 
 
 54. Nine days at least before the day for the election of a councillor. Notice of 
 the town clerk shall prepare and sign a notice thereof, and pul)lish it by election, 
 fixing it on the town hall, and, in the case of a ward election, in some 
 conspicuous place in the ward. [See 51 &, 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (5).] 
 
 65. The nomination of candidates for the ortice of councillor shall be N'..minatiou 
 conducted in accordance witli the rules in Part II. of the Third Sciie^lule. of candidates. 
 
 56.* (1.) If the number of valll nominations exceeds that of the Relation of 
 
 vacancies, the councillors shall be dectc.l from among the persons nomin..tion 
 ' to election, 
 
 nominated, 
 
 * See the Metropolitan Borough Councillors Election Order 1903, Sob. 5.
 
 886 
 
 Publication of 
 
 imcontested 
 election. 
 
 Mode of con- 
 ducting poll 
 at contested 
 election. 
 35 & 36 Vict. 
 c. 33. 
 
 Questions 
 which may 
 be put to 
 TOters. 
 
 Tinae and 
 mode of 
 election of 
 aldermen. 
 
 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 (2.) If the number of valid nominations is the same as that of the 
 vacancies, the persons nominated shall be deemed to be elected. 
 
 (3.) If the number of valid nominations is less than that of the 
 vacancies, the persons nominated shall be deemed to be elected, and such 
 of the retiring councillors for the borough or ward as were highest on the 
 poll at their election, or, if the poll was equal, or there was no poll, as are 
 .selected for that purpose by the mayor, shall be deemed to be re-elected to 
 make up the required number. [See 51 & 52 Vici. c. 41, s. 75 (4).] 
 
 (4.) If there is no valid nomination, the retiring councillors shall be 
 deemed to be re-elected. 
 
 57. If an election of councillors is not contested, the returning officer 
 shall publish a list of the persons elected not later than eleven o'clock in 
 the morning on the day of election. 
 
 58. (1.) If an election of councillors is contested, the poll shall, as far 
 
 as circumstances admit, be conducted as the poll at a contested parlia- 
 mentary election is by the Ballot Act, 1872, directed to be conducted, and, 
 subject to the modifications expressed in Part III. of the Third Schedule, 
 and to the other provisions of this Act, the provisions of the Ballot Act, 
 1872, relating to a poll at a parliamentary election (including the provisions 
 relating to the duties of the returning officer after the close of the poll), 
 shall apply to a poll at an election of councillors. 
 
 (2.) Every person entitled to vote may vote for any number of candidates 
 not exceeding the number of vacancies. 
 
 (3.) (4.) [Hours of poll. Superseded by Elections {Hours of Poll) Act 
 
 1885; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (11) ; a7id 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 31.] 
 
 (5.) Where an equality of votes is found to exist between any candidates, 
 and the addition of a vote would entitle any of those candidates to be 
 declared elected, the returning officer, whether entitled or not to vote in 
 the first instance, may give such additional vote by word of mouth or in 
 
 writing. 
 
 (6.) Nothing in the Ballot Act, 1872, as applied by this Act, shall be 
 deemed to authorize the appointment of any agents of a candidate at a 
 municipal election ; but if, in the case of a municipal election, an a,gent of 
 a candidate is appointed, and notice in writing of the appointment is given 
 to the returning officer, one clear day before the polling day, then the 
 provisions of the Ballot Act, 1872, with respect to agents of candidates, 
 shall, as far as regards that agent, apply in the case of that election. 
 
 59. — (1.) At an election of councillors, the presiding officer shall, if 
 required by two burgesses, or by a candidate or his agent,* put to any 
 person offering to vote, at the time of his presenting himself to vote, but 
 not afterwards, the following questions, or either of them : 
 
 («.) Are you the person enrolled in the burgess [or ward] roll now in 
 force for this borough [or ward] as follows [read the ivhole entry 
 from the rolt\ 1 
 {h.) Have you already voted at the present election [add, in case of an 
 
 election for several wards, in this or any other ward] 'i 
 (2.) The vote of a person required to answer either of these questions 
 shall not be received until he has answered it. 
 
 (3.) If any person wilfully makes a false answer thereto he shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanour. 
 
 (4.) Save as by this Act authorized, no inquiry shall be permitted at an 
 election as to the right of any person to vote. 
 
 Election of Aldermen. 
 60. — (1.) The ordinary day of election of aldermen shall be the ninth 
 of >November, and the election shall he held at the quarterly meetimj^of 
 the council. [Words in italics not applicahle to London. See 54 & 55 Vict, 
 c. 68, s. 1 (3) ; 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. s. 10 ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 3 (3).] 
 * See the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act 1884, s. 13 (1) (&), 
 and the Metropolitan Borough Councillors Election Order 1903, rr. 16, 17, and 24 (5).
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] Municipal Corporations Act \^h2. [Chap. 50.] S8: 
 
 (2.) The election shall he held irnrnefliiitely after the election of the 
 mayor, or, if there is a sherifl", the appointment of the sheriff. 
 
 (3.) An outgoing alderman, although niavor elect, shall not vote, 
 [See 51 ck 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 'l (2) (c).] 
 
 (4.) Every person entitled to vote may vote for any number of pei-sons 
 not exceeding the number of vacancies, by signing and {x-rsonally delivering 
 at the meeting to the chairman a voting paper containing the 8urnameH 
 and other names and places of abtxle and descriptions of the persons for 
 whom he votes. 
 
 (5.) The chairman, as soon as all the voting papers have been delivered 
 to him, shall opeidy produce and read them, or cause them to Ix- read, and 
 then deliver them to the town ck-rk to be kept for twelve months. 
 
 (0.) In case of equality of votes the chairman, although as an outgoing 
 alderman or otherwise not entitled to vote in the tii-st instance, shall have 
 the casting vote. 
 
 (7.) The persons, not exceeding the number of vacancies, who have the 
 greatest number of votes, shall be declared by the chairman to be, and 
 thereupon shall be, elected. 
 
 Election of Mayor. 
 
 61. — (1.) The ordinarv dav of election of mavor .shall be the ninth of Time and 
 November. [See 54 ct 55 Vict. c. 08, s. 1 (3), am) 62 k f.3 Vict. c. 14, s. 3.] ^^j*j^Jjf ^,j 
 
 (2.) The election of mayor shall be the first business transacted at the xaii\0T. 
 quarterly meeting of the council on the day of election. [See note on 
 s. 60 (1).] 
 
 (3.) An outgoing aldei'man may vote, uUhouylt, tiie person for v:hom he 
 votes is an alderman. [Not applicable to London. See 51 <k 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 75 (10), and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (4).] 
 
 (4.) In case of equality of votes, the chairman, although not entitled to 
 vote in the first instance, shall have the casting vote. [See 56 iV 57 Vict, 
 c. ccxxi. s. 10, and Sch. par. 9.] 
 
 62. [Time and mode of election of auditors and assessors. Xot applicahle 
 to county councils or to metropolitan borough councils. See 51 ct 52 Vict, 
 c. 41, s. 75 (16) (b) ; 51 Vict. c. 10, s. 4 (1) (a); and 62 &, 63 Vict. c. 14, 
 s. 14.] 
 
 Supplemental and E .vceptional Provisions. 
 
 63. For all purposes connected with and having leference to llif rigiit Kii-'ht of 
 to vote at munici[ial elections words in this Act importing the masculine ^^'"'"<^'^ ^'^ 
 gender include women. [.See 52 tt 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 1 (1) («).] 
 
 64. The council may divide the borough or any ward into polling I'^lling 
 districts. . . . [Part omitted {as to parish burgess liil.t) sujjerseded by ^li-tn^ts. 
 51 Vict. c. 10, s. 4 (2). See ibid. s. 5, and 51 .^ 52 Vict. c. 41, *•. 76.] 
 
 65. Any notice required to be given in connexion with a municipal Kutices as 
 election may, ... as to ward elections, comprise matter necessary for to ele<:"'^'i*- 
 several wards. [Part omitted {as to elective auditors and revising assessors) 
 
 not apjdicable to county councils or to metropolitan borough councils. 
 
 See note on s. 62.] 
 
 66. — (1.) On a casual vacancy in a corporate office, the election shall ' 
 be held within fourteen davs after notice in writing of the vacancv has ■ - 
 been given to the mayor or town clerk by two burgtsses. 
 
 (2.) Where the office vacant is that of mayor, the notice of the meeting 
 for the election shall be signed bv the town clerk. 
 
 (3.) In other ca.ses the day of election shall be fixed bv the mayor. 
 [See 51 ct 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (2), (3), (4), and (5); 56 k 57 Vict. c. 73, 
 s. 48 (4) ; 62 k 63 Vict. c. 14, .•*. 2 (5).] 
 
 67. [As regards illness, etc., of mayor and returning olficer. .Vot 
 applicable to London. See 51 k 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (2), (3), and 56 it 57 
 Vict. c. 73, 8. 48 (2) (vi.) ; and the Metropolitan Borough Councillors 
 Election Order 1903, r. 1.]
 
 888 
 
 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporatmis Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 Election of 
 councillor in 
 more than 
 one ward. 
 
 Elections not 
 in churches. 
 
 Omission to 
 hold election, 
 or election 
 void. 
 
 Burgess roll 
 to be in opera- 
 tion until re- 
 vision of new- 
 burgess roll. 
 
 Non-com- 
 pliance with 
 rules. 
 
 Election 
 valid unless 
 questioned 
 within twelve 
 months. 
 
 Offences in 
 relation to 
 nomination 
 papers. 
 
 OfEences in 
 relation to 
 lists and 
 elections. 
 
 68. If a person is elected councillor in more than one ward, he shall, 
 within three days after notice thereof, choose, by writing signed by him 
 and delivered to the town clerk,* or in his default the mayor * .shall, within 
 three days after the time for choice has expired, declare, for which of those 
 wards he shall serve, and the choice or declaration shall be conclusive. 
 
 69. A municipal election shall not be held in any church, chapel, or 
 other place of public worship. 
 
 70. — (1.) If a municipal election is not held on the appointed day or 
 within the appointed time, it may be held on the day next after that day 
 or the expiration of that time. 
 
 (2.) If a municipal election is not held on the appointed day or within 
 the appointed time, or on the day next after that day or the expiration of 
 that time, or becomes void, the municipal corporation shall not thereby be 
 dissolved or be disabled from electing, but the High Court may, on motion, 
 grant a mandamus for the election to be held on a day appointed by the 
 court. 
 
 (3.) Thereupon public notice of the election shall, by such person as the 
 court directs, be fixed on the town hall, and shall be kept so fixed for at 
 least six days before the day appointed for the election ; and in all other 
 respects the election shall be conducted as directed by this Act respecting 
 ordinary elections. [*See s. 234.] 
 
 71. — (1.) If a parish burgess list is not made or revised in due time, 
 the corresponding part of the burgess roll in operation before the time 
 appointed for the revision shall be the parish burgess list until a burgess 
 list for the parish has been revised and become part of the burgess roll. 
 
 (2.) If a burgess i"oll is not made in due time, the burgess roll in force 
 before the time appointed for the revision shall continue in force until the 
 new burgess roll is made. 
 
 [<S'ee s. 45 (2) ; the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act 1878, 
 s. 1.5 ; 51 Vict. c. 10, ss. 6 (1) and 7 (2) ; a7id 54 & 55 Vict. c. 68, s. 2.] 
 
 72. An election shall not be invalidated by non-compliance with the 
 rules in the Third Schedule, or mistake in the use of the forms in 
 the Eighth Schedule, if it appears to the court having cognisance of the 
 question that the election was conducted in accordance with the principles 
 laid down in the body of this Act, 
 
 73. Every municipal election not called in question within twelve 
 months after the election, either by election petition or by information in 
 the nature of a quo warranto, shall be deemed to have been to all intents 
 a good and valid election. 
 
 74. — (1.) If any person forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently 
 destroys any nomination paper, or delivers to the town clerk any forged 
 nomination paper, knowing it to be forged, he shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not 
 exceeding six months, with or without hard labour. 
 
 (2.) An attempt to commit any such offence shall be punishable as the 
 offence is punishable. 
 
 [>S'ee 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 48 (3), and the Metrojwlitayi Borough Councillors 
 Election Order 1903, »-. 23 (1) and ^th Sch.] 
 
 75. — (1.) If a mayor or revising assessor 
 a parish burgess list, or a mayor f or alderman 
 
 conduct or declare an election, as required by this Act, he shall for every 
 such offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, 
 recoverable by action. [See s. 226.] 
 
 («.) An overseer neglects or refuses to make, sign, or deliver a parish 
 burgess list, as reqviired by this Act ; or 
 
 neglects or refuses to revise 
 neglects or refuses to 
 
 * See 51 & .'32 Vict. c. 11, s. 75 (1) and (5). 
 
 t See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (4), and the Metropolitan Borough Councillors 
 Election Order 11)03, r. 1 (1).
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] Municipal CorpuratioiiH Act 1882. [Chap. 50.] 
 
 {h.) A town clerk nefiflccts oi- refuses to receive, print, and publish, a 
 parish burge.ss list or list ok" t-liiiujuiits or respondfut.s. .hs r«-ijuired 
 liy tliis Act; or 
 (c.) An overseer or town clerk refuses to allow any kucIi list to be 
 inspected by a person having a rif^ht thereto [nee 02 li: •'■"• Vi'-t. 
 c. 14, .s. 11]; 
 he shall for every such neglect or refusal Ije liable to a fine not exceeding 
 fifty poun<ls, recoverable by action. 
 
 (."5.) An a{;tion under this section shall not lie after tiiree months from 
 the neglect or refu.sal. A moiety of any fine recovt red therein shall, after 
 
 f»aynieiit of the c(jsts of action, be paid to the plaintitF. 
 See note on s. l-i, and .'il Vict. c. lU, s. 4 (1)] 
 
 76. [lieviml o/furmer laic on expiration of Ha Hot Act 1872. The liallot 
 Act 1872 is continued in force until '.ilst Decemher l'Jt>7. See the E.rpirimj 
 Laic t'ontinnance Act 1906.] 
 
 v.. I 
 
 I'Airr IV. 
 
 Corrupt Practices and Electio.v Petitions. 
 
 Corrupt Practices. 
 
 77. In this part — I'ctuuiionB. 
 
 ■• I5iil)ery,'' "treating," "undue influence," and " [jersonation " include 
 respectively anything done before, at, after, or with respect to a municipal 
 election, which if done liefore, at, after, or with respect to a parliamentary 
 election would make the person doing the same liable to any penalty, 
 punishment, or disqualification for bribery, treating, undue influence, or 
 personation, as the case may be, under any Act for the time being in force 
 with respect to parliamentary elections : [See the Mmiicipal Elections 
 {Corrupt and Illeijal Practices) Act 1^8-4, 3«Z Sch. Part L; 51 JL- 52 Vict. 
 •c 41, s. 75 ; and the Metropolitan Borough Councillors Election Order 1903, 
 r. 24 (2).] 
 
 " Candidate " means a person elected, or having been nominatetl, or 
 (having declared himself a candidate for election, to a corporate otlice : 
 
 '* Voter " means a burgess or a person who votes or claims to vote nt a 
 municipal election : 
 
 " Election court " means a court constituted under this part for the trial 
 •of an election petition : 
 
 "Municipal election petition " or " election petition" means a petition 
 under this part complaining of an undue municipal election : 
 
 "Parliimientary election petition" means a petition under the Parlia- :u a: 32 Vict. 
 mentary Elections Act, 1808: " '-•'• 
 
 " Prescril)ed" means pre.scribed by general rules made under this pari 
 
 "Borough" and "election" when used with reference to a petition 
 (mean the boiough and election to which the petition ndates. 
 [Parts 0}iiitted {dfjinitions of '• corrajU practice " and '■ can causer") rep. bt/ 
 ■the Municipal Elections {Corrujit and Illegal Practices) Act 1884, s. 38. 
 See ibid. s. 1.] 
 
 78 — 80. [General penaltie.<! for corrupt practice.^ — As to av' of 
 
 •election.'i for corrupt practices bi/ candidates and agents. Hep. an ^ ed 
 by the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act 1884.] 
 
 81. A nmiiicipal election sh;ill b<- wholly avoided by .such geneml Av..iibr..-. 
 corruption, bribery, treating, or intimidation at the eleition a.s would by elect fii f^r 
 the common law of Parliament avoid a parlianu-ntary election. corruption. 
 
 82—84. [.f.^ to ]>aid agents and canvas.'iers and pai/ment for conre»/aure 
 .of voters— Prosecutions for corrupt jn'actices. Rep. and )'ef>l<iced by the 
 jfunicipal Elections {Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act 1884.]
 
 890 
 
 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act l^S2. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 striking 
 off votes. 
 
 Personation. 
 
 85. The votes of persons in respect of whom any corrupt practice is 
 proved to have been committed at a municipal cdection shall be struck off 
 on a scrutiny. 
 
 86. The enactments for the time being in force for the detection of 
 personation and for the apprehension of persons charged with personation 
 at a parlianientary election* shall apply in the case of a municipal election. 
 
 Power to 
 question 
 municipal 
 election by 
 petition. 
 
 Presentation 
 of petition. 
 
 Security for 
 costs. 
 
 Election Petitions. 
 
 87. — (1.) A municipal election may be questioned by an election- 
 petition on the ground — 
 
 (f( ) That the election was as to the borough or ward wholly avoided - 
 
 by general bribery, treating, undue influence, or personation; or 
 (h.) That the election was avoided by corrupt pi-acticest or offences 
 
 against this Part committed at the election ; or 
 (c.) That the person whose election is questioned was at the time of the 
 
 election disqualified ; or 
 id.) That he was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes. 
 (2.) A municipal election shall not be cpiestioned on any of those 
 grounds except by an election petition. 
 
 88. — (1.) An election petition may be presented either by four or 
 more persons who voted or had a right to vote at the election or by a 
 person alleging himself to have been a candidate at the election. 
 
 (2.) Any person whose election is questioned by the petition, and any 
 returning officer of whose conduct a petition complains, may be made & 
 respondent to the petition. 
 
 (3.) The petition shall be in the prescribed form and shall be signed' 
 by the petitioner, and shall be presented in the prescribed manner to the- 
 High Court in the Queen's Bench Division, and the prescriVjed officer .shall 
 send a copy thereof to the town clerk, J: who shall forthwith publish it in 
 the borough. 
 
 (4.) It shall be presented within twenty- one days after the day on' 
 which the election was held, except that if it complains of the election 
 on the ground of corrupt practices, § and .specifically alleges that a payment 
 of money or other reward has been made or promised since the election, 
 by a person elected at the election, or on his account or with his privity, 
 in pursuance or fui'therance of such corrupt practices, it may be pie- 
 sented at any time within twenty-eight day.s after the date of the alleged, 
 payment or promise, whether or not any other petition against that ■ 
 person has been previously presented or tried. [.See .s. 230.] 
 
 89. — (1.) At the time of presenting an election petition or within 
 three days afterwards, the petitioner shall give security for all ccsts, 
 charges, and expenses which may become pa^^able by him to any witness 
 svimmoned on his behalf, or to any respondent. 
 
 (2.) The security shall be to such amount, not exceeding five hundred 
 pounds, as the High Court, or a Judge thereof, on summons, directs, and 
 shall be given in the prescribed manner, either by a deposit of money, or by 
 recognisance entered into by not more than four sureties, or partly in one 
 way and partly in the other. [See, as to 'metropoUtan horongli coinicils,^ 
 the Metropolitan Borough Councillors Election Order 1903, r. 23 (2) (c).] 
 
 (3.) Within five days after the presentation of the petition the 
 petitioner shall in the prescribed manner serve on the respondent a notice 
 of the presentation of the joetition, and of the nature of the proposed 
 security, and a copy of the petition, 
 
 * See the Parliamentary Voters Eesistration Act 1843, ss. 85 — 89, and the Ballot 
 Act 1872, .s. 24. 
 
 j See the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act 1884, ss. 2, 8, 
 and 25. 
 
 J As regards county council elections, the clerk of the countv council. See 51 & 52 . 
 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (5), 
 
 § See the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act 1884, s. 2.
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] ^^unicipal Corporations Act 1882. [Chap. 50.] 891 
 
 (4.) Within five days after sorvice of the notice the respondent raay 
 object ill writing to any recognisance on the ground that any surety is 
 insnilicient or is dead, or cannot be found or ascertained for want of a 
 surticient description in the recognisance, or that a person named in the 
 recognisance has not duly acknowledged the same. 
 
 (5.) An objection to a recognisance shall be decided in the prescribed 
 manner. 
 
 (G.) ]f the objection is allowed, the petitioner may, within a further 
 prescribed time not exceeding live days, remove it by a deposit in the 
 prescribed manner of such sum of money as will, in the opinion of the 
 court or otlicer having cognisance of the matter, make the security 
 suiiicient. 
 
 (7.) If no security is given, as prescribed, or any o})jection is allowed 
 and is not removed, as aforesaid, no further proceedings shall be had on 
 the petition. 
 
 90. On the ex}>iration of the time limited for making objections, or, Petition at 
 after objection made, on the objection being disallowed or removed, issue, 
 whichever last happens, the petition shall be at issne. 
 
 91. — (1.) The prescribed officer shall as soon as may be make a list, in Municipal 
 this Act referred to as the municipal election list, of all election petitions election list, 
 at issue, placing them in the order in which they were presented, and shall 
 keep at his office a copy of this list, open to inspection in the prescribed 
 manner. 
 
 (2.) The petitions shall, as far as conveniently may be, be tried in the 
 order in which they stand in the list. 
 
 (3.) Two or more candidates may be made respondents to the same 
 petition, and their cases may be tried at the same time, but for the 
 purposes of this part the petition shall be deemed to be a separate petition 
 against each respondent. 
 
 (4.) Where more petitions than one are presented relating to the same 
 election, or to elections held at the same time for different wards of 
 the same borough, they shall be bracketed together in the list as one 
 petition, but shall, unless the High Court otherwise directs, stand in the 
 list in the })lace where the last of them would have stood if it had been the 
 only petition relating to that election. 
 
 92. — (1.) An election petition shall be tried by an election court Constitution 
 consisting of a barrister qualified and appointed as in this section of election 
 provided, without a jury. court. 
 
 (2.) A barrister shall not be qualified to constitute an election court if 
 he is of less than fifteen vears standin<>:, or is a member of the Commons 
 House of Pai-lianient, or holds any office or place of profit under the 
 Crown, other than that of recorder. 
 
 (3.) A barrister shall not be qualified to constitute an election court for 
 trial of an election petition relating to any borough for which he is 
 recorder, or in which he resides, or which is included in a circuit of 
 Her Majesty's Judges on which he practises as a barrister. 
 
 (4.) As soon as may be after a municipal election list is made out 
 the prescribed officer shall send a copy thereof to each of the .Judges for 
 the time being on the rota for the trial of parliamentary election petitions. 
 . . . [^Part omitted {as to appointment of Commissioners xmder this part of 
 this Act) rep. hij the Municipal Elections {Corrupt Practices) Act 1884, 
 s. 38. See ibid. s. 36.] 
 
 (5.) If a commissioner to whom the trial of a petition is assigned, dies, 
 or declines or becomes incapable to act, the said Judges or two of them 
 may assign the trial to be conducted or continued by any other of the 
 commissioners apptnnted under this section. 
 
 (6.) The election court shall for the purposes of the trial have the same 
 powers and privileges as a Judge on the trial of a parliamentary election 
 petition, except that any fine or order of committal by the court may on 
 motion by the person aggrieved be discharged or varied by the High Court,
 
 892 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 01- in vacation by a Judge thereof, on such terms, if any, as the High 
 Court or Judge thinks fit. 
 
 Trial of 93. — (1.) An election petition shall be tried in open court, and notice 
 
 election j^£ ^^^^ time and place of trial shall be given in the prescribed manner not 
 
 less than seven days before the day of trial. 
 
 (•2.) The place of trial shall be within the borough, except that the 
 High Court may, on being satisfied that special circumstances exist 
 rendering it desirable that the petition should be tried elsewhere, appoint 
 some other convenient place for the trial. 
 
 (3.) The election court may in its discretion adjourn the trial from time 
 to time, and from any one place to any other place ^^•ithin the Iwrough or 
 place where it is held. 
 
 (4-.) At the conclusion of the trial the election court .shall determine 
 whether the person whose election is complained of, or any and what other 
 person, was duly elected, or whether the election was void, and shall forth- 
 with certify in writing the determination to the High Court, and the 
 determination so certified shall be final to all intents as to the matters at 
 issue on the petition. 
 
 (5.) Where a charge is made in a petition of any corrupt practice or 
 oflFence against this part having been committed at the election the court 
 .shall, in addition to the certificate, and at the .same time, report in writing 
 to the High Court as follows : 
 
 («.) Whether any corrupt practice or offence against this part has 
 or has not been proved to have been committed by or with the knowledge 
 and con.'^ent of any candidate at the election, and the nature of the corrupt 
 practice or offence ; 
 
 (]:>) The names of all persons (if any) pi'oved at the trial to have been 
 guilty of any corrupt practice or offence against this part ; 
 
 (c.) Whether any corrupt practices have, or whether there is reason to 
 believe that any corrupt practices have, extensively prevailed at the 
 election in the borough or in any Avard thereof. 
 
 (6.) The election court may at the same time make a special report to 
 the High Court as to any matters ari.sing in the course of the trial, 
 an account of which ought, in the judgment of the election court, to 
 be submitted to the High Court. 
 
 (7.) If, on the application of any party to a petition made in the 
 prescribed manner to the High Court, it appears to the High Court that 
 the case raised by the petition can be conveniently .stated as a special case, 
 the High Court may direct the same to be stated accordingly, and any 
 such special case shall be heard before the High Court, and the decision 
 of the High Court shall be final. 
 
 (8.) If it appears to the election court on the trial of a petition that any 
 C|uestion of law as to the admissibility of evidence, or otherwise, requires 
 further consideration by the High Court, the election court may postpone 
 the granting of a certificate until the question has been determined by the 
 High Coui-t, and for this purpose may reserve any such question, as 
 questions may be reserved by a judge on a trial at nisi prius. 
 
 (9.) On the trial of a petition, unless the election court otherwise 
 directs, any chai-ge of a corrupt practice or offence against this part may 
 be gone into, and evidence in relation thereto received before any proof 
 has bten given of agency on behalf of any candidate in respect of the 
 corrupt practice or offence. 
 
 (10.) On the trial of a petition complaining of an undue election and 
 claiming the oflice for some person, the respondent may give evidence to 
 prove that that person was not duly elected, in the same manner as if he 
 had presented a petition against the election of that person. 
 
 (11.) The trial of a petition shall be proceeded with notwithstanding 
 that the respondent has ceased to hold the oifice his election to which is 
 questioned by the petition. 
 
 (12.) A copy of any certificate or report made to the High Court on the
 
 [45 & 46 Vict. J Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [Chap. 50.] 893 
 
 trial of a petition, and, in the case of a decision by the High Court on a 
 special case, a statement of the decision, shall be sent by the High C'oui't 
 to the Secretary of State. 
 
 (13.) A copy of any such certificate and a stalcnient of any such 
 decision shall also be certified by the High Court, under the hands of two 
 or more judges thereof, to the town clerk* of the borough. 
 
 94. — (1.) Witnesses at the trial of an election petition shall be Witnesses, 
 summoned and sworn in the same manner, as nearly as circumstances 
 admit, as witnesses at a trial at nisi prius, and shall be lialde to the same 
 penalties for perjury. 
 
 (2.) On the trial the election court may, by order in writing, require 
 any person who appears to the court to have been concerned in the election 
 to attend as a witness, and any person refusing to obey the order shall be 
 guilty of contempt of court. 
 
 (3.) The court may examine any person so required to attend or being in 
 court although he is not called and examined by any party to the petition. 
 
 (4.) A witness may, after his examination by the court, be cross-exa- 
 mined by or on belialf of the petitioner and respondent or eitlier of them. 
 
 (5) — (8). \^As to certaia matters of p^'ocedure. Rep. hij tlte Monicipal 
 Elections {Coii'upt Practices) Act 1884, s. 38.] 
 
 (9.) The reasonable expenses incurred by any person in appearing to 
 give evidence at the trial of an election petition, according to the scale 
 allowed to witnesses on the trial of civil actions at the assizes, may be 
 allowed to him by a certificate of the election court or of the prescribed 
 officer, and if the witness was called and examined l)y the court, shall be 
 deemed part of the expenses of providing a court, but otherwise shall be 
 deemed costs of the petition. 
 
 95. — (1.) A petitioner shall not withdi\aw an election petition \\'ithout Withdrawal 
 the leave of the election court or High Court on special application, made ^^ petition, 
 in the prescribed manner, and at the presciibed time and place. [<S'i?e the 
 Municipal Elections {Coo'rupt and Illegal Practices) Act 1884, s. 26.] 
 
 (2.) The appHcation shall not be made until the prescribed notice of the 
 intention to make it has been given in the borough. 
 
 (3.) On the hearing of the application any person who might have been 
 a petitioner in respect of the election may apply to the court to be 
 substituted as a petitioner, and the court may, if it thinks fit, substitute 
 him accordingly. 
 
 (4.) H the proposed withdrawal is in the opinion of the court induced 
 by any corrupt l)argain or consideration, the court may by order direct 
 that the security given on behalf of the original petitioner shall remain 
 as security for any costs that may be incurred by the substituted petitioner, 
 and that to the extent of the sum named in the security, the original 
 petitioner and his sureties shall be liable to pay the costs of the substituted 
 petitioner. \_See note on suh-s. (1).] 
 
 (5.) If the court does not so direct, then security to the same amount as 
 would be required in the case of a new petition, and subject to the like 
 conditions, shall be given on behalf of the substituted petitioner before he 
 proceeds with his petition and within the prescribed time after the order 
 of substitution. 
 
 (6.) Subject as aforesaid, a substituted petitioner shall, as nearly as 
 may be, stand in the same position and be subject to the same liabilities 
 as the original petitioner. 
 
 (7.) If a petition is withdrawn, the petitioner shall be liable to pay 
 the costs of the respondent. 
 
 (8.) Where there are more petitioners than one, an application to with- 
 draw a petition sliall not be made except with the con.sent of all the 
 petitioners. 
 
 96. — (1.) An election petition shall be abated by the death of a sole Abatement 
 petitioner or of the survivor of several petitioners. of petition. 
 
 * See note X on s. 88.
 
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 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 Withdrawal 
 and substi- 
 tution of 
 respondents. 
 
 Costs on 
 
 election 
 
 petitions. 
 
 Reception of 
 and attend- 
 ance on the 
 election 
 court. 
 
 (2.) The abatement of a petition shall not affect the liability of the 
 petitioner or of any other person to the payment of costs previously 
 incurred. 
 
 (3.) On the abatement of the petition the prescribed notice thereof shall 
 be given in the borough, and, within the pre.scribed time after the notice 
 is given, any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the 
 election may apply to the election court or High Court in the prescribed 
 manner and at the presciibed time and place to be substituted as a 
 petitioner ; and the court may, if it thinks lit, substitute him accordingly. 
 
 (4.) Security shall be given on behalf of a petitioner so substituted, as 
 in the case of a new petition. 
 
 97.- — ■(!•) If before the trial of an election petition a respondent other 
 than a returning officer — 
 
 («.) Dies, resigns, or otherwise ceases to hold the office to which the 
 petition relates ; or 
 
 (5.) Gives the prescril^ed notice that he does not intend to oppose the 
 petition ; 
 
 the prescribed notice thereof shall be given in the borough, and within 
 the prescribed time after the notice is given any person who might have 
 been a petitioner in respect of the election may apply to the election court 
 or High Court to be admitted as a i-espondent to oppose the petition, and 
 shall be admitted accordingly, except that the number of persons so 
 admitted shall not exceed thi-ee. 
 
 (2.) A respondent who has given the prescribed notice that he does 
 not intend to oppose the petition shall not be allowed to appear or act as 
 a party against the petition in any pz-oceedings thereon. 
 
 98. — (1.) All costs, charges, and expenses of and incidental to the 
 presentation of an election petition, and the proceeilings consequent 
 thereon, except such as are by this Act otherwise provided for, shall be 
 defrayed by the parties to the petition in such manner and proportions 
 as the election court determines ; and in particular any costs, charges, or 
 expenses which in the opinion of the court have been caused by vexatious 
 conduct, unfounded allegations, or unfounded objections on the part either 
 of the petitioner or of the respondent, and any needless expense incurred 
 or caused on the part of petitioner or respondent, may be ordered to be 
 defrayed by the parties by whom it has been incurred or caused, whether 
 they are or not on the whole successful. 
 
 (2.) The costs may be taxed in the prescribed manner, but according to 
 the same principles as costs between solicitor and client in an action in the 
 High Court, and may be recovered as the costs of such an action, or as 
 otherwise prescribed. \Sep, the Municipal Elections [Corrujyt Practices) Act 
 1884, ss. 29, .32, and 38.] 
 
 (3.) If a petitioner neglects or refuses for three months after demand 
 to pay to any person summoned as a witness on his behalf, or to the 
 respondent, any sum certified to be due to him for his costs, charges, and 
 expenses, and the neglect or refusal is, within one year after the demand, 
 proved to the satisfaction of the High Court, every person who has under 
 this Act entered into a recognisance relating to the petition shall be held 
 to have made default in the recognisance, and the prescribed officer shall 
 thereon certify the recognisance to be forfeited, and it shall be dealt vdth. 
 as a forfeited recognisance relating to a parliamentary election petition. 
 \_See the Parlianientarij Elections Act 1868, s. 42.] 
 
 99. — (1.) The town clerk * shall provide proper accommodation for 
 holding the election court ; and any expenses incurred by him for the 
 IHii poses of this section shall be paid out of the borough fund or borough 
 rate.t 
 
 See 51 & 52 Vict. 
 
 * As regards county councils, the clerk of the countv council. 
 c. 41, s. 75 (5). 
 
 j As regards county councils, the county fund. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 68. 
 regards the metropolitan borough councils, the general rate. See 56 & 57 Vict. c. 
 ss. 31 and 48 (.3), and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 2 (5) and 10. 
 
 As 
 73.
 
 £45 & 46 Vict.] Municipal Corporation.^ Art 1882. [Chap. 50.] 895 
 
 (2.) All chief and Lead constables, superintendents of police, head- 
 boroughs, gaolers, constables, and bailiflts shall give their assistance to the 
 election court in the execution of its duties, and if any gaoler or officer of 
 a prison makes default in receiving or detaining a prisoner committed 
 thereto in pursuance of this part, he shall be lial^le to a line not exceeding 
 five pounds for every day during which the default continues. 
 
 (3.) The election court may employ otlicers and clei-ks as prescribed. 
 
 (4.) A shorthand writer shall attend at the trial of an election petition, 
 and shall lie sworn by the election court faithfully and truly to take down 
 rthe evidence given at the trial. He shall take down the evidence at 
 length. A transcript of the notes of the evidence taken by him shall, 
 if the election court so directs, accompany the certificate of the election 
 couit. His expen.ses, according to a prescribed scale, shall be treated as 
 part of the expenses incurred in receiving the court. 
 
 100. — (1.) The judges for the time being on the rota for the trial of ilules of pro- 
 parliamentary election petitions, may from time to time make, revoke, V^'\"^^ ^^^ 
 and alter General Rules for the effectual execution of this part, and of ^""* iction. 
 the intention and object thereof, and the regulation of the practice, 
 procedure, and costs of municipal election petitions, and the trial thereof, 
 and the certifying and repoiting thereon. [.S'ee the Municipal Elections 
 {Corrupt Practices) Act 1884, s. 3U.] 
 
 ("2.) All such rules shall be laid befoi'e both Houses of Parliament 
 within three weeks after they are made, if Parliament is then .sitting, and 
 if not, within three weeks after the beginning of the then next session of 
 Parliament, and shall, while in force, have effect as if enacted in this Act. 
 
 (3.) Subject to the provisions of this Act, and of the rules made under 
 it, the principles, practice, and rules for the time being observed in the 
 case of parliamentary election petitions, and in particular the principles 
 and rules with regard to agency and evidence, and to a scrutiny, and to 
 the declaring any person elected in the room of any other person declared 
 to have been not duly elected, shall be observed, as far as may be, in the 
 case of a municipal election petition. 
 
 (4.) The High Court shall, subject to this Act, have the same powers, 
 jurisdiction, and authority with respect to a municipal election petition 
 and the proceedings thereon as if the petition were an ordinaiy action 
 within its jurisdiction. 
 
 (5.) The duties to be performed by the prescril)ed officer under this 
 part shall be performed by the prescribed officer of the High Court. 
 
 (6.) The general rules in force at the commencement of this Act with 
 respect to matters within this part shall, until superseded by rules made 
 under this section, and subject to any amendment thereof by rules so made, 
 have effect, with the nece.ssary modifications, as if made under this section. 
 
 101. — (1.) The remuneration and allowances to be paid to a commis- E.xpenses of 
 sioner for his services in respect of the trial of an election petition, and election 
 to any officers, clerks, or shorthand writers employed under this part, ^'^^^ ' 
 shall be fixed l)y a scale made and varied by the election judges on the 
 rota for the trial of parliamentary election petitions, with the approval 
 of the Treasury. The remuneration and allowances shall be paid in the 
 first instance by the Treasury, and shall be repaid to the Treasury, on 
 their certificate, out of the borough fund or borough rate. 
 
 (2.) But the election court may in its discretion order that such 
 remuneration and allowances, or the expenses incurred by a town clerk 
 for receiving the election court, shall be repaid, wholly or in part, to the 
 Treasury or the town clerk, as the case may be, in the cases, by the 
 persons, and in the manner following (namely) : 
 
 (rt.) When in the opinion of the election court a petition is frivolous 
 and vexatious, by the petitioner ; 
 
 (h.) When in the opinion of the election court a respondent has been 
 personally guilty of corrupt practices at the election, by that 
 I'espondent.
 
 896 
 
 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.} 
 
 Acts done 
 pending a 
 petition not 
 invalidated. 
 
 Provisions as 
 to elections 
 in the room 
 of persons 
 unseated on 
 petition. 
 
 Prohibition 
 of disclosure 
 of vote. 
 
 (3.) An order so made for the repayment of any sum by a petitioner 
 or respondent may be enforced as an order for payment of costs ; but a 
 deposit made or security given under this part shall not be applied for 
 any snch repayment until all costs and expenses payable by the petitioner 
 or respondent to any party to the petition have been satisfied. 
 [.S'ee notes on s. 99 vhidi ajyj^lij.^ 
 
 102. ^^'here a candidate who has been elected to a corporate office is^ 
 by a certificate of an election court or a decision of the High Court, 
 declared not to have been duly elected, acts done by him in execution of 
 the office, before the time when the certificate or decision is certified to 
 the town clerk, shall not be invalidated by reason of that declaration.- 
 [>ee note* on s. 99 which ajyjylies.] 
 
 103. Where on an election petition the election of any person to a 
 corporate office has been declared void, and no other person has been 
 declared elected in his room, a new election shall Vje held to supply the 
 vacancy in the same manner as on a casual vacancy ; and for the purposes 
 of the election any duties to be performed by a mayor, alderman, or other 
 officer, shall, if he has been declared not elected, be performed by a deputy, 
 or other person who might have acted for him if he had been incapacitated 
 by illness. [>See note on s. 75.] 
 
 104. A person who has voted at a municipal election by ballot shall 
 not in any proceeding to question the election be required to state for 
 whom he has voted. 
 
 PART V. 
 
 Corporate Property and Liabilities. 
 
 Prohibition 
 of expendi- 
 ture of cor- 
 porate funds 
 on parlia- 
 mentary- 
 elections. 
 
 Misapjilication of Corporate Property. 
 
 124. — (1.) It shall not be lawful for a municipal corporation, or the 
 council of a borough, or a corporate officer, or a trustee, or other person 
 acting for a municipal corporation, to pay or apply any money, stocks, 
 funds, securities, or personal property, of or held in trust for the cor- 
 poration, in payment of any expenses occasioned by a pailiamentary 
 election or incurred by anv' person offering himself as a candidate at or 
 before a parliamentary election. 
 
 (2.) Any bond, covenant, recognisance, or judgment given by a 
 corporation, council, officer, trustee, or person as aforesaid, for securing 
 payment of such expen.ses, shall be void. 
 
 (3.) Any payment, application, bond, covenant, recognisance, or 
 judgment made or given by a corporation, council, officer, trustee, or 
 person as aforesaid, for inducing any person to labour in a parliamentary 
 election at a futuie time, or to pay or incur expenses as aforesaid at a 
 futui'e time, shall be deemed to be forbidden and declaimed void by this 
 section, although colourably made or given for any other cause or 
 consideration. 
 
 (4.) Any mortgage or other disposition of corporate land for securing 
 or satisfying any expenses or engagements incurred or to be incurred as 
 aforesaid, and any estate or charge thereby created, shall be void. 
 
 (5.) Any resolution, byelaw, or other proceeding of'a council, purporting 
 to direct or authorize any payment or thing forbidden by this section, or 
 made or adopted for evading the provisions thereof, shall be 'void. 
 
 (6.) If any member of a municipal corporation authorizes or directs any 
 payment or application forbidden by this section, or assents to, or concurs 
 or participates in, any affirmative vote or proceeding relating thereto, or 
 signs or seals in his individual capacity, or affixes the corporate seal to, 
 any instrument by this section declared void, he shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanour, and, on conviction thereof in the High Court, shall, in 
 addition to such punishment as the court awards, be for ever disabled to 
 take, hold, or exercise any office in the same corporation.
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [Chap. 50,] 897 
 
 (7.) It" any corporate officer, trustee, or other person as aforesaid, makes, 
 or concurs in making, any payment or application of money or property 
 as aforesaid, he shall be deemed to have done so in his own wrong, and 
 he shall be individually liable to repay and make good the amount or 
 value thereof to the corporation, notwithstanding any release or pretended 
 indemnity given to him in the name or on behalf of the corporation. 
 
 (8.) Any two or more burgesses may bring and prosecute any action 
 in the name of the corporation against any oHicer, trustee, or person 
 making any illegal payment or application as aforesaid, as if they, their 
 executors and administrators, were jointly and severally appointed the 
 irrevocable attorneys of the corporation for that purpose; but the 
 plaintiils shall, on the application of the defendant, give reasonaVjle 
 security, as the court directs, for costs, as between solicitor and client. 
 
 (9.) Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of the Ballot 
 Act, 1872, or of any other xict for the time being in force regulating 
 the pavment by the returning oflicer or otherwise of expenses relating 
 to parliamentary elections. 
 
 PART VII. 
 Borough Fund : Borough Rate : County Rate. 
 
 — (1.) The borough fund shall be applicable to and charged with -Application 
 ral payments specified in the Fifth Schedule. ^^^^ ^ 
 
 140. 
 
 the sever! 
 
 (2.) The payments specified in Part I. of that Schedule may be made 
 without order of the council ; those specified in Part II. may not be made 
 without such order, 
 [See 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73, s. 48 (4) and 02 k 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (5).] 
 
 PART XI. 
 
 Grant of Charters. 
 
 211. — (1.) Every petition for a charter under this Act shall be refeired 
 to a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council (in this part 
 called the Committee of Council). 
 
 213. — (1.) Where a petition for a charter is referred to the Committee Scheme or 
 of Council, and it is proposed by the charter to extend the Municipal continuance 
 Corporation Acts to the municipal borough to be created by the charter, °l ^^^ ' V^"^ 
 the Committee of Council may settle a scheme for the adjustment ef the justment 
 powers, rights, privileges, franchises, duties, property, anil liabilities of of rights 
 any then existing local authority whose district comprises the whole or °^ existing 
 part of the area of that borough, either with or without any adjoining ?, ^"t"0- 
 or other place, and also of any officer of that authority. officers. 
 
 (2.) The sclieme, so far as it appears to the Committee of Council to 
 be necessary or proper for carrying into effect the said adjustment as 
 regaids any local authority existing at the time of the making of the 
 scheme, may contain pi-ovisions for the continuance of that authority, 
 or for the abolition total or partial of that authority, or for the creation 
 of another authority or authorities, and the alteration of the district of the 
 existing local authority, and the union or other relation of the existing 
 local authority and the authority or authorities so created, and for the 
 continuance, modification, transfer, vesting, and extension to the whole 
 of the borough of all or any of the powers, rights, privileges, franchises, 
 duties, property, and liabilities of the existing local authority, and may 
 contain such provisions as appear to the Committee of Council to be 
 necessary or proper for fully carrying into efioct any such adjustment 
 and provisions as aforesaid. 
 
 (3.) The scheme, when settled by the Committee of Council, shal Ibe 
 
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 published in the London Gazette, and shall not be of any effect unless 
 confirmed as herein-after mentioned. 
 
 (4.) Where, within one month after the publication of the scheme 
 in the London Gazette, a petition against it by any local authority 
 aflfected thereby, or by not less than one twentieth of the owners and 
 ratepayers of the borough (such twentieth to be one twentieth in number 
 of the owners and ratepayers of the borough taken together, or the 
 owners and ratepayers in respect of one twentieth of the rateable property 
 in the borough and the owners and ratepayers in all cases to include 
 women not under coverture) has been received by the Committee of 
 Council, and is not withdrawn, the scheme shall require the confirmation 
 of Parliament, and the Committee of Council may, if they think fit, submit 
 it to Parliament for confirmation ; but otherwise, at any time after the 
 expiration of the said month, or after the withdrawal of any petition that 
 has been presented, the Committee of Council may, if they think fit, submit 
 the scheme for confirmation, either to Parliament or to Her Majesty in 
 Council, and in the latter case it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to 
 confirm the scheme by Order in Council. 
 
 (5.) A scheme, when confirmed by Parliament or by Order in Council, 
 shall have full operation, with, in the former case, such modifications, 
 if any, as are made therein by Parhament, as if the scheme were part 
 of this Act. 
 
 (G.) A local authority for the purposes of this part means a sanitary 
 authority, (not being the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of a borough 
 subject to the Municipal Corporations Acts,) also the corporation of a 
 borough not subject to the Municipal Corporations Acts, a burial board, 
 trustees, commissioners or other persons who, as a public body and not for 
 their own profit, act under any Act for paving, lighting, supjDlying with 
 water or gas, cleansing, watching, regulating or improving any town or 
 place, or for providing or maintaining a cemetery or market in or for any 
 town or place, and any commissioners, trustees, or other persons (not 
 being Justices) maintaining any police force, and any other authority not 
 in this section excepted, . . . and having powers of local government and 
 of rating for public purposes. \_Words omitted {^' and not being a school 
 board") rep. by the School Boards Act 1885, s. 1 (1).] 
 
 (7.) The district of a local authority for the purposes of this section 
 means the area within which such authority can exercise any powers 
 or rights. 
 [-See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 16 (3).] 
 
 Supplemental 214. — (1.) A scheme shall, before being settled by the Committee 
 provisions as of Council, be referred for consideration to the Secretary of State and 
 and*charter ^^® Local Government Board. . . . 
 
 24 &i 25 Vict. (2-) A scheme shall in every case provide for placing the new borough 
 c. 47. within the jurisdiction of the council as the sanitary authority. 
 
 (3.) The regulations contained in the Seventh Schedule with respect 
 to the scheme shall be observed. 
 
 (4.) If the Committee of Council are satisfied that a local authority 
 or other petitioners have properly promoted or properly opposed a scheme 
 before them, and that for special reasons it is right that the reasonable costs 
 incurred by the authority or other petitioners in such promotion or 
 opposition should be paid as expenses properly incurred by the local 
 authority in the execution of their duties, the Committee of Council may 
 order those costs to be so paid, and they shall be paid accordingly. 
 [>S'ee 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 16 (3).] 
 
 Power to 218. — (1.) Where a scheme for a borough has been confirmed under 
 
 amend ^j^jg part, or any former enactment, and the municipal corporation of the 
 
 ^ ^ ■ borough or one twentieth of the owners and ratepayers of the borough 
 
 (estimated as in this part mentioned), or a local avithority affected by the 
 
 scheme, petition the Queen for an amending scheme, the petition shall
 
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 be referred to a Committt-e of the Lords of Hei- Majesty's Privy Council 
 (included in the term the Committee of Council in this part), and shall 
 be proceeded on, and this part shall apply thereto, as nearly as may 
 be, as if the same were a petition for a charter extending the Municipal 
 Coi'porations Acts to a municipal borout^h to bo incorporated. 
 
 {'!.) The Committi^e of ( 'ouncil, if they think fit to submit the amending 
 scheme for confirmation, shall submit the same to Parliament, or they may 
 submit the s;iiiie to Her Majesty in Council, if the original scheme was 
 ■confirmed by Order in Council; and in the latter case it shall be lawful 
 for Her Majesty to confirm the amending scheme by (_)rder in Council. 
 
 (3.) An amending scheme, when confirmed by Parliament, or by Order 
 in Council, as the case may require, shall have full operation, with, in the 
 former case, such moditicutions, if any, as are made tlierein by Parliament, 
 as if the amending scheme were part of this Act. 
 [See 62 ct G3 Vict. c. 14, s. 16 (3).] 
 
 PART XII. 
 
 Legal Proceedings. 
 
 219. — (1.) Ill summary proceedings for offences and fines under this I'rosecution 
 Act the information shall be laid within six months after the commission ^^ t-ffences 
 of the offence. and recovery 
 
 (2.) Any per.son aggrieved by a conviction or a court of summary 
 jurisdiction under this Act may appeal therefrom to a court of quarter 
 sessions. [-See the Sumviary Jurisdiction Act 1879, s, 31.] 
 
 (3.) Any fine incuri-ed under this Act and not i-ecoverable summarily 
 may l)e recovered by action in the High Court. 
 
 220. A conviction, order, warrant, or other matter made or done Exclusion of 
 or purporting to be made or done by virtue of this Act shall not be certiorari, 
 quashed for want of form, and shall not, unless it is an order of the 
 council for payment of money out of the borough fund, be removed by 
 certiorari or otherwise into the High Court. [*See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 s. 8(1 (2).] 
 
 221 — 223. [As to the application of penalties in quarter sessions 
 hurviKihs — As to the duties of the clerk of the peace as to fines and for- 
 feitures. As to service of summons or execution of warrant. Not apjAicable 
 to London.^ 
 
 224. — (1.) An action to i-ecover a tine from any person for acting in Piocedure in 
 a corporate otHce without having made the requisite declaration, or without peual actions 
 being qualified, or after ceasing to be qualified, or after becoming ^,f'^^'^*''. 
 disqualified, may not be brought except by a burgess of the borough, and officers, 
 shall not lie unless the plaiutitf has, within fourteen days after the cause 
 of action arose, served a notice in writing personally on the person liable 
 to the fine of his intention to bring the action, nor unless the action is 
 commenced within three months after the cause of action arose. [.See 
 ss. 41 and 219.] 
 
 (2.) The court or a judge shall, on the application of the defendant 
 within fourteen days after he has been served with writ of summons in the 
 action, require the plaintiff to give security for costs. 
 
 (3.) Unless judgment is given for the {Uaintitf", the defendant shall be 
 entitled to costs, to be taxed as between solicitor and client. 
 
 (4.) Where any such action is brought against a person on the ground 
 of his not being qualified in respect of estate, it shall lie on him to 
 prove that he was so qualified. 
 
 (5.) A moiety of the tine recovered shall, after payment of the costs of 
 action, be paid to the plaintiff. 
 
 226. — (1.) An application for an information in the nature of a quo Quo war- 
 warranto against any person claiming to hold a corporate office shall not ranto and 
 be made after the expiration of twelve months from the time when he ' auius. 
 became disqualified after election.
 
 900 
 
 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 (2.) In the case of such an application, or of an application for a 
 mandamus to proceed to an election of a corporate officer, the applicant 
 shall give notice in writing of the application to the person to be affected 
 thereby (in this section called the respondent) at any time not less than 
 ten days before the day in the notice specified for making the application. 
 
 (3.) The notice shall set forth the name and description of the applicant, 
 and a statement of the grounds of the application. 
 
 (4.) The applicant shall deliver with the notice a copy of the affidavits 
 whereby the application will be supported. 
 
 (5.) The respondent may show cause in the first instance against the 
 application. 
 
 (6.) If sufficient cause is not shown, the court, on proof of due service 
 of the notice, statement, and copy of affidavits used in support of the 
 application, may, if it thinks fit, make the rule for the information or 
 mandamus absolute. 
 
 (7.) The court may, if it thinks fit, direct that any issue of fact on an 
 information be tried by jury in London or at Westminster.* 
 
 (8.) The court may, if it thinks fit, direct that any writ of mandamus 
 issued shall be peremptory in the first instance. 
 
 Provisions 226. . 
 
 for protection ^P^^yi oraitted (j)rovisiou that cm action, jyroseciition, or proceeding against 
 actine under ^*'*2/ person for any act done in respect of this Act shall not lie unless taken. 
 Act tvithin 6 months and provision as to tender of ameiuls) rep. 63/ 61 & 62 Vict, 
 
 c. 22 {S.L.B.). See nov) 5G & 57 Vict. c. 61.] 
 
 (3.) Subject and without prejudice to any other powers, the council, 
 where the defendant in any such action, prosecution, or other proceeding 
 is their officer, agent, or servant, may, if they think fit, except so far as 
 the court before which the action, prosecution, or other proceeding is heard 
 and determined otherwise directs, pay out of the borough fund or borough 
 rate all or any part of any sums payable by the defendant in or in 
 consequence of the action, prosecution, or proceeding, whether in respect 
 of costs, charges, expenses, damages, fine, or otherwise. [.See also 51 & 52 
 Vict. c. 41, s. 66.] 
 
 227. [Poioer for horongh constables to take hail. Not a2}j)licable to 
 London.] 
 
 PART XIII. 
 
 General. 
 
 228 — 229. [As to boundaries of boroughs and transfer of parts of 
 boroughs to counties, and as to adjustments of boundaries between horoioghs 
 and counties. Not applicahle to London. See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 
 (16) {b), and ibid. Part III.] 
 
 Time. 
 
 Computation 230. — (1.) Where by this Act any limited time from or after any date 
 of time. or event is appointed or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking 
 
 of any proceeding, then in the computation of that limited time the same 
 shall be taken as exclusive of the day of that date or of the happening 
 of that event, and as commencing at the beginning of the next following 
 day ; and the act or proceeding shall be done or taken at the latest on the 
 last day of the limited time as so computed, unless the last day is a Sunday, 
 Christmas Day, Good Friday, or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week, or a 
 day appointed for public fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving, in which case 
 any act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if it 
 is done or taken on the next day afterwards, not being one of the days in 
 this section specified. 
 
 * Now the King's Bench Division of the High Court. See the Judicature Act 1873.
 
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 (2.) Where by this Act any net oi* proceeding is (hrected or allowed to 
 be done or taken on a certain day, then if that day happens to be one of 
 the days in this section specified, the act or proceeding shall be considered 
 as done or taken in due time if it is done or taken on the next day 
 afterwards, not being one of the days in this section s[)eci(ied. 
 
 (3.) WlitTci l)y this Act any act or proceeding is directed or allowed to 
 be done or taken within any time not exceeding seven days, the days 
 in this section specified shall not be reckoned in the computation of such 
 time. 
 
 Distance. 
 
 231. Tlie distances mentioned in this Act shall l)e measured in a straight Measurement 
 line on a horizontal plane, and may be determined by the map made under ^^ uistaaces. 
 the survey commonly known as the Ordnance Survey. 
 
 Notices. 
 
 232. Any notice or other document required by this Act to be fixed on Notices on 
 the town hall shall be fixed in some conspicuous place on or near the outer <^own hall, 
 door of the town hall, or, if there is no town hall, in some conspicuous 
 
 place in the borough or ward to which the notice or document relates. 
 
 Inspection mid Copies. 
 
 233. — (1.) The minutes of proceedings of the council shall be open to Inspection of 
 the inspection of a burgess on payment of a fee of one shilling, and a documents, 
 burgess may make a copy thereof or take an extract therefrom. 
 
 (2.) A burgess may make a copy of or take an extract from an order of 
 the council for the payment of money. 
 
 (3.) The treasurer's accounts shall be open to the inspection of the 
 council, and a member of the council may make a copy thereof or take an 
 extract therefrom. [See 50 & 51 Vict. c. 41, s. 71 (3) ; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, 
 s. 247 ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 14.] 
 
 (4.) The abstracts of the treasurer's accounts shall be open to the 
 inspection of all the i-atepayers of the borough, and copies thereof shall 
 be delivered to a ratepayer on payment of a reasonable price for each 
 copy. 
 
 (5.) [As to the freemen' s roll. ^\'ut applicable to Lo)idon.] 
 
 (6.) A document directed by this Act to be open to inspection shall be so 
 open at any reasonable time durii:ig the ordinary hours of business, and 
 without payment, unless it is otherwise expressed. 
 
 (7.) If a person having the cu.stody of any document in this section 
 mentioned, — 
 
 (a.) Obstructs any person authorized to inspect the same in making such 
 inspection thereof as in this section mentioned ; or 
 
 (b.) Refuses to give copies or extracts to any pei-son entitled to obtain 
 the same under this section ; 
 he shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five 
 pounds. 
 
 Fees. 
 
 234. The town clerk of every borough shall cause a true copy of the Tables of fees 
 tables of fees for the time Iteing authorized to be taken by the clerk of ^'^ be posted, 
 the peace (if any) for the borough, by the clerk to the Justices (if any) 
 for the borough, and by the registrar and officers of the borough civil 
 court (if any), to be po.sted conspicuously in the following places: [see 
 note * on s. 99, which applies] : 
 
 (a.) The room where the business of the town clerk's office is transacted ; 
 
 (6.) The room, if any, where the Justices of the borough sit for 
 transacting their business.
 
 '902 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 (c.) The room, if any, where the court of quarter sessions of the borough 
 
 is held ; and 
 {d.) The room, if any, where the borough civil court is held. 
 
 Seals and Signatures. 
 
 Forgery. 285. If any person forges the seal or signature affixed or subscribed 
 
 to a byelaw made under this Act, or the signature subscribed to any 
 minute of proceedings of the council, or tendei's in evidence any such 
 document with a false or counterfeit seal or signature, knowing it to be 
 false or counterfeit, he shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour 
 for any term not exceeding two years. 
 
 236. \^As to notice of ap^ylication to the Treasury for approval of loans 
 and correspondence thereon. Not apypUcahle to London. See 51 & 52 Vict, 
 c. 41, s. 40 (9).] 
 
 Deputy. 
 
 Acts of 237. No defect in the appointment of a deputy under this Act shall 
 
 deputy not to invalidate his acts, 
 be invaliaated 
 
 by defect in 238. \As to notices to, and acts of overseer's. Not apjMcahle to London.^ 
 appointment. 
 
 Declarations and Oaths. 
 
 Power to 239. — (1.) Where by or under this Act a declaration or oath is 
 
 ^ !u^^^^!^^ required to be made or taken by the holder of a corporate office or other 
 " ' ■ person before the council or any members thereof, or any other persons, 
 they shall have authority to receive and administer the same without any 
 commission or authority other than this Act. \_See, as regards metrop)olitan 
 horouglt councils, the Metropolitan Borough Councillors Election Order 1903, 
 r. 23, Sch. 5.] 
 
 (2.) Nothing in this Act in any case shall require or authorise the 
 
 taking or making of any oath or declaration that would not have been 
 
 31 & 32 Vict, required or authorised under the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, or otherwise 
 
 c- 72. by law, if this Act had not been passed, or interfere with the operation of 
 
 the Promissory Oaths Act, 18C8. [See also the Oaths Act 1888.] 
 
 Fo7'ms. 
 
 Forms in 240. The forms in the Eighth Schedule or forms to the like effect, 
 
 schedule. varied as circumstances require, may be used, and shall be sufficient in 
 law. 
 
 Misnomer or Inaccurate Description. 
 
 Misnomer or 241. No misnomer or inaccurate description of any person, body 
 inaccurate corporate, or place named in any schedule to the Mitnicipal Corporations 
 
 notTo^hrd '^^^' ^^^^' °^ ^" ^^y '^^^^' ^^^^j notice, or voting paper required by this Act, 
 ■ shall hinder the full operation of this Act with respect to that person, 
 body corporate, or place, provided the description of that person, body 
 corporate, or place be such as to be commonly understood. 
 
 242. [References in enactments described in the 9th Schedule to the 
 Municipal Corporatioiis Act 1835 to he deemed references to this Act.'\ 
 
 243. [As to short titles of the Acts specified in the \st Schedule. Rep. 
 61 .k: 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 244 — 246. [Mayors of certain boroughs to be returning officers in 
 jmrlmrnentary elections — As to electors in disfranchised boroughs. Xot 
 applicable to London.]
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [Chap. 50.] 903 
 
 Freedom of Tradiivj. 
 
 247. Notwithstanding any custom or byelaw, every person in any Right of 
 boioiigli may keep any shop for the sale of all lawful wares and free trading 
 merchandises by wholesale or retail, and use every lawful trade, occupa- ^" boroughs, 
 tion, mystery, and handicraft for hire, giiin, sale, or otherwise within any 
 boroiigli. [.S>e s. 23. J 
 
 248 — 250. [Special provisioiu relating to tlte Cimpie Ports and to the 
 Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge— Saving for municipal co^yorations existing 
 at the passing of this Act.] 
 
 251. [S'avi^K/ for local Acts. Not applicable to London. See 51 k 52 
 Vict. c. 41, ss. 75 (IG) {b) and 125.] 
 
 252. [Saving for the Prison Acts 1842, 1865, and 1877.] 
 
 253. Nothing in this Act shall compel the acceptance of any office or Saving for 
 duty whatever in any borough by any military, naval, or marine ofhcer in military 
 Her Majesty's service on full pay or half pay, or by any officer or other ^^|^^'^'^ 
 pei-son employed and residing in any of Her ^Majesty's dockyards, 
 victualling establishments, arsenals, barracks, or other naval or military 
 establishments. 
 
 254. Nothing in this Act shall afl'ect the watching, paving, or lighting, Saving for 
 or the internal regidations for the government, of any of Her Majesty's 'dockyards, 
 dockyards, victualling establishments, arsenals, barracks, or other naval ^'"'^^ ^' ® ^* 
 or military establishments, or make the tenements therein or the inhabi- 
 tants thereof liable to any rate for watching, paving, or lighting. 
 
 255. Nothing in this Act shall affect the authority of Justices vested Saving as to 
 in the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the -A^amiralty. 
 United Kingdom, or any authority to appoint coroners to act within the 
 jurisdiction of the Admiralty. 
 
 256. [Saving for the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.] 
 
 267. [Saving for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and 
 D>irham.\ 
 
 258. Nothing in this Act shall pt-event any jurisdiction or authority Sa\-ing for 
 exercised in or over the precinct or close of any cathedral from being jurisdiction 
 continued concurrently with the jurisdiction and authority of the Justices ppggjngtg 
 of the borough in which the precinct or close is situate. 
 
 259. Nothing in this Act shall prejudicially affi?ct Her Majesty's royal Saving 
 prerogative ; and the enabling provisions of this Act shall be deemed to ^or royal 
 be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the powers exerciseable by Her prerogatue. 
 Majesty by virtue of her royal prerogative. 
 
 260. [Saving as to repealed enactments. Rep., with saving as to Scotlaiul 
 and Ireland, 61 <k 62 Vict. c. 22 {S.L.R.).] 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 SrxoNn Schedule. [^4^ to meetings and proceeding.'! of council. SupevKeded 
 {as regards the London County Council) by 56 & 57 Vict. c. ccxxi. .t. 10.] 
 
 THE THIRD SCHEDULE. 
 Elections. 
 
 Part IL 
 
 Rules as to Nomination in Elections of CowiciUors. 
 
 1. Every candidate for the office of councillor must be nominated in writing. 
 
 2. The writing must be subscribed by two burgesses of the borough or, in 
 the case of a ward election, of the ward, as proposer and seconder, and by eight 
 other burgesses of the borough or ward, as assenting to the nomination.
 
 904 [Chap. 50.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [45 & 46 Vict.] 
 
 3. Each candidate must be nominated by a separate nomination paper, but the 
 same burgesses, or any of them, may subscribe as many nomination papers as 
 there are vacancies to be filled, but no more. 
 
 4. Each person nominated must be enrolled in the burgess roll or entered in 
 the separate non-resident list required by this Act to be made. [See s. 45 atid 
 note thereon.'] 
 
 f). The nomination paper must state the surname and other names of the 
 candidate, with his abode and description. 
 
 6. The town clerk* shall provide nomination papers, and shall supply any 
 burgess with as many nomination papers as may be required, and shall, at the 
 request of any burgess, fill up a nomination paper. 
 
 7. Every nomination paper subscribed as aforesaid must be delivered by the 
 candidate, or his proposer or seconder, at the town clerk's office,* seven days at 
 least before the day of election, and before five o'clock in the afternoon of the 
 last day for delivery of nomination papers. 
 
 8. The town clerk * shall forthwith send notice of every such nomination to 
 each candidate. 
 
 'J. The mayor* shall attend at the town hall on the day next after the last day 
 for delivery of nomination papers for a sufficient time, between the hours of two 
 and four in the afternoon, and shall decide on the validity of every objection 
 made in writing to a nomination paper. 
 
 10. Where a person subscribes more nomination papers than one, his 
 subscription shall be inoperative in all but the one which is first delivered. 
 
 11. Each candidate may, by writing signed by him, or, if he is absent from 
 the United Kingdom, then his proposer or seconder may, by writing signed hj 
 him, appoint a person (in this Schedule referred to as the candidate's repre- 
 sentative) to attend the proceedings before the mayor* on behalf of the 
 candidate, and this appointment must be delivered to the town clerk * before 
 five o'clock in the afternoon of the last day for delivery of nomination papers. 
 
 12. Each candidate and his representative, but no other person, except for the 
 purpose of assisting the mayor,* shall be entitled to attend the proceedings 
 before the mayor." 
 
 13. Each candidate and his representative may, during the time appointed for 
 the attendance of the mayor* for the purposes of this Schedule, object to the 
 nomination paper of any other candidate for the borough or ward. 
 
 14. The decision of the mayor ■■ shall be given in writing, and shall, if dis- 
 allowing an objection, be final, but, if allowing an objection, shall be subject to 
 reversal on petition questioning the election or return. 
 
 15. The town clerk* shall at lea.st four days before the day of election cause 
 the surnames and other names of all persons validly nominated, with their 
 respective abodes and descriptions, and the names of the persons subscribing 
 their nomination papers as proposers and seconders, to be printed and fixed on 
 the town hall, and in the case of a ward election, in some conspicuous place in 
 the ward. [See ss. 54, 230, ami 232.] 
 
 10. The nomination of a person absent from the United Kingdom shall be 
 void, unless his written consent given within one month before the day of his 
 nomination in the presence of two witnesses is produced at the time of his 
 nomination. [SVe 52 & 53 V/cf. c. 63, s. 3.] 
 
 17. Where the number of valid nominations exceeds that of the vacancies, 
 any candidate may withdraw from his candidature by notice signed by him, and 
 delivered at the town clerk's t office not later than two o'clock in the afternoon 
 of the day next after the last day for delivery of nomination papers : Provided 
 that such notices shall take effect in the order in which they are delivered, and 
 that no such notice shall have effect so as to reduce the number of candidates 
 ultimately standing nominated below the number of vacancies. 
 
 18. In and for the purposes of the provisions of this Act i-elating to proceed- 
 ings preliminary to election, the burgess roll or ward roll which will be in force 
 on the day of election shall be deemed to be the burgess roll or ward roll, and 
 a person whose name is inserted in one of the lists from which the burgess roll 
 or ward roll will be made up, shall be deemed to be enrolled in that roll although 
 that roll is not yet completed. 
 
 Part III. 
 
 Modifications of the Ballot Act in its ApiAicntion to Municipal Elections. 
 
 1. The provisions of the Ballot Act, 1872, with respect to the voting of a 
 returning officer, the use of a room for taking a poll, and the right to vote of 
 
 * See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (4) and (5). 
 t bee 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 75 (7).
 
 [45 & 46 Vict.] Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [Chap. 50.] 905 
 
 persons whose names are on the register of voters, and Rules It! anJ I'J iu the 
 ^schedule to that Act, shall not apply in the case of a municipal election. 
 
 2. The mayor* shall at least four daj's before the day of election give public 
 notice of the situation, division, and allotment of polling places for taking the 
 poll at the election, and of the description of the persons entitled to vote thereat, 
 and at the several polling stations. [Hec hh. f)i mid 2;5fl.] 
 
 3. The mayor* shall provide everything which in the case of a parliamentary 
 election is re(iuired to be provided by the returning officer for the purpose of a 
 poll, and shall appoint officers for taking the poll and counting the votes. [.S'e? 
 the Ballot Act 1872, hh. 8, 14, and Ut Sch.'] 
 
 4. The mayor* shall furnish every polling station with such number of com- 
 partments in wliich the voters can mark their votes screened from observation and 
 furnish each i)residing officer with such nunil)er of ballot papers, as in the judg- 
 ment of the mayor may be necessary for effectually taking the poll at the election. 
 
 5. All expenses of the election shall be defrayed in manner by this Act 
 provided. [_See s. 140, atid ol vSj .')2 I'/'/, r. 41, .■.■. 1') (17).] 
 
 (!. No return shall be made to the clerk of the Crown in Chancery. 
 
 THE FIFTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 Payments out of tmk Boroucui Fund. 
 
 Part I. 
 
 Payments which may be made zolthotit Order. 
 
 P.MiT II. 
 Payments ivhich may not he made without Order. 
 
 1. The expenses incurred by . . . the town clerk ... in relation to . . . 13 &: 14 Vict, 
 the holding of municipal elections, or so much of those expenses as is not ^- ^-' ^- ^;. 
 otherwise provided for under section thirty of the Parliamentary and Municipal ^^^. "^^' 
 Registration Act, 1878. 
 
 2. The expenses incurred by the town clerk in providing accommodation for 
 an election court held under this Act. 
 [^Parts oitiitlid /lot ajj/dicable to Lo//(lo>i.'\ 
 
 c. 2f.. 
 
 THE SEVENTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 Procedure fok Scheme ox Grant of New Charter. 
 
 1. The Committee of Council may, if they think fit, require the draft of a 
 proposed scheme to be submitted to them, either together with the petition for 
 a charter, or at any subsequent period. 
 
 2. The draft of a proposed scheme shall be published by advertisement, or 
 placards, or handbills, or otherwise, as the Committee of Council think best 
 calculated for giving notice thereof to all persons interested. 
 
 3. Before settling the scheme the Committee of Council shall consider any 
 objections which may be made thereto by any local authority or persons 
 affected thereby. 
 
 4. The scheme, when settled, shall, besides being publisliod in the London 
 Gazette, be published by advertisement, or placards, or handbills, or otherwise, 
 as the Committee of Council think best calculated for giving notice thereof 
 to all persons interested. [Sec &2 S: C>'.\ ]'li-t. r. 14, >-. lii (4).^ 
 
 5. Where a scheme is submitted to Parliament for confirmation, the Committee 
 of Council mav introduce a Bill for the confirmation of the scheme, which Bill 
 shall be a Public Bill. 
 
 G. Before such Bill is introduced into Parliament the Committee of Council 
 may alter the scheme in such manner as they think proper. 
 
 7. If while the Bill confirming a scheme is pending in either Hou,se of 
 Parliament a petition is presented against the scheme, the Bill, so far as it 
 relates to such scheme, may be referred to a select committee, and the petitioner 
 shall be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of a Private Bill. 
 
 8. A scheme shall come into operation at the date of its confirmation or any 
 later date mentioned in the scheme. 
 
 *.). The contirnKition of a scheme shall be conclusive evidence that all the 
 requirements of this Act with respect to proceedings required to be taken 
 previouslj- to the making of the scheme have been complied with, and that the 
 scheme has been duly made, and is within the powers of this Act. 
 
 * See 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 76 (4) and (5).
 
 906 
 
 [Chap. 34.] Water Hate Dejinition Act 1885. [48 & 49 Vict.] 
 
 THE EIGHTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 Forms. 
 
 Part I. — Declarations on acceptiyig Office. 
 
 Form a. 
 
 Form of Declaration on Acceptance of Corporate Office. 
 
 I, A.B., having been elected mayor [or alderman, councillor, elective auditor, 
 or revising assessor] for the borough of . hereby declare that 1 
 
 take the said office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties 
 thereof according to the best of my judgment and ability [luul in the case of the 
 person being qualijied //// estate sai/, And I hereby declare that I am seised or 
 possessed of real or personal estate, or both \_as the case may Je], to the value 
 or amount of one thousand pounds, or five hundred pounds [_as the case may 
 requirel, over and above what will satisfy my just debts]. 
 
 47 & 48 VICTORIA. A.D. 1884. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Interpretation 
 clause. 
 
 No buildings 
 to be erected 
 uijon disused 
 burial grounds, 
 except for en- 
 largement, etc. 
 
 Saving for 
 buildings 
 already 
 sanctioned. 
 
 Saving of 
 burial grounds 
 sold by Act of 
 Parliament. 
 
 Explanation 
 of 10 k. 11 
 Vict. c. 17. 
 s. 68. 
 
 CHAPTER 72. 
 
 *An Act for preventing the Erection of Buildings on disused- 
 Burial Grounds. [lith August 1884.] 
 
 [Preamble recites 15 (i 16 Vict. c. 85 and 16 & 17 Vict. c. 134, and that 
 in pursuance thereof numerous Orders in Council have been made for the 
 discontinuance of burials in certain burial grounds.^ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Disused Burial Grounds Act, 1884. 
 
 2. In this Act a "disused burial ground" .shall mean a burial ground 
 in respect of which an Order in Council has been made for the discon- 
 tinuance of burials therein in pursuance of the provisions of the said 
 recited Acts. [See 50 & 51 Vict. c. 32, s. 4.] 
 
 3. After the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful to erect any 
 buildings upon any disused burial ground, except for the purpose of 
 enlarging a church, chapel, meeting-house, or other places of worship. 
 [See 60 & 61 Vict. c. cclii., s. 49, a7id 63 & 64 Vict. c. cclrviii., s. 29.] 
 
 4. Nothing in thi.'? Act shall prevent the erection of any building on a 
 disused burial ground for which a faculty has been obtained before the 
 passing of this Act. 
 
 5. Nothing in this Act contained shall apply to any burial ground 
 which has been sold or disposed of under the authority of any Act of 
 Parliament. 
 
 48 & 49 VICTORIA. A.D. 1885. 
 
 CHAPTER 34. 
 
 An Act to declare and explain the sixty-eighth Section of the 
 Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847. [3lst Jtdy 1885.} 
 
 [Preamble.] 
 
 1. The words "the annual value of the tenement supplied with water"" 
 in the .sixty-eighth section of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, shall,, 
 within the unions and parishes to which the Valuation of Property^ 
 (Metropolis) Act, 1869, extends, mean the rateable value as settled from' 
 time to time by the local authority as duly constituted : Pro^nded that 
 where the water rate is chargeable on the annual value of a part only of 
 any hereditament entered in the valuation list, such annual value shall 
 be a fairly apportioned part of the rateable value of the whole tenement^ 
 a.scertained as aforesaid, the apportionment in case of dispute to be deter- 
 mined in manner provided by the said section. 
 
 * See 48 & 49 Vict. c. clxvii. s. 56, and G Edw. 7, c. 25, ss. 9—13..
 
 [51 Vict.] County Electors Act 1888. [Chap, lu.] 907 
 
 2, The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, and this Act shall, for the Construction! 
 j)ur}ioses of this Act, be construed together as one Act, and the provisions of Act. 
 
 of this Act shall to that extent be held to repeal and supersede such of the 
 provisions of that Act as are inconsistent with this Act. 
 
 3. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Water Rate Definition Short title. 
 Act, 1885. 
 
 51 VICTORIA. A.D. 1888. 
 
 CHAPTER 10. 
 
 *Ax Act to provide for the Qualification and Regisiratiox of 
 Electors for the Purposes of Local Government in England 
 and Wales. [lUh May 1888.] 
 
 \_Preamhle.^ 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the County Electors Act, 1888. Short title 
 
 The Registration Act, 1885, and the Parliamentary Registration Acts and con- 
 within the meaning of that Act, are in this Act referred to as the ^^f^^j^^. 
 Registration of Electors Acts, and together with this Act may be cited as „ jl 
 the Registration of Electors Acts, 1843 to 1888. 
 
 This Act shall be construed as one with the Registration of Electors 
 Acts. 
 
 2. — (1.) For the purpose of the election of county authorities in Extension of 
 England, tlie burgess qualification, that is to say, the qualification enacted burgess 
 by section nine of the :\Iunicipal Corporations Act, 1882, shall extend to J^JJ^^^.^*^® ^^^ 
 every jiart of a county not within the limits of a borough, and a person electors 
 possessing in any part of a county outside the limits of a borough such outside 
 burgess qualification, shall be entitled to be registered under this Act as municipal 
 a county elector in the parish in which the qualifying property is situate. ^-^'^^Hfv" 
 
 (2.) Sections nine, thirty-one, thii-ty-three, and sixty-three of the ^ ^q 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and any enactments of that or any 
 other Act affecting the same, shall extend to so much of every county as 
 is not comprised within the limits of a municipal borough in like manner 
 as if they were herein re-enacted, with the substitution of " county " for 
 "borough" and of "county elector" for "burgess," and with the other 
 necessary modifications. 
 
 3. Every person who is entitled to be i-egistered as a voter in lespect Occupation 
 of a ten pounds occupation qualification within the meaning of the pro- ^^ ^''^"^ ^^ 
 visions of the Registration Act, 1885, which are set out in the Schedule to ,^; ''^ ^^ ° 
 this Act, shall be entitled to be registered as a county elector, and to be qualifv. 
 enrolled as a burgess, in respect of such qualification, in like manner in 
 all respects as if the sections of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, 
 relating to a burgess qualification included the said ten pounds occupation 
 qualification. 
 
 4. — (1.) The Registration of Electors Acts shall, so far as circum- Registration 
 stances admit, apply to . . . the registration of county electors within '^^ county 
 the meaning of this Act ; and the lists of . . . county electors, and of ^ ^^ °'^*' 
 occupation voters for parliamentai-y elections, shall, so far as practicable, 
 be made out and revised together ; and the Registration of Electors Acts 
 shall accordingly — 
 
 *»'j 
 
 (h.) ajjply to every parish not situate in a municipal boi'ougli. in like 
 manner as if such parish were a municipal borough to which the 
 Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, applies, 
 and the said lists of county electors and of occupation voters 
 for parliamentary elections in such parish shall bt- made out in 
 divisions, as provided in the said Act: Provided that a person 
 
 * Seehl k.o2 Vict. c. 41, .v. 7t) (7).
 
 908 [Chap. 10.] County Electors Act 1888. [51 Vict.] 
 
 whose name appears in any list of county electors or burgesses 
 
 in a county may object to the name of any other person on a list 
 
 of county electors or burgesses for a parish in that county, and 
 
 may oppose the claim of a person to have his name inscribed in 
 
 any sucli list. 
 
 (2.) In the construction of the Registration of Electors Acts for the 
 
 purpose of their application to a parish not situate in a municipal borough, 
 
 there shall be made the variations following, and such other variations as 
 
 may be necessary for carrying into effect the application, that is to say : — 
 
 (c.) County elector shall be substituted for burgess ; 
 (d.) Section nine of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 
 1878, shall not apply to any parish which is not wholly situate 
 in an urban district ; 
 (^.) Where such parish is not within a parliamentary borough section 
 twenty-one of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration 
 Act, 1878, shall not apply, and the lists and register of voters 
 shall be made out alphabetically, but shall be framed in parts 
 for polling districts and electoral divisions and for urban districts 
 and for wards of urban and rui'al districts in such a manner 
 that the parts may be conveniently compiled or put together to 
 serve as lists for polling districts, and elections in urban districts 
 and as electoral division or ward lists \see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, 
 .5.76(1)1; 
 (/•) Where such parish is within a parliamentary borough — 
 
 (i) the overseers shall send to the clerk of the peace* for the county 
 
 two copies of the lists of voters at the same time at which they 
 
 send copies to the town clerk t ; and 
 
 (ii) the town clerk t shall cause to l^e printed such number of copies 
 
 . of the revised lists as the clerk of the peace * may require, and 
 
 shall transmit the same to the clerk of the peace,* who shall 
 
 deal with the same as with other lists of county electors in his 
 
 county ; but, 
 
 (iii) save as aforesaid, the clerk of the peace * shall not act in relation 
 
 to the registration of county electors in the said parish, and 
 
 the town clerkf of the parliamentary borough shall be the 
 
 town clerk within the meaning of the Registration of Electors 
 
 Acts and this Act in relation to such parish, and shall include 
 
 in his precept to the overseers pi-oper directions respecting 
 
 the registration of the county electors within the meaning of 
 
 this Act. 
 
 {(J.) The lists of occupation voters and county electors shall be revised by 
 
 the revising barrister for the parliamentary borough or county 
 
 in which such parish is situate, and the revising barrister for 
 
 revising the county electors lists for the whole or any part of an 
 
 electoral division of any county shall, if so required by the 
 
 ^ . county council, hold a court in that electoral division or at some 
 
 convenient place in a division adjoining thereto. 
 
 (/(.) The guardians of a union which is not wholly comprised in an 
 
 urban district may, with the consent of the overseers of any 
 
 parish or parishes within their union for Avhich an assistant 
 
 overseer has not been appointed, annually appoint a fit person 
 
 to act as registration ofiicer foi- such parish or parishes, and may 
 
 remove any such person, and fill up any vacancy caused by death, 
 
 resignation, or otherwise. Such registration officer shall perform 
 
 ■■ all the duties of overseers of the j^arish or parishes for which he is 
 
 appointed in respect of the registration of county electors and 
 
 * Now the clerk of the county council. See s. 14. 
 
 t In regard to the city of London, the secondaries of the said city. See the Parlia- 
 mentary Voters Piegistration Act Is43, ss. 56 and 101.
 
 [51 YiCT.] County Elector a Act 1888. [Chap, lu.] 909 
 
 parliamentary voters, and the provisions of the Registration of 
 Electors Acts relating to overseers, inclmling thf^se providing for 
 penalties, shall apply to him accordingly : 
 
 Provided that his remuneration shall be fixed and paid by the 
 guardians of the union, and charged on the poor rates of the 
 parish or parishes for which he is appointed, and (if he acts for 
 more than one parish) in proportion to the number of persons on 
 the registers madt- during the year of his appointment of county 
 electors and parliamentary voters for each parisli. 
 
 \Parls omitted (as to mimicijxd boroughs and urban districts) not applicable 
 to London.] 
 
 5. After the year one thousand eight hundreil and eighty-eight, in every Making out 
 l)art of the metropolis, and in every part of a parliamentary borough, the "^ lists and 
 whole or greater part of which is situate in the metropolis, the ILsts and ^^gtropo^lis" 
 registers of parliamentary voters, and of county electors, shall, unless the 
 local authority * otherwise direct, be arranged in the same order in which 
 the qualifying premises appeal- in the rate book for the parish in which 
 those premises are situate, or as nearly thereto as will cause those lists 
 and registers to record the (pialifying premises in successive order in the 
 street or other place in which they are situate. 
 
 For the purpose of this section " metropolis " means the city of London 
 and the parishes and places mentioned in Schedules (A), (B), and (C) of 18 & 10 Vict, 
 the ^Metropolis Management Act, 1855. ^- ^-^^■ 
 
 6. — (1.) The lists of parliamentary voters, and of burgesses, and of Eevision of 
 county electors, shall be revised between the eighth day of September and electoral 
 the twelfth day of October both inclusive, and shall be revised as soon as 
 possible after the seventh day of September, and the eighth day of 
 September shall be substituted in the Acts relating to the registration of 
 parliamentary voters for the fifteenth day of September ; and the 
 declarations under section ten of the County Voters Registration Act, 28 & 29 Vict. 
 1865, and section twenty-four of the Parliamentary and Municipal ^■^tJ- 
 Registration Act, 1878, shall be sent to the clerk of the peace t or town ^ .,g ^*^ ' 
 clerk t on or before the fifth day of September. 
 
 (2.) In sections sixty-two and sixty-three of the Parliamentary Voters 6 ii 7 Vict. 
 Registration Act, 1843 (relating to appeals from revising barristers in c. 18. 
 England), "the Michaelmas sittings of the High Court of Justice" shall 
 be substituted for " the Michaelmas term," and forthwith after the fourth 
 day of the Michaelmas sittings a court or courts shall sit for the jnirpose 
 of bearing such appeals, and those appeals shall be heard and determined 
 continuously and without delay, and any statement by the barrister for 
 the purpose of any such appeal made in pursuance of section forty-two 
 of the said Act may be made at any time within ten days after the 
 conclusion of the revision, so that it be made not less than four days before 
 the first day of the said Michaelmas sittings, and the statement need not 
 be read in open court, but shall be submitted to the appellant, who, if he 
 approves the same, shall sign the same as directed by the said section, and 
 return the same to the barrister. [.See the Judicature Act 1881, .s-. 11.] 
 
 7. — (1.) The clerk of the peace t of every county shall make up a KoU of 
 register of all persons registered as . . . county electors in the county, county^ 
 both for the county and for each electoral division into which the county ^ ^^^''^• 
 is divided for the purpose of election of the county authority.^ . . . 
 
 (2.) The Registration of Electors Acts, and sections forty-five, forty- 
 eight, and seventy-one of the Municiiial Corporations Act, 1882, shall 45 x 4tj Vict, 
 apply, for the purposes of this section, with the substitution of clerk of the c. 50. 
 
 * The London County Council. See 51 ic 52 Vict. c. 41. s. 3 (sii.). 
 
 t Now the clerk of the county council. See s. 14. 
 
 j See notef to s. 4. 
 
 § i.e. the county council. See s. 11, and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 3 (xii.).
 
 910 
 
 [Chap. 10.] 
 
 County Electors Act 1888. 
 
 [51 Vict.] 
 
 peace * for town clerk, and of county register and di\'ision register for 
 burgess roll and ward roll respectively, and of electoral division for ward, 
 and of county fund for borough fund. 
 
 48 & 49 Vict, 
 c. 15. 
 
 Expenses. 
 
 Remunera- 
 tion of 
 re\'ising 
 barristers 
 and con- 
 tribution 
 bj county 
 authorities. 
 
 49 & 50 Vict, 
 c. 42. 
 
 (4.) Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent a county elector 
 from being registered in more than one division register. 
 
 (5.) Where in pursuance of section four of the Registration Act, 1885, 
 the revising barrister has power to erase the name of any person as a 
 parliamentary voter from division one of the occupiers list, such barrister, 
 in lieu of erasing the name, shall place an asterisk or other mark against 
 the name, and, in printing .such li.sts, the name shall be nuuibered con- 
 secutively with the other names, but an asterisk or other mark shall be 
 printed against the name, and a person against whose name such asterisk 
 or other mark is placed shall not be entitled to vote in respect of such 
 entry at a pai'liamentary election, but shall have the same right of voting 
 at an election of a county authority "f" as he would have if no such mark 
 were placed against his name. 
 
 (6.) If under any Act of the present session of Parliament establishing 
 a council for a county any portion of another county is added to that 
 county for the purpose of such election, such portion of the county register 
 as relates to the electors having qualifying property in the said part 
 so added shall be deemed to be part of the county register of the county 
 for which such council is elected, and the clerk of the peace and other 
 officers shall take such steps as may be necessary for giving effect to these 
 enactments. 
 
 \Parts omitted {as to burgesses and district councils) not applicable to 
 LondonJ\ 
 
 8. — (1.) All expenses properly incurred and all sums received in 
 carrying into effect the provisions of this Act and the Registration of 
 Electors Acts with respect to county electors. — • 
 
 {a) if incurred or received by overseers, shall be respectively paid and 
 applied as expenses and receipts of overseers under the Registra- 
 tion of Electors Acts in the case of the lists of parliamentary 
 voters ; and 
 
 (b) if incurred or received by the clerk of the peace * or town clerk,i 
 shall be paid out of or into the county or borough fund : and 
 such expenses shall include all proper and reasonable fees 
 and charges made and charged by him for the trouble, care, and 
 attention of such clerk in the performance of the services and 
 duties imposed on him by the said provisions. 
 
 9. Every barrister appointed to revise any list of voters under the 
 Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, 1S43. shall be paid the sum of 
 two hundred and fifty guineas by way of remuneration to him, and in 
 satLsfaction of his travelling and otlier expenses, and every such barrister, 
 after the termination of his last sitting, shall forward his appointment to 
 the Commissioners of Her Maje.sty's Tieasury, who shall make an oi'der 
 for the payment of the above sum to every such barrister. 
 
