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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).

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...

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(which were public general Acts), and their amending enactments wee repealed and re-enacted with many amendments by the local and personal London Building Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict.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

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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

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

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

Canal

Act of 1888. In London, the Canal Protection (London) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 16), empowers local authorities to request canal companies to fence, etc., dangerous parts on canals. As to placing telegraph lines across

Bedford level

to the privileges conferred by the act on the owners of lands within the Level. See also (English) Local Acts and 4 Geo. 4, c. 46.

Baths and washhouses

Baths and washhouses. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 231-234, enables local authorities to provide public baths, wash-houses and bathing places, and make bye-laws for these if under their management;

Bathing, sea

B & Ald 268, followed by the Court of Appeal in Brinckman v. Matley, (1904) 2 Ch 313. Local authorities may make regulations as to bathing by virtue of ss. 231-234 of the Public Health Act, 1936.

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