A Manual of public health for the use of local authorities, Medical Officers of Health, and others, / by W.H. Michael, W.H. Corfield, and J.A. Wanklyn ; edited by Ernest Hart.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A Manual of public health for the use of local authorities, Medical Officers of Health, and others, / by W.H. Michael, W.H. Corfield, and J.A. Wanklyn ; edited by Ernest Hart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    poTei?^ sional order may grant a power of borrowing equal to two ■ years' assessable value of the district. cfrTai'' ^° ^PPlyi^g the provisions of the Local Govern- Boards''. A.ct to any district on the application of any Local Board or the majority of owners and ratepayers, or upon petition that any portion of a district should be separated from such district, there must be a provisional order, and in Boundaries, any similar case arising out of the boundaries of districts being undefined, or various authorities coexisting where it is desirable there should be but one, then and in all such cases there is power lodged in the Local Government Petition for Board to grant a provisional order. Before, however, such ^^ provisional order is granted, a petition is to be lodged at the Notices and Local Government Board office : notices and advertisements advertise- j. i • i t • i meiits. are to be issued exphcitly stating what is purposed to be done, and what powers are asked for. Upon the receipt of Enquiry. this petition the Local Government Board directs an enquiry to be held in the district from whence the petition has emanated, and at such enquiry a full hearing is given to any one showing any claim to appear as supporting or pre- venting the granting of the prayer of the petition. It is, in fact, an open court in which any one having any interest whatever in the district, whether as owner or ratepayer, may be heard fully in support of his views. The inspector appointed to hold this inquiry at its conclusion makes his Report. report to the Local Government Board, and a copy of such report is sent to the Local Authority, and may be Appeal. obtained by any inhabitant. It has happened in some cases that parties dissatisfied with the report of the in- spector have obtained a second enquiry, when the central authority has, in accordance with the j)rayer of a petition emanating from the dissentients, ordered a fresh enquiry by an engineer with a legal assessor, before whom evidence is again taken—in fact amounting to an appeal, and con- cluding with a report to the Local Government Board, which would then, upon both the reports sent in, determine what course it would adopt. The statute gives power to the Local Government Board either to grant provisional orders as asked for or to modify the requests of the petitioners in the order granted; this would be taken to