The Metropolis Local Management Acts: With Introd., Notes, and an Appendix, Containing Statutes Incorporated with the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, Or Relating to the Functions of the Boards and Vestries Thereby Constituted

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Any vestry or district board may pay precept of
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Assessments and precepts may be according to form
13
Regulation of meetings of vestries constituted by 18
18
Provision for case of equality of votes
19
As to service of notices c on metropolitan
22
Constitution and Incorporation of Metropolitan Board
23
As to parishes having no churchwardens
25
Parishes in schedule B to be united and form dis
31
Provision as to casual vacancies
37
Three members of metropolitan board to be elected
41
Metropolitan board of works constituted and incor
43
The parish of Rotherhithe and district of St Olave
47
Elected members of metropolitan board to elect
49
Chairman to preside at meetings In case of vacancy
53
Members of metropolitan and district boards and
55
Powers of committees
59
Application of penalties
60
As to service of notices on owners and occupiers
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Vestries and district boards to cause sewers to
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Act not to authorize the making any thoroughfare with
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Penalties may be recovered in manner provided by 11
78
Penalty on persons improperly making or altering drains
81
Power to vestries and district boards to fill up ditches
87
Vestries and district boards to cause streets to
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As to the transfer of property
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30
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21
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Metropolitan board may declare sewers to be main
100
Expenses of obtaining this Act to be included among
103
Determination of Metropolitan Commission of Sewers
106
Acts to be construed as one
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114
As to the watering of streets
116
No hoard to be erected without licence from vestry
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Metropolitan board may require to be furnished with
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Saving rights and remedies of persons holding secu
143
Powers of metropolitan commissioners of sewers
145
Power to dispose of lands or property not wanted
154
Buildings not to be made over sewers without consent
162
Provision for cases where the vestry of any parish
167
Section 144 of 18 19 Vict c 120 declared to extend
183
Accounts of metropolitan board district boards
192
Places subject to special provision c s 175 et seq
195
Annual reports by vestries and district boards
198
more than one ward
199
Penalty on interrupting workmen c in execution
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SCHEDULE E
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Form of proceeding at elections 12
217
Payment of sums assessed upon places in sche
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33
260
Power to metropolitan board vestries and district
264
Metropolitan board may amend assessments and pre
267
Notice of buildings to be given to the vestry or district
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276
Appeal against orders of vestries c as to amount
282
Provisions as to the occupation of underground rooms
289
Where parties neglect to carry out works pursuant
290
Power to branch drains into sewers constructed
296
Overseers to pay over and account for monies to ves
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Section Page
306
Special provision as to parish of Woolwich
313
Licensing cowhouses
318
Power to vestries c to borrow monies for the
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SCHEDULES
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343
134
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Buildings projecting beyond general line when taken
343
Committes may be appointed
343
Power to metropolitan board or vestry or district board
343
Rates made by metropolitan commissioners of sewers
343
Provisions for cases where a part of a parish is placed
343
When assessment is made notice thereof to be given
343
Application of part of monies raised on security
343
Existing exemptions in respect of sewers rate to
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Provisions for discharging existing Liabilities of Boards
343
Vestries and district boards to appoint scavengers
343
Mode of proceeding with regard to buildings beyond
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Power to district surveyors to enter underground rooms
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Occupiers to pay expenses for which owners are liable
343
Vestry may flag footways and levy the costs
343
Public loans commissioners authorized to lend money
343
Occupier not to be required to pay more than
343
Penalty for obstructing scavengers in performance
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Saving of the rights of the commissioners of works 183
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APPENDIX
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Saving rights of metropolitan sewage manure com
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Metropolitan Building Act Amendment 1860 23 24
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Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 8 Vict c 18
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Diseases Prevention Act 1855 18 19 Vict c 116
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Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Amendment
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Clauses of General Metropolitan Paving Act 57 Geo
3
All parts of the metropolis to be deemed to be equally
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Power to demand a poll which shall be taken by ballot 13
13
Church rates where made in open vestry before passing
1
Act to continue coal and wine duties 24 25 Vict c 42
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Page 431 - All the costs of any such arbitration and incident thereto, to be settled by the arbitrators, shall be borne by the promoters of the undertaking, unless the arbitrators shall award the same or a less sum than shall have been offered by the promoters of the undertaking, in which case each party shall bear his own costs incident to the arbitration, and the costs of the arbitrators shall be borne by the parties in equal proportions.
Page 392 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of...
Page 22 - In case of equality the Chairman of the Meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 404 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 440 - ... and unless the promoters of the undertaking be willing to pay the amount of compensation so claimed, and enter into a written agreement for that purpose, they shall, within twenty-one days after the receipt of such notice, issue their warrant to the sheriff to summon a jury for settling the same in the manner herein provided...
Page 469 - ... at any time before issue joined, to pay into court such sum of money as he shall think fit, and thereupon such proceedings shall be had as in other cases where defendants are allowed to pay money into court.
Page 434 - ... the sum of money to be paid by way of compensation for the damage, if any, to be sustained by the owner of the lands by reason of the severing of the lands taken from the other lands of such owner, or otherwise injuriously affecting such lands by the exercise of the powers of this or the special act, or any act incorporated therewith.
Page 185 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed...
Page 405 - ... the trial of any such action the plaintiff shall not be permitted to go into evidence of any cause of action which is not stated in the notice so served ; and unless such notice is proved the jury shall find for the defendant.
Page 429 - If before the Matters so referred shall be determined any Arbitrator appointed by either Party die, or become incapable or refuse or for Seven Days neglect to act as Arbitrator, the Party by whom such Arbitrator was appointed may nominate and appoint in Writing some other Person to act in his Place ; and if...

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