Justice of the peace, mode of proceeding before, 186; may act
though interested, 187.

Justices, two, interpreted, 31; to settle compensation, 203, 316,
492.

Keeping animals so as to be injurious to health, 263.
Knackers' yards-See Slaughter-houses.

Landlord and tenant, agreement between, not to be affected by
Acts, 154.

Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, incorporated, 138, 326,
484.

Lands, interpreted, 29; entry upon, 200; rating of, 295; pur-
chase of, 137, 484.

Lapse of Local Board, 231,

Lease of lands by Local Board, 137; to Local Boards by member
not to vacate office, 254; Lands purchased subject to, 532.
Legal proceedings, officers failing to account, under the Public
Health Act, 1848, 184.

Lesser place, adoption of Act by, when included in a greater place,
237.

Level of houses, 102; of streets, 124.

Levelling streets, 119; byelaws as to, 109.

Liabilities of private persons to repair sewers preserved, 174.
Libraries, public, 126.

Licensing slaughter-houses and knackers' yards, 433; hackney
carriages and drivers, 461.

Lighting and Watching Act, 285.

Lighting streets, 125.

Limitation of actions, 195; of time for proceedings, 314.

Limits of Acts, 27, 226.

Line of streets, 266, 424.

List of candidates and elected members, 74.

Loans, members of Local Boards interested in, 254; by Com-
missioners of Public Works, 164; renewal of, 165.

Local Acts, provision for execution of, in districts, 332; repeal
of, 332.

Local authority, 257; 389.

Local Board of Health, 48; the district for, 38; constitution of,
48; definition of term, 35; qualification of selected members
of, 50; of elected members, 51, 56; disqualification of mem-
bers of, 59; vacancies in, 50, 54; wards for election of, 250.
Local Boards, in boroughs, 49; selected members, 49; election
of, in non-corporate districts, 51; their proceedings, 79;
byelaws as to, 79; quorum, 80; appointment of chair-
man, 80; his casting vote, 80; to provide offices and a seal,
80; their committees, 81; their annual report,330; appoint-
ment of officers by, 88; powers of, preserved, 328.

Local Boards under I ocal Government Act, constitution of, 24
powers of, 258; qualification, 249; disqualification, 5
vacancies in, 59; wards for election of, 250; election of, 20
their powers as to sewers, 89; cleansing streets, 105, 21:
house drainage, 99; management of streets, 118; name
streets, 253; numbering houses, 118; lighting streets, 25
public clocks, 283; public pleasure grounds, 126; high
267; regulation of buildings, 266; as to dangerous a
ruinous buildings, 283; water supply, 126; water rates, 11⁄2
public baths and wash-houses and public bathing, 129, 23
555; common lodging houses, 114; markets, 438; slaughte
houses, 111; noxious trades, 111, 113; prevention of smoke
283; obstructions and nuisances in streets, 283; extr
guishing fires, 265, 285; places of public resort, 282; bad
ney carriages, 282; burial of the dead, 235, 481.

Local Government Act, formation of districts under, 232; parti
adoption of Act, 238; by places not having defined bour
daries, 239; appeal against adoption of, 241; notice of
adoption, 244; publication of, 245.

Locks of canals, not to be interfered with, 93, 323.

Lodging house, common, 114.

Acts relating to, 374.

London Gazette, publication in, 136.

Majority of votes at election of members of Local Boards to b
binding, 73.

Management of streets, 118.

Manufactures, offensive, 113; supply of water for, 129.

Manure, removal of accumulations of, 105.

Maps of sewerage, 89.

Market gardens, rating of, 297.

Markets, establishment of, by Local Boards, 289.

Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 438; incorporation thereof, 291.
Markets and Fairs, holding of, 441.

Marksman, vote by, 72.

Meadow-land, rating of, 297.

Medical officer of the privy council, 221; to report annually, 221.
Medical practitioner legally qualified, meaning of term, 88; certit-
cate of, 109.

Meetings for adoption of Local Government Act, 234; for consent
to provisional order of Secretary of State, 331.

Meetings of Local Boards, 79, 253; byelaws as to, 79; quorum,

79.

Memorial to the General Board of Health, 175; to the Secretary
of State, 316.

Metropolitan roads, not to be interfered with, 279.

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

274.

Month interpreted, 30.

Mortgaged lands purchased, 526.

Mortgages, sanction of General Board of Health to, 174, 229; of
rates, 163, 174, 301; form of, 166, 212; register of, 166.

Museums, public, 126.

Naming streets, 423.

Navigable rivers, not to be interfered with, 308.

Necessaries, public, 106.

Net annual value of rateable property, 300.

New building, interpreted, 266; regulation of, 265.

New houses, drainage of, 264.

New roads, making of, 275.

New streets, laying out, 129; purchase of premises for, 267;
byelaws as to, 265.

Nomination of candidates, 69.

Non-corporate district, interpreted, 33; becoming incorporated,

78.

Notice, 244; publication of, 326; of election of members of Local
Boards, 68; to members elected, 74; as to collars, by church-
wardens and overseers, 118; of intended rate, 156; service
of notice of demand of rates, 294; service of, 209; of
action, 195; of the Local Board, authentication of, 313,

Notice boards, defacing, 207.

