any byelaw made
in pursuance thereof, and all expenses and other sums due to
the Board in pursuance of this Act, in respect of which no
mode of recovery is prescribed, may be recovered summarily
before two justices in manner directed by the Act of the
session holden in the eleventh and twelfth years of the
reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, or any
Act amending the same, and when so recovered shall be paid
to the treasurer of the Board, notwithstanding any police
act or other act of parliament directing a different
appropriation of such monies.
25. Any dispute or other matter which is by this Act
directed to be determined summarily by two justices shall be
deemed to be a matter in respect of which a complaint is
made upon which they have authority by law to make an order
for payment of money within the meaning of the said Act of
the session holden in the eleventh and twelfth years of the
reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, or any
Act amending the same.
26. Any act, power, or jurisdiction hereby authorized to be
done or exercised by two justices may be done or exercised
by the following magistrates within their respective
jurisdictions; that is to say, by any metropolitan police
magistrate sitting alone at a police court or other
appointed place, or by the Lord Mayor of the City of London,
or any alderman of the said City, sitting alone or with
others at the Mansion House or Guildhall.
27. The accounts of the Board in respect of expenses
incurred by them under this Act shall be audited in the same
manner as if they were expenses incurred under the said
Metropolis Local Management Acts, and the Board shall in
each year make a report to one of her Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State of all acts done and expenditure
incurred by them in pursuance of this Act, and that report
shall be laid before Parliament within one month after the
commencement of the session.
28. The Board may delegate any powers conferred on them by
this Act to a committee of their body; and such committee
shall, to the extent to which such powers are delegated, be
deemed to be the Board within the meaning of this Act.
29. If the companies insuring property within the
metropolis, or any such number of them
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