CXCIIAccounts of Metropolitan Board, District Boards, and Vestries to be balanced up to the End of each Year.
The Metropolitan Board of Works, every, District Board, and the Vestry of every Parish mentioned in either of the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to this Act, shall, in the Month of April in every Year, Cause their Accounts to be balanced, up to the Twenty-fifth Day of March next preceding, and shall cause a full Statement and Account to be drawn out of the Amount of all Contracts entered into and of all Monies received and expended by them during the preceding Year, under the several distinct Heads, of Receipt and Expenditure, and also of all Arrears of Rates and other Monies then owing to such respective Board or Vestry, and of all Mortgages and other Debts and Liabilities then owing by such Board or Vestry: Provided always, that where by reason of the Time established by or under any Local Act for making and collecting Rates in any Parish the Time hereby fixed for making up the Accounts is inconvenient, it shall be lawful for the Metropolitan Board of Works to order that the Time of making and collecting such Rates, and the Period for which any such Rate may be made, shall be altered as to the said Board may appear convenient.