 The maximum amount to be paid to an additional barrister in pursuance 
 of the Revising Barristers Act, 1886, shall not exceed the amount 
 authorised by this section to be paid to a re\T^ing barrister. 
 
 The sums so paid to a revising barrister or an assistant barrister shall 
 be payable partly out of moneys provided by Parliament and partly by the 
 county authorities, § as herein-after mentioned. 
 
 (1.) There shall be annually paid by the county authority of eveiy 
 county out of the county fund into Her Majesty's Exchequer 
 such sum as the Treasurv certifv to be one-half of the cost 
 
 * Now the clerk of the countv council. See s. 14. 
 t The county council. See s. 11, and 51 & 52 Vict 
 
 X See notef to s. 4. 
 
 § i.e. the county councils. 
 
 c. 41, s. 3 (xii.). 
 See s. 11, and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 3 (xii.).
 
 [51 Vict.] Count;/ Electors Act \HH^. [Chap. 10.] Oil 
 
 incurred for the payment of revisinj:; barristers at the then last 
 revision of the lists of jiarliumentary electors, burgesses, and 
 county electors in that county. 
 (2.) The Treasury shall yearly ascertain the total cost of the revising 
 biirristei'S appointeil for .ill thn counties and boroughs on any 
 circuit, and shall divide one-hulf of such cost among the counties 
 compri.sed in such circuit in proportion to the number of 
 biH'gesses and county electors in each county, and certify the 
 amount which under such apportionment is due under this 
 section from each county. The Treasury may vary such 
 certiticate if they think fit, but uidess it is so varied the 
 certificate shall be final. [See 51 k. 52 Vkt. c. 41, s. 7G (4).] 
 (3.) ..... 
 [Part omitted {as to boroughs) not a/ypUcahle to London.^ 
 
 10. — (1.) Section four of the Revising Barri-sters Act, 1886, is hereby Perpetua- 
 repealed, and that Act, as amended bv this Act, shall be perpetual. tion of 
 
 (2.) [A s to the county of Sarre>/.] ' ^9 & 50 Vict. 
 
 (3.) An application to appoint an additional barrister under the said Repeal of 
 Act may be made at any time after the first day of September. 6 & 7 Vict. 
 
 (4.) Section fifty-nine of the Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, c. 18. s. 59. 
 1843, is hereby repealed. 
 
 11. — (1.) In the event of a county authority * being established under Application 
 any Act of the present session, the provisions of this Act with respect to of provisions 
 county authority, county, and county fund shall refer to the said county •^'- •^^^ . 
 authority and to the county and county fund of such authority. . . . ^u^^Vfimd 
 [Part omitted (as to boroughs) not applicable to London (and. provisions in 
 case of a county authority not being established under any Act during the 
 present session).] 
 
 12. [Separate list to be made of persons residing within fifteen miles of 
 county. Superseded {as to London) by 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 77.] 
 
 13. All precepts, notices, and forms required for the purpo.ses of the Precepts by 
 Registration of Electors Acts shall be altered in such manner as may clerk of the 
 be declared by Her Majesty in Council to be necessary for carrying peace. 
 into eflfect this Act, and clerks of the peace f and town clerks shall 
 
 alter their precepts and forms accordingly. . . . [Part omitted {as to 
 precepts sent out before the passing of this Act) spent.] 
 
 14. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — Definitions. 
 The expressions " urban district " and " rural district " respectively 
 
 mean an urban or rural sanitary district. . . . 
 The expression "clerk of the peace" means, in the event of the 
 establishment of a county authority, the person acting as clerk of 
 that authority, and such person shall act as clerk of the peace 
 throughout the whole county of such authority, both for the pur 
 poses of this Act and of the Registration of Electors Acts ; subject 
 nevertheless — 
 
 (a) to the provisions of the Registration Act, 1885, respecting the 
 case of any parliamentary county extending into more county 
 quarter sessional areas than one, and 
 {b) to the proviso that where at the passing of this Act any 
 clerk of the peace acts as clerk of the peace under the 
 Registration of Electors Acts he shall continue so to act, but 
 .shall act as deputy of the person acting as clerk of the peace 
 l\v virtue of this Act. 
 [Words omitted ^^ also any urban or rural district under any Act of 
 the 2>}'esent session of Parliament) not applicable to London.] 
 
 15. [Transitory provisions as to the year 1888. Sjient.] 
 
 '' i.e. the county council. See 51 ^t ."2 Vict. c. 41. 
 t Now the clerks of the county councils. See s. 14.
 
 912 
 
 [Chap. 63.] 
 
 Interpretation Act 1880. [52 & 53 Vict.] 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Registration Act, 1885. 
 
 Defixitiox of Ten Pounds Occupation Qualification. 
 
 Ten ponnds A person entitled to be registered as a voter in respect of a ten pounds 
 occupation occupation qualification in a borough, municipal or parliamentary — 
 qualification. („,) must during the -SYhole tM-elve months immediately preceding the 
 
 fifteenth day of July have been an occupier as owner or tenant of 
 some land or tenement in a parish [or township] of the clear yearly 
 value of not less than ten pounds : and 
 (i.) must have resided in or within seven miles * of the borough during six 
 
 months immediately preceding the fifteenth day of July : and 
 (c.) Such person, or some one else must during the said twelve months have 
 been rated to all poor rates made in respect of such land or tenement ; 
 and 
 {(J.) All sums due in respect of the said land or tenement on account of any 
 poor rate made and allowed during the twelve months immediately 
 preceding the fifth day of January next before the registration, or on 
 account of any assessed taxes due before the said fifth day of January, 
 must have been paid on or before the twentieth day of July. 
 If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as above mentioned, and 
 the value of the land or tenement is such as to give ten pounds or more for 
 each occupier, each of such occupiers is entitled to be registered as a voter. 
 
 If a person has occupied in the borough different lands or tenements of the 
 reciuisite value in immediate succession during the said twelve months, he is 
 entitled in respect of the occupation thereof to be registered as a voter in the 
 parish [or township] in which the last occupied land or tenement is situate. 
 
 52 & 53 VICTORIA. A.D. 1889. 
 
 Kules as to 
 gender and 
 number. 
 
 Application 
 of penal 
 Acts to 
 bodies 
 corporate. 
 
 Meanings of 
 certain words 
 in Acts since 
 1850. 
 
 CHAPTER 63. 
 
 An Act for consolidating Enactments relating to the Construction 
 OF Acts of Parliament and for further shortening the 
 Language used in Acts of Parliament. \?>Oth August 1889.] 
 
 Re-enactment of existing Rules. 
 
 1. — (1.) In this Act and in every Act passed after the year one 
 thousand eight hundred and fifty, whether before or after the commence- 
 ment of this Act, vinle.ss the contrary intention appears, — 
 
 (a.) words importing the masculine gender shall include females ; and 
 
 (6.) words in the singular shall include the plural, and words in the 
 pluial shall include the singular. 
 
 (2.) The same rules shall be observed in the construction of every 
 enactment relating to an offence punishable on indictment or on summary 
 conviction, when the enactment is contained in an Act passed in or before 
 the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty. 
 
 2. — (1.) In the construction of every enactment relating to an offence 
 punishable on indictment or on summary conviction, whether contained 
 in an Act passed before or after the commencement of this Act, the 
 expression " person " shall, unless the contrary intention appears, include 
 a body corporate. 
 
 (2.) Where under any Act, whether passed before or after the com- 
 mencement of this Act, any forfeiture or penalty is payable to a party 
 aggrieved, it shall be payable to a body corporate in every case where that 
 body is the party aggrieved. 
 
 3. In every Act passed after the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 fifty, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, the following 
 expressions shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the meanings 
 hereby respectively a.ssigned to them ; namely, — 
 
 The expression " month " shall mean calendar month : 
 
 * 15 miles as regards the county of London. See 51 ^^ 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 77.
 
 [52 & 03 Vict.] Interpretation Act 1889. [Chap. 63.] 913 
 
 Tho expression "land" shall include messuages, tenements, and here- 
 ditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure : 
 
 The expressions " oath " and " affidavit " shall, in the case of persons 
 for the time Ijcing allowed Ijy law to affirm or declare instead of 
 swearing, include affirmation and declaration, and the expression 
 " swear " shall, in the like case, include affirm and declare. 
 
 4. In every Act passed after the year one thousand eight hundred and Meaning of 
 Jifty and before the commencement of this Act the expression " county "" *'"0'^"'^J' ' ''^ 
 shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including a P^ ^ ^' 
 county of a city and a county of a town, 
 
 5. In every Act passed after the year one thousand eight hundred and Meaning of 
 sixty-six, wlu-ther before or after the commencement of this Act, the"P^"sh«' 
 expression " parish " shall, unless the contrary intention appears, mean, as 
 respects England and Wales, a place for which a separate poor rate is or 
 
 can be made, or for which a separate overseer is or can be appointed. 
 
 6. In this Act, and in every Act and Order of Council passed or made Meaning of 
 after the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, whether before '" county 
 or after the commencement of this Act, the expression " county court " 
 
 shall, unless tho contrary intention appears, mean as respects England ^^'^ ■^- ^^'*^*'' 
 and Wales a court under the County Courts Act, 1888. 
 
 7. In every Act relating to Scotland, whether passed before or after Meaning of 
 the commencement of this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — ",'*'',^'.!'^ 
 
 The expression " sheriff clerk " sliall include steward clei-k ; in^Scotch ' 
 
 The expressions "shire," " sheriffdom," and " county" shall include any Acts, 
 stewartry in Scotland. 
 
 8. Every section of an Act shall have efiect as a substantive enactment Sections to 
 without introductory words. ^.^ substan- 
 
 , „ , . tive enact- 
 
 9. Every Act passed after the year one thousand eight hundred and ments. 
 
 fifty, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, shall be a ^cts to be 
 public Act and shall be judicially noticed as such, unless the contrary is public Acts, 
 expressly provided by the Act. 
 
 10. Any Act may be altered, amended, or repealed in the same session Amendment 
 of Parliament. or repeal of 
 
 Acts in same 
 11. — (1.) Where an Act passed after the year one thousand eight session. 
 
 hundred and fifty, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, Effect of 
 repeals a repealing enactment, it shall not be construed as reN^iving any repeal in 
 enactment previouslv repealed, unless words are added reviving that Acts passed 
 enactment. " ^i^^^e 1850. 
 
 (2.) Where an Act passed after the year one thousand eight hundred 
 and fifty, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, repeals 
 wholly or partially any former enactment and substitutes provisions for 
 the enactment repealed, the repealed enactment sliall remain in force 
 until the substituted provisions come into operation. 
 
 New General Rules of Construction. 
 
 13. In this Act, and in every other Act whether passed before or after Otiicial 
 the commencement of this Act, the following expressions shall, unless the definitions in 
 contrary intention appears, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned f^t^re Acts 
 to them, namely : — 
 
 (1.) The expression " the Lord Chancellor " shall, except when used 
 with reference to Ireland onlv, mean tho Lord Hitrh Chancellor of Great 
 Britain for the time being, and when used with reference to Ireland only, 
 shall mean the Loi'd Chancellor of Ireland for the time being. 
 
 (2.) The expression "the Treasury" shall mean the Lord High 
 Treasurer for the time being or the Commissioners for the time being of 
 Her Majesty's Treasury. 
 
 (3.) The expression " Secretary of State " shall mean one of Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretaries of State for the time being. 
 
 J 59
 
 914 
 
 [Chap. 63.] 
 
 Interpretation Act 1889. [52 & 53 Vict.] 
 
 Judicial 
 definitions 
 in past and 
 future Acts. 
 
 (4.) The expression "the Admiralty" shall mean the Lord High 
 Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being, or the Commissioners 
 for the time being for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the 
 United Kingdom. 
 
 (5.) The expression " the Privy Council " shall, except when used with 
 refei-ence to Ireland only, mean the Lords and others for the time being 
 of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and when used with 
 reference to Ireland only, shall mean the Privy Council of Ireland for the 
 time being. 
 
 (6.) The expression " the Education Department " * shall mean the 
 Lords of the Committee for the time being of the Privy Council appointed 
 for Education. 
 
 (7.) The expression "The Scotch Education Department" shall mean 
 the Lords of the Committee for the time being of the Privy Council 
 appointed for Education in Scotland. 
 
 (8.) The expression " the Board of Trade " shall mean the Lords of the 
 Committee for the time being of the Privy Council appointed for the 
 consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations. 
 
 (9.) The expression " Lord Lieutenant " when used with reference to 
 Ireland, shall mean the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or other Chief 
 Governors or Governor of Ireland for the time being. 
 
 (10.) The expression " Chief Secretary," when used with reference to 
 Ireland, shall mean the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant for the 
 time being. 
 
 (11.) The expression " Postmaster General " shall mean Her Majesty's 
 Postmaster General for the time being. 
 
 (12.) The expression "Commissioners of Woods" or "Commissioners of 
 Woods and Forests " shall mean the Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
 Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues for the time being. 
 
 (13.) The expression "Commissioners of Works" shall mean the 
 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings for the time 
 being. 
 
 (14.) The expression " Charity Commissioners " shall mean the Charity 
 Commissioners for England and Wales for the time being. 
 
 (15.) The expression "Ecclesiastical Commissioners" shall mean the 
 Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England for the time being. 
 
 (16.) The expression "Queen Anne's Bounty" shall mean the Governors 
 of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the augmentation of the maintenance 
 of the poor clergy. 
 
 (17.) The expi'ession " National Debt Commissioners" shall mean the 
 Commissioners for the time beina,' for the Reduction of the National Debt. 
 
 (18.) The expression "the Bank of England" shall mean, as circum- 
 stances require, the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or 
 the bank of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. 
 
 (19.) The expre.s.sion "the Bank of Ireland" shall mean, as circum- 
 stances requii'e, the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, or 
 the bank of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland. 
 
 (20.) The expression "consular officer'' shall include consul-general, 
 consul, vice-consul, consular agent, and any person for the time authorised 
 to discharge the duties of consul-general, consul, or vice-consul. 
 
 13. In this Act and in every other Act whether passed before or after 
 the commencement of this Act, the following expressions shall, unless the 
 contrary intention appears, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned 
 to them, namely : — 
 
 (1.) The expression " Suj^reme Court," when used with reference to 
 England or Ireland, shall mean the Supreme Court of Judicature in 
 England or Ireland, as the case may be, or either branch thereof. 
 
 (2.) The expression " Court of Appeal," when used with reference to 
 
 * Now the Eoard of Education. See the Board of Education Act 1899.
 
 [52 & 53 Vict.] Interpretation Act 1880. [Chap. G3.] 915 
 
 England or Ireland, shall mean Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in England 
 or Ireland, as the case m;iy be. 
 
 (3.) The expression " High Court," whtu used with reference to England 
 ov Ireland, shall mean llor 3Iajesty's High Couit of Justice in England or 
 Ireland, as the case may be. 
 
 (4.) The exjjression "court of assize" shall, as respects England, Wales, 
 and Ireland, mean a court of assize, a court of oyer and terminer, and a 
 -court of gaol delivery, or any of them, and shall, as respects England and 
 Wak'.s, include the Central Criminal Court. 
 
 (5.) The expression "assizes," as respects England, Wales, and Ireland, 
 shall mean the courts of assize usually held in every year, and shall include 
 the ses-iions of the Central Criminal Court, but shall not include any court 
 of assize held ])y virtue of any special commission, or, as respects Ireland, 
 any court held by virtue of the [)0wers conferx-ed by section sixty-tlft-ee of 
 the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877. 10 ic 41 Vict. 
 
 (G.) The expression "the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848," shall mean ^- ^^• 
 the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of 
 Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate 
 the performance of the duties of Justices of the Peace out of sessions 
 within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and 
 orders." 
 
 (7.) The expression " the Summary Jurisdiction (England) Acts " and 
 the expression "the Summary Jurisdiction (English) Acts " shall respec- ^^ ^ p, yj^^. 
 tively mean the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, and the Summary c. i.?,. 
 Jurisdiction Act, 1879, and any Act, past or future, amending those Acts 42 & 4:^ Vict, 
 .or either of them. ^- ^^• 
 
 (8.) The expression "the Summary Juri.sdiction (Scotland) Acts" shall 21 k. 28 Vict, 
 mean the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, 1864 and 1881, and any ^r.^'^' .. „. 
 Act, past or futni-e, amemling those Acts or either of them. ^ 22 
 
 (9.) The expression "the Summaxy Jurisdiction (Ii-eland) Acts" shall 
 jnean, as respects the Dublin !Meti'opolitan Police District, the Acts 
 regulating the powers and duties of Justices of the Peace or of the police 
 of that district, and as respects any other part of Ireland, the Petty H i^ 15 Vict. 
 Sessions (Ix-eland) Act, 1851, and any Act, past or futux'e, amending ^- ^^' 
 the .same. 
 
 (1(1.) The expression "the Summary Jurisdiction Acts" whexi used ixi 
 relation to Englaxid or Wales shall mean the Summary Jux-isdiction 
 (England) Acts, and whexi used in relatioxi to Scotlaxid the Summary 
 Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, and when used iix relation to Ireland the 
 ;Suuimary Jui'isdiction (Ixeland) Acts. 
 
 (11.) The expression "court of summary jurisdiction " shall mean any 
 Justice or Justices of the Peace, or other magistrate, by whatever naxue 
 called, to whom jurisdictioix is given by, or who is authorised to act uixder, 
 the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, whether in England, Wales, or Ireland, 
 and whether acting uxxder the Summary Juiisdiction Acts or any of them, 
 or under any other Act, or by vii'tue of his commission, or under the 
 coxnmon law. 
 
 (12.) The expressioxi " petty sessional court " shall, as respects Exigland 
 or Wales, mean a couit of summai'v jurisdictioix consisting of two or moie 
 Justices whexx sitting in a petty sessioiuil court-hoixse, and shall include 
 the Lord Mayor of the city of London, and any alderuxan of that city, 
 and any metx-opolitaix or borough police magistrate or other stipendiaiy 
 m.Tgistrate when sitting in a court-house or place at which he is authorised 
 bv law to do alone any act authorised to be clone by more than one Justice 
 of the Peace. 
 
 (13.) The expression "petty sessional court-house" shall, as x-espects 
 Exxgland or Wales, mean a court-house or other place at which Justices 
 ax-e accustomed to assexxxble for holding special or petty sessions, or which 
 is for the time beixxg appoixxted as a substitute for such a coux-t-house ov 
 place, aixd wheie the Justices ax-e accustomed to assexnble for either special
 
 916 
 
 [Chap. 63.] 
 
 hiterj)retation Act 1889. [52 & 53 Vict.] 
 
 Meaning of 
 " rules of 
 court." 
 
 Meaning of 
 
 or petty sessions at more than one court-house or place in a petty sessional 
 division, shall mean any such court-house or place. The expression shall 
 also include any court-house or place at which the Lord Mayor of the city 
 of London or any alderman of that city, or any metropolitan or borough 
 police magistrate or other stipendiary magistrate is authorised by law to 
 do alone any act authorised to be done by more than one Justice of the 
 Peace. 
 
 (14.) The expression "court of quarter sessions " shall mean the Justices 
 of any county, riding, parts, division, or liberty of a county, or of any 
 county of a city, or county of a town, in general or quarter sessions 
 assembled, and shall include the court of the recorder of a municipal 
 borough having a separate court of quarter sessions. 
 
 14. In every Act passed after the commencement of this Act, unless, 
 the contrary intention appears, the expression " rules of court " when used 
 in relation to any court shall mean rules made by the authority having for 
 the time being power to make rules or orders regulating the practice and 
 procedure of such court, and as regards Scotland shall include acts of 
 adjournal and acts of sederunt. 
 
 The power of the said authority to make rules of court as above defined 
 shall include a power to make rules of court for the purpose of any Act 
 passed after the commencement of this Act, and directing or authorising 
 anything to be done by rules of court. 
 
 15. In this Act and in every Act passed after the commencement of 
 
 •'borough.^' ti^ig ^(.t the following 
 
 ^ expressions s 
 meanings hereby 
 
 hall, unless the contrary intention 
 I'espectively assigned to them, 
 
 45 c<c 4G Yict. 
 c. 50. 
 
 Meaning of 
 " guardians" 
 and " union," 
 
 4 & 5 Will. 4. 
 c. 76. 
 
 appears, have the 
 namely : — 
 
 (1.) The expression "municipal borough" shall mean, as lespects 
 England and Wales, any place for the time being subject to the Municipal 
 Corporations Act, 1882, and any reference to the mayor, aldermen, and 
 burgesses of a borough shall include a reference to the mayor, aldermen, 
 and citizens of a city, and any reference to the powers, duties, liabUitiea 
 or property of the council of a borough shall be construed as a reference to 
 the powers, duties, liabilities, or property of the mayor, aldermen and 
 burgesses of the borough acting by the council. 
 
 (2.) The expression "municipal borough" shall mean, as respects 
 Ireland, any place for the time being subject to the Act of the session 
 of the third and fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter 
 one hundred and eight, intituled " An Act for the regulation of municipal 
 corporations in Ireland." 
 
 (3.) The expression "parliamentary borough" shall mean any borough, 
 burgh, place or combination of places returning a member or members to 
 serve in Parliament, and not being either a county or division of a county,^ 
 or a university, or a combination of universities. 
 
 (4.) The expression " borough " when used in relation to local govern- 
 ment shall mean a municipal borough as above defined, and when used 
 in relation to parliamentary elections or the registration of parliamentary 
 electors shall mean a parliamentary borough as above defined. 
 
 16. In this Act and in every Act passed after the commencement of 
 this Act the following expressions shall, unless the conti'ary intention 
 appears, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them,, 
 namely : — 
 
 (1.) The expression " board of guardians " shall, as respects England 
 and Wales, mean a board of guardians elected under the Poor Law 
 Amendment Act, 1834, and the Acts amending the same, and shall 
 include a board of guardians or other body of persons performing under 
 any local Act the like functions to a board of guardians under the Poor 
 Law Amendment Act, 1834, 
 
 (2.) The expression "poor law union" shall, as respects England and 
 Wales, mean any parish or union of parishes for \7hich. there is a separate 
 board of guardians.
 
 [52 & 53 Vict.] Interpretation Act 1889. [Chap. 63.] 917 
 
 (3.) The expression "board of guanlians" shall, as respects Ireland, 
 tnean a board of jiuardians elwted under the Act of the Session of the 
 first and second year.s of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty- 
 six, intituled "An Act for the more effectual relief of the <lestitute poor 
 in Ireland," and the Acts amending the same, and shall include any body 
 of persons appointed by the Local Government iJoard for Ireland to carry 
 into execution the provisions of those Acts. 
 
 (4.) The expression "poor law union " shall, as respects Ireland, mean 
 any townland or [)lace or union, or townlands or places, for which there 
 is a separate board of guardians. 
 
 17. Ill every Act passed after the commencement of this Act the Definitions 
 following expressions shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have relating to 
 the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, namely : — *"' *^<'^^*^"*- 
 
 (1.) The expression "parliamentary election" shall mean the election of 
 a member or members to serve in Parliament for a county or division of a 
 county, or parliamentary borough or division of a parliamentary borough, 
 or for a university or combination of universities. 
 
 (2.) The expression " parliamentary register of electors " shall mean a 
 register of persons entitled to vote at any parliamentary election. 
 
 (3.) The expression "local government register of electors " shall mean 
 as respects an administrative county in England or Wales other than a 
 county borough, the county register, and as respects a county borough or 
 other municipal borough, the burgess roll. 
 
 18. In this Act, and in every Act passed after the commencement of Geographical 
 this Act, the following expressions shall, unless the contrary intention and colonial 
 api)ears, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, £ /^°.^'^!^'^f ^" 
 namely : — 
 
 (1.) The expression " British Islands" shall mean the United Kingdom, 
 the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. 
 
 (2.) The expression "British possession" shall mean any part of Her 
 ^Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom, and where parts 
 of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all 
 parts under the central legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, 
 be deemed to be one British possession. 
 
 (3.) The expression "colony" shall mean any part of Her Maje-sty's 
 dominions exclusive of the British Islands, and of British India, and 
 where parts of such dominions are luider both a central and a local 
 legislature, all parts under the central legislature shall, for the purposes 
 of this definition, be deemed to be one colony. 
 
 (-t.) The expression "British India" shall mean all territories and 
 places within Her Majesty's dominions which are for the time being 
 governed by Her Majesty through the Governor-General of India or 
 through any governor or other officer subordinate to the Governor-General 
 of India. 
 
 (5.) The expression " India " shall mean British India together with 
 any territories of any native prince or chief under the suzerainty of 
 Her ^lajesty exercised through the Governor-General of India, or 
 through any governor or other officer suliordinate to the Governor-General 
 of India. 
 
 (6.) The expression "Governor" shall, as respects Canada and India, 
 mean the Governor-General, and include any person who for the time 
 being has the powers of the Governor-General, and as respects any other 
 British possession, shall include the officer for the time being administering 
 the government of that possession. 
 
 (7.) The expression " colonial legislature " and the expression 
 " legislature," when used with reference to a British possession, shall 
 respectively meait the authority, other than the Imperial Parliament 
 or Her Majesty the Queen in Council, competent to make laws for 
 a British possession.
 
 918 
 
 [Chap. 63.] 
 
 Liter pretati on Act 1889. [52 & 53 Vict.] 
 
 Meaning of 
 " person '' in 
 future Acts. 
 
 Meaning of 
 " writing " in 
 past and 
 future Acts. 
 
 Meaning of 
 " statutory 
 declaration " 
 in past and 
 futiire Acts. 
 5 cV: tj Will. 4. 
 c. 62. 
 
 Meaning of 
 " financial 
 year "' in 
 "future Acts. 
 
 Definition 
 of Lands 
 Clauses Acts. 
 
 8 & 9 Vict. 
 
 c. 18. 
 
 23 & 24 Vict. 
 
 c. 106. 
 
 32 & 33 Vict. 
 
 c. 18. 
 
 46 & 47 Vict. 
 
 c. 15. 
 
 Meaning of 
 Irish Valua- 
 tion Acts, 
 
 Meaning of 
 
 '•ordnance 
 
 map.' 
 
 Meaning of 
 " service by 
 post." 
 
 Meaning of 
 " committed 
 for trial." 
 
 11 & 12 Vict, 
 c. 42. 
 
 Meanings of 
 " sheriff," 
 " felony,"' and 
 " misde- 
 meanour " in 
 
 19. In this Act and in every Act passed after the commencement 
 of this Act the expression " per.son " shall, unless the contrary intention 
 appears, inckide any body of persons corporate or unincorporate. 
 
 20. In this Act and in every other Act whether passed before or after 
 the commencement of this Act expressions referring to writing shall, 
 unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including references 
 to printing, lithography, photography, and other modes of repre.senting 
 or reproducing words in a visible form. 
 
 21. In this Act, and in every other Act, whether passed before or after 
 the commencement of this Act, the expression " statutory declaration " 
 shall, unless the contrary intention aj^pears, mean a declaration made 
 by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835. 
 
 22. In this Act and in every Act passed after the commencement of this 
 Act the expression "financial year" shall, unless the contrary intention 
 appears, mean as respects any matters relating to the Consolidated Fund or 
 moneys provided by Parliament, or to the Exchequer, or to Imperial taxes 
 or finance, the twelve months ending the thirty-first day of March. 
 
 23. In any Act passed after the commencement of this Act, unless 
 the contrary intention appeai\s, — 
 
 The expression " Lands Clauses Acts " shall mean — 
 
 («) as respects England and Wales, the Lands Clauses Consolidation 
 Act, 184-5, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 
 1860, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1869, and the 
 Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act, 1883, and any Acts for the time 
 being in force amending the same. 
 
 • • • ■ • « 
 
 l^Parts omitted relate only to the meaning of the exp)'ession as respects 
 Scotland and Treland.'\ 
 
 24. In any Act passed before or after the commencement of this Act 
 the expression " Irish Valuation Acts " shall mean the Acts relating to 
 the valuation of rateable property' in Ireland. 
 
 26. In this Act and in every other Act, whether passed before or after 
 the commencement of this Act, the expression " ordnance map " shall, 
 unless the contrary intention appears, mean a map made under the 
 powers conferred l)y the Survey (Great Britain) Acts, 1841 to 1870, or by 
 the Survey (Ireland) Acts, 1825 to 1870, and the Acts amending the 
 same respectively. 
 
 26. Where an Act passed after the commencement of this Act authorises 
 or requires any document to be served by post, whether the expression 
 "serve," or the expression "give" or "send," or any other expression 
 is u.sed, then, unless the contrary intention appeai-s, the service shall be 
 deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying, and posting 
 a letter containing the document, and unless the contrary is proved to have 
 been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the 
 ordinary course of post. 
 
 27. In every Act passed after the commencement of this Act, the 
 expression " committed for trial " used in relation to any person shall, 
 unless the contrary intention appears, mean, as respects England and 
 Wales, committed to prison with the view of being tried before a judge 
 and jury, whether the person is committed in pursuance of section twenty- 
 two or of section twenty-five of the Indictable Offences Act, 1848, or is 
 committed bj^ a court, judge, coroner, or other authority having power to 
 commit a person to any prison with a view to his trial, and shall include 
 a person who is admitted to bail upon a recognizance to appear and take 
 his trial before a judge and jury. 
 
 28. In this Act and in every Act passed after the commencement of 
 this Act, unle.ss the contrary intention appear.s — 
 
 The expression " sheriff " shall, as respects Scotland, include a sheriflf 
 substitute :
 
 [52 & 53 Vict.] Interpretation Act 1889, [Chap. 63.] 919 
 
 The expression " felony " shall, as respects Scotland, mean a high crime future Scotch 
 and ofience : Acts. 
 
 The expression " misdemeanour " shall, as respects Scotland, mean an 
 oHence. 
 
 29. Tri every Act passed aftei- the commencemf-nt of this Act, unless Meaning of 
 the contrary intention appears, the expression "county court" shall, as " county 
 respects Ireland, mean a civil bill court within the meaning of the County f^j^^g insh. 
 Otlicers and Courts (Ireland) Act 1877. Acts. 40 & -tl 
 
 30. In this Act and in every other Act, whether passed before or after ^"^'^^- c 56. 
 the fomiufncement of this Act, references to the Sovereign reigning at the References to 
 time of the passing of the Act or to the Crown shall, unless the contrary ^^^ Crown, 
 intention appears, be construed as references to the Sovereign for the time 
 
 being, and tliis Act shall be l>inding on the Crown. 
 
 31. Where any Act, whether passed before or after the commencement Constructioa 
 of this Act, confers power to make, grant, or issue any instrument, that of statutory 
 is to say, any Order in Council, order, warrant, scheme, letters patent, 
 
 rules, regulations, or Ijyelaws, expressions used in tlie instrument, if it is 
 made after the commencement of this Act, shall, unless the contrary 
 intention appears, have the same respective meanings as in the Act 
 conferring the power. 
 
 32. — (1.) Where an Act passed after the commencement of this Act Con.struction 
 confers a power or imposes a duty, then, unless the contrary intention "^^ provisions 
 appears, the power may be exercised and the duty shall be pei-formed ^^ powers 
 from time to' time as occasion rerpiires. and duties. 
 
 (-.) Where an Act passed after the commencement of this Act confers 
 a power or imposes a duty on the holder of an office, as such, then, unless 
 the contrary intention appears, the power may be exercised and the duty 
 shall be performed by the holder for the time being of the office. 
 
 (3.) Where an Act passed after the commencement of this Act confers 
 a power to make any rules, regulations, or byelaws, the power shall, unless 
 the contrary intention appears, be construed as including a power, 
 exerciseable in the like manner and subject to the like consent and 
 conditions, if any, to rescind, revoke, amend, or vary the rules, regulations, 
 or byelaws. 
 
 33. Where an act or omission con.stitutes an offence under two or more Provisions.as 
 Acts, or both under an Act and at common law, whether any such Act was to offences 
 passed before or after the commencement of this Act, the offender shall, ^^ ^^^^ 
 unless the contrary intention appears, be liable to be prosecuted and laws, 
 punished under either or any of those Acts or at common law, but shall 
 
 not be liable to be punished twice for the same offence. 
 
 34. In the measurement of any distance for the purposes of any Act Measurement 
 passed after the commencement of this Act, that distance shall, unless the "f distances, 
 contrary intention appears, be measured in a straight line on a horizontal 
 
 2)lane. 
 
 36.— (1.) In any Act, instrument, or document, an Act may be cited Citation of 
 by reference to the short title, if any, of the Act, either with or without a ^<=ts. 
 reference to the chapter, or by reference to the regnal year in which the 
 Act was passed, and where there are more statutes or sessions than one 
 in the same regnal year, by reference to the statute or the session, as the 
 case may recjuire, and where there are more chapters than one, by 
 reference to the chapter, and any enactment may be cited by reference to 
 the section or subsection of the Act in which the enactment is contained. 
 
 (2.) Where any Act pas.sed after the commencement of this Act 
 contains such reference as aforesaid, the reference shall, unless a contrary 
 intention appears, be read as referring, in the case of statutes included 
 in any revised edition of the statutes purporting to be printed by authority, 
 to that edition, and in the case of statutes not so included, and passed 
 before the reign of King George the First, to the edition prepared under 
 the direction of the Record Commission ; and in other cases to the copies
 
 920 
 
 [Chap. 63.] 
 
 Inter lyi-etation Act 1889. [52 & 53 Vict.] 
 
 " Commence- 
 ment." 
 
 Exercise of 
 statutory 
 powers 
 between 
 passing and 
 commence- 
 ment of Act. 
 
 Effect of 
 repeal in 
 future Acts. 
 
 of the statutes purporting to be printed by the Queen's Pi-inter, or under 
 the supei'intendence or authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 
 
 (3.) In any Act passed after the commencement of this Act a descrip- 
 tion or citation of a portion of another Act shall, unless the contrary 
 intention appears, be construed as including the word, section, or other 
 part mentioned or referred to as forming the beginning and as forming 
 the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation. 
 
 36. — (1.) In this Act, and in every Act passed either before or after 
 the commencement of this Act, the expression " commencement," when 
 used with reference to an Act, shall mean the time at which the Act 
 comes into operation. 
 
 (2.) Where an Act passed after the commencement of this Act, or any 
 Order in Council, order, warrant, scheme, letters patent, rules, regulations, 
 or byelaws made, granted, or issued, under a power conferred by any such 
 Act, is expressed to come into opei'ation on a particular day, the same 
 shall be construed as coming into operation immediately on the expiration 
 of the previous day. 
 
 37. Where an Act passed after the commencement of this Act is not 
 to come into operation immediately on the passing thereof, and confei'S 
 power to make any appointment, to make, grant, or issue any instrument, 
 that is to say, any Order iu Council, order, warrant, scheme, letters 
 patent, rules, regulations, or byelaws, to give notices, to prescribe forms, 
 or to do any other thing for the purposes of the Act, that power may, 
 unless the contrary intention appears, be exercised at any time after the 
 passing of the Act, so far as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose 
 of bringing the Act into operation at the date of the commencement 
 thereof, subject to this i^estriction, that any instrument made under the 
 power shall not, unless the contrary intention appears in the Act, or the 
 contrary is necessary for bringing the Act into operation, come into 
 operation until the Act comes into operation. 
 
 38. — (1.) Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement 
 of this Act repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any pro- 
 visions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so 
 repealed, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as 
 references to the provisions so re-enacted. 
 
 (2.) Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement of this 
 Act repeals any other enactment, then, unless the contrai-y intention 
 appears, the repeal shall not — ■ 
 
 (a.) revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which the 
 
 repeal takes effect ; or, 
 (6.) affect the previous operation of any enactment so repealed or 
 anything duly done or suffered under any enactment so re- 
 pealed; or 
 (c.) affect any right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, 
 
 or incurred under any enactment so repealed ; or 
 (fZ.) affect any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect 
 of any offence committed against any enactment so repealed ; or 
 (e.) affect any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of 
 any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, 
 or punishment as aforesaid ; 
 and any such investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy may be instituted, 
 continued, or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture, or punishment 
 may be impo.sed, as if the repealing Act had not been passed. 
 
 Definition of 
 "Act "in 
 this Act. 
 
 Saving for 
 past Acts. 
 
 Supplemental. 
 
 39. In this Act the expression " Act " shall include a local and personal 
 Act and a private Act. 
 
 40. The provisions of this Act respecting the construction of Acts 
 passed after the commencement of this Act shall not affect the construction
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Woikinfj Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 70.] 921 
 
 of any Act passed before the commencement of this Act, although it i> 
 continued or amended by an Act i)as.sed after such commencement. 
 
 41. The Acts described in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed Repeal, 
 to the extent appearing in the third column of the Schedule. 
 
 42. [Commeiicement of Act, Ist January 1890.] 
 
 43. This Act may be cited as the Interpretation Act, 1889. Short title. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Enactments Kepealeu. 
 
 Session and Cliapter. 
 
 Title or Short Title. 
 
 Extent of Repeal. 
 
 7 & S Geo. 4. c. 28. 
 
 An Act for further improving the ad- 
 ministration of justice in criminal 
 cases in England. 
 
 Section fourteen. 
 
 9 Geo. 4. c. 51. 
 
 An Act for iuipnning the administra- 
 tion of justice in criminal cases in 
 Ireland. 
 
 Section thirty-five. 
 
 7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. 
 
 An Act to interpretthewords"sheriff," 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 c. 39. 
 
 " sheriff clerk," " .shire," " .sheriff- 
 dom," and " county," occurring in 
 Acts of Parliament relating to Scot- 
 land. 
 
 
 13 k. 14 Vict. c. 21. 
 
 An Act for .shortening the language 
 used in Acts of I'arliament. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 29 & 30 Vict. c. 113. 
 
 The I'oor Law Amendment Act of 
 
 Section eighteen, from 
 
 
 1866. 
 
 the beginning to 
 " can be appointed, 
 and." 
 
 42 k. 43 Vict. c. 49. 
 
 The SumTuary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 
 
 In section twenty the 
 subsections num- 
 bered (3) and (6). 
 
 Section fifty. 
 
 47 & 4S Vict. c. 43. 
 
 The Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1884 
 
 Section seven. 
 
 51 & 52 Vict. c. 43. 
 
 The County Courts Act, 188^ . 
 
 Section one hundred 
 and eighty - seven, 
 from the beginning 
 to " is meant, and." 
 
 53 & 54 VICTORIA. A.D. 1890. 
 
 CHAPTER 70. 
 
 An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to Artizans 
 AND Labourers Dwellings and the Housing of the Working 
 Classes. [18<A .4»i/»s<1890.] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 
 1890. 
 
 Short title 
 of Act. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Unhealthy Areas. 
 
 2. In this part of this Act — 
 
 The expre.ssion "this part of this Act " includes any contirming Act, and 
 The expression "the Acts relating to nuisances" means — Definitions, 
 
 as respects the county of London and city of London, the Nuisances 
 
 Removal Acts as defined by the Sanitary Act. 186G. and any Act 
 
 amending these Acts*; and 
 
 * See note to 3rd Schedule.
 
 922 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 29 & 30 Vict. 
 c. 90. s. 14. 
 
 Application 
 of Part I. of 
 Act. 
 
 Local 
 
 authoritT on 
 being satis- 
 fied by official 
 representa- 
 tion of the 
 iinhealthiness 
 of district to 
 make scheme 
 for its im- 
 provement. 
 
 Official re- 
 presentation, 
 by whom to 
 be made. 
 
 Requisites of 
 improvement 
 scheme of 
 local 
 authority. 
 
 as respects any virban sanitary district in England, the Public Health 
 Acts ; 
 and in the case of any of the above-mentioned areas, includes any local 
 Act which contains any provisions with respect to nuisances in that area. 
 
 3. This part of this Act shall not apply to rural sanitary districts. 
 
 Scheme by Local Authoriti/. 
 
 4, Where an official I'epresentation as herein-after mentioned * is made- 
 to the local authority that within a certain area in the district of such, 
 authority either — 
 
 («.) any houses, courts, or alleys are unfit for human habitation, or 
 (h.) the narrowness, closeness, and bad arrangement, or the bad con- 
 dition of the streets and houses or groups of houses within 
 such area, or the want of light, air, ventilation, or proper con- 
 veniences, or any other sanitary defects, or one or more of 
 such causes, are dangerous or injurious to the health of the 
 inhabitants either of the buildings in the said area or of the 
 neighbouring buildings ; 
 and that the evils connected with such houses, courts, or alleys, andi 
 the sanitary defects in such area cannot be effectually remedied otherwise 
 than by an improvement scheme for the rearrangement and recon- 
 struction of the streets and houses within such area, or of some of such 
 streets or houses, the local authority shall take such representation into 
 their consideration, and if satisfied of the truth thereof, and of the 
 sufficiency of their resources, shall pass a resolution to the effect that 
 such area is an unhealthy area, and that an improvement scheme ought 
 to be made in respect of such area, and after passing such resolution, 
 they shall forthwith proceed to make a scheme for the improvement of 
 such area. 
 
 Provided always, that any number of such areas may be included in one 
 impi-ovement scheme. 
 
 6. — (1.) An official representation for the purposes of this part of this 
 Act shall mean a representation made to the local authority by the 
 medical officer of health of that authority, and in London made either 
 by such officer or by any medical officer of health in London. 
 
 (2.) A medical officer of health shall make such repi-esentation whenever 
 he sees cause to make the same ; and if two or more Justices of the Peace 
 acting within the district for which he acts as medical officer of health, 
 or twelve or more persons liable to be rated to the local rate complain to 
 him of the unhealthiness of any area within such district, it shall be the 
 duty of the medical officer of health forthwith to inspect such area, and 
 to make an official representation stating the facts of the case, and whether 
 in his opinion the said area or any part thereof is an unhealthy area or is 
 not an unhealthy area. 
 
 6. — (1.) The improvement scheme of a local authority shall be accom- 
 panied by maps, particulars, and estimates, and 
 
 (a.) may exclude any part of the area in i-espect of which an official 
 representation is made, or include any neighbouring lands, if the 
 local avithority are of opinion that such exclusion is expedient 
 or inclusion is necessary for making their scheme efficient for 
 sanitary purposes ; and 
 (b.) may provide for widening any existing approaches to the unhealthy 
 area or otherwise for o^iening out the same for the purposes of 
 ventilation or health ; and 
 (c.) shall provide such dwelling accommodation, if any, for the working 
 classes displaced by the scheme as is required to comply with this- 
 Act [see 3 Ediv. 7, c. 39, s. 11] ; and 
 {d.) shall provide for proper sanitary arrangements. 
 
 * See ss. 72, 73 and 79 (2).
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Homing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [Chap. T<J.] 923 
 
 (2.) The scheme shall distinguish the lands proposed to he taken 
 conipulsoiily. 
 
 (3.) The scheme may also provide for the scheme or any part thereof 
 being carrit-d out and ettected hy tho person entitled to the first estate of 
 freehold in any property comi)rised in the scheme or with the concurrence 
 of such person, under the superintendence and control of the local 
 authority, and upon such terms and conditions to lie embodied in the 
 scheme as may be agreed upon between the local authority and such 
 person. 
 
 Confirmation of Scheme. 
 
 7. Upon the completion of an improvement scheme the local authority Publication 
 shall— ^ ^f "o^^^'^'*- 
 
 («.) publish, during three consecutive weeks in the month of Sejitemher, 
 or October, or November* in some one and the same newspaper 
 circulating within the district of the local authority, an adver- 
 tisement stating the fact of a scheme having been made, the 
 limits of the area comprised therein, and naming a place within 
 such area or in the vicinity thereof where a copy of the scheme 
 may be seen at all reasonable hours ; and 
 (b.) during the month next follovjing the month in which such acZve/'fise- 'Service of 
 inent is jncblished* serve a notice on every owner or reputed '^°^^^^*- 
 owner, lessee or i-eputed lessee, and occupier of any lands pro- 
 posed to be taken compulsorily, so far as such persons can 
 reasonably be ascertained, stating that such lands are proposed to 
 be taken compulsorily for the purpose of an improvement scheme, 
 and in the case of any owner or reputed owner, lessee or reptited 
 lessee, requiring an answer stating whether the person so served 
 dissents or not in respect of taking such lands ; 
 (c.) Such notice shall be served — 
 
 (i.) by delivery of the same personally to the person required to be 
 
 served, or if such person is absent abroad, or cannot be found, 
 
 to his agent, or if no agent can be found, then by leaving the 
 
 same on the premises ; or, 
 
 (ii.) by leaving the same at the usual or last known place of abode 
 
 of such person as afoi-esaid ; or, 
 (iii.) by post addressed to the usual or last known place of abode 
 of such person. \_See 52 tt 53 Vict. c. 63, .s\ 2G.] 
 {(L) One notice addressed to the occupier or occupiers without naming 
 him or them, and left at any house, shall be deemed to be a 
 notice served on' the occupier or on all the occupiers of any 
 such house. 
 
 8. — (1.) Upon compliance with the foregoing provisions with respect Making and 
 to the publication of an advertisement and the service of notices, the local confirmation 
 authority shall present a petition, if it relates to any part of the county q^^I^^'^^^^^^^ 
 or city of London, to a Secretary of 8tate,+ and if it relates to any other 
 place, to the Local Government Board, praying that an Order may be made 
 contirming such scheme. 
 
 (2.) The petition shall be accompanied by a copy of the scheme, and 
 shall state the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed 
 lessees, who have dissented in lespect of the taking their lands, and shall 
 be supported by such evidence as the Secretary of State t or Local Govern- 
 ment Board, according to the circumstances of the case (in this part of 
 
 * See 3 Edw. 7, c. S9, s. 5 (1). 
 
 t By an OnkT in Council of 27tli Felnuary 1905, made under 3 Edw. 7, c. 89, s. 2 
 (fj.v. i)i/ni),i\]\ the powers and duties of the Secretary of State under the Housing 
 Acts or under any Scheme made in pursuance of those Acts, and the powers of the 
 Secretary of State under any local Act, so far as they relate to the housing of the 
 working classes, were as from the 1st day of March I'.tOo assigned to, and 
 became powers and duties of, the Local Government Board.
 
 924 [Chap. TO.] Housing of the WorJdng Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 this Act referred to as the confirming authority), may from time to time 
 require. 
 
 (3.) If, on consideration of the petition and on pi'oof of the publication 
 of the proper advertisements and the service of the proper notices, the 
 confirming authority think fit to proceed with the case, they shall direct 
 a local inquiry to be held in, or in the vicinity of, the area comprised in 
 the scheme, for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the official 
 representation made as to the area and the sufficiency of the scheme 
 provided for its improvement, and any local objections to be made to such 
 scheme. 
 
 (4.) After receiving the report made upon such inquiry, the confirming 
 authority may make a Provisioi:;al Order declaring the limits of the area 
 compri>ed in the scheme and authorising such scheme to be carried into 
 execution. [<See 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, ss. 5 (2) and 6.] 
 
 (5.) Such Provisional Order may be made either absolutely or with such 
 conditions and modifications of the scheme as the confirming authority 
 may think fit, so that no addition be made to the lands proposed in the 
 scheme to be taken compulsorily, and it shall be the duty of the local 
 authority to serve a copy of any Provisional Order so made in the manner 
 and upon the persons in which and upon whom notices in respect of lands 
 proposed to be taken compulsorily are required by this part of this Act 
 to be served, except tenants for a month or a less period than a month. 
 
 (6.) A Provisional Order made in pursuance of this section shall not 
 be of any validity unless and until it has been confirmed by Act of 
 Parliament ; and it shall be lawful for the confirming authority, as soon 
 as convenienth' may be, to obtain such confirmation, and any Act con- 
 firming any Provisional Order made in pursuance of this part of this Act, 
 with such modifications as may seem fit to Parliament, shall be a public 
 General Act of Parliament, and is in this part of this Act referred to 
 as the confirming Act. \_Aiiiended 3 Edv:. 7, c. 39, s. 5 (2) and (3).] 
 
 (7.) The confirming authority may make such order as they think fit 
 in favour of any person whose lands were proposed by the scheme to be 
 taken compulsorily for the allowance of the reasonable costs, charges, and 
 expenses properly incurred by him in opposing such scheme. 
 
 (8.) All costs, charges, and expenses incurred by the confirming authority 
 in relation to any Provisional Order under this part of this Act shall, to 
 such amount as the confirming authorit}' think proper to direct, and all 
 costs, charges, and expenses of any person to such amount as may be 
 allowed to him by the confirming authority in pursuance of the aforesaid 
 power, shall be deemed to be an expense incurred by the local authority 
 under this part of this Act, and shall be paid to the confirming authority 
 and to such person respectively, in such manner and at such times and 
 either in one sum or by instalments as the confirming authority may order, 
 with power for the confirming authority to direct interest to be paid at 
 such rate not exceeding five pounds in the hundred by the year as the 
 confirming authority may determine, upon any sum for the time being 
 due in respect of such costs, charges, and expenses as aforesaid. 
 
 (9.) Any order made Vjy the confirming authority in pursuance of 
 this section may be made a rule of a superior court, and be enforced 
 accordingly. 
 [See 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. 5 (3).] 
 
 Costs to be 9. — (1.) Where any Bill for confirming a Provisional Order authorising 
 
 awarded in an improvement scheme is referred to a Committee of either House of 
 certam cases. Parliament upon the petition of any person opposing such Bill, the Com- 
 mittee shall take into consideration the circumstances under which such 
 opposition is made to the Bill, and whether such opposition was or was 
 not justified by such circumstances, and shall award costs accordingly 
 to be paid by the promoters or the opponents of the Bill as the Committee 
 may think just. 
 
 (2.) Any costs under this section may be taxed and recovered in the
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1800. [Cha.p. 70.] 925 
 
 manner in which costs may be taxed and recovered under the Act of the 
 session of the twenty-eightli and twenty-ninth years of the reign of Her 
 present Majesty, cliapter twenty -seven. 
 
 (3.) Tlie decision of tlie majority of the members of the Committee for 
 the time being present and voting on any (|Uf'stion under tliis section .^^liall 
 be deemed to be the decision of the (Jommittte. 
 
 10. Where an official repre.sentation is made to the local aiilliority with Inquiry on 
 a view to their passing a resolution in favour of an improvement .scheme, refusal of 
 and they fail to pass any resolution in relation to such re[>re.sentation, .^■"^'^ author- 
 or pass a re.'^olution to the effect that they will not proceetl with such .^,j improve- 
 scheme, the local authority shall, as .soon as possible, send a coja' of the ment scheme. 
 official representation, accompanied by their rea.sons for not acting upon 
 it, to the confirming authority, and, u[)on the receipt thereof, the con- 
 firming authority may direct a local impiiry to be held, and a report to 
 be made to them \vith respect to the correctness of the official repre- 
 .sentation made to tlie local autliority, and any matters connected therewith 
 on whicli the confirming authority may de.sire to be informed. [^See 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. 4 (1).] 
 
 Provision of Dicelliny Accommodation for Working Classes displaced 
 
 by Scheme. 
 
 11, — (1.) Subject as herein-after mentioned, every scheme comprising Requisites of 
 an ai'ea in the county or city of London shall provide for the accommodation improvement 
 of at the least as many persons of the working class as may be displaced scheme as to 
 in the ai-ea comprised therein, in suitable dwellings, which, unless there ^^^^^ ^^ 
 are any special reasons to the contrary, shall be situate within the limits working 
 of the same area, or in the vicinity thereof. classes. 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 {a.) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the confirming authority 
 on an application to authorise a scheme that t'(jually convenient 
 accommodation can be provided for any persons of the working 
 classes displaced by the scheme at some place other than within 
 the area or the immediate vicinity of the area compi'ii^ed in the 
 scheme, and that the required accommodation has been or is 
 about to be forthwith provided, either by the local authority 
 or by any other person or body of persons, the confirming 
 authority may authorise such scheme, and the requirements 
 of this section with respect to providing accommodation for 
 persons of the working cla.ss shall be deemed to have been 
 comjilied with to the extent to which accommodation is so 
 provided ; and 
 (6.) where the local authority apply for a dispensation under this 
 section, and the officer conducting the local incjuiry dii-ected by 
 the confirming authority reports that it is expedient, having 
 legard to the special circum.stances of the locality and to the 
 number of artisans and others belonging to the working class 
 dwelling within the area, and being emi)loyed within a mile 
 thereof, that a modification should be made, the confirming 
 authority, without prejudice to any other powers conferred on 
 it by this part of this Act, may in the Provisional Order 
 authoi-ising the scheme, di.spense altogether with the obligation 
 of the local authority to provide for the accommodation of the 
 persons of the working class who may be displaced by the scheme 
 to such extent as the confirming authority nuxy think expedient, 
 having regard to such special circumstances as aforesaid, but 
 not exceeding one half of the persons so displaced. 
 (2.) Where a scheme comprises an area situate elsewhere than in the 
 county or city of London, it shall, if the confirming authority so require 
 (but it shall not otherwise be obligatory on the local authority so to frame
 
 926 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Duty of local 
 authority to 
 carry scheme 
 wheu con- 
 firmed, into 
 execution. 
 
 Completion 
 of scheme 
 on failure 
 by local 
 authority. 
 
 their scheme), provide for the accommodation of such number of those 
 persons of the working classes displaced in the area with respect to which 
 the scheme is proposed in suitable dwellings to be erected in such place 
 or places either within or without the limits of the same area as the said 
 authority on a report made by the officer conducting the local inquiry 
 may require. 
 
 Execution of Scheme hy Local Authority. 
 
 12. — (1.) When the confirming Act authorising any improvement scheme 
 of a local authority under this part of this Act has been passed by Parlia- 
 ment, it shall be the duty of that authority to take steps for purchasing 
 the lands required for the scheme, and otherwise for carrying the scheme 
 into execution as soon as practicable. 
 
 (2.) They may sell or let all or any part of the area comprised in the 
 scheme to any purchasers or lessees for the purpose and under the condition 
 that such purchasers or lessees will, as respects the land so purchased 
 by or leased to them, carry the scheme into execution ; and in particular 
 they may insert in any grant or lease of any part of the area provisions 
 binding the grantee or lessee to build thei-eon as in the grant or lease 
 prescribed, and to maintain and repair the buildings, and prohibiting 
 the division of buildings, and any addition to or alteration of the character 
 of buildings without the consent of the local authority, and for the 
 re-vesting of the land in the local authority, or their re-entry thereon, 
 on breach of any provision in the grant or lease. 
 
 (3.) The local authority may also engage with any body of trustees, 
 society, or person, to cax-ry the whole or any part of such scheme into 
 effect upon such terms as the local authority may think expedient, but 
 the local authority shall not themselves, without the express approval 
 of the confirming authority, undertake the rebuilding of the houses or 
 the execution of any part of the scheme, except that they may take down 
 any or all of the buildings upon the area, and clear the whole or any 
 part thereof, and may lay out, form, pave, sewer, and complete all such 
 streets upon the land purchased by them as they may think fit, and all 
 streets so laid out and completed shall henceforth be public streets, re- 
 pairable by the same authority as other streets in the district. 
 
 (■i.) Provided that in any grant or lease of any part of the area which 
 may be appropriated by the scheme for the erection of dwellings for the 
 working classes the local authority shall impose suitable conditions and 
 restrictions as to the elevation, size, and design of the houses, and the 
 extent of the accommodation to be afibrded thereby, and shall make due 
 provision for the maintenance of proper sanitary arrangements. 
 
 (5.) If the local authority erect any dwellings out of funds to be 
 provided under this part of this Act, they shall, unless the confirming 
 authority otherwise determine, sell and dispose of all such dwellings 
 within ten yeai's from the time of the completion thereof. 
 
 (6.) The local authority may, where they think it expedient so to do, 
 without themselves acquiring the land, or after or subject to their 
 acquiring any part thereof, contract with the person entitled to the 
 first estate of freehold in any land comprised in an improvement scheme 
 for the carrying of the scheme into effect by him in respect of such land. 
 
 13. If within five years after the removal of any buildings on the land 
 set aside by any scheme authorised by a confirming Act as sites for working 
 men's dwellings, the local authority have failed to sell or let such land 
 for the pui-poses prescribed by the scheme, or have failed to make arrange- 
 ments for the erection of the said dwellings, the confirming authority may 
 order the said land to be sold by public auction or public tender, with full 
 power to fix a reserve price, subject to the conditions imposed by the 
 scheme, and to any modifications thereof which may be made in pursuance 
 of this part of this Act, and to a special condition on the part of the 
 purchaser to erect upon the said land dwellings for the working classes,
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Iloxsing of the Working Classes Act 1890, [Chap. 7U.J 927 
 
 in accordance with plans to be approved by the local authority, and 
 subject to such other reservation.'^ and regulations as the contirming 
 authority may deem necessary. 
 
 14. The local authority shall, not less than thirteen weeks before Notice to 
 takin'' any liftoon hou.sfs or more, make known their intention to take 'jccupier* by 
 the same by placards, handltills, or other general notices placed in public I'^^^^'""''- 
 view upon or within a reasonable distance of such houses, and the local 
 authority sliall not take any such hou.ses until they have obtained a 
 certificate of a Justice of the Peace that it has been proved to his satis- 
 faction that the local authority have made known, in manner required by 
 this section, their intention to take such houses. 
 
 16. — (1.) The confirming authority, on application from the local Power of 
 authority, and on its being proved to their satisfacti(jn that an imj)rove- confirming- 
 ment can be made in the details of any scheme authorised bv a contirminif ^"'^'\'^l■^^^■ '""J 
 Act, may permit the local authority to modify any part of their improve- authorised 
 ment scheme which it may appear inexiH-dient to cany into execution, scheme, 
 but any part of the .scheme respecting the provision of dwelling accommo- 
 dation for persons of the working class, wlien so modified, shall be such as 
 might have been in.-serted in the original scheme. 
 
 (2.) A statement of any modifications permitted to be made in anv 
 part of an impi-ovement scheme in pursuance of this .section shall be laid 
 by the confirming authority before both Hou.ses of Parliament as soon as 
 practicable after the permission is given, if Parliament be then .sitting, 
 and if not, within one montli after the next meeting of Parliament. 
 
 Provided always, that if such mollification requires a larger public 
 expenditure than that .sanctioned by the former .scheme, or the taking of 
 any property otherwise than by agreement, or affects injuriously other 
 property in a manner ditl'erent to that proposed in the former scheme 
 without the consent of the owner and occupier of any such property, the 
 modification mu.st be made by a Provisional Order to be confirmed by Act 
 of Pai'liament in the manner provided by this part of this Act on the 
 completion of an improvement scheme. 
 
 Inquines xcith resjyect to Unhealthy Areas. 
 
 16. — (1.) Where in any district twelve or moi'e ratepayers have com- inquiry on 
 
 plained to a medical ofiicer of health of the unhealthiness of any area default of 
 
 within that district, and the medical officer of health has failed to inspect medical 
 
 such area, or to make an official representation with resiiect thereto, or ^^^f^}" ^"^ 
 
 1 1 itt ■ ^ i-x- fxi «-^ji.-i- •■ 1 certam cases. 
 
 lias made an official representation to the effect that in his opinion the 
 
 area is not an unhealthy area, such ratepayers may appeal to the con- 
 firming authority, and upon their giving security to the satisfaction of 
 that authority for costs, the confirming authority shall appoint a legally 
 qualified medical practitioner to inspect such area, and to make repre- 
 sentation to the confirming authority, stating the facts of the case, and 
 whether, in his opinion, the area or any part thereof is or is not an 
 unhealthy area. The repre.sentation so made shall be transmitted by the 
 confirming authority to the local authority, and if it .states that the area 
 is an unhealthy area the local authority shall proceed therein in the same 
 manner as if it were an official representation made to that authority. 
 {See 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. -i (2).] 
 
 (2.) The confirming authority shall make such order as to the costs of 
 the inquiry as they think just, with power to require the whole or any 
 part of such costs to be })aid by the appellants where the medical prac- 
 titioner appointed is of o})inion that the area is not an unhealthy area, 
 and to declare the whole or any part of such costs to be payable by the 
 local authority where he is of opinion that the area or any part thei*eof is 
 an unhealthy area. 
 
 (3.) Any order made by the confirming authority in pursuance of this 
 section may be made a rule of a superior court, and be enforced accordingly.
 
 928 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Homing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Proceedings 
 on local 
 inquiry. 
 
 Xotice of 
 inquiry to 
 be publicly 
 
 sriven. 
 
 Power to 
 
 administer 
 
 oath. 
 
 Acquisition 
 of land. 
 
 Special pro- 
 vision as to 
 compensa- 
 tion. 
 
 17. Where a local inquiry is directed, an officer shall be sent by the 
 confirming authority to the area to which .such inquiry relates for the 
 purpose of making an inquiry into the correctness of the official repre- 
 sentation made to the local authority as to such area being an unhealthy 
 area, and into the sufficiency of the scheme provided for its improvement, 
 and into any local objections to be made to such scheme, and to any other 
 matter into which he is directed by this Act or the confirming authority 
 to inquire for the purposes of this Act. 
 
 18. Before commencing such inquiry the officer appointed to conduct 
 the same shall make public by advex-tisement or otherwise in such manner 
 as he thinks best calculated to give information to the persons residing 
 in the area his intention to make such inquiry, and a statement of a time 
 and place at which he will be prepared to hear all persons desirous of 
 being heard before him upon the subject of the inquiry. 
 
 19. The officer conducting such inquiry shall have power to administer 
 an oath ; he shall report the result of the inquiry to the confirming 
 authority, who shall deal with such report in such manner as they think 
 expedient. 
 
 Acquisition of Land. 
 
 20. The clauses of the Lands Clauses Acts, with respect to the purchase 
 and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, shall not, exceptl to the 
 extent set forth in the Second Schedule to this Act, apply to any lands 
 taken in pursuance of this part of this Act, but save as aforesaid the said 
 Lands Clauses Acts, as amended by the provisions contained in the said 
 Schedule, shall regulate and apply to the purchase and taking of lands, 
 and shall for that purpose be deemed to form part of this part of this Act 
 in the same manner as if they were enacted in the body thereof; subject 
 to the provisions of this part of this Act and to the provisions following ; 
 that is to say, 
 
 (i.) This part of this Act shall authorise the taking by agreement of 
 any lands which the local authority may require for the purpose 
 of carrying into effect the scheme authorised by any confirming 
 Act, but it shall authorise the taking by the exercise of any 
 compulsory powers of such lands only as are proposed by the 
 scheme in the confirming Act to be taken compulsorily : 
 
 (ii.) In the construction of the Lands Clauses Acts, and the provisions 
 in the Second Schedule to this Act, this part of this Act shall 
 be deemed to be the special Act, and the local authority shall be 
 deemed to be the promoters of the undertaking ; and the period 
 after which the powers for the compulsory purchase or taking 
 of lands shall not be exercised shall be three years after the 
 passing of the confirming Act. 
 
 21. — (1.) Whenever the compensation payable in respect of any lands 
 or of any interests in any lands proposed to be taken compulsorily in 
 pur.suance of this part of this Act rec[uires to be assessed — 
 
 («) the estimate of the value of such lands or interests shall be based 
 upon the fair market value, as estimated at the time of the 
 valuation being made of such lands, and of the several interests 
 in such lands, due regard being had to the nature and then 
 condition of the property, and the probable duration of the 
 buildings in their existing state, and to the state of repair 
 thereof, without any additional allowance in respect of the 
 compulsory purchase of an area or of any part of an area in 
 re.<pect of which an official repi*esentation has been made, or of 
 any lands included in a scheme which, in the opinion of the 
 arVjitrator, have been so included as falling under the description 
 of property which may be constituted an luihealthy area luider 
 this part of this Act ; and
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Ilou,-iing of the Working Classe.i Act IbW. [Chap. 7u.] 929 
 
 (b) in smli estimate any addition to or improvement of the property 
 made after the date of the pa))lication in pursuance of this part 
 of this Act of an advertisement statinj^ the fact of the improve- 
 ment scheme having been made shall not (unless such addition 
 or improvement was necessary for the maintenance of the pro- 
 perty in a proper state of rejiair) V)e included, nor in the case 
 of any interest acquired after the said date sliall any separate 
 estimate of the value thex-eof be made so as to increase the 
 amount of compensation to be paid for the lands; and 
 (2.) On the occasion of assessing the compensation jisiyable under any 
 improvement scheme in respect of any house or premises situate within an 
 unhealthy area evidence shall be receivable by the arbitiator to prove — 
 (1st) that the rental of the house or )ireiiusos was enhanced by reason 
 of the same being used for illegal purposes or being so over- 
 crowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the healtli of the 
 inmates ; or 
 (2ndly) that the house or premises are in such a condition as to be a 
 nuisance within the meaning of the Acts relating to nuisances, 
 or are in a state of defective sanitation, or are not in reasonably 
 good repair ; or 
 (3rdly) that the house or premises ai'e unfit, and not reasonably capable 
 of being made fit, for human habitation ; 
 and, if the arbitrator is satisfied l)y such evidence, then the compensation — 
 («) shall in the first case so far as it is based on rental be based on the 
 rental which would have been obtainable if the house or premises 
 were occupied for legal purposes and only by the number of 
 persons whom the house or premises were under all the circum- 
 stances of the case fitted to accommodate without such over- 
 crowding as is dangerous or injurious to the health of the 
 inmates ; and 
 
 (b) shall in the second case be the amount estimated as the value of the 
 
 house or premises if the nuisance had been abated, or if they 
 had been put into a sanitary condition, or into reasonably good 
 repair, after deducting the estimated expense of abating the 
 nuisance, or putting them into such condition or repair, as the 
 case may be ; and 
 
 (c) shall in the third case be the value of the land, and of the materials 
 
 of the buildings thereon. 
 
 22. Upon the purchase by the local authority of any lands required Extinction of 
 for the purpose of carrying into effect any scheme, all rights of way, rights of way 
 rights of laving down or of continuing any pipes, sewers, or drains on, g-jggmgm-g 
 through, or under such lands, or part thereof, and all other rights or 
 easements in or relating to such lands, or any part thereof, shall be 
 extinguished, and all the soil of such ways, and the property in the pipes, 
 
 sewers, or drains, shall vest in the local authority, subject to this provision, 
 that compensation shall be paid by the local authority to any persons or 
 bodies of persons proved to have sustained loss by this section, and such 
 compensation shall be determined in the manner in which compensation 
 for land is determinable under this part of this Act, or as near thereto as 
 circumstances admit. 
 
 23. A local authority may, for the purpose of providing accommodation Application 
 for persons of the working classes displaced hx any improvement si-heme, of lands for 
 appropriate any lands for the time being belonging to them which are ^C|^ommoaa- 
 suitable for the purpose, or may purchase by agreement any such further jy„ classes, 
 lajids as may be convenient. [See 3 Edir. 7, c. 39, s. 11.] 
 
 Expeuses. 
 
 24. — (1.) The receipts of a local authority under this part of this Act Formation of 
 shall form a fund (in this Act referred to as " the Dwelling-house improve- improvement 
 ment Fund"), and their expenditure shall be defrayed out of such fund. Jlses of Act" 
 
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 930 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 (2.) The moneys I'equired in the first instance to establish such fund, 
 and any deficiency for the purposes of this part of this Act from time to 
 time appearing in such fund by reason of the excess of expenditure over 
 receipts, shall be supplied out of the local rates or out of moneys borrowed 
 in pi;rsuance of this Act. 
 
 (3.) In settling any accounts of the local authority in respect of any 
 transactions vuider this part of this Act, care shall be taken that as far 
 as may be practicable all expenditure shall ultimately be defrayed out of 
 the property dealt with under this part of this Act ; and any balances 
 of profit made by the local authority under this pait of this Act shall 
 be applicable to any purposes to which the local rate is for the, time being 
 applicable. 
 
 (4.) Any limit imposed on or in respect of local rates by any other Act 
 of Parliament shall not apply to any rate requii-ed to be levied for the 
 purpose of defraying any expenses under this part of this Act. 
 
 (5.) The local authority may carry to the account of the Dwelling-house 
 Improvement Fund any such money or produce of any property, as is 
 legally applicable to purposes similar to the purposes of this part of this 
 Act ; and in case of doubt as to whether, in any particular case, the 
 purposes are so similar the confirming authority may decide such doubt, 
 and such decision shall be conclusive. 
 
 Power of bor- 25. — (1.) A local authority may, in manner in this section mentioned, 
 rowingmoney borrow such money as is i-equired for the purposes of this part of this Act 
 for the pur- ^j^ ^j^g security of the local rate. 
 
 Part\°of \ct ("^•) ^^^* ^^^® purpose of such borrowing, the London County Council 
 ' may, with the assent of the Treasury, create con.solidated stock under the 
 Metropolitan Board of Works Loans Acts, 1869 to 1871, but all moneys 
 required for the payment of the dividends on and the redemjjtion of the 
 consolidated stock created for the purposes of this part of this Act shall 
 be charged to the special county account to which the expenditure for the 
 purpose^ of this part of this Act is chargeable. 
 
 (3.) For the purpose of such borrowing, the Commissioners of Sewers 
 for the City of Ijoudon * may borrow and take up at interest such money 
 on the credit of the local lates, or any of them, as they may require for 
 the purposes of this part of this Act, and may mortgage any such rate or 
 rates to the persons by or on behalf of whom such money is advanced for 
 securing the repayment to them of the sums borrowed, with interest 
 thereon, and for the purposes of any mortgages so made by the Commis- 
 10 & 11 Vict, sioners of Sewers,* the clauses of the Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847, 
 c. 16. 1 with respect to the mortgages to be executed by the Commissioners shall 
 
 be incorporated with this part of this Act ; and in the construction of 
 that Act " the special Act " shall mean this part of this Act ; " the Com- 
 missioners" shall mean the Commissionex-s of Sewers; "the clerk of the 
 Commissioners " shall include any oflicer appointed for the purpose by the 
 Commissioners of Sewers * by this part of this Act ; and the mortgagees 
 or assignees of any mortgage made as last aforesaid may enforce payment 
 of the arrears of principal and interest due to them by the appointment 
 of a receiver. 
 
 (4.) For the purpose of such borrowing, the urban sanitary authority 
 shall have the same power of borrowing as they have under the Public 
 Health Acts for the purpose of defraying any expenses incurred by them 
 in the execution of those Acts. 
 
 (5.) The Public Works Loan Commissioners may, on the recommenda- 
 tion of the confirming authority, lend to any local authority any money 
 required by them for purposes of this part of this Act, on the security of 
 the local rate. Such loan shall be I'epaid within such period, not exceed- 
 ing fifty years, as may be recommended by the confirming authority. \^See 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. 1.] 
 
 * Now the Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of Loudon. See the 
 City of London Sewers Act 1897, s. 5.
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 70.] 931 
 
 General Provisions. 
 
 26. In case of the illness or unavoidable ab.sence of a medical officer Provision in 
 of liealth, the autliority, board, or vestry who appointeil him may (subject case uf 
 
 to the a[)pioval of the coiifiniiini,' authority) appoint a duly qualified '^ ^''^^P^*: *^^ 
 medical practitioner, for the period of six uionths, or any less period to be officer of 
 named in the appointment. health. 
 
 27. The confirming authority may by order * prescribe the form.s of Power of 
 advertisements and notices under this part of this Act; it shall not be confirrning 
 obligatory on any persons to adopt such forms, but the same, when ^" '?" y"^^ 
 adopted, shall be deemed sutiicient for .ill the purposes of this part of jjjgmg and 
 this Act. notices. 
 
 28. The confirming authority may, on the consideration of any petition Power of 
 of a local authority for an Uider confirming a sclieme, dispense with the confirming 
 publication of any advertisement, or the service of any notice, proof of ^"'^"'^'"'^y ^o 
 •which publication or service is not given to them as required by this part notices in 
 
 of this Act, where reasonable cause is shown to their satisfaction why such certain cases, 
 public-ation or service should be dispensed with, and such dispensation may 
 be made by the confirming authority, either unconditionally or upon such 
 condition as to the publication of other advertisements and the service 
 of other notices or otherwise as the confirming authority may think fit, 
 due care being taken by the confirming authority to prevent the interest 
 of any person being prejudiced by the fact of the publication of any 
 advertisement or the service of any notice being dispensed with in pursu- 
 -ance of this section. 
 
 PART II 
 
 Unhealthy Dwelling -Houses. 
 Preliminary. 
 
 29. In this part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — Definitions 
 The expression " street " includes any court, alley, street, .square, or " Street." 
 
 row of houses : 
 
 The expression "dwelling-house" means any inhabited building, and "Dwelling- 
 includes any yard, g.-irdcn, outhouses, and a[)pnrtenances belonging house." 
 thereto or usually enjoyed therewith, and includes the site of the 
 dwelling-house as .so defined. 
 
 The expression "owner," in addition to the definition given by the "Owner." 
 Lands Clauses Acts, includes all lessees or mortgagees of any premises 
 required to be dealt with under this part of this Act, except per-sons 
 holding or entitled to the lents and profits of such premises for a 
 term of years, of which twenty-one years do not remain unexpired : 
 
 The expression "closing order" means an order prohibiting the use "Closing 
 of premises for human habitation made under the enactments set order." • 
 out in the Third Schedule in this Act. 
 
 Buildings nnjit for Human Habitation. 
 
 30. It shall be the duty of the medical oflicer of health of every district Kepresenta- 
 -to represent to the local authority of that distiict any dwelling-house tion by 
 which appears to him to lie in a state so dangerous or injurious to health "J^ '^^ , 
 as to be unfit for human habitation. health. 
 
 31. — (1.) If in any district any four or more householdei-s living in or Kepresenta- 
 
 near to any street complain in writing to the medical officer of health ^^^^^ '^'" 
 
 of that district that any dwellini^-house in or near that street is in a 'lou^eholders 
 
 •' . . . ^ 111 1 ■ c 1 ooiuplaiut. 
 
 condition so dangerous or injurious to healtli as to be unfit tor human 
 
 habitation, he shall forthwith inspect the same, and transmit to the local 
 * See, as to London, the Order of the Secretary of State dated 5t November 1890.
 
 932 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 authority the said complaint, together with his opinion thereon, and if 
 he is of opinion that the dwelUng-house is in the condition aforesaid, shall 
 represent the same to the local authority, but the absence of any such 
 complaint .shall not excu.se him from inspecting any dwelling-house and 
 making a representation thereon to the local authority. 
 
 (2.) \^As to jyroceedings in the event of a local authority not loithin th& 
 county of London declining to act.^ 
 
 Closing Order and Demolition. 
 
 DutT of local 32. — (1.) It shall be the duty of every local authority to cau.se to be 
 authority made from time to time inspection of their di-strict, with a view to ascertain 
 as to closing -^vhether any dwelling-house therein is in a state so dangeroiis or injurious- 
 o ctwe ing- ^^ health as to be unfit for human habitation, and, if on the representation 
 for human of the medical ofticer, or of any officer of such authority, or information 
 habitation. given, any dwelling-house appears to them to be in such state, to forth- 
 with take proceedings against the owner or occupier for closing the 
 dwelling-house under the enactments .set out in the Thuxl Schedule to 
 this Act. [<S'ee *;. 73, and 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. 8 (1).] 
 
 (2.) Any such proceedings may be taken for the express purpose of 
 causing the dwelling-house to be closed whether the same be occupied or 
 not, and upon such proceedings the court of summary jurisdiction may 
 impose a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, and make a closing order,, 
 and the forms for the purposes of this section may be those in the Fourth 
 Schedule to this Act, or to the like eilect, and the enactments respecting^ 
 an appeal from a closing order shall apply to the imposition of such penalty 
 as well as to a closing order. [*S'ee 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. 8 (2).] 
 
 (3.) Where a clo.sing order has been made as respects any dwelling- 
 house, the local authority shall serve notice of the order on every occupying 
 tenant of the dwelling-house, and within such period as is specified in the 
 notice, not being less than seven days after the service of the notice, the 
 order shall be obeyed by him, and he and his family shall cease to inhabit 
 the dwelling-house, and in default he shall be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding twenty shillings a day during his disobedience to the order. 
 Provided that the local authority may make to every such tenant such 
 reasonable allowance on account of his expenses in removing, as may 
 have been authorised by the court making the closing order, which 
 authority the court is hereby authorised to give, and the amount of the 
 said allowance shall be a civil debt due from the owner of the dwelling- 
 house to the local authority, and shall be recoverable summarilv. 
 [See 3 Edv}. 7, c. 39, s. 10.] 
 Order for 33. — (1.) Whei'e a closing order has been made in respect of any 
 
 demolition of dwelling-house, and not been determined by a subsequent order, then the 
 f ^^>f h"t^'^ local authority, if of opinion that the dwelling-house has not been rendered 
 ^jqjj fit for human habitation, and that the necessary steps ai-e not being taken 
 
 with all due diligence to render it so fit, and that the continuance of any 
 building being or being part of the dwelling-house is dangerous or injurious 
 to the health of the public or of the inhabitants of the neighbouring 
 dwelling-houses, shall pass a resolution that it is expedient to order the 
 demolition of the building. [See s. 73.] 
 
 (2.) The local authority shall cause notice of such resolution to be served 
 on the owner of the dwelling-house, and such notice shall specify the time 
 and place appointed by the local authority for the further consideration 
 of the resolution, not being less than one month after the service of the- 
 notice, and any owner of the dwelling-house shall be at liberty to attend 
 and state his objections to the demolition. 
 
 (3.) If upon the consideration of the resolution and the objections the 
 local authority decide that it is expedient so to do, then, unless an owner 
 undertakes to execute forthwith the works necessary to render the 
 dwelling-house fit for human habitation, the local authority shall order 
 the demolition of the building.
 
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 (4.) If an owner undertakes as aforesaid to execute the said works, 
 the hjcal autliurity xuay order tlie execution of the works, within sucli 
 reasonable time as is specified in the order, and if the works are not 
 completed within that time or any extended time allowed by the local 
 authority or a court of summary jurisdiction, the local authority shall 
 order tiie demolition of th»' building. 
 
 34. — (1.) Where an order for the demolition of a building has been Execution of 
 made, tlie owner thereof shall within three months after service of the an order for 
 order proceed to take down and remove the building, and if the owner demolition, 
 fails therein the local authority shall proceed to take down and lemove a^ to^sTte^^"^" 
 the building and shall sell the materials, and after deducting the expen.ses 
 incident to such taking down and removal, pay over the balance of money 
 (if any) to the owner. [See 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, *. 9.] 
 
 (2.) Wliere a building has been so taken down and removed, no hou.se 
 or other l)uilding or erection which will be dangerous or injurious to 
 health shall l)e en'c(('<l on all or any part of the site of such liuilding ; 
 and if a!iy iiouse, building, or erection is erected contrary to the provisions 
 of this section, the local authority may at any time order the owner 
 thereof to abate the same, and in the event of non-compliance with the 
 order, may at the expense of the owner abate or alter the same. 
 
 35. — (1.) Any per.son aggrieved by an order of the local authority Appeal 
 \mder this part of this Act, may appeal against the same to a court of "gainst order 
 quarter sessions, and no work shall be done nor proceedings taken under ^^^^^^^} 
 any order until after the appeal is determined or ceases to be prosecuted ; 
 and section thirty-one of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, respecting 42 &; 4.3 Vict, 
 appeals from courts of summary jurisdiction to courts of quarter sessions c. 49. 
 shall apply with the necessary modifications as if the order of the local 
 authority were an order of a court of summary jurisdiction. 
 (2.) Provided that — 
 
 (rt.) Notice of appeal may be given within one month after notice of 
 the order of the local authority has been served on such person ; 
 {h.) The court shall, at the request of either party, state the facts 
 specially for the determination of a sujierior court, in which case 
 the proceedings may be removed into that court. 
 
 36. — (1.) Where any owner has completed in respect of any dwelling- Grant of 
 house any works required to be executed by an order of a local authority charges by 
 under this part of this Act, he may apply to the local authority for a ^nn^^/y ^^ 
 charging order, and shall produce to the local authority the certificate owner "on 
 of their surveyor or engineer that the works have been executed to his completion 
 satisfaction, and also the accounts of and vouchers for the costs, charges, ^^ works, 
 and expenses of the works, and the local authority, when satisfied that 
 the owner has duly executed such works and of the amount of such costs, 
 charges, and expenses, and of the costs of obtaining the charging order 
 which have been pn)perly incurred, shall make an order accordingly, 
 charging on the dwelling-house an annuity to repay the amount. 
 
 (2.) The annuity charged shall be a sum of six pounds for every one 
 hundred pounds of the said amount and so in proportion for any less 
 sum, and shall commence from the date of the order, and be payable 
 for a term of thirty years to the owner named in such order, his executors, 
 administrators, or assigns. 
 
 (3.) Every such annuity may be recovered by the person for the time 
 being entitled to it by the same means and in the like manner in all 
 respects as if it were a rentcharge grantetl by deed out of the ilwelling- 
 house by the owner thereof. 
 
 (4.) Charging orders made under this section shall be made according 
 to the Form marked A. in the Fifth Schedule to this Act. or as near 
 thereto as the circumstances of the case will admit. 
 
 37. — (1.) Every charge created by a charging order under thi^ part Incidence of 
 of this Act shall be a charge on the dwelling-house specified in the order, charge.
 
 934 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vicr.] 
 
 having priority over all existing and future estates, interests, and in- 
 cumbrances, with the exception of quitrents and other charges incident 
 to tenure, tithe commutation rentcharge, and any charge created under 
 any Act authorising advances of public money ; and where more charges 
 than one are charged under this part of this Act on any dwelling-house 
 such charges shall, as between themselves, take order according to their 
 respective dates. 
 
 (2.) A charging order shall be conclusive evidence that all notices, acts, 
 and proceedings by this part of this Act directed with reference to or conse- 
 quent on the obtaining of such order, or the making of such charge, have 
 been duly served, done, and taken, and that such charge has been duly 
 created, and that it is a valid charge on the dwelling-house declared to be 
 subject thereto. 
 
 (3.) Every such charging order, if it relates to a dwelling-house in the 
 area to which the enactments relating to the registration of land in 
 Middlesex apply or to a dwelling-house in Yorkshire, shall be registered 
 in like manner as if the charge were made by deed by the absolute owner 
 of the dwelling-house. 
 
 (4.) Copies of the charging order and of the certificate of the surveyor 
 or engineer, and of the accounts as passed by the local authority, certified 
 to be true copies by the clerk of the local authority, shall within six months 
 after the date of the order be deposited with the clerk of the peace of the- 
 county in which the dwelling-house is situate, and be by him filed and 
 recorded. 
 
 (.5.) The benefit of any such charge may be from time to time transferred 
 in like manner as a mortgage or rentcharge may be transferred. Any 
 transfer may be in the Form marked B. in the Fifth Schedule to this Act^ 
 or in any other convenient form. 
 
 Obstructive BvAldings. 
 
 Powertolocal 38. — (1.) If a medical ofiicer of health finds that any building ^\athin. 
 authority to his district, although not in itself unfit for human habitation, is so situate 
 purchase ^j^g^^ |-,y reason of its proximity to or contact with any other buildings it 
 
 opening- causes one of the following effects, that is to say, — 
 
 alleys, etc. («•) It stops ventilation, or otherwise makes or conduces to make such 
 
 other buildings to be in a condition unfit for human habitation 
 or dangerous or injurious to health ; or 
 (Jj.) It prevents proper measures fr-om being carried into effect foi* 
 remedying any nuisance injurious to health or other evils 
 complained of in respect of such other buildings ; 
 in any such case, the medical officer of health shall represent to the local 
 authority the particulars relating to such first-mentioned building (in this 
 Act referred to as " an obstructive building ") stating that in his opinion it 
 is expedient that the obstructive building should be pulled down. 
 
 (2.) Any four or more inhabitant householders of a district may make 
 to the local authority of the district a representation as respects any 
 building to the like effect as that of the medical officer under this section. 
 (3.) The local authority on receiving any such representation as above 
 in this section mentioned shall cause a report to be made to them respect- 
 ing the circumstances of the building and the cost of pulling down the 
 building and acquiring the land, and on receiving such report shall take 
 into consideration the representation and report, and if they decide to 
 proceed, shall cause a copy of both the representation and report to be 
 given to the owner of the lands on which tlie obstructive building stands, 
 with notice of the time and place appointed by the local authority for the 
 consideration thereof ; and such owner shall be at liberty to attend and 
 state his objections, and after hearing such objections the local authority 
 shall make an order either allowing the objection or directing that such 
 obstructive building shall be pulled down, and such order shall be subject
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1 890, [Chap. 70.] 935- 
 
 to appeal in like manner as an order of demolition of the local authority 
 under the foregoing provisions of this part of this Act. 
 
 (4.) Where an order of the local authority for pulling down an obstruc- 
 tive building is made under this section and either- no ap{)e,i] is made ag;unsb 
 the order, or an appeal is made and either fails or is abandoned, the local 
 authority shall be authoiised to purchase the lands on which the obstructive 
 building is erected in like manner as if they had been authorised l)y a special 
 Act to purchase the same ; and for the purpose of such purchase the provi- 
 sions of the Lands Clauses Acts, with respect to the purchase and taking of 
 lands otherwise than by agreement shall be deemed to be incorporated in 
 this part of this Act (subject nevertheless to the provisions of this part of 
 tills Act), and for the purpose of the provisions of the Lan<ls Clauses Acts 
 this part of this Act shall be deemed to be the special Act, and the local 
 authority to be the promoters of the undertaking, and such lands may be 
 purchased at any time within one year after tlie date of the oider, or if it 
 was appealed against after the date of the confirmation. 
 
 (5.) The owner of the lands may within one month after notice to 
 purchase the same is served upon him declare that he desires to retain the 
 site of the obstructive building and undertake either to pull down or to 
 permit the local authority to pull down the obstructive building, and in 
 such case the owner shall retain the site and shall receive compensation 
 from the local authority for the pulling down of the obstructive building, 
 
 (G.) The amount of such compensation, and also the amount of any 
 compensation to be paid on the purchase of any lands under this 
 section, shall in case of difference be settled by arbitration in manner 
 provided in this part of this Act. 
 
 (7.) Where the local authority is empowered to purchase land compul- 
 sorily, it shall not be competent for the owner of a house or manufactory 
 to insist on his entire holding being taken, where part only is proposed 
 to be taken as obstructive, and where such part proposed to be taken 
 can, in the opinion of the arbitrator to whom the question of disputed 
 compensation is submitted, be severed from the remainder of the house or 
 manufactory without material detriment thereto, provided that compen- 
 sation may Ije awarded in respect of the severance of the part so proposed 
 to be taken in addition to the value of that part. 
 
 (8.) Where in the opinion of the arbitrator the demolition of an 
 obstructive building adds to the value of such other buildings as are in 
 that behalf mentioned in this section, the arbitrator shall apportion so 
 much of the compensation to be paid for the demolition of the obstructive 
 building as may be equal to the increase in value of the other buildings 
 amongst such other buildings respectively, and the amount apportioned 
 to each such other building in respect of its increase in value by reason 
 of the demolition of such obstructive building shall be deemed to be 
 private improvement expenses incuired by the local authority in respect 
 of such building, and such local authority may, for the purpose of 
 defraying such expenses, make and levy improvement rates on the occupier 
 of such premises accordingly; and the provisions of the Public Health 
 Acts relating to private improvement expenses and to private improve- 
 ment rates shall, so far as circumstances admit, apply accordingly in the 
 same manner as if such provisions were incorporated in this Act. \^See the 
 rablic Health Act 1875, *6-. 213—215.] 
 
 (9.) If any dispute arises between the owner or occupier of any building 
 (to which any amount may be apportioned in respect of private improve- 
 ment expenses) and the arbitrator by whom such apportionment is made, 
 such dispute shall be settled by two Justices in manner provided by the 
 Lands Clauses Acts, in cases where the compensation claimed in respect 
 of lands does not exceed fifty pounds. 
 
 (10.) Where the owner retains the site or any part thereof, no house 
 or other building or erection which will be dangerous or injurious to 
 health, or which will be an obstructive building within the meaning of
 
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 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the WorJmig Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Scheme for 
 area compris- 
 ing houses 
 closed by 
 closing order. 
 
 this section, shall be erected upon such site oi' any part thereof ; and if 
 any house, building, or erection is erected on the site contrary to the 
 provisions of this section the local authority may at any time order the 
 owner to abate or alter the said house, building, or erection ; and in 
 the event of non-compliance with such order may, at the expense of the 
 owner thereof, abate or alter the same. 
 
