BYELAWS TO BE MADE BY VIRTUE OF THIS ACT.

55 & 56 Vict., Cap. 55.

316. The Commissioners (a) may from time to time make byelaws as they think fit for the purposes after Byelaws.

mentioned, videlicet:—

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A. For General Purposes.

(4.) For fixing the times of lighting and extinguishing

the lights in common stairs, passages, or private
courts, and the order or rotation in which
the occupiers of houses or flats in common
stairs, passages, or private courts shall be re-
sponsible for the lighting and extinguishing of
such lights:

B. For Sanitary Purposes.

(1.) For inspecting all places where horses are
killed, and carrion is kept or sold, and keeping
such places in a cleanly and proper state, and
removing the filth therefrom, and requiring
that all such places shall be provided by the
occupiers with proper paving, drainage, and a
sufficient supply of water:

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(3.) For inspecting and periodical cleaning of
cisterns erected in buildings for the use of two
or more families.

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The Commissioners (a) may from time to time repeal, alter, or amend any such byelaws, provided the byelaws after such repeal, alterations, or amendment, be not repugnant to the law of Scotland or the provisions of this Act, and be reduced into writing, and have affixed thereto the signatures of three of the Commissioners (a), and also of the clerk, and if they affect other persons than the officers or servants of the Commissioners (a), be confirmed and published as herein provided.

[317-324. Further Provisions as to Byelaws.]

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PART V.

RATING AND BORROWING POWERS.

ASSESSMENT FOR GENERAL PURPOSES.

340. Once in each year the Commissioners (a) (being summoned in manner herein-before directed by notices, which shall state that the meeting is for the

pur

(a) Now Town Council. See Town Councils (Scotland) Act, 1900, s. 8.

55 & 56 Vict., Cap. 55.

Arable land,

pose of laying on an assessment) shall assess all occupiers of lands or premises within the burgh, according to the valuation roll made up or according to an estimate of the valuation roll about to be made up in terms of the Acts in force for the valuation of lands and heritages in Scotland for the time, subject to the exceptions herein-after provided, in the sums necessary to be levied for the general purposes of this Act, and shall fix a day on or before which the same shall be payable, and another day upon which appeals by any person complaining that they have been improperly assessed shall be lodged with the clerk or collector, and another day or days on which such appeals shall be heard by the Commissioners (a); and the rate of assessment and day fixed by the Commissioners (a) for payment shall be published by handbills posted in the burgh, or by advertisement in one newspaper published or circulating therein: Provided always, that such assessment shall be imposed as from the term of Whitsunday in any one year to the term of Whitsunday in the following year, and shall not in any year exceed [a rate equal to four shillings in the pound of the gross yearly rent or value of such lands or premises where the Commissioners (a) have supplied or resolved to supply the burgh with water in terms of this Act or otherwise at (b)] a rate equal to two shillings in the pound of the gross yearly rent or value of such lands or premises; and such assessment shall for the purposes of this Act be called the burgh general assess ment: Provided further that when in any burgh under the provisions of any Act of Parliament, a higher rate of assessment is now and has been in use to be levied upon lands or premises above a certain fixed rent than upon lower rental lands or premises, it shall be in the power of the Commissioners (a) in laying on the assessment under this Act to continue the same relative rates of assessment if they think proper.

347. The annual value of the following lands or &c., how to be premises shall, for the assessments under this Act, be held to be one-fourth of the annual value thereof entered in the said valuation roll, viz. :

valued.

2. All the underground gas and water pipes, or

(a) Now Town Council. See Town Councils (Scotland) Act, 1900, s. 8.

