A.D. 1901. within such burgh or special or separate district, it shall be lawful to increase such rate to such extent as may have been approved of by the Local Government Board for Scotland.

Transference of

special districts.

Provided also, that it shall not be lawful to impose any rate in respect of the expenditure within any special or separate drainage district upon any premises without such district.

3. All special or separate drainage districts that have been formed in any burgh under may any Public Health Act shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be drainage districts under the principal Act, and any special or separate water supply districts which have been so formed shall cease to exist as such and shall be united to the other parts of the burgh for the purposes of water supply, and all rights and liabilities connected therewith Provided that nothing herein contained shall affect any special water supply district partly within a county and partly within a burgh, or the provisions relating thereto of section eighty-one of the Local Government 52 & 53 Vict. (Scotland) Act, 1889, as amended by section 57 & 58 Vict. forty-four of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1894.

c. 50.

c. 58.

Amendment of 55 & 56 Vict. c. 55.

Town council, &. to have powers of

:

60 & 61 Vict.

drainage or water supply shall extend to the A.D. 1901. whole area of the burgh as existing for the purposes of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, c. 38. 1897, and the town council of any burgh, as the authority under the principal Act, in addition to the powers conferred upon them by the principal Act, or any other Act, shall, with reference to sewerage and drainage or water supply within such area, have the same rights, powers, and privileges as are conferred by the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, upon local authorities under that Act in districts other than burghs, with the exception of the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by sections one hundred and twenty-two and one hundred and thirty-one of the last-mentioned Act, to which sections the present section shall not apply, and in so far as necessary for giving effect to this enactment the lastmentioned Act and the Acts and parts of Acts incorporated therewith are, subject to the necessary modifications, incorporated with the principal Act.

Provided that all costs and charges incurred by the town council in the exercise of such rights powers and privileges shall be provided for out of the sewer assessment or water assessment before mentioned, as the case may be, and that where it shall be necessary for the town council to borrow money for the purposes of sewerage and drainage or water supply they shall be entitled to do so on the security of the sewer assessment or water assessment herein-before mentioned, in lieu of the assessments mentioned in the principal Act, or the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, as the case may be.

PART II.

of 60 & 61

6.-(1.) Section one hundred and forty-seven Amendment of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, Vict. c. 38. shall be read as though the words " or in the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892," were inserted after the word "herein."

(2.) Section two hundred and sixty-one of the principal Act shall be read and have effect as if for the words "for other purposes" the words "for these purposes were substituted.

7. The Acts specified in the schedule to this Repeal. Act are hereby repealed to the extent men. tioned in the third column in so far as the same apply to burghs to which this Act applies from its commencement.

(2) to any burgh in which at the passing of this Act a local Act (including an Act confirming a Provisional Order) is in force with respect to sewerage, drainage, or water supply. Provided that it shall be in the power of the town council of any burgh to which Part I. of this Act does not apply from its commencement by resolution to adopt Part I. of this Act, and from and after the date specified in such resolution Part I. of this Act shall come into force in the burgh, and the Acts specified in the schedule to this Act shall in so far as the same apply to such burgh be deemed to be repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column thereof and all local Acts (including as afore

said) which apply exclusively to such burgh, A.D. 1901 so far as inconsistent with or dealing with the same matters as Part I. of this Act, shall also be repealed, which Acts or portions of Acts shall be specified in the resolution. Every such resolution shall be forthwith communicated to the Secretary for Scotland.

9. This Act shall come into operation on the Commencefifteenth day of May, one thousand nine hun- ment of Act. dred and two, which date is herein called the commencement of this Act.

10. This Act may be cited as the Burgh Short title Sewerage, Drainage, and Water Supply (Scot- and extent. land) Act, 1901, and shall apply to Scotland only.

A.D. 1901.

1. Short title.

6. Saving.

An Act to enable the Secretary of State in Council of India to raise Money in the United Kingdom for the purpose of paying off or redeeming Debentures of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company.

[17th August, 1901.]

€3 & 64 Vict. WHEREAS by the Great Indian Peninsula c. cxxxviii. Railway Purchase Act, 1900, it is enacted that the Secretary of State in Council of India (herein-after referred to as the Secretary of State) shall from time to time, as and when the same becomes due, pay to the several persons for the time being entitled thereto the principal moneys secured by any debentures of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company:

Short title.

And whereas the total of the principal moneys secured by the said debentures of the Company, which, together with the rates of interest payable upon and the dates for the redemption of the same respectively, are specified in the schedule to this Act, amounts to the sum of three million two hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred pounds:

And whereas it is expedient that the Secretary of State shall be empowered to raise money in manner in this Act mentioned for the redemption and discharge of the said debentures, as and when the same respectively shall become redeemable :

Be it enacted by the King'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. This Act may be cited as the East India Loan (Great Indian Peninsula Railway Debentures) Act, 1901.

Statetorne

3,220,900!.

2. It shall be lawful for the Secretary of Power to State, at any time or times, to raise in the Secretary of United Kingdom, as and when necessary, for sums not the discharge and redemption of the said exceeding debentures, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of three million two hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred pounds, such sum or sums to be raised by the creation and issue of bonds, debentures, bills, or capital stock bearing interest, or partly by one of such modes, and partly by another or others.

revenues of

3. The whole amount of the principal Limit of moneys to be charged on the revenues of charge on India under this Act shall not exceed the India. amount required for the discharge of the said debentures.

4. Upon or for the repayment of any prin- Power to cipal moneys secured under the authority of raise money for payment this Act, the Secretary of State may at any of princips time borrow or raise, by all or any of the money. modes aforesaid, all or any part of the amount of principal money repaid or to be repaid, and so from time to time as all or any part of any principal moneys under this Act may require to be repaid, but the amount so to be charged on the revenues of India shall not in any case exceed the principal moneys required to be repaid.

5. All bonds, debentures, and bills issued Securities to be charged under this Act, and the principal moneys and on revenues interest thereby secured, and all capital stock of India. issued under this Act, and the interest thereon, shall be charged on and payable out of the revenues of India, in like manner as other liabilities incurred on account of the Government of India.

6. This Act shall not prejudice or affect Saving. any power of raising or borrowing money vested in the Secretary of State at the time of passing thereof.