
1 
This Act shall he cited as the Metropolitan Commons Act, 1878, and shall be read as forming one Act with the Metropolitan Commons Acts, 1866 and 1869.
2 
The Metropolitan Board of Works shall, in respect of any common situate within the metropolis as defined by the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, have the same power to purchase and hold, with a view to prevent the extinction of the rights of common, any saleable rights in common, or any tenement of a commoner having annexed thereto rights of common, as is conferred by the fifth paragraph of the eighth section of the Commons Act, 1876, upon an urban sanitary authority in respect of a suburban common.
3 
Sections thirty and thirty-one of the Commons Act, 1876, shall, after the passing of this Act, apply to metropolitan commons within the meaning of the Metropolitan Commons Acts of 1866 and 1869.