 (11.) Where the lands are purchased by the local authority the local 
 authority shall })ull down the obstructive building, or such part thereof 
 as may be obstructive within the meaning of this section, and keep as an 
 open space the whole site, or such part thereof as may be required to be 
 kept open for the purpose of remedying the nuisance or other evils caused 
 by such obstructive building, and may, with the assent of the Local 
 Government Board, and upon such terms as that Board think expedient, 
 sell such portion of the site as is not required for the purpose of carrying 
 this section into eft'ect. 
 
 (12.) A local authority may, where they so think fit, dedicate any land 
 acquired by them under the authority of this section as a highway or 
 other public j)lace. 
 
 Scheme for' Reconstruction* 
 
 39. t — (1.) In any of the following cases, that is to say — 
 {a) where an order for the demolition of a building has been made in 
 pursuance of this part of this Act, and it appears to the local 
 authority that it would be beneficial to the health of the in- 
 habitants of the neighbouring dwelling-houses if the area of the 
 dwelling-house of which such building forms part were used for 
 all or any of the following purpo.ses, that is to say, either — 
 (i) dedicated as a highway or open space, or 
 (ii) appropriated, sold, or let for the erection of dwellings for the 
 
 working classes, or 
 (iii) exchanged with other neighbouring land which is more suitable 
 for the erection of such dwellings, and on exchange will be 
 appropriated, sold, or let for such erection ; or 
 (h) where it appears to the local authority that the closeness, narrow- 
 ness, and bad arrangement or bad condition of any buildings, 
 or the want of light, air, ventilation, or proper conveniences, or 
 
 dangerous or 
 
 pre- 
 said 
 
 any other sanitary defect in any buildings is 
 judicial to the health of the inhabitants either of the 
 buildings or of the neighbouring buildings, and that the demoli- 
 tion or the reconstruction and re-arrangement of the said 
 buildings or of some of them is necessary to remedy the said 
 evils, and that the area comprising those buildings and the yards, 
 outhouses, and appurtenances thereof, and the site thereof, is 
 too small to be dealt with as an unhealthy area under Part I. of 
 this Act, 
 the local authority shall pass a resolution to the above effect and direct 
 a scheme to be prepared for the improvement of the said area. 
 
 (2.) Notice of the scheme may at any time after the preparation thereof 
 be served in manner provided in Part I. of this Act with respect to 
 notices of lands proposed to be taken compulsorily under a scheme made 
 in pursuance of that part of this Act, on every owner or reputed owner, 
 
 * See 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, ss. 6, 7 and 14. 
 
 t S. 1 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1894 enacts as follows : " 1. For 
 anv purpose for which a local authority are, by a sciieme for reconstruction duly 
 sanctioned under I'art II. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, or by 
 the Order sanctioning the Scheme, authorised to borrow, the authority shall have 
 power and shall be deemed always to have had power to borrow in like manner and 
 subject to the like conditions as they may borrow under section forty-three of that 
 Act for the purpose of raising the sums required for the purchase money or com- 
 pensation therein mentioned, and sections forty-three and forty-six of that Act shall 
 apply accordingly."
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Workbig Clasaes Art \>>in). [Chap. To.] 93' 
 
 lessee or reputed lessee, and occupier of tiny part of the area comprised in 
 the scheme, so far as those persons can reasonably be ascertained. 
 
 (3.) The local authority .«h:ill, after service of such notice, petition tlie 
 Local Government Board for an order sanctioning the scheme, and tlie 
 Board may cause a local inquiry to be held, and, if .satisfied on the report 
 of such local incpury that the carrying into effect of the scheme either 
 fih.solutf'ly, or subject to conditions or niodilications would be beneficial to 
 the health of the iiihal)it;ints of the saiil buildings or of the neighbouring 
 dwelling-houses, may by order sanction the .scheme with or without such 
 ■conditions or modifications. 
 
 (4r.) Upon such order being made, the local authority may purchase 
 by agreement the area comprised in the scheme as so .sanctioned, and if 
 they agree for the purchase of the whole area, the order, save so far as 
 it i)rovides for the taking of land otherwise than by agreement, shall take 
 effect without contiruiation. if they do not so agree, the order shall be 
 published by the local authority l)y inserting a notice thereof in the 
 London Gazette, and by serving notice thereof on the owners of every part 
 of the area. 
 
 (5.) Any owner may, within two months after .such publication, petition 
 the Local Government Board against the order, and if .such petition is 
 presented and is not withdrawn, tiie order shall be provisional unless it is 
 confirmed by Act of Parliament. 
 
 (6.) If the Local Government Board are .satisfied that the order has 
 been duly published, and that two months after such publication have 
 expired, and that either a i)etition has not been presented, or if presented 
 has been withdrawn, they shall confirm the order, and thereupon such 
 order shall come into operation, and have effect as if it were enacted by 
 this Act. 
 
 (7.) The order may incorporate the provisions of the Lands (Jlau.ses 
 Acts, and for the pur})Ose of those provisions this Act shall be deemed to 
 be the special Act, and the local authority to be the promoters of the 
 undertaking, and the area shall be acquired within three years after 
 the date of the contirmation of the order : Provideil that the amount of 
 compensation shall, in case of difference, be settled by arbitration in 
 manner jirovided by this part of this Act. 
 
 (8.) The provisions of Part I. of this Act relating to costs to be awarded 
 in certain ca.ses by a committee of either House of Parliament, to the duty 
 of a local authority to carry a scheme when confirmed into execution, to 
 the completion of a scheme on failure by a local authority, and to the 
 ■extinction of rights of way and other easements, .shall, with the nece.ssary 
 modifications, apply for the pui-po.se of any scheme under this section in 
 like manner as if it were a scheme under Part I. of this Act. 
 
 (9.) The Local Government Board, on being satisfied by the local 
 iiuthority that an improvement can be made in the details of any scheme 
 under this section, may by order permit the local authority to modify any 
 part of the scheme which it may appear inexpedient to carry into 
 •execution : Provided that — 
 
 (rt) if the order sanctioning the scheme was confirmed by Parliament, 
 a statement of such modification shall be laiil by the Local 
 Gov(Mnuipnt Board before both Houses of Parliament as soon as 
 practical >le ; and 
 (?>) in any ease, if the modification requires a larger expenditure than 
 that sanctioned by the original .scheme, or authorises the taking 
 of any property otherwise than by agreement, or injuriously 
 affects any property in a manner different from that proj>osed in 
 the original .scheme, without the consent of the owner or occupier 
 of such property, notice of the order authorising the modification 
 shall be pul)lished, and the order may be petitioned against and 
 shall be subject to confirmation in like manner as if it were an 
 order sanctioning an original scheme under this section.
 
 938 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1 890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Provisions for 40. The Local Government Beard .shall in any order sanctioning a 
 accommoda- scheme under this part of this Act require the insertion in the scheme 
 tion of Qf i^wch. provisions (if any) for the dwelling accommodation of persons of 
 
 th'^workine ^^^ working classes displaced by the scheme as seem to the Board required 
 classes. by the circumstances. 
 
 Settlement of Compensation. 
 
 ProvisioEs 41. In all cases in which the amount of any compensation is, in. 
 
 as to arbi- pursuance of this part of this Act, to be settled by arbitration, the following 
 tration. provisions shall have effect ; (namely,) 
 
 (1.) The amount of compensation .shall be settled by an arbitrator to be 
 
 appointed and removable by the Local Government Board. 
 (2.) In settling the amount of any compensation — 
 
 (a.) The estimate of the value of the dwelling-hou.se shall be based 
 on the fair market value as estimated at the time of the 
 valuation being made of such dwelling-house, and of the 
 several interests in such dwelling-house, due regard being had 
 to the nature and then condition of the prcj^erty and the 
 probable duration of the buildings in their existing state, and 
 to the state of repair thereof, and without any additional 
 allowance in respect of compulsory purchase : and 
 (6.) The arbitrator shall have regard to and make an allowance in 
 respect of any increased value which, in his opinion, will be 
 given to other dwelling-houses of the same owner by the 
 alteration or demolition by the local authority of any build- 
 ings. \See 3 Edyu:. 7, c. 39, s. 7. J 
 (3.) Evidence .shall be receivable by the arbitrator to prove— 
 
 (Lst) that the rental of the dwelling-house was enhanced by reason 
 of the same being u.sed for illegal purpo.ses or being so over- 
 crowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the 
 inmates ; or 
 (2ndly) that the dwelling-house is in a state of defective sanitation,. 
 
 or is not in reasonably good repair ; or 
 (3rdly) that the dwelling-house is unfit, and not rea.sonably capable 
 of being made fit, for human habitation ; 
 and, if the arbitrator is satisfied by such evidence, then the 
 compensation — 
 (a) shall in the first case so far as it is based on rental be based on 
 the rental which would have been obtainable if the dwelling- 
 house was occupied for legal purposes and only by the number 
 of persons whom the dwelling-house was under all the cir- 
 cum.stances of the case fitted to accommodate without such 
 overcrowding as is dangerous or injurious to the health of the 
 inmates ; and 
 (6) shall in the second case be the amount estimated as the value of 
 the dwelling-house if it had been put into a sanitary condition, 
 or into reasonably good repair, after deducting the estimated 
 expen.se of putting it into such condition or repair ; and 
 (c) shall in the third case be the value of the land, and of the 
 materials of the buildings thereon. 
 (4.) On payment or tender to the person entitled to receive the same 
 of the amount of compensation agreed or awarded to be paid 
 in re.spect of the dwelling-hou.se, or on payment thereof in 
 manner pre.scribed by the Lands Clauses Acts, the owner shall, 
 when required by the local authority, convey his interest in such 
 dwelling-house to them, or as they may direct ; and in default- 
 thereof, or if the owner fails to adduce a good title to such 
 dwelling-house to the satisfaction of the local authority, it shall 
 be lawf'ul for the local authority, if they think fit, to execute 
 a deed poll in such manner and with such consequences as are 
 mentioned in the Lands Clauses Acts.
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] llousiny of the Working Classes Act 1800. [Chap. 70.] 939 
 
 (5.) Sections thiity-two, thirty-three, tliirty-five, thirty-six, and thirty- 8 i: 9 Vict, 
 seven of the Lands Clausi-s Consolidation Act, 1845, shall apply, ^' ^^' 
 with any necessary modifications, to an arbitration and to an 
 arbitrator appointed under this part of this Act. 
 
 (G.) The arbitrator may, by one award, settle the amount or amounts 
 of compensation payable in respect of all or any of the dwelling- 
 houses included in one or more order or orders made by the local 
 authority ; but he may, and, if the local authority request him 
 so to do, shall, from time to time make an award respecting a 
 portion only of the disputed cases brought before him. 
 
 (7.) In the event of the death, removal, resignation, or incapacity, 
 refusal, or neglect to act of any arlntrator before he shall have 
 made his award, the Local Government Board may appoint 
 another arbitrator, to whom all documents relating to the matter 
 of the arbitration which were in the possession of the former 
 arbitrator shall be delivered. 
 
 (8.) The arbitrator may, where he thinks fit, on the request of any 
 party by whom any claim has been made before him, certify the 
 amount of the costs properly incurred by such party in relation 
 to the arbitration, and the amount of the costs so certified shall 
 be paid by the local authority. 
 
 (9.) The arbitrator shall not give such certificate where the arbitrator 
 has awarded the same or a less sum than has been offered by 
 the local authority in respect of such claim before the appoint- 
 ment of the arbitrator, and need not give such certificate to any 
 party where he considers that such party neglected, after due 
 notice from the local authority, to deliver to that authority a 
 statement in writing within such time, and containing such 
 particulars respecting the compensation claimed, as would have 
 enabled the local authority to make a proper offer of compensa- 
 tion to such pai-ty before the appointment of the arbitrator. 
 
 (10.) If within seven days after demand the amount so certified be not 
 paid to the party entitled to receive the same, such amount shall 
 be recoverable as a debt from the local authority with interest 
 at the rate of five per cent, per annum for any time during 
 which the same remains unpaid after such seven days as 
 afore.<!aid. 
 
 (11.) The award of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on all 
 parties. 
 
 Expenses and Borrovnng. 
 
 42. — (1.) All expenses incurred by a local authority in the execution Expenses 
 of this part of this Act shall be defrayed by them out of the local rate ; <'f local 
 and that authority, notwithstanding any limit contained in any Act of ^"tt'''"ty. 
 Parliament respecting a local rate, may levy such local rate, or any 
 increase thereof, for the purposes of this part of this Act. 
 
 (2.) Any expenses incurred by a rural sanitary authority undt-r this 
 part of this Act, other than the expenses incurred in ami incidental to 
 proceedings for obtaining a closing order, shall be charged as special 
 expenses on the contributory place in respect of which they are incurred. 
 
 43. — (1.) A local authority may borrow for the purpose of raising Provision as 
 sums reijuired for purchase money or compensation payable under this ^^ borrowing, 
 part of this Act in like maniier, and subject to the like coiulitions, as for 
 the pin-pose of defraying the expenses of the execution by such authority 
 of the Public Health Acts. 
 
 (2.) The Public Works Loan Commissioners may, if they think fit, lend 
 to any local authority the sums borrowed in pursuance of this part of 
 this Act.
 
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 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Annual 
 account to 
 be presented 
 by the local 
 authority. 
 
 Powers of 
 
 county 
 
 councils. 
 
 44. Ev^ery local authority shall every year present to the Local 
 Gov^ernment Board, in such form as they may direct, an account of what 
 has been done, and of all moneys received and paid by them during the 
 previous year, with a view to carrying into effect the purposes of this part 
 of this Act. 
 
 Powers of County Councils. 
 
 45. — (1.) Where the medical officer of health or any inhabitant house- 
 holders make a representation or complaint, or give information to any 
 vestry * or district board * in the administrative county of London or to 
 the Local Board of Woolwich ,t or to any rural sanitary authority elsewhere 
 (which vestry, board, or authority is in this Act referred to as the district 
 authority) or to the medical otKcer of such authority either respecting any 
 dwelling-house being in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to 
 be unfit for human habitation, or respecting an obstructive building, and 
 also where a closing order has been made as respects any dwelling-house, 
 the district authority shall forthwith forward to the county council of the 
 county in which the dwelling-house or building is situate, a copy of such 
 representation, complaint, information, or closing order, and shall from 
 time to time report to the council such particulars as the couucil require 
 respecting any proceedings taken by the authority with reference to such 
 representation, complaint, information, or dwelling-house. 
 
 (2.) Where the county council — 
 
 [a) are of opinion that proceedings for a closing order as respects any 
 
 dwelling-house ought to be instituted, or that an order ought to 
 be made for the demolition of any buildings forming or forming 
 part of any dwelling-house as to which a closing order has been 
 made, or that an order ought to be made for pulling down an 
 obstructive building specified in any representation under this 
 part of this Act ; and 
 
 (b) after reasonable notice, not being less than one month, of such 
 
 opinion has been given in writing to the district authority, con- 
 sider that such authority have failed to institute or properly 
 prosecute proceedings, or to make the order for demolition, or 
 to take steps for pulling down an obstructive building ; 
 the council may pass a resolution to that effect, and thereupon the powers 
 of the district authority as respects the said dwelling-house and building 
 luider this part of this Act (otherwise than in respect of a scheme), shall 
 be vested in the county council, and if a closing order or an order for 
 demolition or for pulling down an obstructive building is made, and not 
 disallowed on appeal, the expenses of the council incurred as respects the 
 said dwelling-house and building, including any compensation paid, shall 
 be a simple contract debt to the council from the district authority. 
 
 (3.) Any debt to the council under this section shall be defrayed by the 
 district authority as part of their expenses in the execution of this part 
 of this Act. 
 
 (4.) The covmty council and any of their officers shall, for the purposes 
 of this section, have the same right of admission to any premises as any 
 district authority or their officers have for the purpose of the execution 
 of their duties under the enactments relating to public health, and a 
 Justice may make the like order for enforcing such admission. [See 
 54 & 5.5 Vict. c. 76, ss. 5 (9), 10, 20 (7), 40 (1), 47 (1), 60 (3), 71 (1), 
 82 (3), 95 (3), 97 (2), a7id 115.] 
 
 Application 
 of part of 
 Act to 
 London. 
 
 Special Provisions as to London. 
 
 46. This part of this Act shall apply to the administrative county of 
 London with the following modifications : — 
 
 (1.) The provisions of the Public Health Acts relating to private 
 
 * Now the council of a metropolitan borough. See 62 & 63 Vict. 
 t Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich. 
 c. 14, s. I'J. 
 
 c. 14. s. 4. 
 
 See 62 & 63 Vict.
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 7u.] 941 
 
 improvement expenses and to private improvement rates sliall, 
 for the purpose of this part of this Act, extend to the i-ounty 
 and to the city of London, and in the construction of the said 
 ])rovi.sions, as respects the county of London, any local authority 
 in that county, and as respects the city of London the Com- 
 missioners of Sewers,* shall be deemed to be the urban authority. 
 [*S'ee note o/» s. 38 (8).] 
 (2.) The raising of sums required for purchase money or compensation 
 payalile under this part of this Act sliall Ix; a purpose for which 
 the Loudon (Jounty Council or the Commissioners of Sewers* of 
 the city of London, may borrow under Part One of this Act, 
 and a purpose for which a vestryf or district boardf may borrow 
 under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the provisions 18 k 19 Vict, 
 of Part One of this Act with respect to borrowing, and sections c. 120. 
 one hundred and eighty-three to one hundred and ninety-one of 
 the ^letropolis Management Act, 1855, shall apply and have 
 effect accordingly. [»S'ee s. 25, and 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. 14.] 
 (3.) The London County Council may, if they think fit, lend to a local 
 authority in the administrative county of London the sums 
 borrowed in pursuance of this part of this Act. 
 (4.) For the purpose of the assent required for the sale of any portion 
 of the site of an obstructive building by a local authority, and 
 of the account to be presented l)y a local authority of what has 
 been done by them and of moneys received and paid by them 
 during the previous year a Secretary of State shall be substituted 
 for the Lcjcal Government Board. [See note on s. 8.] 
 (5.) Where it appears to the county council, whether in the exercise 
 of the powers of a vestry t or district board t or on the repre- 
 sentation of a vestry + or district board t or otherwise, that a 
 scheme under this part of this Act ought to be made, the council 
 may take proceedings for preparing and obtaining the confirmation 
 of a scheme, and the provisions of this Act respecting the scheme 
 shall apply in like manner as if they were the vestryf or district 
 board,t and all expenses of and incidental to the scheme and 
 carrying the ?ame into effect shall, save as herein-after men- 
 tioned, be borne by the county fund. [.See 3 7?rZw. 7, c. 39, s. 14.] 
 (G.) Where the council consider that such expenses, or a contribution 
 in respect of them, ought to be paid or made by a vestryf or 
 district board, + they may apply to a Secretary of State, § and 
 the Secretary of State,§ if satisfied that, having regard to the 
 size of the area, to the number, position, structure, sanitary 
 condition, and neighbourhood of the buildings to be dealt with, 
 the vestry f or district lioard f ought to pay, or make a con- 
 tribution in respect of, the said expenses, the Secretary of State§ 
 may order such payment or contribution to be made, and the 
 amount thereof shall be a simple contract debt from the vestryf 
 or district board + to the council. \_See 3 Edu:. 7, c. 39, .s. 14.] 
 (7.) The county council may, if they think fit, pay or contribute to 
 the payment of the expenses of carrying into effect a scheme 
 under this i)art of this Act by a vestry + or district board, t and 
 if a vestryf or district board f consider that the expenses of 
 carrying into effect any scheme under this part of this Act, or 
 a contribution in respect of those expenses, ought to be jvaid 
 or made by the county council, and the county council decline 
 or fail to agree to pay or make the same, the ve.stry f or district 
 board f may apply to a Secretary of State,§ and if the Secretary 
 of State§ is satisfied that, having regard to the size of the 
 
 * Now the Mayor, comnioualtv, and citizens of the city of London. See the Citv 
 of London Sewers Act 18!l7. 
 f Now a council of a metropolitan borough. See 62 ic 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4. 
 § See Note on sec. 8.
 
 942 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Woi^king Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Provision as 
 to superior 
 landlord. 
 
 Eemedies of 
 owner for 
 breach of 
 covenant, etc. 
 not to be 
 prejudiced. 
 
 Service of 
 notices. 
 
 area, to the number, position, structure, sanitaiy condition, and 
 neiglibourhood of the buildings to be dealt with, the council 
 ought to pay or make a contribution in respect of the said 
 expenses, he may order such payment or contribution to be 
 made, and the amount thereof shall be a simple contract debt 
 from the council to the vestry * or district board.* 
 (8.) In the application of this section to Woolwich, the local board of 
 health f shall be deemed to be a district board, but the raising 
 of any sums required for jiUTchase money or com2)ensation payable 
 under this 2JaTt of this Act shall be a jnirpose for which they may 
 borrow tinder the Public Health Acts, and the PtMic Health Acts 
 shall apply accordingly. \]Vords in italics sitperseded by the 
 London (^Woolwich) Scheme 19U0 made under 62 & 63 Vict. 
 c. 14.] 
 
 St(p2)lemental. 
 
 47. — (1-) Where an owner of any dwelling-house is not the person in 
 receipt of the rents and profits thereof, he may give notice of such owner- 
 ship to the local authority, and thereupon the local authority shall give 
 such owner notice of any proceedings taken by them in pursuance of this 
 part of this Act in relation to such dwelling-house. 
 
 (2.) If it appears to a court of summary jurisdiction on the application 
 of any owner of the dwelling-house that default is being made in the 
 execution of any works required to be executed on any dwelling-house in 
 respect of which a closing order has been made, or in the demolition of 
 any building or any dwelling-house or in claiming to retain any site, in 
 pursuance of this part of this Act, and that the interests of the applicant 
 will be prejudiced by such default, and that it is just to make the order, 
 the court may make an order empowering the applicant forthwith to enter 
 on the dwelling-house, and within the time fixed by the order to execute 
 the said works, or to demolish the building or to claim to retain the site, 
 as the case may be, and where it seems to the court just so to do, the 
 court may make a like order in favour of any other owner. 
 
 (3.) A court of summary jurisdiction may in any case by order enlarge 
 the time allowed under any order for the execution of any works or the 
 demolition of a building, or the time within which a claim may be made 
 to retain the site of a building. 
 
 (4.) Before an order is made under this section notice of the application 
 shall be given to the local authority. 
 
 48. Nothing in this part of this Act shall prejudice or interfere with 
 the right or remedies of any owner for the breach, non-observance, or 
 non-performance of any covenant or contract entered into by a tenant or 
 lessee in reference to any dwelling-house in respect of which an order is 
 made by a local authority under this part of this Act ; and if any owner 
 is obliged to take possession of any dwelling-house in order to comply with 
 any such oi-der, the taking possession shall not affect his right to avail 
 himself of any such breach, non-observance, or non-performance that 
 may have occurred prior to his so taking possession. 
 
 49. — (1.) W'here the owner of any dwelling-house and his residence or 
 place of business are known to the local authority, it shall be the duty of 
 the clerk of the local authoi-ity, if the residence or place of business is 
 within the district of such local authority, to serve any notice by this 
 part of this Act required to be served on the owner, by giving it to him, 
 or for him, to some inmate of his residence or place of business within the 
 district ; and in any other case it shall be the duty of the clerk of the 
 local authority to serve the notice by post in a registered letter addressed 
 to the owner at his residence or place of business. \_See 3 Edtv. 7, c. 39, 
 s. 13 (1).] 
 
 * Now a council of a metropolitan borough. See 62 & 63 Vict, 
 t Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich. 
 c. 14, s. 19. 
 
 c. 14, s. 4. 
 See 62 and 63 Vict.
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 70.] 943 
 
 (2.) Where the owner of the dwellinj^-hoiist' or hi.s residence or place 
 of busiiies.s i.s not known to, and after diligent imjuiry cannot be found by 
 the local authority, then the clerk of the local autliority may serve the 
 notice by leaving it, addressed to the owner, with some occupier of the 
 dvvelling-hou.se, or if there be not an occupier, then by causing it to be put 
 up on some conspicuous part of the dwelling-hou.se. [<Vee 3 Edio. 7, c. 39, 
 ..13(1).] 
 
 (3.) N(jtice served upon the agent of the owner shall be deemed notice 
 to the owner. [.See 3 Edv:. 7, c. 39, s. 13 (1).] 
 
 50. Where in any proceedings under this part of this Act it is Description 
 nece.ssary to refer to the owner of any dwflling-house, it shall be sufficient of owner in 
 to designate him as the "owner" thei-eof without name or further P'^*^*^^^'^'°^'^" 
 description. 
 
 51. — (1.) If any person being the occupier of any dwelling-house Penalty for 
 prevents the owner thereof, or being the owner or occupier of any preventing 
 dwelling-house prevents the medical orticer of health, or the officers, execution of 
 agents, servants, oi- workmen of such owner or otiicer from carrying into 
 effect with respect to tlie ilwelling-house any of the provisions of this 
 part of this Act, after notice of the intention so to do has been given to 
 -such person, any court of summary jurisdiction on proof thereof may order 
 such person to permit to be done on such premises all things requisite for 
 carrying into effect, with respect to such dwelling-house, the provisions of 
 this part of thLs Act. 
 
 (2.) If at the expiration of ten days after the service of such order 
 such person fails to comply therewith, he shall for every day during which 
 the failure continues be liable on summary conviction to a line not 
 exceeding twenty pounds : Provided that if any such failure is by the 
 occupier, the owner, unless assenting thereto, shall not be liable to a fine. 
 
 52. A representation from the medical officer of health of any county Report 
 submitted to the county council and forwarded by that council to the local to local 
 authoritv of any district in the county, not being a borough as defined by puthontv 
 the Municipal Coiporations Act, 1882, shall, for the purposes of this part jjjedical 
 of this Act, have the like effect as a representation from the medical officer officer, 
 of health of the district. 45 & 46 Vict. 
 
 c. 5u. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 Working Class Lodoing Houses.* 
 Adoption of Part III. 
 
 53. — (1.) The expression "lodging houses for the working classes " Definition of 
 Avhen used in tliis part of this Act shall include separate houses or purposes of 
 cottages for the working classes, whether containing one or several Labouring 
 tenements, and the purposes of this part of this Act shall include the ^ .^^f*^ 
 provision of such houses and cottages. Hou'^es'^Acts 
 
 (2.) The expression "cottage" in this part of this Act may include a 
 garden of not more than half an acre, provided that the estimated annual 
 value of such garden shall not exceed three pounds. 
 
 54. This part of this Act may be adopted in the several districts Adoption of 
 mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act by the local authorities in that this part of 
 behalf in that Schedule mentioned. . . . [^I'roviso {as to a rural sa7iitari/ ■^^^' 
 district) rep. 03 ife G-i Vict. c. 59, s. 2 (3).] 
 
 55. l^Provisions in case of the adoption of this part of the Act by rural 
 sanitary aathority. Rep. 63 & 64 Vict. c. 59, s. 2 (3).] 
 
 Execution of Part J J I. by Local Authority. 
 
 56. Where this part of this Act has been adopted in any district, the Powers of 
 
 local authority shall have power to carry it into execution (subject to the local 
 
 authority. 
 * See 63 & Gi Vict. c. 59, and 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. 11.
 
 944 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 k 54 Vict.J 
 
 18 & 19 Vict 
 
 c. 120. 
 
 38 & 39 Vict, 
 
 c. 55. 
 
 Acquisition 
 of land. 
 
 38 & 39 Vict, 
 c. 55. 
 
 Local 
 authority 
 may pur- 
 chase exist- 
 ing lodging 
 houses. 
 
 Erection of 
 
 lodging 
 
 houses. 
 
 Sale and 
 exchange 
 of lands 
 
 Management 
 to be vested 
 in local 
 authority. 
 
 provisions of this part of this Act with respect to rural sanitary autho- 
 rities), and for that purpose may exercise the same powers whether of 
 coutract or otherwise as in the execution of their duties in the ca.se of the 
 London County Council under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, 
 and tlie Acts amending the same, or in the case of sanitary authorities 
 under the Public Health Acts, or in the ca.se of the Commissioners of 
 Sewers * under the Acts conferring powers on such Commis.sioners. [>S'ee 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, ss. 149—154.] 
 
 57. — (1.) Land for the purpcsesof this part of this Act may be acquired 
 by a local authority in like manner as if those purposes Avere purpo.ses of 
 the Public Health Act, 1875, and sections one hundred and seventy-five 
 to one hundred and seventy-eight,t both inclusive, of that Act (relating to 
 the purchase of lands), shall apply accordingl}', and shall for the purpo.ses 
 of this part of this Act extend to London in like manner as if the 
 Commissioners of Sewers * and London County Council respectively were 
 a local authority in the said sections mentioned, and a Secretary of State j 
 were substituted for the Local Government Board. [6'ee also 63 ifc 64 Vict, 
 c. 59, s. 5 (1).] 
 
 (2.) The local authority may, if they think fit, contract for the purchase 
 or lease of any lodging houses for the working classes already, or hereafter 
 to be built and provided. [See 3 Ediv. 7, c. 39, s. 11.] 
 
 (3.) The local authority may, if not a rural sanitary authority with the 
 consent of the Local Government Board, and if a rural sanitary authority 
 with the consent of the county council of the county in which the land is 
 situate, appropriate, for the purpo.ses of this part of this Act, any lodging- 
 houses so purchased or taken on lease, and any other land which may be 
 for the time being vested in them, or at their disposal. 
 
 58. The trustees of any lodging houses for the working cla.sses for the 
 time being provided in any district by private subscriptions or otherwise^ 
 may, with the consent of a majority of the committee or other persons by 
 whom they Avere appointed trustees, sell or lea.se the lodging houses to 
 the local authority of the district, or make over to them the management 
 thereof. [See 3 Ediv. 7, c. 39, s. 11.] 
 
 69. The local authority may, on any land acquired or appropriated by 
 
 them, ei'ect 
 
 any 
 
 buildinsrs suitable for 
 
 lodging houses for 
 
 the working 
 
 classes, and convert any buildings into lodging houses for the working^ 
 classes, and may alter, enlarge, repair, and improve the same respectively, 
 and fit up, furnish, and sup})ly the same respectively with all i-equisite 
 furniture, fittings, and conveniences. [See 3 Ediv. 7, c. 39, s. 11.] 
 
 60. A local authority may, if not a rural sanitary authority with the 
 con.sent of the Local Government Board, and if a rural sanitary authority 
 with the consent of the county council of the county in which the land is- 
 situate, .sell any land vested in them for the purposes of this part of this 
 Act, and apply the proceeds in or towards the purchase of other land 
 better adapted for those purposes, and may in like manner and with the 
 like consent exchange any land so vested in them for land better adapted 
 to the purposes of this part of this Act, either with or without papng or 
 receiving any money for equality of exchange. 
 
 Management of Lodging Houses. 
 
 61. — (1.) The general management, regulation, and control of the 
 lodging houses established or acquired by a local authority under this part 
 of this Act shall be ve.sted in and exercised by the local authority. 
 
 (2.) The local authority may make such reasonable charges for the 
 tenancy or occupation of the lodging hou.ses provided under this part of 
 this Act as they may determine by regulations. [See 63 <fc 64 Vict. c. 59, 
 s. 5 (2).] 
 
 * Now the Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London. See the 
 City of London Sewer.s Act 1897, s. 5. 
 
 t See 88 & 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 175—178. 
 
 \ See note on s. 8.
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Tlousiruf of the Working Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 7(J.] 945 
 
 62. — (1.) The local authority may luake byelaws for the management, Byelaws for 
 use, and regulation of the lodging houses, and it shall be obligatory on the refjculation 
 local authority, except in the case of a lodging house which is occupied as ^^ '<^"l&hig 
 a separate dwelling, by such byelaws to make sufficient provision for the ''"^'''''• 
 several purposes expressed in the Sixth Schedule to this Act. 
 
 (2.) A printed copy or sufficient al)stract of the byelaws relating to the 
 management, use, and regulation of the lodging houses shall be put up 
 and at all times kept in e\('ry roouj therein. [..Vote oa a. Gl a]>plieH.\ 
 
 63. Any person who, or whose wife or husband, at any time while such Di.squalifica- 
 person is a tenant or occupier of any such lodging house, or any part of ^^'>^ '^^ 
 such a lodging house, i-eceives any relief under the Acts relating to the *^*;"^"^''. 
 relief of the poor other than relief granted on account only of accident or houses oa 
 temporary illness, shall thereupon be disqualified for continuing to be such receiving 
 
 a tenant or ()ccui)ier. parocbial 
 
 64. Whenever any lodging liouses e.stablished for seven years or '"'^ ^^ • 
 upwards under the authority of this part of this Act are determined by ^^^^^ lodging 
 the local authority to be unnecessary or too expensive to be kept up, the considered 
 local authority may, if not a rural sanitary authority with the consent of too expensive 
 the Local (iovernuient Board, and if a rural sanitary authority with the they may 
 consent of the county council of the county in which the lodging houses ^® ^^^'^• 
 
 are situate, sell the sanae for the best price that can reasonably be oljtained 
 for the same, and the local authority shall convey the same accordingly. 
 
 Expenses and Borrowing of Local Authorities. 
 
 65. All expenses incurred by a local authority in the execution of this Payment of 
 part of this Act shall be defrayed — expenses. 
 
 (i.) in the case of an authority in the administrative county of London, 
 out of the Dwelling House Improvement Fund under Part I. of 
 this Act. [See 03 & 04 Vict. c. 59, s. 3.] 
 
 \Parts omitted {as to the expenses of iirban and rural sanitary authorities).^ 
 
 66. The London County Council and the Commissioners of Sewers * Borrowing 
 may borrow for the purpose of the execution of this part of this Act, in f'Tpuq^oses 
 like man!ier and .subject to the like conditions as they may borrow for the '^^ ^'^" ^^^• 
 purposes of Part I. of this Act, and a sanitary authority may borrow- for 
 
 the purpose of the execution of this part of this Act in like manner 
 and subject to the like conditions as for the purpose of defraying the 
 above-mentioned general or special expenses. 
 
 67. [-4s to loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners to and poicers 
 of companies, societies, and indii-idi(als for the construction oi' impn'ovement 
 of dtrellings for the working classes.^ 
 
 68. [Powers to railway, dock, and other companies, etc. to erect dwellings 
 for pe^'sons of the ivorking class employed by them.^ 
 
 69. Any commissioners of waterwoiks, trustees of waterworks, water Power to 
 companies, gas companies, and other corporations, bodies, and persons water and 
 having the management of any waterworks, reservoirs, wells, springs. or^*.^°'"" 
 streams of water, and gasworks respectively, may, in their discretion, l^u'yiiy ° 
 grant and furni.sh supplies of water or gas for lodging-houses provided and ^as to 
 under this part of this Act, either without charge or on such other lodging 
 favourable tei-ms as they think tit. houses. 
 
 70. A lodging house established in any district under this part of Inspection 
 this Act, shall be at all times open to the inspection of the local of lodging 
 authority of that di.strict or of any officer from time to time authorised houses. 
 by such authority. 
 
 71. Any tine for the breach of any byelaw under this part of this Act Application 
 shall be paid to the credit of the funds out of which the expen.ses of this of penalties, 
 part of this Act are defrayed. 
 
 * Now the Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London. See the 
 Oity of London Sewers Act 1897, s. 5. 
 
 61
 
 946 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Limit of 
 area to be 
 dealt with 
 on official 
 representa- 
 tion. 
 
 Provisions 
 as to parts of 
 Act under 
 which 
 reports are 
 to be dealt 
 with in 
 county of 
 London. 
 
 Amend- 
 ment of 
 45 & 46 Vict, 
 c. 38. 
 as regards 
 erection of 
 buildings 
 for working 
 classes. 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 Supplemental. 
 72. Where an official representation made to the London County Council 
 in pursuance of Part I. of this Act relates to not more than ten houses, 
 the London County Council shall not take any proceedings on such repre- 
 sentation, but shall direct the medical officer of health making the same to 
 represent the case to the local authority under Part II. of this Act, and 
 it shall be the duty of the local authority to deal with such case in 
 manner provided by that part of this Act. 
 73. — (1.) In either of the following cases: 
 
 (c<.) Where a medical officer of health has represented to any local 
 
 authority in the county of London under Part II. of this Act 
 
 that any dwelling-houses are in a condition so dangerous or 
 
 injurious to health, as to be unfit for human habitation, or that 
 
 the pulling down of any obstructive buildings would be expedient, 
 
 and such authority resolve that the case of such dwelling-houses 
 
 or buildings is of such general importance to the county of 
 
 London that it should be dealt with by a scheme under Part I. 
 
 of this Act ; or 
 
 {h.) Where an official representation as mentioned in Part I. of this 
 
 Act has been made to the London County Council in relation 
 
 to any houses, courts, or alleys within a certain area, and that 
 
 Council resolve that the case of such houses, courts, or alleys 
 
 is not of general importance to the county of London and should 
 
 be dealt with under Part II. of this Act ; 
 
 such local authority or council may submit such resolution to a Secretary 
 
 of State,* and thereupon the Secretary of State * may appoint an arbitrator, 
 
 and direct him to hold a local inquiry, and such arbiti'ator shall hold such 
 
 inquiry, and report to the Secretary of State * as to whether, having regard 
 
 to the size of the area, to the number of houses to be dealt with, to the 
 
 position, structure, and sanitary condition of such houses, and of the 
 
 neighbourhood thereof, and to the provisions of Part I. of this Act, the 
 
 case is either wholly or partially of any and what importance to the county 
 
 of London, with power to such arbitrator to report that in the event 
 
 of the case being dealt with under Part II. of this Act, the London 
 
 County Council ought to make a contribution in respect of the expense 
 
 of dealing with the case. 
 
 (2.) The Secretary of State,* after considering the report of the 
 arbitrator, may, according as to him seems just, decide that the case shall 
 be dealt with either under Part II. of this Act, or under Part I. of 
 this Act, and the medical officer of health or other proper officer shall 
 forthwith make the representation necessaiy for proceedings in accoiclance 
 with such decision. 
 
 74.— (1.) The Settled Land Act, 1882, shall be amended as follows:— 
 {a.) Any sale, exchange, or lease of land in pursuance of the said Act, 
 when made for the purpose of the erection on such land of 
 dwellings for the working classes, may be made at such price, or 
 for such consideration, or for such rent, as having regard to the 
 said purpose, and to all the circumstances of the case, is the best 
 that can be reasonably obtained, notwithstanding that a higher 
 price, consideration, or rent might have been obtained if the 
 land were sold, exchanged, or leased for another purpose. 
 (h.) The improvements on which caj^ital money may be expended, 
 enumerated in section twenty-iive of the said Act, and referred to 
 in section thirty of the said Act, shall, in addition to cottages 
 for labourers, farm servants, and artizans whether employed on 
 the settled land or not, include any dwellings available for 
 the working classes, the building of which in the opinion of the 
 Court is not injurious to the estate. 
 * See note on s, 8.
 
 [53 (fc 54 Vict.] Ilousiny of the Working Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 7U.] 947 
 
 (2.) Any body corporate lioldin^ Lind may sell, excliaii«e, or lease the 
 land for tlx^ pinpose of the erection of dwellings for the working clas-ses 
 at such pric«', or for such consideration, or for such rent as having regard 
 to the said purpose and to all the circumstances of the case i.s the best 
 that can reasonably be obtained, notwithstanding that a higher price, con- 
 sideration, or rent might have been obtained if the land were sold, 
 exchanged, or leased for another [)urpose. 
 
 75. In any contract made after the fourteenth day of August one Condition ta 
 thousiind eight hundred and eighty-five for letting for habitation by ^^ imi)lied 
 persons of the woi-kiiig classes a house or part of a house, there shall ^'^ ^^';'f^ 
 be implied a condition that the house is at the commencement of the ^i^g worktng 
 holding in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation. In thi.s classes, 
 section the expression " letting for habitation by persons of the working 
 classes " means the letting for habitation of a house or part of a house at 
 a rent not exceeding in England the sum named as the limit for the 
 composition of rates by section three of the Poor Rate A.ssessment and 32 k 33 Vict. 
 Collection Act, 1869,* and in Scotland or Ireland four pounds, [-See ^- "^b 
 3 Edio. 7, c. 39, s. 12.] 
 
 76. — (1.) The London County Council may, with the consent of a iledical 
 Secretary of State, at any time appoint one or more legally rpialified officer of 
 practitioner or practitioners, with such remuneration as they think lit, ^^^^'*" ^° 
 for the purpose of carrying into effect any part of this Act. London. 
 
 (2.) Any medical officer of health appointed by the London County 
 Council, and any officer appointed under this section by the London 
 County Council, shall be deemed to be a medical officer of health of a 
 local authority within the meaning of this Act. 
 
 77. Any person authorised by the local authority may at all reasonable Power to 
 times of the day, on giving twenty-four hours notice in writing to the local 
 occupier of his intention so to do, enter any dwelling-house, premises, or '^^*'^'^"*'-^ *** 
 building which the local authority are authorised to purchase compulsorily yjjjyg 
 xmder Part I. or Part II. of this Act for the purpose of surveying and premises, 
 valuing such dwelling-house, pi-emises, or building. 
 
 78. Where a building or any part of a building purchased by the local Compen- 
 authority in pursuance of a scheme under Part I. or Part II. of this Act nation to 
 is not closed by a closing order, and is occupied by any tenant whose ^<^^'»°^* ^'^J 
 contract of tenancy is for less than a year, the local authority, if they jg^^^^fj "^ 
 require him to give up possession of such building or part for the purpose 
 
 of pulling down the building, may make to the said tenant a reasonable 
 allowance on account of his expenses in removing. 
 
 79. — (1.) Anything which under Part I. or Part IL of this Act is Duties of 
 authorised or required to be done by or to a medical officer of health may medical 
 be done by or to any person authorised to act temporarily as such medical u^tu 
 officer of health. 
 
 (2.) Every representation made by a medical officer of health in pur- 
 suance of this Act shall be in writing. 
 
 80. — (1.) Separate accounts shall be kept by the local authority and Accounts 
 their officers of their receipts and expenditure under each part of this Act. and audit. 
 
 (2.) Such accounts shall be audited in the like manner and with the 
 like power to the officer auditing the same, and with the like incidents and 
 consequences, as the accounts of the local authority are for the time being 
 required to be audited bv law. {See, as Vi/anls London, 51 it 52 Vict. c. 
 41, s. 71 (3), and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 14.]" 
 
 81. For the purposes of this Act, a local authority acting under this Power of 
 Act may apjioint out of their own number so many persons as they may ^oail autho- 
 think lit, for any purjx)ses of this Act which in the opinion of such '^"-^ ^.°. 
 authority would be better regulated and managed by means of a com- committees, 
 mittee : Provided that a committee so appointed shall in no case be 
 authorised to borrow any money, to make any rate, or to enter into any 
 * I.e. £20. See 32 and 33 Vict. c. 11, s. 3.
 
 948 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Application 
 of purchase 
 moncT. 
 
 Rates of 
 loans by 
 Public 
 Works Loan 
 Commis- 
 sioners. 
 38 & 39 Vict. 
 c, 89. 
 
 Application 
 of certain 
 provisions as 
 to byelaws. 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 120. 
 
 38 & 39 Vict. 
 c. 55. 
 
 Local 
 inquiries. 
 
 Orders, 
 notices, etc. 
 
 Service of 
 
 contract, and shall be subject to any regulations and restrictions which 
 may be impo.sed by the authority that formed it. 
 
 82. Where a local authority sell any land acquired by them for any 
 of the purposes of this Act, the proceeds of the sale shall be applied for 
 any purpose, including repayment of borrowed money, for which capital 
 money may be applied, and wliich is approved by the Local Government 
 Board. 
 
 83. Any loan advanced by the Public Works Loan Commissioners in 
 pursuance of this Act or for labourers dwellings in pursuance of the 
 Public Works Loans Act, 1875, or any Act amending the same, shall bear 
 such rate of interest not less than three pounds two shillings and sixpence 
 per cent, per annum, as the Treasury may from time to time authorise 
 as being in their opinion sufficient to enable such loans to be made without 
 loss to the Exchequer. 
 
 84. With respect to byelaws authorised by this Act to be made — 
 
 (rt) sections two hundred and two and two hundred and three of the 
 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, where such byelaws are made 
 by the London County Council, or any nuisance authority in the 
 administrative county of London ; and 
 
 (Jj) the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875, relating to byelaws, 
 where such byelaws are made by a sanitary authority, 
 shall apply to such byelaws, and a fine or penalty under any such byelaw 
 may be recovered on summary conviction. 
 
 85. — (1.) For the purposes of the execution of their duties under thLs 
 Act the Local Government Board may cause such local inquiries to be 
 held as tlie Board see fit, and the costs incurred in relation to any such 
 local inquiry, and to any local inquiry which any other confirming 
 authority holds or causes to be held, including the salary or remuneration 
 of any inspector or officer of or person employed by the Board or con- 
 firming authority engaged in the inquiry not exceeding thi-ee guineas a 
 day, shall be paid by the local authorities and persons concerned in the 
 inquiry, or by such of them and in such jn-oportions as the Board or 
 confirming authority may direct, and that Board or authority may certify 
 the amount of the costs incurred, and any sum so certified and directed by 
 that Board or authority to be paid by any local authority or person shall 
 be a debt to the Crown from such local authority or person. 
 
 (2.) Sections two hundred and ninety-three to two hundred and ninety- 
 six and section two hundred and ninety-eight of the Public Health Act, 
 1875, shall apply for the purpose of any order to be made by the Local 
 Government Board or any local inquiry which that Board cause to be 
 held in pursuance of any part of this Act. See 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 293 
 —296 and 298.] 
 
 86. — (1.) An order in writing made by a local authority under this 
 Act shall be under their seal and authenticated by the signature of their 
 clerk or his lawful deputy. 
 
 (2.) A notice, demand, or other written document proceeding from 
 the local authority under this Act shall be signed by their clerk or his 
 lawful deputy. 
 
 87. Any notice, summons, writ or other proceeding at law or otherwise 
 
 notice, etc. unrequired to be served on a local authority in relation to carrying into 
 
 *^f>!°^-^^- effect the objects or purposes of this Act, or any of them, may be served 
 
 ^' upon that authority by delivering the same to their clerk, or leaving the 
 
 same at his office with some person employed there. \_See 3 Edw. 7, c. 39, 
 
 s. 13 (2).] 
 
 88. — (1.) A person shall not vote as member of a local authority or 
 county council or any committee thereof upon any resolution or question 
 which is proposed or arises in pursuance of Part 1. or Part II. of this Act, 
 if it relates to any dwelling-house, building, or land in which he is bene- 
 ficially interested. 
 
 (2.) If any person votes in contravention of this section he shall, on 
 
 Prohibition 
 on persons 
 interested 
 voting as 
 members 
 of local 
 authority.
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1 890. [Chap. 70.] 949 
 
 summary conviction, be li.ilile for each offence to a fine not exceeding fifty 
 pounds ; but the fact of his giving the vote shall not invalidate any 
 resolution or proceeding of the local authority or county council. 
 
 89. Where any person obstructs the medical officer of health, or any Penalty for 
 ofhct-r of the local authority, or of the confirming autiioi-ity mentioned obstructing 
 in Part I. of this Act, in the performance of anything which such officer the execution 
 or authority is by this Act required or authorised to do, such person shall, 
 
 oil suiiiiiiary conviction, be liable to a flue not exceeding twenty pounds. t, • u 
 
 90. UH'ences under this Act punishable on summary conviction may . offences 
 be prosecuted and fines recovered in manner provide<l by the Summary and recovery 
 Jurisdiction Acts. of fines. 
 
 91. All powers given by this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to powers of 
 and not in derogation of any other powers conferred by Act of Parlia- Act to be 
 ment, law, or custom, and such other powers may be exercised in the same cumulative 
 manner as if this Act had not passed, and nothing in this Act shall 
 exempt any person from any penalty to wliich he would have been subject 
 
 if this Act had not passed. 
 
 Provided that a local authority shall not, by reason of any local Act 
 relating to a place within its jurisdiction, be exempted from the perform- 
 ance of any duty or obligation to which such authority are subject under 
 any part of this Act. 
 
 92. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, " district," Definition 
 " local authority," and " local rate," mean respectively the areas, bodies of of local 
 persons, and rates specified in the table contained in the First Schedule to authority, 
 this Act, but in Part III. of this Act and in reference to any power given j^^.^j ^^^ 
 by that part, or any act to be done in pursuance thereof shall mean such 
 
 area, bodies of persons, and rate only in cases where that part of this Act 
 is adopted or being adopted. 
 
 93. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — Definitions: 
 The expression " land "' includes any right over land : " Land." 
 The expression " sanitary district " means the district of a sanitary " Sanitary 
 
 authority : district." 
 
 The expression " sanitary authority " means an urban .sanitary authority " Sanitary 
 
 or a rural sanitary autliority : authority. ' 
 
 The expressions "urban sanitary authority" and "rural sanitary " Urban and 
 
 authority " and " contributory place " have respectively the same rural !-anitary 
 
 meanings as in the Public Healtli Act, 1875 : - contrlbu- ' 
 
 The expression " superior court '' means the Supreme Court. tory place." 
 
 The expression " county of London," except where .specified to be the .* Superior 
 
 administrative county of London, means the county of London ex- court." 
 
 elusive of the city of London. " County of 
 
 London." 
 \Parts V. and VI. relate to Scotland and Ireland.^ 
 
 PART VII. 
 Repeal and Temporary Provisioks. 
 102. The Acts mentioned in the Seventh Schedule to this Act are Repeal of 
 hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule -^<^t=^- 
 specified. 
 
 Provided that : — 
 
 (1.) Where the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Acts, 1851 to 1885. 
 
 have been adopted in any district, that adoption shall be deemed 
 
 to be an adoption of Part III. of this Act, and this Act shall 
 
 apply accordingly ; 
 
 (2.) Any officer appointed under any enactment hereby repealed shall 
 
 continue and be deemed to be appointed under this Act ; 
 (3.) Any dwelling houses actpiired by the local authority under the 
 Artizans Dwellings Acts, 1808 to 1885. and vested in them at 
 the commencement of this Act, shall be held by such loc<\l 
 authority as if they had been acquired under the provisions of
 
 950 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Workiiig Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Sections 
 54, 92. 
 
 103. 
 
 Part III. of this Act, and any land or premises other than 
 dwelling houses so acquired and held by them at the commence- 
 ment of this Act shall be held as if the same had been acquired 
 as a site of an obstructive building in pursuance of Part II. of 
 this Act, but may with the consent of the authority authorised 
 by the said part of this Act to consent to the sale of land so 
 acquired be appi'opriated for the purposes of Part III. of 
 this Act. 
 [Temporari/ provisions. S'pent.] 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 FIRST SCHEDULE. 
 
 EXGLAXD AXD WaLES. 
 
 District. 
 
 Local Authority. 
 
 Local Rate. 
 
 Throughout Act. 
 
 The city of London . The Commissioners of The sewer rate and the consolidated 
 
 Sewers.* 
 
 rate le%icd by such Commissioners, 
 or either of such rates. 
 
 (L) For the purpose of Parts I. and HI. 
 The county of London The County Council of : The county fund and the amount 
 
 A parish other than 
 the parish of Wool- 
 wich mentioned in 
 Schedule A. to the 
 Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, ISoiJ, as 
 amended by the 
 Metropolis Mairage- 
 ment (Amendment) 
 Act, ISS.^, and the 
 Metropolis Manage- 
 ment (Battersea and 
 Westminster) Act, 
 1887. 
 
 A district mentioned 
 in Schedule B. to the 
 Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, 185-5, as 
 amended by the 
 Metropolis Manage- 
 ment (Amendment) 
 Act, 188.5, and the 
 Metropolis Manage- 
 ment (Battersea and 
 Westminster) Act, 
 1887. 
 
 Parish of Woolwich . 
 
 Londofl.f 
 
 payable shall be deemed to be re- 
 quired for special county purposes. 
 
 (2.) For the purposes of Part II. 
 
 The yestry elected 
 under the Metropolis 
 Management Act, 
 1855.3: 
 
 The board of works 
 for the district 
 elected under the 
 Metropolis Manage- 
 ment Act, 1855. J 
 
 The local board of 
 health. § 
 
 \ 
 
 The general rate leyiable by 
 such yestryf or boardf under the 
 ^Metropolis Management Act, 
 1855. 
 
 The district fund and general dis- 
 trict rate. II 
 
 [Parts omitted not apijlicahle to London.'] 
 
 * Now the Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London. See the 
 City of London Sewers Act 1897, s. 5. 
 
 t See also 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 5 (2). 
 
 + Now the council of a metropolitan borough. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14. s. 4. 
 
 § Now the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich. See 62 & 63 Vict. 
 c. 14. s. 19. 
 ' II See 62 k. 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 10 (2).
 
 [nrj & 54 YiCT.] Homing of the Working Classes AH ] 800. [Chap. 70.] 951 
 
 SECOND SCHEDULE. 
 
 PROVISrOXS -Willi RESPECT TO Tlir. PURCHASE AND TAKINC OF LaN'DS IN Section 20. 
 
 Enci.am) otherwise than r.v A(;itEE.MENT, and otherwi.se amending 
 THE Land.s Clalses A( IS. 
 
 J)f posit of ^[al)S and Plans. 
 
 (1.) The local authority sliall as sofm as practicable after the passing of the 1-4. .38 A: .39 
 confirming Act cause to be made out, and to be signed by their clerk or some Vict. c. 30, 
 other princii)al officer appointed by them, maps and schedules of all lands pro- ^ch. 
 posed to be taken compulsorily (which lands are herein-after referred to as the 
 scheduled lands,) together with the names, so far as the same can be reasonably 
 ascertained, of all persons interested in such lauds as owners or reputed owner?, 
 lessees or reputed lessees, or occupiers. 
 
 (2.) The maps made by the local authority' shall be upon such scale 
 <and be framed in such manner as may be prescribed by the confirming 
 authority. 
 
 (H.) The local authority shall deposit such maps and schedules at the office of 
 the confirming authority, and shall deposit and keep copies of such maps and 
 schedules at the office of the local authority. 
 
 Appointment nf Arbitrator. 
 
 (4.) After such deposit at the office of the confirming authority as aforesaid, 
 it shall be lawful for the confirming authority, upon the application of the local 
 authority, to appoint an arbitrator between the local authority, and the persons 
 interested in such of the scheduled lands, or lands injuriously affected by the 
 execution of such scheme, so far as compensation for the same has not been 
 made the subject of agreement. 
 
 Proceeding!^ on Arbitration. 
 
 (5.) Before any arbitrator enters upon any inquiry he shall, in the presence of 15 &. 4fi Vict. 
 a Justice of the JPeace, make and subscribe the following declaration : that is to c. 54, Sch. 
 say, (1-) "■/■ 
 
 "I A.li. do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I will faithfully and 
 honestly, and to the best of my skill and ability, hear and determine the matters 
 referred to me under the provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 
 
 18U0. 
 
 A.B. 
 
 " Made and subscribed in the presence of 
 And such declaration shall be annexed to the award when made ; and if any 
 arbitrator, having made such declaration wilfully act contrary thereto, he shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 (1).) As soon as an arbitrator has been appointed as aforesaid, the confirming 
 authority shall deliver to him the maps and schedules deposited at their office, 
 and the local authority shall publish ouce in each of three successive weeks the 
 following particulars : — 
 
 (1.) The appointment of the arbitrator ; and 
 
 {•!.) The deposit at the office of the local authority of the copies of such maps 
 and schedules as aforesaid, with a description of the situation of such 
 office, and a statement of the time at which such copies may be inspected 
 by any person desirous of inspecting the same. 
 
 Such publication shall be made not only by advertisement, but also by 42 &: 43 Vict, 
 placards and handbills affixed in conspicuous places on or near the lands t<j be c. G3. Sch. 
 taken, and also by leaving a notice thereof at each house proposed to be taken. Art. 1. 
 and also by sending a notice thereof by post to the persons iuterested in such 
 lands as owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, so far as they can 
 be reasonably ascertained. 
 
 (7.) In every case in which compensation is payable under Part I. of this Act, 
 by the local authority to any claimant, and which compensation has not been 
 made the subject of agreement (in this Act referred to as "a disputed case"), 
 the arbitrator shall ascertain in such manner as he thinks most convenient the 
 amount of compensation demanded by tlie claimant, and the amount which the 
 local authority may be willing to pay : and after hearing all such parties 
 interested in each disputed case as may appear before him at a time and place 
 of which notice has been given as in Part I. of this Act mentioned, he shall
 
 952 
 
 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict, j 
 
 proceed to decide on the amount of compensation to which he may consider the 
 claimant to be entitled in each case. 
 
 (8.) The arbitrator shall give notice to the claimants in disputed cases by 
 causing such notice to be published or otherwise in such manner as he thinks 
 advisable, of a time and place at which the difference between the claimants and 
 the local authority in disputed cases as to the amount of compensation to be 
 paid will be decided by the arbitrator. 
 
 (il.) After the arbitrator has arrived at a decision on all the disputed cases- 
 brought before him he shall make an award under his hand and .seal, and such 
 award shall be final, and be binding and conclusive (subject to the provisions 
 concerning an appeal herein-after contained) iipon all persons whomsoever, and 
 no such award shall be set aside for irregularity in matter of form, but the 
 arbitrator may and, if the local authority request him so to do, shall from time 
 to time make an award respecting a portion only of the disputed cases brought 
 before him. 
 
 (10.) Such award as aforesaid shall be deposited at the office of the confirming 
 authority, and a copy thereof shall be deposited at the office of the local 
 authority, and the local authority shall thereupon publish once in each of three 
 successive weeks notice of the deposit having been made at the office of 
 the local authority of a copy of the award, and a further notice requiring all per- 
 sons claiming to have any right to or interest in the lands (the compensation to 
 be paid in respect of which is ascertained by such award) to deliver to the local 
 authority on or before a day to be named in such notice (such day not being 
 earlier than twenty-one days from the date of the last publication of the 
 notice), a short statement in writing of the nature of such claim, and a short 
 abstract of the title on which the same is founded ; and such statement and 
 abstract shall be paid for by the local authority. Such abstract of title, in 
 the case of a person claiming a fee simple interest in the land, shall commence 
 twenty years previous to the date of the claim, except there has been an 
 absolute conveyance on sale within twenty years, and more than ten years 
 previous to the claim when the abstract shall commence with such conveyance. 
 
 Power of 
 arbitrator as 
 to appor- 
 tionment. 
 42 & 43 Vict. 
 c. 63. Sch. (2). 
 
 Amendment 
 respecting 
 severance of 
 properties. 
 8 & 9 Vict. 
 c. 18. 
 
 42 & 43 Vict. 
 c. 63. Sch. (3). 
 
 Omitted 
 interests. 
 42 & 43 Vict, 
 c. 63. Sch. (4). 
 
 Sj^ecial Poicers of Arbitration. 
 
 (11.) The arbitrator shall have the same power of apportioning any rent- 
 service, rentcharge, chief or other rent, payment, or incumbrance, or any rent 
 payable in respect of lands comprised in a lease, as two Justices have under the 
 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. 
 
 (12.) Notwithstanding anything in section ninety-two of the Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Act, 1845, the arbitrator may determine that such part of any 
 house, building, or manufactory as is proposed to be taken by the local authority 
 can be taken without material damage to such house, building, or manufactory, 
 and if he so determine may award compensation in respect of the severance 
 of the part so proposed to be taken, in addition to the value of that part, and 
 thereupon the party interested shall be required to sell and convey to the local 
 authority such part, without the local authority being obhged to purchase the 
 greater part or the whole of such house, building, or manufactory. 
 
 The local authority, or any person interested, if dissatisfied with a deter- 
 mination under this enactment, may, in manner provided with respect ta 
 appeals to a jury in respect of compensation for land by this Schedule, submit 
 the question of whether the said part can be taken without material damage, 
 as well as the question of the proper amount of compensation, to a jury ; and 
 the notice of intention to appeal shall be given within the same time as notice 
 of intention to appeal against the amount of compensation awarded is required 
 to be given. 
 
 (1.3.) The amount of purcha.se money or compensation to be paid in pursuance 
 of section one hundred and twenty-four of the Lands Clauses Consolidation 
 Act, 1845, in respect of any estate, right, or interest in or charge affecting any 
 of the scheduled lands which the local authority have through mistake or 
 inadvertence failed or omitted duly to purchase or make compensation for. shall 
 be awarded by the arbitrator and be paid, in like manner, as near as may be, 
 as the .same would have been awarded and paid if the claim of such estate, 
 right, interest, or charge had been delivered to the arbitrator before the day 
 fixed for the delivery of statements of claims. 
 
 If the arbitrator is satisfied that the failure or omission to purchase the said 
 estate, right, interest, or charge, arose from any default on the part either of 
 the claimant or of the local authority, he may direct the costs to be paid by the 
 party so in default.
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1 800. [Chai'. 70.] 953 
 
 Payiuent of Purchase Money. 
 
 (14.) Within thirty days from the delivery of such statement and abstract Arts. 14-24. 
 as aforesaid to the local autliority, tlie local autliority shall, where it appears See 38 k 31) 
 to them that any person so claiming is absolutely entitled to the lands, estate, ^i^t. c. 36. 
 or interest claimed by him, deliver to such jterson, on demand, a certificate ^'""• 
 stating the amount of the compensation to which he is entitled under the said 
 award. 
 
 (1.').) Every such certificate shall be prepared by and at the cost of the local 
 authority : and where any agreement has Iteen entered into as to the compen- 
 sation i)ayal)le in respect of the interest of any per.son in any lands, the local 
 authority may, where it ajjpears to them that such person is absolutely entitled, 
 deliver to such person a like certificate. 
 
 (lO.) The local authority shall, thirty days after demand, pay to the party 
 to whom any such certificate is given, or otherwise as herein provided in the 
 cases herein-after mentioned, the amount of moneys specified to be payable by 
 such certificate to the party to whom or in whose favour such certificate i3 
 given, his or her executors, administrators, or assigns. 
 
 (17.) If the local authority wilfully make default in such payment as 
 aforesaid, then the party named in such certificate shall be entitled to enter 
 up judgment against the local authority in the High Court, for the amount of 
 the sums specified in such certificate, in the same manner in all respects as if 
 he had been, by warrant of attorney from the local authority, authorised to 
 enter up judgment for the amount mentioned in the certificate, with costs, 
 as is usual in like cases : and all moneys payable under such certificates, or to 
 be recovered by such judgments as aforesaid, shall at law and in equity be 
 taken as personal estate as from the time of the local authority entering on any 
 such lands as afore.said. 
 
 (18.) When and so soon as the local authority have paid to the party to 
 whom any such certificate as aforesaid is given, or otherwise, as herein pro- 
 vided, in the cases herein-after mentioned, the amount specified to be payable 
 by such certificate to the party to whom or in whose favour the certificate is 
 given, his e.xecutors, administrators, or assigns, it shall be lawful for the local 
 authority, upon obtaining such receipt as herein-after mentioned, from time to 
 time to enter upon any lands in respect of which such certificate is given, and 
 thenceforth to hold the same for the estate or interest in respect of which the 
 amount specified in such certificate was payable. 
 
 (I'.l.) In every case in which any moneys are paid by any local authority 
 under this Act for such compensation as aforesaid, the party receiving such 
 moneys shall give to the local authority a receipt for the same, and such receipt 
 shall have the effect of a grant, release, and conveyance of all the estate and 
 interest of such party, and of all parties claiming under or through him. in 
 the lands in respect of which such moneys are paid, provided such receipt has 
 an ad valorem stamp of the same amount impressed thereon in respect of the 
 purchase moneys mentioned in such certificate as would have been necessary 
 if such receipt had been an actual conveyance of such estate or interest, every 
 such receipt to be prepared by and at the cost of the local authority. 
 
 (20.) If it appear to the local authority, from any such statement and abstract 
 as aforesaid, or otherwise, that the person making any such claim as aforesaid is 
 not absolutely entitled to the lands, estate, or interest in respect of which his 
 claim is made, or is under any disability, or if the title to such lands, estate, or 
 interest be not satisfactorily deduced to the local authority, then and in every 
 such case the amount to be paid by the local authority in respect of such lands, 
 estate, or interest as aforesaid shall be paid and applied as provided by the 
 clauses of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1S4.'>, as amended by the Court 
 of Chancery Funds Act. \X~'2, " with respect to the purchase money or com- 
 pensation coming to parties having limited interests, or prevented from treating, 
 or not making title." 
 
 (21.) Where any person claiming any right or interest in any lands refuses to 
 produce his title to the same, or where the local authority have under the pro- 
 visions of Part I. of this Act taken possession of any lands in respect of the 
 compensation whereof, or of any estate or interest wherein, no claim has been 
 made within one year from the time of the local authority taking possession, or 
 if any party to whom any such certificate has been given or tendered refuses to 
 receive such certificate, or to accept the amount therein specified as payable to 
 him, then and in any such case the amount payable by the local authority in 
 respect of such lands, estate, or interest, or the amount specified in such certifi- 
 cate, shall be paid into the Bank of England, in manner provided by the last- 
 mentioned clauses of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as amended by
 
 954 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 the Court of Chancery Funds Act. 1872, and the amount so paid into the said 
 Bank shall be accordingly dealt with as by the said Act provided. 
 
 (22.) Nothing herein contained shall prevent the local authority from requiring 
 any further abstract or evidence of title respecting any lands included in any 
 such award as aforesaid, in addition to the abstract or statement herein-before 
 mentioned, if they think fit, so as the same be obtained at the cost of the local 
 authority. 
 
 (23.) If from any reason whatever the local authority does not deliver the 
 certificate aforesaid to any j^arty claiming to be entitled to any interest in any 
 lands the possession whereof has been taken by the local authority as afore- 
 said, then the right to have a certificate according to the provisions of this Act 
 may, at the cost and charge of the local authority, be enforced by any party or 
 parties, by application to the High Court, in a summary way by petition, and all 
 other rights and interests of any party or parties arising under the provisions of 
 this Act may be in like manner enforced against the local authority by such 
 application as aforesaid. 
 
 Entry on Lands on making Deposit. 
 
 (24.) Where the local authority are desirous, for the purposes of their works, 
 of entering upon any lands before they would be entitled to enter thereon under 
 the provisions herein-before contained, it shall be lawful for the local authority, 
 at any time after the arbitrator has framed his award, upon depositing 
 in the Bank of England such sum as the arbitrator may certify to be 
 in his opinion the proper amount to be so deposited in respect of any lands 
 authorised to be purchased or taken by the local authority, and mentioned in 
 such award, to enter upon and use such lands for the purposes of the 
 improvement scheme of the local authoritj' : and the arbitrator shall, upon 
 the request of the local authority at any time after he has framed such 
 award, certify under his hand the sum which, in his opinion, should be .so 
 deposited by the local authority in respect of any lands mentioned in such 
 award before they enter upon and use the same as aforesaid, and the sum 
 to be so certified shall be the sum or the amount of the several sums 
 set forth in such award as the sum or sums to be paid by the local 
 authority in respect of such lands, or such greater amount as to the arbitrator, 
 under the circumstances of the case, may seem proper ; and, notwithstanding 
 such entry as aforesaid, all proceedings for and in relation to the completion of 
 the award, the delivery of certificates, and other proceedings under Part I. of 
 this Act, shall be had, and payments made, as if such entry and deposit had 
 not been made : 
 
 Provided that the local authority shall, where they enter upon any lands by 
 virtue of this present provision, pay interest at the rate of five pounds per 
 centum per annum upon the compensation money payable by them in respect 
 of any lands so entered upon, from the time of their entry until the time of 
 the payment of such money and interest to the party entitled thereto, or where, 
 under the pro%dsions of Part I. of this Act, such compensation is required to be 
 paid into the Bank of Ecgland, then until the same, with such interest, is paid 
 into such Bank accordingly ; and where under this provision interest is payable 
 on any compensation money the certificate to be delivered by the local authority 
 in respect thereof shall specify that interest is so payable, and the same shall 
 be recoverable in like manner as the principal money mentioned in such 
 certificate. 
 
 (2.5.) The money so deposited as last aforesaid shall be paid into the Bank 
 of England to such account as may from time to time be directed by any 
 regulation or Act for the time being in force in relation to moneys deposited 
 in the bank in similar cases, or to such account as may be directed by any 
 order of the High Court, and remain in the bank by way of security to the 
 parties interested in the lands which have been so entered upon for the pay- 
 ment of the money to become payable by the local authority in riespect 
 thereof under the award of the arbitrator ; and the money so deposited may, 
 on the application by petition of the local authority, be ordered to be in- 
 vested in Bank Annuities or Government securities, and accumulated : and 
 upon such payment as aforesaid by the local authority it shall be lawful for 
 the High Court, upon a like application, to order the money so deposited. 
 or the funds in which the same shall have been invested, together with the 
 accumulation thereof, to be repaid or transferred to the local authority, or, in 
 default of such payment as aforesaid by the local authority, it shall be lawful 
 for the said court to order the same to be applied in such manner as it thinks 
 fit for the benefit of the parties for whose security the same shall so have been 
 deposited.
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the WorJdng Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 70.] 955 
 
 Apiienl. 
 
 (26.) In the following cases, namely, — See 4.0 & 4G 
 
 («.) Where the party named in any certificate issued under the provisions Vict. c. 54. 
 herein-hefore contained of the amount of the compensation ascertained f^ch. (G). 
 by any award under Part I. of this Act (or any party claiming under the 
 party so named) is dissatisfied with the amount in such certificate cer- 
 tified to be payable, and such amount e.vceeds one thousand pounds, and 
 (i.) Where any party claiming any interest in any moneys so paid into court 
 as aforesaid is dissatisfied with the amount of the price or compensation 
 in respect of which such moneys are paid into court, and such amount 
 exceeds one thousand pounds ; also 
 ^e.) Where the local authority is dissatisfied with the amount of compensation 
 which tlie arbitrator appointed uiuler the provisions of Part I. of this 
 Act has awarded to be paid by the local authority to any person in 
 respect of any estate or interest in lands, and such amount exceed the 
 sum of one thousand pounds : 
 the party dissatisfied may, u])on obtaining the leave of the High Court, which 
 leave may be granted by such court or any judge thereof at chambers in a 
 summary manner, and upon being satisfied that a failure of justice will take 
 place if the leave is not granted, submit the question of the proper amount of 
 compensation to a jury, provided that such party give notice in writing to the 
 other party of their intention to appeal within ten days after the cause of 
 appeal has arisen. 
 
 The cause of api)eal shall be deemed to have arisen, — 
 
 (1.) Where a certificate has been issued as aforesaid, at the date of the issue 
 
 of the certificate ; 
 {2.) Where moneys have been paid into court, at the date of the payment 
 
 into court : 
 (3.) Where the local authoi'ity appeals, at the date of the making of the 
 
 award. 
 (27.) Where a notice has been given under Part I. of this Act of an appeal 
 to a jury in respect of compensation for land, or any interest in land, a question 
 of disputed compensation required to be determined by the verdict of a jury 
 shall be deemed to have arisen within the meaning of the Lands Clauses % ^^^ Vict. 
 Consolidation Act, 1846, and all the provisions of that Act contained in sections c. 18. 
 thirty -eight to fifty-seven, both inclusive, shall be deemed to apply, except 
 sections forty-seven and fifty-one : Provided also, that — 
 
 (1.) Where the local authority appeals that authority shall be deemed to be 
 the plaintiff and the party entitled to compensation to be the defendant; 
 and 
 (2.) Where the party claiming compensation appeals, then, in case the 
 verdict of the jury is for a sum exceeding the award of the arbitrator, 
 the local authority sliall pay to such party the costs of the trial, such 
 costs to be taxed and ascertained in the same manner as costs are by law 
 ascertained on the trial of issues tried in the High Court : Init in case 
 the verdict of the jury is for a sum not exceeding the award of the 
 arbitrator, the party appealing shall pay to the local authority the costs 
 of the trial to be taxed and ascertained in manner aforesaid. 
 (3.) Where the local authority is the appellant, — 
 
 {ii.) Notwithstanding the verdict of the jury may be for a sum less than 
 that awarded by the arbitrator, the local authorit}' shall pay to the 
 other party such sum not exceeding twenty pounds for the costs of 
 the trial as the sheriff or other officer before whom the same is tried 
 shall direct : and 
 (h.) In case the verdict of the jury is for a sum equal to or exceeding the 
 award of the arbitrator, the local authority shall pay to the other 
 party the costs of the trial, such costs to be taxed and ascertained in 
 manner aforesaid, 
 (c.) The amount of compensation awarded by the arbitrator shall not 
 be communicated to the jury, but they shall be recjuired to make an 
 independent assessment of tbe amount of compensation to which the 
 party claiming compensation is entitled. 
 
 Costs of Arbitration. 
 
 (28.) The salary or remuneration, travelling, and other expenses of the See 45 & 46 
 arbitrator, and all costs, charges, and expenses (if any) which may 1)6 incurred Vict. c. 54. 
 by the confirming authority in carrying the provisions of Part 1. of this Act JSch. (H). 
 into execution, shall, after the amount thereof shall have been certified under
 
 956 [Chap. 70.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. [53 <fc 54 Vict.J 
 
 this article, te paid by the local authority : and the amount of such costs, 
 charges, and expenses shall from time to time be certified by the confirming 
 authority after first hearing any objections that may be made to the reason- 
 ableness of any such costs, charges and expenses by or on behalf of the local 
 authority : and every certificate of the said confirming authority certifying 
 the amount of such costs, charges, and expenses shall be taken as proof in all 
 proceedings at law or in equity of the amount of such respective costs, charges, 
 and expenses, and the amount so certified shall be a debt due from the local 
 authority to the Crown, and shall be recoverable accordingly. 
 
 Further, any such certificate may be made a rule of i. superior court on the 
 application of any party named therein, and may be enforced accordingly. 
 
 (29.) — (1.) It shall be lawful for the arbitrator, where he thinks fit. upon 
 the request of any party by whom any claim has been made before him. to 
 certify the amount of the costs properly incurred by such party in relation 
 to the arbitration, and the amount of the costs so certified shall be paid by 
 the local authority : 
 See Provided that — 
 
 45 & i6 Yict. (-(j^ Xbe arbitrator shall not be required to certify the amount of costs in 
 
 0. 54. Sch. (I). any case where he con.siders such costs are not properly payable by 
 
 the local authority : 
 (Z*.) The arbitrator shall not be required to certify the amount of costs 
 incurred by any party in relation to the arbitration, in any case 
 where he considers that such party neglected, after due notice from 
 the local authority, to deliver to that authority a statement in writing 
 within such time, and containing such particulars respecting the com- 
 pensation claimed, as would have enabled the local authority to make 
 a proper offer of compensation to such party before the appointment 
 of the arbitrator, 
 (c.) No certificate shall be given where the arbitrator has awarded the 
 same or a less sum than has been offered by the local authority in 
 respect of the claim before the appointment of the arbitrator. 
 (2.) If within seven days after demand the amount certified he not paid 
 to the party entitled to receive the same, such amount shall be recoverable as 
 a debt from the local authority with interest at the rate of five per cent, per 
 annum for any time during which the same remains unpaid after such seven 
 days as aforesaid. 
 
 3Ii^eUo/ieov.s. 
 
 (30.) The arbitrator may call for the production of any documents in the 
 possession or power of the local authority, or of any party making any claim 
 under the provisions of Part I. of this Act. which such arbitrator may think 
 nece.?sary for determining any question or matter to be determined by him under 
 Part I. of this Act. and may examine any such party and his witnesses, and 
 the witnesses for the local authority, on oath, and administer the oaths neces- 
 sary for that purpose. 
 
 (.31.) If any arbitrator appointed in pursuance of Part I. of this Act die. or 
 refuse, decline, or become incapable to act. the confirming authority may 
 appoint an arbitrator in his place, who shall have the same powers and authorities 
 as the arbitrator first appointed : and upon tl.e appointment of any arbitrator 
 in the place of an arbitrator dying, or refusing, declining, or becoming incapable 
 to act, aU the documents relating to the matter of the arbitration which were in 
 the possession of such arbitrator shall be delivered to the arbitrator appointed 
 in his place, and the local authority shall publish notice of such appointment in 
 the London Gazette. 
 
 (32.) All notices reqtiired by this Schedule to be published shall be published 
 in some one and the same newspaper circulating within the jurisdiction of the 
 local authority, and where no other form of service is prescribed all notices^ 
 required to be served or given by the local authority under this Schedule or 
 otherwise upon any persons interested in or entitled to sell lands, shall be 
 served in manner in which notices of lands proposed to be taken compulsorily 
 for the purpose of an improvement scheme are directed by Part I. of this Act 
 to be served upon owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and 
 occupiers. 
 
 \_Parts omitted relate to the application of this Schedule to Scotland and Ireland.'^
 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 
 [53 & 54 Vict.] Housing of the WorJdng Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 70.] 957 
 
 THIRD SCHEDULE. Sections 29, 
 
 Enactments applied for the Pukpose of Pkoceedinos for Clo.sing 32. 
 Premises in Exgi.anh, S( oi i.ank, and Ti;i:i.ami re.spectively. 
 
 ENGLAND. 
 Administrative County of London. 
 * Sanitary Act, IBGG (Section 21). ~^ ,t^^ ^''^*- 
 
 ♦Nuisances Removal Act, 1855 (Sections 8, 12, and 13). 
 
 *Sanitary Act, 18(;G (Section 21). c. 121. 
 
 8.21. The nuisance authority . . . shall, previous to taking proceedings As to proceed- 
 before a Justice under the twelfth section of the Nuisances Removal Act, 18.05,* ings of 
 serve a notice ... on the owner or occupier of the premises on which the nuisance 
 nuisance arises, to abate the same, and for that purpose to execute such works, authority 
 and to do all such things as may be necessary within a time to be specified in under s. 12 of 
 the notice : Provided, 18 i: 19 Vict. 
 
 First, that where the nuisance arises from the want or defective construction ^- '^^ 
 of any structural convenience, or where there is no occupier of the 
 premises, notice under this section shall be served on the owner : 
 
 *NT-i?ANCErt Removal Act, 18.5.') (Sections 8, 12, and 1.3). 
 s. 8. The word nuisances under this Act shall include — 
 Any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health 
 
 8. 12. In any case where a nuisance is so ascertained by the local authority to Proceedings 
 ■exist, or where the nuisance in their opinion did exist at the time when the by local 
 notice was given, and, although the same may have been since removed or authority 
 discontinued, is, in their opinion, likely to recur or to be repeated on the same before 
 premises or any part thereof, they shall cause complaint thereof to be made Justices in 
 before a Justice of the Peace, and such Justice shall thereupon issue a summons ^^^^ ^^ 
 requiring , . . the owner or occupier of the premises on which the nuisance ouis^"^^^ 
 arises, to appear before any two Justices, in petty sessions assembled, at their ^^'^^'^ '^ 
 usual place of meeting, who shall proceed to inquire into the said comi)laiat : . . . ' 
 
 s. IH. . . . and if the nuisance proved to exist be such as to render a house or 
 building, in the judgment of the Justices, unfit for human habitation, they may 
 I)rohibit the using thereof for that purpose until it is rendered fit for that 
 purpose in the judgment of the Justices, and on their being satisfied that it has 
 been rendered tit for such purpose, they may determine their previous order by 
 another declaring such house habitable, from the date of which other order such 
 house may be let or inhabited. 
 
 • • > • • a 
 
 [Parts omitted relate to enactments applied for places other than London."] 
 
 t FOURTH SCHEDULE. y,,tion 32. 
 
 FORMS. 
 Form A. 
 Form of Notice requiring Prenu><rs to he made fit for Habitation. 
 To [person causing the premises to he unfit for hahitiition, or owner or occujner of 
 the premises, as the case may i«]. 
 
 Take notice that under the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875, :[: and the 
 Housing of the Working Classes Act. 18'.tO. the [de-trribc the local anthnrily], 
 being satisfied that the following premises, that is to say [describe ^>re/H/sea or 
 place where the nuisanrf rxisfs']. are in a state so dangerous or injurious to health 
 as to be unfit for human habitation, do hereby require you within 
 
 from the service of this notice to make the said premises fit 
 for human habitation. 
 
 If you make default in complying with the requisitions of this notice pro- 
 ceedings will be taken before a court of summary jurisdiction for prohibiting 
 the use of the premises for human habitation. 
 Dated this day of 18 . 
 
 Signatiirr (forcer ) 
 (f local authority ) 
 
 * The Sanitary Act 1866 (except s. 41) and the Nuisances Removal Act 1855 have been 
 repealed (except as to London) by 38 &; 39 Vict. c. 55, and as to London by 54 ,.<c 55 Vict, 
 s. 7(). and this Schedule must be read as regards London as if tlie corresponding 
 sections of 54 A: 55 Vict. c. 76— viz. ss. 2. 4, 5, and 6 — were here referred to instead oi 
 these repealed provisions. See ibid. s. 142, and the Interpretation Act Is'.iy, s. 38 (1), 
 
 t See 8 Edw. 7, c. 39, s. 8 (2). 
 
 j Semble as regards London the Public Uealth (London) Act 1^91.
 
 958 
 
 [CHAr. 70.] Housing of the Workirig Classes Act 1890. [53 & 54 Vict.] 
 
 Section 36. 
 
 Insert de- 
 scription 
 of local 
 authority. 
 
 Section 37. 
 
 Insert de- 
 scription of 
 premises 
 charged. 
 
 FoKM B. 
 
 Form of Summons for Cloniny Order. 
 
 To the owner or occupier of [describe premises,'] situate at [insert such 
 
 a description as may he sufficient to identify iJte premises']. 
 
 To the 
 
 County of 
 [or boroug)i 
 
 „ ^ . , , , -\ You are required to appear before [describe the court 
 
 County of [or bovonsh I „ • ■ i- ,■ -i , n ^± ■ r i.n 
 
 of , ordistnct I f/ summary jnrtsdiction] at the petty sessions [or courtj 
 
 of , or as the fholden at on the day 
 
 c«se may 6c] to wit. j ^^ next, at the hour of in the 
 
 noon, to answer the complaint this day made to me by 
 that the premises above mentioned are used as a dwelling-house and are in a 
 state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation. 
 Given under my hand and seal this day of 18 . 
 
 Form C. 
 
 Form of Closing Order. 
 owner [or occupier] of [describe the premises] situated [(jive such 
 description as may he suficient to identify the premises']. 
 " Whereas on the day of 
 
 , etc. of complaint was made before , Esquire, 
 
 or y one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting in 
 district of and for the county [or other jurisdiction] stated in the 
 
 or as the case raay he}, j margin, [or as the Case may be,] by 
 
 that certain premises situated at in the district under the 
 
 Public Health Act, 1875 * of [describe the loccd authority], were in a state so 
 dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation : 
 
 And -whereas the owner [or occupier] within the 
 
 meaning of the said Public Health Act, 1875,* bath this day appeared before us 
 [(or me) describing the court], to answer the matter of the said complaint [or iu 
 case the party charged do not appear, say,] and whereas it hath been this_ day 
 proved to our {or my) satisfaction that a true copy of a summons requiring 
 the owner [or occupier] of the said premises [or the said A.B.] to appear this 
 day before us [or me] hath been duly served 
 
 according to the said Act and the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 : 
 
 Now on proof here had before us [or me] that the said premises are in a 
 state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation^ 
 we [or I], in pursuance of the said Acts, do prohibit the using of the premises 
 for the purpose of human habitation until in our [or my] judgment they are 
 rendered fit for that purpose. 
 
 Given under the hands and seals of us ['//• the hand and seal of me^ 
 describing the court]. 
 
 This day of 18 
 
 J.S. 
 J.P. 
 
 (L.S.) 
 (L.S.) 
 
 FIFTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 Form marked A. 
 The Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. 
 County of 
 Parish of 
 No. 
 
 Charging Order. 
 The being the local authority under the 
 
 above-mentioned'Act, do, by this Order under their hands and seal, charge the 
 inheritance or fee of the premises mentioned in the Schedule hereto with the 
 payment to of the sum of pounds 
 
 payable yearly on the day of 
 
 for the term of 
 
 years, and being in consideration of an expenditure of 
 pounds incurred by him in respect of the said premises. 
 
 Form marked B. 
 Forjn of Assignment of Charge. To be endorsed on Charging Order. 
 
 Dated the day of 
 
 I, the within-named , m pursuance 
 
 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and m consideration of 
 
 pounds this day paid to me, hereby assign to 
 the within-mentioned charge. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 * Semble, as regards London, the Public Health (London) Act 1891.
 
 [53 & 04 Vict.] Housiny of the Wor/cing Classes Act 1890. [Chap. 70.] 
 
 959 
 
 SIXTH SCHEDULE. 
 Byki.aws to i!k made in all Cases (except where a LouGiNa 
 
 HiiUSE IS USED AS A SEPARATE DWEI.LIN(i). 
 
 For securing that the lodging houses shall be under the management and Section 62. 
 control of the officers, servants, or others appointed or employed in that behalf 
 by the local authority. 
 
 For securing the due separation at night of men and boys above eight years 
 old from women and girls. 
 
 For preventing damage, disturbance, interruption, and indecent and offensive 
 language and Ijehaviour and nuisances. 
 
 For determining the duties of the officers, servants, and others appointed by 
 the local authority. 
 
 SEVENTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 E.NACTMKNTS REPEALED. 
 
 Section 102. 
 
 Session and Chapter. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 E.\tent of Repeal. 
 
 14 & 15 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 34. . 
 
 The Labouring Classes Lodging 
 Houses Act, 18.51. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 29 &30 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 28. " . 
 
 The Labouring Classes Dwelling 
 Houses Act, 1866. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 30 &' 31 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 28.'. 
 
 The Labouring Classes Dwelling 
 Houses Act, 1867. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 31 & 32 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 130.. 
 
 The Artizans and Labourers 
 Dwellings Act, ISCS. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 38 & 39 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 36. . 
 
 The Artizans and Labourers 
 Dwellings Improvement Act, 
 1875. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 42 &'43 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 63.'. 
 
 The Artizans and Labourers 
 Dwellings Improvement Act, 
 1879. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 42 & 43 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 64. . 
 
 The Artizans and Labourers 
 Dwellings Act (1868) Amend- 
 ment Act. 1879. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 42 & 43 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 II. . 
 
 The Public Works Loans Act, 
 1879. 
 
 Section six. 
 
 43 Vict. c. 8. 
 
 
 
 An Act to explain and amend the 
 twenty-second section of the 
 Artizans and Labourers Dwel- 
 lings Act (1868) Amendment 
 Act, 1879. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 4r) & 4fi Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 54. . 
 
 The Artizans Dwellings Art, 1S82. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 48 & 49 Vict. 
 
 c. 
 
 72. . 
 
 The Housing of the Working 
 Classes Act, 1885. 
 
 The whole .\ct except sec- 
 tions three and seven 
 to nine, and except 
 section ten so far as 
 it relates to byelaws 
 authorised by those 
 sections.* 
 
 \^Part!i of the Schedule omitted relate to Acts applicable oidy to Scotland or 
 Ireland.^ 
 
 * Semble that these unrepealed sections are not of practical importance as regards 
 London. 
 
 s. 3 is local and jiersonal. 
 
 s. 7 and subsection (6) of s. 9 ;ire repe.iled as regards r,ondon by 54 i: 55 Vict. c. 76. 
 
 The remainder of s. 9 is in words piacticallv identical with s. 95 of 54 Jic 55 Vict. 
 c. 76. 
 
 s. 8 is as follows : " 8. Every sanitary authority shall have power to make byelaws, 
 for the matters specified in section ninety of the Public Health Act, 1875."' 
 
 s. 90 of the Public Health Act 1K75 is in words practicallv identical with s. 94 of 
 54 & 55 Vict. s. 76. 
 
 s. 10 applies, as regards London, the provisions of ss. 202 and 203 of 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 120, to byelaws authorised to be made by 48 i: 49 Vict. c. 72.
 
 960 
 
 [Chap. 68.] County Councils {Elections) Act 1891. [54 & 55 Vict.] 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Extent of 
 Act. 
 
 54 & 55 VICTORIA. A.D. 1891. 
 
 CHAPTER 63. 
 
 Ax Act to coxfer further Powers ox Couxty Councils axd other 
 Authorities with respect to Main Roads axd other Highways 
 AXD Bridges. \pth Aufjust 1891. J 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Highways and Bridges Act, 1891. 
 
 2. This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland or the county of 
 London. [See 59 & 60 Vict. c. elxxxviii. s. 31.] 
 
 3. [As to agreements between highvxiy anihorities for constricction anrl 
 improvement of roads and bridges.] 
 
