1888. have been herein noted: - FOR THE BETTER LOCAL MANAGEMENT 18 & 19 VICT. CAP. 120. 14TH AUGUST, 1855. WHEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made for the better local management of the metropolis(b) in respect of the sewerage and drainage, and the paving, cleansing, lighting, and improvements thereof (c) Be it 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: (a) This Act has been amended by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 112, 21 & 22 Vict. c. 104, 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, 38 & 39 Vict. c. 33, 41 & 42 Vict. c. 32 (Metropolis Management and Building Acts Amendment Act, 1878), 45 Vict. c. 14 (Metropolis Management, &c., Amendment Act), 48 & 49 Vict. c. 33, and 50 & 51 Vict. c. 17. Numerous other Acts have been passed relating to the powers and functions of the metropolitan and district boards and vestries, a reference to which will be found in the notes to sections 43 and 67, and other sections of this Act. A selection from the more important of these statutes will be found in the Appendix. (b) By the 250th section "the metropolis " is defined to include the city of London and the parishes and places mentioned in the schedules (A.), (B.), and (C.) to the Act; and the city of London includes all parts now within the jurisdiction of the commissioners of sewers for the city of London. The 11 & 12 Vict. c. 163 (the City of London Sewers Act, 1848), s. 262, enacts that the word "city" shall mean the city of London and the liberties thereof, and shall include such parts of Holborn, the Minories, and Aldersgate Street, as are or have been usually treated as being within the liberties of the city, and the courts and alleys leading into the same or communicating therewith, and also the north side of Eldon Street, formerly called Broker Row, Moorfields, and the courts and alleys leading into the same or communicating therewith, and all precincts and places within the city of London or the liberties thereof. See reference in note to section 135, post, to subsequent Acts making provision for the drainage of certain localities not situate within the area under the control of the Metropolitan Board of Works. (c) See section 90, transferring, with certain exceptions, to the vestries and district boards constituted by this Act, in addition to the paving and other matters specified, all other duties, powers, and authorities in anywise relating to the regulation, government, or concerns of parishes, &c., and the 3rd section of 19 & 20 Vict. c. 112, post, transferring to them save as B |