Annual report 1893-94.

  • Plumstead (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
[1894]
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    13 the members go out of office annually; all the members go out of office on the first Wednesday in June in the third year from their election. The number of members for each Parish is set out in the tabular form at the foot of this report. The members of the Board were hitherto persons rated or assessed to the relief of the poor in the Parish in which they are elected, upon a rateable value of £40, excepting in the Parishes in which the number of poor rate assess ments at £40 or upwards does not exceed one-sixth of the whole number of such assessments, in which case the rateable value constituting a qualification was reduced to £25. This lower qualification applied of late years in the Parishes of Plumstead and Charlton. The Local Government Act, 1894, (see special report p. 21) alters the qualification. 6. The principal duties of this District Board under this Act, and the Metropolis Management Amendment Acts, 1862-90, consist in the construction, repair, and cleansing of sewers (except main sewers, which are now vested in the London County Council), the supervision of house drainage, and the execution of the office of Surveyor of Highways, which empowers the Board to repair, pave, light, improve* water, and maintain public ways, and to prevent obstruc tion there. Paving works and sewers in new streets can also be constructed by the Board at the cost of the owners and occupiers. Much work of this kind has recently been executed. Under these Acts temporary repairs can now be executed by the Board in new streets, and this has been done in several cases. These Acts also empower the Board to proceed against persons building beyond the general line.