Act may be amended, &c. X. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. PROVISIONAL ORDERS of the GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, Submitted for the Confirmation of Parliament. A BILL [AS AMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE] FOR 5 Confirming certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health, and for other Matters relative to the Public Health and the Improvement of Towns and populous Places. [Note.-Clauses A. to E. were added by the Committee.] W HEREAS the General Board of Health have, in pursuance Preamble. of the Public Health Act, 1848, made, published, and deposited, according to the Provisions of the Act, certain Provisional Orders mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and it is expedient that the said Orders should be confirmed: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Provisional Orders of the General Confirmation 10 Board of Health referred to in the Schedule to this Act annexed Provisional shall be and the same are hereby confirmed, and shall from and after Orders of the passing of this Act be absolute, and be as binding and of the like the General Force and Effect as if the Provisions of the same had been expressly Health. enacted in this Act. 545. II. And of certain Board of First Elec Board of II. And be it enacted, That the First Election of the Local Board tion of Local of Health for the Borough of Taunton for the Purposes of the said Public Health Act shall take place on the Fourteenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Health for CLAUSE A. First Election of Local Board of Health for Croydon. CLAUSE B. First Elec III. And be it enacted, That the First Election of the Local Board of Health for the Town of Croydon for the Purposes of the said Public Health Act shall take place on the Twenty-ninth Day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. IV. And be it enacted, That the First Election of the Local Board tion of Local of Health for that Part of Chatham lying without the Liberties of the Board of Health for CLAUSE C. First Election of Local Board of Health for Sheerness. CLAUSE D. First Elec Board of 5 10 City of Rochester, to wit, Chatham Extra, for the Purposes of the said V. And be it enacted, That the First Election of the Local Board of Health for the Parish of Minster, Isle of Sheppey, for the Purposes of the said Public Health Act, shall take place on the Twenty-ninth Day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred 20 and forty-nine. VI. And be it enacted, That the First Election of the Local Board tion of Local of Health for the Town of Ware for the Purposes of the said Public Health Act shall take place on the Twenty-ninth Day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Health for Local Board of Health may contract for lighting. 25 VII. And whereas it is expedient that the Local Boards of Health for the Execution of the Public Health Act, 1848, should be invested with certain Powers not included in that Act: Be it therefore enacted, That the said Local Boards constituted under the said Public Health Act may contract for any Period not exceeding Three Years at any 30 one Time with any Company or Person for the Supply of Gas or Oil, or other Means of lighting the Streets, Roads, and other open Places, Markets, and public Buildings within their respective Districts, and may provide such Lamps, Lamp Posts, and other Materials and Apparatus as such Local Boards respectively may think 35 necessary for lighting the same; and the Expenses incurred by any such Local Board in so doing shall be defrayed out of the general or special District Rates (as the Nature of the Case may require) levied under the said Public Health Act. VIII. And |