 Power to 4. Section sixteen of the Highways and Locomotives Amendment Act, 
 
 reduce main 1878, shall apply to any part of a main road in any county, and so much 
 road to status ^f such section as requires that any order made thereunder shall be pro- 
 hig-hwav ' visional, and shall be confirmed as in the said Act mentioned, is hereby 
 41 & 42 Vict, repealed, but no such order shall be made in respect of any main road 
 c. 77. within a municipal borough without the assent of the council of the said 
 
 borough having been first obtained. 
 
 5. [This section is noted in extenso on s. 12 of 4:0 k 46 Vict. c. 50 q.v.] 
 
 Change of 
 date of 
 elections 
 
 County 
 registers. 
 
 CHAPTER 68. 
 
 Ax Act to alter the Date of holdixg Couxty Council Elections, 
 AXD to remove Doubts respectixg the holdixg of such Election's. 
 
 [5th August 1891.] 
 
 1. — (1.) The ordinary day of election of county councillors in each 
 county shall be such day between the first and eighth day of March as 
 the county council may fix, and, if no date is so fixed, shall be the eighth 
 day of March. 
 
 (2.) The ordinary day of retirement of county councillors shall be the 
 eighth day of March in every third year, and on that day the county 
 councillors then in oflice shall retire together, and their places shall be 
 filled by the newly-elected councillors, who shall come into oflice on 
 that day. [See 51 & 52 Viet. c. 41, s. 2 (2) {d).] 
 
 (3.) The sixteenth day of March or such other day within ten days 
 after the ordinary day of retirement of county councillors as the council 
 of any county may from time to time fix for that county, shall, in substi- 
 tution for the ninth day of November, be the ordinary day of election of 
 the chairman, and of the aldermen. . . . [Part omitted, (as to quarterly 
 meetings) not applicable to the London County Council. See also 63 k 64 
 Vict. c. 13, s. 2.] 
 
 (4.) All periods which, in the enactments of the Municipal Corporations 
 Act, 1882, are computed by reference to the first or ninth day of 
 November shall, so far as those enactments apj^ly to county councils, be 
 computed by reference to such of the above-mentioned days then next 
 following as the case requires. 
 
 The ordinary day of election of councillors shall be fixed by the county 
 council not less than six weeks before the ordinary day of retirement of 
 county councillors. 
 
 Nothing shall authorise or require a returning ofl3.cer to hold an election 
 of a county councillor to fill a casual vacancy which occurs within six 
 months before the ordinary day of retirement of county councillors. 
 
 2. — (1.) The covmty register shall be completed before the twentieth 
 day of December in every year and come into operation on the next first 
 day of January. 
 
 (2.) The burge.ss lists forming the burgess roll, which comes into opera- 
 tion on the first day of November in every year, shall on and after that 
 day until the next first day of Januaiy form part of the county register in 
 substitution for the former burgess Usts. [See 45 & 46 Vict. c. 50, s. 45 (2).]
 
 [55 & 56 Vict.] Lornhn Water Act 1892. [Chap, cxxx.] 961 
 
 3. [Tieutovnl of doiihU and amendment of the laiv relutlny to the election 
 of county councillors in municipal borouyhn. Xot applicable to London A 
 
 4. [Transitory provisions as to the term of office of tJie cfuiinnen and vice- 
 -chairmen of county councils, and the deputy chairman of t fie London County 
 Council, county aldermen, county councillors, and committees irhose term of 
 office will exjj ire in Xovember IH'JI. Spent.^ 
 
 6. The declaration required under sections thirty-four .md thirty-five Amendment 
 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, to be made by a i)erson elected of 4.5 & 4(; 
 to a corpor.ite oHice in a county may !)•• made at any time within three ^^^^^- c- jjO. 
 months after notice of the election, and such declaration maybe i"^df 51 ^^ '52 vict 
 either in the manner prescribed by the Local Government Act, 1888, or c. 41. s. 75. 
 before any Justice of the Peace or commissioner to administer oaths in 
 the Supreme Couit of Judicature. 
 
 6. It is hereby declared that a person shall not be disijualideil, nor be Returning 
 ■deemed ever to have been disqualified, under section twelve of the officer not 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, for bein" a member of a county council 'ji'^quahfied 
 1 1 c I • 1 • • i. 1 ^ • ^ 1^1^' ..for meraber- 
 Dy reason only of ins being apponited returning ofhcer by that council, ^^^^^ ^f 
 
 except where he has directly or indirectly by himself or his partner county 
 received any profit or remuneration in respect of .such appointment. council. 
 
 7. The Act specified in the Schedule to this Act is hereby repealed to Repeal, 
 the extent in the third column of that Schedule mentioned. 
 
 8. This Act may be cited as the County Councils (Elections) Act, Short title 
 1891, and shall be construed as one with the Local Government Act, and con- 
 1888. struction. 
 
 SciiEDUi.E. {Rppml off^uh-ss. (1), (G), (9), (13), amlofimr. (d) of subs. (16) of 
 s. Ibofbl & 52 Vict. r. 41.] 
 
 55 & 56 VICTORIA. A.D. 1892. 
 
 CHAPTER CXXX. 
 
 An Act with respect to the Supply of Water in London and toe 
 Neighbourhood. [27th June 1892.] 
 
 [Preamble.] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the London Water Act 1892. Short title. 
 
 2. The London County Council shall have power from time to time to Powers for 
 
 pay the costs and expenses of promoting Bills in Parliament relating to introduction 
 
 the supply of water in the administrative county of London and within ■?, ,! ^^. 
 ,. ^^ • e 1 r ^1 . 1-. 1. * ■ Parliament, 
 
 the limits of supply of the metropolitan water companies : 
 
 " The metropolitan water companies " * mean and include the several 
 
 companies mentioned in the Schedule to this Act. 
 
 3. The London County Council shnll have power to make inquiries as Powers to 
 to the existing supply of water within the metropolitan water area and pake 
 the charges made for the same and as to the possible sources of supply I'^'iuirie*- 
 and may from time to time pay the costs and expenses of such inquiries 
 
 and of any costs incurred by them in inquiries before Royal Commissions 
 or otherwise to an extent not exceeding ten thousand pounds in addition 
 to the sum which the Council were authorised to pay for similar purposes 
 by section 38 of the London Council (General Powers) Act 1890: 
 
 "The metiopolitan water area" means the whole of the area within 
 which any of the metropolitan water companies* have powers of supply. 
 
 4. All costs and expen.ses of the London County Council in the execution Payments 
 of this Act (except so far as they may be otherwi.se provided for by this or under this 
 any other Act) shall be defrayed as payments for general county purposes ^ ^ " 
 within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1888. . . . [ra7't 
 ■omitted (o^s to expenses of obtaining this Act) spent.] 
 
 * See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41. 
 
 62
 
 962 
 
 [Chap. 61.] Public Authorities Protection Act 1893. [56 & 57 Vict.] 
 
 SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing Act. 
 
 The Governor and Company of the New River brought from Chadwell and 
 Amwell to London : 
 
 The East London Waterworks Company : 
 
 The Southwark and Yanxhall Water Company : 
 
 The Company of Proprietors of the West Middlesex Waterworks : 
 
 The Company of Proprietors of Lambeth Waterworks : 
 
 The Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks : 
 
 The Grand Junction Waterworks Company : 
 
 The Company of Proprietors of the Kent Waterworks. 
 
 56 & 57 VICTORIA. A.D. 1893. 
 
 Protection 
 of persons 
 acting in 
 execution of 
 statutory or 
 other public 
 duty. 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 CHAPTER 61. 
 
 An Act to generalize and amend certain statutory Provisions for 
 THE Protection of Persons acting in the Execution of statutory 
 AND other public Duties. \pth December 1893.] 
 
 1. Where after the comnienceinent of this Act any action, prosecution, 
 or other proceeding is commenced in the United Kingdom against any 
 person for any act done in pursuance, or execution, or intended execution 
 of any Act of Parliament, or of any public duty or authority, or in respect 
 of any alleged neglect or default in the execution of any such Act, duty, 
 or authority, the following provisions shall have effect : 
 
 («.) The action, prosecution, or proceeding shall not lie or be instituted 
 unlpss it is commenced within six months next after the act^ 
 neglect, or default complained of, or, in case of a continuance 
 of injury or damage, within six months next after the ceasing 
 thereof : 
 
 (&.) Wherever in any such action a judgment is obtained by the 
 defendant, it shall carry costs to be taxed as between solicitor 
 and client : 
 
 (c.) W^here the proceeding is an action for damages, tender of amends 
 before the action was commenced may, in lieu of or in addition 
 to any other plea, be pleaded. If the action was commenced 
 after the tender, or is proceeded with after payment into court 
 of any money in satisfaction of the plaintitf's claim, and the 
 plaintiff does not recover more than the sum tendered or paid, 
 he shall not recover any costs incurred after the tender or pay- 
 ment, and the defendant shall be entitled to costs, to be taxed as 
 between solicitor and client, as from the time of the tender or 
 payment; but this provision shall not affect costs on any injunction 
 in the action : 
 
 (cZ.) If, in the opinion of the court, the plaintiff' has not given the 
 defendant a sufhcient opportunity of tendering amends before 
 the commencement of the proceeding the court may award to 
 the defendant costs to be taxed as between solicitor and client. 
 
 This section sliall not affect any proceedings by any department of the 
 Government against any local authority or othcer of a local authority. 
 
 2. There shall be repealed as to the United Kingdom so much of 
 any public general Act as enacts that in any proceeding to which this. 
 Act applies — 
 
 {a.) the pi'oceeding is to be commenced in any particular place ; or 
 {h.) the proceeding is to be commenced within any particular time; or 
 (c.) notice of action is to be given ; or 
 ((?.) the defendant is to be entitled to any particular kind or amount 
 
 of costs, or the plaintiff is to be deprived of costs in any specified. 
 
 event ; or 
 (e.) the defendant may plead the general issue ;
 
 [56 & 57 Vict,] I^ocal Government Act 1894. 
 
 [Chap. 73.] 
 
 963 
 
 and in j)aiticiilar there .shall he .so iej)ealecl the enactments specified in the 
 Scliedule to this Act to the extent in that iScliedule mentioned. 
 
 Tlii.s repeal shall not aftect any proceeding pending at the commencement 
 of this Act. 
 
 3. [Savimj us iu .Scotland. | 
 
 4. [Commencement of Act 1st January 1894.] 
 
 6. This Act may be cited as the Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893. Short title. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Enactments Rkpkalkd. 
 
 Session <and Cliapter. 
 
 Title. 
 
 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 22. . 
 
 The London Hackney Carriage Act, 1831 — 
 
 in part. 
 
 in part ; namely, — 
 iSection seventy-three. 
 
 2&3 Vict. 0.71. 
 
 The Jletropolitan Tolice Courts Act, 1839— 
 
 in part. 
 
 in part ; namely. — 
 Section tifty-three. 
 
 (; & 7 Vict. c. St), 
 in part. 
 
 The London Hackney Carriages Act, 1843 — 
 in part ; namely, — 
 Section forty-seven. 
 
 2;') & 26 Vict, c, 102, . 
 
 The Jletropolis Management Amendment Act, 1862 — 
 
 in part. 
 
 in part ; namely, — 
 
 Section one hundred and six. 
 
 \_The partfi of the Schedule rvhich are mnitted relate to Acts not referred to in this 
 work.'] 
 
 56 & 57 VICTORIA. A.D. 1894. 
 
 CHAPTER 73. 
 
 An Act to make further Provision for Local Government in 
 England and Wales, [pth MarcJb 1894,] 
 
 PART I, 
 Parish Meetings and Parish Councils. 
 
 Poioers and Duties of Parish Councils and Parish Meetings.* 
 
 5. [Poioer of apjiointing overseers and of appoiiiting and ^-evoking 
 appointment of assistant overseer to he rested in the parish council — Chiirch- 
 icardens of rural parish to cease to be overseers — As to references in Acts 
 to churchwardens and overseei-s — Legal interest in property vested in 
 oven'seers or churchioardens and overseers except property connected with 
 the affairs of the church or held for an ecclesiastical charity to r'est in parish 
 council. /Superseded, as regards London, by G2 t.<: G3 Vict. c. 14, ,s's. 11 and 23.] 
 
 6. — (1.) Upon the parish council of a rural parish coming into office, Transfer of 
 there shall be transferred to that coinicil : — certain 
 
 (a.) [The poicers, duties, and liabilities of the vestry of the parish except P*^^^*^'.^ , 
 (i.) so far as relates to the a fairs of the church or to ecclesiastical other 
 charities ; and (ii.) any power, duty, or liability transfeii'ed by this authorities 
 Act from the vestry to am/ other authority. Semble superseded to Tpari^h 
 as regards London. See iS it 19 Vict. c. 120, «.<?, 8, 90, and 91 ; council 
 19 & 20 Vict. c. 112, ss. 1—3 ; and 62 ct 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 23,] 
 
 • See s. 33,
 
 964 
 
 [Chap. 73.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1894. [56 & 57 Vict.] 
 
 50 & 51 Vict. 
 c. 48. 
 
 53 & 54 Yict. 
 c. 65. 
 
 55 & 56 Vict. 
 c. 31. 
 
 Transfer of 
 
 powers 
 
 under 
 
 adoptive 
 
 Acts. 
 
 3 & 4 WUL 4. c. 90. 
 
 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74. 
 4.5 & 46 Vict. c. 30. 
 3.5 & 16 Vict. c. S.5. 
 48 & 49 Vict. c. 2L 
 23 & 24 Vict. c. 30. 
 65 & 56 Vict c. 53. 
 
 (6.) [.4s to certain pov;ers, duties, and liabilities of the churchvxxrd^ns. 
 
 Superseded, as regard.s London, by 62 k 6.3 Vict. c. 14, s. 23 (.3).] 
 (c.) The powers, duties, and liabilities of the over.seers or of the church- 
 wardens and overseers of the parish ^^4th respect to — 
 (i ) appeals or objections by them in respect of the valuation IL^t, or 
 appeals in respect of the poor rate, or county rate, or the ba.'^Ls 
 of the county i-ate ; and 
 (ii.) the provision of parish books and of a vestry room or parochial 
 office, parish chest, fire engine, fire escape, or matters relating 
 thereto ; [see 18 A: 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 66 and note thereon, and 
 28 k 29 Vict. c. 90, s. 4] and 
 (iii.) the holding or management of parish property, not being 
 property relating to affairs of the church or held for an 
 ecclesiastical charity, and the holding or management of 
 village greens, or of allotments, whether for recreation 
 grounds or for gardens or otherA\dse for the benefit of the 
 inhabitants or any of them ; 
 (cZ.) The powers exerciseable with the approval of the Local Government 
 Board by the board of guardians for the poor law union com- 
 prising the parish in re.spect of the sale, exchange, or letting of 
 any parish propertv. \Jiee 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. s. 154. and 
 62&63 Vict. c. 14, s. 6 (.5).] 
 (2.) [The jxrrish council to have the same power of making any complaint 
 or representation as to unhealthy dwellings or obstructive buildings as is con- 
 ferred 071 inhabitant householders by the Housing of the Wo^'king Classes 
 Act 1890, but v-ithout prejudice to the powers of such householders. 
 Semhle inapplicable to London, the metropolitan borough councils being 
 the local authority under that part of the 1890 Act?^ 
 
 (3.) A parish council shall have the same power of making a repre- 
 sentation with respect to allotments, and of applying for the election of 
 allotment managers, as is conferred on parliamentary electors by the 
 Allotments Act, 1887, or the Allotments Act, 1890, but without prejudice 
 to the powers of those electors. 
 
 (4.) Where any Act constitutes any persons wardens for allotments, or 
 authorises or requires the appointment or election of any wardens com- 
 mittee or managers for the purpose of allotments, then, after a parish 
 council for the parish interested in such allotments comes into office, the 
 powers and duties of the wardens, committee, or managers shall be 
 exercised and performed by the parish council, and it shall not be 
 nece.s.sary to make the said appointment or to hold the said election, 
 and for the purpose of section sixteen of the Small Holdings Act, 1892, 
 two members of the parish council shall be substituted for allotment 
 managers or persons appointed as allotment managers. 
 
 7. — (1.) As from the appointed day, in every rural parish the parish 
 meeting shall, exclusively, have the power of adopting any of the following 
 Acts, uiclu-sive of any Acts amending the .same (all which Acts are in this 
 Act referred to as " the adoptive Acts ") ; namely,- — 
 
 (a.) The Lighting and ^Yatching Act, 1833 ; * 
 
 Xh) The Batlis and Washhouses Acts, 1846 to 1882 : -^ 
 
 (c.) The Burial Acts, 1852 to 1885; -t- 
 
 {d.) The Public Improvements Act, 1860 ; % 
 
 (e.) The Public Libraries Act, 1892 ; -^ 
 
 (2.) Where under any of the said Acts a particular majority is required 
 for the adoption or abandonment of the Act, or for any matter under such 
 Act, the like majority of the parish meeting or, if a poll is taken, of the 
 parochial electors, shall be required, and where under any of the said Acts 
 
 * See 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. ss. 90, 1.30, and 158 ; and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 10. 
 t See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, ss. 4 (2) and (4) and 34. 
 
 X See 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 144, and other improvement provisions there referred 
 to, which make this Act of no practical importance as regards London.
 
 [50 & 57 Vict.] Local Goceniment Act 1894. [Chap. 73.] 0G5 
 
 the opinion of the voters is to be ascertained by voting papers, the opinion 
 of tlie parochial electors shall be ascertained by a poll taken in manner 
 provided by this Act. [See G2 k, 03 Vict. c. 14, s. \ (2) (uij {\).] 
 
 (3.) — (5.) 1 1'ruvi.siun fur cases where the consent oj\ or other act on the part 
 of, the vestry of a rural parish is refjuired in relation to any expense or 
 rate ; that where there is power to adopt any of t}ie adoptive Acts for a part 
 only of a rural parish tJiey may be adopted at parislt nieetimjs held for that 
 part ; and that vihere the area of an existing authority execatiinj any of the 
 adoptive Acts is co-extensive with the parish, its powers, duties, and liahilities 
 shall l)p Iraiisferred^ to the parish council. Not applicable to London. \ 
 
 (G.) This Act shall not niter the incidence of charge of any rate levied 
 to defray expenses incurred inider any of the adoptive Acts, and any such 
 rate shall be made and charged as heretofore, and any pro[)erty applicable 
 to the piiynient of such expenses shall continue to be so appHcable. 
 
 (7.) [H'hen any of the adoptive Acts is adopted for the whole or part of 
 a rural parish after the appointed day, the parish council {if any) to he the 
 authority for the execution thereof^ 
 
 (8.) For the purposes of this Act the passing of a re.solutioL to piovide 
 a burial ground under the Burial Acts, 1852 to 1885, shall be aeemed an 
 adoption of those Acts. 
 
 8.* [Additional powers of parish council.^ 
 
 9. t [Incorporation of the Lands Clauses Acts {except the provisions as 
 to takiny lands by agreement and applying s. 178 of the Public Health 
 Act 1875 as if a parish council ivere named therein), and enabling the 
 county council on the application of the parish cotincil when unable to 
 acquire suitable land by agreement on reasonable terms for any purpose for 
 uhich they are authorised to acquire it to make an order authorising the 
 parish council to put infoi'ce such po'ovisions.] 
 
 10. [As to the power of the parish council to hire land for allotments.] 
 
 PART II. 
 
 GUARDIAXS i AND DISTRICT COUNCILS. 
 
 20. As from the appointed day the following provisions sliall fipply to Election and 
 boards of guardians : — " qualification 
 
 (1.) There shall be no ex-othcio or nominated guardians : of guardians 
 
 (2.) A person shall not be ({ualified to be elected or to be a guardian for 
 a poor law union unless he is a parochial elector of some parish 
 within the union, or has during the whole of the twelve months 
 preceding the election resided in the union, or in the case of a 
 guardian for a parish wholly or partly situate within the area 
 of a borough, whether a county borough or not, is qualitied to be 
 elected a councillor for that borough, and no person shall be dis- 
 (jualitied by sex or marriage for being elected or being a guardian. 
 So much of any enactment, whether in a j)ul)lic general or local 
 and personal Act, as relates to the qualilication of a guai'dian 
 shall be repealed : 
 
 (3.) The paiochial electors of a parisli shall be the electors of the 
 guardians for the parish, and, if the parish is divided into 
 wards for the election of guardians, the electors of the guardians 
 for each ward shall l)e such of the parochial electors as are 
 registered in respect of qualifications within the ward : 
 
 * Tliese powers are not of much importance as regards London, wliich has special 
 powers cm jiractically all the matters enumerated in this section. 
 
 ■)■ This section is not set out in full as it is but of small practical importance in 
 London. See 57 Geo. 3, c. xxix. ss. bO— %; 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. s. 151—152: 51 & 52 
 Vict. c. 41, s. 65 ; 54 & 55 Vict. c. 7(), s. 9'.) (8) ; 62 vV: 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 5 (2) ; and the 
 Public Health Act 1875, ss. 176—178. 
 
 X See s. 30.
 
 966 
 
 [Chap. 73.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1894. [56 k 57 Vict.] 
 
 Names of 
 county 
 districts and 
 district 
 councils. 
 
 Constitution 
 of district 
 councils in 
 urban 
 
 districts not 
 being 
 boroughs. 
 
 (4.) Each elector may give one vote and no more for each of any number 
 
 of persons not exceeding the number to Ije elected : 
 
 (5.) The election shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be conducted 
 
 according to rules framed under this Act by the Local Government 
 
 Board : 
 
 (6.) The term of office of a guardian shall be three years, and one third, 
 
 as nearly as may l)e, of every board of guardians shall go out of 
 
 office on the fifteenth day of April in each year, and their places 
 
 shall be filled by the 'newly elected guardians. Provided as 
 
 follows : — 
 
 (o.) Where the county council on the application of the board of 
 
 cuardians of any union in their county consider that it would 
 
 be expedient to provide for the simultaneous retirement of the 
 
 whole of the board of guardians for the union, they may direct 
 
 that the members of the board of guardians for that union 
 
 shall retire together on the fifteenth day of April in every 
 
 third year, and such order shall have full effect, and where 
 
 a union is in more than one county, an order may be made by 
 
 a joint committee of the councils of those counties* ; 
 
 (5.) Where at the passing of this Act the whole of the guardians of 
 
 any union, in pursuance of an order of the Local Government 
 
 Board, retire together at the end of every third year, they 
 
 shall continue so to retire, unless the county council, or a joint 
 
 committee of the county councils, on the application of the 
 
 board of guardians or of any district council of a district 
 
 whollv or partially within the union, otherwise direct : 
 
 (7.) A 
 
 board of guardians may elect a chairman or vice-chairman, or 
 both, and not more than two other persons, from outside their 
 own body, but from persons qualified to be guardians of the 
 union, and any person so elected shall be an additional guardian 
 and member of the board. Provided that on the first election, 
 if a sufficient number of persons who have been ex-officio or 
 nominated guardians of the union, and have actually served as 
 such, are willing to serve, the additional members shall be elected 
 from among those persons. 
 
 21. As from the appointed da}-, — 
 
 (1.) Urban sanitary authorities shall be called urban di.-trict councils, 
 and their districts ^hall be called urban districts ; but nothing in 
 this section shall alter the style or title of the corporation or 
 council of a borough : 
 For every rural sanitary district there shall be a rural district 
 
 (2.) 
 (3.) 
 
 council whose district shall be called a rural district 
 
 In this and every other Act of Parliament, unless the context 
 other«-ise requires, the expression "district council" shall include 
 the council of every urlian district, whether a borough or not, 
 and of every rural district, and the expression " county district " 
 shall include eveiy urban and rural district whether a borough 
 or not. 
 23. \Th<i chairman of a district council to he a Justice by virtv^ of 
 his office.] 
 
 23. t As from the appointed day, 
 borough — 
 
 (1.) There shall be no ex-officio or 
 
 sanitary authority : 
 (2.) A person shall not 'be qualified to be elected or to be a councillor 
 unless he is a parochial elector of some parish within the district, 
 
 * Orders directing that the members of the boards of guardians in London shall 
 retire together on the loth April in every third year were made by the Council. See 
 the L.C.C. Minutes, 28th May 1895, p. 516. 
 
 t See s. 31. 
 
 where an urban district is not a 
 nominated members of the urban
 
 [56 & 57 YiCT.] Loml Governinent Act 1894. [Chap. 73.] 967 
 
 or has during the whole of the twelve months preceding the 
 election resided in the district, and no person shall }je di.squalifie<l 
 by sex or marriage f(jr being elected or lieing a councillor. So 
 much of any enactment whether in a pu1)lic general or local and 
 personal Act as relates to the qualification of a memljer of an 
 urban sanitary authority shall be repealed [see s. 75 (2), and 
 62 ct 63 Vict. c. U, .v. 2 (1)]: 
 
 {3.) The parochial electors of the parishes in the district fhall be the 
 electors of the councillors of the district, and, if the district is 
 divided into wards, the electors of the councillors for each ward 
 shall be such of the parochial electors as are registered in respect 
 of qualifications within the ward : 
 
 (4.) Each elector may give one vote and no more for each of any 
 number of persons not exceeding the number to be elected : 
 
 (5.) The election shall, sul)ject to the provisions of this Act, be conducted 
 according to rules framed under this Act by the Local Government 
 Board [see also s. 48] : 
 
 [(6.) 77i€ term of office of couiicillm's to he 3 years, and one-third to go ont 
 of office on the I5th April in each year. Xot ajyjilicable to London.*] 
 
 • • • • • • 
 
 30. The provisions of this part of this Act respecting guardians shall Guardians in 
 
 applv to the administrative county of London and to everv county borough. I-cindon and 
 
 . . ' . . countv 
 
 31. — (1.) The provisions of this Act with respect to the qualification of boioueh.s. 
 
 the electors of urban district councillors, and of the persons to be elected, Provisions 
 
 and with respect to the mode of conducting the election, .shall apply as if as to London 
 
 members of . . . the vestiies * elected under the Metropolis Managements?®*"®*^ 
 
 fii strict 
 
 Acts, 1855 to 1890, or any Act amending those Acts, . . . were urban boards 
 district councillors. . . . Provided that the Elections (Hours of Poll) Act, 
 1885, shall apply to elections to the .said vestries.* [Parts omitted rep. 48 Vict. c. 10. 
 62 tfc 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 [(2.) As to the election of chairman. Bep. 62 <t 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 35. See 
 ibid. s. 2 (4) ; 51 tt 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 2 (1) ; and the Mimicipal C orjyarations 
 Act 1882, s. 61.] 
 
 (3.) Nothing in any local and personal Act shall prevent any vestry t 
 in the county of London from holding their meeting at such time as may 
 be directed by the vestry. 
 
 • • ■ • ■ • 
 
 33. — (1.) The Local Government Board may, on the application of the Power to 
 council of any municipal borough, including a county borough, or of any ^PP^J' .^^''^^'E' 
 other urban district, make an order conferring on that council or some ^^*^^ ^^^^'^^ ° 
 
 * The terra of office of metropolitan borough councillors is regulated by 62 & 63 
 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (5), and by 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, s. 9, which is as follows: "9. 07ie- 
 third of the vestrymen tirxt elected vndir this Act i7i any jjarinh, ar ichere such parish 
 i.i divided into irards under this Act, in each tcard of .<<uch paj'ish, shall yo out of office 
 at the time appointed for the election of vestrymen in the year one thousand eight 
 hundred and fifty-seven, one other third of them at the time appointed for such election 
 in the year one thouxand eiyht hundred and ffty-eiyht, and the remaining third at the 
 time appointed for xuch elcctian in the year one thousand eiyht hundred and ffty-ninif ; 
 and the vestry shall, at some meeting before the time of the election in one thouj<and 
 eight hundred and ffty-seven, determine by lot which of the members first elected shall 
 constitute the one-third to go out of ofiicr in the years one thou.sand eight hundred and 
 Jifty-scren and one thon-tand eight hundred and ffty-eiyht re.yiectively ; and all 
 members from time to time elected at the annual elections after the fiist election 
 shall go out of office at the time appointed for the annual election in the third 
 following year, except such members as are elected to supply vacancies occasioned 
 otherwise than by efttuxion of time ; and such last-mentioned members shall go out 
 of office at the respective times when the terms of office of the members in whose 
 places they are respectively electeil would have exjiired by etlluxion of time." The 
 words in italics are rep. by 3S & 39 Vict. c. tUi (S.L.R.) and 55 ;^: 5i; Vict. c. 19 
 (S.L.K.). By an Order of the Local Government Board dated 14th June 1901 made 
 under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (8), it is directed that the whole of the councillors of 
 the metropolitan boroughs shall retire together on the ordinary day of election in 
 every third year. 
 
 f Now the councils of the metropolitan boroughs. See 62 c<c 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 968 
 
 [Chap. 73.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1894. [56 & .57 Vict.^ 
 
 Act to urban 
 districts and 
 London. 
 
 Restrictions 
 on applica- 
 tion of Act 
 to London, 
 etc. 
 
 other representative body within the borough or district all or any of the 
 following matters, namely, the appointment of overseers * and assistant 
 overseers, the i-evocation of appointment of assistant overseei's, any powers, 
 duties, or liabilities of overseers,* and any powers, duties, or liabilities of a 
 parish council, and applying with the necessary modifications the provisions 
 of this Act with reference thereto. [See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 16 (1) (c).] 
 
 (2.) Where it appears to the Local Government Board that, by reason 
 of the circumstances connected with any parish in a municipal borough 
 (including a county borough) or other urban district divided into wards,, 
 or with the parochial charities of that parish, the parish will not, if the 
 majority of the body of trustees administering the charity are appointed 
 by the council of the borough or district, be properly represented on that> 
 body, they may, by their order, provide that such of those trustees as are 
 appointed by the council, or some of them, shall be appointed on the 
 nomination of the councillors elected for the ward or wards comprising 
 such parish or any part of the parish. 
 
 (3.) Any order under this section may provide for its operation extending^ 
 either to the whole or to specified parts of the area of the borough or urban 
 district, and may make such j^rovisions as seem necessary for carrying the 
 order into efiect. 
 
 (4.) The order shall not alter the incidence of any rate, and shall make 
 such provisions as may seem necessary and just for the preservation of the 
 existing interests of paid officers. 
 
 (5.) An order under this section may also be made on the application of 
 any representative body within a borough or district. 
 
 (6.) The provisions of this section respecting councils of urban districts- 
 shall apply to the administrative county of London in like manner as if the 
 district of each sanitary authoi-ity in that county were an urban district, 
 and the sanitary authority were the council of that district. \_See 54 & 55 
 Vict. c. 76, s. 99, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 23.] 
 
 (7.) The Local Government Board shall consult the Charity Commis- 
 sioners before making any order under this section with respect to any 
 charity. 
 
 • • • % • ■ 
 
 35. Save as specially provided by this Act, this part of this Act shall 
 not apply to the administrative county of London or to a county borough. 
 
 PART III. 
 Areas and Boundaries. 
 
 36. [Poivers enabling County Councils, with the consent in certain cases 
 of the Local Government Board, to make various alterations ivith respect to 
 2mrishes, poor laio unions and other areas and the boundaries thereof and 
 provision {siib-s. 13) that County Councils shall vnthin 2 years after the 
 passing of the Act, or such further time as the Local Government Board 
 shall alloiv, make such orders under this section as they deem necessary for 
 the purpose of bringing the Act into oj)eration, and for the transfer, after 
 such 2 years or further period, of such powers to the Local Government 
 Board. ^ 
 
 Reduction 
 
 time for 
 
 appealing 
 
 against 
 
 county 
 
 council 
 
 orders. 
 
 of 
 
 41. The time for petitioning against an order under section fifty-seven 
 of the Local Government Act, 1888, shall be six weeks instead of three 
 months after the notice referred to in subsection three of that section. 
 
 42. When an order under section fifty-seven of the Local Government 
 Act, 1888, has been confirmed by the Local Government Board, such order 
 
 * See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 11.
 
 [56 & 57 Vict.] Local Government Act 1804. [Chap. 73.] 969 
 
 sLall at tlie t'Xpirutiou of six moutli.s I'roui that conliriuation V>e presumed Validity of 
 to have been duly made, and to be within the powers of that section, ^q^JJ^jJ 
 and no ol)jecti(m to the legality tliereof shall be entertained in any legal orders, 
 proceeding whatever. 
 
 PART TV. 
 
 Supplemental. 
 
 Parish Meetiiujs and A'lections.* 
 
 43. For the purpose of this Act a woman shall not be disqualified by Removal of 
 mairiage for being on any local government register of electors, or for J^.'^^^^V ^*' 
 being an elector of .any local authority, provided that a husband and wife married 
 shall not both be qualified in respect of the same property. women. 
 
 44. — (1.) The local government register of electors and the parliamen- Register of 
 tary regi.ster of electors, so far as they relate to a paiish shall, together, Parochial 
 form the I'egister of the parocliial electors of the parish ; jind any person 
 whose name is not in that register shall not be entitled to attend a meeting 
 or vote as a parochial elector, and any person whose name is in that 
 register shall be entitled to attend a meeting and vote as a parochial elector 
 unless prohibited from voting by this or any other Act of Parliament.t 
 
 (2.) Where the parish is in a parliamentary borough, such portion of the 
 parliamentary register of electors for the county as contains the names of 
 persons registered in respect of the ownership of an}' property in the pai-ish 
 shall be deemed to form part of the parliamentary register of electors for 
 the parish within the meaning of this section. 
 
 (3.) The lists and register of electors in any parish shall be framed in 
 
 parts for wards of ui-ban districts and parishes in such manner that they 
 
 may be conveniently used as lists for polling at elections foi- any such wainJs. 
 
 (4.) Nothing in any Act shall prevent a person, if duly qualified, from 
 
 being registei'ed in more than one register of parochial electois. 
 
 (5.) Where in that portion of the parliamentary register of electors 
 which relates to a parish a person is entered to vote in a polling district 
 other than the district comprising the parish, such person shall be entitled 
 to vote as a parochial elector for that paiish, and in addition to an asterisk 
 there shall be placed against his name a number consecutive with the other 
 numbers in the list. [See the Parliamentar)/ Jifi(fistration Act 1843, s. 36.] 
 
 (6.) Where the revising bariistei- in any list of voters for a parish 
 would — 
 
 (a.) In pursuance of section seven of the County Electors Act, 1888, ^^ ^ ^<^^- ^- ^O- 
 place an asterisk or other mark against the name of any person ; 
 or 
 (h.) In piu'suance of section four of the Ilegistration Act 1885, erase 
 the name of any person otherwise than by reason of that name 
 appearing more than once in the lists for the same parish ; or 
 (c) in pursuance of section twenty-eight of the Parliamentary and ^1 --^ -^2 Vict. 
 ^Iuni{■illal Registration Act, 1878, as amended by section t^ve of ^V^' ,q -n- 
 the Registration Act, 1885, place against the name of a person ^'^^ 
 a note to the etiect that such person is not entitled to vote in 
 respect of the qualification contained in the list, 
 the revising barristei- shall, instead of placing that mark or note, or 
 erasing the name, place against the name, if the pei'son is entitled to vote 
 in respect of that entry as a county elector or burgess, a mark signifying 
 that his name should be ]>rinted in division three of the list, or if he is 
 entitled to vote only as a parochial elector, a mark signifying that he is 
 
 ♦ Sees. HI (1). 
 
 t See the Felony Act 1870, s. 2; Forfeiture Act 1870, s. 2 ; Corrupt Practices Acts 
 1883, ss. 4. ti, 10, and 38 (5). 1884, ss. 2. 7, 17, 23. and 2s (4), and ISSS), s. 2; 
 Divided Parishes etc. Act 1876, s. 14 ; 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 5 (7) ; and the Bankruptcy 
 Acts 1883, s. 32, and 1890, s. 9, etc.
 
 970 
 
 [Chap. 73.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1894. [oO & 57 Vict.] 
 
 entitled to be i-egistered as a parochial elector, and the name so marked 
 shall not be printed in the parliamentary register of electors, but shall be 
 printed, as the case requires, either in division thi-ee of the local government 
 register of electors, or in a separate list of parochial electors. 
 
 (7.) Where the name of a person is entei-ed both in the ownership list 
 and in the occupation list of voters in the same parish, and the revising 
 barrister places against that name a mark or note signifying that the name 
 should be printed in division three of the lists, an asterisk or other mark 
 shall be there printed against the name, and such person shall not be 
 entitled to vote as a parochial elector in respect of that entry. 
 
 (8.) Such separate list shall form part of tiie register of parochial electors 
 of the parish, and shall be printed at tlie end of the other lists of electors 
 for the parish, and the names shall be numbered consecutively vrith the 
 other names on those lists, and the law relating to the register of electors 
 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply accordingly, and the lists 
 shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be part of such register. 
 
 (9.) Any person may claim for the purpose of ha^^ng his name entered 
 in the parochial electors list, and the law relating to claims to be entered 
 in lists of votei-s shall apply. 
 
 (lU.) The clerk of the county council or town clerk, as the case may be, 
 shall, in printing the lists i-eturned to him by the revising barrister, do 
 everything that is necessary for cai-rying into effect the provisions of this 
 section with i-espect to the persons whose names are marked by the i-evising 
 barrister in pursuance of this section. 
 
 Disqualifi- 
 cations for 
 parish or 
 district 
 council. 
 
 46.* — (1.) A person shall be disqualified for being elected or being 
 a member or chairman of a council of a parish or of a district other than 
 a borough or of a board of guardians if he — 
 
 («) is an infant or an alien ; or 
 
 (6) has within twelve months before his election, or since his election, 
 received union or parochial relief t ; or 
 
 (c) has, within five years before his election or since his election, been 
 convicted either on indictment or summarily of any crime, and 
 sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour without the option 
 of a fine, or to any greater punishment, and has not received a 
 free pardon, or has, within or during the time aforesaid, been 
 adjudged bankrupt, or made a composition or arrangement with 
 his creditors t ; or 
 
 ((i) holds any paid ofiice under the parish council or district council or 
 board of guardians, as the case may be ; or 
 
 (e) is concerned in any bargain or contract entered into with the council 
 or board, or participates in the profit of any such bargain 
 or contract or of any work done vmder the authority of the 
 council or board. 
 
 (2.) Provided that a person shall not be disqualified for being elected or 
 being a member or chairman of any such council or board by reason of 
 being interested — 
 
 (a) in the sale or lease of any lands or in any loan of money to the 
 council or board, or in any contract with the council for the 
 supply fi'om land, of which he is owner or occupier, of stone, 
 gravel, or other materials for making or repairing highways 
 or bridges, or in the transport of materials for the repair of roads 
 or bridges in his own immediate neighbourhood ; or 
 
 (6) in any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the afiairs 
 of the council or board is inserted ; or 
 
 (c) in any contract with the council or board as a shareholder in any 
 joint stock company ; but he shall not vote at any meeting of the 
 council or board on any question in which such company are 
 
 * See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 2 (5), 
 t See note to s. 44 (1).
 
 [56 & 57 Vict.] Local Government Act 1894. [Cha-p. 73.] 971 
 
 interested, exeft[)t that in tlie case of a water company or otlier 
 company estahlislied tor the carrying on of works of a like puldic 
 nature, this prohibition may be dispensed with by the county 
 council. 
 
 (3.) [Where a parish councillor is concei'ned in any such bargain or 
 contract, or jiarticipates in anij svxh profit, as tvould disqualify him for being 
 a parish councillor, the disqualification may be removed by the county council 
 if (hey are of opinion that such reuioval vnll be beneficial to the parish. Not 
 ■applicable to London.^ 
 
 (4.) Where a person is disf|ualined by being adjudged bankrupt or 
 making a composition or arrangement with his cretlitors, the disijualifi- 
 cation shall cease, in case of l)aiikruptcy, when the adjudication is annulled, 
 or when he obtains his discharge with a certificate that his bankruptcy 
 was caused by misfortune without any misconduct on his part, and, in case 
 of composition or arrangement, on payment of his debts in full. 
 
 (5.) \_A person disqualified^ for being a guardian shall also be disqualified 
 for being a rural district councillor. Not applicable to London.^ 
 
 (6.) If a member of a council of a parish, or of a district other than a 
 borough, oi- of a board of guardians, is aljsent from meetings of the council 
 or board for more than six months consecutively, except in case of illness 
 or for some reason approved by the council or board, his office shall on the 
 expiration of those months become vacant, • 
 
 (7.) Where a member of a council or board of guardians becomes dis- 
 qualified for holding ofiice, or vacates his seat for absence, the council or 
 board shall forthwith declare the office to be vacant, and signify the same 
 by notice signed by three members and countersigned by the clerk of the 
 council or board, and notified in such manner as the council or board 
 direct, and the otfice shall thereupon become vacant. 
 
 (8.) If any person acts when disqualified, or votes when prohibited under 
 this section, he shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a 
 fine not exceeding twenty pounds. 
 
 (9.) This section shall apply in the case of any authority whose members 
 are elected in accordance with this Act in like manner as if that authority 
 were a district council. . . . [Part omitted {provisions as to Londoyi avditors) 
 rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s 35.] 
 
 48. — (1.) [As to the election of parish councillor.] Supple- 
 
 (2.) Rules framed under this Act by the Local Government Board ™pptal pro- 
 in relation to elections shall, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, ^j^i'^P ^^ ^o 
 have effect as if enacted in this Act, and shall provide, amongst other pQijg ^^^ 
 things — tenure of 
 
 (i.) for every candidate being nominated in writing by two parochial office, 
 electors as proposer and seconder and no more ; 
 
 (ii.) for preventing an elector at an election for a union or for a district 
 not a borough from subscribing a nomination paper or voting in 
 more than one parish or other area in the union or district ; 
 
 (iii.) for preventing an elector at an election for a parish divided into 
 parish wards from subscribing a nomination paper or voting for 
 more than one ward ; 
 
 (iv.) for fixing or enabling the county council to fix the day of the poll 
 and the hours duiiug which the poll is to be kept open, so, how- 
 ever, that the poll shall always be open between the hours of six 
 and eight in the evening * ; 
 
 (v.) for the polls at elections held at the same date and in the same area 
 being taken together, excej)t where this is impracticable; 
 
 (vi.) for the appointment of returning officers for the elections. 
 
 (o.) At every election regulated l»y rules framed under this Act. the 35 & 36 Vict, 
 poll shall be taken by ballot, and the Eallot Act, 1872, and the Municipal c. 33. 
 
 * See the Election (Hours of Poll) Act 1885, and the Metropolitan Borough 
 Councillors Election Order li)03.
 
 972 [Chap. 73.] Local Gocernment Act 1894. [56 & 57 Vict.] 
 
 47^& 48 Vict, Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act, 1884, and sections seventy- 
 
 ^•.''P' „ „. four and seventy-five and Part IV. of the Municipal Corporations Act, 
 
 ^ 5Q ■ 1882, as amended by the last-mentioned Act (including the penal provisions 
 
 of those Acts) shall, subject to adaptations, alterations, and exceptions made 
 
 by such rules, apply in like manner as in the case of a municipal election. 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 (a) section six of the Ballot Act, 1S72, shall apply in the case of such 
 elections, and the returning officer may, in addition to using the 
 schools and public rooms therein referred to free of charge, for 
 taking the poll, use the same, free of charge, for hearing objec- 
 tions to nomination papers and for counting votes ; and 
 {h) section thirty-seven of the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal 
 Practices) Act, 1884, shall apply as if the election were an 
 election mentioned in the First Schedule to that Act. 
 (4.) The provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and the 
 enactments amending the same, with respect to the expenses of elections of 
 councillors of a borough, and to the acceptance of office, resignation,, 
 re-eligibility of holders of office, and the filling of casual vacancies, and 
 section fifty-six of that Act, shall, subject to the adaptations, alterations, 
 and exceptions made by the said rules, apply in the case of guardians and 
 of district councillors of a county district not a borough, [and of members 
 of the local hoard of Woolii:ich^'\ and of a vestry "i" under the Metropolis 
 Management Acts, 1855 to 1890, and any Act amending the same. 
 Provided that — 
 
 (a) the provisions as to resignation shall not apply to guardians. . . . 
 
 [Part omitted {as to resignation of district councillors of a rural 
 district) not aj)2)licahle to London.^ 
 
 (b) nothing in the enactments applied by this section shall authorise or 
 
 require a returning officer to hold an election to fill a casual 
 vacancy which occui'S within six months before the ordinary day 
 of retirement from the office in which the vacancy occurs, and the 
 vacancy shall be filled at the next ordinary election ; and 
 
 (c) the rules may provide for the incidence of the charge for the 
 
 expenses of the elections of guardians being the same as hereto- 
 fore. 
 
 (5.) If any difficulty arises as respects the election of any individual 
 councillor or guardian, or member of any such local board or vestry as- 
 aforesaid, or auditor, and there is no provision for holding another 
 election, the county cotincil may order a new election to be held and 
 give such directions as may be necessary for the purpose of holding the 
 election, [Words in itcdics rep. 62 & 63 Yict. c. 14, s. 35.] 
 
 (6.) Any ballot boxes, fittings, and compartments provided by or 
 belonging to any public authority, for any election (whether parliamentary, 
 county cotxncil, municipal, school board, or othei'), shall, on request, and 
 if not required for immediate use by the said authority, be lent to the 
 returning officer for an election itnder this Act, upon such conditions and 
 either free of charge or, except in the prescribed cases, for such reasonable 
 charge as may be prescribed. [See s. 75 (2),] 
 
 (7.) The expenses of any election under this Act shall not exceed the 
 scale fixed by the county council, . . . [Part omitted {as to the scale for the 
 first election) spent. ^ 
 
 (8,) This section shall, subject to any adaptations made by the said 
 rules, apply in the case of every poll consequent on a parish meeting, as if 
 it were a poll for the election of parish councillors, 
 
 .Joint com- J 67. — (1.) A parish or district council may concur with any other 
 
 mittees. parish or district council or councils in appointing out of their respective 
 
 * See 62 & 63 Vict, c. 14. ss. 19 and 35 (2). 
 
 + Now a council of a metropolitan borousrh. See 62 &: 63 Vict, c, 14. s. 4, 
 
 t See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 8 (4).
 
 [56 & 57 Vict.] f.ocal Government Art 1894. [Chap. 73.] 973 
 
 bodies a joint coinmittoe for any purpose in ipspoct of whioli tliey are 
 jointly interesttil, und in funtV'rring, with or witlunit conditions or restric- 
 tions, on any such committee any powers which the appointing council 
 might exercise if the puri)ose rehited exclusively to their own pari.sh or 
 district. 
 
 (2.) Provided that a council shall not delegate to any .such committee 
 any power to l)orrow money or make any rate. 
 
 (3.) A joint committee appointed under this section shall not hold otlice 
 beyond the ex[)iiation of fourteen days after the next annual meeting of 
 any of the councils who appointed it. 
 
 (4.) The costs of a joint conunittee under this section shall be defrayed 
 by the councils by whom it is appointed in such proportions as they may 
 agree upon, or as may be determined in case of ilifference by the county 
 council. 
 
 (5.) Where a parish council can under this Act be required to appoint 
 a comniittei^ consisting partly of meml:)ers of the council and putly of 
 other persons, that requirement may also be made in the case of a joint 
 committee, and shall l)e duly (•om[)lied with by the parish councils con- 
 cerned at the time of the appointment of such committee. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 60.— (1.) T'le council of each county may, from time to time, by order, Supplemental 
 fix or alter the number of guardians or rural district councillors to be provisions 
 elected for each parish within their county, and for those purposes may "^ *\. 
 exercise powers of adding j)arishes to each other and dividing parishes ° 
 into wards, similar to those wiiich by the Acts relating to the relief of the 
 poor are, for the purpose of the election of guardians, vested in the Local 
 Government Board. [<S'ee the Poor Laui Amendment Acts 1834, s. 38, cnid 
 1844, s. 18, and 18G8, s. 6; and the Divided Parishes and Poor Law 
 Amendment Act 1876, s. 12.] 
 
 (2.) The council of each county may for the purpose of regulating the 
 retirement of guardians or rural district councillors, in cases where they 
 retire by thirds, and in order that as nearly as may be one third of the 
 persons elected as guardians for the union, and one third of the per.sous 
 elected as rural district councillors for the district, shall retire in each 
 year, direct in which year or years of each triennial period the guardians 
 or district councillors for each parish, ward, or other area in the union or 
 rural district shall retire. 
 
 (3.) Where a poor law union is situate in more than one county,* the 
 power under this section of fixing or altering the number of guardians or 
 rural district councillors, and of regulating the retirement of guardians 
 and of district councillors, shall be exercised by a joint committee of the 
 councils of the counties concerned, but if any of those councils do not, 
 within two months after request from any other of them, appoint members 
 of such joint committee, the membei'S of the committee actually appointed 
 shall act as the joint committee. 
 
 Provided that if any order under this sub-section is, within >ix weeks 
 after the making thereof, objected to by any of the county councils con- 
 cerned, or by any committee of any of tho.se councils authorised in that 
 behalf, it shall be of no effect until conlirmed by the Local Government 
 Board. 
 
 (4) — (6). \Provisions as to guardians under local and personal Acts and 
 for the city of Oxford. Not applicable to London^] 
 
 * See note on 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, s. 13.
 
 974 
 
 [Chap. 73.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1894. [56 & 57 Vict.} 
 
 Transfer of 
 property and 
 debts and 
 liabilities. 
 
 Adjustment 
 of property 
 and 
 liabilities. 
 
 52 & 53 Vict, 
 c. 49. 
 
 67. Where any powers and duties are transferred by this Act from one 
 authority to another authority — 
 
 (1.) All property held by the fir.st authority for the purpose or by 
 virtue of such powers and duties shall pass to and vest in the 
 other authority, subject to all debts and liabilities affecting the 
 same ; and 
 
 (2.) The latter authority shall hold the same for the estate, interest^ 
 and purposes, and subject to the covenants, conditions, and 
 restrictions for and subject to which the property would have 
 been held if this Act had not passed, so far as the same are not 
 modified by or in pursuance of this Act ; and 
 
 (3.) All debts and liabilities of the first authority incurred by virtue of 
 such powers and duties shall become debts and liabilities of the 
 latter authority, and be defrayed out of the like property and 
 funds out of which they would have been defrayed if this Act 
 had not passed. \_See s. 33.] 
 
 68. — (1.) Where any adjustment is required for the purpose of this 
 Act, or of any order, or thing made or done under this Act, then, if the 
 adjustment is not otherwise made, the authorities interested may make 
 agreements for the purpose, and may thereby adjust any property, income, 
 debts, liabilities, and expenses, so far as affected by this Act, or such 
 scheme, order, or thing, of the parties to the agreement. 
 
 (2.) The agreement may provide for the transfer or retention of any 
 property, debts, or liabilities, with or without any conditions, and for the 
 joint use of any property, and for payment by either party to the agree- 
 ment in respect of property, debts, and liabilities so transferred or retained,, 
 or of such joint user, and in respect of the salary or remuneration of any 
 ofhcer or person, and that either by way of an annual payment or, 
 except in the case of a salary or remuneration, by way of a capital sum, 
 or of a terminable annuity for a period not exceeding that allowed by the 
 Local Government Board: Provided that where any of the authorities 
 interested is a board of guardians, any such agreement, so far as it relates 
 to the joint use of any property, shall be subject to the approval of the 
 Local Government Board. 
 
 (3.) In default of an agreement, and as far as any such agreement does 
 noli extend, such adjustment shall be referred to arbitration in accordance 
 with the Arbitration Act, 1889, and the arbitrator shall have power to 
 disallow as costs in the arbitration the costs of any witness whom he 
 considers to have been called unnecessarily, and any other costs which he 
 considers to have been incurred unnecessarily, and his award may provide 
 for any matter for which an agreement might have provided. 
 
 (4.) Any sum required to be paid by any authority for the purpose of 
 adjustment may be paid as part of the general expenses of exercising 
 their duties under this Act, or out of such special fund as the authority, 
 with the ajjproval of the Local Government Board, direct, and if it is 
 a capital sum the payment thereof shall be a purpose for which the 
 authority may boiTow vmder the Acts relating to such authority, on the 
 security of all or any of the funds, i-ates, and revenues of the authoiity,. 
 and any such sum may be bori'owed without the consent of any avithority, 
 so that it he lepaid within such period as the Local Government Board 
 may sanction. 
 
 (5.) Any capital sum paid to any authoi-ity foi- the purjoose of any 
 adjustment under this Act shall be treated as capital, and applied, with 
 the sanction of the Local Government Boai-d, either in the repayment of 
 debt or for any othei- purpose for which capital money may be applied. 
 
 Summary 70. — (1.) If any question arises, or is about to arise, as to whether any 
 
 proceeding power, duty, or liability is or is not transferi'ed by or under this Act to 
 
 mination of ^^^^ parish council, pa}'ish meeting, oi- district council, or any property is 
 
 or is not vested in the parish council, or in the chai)'man and overseers of
 
 [56 & 57 Vict.] Local Government Act 1894. [Chap. 73.] 975 
 
 a rural parish, or in a district touucil, that (luestioii, without piejudice questions as 
 to any other mode of trying it, may, on the application of the council, ^^ ^]^^fj^^ 
 meetinj,', or othei- local authority concerned, be submitted for decision ta '^^ 
 the High Court in such simniiary nianner as, sul)iect to any lules of court, 
 may be directed by the Court ; and the Court, after hearing such parties 
 and taking such evidence (if any) as it thinks just, shall decide the 
 question. 
 
 (2.) If any question arises or is altout to arise under this Act as to the 
 appointment of the trustees or Vieneticiaries of any charity, or as to the 
 persons in whom the pi-operty of any charity is vested, such question shall, 
 at the request of any trustee, l)eneficiary, or other person interested, be 
 determined in the hrst instance by the Charity Commissioners, subject to 
 an appeal to the High Court laought within three months after such 
 determination. Provided that an appeal to the High Court of Justice 
 from any determination of the Charity Commissioners under this section 
 may be presented only under the same conditions as are prescribed in the 
 case of appeals to tlie High Court fi'om orders made by the Charity 
 Commissioners under the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1891. [.S'ee 
 62 k G3 Vict. c. W, s. 23 (5).| 
 
 (3.) An appeal shall, with the leave of the High Court or Court of 
 Appeal, but not otherwise, lie to the Court of Appeal against any decision 
 under this section. 
 
 71. A copy of every order made by a county council or joint committee Supple- 
 in pm-suance of this Act shall be sent to the Local Government Board, mental pro- 
 and, if it alters any local area or name, also to the Board of Agriculture, ^q^^"^ ^ 
 
 72. \^As to the expenses of the Local (rovernment Board in inquines and council 
 other jyroceedlnys under this Act, and as to the exjH'iises of local inquiries orders. 
 held by county councils.^ 
 
 73. When the day on which any thing is required by or in pursuance Provision as 
 of this Act to be done is Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, or a ^° \^^^^^^ 
 bank holiday, that thing shall be done on the next following day, not '^joij^iays. 
 being one of the days above mentioned. 
 
 75._(1.) The definition of "parish"* in section one hundred of the Construction 
 Local Government Act, 1888, shall not apply to this Act, but, save ^^ 51 "^^-o vict 
 aforesaid, expressions used in this Act shall, unless the context otherwise ^ 4i_ " 
 re({uin s. have the same meaning as in the said Act. 
 
 (2.) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — 
 
 The expression " parochial elector," when used with reference to a 
 parish in an urban district, or in the county of London or any county 
 borough, means any person who would be a parochial elector of the 
 parish if it were a rural parish. 
 The expression " election " includes both the nomination and the poll. 
 The expression " trustees " includes persons administering or managing 
 any charity or recreation ground, or other ja-operty or thing in 
 relation to which the word is used. 
 The expression "ecclesiastical charity " t includes a charity, the endow- 
 ment whereof is held for some one or more of the following purposes : — 
 (a) for any spiritual purpose which is a legal purpose ; or 
 {h) for the benefit of any spiritual person or ecclesiastical otticer as 
 
 such ; or 
 (c) for use, if a building, as a church, chapel, mission room, or 
 Sunday school, or otherwise by any particular church or 
 denomination ; or 
 ((/) for the maintenance, repair, or impi-ovement of any such 
 building as aforesaid, or for the maintenance of di\nne 
 service therein ; or 
 
 * See the Interpretation Act 188i\ s, 5. 
 t See 62 & 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 23 (3).
 
 976 
 
 [Chap. 73.] 
 
 Local Government Act 1894. [56 & 57 Vict.] 
 
 (e) otherwise for the benefit of any particular church or denomina- 
 tion, or of any members thereof as such. 
 Provided that where any endowment of a charity, other than a building 
 held for any of the purposes aforesaid, is held in part only for some of the 
 purposes aforesaid, the charity, so far as that endowment is concerned, 
 shall be an ecclesiastical charity within the meaning of this Act ; and 
 the Charitv Commissioners shall, on application by any person interested, 
 make such provision for the appoi-tionment and management of that 
 endowment as seems to them necessary or expedient for giving effect to 
 this Act. 
 
 The expression shall also include any building which in the opinion of 
 
 the Charitv Commissioners has been erected or provided within forty 
 
 vears before the passing of this Act mainly by or at the cost of 
 
 members of any particular church or denomination. 
 
 The expression " affairs of the church " shall include the distribution of 
 
 ■ offertories or other collections made in any church. 
 
 The expression " vestry " in relation to a parish means the inhabitants 
 of the parish whether in vestry assembled or not, and includes any 
 select vestry either by statute or at common law. 
 
 The expression " local and personal Act " includes a Provisional Order 
 
 confirmed by an Act and the Act confirming the Order. 
 The expression " prescribed " means prescribed by order of the Local 
 Government Board. 
 {Parts omitted consist of dpfinitions of '' 'parochial charity!;' ^^ rateable value," 
 ^^ county " and ''■ elementarj school.'^ 
 
 Short title. 
 
 77. This Act may be cited as the Local Government Act, LS94. 
 
 PART Y. 
 
 Transitory Provisions. 
 
 Existing 81. — (L) AVhere the powers and duties of an}' authority other than 
 
 officers. Justices are transferred by this Act to any parish or district council, the 
 
 officers of that authority shall become the officers of that council, and for 
 the purposes of this section the body appointing a surveyor of highways 
 shall be deemed to be a highway authority and any paid surveyor to be 
 an officer of that body. 
 
 . • ■ • 
 
 (4.) Every such officer, vestry clerk, and assistant overseer, as above in 
 this section mentioned shall hold his office by the same tenure and upon 
 the same terms and conditions as heretofore, and while performing the 
 same duties shall receive not less salary or remuneration than heretofore. 
 [See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 30 (2).] 
 
 51 & 52 Vict. 
 C.41. 
 
 (7.) Section one hundred and twenty of the Local Government Act, 
 1888, which relates to compensation to existing officers, shall apply in the 
 case of existing officers affected by this Act, whether officers above in this 
 section mentioned or not, as if references in that section to the county 
 council were references to the parish council, or the district council, or 
 board of guardians or other authority whose officer the person affected is 
 when the claim for compensation arises as the case may require. Pro- 
 vided that all expenses incurred by a district council in pursuance of this 
 section shall be paid as general expenses of the council, and any expenses 
 incurred by a board of guardians in pui'suance of this section shall be 
 paid out of their common fund, and any expenses incurred by any other 
 authority in pursuance of this section shall be paid out of the fund
 
 [56 & 57 Vict.] Loral Government Act 1804. [Chap. 73.] 977 
 
 apjilicable to payment of tlie salary of the oltices affected. [See 62 it 03 
 Vict. c. 14, .S-. ;3U'(2).] 
 
 . • . • ■ 
 
 85. [As to rates and precepts foi- ctmtrthntimiJi made he/ore the appointed 
 daij — As to receipts and e.fjienditure he/ore sxch day and leyal proceedings 
 co'ininenced before snclt day, etc.] 
 
 86. — (1.) Nothing in this Act shall prejudicially affect any securities Saving for 
 granted before the passing of this Act on the credit of any rate or existing 
 pifiporty transferred to a coniicil or pai-ish meeting by this Act; and ''^^,"" *'"•'' 
 all such securities, as well as all unsecured debts, liabilities, and obliga- (.jj^jj-^^g ^£ 
 tioiis incurred by any authority in the exercise of any powers or in debts. 
 relation to any property transferred from them to a council or parish 
 meeting shall be discharged, paid, and satisfied by that council or parish 
 meeting, and where for that purpose it is necessary to continue the levy 
 of any rate or the exercise of any power which would have existed but for 
 this Act, that rate may continue to be levied and that power to be exer- 
 cised either Ijy the autliority who otherwise would have levied or exercised 
 the same, or by the transferee as the case may require. 
 
 (2.) It shall be the duty of every authority whose powers, duties, and 
 liabilitiis are transferred by this Act to liquidate .so f:ir as practicable 
 before the appointed day, all current debts and liabilities incurred by 
 such authority. 
 [See 02 & 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 33 (2).] 
 
 87. All such byelaw.s, orders, and i-egulations of any authority, whose Saving for 
 powers and duties are transferred by this Act to any council, as are in f^xis^ing 
 force at the time of the transfer, shall, so far as they relate to or are • 
 in pursuance of the powers and duties tr;insferred. continue in force as if 
 made l)y that council, and may be revoked or altered accordingly. [See 
 02 et 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 33 (2).] 
 
 88. — (1.) If at the time when any powers, duties, liabilities, debts, or Saving for 
 property are by this Act transferred to a council or parish meeting, any pending 
 action or proceeding, or any cause of action or proceeding is pending or > • 
 
 existing by or against any authority in relation thereto the same shall 
 not be in anywise prejudicially affected by the passing of this Act, but 
 may be continued, pro.secuted, and enforced by or again.st the council or 
 parish meeting as succe.«;.sors of the .*aid authority in like manner as if this 
 Act had not been passed. 
 
 (2.) All contracts, deeds, bonds, ngreements, and other instruments 
 subsisting at the time of the transfer in this section mentioned, and 
 affecting any of such powers, duties, liabilities, debts, or property, shall 
 be of as full foice and effect against or in favour of the council or parish 
 meeting, and may be enforced as fully and effectually as if, instead of the 
 authority, the council or parish meetiiig had been a party thereto, 
 [^ee 62 & 03 Vict. c. 14, s. 33 (2).] 
 
 89. The Acts specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby Repeal, 
 repealed as from the appointed day to the extent in the third column of 
 that schedule mentioned, and so much of any Act, whether public general 
 or local and personal, as is incon.si.stent with this Act is also hereby repealed. 
 . . . [Part omitted contains a j)roi'iso that irards of urban districts and the 
 number of members of ^vrban sanitary authorities f. red under any local and 
 personal Act shall continue and he alterable as if fixed luuler this or any 
 other Act.] 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 First Scukpule. [RulrK as to parixh mciihiyn, parish cnunciln, and com- 
 mittees. Xot applicable to Lnndoii.] 
 
 63
 
 978 
 
 [Chap. 60.] 
 
 Merchant Shipping Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 SECOND SCHEDULE. 
 
 Enactments Repealed. 
 
 Session and Chapter. 
 
 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. 
 
 19 & 20 Vict. c. 112. 
 
 25 & 26 Vict, c 102. 
 25 & 26 Vict. c. 103. 
 
 30 & 31 Vict. c. 6. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 The Meti-opoli.s Man- 
 agement Act, 1855. 
 
 The Metropolis Man- 
 agement Amendment 
 Act," 1856. 
 
 Tlie Metropolis Man- 
 agement Amendment 
 Act, 1862. 
 
 The Union Assess- 
 ment Act, 1862. 
 
 The Metropolitan Foor 
 Act, 1867. 
 
 Extent of Repeal. 
 
 Section six. 
 
 Sections thirteen to twenty-seven. 
 
 In section thirty the words "or cu.stom." 
 
 iSection fifty-four. 
 
 In section two hundred and thirty-five 
 
 the words " under this Act," where they 
 
 secondly occur. 
 Sections six, seven, and eight. 
 
 Section thirty-six ; and section forty from 
 " by rating " to '• of such parish." 
 
 In section two, the words " consisting 
 partly of ex officio and partly of 
 elected guardians," and from " Pro- 
 vided always " to the end of the 
 section. 
 
 In section five, the words " ex officio 
 or elected." in both places where they 
 occur, and the words, "as the case may 
 be." 
 
 Section seventy-nine. 
 
 57 & 58 VICTORIA. A.D. 1894. 
 
 CHAPTER 60. 
 
 An Act to consolidate Enactments relating to Merchant Shipping. 
 
 [25</i August 1894.] 
 
 *•■••■ 
 
 PART II. 
 
 Master and Seamen. 
 
 • •.... 
 
 Protection of Seamen from Imjjosition. 
 
 Seamen's 
 lodging- 
 houses. 
 
 214. — (1.) A local authority herein-after mentioned whose district 
 includes a seaport may, with the approval of the Board of Trade, make 
 byelaws relating to seamen's lodging-houses in their district, and those 
 byelaws shall be binding upon all persons keeping houses in which seamen 
 are lodged and upon the owners thereof and persons employed therein. 
 
 (2.) The byelaws shall amongst other things provide for the licensing, 
 inspection, and sanitary conditions of seamen's lodging-houses, for the 
 publication of the fact of a house being licensed, for the due execution 
 of the byelaws, for preventing the obstruction of persons engaged in 
 securing that execution, for the preventing of persons not duly licensed 
 holding themselves out as keeping or purporting to keep licensed houses, 
 and for the exclusion from licensed houses of persons of improjjer character, 
 and shall impose sufficient fines not exceeding fifty pounds for the breach of 
 any byelaw.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conser'cancy Act 1894. [Chap, dxxxvii.] 979 
 
 (3.) The In flaws shall come into force from a date therein named, and 
 shall be puljlished in the J^omlon Gazette and in one newspaper at the 
 least circulating in the district, and designatid by the Board of Trade. 
 
 (4.) If the local authority do not within a time in each case named by 
 the Board of Trade make, revoke, or alter, any byelaws under this section, 
 the Board of Trade uiay do sr). 
 
 (5.) Whenever Her Majesty in Council orders that in any distinct or 
 any pait thereof none but persons duly licensed in pursuance of byelaws 
 under this section shall keep seamen's lodging-houses or let lodgings to 
 seamen from a date therein named, a person acting in contravention of 
 that order shall for each offence be liable to a line not exceeding one 
 hundred pounds. 
 
 (0.) A local authority may defray all expenses incurred in the execution 
 of this section out of any funds at their disposal as sanitary authority, and 
 fines recovered for a contravention of this section or of any byelaw under 
 this section shall be paid to such authority and added to tho.se funds. 
 
 (7.) In this section the expre.ssion "local authority" means in the 
 administrative county of London the County Council, and elsewhere in 
 England the local authority under the Public Health Acts, , . . and the 
 expression " district " means the area under the authority of such local 
 authority. 
 
 CHAPTEE CLXXXVII. 
 
 Ax Act to amend the Constitutiox of and consolidate amend and 
 extend the statutory powers of the conservators of the 
 River Thames to make further Provision for the Preservation 
 AND Improvement of the said Eiver for Purposes of Navigation 
 FOR Profit and Pleasure and as a Source of Water Supply for 
 THE Metropolis and the Suburbs thereof and for other 
 Purposes. \yit1i August 1894.] 
 
 \Preamhle recites (inter alia) that by the Thames Consei'vaiici/ Act 1857 the 
 ■Conservators of the Rlrer Thames {in this Act called '■^ the Conservators'') 
 were incorporated, and by that Act and the otJier Acts mentioned in Part I. 
 of the 1st Schedule to this Act the constitution of the Conservators ica^ 
 originally prescribed and from time to time altered; and that under oi' by 
 virtue of the Acts mentioned in the said 1st Schedule {which Acts are 
 respectively referred to in this Act by the titles assigned to them respectively in 
 the third column of the said Schedule) certain property, powers, rights, 
 authorities, privileges, duties, and obligations are vested in, exercised by, oi' 
 conferred or imposed upon the Conservators ; and that it is expedient that the 
 constitution of the Conservators be altered, and that the enactments of the said 
 Acts specif ed in the fourth column of the said 1st Schedule be consolidated 
 with amendments as in this Act appears; and that, having regard to the large 
 quantities of the waters of the liiver Thames used for purposes of domestic 
 supply in the metropolis and the suburbs thereof and to the constant increase of 
 population and of sources of pollution in the catchment area of the said river, 
 it is expedient that the powers of the Conservators for preventing pollution of 
 the icaters of the River Thames be enlarged and made exerciseable over 
 an extended area, that pj'ovision be made icith respect to the fjuantities 
 of ivater tvhich may be abstracted from the said river by certain water 
 compa7iies, and that provision be made for increased annual contributions by 
 some of such companies to the funds of t/ie Conservators ; and that it is 
 expedient that the powers of the Conservators fur preserving, freeing from 
 obstructio)i, and improving the navigation of the River Thames, whether 
 for profit or pleasure, be extended as in this Act apjyears.^
 
 U80 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Comenancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Yict.] 
 
 Part I, 
 Preliminary. 
 Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Thames Conservancy Act 1894. 
 
 Incorporation 2. The Lands Clauses Acts except the provisions thereof relating 
 
 of parts of ^Q access to the special Act. 
 
 ^^*^^' Sections 64 to 68 70 to 88 99 and 101 to 104 of the Commissioners 
 
 Clauses Act 1847 except so much of the said section 104 as incorporates 
 
 with that Act any of the provisions of sections 141 150 and 157 to 161 of 
 
 the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 ; and 
 
 Sections 28 51 54 55 and 62 of the Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses 
 
 Act 1847; 
 
 so far as the same are applicable for the purposes of and are not varied by 
 
 or inconsistent with this Act are incorporated with and form part of this 
 
 Act: 
 
 Provided that the pi'ovisions of the Commissioners Clauses Act 1847 so 
 
 incorporated shall for the purpose of such incorporation be read as if — 
 
 (1) The word "Conservators" had been therein inserted instead of the 
 
 word "Commissioners" wherever the same appears; 
 
 (2) The word " secretary " had been therein inserted instead of the word 
 
 " clerk " wherever the same appears ; 
 
 (3) In section 65 the list of othcers therein mentioned included engineers 
 
 surveyors lock-keepers water bailiffs collectors and inspectors : 
 And provided that the provisions of the Harbours Docks and Piers 
 Clauses Act 1847 so incorporated shall apply to the Thames as if the 
 Thames were a harbour by this Act authorised to be constructed and as 
 if the word " Conservators " had been in those provisions inserted instead 
 of the word " undertakers " wherever the same appears. 
 
 Interpreta- 3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the meanings 
 
 ^^'^°' hereby assigned to them respectively unless there be something in the 
 
 suVjject or context repugnant to such construction namely : — 
 
 The word " Conservators " means Conservators of the Piver Thames 
 whether before or after the passing of this Act ; 
 
 The expression "the Common Council " means the mayor aldermen and 
 commons of the city of London in common council assembled ; 
 
 Tlie expression " the Trinity House " means the master wardens and 
 assistants of the guild fraternity or brotherhood of the Most Glorious 
 and Undivided Trinity and of Saint Clement in the parish of 
 Deptford Strond in the county of Kent commonly called " the 
 Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond " ; 
 
 The expression " the Watermen's Company " means the master wai-dens 
 and commonalty of watermen and lightermen of the Eiver Thames ; 
 
 The expx-ession " the metropolitan water companies " * means and includes 
 the Governor and Company of the Chelsea Waterworks the Company 
 of Proprietors of Lambeth W^aterworks the Grand Junction Water- 
 works Company the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company the 
 Company of Proprietors of the West Middlesex Waterworks and the 
 East London Waterworks Company ; 
 
 The expression " owners of sailing barges " used in reference to elections 
 of Conservators means owners of sailing barges registered in the 
 Custom House books of the port of London ; 
 
 The expression " owners of lighters and steam tugs " used in reference 
 to elections of Conservators means owners of lighters and steam tugs 
 used on the Thames and registered at Watermen's Hall ; 
 
 The word " dockovvners " used in reference to elections of Conservatox-s 
 means occupiers of docks on the Thames established under Act of 
 Parliament or Royal Charter; 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thamen Coyiservancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 981 
 
 The word " wharfingers " used in reference to elections of Conservators 
 
 means occupiei-s of legal quays and sufferance wharfs on the Thames 
 
 appointed by the Conniiissioners of Customs; 
 
 The expression " the secretary " means the secretary of the Conservators ; 
 
 The expression " common seal " means the common seal of the 
 
 Conservators ; 
 The expression "permission of the Conservators" or "consent of the 
 Conservators " means permission or consent of the Conservators 
 in writing signed by the secretary ; 
 The expression " the Thames " means and includes so much of the 
 Kivers Thames and Isis respectively as ai-e between the town of 
 Cricklade in the county of Wilts and an imaginary straight line 
 drawn from the entrance to Yantlet Creek in the countv of Kent to 
 the City Stone opposite to Canvey Island in the county of Essex :ind 
 so much of the lliver Kennct as is between the common landing- 
 place at Reading in the county of Berks and the River Thames and so 
 much of the River Lee and liow Creek respectively as are below the 
 south boundary stones in the Lee Conservancy Act 18G8 mentioned 
 and all locks cuts and works within the said jjortions of rivers and 
 creeks. Provided that no dock lock canal or cut existing at the 
 passing of this Act and constructed under the authority of Parlia- 
 ment and belonging to any body corporate established under such 
 authority and no bridge over the River Thames or the River Kennet 
 belonging to or vested in any county council or municipal authority 
 or to or in any railway company shall be deemed to form part of the 
 Thames ; 
 The word " shore " means the shores of the Thames so far as the tide 
 flows and reflows between high and low water marks at ordinary 
 tides ; 
 The expression " port of London " means so much of the area within 
 the limits described in the Second Schedule to this Act as is from time 
 to time contained within the port of London as established for the 
 purposes of the laws relating to the Customs of the United Kingdom 
 and the whole of any area which for the time being Is under any 
 Act to be deemed to form part of the port of London [see 54 k 55 
 Vict. c. 7G, s. Ill, and note thereon] ; 
 The word " pier " includes any floating pier and any jetty ; 
 The word " wharf " includes any wall and building adjoining the 
 
 Thames ; 
 The word " goods " includes wares and merchandise of every descrip- 
 tion ; 
 The word " vessel " includes any ship lighter keel barge launch house- 
 boat pleasure or other l)oat randan wherry skiff dingey shallop imnt 
 canoe yacht raft float of timber or craft whatever however navi- 
 gated ; 
 The word "lighter" includes any barge or other like craft for carrj-ing 
 
 goods ; 
 The expression " steam launch " includes any vessel propelled by steam 
 electricity or other mechanical power not being used solely as a tug 
 or for the carriage of goods and not being certifled by the Board 
 of Trade as a passenger steamer to carry two hundred or more 
 passengers ; 
 The ex[)ression " house-boat " includes any pleasure boat on the Thames 
 above Teddingtou Lock which is not a steam launch and which is 
 decked or otherwise structurally covei'ed in and which is or is 
 capable of being used as a place of habitation (whether by day and 
 night or the one or the other) or as a place for accommodating or 
 receiving persons for pin-poses of shelter recreation entertainment 
 or refreshment or of witnessing regattas or other events or as club 
 premises or as offices or as a kitchen pantry or store place;
 
 982 
 
 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict. J 
 
 Repeal of 
 enactments. 
 
 The expression " pleasure boat " includes any ship launch house-boat 
 boat randan wherry skiff dingey shallop punt canoe or yacht however 
 navigated not being used solely as a tug or for the carriage of goods 
 and not being certified by the Board of Trade as a passenger steamer 
 to carry two hundred or moi'e passengers ; 
 The word "master" when used in relation to any vessel means any 
 person whether the owner master or other person lawfully or wrong- 
 fully having or taking the command charge or management of the 
 vessel for the time being ; 
 The word " fishery " includes oyster and shell fishery : 
 The word " fish " includes oysters and shell-fish and also the spawn brood 
 
 and fry of fish oysters and shell-fish ; 
 The word " ballast " includes every kind of gravel sand and soil and 
 every commodity or thing commonly used for the ballasting of 
 vessels ; 
 The expression "standing orders" means standing orders from time to 
 time made by the Conservators under the powers of this Act and for 
 the time being in force ; 
 The expression " daily penalty " means a penalty for each day on which 
 
 any offence is continued after conviction therefor ; 
 The word " London " used in connexion with the publication of any 
 notice or byelaw (proposed or made) means the administrative county 
 of London : 
 ^'ords and expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Acts 
 partially incorporated with this Act have in this Act the same respective 
 meanings unless vaiied by this Act or unless there be something in the 
 subject or context repugnant to such construction and in this Act and for 
 the purposes of this Act in any enactment incorporated with thLs Act the 
 expression " superior courts " or " court of competent jurisdiction " or any 
 other like expression shall be read and have effect as if the debt or demand 
 with respect to which the expression is used were a simple contract debt 
 and not a debt or demand created by statute. 
 
 4. The several Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act are 
 hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the fourth column of that 
 Schedule. 
 
 Part II. 
 
 The Conseea'ators of the River Thames. 
 
 Conservators 6. Fiom and after the passing of this Act there shall until the end of 
 to continue the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four be thirty and there- 
 incorporated, after be thirty-eight Conservators for carrying this Act into execution and 
 the several persons who from time to time shall be the Conservators shall 
 notwithstanding the repeal of enactments by this Act effected continue 
 and be a body corporate by the name of " the Conservators of the River 
 Thames " and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common 
 .seal with power to take hold and dispose of lands and other property for 
 the purposes of this Act. 
 
 6. [Existing Conservators to continue till the end of 1894. Spent.^ 
 
 7. [As to filling up casual vacancies till the end of 1894. Spent.\ 
 
 Conservators 
 from and 
 after 1st 
 Jan. 1895. 
 
 Conservators from and after \st Janiuwy 1895. 
 
 8. From and after the first day of .January one thousand eight hundred 
 and ninety-five the thirty-eight Conservators shall be persons appointed or 
 elected as follows : — 
 (a) Appointed — 
 
 By the Admiralty two ; 
 
 By the Board of Trade two ; 
 
 By the Trinity House two ;
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservanoj Act WJA. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 083 
 
 By the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire County Councils or by one of 
 
 those councils one ; 
 By the Oxfordshire County Council one ; 
 
 By the Council of the (Jity and County Borough of Oxford one ; 
 By the Berkshire County Council one ; 
 By tho Council of the County Borough of Reading one ; 
 By the Jiiickinghanishiro County Council one; 
 By tlie llcrtfordshin- County Council one; 
 By the Surrey County Council one ; 
 By the Middlesex County Council one ; 
 By the London County (.'ouncil six ; 
 By the Common Council six ; 
 By the E.'^sex County Council one ; 
 
 By the Council of the County Borough of West Ham one ; 
 By tlie Kent County Council one ; 
 By the metropolitan water companies * one : 
 (b) Elected— 
 
 By shipowners three ; 
 
 By owners of sailing barges lighters and steam tugs two ; 
 
 By tlockowners one ; 
 
 By whariJngers one. 
 
 9. — (1) In the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four and rcriods for 
 
 in every third year thereafter persons shall he appointed to be Conser- wldch Con- 
 
 vators from and after the first day of January then next as follows: — ^T'^^^^f «°^ 
 . •' •' be appointea 
 
 By the Aduuralty two ; or elected 
 
 By the Board of Trade two ; from and 
 
 By the Trinity House two ; after 1st 
 
 By the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire County Councils or by one of ^ 
 
 those councils one ; 
 
 By the Oxfordshire County Council one ; 
 
 By the Council of the City and County Borough of Oxford one ; 
 
 By the Berkshire County Council one ; 
 
 By the Council of the County Borough of Reading one ; 
 
 By the Buckinghamshire County Council one ; 
 
 By the Hertfordshire County Council one; 
 
 By the .Surrey County Council one ; 
 
 By the Miildlesex County Council one; 
 
 By the Essex County Council one ; 
 
 By the Council of the County Borough of West Ham one ; 
 
 By the Kent County Council one ; 
 
 By the metropolitan water companies * one : 
 Every person so appointed subject to his so long living and not refusing 
 to act or resigning or pursuant to this Act being or becoming disqualified 
 or being removed shall continue in office for three years and then retire. 
 
 (2) [yls to the appointment in 1894 of 6 persons by the Common Council 
 and G persons by the London Connty Council to be Conservators, of tchom 
 2 appointed by the Common Council and 2 appointed by the County 
 Cou7icil are to retire in each of the years 1895, 1896, and 1897. Spent,^ 
 
 (3) In the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five and in 
 every year thereafter persons shall be appointed to be Conservators from 
 and after the first day of January then next as follows : — 
 
 By the Common Council two ; 
 By the London County Council two : 
 Every person appointed under this sub-section subject as aforesaid shall 
 continue in office for three years and then retire. 
 
 (4) \_As to the appointment in 1S94 of 3 persons by the shipowners to 
 be Conservators, of ichom 1 shall retire in each of the years 1805, 1896, 
 and 1897. Spent.^ 
 
 (5) In the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five and in every 
 
 * Kow the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
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 vear thereafter a person shall be elected by .shipo%vner.s to be a Con-servator 
 from and after the first day of January then next : 
 
 Every person so elected subject as aforesaid shall continue in office for 
 three years and then retire. 
 
 (6) [As to the appointment in 1894 of '2 persons by tlue oorners of sailing 
 barges, lighters, and steam tugs to be Conservators, of v:hora 1 sho.ll retire 
 in each of the years 1895 and 1896. Spent.] 
 
 (7) In the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five and in 
 every year thereafter a person shall be elected by o\vners of sailing bar«^es 
 lighters and steam tugs to be a Conservator from and after the first day 
 of January then next : 
 
 Every person so elected subject as aforesaid shall continue in office for 
 two years and then retire. 
 
 (8) In the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four and in 
 every year thereafter persons shall be elected to be Conservators from and 
 after the first day of January then next as follows : — 
 
 By dockowners one ; 
 By wharfingers one : 
 Every person so elected subject as aforesaid .shall continue in office for 
 one year and then retire. 
 
 10. [As to appointment of a person to be a Conservator by Glovjcester shire 
 and. Wiltshire County Councils.] 
 
 11 — 27. [As to elections of Conservators by shipourners, by owners of 
 sailing barges, lighters, and steam tags, by dockowners and by v:harfingers, 
 and appointments of Conservators by the metropolitan v:ater companies.*] 
 
 Disqualifica- 
 tions for 
 being Con- 
 servators. 
 
 General Provisions as to Appointme7its and Elections of Conservators. 
 
 28. — (1) The following persons shall be disqualified for being or con- 
 tinuing to be Conservators namely : — 
 
 (a) Every person appointed by the Trinity House if he is not or ceases 
 
 to be a member of the Trinity House ; 
 
 (b) Every person appointed by the Common Council if he is not or 
 
 ceases to be a member of the Common Council ; 
 
 (c) Every person appointed by a county council if he is not or ceases to 
 
 be a member of such county council ; 
 
 (g) Every person appointed by the metropolitan water companies * if 
 he Ls not or ceases to be a member of the lx)ard of dii-ectors or 
 other governing lx)dy of one of those companies * : 
 
 (h) Every person who has been adjudged bankrupt or has made a 
 compo-sition or arrangement Avith his creditors ; 
 
 (k) Every person who holds any office or place of profit under the 
 Conservators [see s. 33] ; 
 
 (1) Every person who is concerned in any contract entered into Avith 
 
 the Con.servators or participates in the profit of any such contract 
 or of any work done under the authoritv of the Conservators. 
 
 (2) Provided that— 
 
 (a) Eor the purpo.ses of this section a person shall not be deemed to 
 
 have ceased to be a member of the Trinity House or a member 
 of the Common Council or a member of a county council or a 
 member of the council of a county borough or a member of the 
 board of directors or other governing body of a company or other 
 body corpoiate by reason only of his ceasing to be such by 
 effluxion of time if he be re-elected a member of the same lx)dy 
 at the election of members thereof next after such ces.ser ; and 
 
 (b) a person .shall not be disqualified for being or continuing to l^e a 
 
 Conservator by reason of his having been adjudged bankrupt or 
 
 * Xow the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Comermnc>/ Act IH'.i^. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 985 
 
 made a composition or arranj^eiiK'nt with iii> orefiitors when in 
 case of iKinkniptcy tlie adjudication lias been annulh-d or he has 
 obtained his discharge with a certificate that his bankruptcy was 
 caused by mist'ortune witliout any niisconthict on hLs part and in 
 case of composition oi- airangeuient iiis debts have Ijeen paid in 
 full ; and 
 (c) A person shall not be disqualided for beinjj; or continuing to be a 
 Conservator by reason of his lieing interested — 
 
 (a) in the sale or lease of any lands or in any loan of money to the 
 
 Conserv^ators or in any contract with the Conservators for 
 the supply from land of which he is owner or occupier of 
 stone gravel or other materials for work being doiie umler the 
 authority of the Conservators ; or 
 
 (b) in any newspaper in which any advertisement notice or byelaw 
 
 is published by the Conservators ; or 
 
 (c) in any contract with the Conservators as a shareholder in any 
 
 joint stock company if and so long as he does not act as a 
 
 Conservator in any matter relatin<j to such contract. 
 \Port omitted refers to tJie (lis'jiialijic((iiou of j^ersons appointed hij t/ie 
 Oloucestershire and Wiltshire County Cotmcils joinili/, by the council of a 
 county borough, and of persons elected by shipou. :ers, by owners of sailing 
 barges, lighters, and steam tags, by dockouraers or by icharjinjers, or appointed 
 by tJie Conservators to fill a vacancy in the office of a Conservator elected by 
 any of those bodies.'\ 
 
 29.— (1) If on or after the first day of January one thousand eight Filling up 
 hundred and ninety-five anv vacancy in the office of Conservator occasioned '^^^^^^ vacan- 
 otherwise than bv etfiuxion of time occurs such vacancv may be filled up .,„,r„noit.< 
 by the appointment of another person to be a Conservator. fr.jm failures 
 
 (2) Any such appointment shall in the case of a vacancy in the office of to appoint or 
 a, Conservator elected by shipowners by owners of sailing barges lighters elect. 
 
 and steam tugs by dockowners or by wharfingers be made by the Con- 
 servators and shall in all other ca.ses be made by the body which appointed 
 the Conservator whose place is to be filled up. 
 
 (3) Every such appointment which shall be made T)y the Conservators 
 shall be made at a meeting of the Conservators in the notices for which 
 the intention to fill up the vacancy shall have been stated. 
 
 (4) A Conservator appointed under this .section shall continue in office 
 only so long as the Conservator in whose place he is appointed would have 
 been entitled to continue in office. 
 
 (5) If at any time there is a failure to appoint or a failure to elect any 
 person to be a Conservator pursuant to the section of this Act whereof the 
 marginal note is " Periods for w Inch Conservators to be appointed or 
 elected from and after 1st January 1895" there shall be deemed to be 
 a vacancy in the office of a Conservator occasioned otherwise than by 
 ellkixion of time and such vacancy may be filled up accordingly and for 
 that purpose the foregoing provisions of this section shall be applicable 
 with the following modifications : — 
 
 (a) The vacancy shall be deemed to be in the office of the Conservator 
 
 who but for such a failure would have been appointed or 
 elected ; 
 
 (b) If such vacancy be in the office of a Con.servator elected by ship- 
 
 owners by owners of sailing l)ai'ges lighters and steam tugs by 
 dockowners or liy wharfingers the Conservators shall on or before 
 the then next thirty-first day of l)ecember fill up sucli vacancy. 
 (G) Provided that any Conservator appointed under this section to fill a 
 vacancy in the office of a Conservator elected by shipowners shall hold 
 office until the thirty-first day of December next following the commence- 
 ment of his term of office and shall then retire and the vacancy created by 
 his retirement shall be filled up at the election by shii>owners next following 
 the appointment of the Conservator so appointed and any Conservator so
 
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 Certain Con- 
 servators 
 removable. 
 
 elected shall hold office for the remainder only of the term for which he 
 would have been entitled to hold office had he been elected when the Con- 
 servator in respect of whose office the casual vacancy occurred was elected 
 or at the time when the failure to elect occurred as the case may be. 
 
