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Ratepayer, means every person who is liable to pay any rate in respect of property entered in any valuation list. It also includes an occupier who pays a rent inclusive of rates, and any person authorised by a ratepayer to act on his behalf. Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 39, p. 119. [See also (English) General Rate Act, 1967, ss. 115, 108]...
Local board
Local board. A body of persons established by an order of the Local Government Board, upon a resolution of the owners and ratepayers of a rual district, for the purpose of administering the Public Health and (which see) within such district, which was called a 'local government district' or urban sanitary district, the local board being called an 'urban sanitary authority.' They were elected by open voting of the owners and ratepayers, a property qualification being required for membership, each voter having from one to six votes, in proportion to the property occupied by him; but the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), by s. 23 [see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 35 (3), 39, 40 (1), 57], abolished both the property qualification and the plural voting, and by s. 21 directed that 'urban sanitary authorities' (except the councils of municipal boroughs) should be called 'urban district councils.'...
Ratepayer
One who pays rates or taxes...
Council
Council, an assembly of persons for the purposes of concerting measures of state or municipal policy--hence called councillors.A municipal council, commonly called a town council, consists of the mayor, aldermen, and councillors, the councillors being elected by the ratepayers (women included), and the aldermen being elected by the councillors,the term of office of a councillor being three years, and tht of an alderman six. One-third of the councillors go out every year, and one-half of the aldermen (who always number one-third of the councillors) in every third year. See (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 17-23, which repeal and replace (except as to London) (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), ss. 10-14. As to Army Council, county councils, district councils, and parish councils, see those titles....
Libraries (Public)
Libraries (Public). The (English) Public Libraries Acts, 1855-1890, authorised the establishment, at the expense of the ratepayers, of free public libraries in municipal boroughs, Improvement Act districts, and parishes, in England, by the vote of a majority of two-thirds of the inhabitants, taking by voting papers, 'and not otherwise,' (Act of 1890, s. 2). These Acts were consolidated by the Public Libraries Act, 1892 (55 7 56 Vict. c. 53), amended in the following year by 56 & 57 Vict. c.11, which allowed the Act to be adopted in urban districts by the urban authorities instead of by direct popular vote. In rural parishes the parish councils had this power transferred to them by the Local Government Act, 1894. Land may be taken compulsorily. Libraries under the Act are absolutely free, save that a charge may be made to non-residents for the use of a lending library. The Act of 1892 provided that the library rate was not to exceed one penny in the pound in any financial year, and migh...
Lighting and Watching Act, 1833
Lighting and Watching Act, 1833 (English) (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 90), superseding 2 Go. 4, c. 27. An Act which may be adopted in any parish by the votes of a majority of two-thirds of the ratepayers, and which, if adopted, regulates the lighting of the parish 'by gas, oil, or otherwise' (s. 45), and the appointment (s. 39), employment, and dismissal of watchmen or constables therein. The Act may be abandoned in three years after adoption (s. 15).The Act was repealed as to the metropolis by the (English) Sanitary Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 90), s. 35, and is superseded by the (English) Public Health Act in districts where that Act is in fore [see (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), s. 163].In a rural parish the parish meeting has exclusive power of adoption by virtue of s. 7 (1) (a) of the Local Government Acts, 1894 and 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 307 and 308, Sched. II. By the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 3 (1), the rate is to be lev...
Metropolitan Board of Works
Metropolitan Board of Works, a board constituted in 1855 by 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, and elected by vestries and district boards, who in their turn were elected by the ratepayers. The powers, duties, and liabilities of the board were transferred to the London County Council by s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the Local Government Act, 1888....
Technical Instruction
Technical Instruction. By the repealed (English) Technical Instruction Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 76), technical instruction, i.e., by s. 8, instruction in the principles of science and art applicable to industries, but not including the teaching, the practice of any trade or industry or employment, might be provided by local authorities at the expense of the ratepayers; and by the repealed Technical Instruction Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 4), a local authority might provide for a supply of such instruction in a school outside its own district, so far as necessary for the requirements of its own district, in cases where similar provision could not be so advantageously made by aiding a school within its own district; but these Acts are superseded by the Education Act, 1921, Part VI., and the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 35), ss. 83 and 113....
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