powers, 379; their obligations, 380; as to dangerous houses,
452; to require owner to execute works, 456; in his default to
execute, 456.

Local Board of Health, definition of term, 49; the district for, 52;

constitution of, 59; qualification of selected members of, 59, 60;
of elected members, 65; disqualification of members of, 68,
256; vacancies in, 60, 64; wards for election of, 253.
Local Boards, in boroughs, 59; selected members, 59; election of,
in non-corporate districts, 61; their proceedings, 86; bye-laws
as to, 86; quorum, 87; appointment of chairman, 87; his
casting vote, 88; to provide offices and a seal, 88; their com-
mittees, 89; appointment of officers by, 89; power of applying
surplus funds, 307.

Local Boards under Local Government Act, constitution of, 251;
powers of, 260; qualification, 252; disqualification, 69, 256;
vacancies in, 60, 96, 255; wards for election of, 252; election
of, 254; how far incorporated, 144; their powers as to sewers,
96, 261; cleansing streets, 113, 264; house drainage, 104;
management of streets, 125, 267; naming streets, 285; num-
bering houses, 285; lighting streets, 133; public clocks, 285;
public pleasure grounds, 133; may consent to projection of build-
ing, 269; highways, 270; may act as a vestry under the High-
way Act, 276; and contract with persons for making or repairing
roads and bridges, 278; regulation of buildings, 267; as to
dangerous or ruinous buildings, 285, 450; water supply, 134, 294;
water rates, 136; public baths and wash-houses and public
bathing, 137, 288; common lodging houses, 121; markets,
292; slaughter-houses, 285, 288; noxious trades, 118, 119, 120;
prevention of smoke, 285; obstructions and nuisances in
streets, 284; extinguishing fires, 267, 284; places of public
resort, 284; hackney carriages, 284; horses and asses and
pleasure-boats for hire, 284; burial of the dead, 289; bake-
houses, 464; closing public-houses, 530; public libraries,
museums, and schools of science and art, 538; actions against,
195, 201; their annual report, 332.

Local Government Act, formation of districts under, 233; partial
adoption of Act, 240; by places not having defined boundaries,
241; appeal against adoption of, 243; notice of adoption, 246;
publication of, 247.

Local Government Board, xvii.; Act for its establishment substi-
tuted for Secretary of State and Privy Council, ib.

Local rates, 443, 445.

Locks of canals, not to be interfered with, 320, 322.
Locomotives, 132.

Lodging house, common, 121, 362; regulations of, 433; family in,
435.

Acts relating to, 362.

London Gazette, publication in, 143, 203, 214, 247, 371, 433, 439.

Majority of votes at election of members of Local Boards to be
binding, 82; how determined, 87.

Management of streets, 125.

Manufactures, offensive, 119, 120; supply of water for, 113, 116.
Manure, removal of accumulations of, 137, 449; sale of, 380.
Maps of sewerage, expenses of, 97.

Market gardens, rating of, 299.

Markets, establishment of, by Local Boards, 292.

Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 486; incorporation thereof, 293.

Markets and Fairs, holding of, 489.

Marksman, vote by, 80.

Masculine includes feminine, 43.

Materials of sewer, 105.

Meadow-land, rating of, 299.

Measurement, rule of, 65.

Medical officer of the privy council, 224; to report annually, 225.
of unions and parishes entitled to costs of attending

sick on board ships, 372.

Medical aid and medicines, supply of, to poor inhabitants, 444.
Medical practitioner legally qualified, meaning of term, 95; certi-
ficate of, 116, 387.

Meetings for adoption of Local Government Act, 236; for consent to

provisional order of Secretary of State, 335.

Meetings of Local Boards, 86, 256; bye-laws as to, 86; quorum,

87.

Memorial to the General Board of Health, 178; to the Secretary of
State, 318.

Metropolis, exemption of, from Local Government Act, 228; con-
structive position of hospitals in, 448.

Metropolitan roads, not to be interfered with, 282.

Millowners protected, 391.

Mines, working of, not to be interfered with, 391.

Minister, exempt from certain expenses in respect of his church,

277.

Month, interpreted, 44.

Mortgages, sanction of General Board of Health to, 177, 231; of
rates, 168, 177, 303, 445, 459, 535; form of, 170, 216; register
of, 303.

Mortuaries, provision of, 430.

Museums, public, 134; provision of, by Local Board, grants of
land for, 539.

Naming streets, 473.

Navigable rivers, not to be interfered with, 320, 391.

Necessaries, public, 114.

Net annual value of rateable property, 298, 302.

New Building, interpreted, 269; regulation of, 267.

New houses, drainage of, 267; privies, waterclosets, and ashpits for,
108, 440.

New roads, making of, 278.

New streets, laying out, 132; purchase of premises for, 270; byelaws
as to, 267.

Nitro-glycerine, 386.

Nomination of candidate, 78.

Non-corporate district, interpreted, 47; becoming incorporated, 88.
Notice as to adoption of the Act, 246; publication of, 328, 448; of
election of members of Local Boards, 125; to members elected,
83; as to making sewers, 99; as to cellars, by churchwardens
and overseers, 125; as to paving streets by Local Board, 128,
221; of intended rate, 162; service of notice of demand of rates,
297; prior to proceedings, 428; service of, 213, 387, 444; of
action, 197; of the Local Board, authentication of, 315, 455;
of nuisances, 376.

