Vestry, Highway rate of urban authority, not to be laid before, 208 Local board may be appointed burial board by, 343 Metropolitan, Action against for negligence, 286; Conversion of privy into water-closet by, 81, 82; Payment of rent to, for paving expenses, 84; Powers of, in relation to nuisances arising beyond metropolis, 86, or offensive trade carried on beyond it, 93; Sewers to be kept clean by, 16 Viaduct on Railway, adoption or construction of, by urban authority, 110 Village greens, Nuisances on, 72; Preservation of, 72 Visitation of Houses in case of Epidemic Diseases, 101 Volunteer Store-houses exempt from rates, 204 Voters, Alphabetical list of, 312; Directions to, for filling up voting papers, 313, 339, 340; Personation of, 320; Rates paid by candidate, 316 Voting at Elections of Local Board, Claims of owners and proxies, 309, 310; Counting votes, 314; Mode of voting if district is divided into wards, 306; Owner may vote as occupier, in certain cases, 308; Proxies, 308; Scale of voting, 308; Scrutiny not allowed, 315 at Meetings:-of Committees and Joint Board, 304; of Guardians, disqualification of certain guardians from voting, 10; of Local Board, casting vote of chairman, 303, record to be made, 302, questions to be decided by majority of votes, 302, interested members not to vote, 318; of Owners and Ratepayers, 327 Voting-Papers at Election of local board, to be prepared by returning officer, 312, delivered, 313, signed by voter, 313, collected, 314, counted, 314; Form for them, 339, Penalty for fabricating, defacing, &c., 320, or for interfering with delivery or collection of, 320; Validity of, 313 at Poll, owners and ratepayers, 327; Form of them, 340 Vouchers, production of, to auditor, 234 Walls of new buildings, bye-laws as to, 131 Wards, Division of district into, 306, of parish when partly in urban and partly in rural district, 10; Election of member for more than one, 306; Provisional order dividing district into, 258; Voting in, 306 Warrant of Distress, for highway rate, 215, urban rate, 245; Limitation of time not applied to, 245; Order need not be drawn out previously to, 245 for Entry of police-officer on premises, in case of nuisance, 85 to Search for unsound meat, 95 Wash-houses, 349; Supply of water to, 58; see Baths and Wash-houses. Waste Lands, near turnpike road, rubbish thrown on, 43 of Water supplied by local authority, 55 Watching Act, transfer of powers under to town council, 12 Water, Interception of, by public works, 282; Local act for supply of, transfer of powers thereunder, to town council, 12; Pollution of, by gas washings, 59, pollution restrained by injunction, 16, 17, 19, 22, 29, reference to expert before granting injunction, 72; Prescriptive right to, 18, 48; Rating land covered with, 200, 202, 222; Refuse of manufactories when not included in reservation of, 18; Right of taking, from streams, &c., 45-53, of taking surface water, 52; Sewers, interfering with flow of, 17; Underground, no action for diversion of, 29, 45-50 Closets, Bye-laws as to, 131; Enforcement of provision of, 35, earth-closet may be provided instead, 36; Injunction to restrain conversion of privy into, in Metropolis, 81, 82, vestry or district board may now require such conversion, 82; Nuisance not to be created by, 37, examination of them, on complaint of nuisance, 37 Water Company, Contracts with, to supply water to house, 56, to local authority, 57; Definition of, 6; Local Authority may purchase powers of, 45; Notice to, when local authority intend to construct waterworks, 53, settlement of differences in such case, 53; Transfer of powers, &c., to local authority, 57 Course, offensive, on boundary of district, 42, on turnpike road, 43; when to be deemed a nuisance, 69 Mains, Power to carry, through lands, 54; Rating of, 45 Meters, 55; Evidence of consumption of water supplied by, 55; Penalty for injuring or fraudulently altering, 56 Mills, dams, &c., may be purchased by local authority, 165 Pipes, Breaking up streets to lay, 479; Inhabitants to lay, 482; Laying, without parliamentary powers, 127; Situation of, may be altered by urban authority, 126; Undertakers to lay, 481 Rate, Levy of, by local authority, 54; Recovery of, 55, 487, 493 Rights, Arbitration in case of interference with, 294; Saving for, 293, 296 Supply:-by local authority, 