The laws relating to public health, sanitary--medical--protective : including the legislation to the end of the last session of Parliament ... / by Thomas Baker.

  • Baker, Thomas, 1819-
Date:
1865
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    Council or Board exists, the summoning officer must fix, and give notice of, such meeting by advertisement, and at the usual churches and chapels. The meeting shall choose a chairman, and may be adjourned from day to day. The chairman is to propose the adoption of the Act, and the meeting decide for or against the same. A poll may be demanded, to be taken by voting papers according to the form and manner prescribed. If there be no poll, a declaration by the chairman will, in the absence of proof, be sufficient evidence of the decision;—any person forging, altering, destroying, purloining or interrupting the proper distribution of voting papers may be imprisoned not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour (21 & 22 Viet. c. 98, s. 13). Except with the sanction of the Secre- tary of State, a small place included within a greater—though each be otherwise authorised.—is not entitled to adopt the Act, unless the greater place has refused to adopt the same (s. 14) (a). The District of any Local Board of Health adjoining a high- way district is to be deemed within such last-mentioned district for the purpose of any meeting of the Highway Board (26 Viet, c. 17, s. 6). Any Commissioners or other Local Authority exercising powers for sanitary regulations or town improvement under a local Act, may adopt any part of the Local Govern- ment Act, by resolution, to be forwarded to the Secretary of State, subject to certain restrictions as to borrowing and retire- ment and election of members (s. 15 ; and 24 & 25 Viet. c. 61, s. 2). Nor will this power of adopting part of the general Act be exhausted by one adoption, but may be continued from time to time (26 Viet. c. 17, s. 7). One tenth of the rate- payers of any place having no defined boundary may petition the Secretary of State to settle the same; who may direct inquiry, after notice, and make orders thereupon, and as to (a) The boundaries of a district within a larger one may, under s. 14 of the Local Government Act, be settled by the Secretary of State ; but this cannot be done until the greater place has refused to adopt the Act (Ex parte Matloclc, Bath District, 31 L. J. Q. B. 177).