vention of smoke, subject to the qualifications in the cases of certain enumerated processes; to slaughter houses and docks; powers for the provisions and management of public pleasure grounds.
If the Baths and Wash-houses Act be adopted, or if the Burials Act be in force for part of a district, the Local Board may, with the consent of the vestry, be the commissioners for the baths and wash-houses or the burial board, respectively. With consent of the owners and ratepayers, the local board may provide new markets. The adoption of this Act supersedes the Watching and Lighting Act.
Expenses of Executing the Act. In execution of their powers the local board may rate their district and may, for permanent works, mortgage their rates, with the sanction of the Secretary of State for thirty years, and to the amount of one year’s assessable value of the district. When they wish to raise more than this amount, up to two years’ assessive value, they must obtain powers by provisional order, as hereinafter stated.
Powers for the Purchase of Land.
The Local Board may, by provisional order, exercise the powers of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, for the compulsory purchase of lands required for the purposes of this Act after full notice to all parties interested and local enquiry, as prescribed in the Act.
Rights Preserved. Existing water and other rights are guarded by saving clauses.
Audit. The accounts of local boards are subject to audit: in boroughs by the borough auditors, and in other places by the nearest poor-law auditor, who has the same powers of allowance, dis-allowance and surcharge as he has in the case of poor-law accounts, subject to appeal to one of Her Majesty’s Secretaries of State or to the Queen’s Bench by certiorari.
Provisional Orders. When a local board wishes to provide for the future execution, repeal or alteration of public local Acts, for the alteration of provisional orders or orders in council, or of Acts confirming provisional orders or of provisions conferring exemption from local rating, or when a local board or a majority of the owners and ratepayers of any place maintaining its own roads or its own poor, adjacent to any district, are anxious to incorporate the place with the district, or where the -
