CONTENTS. Repeal of 1 and 2 Geo. IV. c. 121; books of the former Interpretation clause; distances how measured; rule where a fixed day of the month falls on a Sunday, &c. Number of Commissioners and their style - Division into wards; number of Commissioners for each ward - Clauses Act; triennial election; re-eligibility; occasional Election of Commissioners; owners and occupiers constituted Commissioners' Clauses Act: annual election day; returning officer; poll clerks; scale of votes; joint rating and Commissioners' Clauses Act: list of voters; rate collectors; mode of voting; variation of question to suit change of occupation; and voting in several wards; female owners and occupiers and male owners may vote by proxy; cor- 13 20 COMMISSIONERS' QUALIFICATION. joint ownership qualification; no double qualification Sections from Commissioners' Clauses Act: election of chair- man and vice-chairman; manner of voting; quorum of Commissioners; annual and monthly meetings open to ratepayers; commissioners to make bye-laws with re- spect to business routine; adjournment; business of monthly meetings; extraordinary business; revoking GENERAL PROCEEDINGS OF COMMISSIONERS. Sections from Commissioners' Clauses Act: power to appoint committees; quorum; limit to their powers; proviso as to nuisance committee; vacancies; acts of Commis- sioners not invalid from vacancy, or defect in election, LIABILITIES AND PROTECTION OF COMMISSIONERS Section from Public Health Act: actions, etc. in clerk's - 20 30 Sections from Public Health Act: what officers appoint- Sections from Public Health Act: contracts; works of urgent Sections from Public Health Act; making and confirmation; no bye-laws made until one month after public notice; Sections from Public Health Act: purchase by agreement; Sections from Public Health Act; map of sewers and pipes; SEWERS AND DRAINS. Sections from Public Health Act: sewers vested in Commis- Sections from Public Health Act: making sewers; cleansing sewers and repairing works; unauthorised sewers; use of sewers by persons beyond borough Commissioners to make main sewers and tanks in lieu of the Sec. Page. Section from Public Health Act: drains for new houses; parties may use private and other excepted sewers; water-closets; factories; levels on re-building; drains, Unauthorized alteration of drains Commissioners not to interfere with trees in certain situations of private streets and as to rent-charges or sums payable Pipe-way and other rights reserved in streets Saving rights of Cheltenham Gas Company; provision as to SURFACE CLEANSING. Sections from Public Health Act: street cleansing Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act; scavengers; Power to put lamp posts and irons against buildings; mode HIGHWAYS. Sec. Page. Section from Public Health Act Road trustees not to collect toll; exceptions, Cheltenham Sections from Town Police Clauses Act: routes on processions; Sections from Town Police Clauses Act: window breaking; Section from Public Health Act: power to purchase premises 63 80 ward houses; setting back houses; new projections; Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act: bars and lights; hoards; penalty for not lighting deposits, and for Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act: to be secured |