Sect. 20 (1). To deal with Penge. Sect. 21.-May detach Kensington Palace from the borough of Westminster and attach it to the borough of Kensington. Sect. 27 (1). To give each metropolitan borough an appropriate name, to make provision for the first meetings of the borough councils, and to fix the days, years and times for the retirement of the first aldermen and councillors. Sect. 27 (2). For adapting the law regulating the registration of electors with respect to the powers and duties of the town clerk and overseers, and in particular for applying the law relating thereto outside London, to municipal boroughs in London. Sect. 27 (3). For accelerating the preparation of the register of electors for the purpose of the first borough elections on the 1st Nov. 1900 (see sect. 3 (4)). Sect. 33 (2). For adapting, if necessary, the transitory provisions contained in sects. 85 to 88 of L. G. A., 1894. Schemes under the Act.-A note of the purposes for which schemes are to be prepared will be found under sect. 16 (1) (a), p. 134, post. Lord President of the Council.-The Lord President himself, under— Sect. 3 (1)—May, if found necessary, fix some date as soon as prac ticable after the 1st Nov., 1900, for the first elections, and a corresponding date for the first elections of mayor and aldermen. Sect. 33 (1) May appoint some other day, not being more than six months earlier or later than the "appointed day” indicated in that section, for any purpose or provision of the Act. Provisional Orders of Local Government Board.-Provisional Orders may be made under sect. 5 (3) and (4) for the transfer of powers. Local Government Board Orders.-The L. G. B. may make orders as follows: Sect. 2 (8).—For the triennial retirement of borough councillors. Sect. 26 (1).-For the alteration of wards. Committee of Council.-Her Majesty has appointed the Lord President of the Council, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the President of the Local Government Board, the Right Honourable Lord James of Hereford, the Right Honourable Charles Thomson Ritchie, M.P., the Right Honourable John Lloyd Wharton, M.P., and the Right Honourable Edmond Robert Wodehouse, M.P., or any three of them, to be a Committee of the Privy Council for the purposes of the Lon. G. A., 1899. Appointment of Commissioners.-The Committee of the Privy Council have appointed Sir Hugh Owen, G.C.B., Sir Samuel Johnson, and A. T. Lawrence, Esq., Q.C., to be Commissioners for the purposes of the Act, and have also appointed Claud Schuster, Esq., barrister-atlaw, and Charles Dalrymple Hay, Esq., of the Privy Council Office, to be secretary and assistant-secretary respectively to the Commissioners. 15-(2.) Before any Order in Council forming an area into a borough is made under this Act, the draft thereof shall be laid before each House of Parliament for a period of not less than thirty days during the session of Parliament, and if either of those Houses before the expiration of those thirty days presents an address to Her Majesty against the draft or any part thereof, no further proceedings shall be taken thereon, without prejudice to the making of any new draft Order. 15—(3.) The Commissioners shall for the execution of their duties under this Act have the like powers as inspectors of the Local Government Board. Powers of Inspectors of L. G. B.-As to the powers of the inspectors of the L. G. B., see Poor Law Board Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 109), ss. 19 to 22. They may summon witnesses for the purpose of being examined before them; call for books and documents not relating to or involving any question of title to any lands not being the property of any parish or union; and may administer oaths or may require the party examined to make and subscribe a declaration of the truth of the matter respecting which the witness is examined; but“ no person shall be required in obedience to any such summons to go or travel more than ten miles from his place of abode": sect. 21. See also sects. 11 and 26; also 4 & 5 Will. IV. c. 76, s. 12. See sect. 296, P. H. A., 1875, p. 182, post. 15—(4.) Any expenses incurred by the Committee under this Act shall, to the amount certified by the Treasury, be paid by the London County Council out of the county fund. Section 16. PROVISIONS TO BE MADE BY SCHEME. 16. Provisions to be made by scheme.]—(1.) A scheme under this Act may make provision (a) for any matters which under this Act are to be regulated by scheme; and Schemes under the Act.-In addition to the purposes for which schemes are to be made under this section, are to be added :— Sect. 4 (2).