Keeper:-of Common Lodging-house, definitions of, 67, 68; of Market penalty for obstructing, 145

Knacker's yard, included in the term "Slaughter-house," 6; Licence for, 150

Labels:-on Food or Drugs, 565; on vessels containing Petroleum, 371 Labourers' Dwellings, 426-447; Loan Commissioners may lend money for, 533; see Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Acts, Labouring Classes' Lodging-houses Acts

Labouring classes, Baths and Wash-houses for, 349-360 Labouring Classes' Lodging-houses Act, 412; Adoption of Act, 11, 412; Appeals, 419; Borough lands may be appropriated, 417; Boroughs may adopt Act, 413, their expenses, 413; Borrowing money, 416; Bye-laws, 420, 425; Charges, 421; Commissioners Clauses Act, incorporated, 423; Companies Clauses Act incorporated, 416; Contracts, 418; Definition, 413, definition of Act, 7; Erection of lodging-houses, 417; Gas supply, 419; Improvement commissioners may adopt Act, 414, their accounts, 416, their expenses, 415; Inspection, 421; Lands Clauses Act incorporated, 417, 423; Liability of councillors, 419; Loans for purposes of Acts, 416, 422; Local Boards of Health may adopt Act, 413, their expenses, 414; Management, 420; Mortgages for purposes of Act, 423; Parochial relief received by tenants, 421; Penalties on officers, 421; Postponement of adoption, 413, 414; Purchase of lands, 417, of lodging-houses, 418; Regulations of the treasury, 424; Sale, &c, of lands, 419, of lodging-houses, 419; Urban authority to have powers, &c., of local authority under the Acts, 11; Water supply, 419

Laches in restraining Nuisance, 91

Lamp Posts, &c., may be provided by urban authority, 137; Injuries to lamps, 138; Lamps not to be affixed to house without owner's consent, 138

Lancaster, sale of Crown Lands in, 167

Land Drainage Act, provisional orders under, 31

Landlord and Tenant, saving for division of expenses between, 290; right of distress where expenses are payable to vestry out of rent, 84; See Owner, Occupier

Land:-Arable, &c., how assessed to general district rate, 200; Bequests of, for public parks, &c., exempt from Mortmain Act, 140; connected with Church, &c, not included in exemptions from rating, 125; Contracts for use of, for disposal of sewage, 29; Definitions of, 4; Entry on, for purposes of works, &c., 279; Exchange of, by local authority, 165; Lease of, by local authority, 167, to local authority 165, for disposal of sewage, 28, powers for dealing with such land, 31; Licence in Mortmain for holding, not required by improvement commissioners or local boards, 10; Purchase of, see Purchase of Land; Scheduled land may be taken though not required for improvements, 128; Sewers may be carried through, 17, the lands need not be purchased for the purpose, 18; Surplus, to be sold, 165, when not to be sold, 13 Lands Clauses Acts, Construction of, 289; Incorporated with Artizans', &c., Dwellings Improvement Act, 444, 445, Baths and Wash-houses Acts, 353, Labouring Classes' Lodging-houses Acts, 417, 423, Public Health Act, 165

Lapse of Local Board, 322

Larceny Act, 240

of things attached to Pleasure Grounds, 141 Lawful Trade, action will lie for injury from, 91

Leamington, filtration of Sewage of, 30

Lease of Lands:-by local authority, 167, to local authority, 165, for disposal of sewage, 28, 31; of Waterworks to local authority, 44, 57

Leen and Nottingham drainage, 34

Legal Proceedings, 241; Appearance of local authority in, 247; Costs of 188-195, when payable from funds of urban authority, 551

for preventing Pollution of water, 61; under Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 567. See also Summary Proceedings Lessee, may object to certain intended Sewage works, 35; to be served with Notice previously to compulsory purchase of lands, 166

Lessor, Indictment of, for nuisance, 38

Letting Infected house or room, 98, 99; definition of such letting in case of an inn, 99

