LOCAL AUTHORITY-continued.

demand any tolls or dues, or interfere with any works
belonging to such river, canal, dock, harbour, or basin, or
with any land necessary for the enjoyment or improvement
thereof, the local authority shall give to such body of persons
or person a notice specifying the particulars of the matters
and things so intended to be done. If the parties on whom
such notice is served do not consent to the requisitions
thereof, the matter in difference shall be referred to arbitra-
tion; and the following questions shall be decided by such
arbitration (that is to say) :-

"(1). Whether the matters or things proposed to be done
by the local authority will cause any injury to such
river, canal, dock, harbour, basin, towing-path, works,
or land, or to the enjoyment or improvement of such
river, canal, dock, harbour, or basin as aforesaid :
"(2). Whether any injury that may be caused by such
matters or things, or any of them, is or is not of a
nature to admit of being fully compensated by money":
Sect. 328.

As to effect of such arbitration.-"The result of any such arbitration shall be final, and the local authority shall do as follows (that is to say):

"(1). If the arbitrators are of opinion that no injury will be caused, the local authority may forthwith proceed to do the proposed matters and things :

"(2). If the arbitrators are of opinion that injury will be caused, but that such injury is of a nature to admit of being fully compensated by money, they shall proceed to assess such compensation; and on payment of the amount so assessed, but not before, the local authority may proceed to do the proposed matters and things:

"(3). If the arbitrators are of opinion that injury will be caused, and that it is not of a nature to admit of being fully compensated by money, the local authority shall not proceed to do any matter or thing in respect of which such opinion may be given": Sect. 329.

Local boards-see Property.

See Local Government District.

Being an urban authority and not otherwise incorporated is a body corporate with such name as they now bear or hereafter with sanction of Local Government Board, adopt with a per

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petual succession and common seal, with power to sue and be sued in such name, and to hold lands without any license in mortmain for purposes of this Act. Improvement Commissioners have like powers: Sect. 7.

May change name-see Name of Local Board.

"Nothing in this Act shall affect the composition of any local board constituted by any Order in Council, or any provisional order made under the Public Health Act, 1848, and confirmed by parliament, or the qualification or number of members of any such board; but any such Order in Council, or order so confirmed, or the Act confirming any such lastmentioned order, may be repealed, altered, or amended in manner provided by this Act": Sect. 339.

Shall hold their meetings and conduct their proceedings in accordance with the rules in Sched. I. to this Act-see Meetings.

Election of members-see Members and Sched. II.

Local Government Board, where the number of elective guardians who are not disqualified (see Guardian-Elective) is less than five, the Local Government Board may, from time to time, by order nominate such number of persons as may be necessary to make up that number from owners or occupiers of property situated in the rural district of a value sufficient to qualify them as elective guardians for the union, and the persons so nominated shall be entitled to act and vote as members of the rural authority, but not further or otherwise. May appoint an inspector to make inquiry as to propriety of intended works out of district upon objection thereto-see Disposal of Sewage.

May appoint inspector to hold inquiry as to propriety of intended reservoir-see Reservoir.

May by order published in London Gazette, empower local authority to make bye-laws with reference to houses let in lodgings-see Bye-laws.

May authorize police officer to act where local authority fail to do their duty in relation to nuisances-see Police Officer. May make regulations to prevent the spread of cholera or epidemic, endemic or infectious diseases-see Cholera, Regulations.

May authorize two or more local authorities to combine for the prevention of epidemic disease-see Combination of Local Authorities.

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May order local inquiry as to proposed purchase of lands by local authority under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, and issue a provisional order empowering the authority to put such powers into force-see Purchase of Lands. Must confirm bye-laws before they take effect-see Bye-laws. Have the same powers with reference to duties and appointments of medical officers of health and other officers of local authority any portion of whose salary is paid by Government as they have in the case of district medical officers of unions -see Medical Officer of Health.

May prescribe mode of appointment and proportions of expenses of an appointment where the officer is appointed for more than one district-see Medical Officer of Health.

May make such order as may seem equitable on appeal by overseers against apportionment of expenses of works executed by rural authority for the common benefit of two or more contributory places-see Expenses of Rural Authority.

