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County Councils. The elective bodies established by the Local Government Act, 1888 (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business of each county (see LOCAL GOVERNMENT), formerly managed by the justices of the peace (who are nominated by the Crown) in quarter sessions,and other administrative business mentioned in the Act, and consisting of 'the chairman, aldermen, and councillors.' The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), consolidates with amendments the enactments relating to local authorities.The councillors are elected, for separate electroal divisions,' the qualification for elctors being that required under the Representation of the People Acts, and the qualification for being elected similar to that required for electionto office onany local authority. Ministers of religion are not disqulaified, and peers owing property in the county and persons registered as parliamentary voters in respect of the ownership of property in the county are qual...
Passage Broker
Passage Broker, any person who sells or lets steerage passages in any ship proceeding from the British Islands to any place out of Europe, not within the Mediterranean (see Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 341). Such person requires a licence, in London of the justices of the peace, in a county borough of the borough council, and in a county district of the district council. See s. 343 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894....
Emigrant runner
Emigrant runner, any person, other than a licensed passage broker (see that title) or his clerk, who in any port or within five miles of it, for reward, solicits any intending emigrant on behalf of broker or owner or master of a ship, or any lodging-house keeper, or money changer, or other dealer for any purpose connected with the preparations or arrangements for a passage [(English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 347]. Like a passage broker, the emigrant runner requires a license in a county borough of the borough council and in a county district [see (English) Local Government Act, 1894, s. 27 (d)] of the district council....
Local Government
Local Government. That part of the government of the country which, by delegation from the Imperial Government, is conducted the bodies appointed or elected 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 Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41). The Act established county councils throughout England and Wales, and has been amended and extended by many other Acts.Transfer of Imperial Powers to County Councils.--The (English) Local Government (Transfer of Powers) Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 15), though permissive only, extended general, tentative, unsued and almost unknown powers of decentralization which had previously been entrusted to the Local Government Board by the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. The (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 7...
London
London, the metropolis of England. for a short account of early London, see 3 Hallam, Mid. Ages, p. 219.The 'city' of London, which is not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, contains only 671 acres and is divided into twenty-six wards, over each of which there is an alderman, and is governed by a lord mayor, who is chosen yearly. As to the customs of the city, see Pulling's Customs of London, p. 5 et seq.The customs of London as to the distribution of intestates' effects are abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.The administrative 'county' of London was established by the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40, and consists of the city of London and the various metropolitan parishes in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, which prior to that Act were subject to the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, constituted by the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120), the powers of which board are transferred to the London County Council, the number o...
Municipal corporation
Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding and transmitting property, and of regulating the government of the town. Such corporations existed in the chief towns of England (as of other countries) from very early times, deriving their authority from 'incorporating' charters granted by the Crown.The Municipal Corporations Act,1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 76), passed after local inquiries by Royal Commissioners, completely reorganized the constitution of these corporations, and abrogated all charters so far, but so far only, as inconsistent with it. This Act applied to 178 corporations named in the schedules thereto, and to 68 other corporations subsequently receiving a charter, a town to which it applied being styled a 'borough.'The (English) Act of 1835 was amended by a series of statutes passed from time to time, and consolidated by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act,1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), which, in turn (except for Lond...
Sanitary authority
Sanitary authority. The name, under the Public Health Acts prior to the P.H. Act, 1936, of the authorities for the purposes of those Acts. Under the Act of 1936 they are (i) in a county borough, the council of the borough, (ii) in an administrative county, as respects certain matters, the county council, and as respects all other matters, the councils of county districts without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred on such councils, and 'local' authority means the council of a borough; urban district or rural district. 'Urban' or 'rural' authority means the respective council (see RURAL AUTHORITY), 'district' in relation to the local authority of a borough means the borough, and 'parish' in relation to a common parish council acting for two or more grouped parishes means those parishes. As to Port Health Authorities, see QUARANTINE....
Sessions of the peace
Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested in them by law, whether had on their own mere motion, or on the requisition of any party entitled to require their attendance in discharge of some duty, is a petty or petit session. The occasions for holding petty sessions are very numerous, amongst the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the prisoner. See PETTY SESSIONS.As to right of the public to attend petty sessions, see OP...
By-laws, or bye-laws
By-laws, or bye-laws [fr. bilagines, from by, Sax., pagus, civitas, and lagen, lex, Spelm.], the laws, regulations, and constitutions of corporations, for the government of their members. See per Lord Russell, C.J., in Kruse v. Johnson, (1898) 2 QB 91. They are binding, unless contrary to law, or unreasonable, and against the common benefit, and then they are void.No trading company is allowed to make by-laws which may affect the crown, or the common profit of the people under penalty of 40l., unless they be approved by the chancellor, treasurer, and chief justices, or the judges of assize, 19 Hen. 7, c. 7.County Councils and Borough Councils under Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51) (English) s. 249; may make by-laws for the good rule and government of the whole or any part of the county or borough, as the case may be, and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances; Provided that by-laws made under this section by a County Council shall not have effect in any borou...
London, Port of
London, Port of. The administration is provided for by the Port of London (Consolidation) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. clxxiii.); s. 6 enacts:-(1) There shall be a chairman and vice-chairman and other members of the Port Authority elected and appointed in manner provided by this Act for the purpose of administering, preserving and improving the Port of London and otherwise for the purposes of this Act, and the several persons who now constitute and shall, from time to time constitute the Port Authority, shall notwithstanding the repeal of enactments effected by this Act, continue and be a body corporate by the name of 'the Port of London Authority, and by that name shall continue to have perpetual succession and a common seal having power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this Act without licence in mortmain.(2) The several persons who were respectively the chairman, vice-chairman and other members of the Port Authority immediately before the passing of this Act, and shall ...
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