The Metropolis Local Management Acts: To Which Is Added an Appendix Containing Other Statutes Relating to the Powers and Duties of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Vestries, and District Boards of the Metropolis (Classic Reprint)

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The principal Acts contained in this volume, and which form the basis of the present work, are the 18 8c 19 Vict. C. 120, for the better Local Management of the Metropolis, and the three Amending Acts, the 19 St 20 Vict. C. 112, the 21 St 22 Vict. C. 104, and the 25 85 26 Vict. C. 102; and other statutes either expressly incorporated with the first-named Act, or having special reference to the powers and duties of the boards and vestries constituted by it, are added by way of Appendix. The object of this publication is to elucidate the construction of those Acts, for which purpose the reported decisions of the courts upon such of their provisions as have received judicial interpretation, and upon analogous enact ments in other statutes, are collected in the notes. Attention is also directed to those provisions of the original Act which experi ence had shown to be defective, and to the amendments embodied in the Acts which were subsequently passed. It may well be supposed that an Act of Parliament which gave a municipal organization to the extensive districts described in its schedules, with a rental at the time of its passing (exclusive of the city) amounting to and a population of souls, did not remain exempt from the ordinary litigation attending extensive legislative changes. But to understand the causes which led to the passing of that important measure, and to appreciate its results, it will be desirable, in the first instance, to make some reference to the laws under which the management of the metropolitan dis. Tricts as regards their sewerage and paving, their improvements, and other subjects of local administration, had previously been conducted.

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