The Metropolis Local Management Acts: With Introduction, Notes, and an Appendix, Containing Statutes Incorporated with the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, Or Relating to the Functions of the Boards and Vestries Thereby Constituted

Great Britain, Edmund Humphrey Woolrych

Shaw, 1863 - 648 pages

Contents

• 19 VICT c 120: xxvii
• Preamble: 2
• Occupiers may claim to be rated: 4
• Sums to be assessed by metropolitan board: 5
• Qualification of vestrymen: 10
• Payment of sums assessed upon places in sche: 12
• Section Page: 13
• Regulation of meetings of vestries constituted by 18: 18
• Provision for case of equality of votes: 19
• As to service of notices c on metropolitan: 22
• Metropolitan board of works constituted and incor: 23
• As to parishes having no churchwardens: 25
• Formation of Parishes into Districts and Constitution: 31
• Section Page: 33
• Provision as to casual vacancies: 37
• Ordinary meetings of district boards: 39
• Metropolitan board of works constituted and incor: 43
• Vestries of single parishes and district boards to clect: 45
• Elected members of metropolitan board to elect: 49
• Powers of metropolitan board to be exercised at meet: 51
• Members of metropolitan and district boards and: 55
• No resolution of metropolitan or any district board: 57
• Regulations respecting openings into sewers: 61
• As to service of notices on owners and occupiers: 65
• Vestries c may compel supply of water for houses: 67
• Act as to paving and improving parts of metropolis: 74
• Penalty on persons taking up pavements neglecting: 78
• Dispute as to what is refuse of trade c to be deter: 88
• Vestries and district boards may transfer their powers: 89
• Metropolitan Building Amendment Act 1861 24 25 Vict: 92
• Existing commissioners c under local Acts con: 95
• Vaults and cellars under streets not to be made with: 101
• Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 8 Vict c 18: 106
• Penalties to be proceeded for within six months: 107
• Power to boards and vestries to purchase lands c: 114
• Vestry or district board to cause footways to be cleansed: 117
• If hoard be erected or materials be deposited in: 123
• Gas Meters Act 1859 22 23 Vict c 66: 125
• Appointment of inspectors of nuisances: 133
• Recovery of monies assessed by metropolitan board: 144
• Powers of metropolitan commissioners of sewers: 145
• 22 VICT c 104: 146
• Power to commissioners acting under 14 15 Vict: 147
• Lands not to be taken compulsorily except by metro: 152
• Auditors to be elected annually by the district boards: 154
• How sums to be raised by vestries and district boards: 158
• Existing exemptions in respect of sewers rate to: 164
• Provision for cases where the vestry of any parish: 167
• Authentication of documents: 172
• Payment of sums assessed upon the city: 173
• Appeal against assessment The assessment may: 179
• Section 144 of 18 19 Vict c 120 declared to extend: 183
• Section Page: 186
• Accounts of metropolitan board district boards: 192
• Districts united for electing one member: 194
• Annual reports by vestries and district boards: 198
• tries to appoint officers: 199
• Buildings not to be made over sewers without consent: 204
• 1: 206
• Savings and provisions in local Acts applicable to com: 210
• SCHEDULE E: 211
• Power to vestries and district boards to spread repay: 216
• Money borrowed under this Act to be applied only: 223
• Damages to be made good in addition to penalty: 228
• Application of penalties: 234
• Form of assessment: 237
• Saving of powers and property of commissioners: 240
• 3: 249
• Sums collected in places in schedule C to 18 19: 252
• Votes exceeding 20000l to be confirmed: 260
• No further liability to attach to places named in sched: 264
• Saving rights of commissioners or trustees of turn: 267
• 16: 269
• 5: 276
• Communications with main sewers: 278
• 23: 294
• Power to district surveyors to enter underground rooms: 303
• Section Page: 306
• Licensing cowhouses: 318
• 17: 324
• 24: 328
• Acts to be construed as one: 330
• 00: 335
• SCHEDULE B: 336
• Time limited for completion of works specified: 338
• 21: 343
• 27: 343
• Act to continue coal and wine duties 24 25 Vict c 42: 343
• 134: 343
• 3300: 343
• 59: 343
• 88: 343
• 113: 343
• 256: 343
• 158: 343
• 114: 343
• 252: 343
• 163: 343
• 27: 343
• 177: 343
• 260: 343
• 143: 343
• 8: 343
• 118: 343
• 179: 343
• 221: 343
• 261: 343
• 169: 343
• 119: 343
• 121: 343
• 127: 343
• 225: 343
• Metropolitan board to make orders for controlling ves: 343
• 227: 343
• 92: 449
• Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Amendment: 540
• 99: 545
• Clauses of General Metropolitan Paving Act 57 Geo: 583
• Application of part of monies raised on security: 2

Popular passages

Page 431 - All the costs of any such arbitration and incident thereto, to be settled by the arbitrators, shall be borne by the promoters of the undertaking, unless the arbitrators shall award the same or a less sum than shall have been offered by the promoters of the undertaking, in which case each party shall bear his own costs incident to the arbitration, and the costs of the arbitrators shall be borne by the parties in equal proportions.

Page 392 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of...

Page 22 - In case of equality the Chairman of the Meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

Page 404 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...

Page 440 - ... and unless the promoters of the undertaking be willing to pay the amount of compensation so claimed, and enter into a written agreement for that purpose, they shall, within twenty-one days after the receipt of such notice, issue their warrant to the sheriff to summon a jury for settling the same in the manner herein provided...

Page 469 - ... at any time before issue joined, to pay into court such sum of money as he shall think fit, and thereupon such proceedings shall be had as in other cases where defendants are allowed to pay money into court.

Page 434 - ... the sum of money to be paid by way of compensation for the damage, if any, to be sustained by the owner of the lands by reason of the severing of the lands taken from the other lands of such owner, or otherwise injuriously affecting such lands by the exercise of the powers of this or the special act, or any act incorporated therewith.

Page 185 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed...

Page 405 - ... the trial of any such action the plaintiff shall not be permitted to go into evidence of any cause of action which is not stated in the notice so served ; and unless such notice is proved the jury shall find for the defendant.

Page 429 - If before the Matters so referred shall be determined any Arbitrator appointed by either Party die, or become incapable or refuse or for Seven Days neglect to act as Arbitrator, the Party by whom such Arbitrator was appointed may nominate and appoint in Writing some other Person to act in his Place ; and if...

Bibliographic information

• Pealkiri: The Metropolis Local Management Acts: With Introduction, Notes, and an Appendix, Containing Statutes Incorporated with the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, Or Relating to the Functions of the Boards and Vestries Thereby Constituted
• Autorid: Great Britain, Edmund Humphrey Woolrych
• Editor: Edmund Humphrey Woolrych
• Publisher: Shaw, 1863
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: 26 sept. 2006
• Length: 648 pages