The Boroughs of the Metropolis

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Excerpt from The Boroughs of the Metropolis: A Handbook to Local Administration in London Under the London Government Act, 1899 Probably no statute of the same length has offered greater difficulties to an editor than that which forms the subject of the present volume. The provisions of the London Government Act, 1890, are in the main executory rather than executive, that is to say, it leaves to the Committee of the Privy Council, for whose appointment it provides, or, more correctly, to the Commissioners nominated by that Committee, the responsibility and the power of carrying into effect the various arrangements which the Act itself merely indicates. How varied and important are these powers and duties will be gathered from the summary of them given on pages 100 and 101. The commissioners have already made great and useful progress in the execution of some of the functions entrusted to them, for instance, in the adjustment of boundaries and in dealing with detached parts of parishes but in regard to many of the matters which are to be provided for by scheme, it is impossible not to foresee practical difficulties in the way of fixing up a working arrangement, which shall be at once equitable, simple, and permanent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.