Notice boards, defacing, 210.

Noxious or offensive matters, removal of accumulations of, 116,
264; businesses, 120, 385.

Nuisance authority described, 401; defined, 426; incorporated, 383;
to inspect as to the existence of nuisances, 427; their regula-
tions as to lodging-houses, 433; when different body from
sewer authority, 441.

Nuisance Removal Committee, 375, 402, 426.

Nuisance Removal Acts, interpreted, 425.

Nuisances, general law preserved, 102, 121; Act for the removal of,
374; nuisances under that Act described, 376; on village greens,
376, 382.

Nuisances, byelaws as to removal of, 265; in streets, 500.

Number of members of Local Board, 63.

Numbering houses in streets, 285, 473.
Nursery-grounds, rating of, 150, 299.

Oath, defined, 45.

Objections to adoption of Local Government Act, course of proceed-
ing, 248.

Obstruction on streets, removal of, 475, 500.

Obstructing officers, 210, 388, 459, 466.

Occupation of cellars, vaults, or underground rooms, 123.
Occupier, his qualification when owner rated, 73; to remove filth
and refuse, 113; rating of owner instead of, 158, 298; descrip-
tion of, when unknown, 163; to disclose owners' names, 212;
services of notices upon, 213; preventing execution of works, 211,
459.

Occupiers, successive rates on, 153.

Offences in streets, 501; in places of public resort, 506.

Offensive matters, accumulations of, 116; offensive trades, 119.
Official documents, evidence of, 51.

Office of Local Boards, duration of, 60, 62.

Officer of health, appointment of, 95, 452; his qualification, 95;
his certificate as to houses, 116; as to overcrowding, 387; as to
dangerous to health, 452; his report as to such houses, 454;
his power to inspect animals or food, 384.

Officers, appointment of, by Secretary of State, 338, 438, 447; of
Local Boards, appointment of, 89; their security, 92; accounting
of, 92.

Offices of Local Board to be provided, 88.

Openings to vaults and cellars from streets, 476.

Order of justices to permit execution of works, 211, 388; form, 220;
to abate nuisances, 378; to prohibit future nuisance, 379; to
permit entry on premises, 428.

Order of General Board and other authority how proved, 51; of
Secretary of State, 245, 338; service of, 449.

Orders, provisional, of Secretary of State, 330, 334.

Orders in Council, to create Local Boards of Health, 55; alteration
and amendment of, 203; publication of, 203.

Ornamental grounds, protection of, 134.

Outfall for sewage, 100, 101, 261.

Overseers to produce rate-books at election of members of Local
Board, 77; to give notice as to cellars, 125; to summon meeting
for adoption of the Act, 236; to pay sewerage expenses, 419;
penalty on, for default, 419.

Overcrowding, 387, 427, 434.

Owner, interpretation of the word, 43.

Owner, election of members of Local Boards by, 71; defined, 72;
his statement as to qualification to vote, 74; rating of, instead
of occupier, 73, 158, 298; description of, when unknown, 163,
388; name of, to be disclosed by occupier, 212; service of notice
on, 213, 329; extension of time for repayment of expenses by,
210; of dilapidated houses, proceedings against, 452.

Oxford, Local Board of Health for, 84, 339; quorum, 87.
Outgoing tenant, assessment on, 153.

Parish interpreted, 46, 346, 358, 418.

Parishes, sanitary improvements in small, 106.

Parks, 134; providing of land for, 539.

Parliament, cost of proceedings in, 161; presentation to, of reports of
inspectors, 203; of medical officer, 225.

Partial adoption of Local Government Act, 240.

Parts of districts assessed, 153.

Pasture land, rating of, 299.

Pavement of streets, injury to, 126; by gas company, 127, 131.

Paving streets, 126; private streets, 127.

Payment of rates, how enforced, 164; of money into Court, 199.

Penalties, recovery of, 187, 373, 381, 383, 389, 439, 443, 459, 465,
466, 498, 518; application of, 190; remission of, 286, 438.
Permanent works, 303.

Personal indemnification, 199.

Personating voters, 239.

Perjury, false evidence punishable as, 210.

Person defined, 43.

Petition for Local Board, 52; to the Secretary of State, 241, 243,

-329, 334.

Petroleum, 386, xxvii.

Pigstye, 115; fronting streets, 505.

Place, meaning of the term, 241.

Places of public resort, offences in, 506..

Plans, production of, 178.

Pleading, in actions against Local Board, 199.

Pleasure-grounds, 133; providing land for, 539.

Pleasure-boats, license of, 284.

Police, clauses as to, 284; power of, in respect of nuisances, 426.
Poll for adoption of Local Government Act, 236.

Pollution of water, 139; of streams and rivers, 208, 262, 320, 327,

411.

Ponds and pools, draining of, 106.

Poor rates, inspection of, 150; charge by sewer authority on, 411.
Posts, repair of, 126.

Pound for stray cattle, 501.

Pound-breach, 501.

Poverty, remission of rates on the ground of, 159.

Powers of officers directed by Secretary of State to make inquiries,
338; of Local Boards, 229, 200; of sewer authority, 410, 417.