 30. — (1) Every Conservator appointed by the Admiralty the Board of 
 Trade the Trinity House the Common Council any county council the 
 council of any comity borough or the metropolitan water companies* or 
 elected by shipowners shall be I'emovable from his office of Conservator 
 by the body which appointed or elected him : 
 
 Pi-ovided that a Conservator shall not be so removed by the Common 
 Council a county council or the council of a county borough unless notice 
 in writing of the intention to propose the removal of such Conservator 
 shall have been given to every member of such council seven days at least 
 before the meeting of such council at which the removal is determined 
 upon nor unless such removal be determined upon by a majority con- 
 sisting of two thirds of the councilloi-s (which word shall for this purpose 
 be deemed to include the words " mayor " and " aldermen ") present and 
 voting at such meeting. 
 
 ■ ••••• 
 
 \Fart omitted contains 2^'i'ovisions as to the removal of a C'onservatm' hy 
 shipowners.^ 
 
 31. Every Conservator going out of office shall if not pursuant to this 
 Act disqualified be eligible to be re-appointed or re-elected. 
 
 32. Forthwith after every appointment by the Admiralty or by the 
 Board of Trade or by the Trinity House or by the Common Council or by 
 any county council or by the council of any county borough or by the 
 metropolitan water companies * of any person to be a Conservator notice 
 
 ■ in writing of such appointment shall be sent to the secretary by the 
 secretary to the Admiralty or by a secretary or assistant secretary to 
 the Board of Trade or by the secretary to the Trinity House or by the 
 town clerk of the city of London or by the clerk to the county council or 
 by the town clerk of the county borough or by the governor or chairman 
 of one of the metropolitan water companies * as the case may be. 
 
 In the event of a joint appointment by the Gloucestershire and Wilt- 
 shire County Councils the notice shall be sent by the clerk to the county 
 council of which the person appointed to be a Conservator is a member. 
 
 Payment of Conservators. 
 Conservators 33. — (1) The Conservators every year shall set apart out of the Lower 
 %^*p ^PP^"°J'^^ Navigation Fund such sum not exceeding in any year two thousand four 
 Trackftobe hundred pounds and out of the Tpper Navigation Fund such sum not 
 paid sums exceeding in any year seven hundred pounds as they with the approval 
 annually. of the Board of Trade think fit and shall divide the same among the 
 Conservators as they from time to time think tit. 
 
 (2) No Conservator shall by reason of his receiving any part of any of 
 the sums aforesaid in pursuance of any such division as aforesaid be 
 deemed to hold an office or place of profit under the Conservators or in 
 the gift or disposal of any county council or of the council of any county 
 borough which may have appointed him to be a Conservator. [See 45 & 46 
 Vict. c. 50, s. 12.] 
 
 Outgoing 
 
 Conservators 
 
 re-eligible. 
 
 Notice to be 
 given of 
 appoint- 
 ments of 
 Consei-vators, 
 
 Annual 
 meeting. 
 
 Periodical 
 meetings. 
 
 Meetings Chairman Committees Offices Proceedings. 
 
 34. The Conservators shall hold an annual meeting in the month of 
 April in every year at such place and time as shall from time to time be 
 appointed by them. 
 
 35. The Conservators shall also hold periodical meetings for any of the 
 purposes of this Act at such places and times as shall from time to time 
 be appointed by them. 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancij Act \^^^. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 987 
 
 36. No new byelaw or staiKling order shall be aclopted at any periodical Notice to be 
 
 nu-eting \inloss the subject of such liyelaw or standing order (as the case given of cer- 
 
 may be) sliall have been stated in the notice of such meeting. ^'^"^ ijusmess 
 
 J I "5 at periodical 
 
 37. The Conservators may hold special meetings at such places and meetings, 
 times as the n-cretary sliall suliject to standing ordt-rs from tinni to time Special 
 appoint and the secretary shall conv'ene a special meeting on the written meetings, 
 rerjuest of the chairman of the Conservators or of any two or more of the 
 Conservators but no business shall be transacted at any special meeting 
 except such as is stated in the notice thereof. 
 
 38. The Conservators present at any meeting of the Con.servators may Adjourn- 
 froni time to time adjourn such meeting to the same or any other place at meat of 
 such time as they may think fit and if at any meeting there shall not be caeetings. 
 a quorum of Conservators present within one half-hour after the time 
 apj»oiiited therefor such luceting shall stand adjourned to such day hour 
 
 and place as may be prescribed by standing orders. 
 
 39. Notice in writing of eveiy meeting of the Conservators shall be Notices of 
 given to each of the Conservators and every such notice shall be by the meetings, 
 secretary delivered or sent by the post or otherwise to the usual place of 
 
 abode or business of the Conservator two clear days at the least previous 
 to such meeting except it be a special meeting called in a case of 
 emergency and every such notice shall specify the time and place of 
 meeting. 
 
 40. All powers vested in the Conservators may be exercised by any five Quorum of 
 or more of them present at any meeting of the Conservators holden in Conservators, 
 pursuance of this Act and no business shall be transacted at any such 
 
 meeting unless the said number of Conservators be present. 
 
 41. The Conservators may at any meeting of the Conservators from Committees 
 time to time appoint committees of the Conservators for any purposes ^^y ^e 
 which the Conservators think would be better regulated and managed ^f'P'^^"^^'^- 
 by means of such committees and they may fix the quorum of any such 
 committee and may continue alter or discontinue any such committee. 
 
 42. Subject to any standing orders every committee so appointed may Quorum of 
 from time to time meet and adjourn at and to such places and times and committees, 
 regulate their own proceedings as they think pioperfor carrying into efiect 
 
 the purposes of theil- appointment but no business shall be transacted at 
 any meeting of the committee unless the quorum of memliers if any fixed 
 l)y the Conservators and if no quorum be fixed three members of the 
 committee be present. 
 
 43. At any meeting of the Conservators from time to time as occasion Chairman of 
 may require it having been stated in the notices of such meeting that it is Conservators, 
 an o>)ject of such meeting to elect a chairman of the Conservators the Con- 
 servators shall elect from among themselves a chairman who is in this Act 
 
 referred to as " the chairman of the Conservators." 
 
 The chairman of the Conservators shall unless he ceases to be a Con- 
 servator hold office for one year from the time of his election but shall be 
 re eligible. 
 
 The Conservator Avho was deputy-chairman of the Conservators 
 immediately before the passing of this Act shall unless he ceases to 
 be a Conservator be the chairman of the Conservators from the passing 
 of this Act until the end of the year one thousand eight Iniuditd and Chairman of 
 ninety -four. Conservators 
 
 to be member 
 
 44. The chaii'man of the Conservators shall be an ex-otiicio member of of commit- 
 all coinniittees of the Conservators. tees. 
 
 45. At every meeting of the Conservators the chairman of the Con- Chairman of 
 
 servators if present shall be chairman of such meeting and if the chairman !^*^'^^"^^^*'_ 
 i- ii ., 1 , ■ .• 1 . . X . 1 Conservators. 
 
 01 the Conservators be not present one or the (. on.-;er\ators present at such 
 
 meeting shall be elected chairman of such meeting by the majority of the 
 
 Conservators present at such meeting.
 
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 Chairman of 
 meetings of 
 committees. 
 
 Manner of 
 voting. 
 
 No resolution 
 of Conserva- 
 tors to be re- 
 voked at a 
 subsequent 
 meeting un- 
 less after 
 special notice. 
 
 Proceedings 
 of Conserva- 
 tors and 
 committees 
 not invali- 
 dated by 
 vacancies. 
 
 Informalities 
 in appoint- 
 ment or elec- 
 tion of Con- 
 servators not 
 to invalidate 
 proceedings. 
 
 Offices. 
 
 Conservators 
 to provide 
 daily attend- 
 ance at an 
 office. 
 
 Conservators 
 may make 
 contracts. 
 
 46. Subject to any standing order.s which may provide for the election 
 of chairmen of committees of the Conservator.s at every meeting of any 
 such committee one of the members thei-eof present at such meeting shall 
 be elected chairman of such meeting by the majority of the members of 
 the committee present at such meeting. 
 
 47. At every meeting of the Conservators or of any committee of the 
 Conservatoi's all questions shall be determined by a majority of the votes 
 of the Conservators or members of the committee (as the case may be) 
 present and voting and in case of an equal divi.sion of votes the chairman 
 of such meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to hLs vote as a Con- 
 servator or as a member of the committee (as the case may be) Provided 
 always that if at any such meeting there be an equal division of votes in 
 an election of a chairman it shall be decided by lot which of the Con- 
 servators or of the members of the committee (as the case may be) having 
 an equal number of votes shall be the chairman. 
 
 48. No resolution at any meeting of the Conservators shall be revoked 
 or altered at any subsequent meeting unless the notice of such subsequent 
 meeting shall have been delivered or sent to each of the Conservators five 
 clear days at the least prexdous to such meeting nor unle.ss the intention 
 to propose such revocation or alteration shall have been stated in such 
 notice. 
 
 49. No proceeding of the Conservators or of any committee of the Con- 
 servators shall be invalidated or be illegal in consequence only of there being 
 any vacancy in the number of Conservatox-s or of members of the committee 
 (as the case may be) at the time of such proceeding. 
 
 50. All proceedings of the Conservators or of a committee of the 
 Conservators or of any persons acting as Conservators shall notwith- 
 standing it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the 
 ajjpointment or election of any such Conservators or per.sons or that they 
 or any of them were disqualified be as valid as if every such Conservator 
 or person had been duly appointed or elected and were qualified to be a 
 Conservator. 
 
 61. The Conservatoi-s may from time to time provide and maintain fit 
 and convenient oflices together with all proper furniture for the same for 
 holding the meetings and transacting the business of the Conservators and 
 for the use of their officers and for tran.sacting such other business as the 
 Conservators shall from time to time think fit to allow or shall direct to 
 be transacted therein and for such purpose may purchase or hire any lands 
 or buildings which the Conservators think necessary from any person 
 Avilling to .sell or let the same or may cause any new building to be erected 
 upon any land purchased or hired under the provisions of this Act or 
 otherwise belonging to the Conservators. 
 
 52. The Conservators shall require the secretary or some person duly 
 authorised by them to attend at their office daily Sundays Christmas Days 
 Good Fridays and Bank Holidays and days appointed for general fasts or 
 thanksgivings only excepted for the purpose of receiving notices and trans- 
 acting the ordinary business of the Conservators arid due notice of the 
 situation of the office of the Conservators and of the hours during which 
 attendance Ls given there shall be published by the Conservators in such 
 manner as they shall think proper so that the same may be fully and 
 generally known. 
 
 63. The Conservators may enter into contracts with any persons for 
 the execution of any works authorised by this Act to be done by the Con- 
 servators or which they may think pi-oper to do or to direct to be done under 
 the powers of this Act or for furnishing materials or labour or for providing 
 proper engines or other power or for any other matters or things whatso- 
 ever necessary for enabling them to carry the purposes of this Act into 
 effect in such manner and upon such terms and for such sums of money 
 and under such stipulations regulations and restrictions as the Conservators
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Consercancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 989 
 
 think proper and every such contract shall be in writin;^' and specify the 
 several works to be done and the materials to be furnished and the i)rices 
 to be paid for the same and the time or times within which the works are 
 to be completed and the materials to be furnished and the penalties or 
 lujuidated damages to be suffered or paid in case of non-perfcamance 
 thereof and every such contract may if the Conservators think fit also 
 specify the person to whose satisfaction such works and materials are to 
 be completed and furnished :ind the mode of determining any dispute 
 which may arise concerning or in consequence of such contract. 
 
 The power.s hereV)y granted to the Conservators to enter into contracts 
 may lawfully be exercised as follows namely : — 
 
 Any contract which if made between private persons would be by law 
 required to be in writing and under seal the Conservators may 
 make in writing in the coiporate name of the Conservators and under 
 the common seal and in the same manner the Conservators may vary 
 or discharge such contract ; 
 Any contract which if made between private persons would be by law 
 required to be in writing and signed l»y the pai-ties to be charged 
 thei'ewith the Consei'vators may make in writing in the corporate 
 name of the Conservators signed by the secretary or by any two of 
 the Conservators and in the same manner the Conservators may vary 
 or discharge such contract : 
 And all contracts made according to the pi'ovisions herein contained shall 
 be binding upon the Conservators. 
 
 54. The Conservators shall cause proper minutes or records of all the Records of 
 procet dings of the Conservators and of every committee of the Conservators proceedings, 
 to be kept uutler their superintendence witli the names of the Conservators 
 
 who attend each meeting and notes minutes or copies (as the case may 
 I'equire) of all ;ippointments made or contracts entered into by or on 
 behalf of the Conserv.itors and of the orders of all meetings of the Con- 
 servators and of the committees of the Conservators and every such minute 
 or record shall be signed by the chairman of that meeting or of the meeting 
 next after that at which the proceeding took place and such minute or 
 record so signed and any copy of siich signed minute or record certified 
 as correct under the hand of the secretary shall be received as evidence in 
 all courts and before all Judges Justices and others without proof of such 
 meeting having been duly convened or held or of the persons attending 
 such meeting having been or being Conservators or members of such 
 committee respectively or of the signature of the chairman or of the fact 
 of his having been chairman all of which last-mentioned matters shall 
 be presumed until the contrary be proved and such minutes and records 
 shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of any of the 
 Conservators. 
 
 55. In case anv person comyilains of the operation of any byelaw of the Tublic in- 
 Conservators or of any determination or proceeding of the Conservators or Q"iries into 
 of the conduct of any of their officers or servants he shall on an application '^^^ *'° "* 
 in writing to the Conservators stating the substance of his complaint be 
 entitled to have his complaint publicly inquired into and decided on in 
 manner following namely : — 
 
 (1) On receipt of such application the Conservators shall depute one 
 
 or more not exceeding three of their body to inquire into the 
 com])laiut : 
 
 (2) A suitable room shall be provided by the Conservators to which 
 
 the complainant his agent and witnesses ;ind all other persons 
 interested or desirous of attending shall have free access : 
 
 (3) The Conservator or Conservatoi-s so deputed shall receive the state- 
 
 ment t>f the complainant or his agent and the counter-statement 
 of any person concerned or his agent and shall hear any ai-gu- 
 ments ottered and any evidence adduced in support of such 
 statement or counter-statement and he or they or one of them
 
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 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Conservators 
 to report 
 annually to 
 Parliament. 
 Standing 
 orders. 
 
 shall write down the substance of such statement counter- 
 statement arguments and evidence in a narrative form and he 
 or they shall report the same and his or their opinion thereon 
 for the information of the Conservators : 
 (4) The Conservators shall consider the report and shall decide on 
 the complaint and their decision shall be deUvered in public 
 either on the same day or on a subsequent day appointed for 
 the purpose. 
 Notwithstanding anything in this section any person not requiring a 
 public inquii-y but desirous of stating an}- complaint personally to the 
 Conservators shall be at liberty to do so on attending at the office of 
 the Conservators having made application for that purpose. 
 
 Nothing in this section shall restrict the Conservators from holding any 
 meeting if they think fit in a room to which the public may have access. 
 
 56. The Conservators shall in every year present to both Houses 
 of Parliament a general report of their proceedings during the year ended 
 on the then last thirty-first day of December. 
 
 57. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Conservators may from 
 time to time make alter and revoke standing orders for the regulation of 
 their proceedings and business and of the proceedings and business of 
 committees of the Conservators. 
 
 Estate of 
 Conservators 
 in Thames 
 before 
 passing- of 
 this Act 
 continued. 
 
 Part III. 
 
 Property Powers and Duties of the Conservators. 
 
 General Provisions relating to Proj^erty Poicers and Duties. 
 
 58. Notwithstanding the repeal of any enactment or any alteration of 
 the constitution of the Conservators by this Act effected all the estate 
 right title and interest in and to the bed and soil and shores of the 
 Thames and in and to all encroachments embankments and enclosures 
 thereupon or therefrom and in and to all property real and personal which 
 were immediately before the passing of this Act vested in the Conservators 
 shall continue vested in them as if this Act had not been passed. 
 
 Reservation 59. Notwithstanding anything in this Act the portion of the bed or soil 
 
 of part of the or shores of the Thames or any encroachment embankment or enclosure 
 bed and sou. therefrom or thereupon in front of or immediately adjacent to any lands 
 buildings or hereditaments whereof or whereto Her Majesty or any person 
 or body in trust for her was or were at the commencement of this Act 
 seised or entitled in possession reversion or remainder or which then were 
 the property of any department of Her Majesty's Government or in the 
 possession of any such department or any ofiicers of the same shall not be 
 vested in the Conservators but shall continue vested in or in trust for Her 
 Majesty or in or in trust for such department or officers and be subject to 
 the exercise therein of the same powers authorities rights and pi-ivileges 
 as if this Act had not been passed. 
 
 Certain 60. Notwithstanding any alteration of the constitution of the Con- 
 
 powers^etc. of gervators by this Act effected all the powers and authorities rights and 
 privileges with respect or relation to the conservancy and the preservation 
 and regulation of the Thames and of the several rivers streams and water- 
 courses within the flow and refiow of the tides of the Thames and upon the 
 banks shores and wharfs of the Thames and the port of London which 
 immediately before the passing of the Act of 1857 were vested in or might 
 be exercised by or which had theretofore been exercised by Her Majesty in 
 right of Her Crown or which at any time before the passing of the Act of 
 1857 were given or gi-anted to or had been exercised by or which imme- 
 diately before the passing of that Act were vested in or might be exercised 
 by the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London or by the 
 mayor and aldermen of the said city or by the Common Council or by the 
 
 Conservators 
 continued
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 991 
 
 Lord Mayor of the said city Ijy any statutory enactment in force inime- 
 diatily before the passing of this Act and not hereby repealed or l>y 
 presci-iption usage or charter or otherwise ami which were iiumediately 
 before the passing of tliis Act vested in the Conservators shall ccnitinue 
 vested in the (Conservators as if this Act had not been jnissed to be Ijy 
 them exercised in the same niannt r ami under and subject to the same 
 restrictions as the same niight lm\e l)een respectively legally exercised by 
 the Conservators if this Act had not been passed save only and excei)t so 
 far as the same may be varied by or be inconsistent with this Act. 
 
 61. Notwithstanding the repeal of any enactment or :iiiy alteration of A.s to existing 
 the constitution of the Conservators In' this Act effected — contracts etc. 
 
 (l\ All deeds convevances grants assurances a-ssignnit-nts leases purchases actions etc. 
 ^ ' , ,- ,, , ^ -i-i omcers etc, 
 
 sales mortgages bonds covenants agreements securities and con- ^^^^^ other 
 
 ti-acts entered into or made and subsisting at the passing of this matters. 
 
 Act and then in force and all ol)lig;itions and liabilities incurred 
 
 before the passing of this Act sliall be as binding and of as full 
 
 force and effect in every respect against or in favour of and may 
 
 be enforced as fully and eHectually against or in favour of the 
 
 Conservators as they would or might have been against or 
 
 in favour of the Conservators if this Act had not been passed : 
 
 (2) Any action suit prosecution or other proceeding commenced before 
 
 the passing of this Act either by or against the Conservators 
 shall not abate or be discontinued or prejudicially affected by this 
 Act but on the contrary shall continue and take effect both in 
 favour of and against the Conservators in like manner to all 
 intents as if this Act had not been passed : 
 
 (3) Every officer and servant of the Conservators appointed liy \irtue of 
 
 or acting under the Acts by this Act repealed or any of those 
 Acts shall hold and enjoy his office and employment with 
 the salary and emoluments thereunto annexed and be deemed an 
 officer and servant of the Conservators until he vacate or be 
 removed from such oliice and employment and he shall have the 
 power and authority for the purposes of this Act and be subject 
 to the power of removal rules regulations pains and penalties 
 which he would have had if he had been appointed after the 
 passing of this Act : 
 
 (4) The Conservators shall for the purposes of this Act be and continue 
 
 seised and possessed of and entitled to all things in action claims 
 and demands whatsoever of or to which the Conservators imme- 
 diately before the passing of this Act were seised possessed or 
 entitled : 
 
 (5) All duties of tonnage charges tolls fees rents fines forfeitures penal- 
 
 ties damages and other sums of money at the pa.ssing of this Act 
 
 due or accruing due to the Conservators may be collected and 
 
 recovered by the Conservators as if this Act bad not been passed : 
 (G) All books and documents which if this Act had not been passed 
 
 would have been receivable in evidence shall be receivable in 
 
 evidence as if this Act had not been passed : 
 (7) Everything before the passing of this Act done suffered and 
 
 confirmed respectively shall be as valid as if this Act had 
 
 not been passed. 
 62. Subject to the provisions of this Avi and upon lands belonging General 
 to the Conservators or upon the bed of the Tiiames the Con.servators powers as to 
 may from time to time improve and complete the navigation of the ^"^'^ atfoj, 
 Thames whether for profit or pleasure and may from time to time make 
 erect maintain alter extend discontinue remake and re-erect all such 
 towpaths banks roads bridges ferries and ways for the towing of vessels 
 (with horses or otherwise) and all such locks pounds turnpikes wharfs 
 weirs bucks sluices winches spikes dams flood-gates engines toll-houses 
 and watch-houses for the completing and carrying on and for the use of
 
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 [Chap, clxxxvii.] T/ic/jnes Conservancy Act 1894:. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Ferries 
 
 above 
 
 Teddington. 
 
 Conservators 
 may enter on 
 lands to 
 survey etc. 
 
 Certain 
 powers of 
 leasing heads 
 of -water. 
 
 Conservators 
 to maintain 
 locks etc. 
 
 Eight of 
 public to 
 use works of 
 Conservators. 
 
 Officers etc. 
 of Conser- 
 vators not to 
 give prefer- 
 ences nor to 
 unnecessarily 
 obstruct 
 vessels. 
 
 the navigation of the Thames whether for profit or pleasure as they think 
 fit and supply all such locks and pounds with water and for the purposes 
 of making erecting maintaining altering extending remaking and re- 
 erecting any such locks or pounds in upon or from such lands or bed 
 as aforesaid bore dig cut trench sough get remove take and carry away 
 earth clay stone gravel sand soil rubbish trees and roots. 
 
 63. The Conservators may from time to time establish and maintain 
 ferries across the Thames at such places above Teddington Lock as they 
 think fit and may afterwards discontinue the same or any of them if they 
 think fit Provided always that no ferry shall be established under this 
 section within one mile of any legal ferry or bridge at or in respect 
 of which any toll was on the first day of August one thousand eight 
 hundred and seventy (being the date of commencement of the Act 
 of 1870) taken nor shall the establishment of any ferry under this section 
 give a right of way over any towing-path or other place where a right of 
 way does not at present exist. 
 
 64. For the purposes of this Act the Conservators their officers 
 agents servants and workmen may at all reasonable times enter 
 on any lands (other than lands vested in or in trust for Her 
 Majesty or in ti'ust for any depai'tment of Her Majesty's Government) in 
 or near the Thames in order to survey and take levels thereof and 
 to probe or bore for ascertaining the nature of the soil and to set out the 
 line of any work by this Act authorised to be execvited by the Conservators 
 and to inspect and examine into the condition of any work the Conservators 
 first giving not less than three nor more than fourteen days' notice 
 in writing to the occupier of such lands and causing as little inconvenience 
 as may be in the exercise of the powers of this .section and making 
 compensation for any damage thereby occasioned. 
 
 65. The Conservators may from time to time for such rents or other 
 payments and periods and on and subject to such covenants conditions and 
 restrictions as they think proper lease or grant licences under the hand of 
 the chairman of the Conservators or the secretary to use for purposes for 
 which water power is suitable heads of water from the Thames above 
 Teddington Lock : 
 
 Provided that the powers of this .section shall not be so exercised that 
 any part of the Thames shall be thereby rendered less suitable for 
 purposes of navigation whether for profit or pleasure or less suitable as a 
 source of water supply to any person lawfully entitled to take water 
 therefrom for purposes of supply or less suitable for the purpose of 
 supplying water to any mill or other work whatsoever the owner or 
 occupier whereof was at the passing of this Act and for the time being 
 shall be lawfully entitled to such supply. 
 
 66. The Conservators shall from time to time maintain and repair all 
 locks dams and weirs for the time being vested in them until removed by 
 lawful authority and the Conservators shall have free access by land and 
 Avater to every such lock dam or weir for all necessary purposes. 
 
 67. Subject to the provisions of this Act and to any byelaws of the 
 Conservators for the time being in force all persons shall have free liberty 
 with horses cattle or vehicles to vise any roads and ways except towpaths 
 which shall for the time being belong to the Conservators and wdth vessels 
 to use the locks for the time being belonging to the Conservators and the 
 towpaths of the Thames for towing such vessels. 
 
 68. If any officer or servant of the Conservators .shall give undue 
 preference to or unnecessarily retard or ob.struct any vessel passing into 
 through by over or out of any lock or from any one part to any other part 
 of the Thames or in embarking landing loading or unloading persons 
 or goods at any pier wharf weighbeam crane or other machine of the 
 Conservators he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding forty shillings.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 1804. [Chap, clx.vxvii.] 993 
 
 69. Any water bailiff or officer appointed by the Con.ser\ator.s to carry Tower for 
 into execution any byelaw.s of tlie Con.servators for the time being in force water bailiffs 
 relating to fisheries anil also any other person specially authorised in this ^,f ^^[g/g*^!^. 
 behalf uiidor tlie hand of the chairman of the Conservators or the seci-e- j^^^Q^^g g^^ 
 tary may entt-r into any vessel employed or about to be or having Ijeen 
 employed on the Thames in taking or endeavouring to take tish and may 
 
 therein search for fish unlawfvdly taken and any unlawful or prohiljited 
 net or apparatus for taking or destroying fish and may seize any such fish 
 net or apparatus found therein and may also seize on the shores or banks 
 ■of the Thames any fish unlawfully taken or any unlawful <>r prohibited 
 net or aj)paratus for taking or destroying fish. 
 
 Any such water bailifi" officer or person shall with all practicable speed 
 after so seizing any fish or net or apparatus bring the same before a 
 Justice to be dealt with in pursuance of the byelaws of the Conservators 
 for the time being in force or otherwise according to law. 
 
 70. The Conservators may purchase provide and maintain all such Humane 
 apparatus as they think necessary for assisting in rescuing persons from apparatus 
 drowning searching for drowned per.sons and restoring animation to and assistants 
 persons apparently drowned and may employ and reward assistants therein pj-oVided 
 
 in such manner as the Conservators think fit. 
 
 71. If any person wilfully does any of the following things namely : — Penalties for 
 
 (1) Cuts or injures or causes to be cut or injured any property of the i°3""^s t<^, 
 ^ ' n ^ . .^ 1 r J property of 
 ,,, ^ Conservators; . . Coi!ser4tors 
 
 (2) Does anything whereby injury is caused to any property of the gj^. 
 
 Conservators ; 
 
 (3) Opens or causes to be opened any lock gate paddle valve clough or 
 
 sluice belonging to any lock or weir on the Thames ; 
 {4) Flushes or draws down or causes to be flushed or drawn down water 
 from any lock or lock cut on the Thames ; 
 
 (5) Cuts breaks or injures or causes to be cut broken or injured any 
 
 tree hedge fence embankment briilge post rail or other work 
 upon any lands belonging to the Conservators or used for any of 
 the purposes of this Act ; 
 
 (6) Injures any towpath of the Thames ; 
 
 he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty 
 pounds. 
 
 Rights of Navigation and Removal of Obstructions and Dangerous 
 
 Erections. 
 
 72. — (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act it shall be lawful for all Public right 
 persons whether for pleasure or profit to go and be pass and repass in ^^ navigation, 
 vessels over or upon any and every part of the Thames through which 
 Thames water flows including all such backwaters creeks side-channels 
 bays and inlets connected therewith as form p;irts of the said river. 
 
 (2) Provided that all private artificial cuts for purposes of drainage or 
 irrigation and all artificial inlets for moats boathouses ponds or other like 
 ])rivate purposes already made or hereafter to be made and all channels 
 which by virtue of any conveyance from or agreement with the Con- 
 servators or the Commissioners acting under any of the Acts mentioned 
 in Part II. of the First Schedule to this Act or by any lawful title had 
 been enjoyed as private channels for the period of twenty years before the 
 fourteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five 
 (being the date of commencement of the Act of 1885) shall be deemed not 
 to be parts of the Thames for the purposes of any provisions of this Act 
 relating to rights of navigation and removal of obstructions and dangerous 
 erections. 
 
 (3) Provided also that notwithstanding anything in this section the 
 Conservators may from time to time exclude the pulJic for a limited period 
 from specified portions of the Thames for purposes connected with the 
 
 64
 
 994 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.}' 
 
 navigation or with any public work or uses or for the preservation of 
 public order. 
 
 (4) The right of navigation in this section described shall be deemed to- 
 include a right to anchor moor or remain stationaiy for a reasonable time 
 in the ordinary course of pleasure navigation subject to such restrictions 
 as the Conservators may from time to time bv byelaws determine and 
 the Conservators shall make special regulations for the prevention of 
 annoyance to any occupier of a riparian residence by reason of the 
 loitering or delay of any house-boat or steam launch and for the pre- 
 vention of the pollution of the Thames by the sewage of any house-boat 
 or steam launch. 
 
 (5) Provided that nothing in this section or in any byelaw made there- 
 under shall be construed to deprive any riparian owner of any legal rights 
 in the soil or bed of the Thames which he may now possess or of any legal 
 remedies which he may now possess for prevention of anchoring mooring 
 loitering or delay of any vessel or to give any riparian owner any right as 
 against the public which he did not possess before the passing of this Act 
 to exclude any person from entering upon or navigating any backwater 
 creek channel bay inlet or other water. 
 
 (6) If any person obstructs the navigation in this section described by 
 means of any weir bridge piles dam chain barrier or other impediment 
 then unless the same or substantially the same had been maintained for 
 the period of twenty years before the fourteenth day of August one- 
 thousand eight hundred and eighty-tive (being the date of commencement 
 of the Act of 1885) and if the Conservators by notice in writing require 
 him to remove the same within a time to be specified in such notice such 
 person shall comply with such notice and if he do not do so he shall be 
 liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to a daily penalty not 
 exceeding two pounds. 
 
 73. [^Persons not to moor iti Taplow Jlill Stream.^ 
 
 74. [Xo tolls to be demanded for 2)rivate locks.^ 
 
 As to drawing 75. — -(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Conservatoi'S from 
 
 down etc. of time to time may for the purpose of detei'mining the height or depth of 
 
 water. water at any place in the Thames fix in oi- at Teddington Lock and 
 
 any lock on the Thames above that lock head-water and low-water and 
 
 such other marks as they may deem necessary and may regulate as they 
 
 think fit the opening shutting and management of the locks and works 
 
 on the Thames and the drawing dowji or keejjing back of the water by 
 
 means of any of those locks or works. 
 
 (2) Provided that— 
 
 (a) The Conservators shall so regulate the said locks works and water 
 
 as not to interfere in the case of any mill with the maintenance 
 of as eflicient a head of water for the purposes thereof as 
 immediately before the sixth day of August one thousand eight 
 hundred and sixty-six (being the date of commencement of the 
 Act of 1866) might lawfully be maintained for those purposes 
 so long as all the rights of the owner lessee and occupier of such 
 mill to require the maintenance of such head of water shall not 
 have been acquired by the Conservators ; 
 
 (b) One month at the least before they fix any head-water mark at any 
 
 place where no such mark existed on the ninth day of May one 
 thousand eight hundred and ninety-four or alter the level of any 
 such mark which existed on that day the Conservators shall 
 publish once in a newspaper published and circulating in the 
 neighbourhood of the place where they propose to fix or alter 
 such mark and shall set up and thereafter during one month at 
 the least keep conspicuously displayed at such place a notice 
 setting foi^th at what place it is proposed to fix or alter such 
 mark and the level at which it is proposed that such mark 
 .shall be ;
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames ConservaJic;/ Act 1804. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 995 
 
 (c) The powers of this section shull not be so exercised as to interfere 
 
 with or prejudice the taking of water by any of the metropolitan 
 
 water companies * at their respective intakes by gravitation or 
 
 otlierwise. 
 
 (.J) Tlie Conservators shall as far as reasonably practicable prevent the 
 
 waters of the Thames being at any place above the level of any head-water 
 
 niiirk for the time being fixed at such place. 
 
 (4) In case of any diiU-rence between the C'onservatois an<l the owner 
 lessee or occupier of any mill relative to the exercise of the powers by this 
 section vested in the Conservators or between the Conservators and the 
 owner lessee or occupier of any land who shall within one month of the 
 piiblii-ation lierein- before in this section mentioned have given notice in 
 writing to the Conservators that he objects to the level at which they 
 propose to fix any head-water mark on the ground that it is too high such 
 difference shall be determined by an arlntrator to be appointed on the 
 application of either party by the Board of Trade. 
 
 (5) If any owner lessee or occupier of any land sliall suffer any damage 
 by reason of the Conservators not complying with the provisions of this 
 section relating to tlie pi'evention of water lieing at any place above the 
 level of any head-water mark for tlie time Vteing fixed at such place the 
 Consei'vators shall pay to him sucli compensation as in case of difference 
 sliall be dett-'rmined by an arbitrator to be appointed on the application 
 of either party by the Board of Trade or where the amount of the com- 
 pensation claimed does not exceed twenty pounds shall be determined by 
 a court of summary jurisdiction. 
 
 (G) Notwithstanding anything in this Act but subject to any byelaws 
 made thereunder any owner lessee or occupier of any mill may draw down 
 the water to such extent and at such times as may reasonably be required 
 for the repair of such mill or any flood-gates or waterworks belonging 
 thereto and for the purpose of cleansing the mill stream. 
 
 76. The Conservators may from time to time prescribe levels at places Power to 
 
 on the Thames below which it shall not be lawful for the owner or prevent mill- 
 occupier of any mill to drawn down or lower the \vater in the Thames '^^''^^P 
 for the purpose of working his mill and any owner or occupier of any mill ^lo'wn \^ater 
 drawing down or lowering the water in the Thames below the prescribed below certain 
 level at any such place shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty levels, 
 not exceeding ten pounds : 
 
 Provided always that if by reason of any such level being prescribed as 
 aforesaid the owner or occupier of any mill is deprived of all or any part 
 of any head of water for tlie purpose of working his mill to which he was 
 theretofore lawfully entitli d and sutlers any loss or damage the Con- 
 servators shall pay to him sucli compensation as shall be determined in 
 case of difference liy an arbitrator to be appointed on the application of 
 either party by the Board of Trade. 
 
 77. Whenever any vessel is .sunk or .stranded in the Thames the Con- As to vessels 
 servators shall cause such vessel to be rai.sed or to be blown up or otherwise sunk or 
 destroyed so as to clear the Thames therefrom and shall cause any such strauded. 
 ve.ssel and the furniture tackle and ajipjirel thereof or any part thereof 
 respectively which shall be raised or saved and also all or any part of the 
 
 goods chattels and effects which may be raised or saved from any such 
 vessel to be sold in such manner as they think fit and out of the proceeds 
 of such sale shall reimburse themselves for the expenses incurnd by them 
 under this section and any ex[)ense incurred by them in watching or con- 
 trolling such vessel and shall hold the siu'plus if any of such proceeds in 
 trust for the per.sous entitled thereto and in ca.se such proceeds shall be 
 insulhcient to reimburse the Conservators sttch expenses the deficiency 
 shall be paid to the Conservators by the owner of such vessel upon demand 
 and in default of payment may be recovered in the same manner as any 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
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 [Chap. clxxxvii.J Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Obstruction 
 may be 
 removed. 
 
 As to cutting 
 trees ob- 
 structing 
 navigation or 
 towpaths. 
 
 Wharves 
 piers and 
 banks to be 
 repaired. 
 
 Broken piles 
 etc. to be 
 removed. 
 
 penalty impo.sed by this Act may be recovered or may be recovered as a 
 debt in any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 78. Subject to the pro\asions of this Act the Conservators may remove 
 any thing causing an obstruction in the Thames or to the proper use of 
 any towpath thereof and also any floating timber which impedes the 
 navigation thereof and the expense of removing any such thing or floating 
 timber shall be repaid to the Conservators by the owner of the same and 
 the Conserv^ators may detain such thing or floating timber for securing 
 reimbursement to themselves for such expenses and on nonpayment 
 thereof on demand may sell such thing or floating timber and out of 
 the proceeds reimburse themselves for such expenses rendering the surplus 
 if any to the owner on demand and in case such proceeds shall be in- 
 suflicient to reimbur.se the Conservators such expenses the deficiency 
 shall be paid to the Conservators by such owner on demand and in default 
 of payment may be recovered in the same manner as any penalty imposed 
 by this Act may be recovered or may be recovered as a debt in any court 
 of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 79. Whenever the navigation of the Thames or the proper use of any 
 towpath thereof Ls obstructed by any tree bush shrub or projection the 
 Conservators may apply to a court of summary jurisdiction for an order 
 upon the owner or occupier of the land whereon such tree bush shrub or 
 projection grows or is fixed to cut prune or lop such tree bush or shrub 
 or to remove such projection so that the navigation of the Thames or the 
 proper use of the towpath be not obstructed thereby and such court may 
 make such order and if such owner or occupier shall not comply therewith 
 within a time to be .specified therein the Conservators may cut prune or 
 lop such tree bush or shrub or remove such projection and recover in the 
 same manner as any penalty imposed by this Act may be recovered or 
 recover as a debt in any court of competent juiisdiction the expenses 
 thereby incurred from such owner or occupier and such owner or occupier 
 shall also be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day 
 during which such order remains not complied with. 
 
 80. Whenever in the opinion of the Conservators any wharf pier or 
 artificial bank or any portion thereof respectively is out of repair or 
 insecure so as to be dangerous to any person pas.sing along the Thames 
 or to any vessel either moored alongside of or passing by the same or is 
 in any manner injurious or likely to be injurious to the Thames or to the 
 free navigation thereof the Conservators by notice in writing given to 
 the owner or occupier of such wharf pier or bank or if such owner or 
 occupier cannot be found left upon or aifixed to such Avharf pier or bank 
 may require the owner or occupier thereof to repair such wharf pier or 
 bank to the satisfaction of an engineer of the Conservators within a time 
 to be specified in such notice and in case the owner or occupier does not 
 comply with such notice the Conservators may put such wharf pier or 
 bank into repair and recover as a debt in any court of competent juris- 
 diction the expenses incurred thereby from the owner or occupier thereof 
 or the owner or occupier of any house or land to which such wharf pier 
 or bank may belong or with which the same may be connected and used 
 and such owner or occupier shall also be liable to a penalty not exceeding 
 ten pounds for every day during which such wharf pier or bank continues 
 out of repair after the expiration of the time specified in the notice for the 
 repair thereof : 
 
 Provided that no bank shall for the purposes of this section be deemed 
 to be artificial by reason only of the owner or occupier thereof having 
 constructed works for the protection thereof. 
 
 81. The Conservators may from time to time remove any broken 
 dangerous or useless piles or mooring chains and other nuisances and 
 remove or shorten any waterways cau.seways stairs or other projections 
 injurious to the navigation of the Thames and any expenses incurred by
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 997 
 
 the Conservators under this section sliiill lie recoverable l>y them as a debt 
 with full costs of suit in any court of competent jurisdiction from the 
 owner or occupier of the premises so removed or shortene<l : 
 
 Provided that the Conservatoi-s shall not except in case of emergency 
 remove any such piles or mooring chain or other nuisance or remove or 
 shorten any such waterway causeway stairs or other projection which 
 shall respectively be above the City Stone above Staines Bridge unless 
 they shall have given to the owner or occupier of such piles chain 
 nuisance waterway causeway stairs or other projection notice in writing 
 of their intention so to do seven days at the least before commencing so 
 to do nor unless such owner or occupier shall riot within seven days after 
 receipt of such notice have failed to remove or shorten the same. 
 
 82. Kvery person who without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall preventing 
 lie upon him) puts or causes or suffers to be upon any towpath of the obstructions 
 Thames anything which obstructs the passage of persons or horses along of towpatbs. 
 such path and does not remove the same after notice in writing from the 
 Conservators so to do within a reasonable time to be specified in such 
 notice shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five 
 pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 
 
 DredijiiKj and Ballastinfj. 
 
 83.* The Conservators may from time to time do all or any of the Conservators' 
 things following namely : — powers as to 
 
 (1) For the purpose of maintaining and improving and freeing or j ^, ^^9^ 
 
 keeping free from obstruction the navigation of the Thames — ^ ^^ ^°^^ ^' 
 
 (a) Dredge cleanse and scour the Thames ; 
 
 (b) Alter deepen restrict enlarge widen diminish lengthen shorten 
 
 straighten and improve the bed and channel of the Thames ; 
 
 (c) Reduce or remove any shoals shelves banks or other accumula- 
 
 tions in the Thames ; 
 
 (d) Abate or remove or cause to be abated or removed all impedi- 
 
 ments obstructions and annoyances and all nuisances and 
 
 abuses whatsoever in the Thames or on the banks or shores 
 
 thereof : 
 
 Provided that for the purposes of this sub-section the Thames shall 
 
 be deemt'd to include so much of the estuary of the River Thames 
 
 outside the limits of the jurisdiction of the Conservators of the 
 
 River Medway and so much of the shores of such estuary as are 
 
 westward of a straight line drawn fi'om the Shoeburyness water 
 
 tower in the county of Essex to Eastchurch Church in the county 
 
 of Kent: 
 
 (2) Dredge and raise from the Thames gravel sand and other substances 
 
 for the purposes of making altering re])airing and maintaining 
 towing-paths and roads and straightening and improving the 
 course of parts of the Thames by tilling up and raising creeks 
 inlets I)ends Hats and slolilands in and adjoining to the Thames 
 and constructing altering repairing and maintaining works 
 executed or to be executed l)y or for them or belonging to 
 them : 
 Provided that any gravel sand or other substance so dredged or 
 
 I'aised above the City Stone above Staines Bridge shall only be used 
 
 for any of the purposes aforesaid al>ove the said City Stone: 
 
 (3) Dredge and raise from the Thames below Teddington Lock ballast 
 
 for the purpose of supplying the same to vessels in the Thames : 
 
 (4) Carry away deposit sell or otherwise dispose of any gi-avel sand 
 
 ballast and other substances raised by them under the powers 
 conferred by this section and not reijuired for the purpose for 
 which the same was so raised : 
 
 * See 5 Edw. 7, c. cxcviii. ss. 3 and 14.
 
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 [Chap. clxxxvii.J Thames Coyiservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 
 shorten 
 
 bends. 
 
 Banks may 
 be cut. 
 
 Power to 
 deal with 
 materials fill 
 up creeks etc, 
 
 Prohibition 
 
 against 
 
 dredging 
 
 without 
 
 licence of 
 
 Conservators 
 
 (5) Undertake if they think fit the supplying of vessels in the Thames 
 
 with ballast on such terms as they may from time to time 
 
 think fit : 
 (G) Undertake if they think fit to place ballast on board vessels in the 
 
 Thames or to unload ballast therefrom on such terms as they from 
 
 time to time think tit. 
 
 * 84. The Conservators for the purpose of improving the navigation or 
 the flow of water may from time to time remove scour and take away any 
 shoal mud bank or other accumulation in the Thames and also shoi^ten 
 any bend or remove any angle in the course of the Thames and for such 
 purpose enter into agreements with the owners of land adjoining or in or 
 near to the Thames for the purchase of land or otherwise to enable them 
 to effect the same. 
 
 * 85. The Conservators may cut the banks of the Thames for the 
 purpose of making enlarging or repairing any dock or canal or any drain 
 sewer or watercourse or altering laying down or repairing any suction or 
 other pipe or for any other purpose whatsoever or permit and suft'er any 
 person to cut the banks for any of the purposes aforesaid under such 
 restrictions and upon such terms and conditions as the Conservators shall 
 think proper to impose. 
 
 * 86. The Conservators in connexion with the deposit by them of gravel 
 sand and other substances raised or taken from the Thames below Ted- 
 dington Lock by dredging or straightening thereof or in connexion with 
 forming or repairing towing-paths or roads or with straightening and 
 improving the course of parts of the Thames by filling up and raising 
 creeks inlets bends flats and sloblands in and adjoining to the Thames by 
 the use of gravel sand and other substances raised or taken from the 
 Thames as aforesaid may in or upon lands belonging to the Conservators 
 or in or upon the bed of the Thames place piles and make groynes retaining 
 walls and other works and may sell and dispose of lands thei"eby filled up 
 raised or reclaimed : 
 
 Provided that no such sale or disposition of any land between Ted- 
 dington Lock and Yantlet Creek shall take place for a less sum than 
 shall be certified to be the value of the land intended to be sold every such 
 valuation being signed by the person for the time being appointed and 
 approved in manner provided by the section of this Act whereof the 
 marginal note is " Consideration for licence to be previously approved " 
 and a copy of every such valuation shall be transmitted by the Con- 
 servators to the Commissioners of Woods as provided by that section and 
 a statement of every such sale and disposition of any land between Ted- 
 dington Lock and Yantlet Creek shall be included in the return to be 
 from time to time transmitted in manner ^^rovided by the section of this 
 Act whereof the marginal note is "Annual return of certain moneys 
 received by Conservators to be sent to and certain annual payments to 
 be made to Commissionei's of Woods " and one equal third part of the 
 consideration money for every such sale or disposition shall be from time 
 to time paid over by the Conservators unto the Commissioners of Woods 
 in manner provided by that section : 
 
 Provided also that this section shall not apply to any part of the Thames 
 in front of or adjoining to any land for the time being belonging to the 
 Crown. [.See s. 239.] 
 
 87. Any person with and in accordance with the licence of the Con- 
 servators under the hand of the chairman of the Conservators or the secre- 
 taiy may dredge and raise gravel sand ballast and other substances from 
 the bed of the Thames other than that portion thereof mentioned in the 
 section of this Act whereof the marginal note is " Reservation of part of 
 the bed and soil " but subject to the provisions of this Act it shall not 
 be lawful for any j)erson other than the Conservators their agents servants 
 
 * See 5 Edw. 7, c. cxcviii. ss. 3 and 14.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Consermnc;/ Act W.)A. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 999 
 
 jind workmen to dredge or raise any gravel sand ballast or other substance 
 from the bed of the Tliam«^s other than that portion thereof mentioned in 
 the said section except with and in accordance with such licence (proof of 
 which licence sliall lie on the person accused) and if any person acts in 
 contravention of this enactment he shall for every such ofience be liable 
 to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds without prejudice to any other 
 remedy or proceeding against him Provided that nothing in this section 
 shall take away prejudice or allect the rights if any of dro<lging or raising 
 gravel sand ballast or other substances from the bed of the Thames alxjve 
 the City Stone al)Ove Staines liridge which wouhl have lieen vested in or 
 exerciseable by the owners of the soil of such bed if this Act had not been 
 passed. [<S'ee s. 59.] 
 
 88. Before commencing to dredge cleanse scour or deepen any part of Notice to l>e 
 the bed or channel of the Thames within twenty yards of any liridge over ^iven before 
 the Thames or of any pier or abutment of any such bridge (jr within cgrtj^n^^MCs. 
 twenty yards of the structure of any tunnel under the Thames the Con- 
 servators shall give to the owner of such Inidge or tunnel as the Ciuse may 
 
 be fourteen clear days' notice in writing of their intention so to do and 
 stating the position depth and extent of the intended dredging cleansing 
 scouring or deepening. 
 
 89. Notwithstanding anything in this Act the Conservators shall not For the 
 without the previous consent of the West London Extension Railway protection of 
 Company in writing dredge cleanse scour or deepen any part of the bed or lJj^.iojj 
 channelof the Thames under or within twenty yards of the bridge which Extension 
 carries the said company's railway over the Thames and which is Railway 
 referred to in section Gt» of the West London Extension Eailway Act Company. 
 1859 to an extent exceeding thirty feet below the level of Trinity High 
 
 Water Mark. 
 
 Pollution. 
 
 90. In the provisions of this Act relating to pollution the word Interpreta- 
 " tributary " means and includes the whole and every part of any and ^^?^ ^^ PJ°' 
 every river stream watercourse cut dock canal channel and water being ^j^j^ ^^^ 
 within all or any of the several counties of Gloucester Wilts Oxon Bucks relating to 
 Berks Hants Surrey Middlesex Herts Essex and Kent and administrative pollution, 
 county of London and being within the catcliment area of the Thames 
 
 and communicating either directly or indirectly with the Thames except 
 as follows : — 
 
 (1) So much as is more than three miles from the Thames of every 
 river stream watercourse cut dock canal channel and water 
 which first communicates whether directly or indirectly with the 
 Thames at a point eastward of the western boundary of the 
 county of London ; 
 
 <2) So much "of the Biver Lee as is above the south boundary stones in 
 the Lee Conservancy Act 1868 mentioned ; 
 
 <3) Every river stream watercourse cut dock canal channel and water 
 which is within the catchment area of .so much of the Biver Lee 
 • as is above the said stones ; and 
 
 {4) Every cut dock and canal belonging to any of the dock companies 
 established under the authority of Parliament at the port of 
 London or to any other company established under such 
 authority and owning any dock within that port. 
 
 91. It shall be the duty of the Conservators by all lawful and proi)er Duty of 
 means to preserve and maintain at all times as far as may be the tlow and Conservators 
 purity of the water of the Thames and its tributaries down to the [j^P'"^^^,"^ 
 western boundary of the county of London and to cause the surface of purify of 
 the Thames and its tributaries within three miles of the Thames to be water. 
 
 (as far as is reasonably practicalde) etVectually .scavenged down to the said 
 •western boundary in order to the removal therefrom of substaiices liable to 
 putrefaction.
 
 1000 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Prohibition 
 of throwing 
 ballast etc. 
 into river or 
 allowing 
 offensive 
 matter to 
 flow into it. 
 
 Sewage etc. 
 prohibited 
 from being 
 sent into 
 Thames etc. 
 where not 
 lawfully so 
 .sent at pass- 
 ing of Act. 
 
 Notice for 
 fli.scontinu- 
 ance of 
 IX)llution. 
 
 92. If any per.son without lawful excu.se (the proof whereof .shall lie 
 tipon him) does any of the following things namely: — 
 
 (1) Unloads throws or puts or causes or suffers to fall any gravel 
 
 or any substance which has been used as balla.st or any stones 
 earth mud ashes dirt soil or rubbish or any refuse from gas- 
 works or other manufactories into the Thames or on the shore 
 thereof ; 
 
 (2) Unloads throws or puts or causes or suffers to fall any such gravel 
 
 or other thing as aforesaid into any tributary at any point 
 within three miles of the Thames .so that the same will or may 
 be carried into the Thames ; 
 
 (3) Knowingly puts any such gravel or other thing as aforesaid in any 
 
 place where the same is likely to be carried by floods or extra- 
 ordinary tides into the Thames ; 
 
 (4) Wilfully causes or suffers any washing or other sub.stance pro- 
 
 duced in making or supplying gas or any other offensive matter 
 whether solid or fluid to flow or pass into the Thames or inta 
 any tributary ; 
 
 (5) Puts and allows to remain for more than forty-eight hours any heap 
 
 or collection of manure a.shes or other offensive matter whether 
 solid or fluid upon any bank of the Thames or of any tributary 
 at any point within three miles of tlie Thames or puts and 
 allows to remain for more than forty-eight hom*s any such 
 heap or collection near to the Thames or any tributary at 
 any point within the distance aforesaid so that the same will 
 or be likely to drain be blown or pass into the Thames or suck 
 tributary ; 
 he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty 
 pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 
 
 Where any offence against this enactment is committed from or out of a 
 vessel the ma.ster and the owner of the vessel shall be liable to be pro- 
 ceeded against and punished under this enactment so that the master 
 and the owner of the vessel be not both punished in respect of the same 
 offence. 
 
 Any constable and any person whom a constable may call to his- 
 assistance may take into custody without warrant any person found 
 committing any offence against sub-sections (1) (2) (3) or (4) of this 
 enactment as to whose name and address such constable is not reasonably 
 satisfied. 
 
 Provided always that sub-section (4) of this section shall not extend or 
 apply to any ve.ssel within the limits of the port of London and under 
 the jurisdiction of the port sanitary authority thereof. 
 
 93. If any person does any of the following things namely : — 
 
 (1) Opens into the Thames or into any tributary any sewer drain pipe 
 
 or channel whei'eby sewage or any other offen.sive or injurious- 
 matter whether solid or fluid shall or is likely to flow or pass into 
 the Thames or into such triV)utaiy ; 
 
 (2) Wilfully causes or without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall 
 
 lie upon him) suffers any sewage or matter aforesaid to flow or 
 pass into the Thames or into any tributary down or thi-ough 
 any sewer di-ain pipe or channel not at the passing of this 
 Act lawfully used for that purpose ; 
 he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding one 
 hundred pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 
 
 94. — (1) Whenever any sewage or matter aforesaid is caused or 
 .suffered to flow oi- pass into the Thames or into any tributary then and 
 in every such case even though such sewage or matter aforesaid had been 
 lawfully so cau.sed or suffered to flow or pass before the passing of this 
 Act the Conservators shall give notice in writing to the person causing or 
 suffering the same so to flow or pass requiring him within a time to be
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservanci/ Act 1804. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1001 
 
 specified in such notice but not l>eing less tlian thre<' months to (liscontinue 
 such flow or passa<j;e. 
 
 (2) Provided that the Conservators may if they think fit at any time 
 and from time to time extend the time specified in such notice by another 
 notice in wiiting. 
 
 (3) And provided that if any person to whom any such notice is given 
 thinks liimself aggrieved by reason of the time allowed either by the 
 original or Ijy any subseijuent notice not being suHicient ho may not later 
 than one month before the expiration of the time so allowed by writing 
 delivered to the secretary demand an extension of such time and in case 
 the Conservators refuse to comply with such demand the (piestion of 
 such extension shall l)e refeiied to an aibitrator appointed by agreement 
 or failing agreement by the Board of Trade on the application of either 
 party. 
 
 (4) Any person to whom any notice is under this section given by the 
 Conservators shall notwithstanding anything in any other Act within the 
 time allowed by such notice subject to any extension of such time as in this 
 section ])i-ovided discontinue the flow or passage of the sewage or matter 
 to which the notice refei-s and in default of so doing shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanour and be liable on summary conviction thereof or on con- 
 viction thereof on indictment to a penalty not exceeding one hundred 
 pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding flfty pounds. 
 
 (5) Provided that notwithstanding anything in this Act or in any Act 
 incorporated therewith any proceeding in respect of such a misdemeanour 
 may be removed b}' certiorari into the High Court. 
 
 95. Any notice given under the provisions of this Act relating to NTotioe to 
 pollution by the Conservators to the owner or occupier of any land or affect succes- 
 premises shall continue in force notwithstanding any temporary or partial '^'^''^ owners 
 suspension of the flow or passage of sewage or matter afoi-esaid from such 
 
 land or premises and notwithstanding any change in the ownership or 
 occupation of such land or premises and shall affect the owners and 
 occupiers of such land or premises in succession to the owner or occupier 
 upon whom such notice was served in like manner in every respect and 
 with the same obligations and consequences as though such successive 
 ownei'S or occupiers were the owner or occupier upon whom such notice 
 was sei'ved. 
 
 96. When any such notice has been given with respect to the discon- Pitx?eetlings 
 tinuance of the flow or passage of any sewage or matter aforesaid from ftir default 
 any land or premises used for manufnctuiing purposes and not situated in "'\^ to be 
 
 a town and for three years thereafter no proceedings have been taken by ^-'ertain eases 
 the Conservators in respect of any default in complying with such notice 
 then and in every such case no proceeding shall be taken in respect of any 
 such default unless the Conservators before commencing such prweedings 
 have given a renewal or copy of such notice to the person liable in respt ct 
 of such default and such person has suffered one month to elapse after the 
 receipt of sui-li notice ami has not during such period complied with the 
 requirements of such notice. 
 
 97. Every notice given by the Conservators under the authority of the Continuance 
 Acts by this Act repealed or of any of those Acts to the owner or occupier of notices 
 of any premises with respect to the disci)ntinuance of the flow or passage *^!\^|* , j"^^ 
 of sewage or any other offensive or injurious matter from such premises ,{,j\, .^^.^ 
 shall notwithstanding the repeal of the said Acts continue in force and so 
 
 far as any such notice was duly given shall be deemeil to be a notice duly 
 given for a like purpose under the authority of this Act Provided that 
 ■where any such notice requires anything to be discontinued within a time 
 therein specified or where the said repeale<l Acts or any of tlnxse Acts 
 required anything to be discontinued within any time from the giving of 
 such notice prescribed by such Acts or any of those Acts or where under 
 such Acts or anv of those Acts such notice would if this Act had not been
 
 1002 
 
 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1S94. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Power to 
 enter and 
 inspect lands 
 etc. for pur- 
 poses of this 
 part of Act. 
 
 Sanitary 
 authorities 
 owners and 
 occupiers 
 to afford 
 information. 
 
 passed be in force for any prescribed time then in any and every of those 
 cases such time shall be reckoned as it would have been reckoned if this 
 Act bad not been passed. 
 
 98. For the purpose of giving effect to the pro\'isions of this Act 
 relating to pollution the Conservators and their officers on producing if 
 required so to do a certificate of their personal authority signed b}' the 
 secretary may from time to time and at any time betwen the hours of nine 
 in the forenoon and four in the afternoon enter upon any land or premises 
 for the purpose of examining and laying open the same and if admission 
 is refused any court of summary jurisdiction on complaint thereof on oath 
 by any officer of the Conservators (made after reasonable notice in writing 
 of the intention to make the same has been given to the person having 
 custody of the land or premises) may by order require the person having 
 custody of the land or premises to admit during the hours aforesaid the 
 Conservators and their officers or any of them upon the land or premises 
 and to permit them or any of them to examine and lay open the same 
 and if no person having custody of the land or premises can be found the 
 court shall on oath made before it of that fact by oi'der authorise 
 the Conservators and their officei-s or any of them during the hours 
 aforesaid to enter upon such land or premises and to examine and lay 
 open the same. 
 
 Any order made under this section shall continue in force until the 
 examination and laying open of the land or premises for the purposes of 
 which such order was made are completed. 
 
 Any person who refuses to obey an order made under this section shall 
 be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 Where in the exercise of any of the powers by this section confei*red the 
 Conservators and their officers or any of them lay or lays open any land or 
 premises they or he shall forthwith make and complete such examination 
 and fill in and make good the surface of such land and I'estore the same or 
 such j)remises (as the case may be) as near as may be to the former 
 condition thereof. 
 
 Where any person sustains any damage by reason of the exei'cise of any 
 of the powers of this section in relation to any matter as to which he is not 
 himself in default full compensation shall be made to such person by the 
 Conservators and any dispute as to the fact of damage or amount of 
 compensation shall in default of agi-eement be ascei'tained by and recovered 
 before a court of summary jurisdiction Provided always that the 
 pi"ovisions of this section shall not apply within the limits of the j3ort of 
 London under the jurisdiction of the port sanitary authority thereof. 
 \_See 54 & 55 Vict. c. 76, s. Ill and note thereon.] 
 
 99. For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this Act 
 relating to pollution the urban or rural sanitary authority of any district 
 in which and every person owning or occupying any lands on in thi-ough 
 or under which any sewer or drain being within all or any of the several 
 counties of Gloucester Wilts Oxon Bucks Berks Hants Surrey Middlesex 
 Herts Essex and Kent and administrative county of London and being 
 within the catchment area of the Thames exclusive of the catchment area 
 of so much of the River Lee as is above the south bovindary stones in the 
 Lee Conservancy Act 1868 mentioned is situate shall within twenty-eight 
 days after application in writing therefor made to such authority or person 
 (as the case may be) by the Conservators (such application being addressed 
 in the case of a sanitary authority to the clerk of such authority) produce 
 for inspection by the Conservators all such plans (in his possession) of and 
 if requested so to do furnish to the Conservators at reasonable charges to 
 be paid by the Consei-vators copies of all such plans of such sewer or drain 
 as and furnish to the Conservatoi's all such information as to such sewer or 
 drain and the ownei-ship of or control over the same as such authority or 
 person (as the case may be) may be able to produce or furnish and if any 
 such authority or person (as the case may be) shall make default in
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 1804. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1003 
 
 «o doing they oi' lie (as tliu- case uiav be) .shall he liable for every such 
 offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 100. After the conviction of any person of an offence against the Power to 
 provisions of the .sections of this Act whereof the niar''inal notes are "'^T "P o"*^- 
 " Sewage etc. prohibited frouj being sent into Thames etc. where not ^ 
 lawfully so .sent at pas.sing of Act" and "Notice for discontinuance ' 
 
 of pollution " or of either of those sections the Conservators may 
 with the sanction of the court which so convicted such pei^on (but not 
 othei-vvise) stop up tlie outlet of any .sewer di-.iin pipe or chanjiel in respect 
 of or by means of which such offence was committed or whereby flowed or 
 passed the .sewage or matter for not discontinuing the How oi- ]«issage of 
 whicli such person was convicted of an offence a.s aforesaid and foi- that 
 purpose may do all works that appear to them requisite and may enter on 
 any hinds and the court may order that the Con.servators may recover from 
 the per.son offending all expen.ses incurred Ijy them in so doing with costs 
 either as a penalty under tliis Act is recovei-able or as a debt in any court 
 of competent jurisdiction If any person at any time prevents obstructs 
 oi' hinders the (Jonservatois fiom or in stopping up any outlet as aforesaid 
 or unstops ui' damages any woiks for stopping up any outlet stopped up by 
 the Conservators under this section he shall for every such offence be liable 
 to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds : 
 
 Providetl tliat no sewer drain jnpe or channel dischai-ging into the 
 Thames below Toddington Lock and vested in any local autliority shall 
 be stopped up if such local authority have taken or be taking all practical 
 means to procure the conviction of the actual offender. [See sm. 93 and 94.] 
 
 101. The Conservators and their officers or any of them on pioducing if For prcveut- 
 required so to do a certificate of their or his per.sonal authority signed by '°= pollution 
 the .secretary may once in every year and at any other time wlien they or {^oard^and 
 he have or has reasonable cau.se to su.spect that any alteration has been inspect 
 made since the last iusj)ection in the .sanitai-y ai'rangements of the vessel vessels in 
 board and insjiect at any i-easonable time every part of any ves.sel being in Thames 
 the Thames above Teddington Lock for the purpose of ascertaining j'^y 
 whether any sewage or any other offensive or injurious matter whether j^ock 
 
 solid or ffuid is passing or can pass into the Thames from or out of such 
 vessel If any person obstructs or hinders the Consei"vatoi-s and their 
 ofKcers or any of them in the exerci.se of the powers conferred by this 
 ^section he shall for every sucli offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 
 five pounds. 
 
 102. All per.sons cutting and also all persons employing othei's to cut or Weeds, etc. 
 knowingly suffering per.sons in their employ to cut weeds grass or other "°* ^"^ . 
 vegetation in the Thames or in any tributary shall remove or cau.se to be Thames, 
 removed therefrom such weeds grass or other vegetation immediately after 
 
 the cutting thereof .so as to prevent their remaining in and decaying and 
 contaminating the water of the Thames and no per.'^on shall throw or 
 sweep or employ any other person to throw or sweep or knowingly suffer 
 any person in his employ to throw or sweep any weeds grass or other 
 vegetation into the Thames or into any tributary and every per.son who 
 acts in contravention of this enactment shall for every such offence 
 be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 103. It shall not be competent for any pei"son other than the Kicht to 
 Conservators their officers attorneys solicitors or agents to institute r''".^*-'*^\''*' ^<> 
 or carry on any proceeding or prosecution under the provisions of ^.^^^^^ q,jK. 
 this Act relating to 2)ollution. [See the Hii'ers Polli'tion Prevention Act 
 
 187^. .s. 8.] 
 
 104. Nothing in the i)rovi.sions of this Act relating to pollution shall be Act not to 
 deemed to legalise or permit any nui.sance or shall take away or prejudi- leg;ah'^f 
 cially affect any remedy or right which any jierson would or might have "^'.^"0^^^°'^ 
 had or exercised if this Act had not l)een passi-d as against any person for remedies, 
 the time being causing or suffering the flow or passage of any sewage or 
 
 matter as aforesaid.
 
 1004 
 
 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Provision as 
 to West Ham 
 Corporation. 
 
 For protec- 
 tion of culti- 
 vation of 
 ■watercress. 
 
 For protec- 
 tion of Med- 
 waT Con- 
 servators, 
 
 For pro- 
 tection of 
 Victoria 
 Steamboat 
 Association. 
 
 105. With rtspect to the sewerage works of the mayor aldermen and 
 burgesses of the borough of West Ham (in this section referred to as 
 "the corporation") nothing in this part of this Act shall prejudice 
 or affect the right of the corporation to continue the flow or passage 
 of sewage through the lower of their two present outfalls situate near the 
 West Marsh sluice in the River Lee if and so long as they shall make 
 provision by propei- depositing tanks and filter beds or otherwise by the 
 best known practicable process for the purification clarifying and dis- 
 infecting sewage in the works belonging to them or under their control 
 and if and so long as the eflluent water is clarified and disinfected 
 .so as not to l)e offensive or injurious in the judgment of the Conservatoi-s- 
 or in case of difference in the judgment of an arbitrator appointed by the 
 Board of Trade on the application of either party the corpoi-ation may dis- 
 charge such effluent through such lower outfall. 
 
 106. Nothing in the pi-ovisions of this Act relating to pollution shall 
 prevent the owners le.ssees or occupiei's of watei'cress beds using any 
 streams channels springs of water or woi-ks in connexion therewith for the 
 pi-oper cultivation of watercress by any of the best known methods or from 
 opening any such drains pipes or channels as may be required for the 
 purpose of passing water through any such beds into any tributary. 
 
 107. Nothing in the provisions of this Act relating to pollution shall 
 extend to the River Medway or in any way affect the rights and powers of 
 the Consei'vators of the said Eiver Medway. 
 
 108. The pi'O visions of sub-section (4) of the section of this Act whereof 
 the marginal note is " Prohibition of throwing ballast etc. into river 
 or allowing offensive matter to flow into it " and the provisions of the 
 section of this Act v/hereof the marginal note is " For preventing pollution 
 power to board and inspect vessels in Thames above Teddington Lock " 
 shall not apply to the vessels of the Victoria Steamboat Association Limited* 
 or their successors certified by the Board of Trade as passenger steamei's to 
 caiTy three hundred or more passengei's whilst such ves.sels are bona fide 
 engaged in the business of the said association or their successors below 
 Molesey Lock. 
 
 Conservators 
 may license 
 docks piers 
 
 Licences and Permissions for WorJcs. 
 
 109. The Conservators may from time to time foi- a fair and reasonable 
 consideration (such considei'ation to be either a sum in gross or an annual 
 embankments ^^^^ ^^ partly a sum in gross and partly an annual rent and so far as a 
 etc. sum in gross to be paid at the time of granting the licence) and upon such 
 
 terms and subject to such restrictions as they think proper grant to any 
 owner or occupier of any land adjoining the Thames a licence under the 
 hand of the chairman of the Conservators or the secretary for all or any 
 of the following purposes namely : — 
 
 (1) For the making of any dock basin pier jetty wharf bank quay or 
 
 embankment wall or other work immediately in front of his land 
 and into the body of the said river : 
 
 (2) For the formation of such i-ecesses docks or beds for boats and 
 
 barges and dwarf wharfing and for the driving of such piles and 
 for such stone pitching and other works as the Conservators deem 
 necessary or proper for the convenient use pi-otection and im- 
 provement of his land and the placing and mooring of vessels in 
 such line and at such levels as appear to the Conservators 
 necessary or proper for the trade and convenient enjoyment of 
 his land without injurious interference witli the navigation of the 
 Thames or its future im})rovement : 
 
 (3) For the erection at the places where the piers or landing-places 
 
 by this Act authorised to be erected are to be erected of piers 
 
 * This company went into liquidation in ISDrt, and in 1897 the Thames Steamboat 
 Company was formed, which took over the boats of the first mentioned company.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancu Act W.H. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1005 
 
 or landing-places in .such positions and of sucL t'oiui and t-on- 
 struction as the Conservators shall consider mcst a<lvantageous 
 to the public and as causing the least obstruction to the nav^iga- 
 tion of the Thames and for the driving of piles and the torination 
 of dwarf wharting ways and other conveniences to his land : 
 And the Conservators (provided that power so to do was expressly 
 reserved by or that notice of the ff)llowing provisions of this section 
 was endorsed on the licence authorising the erection driving or foruiati(jn 
 of any pier landing-place piles dwarf wharting way or other convenience) 
 may from time to time require the form and construction of such pier or 
 landing-place and the position of such piles and the mode of forming such 
 dwarf wharling way or other convenience to be altered h)y and at the 
 expense of the owner of or person licensed to erect drive or form the same 
 and also require such pier landing-place piles dwarf wharting way or other 
 convenience to l)e removed and taken away by and at the expense of the 
 owner of or person licensed to erect drive or form the same and in case 
 any such pier landing-place piles dwarf wharting place or other con- 
 venience shall not be altered or removed within seven days after notice 
 in wi'iting from the Conservators to alter or remove the same shall have 
 been given to the owner of or person licensed to erect drive or form the 
 same or if such owner or person or his address is iinkn(jwn to the Con- 
 servatoi's shall have been left upon or aHixed to such pier or landing- 
 place or any part thereof the Conservators may alter or remove such pier 
 landing-place piles dwai-f wharting way or other convenience in the same 
 manner as under the authority of this Act they may abate or remove any 
 other nuisance. 
 
 110. The Conservators may from time to time for a fair and reasonable power to 
 
 rent and upon such terms and sul)ject to such restrictions as they think license stages 
 
 proper grant to any person on his application therefor a licence under the ^"^''\?^'' ^*^- 
 
 hand of the chairman of the Conservators or the secretary to erect V\, 'ames 
 
 , 111- Deiow 
 
 ■establish and use any stages cranes apparatus and other machinery Xeddiao^ton 
 
 in or upon the bed or shores of or atioat in the Thames below Teddington Lock for 
 
 Lock suitable and convenient for the unloading and discharging by steam discharging 
 
 hydraulic or other power of vessels and from time to time to order and ^^^^^^s. 
 
 direct siudi stages cranes apparatus and other machinery or any of them 
 
 to be removed Provided that notice of any application for any such licence 
 
 shall be inserted in the London Gazette and in four daily morning news- 
 
 pa})ers pul)lished and circulating in London and be given to the owners 
 
 and occupiers of any land on the banks of the Thames in front of which 
 
 such erection is to be placed at least two months before such licence is 
 
 granted. 
 
 111. No person shall make or form any recess dock bed for boats or No erections 
 barges basin pier jetty landing-place wharf bank dwarf wharting wa}' or works in 
 quay or embankment wall or other work or diive any piles or do any £^^^^-^^^1^ 
 stone pitching in or upon the bed or shores of the Thames or erect ^^^j. q^qq 
 establish or use any stage crane apparatus or other machinery in or upon shores thereof 
 the bed or shores of or atioat in the Thames below Tedilington Lock for without 
 
 the unloading or discharging of vessels without a licence under the hand licence. 
 
 of the chairman of the Conservators or the secretary. flooring 
 
 ,,_. ,„, ^, ^ r .• . ■ 1 1 1 cliains to be 
 
 112. 1 he Conservators may trom time to time put down or place and p^t d.nvn and 
 
 maintain in such situations in the Thames as thev think tit all such maintained. 
 mooring chains as they think necessary or convenient. Private moor- 
 
 113. The Conservators maN- from time to time purchase by agreement ^°^ chains 
 any {irivate mooring chains. cha"sed 
 
 114. After the passing of this Act no mooring chain shall be put down y,, moorin"- 
 
 or placed in the Thames without the permission of the Conservators and chains to be 
 
 every mooring chain which shall be put down or placed in the Thames l''*}d down 
 
 shall be so continued only duriuij the pleasure of the Conservators and the ^^l^".''"' P*"""' 
 ^, . X ^- "" 1 • ■ 1 . • • •.• mission of 
 
 Conservators may at any time by giving one week s notice in writing Consenators. 
 
 require such mooring chain to be removed and in case default shall be
 
 1006 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Consermncy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Private moor- 
 ing chains in 
 tideway ma}- 
 be removed. 
 
 Consideration 
 for licence to 
 be previously 
 approved. 
 
 Land em- 
 banked to 
 vest in the 
 owner of the 
 land in front 
 of which the 
 embankment 
 is made. 
 
 made in such removal beyond the time to be mentioned in such notice 
 such mooring chain may be removed by the Conservators. 
 
 115. The Conservators may remove any private mooring chain within 
 the tideway of the Thames making compensation to the owner thereof for 
 anv loss or damage which he may sustain in consequence of such i-emoval 
 such compensation to be ascertained in the manner pi'ovided for the taking 
 of land by the Lands Clauses Acts, 
 
 116. The consideration for any licence or permission of the Conservators 
 granted for doing in or upon the bed or shores of or afloat in the Thames 
 below Teddington Lock any of the following things namely for making 
 forming or maintaining any recess dock bed for boats or bai-ges basin piei- 
 jetty landing-place wharf bank dwarf wharfing way quay or embankment 
 wall or other work or driving any piles or doing any stone pitching or 
 erecting establishing or using any stage crane apparatus or other 
 machinery for the unloading or discharging of vessels or laying down 
 anv mooring chains and whether such licence or permission shall be 
 granted for the first time or shall be by way of renewal or continuance 
 of any licence or permission heretofore granted by the mayor and com- 
 monalty and citizens of the city of London shall be such as in the judgment 
 of some competent person (to be once in every year appointed by the Con- 
 servators and approved in writing by one of the Commissioners of Woods) 
 shall be deemed to be the true and fair worth or value thereof to the 
 person obtaining such licence or permission and no such licence or per- 
 mission shall be granted by the Conservators without a previous valuation 
 being made by such competent person as aforesaid and every such valua- 
 tion shall be signed and certified by the person making the same to be 
 true and accurate to the best of his judgment and belief and a copy 
 thereof shall be transmitted by the Conservators to the Commissioners 
 of Woods. 
 
 117. When and as soon as any embankment shall have been made 
 under any licence and the conditions if any of such licence shall by any 
 endorsement thereon under the hand of the secretary have been certified 
 to be performed such certificate being evidence of the embankment having 
 been duly made the land reclaimed by any such embankment shall vest 
 in and be enjoyed by the same persons for such and tlie same estates and 
 interests and shall pass by the same wills and be subject to such and the 
 same uses and be held upon such and the same trusts and for such and 
 the same ends intents and purposes and with under and subject to such 
 and the same powers provisoes declarations agreements leases mortgages 
 annuities charges liens and incumbrances rents services and customs as 
 the land immediately in front of which such embankment shall have been 
 made and in respect of which the licence to make such embankment shall 
 have been granted and whenever any embankment shall have been made 
 in front of any land of freehold tenux'e the land reclaimed by such embank- 
 ment shall be deemed of freehold tenure and whenever any embankment 
 shall have been made in front of any land of copyhold or customary 
 tenure the land reclaimed by such embankment shall be deemed of copy- 
 hold or customary tenure and shall be held of the lord of the same manor 
 or lordship under the same rents and by tlie same customs and services and 
 shall pass by the like surrenders and admittances as the copyhold or 
 customary lands in front of which the embankment was made and when- 
 ever any embankment shall have been made in front of any land of lease- 
 hold tenure the lands reclaimed by such embankment shall in like manner 
 be deemed leasehold and shall (unless any agreement to the contrary be 
 made between the lessor and lessee) be held under the same rents and 
 covenants as the land in front of which the embankment was made and 
 the remainder or reversion of the land so acquired shall be vested in the 
 same lessors as the remainder or reversion of the lands in front of which 
 the embankment was made was vested at the time of making such 
 embankment.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1007 
 
 118. The provisions of tliis Act relating to licences and peiinLssions foi- Saving for 
 works shall not apply to or afiect any works or powers of executing certain works 
 altering or maintaining works Vjefore the passing of this Act authorised ^ powers, 
 or conferred under or hy virtue of any Act. 
 
 riers iiiuL Laadiaij- lAaxes. 
 
 119. Tln' Conservators may from time to time as they shall deem Conservators 
 necessary for the convenience of the public erect at any convenient places ma\- erect 
 below Teddington Lock piers or landing-jilaces of such form and con- I^^^"""! '''"'^^ 
 .struction as thev shall deem most advanta"eous to the public and causing ^"^"^ '"o" 
 the least obstruction to the navigation of the Thames and also alter the 
 
 form and construction of such j)iers or landing-places and also shut up or 
 remove any such piers or landing-places without l>eing obliged to erect 
 or j)rovide any other piers or landing-places in lieu of any so shut up or 
 removed. 
 
 120- The Conservators may from time to time if they tliink fit let on Conservators 
 lease to any person who may be willing to take the .same for such time '"^.^ ^^^ PJ^rs 
 not exceeding three yeais and at such rent as may be mutually agreed '^?'^ landing- 
 upon any such }iier or landing-place or the right to receive such tolls as 
 the Conservators shall have previously appointed to be taken at any such 
 pier or landing-place and every .such lessee shall have the .same rights 
 powei's and authorities for taking receiving and recovering such tolls as 
 are by this Act given to the Conservators or to any of their otiicers. 
 
 121. Before the Conservators erect or grant any licence for the erection Notice to be 
 of any pier or landing-place they shall give one month's notice of their gf^en pre- 
 intention so to do by advertisement in two daily morning new.ipapers ^^'^" .-^ '■^ ^'^® 
 published and circulating in London and also cause one month's notice of liceniing of 
 such intention to be served u])on the person in charge of any pier or any pier, 
 landing-place e.stablished in the Thames by Act of Parliament and upon 
 
 the person in charge of any pier or landing-place existing in the Thames 
 on the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven which 
 shall be within three hundred feet of the pier or landing-place proposed to 
 be erected Provided always that nothing herein contained or anything done 
 in pursuance of the directions herein contained shall be deemed or con- 
 strued to give to any person owning or ha\-ing charge of any pier existing 
 in the Thames previously to the said first day of Jidy any rights power 
 or authority beyond those possessed by liim or his predecessors in title 
 before the seventeenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and 
 tifty-.seven being the date of commencement of the Act of 1857. 
 
 122. The Consei-vators may provide proper approaches and avenues Piers to be 
 to such piers or landing-places and cause such piers landing-places avenues H^Pt i" repair 
 and approaches to be kept in good repair and well and sutlicientlv liirhted ^\o^^^<^^ ^^^ 
 watched and cleansed. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ cleansed. 
 
 123. Officers and servants of the Conservators appointed by them to Preservation 
 perform duties at the piers or landing-places of the Conservators may ^^ order etc. 
 preserve order on or at such piers or landing-places and the avenues and '^*' P'®"^^ ^'^^• 
 approaches thereto and prevent the intrusion thereon of persons who have 
 
 no intention of embarking on board any ves.-;el from such piers or landini^-- 
 places and may remove persons unneces.sarily lingering or loitering on or 
 about such piers or landing-places and may as.sist vessels in making fast to 
 such piers or landing-places. 
 
 124. Whenever the Conservators shall shut up i-emove or take away Free public 
 or in any manner obstruct the free use and enjoyment of an}' existing- stairs or 
 public stairs or landing-places now marked by the Watermen's Company ^''*°^^^"^'- 
 
 they shall cause some equally convenient free public stairs or landing- y'^v^l ? 
 
 place to be erected or provided and thereafter maintained in the place hriieu^of 
 
 or stead of the stairs or landing-place so shut up removed or taken away those taken 
 
 or the free use and enjoyment of which may be in any manner obstructed, '"^^"'"^y ^y ^^e 
 
 Conservators.
 
 1008 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Con&ervancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Conservators 125. The Conservators may from time to time erect and maintain such 
 may take toll toll houses or other conveniences on or near each pier or landing-place 
 from steam- erected by them as they think fit and tolls not exceeding those for the 
 boats usmg ^\^^q being authorised by this Act or any byelaw made by the Conservators 
 to be demanded and received at such pier or landing-place may be demanded 
 and received at such pier or landing-place by such persons as the Con- 
 servators from time to time appoint befoi-e any steam or other passage 
 vessel be permitted to make fast to or to moor or touch at such pier 
 or landing-place for the purpose of landing or embarking passengers or 
 goods. 
 
 Ilarhov/r -masters etc. 
 
 126. No person shall be appointed by the Conservators to be a harbour- 
 master unless such person shall aftei' Ijeing duly examined by the Trinity 
 House produce a certificate from them of his proper qualification to be a 
 harbour-master. 
 
 127. The Conservators may from time to time by i-esolution under the 
 common seal authorise any one or more of their officers to assist the 
 harbour-masters in the execution of their duties or may authorise any 
 such officer to exei'cise alone all or any of the powers in the enactments 
 herein-after in the provisions of this Act relating to harbour-masters etc. 
 mentioned and those enactments shall be read as if the expression 
 " harbour-master " wherever therein appearing included any officer so 
 authorised. 
 
 128. Any harbour-master may give directions for all or any of the 
 following purposes namely : — 
 
 For regulating the time and manner in which any vessel shall enter into 
 go out of or lie in the Thames and the position mooring or unmooring 
 placing or removing any vessel within the Thames ; 
 
 Foi- regulating the manner in which any vessel within the Thames shall 
 take in or discharge its cargo or any part thereof or shall take in or 
 deliver ballast ; 
 
 For regulating the time and manner in which any vessel shall lie at 
 
 any public draw dock or landing-place in the Thames and the 
 
 or unmooring placing or removing any vessel 
 
 Harbour- 
 masters to be 
 approved by 
 TrinityHouse. 
 
 Assistance 
 of harbour- 
 masters in 
 their duties. 
 
 Powers of 
 harbour- 
 masters. 
 
 mooring 
 
 position 
 lying thereat ; 
 For regulating: the 
 
 Penalty on 
 not comply- 
 ing with 
 directions of 
 harbour- 
 master. 
 
 Power of 
 harbour- 
 masters to 
 remove 
 
 vessels. 
 
 manner in which any vessel lying at any public 
 draw dock or landing-place in the Thames shall take in or dis- 
 charge its cargo or any pai-t thereof or shall take in or deliver 
 ballast : 
 Provided always that it shall not be lawful for such harbour-master to 
 direct that any vessel shall lie or be within any part of the Thames where 
 by any Act of Parliament it shall or may be directed that no vessel shall 
 lie or be nor to unmoor or remove from any j^art of the Thames duly 
 appointed as a boarding landing or quarantine station any vessel moored 
 or placed there under the authority of the Commissioners of Customs nor 
 to moor or place any vessel within low- water mark of or alongside any 
 quay custom house station or other place appropriated to the service of 
 the customs. 
 
 129. The master of every vessel within the Thames or lying at any 
 public draw dock or landing-place within those limits shall regulate such 
 vessel according to the directions of any harbour-master made in con- 
 formity with this Act and any master of any vessel who after notice in 
 writing signed by such harboui'-master of any such direction served upon 
 him shall not forthwith regulate such vessel accoixling to such direction 
 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 130. If the master of any vessel within the Thames or lying at any 
 public draw dock or landing-place within those limits shall not moor 
 unmoor place or remove such vessel according to the directions in writing 
 of any harbour-master given to such master such harbour-master may cause
 
 [57 & 58 ViCT.J Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1009 
 
 such vessel to bo moored nnmoored jtlace'] or removed according to the 
 directions aforesaid and employ a sufficient number of jiersons for that 
 purpose and the expenses thei-eby incurred shall be [taid by such master 
 and shall to<.'etlier with the costs of ascertaining and recovoiing the same 
 be ascertained ami recovered from such master in the same manner as 
 any damages for the ascertaining and recovering of whidi no special 
 provisi(jn is contained in this Act are directed to be ascertained and 
 recovered. 
 
 131. If any master of any vessel within the Thames or lying at any Penalty on 
 j)ulilic draw dock or landing-place or any other person shall hinder any luaster for 
 harbour-master or any person em). loved by him in mooring unmooring ^^^|^^^"^^*_'"& 
 placing or removing such vessel in manner aforesaid such master or other jjjagter. 
 person shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 
 
 five j)Ounds. 
 
 132. If the master of any vessel moored or fastened within the Thames Harbour- 
 or any other person on board such vessel shall not upon demand of any ^^^}^^ ™^^ 
 harbour-master unloose or slacken the rope or chain by which such vessel "j.^.pgg 
 
 is moored or fastened or if there be no person on board such vessel such 
 harbour-master may unloose or slacken the rope or chain by which such 
 vessel is moored or fastened and cause if necessary a suthcient number of 
 persons for the protection of such vessel to be put on board the same and 
 all expenses thereby incurred shall be paid by the master of such vessel 
 and shall together with the costs of ascertaining and recovering the same 
 be ascertained and recovered from such master in the same manner as 
 any damages for the ascertaining and rt covering of which no special 
 provision is contained in this Act are directed to be ascertained and 
 recovered. 
 
 133. Any officer of the Conservators on jjroducing if required so to do Tower to 
 a certificate of his personal authority signed by the secretary may from fJit^r a'ld 
 time to time and at any time for any purpose of this Act enter into or ^^!^ggg]g 
 upon any vessel wdthin the Thames below Teddington Lock and inspect 
 
 and examine such vessel and every part thereof. 
 
 134. Every officer of the Conservators thereunto authorised by them Power to 
 shall be entitled to prefer any complaint against any person licensed by ^T^^^f^'^^^' 
 the Watermen's Company before the court of master wardens and assistants \vatennen's 
 of that comi)any as well as before a Justice in the same manner as if he Company, 
 were an inspector appointed by the Watermen's Company. 
 
 Beacons and Lights. 
 
 135. It shall be lawful for the Conservators from time to time to place Conservators' 
 and maintain such beacons as shall be necessary and convenient for the Powers as to 
 navigation of the Thames and such power shall be vested in the Con- 
 servators exclusively anything in Part VI. of the Merchant .Shipping Act 
 
 1854: or in any other Act or in any charter or grant notwithstanding and 
 the Conservators shall have the same authority over and be subject to the 
 same obligations with respect to beacons before the thirty-tirst day of 
 December one thousand eight bundled and sixty-four placed by the 
 Trinity House within the jurisdiction of the Conservators as the Trinity 
 House before that date had over or were subject to in respect of such 
 beacons. 
 
 136. The Conservators shall not place any lighthouse below London Lighthouses. 
 Bridge. 
 
 137. The Conservators may by notice in writing require any person Conservators 
 placing or using on or near the Thames below Teddington Lock any light may require 
 whichis in the opinion of the Conservators calculated to mislead persons l'f!''*^"V'^^' 
 navigating on the Thames below Teddington Lock or to interfere with the „*ji""latTon to 
 safe navigation of vessels ujion the Thames below Teddington Lock from be removed, 
 and after the receipt of such notice to screen alter extinguish remove or 
 discontinue such light and if any person for the space of three days after 
 
 6.-)
 
 1010 
 
 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [.57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 the receipt of such notice refuse or fail to screen alter extinguish remove 
 or dLiContinue any light so placed or used by him or if any person at any 
 time after screening altering extinguishing removing or discontinuing any 
 light with respect to which he shall have received any such notice replace 
 or again use such light or place or use any other light in lieu thereof so 
 that the same in the opinion of the Conservators is calculated to mislead 
 persons navigating on the Thames below Teddington Lock or to interfere 
 with the safe navigation of vessels upon the Thames below Teddington 
 Lock such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds 
 and to a daily penalty not exceeding the like amount. 
 
 Eegistration 
 of steam 
 launches. 
 
 Eegistration 
 of house- 
 boats. 
 
 Pleasure Boats. 
 
 138. — (1) The Conservators on payment to them for the registration 
 of any steam launch of the sum of one j^ound and deliveiy to them of a 
 certificate in accordance with any byelaws of the Conservators for the time 
 being in force of the name size and dimensions (including length from stem 
 to stern) of such launch and of the name and address of the owner thereof 
 shall assign to such launch a number and shall register such launch in a 
 book to be kept by them for that purpose at their office together with the 
 several particulars set forth in such certificate and the number assigned to 
 such launch and shall grant to the ownei' of such launch a certificate of 
 such registi'ation bearing the number assigned to such launch and such 
 certificate shall be in force for a period not exceeding one year from the 
 date thereof and (unless renewed) no longer but the Conservators shall 
 from time to time grant a renewal of such certificate from the first day 
 of January in every year for the like period on payment of tlie sum of 
 one pound in respect of every renewal and every such certificate and 
 any renewal thereof is in this Act referred to as a " steam launch 
 certificate." 
 
 (2) The Conservators shall not register two or more steam launches in 
 the same name and in case of any dispute as to which launch shall 
 bear tlie name tlie launch which has longest borne the name shall be the 
 launch to be registered in such name and registration of the other launch 
 shall be deferred until the owner thereof shall have furnished a name for 
 it which can be properly registered. 
 
