The Sanitary Act, 1866 : with notes, statutes, &c / by Robert Cecil Austin ; together with copious notes and commentaries on public health and the sanitary laws of England ... and suggestions for a code of sanitary law / by William Hardwicke.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The Sanitary Act, 1866 : with notes, statutes, &c / by Robert Cecil Austin ; together with copious notes and commentaries on public health and the sanitary laws of England ... and suggestions for a code of sanitary law / by William Hardwicke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    effect The Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, and be payable accordingly.* Kg£gto IB. AH property in wells, fountains, and pumps, an^ powers in relation thereto, vested in the nuisance thoreftya,u&c. authority by the seventh sectionf of the Act passed c?77,^7.ict' in tne session of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter seventy-seven, shall vest in the sewer authority, where the sewer authority supplies water to its district. by annual instalments not exceeding five, together with interest after the yearly rate of five pounds in the hun- dred, to be computed from the date of any such last-men- tioned order, upon so much of the principal sum due in respect of the said costs, charges, and expenses as may from time to time remain unpaid. * By the Sewage Utilization Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 75), expenses incurred by the sewer authority are to be paid out of the following funds :— In boroughs, with the exception of the boroughs of Oxford and Cambridge, not within the jurisdiction of a local board— out of the borough fund or borough rate : In the boroughs of Oxford and Cambridge, and any town or place not included within the above descriptions, and under the jurisdiction of commissioners, trustees, or other persons entrusted by any local act with powers of improving, cleansing, lighting, or paving any town—out of any rate leviable by the commissioners, trustees, or other persons. In parishes not within the jurisdiction of any sewer authority hereinbefore mentioned, and in which a rate is levied for the maintenance of the poor—out of the poor rate, f (23 & 24i Vict. c. 77) Nuisances Removal and Diseases Pre- vention Act, sect. 7.—All wells, fountains, and pumps provided under section fifty of The Public Health Act, 1848, or other- wise for the use of the inhabitants of any place, And not being the property of or vested in any person or corporation other than officers of such place, Shall be vested in the local authority under this Act for such place, who shall from time to time cause to be kept in good repair and condition and free from pollution all wells, fountains, and pumps vested in them under this Act, and may also keep in good repair and condition and free from pollution other wells, fountains, and pumps dedicated to or open to the use of the inhabitants of such place.