said Act and the Local Government Act, 1858, are respectively in force within and for the District of Preston aforesaid.

And whereas the said Local Board of Health received authority from the General Board of Health, under the Public Health Act, 1848, to borrow a sum of 55,000l. on mortgage of the Special District Rates of the Township of Preston, which Township forms a portion of the aforesaid District, and have borrowed under such authority sums amounting in the whole to 34,8501. for the Main Drainage of such Township, and the remaining portion of the first herein-before mentioned sum of 55,000l. will be required to complete such works.

And whereas also, under the herein-before recited Acts, the said Local Board must repay the money borrowed for such works, with all interest thereon, within a period of thirty years from the date of the borrowing of such money.

And whereas the said Local Board of Health have further borrowed, on mortgage of the Rates authorized to be made under the Preston Waterworks Act, 1853, the sum of 135,2251. to defray the cost of purchasing from the Preston Waterworks Company their undertaking, and the further sum of 80,000, that being the full amount, above and exclusive of the hereinbefore mentioned purchase money, which the said Local Board are authorized to borrow under the Preston Waterworks Act aforesaid.

And whereas by that Act the said Local Board are required, in order to pay off any monies borrowed under it, to set aside in every year, from and after the expiration of five years from the passing of such Act, not less than 1,600l. as a sinking fund to be applied in paying off such monies.

And whereas the said several sums borrowed under the said Preston Waterworks Act are not sufficient to enable the said Local Board of Health to complete the Works necessary for supplying the said Borough with water, and a further sum will be required for the completion of such Works; but such further sum, with that already borrowed under the authority of the said Act, and under the authority of the Public Health Act, 1848, exceed the amount authorized to be borrowed by the several herein-before recited Acts.

And whereas the said Local Board have now, under the authority of the 78th section of the Local Government Act, 1858, petitioned me, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that the time allowed for the repayment of loans borrowed or to be borrowed on account of the Main Drainage Works within the aforesaid district of Preston may be extended from thirty to fifty years; that the time provided and fixed by the Preston Waterworks Act, 1853, (sec. 56,) for the commencement of a sinking fund to be applied under the provisions of that Act in paying off the money borrowed or to be borrowed on account of the waterworks of the aforesaid District, may be extended; and that the said Local Board may

be

be empowered to borrow (for the completion of the Works for supplying water to such District), on mortgage of the Waterworks and Water Rates under the provisions of the Preston Waterworks Act, 1853, and of the rates leviable by the Preston Local Board of Health under the powers of the Public Health Act, 1848, and of the Local Government Act, 1858, such further sum or sums of money as, together with the amount already borrowed under the said several Acts, shall not exceed in the whole two years assessable value of the premises assessable within the District in respect of which such further sum or sums may be borrowed.

And whereas, after due inquiry and report by William Ranger esquire, the inspector appointed by me for the purpose, I am of opinion that the prayer of such petition should be granted; but the same cannot be done without the consent of Parliament.

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the powers now vested in me as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State as aforesaid, I do hereby, by this Provisional Order under my hand, direct as follows:

That from and after the passing of any Act of Parliament confirming this present Order

1.-The Local Board of Health for the District of Preston aforesaid shall have power and authority to borrow or to reborrow for the completion of the works for supplying water to that District, and on mortgage of their Waterworks and of the rates leviable under the authority of the Preston Waterworks Act, 1853, and of the Public Health Act, 1848, and Local Government Act, 1858, such a sum or sums of money as shall not, together with the amount already borrowed, exceed in the whole two years assessable value of the premises within the District in respect of which such sum or sums may be so borrowed or reborrowed; the said borrowing or reborrowing of such further sum or sums of money for the completion of such works. being subject to the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1858, and of the Preston Waterworks Act, 1853, in respect to the borrowing of money on security of the Rates leviable under such Acts.

2. The period within which the Preston Local Board of Health should, under the Provisions of the Public Health Act, 1848, and of the Local Government Act, 1858, repay the amount borrowed or to be borrowed by them on security of the rates leviable under the said Acts, to defray the cost of the Main Drainage Works executed by them within such, District, be extended from thirty years to a period of fifty years from the date of the borrowing thereof within which period of fifty years such amount

borrowed

borrowed for the execution of such Main Drainage Works shall, with all interest thereon, be repaid.

3. Section 56 of the Preston Waterworks Act, 1853, be repealed, so far as it fixes the date at which the said Local Board of Health shall commence setting aside an annual sum to provide a sinking fund for the purposes therein set forth, and that in order to pay off the monies borrowed under the authority of the said Act, such Local Board of Health shall, in every year after the expiration of seven years from the passing of the Act confirming this Order, set apart not less than one thousand six hundred pounds as a sinking fund, for the purposes and in the manner set forth in the aforesaid fifty-sixth section of the said Preston Waterworks Act.

Given under my Hand this Twenty-fourth day of April 1861.

(Signed) G. C. LEWIS.

MORPETH.

