§ Bill considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ Clause 1 (Short title).
§ On the Motion, of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK (London University), the following Amendments made:—In page 1, line 6, after "Libraries," insert "Acts;" in line 7, leave out "first."
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.
1486§ Clauses 2 and 3 severally agreed to.
§ Clause 4 (Definitions).
§ On the Motion of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, the following Amendment made:—In page 1, line 27, to omit "Metropolis," and insert "Metropolitan or."
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 5 agreed to.
§ Clause 6 (Amendment of Acts).
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On the Motion of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, the following Amendment made:—In page 2, line 12, to leave out the words "The proviso to section eight of the principal Act," and insert the words—
So much of section fifteen of the principal Act as incorporates with that Act certain clauses of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847.
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 7 (Power for district in the metropolis to adopt the Act).
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On the Motion of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, the following Amendments made:—In page 2, line 23, leave out from "overseers," to end of line 24, and insert and the word 'vestry' as the case may be;" in line 28, leave out "this," and insert "the principal;" in line 29, leave out "of carrying this Act," and insert "incurred by the Commissioners in carrying the said Act and the Acts amending the same;" in line 32, after "district board," insert—
Applicable to the general expenses incurred by them in the execution of 'The Metropolis Management Act, 1855,' and the sum required for the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred by the Commissioners as aforesaid shall be paid by the district board to such person as shall be appointed by the Commissioners to receive the same;
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in line 34, after "Act," insert "and the Acts amending the same;" in line 38, after "funds," insert—
Applicable to the general expenses incurred by the district board in the excution of 'The Metropolis Management Act, 1855;'
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in line 39, after "poor," insert—
And section sixteen shall be read as if the words 'district board' were substituted for the word 'vestry,' and the words 'rates out of which the expenses of the Commissioners are payable' for the words 'rates levied in pursuance of this Act;'
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and in line 9, after "(c)," insert—
Such parish shall not be called upon to contribute towards any expenses incurred, and.''
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 8 (Power of Parish, preserved).
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On the Motion of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, the following Amendment made:—In page 3, line 24, after "it," insert—
In manner provided by section one of 'The Public Libraries Amendment Act, 1877.'
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.
§ New Clauses (Borrowing by library authorities).
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On the Motion of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, the following New Clauses agreed to, and added to the Bill:—
Sections two hundred and thirty-three, two hundred and thirty-four, and two hundred and thirty-six to two hundred and thirty-nine, both inclusive, of the 'Public Health Act, 1875,' shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to all money borrowed by any library authority after the passing of this Act, as if the library authority were an urban sanitary authority, and as if references to the 'Public Libraries (England) Acts, 1855 to 1887,' were substituted in those sections and in the forms therein mentioned for references to the Sanitary Acts, or the Public Health Act, 1875.
So much of section seventeen of the principal Act as incorporates the Clauses and provisions of The' Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,' with respect to the borrowing of money on mortgage or bond is hereby repealed except as to any money borrowed before the passing of this Act.
§ On the Motion of The SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Jackson) (Leeds, N.), the following New Clauses agreed to, and added to the Bill:—
§ (Transfer to Local Government Board of certain functions of the Treasury.)
§ "The powers and duties of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury under the Public Libraries (England) Acts 1855 to 1887, shall from and after the passing of this A ct be transferred to the Local Government Board, and sections sixteen and eighteen of the principal Act shall be construed and have effect as if a reference to the approval of the Local Government Board were therein substituted for a reference to the approval of Her Majesty's Treasury,"
§ New Clause (Provisions as to parish partly within and partly without a borough or district).
§ MR. O. V. MORGAN (Battersea)The clause is self-explanatory. I think I must do no more than move it.
§ New Clause.
§ (General Provisions.)
§ "Where any parish is partly within and partly without any borough or district which shall have adopted or shall contemplate the adoption of the Public Libraries Act, the part of such parish without the borough or district shall, for the purposes of the fourth section of The Public Libraries Amendment Act (England 1488 and Scotland), 1886,' be considered a parish within the meaning of the said section; and the overseers of the poor for the said parish shall, for the purposes of the said section be considered the overseers of the parish situate without the borough or district,"—(Mr. O. V. Morgan,)
§ —brought up, and read the first time.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause be now read a second time."
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. LONG) (Wilts, Dovizes)Subject to consideration on Report, I do not object to the clause.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Clause read a second time, and added to Bill.
§ Schedule.
§ On the Motion of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, the following Amendments made:—In line 1, leave out "I; "line 2, leave out "Act," and insert "Acts;" and in line 4, leave out "1885," and insert "1855."
§ Schedule, as amended, agreed to.
§ Bill reported; as amended, to be considered upon Thursday, and to he printed. [Bill 331.]