44, 54, to adjoining district, 56, agreements for, 54, for supply by meter, 55; Default of local authority in providing, 274; Enforcement of supply, 56; Expenses of, in rural district, to be special expenses, 220, and apportioned among contributory places, 220; Fire-plugs to be supplied, 58; For baths and wash-houses, 58, 355, for common lodging-houses, 64, 65, for labouring classes' lodging-houses, 419; Fouling the water supplied, 55; Gratuitous supply, 57; in Metropolis, 60, owners and occupiers in metropolis to provide fittings, 83, absence of fittings to be a nuisance, 83; in Oxford and Cambridge, 59; Pressure of water supplied, 54; Provisions of Waterworks Clauses Acts as to, 491; Special drainage district may be formed and charged with expenses of, 262; Union of districts for purposes of, 263; Waste of water supplied, 55 Watering: Streets, 38; Turnpike and other roads, by urban authority under agreement, 110 Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, 478; Communication pipes to be laid by undertakers, 481, by inhabitants, 482; Fouling water, 485; Incorporation of act with Public Health Act, 54; Laying pipes, 479; Protection of water, 484; Water rates, 487 . 1863, 488; Form of order of justices, 493; Incorporation of, with Public Health Act, 54; Interpretation of terms, 489; Protection of water, 492; Recovery of rates, 493; Security of reservoirs, 489; Supply of water, 491 Waterworks, Definition of, 6; Lease of, to local authority, 57; Loan commissioners may lend money for, 534; Local authority may construct, 44, or hire on lease, 44, or purchase, 45, they must give notice of intention to construct, 53, restrictions on construction, 53; Public, vested in local authority, 57; Rating, 223 Weighing Goods and Carts, in markets, 450 Houses for carts, urban authority may provide, 142 Weight of Locomotives used on highways, 379-381 Weights to be provided for Markets, 146 Wells, Local Authority may dig, 44; Pollution of, by percolation restrained, 30, 46, licence for pollution, 30, summary proceedings to prevent pollution of, 61; Public, vested in local authority, 57 Wenlock, not to be deemed a Borough under the Public Health Act, 9 West Ham, constitution of local board for, 323 Whistles, Steam, nuisance caused by, 73 Whitewashing unhealthy houses, 40 Widening Streets, purchase of premises for, 127 691 Index. Width:-of New Streets, bye-laws as to, 131; of Streets in Metropolis, 132, how, where houses abut on old lane, 132 Withdrawal of Candidate at election of local board, 312 Witnesses, Examination of by inspectors of local government board, 270; by Parliamentary committees, 273; by Poor law inspectors, 271 Wooden Houses not to be built in Metropolis, 129 Woods, Rating of, 209 Woolwich, constitution of Local Board for, 324; Dockyard, exemption of, 294; Metropolitan Board of Works to have powers in, 324 Workhouses, Loan Commissioners may lend money for providing, 534; Rating of, 213 Works:-in adjoining district, 265 Alkali, 555, see Alkali Acts Combination of local authorities for execution of, 265; Damage arising from execution of, 250, 251, or caused by, compensation for, 280, public body may cause damage to neighbouring proprietors by, 282, injunction to restrain damage, when granted, 282; Damage to, penalty, 280; Entry on lands for examining, 279; Executed without approval of urban authority, 136 for Abatement of nuisance, order to execute, 77, form of order, 331, to what works it may extend, 78, injunction to restrain execution of, by local authority, 81; Cleansing certain ditches, expenses of, 42; Disinfection or disposal of sewage, 28; Provision of privies, &c., 36; Repair to private street, enforcement of, 115, form of notice as to, 116, plans, 115, order to permit execution of, 80, form of order, 331; Sewage purposes without district of local authority, 34, 35; Supply of sewage, Improvement of Land Act, applied to, 31; Water supply to house, 57 Special drainage district may be formed and charged with expenses of, 262 under Artizans', &c., Dwellings Act, 432; Artizans', &c., Dwellings Improvement Act, 445; Towns Improvement Clauses Act, cost of, 137 See also Local Authority, Works Workshop, when to be deemed a Nuisance, 69 Yard may be "within a Street" for certain purposes, 121 LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET R |