Authentication of documents, 315; of orders of the privy council,

225, 373.

Authority of the Local Board, how to be given, 212.

Avoidance of the constitution of the Board, 250.
Award as to compensation, 182, 184.

Bakehouses, regulations as to, 121, 464.

Bathing in reservoirs, &c., penalty, 138; on the sea shore, 516.
Baths, supply of water to, 137, 481; establishment of, by Local
Boards, 288.

Baths and Wash-houses Acts, 346; Local Board may act as commis-
sioners, or adopt the Acts, 288, 436.

Betting-Houses, 506.

Billiard Room, license of, 506.

Boats, license of, 284.

Books, production of, on inquiry, 179; at election of Local
Boards, 77.

Borrowing powers, exercise of, 241, 303, 336, 445, 459, 528, 535, 538.
Borough, interpreted, 46, 227; constitution of Local Boards of Health
in, 59, 258.

Boundaries of undefined districts settled, 241; cleansing water-
courses on, 262.

Bridges included under the term streets, 47; construction of, by
Local Boards, 279; when not to be interfered with by Local
Boards, 321.

Building, meaning of the term, 48; notice of intended, 110; line of,
regulated, 269; not to be erected over sewers, 102; when unfit for
habitation, 102, 268; ruinous or dangerous, 476; materials, 479.
Burial Act Clauses, 526.

Burial Board may transfer powers and property, 436; Local Board
to be, 289; expenses of, 290; in wards, 291.

Burial grounds, exemption of, from certain expenses, 277; prohibi-
tion of, when dangerous to health, 142; formation of new,
143; repair of fences round, 291.

Burial under churches, 143; of infected bodies, 430.
Business, offensive, regulated, 120, 385.

Butcher's meat, inspection of, 118; nuisances from, 385.
Byelaws under Local Government Act, 228, 265, 267; under re-
pealed provisions of Public Health Act, 231; as to proceedings
of Local Boards, 86; as to duties of their officers, 90; for
removal of dust, filth, and refuse, 113; for prevention of nui-
sances arising from snow and filth, 265; as to the construction
of new streets, 118, 267; as to public baths and wash-houses,

356; and as to public bathing 516; as to slaughter-houses, 118,
288; offensive trades, 121; lodging houses, 121; markets, 293,
495; as to horses and asses standing for hire, 284; hackney
carriages, 142, 516; pleasure boats, 284; houses for the reception
of the dead, 516; how they are to be made, 173; confirmation of
them by Secretary of State, 174; recovery of penalties under,
187.

Cambridge, Local Board of Health for, 85, 339; quorum at, 87.
Canal, construction of bridges over, 279; when not to be interfered
with by Local Boards, 322; or under Nuisance Removal Act,
391; rating of, 150, 299.

Candidate, nomination of, 78; refusal to serve, tender of, 80; when
to be deemed duly elected, 82; the declared agent of, may
accompany deliverer of voting papers, 255.

Carriages for removal of the sick, 406, 429.

Carts, weighing of, in market, 490.

Casting vote of chairman, 88.

Casual vacancies, when to be filled up, 255.

Cellars, 476; occupation of, 123, 436.

Certificate of chairman of members elected, when conclusive, 82; of

inhabitants, 426; of officer of health, as to houses in a filthy
condition, 116; of auditors, how to be enforced, 311; of Secre-
tary of State, 442, 447.

Certiorari, removal of disallowances in accounts by, 309, 310;
when it will not lie, 193, 389.

Cesspools, cleansing of, 113; penalty for allowing to overflow, 115;
examination of, by surveyors, 111; byelaws as to, 113, 268.
Chairman of Local Board to be appointed, 87; to be returning
officer, 76; his certificate of members elected, 82; of meeting
for adoption of the Act, 237.

Chancery decrees, not to be affected by repealed provisions of Public
Health Act, 231.

Channelling streets, 126, 127.

Chapels, exemption of, from certain expenses, 277.

Charge on general district rates, 58; of costs of preliminary in-
quiry, 247.

Charges on rates, 151, 160; illegal, 160; for use of baths and wash-
houses, 356, 359, 360.

Cholera, regulations for preventing, at sea ports, xxiv.

Churches, notices on, 53; exemption of, from certain expenses, 277 ;
prohibition of interments within, 143.

Churchwardens to give notice as to occupation of cellars, 125; to
summon meeting for adoption of the Act, 236; construction of
wells, sewers, and pumps by, in certain cases, 106.

Cisterns, public, 137, 481.

Cleansing sewers, 113; watercourses on boundaries, 262; privies,

ashpits, and cesspools, 113, 265, 441; turnpike roads, 280 ;
common lodging houses, 365; infected houses or goods, 428.
Clerk of Boards of Guardians to produce books at election of mem-
bers of Local Boards, 77.

Clerk of Local Board, appointment of, 89; to make returns as to
highways, 274; actions to be in the name of, 195; appearance
of, for Local Board, 195; reimbursement of, 196, 202; to
publish abstracts of the audited accounts, 314.

Clocks (public), Local Boards may provide, 285, 485.

Closing buildings unfit for habitation, 268; burial grounds, 142.
Closing of public houses, 530.

