Metropolis Local Management Act Amendment Bill.
Sir,
I am directed to send you copy of a Petition of this Vestry to the House of Commons respecting your Bills (Nos. 1 & 2) for Amending the Metropolis Local Management Act, which Lord Enfield has been requested to present.
I am also to send you the four new clauses and amendments which are referred to in the prayer of the Petition, and to request that you will obtain the introduction of them into the Bill No. 1.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Chas. Lahee,
Vestry Clerk.
W. Tite, Esq., M.P., &c., &c.,
42, Lowndes Square.
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
The Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex,
Sheweth,
That Your Petitioners are informed and believe that two Bills, intituled respectively “The Metropolis Local Management Act Amendment Bills, Nos. 1 & 2,” are now before your Honourable House, by the first of which relief is proposed to be given to the late Counter’s Creek separate sewerage district in this parish, for certain sums expended in respect of the Counters Creek Diversion Works, and improperly charged upon the said district in respect of the construction of sewers and works for the general benefit of the Metropolis; and by the other it is intended to settle upon equitable principles the parishes, districts, and parts, upon which certain debts of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers shall stand charged, having regard to the benefit derived by those parishes, &c., respectively from such expenditure.