CESSPOOL-continued.

Overflow from- -see Pigs.

Foul- -see Nuisance.

Change of name of local board-see Name of Local Board.
Chimney, structure of-see Bye-laws.

Cholera "The Local Government Board may from time
to time, make, alter, and revoke such regulations as to the said
board may seem fit, with a view to the treatment of persons
affected with cholera, or any other epidemic, endemic, or
infectious disease, and preventing the spread of cholera and
such other diseases, as well on the seas, rivers, and waters of
the United Kingdom, and on the high seas within three
miles of the costs thereof, as on land; and may declare by
what authority or authorities such regulations shall be en-
forced and executed. Regulations so made shall be published
in the London Gazette, and such publication shall be for all
purposes conclusive evidence of such regulations.

Any person wilfully neglecting or refusing to obey or carry
out or obstructing the execution of any regulation made
under this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
fifty pounds": Sect 130.

See Regulations as to Epidemic, &c., Diseases.

Cisterns, public, vest in local authority-see Wells, Pollu-

tion of Wells.

Cleansing of streets, earthclosets, privies, ashpits, and
cesspools-see Removal of House Refuse, and Bye-laws.
Of footways, pavements-see Bye-laws.

Clerk." Nothing in this Act shall affect the rights or
position of any clerk or treasurer, the tenure of whose office
is regulated by sect. 12 of the Public Health Act, 1872":
Sect. 318.

Shall be appointed by urban authority-see Officer of Urban
Authority.

Of union, shall be clerk to rural authority-see Officer of Rural
Authority.

To local authority may appear on their behalf in any proceed-
ings-see Local Authority.

To local authority may sign notices, &c., for local authority-see
Notices.

CLERK-continued.

To local authority to supply certified copy of entry in register of common lodging houses, gratis-see Register.

To local authority to furnish copy of proposed bye-laws on payment-see Bye-laws.

To local authority cannot be treasurer-see Officer of Local Authority.

Of peace to tax solicitor's costs-see Taxation of Costs.

Clocks (public)." Any urban authority may from time to time provide such clocks as they consider necessary, and cause them to be fixed on or against any public building, or, with the consent of the owner or occupier, on or against any private building the situation of which may be convenient for that purpose, and may cause the dials thereof to be lighted at night, and may from time to time alter and remove any such clocks to such other like situation as they may consider expedient": Sect. 165.

Closing of polluted well, &c.-see Pollution.

Cellar dwellings-see Cellar Dwellings.

House after two convictions for overcrowding-see Overcrowding.

House unfit for human habitation- -see Bye-laws.

Collectors may be appointed by urban authority-see Officers of Urban Authority.

Must account and make return of defaulters in payment of rates-see Officers of Urban Authority.

Collegiate bodies, saving clause." Any collegiate or other corporate body required or authorized by or in pursuance of any Act of parliament to divert its sewers or drains from any river, or to construct new sewers, and any public department of the government shall have the like powers and be subject to the like obligations under this Act as they had or were subject to under the Sewage Utilization Act, 1867; and for that purpose the provisions of this Act applicable to purposes the same as or similar to those of the Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, and the Sewage Utilization Act, 1867, shall apply in substitution for the last mentioned provisions": Sect. 335.

Combination of local authorities for providing hospitals, &c.- -see Hospitals.

COMBINATION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES-continued.

For prevention of epidemic diseases--"The Local Government
Board may, if they think fit, by order authorize or require
any two or more local authorities to act together for the pur-
poses of the provisions of this Act relating to prevention
of epidemic diseases, and may prescribe the mode of such
joint action and of defraying the costs thereof": Sect. 139.
Commencement of works." Where a notice, plan, or de-
scription of any work is required by any bye-law made by an
urban authority to be laid before that authority, the urban
authority shall, within one month after the same has been
delivered or sent to their surveyor or clerk, signify in writing
their approval or disapproval of the intended work to the
person proposing to execute the same; and if the work is
commenced after such notice of disapproval, or before the
expiration of such month without such approval, and is in
any respect not in conformity with any bye-law of the urban
authority, the urban authority may cause so much of the
work as has been executed, to be pulled down or removed.

"Where an urban authority incur expenses in or about
the removal of any work executed contrary to any bye-law,
such authority may recover in a summary manner the
amount of such expenses either from the person executing
the works removed or from the person causing the works to
be executed, at their discretion.

