-provides for the supply of casual vacancies, and for the first meeting of the board.

Sect. 25. Removes certain disqualifications imposed on members by 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63.

26. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 33, and transfers powers of local board to the town council when the district is incorporated.

27. Empowers adjoining districts to be united.

28. Enables the local board to execute works in adjoining places, and provides for the recovery of the

expenses.

29. Empowers board to deduct from sewer rate where any premises shall previously have been sufficiently drained.

30. Empowers local board to dispose of their sewage by making outfall without their district, by selling the same, or by purchasing or hiring land or buildings for its reception-but provides that these things shall be done without a nuisance.

31. Provides for the cleansing foul watercourses or open ditches forming the boundaries of districts, by order of justices, and for the costs thereof.

32. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, ss. 55, 56, and enables the board to provide for cleansing of streets and private houses, and dispose of refuse-imposes penalties on persons obstructing them in so doing or removing such matters-empowers them to make byelaws on occupiers respecting the same-and for the prevention of nuisances-and to recover the expenses of removing accumulations of offensive matters.

33. Renders it unnecessary for the surveyor to close the ground opened by him before drain or ashpit is amended.

34. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, ss. 53, 72, and enables the board to make byelaws as to new streets,

the structure of new buildings, the procuring ventilation, the drainage of buildings and closing uninhabitable dwellings-points out what provisions they may make provides against retrospective operation, and defines what shall be considered as the erection of a new building.

Sect. 35. Enables the board to prescribe the line of new buildings, and to compensate for loss or damage caused by their order, and incorporates certain provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act.

36. Enables them to purchase premises for new

streets.

37. Provides for the costs of the repairs of the highways in certain cases out of the general district rate— in others out of a highway rate-provides for repairs of the highways partly out of the district-dispenses with certain acts required to be done by the General Highway Act-subjects the accounts to the audit under the Act-provides for the application of the surplus highway rate collected by the surveyor of the highwayand renders 12 & 13 Vict. c. 35, s. 2, applicable to the clerk of the local board.

38. Extends 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, ss. 69, 70, to lighting and repairing streets, and to footpaths-and exempts incumbents or ministers of churches or chapels from rateability under the Act in respect of such churches or chapels.

39. Enables the board to agree with any persons for the making of new public roads.

40. Enables them to agree for the construction of public bridges, viaducts, or arches, or to adopt existing bridges, viaducts, or arches, and make them parts of public streets.

41. Enables them to agree with the trustees of turnpike roads or surveyors of county bridges for the

repair of such roads and bridges-and provides for the rights and interests of mortgagees of the tolls.

Sect. 42. Requires the objection under 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 70, to be made by the proprietor.

43. Prevents interference with certain roads in the neighbourhood of the metropolis except upon specified conditions.

44. Incorporates certain parts of "The Towns Police Clauses Act."

45. Incorporates certain parts of "The Towns Improvement Clauses Act," subject to certain modifications as to smoke.

46. Supersedes the Lighting and Watching Act, 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 90, in the district.

47. Enables the vestry to transfer to the local board the management of the baths and wash-houses established under 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74, and provides for the expenses.

48. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 61, and part

of s. 62.

49. Enables the local board to be the burial board for the district or part thereof, and provides for the expenses-and also for the case where the district is divided into wards.

50. Empowers the board, with the consent of the ratepayers and owners, to establish markets, and incorporates parts of the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847-and provides that tolls shall be approved by the secretary of state.

51. Extends the powers of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 76, as to the supply of water by the board.

52. Gives to the board the same powers for providing water mains as for sewers.

53. Enables directors of a water company or market company to sell their works to the board.

Sect. 54. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 86, and thereby the power of making special district rates— but provides for existing debts and charges-and makes provisions as to publication, costs of levy, retrospectiveness of rate, and notice of demand of rates.

55. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, ss. 88, 95, and declares the mode of assessing general district ratesenables the owners to be rated instead of the occupiers in certain cases-directs a lower rate to be imposed on particular property-and preserves exemptions created by local Acts, unless a provisional order confirmed by parliament otherwise direct.

56. Renders the poor-rate books accessible to the board for the purposes of the general district rate-imposes penalty on refusal-and in default of a trustworthy poor-rate assessment enables a valuation to be made according to 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 96.

57. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, ss. 113, 119, and enables local boards to borrow money on the security of the rates, and to mortgage the same-but imposes. conditions as to the consent of the secretary of state, and as to the limit of the loan-provides for the repayment and requires the local board to repay money borrowed for private expenses out of private improvement rates.

58. Enables the local board to make rentcharges on property to meet the first cost of private improvements, to be payable for thirty years, with interest-and provides remedies for the grantees.

59. Requires rentcharges to be registered.

60. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 122, and provides for the audit of the accounts of the local board by the borough auditors in respect of corporate districts-and by the poor law auditor in respect of other districts requires him to allow, disallow, or surcharge

items-enables disallowances to be removed into the Court of Queen's Bench for the decision of the court, or an appeal to the secretary of state, who shall have the same powers as the poor law board-provides for the recovery of sums disallowed or surcharged-empowers the auditor to require production of books and documents, and the attendance of persons accountable -imposes penalties on them for default, or for making false declaration-specifies payment to be made to the auditor-requires notice of audit to be published and books to be open to inspection-provides for proof of audit, and requires auditor to report on the audit, and an abstract of the accounts to be published.

Sect. 61. Provides for the preparation and authentication of documents of the board.

62. Makes the expenses chargeable upon the owners of premises a charge on such premises, with interestand declares the limits for the commencement of proceedings.

63. Declares the time when the apportionment of expenses by owners shall be concluded without notice.

64. Enables justices to settle questions referable to arbitration when the sum is under 201., and to require the work to be surveyed, and to determine the costs and order payment thereof.

65. Requires memorials under 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 120, to be addressed to a secretary of state for his determination.

66. Imposes penalty on persons injuring works of local board.

67. Requires penalties incurred in a corporate borough under these Acts to be paid to the district fund account.

68. Repeals 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 145, and makes various prohibitions upon the local board, to prevent