Metropolis Management Act 1855

Annual Reports

CXCVIII Annual Reports by Vestries and District Boards.

Every such Vestry as aforesaid and District Board shall in the Month of June in every Year cause to be printed the said Account in abstract and summary Statement for the preceding Year, relating to such Vestry or Board, arid also make and cause to be printed therewith a Report of their Proceedings in the Execution of this Act, and of the Works commenced and completed respectively in the preceding Year by such Vestry or Board, and the Works remaining in progress at the Termination of such Year, and also of any Proceedings taken by them or under their Authority in the preceding Year, in pursuance of any Regulations of the General Board of Health for the Time being in force, or otherwise, for the Removal of Nuisances or the Improvement of the Sanitary Condition of their Parish or District; and to every such Report there shall be appended a Copy of every Report made to such Vestry or Board during the preceding Year by the Officer or Officers of Health for their Parish or District; and every such Vestry and Board shall in the said Month of June send a Copy of every such Account in abstract, Statement, and Report, together with a printed List of the Names and Addresses of the Members of such Vestry and Board, and of their Officers, to the Metropolitan Board of Works; and every Vestry and District Board shall permit Inspection at their Office of a Copy of any such Account in abstract, Statement, and Report by any Ratepayer in their Parish or District, without Payment, at all reasonable Times', and shall also permit the like Inspection by the Public generally of such List of Officers; and Copies of such Account in abstract, Statement, and Report, and List of Officers, shall be delivered to any Person applying for the same, on Payment of such reasonable Sums, not exceeding Twopence for each such Copy, as may be fixed by such Vestry or Board in this Behalf.

CXCIX Vestry to make out and publish yearly a List of Estates Charities and Bequests, &c. with the Application thereof.

C Every such Vestry as aforesaid shall cause to be made out once at least in every Year a List of the several Freehold, Copyhold, and Leasehold Estates, and of all Charitable Foundations and Bequests, if any, belonging to the Parish, arid tinder the Control of the Vestry, the List to contain a true and detailed Account of the Place where such Estate or Charitable Foundation may be situate, or in, what Mode and Security such Bequest may be infested, specifying also the yearly Rental of each, and the particular Appropriation thereof, together with, the Names of the Persons partaking of their Benefit (except where such Benefit shall be allotted to the Poor of the Parish generally), and to what Amount in each Case, and also stating the Name, and Description of the Persons in whom such Estates are vested, and the Names and Description of the Trustees for each Charity; and such Lists shall be open for the Inspection of the Ratepayers at the Office of the Vestry Clerk at the same Time with the Accounts when audited according to the Provisions of this Act.

CC Annual Report of Metropolitan Board of Works.

The Metropolitan Board of Works shall, in the Month of June in every Year, make a Report of their Proceedings in the Execution of this Act, and shall in the said Month send a Copy thereof, together with a Copy of the said Account in abstract and summary Statement for the preceding Year relating to such Board, to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, to the General Board of Health, to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and to each of the Vestries and District Boards in the other Parts of the Metropolis.

CCI Reports, &c. of Metropolitan Board to be laid before Parliament.

Every such Report, Account in abstract, and Statement to be sent to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State as aforesaid shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within One Month after the Receipt thereof if Parliament be sitting, or if Parliament be not sitting, then within One Month after the next Meeting of Parliament.