May be appealed to upon disallowance by auditor-see Audit of Accounts.

May be appealed to by any person aggrieved by decision of local authority-see Appeal.

May alter the areas of any districts-see Alteration of Areas. May, by provisional order, declare a rural district a local government district, and divide it into wards-see Rural District.

May (on receipt of a resolution of owners and ratepayers declaring it to be expedient) issue an order declaring a rural district a local government district-see Rural District.

May make an order on petition from ratepayers from a place without defined boundaries, defining the boundaries of same -see Rural Districts.

May invest rural authority with urban powers-see Urban Powers.

May, on application, unite districts for all or any purposes of this Act-see Joint Boards.

May determine the governing body of united districts-see Joint Boards.

May unite districts for the appointment of medical officer of health-see Union of Districts.

May constitute any local authority abutting on any part of a port, a port sanitary authority-see Port Sanitary Authority.

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May, from time to time, cause to be made such inquiries as are directed by this Act, and such inquiries as they see fit in relation to any matters concerning the public health in any place, or any matters with respect to which their sanction, approval, or consent is required by this Act: Sect. 293. May make orders as to the costs of inquiries or proceedings instituted by, or of appeals to the said board under this Act, and as to the parties by whom or the rates out of which such costs shall be borne; and every such order may be made a rule of one of the superior courts of law on the application of any person named therein: Sect. 294.

May cause inquiry before making a provisional order-see Provisional Order.

May revoke all or any part of a provisional order before it is presented to parliament for confirmation-see Provisional Order.

May obtain a writ of mandamus, or appoint some persons to perform the duties of a defaulting local authority where local authority make default in carrying out the provisions of this Act, &c.—see Default of Local Authority.

May, on refusal of defaulting local authority to pay expenses and costs of performing their duties, empower any person to levy by and out of the local rate the necessary amount-see Expenses of Performing Duties of Defaulting Local Authority. May certify the amount of expenses and borrow the amount of the loan where local authority make default in performing their duties-see Borrowing Powers, &c.

May repeal or alter any local Act-see Local Act.

May settle differences arising out of transfer of powers, property, &c.-see Settlement of Differences.

May, in certain cases, award compensation to officers-see Compensation.

May dissolve sewerage districts, or constitute them joint sewerage districts, subject to the jurisdiction of a joint board in manner provided by this Act-see Sewerage Districts. Local government district means any area subject to the jurisdiction of a local board constituted in pursuance of the Local Government Acts before the passing of this Act, or in pursuance of this Act, and "local board means any board so constituted: Sect. 4-see Alteration of Areas, Rural Districts.

Becoming a borough-see Improvement Act District.

Local government inspectors may attend meetings.—"Inspectors of the Local Government Board may attend any meetings of a rural authority or of an urban authority (being a local board) when and as directed by the Local Government Board.

"The local authority of the district of Oxford shall not, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a local board": Sect. 205.

Powers of." Inspectors of the Local Government Board shall, for the purposes of any inquiry directed by the board, have in relation to witnesses and their examination, the production of papers and accounts, and the inspection of places and matters required to be inspected, similar powers to those which poor law inspectors have under the Acts relating to the relief of the poor for the purposes of those Acts": Sect. 296.

London, Port of.- "The mayor, aldermen, and commons

of the city of London shall be the port sanitary authority of the port of London, and shall pay out of their corporate funds all their expenses as such port sanitary authority": Sect. 291.

London Gazette-see Publication of Regulations and Orders.

Mains. "Where a local authority supply water within

their district, they shall have the same powers and be subject to the same restrictions for carrying water mains within or without their district as they have and are subject to for carrying sewers within or without their district respectively by the law for the time being in force": Sect. 45.

Removal or altering position of-see Gas Pipes, Removal of.

Maintenance of bridges-see Bridges.

Of persons in hospital, recovery of cost.- "Any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital, or in a temporary place for the reception of the sick (whether or not belonging to such authority), a patient who is not a pauper, shall be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority, and may be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from such hospital or place of reception, or from his estate in the event of his dying in such hospital or place": Sect. 132.