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19. Provision for case of equality of votes
20. If in the interval between elections the vestry of any
parish be reduced below two-thirds, the vacancies to
be filled up as herein named
21. Penalty for forging or falsifying any voting paper or
obstructing the election
22. A list of persons elected vestrymen and auditors by
parishioners to be published
23. Penalty on inspector for making incorrect return
24. Vestries to provide places for holding elections, and pay
expenses of taking poll, &c.
25. As to parishes having no churchwardens
26. How notices and lists to be published
27. Churchwardens, &c. not complying with Act guilty of
misdemeanor
28. Quorum of vestries
29. Meetings not to be holden in the church
30. Meeting to elect a chairman
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Formation of Parishes into Districts, and Constitution of
District Boards.
31. Parishes in schedule (B.) to be united, and form dis-
tricts, and district boards constituted
32. Vestries to elect members of district boards
33. If relative numbers of inhabited houses in parishes in
any district vary on any future census, the numbers
of members may be altered
34. As to the term of office of members of district boards
elected at first election, and as to future elections
35. Elections to be held annually for supplying vacancies
occasioned by expiration of term of office
36. Provision as to parishes not electing as many as three
members of a district board
37. Provision as to casual vacancies
38. Powers of district boards to be exercised at meetings,
not less than seven members being present
39. Ordinary meetings of district boards
40. Special meetings of district boards
41. Chairman to be elected at meeting of board
Incorporation of Vestries and District Boards.
42. District boards and vestries of parishes in schedule (A.)
incorporated
Constitution and Incorporation of Metropolitan Board of
Works.
43. Metropolitan board of works constituted and incor-
porated
41. Three members of metropolitan board to be elected for
the city
45. Vestries of single parishes and district boards to clect
members of the metropolitan board
46. Boards for districts of Plumstead and Lewisham united
for electing a member of metropolitan board
47. The parish of Rotherhithe and district of St. Olave
united for electing a member of the metropolitan
board of works -
48. As to the term of office of members of metropolitan
board elected at first election, and as to future
elections
49. Elected members of metropolitan board to elect a
chairman
50. As to appointment of chairman on any vacancy
51. Powers of metropolitan board to be exercised at meet-
ings, not less than nine members being present
52. Meetings of the metropolitan board -
53. Chairman to preside at meetings.
In case of vacancy,
&c., a temporary chairman to be chosen-
Provisions concerning Constitution, Procedure, and Officers of Metropolitan and District Boards and Vestries.
54. Disqualifications of members of metropolitan board, of
district boards, of vestries of parishes in schedules
(A.) and (B.), and of auditors
55. Members of metropolitan and district boards, and of
vestries of parishes in schedule (A.) or (B.), may
resign
56. Retiring members of boards and vestries may be re-
elected
57. No resolution of metropolitan or any district board, or
of any vestry, to be revoked at a subsequent meeting
unless under certain circumstances
58. Committes may be appointed
59. Powers of committees
60. Minutes of proceedings of metropolitan and district
boards and of vestries to be entered
61. All books to be open to inspection
62. Power to metropolitan board, district boards, and ves-
tries to appoint officers
38. Powers of district boards to be exercised at meetings, not less than seven members being present
Bection
44. Three members of metropolitan board to be elected for
board of works
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52. Meetings of the metropolitan board
53. Chairman to preside at meetings.-In case of vacancy,
63. Clerk and treasurer not to be the same person
64. Penalty on officers, &c. being interested in contracts, or
exacting fees
65. Officers, &c., intrusted with money to give security for
duly accounting for the same. If officer fail to
render account, &c., justices may commit offender to
prison.-Power to levy by distress
66. Metropolitan and district boards and vestries to provide
proper offices, and to cause daily attendance to be
given
Duties and Powers of Vestries and District Boards.
67. "Vestry" in following provisions to mean vestry of a
parish in schedule (A.)
68. Sewers (except main sewers) vested in vestries and dis-
trict boards
69. Vestries and district boards to repair, &c., all sewers -vested in them, and from time to time to construct new ones, &c.
70. Power to vestries and district boards to do works of
improvement in sewers, &c., the expense thereof to
be divided between the party liable and the parish or
district
71. Gullyholes, &c., to be trapped
72. Vestries and district boards to cause sewers to be
cleansed, &c.
73. Vestry or district board in certain cases may compel
owners, &c., of houses to construct drains into the
common sewer.-Penalty on owner, &c., for neglect
74. Provision for combined drainage of blocks of houses
75. No house to be built without drains constructed to the
satisfaction of the vestry or district board
76. Notice of buildings to be given to the vestry or district
board before commencing the same
77. Power to branch drains into sewers constructed by
metropolitan board, or any vestry or district board
under certain regulations.-Penalty
78. Power to metropolitan board or vestry or district board
to branch private drains into sewers, at the expense
of the party to whom they belong
79. Vestry or district board may agree to make house drains
at the expense of owners or occupiers
80. Vestry or district board may order a contribution to.
wards construction of sewers in certain cases
81. Penalty on erecting or rebuilding houses without proper
waterclosets, &c.-Power to vestry, &c., to require
owners, &c., to provide sufficient waterclosets, &c.-
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