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Building Acts (English)

(which were public general Acts), and their amending enactments wee repealed and re-enacted with many amendments by the local and personal London Building Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii.), and its amending Acts of 1898

Borough Council

six years, one half going out every third year. The mayor is elected for one year. The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), has consolidated and amended the relevant sections of

Borough Funds Acts

dispensing with the consent of owners and rate-payers to incurring expense in opposing bills. See now the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 254 et seq., which consolidates and amends

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Bridge

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 same Act the county councils may purchase bridges not

Business

4th Edn., Para 636, p. 485. Business includes a profession and the activities of any government department or local or public authority, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., Para 1855, p. 872. Business includes any

Burgessess

Burgessess [fr. burgeise, O.E.; burgeois, O. fr.; birgensis, Lat.], generally the inhabitants of a borough or walled town; sometimes restricted to the magistrates, etc., of corporate towns, and sometimes to the representatives of a borough in...

Burgh

Act, 1892, Amendment Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 18). Important changes have been made by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 50).

Borne by the owner

in the proviso to s. 23(1) of the Act, i.e., the liability to pay tax imposed by the local authority which the owner is liable to discharge and not the actual sum paid by him in discharge

Butter factory

and are open to inspection by any officer of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries or of the Local Government Board, by virtue of the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907. See MARGARINE.

By-laws, or bye-laws

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

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