Excerpt from London Government: The Local Government Act, 1888, in Its Application to London It may be in the remembrance of those who have followed this subject for many years, that Mr. J. F. B. Firth, then (1880) Member for Chelsea, published a scheme having for its object the extinction of every existing Local Governing body, and the erection of one sole municipality for the whole of London. A league, called the Metropolitan Government Reform League, was established to advocate this plan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.