 139. — (1) The Conservators on payment to them for the registration of 
 any house-boat of the sum appointed by any byelaws of the Conservatoi's 
 for the time being in force and delivering to them on a form prescribed by 
 such byelaws of sucli particulars concerning sucli boat (including the 
 name and address of the owner thereof) as such byelaws require shall 
 assign to such boat a number and shall i-egister such boat in a book to be 
 kept by them for that purpose at their office together with the several 
 particulars aforesaid and the number assigned to such boat and shall 
 grant to the owner of such boat a certificate of such registration bearing 
 the number assigned to such boat and such cei-tificate shall be in force for 
 the period prescribed by such byelaws and (unless renewed) no longer but 
 the Conservators shall from time to time grant a renewal of such certificate 
 for the period and on payment of the sum in respect of every renewal 
 respectively for the time being prescribed and appointed by such byelaws 
 and every such certificate and any renewal thereof is in this Act referred 
 to as a " house-boat certificate." 
 
 (2) Provided that the sum to be paid for any registration of any house- 
 boat or for any renewal of any " house- boat certificate " shall not exceed 
 the sum following namely : — 
 
 In the case of a boat not more than thirty feet in length five pounds ; 
 
 In the case of a boat more than thirty but not more than thirty-five 
 feet in length six pounds ; 
 and so on increasing by one pound in respect of eveiy additional 
 complete five feet and the fraction of an additional incomplete five feet 
 jn length.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Tha?nes Conse7'va?icy Act IH04. [Chai-. clxxxvii.] lull 
 
 (3) Provided also tliat the period for which any hou>e-boat certificate 
 shall be in force shall not be less than one year. 
 
 140. — (1) The Conservators on payment to them for the registration Registration 
 of any pleasure boat (other than a steam launch or house-]x)at) of the ^'^ pltasure 
 sum appointed by any byelavvs of tlie Conservators for the time being in fi,. .."^teara 
 force and delivering to them on a form prescriljed by such byelaws of such laundies and 
 particulars concerning such vessel (including the name and address of the house-boats, 
 owner thereof) as such Inelaws i-(i[uire shall assign to such vessel if not 
 let and not inteiidoil to lie let for hire a numljer crest badge or mark and if 
 let or intended to be let for hire a number and shall register such vessel 
 in a book to be kept by them for that purpose at their othce together with 
 the several particulars afoi-esaid and the numl^er crest badge or mark 
 assigned to such vessel and shall grant to the owner of such vessel a 
 certificate of such registration bearing the number crest badge or mark 
 assigned to such vessel and such certificate shall be in force for the period 
 prescribed by such byelaws and (unless renewed) no longer but the Con- 
 servators shall from time to time grant a renewal of such certificate for 
 the period and on payment of the sum in respect of every renewal 
 respectively for the time being prescribed and a})pointed by such l>yelaws 
 and every such certificate and any renewal thereof is in this Act referred 
 to as a " boat certificate." 
 
 (2) Provided that the sum to be paid for any registration of any 
 pleasure boat (other than a steam launch or house- boat) or for any 
 renewal of any boat certificate shall not exceed two shillings and six 
 pence. 
 
 (3) Provided also that the period for which any boat certificate shall be 
 in force shall be not less than three years. 
 
 141. The Conservators from time to time may if they think fit bypowerto 
 byelaws classify house-boats and other pleasure boats (not being steam classify 
 launches) whether for purposes of registration under this Act or for the ^'t'sscls and 
 purposes of the application of byelaws of the Conservators for the time ciassefh-om 
 being in force and may if they think fit exempt any class or classes so registration, 
 formed from having to be registered under this Act by byelaws specifying 
 
 the reason for every such exemption. 
 
 142. The Conservators shall in registering pleasure boats place in Registers to 
 separate lists those let or which may be let for hire and those not so i^["for'hirr** 
 let nor intended so to be. ^■"T '^'•■* 
 
 not so let. 
 
 143. Upon every transfer of the ownership of a pleasui^e boat in Registration 
 respect of which a steam launch certificate a house-boat certificate or a of transfers, 
 boat certificate as the case may be is in force the transferor shall and the 
 transferee may forthwith give notice of such transfer to the Conservators 
 
 who shall in either case thereupon without charge grant to such trans- 
 feree a fresh steam launch certificate boat-house certificate or boat 
 certificate as the case may be in respect of such pleasure boat for the 
 period for which the existing certificate is unexpired and shall cause his 
 name and address to be inserted in the register in the place of those of 
 the transferor and until such notice shall have been given the transferor 
 shall for all the purposes of this Act and of any byelaws of the Con- 
 servators for the time being in force be deemed to be the owner of such 
 pleasure l)oat. 
 
 144. Where any jilcasure boat registered under this part of tliis Act Registering 
 as belonging to any particular class of pleasure boats shall by reason of •?.to. on altera- 
 any alteration of such vessel cease to belong to that class the certificate ^"^" ''^ '^''''*^- 
 of registration of such vessel in that class and every renewal of such 
 certificate shall cease to be in force and for the purpases of the provisions 
 
 of this part of this Act as to registration of pleasure boats and granting 
 of certificates of registration and to renewals of such certificates and to 
 sums payable to the Conservators on any such occasions the registering of 
 any pleasure boat in any class other than that in which such vessel was
 
 1012 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act \%^^. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Registers to 
 be opea to 
 inspection. 
 
 Name of 
 steam laimcli 
 to be con- 
 spicuously 
 displayed. 
 
 Honse-boats 
 and other 
 pleasure 
 boats to be 
 conspicuously 
 marked. 
 
 Steam 
 launches to 
 carry certain 
 lights. 
 
 Penalty for 
 concealing 
 name or 
 number of 
 steam launch. 
 
 Vessels not 
 to be used 
 without 
 certificates. 
 
 last previously registered shall be deemed an original registering of such 
 vessel. 
 
 146. Every person shall be entitled during office hours to inspect the 
 several registers of pleasure boats by this Act required to be kept on 
 payment of one shilling for every inspection of every such register. 
 
 146. — (1) Every steam launch registered under this Act shall have the 
 registeied name of siich launch conspicuously and to the satisfaction of 
 the Conservators or their officers painted in letters of such colour character 
 and size as and upon a ground of such coloui- as the Conservators may 
 prescribe upon each side of the bow and also upon the stern of such launch 
 and if any steam launch registered under this Act is used for the purpose 
 of navigating the Thames above Kew Bridge without the registered name 
 of such launch being painted thereon as by this section required the owner 
 of such launch shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding five pounds. 
 
 (2) Every house-boat and other pleasure boat (not being a steam 
 launch) registered under this Act shall have the registered number crest 
 badge or mark thereof displayed thereon in such manner size and place as 
 the Conservators from time to time prescribe by byelaws for the time 
 being in force. 
 
 147. Every steam launch registered under this Act shall when in 
 course of navigation under mechanical power after sunset and before 
 sunrise on any part of the Thames carry and exhibit the following lights- 
 namely : — 
 
 (1) On or before the foremast or if there be no foremast on the funnel 
 
 or on a staff at the bow in either case at a height above the 
 hull of not less than four feet a bright white light behind a 
 glass shade or slide upon which the registered number of such 
 launch shall be legibly and conspicuously painted in black 
 figures ; 
 
 (2) On the starboard side a green light; and 
 
 (3) On the port side a red light : 
 
 And every such light shall be of such a character as to be visible on a 
 dark night with a clear atmosphere at a distance of at least one mile. 
 
 Where any steam launch is in course of navigation under mechanical 
 power after sunset and before sunrise without carrying and exhibiting 
 such lishts in manner aforesaid the master of such launch shall be liable 
 to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 
 
 148. Every person who knowingly causes or permits to be concealed 
 the registered name of any steam launch while such launch is used for the 
 purpose of navigating the Thames above Kew Bridge or the registered 
 number of any steam launch while such launch is used for the purpose of 
 navigating under mechanical power after sunset and before sunrise on any 
 part of the Thames shall for every such offence be hable to a penalty not 
 exceeding ten pounds. 
 
 149. — (1) No steam launch except as in this section provided shall at 
 any time be used for the purpose of navigating the Thames above Kew 
 Bridge and no house-boat or other pleasure-boat (not being a steam 
 launch) unless exempted from registration as in this Act provided shall at 
 any time be used on the Thames above Teddington Lock unless a steam 
 launch certificate a boat-house certificate or a pleasure boat certificate as 
 the case may be relating to such vessel be then in force. 
 
 (2) Provided nevertheless that the Conservators may issue to the 
 builder or owner of any steam launch a licence for a bona fide trial trip to 
 such launch and builders or owners to whom such licences are issued may 
 make such trips without there being in force steam launch certificates 
 relating to such launches. 
 
 (3) If at any time any steam launch except as in this section provided 
 is used for the purpose of navigating the Thames above Kew Bridge there
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conaenajicy Act \^^A. [Chap, clxxxvii.] lol3 
 
 not l)eing thon in forc-f :t stouui launch cei-tificatc in lespeot of sncli launch 
 tlie ownei- ol" such launcli for evei-y day on whicli such launch is so used 
 shall be and every person using or assisting in using such launch when so 
 used knowing that there is not then in force a steam launch certificate in 
 respect of such launch for every day on which he with such knowledge 
 HO uses or assists in using such launch shall respectively be liable to 
 a penalty of not less than tive pounds nor more than ten pounds. 
 
 (4) The Conservators may from time to time make Ijyolart-s for the more 
 effectually preventing contraventions of the proxi.^ions of tliis section pro- 
 hibiting the user of house-boats and other pleasure boats (not being steam 
 launches) unless certificated. 
 
 150. The master of any steam launch or house-boat in respect of which Certificate to 
 there is for the time being in force a steam launch certificate or a house- Ije produced, 
 boat certificate as the case may be shall produce such steam launch 
 certificate or house-boat certificate as the case may te on demand to any 
 
 officer of the Conservators on his producing if required so to do a certificate 
 of his personal authority signed by the secretary when such vessel 
 if a steam launch is in couise of navigation under mechanical power 
 on the Thames above Kew Bridge or if a house-boat is Ijeing used on the 
 Thames al)Ove Teddington Lock as the case may be and if any such master 
 makes default in so doing he shall for every such offence be liable 
 to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 
 
 151. In case any complaint shall be made to the Conservators as to Owner to 
 the navigation of any pleasure boat registered under this Act then the J^ff'^yd infor- 
 registered owner of such boat shall upon the application in writing to him '"^tion as to 
 by the secretary for that purpose give all information in his power to the cliarge 
 secretary as to the person who at ' any particular time was in charge 
 
 of such boat and any registered owner refusing to give such information 
 or by his own negligence or default being unable to give the same shall be 
 guilty of an oflfence against this enactment and shall foi' every such offence 
 be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 
 
 152. Every pleasure boat used on the Thames above Teddington Lock E\ery plea- 
 shall be deemed to be in charge of one person who shall be in every case sure boat to 
 the recristered owner of such vessel or the person duly appointed or , .<i^6p^^d *<* 
 
 . . uC 111 CDSrETG 
 
 permitted by him to be in charge or the person hiring such vessel and in q£ q^q person, 
 the absence of any such person then any person having control or being in 
 command of such vessel. 
 
 153. Every person for the time being in charge of any pleasure boat on Terson in 
 the Thames above Teddington Lock shall bo responsil)le for the conduct of charge to be 
 all persons on board such vessel and upon proof that an olVence under this ^c^ponsl e 
 Act has been committed by any person on board such vessel on the Thames 
 
 above Teddington Lock and that the person in charge has refused to give 
 the name and address of the offender then the person in charge shall be 
 deemed to have committed an offence under this Act. 
 
 154. Every vessel navigating the Thames shall be navigated with care Rules as to 
 and caution and at a speed and in such a manner as not to endanger the navigation of 
 lives of or cause injury to persons or endanger the safety of or cause ^ *^ lliames. 
 damage to other vessels or any moorings or to the banks of the Thames or 
 
 other property. 
 
 Special care and caution sliall be used in navigating vessels when passing 
 vessels of all kinds especially those of the smaller classes and such as are 
 employed in dredging or removing sunken vessels or other obstructions. 
 
 If the life of any person or the safety of any vessel mooring bank 
 or other property is endangered or injin-y or damage is caused to any 
 person vessel mooiing bank or other property by a passing vessel the onus 
 shall lie upon the master of such passing vessel to show that she was 
 navigated with care and caution and at such a speed and in such manner 
 as directed by this section. 
 
 The owner or person in charge of any vessel who in navigating such
 
 1014 
 
 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Consei^vancy Act \^M. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Duties of 
 tonnage in 
 port of 
 London. 
 
 As to collec- 
 tion of duties 
 of tonnage. 
 
 vessel coutravenes oi' fails to observe the provisions of this section shall for 
 every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 
 
 If any person holding any steam launch certificate be twice convicted of 
 any offence against tliis section such certificate shall forthwith thereafter 
 cease to be of any force and it shall be in the discretion of the Conservators 
 whether or not they will grant a fresh certificate to such person And if 
 there be two convictions of offences against this section arising out of the 
 navigation of any one and the same steam launch in respect of which tliere 
 is a steam launch certificate for the time being in force such certificate- 
 shall forthwith cease to be of any force and it shall be in the disci-etion 
 of the Conservators whether or not they will grant a fresh certificate 
 in respect of such launch. 
 
 For the purpose of enforcing this section the clerk to the justices before 
 whom any conviction under it shall take place shall notify such conviction 
 by letter to the secretai-y in all cases where the Conservators are not 
 themselves the prosecutors. 
 
 Any person charged with an offence under this section shall be competent 
 to give evidence. [See The Criminal Evidence Act 1898 1. 
 
 Duties of Tonnage Tolls etc. 
 
 156. The Conservators may from time to time demand and receive in 
 respect of vessels the duties of tonnage following namely : — 
 
 (1) For every vessel trading coastwise between the port of London and 
 
 any place in the British Islands or entering inwards or clearing 
 outwards in the said port from or to any place north of latitude 
 forty-eight degrees thirty miiuites north and between longitudes 
 twelve degrees west and sixty-five degrees east of Greenwich for 
 every voyage both in and out of the said port one halfpenny per 
 ton of her tonnage ; 
 
 (2) For every vessel entering inwards or dealing outwards in the port 
 
 of London from or to any place not being north of the latitude 
 and between the longitudes aforesaid for eveiy voyage both in 
 and out of the said port three-farthings per ton of her tonnage : 
 Provided that the word " tonnage " in this section means — ■ 
 
 (a) In the case of a vessel being a registered British ship the registered 
 
 tonnage of such vessel ; 
 
 (b) In the case of a vessel being a foreign ship the tonnage of such vessel 
 
 as recognised at the Custom House of the port of London : 
 
 Provided also that the following vessels shall be exempt from such duties- 
 of tonnage mamely : — 
 
 Any vessel trading coastwise between the port of London and any place 
 in Great Britain unless such vessel shall exceed forty-five tons tonnage ; 
 
 Any vessel bringing corn coastwise the principal part of whose cargo- 
 shall consist of corn ; 
 
 All fishing smacks and lobster and oyster boats; 
 
 All vessels for passengers only ; 
 
 Any vessel entering inwards or clearing outwards in the port of London 
 in case her cargo is reported for exportation and ultimately such vessel 
 leaves the said port without breaking bulk or taking in goods for the- 
 purpose of exportation ; 
 
 Any vessel entering the port of London inwards or going from the .said 
 port outwards when in ballast. 
 [Amended 5 Ediv. 7, c. cxviii. s. 7.] 
 
 156. Whei-eas by sections 142 and 144 of the Act of 1799 certain 
 provisions were made with respect to the collection of duties of tonnage- 
 under that Act payable to His late Majesty King George the Third His 
 heirs and successors : 
 
 And whereas by virtue of divers Acts duties of tonnage in lieu of the 
 first -mentioned duties were immediately before the j)assing of this Act 
 payable to the Conservatoi'S and the said provisions so far as applicable
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1015- 
 
 applied mutatis mutandis with respect to the collection of the la-st- 
 mentioned duties : 
 
 And whereas the duties of tonnage under this Act payable to the 
 Conservators are in lieu of the last-mentioned duties and it is expedient 
 that the provisions with respect to the collection thereof should mutatis 
 mutandis be made api)licable to tlu' duties under this Act : 
 
 Be it therefore enacted as follows : — 
 
 (1) The collectors of the duties of tonnage by this Act imposed and other , juries of 
 
 officers of the Conservators shall at all reasonable times have at tonnage to 
 the Custom House of the port of London free access to and have access 
 inspection of the registers and papers of every vessel resorting to ^^ registers 
 the said port on or after her entry or clearance at such Cu>tom |^, ^^q^* ^ 
 House without any fee or reward for such access and inspection : House. 
 
 (2) No collector of Her Majesty's Customs inwards or coastwise in the ^p^^els not 
 
 port of Loudon shall on any pretence whatever allow any vessel to Ije entered 
 
 on which duties of tonnage are by this Act imposed to be entered or cleared at 
 
 inwards until the master of such vessel shall have paid such duties f«>toms until 
 
 and shall have produced to such collector a certificate under the ''"^^'-'■■' ^^ 
 
 hand of a person authorised by the Conservators to collect the 
 
 said duties of tonnage certifying that the said duties payable on 
 
 account of such vessel have been fully paid nor .shall any collector 
 
 of Her ^Majesty's Customs outwards or coastwise in the said port 
 
 on any pretence whatever allow any ves.sel on which duties of 
 
 tonnage are by this Act imposed to be cleared outwards until the 
 
 master of such vessel shall have paid such duties which payment 
 
 shall be evidenced by the signature of a person authorised by the 
 
 Conservators to collect the said duties of tonnage to the content 
 
 or other document which must necessarily be produced to the said 
 
 collector of Her Majesty's Customs at the time of clearing such 
 
 vessel outwards which certificate or signatui-e any person authorised 
 
 by the Conservators to collect the said duties of tonnage and 
 
 receiving the same in respect of any vessel shall give and .sign as 
 
 regards such ve.ssel accordingly without fee or reward. 
 
 157. The Conservators may from time to time demand and receive in Power to 
 respect of vessels not paying duties of tonnage levialtle under this Act and charge for 
 using any of the moorings in the Thames belonging to the Conservators .^^ 
 
 the charges appointed by byelaws of the Conservators for the time lieing 
 in force. 
 
 158. The Conservators may from time to time demand and receive in T.ock tolls 
 respect of vessels other than pleasure boats passing through Ity or over ^*'[^^'^^^^^'* 
 locks on the Thames other than the lock made under the Richmond Foot- pleasure 
 britlge Sluices Lock and Slipway Act 1890 tolls not exceeding the following boats, 
 tolls namely : — 
 
 For every such vessel passing through by or over any such lock the toll 
 of fourpence per ton in respect of every such lock so pa.<sed : 
 
 The said tolls shall be demanded and received once only in respect of 
 each voyage including the passages upwards and downwards which the 
 vessels respectively make but may be demanded and received in respect of 
 the passage upwards or downwards in the case of vessels not returning. 
 
 169. The Conservators shall from time to time appoint by byelaw that .\s to vessels 
 in respect of vessels laden with manuie only and passing through by or ciirrvmg 
 over all or any of the locks on the Thames al)ove the City Stone alK)ve 
 Staines Bridge no tolls or parts only of the tolls which would otherwise be 
 leviable in nspect of such vessels passing through by or over such locks 
 shall be demanded : 
 
 Provided always that if any person claim the benefit of any such 
 exemption not being entitled to the same he shall be liable to a penalty 
 not excei'ding ten pounds. 
 
 160. The Conservators may from time to time demand and receive in Xavigation 
 respect of vessels other than pleasure l>oats navigating on the Thames '°^^ ^^'^
 
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 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 vessels other 
 than pleasure 
 boats. 
 
 How and to 
 whom tolls 
 to be paid. 
 
 Masters of 
 vessels to 
 state on re- 
 quest names 
 and addresses 
 of owners 
 and where 
 bound. 
 
 Lock tolls 
 for pleasure 
 boats. 
 
 Penalty on 
 forcing 
 passage not 
 having paid 
 toll. 
 
 Tolls leviable 
 from steam 
 and other 
 passage ves- 
 sels at piers 
 
 westward of London Bridge (in addition to any tolls for passing through 
 locks which they may be authorised to demand and receive in respect of 
 such vessels) tolls not exceeding the following tolls namely : — 
 For such vessels navigating westward of London Bridge — 
 
 To Strand-on-the-Gi-een Kew oi' Brentford one penny halfpenny 
 
 per ton ; 
 To Isleworth or Richmond two pence halfpenny per ton ; 
 To Twickenham Ham or Teddington three pence halfpenny per ton ; 
 To Kingston or Hampton Wick three pence per ton ; 
 To Seething Wells Ditton Hampton Court Moulsey or Hampton 
 
 four pence per ton ; 
 To Sunbur}'- Walton Shepperton or Weybridge four pence halfpenny 
 
 per ton ; 
 To Chertsey or Laleham five pence halfpenny per ton ; 
 To Staines and upwai-ds sixpence per ton : 
 The said tolls shall be demanded and received once only in respect of 
 each voyage including the passages upwards and downwards which the 
 vessels respectively make but may be demanded and received in respect of 
 the passage upwards or downwai'ds in the case of vessels not I'eturning : 
 
 Pi-ovided that nothing in this section shall authorise the Conservators 
 to demand or receive tolls in re.spect of any vessel navigating westward of 
 London Bridge to or fi'om any point eastward of Strand-on-the-Green. 
 
 161. The tolls herein-befoi'e mentioned shall be payable — 
 
 (1) In respect of vessels whether laden or empty according to the 
 
 numl)er of tons which such vessels are or would be capable of 
 carrying if drawing the gi-eatest depth of water which such 
 vessels are foi' the time Ijeing allowed to draw or in the case of 
 vessels not constructed to draw that depth of water according to 
 the number of tons which such vessels are or would be capable 
 of carrving when havins: but two inches of freeboard at the 
 shallowest part of their sides : 
 
 (2) In respect of each vessel all together either on the upwaid or 
 
 downward passage and be paid to such officer or officers of the 
 Conservators at any one or more of the said locks or at such 
 other place or places on or near the Thames and in such manner 
 as the Conservators from time to time by byelaw appoint. 
 
 162. The master of any vessel shall whenever requested so to do by 
 any officei' of the Conservators authorised to receive any of the duties of 
 tonnage charges or tolls herein -before mentioned on his producing if 
 required to do so a certificate of his pei-sonal authority signed by the 
 secretary forthwith truly state to such officer the name and address of the 
 owner of such vessel and the place or places to which such vessel is bound 
 and in case of default shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty 
 not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 163. The Conservators may from time to time demand and receive in 
 respect of pleasure boats passing through by or over locks on the Thames 
 the tolls or annual payments appointed by byelaws of the Conservators 
 for the time being in force but not exceeding the amounts mentioned in the 
 Fourth Schedule to this Act. 
 
 164. If the master of any vessel eludes or evades or attempts to elude 
 or evade the payment of any duty of tonnage payable under this Act or 
 if any person forcibly passes or attempts to pass any vessel through by or 
 over any lock without having duh' paid the full amount of any toll herein- 
 before mentioned payable in respect of such vessel such person shall for 
 every such olFence V)e liable to a penalt}- not exceeding ten pounds over and 
 above the full amount of such duty or toll. 
 
 165. The Conservators may from time to time demand and receive in 
 respect of steam and other passage vessels landing or embarking any 
 passengers or goods at or from any pier or landing-place erected l>y or 
 belonging to them tolls not exceeding sixpence for each and every time of
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] ^'j^Thames Conservanoj Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1017 
 
 calling at the same oi- in lieu of all or any part of such tolls tlie tolls by and landing- 
 
 hyelavvs of the Conservatoi-s for the tiuif bt-ing in f(jite uj)|jointL'<l to l>e Ijl^<-'es erected 
 
 demanded and received (either in all cases or in cei-tain cases as defined t^Z-H '^*^' 
 
 by such byeiaws) acconling to the niunln'r of passengers landed at or 
 
 embarked fiom any such pier or landing-place : 
 
 Provided always that the Conservators may fiom time to time if the}' 
 
 tliink fit permit steam and other passage vessels to land and embark 
 
 ])assengers and goods at oi- from all or any of such piers and landing-places 
 
 without the pavment of anv toll whatever. , . „ 
 
 '■ \ " Id case tolls 
 
 166. The collector of the said tolls at any such pier or landing-place not paid ves- 
 
 niay prevent any vessel the master of which shall neglect or refuse to pay "^1'' niay l>e 
 
 the pioper amount of toil ]>avablo bv him from making fast to or mooring V^^"-'^^^^^ 
 Aii-i-i'j'i f rum using 
 
 or touching at such pier or landing-i)lace. -^^ 
 
 167. In case all or any part of any duty or tonnage charge or toll Recoverv of 
 herein-before mentioned or all or any part of any sum payable under this foregoing 
 Act to the Conservators in respect of the original ngistration or of the dutie- toll> 
 renewal of any registration of any steam launch house-boat or other '^'^• 
 pleasure boat (all or any part of any such sum being herein-after referred 
 
 to as a " i-egistiation fee") is not paid on demand to the otlicer of the 
 Conservators authorised by them to demand and receive the same then 
 and in every such case the Conservators may recover such duty charge 
 toll or registration fee or part thereof from the owner or master of such 
 vessel in like manner as penalties under this Act are recoverable or as a 
 debt in any court of competent jurisdiction or the officer to whom such 
 duty charge toll or registration fee or part thereof ought to have been 
 paid taking such assistance as he thinks necessary may either at the time 
 of the vessel in respect of which the same is payalde passing or Ijeing at 
 any place appointed for receiving such duty charge toll or registration fee 
 or at any time afterwards seize and detain such vessel (whether laden or 
 empty) and the tackle and furniture on board thereof until payment of 
 such duty charge toll or registration fee or part thereof together with 
 reasonable charges for such seizure and detention and if such vessel 
 tackle and furniture shall not be redeemed within five days after such 
 seizure such officer may sell the same lendering to the owner thereof on 
 demand the surplus if any of the proceeds of such sale after deducting 
 therefrom the amount of such duty charge toll or registration fee or part 
 thereof so payable as aforesaid and reimbursing himself the exjiense 
 incurred by him under the provisions of this section Piovided always 
 that no such otKcer shall be answerable for any loss injury or damage 
 which may happen to such distress while in his custody unless the same 
 *hall happen through his wilful or grossly negligent act or default. 
 
 168. If any dispute arise about the amount of any duty of tonnage Disputes 
 charge toll or registration fee due under this Act or the charges of dis- respecting 
 training keeping or selling any distress authorised by the provisions of ^'""'i* '.*'""* 
 this Act relating to duties of tonnage tolls etc. the officer of the Con- ggdig^j ^J^ ^ 
 servators distraining may detain the distre.ss or the money arising from court of ' 
 the sale thereof until the amount of duty charge toll or registration fee siimmarj- 
 <lue or the charges of distraining keejjing and selling the di>tre.ss as the J"'"'"'''^^'^*'"' 
 case may be shall be ascertained by a court of summary jurisdiction who 
 
 upon application made to him for that purpose sliall examine the said 
 matteis upon the oaths of the parties or other witnesses and shall determine 
 the amount of duty charge toll or registration fee due and shall also assess 
 the charges of such distress and sale and all other rea.sonable costs all 
 which sums so determined or assessed shall be paid to or retained by such 
 officer liefore he shall be ol)liged to return the said distress or the surjilus 
 after the sale thereof or of any part thereof. 
 
 169. If any person shall remove any vessel lawfully detained by any Penaltv for 
 otlicer of the Conservators on account of the non-payment of all or any removing 
 part of any duty of tonnage charge toll or registration fee payable in ^essels de- 
 respect of such vessel or on account of such vessel being laden contrary to
 
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 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.J 
 
 Notice of 
 tolls to be 
 
 Collectors to 
 put lip their 
 names on 
 boards in 
 front of toll 
 houses. 
 
 Tables of 
 tolls to be 
 affixed at 
 places where 
 collected. 
 
 Tolls for 
 ferries. 
 
 Power to 
 make ar- 
 rangements 
 as to tolls. 
 
 the proA*isions of this Act out of the possession of such officer or away 
 from or beyoud the place where such officer shall have ordered that such 
 vessel shall stop every such person shall for every such offence be liable ta 
 a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 
 
 170. The tolls in this Act mentioned shall not be levied unless not less 
 than four weeks at the least previously notice of such tolls shall have been 
 inserted in the London Gazette and advertised in two daily morning news- 
 papers published and circulating in London nor unless a statement of the 
 amount of the tolls for the time being leviable shall be placed in some 
 conspicuous part of the office of the Consei-vators Provided that in every 
 case in which notice of any such toll was inserted and advertised as afore- 
 said before the passing of this Act the said period of four weeks shall be- 
 reckoned from such insertion and advertisement. 
 
 of the Conservators authoiised by them to collect 
 in this Act mentioned shall place his christian and 
 
 171. Every officer 
 any of the tolls 
 
 sui-name painted on a board in white letters on a black gi-ound in legible 
 chai-acters of such size as the Conservators shall dii-ect in the front or some 
 other conspicuous pai't of the toll house if any whei'e he shall be stationed 
 to collect the said tolls immediately upon his coming on duty and shall 
 continue the same so placed during the whole time he is upon duty and if 
 any such officer do not place and continue such board placed as aforesaid 
 or demands or takes a toll greater or less than that authorised or in any- 
 wise hinders any person from reading such christian or surname or any 
 table of tolls there set up or refuses to tell his christian or surname to 
 any person who demands the same having paid the toll demanded or gives: 
 a false name upon such demand he shall for every such offence be liable to 
 a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 173. The Conservators shall from time to time cause to be painted on. 
 boards or wiitten on paper in distinct and legible characters and affixed 
 and continued conspicuously at every place where they are authoiised to 
 demand and receive tolls tables of the tolls authorised to be taken thereat 
 and no toll shall be demanded of any person at any such place during such, 
 time as such board or paper is not so affixed Provided always that if any 
 such board or paper shall be destroyed injured or obliterated such toll 
 shall continue payable during such time as may be reasonably required 
 foi- the restoration or I'eparation of such board or paper in the same 
 manner as if the same had continued affixed and in the state required 
 by this Act. 
 
 173. The Conservators may from time to time demand and receive in 
 respect of ferries across the Thames above Teddington Lock established 
 and maintained by them and for the use of ferry boats belonging to them 
 the tolls appointed by byelaws cf the Conservators for the time being in 
 force. 
 
 174. The Conservators in conformity with any byelaws regulating the 
 receipt of tolls may from time to time enter into and execute agreements- 
 with persons liable to pay tolls with respect to the mode and times for the 
 collection and payment thereof or the payment of annual or other periodical 
 sums by way of composition therefor : 
 
 Provided always that the Conservators shall not by or under any such 
 agi-eement or arrangement make or give any undue or unreasonable 
 preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or 
 any particular description of traffic in any respect whatsoever or subject 
 any particular person or any particular description of traffic to any 
 undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect 
 whatsoever : 
 
 If any person liable to pay any tolls thinks himself aggrieved by any 
 such agreement or arrangement or by anything done in pursuance thereof 
 he may apply to the Board of Trade and the Conseivators shall follow the 
 directions of the Board of Trade in the matter.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] TJiames Consermncy Act \s<:}A. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1019 
 
 175. Subject to the provisions of this Act all duties of tonnage cLiirges Duties tolls 
 and tolls payable under this Act shall at all times be charged equally an<l etc. to be 
 after the same respective rate upon all persons and in respect of all vessels cliarged 
 and no remission reduction or advance of such duties charges or tolls shall 
 
 either directly or indirectly be made partially or in favour of any particular 
 person oi- vessel l)ut every such remission reduction or advance shall take 
 effect with respect to all persons and to all vessels of the same respective 
 sort. 
 
 176. Notwithstanding anything in this Act any order of the Board of Saving for 
 Trade under the IJailuay and Canal Tratlic Act 1888 as .such order is .set Canal Tolls 
 out in the Schedule to any Act passed in the pre.sent session of Pailiament ^"" (• f ir^^r 
 and confirming such order as so set out shall so far as the same relates to '^^]. ^.^^. -j 
 the Thames above London Bridge have full validity and effect as if such order lbU4, 
 order and confirming Act were respectively made and passed subseciuently 
 
 to the passing of this Act and any reference in the said order to section 3 
 of the Act 52 Geo. 111. caj). 40 (which Act is by this Act repealed) shall 
 be deemed to include a reference to the section of this Act whereof the 
 marginal note is " Navigation tolls for vessels other than pleasure boats " 
 so far as that section relates to the Thames below Teddington Lock. 
 [.Sees. IGO.] 
 
 Lands. 
 
 177. The Conservators may for the purposes and subject to the pro- ^ower to 
 visions of this Act from time to time as they think tit purchase by jands by 
 agreement any lands. agreement. 
 
 178. The Conservators may accept and hold upon such terms and Power to 
 conditions as they think fit any land which any person may offer to accept and 
 them for dedication to public uses in connexion with any of the purposes j^^ certain 
 of this Act and it shall be lawful for any person to give grant dedicate purposes, 
 convey or devise any land or right over land to the extent of his estate 
 
 and interest unto the Conservators for the purpose of enabling the public 
 to use such land or any part thereof as a public highway or as a place of 
 public resort or for the purpose of creating bathing-places or camping- 
 grounds or landing-places or for any other purposes connected with this 
 Act any of the provisions of the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888 
 or of any Act amending the same or of any other Act or any rule of law 
 to the contrary notwithstanding but nothing in this section shall authorise 
 the Conservators to create or permit any nuisance. 
 
 179. Persons empowered by the Lands Clauses Act to sell and convey Power to 
 or release lands may if they think fit subject to the provisions of tho.se t^'ke ease- 
 Acts and of this Act grant to the Conservators any easement right or ^^^li^^ee^* 
 privilege (not being an easement right or privilege of water in which any nient etc. 
 party other than the parties to the agreement have an interest) recjuired 
 
 for the purposes of this Act in over or affecting any such lands and the 
 provisions of the said Acts with respect to lands and rentcharges so far as 
 the same are applicable in this behalf shall extend and iipply to such 
 grants and to such easements rights and privileges as aforesaid respectively. 
 
 180. [^Restriction on taking houses of labourimj class.^ 
 
 181. The Conservators may from time to time sell lea.se (on building or Power to sell 
 other leases) exchange or otherwise dispose of in such manner for such ^^^- l'»°"S. 
 consideration and on such terms and conditions as they think tit anil in 
 
 case of sale either in consideration of a gross sum or of an annual rent or 
 of any payment in any other form any lands or any interest in any lands 
 for the time being vested in them and in their judgment not required for 
 the puri>oses of this Act and may sell exchange or di-spose of any rents 
 reserved on the sale exchange lease or disposition of such lands or any 
 reversionary interest therein and may make extcute and do any deed 
 act or thing proper for effectuating any such sale lease exchange or 
 other disposition and on anv axchange may give or take any money
 
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 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 for equality of exchange Provided that the Conservators shall absolutely 
 sell and dispose of the reversion of any building lease of such lands 
 granted by them within ten years from the date of such lease. 
 
 Certain works 
 to be approved 
 by the Board 
 of Trade. 
 
 Board of 
 Trade may 
 order survey 
 of works at 
 expense of 
 persons 
 commencing 
 works. 
 
 AVorks which 
 have not been 
 approved of to 
 be removed. 
 
 Provision 
 against 
 shooting 
 or use of 
 firearms on 
 Thames. 
 
 Provision as 
 to land drain 
 age above 
 Oxford. 
 
 Miscellaneous Provisions. 
 
 182. No works upon the bed or shores of the Thames below Teddington 
 Lock shall at any time be commenced or executed under the direction or 
 with the licence consent or j)ei'mission of the Conservators without such 
 works having been previously approved of by the Board of Trade such 
 approval to be signified in writing under the hand of the secretary or of 
 an assistant secretary to the Board of Trade or if such approval be not 
 previously obtained without proper conditions being made to provide for the 
 immediate removal of all such works upon notice from the Board of Trade 
 under the hand of the secretary or of an assistant secretary thereto 
 requiring the same to be removed. 
 
 183. If at any time the Board of Trade think fit to oixler a local survey 
 and examination of any work upon the bed or shores of the Thames below 
 Teddington Lock or of the intended .site thereof the person about to com- 
 mence or who may have commenced or executed any such work shall defray 
 the costs of every such local survey and examination and the amount thereof 
 shall be a debt due to Her Majesty from such person as aforesaid and if 
 not paid upon demand may be recovered as a debt due to the Crown with 
 the costs of suit in any court of competent jurisdiction or maybe recovered 
 with costs as a penalty is or may be recovei-able under this Act. 
 
 184. Tlie Board of Trade or the Conservators i-espectively if they 
 respectively think fit may abate and remove every work commenced or 
 executed upon the bed or shores of the Thames below Teddington Lock 
 which they respectively may not have approved of licensed consented to 
 or permitted and restore the site thereof to its former condition at the 
 cost of the persons who may have commenced or executed such work and 
 the amount of any such costs shall be a debt due to Her Majesty or to the 
 Conservators (as the case may be) from such persons as aforesaid and if 
 not paid upon demand may be recovered as a debt due to the Crown or to 
 the Conservators (as the case may be) with the costs of suit in any court 
 of competent jurisdiction or may be recovered with costs as a penalty is or 
 may be recoverable under this Act Provided that the provisions of this 
 section and the provisions of the two immediately preceding sections shall 
 not apply to any works executed by the Admiralty on such portions of the 
 bed and shores of the Thames as are mentioned in the section of this Act 
 whereof the marginal note is " Reservation of part of the bed and soil." 
 [See s. 59.] 
 
 185. From and after the passing of this Act it shall be unlawful 
 to discharge any fire-arm air-gitn gun or similar instrument over or upon 
 the Thames or the shores banks or tow-paths thereof or any land for the 
 time being vested in the Conservators above an imaginary straight line 
 drawn from Barking Creek to Margaret Ness and every person discharging 
 any fire-arm air-gun gun or similar instrument over or upon the Thames 
 or the shores banks or towpaths thereof or any such land as aforesaid 
 above such line shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding forty shillings : [S'ee also 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 36.] 
 
 Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any 
 of Her Majesty's forces Avhen in the performance of their duties. 
 
 186. If in any case where the consent of the Conservators is requisite 
 ■ for any purpose under the Land Drainage Act 1861 as affecting the 
 
 Thames above the city of Oxford stich consent is not given within two 
 months after the same is applied for the body or per-on desiring to obtain 
 such con.sent may apply to the Board of Trade who shall direct whether or 
 not such consent is to be given and if so on what terms or conditions and 
 the Conservators shall follow the directions of the Board of Trade in the 
 matter.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Consercancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1021 
 
 187. The high water of ordinary spring tides at one mile below Fixing H.W. 
 London Bridge shall be taken as level with the mark fixed by the \\-^^- ^^'^ 
 late Captain Hiiddait in the year one thousand eight liundrfMl upon the ^''''*'"*'^- 
 Hermitage entrance lock to the London Docks commonly called " Trinity 
 Standard" The high water of ordinary spring ti<!es at other places shall 
 correspond with the above allowing for the dillerence of IUjw at each 
 particular ])lace. 
 
 188. After the passing of this Act the Conservators shall maintain at -^'^ t-. 
 
 or near Teddington Weir the existing works and appliances for ganging the ': '*- 
 
 daily flow of the river The Conservators shall also from the first day of '-^'^'■'■-^"^^ 
 January next after the passing of this Act cause to be taken and duly 
 recorded proper observations measurements and calculations of the daily 
 flow of the river at the above-mentioned place A statement of such 
 records shall be made up at the end of each month to which they relate 
 and co[)ies of such statements shall be furnished to the London County 
 Council and to any public body or any person requiring the same on 
 payment of a fee of one shilling for each monthly statement. 
 
 189. [Power for the, Board of Trade, to appoint a coianiissioa to Inquire 
 and report an to dredijing the estnanj of the Thaniea*^ 
 
 Byelav;s. 
 
 190. AH bvelaws made bv the Conservatois and in force at the nassinc I'resent bve- 
 of this Act shall so far as they are not repugnant to the provi>ions of this .^''' ^? *^'°" 
 Act continue in force and maybe enforced by the Conservators subject ''"^"^ *° ^*''^' 
 to alteration or repeal by bvelaws made under this Act Provided that 
 
 nothing in this Act shall affect any byelaws made under the Petroleum 
 Acts 1871 and 1879 or the Explosives Act 1^575. 
 
 191. The Conservators may from time to time make such bvelaws as to Power to 
 them seem meet for all or any of the purposes for which by this Act they ™ake bye- 
 are authorised to make byelaAvs and for all or any of the following 
 purposes namely : — 
 
 For regulating the mode of conducting elections of Conservators under 
 
 this Act; 
 For the regulation management and improvement of the Thames and 
 
 the navigation thereof ; 
 For the prevention of obstructions in the Thames ; 
 For compelling vessels on the Thames to exhibit lights from sunset. 
 
 to sunrise ; 
 For the regulation of vessels on the Thames ; 
 For prescribing in the Thames below Ttddington Lock limits above 
 
 which various classes of vessels to be tlefined by such byelaws and 
 
 which are used only or principally for the carriage of passengei-s or for 
 
 purposes of excursions shall not be navigated ; 
 For the government good order and regulation of persons navigating the 
 
 Thames or using the tow-paths piers landing-places or locks thereof; 
 For preventing the loadings of vessels projecting over the sides thereof ; 
 For the mooring of timber on the Thames ; 
 For i-egulatiiig the timts and manner of raising or heaving up or for 
 
 suspending mooring chains in the Thames ; 
 For the government and regulation of the otiicers servants and workmen 
 
 in the employ of the Conservators ; 
 For the registering and regulating of bumboats that is to say craft used 
 
 on the Thames for the purposes of dealings in provisions liquors stores 
 
 or other goods with seamen or others employed on or about the 
 
 Thames ; 
 For the registering and regulating of persons working or using such 
 
 bumboats on the Thames; 
 
 * The Lower Thames Navigation Conmiission ISJIJ — isDG was appointed under this 
 sectiou. This Commission presented a report to the President of tlie 13o;u-d of Trade 
 on the 25th March Is'JO.
 
 1022 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act \'69i\. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 For compelling and regulating the measuring of lighters navigated on 
 the Thames and the conspicuous and correct marking thereon by the 
 owners thereof of the names and addresses of such owners and the 
 burthen tonnage of such lighters ; 
 
 For prescribing the depths of water which may be drawn at various 
 seasons of the year by lighters navigated on the Thames above 
 London Bridge for compelling and regulating the conspicuoas and 
 correct marking of such lighters so as to show the depth of water at 
 any time drawn by them and for preventing such lightei-s being loaded 
 too deeply ; 
 
 For prescribing the amount of freeboard or clearboard which lighters 
 when navigated on the Thames are to have and securing that such 
 lighters shall have such freeboard or clearboard ; 
 
 For regulating the passage of vessels through locks on the Thames ; 
 
 For regulating the extent manner and times of the drawing down of 
 Thames water by owners or occupiers of mills for repair thereof or of 
 any floodgates or waterworks belonging thereto or for cleansing mill 
 streams ; 
 
 For regulating the giving of flashes or freshes of water in the Thames ; 
 
 For regulating from time to time (subject to the pro\dsions of the section 
 of this Act whereof the marginal note is "As to drawing down etc. of 
 water " with respect to the drawing down or keeping back of water 
 by the Conservators) the height or depth of water in the Thames at 
 any place above Teddington Lock [see .§. 75] ; 
 
 For preventing the removal or alteration of any watei'-mai'k set vip by 
 the Conservators for the purpose of showing the height or depth of 
 water in the Thames ; 
 
 For the better collection of duties of tonnage and other charges payable on 
 and for the registration of vessels exceeding fortv-five tons registered 
 tonnage navigating the Thames and trading seawards beyond 
 Gravesend but not entered at the office of Her Majesty's Customs and 
 not exempted by this Act from the payment of duties of tonnage ; 
 
 For regulating the proceedings on an inquiry by this Act directed to be 
 held into any complaint of the operation of any byelaw of the 
 Conservators or of any determination or proceeding of the Con- 
 servators or of the conduct of any of their officei-s ; 
 
 For preventing the passing into the Thames from or out of any vessel 
 on the Thames above Teddington Lock of any sewage or any other 
 offensive or injurious matter whether solid or fluid but so that no such 
 byelaw shall apply to the vessels of the Victoria Steamboat Association 
 Limited * or their successors certified by the Board of Trade as passenger 
 steamers to carry three hundi'ed or more passengei-s wliils.t such vessels 
 are bona fide engaged in the business of the said Association or their 
 successors below Molesey Lock : 
 
 For compelling with a view to the prevention of pollution of the Thames 
 the altering as the Conservators may approve of vessels used on the 
 Thames above Teddington Lock and the providing of such vessels with 
 such sanitary appliances as the Conservators may approve but so that 
 no such byelaw shall apply to the vessels of the Victoria Steamboat 
 Association Limited* or their successors certified by the Board of Trade 
 as passenger steamers to carry three hundred or more passengers 
 whilst such vessels are bona fide engaged in the business of the said 
 Association or their successors below Molesey Lock ; 
 
 For the regulation of bathing in the Thames and fixing the hours dui'ing 
 which persons may bathe in the several parts thereof : 
 
 For preventing offences against decency by persons using the Thames 
 and the banks and towpaths thereof or any land vested in the 
 Conservators ; 
 
 For preventing disorderly conduct or the use of obscene scandalous or 
 
 * See note on s. 108.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 189-1-. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1023 
 
 abusive language to the annoyance of per.'^ons u.>ing tlie Thanjes 
 or the banks or towpaths thereof or any land vested in the 
 Consf'iVators ; 
 
 For pi-eveiiting any nnisiince to riparian residents or others bv persons 
 using the Tiiauies ; 
 
 For preventing trespasses upon any Thames i-iparian dwelling-houses or 
 the curtilages or gardens Ixilonging thereto : 
 
 For regulating tlin navigation of the Thames with a view to thf safety 
 and amenity of the said river in relation to the purposes of this Act ; 
 
 For preventing injury to flowering and other plants shrubs vegetation 
 trees woods and underwoods on or neai- the Thames ; 
 
 For preventing bird catching bird nesting lard trapping and the search- 
 ing for taking or destruction of swans' and other birds' nests eggs or 
 the voun" of anv birds or other animals on or about the Thames savins 
 all rights of fowling luinting and spurting existing both on the foui-- 
 teenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five and 
 at the passing of this Act ; 
 
 For preserving notice boards and other works and things set up bv the 
 Conservators or with their consent ; 
 
 For preventing disturbance of the navigation of the Tiiames for purposes 
 of recreation ; 
 
 For preventing or regulating the exhibition of advertisements and 
 advertising upon or by means of vessels or otherwise on or over 
 the Thames but so that any such byelaw shall not interfere with 
 the right of the owner of any vessel of exhibiting advertisements 
 or notices for the purposes of or in reference to his trade or business 
 or of exhibiting any advertisement not visible from the shore [see 
 s. 224 (2)1 ; 
 
 For i-egistering and licensing steam launches used on the Thames 
 westward of Kew Bridge and for regulating the conditions of such 
 licences ; 
 
 For registering and licensing vessels used on the Thames westward of 
 Teddington Lock and for regulating the conditions of such licences ; 
 
 For the protecting preserving and regulating of the fisheries in the 
 Thames and the preservation of the fish therein ; 
 
 For the registering and regulating of boats or vessels on the Thames 
 used for fishing by persons following the business of fishermen or kept 
 to be let to hire for fishing and the governing of persons following 
 the business of fishermen and using or working such boats or vessels 
 for fishing and of {jcrsons keeping such boats or vessels for letting to 
 hii-e for fishing ; 
 
 For tlie piohibition of the use of nets and apparatus improper to be used 
 for taking lish in the Tluimes ; 
 
 For determining the times during which the taking of any particular or 
 specified kinds of fish shall not be })ractised on the Thames; 
 
 For regulating the passage of vessels on the Thames on any occasion 
 when large crowds may assemble thereon ; 
 
 For prescribing the numbers of persons ^\ho may be carried in or on 
 randans wlurries skifYs dingeys shallops punts canoes rafts and 
 other small boats and craft however navigated on the Thames 
 above Teddington Lock and for preventing the overcrowding of 
 such vessels : 
 
 The Conservatois may from time to time by byelaws alter or i-epeal any 
 byelaws continued in force by or made under this Act : 
 
 Provided that no byelaws made under this Act shall have any force if 
 repugnant to the laws of England or to the provisions of this Act : 
 
 All byelaws made by the Conservators shall ))e under the common seal. 
 
 192. The Conservators may by any byelaws niailc by them impose on I'enalties 
 oftenders against the same such reasonable penalties as they think tit not P^-^ ^^ 
 exceeding the sum of ten pounds for each ofience and in the case of a con- bvelaws ^
 
 1024 
 
 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.|| 
 
 Publication 
 of proposed 
 byelaws con- 
 sideration of 
 objections 
 and confirma- 
 tion bv Board 
 of Trade. 
 
 Byelaws to 
 be printed 
 and sold. 
 
 Proof of 
 byelaws. 
 
 tinning offence a daily penalty not exceeding a like amount but all such 
 byelaws shall be so framed as to allow of the recovery of any sum less than 
 the full amount of the penalty. 
 
 193. — (1) Byelaws made under this Act shall not have any force until 
 confii'med by order of the Boaixl of Trade but no other confirmation shall 
 be necessaiy. 
 
 (2) When the Conservators propose to make any byelaws they shall 
 publish the proposed byelaws. 
 
 (3) Before the Conservators submit any proposed byelaws for confirma- 
 tion by the Board of Trade they shall during one month at least after the 
 publication thereof afford to all persons the opportunity of making in 
 writing or otherwise objections to or representations respecting such j^ro- 
 posed byelaws and the Conservators shall take all such objections and 
 representations into consideration and if they think fit may abstain from 
 making or may alter or add to the proposed byelaws. 
 
 (4) if any alteration or addition is so made the Conservators shall 
 publish the pi-oposed byelaws as so altered or added to before submitting- 
 the same for confirmation by the Board of Trade. 
 
 (5) The Conservators on submitting any proposed bjelaws for confirma- 
 tion by the Board of Trade shall publish notice that they have done so and 
 during one month after the completion of such jniblication of notice any 
 person may make in writing to the Board of Trade any objection to or 
 i-epresentation respecting such byelaws. 
 
 184. The Conservators shall cau.se copies of all byelaws made by them 
 when the same are confii-med together with the order confij-ming the same 
 to be printed and such copies to be sold at a reasonable price to all persons 
 desiring to buy the same. 
 
 195. A copy of any byelaw made by the Conservators and confirmed 
 puiporting to be printed by direction of the Conservators and being 
 authenticated by the common seal and the signature of the secretary 
 shall for all purposes and to all intents be })rima facie evidence of such 
 byelaw and of the due making and confirmation thereof without proof 
 of such seal or signature. 
 
 Owners 
 accountable 
 for damage 
 ,done by 
 boatmen to 
 property of 
 Conservators. 
 
 Legal. 
 
 196. The owner of every vessel shall be and is hereby made answerable 
 for all trespasses damages spoil or mischief done by such vessel or by any 
 person employed in or about the same by any means whatsoever to any 
 of the property or effects of the Conservators or the banks or other works 
 erected maintained or repaired by them and the owner of every such vessel 
 shall for every such trespa.ss damage spoil or mischief done as aforesaid 
 upon conviction of the person doing the same before any court of summary 
 jurisdiction pay to the Conservators such damages and compensation as 
 shall be ascertained and determined by such court together with all costs 
 attending such conviction provided that such damages and compensation 
 shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds besides the costs of such con- 
 viction and in case such damages or compensation and costs be not paid on 
 demand the same shall be recoverable in the same manner as a penalty 
 is recoverable under this Act but in case such damages and compensation 
 exceed the sum of twenty pounds the said owner may be sued by the 
 Conservators for such damages or compensation. 
 
 Provided always that every person so convicted shall be answerable for 
 and repay to the owner of the vessel all such damages and compensation 
 recovered as aforesaid with all the costs of recovering the same and in 
 case of non-payment thereof on demand on oath made by such owner of 
 payment by him of such damages compensation and costs and of such non- 
 payment by .such person the amount thereof shall be recoverable in like 
 manner as a penalty under this Act may be levied and recovered by 
 warrant of such court.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thanies Conservanq/ Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1025 
 
 197. Every person who assaults resists or obstructs or aids oi* incites Penalty for 
 any person to assault resist or obstruct any Conservator or oHicer or servant assaulting 
 of the Conservators or constable av other person employed in the due execu- ^'^ '^^ '^^^ 
 tion of this Act or in the execution of his <luty or the lawful exercise of 
 
 any authority under this Act or under any Ijy<*law of the Conservator.^ for 
 the time being in force shall for every such oH'ence be liable to a |>enalty 
 not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 198. \^'lu•n and so often as any officer or servant of the Conservators If officers etc. 
 shall cease to hold office under the Conservators or to be in their employ refu-se to give 
 if such officer or servant or the wife or widow or any of the children family "P Pr*-'>^ise8 
 or other representatives of such officer or servant or any other person who jjjay ^jve 
 may have the possession of any premises Ijelonging to the Con.servators possession, 
 shall neglect or refuse to deliver up the pos.session thereof for the space of 
 twenty-four hours next after demand thereof made by notice in writing 
 
 so to do then it .shall be lawful for any .Justice by wanant under liLs hand 
 and seal to order a constable or other peace officer with such as.sistance as 
 shall be necessary to enter upon or into such premises in the daytime and 
 to remove the persons who .shall be found thereon or therein together with 
 their goods off or out of such premises and to put the Con.servators or such 
 person as they shall direct into po.ssession of such premises. 
 
 199. Any notice which the Conservators may be required or authorised Service of 
 to give to any person may be served on such per.son either personally or notice on 
 
 ■on his known agent or by sending the same through the po.^t in a prepaid other persons. 
 
 letter addressed to him or to his known agent by name at his last known 
 
 place of abode or business or by delivering the same to some inmate at his 
 
 last known or usual place of residence or busine-ss or in case the place 
 
 of abode or business of the person to be served is unknown it shall be 
 
 sufficient to affix the notice or a copy thereof on .some conspicuous i)art of 
 
 the premises (if any) to which the notice may relate. 
 
 Service by letter under this section shall be deemed to be etficted on 
 the day on which such letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of 
 post and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the 
 letter was properly addressed and put into the jxjst. [.See 52 it 53 Vict, 
 c. 63, s. 26.] 
 
 200. — (1) Where the Conservators are by this Act required to publish Mode of 
 
 any notice or byelaw (proposed or made) they shall (unless otherwise publication 
 
 provided by the enactment reciuiring such publication) do so bv inserting °^ notices 
 
 . . '■ ^ *■ ' - ^ and bvelaws 
 
 the .same once in the London Gazette and by insercing the same as an j^^ Conser- 
 
 advertisement once in each of two successive weeks in some one and the vators. 
 
 same daily morning newspaper published and circulating in London and 
 
 such publication shall be deemed to be completed on the day on which the 
 
 second of such adverti.sements appears. 
 
 (2) The Conservators shall not later than the day of the first insei-tion 
 of such advertisement transmit a copy of the notice or byelaw to the 
 clerk of the county council of any administrative county and to the town 
 clerk of any county borough affected by such notice or byelaw. 
 
 (3) The Conservators shall within seven days after the insertion of any 
 such notice or byelaw in the London Gazette insert as an adverti.-^ement 
 in a newspaper published and circulating in any administrative county 
 and in any county borough affected by such notice or byelaw a statement 
 drawing attention to the fact of the said insertion in the London Gazette. 
 
 201. Offences against this Act or any byelaw of the Conservators for Recovery of 
 
 the time being in force and penalties fines forfeitures costs damages and P»^nalties etc. 
 
 expenses imposed or recoverable under this Act or any such byelaw may 
 
 be prosecuted and recovered in a summarv manner. Persons cans- 
 
 iniretc. others 
 
 202. Where the doing of any act or thing is made punishable by this to offend 
 
 Act or by any byelaw of the Conservators for the time being in force with a^raiust this 
 any penalty tine or forfeiture the causing procuring or permitting such ^cc etc. liable 
 act or thing to be done shall be punishable in like manner. " ^^^ ^* 
 
 66
 
 1026 [Chap, clxxxvii.j Thames Consermnq/ Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Application 
 of penalties. 
 
 Jurisdiction 
 of Justices. 
 
 Powers etc. 
 of police. 
 
 Venue for 
 trial of 
 offences. 
 
 Bailiffs and 
 servants of 
 Conservators 
 may be sworn 
 in as con- 
 stables. 
 
 Power to 
 employ 
 Metropolitan 
 City and 
 county police. 
 
 Eegulation 
 on river. 
 
 203. All penalties fines and forfeitures imposed and recovered for 
 offences against this Act or any Act wholly or partially incorporated here- 
 with or any byelaw of the Conservators for tlie time being in force shall 
 (except penalties fines and forfeitures imposed on or recovered from the 
 Conservators) be paid to the Conservators and be by them carried to the 
 Lower Navigation Fund or the Upper Navigation Fund (as the case may 
 be) anything in any other Act notwithstanding. [See ss. 240 and 241.] 
 
 204. For the purposes of this Act and of any byelaw of the Con- 
 servators for the time being in force the jurisdiction of all Justices and 
 Magistrates acting for any area through or by which the Thames flows 
 shall extend over the whole of the waters bed shores banks and towpaths 
 of the Thames and over any place within one hundred yards on either side 
 of the Thames and over the whole of so much of any island as is in the 
 Thames where that river flows through or by such area. 
 
 205. For the purposes of this Act and of any byelaw of the Con- 
 servators for the time being in force the power and authority of all police 
 ofiicers and constables acting for any area through or by which the 
 Thames flows shall extend over the whole of the waters bed shores banks 
 and towpaths of the Thames and over any place within one hundred yards 
 on either side of the Thames and over the whole of so much of an island 
 as is in the Thames where that river flows through or by such area. 
 
 206. For the purposes of proceedings under this Act or any byelaw of 
 the Conservators for the time being in force eveiy oifence shall be deemed 
 to have been committed and every cause of complaint under this Act or 
 any such byelaw shall be deemed to have arisen in the place in which the 
 same actually was committed or arose Provided that every such offence 
 committed on or in respect of and every such cause of complaint arising 
 in respect of any vessel in the Thames below the western boundary of the 
 county of London may be deemed to have been committed or to have 
 arisen within the county of London. 
 
 207. The Conservators may if they think fit procure all or any of 
 their ofiicers and servants to be sworn in as constables for any of the 
 counties adjoining the Thames or any of the cities boroughs or towns 
 adjoining the Thames and maintaining separate police forces but they 
 shall not be liable without the consent of the Conservators to be called 
 upon to perform the duties of such constables except for the purposes of 
 this Act or of any byelaw of the Conservators for the time being in force. 
 
 208. The Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police the Commissioner 
 of City Police and the chief constables head constables or other ofiicers 
 having chief commands of police of all counties and of all cities boroughs 
 and towns maintaining separate police forces through or by which counties 
 cities boroughs or towns the Thames flows respectively from time to time 
 if they think fit at the request of the Conservators and upon such terms 
 as to payment by the Conservators or otherwise as may from time to time 
 be agreed upon between the Conservatoi-s and the I'espective commissioners 
 chief constables head constables or other ofiicers having chief commands 
 of police may provide ofiicers and constables of police to ktep the peace 
 preserve oi-der and prevent breaches of this Act and any byelaws of the 
 Conservators for the time being in force and generally to exercise police 
 authority at the piers or landing-places and the avenues and approaches 
 thereto belonging to or under the control of the Conserv'ators and situate 
 within the jurisdictions of the respective commissioners chief constables 
 head constables or other ofiicers having chief commands of police and to 
 remove any persons who may act in contravention of this Act and the 
 byelaws of the Conservators for the time being in force. 
 
 209. The Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police may with a 
 view to maintaining order and securing the safety of the public from 
 time to time give such orders as he thinks expedient for the purpose of 
 regulating the passage of vessels on such part of the Thames as lies
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1027 
 
 within his jurisdiction on any occasion when large crowds may assemble 
 on such i»art. 
 
 If the master of any vessel (lisol)eys any officer or constable of any 
 police force engaged in keeping order on such occasion as aforesaid he shall 
 in the case of a vessel propelled (jtherwise than by oars \ni liable to a 
 penalty not exceeding twenty pounds and in the case of a vessel propelled 
 by oars to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
 
 Any superintendent inspector oi' sei-jeant of any police force may enter 
 on any vessel the master (jf which refuses to coni[)ly with any ordeis given 
 in pursuance of this section for the purpose of taking such measures as 
 may be necessary for can-ying into effect the objects of this section or 
 any orders made thereunder And any person obstructing the entry of 
 any superintendent inspector or serjeant in pursuance of this section or 
 imjieding his efforts to carry the same into efiect shall for each offence 
 ])e lialjle to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 
 
 210. Whilst any Vjyelaw of the Conservators for legulating the passage Police to 
 
 of ves.sels on the Tliames on any occasion when lar<;e crowds may assemble observe bye- 
 thereon shall be in force all officers and constables of any police force \''^^^ ^ , 
 
 shall observe the same and if any officer of the Conservators shall be directions of 
 j)resent on any such occasion all such police officers and constaldes shall in their officers 
 all things observe the directions of such officer of the Conservatoi-s. at regattas 
 
 211. Where the Conservators or any other body corjtorate or any 
 
 person deem or deems themselves or himself afrgneved bv anv order con- ^ ^ ■, 
 
 • • • 1 i 1 i • i- e 1 ' i"- 1 1 appeals, 
 
 viction judgment or determination or or by any matter or thing done by 
 
 any court of summary jurisdiction under this Act or any byelaw made 
 
 thereunder they or he may a])peal therefrom to a court of quarter sessions. 
 
 \See the Stimviary Jurisdiction Act 1879, s. 31.] 
 
 Savings. 
 
 212. Nothing in this Act shall extend to any vessel belonging to or f^aving for 
 em}>loyed in the service of Her Maje.sty Her heirs oi" successors or to any ^|S^ Majesty s 
 present or future moorings of or for any such vessels nor shall anything ^oorjngg and 
 in this Act repeal alter prejudice or affect any of the provisions of the for 54 Geo. 3. 
 lifty-fourth George the Third chapter one hundred ai)d fifty-nine.* c. 159. 
 
 213. ySaving the rights of the Croicn.^ 
 
 214. [^Saving the rights of the Duchy of Lancaster J\ 
 
 215. [^Saving the rights of the Duchi/ of Cmmwall.] 
 
 216. Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or derogate from or in any- Saving rights 
 wise alter affect or interfere with the jurisdiction or authority of the of Trinity 
 Trinity House in the appointment of jiilots leadsmen and guides or for "0"^^- 
 beaconage and buoyage and office of beaconage and buoyage or for the 
 
 erecting and setting up of beacons buoys lights and lighthouses or the fees 
 advantages salaries profits emoluments commodities and rights incidents 
 and apjairtenances what.soever due jiayable accustomed aitjiertaining or 
 belonging to the Trinity House or any other rights offices duties and 
 privileges Avhatsoever now sub.^^i.sting and in force and held used or enjoyed 
 by the Trinity House under or by virtue of any Koyal Chai-ter grant 
 letters ])atent or Act or otherwise howsoever excejit that after the passing 
 of this Act the Trinity House shall not be entitled to discharge or require 
 the discharge of any harbour master appointed by the Con.servators 
 pursuant to the ])iovisions of this Act nor shall any such harbour master 
 be required by Elder Brethren of the Trinity House to attend them. 
 
 217. [Xothing in this Act (except the proi-isioyis relating to pollution) 
 to affect the rights to which the Inner and Middle Temples are entitled under 
 25 i 26 Vict. c. 93. .See ibid. ss. 29 and 30.] 
 
 * An Act for the better regulation of the several Ports, Harbours. Roadsteads, 
 Sounds, Channels, Bays, and Navigable Rivers in the l'nite<l Kingdom: and of His 
 Majesty's Docks, Dock Yards, Arsensals, \Vharfs. Moorings, and Stores therein : and 
 for repealing several Acts passed for that purpose.
 
 Saving for 
 London 
 County 
 Council. 
 
 Saving cer- 
 tain rights 
 in fisheries. 
 
 1028 [CHAr. clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 218. \Saving the rights of the Lee Conservancy Board.] 
 
 219. [Savi7ig the rights of the Canvey Island Commissionejs.l 
 
 220. [Saving the rights of the C ominissioners of Sewers for limits 
 extending from Lombard's Wall to Gravesend Bridge.] 
 
 221. [Saving the rights of any commissioners of sewers, and of the Mayor, 
 Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of West Ham as successors of tlte 
 C ovmiissioners of Sewers for the Havering and, other levels.] 
 
 222. [Saving the rights of the Commissioners of the Dartford and Cray- 
 ford Navigation.] 
 
 223. [Saving the rights of the Thames Valley Draiiiage Commissioners.] 
 
 224. — (1) Notwith.standing anytliing in this Act it shall not be lawful 
 for the Conservators to place or make any piles groynes walls or works 
 in front of any land now belonging to the London County Council which 
 shall injuriously aflfect any right of that Council in respect of such land. 
 
 (2) No byelaw of the Conservators shall affect the right of the said 
 Council to place notices or announcements on any land belonging to and 
 used by them under the powers of any Act. 
 
 (3) Nothing in this Act shall prejudice lessen affect or interfere with 
 any of the powers rights authorities or privileges of the said Council under 
 any Act now in force. 
 
 226 — 226. [Saving for the Gorjmrations of Reading and Richmond^ 
 2. [Saving for the supply of water to Abbey Mill River.] 
 
 228. This Act or any power conferred by this Act or any byelaw of 
 the Conservators for the time being in force not being a byelaw made for 
 any of the purposes following (namely) for the preservation of the fish in 
 the Thames for the prohibition of the use of nets and apparatus improper 
 to be used for taking fish in the Thames and for determining the times 
 during which the taking of any particular or specified kinds of fish shall 
 not be practised on the Thames and excejjt the provisions of this Act 
 relative to the powers and duties of water bailiffs and other officers of the 
 Conservators shall not extend to take away alter or abridge any right 
 claim privilege franchise exemption or immunity to which any owner or 
 occuj^ier of any private fishery in the Thames is entitled or to empower 
 the Conservators to interfere with the exercise of the lights of such owner 
 or occupier but the same shall remain and continue as if this Act had not 
 been passed. 
 
 229 — 232. [Savings for trees, etc. at Temple Weir, for lands formerly 
 belonging to G. C. Cherry, as to Buscot and, Eaton Weirs, and for the 
 protection of Lord, Boston.] 
 
 233. Nothing in this Act shall require any vessel -which may under 
 any Act be i-equired to be and be registered oi- licensed by the Watermen's 
 Company to be registered or licensed under this Act or render any person 
 liable to any penalty under this Act on account of the user of any vessel 
 so required to be registered or licensed by the Watermen's Company and 
 at the time of such user being so registered or licensed. 
 
 234. [For the protectioro of the London, Tilbury <£• Southend Railxoay 
 Comj)any.] 
 
 235. [Act not to affect Richmond footbridge and loch and slijnoay and 
 tolls.] 
 
 3 236. Nothing in this Act shall authorise or empower the Conservators 
 to enter upon or interfei-e with any lands or w^orks of any dock company 
 established under the authority of Parliament or of any other company 
 established under such authority owning any dock or shall aftect or apply 
 to any vessel while within the docks or premises of any such company and 
 nothing in this Act or in any byelaw made under the authority of this 
 Act shall take away prejudice or affect any of the rights powers privileges 
 exemptions immunities jurisdictions or authorities of any such company 
 
 Saving for 
 vessels 
 registered or 
 licensed by 
 Watermen's 
 Company. 
 
 Saving right; 
 of dock com- 
 panies.
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservanoj Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1029 
 
 under the several Acts of Parliament now in force or which maylje passed 
 duriiiji,' the present session of Parliament relating to such company. 
 
 237. Except the provisions of Part V. of this Act nothing in this Act Saving for 
 shall take away prejudice or affect any right power or authority of any r'^l'ts oHocal 
 local authority company or person which might be lawfully exercised or 1^^^,^ ^^j^j^^j.^ ^^ 
 en joyed imme<liately V^efore the passing of this Act with respect to the take water, 
 taking of water from the Thames. 
 
 238. Except as in this Act expressly provided nothing in this Act shall General 
 take away alter or abridge any right {Jaim [)iivilege franchise exemption saving of 
 or immunity to which any owner or occupier of any lands on the banks of "K^ts. 
 the Thames including the banks thereof or of any eyots or islands in the 
 Thames or any person is now by law entitled nor take away or abridge 
 
 any legal right of ferry but the same shall remain and continue in full 
 force and effect as if this Act had not been pas.^ed. 
 
 Part IV. 
 
 Financial. 
 
 Returns and Payments to Croion. 
 
 239. Tlie Conservators shall in every year on or before the first day of Annual re- 
 
 Febi'uary transmit to the Commissionei'S of Woods a return verified by the turn of cer- 
 
 treasurer of the Conservators or the secretary under his hand containing tarn moneys 
 
 rocGivod uv 
 full particulars of all sales leases or grants or licences for docks recesses Conservators 
 
 beds for boats or barges dwarf or other wharves piers landing-places piles to be sent to 
 mooring-chains stages cranes apparatus and other machinery or works of and certain 
 any description of in or upon any poitions of the bed or shores of the '^"^""^1 P^J" 
 Thames below the City Stone above Staines Biidge or any encroachments naade toCom- 
 embankments and inclosures u})on or from the bed or shores of that part missioners of 
 of the Thames and containing an account of all sums of money which they Woodsf. 
 or any person by their order or to their use received during the year 
 ended on the then last thirty-first day of December for or in respect of any 
 such sales leases grants or licences or for or in re-spect of any permission 
 of the Conservators in reference to such beds shores encroachments 
 embankments and inclosures and of all rents revenues and proceeds 
 accruing or arising from the said bed shores encroachments embank- 
 ments and inclosures such account to specify the som-ces from which such 
 sums rents revenues and profits were respectively derived. 
 
 Subject as herein-after in this section provided the Conservators shall 
 in every year on or before the first day of ^larch pay over one e(iual third 
 part of all the sums rents i-evenues and proceeds received as aforesaid 
 during the year ended on the then last thirty-first day of December unto 
 the Commissioners of Woods on behalf of the Queen's most Excellent 
 Majesty Her heirs and successors to be applied as p>art of the hereditary 
 possessions and land revenues of the Crown. 
 
 Provided always that the Conservators shall in every year on the first 
 day of March pay to the Commissioners of Woods on behalf of the Queen's 
 most Excellent Majesty her heirs and successors to be applied as part of 
 the hereditary possessions and land revenues of the Crown pursuant to 
 section 2 of the Crown Eands Act ISGG the sum of five hundred pounds in 
 lieu of all payments which would otherwise pursuant to this section be 
 payable by the Conservators to the Commissioners of Wootls in res|>ect of 
 ballast sand earth or gravel dredged or raised by the Conservators or any 
 person by their authority fiom the bed or shores of the Thames. 
 
 Funds and Accounts. 
 
 240. All moneys received by the Conservators in respect of the Thames Lower 
 below the City Stone above Staines Bridge including all tolls duties of Navijration 
 tonnage dues and other charges anil all proceeds of licences permissions l'""'^'- 
 and consents of and registrations by the Conservators and all fines
 
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 Upper 
 
 Navigation 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment be- 
 tween funds 
 of water 
 companies' 
 contributions 
 imder this 
 Act. 
 
 Separate 
 accounts. 
 
 Accounts to 
 be kept of 
 receipts and 
 disburse- 
 ments which 
 shall be open 
 to inspection. 
 
 Statements 
 of accounts 
 to be pre- 
 pared and to 
 be open for 
 inspection. 
 
 rents and proceeds of sales of lands and all penalties and damages and all 
 other moneys from whatever source and also all moneys raised by the 
 Conservatoi's under this Act for expenditure upon the Thames below the 
 said City Stone and also all moneys stocks funds and securities which at 
 the passing of this Act formed part of the Conservancy Fund of the 
 Conservators under the Acts by this Act repealed and also all income 
 of any such stocks funds or securities except so much of any such moneys 
 as are by this Act directed to be paid to the Queen's most Excellent 
 Majesty shall after the passing of this Act form one fund to be called 
 "the Lower Navigation Fund." 
 
 241. All moneys i-eceived by the Conservators in respect of the Thames 
 
 above the City Stone above Staines Bridge including all tolls dues and 
 other charges and all proceeds of licences permissions and consents of and 
 registrations by the Conservators and all fines rents and proceeds of sales 
 of lands and all penalties and damages and all other moneys from what- 
 ever source and also all moneys raised by the Conservators under this Act 
 for expenditure upon the Thames above the said City Stone and also all 
 moneys which at the j^assing of this Act formed part of the upper naviga- 
 tion fund of the Conservatoi-s under the Acts by this Act repealed shall 
 after the passing of this Act form one fund to be called " the Upper 
 Navigation Fund." 
 
 242. The Conservators shall carry to the Lower Navigation Fund one 
 thousand pounds of the moneys paid to them in respect of each year 
 pursuant to this Act by the metropolitan water companies * the West 
 Surrey Water Company and the South West Suburban Water Company 
 and shall carry to the [Jpper Navigation Fund the residue of the moneys 
 in respect of each year so paid to them. 
 
 243. The Conservators shall keep separate accounts of the Lower 
 Navigation Fund and the Upper Navigation Fund and of their receipts 
 and expenditure on capital and revenue account in respect of the Thames 
 below the City Stone above Staines Bridge and their receipts and expendi- 
 ture on capital and revenue account in respect of the Thames above the 
 said City Stone and subject to the provisions of this Act they shall 
 apportion fairly between those accounts any receipts or expenditure 
 common to two or more of those accounts. 
 
 244. The Conservators shall cause books to be provided and kept and 
 true and regular accounts to be entered therein of all sums of money 
 received and paid for and on account of this Act and of the several 
 pui-poses for which sums of money shall have been I'eceived and paid 
 which books shall at all i-easonable times be open to the inspection of any 
 of the Conservators and any of the mortgagees of the fines rents tolls and 
 other dues and profits receivable under this Act and the secretary of any 
 of the metropolitan water companies * of the West Surrey Water Company 
 or of the South West Suburban Water Companj^ oi' any person duly 
 authorised in writing by him without fee or reward and the Conservators 
 and other persons aforesaid or any of them may take copies of or abstracts 
 from the said books without paying anything for the same and the 
 secretary or any other person having the custody of the said books who 
 shall not on any reasonable demand of any Conservator or other person 
 aforesaid permit him to inspect the said books or to take such copies or 
 extracts as aforesaid shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not 
 exceeding five pounds. 
 
 245. The Conservators shall cause their accounts to be balanced in 
 each year to the then last thirty-first day of December and fourteen days 
 at the least before the meeting at which they are to be produced the 
 Conservators shall cause a full and true statement and account to be 
 drawn out of the amount of all contracts entered into and of all moneys 
 received and expended by virtue of this Act during the preceding year 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board, See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 |]57 & oS Vict.] Thames Consercancy Act \^^A. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1031 
 
 and also of all debts then owing by the Conservatoi-s and they shall cause 
 such statement and account to \>e [irinted and shall allow the same to 
 remain for inspection at their ottice and every mortgagee of the fines rents 
 tolls and other dues and profits receivable under this Act or any person 
 acting on behalf of any such mortgagee or the secretary of any of the 
 metropolitan water companies* of the West Surrey Water (Jom{)any or 
 of the South West Suburljan Water Company or any person duly 
 authorised in writing by him may at all reasonable times inspect such 
 statement and account and compare the same with the books and docu- 
 ments relating thereto in the possession of the Conservators and the 
 secretary shall on demand furnish a printed copy of the said statement 
 and account to every such mortgagee and person aforesaid without fee and 
 fourteen days at the least previously to the meeting for examining and 
 settling such account the Conser\ators shall give public notice of such 
 intended meeting stating in such notice that the said statement and 
 account are printed and lie at the office of the Conservators ready for 
 the inspection of the parties intei'ested. 
 
 246. The accounts of the Conservators so balanced as aforesaid Accounts to 
 together with the said statement and accoinit shall be produced at the be examined 
 annual meeting of the Conservators or at some adjournment thereof and ^^^ -ettled 
 the accounts shall be then examined and settled by the Conservators and ^* ^ }' ^""^"^^ 
 if the same be found just and true they shall be allowed by the Con- 
 servators and certified accordingl}- under the hand of the chairman of such 
 
 meeting and after such accounts have been so allowed and certified and 
 have been signed by the auditor as herein -after provided the same shall 
 be final in regard to all persons whomsoever. 
 
 247. Previously to the meeting in each year at which the accounts of Appointment 
 the Conservators for the preceding year are to be produced as aforesaid and payment 
 the Treasury shall appoint some person to be auditor of such accounts and °^ auditor, 
 evei-y such auditor shall be paid by the Conservators for his time trouble 
 
 and expenses in relation to his audit such sum not exceeding one hundred 
 and twenty guineas as the Conservators think fit and the Treasury 
 approve. 
 
 248. The auditor appointed as aforesaid as soon as conveniently may Auditor to 
 be after the meeting at which the accounts of the Conservators for the examine 
 preceding year were settled as aforesaid shall attend at the office of the accounts. 
 Conservators or at some other convenient place to be appointed by 
 
 the Conservators and from time to time shall in the presence of the 
 secretary if he desire to be present proceed to aiidit such accounts and 
 the Conservators shall by their secretary produce and lay l>efore such 
 auditor the accounts so allowed and certified as aforesaid together with 
 the statement and account herein -V)ef ore mentioned accompanied with 
 proper vouchers in support of the same and all books papei-s and writings 
 in their custody or power relating thereto and if the said accounts be 
 found correct such auditor shall sign the .same but if such accounts be 
 found incorrect he shall require the Conservators to correct the same in 
 such manner as he thinks right ami after such accounts have been so 
 •corrected shall sign the same. 
 
 249. The Conservators shall in every year present to both Houses of Accounts to 
 
 Parliament copies of the herein-before mentioned accounts for the preceding '*^ yearly 
 
 year as signed by the auditor. laid before 
 
 •^ o .' Parliament. 
 
 Existing Loans etc. 
 
 250. yrhe Conseri'dtors to continue liable for the annuities vnJer the 
 navigation bonds given before 1857 % the Corporation of London, and 
 to be empowered to redeem such annuities.^ 
 
 261. [The Conservators to continne liable for moneijs borroiced by the 
 Conservators since the Act of 1857 and before the passing of this Act, and 
 io be empoivered to redeem the securities for the sa}ne.^ 
 
 * Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 1032 
 
 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.]| 
 
 252. ^As to charge for the debt of the Upper Navigation Commissioners.^ 
 
 253 — 284. [^Potuers to the Conservators to borrow and to create debenture 
 stock, and provisions relating thereto.] 
 
 Application 
 of money 
 borrowed. 
 
 Application 
 of capital. 
 
 Application 
 of revenue. 
 
 Applicatimi of Capital and Revenue. 
 
 285. All moneys borrowed by the Conservators under this Act or 
 received as consideration for lands sold or being otherwise in the nature 
 of capital shall so far as the sarae are not payable under this Act to the 
 Commissioners of Woods be applied for purposes of this Act to which 
 capital is properly applicable and not otherwise. 
 
 286. — (1) All moneys foi-ming part of the Lower Navigation Fund and 
 being in the nature of capital shall be applied in respect of the Thames- 
 below the City Stone above Staines Bridge. 
 
 (2) All moneys forming part of the Upper Navigation Fund and being 
 in the nature of capital shall be applied in respect of the Thames above 
 the said City Stone. 
 
 287. — (1) All moneys forming part of the Lower Navigation Fund and 
 being in the nature of revenue shall be applied as follows namely : — 
 
 (a) [In paying three-fourths of the expenses of obtaining this Act so far as 
 
 the same shall not be paid out of borroired moneys. >S/ie'/i^.] 
 
 (b) In defraying three-fovirths of the necessary and proper establish- 
 
 ment expenses of the Conservators under this Act and in defraying 
 the working expenses of the Conservators under this Act in 
 respect of the Thames below the City Stone above Staines Bridge 
 and in defraying the expenses of the repair and maintenance of 
 the works in the Thames below the said City Stone vested in or 
 acquired or constructed by them by or luider this Act ; 
 
 (c) In paying the annuities charged by the Lower Na\-igation bonds ; 
 
 (d) In paying the interest from time to time accruing due on any 
 
 mortgage debt contracted by the Conservators under this Act 
 for raising moneys for the purposes of the Thames below the 
 said City Stone or on any A debenture stock issued by the 
 Conservators under this Act ; 
 
 (e) In providing any instalments payable under or sinking fund required 
 
 by this Act in respect of any moneys borrowed on mortgage by 
 the Conservators for purposes of the Thames below the said City 
 Stone or in respect of A debenture stock ; 
 
 (f) In carrying into execution the purposes of this Act in respect of the 
 
 Thames below the said City Stone. 
 (2) All moneys forming part of the Upper Navigation Fund and being: 
 in the nature of revenue shall be applied as follows namely :— 
 
 (a) [In paying onefourth of tfie expenses of obtaining this Act so far as 
 
 the same shall not he paid out ofborrovjed moneys. Spent. 'I 
 
 (b) In defraying one-fourth of the necessary and proper establishment 
 
 expenses of the Conservators under this Act and in defrapng the 
 working expenses of the Conservators under this Act in respect 
 of the Thames above the City Stone above Staines Bridge and in 
 defraying the expenses of the i-epair and maintenance of the 
 works in the Thames above the said City Stone vested in or 
 acquired or constructed by them by or under this Act ; 
 
 (c) In paying the interest from time to time accruing due in respect 
 
 of moneys borrowed by the Conservators before the passing of 
 this Act; 
 
 (d) In providing any instalments payable or sinking fund required in 
 
 respect of the moneys borrowed by the Conservators before the 
 passing of this Act ; 
 
 (e) In paying the interest from time to time accruing due on any 
 
 mortgage debt contracted by the Con.servators under this Act 
 for raising moneys for the purposes of the Thames above the
 
 [57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1033 
 
 said City Stone or on any B debenture stock i.s.'iued hy the 
 Consei'vators under this Act ; 
 
 (f) In providing any instalnietits payable under or sinking fund required 
 
 by this Act in respect of any moneys borrowctl on mortgage by 
 the Conservators for purposes of the Tliames above the said City 
 Stone or in respect of 15 delnntuie stock ; 
 
 (g) In paying year by year the interest accruing due on the Upper 
 
 Navigation Commissioners' debt ; 
 (h) In carrying into execution the pur{»ose.s of this Act in respect of the 
 Thames above the said City Stone. 
 
 Miscellanea us. 
 
 288. The Conservators may if they think fit so to do from time to time Conservators 
 pay such annual or other sum of money as to them seems fit and reason- ^^y ?i^'^ 
 able to any otiicer or person in their employ in addition to the usual salary f^'"^^'"^'^'' 
 
 or wages of such otiicer or person for any extra or unusual service or as a perannuation 
 compensation for any accident injury loss or damage which may happen to allowance, 
 or be sustained by such officer or person and also to any officer or persrm 
 in their employ by way of retiring or superannuation allowance for length 
 of service and also to the widow or children of any officer or i)erson in the 
 employ of the Conservators or engaged in the execution of any work for 
 them Provided always that the scale for retiring or superannuation 
 allowances shall from time to time be approved by the Treasury. 
 
 289. Notwithstanding anything in any Act and notwithstanding any Certain 
 custom to the contrary all tolls which for the time being may be demanded exemption.s 
 and received by the Conservators under this Act in I'espect of the Thames , rates 
 above London Bridge and all lands buildings locks pounds towpaths ' 
 bridges ferries and works for the time being vested in the Conserv^ators 
 
 in res))ect of the Thames above London Bridge shall be exempt from all 
 parochial charges rates taxes assessments impositions and payments what- 
 soever save as herein-after in this section mentioned and all such tolls lands 
 buildings locks pounds towpaths bridges ferries and works in i-espect of 
 the Thames above the City Stone above Staines Bridge shall be also 
 exempt from all parliamentary rates taxes assessments and payments 
 whatsoever : 
 
 Provided always that the Conservators shall pay full compensation and 
 satisfaction for all parochial taxes whatsoever in respect of such lands and 
 towpaths in respect of the Thames between London Bridge and the said 
 City Stone which have been or may 1)e purchased or used by the Con- 
 servators for the pvirposes of this Act and for which parochial taxes were 
 paid at the passing of the Act of 1814 in such manner and to such amount 
 only as actually were paid or would have been paid for such lands or tow- 
 paths in case the same had not been so })ui-chased or used such compensa- 
 tion and satisfaction to be settled by a jury if necessary in the same uuvnner 
 as compensation may under the Lands Clauses Acts in case of dispute be 
 settled by a jury. 
 
 290. [As to the expenses of obtain! nr/ t/iis Act. Spent.^ 
 
 Part V. 
 Water Companies. 
 
 291. If at any time any work is done or executed lu* pro|xised to be Control by 
 
 done or executid by the Conservators which in the opinion of any of the nietroixilitan 
 
 metropolitan water comiianies * will iniuriouslv affect either the flow or '^'""P''*"!.^® ''^ 
 
 . » works oi 
 
 the purity of the water of the Tliames above or at the }>lace where such Conservators. 
 
 company draw their supply the company may give notice in writing under 
 
 their common seal to the Conservators requiring them to alter such work 
 
 .* Now the Metropolitan Water Board. Sec 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 1034 
 
 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Co7iservancy Act 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] 
 
 Contributions 
 bj" companies. 
 
 Contributions 
 of companies 
 to be first 
 charge on 
 their receipts. 
 
 Payments of 
 companies to 
 be without 
 deduct ion and 
 free from 
 taxes etc. 
 
 Pvestriction 
 on quantity 
 of water 
 which may 
 be taken by 
 companies. 
 
 or not to do or execute the proposed work as the case may be and unless 
 the Conservators be willing to comply with such notice the matter shall 
 be referred to an engineer to be nominated by the Board of Trade on the 
 application of the company or the Conservators and such referee shall 
 decide what shall be done in the premises and his decision shall be final 
 and the costs of every such reference shall be in the discretion of the 
 referee. 
 
 292. The metropolitan water companies * the West Surrey Water 
 Company and the South West Suburban Water Company respectively 
 shall pay to the Conservators the annual sum mentioned in the second 
 column of the Sixth Schedule to this Act opposite the name of such 
 company in the first column of such Schedule and each of such sums shall 
 be payable by equal half-yearly payments on the twenty-fourth day of 
 June and the twenty-fifth day of December in every year the first half- 
 yearly payment to become due on the twenty -fifth day of December or 
 the twenty-fourth day of June which shall be next after the passing of 
 this Act such payments in the case of each of the metropolitan water 
 companies * to be exclusive and in the case of the West Surrey Water 
 Company and in the case of the South West Suburban Water Company 
 to be inclusive of all payments under any of the agreements mentioned in 
 the Seventh Schedule to this Act or under any other Act not repealed by 
 this Act payable to the Conservators by such company. 
 
 293. The payments to be made under this Act by the metropolitan 
 water companies * the West Surrey Water Company and the South West 
 Suburban Water Company respectively shall be the first charge on the net 
 receipts of the said respective companies after and subject only to any 
 debts or charges which were on the eighth day of August one thousand 
 eight hundred and sevent3'-eight (being the date of commencement of the 
 Act of 1878) payable thereout or chax-ged thereon respectively and in 
 priority to any claim of any shareholders stockholders proprietors or 
 members of or in the said respective companies to any dividend or share of 
 profits or receipts and from and after the twenty-fourth day of June or 
 the twenty-fifth day of December which shall be next after the passing 
 of this Act it shall not be lawful for any of those companies at any time 
 to pay or divide any dividend oi' share of profits or receipts to or among 
 any shareholders stockholders proprietors or members of or in that 
 company unless and until the same company have paid to the Con- 
 servators the half-yearly payment accrued due from that company under 
 this Act at the then last preceding tw^enty-fourth day of June or twenty- 
 fifth day of December as the case may be. 
 
 294. The half-yearly payments to be made as aforesaid by the metro- 
 politan water companies * the West Surrey Water Company and the South 
 \^'est Suburban Water Company respectively shall be made without 
 deduction and all sums so paid shall in the hands of the Conservators be 
 free from all parliamentary parochial and other general and local taxes 
 rates and assessments whatever. 
 
