COMMON LODGING-HOUSES-continued.

ings thereof in the first week of each of the months of April and October in every year, and shall, if he fails to do so, be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings": Sect. 82.

“The keeper of a common lodging-house in which beggars or vagrants are received to lodge shall from time to time, if required in writing by the local authority so to do, report to the local authority, or to such person as the local authority direct, every person who resorted to such house during the preceding day or night, and for that purpose schedules shall be furnished by the local authority to the person so ordered to report, which schedules he shall fill up with the information required and transmit to the local authority": Sect. 83.

The keeper of a common lodging-house shall, when a person in such house is ill of fever or any infectious disease, give immediate notice thereof to the medical officer of health of the local authority, and also to the poor law relievingofficer of the union or parish in which the common lodginghouse is situated": Sect. 84.

"The keeper of a common lodging-house, and every other person having or acting in the care or management thereof, shall, at all times when required by any officer of the local authority, give him free access to such house or any part thereof; and any such keeper or person who refuses such access shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds": Sect. 85.

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Any keeper of a common lodging-house who

(1). Receives any lodger in such house without the same being registered under this Act; or

"(2). Fails to make a report, after he has been furnished by the local authority with schedules for the purpose in pursuance of this Act, of the persons resorting to such house; or

"(3). Fails to give the notices required by this Act where any person has been confined to his bed in such house by fever or other infectious disease,

shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which the offence continues": Sect. 86.

"In any proceedings under the provisions of this Act relating to common lodging-houses, if the inmates of any house or part of a house allege that they are members of the same family, the burden of proving such allegation shall lie on the persons making it": Sect. 87.

"Where the keeper of a common lodging-house is convicted of a third offence against any of the provisions of this Act relating to common lodging-houses, the court before

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whom the conviction for such third offence takes place may,
if it thinks fit, adjudge that he shall not at any time within
five years after the conviction, or within such shorter period
after the conviction as the court thinks fit, keep a common
lodging-house without the previous license in writing of the
local authority, which license the local authority may with-
hold or grant on such terms and conditions as they think
fit": Sect. 88.

See Bye-laws, Register, Supply of Water.

Common seal-see Local Board.

Must be affixed to contracts over £50 by urban authority-see
Contracts.

Must be affixed to bye-laws-see Bye-laws.

to mortgage-see Mortgages.

Communication pipes-see Waterworks.

Compensation in case of damage by local authority.—
"Where any person sustains any damage by reason of the
exercise of any of the powers of this Act, in relation to any
matter as to which he is not himself in default, full compen-
sation shall be made to such person by the local authority
exercising such powers; and any dispute as to the fact of
damage or amount of compensation shall be settled by arbi-
tration in manner provided by this Act, or if the compensa-
tion claimed does not exceed the sum of twenty pounds, the
same may, at the option of either party, be ascertained by
and recovered before a court of summary jurisdiction "
Sect. 308.

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person when line of building altered-see Line of Building.
To officers." If any officer of any trustees, commissioners, or
other body of persons, intrusted with the execution of any
local Act, whether acting exclusively under the local Act, or
partly under the local Act and partly under the Local Govern-
ment Acts, or any officer of any sanitary authority under the
Sanitary Acts by this Act repealed, or of any local authority
under this Act, is, by or in pursuance of the Public Health
Act, 1872, or of this Act, or of any provisional order made in
pursuance of either of those Acts, removed from his office,
or deprived of the whole or part of the emoluments of his
office, and does not afterwards receive remuneration to an
equal amount in respect of some office or employment under

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or by the authority of any district under this Act, the Local Government Board may, by order, award to such officer such compensation as the said board may think just; and such compensation may be by way of annuity or otherwise, and shall be paid by the local authority of the district in which such officer held his office out of any rates applicable to the general purposes of this Act within that district": Sect. 309. Complaint in summary proceedings-see Summary Proceedings.

Who to make it-see Summary Proceedings.

