A scheme for the establishment of local management with a view to the expenditure of money on the drainage, levelling, and improvement of a metropolitan common, and to the making of byelaws and regulations for the prevention of nuisances and the preservation of order thereon, may be made under this Act on a memorial in that behalf presented to the Commissioners by the lord of the manor or by any commoners, or by the local authority, or in case of a common extending into the districts of two or more of the bodies described in the first schedule to this Act, then by any one or more of such bodies.