Provisional Order for altering the Boundaries of the District of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland, as constituted for the Purposes of the Public Health Act, 1848.-Local Government Act, 1858.

Whereas, by a Provisional Order of the General Board of Health bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May 1851, confirmed by the Public Health Supplemental Act, 1851 (No. 2), the Public Health Act, 1848, was duly applied to the Parliamentary Borough of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland.

And whereas a petition has been duly presented to me, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, under the Provisions of the 77th Section of the Local Government Act, 1858, and duly signed by a majority of the owners and ratepayers in the Parish of Bedlington, which forms part of the District of Morpeth under the Public Health Act, 1848, praying for an alteration of the boundaries of the said District of Morpeth, by the separation of the Parish of Bedlington from such District as it was constituted under the herein-before recited Provisional Order, and the Act confirming the same.

And whereas, in pursuance of the said Local Government Act, inquiry has been directed in the said District in respect of the several matters mentioned in the said Petition, and report has been made to me thereon by William Ranger esquire, the inspector appointed for the purpose.

And whereas it appears expedient to issue a Provisional Order in relation to the said matters, but no such Order can be valid without confirmation by Parliament.

Now,

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Local Government Act, I, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do, by this Provisional Order, under my hand, direct,

That, from and after the passing of any Act of Parliament confirming this Order—

1.- The District of the aforesaid Local Board of Health for Morpeth in the County of Northumberland, constituted as herein-before described for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1848, be altered by so much of the aforesaid District as is comprised within the Parish of Bedlington in the County of Northumberland, being excluded from the District of the aforesaid Local Board of Health. 2. At every election of members of the Local Board of Health aforesaid which shall take place after the passing of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order, the members to be elected shall be elected for the whole of the District as altered by this Order, and by the votes of owners of, and ratepayers in respect of, property situate within the District so constituted.

Given under my Hand this Third day of May

1861.

(Signed) G. C. LEWIS.

BROMSGROVE.

Provisional Order for altering the Boundaries of the District of Bromsgrove in the County of Worcester, under the Local Government Act, 1858.-Local Government Act, 1858.

Whereas the Local Government Act, 1858, was, on the Fourteenth day of October 1859, duly adopted within the Parish of Bromsgrove in the County of Worcester by the Commissioners acting under and by virtue of the Bromsgrove Improvement and Small Tenement Act, 1846; and whereas the aforesaid Local Government Act, 1858, has had the force of law within such Parish from and after the Fourteenth day of December 1859.

And whereas a Petition has been duly presented to me as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, under the provisions of the 77th section of the Local Government Act, 1858, signed by owners and ratepayers of that part of the Parish of Bromsgrove in the County of Worcester which is not comprised within the limits of the Town of Bromsgrove, as described and defined in the Bromsgrove Improvement and Small Tenement Act, 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 124), praying that such part of the said parish may be separated from the District of the Bromsgrove Local Board; or, otherwise, that the Local Board for carrying into effect the last herein-before mentioned Act may be so constituted that the owners of property without the Town District may be enabled to vote in the election of such Board, that the scales of votes and method of voting prescribed

24 & 25 VICT. prescribed in the Public Health Act, 1848, may be employed in such election, and that the qualifications of voters and commissioners may be those prescribed in the said Public Health Act, 1848.

And whereas, in pursuance of the said Local Government Act, inquiry has been directed and held in the said District in respect of the several matters mentioned in the said Petition, and report has been made to me thereon by Henry Austin esquire, the Inspector appointed for the purpose.

And whereas it appears expedient to issue a Provisional Order in relation to the said matters, but no such Order can be valid without confirmation by Parliament.

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Local Government Act, I, as one of Her Majestys Principal Secretaries of State, do, by this Provisional Order under my hand, direct,

That, from and after the passing of any Act of Parliament confirming this Order

1.-All that portion of the District of Bromsgrove in the County of Worcester, under and for the purposes of the Local Government Act, 1858, which is not comprised within the limits of the Town of Bromsgrove, as such limits are defined in the 64th Section of the hereinbefore recited Bromsgrove Improvement and Small Tenement Act, 1846, (9 & 10 Vict. c. 124,) shall be separated from the said District, and the District of Bromsgrove, under the Local Government Act, 1858, shall be confined within the limits of the Town of Bromsgrove, as the same are defined by the hereinbefore recited Bromsgrove Improvement and Small Tenement Act, 1846.

2.-The Local Board for the time being for the District of Bromsgrove shall be the Local Board for the District as altered by this Order and the Act of Parliament confirming the same.

Given under my Hand this Twenty-fourth day of
April 1861.

(Signed)

G. C. LEWIS.

DURHAM.

Provisional Order putting in force the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, within the District of the Durham Local Board of Health, for the Purchase of Lands by the said Board for Street Improvements.-Local Government Act, 1858.

Whereas the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Durham and Framwellgate by the Council of the said City, being the Local Board of Health in and for the District of the said City, to which the Public Health Act, 1848, was duly applied by a Provisional Order of the General Board of Health confirmed by the Public Health Supplemental Act, 1849, have,

in