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Registration of title of land

of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925). Registration is compulsory in the counties of London, Middlesex (q.v.), County Borough of Eastbourne (Order in Council, S.R. & O., 1926, No. 1262, as from 1st January, 1925), and … Act, 1925). Registration is compulsory in the counties of London, Middlesex (q.v.), County Borough of Eastbourne (Order in Council, S.R. & O., 1926, No. 1262, as from 1st January, 1925), and County Borough of Hastings (O. C.,

Justices

county rates, the establishment and maintenance of reformatory and industrial schools, etc., is transferred from the justices to county councils (see that title) by s. 3 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c.

Bridge

25 Vict. c. 97), ss. 29 and 33. The management of county bridges is transferred from justices to county councils by s. 3, para Viii., of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888; and by s. 6 of the … para Viii., of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888; and by s. 6 of the same Act the county councils may purchase bridges not being county bridges, and may erect new bridges. And see (English) Pub. Health Act,

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Parish Council

rural parish i.e., (every parish in a rural sanitary district) having a population of 300 or upwards, the county council having also power to group parishes under a common parish council, and being bound to establish a … year, after the 15th of April, 1901, and by the 1933 Act, likewise. The main duty of parish councils is to manage parish property. They are bodies corporate, having power to hold land without any license in

Parish meeting

c. 51), ss. 43-55, 77, and Sch. III., Part VI.), and consisting of the registered parliamentary electors and county council electors of the parish, each having one vote and no more on any question, or in the … 51), ss. 43-55, 77, and Sch. III., Part VI.), and consisting of the registered parliamentary electors and county council electors of the parish, each having one vote and no more on any question, or in the case

Admiralty

committed either upon the sea or on the coasts out of the boundary of extent of any English county, until the 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 36, establishing the Central Criminal Court, when this jurisdiction was … S. C. Ord. LVIII.) and from the same Court sitting as a Prize Court only to the Privy Council: Jud. Act, 1925, s. 27. See DROITS OF ADMIRALTY'NAVAL PRIZE. This court formerly had cognizance of all crimes

Libraries (Public)

limit the rate to such sum in the pound as it specifies by annual resolution. This Act empowers county councils to adopt the Public Libraries Acts for the whole or any part of their county, and provides for

Thames

the town of Cricklade and an imaginary straight line drawn from the entrance to Gantlet creek in the county of Kent to the City stone opposite to Canve Island in the county of Essex and so much … and no bridge over the river Thames or the river Kennet belonging to or vested in any county council or municipal authority or to or in any railway company shall be deemed to form part of the

Water and watercourse

thereunder (see Chity's Statutes, tit. 'Metropolis'), established a Metropolitan Water Board consisting of members appointed by the London County Council, the Metropolitan Borough Councils (the County Council appointing fourteen, and the borough councils appointing one each), and

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. 93; … the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, has transferred the appointments to joint committees of the justices and the county councils. The (English) Police Act, 1919, empowers the Home Secretary to make regulations as to the pay, allowances, pensions,

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