Sect. 14. Schemes relating to parishes in First Schedule to above or any other means which to the Commissioners may seem good, the physical, social, and moral condition of the poorer inhabitants of the metropolis. (a) See sect. 7, ante. (b) Sect. 5, ante. (c) Defined by sect. 53, post. (d) Sects. 48 and 49, post. 15. In any scheme relating to the property or endowments belonging to or now applicable in the parishes enumerated in the First Schedule to this Act the Commis this Act may sioners may, if they think fit, provide for the union of provide for union of governing bodies. Schemes relating to parishes in Second provide for any existing governing bodies of two or more endowments into one new governing body for each of the said parishes, or for the creation of a new governing body or bodies in each such parish, and for the transfer to such new governing body or bodies (if created) of the control and management of the charity property and endowments belonging to or applicable in such parishes. 16. In any scheme providing for the application of the property scheduled as general charity property (a) Schedule may now belonging to or applicable in the parishes mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act, the Commissioners may, if they shall think fit, provide for the payment by the said new governing body of any capital or annual sum or sums of money to the trustees or managers of any institution now existing, or which may hereafter exist, for payment of monies to trustees of existing institutions. any of the charitable purposes to or for which such general charity property is hereby made applicable, to be applied by such trustees or managers to or for such purpose; and may, in the case of any scheme relating to an open space or recreation ground or drill ground, provide that any lands or hereditaments purchased in pursuance of such scheme shall be conveyed to and vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works (b) or other proper local authority, and that any monies to be paid for the main tenance of such space or ground shall be paid to the said Sect. 16. Board (b) or other local authority (as the case may be) in which the legal estate in such open space or ground may be vested. (a) See sect. 5, ante. (b) Now the London County Council. sioners may trustees. 17. In any scheme relating to the general charity Commisproperty now belonging to or applicable in the parishes create new mentioned in the said Second Schedule, the Commis- bodies of sioners may (if they shall think fit) provide for the creation of a new body or bodies of trustees, either in a defined local area in the Metropolis (a) or for any one or more of the charitable purposes to or for which such property is hereby made applicable, or in both of these ways, and may also provide for the payment to such new body or bodies of trustees by the said new governing body of such capital or annual sum or sums of money as the scheme may direct, to be applied by such new body or bodies of trustees in pursuance of the scheme. Where any such scheme provides for the creation of such a new body of trustees in or for any such defined local area, the Commissioners shall, so far as conveniently may be, provide for the representation on such new body of trustees of the inhabitants of such local area. (a) Defined, sect. 53, post. sioners may trustees. 18. In framing any scheme relating to the general Commischarity property (a) now belonging to or applicable in retain or the parishes mentioned in the said second schedule, the modify existing Commissioners shall consider and declare whether it is bodies of for the public advantage that any of the property or endowments belonging to the charity or charities dealt with by the scheme shall continue to be administered and managed by the body or bodies of trustees now administering and managing the same; and the Commissioners may in any such case provide that such property or endowments shall continue to be administered and Sect. 18. managed by such body or bodies, and in any such case More schemes than one and other objects provided for. may alter the constitution of any such existing body or bodies of trustees, and, if they shall think fit, unite such bodies or body with any other body or bodies of trustees so as to create a new body or bodies of trustees for the administration, management, and application of such property and endowments in the said parishes, or any one or more of them, or for the application of such property and endowments, or any part of them, to any one or more of the objects to which such property and endow ments may be applicable under the fourteenth section of this Act. (a) See sect. 5, ante. 19. The Commissioners shall not be bound to provide may be made, in any one scheme for all the objects aforesaid (a), but may make provision for such objects, or any one or more of them, by one or by more schemes in the manner they shall judge most convenient, nor shall anything herein be construed to prevent the Commissioners from providing in any such scheme or schemes for any other object which shall upon inquiry appear to them to be necessary or desirable for the purposes of this Act, nor from proposing in any scheme any such modifications and variations as to matters of detail and regulation as shall not be substantially repugnant to any of the provisions of this Act. Scheme need not specify precise application of general (a) Sects. 12-18, ante. 20. The Commissioners shall not be bound to specify in any scheme the precise objects to which or the manner in which the general charity property shall be applied charity pro by the new governing body (a), but they may (if they shall think fit) specify such objects or manner with such particularity as they may think necessary, and may (if they shall think fit) leave the details of such application perty. to be subsequently settled by the new governing body in manner hereinafter mentioned (b). (a) See sects. 48 and 49, post. (b) Ibid. Sect. 20. endowments fifty years 21. No scheme shall be so framed as to affect or shall Saving for affect any endowment or part of an endowment (as the less than case may be) originally given to charitable uses less than fifty years before the commencement of this Act, unless the governing body of such endowment assent to the scheme. interests of 22. In making schemes for the application of charity Educational property or endowments to educational purposes the girls to be Commissioners shall have as much regard to the educa- regarded. tional interests of girls as of boys. educational under 32 & 33 23. It shall not be obligatory upon the Commissioners Saving for to prepare a scheme under this Act for any endowment, endowments or part of an endowment, which is an educational en- Vict. c. 56, dowment as defined by section five (a) of the Endowed s. 5. Schools Act, 1869. (a) Ante, p. 598. IV.-Procedure for approving Schemes. printed and 24. When the Commissioners have prepared the draft of Schemes to be a scheme (a) they shall cause it to be printed, and printed circulated. copies of it to be sent to the governing body of every endowment to which it relates, and to the vestry clerk (b) of the parish in which such endowment is now applicable, and to the Remembrancer of the City of London, and shall also cause the draft, or a proper abstract of it, to be published and circulated in such manner as they think sufficient for giving information to all persons interested. (a) See sect. 11, ante. (b) As to sending documents to the governing body and vestry clerk, see sect. 42, post; and as to the sending of documents generally, see sect. 43, post. Sect. 25. Commis sioners to receive suggestions respecting schemes. Schemes to be reprinted and circulated anew. Approval of Committee of 25. During two months after the first publication of the draft of a scheme, or any longer time which they may appoint, the Commissioners shall receive any objections or suggestions made to them in writing respecting such scheme, and shall duly consider the same. 26. After the expiration of the two months, or such longer time as to the Commissioners may seem proper, the Commissioners shall proceed to revise the scheme, and may, if they think fit, amend the same, and republish it and send copies of it as re-published to the persons before mentioned (a), and shall submit the scheme for the approval of the Committee of Council on Education. (a) Sect 24, ante. 27. The Committee of Council on Education, as soon as a scheme is submitted to them, shall, before approving the same, cause the scheme to be published and circulated in such manner as they think sufficient for giving information to all persons interested, together with a notice stating that during one month after the first publication of such notice the Committee of Council on Education will receive any objections or suggestions made to them in writing respecting such scheme. After the expiration of the said month the Committee of Council on Education may, if they think fit, approve the scheme or may remit the scheme, with such declaration as the nature of the case seems to them to require, to the Commissioners (a). The Committee of Council on Education as soon as they approve a scheme shall forthwith cause the scheme so approved to be published and circulated in such manner as they think sufficient for giving information to all persons interested, together with a notice stating that unless within two months after the publication of the scheme when approved a petition is presented to the |