 295. [^Poiver of intersale hy the metropolitan vxiter companies. Super- 
 seded by 2 Ed^lJ. 7, c. 41.] 
 
 296. Subject to the provisions of this Act contained in the section 
 thereof whereof the marginal note is " Power of intersale by metropoUtan 
 water companies " the metropolitan water companies * the West Surrey 
 Water Company and the South West Suburban Water Company 
 respectively shall not unless and until otherwise authorised so to do by 
 Parliament take a quantity of water from the Thames in any day of 
 twenty-four hours calculated from midnight to midnight greater than 
 the quantity which such company might hav^e lawfully taken in any such 
 day on or before the fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and 
 niuety-foiu-. [These j^rovisions are varied hy several of the vxtter companizi 
 
 Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.
 
 '[57 & ;>S Vict.] Thames Conservancy/ Art 1804. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1035 
 
 later Acta — viz. East London Watfirirorka Act 1000, s. 26 ; Lamheth Water- 
 works Act 1900, s. 22; SoatUirark t(: Vauxhall Wafer Act 1898, ««. 15 
 ■and 16 ; and the West Jfiddlesex Waterworks Act 1899, s. 21.] 
 
 297. — (1) The metropolitan water companies* tin- West Surrey As to ascer- 
 Water Company and the South West Suburban Water Company taming 
 respectively shall at the cost of them respectively witliin one year '^va^^e/ta^en 
 from and after the passing of this Act provide and thereafter maintain [torn TLames. 
 in good working order suitable appliances to be approved by the Con- 
 servators for measuring or otherwise ascertaining the quantity of water 
 taken by sucli companies respectively from every source of supply of 
 such companies respectively from the Thames. 
 
 (2) The metropolitan water companies * the West Surrey Water 
 Company and the South West Suburban Water Company respectively 
 shall in every week after pioviding any such appliances make to the 
 Conservators a correct return in writing of the total quantity of water 
 taken on each day calculated as aforesaid in the week ending at midnight 
 on the Saturday then last from every source of .supply of .such company 
 in respect of w^hich such appliances shall have been provided. 
 
 (3) The engineer of the Conservators shall and any other person 
 from time to time thereunto authorised by the Conservators under the 
 hand of the chairman of the Con.servators or the .secretary shall at all 
 reasonable times have access to all or any part of the premises of the 
 metropolitan water companies * the West Surrey Water Company and 
 the South West Suburban W'ater Company i-esjiectively for the purpo.se of 
 inspecting all or any such appliances and of checking the returns made by 
 such companies respectively and the said companies respectively shall give 
 to such engineer or other person all necessary facilities for inspecting and 
 checking as aforesaid. 
 
 (4) In case any dispute shall arise between the Conservators and any 
 company with leference to the appliances to be provided as afore.said or to 
 the condition of any ap2)liances provided by such company or to the 
 correctness of any return by this section required to be made by such 
 company the matter shall be referred for detei-mination to the arbitration 
 of an engineer to be appointed by the Board of Trade on the application 
 of either of the parties to such dispute. 
 
 298. Where any person is entitled under any Act of Parliament grant Acquisition 
 custom or otherwise to any right of abstracting or appropriating water ''.^ a^eement 
 which might otherwi.se flow or find its wav into the Thames it shall be u"^ \.° 
 lawful for any such person on the one hand and the Conservators or any ^vater from 
 other person on the other hand to enter into and carry into effect an the Thames, 
 agreement or agreements for the conveyance of such right to the Con- 
 servators and eveiy such right may be conveyed to the Conservators by 
 deed and shall as from the date of such conveyance be ab.solutely ex- 
 tinguished to the intent that such water shall thereafter be allowed to dow 
 into the Thames : 
 
 And it shall be lawful for any of the metropolitan water companies* to 
 make conti-ibutions out of their capital or revenue for or in aid of the 
 acquisition and e.xtinguishment of any such right and for the Conservators 
 to accept such contributions and contributions from any other pei-son and 
 to employ such contributions for or in aid of the acqui.^ition and ex 
 tinguishment of any such right. 
 
 299 — 313. {^Provisions relating to the Watermen's Company.] 
 * Now the MetropoHtan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 11.
 
 1036 [Chap, clxxxvii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1894. [.57 & .58 Vict.} 
 
 The SCHEDULES referred to in the foregoing Act. 
 
 THE FIRST SCHEDULE. 
 
 Acts under which the Conservator's exercised Statutory Powers imiaediately 
 
 before the passing of this Act. 
 
 Part I. \_The Thames Conservancy Arts 1857 and 1864, the Thames Naviga- 
 tion Act 1866, and the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1893 (cited 
 in this Act as the Acts of 1857, of 1864, of 1866, and of 1S9S respectively)^ being 
 Acts wholly repealed by this Act, except the Act of 1893, which is repealed only as 
 to ss. 3 and 4.] 
 
 Part. IL [21 Jas. 1, c. 32, 24 Geo. 2, c. 8, 11 Geo. 3. c. 45, 15 Geo. 3, c. 11, 
 28 Geo. 3, c. 51, 35 Geo. 3, c. 106, and. 52 Geo. 3, c. xlvii. (cited in this Act as the 
 Acts of 1623, of 1750, of 1771, of 1775, of 1788, o/1795, and of 1812 (c. xlvii.) 
 respectively), and all being Acts lohich are njholly repealed by this Act.^ 
 
 Part III. [30 Geo. 2, c. 21, 39 Geo. 3, c. Ixix., 42 Geo. 3, c. xlix., 43 Geo. 3, 
 c. cxxiv., 45 Geo. 3, c. Ixiii., 47 Geo. 3 (s«?s.s\ 2), c. xxxi., 10 Geo. A, c. cxxiv., 4 & 5 
 Will. 4, ('. 32, 8 e^ 9 Vkt. c. 86, 12 & 13 Vict. c. 90, 14 Geo. 3, c. 91, 17 Geo. 3, 
 c. 18, 50 Geo. 3, c. cciv., 52 Geo. 3, c. xlvi., 54 Geo. 3, c. ccxxiii., 5 (?eo. 4, c. cxxiii., 
 8 Vict. c. i., 30 Vict. c. ci., 33 & 34 Vict. c. cxlix., 41 & 42 Vict. c. ccxvi., 46 & 47 
 Fict c. Ixxix., 48 & 49 Vict. c. 76 (cited in this Act as the Acts o/1756, o/1799, of 
 1802, of 1803, o/' 1805, of 1807, of 1829, of 1834, of 1845, o/ 1849, cf 1774, o/ 1777, 
 0/I8I6, 0/I8I2 (c. xlvi.), 0/1814, 0/1824, q/1845, of 1867, 0/ 1870, of 1878, 0/ 
 1883, and o/1885 respectively), being Acts tvhich are wholly repecded by this Act, 
 except the Act of 1756, which is repecded ^^ so far as relates to the Thames,^'' the Act 
 of 1799, which is repealed " so far as the same loas immediately before the passing of 
 this Act ccfpable of being executed by the Conservators,^^ tJte Act of 1845, which is 
 repecded only as to s. 139, and the Act of 1849, ivhich is repealed only as to s. 42.] 
 
 *^* ///, the foregoing Schedule — 
 The Acts mentioned in Part I. are the principcd Acts irhich related to the constitution 
 
 of the Cotiservators immediately before the passing of this Act; 
 The Acts mentioned in Part II. are the p)rincipal Acts under ivhich Commissioners 
 
 acted in respect of the Thames above the City Stone above Staines Bridge before 
 
 the Act of 1866 discontinued such Commlssi(mers and put that part of the Thames 
 
 within the jurisdiction rf the Conservators ; 
 The Acts mentioned in Parts /., //. and III. are those ivhich so far as unrepealed 
 
 or spent were executed by the Conservators immediately before the passing of 
 
 this Act ; 
 The Acts mentioned in Part III. are arranged as far as practicable in the following 
 
 order :~- 
 
 (1) Acts relating principcdly to the Thames below London Bridge ; 
 
 (2) Acts relating principally to the Thames between London Bridge and the 
 City Stone above Staines Bridge ; 
 
 (3) Acts relating to the Thames more or less generally. 
 
 THE SECOND SCHEDULE. 
 
 Limits (f the port of London for purposes of this Act. 
 
 Seaward limit : 
 
 A line passing straight from a point two statute miles and six furlongs from' 
 the tower on Harwich Naze in the county of Essex to a point four statute 
 miles and seven furlongs from the North Foreland Lighthouse on the North 
 Foreland in the county of Kent such points respectively being in a straight- 
 line between the said tower and lighthouse. 
 
 Northward limit : 
 
 A line passing straight from the northern extremity of the said seaward limit- 
 to a point four statute miles and five furlongs from Colne Point in the 
 county of Essex and being in a straight line between the last-mentioned 
 point and the lighthouse on the Maplin Sand thence passing straight to the 
 said lighthouse thence passing straight to the West Shoebury Buoy thence 
 passing straight to a point at low-water mark of ordinary tides at the 
 entrance to Holy Haven Creek in the said county thence passing along the 
 shore at low-water mark of ordinary tides (passing straight across all creeks 
 and inlets) to a point due south of the western point of the entrance to Bill 
 Meroy Creek near Tilbury Fort in the said county and thence passing due 
 north-west to high-water mark of ordinary tides.
 
 £57 & 58 Vict.] Thames Comervancy Act 1894. [Chap, clxxxvii.] 1037 
 
 Southward limit : 
 
 A line passing straight from the southern extremity of the said seaward limit 
 to a point four statute miles and five furlongs from the Sheppeylands End 
 near the north-easternmost point of the Isle of Sbeppey in the county of 
 Kent and being in a straight line between the said southern extremity and 
 Sheppeylands End thence passing straight to a point one furlong due north 
 of London Stone at the eastern point of the entrance to Yantlet (Jreek in 
 the said county thence passing straight in a north-westerly direction to low- 
 water mark of ordinary tides thence passing along the shore at low-water 
 mark of ordinary tides to a point due south of the western point of the 
 entrance to the said Bill Meroy Creek and thence passing due south to 
 high-water mark of ordinary tides. 
 
 Inland limit : 
 
 High-water mark of ordinary tides from the most westwardly points of the 
 said northward and southward limits respectively to London Bridge 
 throughout the River Thames and the several channels streams and rivers 
 falling into the River Thames between either of the said points and 
 London Bridge. 
 
 THE THIRD SCHEDULE. 
 
 \Form, of proxy imper for elections by shipowners, by owners of sailing barges, 
 lighters, and steam tugs, by dockowners, and by v^harjingers.] 
 
 THE FOURTH SCHEDULE. 
 Maximum Pleasure Boat Tolls. 
 
 For every steam pleasure boat and passenger steamer . . Eighteenpence 
 Olass 1.— For every sculling boat pair-oared row-boat and skiff 
 
 and for every randan canoe punt and dingey .... Threepence 
 
 Class 2. — For every four-oared row-boat (other than the boats 
 
 enumerated in Class l^i and sailing boat ..... Sixpence 
 
 Class '^. — For every row-boat shallop over four oars (other than 
 
 the boats enumerated in Classes 1 and 2) . . . . One shilling 
 For every house-boat uuder fifty feet in length One .shilling and sixpence 
 
 For every house-boat over fifty feet in length . Two shillings and sixpence 
 
 The above charges to be for passing once through bj- or over a lock and 
 returning on the same day. 
 
 In lieu of the above tolls pleasure steamboats or row-boats may be registered 
 on the payment to the Conservators of the under-mentioned sums and shall in 
 consideration of such payment j)ass the several locks free of any other charge 
 from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December in each year. 
 
 Per annum. 
 
 For every steam pleasure boat and steam passenger 
 
 boat not exceeding thirty-five feet in length . One hundred shillings 
 
 Ditto above thirty-five feet in length but not 
 
 exceeding forty-five feet . . . One hundred and fifty shillings 
 
 Ditto above forty-five feet ...... Two hunilred shillings 
 
 For every row-boat of Class 1 ....... Forty shillings 
 
 For every row-boat or yacht of Class 2 Fifty shillings 
 
 For every row-boat of Class 3 Sixty shillings 
 
 For every house-boat under fifty feet in length . One hundred shillings 
 
 Ditto above fifty feet in length . . . One hundred and fifty shillings 
 
 In computing the tolls eVery number less than the entire numbers above 
 stated is to be charged as the entire number. 
 
 Every vessel carried in or upon another vessel through by or over any lock to 
 be charged as if separately navigated through by or over such lock but to an 
 extent not exceeding one- third of such maximum tolls. 
 
 THE FIFTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 [Forms fur me in connexion toith debenture stock. ^
 
 1038 
 
 [CHAr. 56.] 
 
 Metropolis Water Act 1897. [60 & 61 Vict.} 
 
 THE SIXTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 S^iiiitx annually payahle under this Act hy Water Compayiies to Conservators. 
 
 Companies. 
 
 ^The Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks 
 1 The Company of Proprietors of Lambeth Waterworks 
 
 . I The Grand Junction Waterworks Company . 
 
 ^"l The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company 
 
 The Company of Proprietors of the West Middlesex Waterworks 
 
 ^The East London Waterworks Company 
 The West Surrey Water Company 
 The South West Suburban Water Company 
 
 Amoiints of 
 Annual Fayniente. 
 
 £ 
 .3,169 
 3,357 
 3,378 
 3,378 
 3,378 
 2,840 
 50* 
 
 115 
 
 * Note. — If the West Surrey Water Company in any year take from the Thames 
 a quantity of water exceeding an average daily quantity of 500,000 gallons the 
 amount of that Company's annual payment shall in that year and thereafter be 
 lOOZ. if exceeding an average daily quantity of 1,000,000 gallons the amount 
 aforesaid shall be 150?. and so on. 
 
 \The amounts referred to hi this Schedule are now considerahly increased. See 
 the annual rejjort of the Metropolitan Water Board for the year ended ?>\st March 
 1906, made j)ursuant to s. 28 of 2 Edw. 7, c. 41.] 
 
 THE SEVENTH SCHEDULE. 
 Agreemeids under ivhich Water Companies jmy annual sums to Conservators. 
 
 Dates of Agreements. 
 
 17th June 1852 
 
 23rd December 1886 
 24th June 1851 
 
 2.3rd December 1886 
 23rd June 1852 
 
 23rd December 1886 
 1st July 1852 . 
 
 23rd December 1886 
 22nd June 1852 
 
 23rd December 1886 
 22nd October 1888 . 
 
 Parties to Agreements. 
 
 The Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks f and 
 
 the Common Council. 
 The same and the Conservators. 
 The Company of Proprietors of Lambeth Waterworks f and 
 
 the Common Council. 
 The same and the Conservators. 
 The Grand Junction Waterworks Company f and the 
 
 Common Council. 
 The same and the Conservators. 
 The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company f and the 
 
 Common Council. 
 The same and the Conservators. 
 The Company of Proprietors of the West :Middlesex 
 
 Waterworks f and the Common Council. 
 The same and the Conservators. 
 The South West Suburban Water Company and the 
 
 Conservators. 
 
 60 & 61 VICTORIA. A.D. 1897. 
 
 An Act to amend 
 Companies. 
 
 THE 
 
 CHAPTER 50. 
 
 Law respecttno the 
 
 Metropolitan Water 
 [Qth Aiigust 1897.] 
 
 Complaint 1.— (L) Any water consumer or any local authority may complain to 
 
 may be made ^he Railway and Canal Commission that any of the metropolitan water 
 to Eailway companies has failed to perform some statutory duty of the company, and 
 the Commission may hear and determine that complaint, and if satisfied 
 
 and Canal 
 Commission 
 
 of such failure order the company within the time limited by the order to- 
 t Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c 41.
 
 [60 & 61 Vict.] Metropolis Water Act IS^Jl. [Chap. 56.] 1039 
 
 fulfil the duty, and ixiay, if they think fit, by any such order, impose any 
 penalty for such faihu-e which can be imposed under any Act, and enforce 
 any such order in like manner as any other order of the Commission. 
 
 (2.) If at any time complaint as to the quantity or quality of the water 
 supplied by any of the metropoHtan water companies fur domestic use* in 
 made to the Eailway and Canal Coramiasion, by any water consumer or 
 local authority, the Commission may hear and determine such complaint, 
 and if satisfied that the comphiint is well founded, may order the company, 
 within such reasonable time as is specified in the order, to remove the 
 ground of such complaint, and may enforce such oider in like manner as 
 any other order of the Commission, and may award damages to the 
 complainant. 
 
 (3.) All enactments relating to the Railway and Canal CommLssion 
 (except section two of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1894, which .^7 i: 58 Vict, 
 restricts the }>ower to awaid costs) shall, with the necessary modifications, ^- '^^' 
 apply to the Railway and Canal Commission for the purjiose of their 
 jurisdiction under this Act. 
 
 (4.) Tliis Act shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any 
 existing jtroceedings or remedy. 
 
 2. A local authority may aid any water consumer in obtaining the Power of 
 determination of any question which ajtpeax's to the local authoiity to be ^^^^.^l autho- 
 of interest to water consumers within the district of such local authority "^'^ les to aid 
 with respect to the rights, duties, and liabilities of any of the metropolitan consumers, 
 water companies in reference to the quantity or quality of water sup- 
 plied or the charges made by them. A local authority aiding any legal 
 proceedings under this section may, if the court think fit, be made a party 
 
 to the proceedings, and shall be liable for costs accordingly. 
 
 3. The Metropolis Water Act, 1852, and the Metropolis Water Act, Extension to 
 
 1871, shall, as respects the metropolitan water companies, extend to the ^'hfle water 
 
 whole of the area within which anv of the companies is for the time being ^^^^-^^ 
 
 1 I _ o afl.iptation 
 
 authorised to supply water, and for the ]»urpose of the said Acts as so ^f Metropolis 
 
 extended reference to that area shall be substituted for references to " the Water Acts. 
 
 metropolis " and " the limits of this Act," and as respects any area outside \'> Sc 16 Vict. 
 
 the administrative county of London a reference to the council of a c. >^4. 
 
 county or county borough shall be substituted for a reference to the ^"^ "^^^ ^^^*^'- 
 
 metro])olitan authority, and so much of the said Acts or of any local Act 
 
 as is inconsistent with such substitution shall be and is hereby rej^ealed. 
 
 4. The Railway Commissioners shall include in their annual report a Return of 
 return of all proceedings taken before them under this Act. proccedmgs 
 
 5. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — Definitions 
 The expression " metropolitan water companies " means the water 
 
 com)»anies+ sj)ecified in section three of the Metropolis Water Act, 34 k 35 Vict. 
 1871, namely; the New River Company, the East London Water- *-'• ^^•^■ 
 works Company, the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, 
 the Comjtany of Proju'letors of the West Middlesex Waterworks, 
 the Company of Proprietors of Lambeth Waterworks, the (.Governor 
 and Comjiany of Chelsea Waterworks, the Grand Junction Water- 
 works Company, and the Company of Proprietors of the Kent 
 Waterworks : 
 The expression " water consumer " means any i>erson who is supplied 
 with water by any of the metropolitan water com{)anies, or who 
 pays or is liable to pay any money charged by any of those com- 
 panies for or in respect of the supply of water, whether under the 
 name of rent, rate, or otherwise, and inchules any householder or 
 owner or occupier of a house entitled to make a comnnniication 
 with the mains or ])ipes of any of those comjianies : Provided that 
 nothing in this Act shall affect tlie terms of any agreement existing 
 
 * See footnote on s. 50 of 54 & 55 Vict. c. 70. 
 
 f Now the Metropolitan Water Board. See 2 Edw. 7, c. 41,
 
 lOiO 
 
 [Chap. 59.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900. [63 & 64 Yict.] 
 
 Short title 
 and com- 
 mencement. 
 
 at the time of the passing of this Act between a water company 
 
 and a water consumer as to the supply of water : 
 The expression " local authority " means the council of any county, 
 
 borough, or district, the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the 
 
 City of London, and any vestry,* district board,* or local board of 
 
 health * in the county of London. 
 6.— (1.) This Act may be cited as the Metropolis Water Act, 1897. 
 (2.) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of September 
 next after the passing thereof. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 Date of 
 holding 
 quarterly 
 meeting 
 of county 
 councils. 
 54 & 55 Vict. 
 c. 68. 
 
 Extent of 
 Act. 
 
 63 & 64 VICTORIA. A.D. 1900. 
 
 CHAPTER 13. 
 
 An Act to amend the County Councils (Elections) Act, 1891. 
 
 [\Qth July 1900.] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the County Councils (Elections) Amendment 
 Act, 1900. 
 
 2. In any year, which is not the year of election of county councillors, 
 the ordinary day of election of the chairman , . . referred to in sub- 
 section (3) of section one of the County Councils (Elections) Act, 1891, 
 may, notwithstanding anything in that subsection, be such day in the 
 months of March, April, or May as the county council shall from time to 
 time determine. \^Part omitted (as to the day for holding quarterly meetings) 
 not apjMcahle to London.^ 
 
 3. This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland. 
 
 Exercise of 
 powers out- 
 side district. 
 
 53 & 54 Vict. 
 c. 70. 
 
 Provisions as 
 to metro- 
 politan 
 borough 
 councils. 
 
 Accounts. 
 
 CHAPTER 59. 
 
 An Act to amend Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes 
 Act, 1890. [^th August 1900.] 
 
 1. Where any council, other than a rural district council, have adopted 
 Part Three of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (in this 
 Act referred to as " the principal Act "), they may, for supplying the 
 needs of their district, establish or acquire lodging houses for the working 
 classes under that part outside their district. 
 
 ii. ... ... 
 
 (3.) The principal Act is hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in 
 the third column of the Schedule to this Act. 
 
 [^Part omitted [as to the adojMou of Part III. of the principal Act by 
 rural district councils). Not appMcahle to London.] 
 
 3. — (1.) Any expenses incurred by the council of a metropolitan borough 
 under Part III. of the principal Act, whether within or without the 
 borough, shall be defrayed as part of the ordinary expenses of the council, 
 and in that Act the expressions " district," " local authority," and "local 
 rate " shall, for the purposes of Part III. of the Act, include a metro- 
 politan borough, the council of the borough, and the general rate of the 
 borough. 
 
 (2.) Where the council of a metropolitan borough adopt Part III. of 
 the principal Act, the power of the council to borrow for the purposes 
 of that part shall be exerciseable in the like manner and subject to the 
 like conditions as the power of the council to borrow for the purposes 
 of Part II. of that Act. 
 
 4. Where land acquired by a council under Part III. of the principal 
 Act is appropriated for the purpose of re-housing persons displaced by the 
 council under the powers of any other part of that Act or of any other 
 
 * Now tlie councils of the metropolitan boroughs. See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.
 
 [G3 & 64 Vict.] Jlouainy of the Working Classes Act lOOU. [Chap. 50.j 
 
 1^41 
 
 enactment, the receipts and exjx'nditure in respect of that land (including 
 all costs in respect of the acipiisition and laying out of the land), and 
 of any buildings erected thereon, may be treated as receipts and ex- 
 penditure under that part or enactment, but shall be accounted for under 
 a separate head. 
 
 5. — (1.) The local authority, if not a rural district council, with the 
 consent of the Local Government Board, and if a rural district council 
 with the consent of the county council, may lease any land acquired by 
 them under and for the purposes of P.irt III. of the principal Act to any 
 les.see for the purpose and under the condition that the le.ssee will carry 
 the Act into execution by building and maintaining on the land lodging 
 houses within the meaning of the Act ; and the local authority shall 
 in.sert in every lea.se all necessary jtrovisions f(U- insuring the u.ser of the 
 land and buildings for lodging houses within the meaning of the Act, and 
 in particular the local autliority shall insert in anylea.se provisions binding 
 the les,see to build on the land as in the lea.se prescribed, and to maintain 
 and repair the buildings, and .securing the use of the buildings exclusively 
 as lodging houses within the meaning of the Act, and prohibiting any 
 addition to or alteration of the character of the buildings without the 
 con.sent of the local authority ; and also a provision for the re-entry of 
 the local authority on the land on the breach of any of the terms of the 
 lease ; and everv deed or instrument of demi.se of the land or buildings 
 shall be endor.sed with notice of this sub.section. 
 
 Provided that i)i the case of a coimcil in London, the consent of a 
 Secretary of State shall he substituted for the consent of the Local Govern- 
 ment Board. [See 53 it 54 Vict. c. 70, s. 8 and note thereon.^ 
 
 (2.) Sections .sixty-one and .sixty-two of the principal Act shall not 
 extend to any lodging house to which this section applies. 
 
 6. [^I^oirers of county council to act on default of rural council. Xot 
 applicable to London.^ 
 
 7. Where land is acquired under Part III. of the principal Act other- 
 wise than by agreement, any question as to the amount of compensation 
 which may arise shall in default of agreement be determined by a .single 
 arbitrator to be appointed and removable by the Ix)cal Government Board, 
 and subsections (5), (7), (8), (IC)? '^^^*^ (1^) ^^ section forty-t)ne of the 
 Act shall apply as in the case of an arbitration under that .section. 
 Provided that in the case of a council in London a Secretary of State shall 
 be substituted for the Local Government Board. [See 53 <fc 54 Vict. c. 70, 
 s. 8 and note thereon.^ 
 
 8. — (1.) This Act may be cited as the Housing of the Working Classes 
 Act, 1900, and the Housing of the Working Cla.s.ses Acts, ISOO to 1894, 
 and this Act mav be cited together as tlie Housing of the Working Classes 
 Acts, 1890 to 1900. 
 
 (L'.) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. 
 
 by local 
 authority 
 for building 
 lod^ring 
 iiouses. 
 
 Arbitration 
 as to acquisi- 
 tion of land. 
 
 Short title 
 and extent. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 Rkpeal. 
 
 Session and Chapter. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 Extent of Repeal. 
 
 53 & 54 Vict. c. 70. 
 
 The Housing of the 
 Working Classes 
 Act, IH'.tO. 
 
 The proviso to section fifty-four. 
 
 Section fifty-five. 
 
 In section sixty-five, the words 
 from •• and !<ive where " to " bear 
 such expenses," and tlie word-s 
 " at the time of the publication 
 of the certificate " and •' who 
 publish the same." 
 
 o:
 
 lA^o rr<„.^ 1 • -1 London Coxntii Council (IrmmvcfA/s n r> r- -^ 
 
 1042 Chap, cclxxi.] , ^ •'' . ^ i . ir...i ''^ fl Edw. 7.1 
 
 •- -J and Improcements) Act 19Ul. i- '• ' J 
 
 ■Short title. 
 
 For pro- 
 tection of 
 Postmaster- 
 General. 
 
 Improcements) 
 1 EDWARD VII. A.D. 1901. 
 
 CHAPTER CCLXXI. 
 
 *An Act to enable the London County Council to construct new 
 Tramways and to reconstruct and alter Tramways in the 
 County of London to work Tramw^ays by electric Traction 
 
 AND TO MAKE StREET IMPROVEMENTS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 
 
 [llth August 190L] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the London County Council (Tramways 
 and Improvements) Act, 1901. 
 
 19. — (a) Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained if any of the 
 works authorised to be executed Ijy this Act involves or is hkely to involve 
 any alteration of any telegraphic line belonging to or used by the Post- 
 master-General the provisions of section 7 of the Telegraph Act 1878 shall 
 apply (instead of the provisions of section 30 of the Tramways Act 1870) 
 to any such alteration. 
 
 (b) In the event of any tramways of the Council being worked by 
 electricity the following provisions shall have effect : — 
 
 (1) The Council shall con.>truct their electric lines and other w'orks of 
 
 all descriptions and shall work their undertaking in all respects 
 with due regard to the telegi-aphic lines from time to time vised 
 or intended to be used by HLs Majesty's Postmaster- General and 
 the currents in such telegi-aphic lines and shall u.se every reason- 
 able means in the construction of their electric Hues and other 
 works of all descriptions and the working of their undertaking 
 to prevent injurious aflection whether by induction or otherwise 
 to such telegraphic lines or the currents therein Any difference 
 which arises between the Postmaster-General and the Council 
 as to compliance with this subsection shall be determined by 
 arbitration : 
 
 (2) If any telegraphic line of the Postmaster-General is injuriously 
 
 affected by the construction by the Council of their electric lines 
 and works or by the woi'king of the undertaking of the Council 
 the Council shall pay the expense of all such alterations in the 
 telegraphic lines of the Postmaster-General as may be necessary 
 to remedy such injurious affection : 
 
 (3) Before any electric line is laid down or any act or work for working 
 
 the tramways by electricity is done within ten yards of any part 
 of a telegraphic line of the Postmaster-General (other than 
 repairs) the Council or their agents not more than twenty-eight 
 nor less than fourteen days before commencing the work shall 
 give written notice to the Postmaster-General specifying the 
 course of the line and the nature of the work including the 
 gauge of any ware and the Council and their agents shall conform 
 with such reasonable requirements (either general or special) as 
 may from time to time be made by the Postmaster-General for 
 the purpose of preventing any telegraphic line of the Postmaster- 
 General from being injuriously affected by the said act or work 
 Any difference which arises between the Postmaster-General and 
 the Council as to any requirement so made shall be determined 
 by arbitration : 
 ^4) If any telegraphic line of the Postmaster- General situate within 
 one mile of any portion of the works of the Council is injuriously 
 affected and he is of opinion that such injurious affection is or 
 may be due to the construction of the Council's works or to the 
 
 * The sections of this Act set out here are in the nature of common form sections 
 appearing or incorporated in many of the Council's private tramway Acts set out 
 in this work.
 
 1 
 
 n iT-r.-.r --1 Lomf on County Council (Iramwatfs rf< i ■ •^ ^,.,<l 
 
 11 JiiDW. i.l , , ■' / N 1 , i,„.i ■ IChap. cclxxi. I 1043 
 
 working of their undertaking the engineer-in-chi»'f of the Post 
 Office or any person iippointeil in writing Ijv him ujay iit all 
 times when elertrical energy is heing generated by the Council 
 enter any of the Council's works for the purpose of inspecting 
 the Council's plant and the working of the same and the Council 
 shall in the ))resence of such engineer in-chief or such appointed 
 person as aforesaid make any electiical tests re(piired hy the 
 Postmaster-General and shall produce for the insj)ection of the 
 Postmaster-Tieiieral the r< cords kept Ijy the Council pursuant to 
 the Board of Tiade regulations : 
 (5) If a telegraphic line of the Postmaster-General situate within one 
 mile of any portion of the works of the Council be injuriously 
 affected and he is unable to ascertain whether such injurious 
 affection is caused by the Council or by any other pei-sons 
 generating or using electric currents for traction purjK>ses the 
 Postmaster-General may give notice to tin- Council recpiiring 
 them to make at such times as he may specify such experiments 
 (by working their generating stations running their cai-s or 
 otherwise working any part of their undertaking or in case of 
 continuous working by stopping the current generated for the 
 pui poses of their UTidertaking at such times as would not unduly 
 interfere with the tratiic) as he may deem necessary to enable 
 him to discovei- which of the luidertakings causes the lUsturbance 
 and such experiuients shall bo carried out by the Council as and 
 when required by the Postmaster-General : 
 
 ((6) In the event of any contravention of or wilful non-compliance with 
 this section by the Council or their agents the Council shall l>e 
 liable to a tine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during 
 which such contravention or non-compliance continues or if the 
 telegraphic communication is wilfully inteirupted not exceeding 
 fifty pounds for every day on whicli such interruption continues : 
 
 (7) Provided that nothing in this section shall subject the Council or 
 
 their agents to a fine under this section if they satisfy the court 
 having cognisance of the case that the immediate doing of any 
 act or the execution of any work in re^pect of which the penalty 
 is claimed was required to avoid an accident or otherwise was a 
 work of emergency and that they forthwith served on the past- 
 master or sub-postmaster of the postal telegraph ofKce nearest 
 to the place where the act or work was done a notice of the 
 execution thereof stating the reason for doing or executing the 
 same without })revious notice : 
 
 (8) For the purposes of this section a telegraphic line nf the I'ostmaster- 
 
 Geueral shall be deemed to be injuriously affected by an act 
 or work if telegraphic communication by means of such line is 
 whether through induction or otherwise in any manner affected 
 by such act or work or by any use made of such work : 
 
 (9) For the purposes of this section and subject as therein provideil 
 
 sections 2 10 11 and 12 of the Telegraph Act 1878 shall be 
 deemed to be incorjuaated with this Act: 
 
 (10) The expression "electric line" has the same meaning in this section 
 
 as in the Electric Lighting Act 1882 : 
 
 (11) Any question or difference arising vnider this >ection which i> 
 
 directed to be deterudned by arbitration >hall \k' determined by 
 an arbitrator appointed by the Board of Trade on the application 
 of either party whose decision shall be final and sections 30 to 32 
 botli inclusive of the Regulation of Railways Act 18(18 shall apply 
 in like manner as if the Covmcil or their agents were a company 
 within the meaning of that Act : 
 
 (12) Nothing in this section contained shall be held to deprive the 
 
 Postmaster-General of any existing right to proceed against the
 
 1044 
 
 rri ^ ■ -\ IjOvdoii Couiitu Council (Trumways 
 
 Chap, cclxxi. , j * \ \ * irun 
 
 L J and I tn pro cement s) Act Vd^n. 
 
 [1 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Council by indictment action or otherwise in relation to any of 
 the matters aforesaid : 
 (13) In this section the expression "the Council" includes their lessees 
 and any person owning woiking or running carriages on any of 
 the tramways of the Council. 
 
 Streets may 
 be raised or 
 lowered. 
 
 Deviation 
 from line 
 and levels. 
 
 29. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Council may for the 
 purposes of and in connexion with the improvements alter the line or 
 level of any of the streets and places described on the deposited plans 
 or sections as intended to be diverted raised or lowered in the manner 
 shown on such plans or sections. 
 
 30. In making any of the works for or connected with the improve- 
 ments the Council may subject to the provisions of this Act deviate to 
 any extent from the line thereof within tlie limits of deviation defined on 
 the deposited plans and the Council may subject to the provisions of this 
 Act deviate to any extent from the levels thereof defined on the deposited 
 sections not exceeding three feet from the levels thereof as defined on the 
 said sections. 
 
 Carriage- 
 way foot- 
 way sewers 
 and other 
 works. 
 
 Directing 
 bow pave- 
 ment shall 
 be laid and 
 made. 
 
 Sewers or 
 drains to 
 be arched 
 over or 
 filled up. 
 
 32. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Council may cause such 
 parts of the im])rovements to be laid out for carriageway (including where 
 authorised by this Act the laying of a tramway) and such parts thereof 
 for footway as they may think proper and may upon the lands acquired 
 by or vested in them under the powers of this Act and within the limits 
 of deviation defined on the deposited plans construct erect and provide 
 such vaults cellars arches sewers drains subways and other works and con- 
 veniences as they may think proper for the purposes of the improvements. 
 
 33. The Council shall for the purposes of and in connexion with the 
 improvements in a substantial and workmanlike manner fill or cause to 
 Ije filled in all and every the vaults cellars and open places over which it 
 may be necessary to new pave (except such as are capable of being used 
 as cellars vaults or areas) with good sound hard brick or other rubbish to 
 be well rammed down to prevent the ground from giving way and shall 
 well and efiectually pave over all the said ground with a sufficient quantity 
 of materials of proper quality and dimensions and shall in like manner 
 erect and build any underground arches which they may think necessary 
 and also relay and repair the streets which they may disturb or alter in 
 carrying the purposes of this Act into execution Provided always that 
 nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to charge 
 the Council with the liability or expense of repairing or making good such 
 pavement or arches in future but when the same shall hav^e been in the 
 first instance so paved relaid erected built and repaii-ed as aforesaid the 
 .same shall for ever thereafter be kept in repair by the authority in whom 
 the management and repair of the street are vested or by any other parties 
 or persons liable to repair the same. 
 
 34. The Council may cause to be removed arched over or filled up all 
 such sewers or drains or parts thereof which shall be in or near the streets 
 to be interfered with for the purposes of the improvements as shall ajapear 
 necessary for executing the purposes of this Act but so that no pubhc 
 sewer or drain (unless the same become unnecessary by reason of the 
 purchase of the property entitled to the use thereof) shall be in anywise 
 disturbed injured or prejudiced without another sewer or drain being 
 made in lieu thereof equally serviceable and convenient Provided always 
 that before removing or filling up any sewer or drain or part thereof as 
 aforesaid the Council shall (where necessary) cause to be made and built 
 other good and sufficient sewers and drains in substitution for the sewers 
 or drains which .shall be filled u{) and when made and completed the said 
 sewers and drains shall be under the same' jurisdiction care management 
 and direction as the existing sewers or drains.
 
 n Edw 7 1 J^omlon Coiudy Council {Tramway » ... , . -, 
 
 35. Tho Council within the limits of deviiition defineil on the def>osited I'ower to 
 pl;in8 nmy for tin- purposes of ami in connexion with the imi>rovements ''^^^''" ^^^V^ 
 raise sink or otherwise alter or cause to ho altt-red tht; position of any of ^f^^ V^\^* 
 the steps ai-eas cellars cellar-flaps {^ratings fencings windows and water- 
 courses pipes or s])Outs helonging to any house or Iniilding an<l mav 
 remove all other ohstructioiis so as the same he dcnie with as little delay 
 and inconvenience to the inhahitants as the circumstances of the case will 
 admit and the Council shall make reasonable compensation to any j>ei"Son 
 who sufl'ers damage by any such alteration. 
 
 38. The Council may sell or dispose of all building and other materials Power to sell 
 of any houses and buildings accpiired bythem under tlu' powers of thus materials. 
 Act and all lamp-posts paving metalling and materials in under or upon 
 any road street or other j)lace altered by them for the purposes of this 
 Act and any materials obtained in the alteration of or interference with 
 any drain or sewer which are vested in the Council under the powers of 
 this Act. 
 
 42. If any omission misstatement or erroneous description shall have C'Drrection 
 been made of any lands or of the owners lessees or occupiers of any lands of erroi-s etc. 
 
 t on the deposited plans or in the deposited book of reference the Council '"'^®^^'^''j5*^ 
 may after ten days' notice to the owners lessees and occupiers of the \J^)^;^ „f 
 lands affected by the proposed coi-rection ap{)ly to a metropolitan police reference, 
 magistrate for the correction thereof and if it shall appear to such magis- 
 trate that such omission misstatement or erroneous description arose from 
 mistake he shall certify the same accordingly and he shall in such certifi- 
 cate state the particulars of any such omi.ssion and in what respect any 
 such matter shall have been misstated or erroneously described and such 
 certificate shall be deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of 
 London and shall be kept by such clerk of the peace along with the other 
 documents to which it relates and thereupon such plans or book of reference 
 shall be deemed to be corrected according to such certificate and the 
 Council may take the lands in accordance with such certificate. 
 
 43. The Council and their surveyors officers and workmen and any Power to 
 person duly authorised in writing under the hand of the clerk of the '-'•'"n^-'il to 
 Council may from time to time at all reasonable times in the <lay ui»on pr*pprlf.*^f^, 
 giving in writing for the first time twenty-four hours' and afterwards survey and 
 from time to time twelve hours' previous notice enter upon and into the valuation, 
 land and buildings by this Act authorised to be taken and used as afore.-^aid 
 
 for the purpose of surveying and valuing the said lands and buildings 
 without being deemed trespassers and without being subject or lial)le to 
 any tine penalty or punishment on account of entering or continuing U2X)U 
 any part of the said lands and buildings. 
 
 44. The court or person to whom any cpiestion of disputed purchase I'nsts of 
 money or compen.sation under this Act is referred shall if so retpiind by J»i'' 'it ration 
 the Council award and ileclare whether a statement in writing of the ';^^,;^'" *^®''^*'^"* 
 amount of compensation claimed has been delivered to the Council by the 
 claimant giving sutticient particulars and in sufficient time to enable 
 
 the Council to make a proper offer and if they or he shall be of opinion 
 that no such statement giving sufficient particulars shall have been 
 delivered one lialf of the costs of the arbitration or as the case may l>e 
 one half of the costs of the proceedings before the sheriff (including the 
 costs of summoning empaiuielliug and retui-ning the jury and of taking 
 the inquiry and in recording the verdict and judgment therein) shall be 
 defrayed by the person with whom the Council shall have such <pu>stion 
 and the remaining half shall be defrayed by the Council anything in the 
 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 to the contrary notwithstanding 
 Provided that it shall be lawful for any Judge of the High Court to 
 permit anv claimant after seven days' notice to the Council to amend the 
 statement in writing of the claim delivered by him to the Council in case
 
 ,,, .^ rn 1 • -1 London Countii Councd (Iratmnays r, -r.^^^ - 1 
 
 1046 KhAP. cclxxi.l J J ■' , N ,1 . loni ^ iiiDW. /.J 
 
 L J ^^(^,^(i improvements) Act lUOl. '- -' 
 
 of discovery of any error or mistake therein or for any other reasonable 
 cause such eri-or mistake or cause to be established to the satisfaction of 
 the Judge after hearing the Council if they object to the amendment and 
 such amendment shall be subject to such terms enabling the Council to 
 investigate the amended claim and to make an offer de novo and as to 
 postponing the hearing of the claim and as to costs of the inquiry and 
 otherwise as to such Judge may seem just and proper under all the 
 circumstances of the case Provided also that this section shall be 
 a]iplicable only in cases where the notice to treat under the Lands Clauses 
 Consolidation Act 1845 either contained or was endorsed with a notice of 
 the effect of this section. 
 
 Alteration 48. The Council may for the purposes of this Act upon the lands 
 
 of position of acquired by them under the powers of this Act and also in any street 
 and other wit.hin the limits of deviation defined on the deposited plans or m which 
 pipes. Jiny tramways are authorised to be made or reconstructed under the 
 
 powers of this Act raise sink or otherwise alter the position of any 
 watercourse water pipe or gas pipe belonging to or connected with any 
 house or building and also any main pipe or apparatus laid down or used 
 by any company or person for carrying a supply of water or water for 
 hydraulic power or gas and also any pipe tube wire or apparatus laid- 
 down or placed for telegraphic or other purposes and any pipe tube wire 
 or apparatus laid down or placed for supplying electricity and may remove 
 any other obstruction making proper substituted works during any altera- 
 tion and causing as little detriment and inconvenience as circumstances 
 admit to any company or person and making reasonable compensation to 
 any company or person for any damage caused by any such alteration 
 Provided always that before the Council alter the position of any main pipe 
 or apparatus laid down or used by any such company or person they shall 
 (except in cases of emergency) give to the company or person to whom the 
 same belongs notice of their intention to do so specifying the time at 
 which they will begin to do so such notice to be given seven days at least 
 before the commencement of the work foi- effecting such alteration and 
 such work shall be done under the superintendence (at the expense of the 
 Council) of the company or person to whom such pipe or apparatus 
 belongs unless such company or person refuses or neglects to give such 
 superintendence at the time specified in the notice for the commence- 
 ment of such work or discontinues the same during the execution of such 
 work and the Council shall execute such work to the reasonable satis- 
 faction of the engineer of such company or person Provided also that the 
 Council shall not cause any street to be lowered or raised nor the position 
 of any water or gas main or other pipe to be altered so as to leave over 
 such main pipe or apparatus in any part a coveiing of less than two feet 
 where the covering now existing is not less than two feet unless the 
 Council shall in such case protect the same pipes from frost or injury 
 by artificial covei-ing to the satisfaction of the engineer of such company 
 or person or more than six feet where the covering now existing does not 
 exceed six feet or more than such existing covering where the same 
 exceeds six feet unless the Council in such case provide special means 
 of access to the same to the satisfaction of the engineer of such company 
 or person : 
 
 If any difference arise between the Council or their engineer and any 
 such company or person or their or his engineer touching the amount of 
 any costs expenses or charges under the provisions of this Act to be paid by 
 the Council to any such company or person or touching any work matter 
 or thing with reference to such mains or other pipes under such pro- 
 visions to be done or executed by the Council or the mode of doing or 
 executing the same such difference shnll be settled by an engineer to be 
 agreed upon by the engineer of the Council and of any such company or 
 person respectively or failing agreement by such engineer as shall on the
 
 n 17- - n London Count'/ Counril ((reneral rn ^ ■■-\ -. .-f 
 
 [1 EdW. ..] ^,^^^^^/^ j^.^ j.^,;^^ [(- HAP. cclxxiu] 1.M7 
 
 application of tlie enf;ineer eitlier of the Council or of any such fompany 
 or jterson be named by the president for the time being of the Institution 
 of Civil Engineers : 
 
 Provided also that the Council shall not raise sink or otherwise alter 
 the position of :iny pi])e tube wne or apparatus laid down for telegraphic 
 or other purposes and belonging to the P<jstmaster-General except in 
 accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Telegraph Act 
 1878; 
 
 Provided always that nothing in this section shall extend to prejudice 
 or aflect any of the provisions for the protection of any undertakers 
 authorised to supply electrical energy contained in any sj»ecial Act or any 
 Provisional Order conlirmed by Act of Parliament. 
 
 49. If within seven days after a notice under the preceding section of Fur protec- 
 this Act shall have been served upon any gas or water company that tionofgas 
 company so elect such company shall themselves execute all such altera- '|"'' ^■^^®'" 
 tions to their mains and [upes as may from time to time be necesjsary and 
 the reason;il)le costs of executing such alterations shall be repaid bv the 
 Council to such company Provided always that such alterations shall Ije 
 carried out in accordance with the directions and to the reasonable 
 satisfaction of the chief engineer of the Council. 
 
 66. Where under the powers of this Act an improvement has been or Agreements 
 is to be carried out at the joint cost of the Council and of the council of a for closing 
 metropolitan borough it shall be lawful for the Council and such In^rough 'Accounts in 
 council to enter into and carry into effect any agreement for determining ^fjj-ks ^° 
 the amount of the respective contributions of the Council and such 
 borough council and for settling and closing the account between them 
 in relation to the im])rovement although the improvement may not Ije at 
 the time com])leted and although the total cost of the improvement may 
 not have been at the time ascertained and either party may accept from 
 the other of them and the other of them mav make a convevance or 
 assignment of any estate or interest in any surplus lands in connexion with 
 such settlement in such manner as may be agreed between them. 
 
 CHAPTER CCLXXII. 
 
 * Ax Act to empower the Loxdox Couxty Couxcil to make Street 
 Improvemexts axd Works axd to purchase Laxds ix the 
 
 ADMIXISTRATIVE COUNTY OF LoNDOX AXD FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 
 
 [llth Augmt 1901.] 
 
 1. This Act shall be cited as the London County Council (General short title. 
 Powers) Act, 1901. 
 
 8. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Council may for the purposes street* may 
 of and in connexion with the improvements alter the line or level of any ^t^ raised or 
 of the streets and places describ»'d on the deposited plans or sections as lowered, 
 intended to be diverted raised or lowered in the manner shown on such 
 
 plans or sections. 
 
 9. In making any of the works for or connei-ted with the improvemejits Poviation 
 the Council may subject to the provisions of tiiis Act deviate to any extent from line 
 from the line thereof within the limits of deviation defined on the dejiosited •>"'' levels, 
 plans and the Council may subject to the provi>ions of this Act deviate to 
 
 any extent from the levels thereof defined on the deposited sections not 
 exceedinj; three feet from the levels thereof as detineil on the sjud sections. 
 
 'o 
 
 * The sections of this Act set out here are in the nature of common form sections 
 appearins: or incorporated in many of the London County Council's private Acts 
 contained in this work and autliorising street imjuovements.
 
 1048 [Chap, cclxxi'i.] 
 
 London County Council {(jeneral 
 Poivers) Act 19U1. 
 
 [1 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Alteration 
 of electric 
 lines. 
 
 Carriage- 
 way footway 
 sewers and 
 other works. 
 
 Directing 
 how the 
 pavement 
 shall be laid 
 and made. 
 
 13. Where the Council widen or alter any street in which an electric 
 line is laid under the powers of any Act or Order the owners of such line 
 may make such alteration in the position of such line as may be reasonably 
 necessary subject to such provisions (so far as applicable) as apply in the 
 case of altei'ing such line under their existing powers and any costs reason- 
 ably incurred by the owners of such line in such alteration shall be defrayed 
 by the Council. 
 
 14. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Council may cause such 
 parts of the improvements to be laid out for cairiage-way and such pai'ts 
 thereof for footway as they may think proper and may upon the lands 
 acquired by or vested in them under the powers of this Act and within 
 the limits of deviation defined on the deposited plans construct erect and 
 provide such vaults cellai-s arches sewers drains subways and other works 
 and conveniences as they may think proper for the purposes of the 
 improvements. 
 
 15. The Council shall for the purposes of and in connexion with the 
 improvements in a substantial and woi'kmanlike manner fill or cause to be 
 filled in all and every the vaults cellars and open places over which it may 
 be necessary to new pave (except such as are capable of being used as 
 cellars vaults or areas) with good sound hard brick or other rubljish to 
 be well rammed down to prevent the ground from giving way and shall 
 well and efiectually pave over all the said ground with a sufficient quantity 
 of materials of proper quality and dimensions and shall in like manner 
 erect and build any underground arches which they may think necessary 
 and also relay and repair the streets which they may disturb or alter in 
 carrying the purposes of this Act into execution Provided always that 
 nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to charge 
 the Council with the liability or expense of repairing or making good svTch 
 pavement or arches in future but when the same shall have been in the 
 first instance so paved relaid erected built and repaired as aforesaid the 
 same shall for ever thereafter be kept in repair by the authority in whom 
 the management and repair of the street are vested or by any other parties 
 or })ersons liable to repair the same. 
 
 16. The Council may cause to be removed arched over or filled up all 
 such sewers or drains or parts thereof which shall be in or near the streets 
 to be interfered with for the purposes of the improvements as shall appear 
 necessary for executing the p^^r})oses of this Act so as that no public sewer 
 or drain (unless the same become unnecessary by reason of the purchase of 
 the property entitled to the use thereof) shall be in any wise disturbed 
 injured or pi-ejudiced without anothei- sewer or drain being made in lieu 
 thereof equally sei'viceable and convenient Provided always that before 
 removing or filling up any sewer or drain or part thereof as aforesaid the 
 Council shall (where necessary) cause to be made and built other good and 
 surticient sewers and drains in substitution for the sewers or drains which 
 shall be filled upj and when made and completed the said sewers and drains 
 shall be under the same jui-isdiction care management and direction as the 
 existing sewers or drains. 
 
 17. The Council within the limits of deviation defined on the deposited 
 plans may for the purposes of and in connexion with the iuq^rovements 
 raise sink or otherwise alter or cause to be altered the position of any of 
 the steps areas cellars cellar-flaps gratings fencings windows and water- 
 courses pipes or spouts belonging to any house or building and may remove 
 all other obsti-uctions so as the same be done with as little delay and incon- 
 venience to the inhabitants as the circumstances of the case will admit and 
 the Council shall make reasonable compensation to any person who sufl'eis 
 damage by any such alteration. 
 
 Period for 19- If the improvements be not completed within the period of five 
 
 completion years from the passing of this Act then on the expiration of that period 
 
 of improve- tiie ijowers of the Council under this Act for the execution of the said 
 ments. 
 
 Sewers or 
 drains to be 
 arched over 
 or filled up. 
 
 Power to 
 alter steps 
 areas 
 pipes etc.
 
 ,, n -T London toant>t (ouncil (General r,, , •• -i i..4r. 
 
 1 I'jinv. ,.\ ,, < . - if,,M [Chap, cclxxii, I h)VJ 
 
 '- -J I'otrrrs) Act 1'.*<»1. ^ -i 
 
 improvements shall cease (except so far as the same shall then have been 
 completed). 
 
 21. The Council may sell or dispose of all Iniilding and other materials Power 
 of any houses and buildings acquired by them under the powei-s of this Act ^'^ ''*^'l 
 and all lamp-posts paving nii'tullinj^ and materials in under (jr u|Mm any 
 road street or other place altered by them for the purposes of this Act 
 and any materials ol)tained in the alteration of or interference with any 
 drain or sewer which are vested in the Council under the powers of 
 this Act. 
 
 25. If any omission misstatement or erroneous de.scription shall have Correction 
 been made of any lands or of the owners lessees or occupiers of any lands \*^ errors etc. 
 on the deposited plans or in the deposited book of reference the Council ,/ * ^> 
 may after ten days' notice to the owners lessees and occupiers of the lands book of 
 affected by the proposed correction apj)ly to a metropolitan police magi.strate reference, 
 for the correction thereof and if it shall appear to such magistrate that 
 
 such omission misstatement or erroneous description arose from mistake 
 he shall certify the same accordingly and he shall in >ucli certilicate state 
 the particulars of any such omission and in what respect any such matter 
 shall have been misstated or erroneously described and such certiHcate 
 shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of L(jndon 
 and shall be kept by such Clerk of the Peace along with the other docu- 
 ments to which it relates and thereupon such plans or book of i-eference 
 shall be deemed to be corrected according to such certificate and the Council 
 may take the lands in accordance with such certificate. 
 
 26. The Council and their surveyors otticers and workmen and any I'ower to 
 person duly authorised in writing under the hand of the clerk of the Council to 
 Council may from time to time at all reasonable times in the day upon property for 
 giving in writing for the first time twenty-four hours and afterwards from survey and 
 time to time twelve hours previous notice enter upon and into the lands valuation, 
 and buildings by this Act authorised to be taken and used as aforesaid or 
 
 within the impi'ovement area hereafter defined or any of them for the 
 purpose of surveying and valuing the said lands and buildings without 
 being deemed tres])assers and without being subject or liable to any fine 
 penalty or ])unishnient on account of entering or continuing upon any jmrt 
 of the said lands and buildings. 
 
 27- The court or person to whom any question of disputed purchase Costs of 
 money or compensation under this Act is referred shall if so required by ''»^J"'J>f3'ation 
 the Council award and declaie whether a .statement in writing of the certain cases 
 amount of compensation claimed has been delivered to the Council by 
 the claimant giving sullicient particulars and in sutficient time to enable 
 the Council to make a proper offer and if they or he shall be of opinion 
 that no such statement giving sutlicient particulars .shall have been 
 delivered one half of the costs of the arbitration or as the ca.se may 
 be one half of the costs of the proceedings before the sherifl' (including 
 the costs of summoning empannelling and returning the jury and of 
 taking the inquiry and in recording the verdict and judgment therein) 
 shall be defrayed by the per.son with whom the Council shall have such 
 que.stion and the remaining half shall be defrayed by the Council anything 
 in the Lands Clauses Con.solidation Act 184.") to the contrary notwith- 
 standing Providid that it shall be lawful for any Judge of the High 
 Court to permit any claimant after .seven days' notice to the Council to 
 amend the .statement in writinj; of the claim delivered bv him to the 
 Council in ca.se of ihscovery of any error or nnstake therein or for any 
 other reasonable cause such error mistake or cause to be established to 
 the satisfaction of the judge after hearing the Council if they object to 
 the amendment and such amendment shall be subject to such terms 
 enabling the Council to investigate the amended claim and to make an
 
 1050 
 
 [Chap, cdxxii.] 
 
 London County Council (General 
 Powers) Act 1001. 
 
 [1 Edw. 7. J 
 
 offer tie novo and as to po>tponing the hearing of the claim and as to costs 
 of the inquiry and otherwise as to such Judge may seem just and proper 
 under all the circumstances of the case Provided also that this section 
 shall be applicable only in cases where the notice to treat under the Lands 
 Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 either contained or was endorsed with a 
 notice of the effect of this section. 
 
 Compensa- 
 tion in case 
 of insanitary 
 property. 
 
 Limitation 
 of time for 
 purcliase of 
 lands. 
 
 30. The Council may with the approval of the Secretary of State for 
 the Home Department claim in any notice to treat for the pvirchase of any 
 lands intended to be taken for the purpose of this Act — 
 
 That the lands to which the notice refers are or comprise any houses 
 
 courts or alleys unfit for human habitation ; 
 That the nan-owness closeness and bad arrangement or the bad con- 
 dition of the streets and houses or groups of houses upon any sucb 
 lands or the want of light air ventilation or proper conveniences or 
 any other sanitary defects or one or more of such causes renders any 
 such lands or any buildings thereon prejudicial to the health of the 
 inhabitants either of the buildings on the said lands or of the 
 neighbouring buildings : 
 And in the event of any such claim then on the occasion of assessing the- 
 amount of compensation payable in respect of such lands the court or 
 person settling the same shall determine whether such lands fall wholly 
 or in part within any of the descriptions herein-before mentioned and if 
 they shall so decide then in assessing the compensation payable under this 
 Act in respect of any such lands evidence shall be receivable by such court 
 or person to prove — 
 
 (1st) That the rental of any house or premises was enhanced by reason' 
 of the same being used for illegal purposes or being so over- 
 crowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the 
 inmates; 
 (2ndly) That any house or premises are in a state of defective sanitation. 
 
 or are not in reasonably good repair ; or 
 (3rdly) That any buildings on any such lands are unfit and not reasonably 
 capable of being made fit for human habitation : 
 And if such court or person be satisfied by such evidence then the purchase 
 money and compensation in respect thereof shall be assessed and determined- 
 according to the principles indicated in section 21 of the Housing of the 
 Working Classes Act 1890. 
 
 The Council shall pay to the Secretary of State a reasonable sum to be 
 fixed by him in respect of any expenses which he may incur in making such 
 inquiries as he may deem necessary in relation to any claim submitted for- 
 his approval under this section. 
 
 31. The powers of the Council for the compulsory purchase or taking of 
 lands for the purposes of this Act shall cease after the expiration of three 
 years from the passing of this Act. 
 
 32. \Poimr to the Council to lease surplus lands. Identical ivith 62 & 63- 
 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. s. 19.] 
 
 Council to 
 
 dispose of 
 lands within 
 a certain 
 period. 
 
 34 — 35. [Power to the Couticil to sell land, in the first instance icithout 
 hacing previously granted a lease thereof, and to let or exchange lands. 
 Identical inith 02 & 63 Vict. c. ccxxxvii. ss. 21 — 22.] 
 
 36. Any lands acquired by the Council under the powers of this Act 
 except such as are required to form part of any improvement or to be 
 permanently retained for the purposes of tliis Act and except lands on which 
 buildings shall have been erected by the Council in pursuance of the section 
 of this Act of which the marginal note is " Scheme as to accommodation 
 for persons of the labouring class displaced " shall subject to the provisions 
 of any future Act of Parliament be sold or disposed of by the Council 
 within a period of sixty years from the first day of September next after
 
 [2 Edw. :.] Education Act 1902. [Chap. 42.] 1051 
 
 the pii.ssin<r of this Act and secticm 127 of tho Lands Clauses Consolidation 
 Act 1845 shall niit ap[ily to any lands ac(juiied by the Council under the 
 powers of this Act. 
 
 37. [Heceipis of Council to he effecttial dischanjes. Identical tcith 54 <k 55 
 Vicl. c. ccvi. 6'. 3.3.] 
 
 2 EDWARD VII. A.D. 1902. 
 
 CHAPTER 42. 
 
 An Act to .make further Provision with respect to Edl'cation in 
 Englanu and Wales. [18th December 1902.] 
 
 Part I. 
 
 Local Education Authority. 
 
 1. For the purposes of this Act the council of every county and of every Local 
 
 county borou>,di shall be the local education authority. education 
 
 ■^ authorities. 
 
 [Part omitted (proviso that the council of a borom/h with a po/ndation 
 of over 10,0(K) or of an ui-ban district tcith a population of over 20,000 
 shall be a local edacatioit authority for the purpose of Part HI. of this 
 Act) not applicable to London.] 
 
 Part II. 
 Higher Education. 
 
 2. — (1) The local education authority shall consider the educational Power to 
 needs of their area and take such steps as seem to them de^sirable, after ''"d higher 
 consultation with the Boaid of Education, to supply or aid the supply ^"^'ucation. 
 of education other than elementary, and to promote the general co- 
 ordination of all forms of education, and for that purpose shall apply all 
 or so much as tliey deem necessary of the residue under section one of the 
 Local Taxation (Customs and Exci.se) Act, 1890, ami shall carry forward 53 & 5-1 Vict, 
 for the like pmpose any balance thereof wliich may remain unexpended, ^- ^^■ 
 and may spend such further sums as they think fit. . . . [Part omitted 
 (proviso limiting the rate under this Act to 2d. in the £, or such higher rate 
 as the (Jounty Conncil with the consent of the Local Government Hoard may 
 fix) not applicable to London. See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, 1st Sch. par. 2.] 
 
 (2) A council, in exercising their powers under this part of this Act. 
 shall have regard to any existing supply of efficient .-schools or colleges, and 
 to any steps already taken for the purposes of higher education under the "'"i^^'^ '^^ 
 Technical Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891. [See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, 1st Sch. sli'^^'ss yjct^ 
 pars. 1 (b) and 10.] c. 4. 
 
 3. The council of any non-county borough or urban district shall have Concurrent 
 power as well as the county conncil to spend such sums as they think fit powers of 
 for the purpose of supplying or aiding the supply of educ^ition other than ^"'^^jj't^^g 
 elementary : Provided that the amount raised by the council of a non- ^„^| urban 
 county borough or urban district for the purpose in any year out of rates districts, 
 under this Act shall not exceed the amount which would l)e produced l>y 
 a rate of one penny in the pound. [See 3 Edw. 1, c. 24, ]st Sch.p((r. 1 (6).] 
 
 4. — (1) A council, in the application of money under this part of this Religious 
 Act, shall not require that any particular form of religious instruction or instruction, 
 worship or any religious catechism or formulary which is distinctive of any 
 particular denomination shall or shall not be tauglit. used, or practised in 
 any school, college, or hostel aided but not provided by the council, and no 
 pupil shall, on the ground of religious belief, be excluded from or placed in
 
 1052 
 
 [Chap. 42.] 
 
 Education Act 1902. 
 
 [2 Edw. :.] 
 
 an inferior position in any school, college, or hostel provided by the council, 
 and no catechism or formulary distinctive of any particular religious 
 denomination shall be taught in any school, college, or hostel so provided, 
 except in cases where the council, at the request of parents of scholars, 
 at such times and under such conditions as the council think desirable, 
 allow any religious instrvictioa to be given in the school, college, or hostel, 
 otherwise than at the cost of the council : Provided that in the exercise 
 of this power no unfair preference shall be shown to any religious 
 denomination. \_See 3 Edio. 7, c. 24, 1st Sch. par. 1 (i).] 
 
 (2) In a school or college receiving a grant from, or maintained by, 
 a council under this part of this Act, 
 
 {a) A scholar attending as a day or evening scholar shall not be required, 
 
 as a condition of being admitted into or i-emaining in the school 
 
 or college, to attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, 
 
 place of religious worship, religious observance, or instruction in 
 
 religious subjects in the school or college or elsewhere ; and 
 
 (h) The times for i-eligious worship or for any lesson on a religious 
 
 subject shall be conveniently arranged for the piu-pose of allowing the 
 
 withdrawal of any such scholar therefrom. 
 
 Powers and 
 duties as to 
 elementary 
 education. 
 
 Maintenance 
 of schools. 
 
 Part III. 
 Elementary Education. 
 
 6. The local education authointy shall throughout their area* have the 
 powers and duties of a school board and school attendance committee 
 under the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 to 1900, and any other Acts, 
 including local Acts, and shall also be responsible for and have the control 
 of all secular instruction in public elementary schools not provided by 
 them, and school boards and school attendance committees shall be 
 abolished. [See 3 Ediv. 7, c. 24, s. 2.] 
 
 6. — (1) \As to the constitution of managers of jirovicled schools. Not 
 ajyplicahle to London. See 3 Ediv. 7, c. 24, s. 2 (1) and \st Sch. par. 3.] 
 
 (2) All public elementary schools not provided b}' the local education 
 authority shall, in place of the existing managers, have a body of managers 
 consisting of a number of foundation managers not exceeding four appointed 
 as provided by this Act, together with a number of managers not exceeding 
 two appointed — 
 
 (rt) where the local education authority are the council of a county, 
 one by tbat council and one by the minor local authority t ; 
 and 
 
 (6) where the load education authority are the council of a borough or 
 irrhan district, both bij that authority. 
 
 (3) Notwithstanding anything in this section — 
 
 (a) Schools may be grouped under one body of managers in manner 
 provided by this Act ; and 
 
 (Ij) Where the local education authority consider that the circum- 
 stances of any school require a larger body of managers than 
 that provided under this section, that authority may increase 
 the total number of managers, so, however, that the number 
 of each class of managers is proportionately increased. \_See 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, s. 2 (1).] 
 \Words in italics not applicable to London?^ 
 
 7.— (1) The local education authority shall mauitain and keep efficient 
 all public elementary schools within their area * which are necessary, and 
 have the control of all expenditure required for that purpose, other than 
 expenditure for which, under this Act, provision is to be made by the 
 
 • See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, s. 3 (1). 
 
 t As regards London, a metropolitan borough council or, io the city of London, 
 the Mavor, aldermen, and commons of the city of Loudon in Common Council. See 
 s. 24 (2), and 8 Edw. 7, c. 24, s. 4 (2) and 1st Sch. par. 1.
 
 [2 Euw. :.] Education Act 1002. [Chap. 42.] 1053 
 
 manager.s ; but, in the case of a school not provided by them, only .so 
 long as the following conditions and provisions are complied with : — 
 
 (n) Tlie managers of tlie school shall carry out any directions of the 
 local education authority as to the s< cular instruction to be 
 given in the school, including any directions with respect to the 
 number and educational (|ualifications of the teachers to be 
 eniploy»'d foi- such instr\iction, and for the tlismissal of any teacher 
 on educational grounds, and it' the managers fail to carry out any 
 such direction the locjil education authority .shall, in addition 
 to their other power.s, have the power them.selves to carry out 
 the direction in question as if they were the numagei-s ; but no 
 direction given under this provision shall be such as to interfere 
 with reasonable facilities for religious instruction during school 
 hours ; 
 
 (^) The local education authority shall have power to in.spect the 
 .school ; 
 
 (c) The consent of the local education authority shall Vje re(|uired to the 
 appointment of teachers, but that consent shall not be withheld 
 except on educational grounds ; and the consent of the authority 
 shall also be required to the dismissal of a teacher unle.ss the 
 dismissal be on grounds connected with the giving of religious 
 instruction in the school ; 
 
 (f^) The managers of the school shall provide the .school bouse free of 
 any charge, except for the teacher's dwelling-house (if any), to 
 the local education authority for u.se as a public elementary 
 school, and shall, out of funds provided by them, keep the school 
 hou.se in good repair, and make such alterations and improve- 
 ments in the biiildings as may be reasonably required by the 
 local education authority ; Provided that such damage as the 
 local authority consider to be due to fair wear and tear in the u.se 
 of any room in the school house for the purjKise of a public 
 elementary school shall be made good by the local education 
 authority. 
 
 (e) The managers of the school shall, if the local education authority 
 have no suitable accommodation in schools provided by them, 
 allow that authority to use any room in the .school hou.se out 
 of school hoiirs free of charge for any educational purpose, but 
 this obligation shall not extend to more than three days in 
 the week. 
 
 (2) The managers of a school maintained l)ut not provided by the local 
 education authority, in respect of the use by them of the school furniture 
 out of school hours, and the local education authority in re.spect of the use 
 by them of any room in the school house out i>f school hours, shall be liable 
 to make good any damage caused to the furniture or the room, as the case 
 may be, by reason of that use (other than damage arising from fair wear 
 and tear), and the managers shall take care that, after the u.se of a room 
 in the school house by them, the room is left in a proper condition for 
 school purposes. 
 
 (3) If any question arises under this .section between the local education 
 authority and the managers of a school not provided by the authority, that 
 question shall be determined by the Board of Education. 
 
 (4) One of the conditions required to be fulfilled by an elementary 
 school in order to obtain a parliamentary grant shall be that it is main- 
 tained under and complies with the provisions of this section. 
 
 (5) In public elementary schools maintained but not jirovideil by the 
 local education authority, assistant teachei-s and pupil teachers may be 
 appointed, if it is thought fit, without reference to religious creed and 
 denomination, and, in any case in which there are more candidates for the 
 post of pupil teacher than there are places to be tilled, the api>ointment 
 shall be made by the local education authority, and they shall deter-
 
 1054 
 
 [Chap. 42.] 
 
 Education Act 1902. 
 
 [2 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Provision of 
 new schools. 
 
 Necessity of 
 schools. 
 
 Aid grant. 
 
 GO & 61 Vict. 
 
 c. 5. 
 
 33 & 34 Vict. 
 
 c. 75. 
 
 GO & 61 Vict. 
 
 c. 16. 
 
 mine the respective qualifications of the candidates by examination oi- 
 otherwise. 
 
 (6) Religious instruction given in a public elementarj^ school not 
 provided by the local education authority shall, as regards its character, 
 be in accordance with the provisions (if any) of the trust deed relating 
 thereto, and shall be under the control of tiie managers : Provided that 
 nothing in this subsection shall affect any provision in a trust deed for 
 reference to the bishop or superior ecclesiastical or other denominational 
 authority so far as such provision gives to the bishop or authority the 
 power of deciding whether the character of the religious instruction is or is 
 not in accordance with the provisions of the trust deed. 
 
 (7) The managers of a school maintained but not provided by the local 
 education authority shall have all powers of management required for the 
 purpose of carrying out this Act, and shall (subject to the powers of the 
 local education authority under this section) have the exclusive power of 
 appointing and dismissing teachers. 
 
 8. — ■(!) Where the local education authority or any other persons 
 propose to provide a new public elementary school, they shall give public 
 notice of their intention to do so, and the managers of any existing school, 
 or the local education authority (where they are not themselves the 
 persons proposing to provide the school), or any ten ratepayers in the area 
 for which it is proposed to provide the school, may, within three months 
 after the notice is given, appeal to the Board of Education on the ground 
 that the proposed school is not required, or that a school provided by the 
 local education authority, or not so provided, as the case may be, is better 
 suited to meet the wants of the district than the school proposed to be 
 provided, and any school built in contravention of the decision of the 
 Board of Education on such appeal shall be treated as unnecessary. 
 
 (2) If, in the opinion of the Board of Education, any enlargement of 
 a public elementary school is such as to amount to the provision of a 
 new school, that enlargement shall be so treated for the purposes of this 
 section. 
 
 (3) Any tran.sfer of a public elementary school to 
 education authority shall for the purposes of this section 
 provision of a new school. 
 [See 3 Edio. 7, c. 24, s. 2 (2) and (3).] 
 
 9. The Board of Education shall, without unnecessary delay, deter- 
 mine, in case of dispute, whether a school is nece.ssary or not, and, in so 
 determining, and also in deciding on any appeal as to the provision of a 
 new school, shall have regard to the interest of secvxlar instruction, to the 
 wishes of parents as to the education of their children, and to the economy 
 of the rates; but a school for the time being recognized as a public 
 elementary school .shall not be considered unnecessary in which the 
 number of scholars in average attendance, as computed by the Board of 
 Education, is not less than thirty. [See 3 Edit: 7, c. 24, s. 2 (2) and (3).] 
 
 10. — (1) In lieu of the grants under the Voluntary Schools Act, 1897, 
 and under section ninety-seven of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, 
 as amended by the Elementary Education Act, 1897, there shall be 
 annually paid to every local education authority, out of moneys provided 
 by Parliament — 
 
 (a) a sum equal to four shillings per scholar ; and 
 
 (6) an additional sum of three halfpence per scholar for every complete 
 twopence per scholar by which the amount which would be 
 produced by a penny rate on the area of the authority falls short 
 of ten shillings a scholar: Provided that, in estimating the 
 produce of a penny rate in the area of a local education 
 authority not being a county borough, the rate shall be calculated 
 upon the county rate basis, which, in cases where part only of 
 a parish is situated in the area of the local education authority. 
 
 or from a local 
 be treated as the
 
 :[2 Edw. :.] Erhication Art VMy2. [Chap. 42.] 1055 
 
 shiiU be apportioned in such iiiiinrK-r as the Hmirtl of Education 
 think just. 
 
 But if in any year the total amount of parliamentary grants payable to 
 a lotral education aiitliority would make the amount payable out uf other 
 sources by that uutliurity on account of their e.vpenses under this part of 
 this Act less than the amount which would bo produced by a rate of three- 
 pence in the pound, the parliamentary {grants shall be decrea-^^etl, and the 
 amount payable out of other .sources shall be increased by a sum ecjual in 
 each case to half the diileience. 
 
 (2) For the purposes of this section the number of scholars shall Ije 
 taken to be the number of scholars in averafje attendance, as computed by 
 'the Board of Education, in puldic elementary schools maintained by the 
 authority. 
 
 11, — (1) The foundation managers of a .school .shall be managers Foundation 
 appointed under the provisions of the tru.st deed of the .school, but if it Ls nianagers. 
 shown to the satisfaction of the Board of Education that the provisions of 
 the trust deed as to the appointment of managers are in any respect 
 inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, or insufticient or inapplicable 
 for the |)urpose, or that there is no such tru.st deed available, the Board of 
 Education shall make an order under this section for the pur[>ose of 
 meeting the case. 
 
 (2) Any such order may be made on the application of the exi.sting 
 owners, trustees, or managers of the school, made within a period of three 
 months after the pas.sing of this Act, and after that period on the appli- 
 cation of the local education authority or any other person interested in 
 the management of the school, and any such order, where it modifies the 
 trust deed, shall have effect as part of the trust deed, and where there is 
 no trust deed shall have efiect as if it were contained in a trust deed. 
 {See 3 Echo. 7, c. 24, \st Sch. par. 10.] 
 
 (3) Notice of any such application, together with a copy of the draft 
 tinal order proposed to be made thereon, shall be given by the Board of 
 Education to the local education authority and the existing owners, 
 trustees, aiul managers, and any other per.sons who appear to the Board 
 
 •of Education to be interested, and the final order shall not be made until 
 
 six weeks after notice has been so given. 
 
 (4) In making an order under this section with regard to any school, 
 the Board of Education shall have regard to the ownership of the school 
 tbuilding, and to the principles on which the education given in the 
 ■school has been conducted in the past. 
 
 (5) The Board of Education may, if they think that the circum- 
 stances of the case recpiire it. make any interim order on any appli- 
 cation under this section to have temporaiy etTect until the tinal order 
 is made. 
 
 (6) The body of managers appointed under this Act for a public 
 •elementary school not provided by the local education authority shall be 
 the managers of that school both for the purposes of the Elementary 
 Education Act.s, 1870 to 1900, and this Act. and, so far as resptvts the 
 management of the school as a public elementary .school, for the purpose 
 of the trust deed. 
 
 (7) Where the recei[)t by a school, or the trustees or managci-s of a 
 school, of any endowment or other benelit is, at the time of the pjussing of 
 this Act, dependent on any qualiticaticm of the managei-s, the (jualification 
 of the foundation managers onlv shall, in case of question, be regarded. 
 [See 3 J'Jdir. 7, e. 24, ls( Sc/i. par. 10.] 
 
 (8) The Board of Education may, on the application of the managers of 
 the school, the local education authority, or any i>erson api)earing to them 
 to be interested in the school, revoke, vary, or amend any order nmde 
 under this .-section by an onler made in a similar manner; but before 
 making any such order the draft thereof .shall, as soon as may I*, be laid 
 before each Ho«se of Parliament, and, if within thirty days, being days on
 
 1056 
 
 [C'HAP. 42.] 
 
 Educatio7i Act 1902. 
 
 [2 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Grouping of 
 schools 
 under one 
 manage- 
 ment. 
 
 Endow- 
 ments. 
 
 which Parliament has sat, after the draft has been so laid before 
 Parliament, either House resolves that the draft, or any pai-t thereof, 
 should not be proceeded with, no further proceedings shall be taken 
 thereon, without prejudice to the making of any new draft order. 
 
 12. — (1) The local education authority may group under one body of 
 manayers any public elementary schools provided by them, and may also, 
 with the consent of the managers of the schools, group under one body of 
 managers any such schools not so provided. 
 
 (2) The body of managers of grouped schools .shall consist of .such 
 number and be appointed in such manner and proportion as, in the case of 
 schools provided by the local education antlioi'ity, may be determined by 
 that authority, and, in the case of schools not so provided, may be agreed 
 upon between the bodies of managers of the schools concerned and the 
 local education authoi'ity, or in default of agreement may be determined by 
 the Board of Education. 
 
 (3) Where the local education authority are the council of a county, 
 they shall make provision for the due representation of minor local 
 authorities on the bodies of managers of schools grouped under their 
 direction. 
 
 (4) Any arrangement for grouping schools not provided by the local 
 education authority shall, unless previously determined by consent of the 
 parties concerned, remain in force for a period of three years. 
 
 \}Yords in italics not applicable to London. See 3 Edv', 7, c. 24, s. 2 (1) 
 and 1st Sch. p>ar. 3.] 
 
 13. — (1) Nothing in this Act .shall affect any endowment, or the 
 discretion of any trustees in respect thereof : Provided that, where under 
 the trusts or othei' provisions affecting any endowment the income thereof 
 must be applied in whole or in part for those purposes of a public 
 elementary school for which provision is to be made by the local education 
 authority, the whole of the income or the part thei-eof. as the case may 
 be, shall be paid to that authority, and, in case part only of siich income 
 must be so applied and there is no provision under the said trusts or 
 provisions for determining the amount which represents that part, that 
 amount shall be determined, in case of difterence between the j^arties 
 concerned, by the Board of Education ; but if a public inquiry is demanded 
 by the local education authority, the decision of the Board of Education 
 shall not be given until after such an inquiry, of which ten days' previous 
 notice shall be given to the local education authority and to the minor 
 local authoiity and to the trustees, shall have been iirst held by the 
 Board of Education at the co-st of the local education authority. \See 
 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, \Ht Hch.par. 4.] 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment of 
 school fees. 
 
 Schools 
 attached to 
 institutions. 
 
 \Part omitted {as to the application of money arising from endowments and 
 paid, to county councils) not ajiplicable to London. See 3 Ed.w. 7, c. 24, 1st 
 Sch. 2}ar. 4.] 
 
 * 14. Where before the passing of this Act t fees have been charged 
 in any public elementary school not provided by the local education 
 authority, that authority shall, while they continue to allow fees to be 
 charged in respect of that school, pay such proportion of those fees as 
 may be agreed upon, or, in default of agreement, determined by the 
 Board of Education, to the managers. 
 
 15. The local education authority may maintain as a public elementary 
 school under the provisions of this Act, but shall not be required so to 
 maintain, any Marine school, or any school which is part of, or is held in 
 the premises of, any institution in which children are boarded, but their 
 refusal to maintain such a school shall not render the school incapable of 
 
 * Fees in non-provided schools were abolished by the Lcndon County Council. 
 See L.C.C. Minutes, 20th December 1904. p. 3240. 
 t See .3 Edw. 7, c. 24, l^t Sch. par. 10.
 
 [2 Edw. 7.] Education Act V.)(}2. [Chap. 42.] 1O.07 
 
 receiving; a parliamontaiy giant, nor shall tlip school, if not so maintained, 
 be subject to tlie pnnisions of tliis Act as to the appointment of managei^s, 
 or as to control by the local education authority. 
 
 16. If the local education authority fail to fulfil any of their duties I'ower to 
 
 uniler the Elenientarv PMucatiun Acts, 1870 to UtOO, or this Act, or fail "^"fvce 
 
 , -1 1 , )•*• 111 11 1 ^- -^1 ■ ^1 iluties under 
 
 to provide such additional public school accommcxlation withm the meaning Kicmentiirv 
 
 of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, as is, in the opinion of the Kihication' 
 
 Board of Education, necessary in any part of their area, the Board of Acts. 
 
 Education may, after holdinj,' a public incpiiry, make such order as they .•{.•{4: M Vict. 
 
 think necessjuy or proper for the purpose of compelling the authority to <-'• "-J- 
 
 fulfil their duty, and any such order may be enforced by mandamus. 
 
 Part IV. 
 
 General. 
 
 17. — (1) Any council having powers under this Act* shall establish Education 
 an education committee or education committees, constituted in accordance committees, 
 with a scheme made by the council and approved by the Board of 
 Education : Provided that if a Coitncil haviny powers under Part II. only 
 of t/iis Act determine that an edncation committee is anneces.^arif in their cane, 
 it shall not he ohliyatovjj on them to establish such a committee. [Words iji 
 italics not applicable to London.^ 
 
 (2) All matters relating to the exerci.se by the council of their powers 
 under this Act, e.xcept the power of raising a rate or borrowing money, 
 shall stand referred to the education committee, and the council, before ex- 
 ercising any such powers, shall, unle.ss in their opinion the matter is urgent, 
 receive and consider the report of the education committee with re.spect 
 to the matter in question. The council may also delegate to the education 
 committee, with or without any restrictions or conditions as they think 
 fit, any of their powers under this Act, except the power of raising a rate 
 or borrowing money. t 
 
 (3) Every such scheme shall provide — 
 
 (a) for the appointment by the council of at least a majority of the 
 committee, and the persons so appointed shall be persons who 
 are members of the council, unless, in the case of a county, the 
 council shall otherwise determine ; 
 
 (6) for the appointment by the council, on the nomination or recom- 
 mendation, where it appears desirable, of other bodies (including 
 associations of voluntary schools), of persons of experience in 
 education, and of })ersons acquainted with the needs of the 
 various kinds of schools in the area for which the council 
 acts ; 
 
 (c) for the inclusion of women as well as men among the membei-s of 
 the committee ; 
 
 ((/) for the appointment, if desirable, of members of school boards 
 existing at the time of the passing of this Act J as membei-s of 
 the first committee. 
 
 (4) Any per.son shall be disiiualitieil for being a meml>er of an education 
 committee, who, by rea.son of holding an otlice or place of profit, or having 
 any share or interest in a contract or employment, is disfpialilied for Ijeing 
 a member of the council appointinii the educatii>n comuiitte«», but no 
 such disqualification shall apply to a person by reason only of his holding 
 office in a school or college aided, provided, or maintained by the 
 council. 
 
 (5) Any such scheme may, for all or any purpo.ses of this Act, provide 
 for the constitution of a separate education committee for any area 
 within a county, or for a joint education committee for any area formed 
 
 * See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, 1st Sch. par. 1 {h). 
 t See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, 1st Scli. par. 7. 
 X Bee 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, 1st Soli, par 10. 
 
 68
 
 1058 
 
 [Chap. 42.] 
 
 Education Act 1902. 
 
 [2 Edw. :.] 
 
 by a combination of counties, boroughs, or urban districts, or of parts 
 thereof. In the case of any such joint committee, it shall suffice that a 
 majority of the members are appointed by the councils of any of the 
 counties, boroughs, or districts out of which or parts of which the area 
 is formed. 
 
 (6) Before approving a scheme, the Board of Education shall take such 
 measures as may appear expedient for the purpose of giving publicity to 
 the provisions of the pi-oposed scheme, and, before approving any 
 scheme which provides for the appointment of more than one education 
 committee, sliall satisfy themselves that due regard is paid to the, 
 importance of the general co-ordination of all forms of education. 
 
 \^Parts omitted {jpower to Board of Education to 'make jivovision in case a 
 scheme is not made loitJdn 12 months after the passing of this Act, and 
 2>rovisions as regards Wales and Alonmoitth) spent.^ 
 
 Expenses. 18. — (1) The expenses of a council under this Act shall, so far as not 
 
 otherwise provided for, be paid, in the case of the council of a county out 
 of the county fund, and in the case of the council of a borough out of 
 the borough fund or rate, or, if no borough rate is levied, out of a separate 
 rate to be made, assessed, and levied in like manner as the borough rate, 
 and in the case of the council of an urban district other than a borough 
 39 & 40 Vict "^ manner provided by section thirty-three of the Elementary Education 
 c. 79. Act, 1876, as respects the expenses mentioned in that section. [_See 
 
 3 Ediv. 7, c. 24, 1st Sch. par. 1 (6).] 
 
 45 & 46 Vict. 
 c. 50. 
 
 Borrowing. 
 
 51 & 52 Vict. 
 c. 41. 
 
 Arrange- 
 ments 
 between 
 councils. 
 
 \Parts omitted, provisoes not applicable to London. See .3 Edw. 7, c. 24^ 
 \st Sch. par. 4.] 
 
 (2) All i-eceipts in respect of any school maintained by a local education 
 authority, including any parliamentary grant, but excluding sums 
 specially applicable for pitrposes for which provision is to be made by the 
 managers, shall be paid to that authority. 
 
 (3) Separate accounts shall be kept by the council of a boi-ough of their 
 receipts and expenditure under this Act, and those accounts shall be made 
 up and audited in like manner and subject to the same pi^ovisions as the 
 accounts of a county council, and the enactments relating to the audit of 
 those accounts and to all matters incidental thereto and consequential 
 thereon, including the penal provisions, shall apply in lieu of the provisions 
 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, relating to accounts and audit. 
 
 (4) \_Provision for cases ivhere under a local Act expenses are payable 
 othertvise thaii out of the bcn'oughfund or rate. Not ajiplicable to London.^ 
 
 (5) Where any receipts or payments of money under this Act ai'e 
 entrusted by the local education authoi-ity to any education committee 
 established under this Act, or to the managers of any public elementary 
 school, the accounts of those receipts and payments shall be accounts of the 
 local education authority, but the aviditor of those accounts shall have the 
 same powers with respect to managers as he would have if the managers 
 were officers of the local education authoi'ity. 
 
 19. — (1) A council * may borrow for the purposes of the Elementary 
 Education Acts, 1870 to 1900, or this Act, in the case of a county council 
 as for the purposes of the Local Government Act, 1888. . . . [Parts 
 omitted, {as to borroioing by council of a county borough or urban district) 
 not applicable to London.^ 
 
 20. An authority having powers under this Act — 
 
 (a) may make arrangements with the council of any county, borough, 
 district, or parish, whether a local education authority or not, 
 for the exercise by the council, on such terms and subject to such 
 'Conditions as may be agreed on, of any powers of the authority 
 
 * See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, 1st Sch. par. 5.
 
 [2 Ei)w. :.] Education Act 1902. [Chap. 42.] 1059 
 
 in respect (jf the manaj^eineiit of any scliool ov college within tlie 
 
 urea of the council. . . . 
 ySee 3 Ediii. 7, c. 24, .s-«. 2 (ind 3, and \Ht Sch. jiar. 1 {(i). I'nrt f/rnitled 
 {provision as retjards t/ie council of a non-county barouyh or urban district) 
 not applicable to London. | 
 
 21. — (1) Sections two hundred and ninety -seven and two hundred and Provisional 
 ninety-eight of the Public Health Act, 1875 (which relate to Provisional <->r<lers and 
 Orders), shall apply to any Provisional Order made under this Act as if it qh ^™M" 
 were made under that Act, but references to a hx;al authority shall be ,. "i.j. 
 construed as leferences to the authority to whom the Order relates, and 
 references to the Local Government Board shall Ije construed as referencts 
 to the Board of Education. 
 
 (2) Any Scheme or Provisional Order under this Act may contain such 
 incidental or consequential ))rovi.sions as may ap[)ear nece.ssary or 
 expedient. 
 
 (3) A Scheme under this Act when approved shall have effect a.s if 
 enacted in this Act, and any such Sclieme, or any Provisional Order made 
 for the purposes of such a Scheme, may be revoked or altered by a Scheme 
 made in like manner and having the same effect as an original Scheme. 
 
 22.— (1) In this Act and in the Elementary Education Acts the provision as 
 expression " elementary school " shall not include any .school carried on as to elementary 
 an evening school under the regulations of the Board of Education. ^^'^ higher 
 
 (2) The i)ower to inovide instruction under the Elementary Education ^^^"<^'>^*''" 
 ' "^ ijowcrs 
 
 Acts, 1870 to 1900, shall, except where those Acts expressly provide to respectively 
 
 the contrary, be limited to the provision in a public elementary school of 
 insti-uction given under the regulations of the Board of Education to 
 scholars who, at the close of the school year, will not \>e more than sixteen 
 years of age : Provided that the local education authority may, with the 
 consent of the Board of Education, extend those limits in the case of any- 
 such school if no suitable higher education Is available within a reasonable 
 distance of the school. 
 
 (3) The power to supply or aid the supply of education other than 
 elementary includes a power to train teachers, and to supply or aid the 
 supply of any education excejtt where that education is given at a public 
 elementary school. 
 
 23. — (1) The powers of a council under this Act shall include the Miscel- 
 provision of vehicles or the payment of rea.sonable travelling expenses for laneous 
 teachers or children attending school or college whenever the council .shall Pro^'isi^ns. 
 consider such provision or payment required by the circumstances of their 
 area or of any part thereof. 
 
