CONTENTS.

CHELTENHAM IMPROVEMENT ACT, 1852.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

PREAMBLE.

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1 and 2 Geo. IV. c. 121 (local); necessity for its repeal, and

further powers.

ENACTMENTS.

Repeal of 1 and 2 Geo. IV. c. 121; books of the former
Paving Acts to be still evidence; arrears of rates to be
paid; and collectors and others to account and hand
over property to the Commissioners under this Act; ex-
isting contracts to subsist, and penalties incurred to be
recoverable under this Act; bye-laws for hackney car-
riages to continue until others made

Interpretation clause; distances how measured; rule where

a fixed day of the month falls on a Sunday, &c.
Incorporation of provisions of Public Health Act, and Con-
solidation Clauses Acts

Short title of Act

Limits of the Act

Number of Commissioners and their style

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Division into wards; number of Commissioners for each ward
Rotation of Commissioners; Sections from Commissioners'

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Clauses Act; triennial election; re-eligibility; occasional
vacancies; rotation lists

Election of Commissioners; owners and occupiers constituted

electors; occupiers time qualification; paupers not to

vote; occupiers to vote if rates paid by them or by

owners

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Commissioners' Clauses Act: annual election day; returning

officer; poll clerks; scale of votes; joint rating and

ownership; compound vote, owner and occupier

Case of electors having property in several wards -

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Commissioners' Clauses Act: list of voters; rate collectors;

mode of voting; variation of question to suit change of

occupation; and voting in several wards; female owners

and occupiers and male owners may vote by proxy; cor-
porations and companies to vote by proxy; appointment
of proxy to be exhibited to the returning officer; ques-
tions to be put; false answers a misdemeanour; closing
poll; poll declared; voting papers kept; double return;
substituted day; want of title in officers; expenses

Penalty upon officers misconducting elections; penalty for

falsifying voting paper

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COMMISSIONERS' QUALIFICATION.
Commissioners to be qualified by residences and by property
to £1000 value or £40 yearly rating
Commissioners' Clauses Act: joint occupiers' qualification;

joint ownership qualification; no double qualification
from one property; office holding, etc. vacates commis-
sionership; shareholders in companies; declaration;
false declaration; taken at first meeting; penalty for
acting unqualified; non attendance

First meeting

MEETINGS OF COMMISSIONERS.

Sections from Commissioners' Clauses Act: election of chair-

man and vice-chairman; manner of voting; quorum of

Commissioners; annual and monthly meetings open to

ratepayers; commissioners to make bye-laws with re-

spect to business routine; adjournment; business of

monthly meetings; extraordinary business; revoking

resolutions; special meetings; meetings on emergency;

notices of meetings; expenses

GENERAL PROCEEDINGS OF COMMISSIONERS.

Sections from Commissioners' Clauses Act: power to appoint

committees; quorum; limit to their powers; proviso

as to nuisance committee; vacancies; acts of Commis-

sioners not invalid from vacancy, or defect in election,

etc.; public office to be provided; attendance; bock of

proceedings

Book of complaints

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LIABILITIES AND PROTECTION OF COMMISSIONERS
AND THEIR OFFICERS, AND LEGAL PROCEED-
INGS BY AND AGAINST THEM.

Section from Public Health Act: actions, etc. in clerk's
name; notice of action, etc.; protection from personal

liability; obstructing officers; service of notice on Com-

missioners

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OFFICERS.

Sections from Public Health Act: what officers appoint-

able; officers' extortion; officers' accounts; officer of

health

Paviours, etc. may be appointed

CONTRACTS AND DOCUMENTS.

Sections from Public Health Act: contracts; works of urgent

necessity; mode of entering into contracts; consent;

notices; stamp duty

Common seal

BYE-LAWS.

Sections from Public Health Act; making and confirmation;

no bye-laws made until one month after public notice;

publication

LAND ACQUISITION AND ENTRY.

Sections from Public Health Act: purchase by agreement;
entry on lands; compensation; gas and water pipes re-
moval and sewer alteration

Depository for materials

Compulsory purchase

Errors or omissions in plans may be corrected by justices,

Power to deviate from line and levels shown on plans and

sections

MAPS.

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Sections from Public Health Act; map of sewers and pipes;

publication of map; survey beyond borough; level lines;

bench marks; expense of

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SEWERS AND DRAINS.

Sections from Public Health Act: sewers vested in Commis-
sioners; power of communicating with excepted sewers;
purchase of sewers; provision in case of purchase of
sewers belonging to Sewers' Company

Sections from Public Health Act: making sewers; cleansing

sewers and repairing works; unauthorised sewers; use

of sewers by persons beyond borough

Commissioners to make main sewers and tanks in lieu of the

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sewer; Chelt tank; Hatherley Brook main sewer;

Hatherley Brook tank

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Accomodation works about the tanks

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Branch drains and new outlets; protection of Sewers' Com-

Section from Public Health Act: drains for new houses;

parties may use private and other excepted sewers;

water-closets; factories; levels on re-building; drains,

etc. not to be nuisances -

Unauthorized alteration of drains

STREET PAVING.

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Sections from Public Health Act: public streets; laying out

new streets

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Power to compel paving of streets being highways imper-

fectly paved

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Commissioners not to interfere with trees in certain situations
Section from Public Health Act: provisoes enforcing repairs

of private streets and as to rent-charges or sums payable
to third parties for paving, etc. of private streets
Section from Public Health Act: private streets becoming
highways; as to notice of dedicating street, and as to
apportioning rent-charges and other arrangements on
dedication

Certain private streets declared public -

Pipe-way and other rights reserved in streets

Operations in streets of Gas, Water, and Sewers' Company,

to be done with Commissioners' consent

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Saving rights of Cheltenham Gas Company; provision as to
draining gas refuse into sewers

SURFACE CLEANSING.

Sections from Public Health Act: street cleansing

Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act; scavengers;
obstructing them; interlopers for dust

Power to put lamp posts and irons against buildings; mode
of lighting; to erect works for lighting

HIGHWAYS.

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Section from Public Health Act

Road trustees not to collect toll; exceptions, Cheltenham
trust and Gloucester trust

Commissioners may cleanse streets whether highways or not

STREET OBSTRUCTIONS.

Sections from Town Police Clauses Act: routes on processions;

routes on Sundays; stage carriage deviation; stray cattle;

power to sell; pound breach; pound

STREET ANNOYANCES.

Sections from Town Police Clauses Act: window breaking;

cock throwing; rioters; drunkards; loiterers; scrib-

blers of obscene words, &c.

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Dogs not to be used as beasts of burthen or draught, and for

preventing canine madness

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STREET NAMING.

Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act: names of

streets and numbers of houses; renewal of numbers

IMPROVING STREETS.

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Section from Public Health Act: power to purchase premises 63 80
Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act: setting for-

ward houses; setting back houses; new projections;
old projections; doors to open inwards; alteration of
doors opening outwards; cellar coverings; water-spouts 64 80
REPAIRS PRECAUTIONS.

Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act: bars and

lights; hoards; penalty for not lighting deposits, and for

same remaining too long; dangerous places to be en-

closed

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RUINOUS BUILDINGS.

Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act: to be secured

by owner; on his default, by Commissioners; power of

sale if owner not found

POLICE.

Sections from Town Police Clauses Act: county constables;

additional constables; oath; allowances; resignation