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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding and transmitting property, and of regulating the government … under the control of a municipal corporation, consisting of the 'mayor, aldermen, and burgesses,' and acting through a; council' elected by the burgesses, i.e., persons entitled to vote under the (English) Representation of the People Acts, 1918

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Circuits

precisely fixed periods, to administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town, when by a new scheme set on foot by the 'Circuits Order' of that year it was arranged … cause untried at any place on any circuit.' The following were the circuits as altered by Order in Council made pursuant to 26 & 27 Vict. c. 122, viz.: (1) Northern; (2) Home; (3) Western; (4) Oxford;

Labourers' dwellings

Classes Lodging Houses and Dwelling Houses Acts, 1851, 1866, and 1867. These Acts might be 'adopted' by the town council of a borough and other local authorities. Upon the adoption of the Acts, corporate land might be appropriated … 1875, amended by 42 & 43Vict. c. 63, and 45 & 46 Vict.c. 54. Under this Act a town council or other urban sanitary authority might frame schemes for the improvement of a body of houses, courts, or

Watch Committee

Watch Committee, a committee of the town council of a municipal borough, not exceeding one-third of the council in number, having the appointment and control of … Corporations Act, 1882, ss. 5, 190, 191. Prior to this Act, it was a common custom for a town council to constitute the whole of their number the watch committee.

Municipality

1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(i)] --the word 'Municipality' has been defined in Webster's New Dictionary as, 'a town, city or borough which has local self-government'. A Corporation or a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat is constituted

Council

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Suffragan

specified towns, usual to appoint them. The Suffragans Nomination Act, 1888, however, empowers the King by Order in Council to add towns to those specified in the Act of Henry VIII., and to change the sees of … times of the Christian Church. How this inferior order of bishops may be appointed and consecrated for twenty-five towns therein specified (including Thetford, Grantham, and Gloucester) is regulated by 26 Hen. 8, c. 14, which enacts that

Casting vote

to give opportunity for further consideration. So has the mayor or other chairman at a meeting of a town council (English) (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 22, and Sched. II., r. 11),

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