Noxious or offensive matters, removal of accumulations of, 80.
Nuisances general law preserved, 114; Act for the removal of, 387;
nuisances under that Act described, 394.

Nuisances, byelaws as to removal of, 263; in streets, 453.
Number of Members of Local Board, 54.

Numbering houses in streets, 423.

Nursery-grounds, rating of, 145, 297.

Oath, defined, 31.

Objections to adoption of Local Government Act, course of pro-
ceeding, 246.

Obstruction on streets, removal of, 424, 453.

Obstructing officers, 207.

Occupation of cellars, vaults, or underground rooms, 116.

Occupier, to remove filth and refuse, 105; rating of owners in-
stead of, 153, 295; description of, when unknown, 157; to
disclose owners' names, 208; service of notices upon, 209;
preventing execution of works, 207.

Offences in streets, 453; in places of public resort, 460.

Offensive matters, accumulations of, 108; offensive trades, 1!3.
Official documents, evidence of

Office of Local Boards, duration of, 50.

Officer of health, appointment of, 88; his certificate as to houses,
109.

Officers, appointment of, by Secretary of State, 336; of Loa
Boards, appointment of, 82; their security, 84; failure t
account, 85.

Offices of Local Board to be provided, 80.

Omitted interests, 534.

Openings to vaults and cellars from streets, 426.

Order of justices to permit execution of works, 207; form, 216.
Order of Secretary of State, 243.

Orders, provisional, of Secretary of State, 331.

Orders in Council, to create Local Boards of Health, 43; alter-
ation and amendment of, 199; publication of, 199.

Outfall for sewage, 93.

Overseers to produce rate-books at election of members of Lock
Board, 50; to give notice as to cellars, 118, to summon
meeting for adoption of the Act, 235.

Owner, interpretation of the word, 157.

Owners, election of members of Local Boards by, 63; defined,
63; their statement as to qualification to vote, 66; rating
of, instead of occupier, 153, 295; description of, when un-
known, 158; name of, to be disclosed by occupier, 208;
service of notice on, 209; extension of time for repayment
by, 206.

Oxford, Local Board of Health for, 76, 337; quorum, 79.
Outgoing tenant, assessment on, 147.

Parishes, sanitary improvements in small, 98.

Parks, 126.

Parliament, cost of proceedings in, 105; presentation to, of re-
ports of inspectors, 200; of medical officer, 222.

Partial adoption of Local Government Act, 238.

Parts of districts assessed, 147.

Pasture land, rating of, 297.

Pavement of streets, injury to, 119.

Paving streets, 118; private streets, 122.

Payment of rates, how enforced, 159; of money into Court, 196.
Penalties, recovery of, 185; application of, 187; remission of, 284.
Permanent works, 301.

Personal indemnification, 197.

Personating voters, 237.

Perjury, false evidence punishable as, 206.

Person defined, 29.

Petition for Local Board, 38; to the Secretary of State, 239, 242.

Pigstye, 108; fronting streets, 459.

Places of public resort, offences in, 460.

Plans, production of, 175.

Pleading, in actions against Local Board, 196.

Pleasure grounds, 126.

Police, clauses as to, 282.

Poll for adoption of Local Government Act, 241.
Ponds and pools, draining, 98; pollution of water, 131.

Poor rates, inspection of, 144, 299.

Posts, repair of, 119.

Pound for stray cattle, 455.

Pound-breach, 454.

Poverty, remission of rates on the ground of, 154.

Powers of officers directed by Secretary of State to make inquiries,
336; of Local Boards, 228, 258.

Preliminary inquiry, costs of, 48, 247.

Precautions to be taken during repair of buildings and sewers, 428.
Premises, term defined, 29.

Preservation of water-rights, 203, 317.

Prevention of disease, 219; Act relating to, 383; of fires, 265;
of smoke, 431.
Private improvement expenses rate, 148; for covering drains and
constructing waterclosets, 100, 104; for removing nuisances,
107; paving private streets, 121; rentcharge in respect of,
303; charge on premises, 313; deduction of, from rent,
149; redemption of, 150; appeals to Secretary of State in
respect of, 316; recovery of, 313.

Private injuries, 119.

Private street, paving of, 120.

Privies, cleaning of, 99; penalty for allowing to overflow, 80;
examination of, by surveyor, 95; for new houses, 99, 102;
byelaws as to, 79.

Privy council, powers of, for prevention of diseases, 219; as to
vaccination, 220.

Proceedings under Public Health Act continued, 229; under
Nuisance Removal Act, 406; of local Boards, 55; before jus-
tices, 220.

Process against officers not duly accounting, 86.

Processions, regulations as to, 453.

Prohibition of use of buildings unfit for habitation, 264.

Production of books, &c., power to compel, 4; to chairman con-
ducting election of members of Local Board, 38.

Projections to houses, removal of, 424.

Property assessable to rates, 143, 295; of Local Board how, to be
described in actions, 193.

Proprietor, meaning of the term, 123.

Proprietor of waterworks, when not to vacate office as member
of Local Board, 30; of streets, 279.

Prospective rates, 145.

Prostitution in streets, 457; harbouring prostitutes, 461.

Provisional orders in council for the creation of Local Boards of
Health, 44; of Secretary of State, 329, 332, 336; as to
purchase of lands, 329; confirmation of, 330, 334.

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