 Between 1897 and 1914, applications were received from a number of other boroughs, but only Cardiff was successful in 1905 being designated a city and granted a Lord Mayoralty as "the Metropolis of Wales".The London Government Act 1899 abolished the existing local authorities within the County of London and replaced them with 28 metropolitan boroughs.Among the bodies to be dissolved was the Court of Burgesses of the City of Westminster.