Level:-of New Streets, bye-laws as to, 131; of Street, compensation for altering, 114, injury from alteration of, 128

Levelling Highway, duty of local authority as to, 113; Private Streets, how enforced, 115, level of whole street not to be altered 120. Liabilities transferred with certain property to local authority, 13 Liability for wrongful act done under contract, 250; of Baths and washhouses commissioners, 356, 359; of Members of local authority, 252, 286, under Labouring Classes' Lodging-houses Act, 419; of Public bodies for negligence, 284, 286; to bury the Dead, 365 Libraries, Public, 392--398, see Public Libraries Act Licences-for Boats, &c., 159, 160; for Common lodging-house to be reopened after third conviction, 66; for Hackney carriages, 157, 470, not required for omnibus, 158, or stage coach, 158; for drivers of Hackney carriages, 158, their duration, 153, revocation, 159, writing injurious words upon them, 158; for Horses, &c., standing for hire, 159; for Lodging-house, forfeiture of, for harbouring thieves or receiving stolen goods, 66; for keeping Petroleum, 372, 373, appeal on refusal of such licence, 373; for Slaughter-houses, 150; in Mortmain, improvement commissioners and local boards may hold lands without, 10, joint board may hold lands without, 262; to pollute Well, 30 Licensing Act, penalty for drunkenness under, 155

Life-boat at Scarborough, 359

Lighthouses, &c., Loan commissioners may lend money for, 533

Lighting or Watching Act, transfer of powers under, to town council, 12 Lighting-of Private Streets, how enforced, 115; of Streets, powers of urban authority to provide for, 137

Limewashing Common Lodging-house, 65

Limit of Rates by local act, not to apply to urban rates, 219; meaning of, 219

Limitation:-of Highway rate, 209; of Rate, made retrospectively, 195, 196, or made under Public Libraries Act, 398; of Sums to be borrowed by local authority, 225; of Time, distress warrant for rate not affected by, 245; of Time for commencement of action, 195, 196, 249, Jervis' Act, when applicable to, 71, for declaring expenses private improvement expenses, 118, disputing apportionment of expenses, 118, 121, 122, laying information or making complaint, 242, or recovering expenses, 36, 242

Limits:-of District of local authority, need not be proved, 248, settlement of, by local government board, 259, how, when district is bounded by river, 259; of District under local act, alteration of, by provisional order, 277; of Parish on sea shore or river, 4

Line of Buildings, Certificate as to, in metropolis, 130; Fore-court not included in, 130; House not to be brought beyond, 130; Improvement of, 128, 137; Railway premises exempt from provisions as to, 132

Liquors kept for unlawful sale, Seizure of, 94

Lists-of Amendments effected by Public Health Act, liii, lxxiii; Candidates and persons elected to local board, 316; Muincpial boroughs, 2; Parishes and Unions in the metropolis, 3; Persons served with notices under Thames Navigation Act, 408-411; Tolls, to be placed in market, 148; Unpaid Rates, 180; Voters at election of local board, 312

Literary Societies, premises of, exempt from rates, 211

Loan Commissioners, 512-534; See Public Works Loans Act Loans by public works loan commissioners, 229; scale of percentages, 230 for Costs of enforcing duty of defaulting authority, 276, 277, of provisional orders, 273; for Improvement of artizans' dwellings, 446; for Labouring classes' lodging-houses, 422; for Public works, 515, see Public Works Loans Act

on credit of special district rates, saving for, 290; saving for security for, in certain cases, 290

how contracted and repaid by local authorities, 224-232; income tax on interest on, 231. See also Mortgage

under Local Loans Act, 496; see Local Loans Act

Local Acts, Alteration or repeal of, by provisional order, 277; Limit of rate in, not to apply to urban rate, 219, meaning of "limit of, rate," 219; Relation of, to general acts, 114; Saving for certain rights under, 291, for proceedings under, 297, for rates and acts under, 297; Transfer of powers, &c., of commissioners under, to town council, 12, to urban authority, 12

