Royal Commission On The Amalgamation of The City and County of London - The London County Council Submission

The London County Council Submission

In contrast to the City, the county council engaged enthusiastically with the commission and submitted detailed proposals for merging city and county. The main points were:

  • The administrative County of London and the City of London should form a single municipal area, and be designated the "City of London". The new area would constitute a county for all purposes.
  • The Corporation of the City and the London County Council would be replaced by a single body known as the "Mayor, and Commonalty and Citizens of London".
  • The new corporation would inherit all the property, powers, rights, privileges and distinctions of both bodies, as well as their debts and liabilities.
  • All electors qualified to elect county councillors would be citizens.
  • The corporation would consist of 118 councillors and 19 aldermen, identical in composition to the county council, and would be elected in the same way.
  • The Lord Mayor would be elected by the corporation in the same way as those of municipal boroughs.
  • A Deputy Mayor would be elected annually, and would perform the same functions as the chairman of a county council.
  • A "City Local Authority" would be formed for the area of the existing City, elected triennially by those qualified to elect county councillors. The authority would have the same functions as an incorporated vestry or district board established under the Metropolis Management Act 1855.
  • The High Sheriff of London would be chosen by the new council.
  • The Commissioners of Lieutenancy of the City of London would be abolished, and the Lord Mayor would be ex officio lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of London.
  • Freedom of the City of London by patrimony, apprenticeship, purchase or gift would be abolished. The new council would be empowered to award honorary freedom as a mark of distinction.
  • The Honourable The Irish Society would be abolished and its charter repealed. Its property in Ireland would pass to the corporations of Derry and Coleraine, or to any elective county authority established in the future.

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