AN ACT TO AMEND THE METROPOLIS MANAGEMENT ACTS. 38 & 39 VICT. CAP. 33. 29TH JUNE, 1875. WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty-three of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, it is provided that any sewers rate raised under that Act shall, as regards all land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, or as woodland, orchard, market garden, hop, herb, flower, fruit, or nursery ground, be assessed and levied in the proportion of one fourth part only of the net annual value of such land: And whereas by section one hundred and sixty-four of the same Act it is also provided that where any property was, at the time of the issuing of the first commission under the Act of the eleventh and twelfth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and twelve, entitled to exemption from or to any reduction or allowance in respect of the sewers rate, such exemption, reduction, or allowance shall be observed and allowed in levying any sewers rate under that Act: And whereas by virtue of the said recited Act, and the Acts amending the same, the Metropolitan Board of Works do assess the several parts of the metropolis according to the basis on which the printed totals of the valuation lists sent out by the clerk of the managers of the metropolitan asylum district under "The Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869," are made, (a) and issue their precepts for sums of money which, by reason of the recited exemptions, cannot be levied upon some of the property included in such assessment, or can only be levied at one fourth of the amount included in such assessment, whereby the parts of the metropolis wherein such exemptions exist are compelled to make a rate at an increased amount in order to meet such precepts: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by (a) The 46th section of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, makes the valuation list for the time being in force, conclusive evidence of the gross value and of the rateable value of the hereditaments included therein, and of the fact that all hereditaments required to be inserted therein have been inserted for the purposes of the sewers, lighting, general and other rates levied by order of district boards or vestries, the main drainage improvement and other rates and sums assessed on any part of the metropolis by the Metropolitan Board of Works, and of other rates which are enumerated. and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. From and after the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, the Metropolitan Board of Works, in every assessment made by them upon such parts of the metropolis as contain property wholly or partially exempt from sewers rate, and in the precepts issued for obtaining payment of the sums so assessed, shall make an allowance or abatement equal to the reduction or exemption which, under the one hundred and sixty-third and one hundred and sixty-fourth sections of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, is required to be made in levying any rate for the purpose of meeting such precepts. Section 1. Metropolitan Board of Works to make abatement on assessment of parts of metropolis containing property exempt from sewers rate. Totals of value of property so 2. The overseers and assessment committees acting under the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869, shall cause the totals of the gross and rateable value of the property so wholly or partially exempt from sewers rate, and the extent of such exemption, to be ascertained and inserted in the valuation lists which will come into force inserted in exempt to be on the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy- valuation six, and in every valuation list which shall thereafter be made by lists. them. 3. The said lists shall be sent by the assessment committees before Totals to be the first day of November in each year to the clerk of the managers printed. of the metropolitan asylum district, who shall print and send the said totals and extent of exemptions, with the other totals of gross and rateable value required to be printed and sent by the seventeenth section of the said Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869. 4. Any unfairness or incorrectness in the said totals and extent of exemptions may be appealed against in the manner provided for appealing against totals of gross or rateable value under section thirty-two of The Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869. Appeal in case of unfairness, &c. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SUPERANNUATION ALLOWANCES 29 VICT. CAP. 31. Vestries, district boards, and Metro politan Board of Works may grant superannuation allowances to officers in certain cases.(a) Allowances not to be assignable for debts, &c. Limitation of grant of allowances. 18TH MAY, 1866. WHEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made to enable superannuation allowances to be granted to officers of vestries of any parish and district boards of any district and of other parochial bodies within the metropolis who become disabled by infirmity or age to discharge the duties of their offices: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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 authority of the same, as follows: 1. The vestry of any parish and district board of any district or any other parochial body within the metropolis, and also the Metropolitan Board of Works, may, at their discretion, grant to any officer in their respective services, including the chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, who shall become incapable of discharging the duties of his office with efficiency by reason of permanent infirmity of mind or body, or of old age, upon his resigning or otherwise ceasing to hold his office, an annual allowance not exceeding in any case two-thirds of his then salary,(b) regard being had to the scale of allowances hereinafter contained, and shall charge such allowance to the fund or funds to which such salary would have been charged if he had continued in his office: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall affect the powers contained in the two hundred and thirteenth section of "The Metropolis Management Act, 1855." 