Collection of rates, 164.

Collection of voting papers, 80; agent of candidate may accompany, 255,
Collectors, appointment of, 89; security by, 92; accounting of, 92.
Commissioners (of public works), loaus by, 169, 354.

Commissioners under Local Acts when Local Board, 85; exercising
powers for sanitary regulations, 240; for baths and washhouses,
348; incorporated, 351; for public libraries, museums, and
schools, 534.

Commissioners (of Sewers), protected, 206, 319.

Committees of Local Boards, 89; of guardians, 404; of sewer autho-
rity, 420.

Common informers, actions by, 189.

Common lodging-houses, 121; Acts for regulating, 362.

Common gaming houses, 506.

Companies clauses Consolidation Act, 536.

Compensation by Local Board, 205, 261, 323; by sewer authority,
411; by local authority for demolishing buildings, 456; for
altering line of street, 474.

Composition for rates, 158, 298.

Compounding for penalties under contracts, 146.

Conditions on contracts, 145.

Conduits, public, 137.

Confirmation of provisional order of Secretary of State, 331, 334,

336; of byelaws, 174, 293.

Consent of General Board of Health, 212; of Local Board, 212.
Constable refusing to make distress, subject to penalty, 166.

Constitution of Boards of Health, 59; under the Local Government
Act, 233, 251; date of, 248.

Continuance in office of Local Boards, 60.

Contracts under repealed provisions of Public Health Act, 231; per-
sons concerned in, disqualified as members of Local Boards, 69,
256; penalty on officers interested in, 91; for sale of, storing
and deposit of, sewage, 261; for lighting streets, 133, 287; for
water supply, 134, 294; of Local Boards, 145; conditions of,
145; contribution to, 418.

Contribution to contracts, 418.

Conviction, form of it, 188, 219.

Corporate borough, interpreted, 227.

Corporate district, interpreted, 47.

Corporation, aggregate, voting by, at elections, 74.

Corrupt food and provisions, 118, 384; practices with voting papers,
239.

Costs of preliminary inquiry, 58, 339; of adoption of Local Govern-
ment Act, 236, 250; of inquiries by Secretary of State, 331,
339, 447; of appeal to him, 339; of proceedings in Parliament,
336; of repair of highways, how to be defrayed, 149; of levying
rates, 297; of prosecutions for nuisances, 387; of nuisance
removal authority, 402; of sewer authority, 419; recovery
of, 297.

Council, order in, to create Local Boards of Health, 55, 203.
Court, payment of monies into, 199.

Court, superior, interpreted, 44.

Covenants for payment of rates and taxes, 159.

Cowhouses, 115.

Creation of district of Local Board of Health, 52, 241.

Crown property preserved, 319; rating of, 298.

Damage to property of the Local Board, 138, 436; to private pro-
perty, 102; by raising or lowering levels of streets, 126; in
respect of houses projecting beyond line of streets, 474; recovery
of, 270; by Local Board, compensation for, 205.

Dangerous buildings, 452.

Dangerous places near streets, repair of, 479.

Date of the constitution, 248.

Day of election, 62, 79.

Dead, burial of, 142, 289; houses for the reception of, 142, 430.
Death of arbitrator, 183.

Debts, payment of, 296.

Declaration to be made by members of Local Boards, 67; of arbi-
trators, 186.

Deduction of rates by lessee from rent, 155; of payment of expenses
from rent, 432.

Defacing boards, 210.

Default of authorities, proceedings on, 437.

Defects in election or selection, consequence of, 84.

Delivery of voting papers, 79; agent of candidate may accompany,

255.

Demand of rates, service of, 297.

Departmental orders, how far supported, 338.

Description of owner and occupier in the rate, 165; of property of
Local Boards in actions, 196.

Direction of General Board of Health dispensed with, 231.

Disallowances in accounts, by auditors, 310; removal of, by cer-
tiorari, 310; appeal against, 311; how to be recovered, 311.
Diseases Prevention Act, 370, 405; Joint Boards for executing, 435.
Disinfecting common lodging-houses, 122, 368; houses and goods,
428, 429, 435.

Dispensation of disqualification, 257.

Disposal of sewage, 261.

Disqualification of members of Local Board, 68, 73, 256.

Distress warrant for rate, 166, 297; how to be levied, 297.

Distribution of sewage, 412, 414.

District, interpreted, 46; area comprised in, 53.

District of Local Board of Health created, 52; union of adjoining
districts, 258; of sewage districts, 416.

District fund account, 148; charges to be defrayed out of, 160.
District rates, charge on, 114, 115, 160, 290; making of, 148, 295;
on part of district, 153.

Ditches, draining of, 106, 228; cleansing of, on boundaries of dis-
trict, 262; on highways, 381.

Diversion of streams prohibited, 138.

Division of districts into wards for election of members of Local

Drainage of houses, 103, 105, 423, 424; byelaws as to, 265; works

of, when not to be interfered with by Local Boards, 206, 319.

Drain not to be a nuisance, 111.

Drivers of hired horses, 284; of infected vehicles, 429.

Driving in the streets, 503.

Drugs, adulteration of, 386.