SCHEDULES.

Appendix.

Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Works for the Purpose of which the Commissioners may lend Money.

Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities.

Burial grounds provided by burial boards.

Conservation or improvement of rivers or main drainage.

Docks.

Harbours and piers, and any work for which the Public Works 24 & 25 Vict. Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by section three of the c. 47. Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c., Act, 1861.

Improvement of towns.

Labourers dwellings.

Lighthouses, floating and other lights for the guidance of ships, buoys, and beacons.

Lunatic asylums of any county or borough in Great Britain.

Police stations and justices rooms of any county or borough in Great Britain, and the offices connected therewith.

Prisons.

Public libraries and museums.

Any schoolhouse or work for which a school board is authorized to 33 & 34 Vict. borrow under the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873, or any c. 70. Act amending the same.

36 & 37 Vict. c. 86. Waterworks established or carried on by a sanitary or other local 35 & 36 Vict. authority.

Workhouses or poorhouses, and any work for which guardians of the poor are authorized to borrow under the general Acts relating to the relief of the poor.

Any work for which a sanitary authority are authorized to borrow under the Public Health Act, 1875.

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Any work for which the commissioners are authorized to lend by any Act passed after the passing of this Act.

c. 62.

INDEX.

ABSENCE

from borough of mayor for more than two months disqualifies,
87; of alderman or councillors for six months disqualifies,
87; such disqualification renders liable to fine, 87; dis-
qualification ceases, as to subsequent elections, on return, 87.
of mayor, council to choose an alderman to act for, as returning
officer at municipal elections, 101.

of mayor, council to choose an alderman to act for, at parliamen-
tary elections, 222.

of alderman as returning officer at a ward election, mayor to
appoint substitute, 101; who may be such substitute, 101.

of mayor generally, deputy mayor to act, 71, 101.

of town clerk, deputy may act, 72.

of recorder, deputy may act, 172.

of recorder and deputy recorder, mayor to adjourn sessions, 172.
of clerk of the peace, deputy may act, 170.

of coroner, deputy may act, 176.

ABSTRACT OF TREASURER'S ACCOUNTS

to be made up yearly and printed, 79; to be open to inspection
by ratepayers, 217; copies to be delivered to them on pay-
ment of reasonable price, 217.

ACCOUNTS

to be made up half yearly, 78; council, with approval of Local
Government Board, to fix the times, 78; when not so fixed,
78; to be submitted, with vouchers, to auditors, 79.

ACTIONS

by and against corporations, 15; corporation must appear by
attorney, 15; foreign corporations may sue in this country,
15; may be brought on executed contract, though not under
seal, 16; will lie for penalties for breach of bye-laws, 16;
corporations may not sue for bond made to mayor, 17; do
not abate by death of one of the corporators, 17;

corporation may institute criminal prosecution, 17; how corpora-
tion described in an indictment, 18.

ACTIONS-continued.

writ of summons, how served, 18; how compelled to enter an
appearance, 18; answer to be under seal, 18; corporations
not liable in tort, 20; as to ejectment, 20, 21; may be
maintained for carelessness or assault by servants, 21; for
unskilfulness, 21; for a misfeasance, 22; malicious prosecu-
tion, 22; neglect of public duties, 22; criminal informations,
22; when individual corporators liable, 22; actions and
suits how commenced, 23.

how to be commenced in borough civil court, 179.

penal, against corporate officers, 206; not to lie in certain cases
unless notice of action given within fourteen days after
cause arose, and commenced within three months, 206;
plaintiff to give security for costs, 206.

successful defendant entitled to costs as between solicitor and
client, 206; when brought against person in respect of
qualification by estate, the onus of proof to be on defendant,
206; a moiety of fine to be paid to plaintiff, 206.

not to be commenced against persons acting under the Municipal
Corporations Act after six months, 211.

tender of amends before, may be pleaded, 211; when defendant
entitled to costs, same to be taxed as between solicitor and
client, 211; where the defendant is an officer, servant, or
agent of council, they may pay any sums payable by defen-
dant out of borough fund or rate, 211, 251, 252.

for penalties for corrupt practices, limitation of time for, 445,
449.

ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

of person in possession of office, valid, 89; of council or com-
mittee not to be questioned on account of any vacancy, 76.
minutes of, of council or committee, to be primâ facie evidence
of, 76.

of council to be done by the majority present and voting, 237.
of council to be drawn up and fairly entered in a book, 237.

ACTS REPEALED.-See ENACTMENTS REPEALED.

ADMIRALTY,

saving for authority of commissioners for executing the office of
lord high admiral, 228.

ADVOWSONS,

obligations and powers in respect of, 138; regulation as to sale
of, 139.

AFFIRMATION

in lieu of oath, 285.

AGE,

burgess must be of full age, 61.

person over sixty exempt from serving corporate office, 85.

AGENTS,

when appointed, provisions of Ballot Act, 1872, to apply to, 96;

not to vote, 109; fine for voting, 109; consequences of cor-
rupt practices by, 108; payment of conveyance of voters by,
how punishable, 109.

proof of corrupt practice, &c., by, may be given before proof of
agency, 116.

in London to be appointed in election petitions, 454, 455, 464.
of candidate may require presiding officer to put questions to
voter, 97.

of candidates, under the Ballot Act, 1872, practice with respect
to, at municipal elections, 294-298; form of notice to
appoint, 296; form of appointment of, 297; notice to, to
attend counting of the votes, 297; form of, 297.

AGREEMENT

not under seal when binding, 6.

ALDERMEN

to be fit persons, 70; number of, 70; qualification of, 70; a
councillor elected alderman vacates his office as councillor,
70.

term of office, 70; retirement by rotation, 70; advantages of the
system, 70; the cumulative vote, desirability of, 71.

qualified to be mayor, 71; although out-going, 71.

division of borough into greater number of ward's not to affect
qualification of, 81.

to accept office by making required declaration, 85; within what
time, 85; what notice required, 85; to pay fine for non-
compliance, 85; amount of fine, 85; who exempt from
serving the office, 85.

declaration of acceptance of office to be subscribed before acting,
86; fine for acting without making declaration, 89.
may resign on payment of fine, 86; resignation to be accepted
by council, 86; how same to be signified, 86; refusal on
conscientious grounds to make declaration, 86; resignation
without payment of fine, effect of, 86; what is the remedy
if council refuse consent to resignation, 86.

eligible for re-election, 86.

to be member of council during office, 86, 87.
bankruptcy of, avoids office, 87; so, by composition with creditors
or arrangement under Bankruptcy Act, 87; disqualification
ceases on obtaining discharge, 87; when bankrupt, cannot