of Beckenham, Municipal Borough of Bexley, Municipal Borough of Bromley, Municipal Borough of Dartford and Municipal Borough of Erith Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District, Crayford Urban District, Orpington Urban District and Penge Urban District From Hertfordshire Municipal Borough of Watford Barnet Urban District, Bushey Urban District, Cheshunt Urban District, Chorleywood Urban District, East Barnet Urban District and Rickmansworth Urban District Elstree Rural District and the parish of Northaw in the Hatfield Rural District and the parishes of Aldenham and Watford Rural in the Watford Rural District From Essex County Borough of East Ham, County Borough of West Ham Municipal Borough of Barking, Municipal Borough of Chingford, Municipal Borough of Dagenham, Municipal Borough of Ilford, Municipal Borough of Leyton, Municipal Borough of Romford, Municipal Borough of Walthamstow and Municipal Borough of Wanstead and Woodford Chigwell Urban District, Hornchurch Urban District and Waltham Holy Cross Urban District. The commission delivered its report in 1960, and a much modified version of its proposals (excluding outlying districts) was enacted as the London Government Act 1963. Rural boroughs A weakness in the county reviews carried out under the earlier Local Government Act 1929 had been that, unlike small urban districts, municipal boroughs of a similar size could not be amalgamated into a surrounding rural district. This was addressed in the 1958 Act, which gave the reviewing county council or local government commission the power to include a non-county borough in a rural district. However, some of the civic dignities of the borough corporation would be retained. The boroughs thus effected would be known as "boroughs included in rural districts", or as rural boroughs. The concept of rural boroughs had originally been announced by Henry Brooke, Minister of Housing and Local Government in the House of Commons on 29 July 1957 when he said he was considering that in future rural districts could include "what might be called a rural borough or country borough with the mayoralty and corporate existence continuing so that the burgesses could go on enjoying the traditions and the corporate property which their predecessors had handed down". Rural boroughs were no longer to be governed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, and the corporation was to consist entirely of elected councillors, from whose number a mayor and deputy mayor were to be chosen annually. The office of alderman was not to exist in rural boroughs. The council of a rural borough was