SCHEDULE. FORM (A). AT a meeting held on the of day of at the it was agreed that the following Resolution should be proposed to the owners and ratepayers : "That the Local Government Act, 1858, be adopted in the N.B. The ratepayer will put his initials under the heading "in favour of " or "against" according as he votes for or against the resolution. He is also required to subscribe his name and address at full length. If a voter cannot write, he must make his mark instead of initials, but such mark must be attested by a witness, and such witness must write the initials of the voter against his mark. If a proxy vote, he must add after his signature the words "as proxy for," with the name of corporation or company for which he is proxy. This paper will be collected on the of TAKE NOTICE "If any person wilfully commits any of the acts following, that is to say, fabricates in whole, or in part, alters, defaces, destroys, abstracts, or purloins any voting-paper, or personates any person entitled to vote in pursuance of the Public Health Act, 1848, or this Act, or falsely assumes to act in the name or on the behalf of any person so entitled to vote, or interrupts the distribution of any voting-papers, or distributes the same under a false pretence of being lawfully authorized so to do, he shall for every such offence be liable, on conviction before two justices, to be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction for any period not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour." (Local Government Act, 1858.) Signed by the summoning Officer.) FORM (B). By virtue of the Public Health Act, 1848, the Local Board of Health for the district of do hereby declare and absolutely order that the inheritance of the [dwelling-house, shop, lands, and premises, as the case may be], situate in street, in the parish of within the said district, and now in the occupation shall be absolutely charged with the sum of of of pounds, paid by for the improvement by drainage and water supply [as the case may be] of the same dwelling-house, shop, lands, and premises [as the case may be], together with interest for the same from the date hereof at pounds per centum per annum, until full payment thereof; and also all costs incurred by the said his executors, administrators, or assigns, under this security, shall be fully paid and satisfied: And we hereby further declare that the said principal and interest moneys shall be paid and payable by the owner or occupier of the said premises to the said his executors, administrators, and assigns, in manner following: (that is to say,) the interest on such principal sum of pounds, or on so much thereof as shall from time to time remain due, and payable under this order, shall be paid and payable by equal half-yearly payments whilst payable on the 2 day of thereof to be made on the and such principal sum of payable by day of and the day of in every year, the first payment day of next, pounds shall be paid and equal annual instalments on the in each of the next succeeding years, towards the discharge of the same principal sum, until the whole shall be fully satisfied and discharged. An Act to amend and make perpetual" The Public Health Act, 1858." [1st April, 1859.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the session holden in the twentyfirst and twenty-second years of Her Majesty (chapter ninety-seven), "For vesting in the Privy Council certain powers for the protection of the Public Health;" which Act was to be in force only until the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; and it is expedient that section eight of the said Act should be repealed, and that, except such section, the said Act should be made perpetual: Be it 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, as follows: Section eight of the said Act shall be repealed, and, except the said section, the said Act shall be, and the same is hereby made perpetual. (1) 23 & 24 VICT. c. 77. An Act to amend the Acts for the removal of Nuisances and the Prevention of Diseases. [6th August, 1860.] WHEREAS the provisions of "The Nuisances Removal Act for England, 1855," and "The Diseases Prevention Act, 1855," concerning the local authority for the execution of the said Acts are defective, and it is expedient that the said Acts should be amended as hereinafter mentioned: Be it 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, as follows: (1) See 21 & 22 Vict. c. 97, s. 8, ante, p. 667. Nuisances Removal Act. Vict. c. 121, I. Section three, section six, section seven, and section nine of Sections 3, 6, 7, the said "Nuisances Removal Act for England, 1855," shall be and 9 of 18 & 19 repealed: provided always, that such repeal as aforesaid shall not repealed. extend to any charges or expenses already incurred, but the same may be defrayed and recovered, and all proceedings commenced or taken under the said Act, and not yet completed, may be proceeded with, and all contracts under the said Act shall continue and be as effectual as if this Act had not been passed. II. The following bodies shall respectively be the local autho- Local authority rity to execute the said Nuisances Removal Act in the districts to execute the hereunder stated in England : In any place within which the Public Health Act is or shall be in force, the Local Board of Health: In any other place wherein a Council exists or shall exist, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses by the Council, except in the city of London and the liberties thereof, where the local authorities shall be the Commissioners of Sewers for the time being, and except in the city of Oxford and borough of Cambridge, where the local authority shall be the Commissioners acting in execution of the Local Improvement Acts in force respectively in the said city and borough: In any place in which there is no Local Board of Health or Council, and where there are, or shall be trustees or commissioners under an Improvement Act, such trustees or commissioners: In any place within which there is no such Local Board of Health, Council, body of trustees, or commissioners, if there be a Board of Guardians of the poor for such place, or for any parish or union within which such place is situate, such Board of Guardians, and if there be no such Board of Guardians, the overseers of the poor for such place, or for the parish of which such place forms part. III. Highway Board or Nuisances Removal Committees now subsisting may be continued so long as they employ sanitary inspectors. (Repealed by 29 & 30 Vict. c. 90, s. 17.) Nuisances Removal Act. IV. All charges and expenses incurred by the local authority in How expenses of executing the said Nuisances Removal Act, and not recovered therein provided, shall be defrayed as follows: to wit, as Out of general district rate where the local authority is a Local Out of the borough fund or borough rate where the local authority is