Destruction of infected articles.-"Any local authority may direct the destruction of any bedding, clothing or other articles which have been exposed to infection from any dangerous infectious disorder, and may give compensation for the same" Sect. 121.

Dimensions of cellar dwellings-see Cellar Dwellings.
Disallowance by auditor-see Audit of Accounts.

Disinfecting, means of." Any local authority may provide a proper place, with all necessary apparatus and attendance, for the disinfection of bedding, clothing, or other articles which have become infected, and may cause any articles brought for disinfection to be disinfected free of charge" Sect. 122.

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Conveyance-see Conveyance, Disinfection of.

Disposal of sewage." For the purpose of receiving, storing, disinfecting, distributing, or otherwise disposing of sewage, any local authority may :—

"(1). Construct any works within their district, or (subject to the provisions of this Act as to sewage works without the district of the local authority) without their district; and

"(2). Contract for the use of, purchase, or take on lease any land, buildings, engines, materials, or apparatus either within or without their district; and

"(3). Contract to supply for any period not exceeding twenty-five years any person with sewage, and as to the execution and costs of works either within or without their district for the purposes of such supply:

Provided that no nuisance be created in the exercise of any of the powers given by this section": Sect. 27.

"Where any local authority agree with any person as to the supply of sewage and as to works to be made for the purpose of such supply, they may contribute to the expense of carrying into execution by such person all or any of the purposes of such agreement, and may become shareholders in any company with which any agreement in relation to the matters aforesaid has been or may hereafter be entered into by such local authority, or to or in which the benefits and obligations of such agreement may have been or may be transferred or vested" Sect. 30.

Out of district." A local authority shall, three months at least before commencing the construction or extension of any

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sewer or other work for sewage purposes without their district, give notice of the intended work by advertisement in one or more of the local newspapers circulated within the district where the work is to be made.

"Such notice shall describe the nature of the intended work, and shall state the intended termini thereof, and the names of the parishes, and the turnpike roads and streets, and other lands (if any) through, across, under, or on which the work is to be made, and shall name a place where a plan of the intended work is open for inspection at all reasonable hours; and a copy of such notice shall be served on the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the said lands, and on the overseers of such parishes, and on the trustees, surveyors of highways, or other persons having the care of such roads or streets": Sect. 32.

"If any such owner, lessee, or occupier, or any such overseer, trustee, surveyor, or other person as aforesaid, or any other owner, lessee, or occupier who would be affected by the intended work, objects to such work, and serves notice in writing of such objection on the local authority at any time within the said three months, the intended work shall not be commenced without the sanction of the Local Government Board after such inquiry as hereinafter mentioned, unless such objection is withdrawn": Sect. 33.

"The Local Government Board may, on application of the local authority, appoint an inspector to make inquiry on the spot into the propriety of the intended work and into the objections thereto, and to report to the Local Government Board on the matters with respect to which such inquiry was directed, and on receiving the report of such inspector, the Local Government Board may make an order disallowing or allowing, with such modifications (if any) as they may deem necessary, the intended work": Sect. 34.

Disqualification-see Members.

District. Proceedings for abating nuisance arising out of

district-see Nuisance.

Fund." In the district of every urban authority whose expenses under this Act are directed to be defrayed out of the district fund and general district rate, there shall be continued or established a fund called the district fund: a separate account called 'the district fund account' of all moneys carried under this Act to the account of that fund shall be kept by the treasurer of the urban authority; and such moneys shall be applied by the urban authority in

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defraying such of the expenses chargeable thereon under this
Act as they may think proper": Sect. 209.

See Expenses of Urban Authority.

District medical officer may, with the approval of Local
Government Board, have extra remuneration for services
rendered to medical officer of health of united districts-see
Union of Districts.

District rate-see Expenses of Urban Authority.

"For the purpose of defraying any expenses chargeable on
the district fund, which that fund is insufficient to meet, the
urban authority shall from time to time, as occasion may
require, make by writing under their common seal, and levy
in addition to any other rate leviable by them under this
Act, a rate or rates to be called 'general district rates.'

"Any such rate may be made and levied either prospec-
tively in order to raise money for the payment of future
charges and expenses, or retrospectively in order to raise
money for the payment of charges and expenses incurred at
any time within six months before the making of the rate;
in calculating the period of six months during which the
rate may be made retrospectively, the time during which
any appeal or other proceeding relating to such rate is pend-
ing shall be excluded.

