Guide to local government in counties, parishes, and burghs.

Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Guide to local government in counties, parishes, and burghs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ACT OF PARLIAMENT TO Amciid the Public Libraries Oonsolidation {Scotland) Actf, 1887.—[57 and 58 Vict., c. 2Q.—2Qth July 1894.] Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. Short title and construction.—This Act may be cited as the Public Libraries (Scotland) Act, 1894, and shall be construed as one with the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1'887 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), and these two Acts may be together cited as the Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts, 1887 and 1894. 2. Modification as to adoption of principal Act in burghs.—(1.) In burghs the principal Act may be adopted by a resolution of the magistrates and council of the burgh, and such resolution shall be substituted for a determination of the householders of the burgh in any case where such determination is required under the principal Act. (2.) Sections four, five, and six. of the principal Act are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to burghs. 3. Provision as to resolution of magistrates and council of burgh for adoption.— (1.) A resolution under this Act shall be passed at a meeting of the magistrates and council, and one month at least before such meeting special notice thereof and of the intention to propose such resolution shall be given to every person included in the collective expression magistrates and council, either— (a) in the mode in which notices to attend meetings of the magistrates and council are usually given ; or, in the option of the chief magistrate, (6) by forwarding a notice iDy post in a prepaid letter addressed to the usual or last-known place of abode of every person entitled to notice under this section. (2.) The resolution shall, after the passing thereof, be published at least once by advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in the burgh, and shall come into operation at a time to be fixed in the resolution itself, being not less than one month after the publication or first publication of the advertisement thereof hereinbefore provided. , „ , , ■ (•3.) A copy of the newspapers containing the advertisement shall be conclusive evidence of the resolution having been passed unless the contrary be shown ; and no objection to the effect of the resolution on the ground that notice of the intention to propose the same was not duly given, or on the ground that the resolution was not sufficiently published, shall be made after three months from the publication or first publication of the advertisement.