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Rural Authority

Matched in: Term Rural Authority

Rate

the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 229. The rating areas are either urban or rural. The rating authority in each area is the council of the county borough, burough or urban district having jurisdiction over the … authorities having power to raise money by a public rate, the only exception being a special rate in rural districts for lighting under the (English) Lighting and Watching Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 90),

Sanitary authority

Matched in: Term Sanitary authority

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Dean

(2) Deans of Peculiars, who have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. (3) Rural Deans, deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, the better to inspect the conduct of the … examine the candidates for confirmation; and armed, in minuter matters, with an inferior degree of judicial and coercive authority. (4) Deans in the Colleges of our Universities, who are officers appointed to superintend the behaviour of the

Local authority

Matched in: Term Local authority

Poor laws

poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased to be overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894. Overseers … was authorised. They were abolished from 1st April, 1927, supra; for details of the transfer to the rating authority, see the (English) Overseers Order, 1927 (S. R. & O., 1927, No. 55). The rate was raised prospectively

Rural District Council

Matched in: Term Rural District Council

District Council

57 Vict. c. 73), which Act abolished plural voting for, and any property qualification of, such authority; (2) Rural, the governing body under the same Act of every rural sanitary district, consisting of chairman and councillors, elected

Libraries (Public)

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 … penny in the pound in any financial year, and might be limited to one halfpenny by the adopting authority. This provision has been repealed by s. 4 of the Public Libraries Act, 1919, which substitutes a right

Valuation list

is to be prepared by the rating authority, i.e., the council of every county, borough, or urban and rural district to whom all powers of the overseers of the poor in regard to the levying and collection

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