"Where an urban authority may, under this section, pull
down or remove any work begun or executed in contraven-
tion of any bye-law, or where the beginning or the execution
of the work is an offence in respect whereof the offender is
liable, in respect of any bye-law, to a penalty, the existence of
the work during its continuance in such a form and state as
to be in contravention of the bye-law, shall be deemed to be
a continuing offence, but a penalty shall not be incurred in
respect thereof after the expiration of one year from the day
when the offence was committed or the bye-law was broken
Sect. 158.

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Committees." Every urban authority may from time to
time appoint out of their own number so many persons as
they may think fit, for any purposes of this Act which in the
opinion of such authority would be better regulated and
managed by means of a committee: Provided that a com-
mittee so appointed shall in no case be authorized to borrow
any money, to make any rate, or to enter into any contract,
and shall be subject to any regulations and restrictions which
may be imposed by the authority that formed it": Sect.

200.

COMMITTEES-continued.

"A rural authority may, at any meeting specially convened for the purpose, delegate for the current year of their office all their powers to a committee consisting wholly of their own members; provided that one-third at least of such committee shall consist of ex officio guardians, but in case an adequate number of such ex officio guardians does not exist, then the number deficient shall be made up of elected guardians; and any such committee shall have the powers by this Act vested in the rural authority by which it was formed, and shall be deemed to be during such year of office as aforesaid the rural authority of the district": Sect. 201.

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"A rural authority (including any committee so formed as aforesaid) may, at any meeting specially convened for the pose, form for any contributory place within their district a parochial committee consisting wholly of members of such authority or committee, or partly of such members and partly of such other persons liable to contribute to the rate levied for the relief of the poor in such contributory place, and qualified in such other manner (if any) as the authority forming such parochial committee may determine.

"A rural authority (including any committee so formed as aforesaid) may from time to time add to or diminish the number of the members, or otherwise alter the constitution of any parochial committee formed by it, or dissolve any parochial committee.

"A parochial committee shall be subject to any regulations and restrictions which may be imposed by the authority which formed it: Provided that no jurisdiction shall be given to a parochial committee beyond the limits of the contributory place for which it is formed, and that no powers shall be delegated to a parochial committee except powers which the rural authority could exercise within such contributory place. "A parochial committee shall be deemed to be the agents of the authority which formed it, and the appointment of such committee shall not relieve that authority from any obligation imposed on it by Act of parliament or otherwise.

"A parochial committee may be empowered by the authority which formed it to incur expenses to an amount not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed by such authority; it shall report its expenditure to such authority as and when directed by such authority, and the amount so reported, if legally incurred, shall be discharged by such authority": Seet. 202.

"Any casual vacancy occurring by death, resignation, disqualification, or otherwise in any committee may be filled up within six weeks, by the authority which formed such committee, out of qualified persons"; Sect. 203.

COMMITTEES-continued.

Meetings of any committee appointed under this Act
shall be held, and the proceedings thereat shall be conducted
(so far as such meetings and proceedings are not regulated by
the authority appointing the committee), in accordance with
the rules as to meetings and proceedings contained in Sche-
dule I. to this Act": Sect. 204.

Common fund-General expenses to be paid out of-see
Expenses of Rural Authority.

Lodging-houses." For the purposes of this Act the ex-
pression common lodging-house' includes, in any case
in which only part of a house is used as a common lodging-
house, the part so used of such house": Sect. 89.

"A person shall not keep a common lodging-house or
receive a lodger therein unless the house is registered in
accordance with the provisions of this Act; nor unless his
name as the keeper thereof is entered in the register kept under
this Act Provided that when the person so registered dies,
his widow or any member of his family may keep the house
as a common lodging-house for not more than four weeks
after his death without being registered as the keeper
thereof": Sect. 77.

"A house shall not be registered as a common lodging-
house until it has been inspected and approved for the pur-
pose by some officer of the local authority; and the local
authority may refuse to register as the keeper of a common
lodging-house a person who does not produce to the local
authority a certificate of character, in such form as the local
authority direct, signed by three inhabitant householders of
the parish respectively rated to the relief of the poor of the
parish within which the lodging-house is situate, for property
of the yearly rateable value of six pounds or upwards":
Sect. 78.

"The keeper of every common lodging-house shall, if
required in writing by the local authority so to do, affix and
keep undefaced and legible a notice with the words "Regis-
tered Common Lodging-house" in some conspicuous place on
the outside of such house.

"The keeper of any such house who, after requisition in
writing from the local authority, refuses or neglects to affix
or renew such notice, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
five pounds, and to a further penalty of ten shillings for every
day that such refusal or neglect continues after conviction":

Sect. 79.

"The keeper of a common lodging-house shall, to the satis-
faction of the local authority, limewash the walls and ceil-