 (2) The power of a council to supj)ly or aid the .supply of education, 
 other than elementary, shall include power to make provision for the 
 }iurpo.se outside their area in cases where they consider it expedient to do 
 so in the interests of their area, and sh.ill include power to proWde or 
 assist in providing scliolarsliips for, and to pay or assist in paying the fees 
 of, students ordinarily resident in the area of the council at schools or 
 colleges or hostels within or without that area. 
 
 (4) The amount which would be produced by any rate in the jKiund 
 shall be estimated for the |)in[)oses of this Act in accordance with regula- 
 tions made by the Local Government Board. 
 
 (5) The Mortmain and Charitable U.ses Act, 1888, and so much of the .*>1 i: 52 Vict. 
 ^Mortmain and ('harit;vl)le Uses Act, 1891, .-is requires that land assure<l ^- -l^.^^ 
 
 by will shall be sold within one year from the death of the testator, shall ^'^J'g^^ ^^^^' 
 not apply to any assurance, within the meaning of the said Act of 1888, 
 of land for the purjtose of a school house for an elementary .<chotil. 
 
 (G) A woman is not disqualitied, either l)y .sex or marriage, for being on 
 any body of managers or education committee under this Act. 
 
 (7) Teachers in a school maintained but not provided by the local
 
 1060 
 
 [Chap. 42.] 
 
 Education Act 1 002. 
 
 [2 Edw. :.] 
 
 51 Ac 52 Tict. 
 c. 41. 
 
 33 & 34 Vict, 
 c. 75. 
 
 Interpreta- 
 •tion. 
 
 51 & 52 Vict, 
 c. 41. 
 
 Provisions 
 as to pro- 
 ceedings, 
 transfer, etc. 
 application 
 of enact- 
 ments and 
 repeal. 
 
 1 Edw. 7. 
 c. 11. 
 
 2 Edw. 7. 
 c. 19. 
 
 education authority shall be in the same position as respects disqualification 
 for office as members of the authority as teachers in a school provided by 
 the authoi-ity. 
 
 (8) Population for the purposes of this Act shall be calculated according 
 to the census of nineteen hundred and one. 
 
 (9) Subsections one and five of section eighty-seven of the Local 
 Government Act, 1888 (which relate to local inquiries), shall apply with 
 respect to any order, con.sent, sanction, or approval which the Local 
 Government Board are authorised to make or give vinder this Act. 
 
 (10) The Board of Education may, if they think fit, hold a public 
 inquiry for the purpose of the exercise of any of their powers or the 
 performance of any of their duties under this Act, and section seventy- 
 three of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, shall apply to any public 
 inquiry so held or held under any other provision of this Act. 
 
 \rart omitted [as to borough or urban district ivhose couacil is a local 
 education anthority) not ajiplicahle to London.^ 
 
 24. — (1) Unless the context otherwise i-equires, any expression to which 
 a special meaning is attached in the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 to 
 1900, shall have the same meaning in this Act. 
 
 (2) In this Act the expression " minor local authority " means, as 
 respects any school, the council of any borough or urban district, or the 
 parish council or (where there is no parish council) the parish meeting of 
 any parish which appears to the county council to be served by the school. 
 Where the school appears to the county council to serve the area of more 
 than one minor local authority the county council shall make such pro- 
 vision as they think pi'oper for joint appointment of managers by the 
 authorities concerned. [*See 3 Edit\ 7, c. 24, \st Sch. par. 1 (a).] 
 
 (3) In this Act the expressions "powers," "duties," "property," and 
 " liabilities " shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same 
 meanings as in the Local Government Act, 1888. 
 
 (4) In this Act the expression "college" includes any educational 
 institution, whether residential or not. 
 
 (5) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression 
 " trust deed " includes any instrument regulating the trusts or manage- 
 ment of a school or college. 
 
 25. — (1) The provisions set out in the Eirst and Second Schedules to 
 this Act relating to education committees and managers, and to the transfer 
 of property and officers, and adjustment, shall have effect for the purpose 
 of carrying the provisions of this Act into effect. 
 
 (2) In the application of the Elementary Edixcation Acts, 1870 to 1900, 
 and other provisions referred to in that schedule, the modifications specified 
 in the Third Schedule to this Act shall have efifect. 
 
 (3) The enactments mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall 
 be repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule. 
 [See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, s. 5 (2).] 
 
 26. \_As to the application of the Act to the Scilbj Islands.^ 
 
 27. . 
 
 (3) The period during whicli local authorities may, under the Education 
 Act, 1901, as renewed by the Education Act, 1901 (Renewal) Act, 1902, 
 empower school boards to carry on the work of the schools and classes to 
 which those Acts relate shall be extended to the appointed day, and in the 
 case of London to the twenty-sixth day of ]\larch nineteen hundred and 
 four. \See 3 Ediv. 7, c. 24, 1st Sch. 2)ar. 6.] 
 
 (4) This Act may be cited as the Education Act, 1902, and the Elemen- 
 tary Education Acts, 1870 to 1900, and this Act may be cited as the 
 Education Acts, 1870 to 1902. 
 
 [Parts omitted (as to the extent and commencement of the Act) not appli- 
 cable to London. See 3 EdAO. 7, c. 24, \st Sch. p>ar. 6. J
 
 [2 Edw. 7.] Education Art 10ii2. [Chai*. 42.] IMOI 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 FIRST SCHEDULE. Section 25. 
 
 Phoviskin as lu IOdlcation Com.mittkks ANIJ MANA<;KnH. 
 A. — Edncat'iiin Com inlltees. 
 
 (1) The council by whom an education committee is established may make 
 regulations as to the iiuoruui, jiroceedings, and place of meeting of that committee, 
 but, subject to any such regulations, the quorum, proceedings, and place of 
 meeting of the committee shall he such as the committee determine. 
 
 (2) The chairman of the education committee at any meeting of the com- 
 mittee shall, in case of an equal division of votes, have a .second or casting vote. 
 
 (3) The proceedings of an education committee shall not be invalidated by any 
 vacancy among its members or by any defect in the election, appointment, or 
 qualification of any members thereof. 
 
 (4) Minutes of the proceedings of an education committee shall be kept in a 
 book provided for that purpose, and a minute of those proceedings, signed at the 
 same or next ensuing meeting by a person describing him.self as, or api)earing to 
 be, chairman of the meeting of the committee at which the minute is signed, 
 shall be received in evidence without further proof. [Srr 'A Kdii:. 7. l"/ Sc/i. //tir. 7.] 
 
 (5) Lentil the contrary is proved, an education committee shall be deemed to 
 have been duly constituted and to have power to deal with any matters referred 
 to in its minutes. 
 
 ((■)) An education committee may, subject to any directions of the council, 
 appoint such and so many sub-committees, consisting either wholly or partly of 
 members of the committee, as the committee thinks fit. 
 
 B. — Matiagers. 
 
 (1) A body of managers may choose their chairman, except in cases where 
 there is an ex-officio chairman, and regulate their quorum and proceedings in 
 such manner as they think fit, subject, in the case of the managers of a 
 school provided by the local education authority, to any directions of that 
 authority. 
 
 Provided that the quorum shall not be less than three, or one-third of the 
 whole number of managers, whichever is the greater. 
 
 (■J) Every question at a meeting of a body of managers shall be determined by 
 a majority of the votes of the managers present and voting on the question, and 
 in case of an equal division of votes the chairman of the meeting shall have a 
 second or casting vote. 
 
 (3) The proceedings of a body of managers shall not be invalidated by any 
 vacancy in their number, or by any defect in the election, apjiointment, or 
 (jualification of any manager. 
 
 (4) The body of managers of a school provided by the \oca.\ education 
 authority .shall deal with such matters relating to the management of the school, 
 and subject to such conditions and restrictions, as the local education authority 
 determine. 
 
 (.")) A manager of a school not provided by the local education authority, 
 appointed by that authority or by the minor local authority, shall be removable 
 by the authority by whom he is appointed, and any such manager may resign 
 his ottice. 
 
 (G) The body of managers shall hold a meeting at least once in every three 
 months. 
 
 (7) Any two managers may convene a meeting of the body of managers. 
 
 (8) The minutes of the proceedings of every body of managers .shall be kept 
 in a book provided for that purpose. 
 
 (9) A minute of the proceedings of a body of managers, signed at the same or 
 the next ensuing meeting by a person describing himself as, or appearing to be, 
 chairman of the meeting at which the minute is signed, shall be received in 
 evidence without further proof. 
 
 (^10) The miuutes of a body of managers shall be open to inspection by the 
 local education authority. 
 
 (11) LTntil the contrary is proved, a body of managers shall be deemed to be 
 duly constituted and to have power to deal with the matters referred to in their 
 minutes.
 
 1062 [Chap. 42.] Education Act 1902. [2 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Section 25. SECOXD SCHEDULE. 
 
 Provisions as to Transfer of Property and Officers, and 
 
 Adjustment. 
 
 (1) The property, powers, rights, and liabilities (including any property, 
 powers, rights, and liabilities vested, conferred, or arising under any local Actor 
 any trust deed) of any school board or school attendance committee existing at 
 the appointed day shall be transferred to the council exercising the powers of 
 the school board. [See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24, s. 2 (2).] 
 
 (2) "Where, under the provisions of this Act. any council relinquishes its 
 powers and duties in favour of a county council, any property or rights acquired 
 and any liabilities incurred, for the purpose of the performance of the powers 
 and duties relinquished, including any property or rights vested or arising, or 
 any liabilities incurred, under any local Act or trust deed, shall be transferred 
 to the county council. 
 
 (3) Any loans transferred to a council under this Act shall, for the purpose of 
 the limitation on the powers of the council to borrow, be treated as money 
 borrowed under this Act. 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. (4) Any liability of an urban district council incurred under the Technical 
 ^- ^6._^ Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891, and charged on any fund or rate, shall, by virtue 
 54 &; oo "\ ict. Qf ^^jjjg j^^^^ become charged on the fund or rate out of which the expenses of the 
 ^' council under this Act are payable, instead of on the first-mentioned fund or 
 
 rate. 
 
 53 & 54 Vict. (5) Section two of this Act shall apply to any balance of the residue under 
 c. 60. section one of the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, remaining 
 
 unexpended and unappropriated by any council at the appointed day. 
 
 (Ij) Where the liabilities of a school board transferred to the local education 
 
 authority under this Act comprise a liability on account of money advanced 
 
 by that authority to the school board, the Load Government Board* may 
 
 make such orders as they think fit for providing for the repayment of any 
 
 debts incurred by the authority for the purposes of those advances within a 
 
 period fixed by the order, and, in case the money advanced to the school board 
 
 .„ „. has been money standing to the credit of any sinking fund or redemption fund 
 
 41 ^"^ or capital money applied under the Local Government Acts, 1888 and 1894, or 
 
 ^fi &■ "" V "t either of them, for the repayment to the proper fund or account of the amount 
 
 g jQ so advanced. 
 
 Any order of the Local Gorerniiunt 7^o«?Y7*made under this provision shall 
 have effect as if enacted in this Act. 
 
 (7) \_Provisions fur cases where a d'/strict council ceases by reason of this Act 
 to he a school aiifhority loifhin the menniufi <f the Elementary Education {Blind 
 and Deaf Children) Act, 1893, or the Llleinenfary Education {Defective and 
 Epileptic Children) Act, 1899, not applicable to London.'] 
 56 & 57 Yict. (8) Sections eighty-five to eighty-eight of the Local Government Act, 1894 
 c- 73. (which contain transitory provisions), shall apply with respect to any transfer 
 
 mentioned in this schedule, subject as follows : — 
 
 (</) References to " the appointed day " and to " the passing of this Act '' shall 
 be construed, as respects a case of relinquishment of powers and 
 duties, as references to the date on which the relinquishment takes 
 effect : and 
 (6) the powers and duties of a school board or school attendance committee 
 which is abolished, or a council which ceases under the provisions of 
 this Act to exercise powers and duties, shall be deemed to be powers 
 and duties transferred under this Act : and 
 (c) subsections four and five of section eighty-five shall not apply. 
 (9) \_As to date from vjliich di-^qualifiratimi of a county, borough, or urban 
 district councillor in consequence if this Act is to take effect. Spent.^ 
 ( 1 0) — ( 12) [ 'Transitory provisions.] 
 
 (13) Any school which has been provided by a school board or is deemed to 
 have been so provided shall be treated for the purposes of the Elementary 
 Education Acts. ])S70 to 1900, and this Act, as a school which has been provided 
 by the local education authority, or which is deemed to have been so provided, 
 as the case may be. 
 
 (14) The local education authority shall be entitled to use for the purposes 
 of the school any school furniture and apparatus belonging to the trustees or 
 managers of any public elementary school not provided by a school board, and 
 in use for the purposes of the school before the appointed day. 
 
 (l.o) [Transitory provisions. Spent.] 
 
 * As regards London, the Treasury. See 3 Edw. 7, c. 24,. 1st Sch. par. 8.
 
 [2 Edw. 7.] Education Act 1902. [Chap. 42.] 1063 
 
 (ITi) The officers of any authority whose propf;rty. right*. an<l li;ihilities are 
 transferred under this Act to any council shall be tran>*fcrred to and Ijccome the 
 officers of that council, but that council may abolish the office of any such 
 officer whose office tht*y deem unnecessary. 
 
 (17) Every officer so transferred .shall hold his office by the same tenure and 
 on the same terms and conditions as before the transfer, and while performing 
 the same duties shall receive not less salary or remuneration than theret<jfore, 
 but if any such officer is required to jx-rform duties which are not analof^ous to 
 or which are an unrea.snnal)le addition to those; which he is reijuired to perform 
 at the date of the transfer, he may relin(iuish liis (office, and any olhcer who so 
 relinquishes his office, or whose office is abolished, shall be entitled to comi)en- 
 sation under this Act. 
 
 (18) A council may, if they think fit, take into account continuous service 
 under any school board.s or school attendance committees in order to calculate 
 the total period of service of any officer entitled to compensation under this Act. 
 
 (I'.l) If an officer of any authority to which the Poor Law OlHcers' Super- 59 & 60 Vict. 
 nnnuation Act, iK'.tC), applies is under this Act transferred to any council, and c. 50. 
 has made the annual contributions reiiuired to be made under that Act. the 
 provisions of that Act shall apply, subject to such modifications as the Local 
 Government Board may by order direct for the purpose of making that Act 
 applical)le to the case. 
 
 (20) Any local education authority who have establi.shed any pension scheme, 
 or scheme for the superannuation of their officers, may admit to the benefits of 
 that .scheme any officers transferred under this Act on such terms and conditions 
 as they think fit. 
 
 (21) Section one hundred and twenty of the Local (rovernment Act, 1HH8, .01 ^: 52 Vict, 
 which relates to compensation to existing officers, shall ajudy as respecta officers c. 41. 
 transferred under this Act, and also (with the neces.sary modifications) to any 
 
 other officers who, by virtut^ of this Act or anything done in pursuance or in 
 consequence of this Act, suffer direct pecuniary loss by abolition of office or by 
 diminution or loss of fees or salary, in like manner as it applies to officers trans- 
 ferred under this Act, subject as follows : — 
 
 {a) any reference in that section to the county council shall mclude a refer- 
 ence to a borough or urban district council ; and 
 (Ji) references in that section to '• the passing of this Act" shall be construed, 
 as respects a case of relinquishment of powers and duties, as references 
 to the date on which the relinquishment takes effect : and 
 (r) any reference to powers transferred shall be construed as a reference to 
 
 property transferred ; and 
 (il) any expenses shall be paid out of the fund or rate out of which the 
 expenses of a council under this Act are paid, and, if any compensation 
 is payable otherwise than by way of an annual sum. the payment of 
 that compensation shall be a purpose for which a council may borrow 
 for the purposes of this Act. 
 [See 3 Edic. 7, c. 24, Srh. /. (1) and (lit).] 
 
 (22) Section sixty eight of the Local Government Act, 18',t4 (which relates to 5G & 57 Vict. 
 the adjustment of property and liabilities), shall apply with respect to any c. 73. 
 adjustment required for the purposes of this Act. 
 
 o. 
 
 THIRD SCHEDULE. Section 25. 
 
 Monri'K ATKiN OF Acts, yac. 
 
 (1) References to school boards and school districts shall be construed as 
 references to local education authorities and the areas for which they act. 
 except as respects transactions before the apptiinted day, and except thatjn 
 paragraph (2) of section nineteen of the Elementary Education Act, l>'7r). 39 _A: 40 Vict. 
 and in subsection (1) of .section two of the Education Code ( 1><'.'0) Act, IK'.'ti, c- 79._ 
 references to a school district shall, as respects the area of a locjii education i>-i A:^ i>4 Vict 
 authority being the council of a county, be construed as references to a parish. 
 
 (2) References to the school fund or local rate shall be construed as 
 references to the fund or rate out of which the expen.ses of the local education 
 authority are payable. 
 
 (H) In section thirty-eight of the Elementary Education Act, lS7r>, references 
 to members of a school l»oard shall be construed as references to members of 
 the education committee, or of any sub-committee appointed by that committee 
 for school attendance purposes. 
 
 (4) The power of making bylaws shall (where the local eilucation authority 
 is a county council) include a "power of making different bylaws for different 
 parts of the area of the authority.
 
 1064 
 
 [Chap. 42.] 
 
 Education Act 1902. 
 
 [2 Edw. 7.] 
 
 54 & 55 Vict. (o) The following provision shall have effect in lieu of section five of the 
 
 c. 56. Elementary Education Act, 1891 : 
 
 "The duty of a local education authority under the Education Acts, 1870 
 to 1902, to provide a sufficient amount of public school accommodation shall 
 include the duty to provide a sufficient amount of public school accommodation 
 without payment of fees in every part of their area." 
 
 (6) The words "in the opinion of the Board of Education'' shall be 
 substituted for the words "in their opinion" in the first paragraph of section 
 
 33 & 34 Vict, eighteen of the Elementary Education Act, 1870. 
 
 c. 75. (7) Section ninety-nine of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, shall apply 
 
 to the fulfilment of any conditions, the performance of any duties, and the 
 exercise of any powers under this Act as it applies to the fulfilment of 
 conditions required in pursuance of that Act to be fulfilled in order to obtain 
 a parliamentary grant. 
 
 (8) A reference to the provisions of this Act as to borrowing shall be 
 substituted in section fifteen of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, for the 
 reference to section ten of the Elementary Education Act, 1873, and a reference 
 to the Local Government Board shall be substituted for the second reference in 
 that section to the Education Department, and also for the reference to the 
 Education Department in section five of the Elementary Education (Blind and 
 Deaf Children) Act, 1893. 
 
 (9) A reference to the provisions of this Act relating to the enforcement of 
 the performance of the local education authority's duties by mandamus shall be 
 substituted in section two of the Elementary Education Act, 1880, for the 
 reference to section twenty-seven of the Elementary Education Act, 187G. 
 
 (10) The substitutions for school boards, school districts, school fund, and 
 local rate made by this schedule shall, unless the context otherwise requires, 
 be made in any enactment referring to or applying the Elementary Education 
 Acts, 1870 to 1900, or any of them, so far as the reference or application 
 extends. 
 
 (11) References in any enactment or in any provision of a scheme made 
 under the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1894, or the Endowed Schools Acts, 
 18(59 to 1889, or the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 to 1900, to any provisions 
 of the Technical Instruction Acts, 188il and 1891, or either of those Acts shall, 
 unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to the 
 provisions of Part II. of this Act, and the provisions of this Act shall apply 
 with respect to any school, college, or hostel established, and to any obligation 
 incurred, under the Technical Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891, as if the school, 
 college, or hostel had been established or the obligation incurred under Part II. 
 of this Act. [.SVe 3 Edtv. 7, c. 24, Ut Sch. par. 9.] 
 
 (12) The Local Government Board may, after consultation with the Board 
 of Education, by order make such adaptations in the provisions of any local 
 Act (including any Act to confirm a Provisional Order and any Scheme under 
 
 45 & 46 Vict, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, as amended by any subsequent Act) as 
 c. 50. may .seem to them to be necessary to make those provisions conform with the 
 
 provisions of this Act, and may also in like manner, on the application of any 
 council who have power as to education under this Act and have also powers 
 as to education under any local Act, make such modifications in the local Act 
 as will enable the powers under that Act to be exercised as if they were powers 
 under this Act. 
 
 Any order made under this provision shall operate as if enacted in this Act. 
 
 36& 37 Vict, 
 c. 86. 
 
 56 & 57 Vict, 
 c. 42. 
 
 43 & 44 Vict. 
 c. 23. 
 
 39 & 40 Vict, 
 c. 79. 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. 
 c. 76. 
 
 54 & 55 Vict. 
 c. 4. 
 
 FOURTH SCHEDULE. 
 Enactments Repealed. 
 
 I'ART I. 
 
 Session and 
 Chapter. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 E.xtent of Repeal. 
 
 52 & 53 Vict. 
 
 The Technical In- 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 c. 76. 
 53 & 54 Vict. 
 
 .stnictionAct,lSS9. 
 The Local Taxation 
 
 In section one. subsections two and three. 
 
 c, 60. 
 54 & 55 Vict. 
 
 (Customs and Ex- 
 cise) Act, 1890. 
 The Technical In- 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 c. 4. 
 
 struction Act, 1891. 

 
 [2 Edw. :.] 
 
 Education Art r.MCj. 
 
 [Chap. 42.] 
 
 1(j65 
 
 Pakt 11. 
 
 Kxtfiit of Re|jeal. 
 
 33 & 34 Vict 
 c. 75. 
 
 36 & 37 Vict. 
 c. 80. 
 
 37 & 38 Vict, 
 c. 90. 
 
 39 &; 40 Vict, 
 c. 79. 
 
 43 & 44 Vict, 
 c. 23. 
 
 53 & 54 Vict, 
 c. 22 
 
 54 Js: 55 Vict, 
 c. 56. 
 
 The Elementary 
 Education Act, 
 1H70. 
 
 The Elementary 
 Education Act. 
 1873. 
 
 The Elementary 
 
 Education (Orders) 
 
 Act, 1874. 
 The Elementary 
 
 Education Act, 
 
 1876. 
 
 The Elementary 
 
 Education Act, 
 
 1880. 
 The Education Code 
 
 (18iK)) Act. 1890. 
 The Elementary 
 
 Education Act, 
 
 IS'U. 
 
 Section four ; section five except ho far an 
 it di'fincs puhlii- Hchoiil ac'ommfxlation ; 
 section six; sections eipiil to thirteen; 
 Hoctions lifteeri and sixteen ; he<ti<jti eighti^en 
 from "If at any linie" to the end of the 
 section ; in section nineteen the words 
 "whether in ohefiience to any requisition 
 or not"; sections twenty-nine to tliirty-four; 
 in .section thirty-live the words "a clerk 
 and a treasurer and other" and the words 
 from " but no such appointuutnt " to 
 "member of the board"; .sections forty to 
 forty-eight; .sections forty-nine to fifty-one; 
 in section lifty-two the word.s "under the 
 provisions of this Act with respect to the 
 appointment of a botiy of nianajrers " ; 
 sections lifty-three to fifty-six; se'tions 
 sixty to sixty-six ; in section sixty-nine the 
 words "in the metrojx)lis "' and the words 
 from "appointed under tiiis Act" to "re- 
 turns under this Act " ; in section seventy- 
 three the words "of the .school district," 
 the wonls from " (if anv) or if" to " inquiry 
 relates," and the words "or if there is no 
 school board as a debt due from the rating 
 authority " ; sections seventy-.seven an<l 
 seventy-nine; sections eighty-seven, eighty- 
 eight, and ninety; section ninety-three; the 
 first proviso of section ninety-seven ; the 
 First Schedule ; the Second Schedule, except 
 the Thinl Part ; tiie Third Schedule. 
 
 Sections five to twelve ; sections seventeen 
 and eighteen ; sections twenty-one and 
 twenty-six; the First Schedule; the Second 
 Schedule ; the Third Schedule. 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 Section seven, from "and (2) in every" to 
 "appointing the committee," and the words 
 "and school attendance committee"; in 
 section fifteen the words " not exceeding 
 fifty"; section twenty-one; section twenty- 
 three to "or pay any fees"; seition twenty- 
 seven, in section twenty-eight, the worths 
 " but subject in the ciise of a school attend- 
 ance committee to the approval hereinafter 
 mentioned" and the words "or the otlicers 
 of the council or guardians by whom the 
 connnittcc arc appointed"; sections thirty, 
 thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three (except 
 as applied by this Act), and thirty-four; 
 section tiiirty-six ; in section thirty-seven 
 the words "or local authority"; in section 
 thirty eight the words "or local authority" 
 and "or school attendance committee"; 
 sections forty-one, forty-two, forty-tiiree, 
 and fortj'-four ; section forty-nine; the 
 Second Sdiedule; the Thinl Schedule. 
 
 Section three. 
 
 Section one. 
 
 Sections five, six, and seven.
 
 1066 
 
 rrir^.T, nn County Councils (Bills in Parliament) ro tt. ■~-^ 
 [Chap. 9.] ^' ActVm. [3 Edw. ..] 
 
 
 
 Paet 
 
 II. — conthived. 
 
 Session and 
 Chapter. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 Extent of Repeal. 
 
 56 & 57 
 
 Vict. 
 
 The Elementary 
 
 Section four from "(J) for an area" to the 
 
 c. 42. 
 
 
 Education (Blind 
 
 end of the section. 
 
 
 
 and Deaf Children) 
 
 Subsections (3) and (4) of section five. 
 
 
 
 Act, 1893. 
 
 Section si.x. 
 
 59 & 60 
 
 Vict. 
 
 The Agricultural 
 
 In section seven the words "a school board 
 
 c. 16. 
 
 
 Rates Act, 1896. 
 
 for a school district which is a parish or," 
 and sub-section (3). 
 
 60 & 61 
 
 Vict. 
 
 The Voluntary 
 
 Section one. 
 
 c. 5. 
 
 
 Schools Act, 1897. 
 
 
 60 & 61 
 
 Vict. 
 
 The Elementary 
 
 The whole Act. 
 
 c. 16. 
 
 
 Education Act, 
 1897. 
 
 
 62 & 63 
 
 Vict. 
 
 The Elementary 
 
 In section six the proviso. 
 
 c. 32. 
 
 
 Education (Defec- 
 tive and Epileptic 
 Children) Act, 
 1899. 
 
 
 63 & 64 
 
 Vict. 
 
 The Elementary 
 
 Section three. 
 
 c. 53. 
 
 
 Education Act, 
 1900. 
 
 
 3 EDWARD VII. A.D. 1903. 
 
 Power to 
 county 
 council to 
 promote 
 Bills in 
 Parliament. 
 
 51 & 52 Vict, 
 c. 41. 
 
 Short title 
 and com- 
 mencement. 
 
 CHAPTER 9. 
 
 An Act to empower County Councils to promote Bills in Parliament. 
 
 [21st Jail/ 1903.] 
 
 1. — (1) The powei's conferred by section fifteen of the Local Government 
 Act, 1888, on the council of a county to oppose Bills in Parliament shall 
 be extended so as to authorise them to pron)Ote Bills as well as to oppose 
 them. 
 
 (2) The county council may determine that any expenses incurred in 
 pursuance of section fifteen of the Local Government Act, 1888, as 
 amended by this Act, are to be regarded as incurred for special county 
 purposes, but any sucli determination shall be forthwith notified to the 
 overseers of any parish liable to be assessed in pursuance of such deter- 
 mination, and shall be subject to appeal, within twenty-one days, at the 
 instance of the ovei-seers of any parish so hable, to the Local Government 
 Board, whose decision shall be final. 
 
 (3) For the purpo.se of deciding any such appeal, subsections (1) and (5) 
 of section eighty-seven of the Local Government Act, 1888 (which relate 
 to local inquiries), shall apply. 
 
 (4) The powers conferred by this section shall be in addition to, and not 
 in derogation of, any powers possessed bv the London County Council. 
 [See 18 ik 19 Vict. c. 120, .s. 144 ; 19 & 20 Vict. c. 112, s. lU ; and 55 & 56 
 Vict. c. exxx. s. 2.] 
 
 (5) Proviso (b) to section fifteen of the Local Government Act, 1888, 
 which relates to the promotion of Bills in Parliament by a county council, 
 is hereby repealed. 
 
 2. [Amendme7it of the Local Government {Scotland) Act, 1889.] 
 
 3. — (1) This Act may be cited as the County Councils (Bills in 
 Parliament) Act, 1903. 
 
 (2) It shall come into operation on the first day of October nineteen 
 hundred and three.
 
 f3 Edw. 7.] Borough FumU Act. 10U3. [Chai-. 14.] 1067 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 
 An Act to amend the Boroloh Funds Act, 1872. 
 
 [lUh Aiojuat 1903.] 
 
 1. No expense in relation to the promotion of a Bill in Piirliauit-nt .shall ^^F*"**.® of 
 Tse charged by the council of a lK)roiigh or uil^an di.strict nmler the Jiuruugh \^]\\g 
 Funds Act, 1872, unk'.ss the requirements contained in the First Sche<Jule o- ^^ og y 
 to this Act have been observed. g 91 
 
 2. — (1) If the result of a poll under this Act, or the deci.sion of Withdrawal 
 a meeting of electors when linal, is against the promotion of the liill, or of "f ''ill, or 
 :a part or parts, or clause or clauses, of the Bill, the council shall forthwith P'""!, in case 
 take all necessary steps to withdraw the Bill, or the part or parts, '^ ,^' ^*''"® 
 or clause or clauses (as the ca.se may be), against which tin- \io\\ has 
 resulted or the decision of the meeting has Iteen given. 
 
 (2) In the case f)f equality of votes on any (jue.stion of promotion, that 
 question shall be deemed to be decided against the promotion. 
 
 3. Where a Bill, or a part or parts, or clau.se or dau.ses, of a Bill, is or K.xpen.-es 
 are withdrawn, no further expense shall be incurred by the council, when Bill is 
 or mayor or chairman, in or about the promotion of thf Bill, or part or ^^'^ drawn, 
 parts, or clause or clauses, so withdrawn, but, subject a.s afore.said, 
 
 all costs, charges, and expenses incurred by the council, or mayor or 
 chairman, in or as incidental to the preparation and promotion of the Bill 
 up to and inclusive of its deposit in Parliament an<l withdrawal (if with- 
 drawn), and in or as incidental to the holding of a meeting or the taking 
 ■of a poll under this Act, shall, when taxed by a taxing officer of one of the 
 
 House's of Parliament, and allowed under the Borough Funds Act, 1872, 3j A: .3t> \ ict. 
 
 .c^l 
 be charged on and payable out of such one or more of the public funds or 
 
 rates vnider the control of the council (and, if more than one, then in such 
 
 proportions) as the council, having regard to the nature and objects 
 
 of the Bill, may determine to be just and proper. 
 
 4. Nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to alter or affect Saving for 
 any special provision in any local Act for the payment of the costs, ^P^^i^' Acts, 
 charges, and expenses in relation to the pi-omotion by any council of a 
 
 Bill in Parliament, or to take away or diminish any rights or powers now 
 posse.ssed or enjoyed by any council, or whicli are or shall be v» sted in or 
 exerciseable by the inhabitants of the district of any council under any 
 general or special Act, but the council may, if they think lit, adopt with 
 respect to the promotion of any Bill the procedure provided by this Act in 
 lieu of that provided by their local Act. 
 
 6. — (1) Any person who at, or for the i)urposes of, a poll under Offences in 
 this Act — relation to 
 
 (i) fraudulently signs or forges any signature to a requisition of electors P^"*- 
 
 under this Act ; or 
 (ii) applies for a voting paper in the name of some other jierson, 
 
 whether that name be the name of a person liWng or dead, or «>f 
 
 a tictitious person ; or 
 (iii) having voted once, applies for a second voting paper in hi> own 
 
 name ; or 
 (iv) forges or counterfeits, or frautluiently defaces or frauilulently 
 
 destroys any voting pajier ; or 
 (v) without due authority .supplies a voting paj>er to any person ; or 
 (vi) fraudulently ])uts into any box oi- other receptacle any paper other 
 
 than a voting pa2)er supplied to him foi- the purpise; or 
 (vii) fraudulently takes out of the polling station any voting pajier; or 
 (viii) without due authoiity destroys, takes, open.-, or otherwise 
 
 interferes witii any box or other receptacle for voting papers or 
 
 any voting papers then in use ; or 
 (ix) causes any disturbance or disorder in or near any polling station : 
 shall be liable on summary conviction to a line not exceeding twenty 
 pounds.
 
 1068 
 
 [Chap. 14.] 
 
 Borough Funds Act 1903. 
 
 [3 Edw. :.] 
 
 Non-compli- 
 ance with 
 procedure. 
 
 Expenses of 
 
 opposing 
 
 Bills. 
 
 54 Vicl. c. 12. 
 
 Transfer to 
 Local Govern- 
 ment Board of 
 certain powers 
 of Secretary of 
 State. 
 
 Definitions. 
 
 Repeals. 
 
 Extent of 
 Act. 
 
 Short title 
 and com- 
 mencement. 
 
 (2) An attempt to commit any offence specified in this section shall be 
 punishable in the manner in which the offence is punishable. 
 
 6. The failure to comply with the requirements of this Act as to notices 
 or the time within which anything is to be done, or the procedure at 
 a meeting of electors or the mode of taking a poll, shall not render invalid 
 the charge under the Borough Funds Act, 1872, or this Act of any 
 expenses in relation to the promotion of a Bill, if the provisions of this Act 
 have been substantially complied with and the failui-e has not affected the 
 result of the proceedings under this Act. 
 
 7.- — (1) The provision contained in section four of the Borough Funds 
 Act, 1872, that no expense in opposing a Bill in Parliament shall be 
 charged unless the opposition has had the consent of the owners and 
 ratepayers of the district, shall cease to apply. 
 
 (2) In section one of the Railway and Canal Traffic (Provisional Orders) 
 Amendment Act, 1891, references to the Borough Funds Act shall be 
 construed and have effect as references to the Borough Funds Act, 1872, 
 as amended by this Act. 
 
 8. The powers confei'red upon the Secretary of State by the Borough 
 Funds Act, 1872, or by virtue of any extension or application of that Act, 
 shall be transfei'red to and exercised by the Local Government Board. 
 
 9. For the j^urposes of this Act, the expression "council" includes the 
 council of evei-y boi-ough and of every urban district, the expression 
 " borough" includes a metropolitan borough, and the expression "electors" 
 means the parochial electors for the time being enrolled in the register 
 of parochial electors in force for the parishes in a borough or urban 
 district, and the expression "the mayor or chairman" means the mayor 
 of the borough or the chairman of the urban district council. 
 
 10. The enactments specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are 
 hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that 
 Schedule. 
 
 11. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. 
 
 12.— (1) This Act may be cited as the Borough Funds Act, 1903, and 
 the Borough Funds Act, 1872, and this Act may be cited together as the 
 Borough Funds Acts, 1872 and 1903. 
 
 (2) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of October 
 nineteen hundred and three. 
 
 SCHEDULES. 
 
 FIRST SCHEDULE. 
 
 Re(;ui.ati(jns for Meetincj and Pof-lixg of Electors. 
 
 (1) "Where the council of a borough or urban district have resolved, in 
 
 35 & 30 Vict, accordance with the provisions of the Borough Funds Act, 1872, to promote 
 
 c. 91. a Bill in Parliament, and the Bill has been deposited, notice shall be given by 
 
 placards and by advertisement in some local newspaper circulating in the 
 
 borough or district in two successive weeks stating — 
 
 . («) the title of the Bill ; and 
 
 {h) a brief statement of the objects of the Bill ; 
 
 (c) that the Bill has been deposited, and the date on which it was first 
 
 deposited in either House : and 
 (jcl) that copies of the Bill may be inspected and purchased at a place within 
 the borough or district specified in the notice, between the hours 
 of ten in the forenoon and five in the afternoon, on every week day for 
 fourteen days after the date of the first advertisement, and that 
 extracts may be taken free of charge ; and 
 (e) That a public meeting of electors will be held on a day named, not being 
 less than fourteen nor more than twenty-eight days after the first 
 advertisement of the notice, for the purpose of considering the question 
 of the promotion of the Bill, and indicating the resolutions which will 
 be submitted to the meeting.
 
 [3 Ei)\v. :.] Borowjh FaiuU Act V.)\)\\. [Ohai-. 14.] 1009 
 
 ('I) The first advertisement urnier these regulations must be made within 
 fleven days from the first deposit of the Hill iti either House, and the placards 
 giving notice under these regulations must he posted within the same time. 
 
 (3) A public meeting of electors shall be held in accordance with the notice, 
 and the mayor or chairman, or, in the event of his being unable or unwilling 
 to preside, any jierson ai)i)oiMted by the council to perform that duty, shall l>e 
 president of the meeting ; Init, if neither tlie mayor or chairman, nor the person 
 ao appointed, is present within ten minutes after the time appointed for the 
 meeting, the meeting shall choose an elector present at the meeting to be 
 j)resident of the meeting. 
 
 (4) The president of the meeting may, with the consent of the majority of 
 the electors present, adjourn the meeting for not more than seven days. 
 
 (.o) On opening any such meeting the president of the meeting, or a member 
 ■or otlicer of tlie council, shall give such explanation of the IJill with reference 
 to which the meeting is held as he thinks expedient. 
 
 ((j) — ('/) The question of the promotion of the Bill shall be put by the 
 president to the meeting either by a single resolution in favour of the promotion 
 of the whole Bill, or by separate re.solutious in favour of the promotion of any 
 part or parts or clause or clauses of the Bill, but togetiier covering the pro- 
 motion of the whole Bill, and the meeting shall decide for or against any such 
 resolution. 
 
 (6) The president shall explain to the meeting the resolution or re.solutions 
 he proposes to put to the meeting, and the question of the promotion of the Bill 
 shall be put in the manner proposed ; 
 
 Provided that, if, before any such resolution is put, the meeting deciile to 
 request the president to put separately any resolution or resolutions in favour 
 of the promotion of any part or parts or clause or clauses of the Bill not proposed 
 by him to be put separately, he shall put such further or other resolution or 
 resolutions to the meeting as will, consistently with the provisions of this 
 Schedule, give effect to that request. 
 
 (7) Unless a poll is required in manner provided by this Schedule, with 
 respect to any resolution for promotion put to the meeting, the decision of 
 the meeting on that resolution, as declared by the president of the meeting, 
 shall be final. 
 
 (8) A poll may be required with respect to any such resolution by not less 
 than one hundred electors, or one-twentieth in numl)er of the electors, whichever 
 may be the less, and, if the decision of the meeting on the resolution is against 
 the resolution, by the council. 
 
 (9) A re(iuisition for a poll by electors must be in writing signed by the 
 persons making it, and must be delivered to the mayor or chairman within seven 
 days after the date of the meeting, or any adjournment thereof. 
 
 (10) A reiiuisition for a poll by the council must be authorised by a resolution 
 of the council, and a copy of the resolution must be delivered to the mayor or 
 chairman within seven days after the meeting or any adjournment thereof. 
 Provided that, if the regulations governing the meetings of the council do not 
 permit of an ordinary meeting of the council being held within the said seven 
 days, the time for the delivery of a copy of the resolution shall be within three 
 days after the date on which an ordinary meeting of the council can first be held 
 subsequently to the date of the meeting of the electors or any adjournment 
 thereof. 
 
 (11) The mayor or chairman shall proceed to take the opinion by poll of 
 the electors on the resolution to which any requisition relates, unless a poll is 
 rendered unnece.ssary by the withdrawal of the requisition for a poll or by a 
 resolution of the council withdrawing the Bill, or the part or parts or clause 
 or clauses to which the resolution with reference to which the j»oll is retjuired 
 relates. 
 
 (I'J) The polls on any number of resolutions may be taken at the same time 
 and by means of the same voting paper. 
 
 (i;3J The mayor or chairman shall count, or cause to be counted, the votes 
 given at a poll under this Schedule, and shall as soon as practicable declare 
 the result. 
 
 (U) The decision of the mayor or chairman onany <iuestion arising in respect 
 of any voting paper shall lie final. 
 
 (15) Where the mayor or chairman is unable or unwilling to perform any 
 duty or do any act or thing with respect to a poll under this Schedule, the 
 council shall appoint some other person to perform the duty or do such act or 
 thing. 
 
 (16) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule the poll shall be taken in
 
 1070 
 
 [Ceap. 15.] 
 
 Local Government ( Transfer of 
 Powers) Act 1903.' 
 
 \. 
 
 3 Edw, 
 
 •] 
 
 accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Local Government 
 Board, and the Local Government Board may prescribe forms for requisitions, 
 voting papers, notices, and other documents under this Schedule, and those 
 forms, or forms to the like effect, shall be used. 
 
 SECOND SCHEDULE. 
 Enactments Repealed as to England. 
 
 Session and 
 Chapter. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 35 & 36 Vict. 
 c. 91. 
 
 The Borough Funds 
 Act, 1872. 
 
 Extent of Repeal. 
 
 In section four, the words from " Provided 
 further" to the end of the section. 
 
 In section five, the words '• or one of Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, 
 as the case may be," and the words "or 
 Secretary of State." 
 
 In section six, the words " by one of Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretaries of State,, 
 or" and the words "as the case may be." 
 
 In section seven, the words " or one of Her 
 Majesty's principal Secretaries of State." 
 
 In section eleven, the words " or the metro- 
 politan area as defined by the Metropolis 
 Management Act, 1855." 
 
 Construction 
 of 51 & 52 
 Vict. c. 41. 
 s. 10. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 CHAPTER 15. 
 
 An Act to amend Section Ten of the Local Government Act, 1888, 
 
 [llth August 1903. J 
 
 1. — (1) Section ten of the Local Government Act, 1888, in so far as it 
 authorises the transfer to county councils of certain powers, dttties, and 
 liabilities of Government Departments, shall be construed as authorising 
 the transfer by Provisional Order of all or any of those powers, duties, or 
 liabilities to the council of a particular county or county borough, as well 
 as to such councils generally. 
 
 (2) A Provisional Order shall not be made under this section except on 
 the application of the council of a cotinty or county borough. 
 
 (3) Where the Local Government Board propose to make a Provisional 
 Order under this section transferring any power, duty, or liability to the 
 council of a county or county V)orough, the Board shall give notice to all 
 local authorities who, in the opinion of the Board, are likely to be afiected 
 by the transfer, and if, within such time as the Board prescribe, a 
 majority of those authorities notify to the Board that they object to 
 any such proposed transfer, the Order shall not be proceeded with so far 
 as relates to that transfer, but without prejudice to the power of the 
 Board to propose a new Order. 
 
 (4) For the purposes of this Act, the expression " local authorities " 
 means the following local authorities, namely, the council of a borotigh 
 or other urban district, a rural district council, a l)oard of guardians,. 
 a metropolitan borough council, and the Common Cottncil of the City 
 of London. 
 
 2. This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Transfer of Powers) 
 Act, 1903.
 
 [3 Edw. 7.] Housing of the Working Ciaimes Act 1003. [Chai*. 39.] luTl 
 
 CHAPTEK ;VJ. 
 
 An Act to amend tiie Law kelatinc to the Housing of the 
 WoKKiNG Classes. [14/A /liti^««< 1903.] 
 
 General A inendvients o/ Law. 
 
 1. — (1) The maxinium period wliic-h may be sjinctioned a.s the period Maximum 
 for which money iriay be borrowed by a local juitlioritv for the purposes '<-■'''" ^'^^ 
 of the Housing' of the Working Classes Act, iHiM) (in'this Act «-t-'ferred ^'^JP,"^^"^"' 
 to as "the prineijial Act"), or any Acts amending it, .shall be eighty. ", ' 
 years, and as respects numey so borrowed eighty years shall b<' substituted ^" ^q*^ 
 for sixty years in section two hundred and thirty-four of the Public ;/h & 39 Vict. 
 Health Act, 1875. c. 55. 
 
 (2) Money borrowed under the principal Act or any Acts (including 
 this Act) amending it (in this Act collectively referred to as the Housing 
 Acts) shall not be reckoned as part of the debt of the local authority for 
 the purposes of the limitation on borrowing under subsections two and 
 three of section two hundred ami thirty-four of the Public Health 
 Act, 1875. 
 
 2. — (1) His Majesty may by Order in Council a.ssign to the Local Transfer of 
 Government Board any powers and duties of the Secretary of State under f'owers and 
 the Housing Acts, or under any sthomc made in pursuance of those Acts, d"^'t's of 
 and the jjowers of the Secretary of State under any local Act, so far as (^j i>x;al 
 they relate to the housing of the working classes, and any such powers Government 
 and duties so assigned shall become powers and duties of the Lfjcal Hoard. 
 Government Board. [See 53 ct 54 Vict. c. 70, s. 8 and note thereun.] 
 
 (2) Section eleven of the Board of Agriculture Act, 1889, shall apply 52 & 63 Vict. 
 with respect to the powers and duties transferred under this section as *-"• ^^• 
 it applies with respect to the powers and iluties transferred under that 
 Act, with the substitution of tiie Local Government Board for thr Board 
 of Agriculture and of the date of the transfer under this section for the 
 date of the establishment of the Board of Agriculture. 
 
 3. Where under the powers given after the date of the pas-sing of the Re-housin? 
 Act by any local Act or Provisional Order, or Order having the effect obligations 
 of an Act, any land is acquired, whether compulsorily or by agreement, ^''^" * 
 by any authority, company, or person, or where after the tlate of the ^jtatutory 
 passing of this Act any land is so acquired compulsoril}' under any powers, 
 general Act (other than the Housing Acts), the provisions set out iu the 
 Schedule to this Act shall apply with respect to the provision of dwelling 
 accommodation for persons of the working class. 
 
 Amendments as to Schemes. 
 
 4. — (1) If, on the report made to the confirming authority on an IVovisiions 
 
 inquiry directed by them under section ten of the principal Act, that o" failure 
 
 authoritv are satisfied that a sclieme oujilit to have been made for the '^ ,?^^-. » 
 
 " ,1 1 • 1 ,1 ^ • 1 i e authontv to 
 
 improvement 01 the area to which the inquiry relates, or 01 .some part ^^y^^\^Q a ' 
 
 thereof, they may, if they think fit, order the local authority to make scheme. 
 
 such a scheme, either under Part I. of the principal Act, or, if the 
 
 confirming authority so direct, under Part II. of that Act, and to do all 
 
 things necessary under the Housing Acts for carrying into execution 
 
 the scheme so made, and the local authority shall accordingly make 
 
 a scheme or direct a .scheme to lie prepared as if they had pa.s.-sed the 
 
 resolution required under section four or section thirty-nine of the 
 
 principal Act, as the case may be, and do all things necessi\ry under 
 
 the Housing Acts for carrying the scheme into etl'ect. 
 
 Any such order of the confirming authority may be enforced by 
 mandamus. 
 
 (2) Any twelve or more ratepayers of the district shall have the like 
 appeal under section sixteen of the principal Act as is given to the twelve 
 or more ratepayers who have made the complaint to the medical officer 
 of health mentioned in that section.
 
 1072 
 
 [Chap. 39.] Housing of the Woi^king Classes Act 1003. [3 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Amendment 
 of procedure 
 for confirm- 
 ing improve- 
 ment scheme. 
 
 Power to 
 
 modify 
 schemes in 
 certain cases. 
 
 5. — (1) Section seven of the principal Act shall have effect as if the 
 words "in the month of September or October or Xovember " were 
 omitted from paragraph (a), and as if the words " during the thirty days 
 next following the date of the last puVjlication of the advertisement " 
 were substituted for the words " during the month next following the 
 month in which such advertisement is published " in paragraph {h). 
 
 (2) The order of a confirming authority vinder subsection four of section 
 eight of the principal Act shall, notwithstanding anything in that section, 
 take eliect without confirmation by Parliament — 
 
 (a) if land is not proposed to be taken compulsorily ; or 
 (h ) if, although land is proposed to be taken compulsorily, the confirming 
 authoi-ity before making the order are satisfied that notice of 
 the draft order has been served as required as resjDects a Provisional 
 Order by subsection five of the said section eight, and also that 
 the draft order has been published in the London Gazette, and 
 that a petition against the draft order has not been presented 
 to the confirming authority by any owner of land proposed to 
 be taken compulsorily within two months after the date of the 
 publication and the service of notice, or, having been so presented, 
 has been withdrawn. 
 
 (3) For the purposes of the principal Act, the making of an order by 
 a confirming authoiity, which takes efiect under this section without 
 confirmation by Parliament, shall have the same effect as the confirmation 
 of the order by Act of Parliament, and any reference to a Provisional 
 Order, made vnider section eight of the principal Act, shall include a 
 reference to an order which so takes effect ^vithout confirmation by 
 Parliament. 
 
 6. — (1) If an order 
 section thirty-nine of 
 pre.sented, would take 
 
 Amendments 
 as to scheme 
 of recon- 
 struction. 
 
 under subsection four of section eight or under 
 the principal Act, which, if no petition were 
 efiect without confirmation by Parliament, is 
 petitioned against, the confirming authority or the Local Government 
 Board, as the case may be, may, if they think fit, on the application of 
 the local authority, make any modifications in the scheme to which the 
 order relattr'S for the purpose of meeting the oV)jections of the petitioner 
 and withdraw the order sanctioning the original scheme, substituting for 
 it an order sanctioning the modified scheme. 
 
 (2) The same procedure shall be followed as to the publication and 
 giving notices, and the same provisions shall apply as to the presentation 
 of petitions and the effect of the order, in the case of the order sanctioning 
 the modified scheme, as in the case of the order sanctioning the original 
 scheme, but no petition shall be received or have any effect except one 
 which was presented against the original order, oi' one wliich is concerned 
 solely with the modifications made in the scheme as sanctioned by the 
 new order. 
 
 7. Where a scheme for reconstruction under Part II. of the principal 
 Act is made, neighbouring lands may be included in the area comprised 
 in the .scheme if the local authority under whose direction the scheme is 
 made are of opinion that that inclut-ion is neces.^ary for making theii- 
 .sjcheme efficient, but the provision of subsection two of section forty-one, 
 as to the exclusion of any additional allowance in respect of compulsory 
 purcha.se, shall not apply in the case of any land so included. 
 
 Amendment 
 of procedure 
 for closing 
 orders. 
 
 Amendmentfi as to Closing Orders, Demolition, etc. 
 8. — (1) If in the opinion of the local authority any dwelling-house is 
 not reasonably capable of being made fit for human habitation, or is in 
 such a state that the occupation thereof should be immediately discontinued, 
 it shall not be necessary for them before obtaining a closing order, to serve 
 a notice on the owner or occupier of the premises to abate the nuisance, 
 and a justice may issue a summons for a closing order and a closing order 
 may be granted, although such a notice has not been served.
 
 [3 Ei)W. :.] Iloushiff of the Worhinfj Classes Act 10u3. [Chai". 3(».] 1073 
 
 (2) Tlio Local Ciovei-ninont lioard may l>y (nilci- j)n-.<ciil>e f<jiiijs in 
 substitution for those in tlie Fouitii Sfli<'ilul<- to tli*- principal Act, and 
 section thirty-two of tho principal Act shall have effect as if the fortD8 
 so prescribed were referred to therein in lieu of the forms in that Schedule. 
 
 9. Where the amount realised In* the sab- of materials under section Tower to 
 thirty-four of the j'lii'cipal Act is not siillicient to cover the e.\]>enseK '^'^<-'^^'^''' «>f* 
 incident to the taking down and removal of a building, the local autliority '^'*l«^™ohtion. 
 may recover the deticiency from the owner of tho building as a civil debt 
 
 in manner provided by the Sumuiary Jurisdiction Acts, or under the 
 provisions of the Public Health Acts relating to private improvement 
 expenses. [.S'ee the Smmaarrj Jurisdiction Act 1879,^. 35, and the I'ldAic 
 Health Act 1875, ss. 213—215.] 
 
 10. Where default is made as respects any dwelling house in oljeying ' .v ,a 
 a closing order in the manner jirovided by subsection three of section '^ 
 thirty-two of the principal Act, possession of the house may Ije obtjiined ^'^"'" 
 (without prejuchee to tlie enforcement ot any penalty under that provision), ,t.n;,„j., ,„ 
 whatever may be the value or rent of the house, by or on behalf of the piir.-uauce of 
 owner or local authority, either under sections one bundled and thirty- closing 
 eight to one hundred and forty-five of the County Courts Act, 1888, or ^'■''•^"'- ,.. 
 under the Small Tenements Recovery Act, 1838, as in the cases therein ^ 43 " 
 provided for, and in either case may be obtained as if the owner or local 1 a: 2 Vict, 
 authority were the landlord. c. 74. 
 
 Any expenses incurred by a local authority under this section may be 
 recovered from the owner of the dwelling-house as a civil debt in manner 
 provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, [See the Sianniari/ Juris- 
 dictio7i Act 1879, s. 35.] 
 
 Miscelktneous. 
 
 11. — (1) Any power of the local authority under the Housing Act.*i, or Powers in 
 
 under any scheme made in pursuance of any of those Acts, to pro\-ide c<jnnection 
 
 dwelling accommodation or lodifinj^-houses, shall include a nowrr to provide ^\. P'^" 
 . . ^ - vision of 
 
 and maintain, with the consent of the Local Government l!oard, and. if d^veiiini' 
 
 desired, jointly with any other person, in connection with any such dwell- accommoda- 
 
 ing accommodation or lodging-houses, any building adajited for use as a tion or 
 
 shop, any recreation grounds, or other buildings or land which in the J'J*'&'"g- 
 
 opinion of the Local Government Board will serve a beneficial purpose in 
 
 connection with the requirements of the persons for whom the dwelling 
 
 accommodation or lodging-houses are provided, and to raise money for the 
 
 purpose, if necessary, by borrowing 
 
 (2) The Local Government Board may, in giving their consent to the 
 
 provision of any land or building under this section, by order apply, with 
 
 any necessary modilieations, to such land or building any statutory jiro- 
 
 visions which would have been applicable thereto if the land or building 
 
 had been provided under any enactment giving any local authority powers 
 
 for the purpose. 
 
 12. Section seventy-five of the principal Act (which ndatcs to thecoi ' 
 
 condition to be implied on letting houses b)r the working classes) sliall, as in ■ 
 
 respects any contract made after the pas.sing of this Act, take effect not- ['"" '*-•"»"*? 
 •A X T X i i.1 J. 1 J _ * nouses for 
 
 withstanding any agreement to the contrary, and any such agi-eement ^j^^ workinir 
 
 made after the passing of this Act shall be void. classes. 
 
 13. — (1) Any notice required to be served under Part II. of t he sor\ice of 
 principal Act upon an owner shall, iiotwithstanding anything in section notices. 
 forty-nine of that Act, be deemed to be sulViciently serve<l if it is sent by 
 post in a registered letter addressed to the owner or his agent at his \isual 
 or last known residence or place of business. 
 
 (2) Any document referred to in .section eighty-seven of the principal 
 Act shall be deemed to be sulliciently served upon the lo<-al authority if 
 addressed to that authority or their clerk at the otlice of that authority 
 and sent by post in a registered letter. 
 
 69
 
 1074 
 
 [Chap. 39.] Housing of the Working Classes Act 1903. [3 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Agreements 
 between Lon- 
 don County 
 Council and 
 metropolitan 
 borough 
 councils. 
 
 Provisions 
 consequen- 
 tial on 
 extension of 
 period for 
 repayment 
 of loans. 
 32 & 33 Vict. 
 c. 102. 
 
 18 & 19 Vict. 
 c. 120. 
 
 Substitution 
 of Secretary 
 of State for 
 Local 
 
 Government 
 Eoard. 
 
 Special Provisions as to London. 
 
 14. The council of a metropolitan borough may, if they think fit, pay 
 or contribute towards the payment of any expenses of the London County 
 Council under .subsection five of .section forty-six of the principal Act in 
 connection with a scheme of reconstruction, and borrow any money 
 required by them for the purpose under subsection two of the said section ; 
 but an order under subsection six shall not be necessary except in cases of 
 disagreement between the county council and the council of the borough. 
 
 15. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act as 
 to the maximum period for which money may be borrowed, eighty years 
 shall be substituted for sixty years in section twenty-seven of the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works (Loans) Act, 1869, and .such sum as will be 
 sufficient, with compound interest, to repay the money borrowed within 
 such period, not exceeding eighty years, as may be sanctioned by the 
 London County Council, shall be substituted for two pounds per cent, 
 in section one hundred and ninety of the Metropolis Management Act, 
 1855. 
 
 16. The Secretary of State shall be substituted for the Local Govern- 
 ment Board in the application to the administrative county of London of 
 the provisions of the Schedule to this Act and of the provisions of this 
 Act which require the consent of the Local Government Board to the 
 exercise of additional powers given to a local authority by this Act in 
 connection with the pi^ovision of dwelling accommodation or lodging- 
 houses, until the powers and duties of the Secretary of State under 
 those provisions are transferred to the Local Government Board in 
 pursuance of this Act. \_See 53 & 54 Vict. c. 70, s. 8 and note thereon.'] 
 
 Short title 
 and extent. 
 
 Supplemental. 
 
 17. — (1) This Act may be cited as the Housing of the Working 
 Classes Act, 1903, and the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 
 to 1900, and this Act may be cited together as the Housing of the 
 Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1903. 
 
 (2) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or L^eland. 
 
 Sections 3, IC) 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 (1) If in the administrative county of London or in any borough or urban 
 district, or in any parish not within a borough or urban district, the undertakers 
 have power to take under the enabling Act working-men's dwellings occupied 
 by thirty or more persons belonging to the working class, the undertakers shall 
 not enter on any such dwellings in that county, borough, urban district, or 
 parish, until the Local Clovernment Board have either approved of a housing 
 scheme under this Schedule or have decided that such a scheme is not necessary. 
 
 For the purposes of this Schedule a house shall be considered a working- 
 man's dwelling if wholly or partially occupied by a person belonging to the 
 w^orking classes, and for the purpose of determining whether a house is a 
 working-man's dwelling or not, and also for determining the number of persons 
 belonging to the working classes by whom any dwelling-houses are occupied, 
 any occupation on or after the fifteenth day of December next before the 
 passing of the enabling Act, or, in the case of land acquired compulsorily under 
 a general Act without the authority of an order, next before the date of the 
 application to the Local Government Board under this Schedule, for their 
 approval of or decision with respect to a housing scheme, shall be taken into 
 consideration. 
 
 (2) The housing scheme shall make provision for the accommodation of 
 such number of persons of the working class as is, in the opinion of the Local 
 Government Board, taking into account all the circumstances, required, but 
 that number shall not exceed the aggregate number of persons of the working 
 class displaced ; and in calculating that number the Local Government Board 
 shall take into consideration not only the persons of the working class who
 
 [3 Edw. 7.] Housing of the Working Classeis Act 10u3. [Chai'. :J9.] I<t7- 
 
 are occupying the working-men's dwellings which the undertakers have jiower 
 to take. I)ut also any persons of the working class who. in the opinion of the 
 Local (lovernment Board, have been displaced within the previous five yean* 
 in view of the acquisition of land by the undertakers. 
 
 (3) Provision may be made by the housing scheme for giving undertakers 
 who are a local authority, or who have not sufficient powers for the piir).".-.-. 
 power for the purpose of the scheme to appropriate latid or to acrjuire land, 
 either by agreement or compuLsorily under the authority of a I'rovisional (Jrder, 
 and for giving any local authority power to erect dwellings on land so appro- 
 priated or acfiuired by tlicm, and to sell or dispose of any such dwellingf. ami to 
 raise money for the purpose of the scheme as for the purjioses <»f I'art III. 
 of the principal Act, and for regulating the application of any money arising 
 from the sale or disjto.sal of the dwellings : and any jtrovisions so made shall 
 have effect as if they had been enacted in an Act of I'arliauieut. 
 
 (4) The housing scheme shall provide that any lands acquired under that 
 scheme shall, for a period of twenty-live years from the date of the scheme, 
 be appropriated for the ]>urpose of dwellings for persons of the working clus-(, 
 except so far as the Local (Tovernnient Board dis]Hnsf witli that appropriation ; 
 and every conveyance, demise, or lea.se of any such land shall be endorsed with 
 notice of this provision, and the Local Government Board may require the 
 insertion in the scheme of any provisions requiring a certain stamlard r)f 
 dwelling-bouse to be erected under the scheme, or any conditions to be conqilied 
 with as to the mode in which the dwelling-hou.ses are to be erected. 
 
 (5) If the Local (lovernment Tioard do not hold a local inquiry with reference 
 to a housing scheme, they shall, before approving the .scheme, send a copy of 
 the draft scheme to every local authority, and shall consider any representation 
 made within the time fixed by the Board by any such authority. 
 
 (6) The Local Government Board may, as a conditicjn of their approval of 
 a housing scheme, require that the new dwellings under the .scheme, or some 
 part of them, shall be completed and fit for occupation before possession is 
 taken of any working-men's dwellings under the enabling Act. 
 
 (7) Before approving any scheme the Local Governmt-'nt Board may if they 
 think fit require the undertakers to give such security as the Board consider 
 proper for carrying the scheme into effect. 
 
 (S) The Local Government Board may hold such inquiries as they think fit 
 for the purpose of their duties under this Schedule, and subsections one and live 
 of section eighty-seven of the Local Government Act, 1H8H (which relate to 
 local in(juiries), shall apply for the purpose, and where the under tiikers are not 
 a local authority .shall be applicable as if they were such an authority. 
 
 (;•) If the undertakers enter on any working-men's dwelling in contniventioii 
 of the provisions of this Schedule, or of any conditions of approval of the 
 housing scheme made by the Local Government Board, they shall be liable to 
 a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds in respect of every such dwelling : 
 
 Any such penalty shall be recoverable by the Local Government Board 
 by action in the High Court, and shall be carried to and form part of the 
 Consolidated Fund. 
 
 (1(1) If the undertakers fail to carry out any provision of the housing 
 scheme, the Local Government Board may make such order as they think 
 neces.sary or proper for the purpose of comi)elling them to carry out tliat 
 provision, and any such order may be enforced by mandamus. 
 
 (11) The Local Government Board may. on the application of the under- 
 takers, modify any housing scheme which has been approved by them uiuler 
 this Schedule, and any modifications so made shall take etiect as part of the 
 scheme. 
 
 (12) For the purposes of this Schedule — 
 
 («) The expression ''undertakers" moans any authority, company, or person 
 who are acquiring land compuLsorily or by agreement under any 
 local Act or Provisional Order or order having the effect of an Act, 
 or are acquiring land conqudsorily under any general Act : 
 
 (/;) The expression " enabling Act " means any Act of Parliament or Order 
 under which the land is acquired : 
 
 (c) The expression " local authority ' means the council of any administrative 
 
 county and the district council of any county district, or. in London, 
 the council of any metropolitan borough, in which in any c:ise any 
 houses in respect of which the re-housing scheme is made ate situated, 
 or in the case of the city the common council : 
 
 (d) The expression -dwelling " or "house" means any house or part of a 
 
 house occupied as a separate dwelling :
 
 1076 
 
 [Chap, cxcviii.] Thames Conservancy Act 1905. 
 
 [5 Edw. 7.] 
 
 {e) The expression "working class" includes mechanics, artisans, labourers, 
 and others working for wages ; hawkers, costermongers, persons not 
 working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without 
 employing others, except members of their own family, and persons 
 other than domestic servants whose income in any case does not 
 exceed an average of thirty shillings a week, and the families of any 
 of such persons who may be residing with them. 
 
 5 EDWARD VII. A.D. 1905. 
 
 Consolida- 
 tion of loans 
 to London 
 School 
 Board trans- 
 ferred to 
 London 
 County 
 Council. 
 3 Edw. 7. 
 c. 24. 
 
 Short title. 
 
 CHAPTER 22. 
 
 Ax Act to grant Moxey for the Purpose of certain Local Loans 
 OUT OF THE Local Loans Fund, and for other Purposes relating 
 TO Local Loans. \\\tli Aayust 1905.] 
 
 1 — 2. \A}ypointinent of Public Works Loan Commissioners for five 
 years from \st Aj^ril 1906, and grants for j^vMlo icwks.^ 
 
 3. Whereas by the Education (London) Act, 1903, there has been 
 transferred to the London County Council the lialjility for the repayment 
 to the Public Works Loan Commissioner? of all loans advanced by the 
 Commis.sioners for the repayment whereof the London School Board were 
 prior to the transfer liable : 
 
 And whereas a large proportion of those loans bear interest at the rate 
 of three pounds ten shillings per cent, per annum, and are by the terms of 
 the borrowing repayable by equal yearly or half-yearly instalments of 
 principal or of principal and interest combined within periods which will 
 expire at various dates in or between the years nineteen hundred and 
 eight and nineteen hundred and twenty-nine : 
 
 And whereas the Commissioners and the London County Council desire 
 to enter into such an agreement with resjject to the repayment of the said 
 loans as is herein-after mentioned, and it is expedient that they should be 
 authorised to do so : 
 
 Therefoi'e it shall be lawful for the Commissioners and the London 
 County Council to enter into an agreement whereby the outstanding 
 balances of such of the said loans as bear interest at three pounds ten 
 shillings per cent, per annum shall be made repayable with interest at the 
 rate aforesaid by equal yearly or half-yearly instalments within a period 
 expiring on the thirty-first day of jNIarch nineteen hundred and twenty- 
 six, and such an agreement shall have effect accordingly, notwithstanding 
 anything contained in any Act, order, or sanction relating to the lending 
 or borrowing of such loans, or any of them. 
 
 4. \^As to loans in Ireland and Scotland referred to in tlie SchedMle.\ 
 6. This Act may be cited as the Public Works Loans Act, 1905. 
 
 Schedule. [.Is to certain loans in Ireland and. Scotland.^ 
 
 I 
 
 CHAPTER CXCVIII. 
 
 An Act to confer further Money and other Powers on the Con- 
 servators OF the River Thames for the Deepening Widening 
 AND Improvement of its Bed and Channel between the Kore and 
 Gravesend and for other Purposes. [llth August 1905.] 
 
 [Preamble states (inter alia) thai the Conservators of the River 
 Thames {hereinafter referred to as ''■the Conservators'') have under the 
 Thames Conservancy Act 1894 {hereinafter referred to as "■ tlie Act of 
 1894") large poivers of deepenijig, widening, and imjiroving the bed. and
 
 [5 Edw. 7.] Thames Comermncy Act 1900. [Chap, cxcviii.] 1077 
 
 channel of the River Thumes : and that it tvould be of puhlic and local 
 advantaija if the bed and channi'l of the river ivere dee/tened mid u'idened 
 as provided by this Act between the Sore and (,'rave>iend, but that the prebent 
 resources of the Conservator's are inadequate for that j/nrpose.] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the Thames Conservancy Act lOUii. Short title. 
 
 2. Terms and expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Act Interpreta- 
 
 of 1894 have in this Act (ludess the context otherwise rt'ijiiiies) the same *'*^"- 
 respective meanings. 
 
 Deep wATKtt Channel. 
 
 3. Jt shall l,e the <luty of the Conservators t<j prirteed as Mjon as I'rovisijn f«jr 
 practicable to exercise and put in force their powers of dredging deepening '"'pr'-'ving 
 widening and improving the lied and channel of the Ki\er Thames a"<l l^fween the 
 the other powers conferred on them by sections 83 to 86 of the Act of Xore and 
 1894: so as to form a channel between the Nori' and Orave.send not less Gra\e.send. 
 than thiity feet deep at low water of ordinary spring tidts and not 
 
 less than one thousand feet wide throughout. 
 
 4. The Conservators shall make comjiensation to all persons whose Saving in 
 lands l)uildings river walls banks wharves piers or other works are ^"■■*® °^ 
 damaged liy or in consequence of any operations of the Con>ervators in * '""^^'^, 
 connection with dredging or otherwise deepening widening or improving druduiDt; 
 the bed and channels of the river between the Nore and Grave.send. 
 
 Any dispute oi- ditt'erence arising undtr this section shall be settled by 
 arbitration under the Arbitration Act 1889. 
 
 For the purposes of this section the term "persons" shall include the 
 Crown. 
 
 5. [Provision for the protection of the Commissioiiei's of Sev:ei's u- 1 thin 
 the limits extending/ from Gravesend liridge to >'>heerness. | 
 
 6. [Provisions for the j)'>'ot€ction of the Commissioners of .Sewers for 
 Ilaverivg and other levels and the Commissioners of ,'<eirers for Painham 
 
 -and other levels.] 
 
 Additional Revenue Powers. 
 
 7. Section 155 (Duties of tonnage in pert of London) of the Act of Teni|)orary 
 1894 shall be amended as follows (tiiat is to say) :— increase of 
 
 For a period of three years from the lir.st day of January 190G the ^j^'^j^'^j^^ 
 Conservators may demand and receive one penny instead of one 
 halfpenny per ton in respect of every such vessel as is mentioned 
 in paragraph (1) of section 155 of the Act of 1894 and may demand 
 and receive one penny and one halfpenny inste'ad of three fai things 
 per ton in respect of every such ve.ssel as is mentioned in paragraph 
 (2) of the same .section : 
 
 Provided that nothing in this Act shall empower the Con- 
 servators to increase the existing dues on vessels under one 
 hundred tons register which do not puss seawards of an imaginary 
 straight line drawn fiom the pilot mark at the entrance of 
 Havengore Creek in the lounty of Essex to the l.-ind's end at 
 Warden Point in the isle of Sheppey in the county of Kent. 
 
 Additional Borkowing Powers. 
 
 8. [Power to the Conservators for the purpose of this Act to borrow on 
 mort(jaije of the Lower Saviyation Ftnid not t.rceedimj i.'2UU,000.] 
 
 9. [Manei/s borrowed for the costs, charges, and e.rpenses of this Act to be 
 repaid within fve years from the parsing thereof] a7Hl all otJter moneys 
 borrowed binder this Act to be rej-aid within not ej-ceeding 50 years from 
 the date of borroicing — Application to repayment of tJie provisions and 
 methods prescribed by the Act of 1894: for the repayment of borrowed moneys.]
 
 1078 
 
 Cliarge of 
 debenture 
 stock. 
 
 [Chap. 33.] 
 
 Qualification of Women {Counfj/ and 
 Borough Councils) Act 1907. 
 
 [7 Edw. 7.] 
 
 10. l^Power to the Conservators for the imrpose of raising any moneys 
 ivhich they are authorised to horrov; 'tinder this Act to issue Thames Cen- 
 ser vane y redeemable "^4" debenture stock hearing interest at not exceeding 
 4 per cent, and redeemable after the expiration of one aiul the same period 
 not exceeding 60 years from the first creation thereof. '\ 
 
 11. All debenture stock created and issued under the authority of this 
 Act together with the interest thereon shall be by virtue of this Act 
 charged on the Lower iSTuvigation Fund and shall rank pari jjassu with 
 all Thames Conservancy redeemable "A" debenture stock authorised by 
 the Act of 1894 wdiich may be created and issued after the passing of 
 this Act. 
 
 12. [Apjjh/ijig ss. 255—257 and ss. 262—284 of the Act of 1894 with 
 necessary adaptations to moneys horroived and stock created^ under this Act.^ 
 
 13. [Poicer to mortgagees under this Act to enforce p)ayment by the 
 appointment of a receiver., provided that at least ,£10,000 is due to the 
 mortgagees app)lying for a receiver. '\ 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 For protec- 14. All works of dredging and deepening carried out under this Act or 
 
 tion of Com- under the Act of 1894 which are within fifty yards of any land tenement 
 
 missioners of or hereditament of whatsoever nature belonging to the King's most- 
 
 Woiks. Excellent Majesty in right of His Crown and vnider the management or 
 
 control or direction of the Commissioners of Works or vested for any estate 
 
 or interest in or in the occupation of the said Commissioners vinder or by 
 
 virtue of the provisions of any Act of Parliament or otherwise shall be 
 
 executed under the supervision of and in accordance with plans approved 
 
 by an engineer to be appointed by the said Commissioners who may 
 
 determine the maximum depth below Trinity high-water mark to which 
 
 any such woi'ks may be carried. 
 
 Costs of Act. 15. \_As to the expenses of this Act.] 
 
 7 EDWARD VII. A.D. 1907. 
 
 Provision as 
 to capacity 
 of women to 
 be county 
 or borough 
 councillors 
 or aldermen. 
 
 62 & 63 Vict, 
 c. 14. 
 
 Short title 
 and extent. 
 
 CHAPTER 33. 
 An Act to amend the Law relating to the Capacity of Women to 
 
 BE elected and ACT AS MEMBERS OF CoUNTY OR BOROUGH COUNCILS. 
 
 [28^A Augzcst 1907.] 
 
 1. — (1) A woman shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage for being 
 elected or being a councillor or alderman of the council of any county or 
 borough (including a metropolitan borough) : 
 
 Provided that a woman if elected as chairman of a county council 
 or mayor of a borough shall not by virtue of holding or having held that 
 office be a Justice of the Peace. 
 
 (2) The words " provided that no woman shall be eligible for any such 
 office" in subsection (1) of section two of the London Government Act, 
 1899, are hereby repealed. 
 
 2._(1) This Act may be cited as the Qualification of Women (County 
 and Borough Councils) Act, 1907. 
 
 (2) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.
 
 [7 Edw. 7.] ^'l^c^iion {Admi.astratixe Proasions) r^.^^^^, ^.^ -, j^- .^ 
 
 CHAPTER 43. 
 
 An Act to make Provision for the utrrxER Admixistuaiiox bv the 
 Central and Local Ai thoiutik.s in Exulanu and Wales ok the 
 Enactments relating T(j Eolcatiox. [2ti//t Auyujit I'JUT.] 
 
 1. — (1) A local <MliK'ation autlioiity hliall havo tho saiiiP power, I'l. 
 exerciseahle in thf sanio uiaimer, and .suhject to the same prov i>ioii.'>, for "'• 
 the purchase of land either compulsorily or by a;j:reement for the puriMjses ^['jt'"^," 
 of Part II. of the Education Act, 1 'J02, a.s they have under the Education " °' ' 
 Acts for the purposes of Part III. of that Act, but the powers given liy - K<lw. 7. 
 this section shall be in addition to ami not in deroj,'ation of any otlier ^'- ■*-• 
 powei's for tl;e purj)ose j)Osse.ssed by the authoritv. 
 
 (2) A local education authority may — 
 
 (i) appropriate, with the con.sent of the Board of Education, for 
 the purpose of Part II. of the Education Act, 1902, any land 
 acquired by tiiem for the purpo.ses of Part III. of the Educa- 
 tion Act, rji)2, or taken over by them under that Act a■^ 
 successoi-s of a school lx)ard ; and 
 
 (ii) appropriate, Avith the consent of the Board of Education, for 
 the purposes of Part III. of the Education Act, 1'J(I2, any 
 land accpiired by them for the purpose of Part II. of the 
 Education Act, 1902, either under that Act, or for .similar 
 pui ]ioses under any Act repealed by that Act ; antl 
 
 (iii) appiopriate, with the consent of and after inquiry by the Local 
 Government Board, for any of the purpases of the Education 
 Acts, any land acquired by them otherwise than in tin ir 
 capacity as local education authority : 
 
 (3) [Provisions as to noii-cowdij borotiyhs and urban districts not appli>'- 
 able to London.^ 
 
 (4) Tlie appropriation of land by a local education authority or a 
 council under this section shall be subject in any cast- to any special 
 covenants or agreements affecting the use of the land in their haiuls. 
 
 (5) Where the capital expenditure in connection with any land appro- 
 priated under this section or any loan for the purpose of repaying that 
 expenditure or any part of that expenditure or loan has been, or is chargeil 
 on, or raised within, any special part of the area of the local education 
 authority or council, and the Board of Education or, in the case of land 
 appropriated under this .section and not actpiired for any of the purpt;."^e.N 
 of the Education Acts, the Local Government Board are of opinion that 
 the use of the land for the purposes for which it is appropriated will alter 
 the area benetited by the expenditui-e, the Board of Education, or the 
 Local Government Board, as the case requires, shall ortler such equitable 
 adjustment in respect thereof to be made as they think right under the 
 circumstances, and the local education authority or council shall comply 
 with any order so made. 
 
 (6) A council shall have power, with the consent of and after intpjiry 
 by the Board of Education, to alienate any l.md ac<piired or held by them 
 for the purposes of etlucation other than elementary umler Part II. of the 
 Education Act, 1902, and, in the ease of the sale of any such land, 
 
 the proceeds of sale shall be applied in such maimer as the Ix>cal (Jovern- substitution, 
 ment Board .sanction, towards the discharge of any loan of the council in cvrtaiu 
 under the Education Acts, or otherwi.se for any purpose for which capital I'ases, of 
 may be applied by the council under those Acts. IJonni nf 
 
 2. The consent of the Board of Education shall be substituted for the |"- 
 consent of the Secretary of State for the Home Department in ^"'^"^^'^ o( liomv 
 where the consent of the .said Secietary of State is re«piired untler .^Ktion secretary, 
 fourteen of the School Sites Act, 1841, and section one of the School 4 4: 5 Vict. 
 Grants Act, 1855 (which relate to si\les, exchange, or mortgages of school ^,^"^jo 
 premises). Vic,. J. 131.
 
 1080 
 
 Extension of 
 period for 
 repayment 
 of money 
 borrowed 
 by county 
 council. 
 
 51 & 52 Vict. 
 c. 41. 
 
 Power of 
 county 
 council to 
 contribute 
 towards 
 capital 
 expenditure 
 incurred by 
 non-county 
 boroughs or 
 urban dis- 
 tricts within 
 their county 
 for the pur- 
 poses of 
 higher edu- 
 cation. 
 
 Decision of 
 questions as 
 to capital 
 expenditure. 
 
 Audit of 
 accounts of 
 joint educa- 
 tional bodies. 
 
 33 k 34 Vict. 
 c. 75. 
 
 [Chap. 43.] 
 
 Education {Administratim Provisions) 
 Act 1907. 
 
 [7 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Power to 
 provide for 
 apportion- 
 ment of ex- 
 penses in a 
 scheme con- 
 stituting a 
 joint educa- 
 tion com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Borrowing 
 from Public 
 Works 
 Loan Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Amendment 
 of s. 7 of 
 56 & 57 Vict. 
 C.42. 
 
 3. In the application of section sixty-nine of the Local Government 
 Act, 1888, to money borrowed after the passing of this Act under the 
 Education Acts by the council of a county, a period not exceeding sixty 
 years shall be substituted for a period not exceeding thirty years as the 
 maximum period within which borrowed money is to be i-epaid, and any 
 money reborrowed for the pui-pose of discharging a loan raised for the 
 purposes of the Education Acts may, if the Local Government Board 
 approve, and subject to such conditions as they impose, be repaid within 
 such period, not exceeding sixty years from the date of the original loan, 
 as the Local Government Board fix. 
 
 4. — (1) In the exercise of their powers and duties under section two of 
 the Education Act, 1902, a county council shall have power and at all 
 times since the commencement of that Act shall be deemed to have 
 had power to agree with the council of any non-county borough or urban 
 district within their area for the payment to that last-mentioned council 
 of a contribution towards the capital expenditure incurred by them in 
 respect of education other than elementary to such an amount and 
 in such instalments and for such period and subject to such conditions as 
 may be specified in the agreement. 
 
 (2) Where any such agreement is made the contribution agreed to be 
 paid by the county council shall, for the purposes of section nineteen 
 of the Education Act, 1902, form part of the .security on which money 
 may be borrowed by the council of the non-county borough or urban 
 district under that section. 
 
 5. If the Local Government Board by order declare that expenses- 
 incurred for particular purposes specified in the order may or may not be 
 properly treated under section eighteen of the Education Act, 1902, as 
 expenses ineuri^ed in respect of capital expenditure, no question shall 
 be raised on audit as to the treatment of expenses incurred for those 
 particular purposes if they are treated in accordance with the order. 
 
 6. Where any receipts or payments of money under the Education Acts 
 are entrusted to any joint education committee established under section 
 seventeen of the Education Act, 1902, or to any joint body established 
 under section fifty-two of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, or otherwise 
 established b}^ two or more local authorities, the accounts of those receipts 
 and payments shall, unless in any case the Local Government Board direct 
 to the contrary, or any provisions to the contrary which have been 
 approved by the Local Government Board are contained in the scheme or 
 instrument establishing the committee or body, be audited as if the joint 
 committee or body were a separate local education authority, and the enact- 
 ments relating to the audit of the accounts of local education authorities 
 (including the penal provisions of those enactments) shall apply accordingly. 
 
 7. A scheme providing for the constitution of a joint education com- 
 mittee under .subsection (5) of section seventeen of the Education Act, 
 1902, may make provision for the proportions in which any expenditure 
 on matters referred or delegated to that committee is to be borne as 
 between the councils of the counties, boroughs, or urban districts, or parts 
 thereof forming the area for which the joint committee is constituted. 
 
 8. The Public Works Loan Commissioners may lend to a local education 
 authority any money which that authority are authorised to borrow for 
 the purposes of Part II. of the Education Act, 1902. 
 
 9. The condition that the annual expenses of the maintenance of a 
 .school not managed by a school authority are, to the extent of not less 
 than one third, to be defrayed out of sources other tlian local rates 
 or moneys provided by Parliament, shall cease to be a condition required 
 for the grant of a certificate under section seven of the Elementary Edu- 
 cation (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893, to such a school as a school 
 suitable for providing elementary education for blind or deaf children.
 
 L' J^^lJW. '•) Ir/ 101)7. [(HAl-. 43.] 
 
 1081 
 
 10. It Hiiy quostiou iui.su.s whothor Jiny purpose fur which a eouiiril Decision of 
 wish to exercise iiny powers under the Kihication Acts is h purpose of ' •''^^'" '*^"- 
 Part II. of tlio Education Act, 1902, or of I'art III. ..f that Act, that ^ , ,^ 
 question shall he referred to and deterniin<(l hy the Board of Jxlucation, jtoanl of '^ 
 and their decision shall h»; conclusive on the matter. Kducation. 
 
 11. The powers and duties of a local education authority under Tart 1 i 1. I'ruvinionH 
 of the Education Act, 1902, shall include a jtower to aid by Kcli<jlai-ships ^^>t*"'«^*I*ct. 
 or bursaries the instruction in public elementary schools of scholai-s from ^'^ J"^^^^'"- 
 the age of twelve up to the limit of a;,'e fix.-d for the provision of larien. cw! 
 instruction in a public elementary school by sub.section two of section 
 twenty-two of that Act. 
 
 12. It is hereby declared that any ]iowor of a council under the llj^'lior r-.lu. 
 I'Alucation Act, 1902, to .supply or aid the supply of educatior' r»th<-r than '■;*''•"> i-jwh-r 
 elementary is not conlined to the education of [lersons resident in their ""' c""lni<-'*l 
 urea and the words " ordinarily resident in the area of the council," r'esidcntTn 
 in subsection (2) of section twenty-three of the Education Act, 1902, area. 
 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
 13. — (1) The powers and duties of a local education authority under I'roxisiunn 
 Part III. of the Education Act, 1902, shall include— a-^ to vacation 
 
 la) power to ])rovide, for children attondin'? a public elementary school, T i!"*!'"' r 
 
 vacation schools, vacation classes, play-centres, or other means scliool chil- 
 of recreation during their holidays or at such other times jvs dren, etc. in 
 the local education authority may prescribe, in the .school- ck-meiitary 
 house or in .some other suitable place in the vicinity, so far as the ''^"'^^'•■'• 
 local education authority, in the case of a schoolhouse or place 
 not belonging to them, can obtain for the purpose the use of the 
 schoolhouse or ))laoe ; and 
 (J>) the duty to provide for tlu' medical inspection of children immediately 
 before or at the time of or as soon as possible after their admLstdou 
 to a public elementary school, and on such other occasions as the 
 Board of Education direct, and the power to make such arrange- 
 ments as may be sanctioned by the Board of Education for 
 attending to the health and physical condition of the children 
 educated in public elementary .schools : 
 Provided that in any exercise of powers under this section, the local 
 education authority may encourage and assist the astablishment or 
 continuance of voluntary agencies, and associate with itself representatives 
 of voluntary associations for the puriK)se. 
 
 (2) This .section .shall come into operation on the first day of January 
 nineteen hundred and eight. 
 
 14. — (1) When a local education authority provide suitable mean.i ' 
 
 of conveyance for a chihl between a rea.sonable distance of its home and ' "^' 
 
 ,,.'', ,,.11, , 11 f 1 "*^' excUM; 
 
 a public elementary school, it .shall not be a reasonable excuse tor the f,,^ ^y,,. 
 
 purpo.ses of section seventy-four of the Elementary Education Act, If^Td, attendance 
 or section eli'ven of the Elementary Education Act, 1S7(>. or a grt->und when i-oii- 
 of exemption for the purposes of section nine of the latter Act, that th.-j-e ^^^"•^""I'i^y* 
 is no public elementary .school open which such child can attend within the 1.,, i^ ^^, yj^.^ 
 distance of its residence pre.scril)ed by those sections or by any byelaw made e. 7H. 
 under .section .seventy four of the Elementary Kducation Act, 1870. 
 
 I!eturn> by 
 
 [Part omitted not applicable to Loudon.] havinir 
 
 16. Every council having powers umler I'art 11. of the t^tlucation Act, jowcrs under 
 
 19(12, shall give to the Board of Kducation such information with respect I'art II. of 
 
 to the exercise of tho.se powers as the Board may from time to time retjuire. j!""/^!""'* 
 16. — (1) Any obligation to frame, form, or keep a register of teachers 1'mv2. 
 
 under paragraph (a) of section four of the Board of Kducation Act, 1S99, i{(.jristcr of 
 
 shall cease: Provided that it shall be lawful for His Majesty by Order ,,.a,her>. 
 
 in Council to constitute a registration coiuicil repre.si'utative of the ti-siching 62 k f..'. Vict. 
 
 profession, to whom ehall be assigned the duty of forming and keeping <^- •*•'• 
 
 70
 
 1082 [Chai-. 43.] 
 
 Edacation (^Administratice Provisions) 
 ActlOOi: 
 
 [7 Ed\v. :.] 
 
 Repeal, short 
 title, and 
 constiiiction. 
 
 a register of such teachers as satisfy the conditions of registration estab- 
 hshed by the Council for the time being, and who apply to be registered. 
 
 (2) The register shall contain the names and addresses of all registered 
 teachers in alphabetical order in one column, together with the date 
 of their registration, and such further statement as regards their 
 attainments, training, and experience as the council may from time 
 to time determine that it is desix-able to set forth. 
 
 (3)' Any Order in Council under this section may be revoked, altered, 
 or added to by any subsequent Order. 
 
 (4) Such provision shall be made by Order in Council under this section 
 as may appear nece.ssary or expedient for transferring any funds or 
 property held by the existing Teachers' Registration Council to tbe Regis- 
 tration Council to be constituted under this section and for winding up 
 the business of the existing council and thereafter dissolving the council. 
 
 (5) The existing Teachers' Registration Council means the Teacher.s' 
 Registration Council established by Order in Council made under paragraph 
 (a) of section four of the Board of Education Act, 1899. 
 
 17. — (1) The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are 
 hereb}- repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that 
 Schedule. 
 
 (2) This Act may be cited as the Education (Administrative Provi-sions) 
 Act, 1907, and shall be construed as one with the Education Acts, 1870 
 to 190o, and those Acts and this Act are in this Act referred to as the 
 Education Acts, and may be cited as the Education Acts, 1870 to 1907. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Enactments RErEAj.iou. 
 
 Session and 
 Chapter. 
 
 JSiiort Title. 
 
 Extent of Kepeal. 
 
 5<) k. 57 Vict. 
 
 The Elementary 
 
 The words " to the extent of not le.«s than one 
 
 C.42. 
 
 Edn cation 
 
 third defrayed out of sources other than local 
 
 
 (Blind and 
 
 rates or moneys provided by Parliament and 
 
 
 Deaf Children) 
 
 are." in paragraph {b) of subsection (1) of section 
 
 
 Act, isy3. 
 
 seven. 
 
 62 & «3 Vict. 
 
 The Board of 
 
 Paragraph («) of section four. 
 
 c. 33. 
 
 Education Act. 
 1899. 
 
 
 63 & 64 Vict. 
 
 The Elementary 
 
 Section live. 
 
 c. 53. 
 
 Education Act, 
 1900. 
 
 
 2 Edw. 7. 
 
 The Education 
 
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 c. 42. 
 
 Act, 1902. 
 
 council," in subsection t\vo of section twentv- 
 three. 
 
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