(b) Words within brackets repealed by Burgh Sewerage, Drainage, and Water Supply (Scotland) Act, 1901, in so far as they apply to burghs to which that Act applies from its commencement. See s. 7 of such Act, p. 504.

underground works of any gas or water com- 55 & 56 Vict., pany or corporation :

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And where the Commissioners (a) shall have supplied or
resolved to supply the burgh with water [in terms
of this Act (b)] the annual value of all quarries and
manufactories within the burgh shall, as regards
the [burgh general assessment,
so far as is appli-
cable to water (c),] subject to the exception herein-
after provided, be held to be one fourth of the annual
value thereof entered in the valuation roll; without pre-
judice, however, to the Commissioners (a) entering into
agreements for the supply of water to such lands and
premises in manner herein-before provided; and in the
event of any dispute arising as to the lands and premises
falling under the above exceptions, it shall be lawful for
the owner or occupier of such lands and premises to
present a petition to the sheriff, praying to have the same
declared, for the time being, liable to assessment upon
the said proportion of their value only; the judgment, if
by the sheriff substitute, may be appealed to the sheriff,
whose decision shall be final: Provided always, that
where in any burgh such lands or premises as are in this
section specified were prior to the passing of this Act
liable to be assessed under any general or local police Act
or under the Public Health Acts or the Local Govern-
ment (Scotland) Act, 1889, on the annual value thereof,
and moneys have been borrowed on the security of the
assessments so authorised, or some of them, such lands or
premises shall, in the case of any such burgh where the
assessments on the security of which such moneys have
been borrowed have been imposed, be liable to be assessed
on the annual value thereof and in the same manner as
heretofore until such borrowed moneys have been repaid.

Cap. 55.

(a) Now Town Council. See Town Councils (Scotland) Act, 1900, s. 8.

(b) Words within brackets repealed by Burgh Sewerage, Drainage, and Water Supply (Scotland) Act, 1901, in so far as they apply to burghs to which that Act applies from its commencement. See s. 7 of such Act, p. 504.

(c) In lieu of words within brackets, now read "water assess ment." See Burgh Sewerage, Drainage, and Water Supply (Scotland) Act, 1901, s. 4. (3.), p. 503.

55 & 56 Vict.,

Cap. 130.

Short title.

Powers for introduction of Bills in Parliament.

Powers to make inquiries.

Payments under this Act.

LONDON WATER ACT, 1892.

55 & 56 Vict., Cap. 130. An Act with respect to
the Supply of Water in London and the neigh-
bourhood.
[27th June 1892.]

[Preamble.]

1. 1892.

This Act may be cited as the London Water Act

2. The London County Council shall have power from time to time to pay the costs and expenses of promoting Bills in Parliament relating to the supply of water in the administrative county of London and within the limits of supply of the metropolitan water companies:

"The metropolitan water companies" mean and include the several companies mentioned in the schedule to this Act.

3. The London County Council shall have power to make inquiries as to the existing supply of water within. the metropolitan water area and the charges made for the same and as to the possible sources of supply and may from time to time pay the costs and expenses of such inquiries and of any costs incurred by them in inquiries before Royal Commissions or otherwise to an extent not exceeding ten thousand pounds in addition to the sum which the Council were authorised to pay for similar purposes by section 38 of the London Council (General Powers) Act 1890 (a):

The metropolitan water area means the whole of the area within which any of the metropolitan water companies have powers of supply.

4. All costs and expenses of the London County Council in the execution of this Act (except so far as they may be otherwise provided for by this or any other Act) shall be defrayed as payments for general county

(a) viz., not exceeding £5,000. For power to London County Council to expend a sum not exceeding 1,000 in any one financial year in investigating subjects of general importance to the inhabitants of the county as such, see London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1893, s. 12.

Cap. 130.

purposes within the meaning of the Local Government 55 & 56 Vict., Act 1888 and the costs charges and expenses preliminary to and of and incidental to the preparing applying for obtaining and passing of this Act shall be paid by the Council in like manner.

SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing Act.

The Governor and Company of the New River brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London :

The East London Waterworks Company:

The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company:

The Company of Proprietors of the West Middlesex Waterworks :

The Company of Proprietors of Lambeth Waterworks:

The Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks:

The Grand Junction Waterworks Company:

The Company of Proprietors of the Kent Waterworks.