"Public notice of intention to make any such rate, and of
the time when it is intended to make the same, and of the
place where a statement of the proposed rate is deposited for
inspection, shall be given by the urban authority in the week
immediately before the day on which the rate is intended to
be made, and at least seven days previously thereto; but in
case of proceedings to levy or recover any rate it shall not
be necessary to prove that such notice was given": Sect. 210.
Assessment of." With respect to the assessment and levying
of general district rates under this Act the following pro-
visions shall have effect (namely)
"(1). General district rates shall be made and levied on
the occupier of all kinds of property for the time
being by law assessable to any rate for the relief of
the poor, and shall be assessed on the full net annual
value of such property, ascertained by the valuation
list for the time being in force, or, if there is none, by
the rate for the relief of the poor made next before
the making of the assessment under this Act, subject
to the following exceptions, regulations, and condi-
tions (namely)-

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(a). The owner, instead of the occupier, may at the option of the urban authority be rated in

cases

“Where the rateable value of any premises

liable to assessment under this Act does not exceed the sum of ten pounds; or "Where any premises so liable are let to weekly or monthly tenants; or

"Where any premises so liable are let in separate apartments, or where the rents become payable or are collected at any shorter period than quarterly :

Provided that in cases where the owner is rated instead of the occupier he shall be assessed on such reduced estimate as the urban authority deem reasonable of the net annual value, not being less than two-thirds nor more than four-fifths of the net annual value; and where such reduced estimate is in respect of tenements whether occupied or unoccupied, then such assessment may be made on one half of the amount at which such tenements would be liable to be rated if the same were occupied and the rate were levied on the occupiers : "(b). The owner of any tithes, or of any tithe com

mutation rentcharge, or the occupier of any land used as arable meadow or pasture ground only, or as woodlands, market gardens, or nursery grounds, and the occupier of any land covered with water, or used only as a canal or towing-path_for the same, or as a railway constructed under the powers of any Act of parliament for public conveyance, shall be assessed in respect of the same in the proportion of onefourth part only of such net annual value thereof:

"(c). If within any urban district or part of such district any kind of property is exempted from rating by any local Act in respect of all or any of the purposes for which general district rates may be made under this Act, the same kind of property shall, in respect of the same purposes, and to the same extent within the parts to which the exemption applies (but not further or otherwise), be exempt from assessment to any general district rates under this Act unless the Local Government Board by provisional order otherwise direct.

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"(2). If at the time of making any general district rate
any premises in respect of which the rate may be
made are unoccupied, such premises shall be included
in the rate, but the rate shall not be charged on any
person in respect of the same while they continue to
be unoccupied; and if any such premises are after-
wards occupied during any part of the period for
which the rate was made and before the same has been
fully paid, the name of the incoming tenant shall be
inserted in the rate, and thereupon so much of the
rate as at the commencement of his tenancy may be
in proportion to the remainder of the said period shall
be collected, recovered, and paid in the same manner
in all respects as if the premises had been occupied at
the time when the rate was made:

"(3). If any owner or occupier assessed or liable to any
such rate ceases to be owner or occupier of the pre-
mises in respect whereof he is so assessed or liable,
before the end of the period for which the rate was
made, and before the same is fully paid off, he shall
be liable to pay only such part of the rate as may be
in proportion to the time during which he continues
to be such owner or occupier; and in every such case
if any person afterwards become owner or occupier of
the premises during part of the said period, he shall
pay such part of the rate as may be in proportion to
the time during which he continues to be such owner
or occupier, and the same shall be recovered from him
in the same manner as if he had been originally
assessed or liable :

"(4). The urban authority may divide their district or any
street therein into parts for all or any of the purposes
of this Act, and from time to time abolish or alter any
such divisions, and may make a separate assessment on
any such part for all or any of the purposes for which
the same is formed; and every such part, so far as
relates to the purposes in respect of which such sepa-
rate assessment is made, shall be exempt from any
other assessment under this Act: provided that if any
expenses are incurred or to be incurred in respect of
two or more parts in common the same shall be
apportioned between them in a fair and equitable
manner": Sect. 211.

See Inspection of Valuation List, Highway Rates.

Ditch. Where any watercourse or open ditch lying near
to or forming the boundary between the district of any local