THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1894.

THE

Local Government Act,

1894,

WITH AN

INTRODUCTION, APPENDIX, AND INDEX,

FORMING AN EPITOME OF THE LAW RELATING TO

PARISH COUNCILS,

AND SHOWING THE ALTERATION IN THE LAW

RELATING TO

DISTRICT COUNCILS AND BOARDS OF GUARDIANS.

Great Britain - Loend

Gover

Second Edition.

BY

ALEXANDER MACMORRAN, M.A.,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

Editor of Lumley's "Public Health," "The Local Government Act, 1888," and one of the Editors of the "Justice of the Peace," &c.

AND

T. R. COLQUHOUN DILL, B.A.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,
Author of "The Parish Councils Election Manual," "The Guardians and District
Councillors Election Manual,"

LONDON:

SHAW & SONS, FETTER LANE AND CRANE COURT, E.C.,
Law Printers and Publishers.

LONDON: PRINTED BY SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE, E.C.

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

INCE the First Edition of this Work was published

in May last, many portions of the Act have been carried into effect. The important duties cast upon County Councils of re-arranging areas and boundaries so as to bring this measure into immediate operation, have (for the most part) been performed. A large number of General Orders have been issued by the Local Government Board, the chief of which relate to the elections of the various local authorities whose constitution is regulated by this Statute. These Election Orders are set out in the Appendices to the present Edition, but, as they are not of a permanent characterhaving reference to the first elections only-it has been thought inexpedient to annotate them. An exception

has been made in the case of the Parish Councillors Election Order, to which short notes have been added where the rules seemed to require comment or explanation; and the notes to these rules will often be found to apply to the corresponding rules for the elections of the remaining bodies. The former Edition being entirely out of print, it has been felt to be impossible

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