2. This allowance shall be payable to or in trust for such officer only, and shall not be assignable for nor chargeable with his debts or other liabilities without the consent in writing of the vestry, district board, Metropolitan Board of Works, or other parochial body. 3. No officer shall be entitled to such allowance on the ground of old age who shall not have completed the full age of sixty years. (a) By the Baths and Washhouses Act, 1878 (41 Vict. c. 14), this power is extended to officers and servants employed in baths, washhouses, open bathing-places, &c. (b) See case of R. v. St. George's, Southwark, in note to section 4, post. 4. Subject to the provisions herein contained, the allowance to be granted after the commencement of this Act to persons who shall have served in an established 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 under eleven years, an annual allowance of ten-sixtieths 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 completion of a period of service of forty years, when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted; and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond forty years, (a) but in computing the time of an officer's service any period during which such officer shall have been in the service of a vestry, board of trustees, or other parochial board of the same parish superseded by "The Metropolis Management Act, 1855," or of any parish comprised in the district board granting such allowance, shall be included. Section 4. Scale of allowances. 5. When for the due and efficient discharge of the duties of any Power office professional or other peculiar qualifications not ordinarily to be to increase acquired in the vestry or board's service are required, and any person allowance. 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 superannuation 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 duty, or from infirmity of mind or body, before the completion of the period 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. Power to grant gratuities in case of retirement before entitled to superannuation allowance. Notice of grant to be given. 8. In the construction of this Act the term "metropolis" shall Interprehave the same interpretation as in the Metropolis Management Act, tation of 1855, and Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1862; the terms. 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. (a) Where a metropolitan vestry once resolves to grant a superannuation allowance to a retiring officer they have no discretion as to fixing the amount, but must follow implicitly the scale set out in this section; R. v. St. George's Vestry, Southwark, 19 Q. B. D. 533; 56 L. J. Q. B. 652; 35 W. R. 841; 52 J. P. 6; Marchant v. Lee Conservancy Board (L. R. 9 Ex. 60) distinguished. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO THE CONSTRUC- 18 & 19 VICT. CAP. 122. Repealed by the London Building Art 1894 Short title. Commence 14TH AUGUST, 1855. WHEREAS it is expedient that the laws relating to buildings in the metropolis and its neighbourhood should be amended: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parlament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say,) PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as Building Act, 1855." "The Metropolitan 2. This Act shall, except in cases where it is otherwise expressly ment of Act. provided, come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. (a) The Metropolitan Building Act, 1860, amends the rules of this Act with respect to the cubical dimensions, &c., of warehouses; and the Metropolitan Building Act, 1861, exempts from the operation of this Act any buildings erected, &c., by the commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. The Metropolitan Building Act, 1869, transfers to the metropolitan board the duties connected with dangerous structures heretofore discharged by the metropolitan police. The Metropolitan Building Act, 1871, contains further exemptions from the first part of this Act; see note to section 6, post. The Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and this Act, were further amended by the Metropolis Management and Building Acts Amendment Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 32), which contains further provisions for regulating the erection and extension of houses and buildings in close proximity to certain roads, passages, and ways; for empowering the metropolitan board to cause alteration in theatres and music-halls in certain cases, and to make regulations with respect to the position and structure of new theatres and certain new music-halls; to make provisions with respect to the making, filling-up, and preparation of the foundation and sites of houses, &c., and with respect to the quality of the substances to be used in the sites, foundations, and walls of such houses, &c.; and to make further provisions with respect to the payment of expenses incurred by the board in relation to |