Local Authority, Accounts of, how and when to be made up, 232; accounts of their officers to be audited, 239;

Actions against, or against officers of, not to be brought until after a month's notice, 249;

Borrowing powers of, 224; Loans by loan commissioners, 229; Mortgage of sewage land and plant, 226; Receiver may be appointed on default of payment, 227, 228; Regulations as to borrowing, 225, 226

Bye-laws of, Alteration of them, 172; Authentication, 172; Confirmation by local government board, 174; Legality, 133, 135, 172, 174; Penalties under them, 174; Printing of them, 174; Regulations not to be affected by them, 175; see also Bye-laws

Committees of, see Committees

Compensation, when to be given by, 280

Contracts that may be made by, 161, when they must be in writing and sealed, 161, what they must specify, 161; Effect of them, 162; previous Estimate to be obtained, 161, Member interested in them, 164; Notice of them to be given, 161; Penalties under them may be compounded for, 162; Water supply may be contracted for, 45, 56, 57

Costs of legal and parliamentary proceedings when to be defrayed out of their funds, 188-195, 550-553; of provisional orders, 273; of proceedings for abatement of nuisance, 83

Default of, in executing Public Health Act, 274; in relation to nuisances, 85; loan commissioners not to lend money for expenses incurred by local government board in performing duty of defaulting authority, 230

Definition of, 4

Entry on lands by, for purposes of works, &c., 279; on premises for abatement of nuisance, 78, 80

Expenses, appeal against their decision as to, 253; those of members and officers, to be repaid, 252; see also Expenses

Local Authority, Hospitals may be provided by, 100

Legal proceedings by, 241; appearance by their clerk, &c., 247; their corporate name, constitution, and limits of district need not be proved, 248; their goods &c., may be taken under elegit, 248 Medicine may be supplied to the poor by, 100

Members of, their personal liability, 252, 286; justices not disqualified from acting by being members, 247; turnpike trustees not to be members, 290

of, 86

Metropolitan nuisance authorities to have certain powers

Notices &c., of, how authenticated, 252

Nuisances, information of nuisances to be given to, 74; proceedings thereon, 75; when they may be ordered to abate nuisance, 79, 80, form of the order, 331; when they will be restrained from executing works, 81; proceedings on their default in abating nuisance, 85; their powers as to nuisances on ships, 86, 87; proceedings against adjoining authority in respect of offensive ditch on boundary of district, 42

Penalties, when to be paid to, 243

Protection of them and their officers, 252

Purchase of lands by, 165; regulations as to purchase, 165; how in the case of the Duchy of Lancaster, 167

laws, 175

Regulations of, not to be affected by provisions as to bye

Saving for existing authorities and officers, 290, 292 Sewage farms, their powers in respect of, 31; lease of lands by, for disposal of sewage, 28; how such lands may be dealt with, 31; contribution to expenses of sewage supply, 31; they may become shareholders in company, 31

Sewers vested in, 14; purchase of sewers by, 14; their powers to enforce drainage of undrained houses, 26, of insufficiently drained houses, 27; extent of their jurisdiction in respect of sewers, 29; agreements for communication of sewers with those of adjoining district, 30

Water supply by, 44, for adjoining district, 56, for public baths and wash-houses, manufactories, &c., 58; construction of works by, 53, 54; transfers of powers of water company to, 57; vesting of public cisterns and works in, 57

Works in adjoining districts, may be executed by, 265; combination of, with other authorities for execution of works, 265; loan commissioners may lend money for execution of works, 534; penalty for damaging their works, &c., 280

Works, &c., which they may execute at owner's expense: Abatement of nuisance, 74, 83; Altering doors, 457, or drains, &c., 37; Closing communications between their sewers and private drains, 24; Closing polluted wells, &c., 61; Communication pipes for water supply, 56, 481; Disinfection of premises, 96; Drainage of undrained house, 27; Fencing holes and dangerous buildings, 461; Numbering houses, 455; Paving private street, 115; Providing privies, ash-pits, &c., 36, or water supply, 56, 57; Removal of building over sewer, or under carriage way, 28, of filth, 44, of patient to hospital, 100, of projections from houses, 456, of ruinous buildings, 458, of works executed in contravention of bye-laws, 136; Whitewashing house, 41 see also Rural Authority, Urban Authority

