Local GovernmentMacmillan, 1883 - 160 pages |
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... ordinary receipts and extraordinary receipts , such as special taxes or loans . It also distinguishes ordinary from extraordi- nary expenditure . The arrondissement is not , like the department , a body corporate , but merely a ...
... ordinary receipts and extraordinary receipts , such as special taxes or loans . It also distinguishes ordinary from extraordi- nary expenditure . The arrondissement is not , like the department , a body corporate , but merely a ...
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... ordinary ratepayer looks on a rise in his rates in the same way that he looks on an increase in the rainfall . Both are matters to be grumbled at ; but in neither case does he inquire into causes , and he considers the one as ...
... ordinary ratepayer looks on a rise in his rates in the same way that he looks on an increase in the rainfall . Both are matters to be grumbled at ; but in neither case does he inquire into causes , and he considers the one as ...
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... ordinary and extraordinary . The affairs of the ecclesiastical parish are regulated by the vestry , which is , properly speaking , an assembly of the minister , churchwardens , and parishioners . It was , and perhaps still is , the duty ...
... ordinary and extraordinary . The affairs of the ecclesiastical parish are regulated by the vestry , which is , properly speaking , an assembly of the minister , churchwardens , and parishioners . It was , and perhaps still is , the duty ...
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... ordinary annual elections are held in April . The clerk to the guardians acts as returning - officer . The persons entitled. 1 There is of course no local rule without its local exceptions . Oxford and Birmingham Unions ( and there may ...
... ordinary annual elections are held in April . The clerk to the guardians acts as returning - officer . The persons entitled. 1 There is of course no local rule without its local exceptions . Oxford and Birmingham Unions ( and there may ...
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... ordinary staff of every borough , but many boroughs have , in addition to their normal functions , wholly or in part the organisation of a county , having their own Commissions of the Peace , and Courts of Quarter Sessions ; and this of ...
... ordinary staff of every borough , but many boroughs have , in addition to their normal functions , wholly or in part the organisation of a county , having their own Commissions of the Peace , and Courts of Quarter Sessions ; and this of ...
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Page 157 - This series is intended to meet the demand for accessible information on the ordinary conditions, and the current terms, of our political life.
Page 160 - The following are the titles of the volumes :— 1. Central Government. HD TRAILL, DCL, late Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. [Ready. 2. The Electorate and the Legislature. SPENCER WALPOLE, Author of " The History of England from 1815.
Page 65 - s most unblushing advocate, " made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and returned laden with surrenders, the spoils of towns.
Page 116 - 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 89 - 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 159 - The books are not intended to interpret disputed points in Acts of Parliament, nor to refer in detail to clauses or sections of those Acts ; but to select and sum up the salient features of any branch of legislation, so as to place the ordinary citizen in possession of the main points of the law. The following are the titles of the volumes : — CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.
Page 7 - ... 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...