Amount expended. Examined by me in connection with the Financial Statement for the year ended the 25th day of March, 18 and found correct. £ * If by a Company, insert the name. + Where all or any portion of the Loan has been expended during the year, state the purpose for which the Loan was obtained and the amount expended in each case. Purpose. NOTE.-Fractional parts of a £ should not be entered in the above form; whenever the fraction amounts to 10s., or more than 10s., it is to be taken as equal to £1; if less than 10s., it is to be rejected. Thus, £175 10s. should be entered as £176, but £175 9s. 11d. as £175 only PROVISIONS AFFECTING LONDON ONLY. Application of Act to City of London. 21. (1) The City of London shall be a Library District (a), and, on this Act being adopted for the City, the Common Council (a) shall be the Library Authority (b). (2) The opinion of the voters in the City of London with respect to any question under this Act (c) shall be ascertained by the Mayor on the requisition of the Common Council (d). (3) The expenses incurred in the City of London in and incidental to the execution of this Act, including all expenses in connection with ascertaining the opinion of the voters, shall be defrayed out of the consolidated rate levied by the Commissioners of Sewers, or a separate rate to be made, assessed, and levied by those Commissioners in like manner as the consolidated rate (e). (4) So much of this Act as limits the rate or addition to a rate to be levied in any Library District for any one financial year to one penny in the pound shall not extend to the City of London(ƒ). (a) See Section 1 (2), page 2. NOTES. (aa) See definition in Section 27, page 38. (b) See Section 4, page 10. And as such Library Authority the Common Council will have the powers and be subject to the duties specified with regard to Library Authorities generally (subject to the provisions of this Section), but not to such as relate to Parishes. (c) See Section 3, page 4. (d) Note that voters cannot requisition the chairman of the Authority to take a poll, as in other Library Districts, the power being limited to the Common Council itself. (e) See Section 18, page 23, as to expenses in other Districts. (ƒ) The adoption of the Act may, therefore, be without any rating limit, and, unless the Common Council in the requisition desires the opinion of the voters to be taken on any suggested limitation, the Lord Mayor has no power to put any question with respect thereto (Section 3 (2), page 4), but there is nothing to prevent the Common Council from suggesting any limit it thinks desirable. POWER FOR DISTRICT IN LONDON TO ADOPT ACT. 22. Every District mentioned in Schedule B to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, as amended by any subsequent Acts (a), shall be a Library District (b), and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly with the following modifications:: (1) The opinion of the voters in any such District with respect to any question under this Act (c) shall be ascertained by the District Board on the requisition in writing of any ten or more of such voters : (2) The Library Authority for such District shall be Commissioners appointed by the District Board (d), and the provisions of this Act relating to Commissioners appointed for a Parish shall apply with the substitution of "District" for "Parish" and of "District Board" for "Vestry" (e): (3) The expenses incurred in any such District in and incidental to the execution of this Act, including all expenses in connection with ascertaining the opinion of the voters, shall to such amount as is sanctioned by the District Board (ƒ) be defrayed by that Board in like manner as if they had been incurred for the general purposes of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the sums from time to time required for defraying those expenses, to the extent so sanctioned, shall be paid by the District Board to any person appointed by the Commissioners to receive the same; but nothing in this enactment shall enable a District Board to levy (f) for the purposes of this Act any greater sum in any financial year than the amount produced by a rate of one penny in the pound, or any less rate specially fixed for the purpose of this Act in the District (b): (4) The enactments authorising two or more neighbouring Parishes to combine in carrying this Act into execution shall have effect as if any such District were included in the term "Parish" and the District Board of such District in the term "Vestry "(g) : (5) Where a Parish in any such District has adopted the Acts hereby repealed, or any of them, or hereafter adopts this Act (h), it shall be treated in all respects for the purposes of this Act as if it were outside the District, and, in particular (a) a person shall not, by reason of being a voter in the Parish, be accounted for the purposes of this Section as a voter in the District; and (b) a representative of the Parish on the District Board shall not take part in any proceeding of the Board under this Section and; (c) the Parish shall not be called on to contribute to the payment of any expenses incurred in pursuance of this Section; and (d) any question of accounts arising between the Parish and the other Parishes in the District, or between the Parish and the District, in consequence of this Section, shall be decided finally by the Local Government Board: (6) After the adoption of this Act for any such District, proceedings shall not, except with the sanction of the Local Government Board, be taken for the separate adoption thereof for any Parish in the District (h). NOTES. (a) The following is the list of Districts mentioned in Schedule B: |