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Part I.

THE CONSTITUTION, PROCEEDINGS, AND WORK OF THE LONDON COUNCIL.

CHAPTER I.

THE LONDON COUNCIL.

General Scheme of Act.

THE Local Government Act, 1888, is a measure intended to The Local adapt to English counties the form of municipal government Government which has proved so singularly successful in English boroughs. Act. It establishes for each county a governing council, analogous in all important respects to the corporation of a borough. The functions of all county councils other than the London Council will be for the present much narrower in their scope than the functions of an ordinary municipal corporation, but the transfer of the powers, duties and liabilities of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the London Council will at once endow that body with extensive jurisdiction.

The creation of London into a separate county was the neces- A separate sary result of the proposed measure of county reform. London county. was situated in parts of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey and Kent, and it would have been impracticable to apply to those counties with their former boundaries the provisions of an ordinary measure of county government reform.

Nearly every London Reform Bill introduced into the House of Commons during the last twenty years proposed to constitute the metropolis into a separate county. This proposal has now been carried into effect so far as administrative purposes are concerned.

No effort is made in the present Act to deal with the general Interior reform of metropolitan government. The proposed changes are London closely confined to such as are incident to the constitution of an reform. effective central municipal authority for London.

The city of London takes its place as an electoral division, Effect on and is not seriously affected by the Act. The appointment of the city of

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London.