shall be verified by his solemn declaration, if the said metropolitan or district board shall require the same, which solemn declaration any justice of the peace, or commissioner duly authorized, is hereby authorized to administer; and any person having the custody or control of such rates or books as aforesaid respectively, who shall refuse or neglect at all reasonable times, to produce the same respectively to such persons so authorized as aforesaid, and permit him to inspect the same, and to take copies thereof or extracts therefrom as he shall think fit, or who shall refuse or neglect to make and deliver to such person such copy or extract, or to make such solemn declaration as aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every such offence, and to a further continuing penalty of ten pounds for each and every day during which the said offence shall be continued. XLV. The provisions of the 171st _These powers to be extended to section of the first recited Act vestries and district boards_. for enabling the clerk or other C. of Wks. M.B. Vol. 2. Fo. person authorized by the 51. Metropolitan Board of Works to inspect or take copies of, or extracts from county rates, bases, returns, and other documents; and the penalties by the said enactment prescribed in the case of neglect of permission or refusal of inspection, or neglect or refusal of permission for taking copies or extracts, are hereby extended and made applicable to all other rates, taxes, and assessments, whether parliamentary, parochial, or otherwise, within the several parts of the metropolis, or the other parts liable to assessment by the said board, and the books in which the same are contained, and the valuations and returns relating thereto, and the person or persons having the custody or control thereof. XLVIII. The assessment of any _A form for use of vestries and money assessed or to be assessed district boards to be also by the Metropolitan Board of given_. C. of Wks. M.B. Vol. Works, and the precept for 2. Fo. 51. obtaining payment of any monies required by the said board, may be according to the forms contained in Schedule A to this Act, or to the like effect. XLIX. Whereas the Metropolitan _The committee wish the sums Commissioners of Sewers in the levied upon the Counter’s Creek exercise of the powers conferred District_, _under former precepts upon them by the Act of the 11 of Metropolitan Board_, _if not and 12 years of Her Majesty, cap. paid by vestries_, _&c._, _to be 112, did approve and adopt returned to the ratepayer or to certain plans for the main the person holding the receipt drainage and sewage interception for the time being_. of the metropolis, and certain sewers and works included within and forming a portion of the plans so approved and adopted were constructed and completed by the said Commissioners, or by the