Of nuisance by private individual.-"Complaint may be made to a justice of the existence of a nuisance under this Act on any premises within the district of any local authority by any person aggrieved thereby, or by any inhabitant of such district, or by any owner of premises within such district, and thereupon the like proceedings shall be had with the like incidents and consequences as to making of orders, penalties for disobedience of orders, appeal, and otherwise, as in the case of a complaint relating to a nuisance made to a justice by the local authority:

"Provided that the court may, if it thinks fit, adjourn the hearing or further hearing of the summons for an examination of the premises where the nuisance is alleged to exist, and may authorize the entry into such premises of any constable or other person for the purposes of such examination :

"Provided also, that the court may authorize any constable or other person to do all necessary acts for executing an order made under this section, and to recover the expenses from the person on whom the order is made in a summary manner.

"Any constable or other person authorized under this section shall have the like powers, and be subject to the like restrictions as if he were an officer of the local authority authorized under the provisions of this Act relating to nuisances to enter any premises and do any acts thereon": Sect. 105.

Conduits vest in local authority-see Wells.

Constable may be authorized by justice to enter premises for examination; to do all necessary acts for carrying out any order; to recover expenses-see Complaint by Private Individual, Police Officer.

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Of works by local authority-see Disposal of Sewage.

For gratuitous supply of water-see Wells.

Contract by local authority for use of, purchase of, or
leasing of land, buildings, engines, materials, or apparatus—
see Disposal of Sewage.

To supply sewage-see Disposal of Sewage.

To supply water to house without proper supply-see Supply
of Water.

By water company to supply water-see Water Company.
Contracts." Any local authority may enter into any
contracts necessary for carrying this Act into execution":
Sect. 173.

By urban authority.-"With respect to contracts made by an
urban authority under this Act, the following regulations
shall be observed (namely) :—

"(1). Every contract made by an urban authority, whereof
the value or amount exceeds fifty pounds, shall be in
writing and sealed with the common seal of such
authority:
"(2). Every such contract shall specify the work, materials,
matters, or things, to be furnished, had, or done, the
price to be paid, and the time or times within which
the contract is to be performed, and shall specify some
pecuniary penalty to be paid in case the terms of the
contract are not duly performed:

"(3). Before contracting for the execution of any works
under the provisions of this Act, an urban authority
shall obtain from their surveyor an estimate in writing,
as well of the probable expense of executing the work
in a substantial manner as of the annual expense of
repairing the same; also a report as to the most advan-
tageous mode of contracting, that is to say, whether by
contracting only for the execution of the work, or for
executing and also maintaining the same in repair
during a term of years or otherwise :

"(4). Before any contract of the value or amount of one
hundred pounds or upwards is entered into by an
urban authority, ten days public notice, at the least,
shall be given, expressing the nature and purpose

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thereof, and inviting tenders for the execution of the same; and such authority shall require and take sufficient security for the due performance of the same "(5). Every contract entered into by an urban authority in conformity with the provisions of this section, and duly executed by the other parties thereto, shall be binding on the authority by whom the same is executed, and their successors and on all other parties thereto, and their executors, administrators, successors or assigns to all intents and purposes: Provided that an urban authority may compound with any contractor or other person in respect of any penalty incurred by reason of the non-performance of any contract entered into as aforesaid, whether such penalty is mentioned in any such contract, or in any bond or otherwise, for such sums of money or other recompense as to such authority may seem proper": Sect. 174.

An officer of local authority shall not be concerned in any contract made with the authority, under a penalty of £50 —see Officer of Local Authority.

Nothing in Part 6 of this Act shall alter or affect any lease, contract, or agreement, made, or entered into, between the landlord and tenant of any premises: Sect. 226.

Contribution orders of rural authority.-"For the purpose of obtaining payment from the several contributory places within their district of the sums to be contributed by them, the rural authority shall issue their precept to the overseers of each such contributory place requiring such overseers to pay, within a time limited by the precept, the amount specified in such precept to the rural authority or to some person appointed by them, care being taken to issue separate precepts in respect of contributions for general expenses and special expenses, or to make such expenses respectively separate items in any precept including both classes of expenses.

"Where a contributory place is part of a parish as defined by this Act, the overseers of such parish shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be the overseers of such contributory place, and where any part of a contributory place is part of a parish the overseers of such parish shall for the like purposes be deemed to be the overseers of such part of such contributory place.

"The overseers shall comply with the requisitions of such precept by paying the contribution required in respect of