—For abolishing existing boards of commissioners of baths and libraries, and burial boards, and transferring their powers, &c., to the borough councils. Sect. 4 (3). In reference to any power or duty arising from any general or local Act, conferring powers in relation to some particular parish or district or part of a parish or district, a scheme may make provision for any such power or duty being performed either throughout or in a limited part or ceasing to be performed. Sect. 10. For the discontinuance of certain separate rates for separate purposes, and for all the expenses of a borough council being paid out of one consolidated rate, to be called the "general rate," but with savings in respect of hereditaments wholly or partially exempt from any rate. Sect. 19. For bringing Woolwich under the general law applying to metropolitan boroughs. Sect. 20 (2). For making the necessary adjustments, &c., consequential upon the severance of Penge from the metropolis, should that course be determined upon under sect. 20 (1). Sect. 23 (1), (2).-For vesting the powers, &c., of vestries in relation to affairs of the church, &c., in the inhabitants, and church property in the incumbent or churchwardens; and providing also for the collection of rectors' and church rates where there are such; and in reference to public buildings erected in churchyards. Sect. 23 (4).—For substituting nominees of the borough council for overseers as trustees of any charity. Sect. 30 (4).—For carrying sect. 30, which relates to existing officers, into effect: p. 194. Preparation of Schemes.-As to who are to prepare the schemes, see sect. 15 (1), p. 131. 16 (1)(b) for any of the purposes, except police, for which a scheme may be made under Part Eleven of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, so far as those purposes are consistent with this Act; and The purposes for which a scheme may be made under Part XI. of the M. C. A., 1882, are set out, p. 142 et seq., post. 16 (1)—(c) for anything which may be done with respect to a parish by an order under section fifty-seven of the Local Government Act, 1888, or may be done under section 33 of the Local Government Act, 1894, so, however, that parishes in different unions shall not be united except with the approval of the Local Government Board; and Local Government Act, 1888.-The incorporated section is as follows (for "county council" read "the committee of council"): 57.—(1.) Whenever a county council is satisfied that a prima facie case is made out as respects any county district not a borough, or as respects any parish, for a proposal for all or any of the following things; that is to say— (a) the alteration or definition of the boundary thereof; (b) the division thereof or the union thereof with any other such district or districts, parish or parishes, or the transfer of part of a parish to another parish; (c) the conversion of any such district or part thereof, if it is a rural district, into an urban district, and if it is an urban district, into a rural district, or the transfer of the whole or any part of any such district from one district to another, and the formation of new urban or rural districts; (d) the division of an urban district into wards; and (e) the alteration of the number of wards, or of the boundaries of (Local Government Act, 1888.) any ward, or of the number of members of any district council, or of the apportionment of such members among the wards, the county council may cause such inquiry to be made in the locality, and such notice to be given, both in the locality, and to the Local Government Board, Education Department, or other Government department as may be prescribed, and such other inquiry and notices (if any) as they think fit, and if satisfied that such proposal is desirable, may make an order for the same accordingly. (2.) Notice of the provisions of the order shall be given, and copies thereof shall be supplied in the prescribed manner (a), and otherwise as the county council think fit, and if it relates to the division of a district into wards, or the alteration of the number of wards or of the boundaries of a ward, or of the number of the members of a district council, or of the apportionment of the members among the wards, shall come into operation upon being finally approved by the county council. (3.) In any other case the order shall be submitted to the Local Government Board; and if within three months (b) after such notice of the provisions of the order as the Local Government Board determine to be the first notice, the council of any district affected by the order, or any number of county electors registered in that district or in any ward of that district, not being less than one-sixth of the total number of electors in that district or ward, or if the order relates only to a parish, any number of county electors registered in that parish not being less than one-sixth 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 inquiry, and determine whether the order is to be confirmed or not. (4.) If any such petition is not presented, or being presented is withdrawn, the Local Government Board shall confirm the order (c). (5.) The Local Government Board, on confirming an order, may make such modifications therein as they consider necessary for carrying into effect the objects of the order. (6.) 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 Parliament (d). (a) See the prescribed regulations, dated Report of L. G. B., 1889-1890. (b) Six weeks: L. G. A., 1894, s. 41. 14th September, 1889, in 19th Annual |