Local GovernmentMacmillan and Company, 1883 - 160 pages |
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... vestry ; the punchayet or council of elders wields far greater powers than any vestry , and the village com- munity governs itself much more completely than any English parish or New England township . The com- parison is not an idle ...
... vestry ; the punchayet or council of elders wields far greater powers than any vestry , and the village com- munity governs itself much more completely than any English parish or New England township . The com- parison is not an idle ...
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... vestry , the school board , the burial board , the guardians , and the county quarter sessions ; all these are different bodies , and inhabitants of different parts of the same borough are or may be under different vestries , burial ...
... vestry , the school board , the burial board , the guardians , and the county quarter sessions ; all these are different bodies , and inhabitants of different parts of the same borough are or may be under different vestries , burial ...
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... vestry , a school board , a burial board , a highway board , the guardians , and the justices . There are There are a multitude of minor matters in respect of which the districts , authorities , and rates are or may be additionally ...
... vestry , a school board , a burial board , a highway board , the guardians , and the justices . There are There are a multitude of minor matters in respect of which the districts , authorities , and rates are or may be additionally ...
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... vestry , the guardians , or the country . It will be no easy task to make these heterogeneous elements coalesce , and there are of course limits beyond which it would not be desirable to attempt to do so . " to local government are very ...
... vestry , the guardians , or the country . It will be no easy task to make these heterogeneous elements coalesce , and there are of course limits beyond which it would not be desirable to attempt to do so . " to local government are very ...
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... Vestry - Its Func- tions - The Overseers - The Ecclesiastical Parish - The Minister -The Churchyard and rights of Burial - Churchwardens and other Lay Officers . I. The Civil Parish . FOR most purposes of local government the term ...
... Vestry - Its Func- tions - The Overseers - The Ecclesiastical Parish - The Minister -The Churchyard and rights of Burial - Churchwardens and other Lay Officers . I. The Civil Parish . FOR most purposes of local government the term ...
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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.