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County boroughs
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Local Government
to conduct it within limited areas, as parishes, boroughs, local government districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and COUNTY COUNCIL; DISTRICT COUNCIL; PARISH COUNCIL; and BOROUGH COUNCIL. Local Government … except certain provisions of Part III., Part X., Part XI. Schedule I. contains a list of administrative counties, county boroughs, and non-county boroughs. The Parts of the Act are as follows:- Part I. Constitution and Elections. Part II.
County Councils
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Justices
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. This appoints them all, jointly and severally, to keep the peace in the county named; and any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in … the mayor and ex-mayor, who are justices ex officio in every borough) are appointed by the Crown in boroughs having a separate commission of the peace. They must reside, while acting, in or within seven miles of
Emigration of poor persons
See Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 68, by which the council of any county or county borough may, with the consent of the Minister of Health, and in compliance with such rules, … Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 68, by which the council of any county or county borough may, with the consent of the Minister of Health, and in compliance with such rules, orders, and regulations
Intoxicating liquor
The justices' licence is grantable only at a 'general annual licensing meeting,' held in every division of a county, and in every borough having a separate commission of the peace, in the first fourteen days of February … jurisdiction to confirm new licences is in the quarter sessions, who are constituted the confirming authority except in boroughs (see below), and the licensing justices in granting 'on-licences' are armed with most comprehensive and far-reaching powers. They
Constable
has, in the case of boroughs having a population of less than 10,000 transferred the appointments to the county councils. In counties constables were appointed by the justices of the peace under 2 & 3 Vict. c.
Electoral franchise
in (a) Counties, and (b) Boroughs is as follows: (a) Originally the freeholders elected the members for the county: later, residence was made an additional qualification. In the fifteenth century the qualification was limited to resident freeholders
Municipal corporation
most of the larger boroughs there is a separate commission of the peace, excluding the jurisdiction of the county justices, and a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, presided over by a 'recorder,' having the same jurisdiction in
House of Commons
amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. … shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs. The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744. Property Qualification.--The property
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