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the companies enumerated in the twenty-ninth section of the Act of the session of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Queen Victoria, chapter eightyfour, for the making better provision respecting 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 such 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 officer called or to be called "secretary;" the word "surveyor" shall include any officer called or to be called "engineer;" the word "print" shall apply to and include every mode of taking impressions, whether by letter press, stereotype, lithography, or otherwise.

CXIII. Whereas an Act was passed in the session of Finsbury parliament holden in the twentieth and twenty-first

Park Act,

probably have been maintainable by vestries and district boards out of the public rates. The new definition declares them to be drains, and, as a consequence, subjects them to the incidents applicable to private works.

continued

till 1863 (g).

Amendment of 18 & 19

Vict. c. 120, 6. 193.

years of Her Majesty, "to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to form a Park for the Northern Suburbs of the Metropolis, to be called Finsbury Park :" and whereas it is expedient to continue the said Act for such period as herein mentioned: Be it therefore enacted, that the said Act shall be continued in force until the 17th day of August, 1863, in like manner as if the time so limited had been the time limited by the said Act of the twentieth and twenty-first years of Victoria, chapter one hundred and twenty.

CXIV. There shall be repealed so much of the one hundred and ninety-third section of an Act passed in the session holden in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty, intituled " An Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis," as provides that the auditor of the accounts of the metropolitan board shall be paid by such board not exceeding five guineas for every day he is fully employed on such audit, and all expenses he is put to in the auditing of such accounts; provided always, that such payment shall not exceed fifty guineas and in lieu thereof, be it enacted, that the auditor of the accounts of the metropolitan board shall be paid by such board a sum not exceeding two guineas for every day that he is fully employed on such audit, and all expenses that he is put to in the auditing of such accounts, provided that such payments do not in the whole exceed one hundred guineas (h).

(g) By the 27th section of that Act, the powers for the compulsory purchase of land could not be exercised after the expiration of five years from its passing, 17th August, 1857.

(h) By the Metropolis Local Management Amendment Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 104), s. 8, the auditor is required to cause to be prepared a separate abstract and statement of the expenditure under that Act; and a similar provision is contained in the 25 & 26 Vict. c. 93, Thames Embankment. Seo s. 47, post, in the Appendix.

powers

Act 10 Geo. 4,

c. 68, re

parish of

Covent

CXV. From and after the passing of this Act all du- Certain ties, powers, and authorities under the Local Act of the under Local tenth year of George the Fourth, chapter sixty-eight, now remaining vested in the committee of management specting of the affairs of the parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, Saint shall cease to be so vested, and shall become vested in and Paul, be performed and exercised by the vestry of such parish, Garden, elected under the Act of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Victoria, chapter one hundred and twenty, and that the said committee shall cease and be determined, and no new appointment or election of such committee shall take place.

transferred.

rights of

duchy of

CXVI. It shall not be lawful for the metropolitan Saving board of works, or for any vestry or district board, to the crown take, use, or in any manner interfere with any land, soil, and the tenements, or hereditaments, or any rights, of whatsoever Lancaster. nature, belonging to or enjoyed or exerciseable by the Queen's most excellent Majesty in right of her crown, or in right of the duchy of Lancester, without the consent in writing of the commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, or one of them, on behalf of Her Majesty, first had and obtained for that purpose, which consent such commissioners are hereby respectively authorized to give, or without the consent in like manner of the chancellor of the said duchy; and nothing herein contained shall divest, take away, prejudice, diminish, or alter any estate, right, privilege, power, or authority vested in or enjoyed or exerciseable by the Queen's majesty, her heirs or successors, in right of her crown or in right of her duchy of Lancaster: Provided always, (i) that nothing herein

(i) This proviso refers to the power of constructing works for the purposes of the main drainage under the bed and soil of the river Thames, given by the 2nd section of the 21 & 22 Vict. c. 104, subject to the conditions imposed by the 27th & 28th sections of the same Act. See Thames Conservancy Act, 1857, as to the rights of the crown in respect of the foreshore of the Thames.

Saving rights of

respect of

Cornwall.

contained shall in any way lessen, alter, or in any manner prejudice or affect the rights, powers, and authorities of the metropolitan board of works relating to the main drainage of the metropolis, but such rights, powers, and authorities may be put in force as if this section had not been passed.

CXVII. It shall not be lawful for the metropolitan the crown in board of works, or for any vestry or district board, to the duchy of take, use, or in any manner interfere with any land, soil, tenements, or hereditaments, or any rights, of whatsoever nature, belonging to or enjoyed or exerciseable by the Queen's most excellent Majesty in right of her duchy of Cornwall, without the consent in writing of two or more of the principal officers of the duchy, which consent such principal officers of the duchy are hereby authorized to give; and nothing herein contained shall divest, take away, prejudice, diminish, or alter any estate, right, privilege, power, or authority vested in or enjoyed or exerciseable by the Queen's Majesty, her heirs or successors, in respect of the said duchy: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall in any way lessen, alter, or in any manner prejudice or affect the rights, powers, and authorities of the metropolitan board of works relating to the main drainage of the metropolis, but such rights, powers, and authorities may be put in force as if this section had not been passed (k).

(k) See note (i) to last section.

SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS.

SCHEDULE (A.)

LIST OF CERTAIN SECURITIES AND LIABILITIES OF
METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.

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