s of the contributions for that year.

16. If any insurance company makes default in making such
returns to the Board as are required by this Act, it shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every
day during which it is so in default.

17. The secretary or other officer having the custody of the
books and papers of any insurance company that is required
to pay a contribution to the Board in pursuance of this Act
shall allow any officer appointed by the Board to inspect,
during the hours of business, any books and papers that will
enable him to ascertain the amount of property insured by
such company in the metropolis, and the amount for which it
is insured, and to make extracts from such books or papers;
and any secretary or other such officer as aforesaid of a
company failing to comply with the requisitions of this
section in respect of such inspections and extracts shall be
liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five
pounds for each offence.

18. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall pay or
cause to be paid to the Board by way of contribution to the
expenses of maintaining the fire brigade such sums as
Parliament may from time to time grant for that purpose, not
exceeding in any one year the sum of ten thousand pounds.

19. For the purpose of defraying all expenses that may be
incurred by the Board in carrying into effect this Act which
are not otherwise provided for, the Board may from time to
time issue their precepts to the overseers of the poor of
every parish or place within the metropolis, requiring the
overseers to pay over the amount mentioned in the precepts
to the Treasurer of the Board, or into a bank to be named in
the precepts, within forty days from the delivery of the
precept.

The overseers shall comply with the requisitions of any such
precept by paying the sums mentioned out of any monies in
their hands applicable to the relief of the poor, or by
levying the amount required as part of the rate for the
relief of the poor, but no contribution required to be paid
by any parish or place under this section shall exceed in
the whole in any one year the rate of one halfpenny in the
pound on the full and fair annual value of property rateable
to the relief o