1.—In Clause 46, line four, for the words “twenty-six” substitute the word “thirteen;” add a clause after said clause as follows:—“If any member of the Metropolitan Board of Works shall be absent from the meetings of the said Board for thirteen consecutive weeks, he shall thereupon cease to be a member of the said Board; and the said Metropolitan Board of Works shall immediately send notice of the fact to the Vestry or District Board by which such member was elected, whereupon which Vestry or District Board shall forthwith proceed to elect a new member for the said Metropolitan Board in the room of the member so ceasing to be a member as aforesaid; and such election shall be conducted in accordance with the 44th, 45th, and 46th sections of the firstly-recited Act, so far as the same are respectively applicable.” 2.—Provided always that in construing the 6th section of the firstly-recited Act, in calculating the number of Poor Rate assessments in any parish, each house, or piece or parcel of land, tenement, or hereditament rated to the relief of the poor, shall be counted and taken as a separate Poor Rate assessment. 3.—Notwithstanding anything in the said recited Acts or this Act to the contrary, Be it enacted, that the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, shall from time to time raise and levy the sums which they may require for defraying the expenses of executing the said Acts and this Act, and shall for that purpose make separate equal pound rates upon their parish or part thereof, in like manner as overseers are required to do with respect to the sums for which orders are by the firstly-recited Act directed to be made upon them by Vestries and District Boards; and shall in raising such sums act upon the like principles, and have the like discretion, as provided in the firstly-recited Act with respect to orders upon Overseers by Vestries and District Boards, subject to the provisions of this Act, and shall for that purpose have free access to, and be at liberty to copy or adopt any assessment to the Poor Rate in the said parish, or any part or parts of such assessment; and such Vestry shall have power to appoint a collector or collectors for levying the amount of such rates, and to pay him or them such salary, poundage, or allowance as they may deem just and reasonable; and shall take such security from every such collector for the due execution of his duty as they shall think reasonable and proper; and such collector or collectors shall proceed in the same manner, and shall have the same powers and remedies, and be subject to the same regulations and directions with reference to the levying of such rates, as if he or they were an overseer or overseers of the poor, and shall pay over the amount of such rates to the said Vestry or otherwise, as such Vestry may direct; and such collector or collectors shall, when and in such manner as shall be required by the said Vestry, make out and deliver