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Metropolitan District. Places subject to the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded under the Local Government Act, 1888, by the London County Council), enumerated in Schedules A,B,C, to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855....
Local Government District
Local Government District. See LOCAL BOARD....
Improvement Act (District)
Improvement Act (District). defined by the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, as 'any area subject to the jurisdiction of any commissioners, trustees, or other persons invested by any local Act with powers of town government and rating.'...
District Registrars
District Registrars. See next title....
District Boards (UK)
District Boards (UK), in London, constituted by the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, for the management of the sanitary affairs of combinations of parishes not singly represented by vestries. Their powers are transferred to the metropolitan boroughs constituted under the (English) London Government Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 14). [See also the (English) London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1934, (c. xl.)]...
District Parishes
District Parishes, ecclesiastical divisions of parishes for all purposes of worship, and for celebration of marriage, baptisms, churchings, and burials formed at the instance of the Royal Commissioners for Building New Churches, and regulated by the (English) New Parishes Acts, 1843 and 1844 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 37, and 7 & 8 Vict. c. 94)....
Red light district
A district or neighborhood in which houses of prostitution are located so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night...
special district
special district : a political subdivision of a state established to provide a single public service (as water supply or sanitation) within a specific geographical area ...
school district
school district A public and quasi-municipal corporation, organized by legislative authority comprising a defined territory, for the erection, maintenance, government and support of the public schools within its territory. Source: FindLaw ...
District Court of Appeal
District Court of Appeal :any of the appellate courts in Florida ...
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