Local Board, Boundaries of district of, how settled, 263; Burial board powers exerciseable by, 343, 361-363; Casual vacancies, how to be filled up, 319; Continuance in office of those existing at passing

of act, 322; Declaration to be made by members, 317, punishment for making it falsely, 317; Definition of, 3; Disqualification of members, 318, penalty for acting when disqualified, 320; Election of, 305-321, division of district into wards for elections, 306, expenses of election, 319, members to be elective, 10, number of members, 305, qualification of electors, 307, or of members, 305, returning officer may be appointed by the board in certain cases, 311; Incorporation of, 9; Labouring Classes' Lodging-houses Acts may be adopted by, 413; Lapse of, 322; Library for the public may be established by, 397; Name of, may be changed, 288; Meetings of, how regulated, 302, 303; for Oxford, 298, 299; Police office to be provided by, 400; Proceedings of, 302, 303; Property vested in, 13, debts, &c., transferred therewith, 13; Retirement of members, 317, re-election of them, 318; Saving for constitution of, in certain cases, 297; Stipendiary magistrate's salary to be fixed by, 399, and to be paid out of rate levied by, 401; Tramways may be constructed by, 386; Transfer of powers, &c., of, to town council, 288, they cannot transfer powers under 20 & 21 Vict. c. 50, 13; they are to be Urban authority of their district, 8, how, where the district is wholly or partly coincident with a borough or Improvement Act district, 9

Local Boards of Health, Election of, where district is partly within a borough, 321; Order in council constituting them burial boards, 302; board of health of main Sewerage district, borrowing money by, 232 Local Government Board Act, 545; Constitution of board, 546; Construction of acts and documents, 547; Establishment of board, 545; List of statutory powers transferred, 548; President and secretary may sit in parliament, 546; Returns to be sent to board, 547; Seal, &c., of board, 546; Transfer of officers, 547, of powers, &c., to board, 545 Local Government Board, Alkali works inspectors to be appointed by, 557; Analysts may be appointed by order of, 565; Annual reports to, 185; Appeal to, against apportionment of expenses by overseers, 220, against decision of local authority as to expenses, 253; Auditor to be specially appointed by, in certain cases, 233, their powers in respect of his disallowances, 235, 236, remission of disallowances, 236; Borrowing on credit of rates may be sanctioned by, 224, they may allow costs of works to be spread over term of years, 225, they are to settle term of the loan, 225, they may recommend loan by public works loan commissioners, 229; Bye-laws to be submitted to, 174, under Baths and Wash-houses Act, 357; Casual vacancies on local boards, they may allow further time for filling them up, 319; Correspondence with, how to be conducted, 182, 303; Defaulting authority may be compelled to perform its duty by, 274, how, in case of default in relation to nuisances, 85, recovery of costs incurred, 275, 276; Expenses of rural authority may, in certain cases, be declared special expenses by, 220; expenses of urban authority may be ordered to be defrayed out district fund and general district rate by, 187; Highway returns to be sent to, 109; Inquiries as to public health may be ordered by, 535; Inspectors of, may attend meetings of certain local authorities, 185; Local inquiries may be directed by, 270, orders as to the costs thereof, 270, see also Local Inquiry; Medical officer of, his salary, 345; medical officers, when subject to, 179; Officers under 35 & 36 Vict. c. 79, s. 37, transferred to, 345

Orders of:as to Boundaries of district, 258, 263; Compensation for loss of office, 287; Main Sewerage districts and Joint Sewerage boards, 290; Quarantine, 103; Rural inspector of nuisances, 621, and medical officer of health, 615; Urban inspector of nuisances, 611, and medical officer of health, 605