Local GovernmentMacmillan and Company, 1883 - 160 pages |
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Page 40
... Act of 1872 the office of parish constable is permissively abolished.1 By the Public Health Act of 1872 the sanitary functions of the vestry in rural districts were transferred to the guardians as the rural sanitary authority . In urban ...
... Act of 1872 the office of parish constable is permissively abolished.1 By the Public Health Act of 1872 the sanitary functions of the vestry in rural districts were transferred to the guardians as the rural sanitary authority . In urban ...
Page 102
... legislation in England has had but a short history - in fact , it may be said to begin with the Public Health Act of 1848. The reason is not far to seek . In the first place , owing to the pressure of population , and the rapid growth ...
... legislation in England has had but a short history - in fact , it may be said to begin with the Public Health Act of 1848. The reason is not far to seek . In the first place , owing to the pressure of population , and the rapid growth ...
Page 107
... Act , the Towns Police Clauses Act , the Water - works Clauses Act , the Gasworks Clauses Act , with several similar Acts , were passed for the purpose of consolidating and gene- ralising the provisions usually required in local Acts for ...
... Act , the Towns Police Clauses Act , the Water - works Clauses Act , the Gasworks Clauses Act , with several similar Acts , were passed for the purpose of consolidating and gene- ralising the provisions usually required in local Acts for ...
Page 108
... Health were authorised to vary local Acts by provisional order.1 In particular , local boards were empowered to ... public baths with water . Between 1848 and 1875 some thirty Acts were passed amending or extending the Act of 1848 , but three ...
... Health were authorised to vary local Acts by provisional order.1 In particular , local boards were empowered to ... public baths with water . Between 1848 and 1875 some thirty Acts were passed amending or extending the Act of 1848 , but three ...
Page 113
... health , and , under instructions , to take proceedings for their abate- ment . He also reports to the medical officer of health . A new and important function is that of procuring samples of food for analysis by the public analyst . It ...
... health , and , under instructions , to take proceedings for their abate- ment . He also reports to the medical officer of health . A new and important function is that of procuring samples of food for analysis by the public analyst . It ...
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administration aldermen annually appoint audit body boundaries burgesses burial board bye-laws Central Government charters church churchwardens citizen City civil parish clerk Commissioners constitution coroner councillors county court division duty ecclesiastical parish Education Department England English ex officio exercise expenditure expenses fever freemen functions Government Board guardians Highway Boards highway district highway parishes hold office Home Secretary inhabitants institutions jurisdiction jury justices land legislation loans Local Government Board London Lord matters mayor ment Metropolis municipal boroughs Municipal Corporations nuisances ordinary organisation overseers owners Parliament parliamentary borough persons plural voting police political poor rate poor-law parish population powers provisional order Public Health Act purposes qualification quarter sessions ratepayers regulated relief Report rural districts rural sanitary authority rural sanitary districts school board school district sewers sheriff shire special Acts statute tion total number township unions urban sanitary authority urban sanitary districts vestry Vict
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Page 4 - Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a free government, but without municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Page 120 - Rates, or any or either of them, prospectively, in order to raise Money for the Payment of future Charges and Expenses, or retrospectively in order to raise Money for the Payment of Charges and Expenses which may have been incurred at any Time within Six Months before the making of the Rate...
Page 77 - The mayor shall be a fit person elected by the council from among the aldermen or councillors, or persons qualified to be such.
Page 3 - England alone among the nations of the earth has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity ; and her liberties may be ascribed, above all things, to her free local institutions. Since the days of their Saxon ancestors', her sons have learned, at their own gates, the duties and responsibilities of citizens.
Page 93 - This institution may be considered as a revival of the ancient local earldom ; and it certainly took away from the sheriff a great part of the dignity and importance which he had acquired since the discontinuance of that office. - Yet the lord-lieutenant has so peculiarly military an authority, that it does not in any degree control the civil power of the sheriff as the executive minister of the law.
Page 11 - ... the national Parliament, and there are the same strong reasons for plurality of votes. Only, there is not so decisive an objection, in the inferior as in the higher body, to making the plural voting depend (as in some of the local elections of our own country) on a mere money qualification : for the honest and frugal dispensation of money forms so much larger a part of the business of the local, than of the national body, that there is more justice as well as policy in allowing a greater proportional...
Page 82 - Borough, and for Prevention and Suppression of all such Nuisances as are not already punishable in a summary Manner by virtue of any Act in force throughout such Borough, and to appoint by such Bye Laws such Fines as they shall deem necessary for the Prevention and Suppression of such Offences...
Page 87 - The town clerk shall make a return to the Local Government Board of the receipts and expenditure of the municipal corporation for each financial year.