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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 (c) — 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 monies 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 day of

and the

day of

in every year, the first payment thereof to be made on
the day of
next, and such principal sum of

- pounds shall be paid and payable by

annual instalments on the

next succeeding

(d) equal

day of

in each of the

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same principal sum, until the whole shall

and discharged (e).

(c) The interest must not exceed 61. per cent. See sect. 58.

(d) The 58th section requires the term not to exceed thirty years, and provides, indeed, that the sum should be repaid by equal halfyearly payments.

sealed. In a corporate Formerly in the case of a should sign it, as it seems, It is true that this kind of

(e) This instrument should be dated and district the common seal alone will suffice. non-corporate district five members at least according to 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 149. district is by the 29 & 30 Vict. c. 91, s. 46, incorporated with certain powers, but a common seal is not given, and it is doubtful how far they are constituted complete corporations.

The charge will be exempt from stamp duty by force of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 151, ante.

Execution of the deed.

APPENDIX.

Statutes referred to, or incorporated in the foregoing Statutes, or in the Notes thereon.

No.

1. Those relating to Public Baths and Wash-houses, 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 61.

2. To Common Lodging Houses, 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28; 16 & 17 Vict. c. 41.

3. To the Prevention of Diseases, 18 & 19 Vict. c. 116. 4. To the Removal of Nuisances, 18 & 19 Vict. c. 121; ; 23 & 24 Vict. c. 77; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 117; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 41.

5. The Sewage Utilization Acts, 28 & 29 Vict. c. 75; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 113.

6. The Sanitary Acts, 29 & 30 Vict. c. 90; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 115; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 100; 33 & 34 Vict. c. 53. 7. The Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act, 1865; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 130.

8. The Bakehouse Regulation Act, 26 & 27 Vict. c. 40. 9. The Factories Inspection and Workshops Regulation Acts, 27 & 28 Vict. c. 48; 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 103, 146. 10. The Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 34.

11. The Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 14.

12. The Town Police Clauses Act, 1847; 10 & 11 Vict. c.

89.

13. Poor Law Audit Clauses, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 101; 11 & 12

Vict. c. 91; 12 & 13 Vict. c. 103.

14. The Burial Act Clauses, 20 & 21 Vict. c. 81.

PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.

9 & 10 VICT. CAP. 74.

An Act to encourage the Establishment of Public Baths and

Wash-houses.

[26th August, 1846.]

adopted in certain boroughs and . parishes.

"WHEREAS it is desirable for the health, comfort, and welfare of the "inhabitants of towns and populous districts to encourage the estab"lishment therein of public baths and wash-houses: and open bathingAct may be places:" Be it enacted, that this Act may be adopted for any incorporated borough in England which is regulated under an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty, to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations, or any charter granted in pursuance of the said Act, or any Act passed for the amendment thereof, and also, with the approval of one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, or in any parish in England not within any such incorporated borough.

Interpreta

tion of Act.

II. And be it enacted, that in this Act the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; that is to say,

"Parish" shall mean every place having separate overseers of the poor, and separately maintaining its own poor (a):

"Borough" shall mean city, borough, port, cinque port, or town corporate:

"Ratepayers" shall mean such of the persons for the time being assessed to and paying rates for the relief of the poor of the parish as for the time being shall be duly qualified to vote for the election of overseers for the parish (b):

(a) The word parish now includes a place for which a separate poor rate is or can be made, or a separate overseer is or can be appointed, 29 & 30 Vict. c. 113, s. 18. (b) There is an error here, as ratepayers do not elect the overseers of parishes. See the amendment made by 10 & 11 Vict. c. 61, post.

"Churchwardens" shall mean also chapelwardens, or other persons discharging the duties of churchwardens:

"Overseers" shall mean also any persons authorized and required to make and collect or cause to be collected the rate for the relief of the poor of the parish, and acting instead of overseers of the poor: Vestry" shall mean the inhabitants of the parish lawfully assembled in vestry, or for any of the purposes for which vestries are holden, except in those parishes in which there is a select vestry elected under an Act passed in the 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, or elected under 1 & 2 59 Geo. 5, Will. 4, c. 60, or elected under the provisions of any local Act of c. 12. parliament for the government of any parish by vestries, in which 1&2 Will. 4 parishes it shall mean such select vestry :

"Commissioners" shall mean the commissioners appointed in accordance with this Act for any parish, and for the time being in office and acting as such commissioners:

"Clerk" shall mean, as regards an incorporated borough, the town clerk of such borough; and, as regards a parish, the clerk appointed pursuant to this Act by the commissioners:

"Justice" shall mean justice of the peace for the county, riding, division, liberty, borough, or place, where the matter requiring the cognizance of the justices shall arise:

"Lands" shall mean lands, tenements, and hereditaments, of whatsoever nature or tenure:

Words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine : Words of the plural number shall include the singular, and words of the singular number shall include the plural.

c. 60.

Council of any borough may adopt

visions con

III. And be it enacted, that the council of any such borough as aforesaid may, if they think fit, determine that this Act shall be adopted for such borough, and then and in such case such of the provisions of the prothis Act as are applicable in that behalf shall thenceforth take effect and tained in come into operation in such borough, and this Act shall be carried into Act if they execution in such borough in accordance with such provisions and the laws for the time being in force relating to the municipal corporation of such borough.

think fit.

Act into

shall be

IV. And be it enacted, that the expenses of carrying this Act into Expenses of execution in any such borough in which the council shall have resolved carrying this to adopt this Act for their borough shall be chargeable upon and paid execution out of the borough fund, and for that purpose the council may levy charged with and as part of the borough rate, or by a separate rate to be assessed, upon the borough levied, paid, and recovered in like manner and with the like powers and fund, and remedies in all respects as the borough rate, such sums of money as arising carshall be from time to time necessary for defraying such expenses, and ried to same.

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