the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses by the Council: Provided always, that in the city of Oxford and borough of Cambridge such expenses shall be deemed annual charges and expenses of cleansing the streets of the said city and borough respectively, and shall be so payable : Out of the rates levied for purposes of improvement under any Improvement Act, where the local authority is a body of trustees or commissioners acting in execution of the powers of such an Act: Where a Board of Guardians for a union is such local authority for the whole of such union, such charges and expenses shall be defrayed by means of an addition to be made to the rate for the relief of the poor of the parish or parishes for which the local authority to be defrayed. Board of Guar dians may appoint committees for particular parishes. Saving for the vestries and disthe metropolis. trict Boards of expense has been incurred, and be raised and paid i manner as money expended for the relief of the poor: Where the Board of Guardians for a union is such local rity for two or more places maintaining their own poor, b for all such places in such union, such charges and ext shall be paid out of the poor rates of the places aforesa which the Board is the local authority: Where the Board of Guardians for a union is under this A local authority for a single place maintaining its own poor where the Board of Guardians for any such single place, overseers of any such place, (1) are under this Act the authority for such place, such charges and expenses sha defrayed out of the rates for the relief of the poor thereof: Where the Board of Guardians for a union is under this Ad local authority for part only of any place maintaining its poor, (2) together with the whole of any other such plac part of any other such place, such Board shall apportions charges and expenses between or among any or every such and any or every such place; and so much of such charges expenses as may be apportioned to any or every such place the whole of which such Board is the local authority shall defrayed out of the rates or funds applicable to the relief of poor thereof: So much of any such charges and expenses as may be apportion to part of a place maintaining its own poor, and any such charg and expenses incurred by any. Board of Guardians or overseen where such Board or overseers are the local authority for part any such place only, shall be defrayed by means of an addition t be made to the rate for the relief of the poor thereof, and be raised and paid in like manner as money expended for the relief of the poor. V. Provided, that the Board of Guardians for a union may appo a committee or committees of their own body, under section five of the said Nuisances Removal Act, to act in and for one or more of the parishes and places for which the Board is the local authority: and every committee so appointed shall have the full power of exe cuting the said Act in all respects, within the specified place of places for which it is appointed, unless its power be expressly limited by the terms of its appointment; and the Board of Guardians sha cause the charges and expenses of every such committee to be paid out of the poor rates of the place or places for which such com mittee is appointed; and where a committee is so appointed for any such place or places, the charges and expenses of the Board as local authority for or in respect of the place or places for which a committee is not appointed shall be paid or contributed by such last mentioned place or places in like manner as the expenses of a committee provided that where any one such committee is appointed for all the places for which the Board is the local authority, its charges and expenses shall be contributed and paid in like manner as the charges and expenses of the Board would have been contributed and paid if such committee had not been appointed. VI. Provided also, that as regards the metropolis, the vestries and district Boards under the Act of the session holden in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty, within their respective parishes and districts shall continue and be the local authorities for the execution of the said All wells, fountains, and mounts and men The Public Health Act. : JC verse for the use of the itants of any place, and not being the property of or reste= or pump is wilfully or mall well, fountain, or pump is p conviction of such offence before tw exceeding five pounds for such fe forfeit a sum a further sum not eding twenty shillings for every day during which such offence Continued after written notice from the local authority in relation reto; but nothing herein contained shall extend to any offence prided against by section twenty-three of the said Nuisances moval Act. IX. Local authorities under this Act may, for the purposes of the Appointment of th, severally appoint or employ inspectors of nuisances, and make inspector of payments as they see fit for the remuneration and expenses of inspectors. Diseases Prevention. c. 116, repealed. XSections two and three of "The Diseases Prevention Act, Sections 2 and 3 $55," and every other enactment constituting a local authority for of 15 & 1o Vid. the execution of the same Act, or providing for the expenses of the xecution thereof, except those contained in the eighteenth and nineteenth of Victoria, chapter one hundred and twenty, the Metropolis Local Management Act, shall be repealed. focal authorities Diseases Prevention Act. XI. The Board of Guardians for every union, or parish not Guardians and within a union, in England shall be the local authority for exe- overseers of the cuting the said Diseases Prevention Act in every place within their poor to be the respective unions and parishes, and in every parish and place in for executing England not within a union, and for which there is no Board of, Guardians, the overseers of the poor shall be the local authority to execute the same Act; and the expenses incurred in the execution of such Act by the Board of Guardians for a union shall be defrayed out of the common fund thereof, and the expenses of the Board of shall be defrayed out of the rates for the relief of the poor of such parish or place: provided that every such Board of Guardians shall, for the execution of the said Act for the Prevention of Diseases, have the like powers of appointing committees, with the like authority, and where any such committee is appointed the expenses thereof and of the Board shall be paid in the same authority for the execution of the said Nuisances Removal Act: manner as hereinbefore provided where such a Board is the local provided also, that any expenses already incurred by any local authority in the execution of the said Act shall be defrayed as if this Act had not been passed: provided, moreover, that in respect of any place where, under this Act, the local authority for executing 2 Z |