Local Government and Taxation in the United KingdomCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 520 páginas |
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Local Government and Taxation in the United Kingdom Cobden Club (London, England) Vista completa - 1882 |
Local Government and Taxation in the United Kingdom Cobden Club (London, England) Vista completa - 1882 |
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Acts of Parliament administration Aldermen amount appointed assessment asylums baronies Bill Board of Guardians boundaries burden burghs central authority charters City of London civil parishes classes Commissioners of Supply Committee Common Council constituted Corporation cost councillors County Board county rate Court district boards divisions drainage duties elected electoral England existing expenditure expense funds governing bodies Government Board grand jury granted highway houses Imperial improvement income Ireland jurisdiction justices land levied Livery companies loans Local Government Board Lord magistrates maintenance matters ment metropolis Metropolitan Board municipal boroughs officers organisation outdoor relief owners and occupiers paid parishes Parochial Board pauper petty sessional Poor Law poor rate population powers present purposes Quarter Sessions rateable value ratepayers reform rent representative roads rural districts rural sanitary districts sanitary authority School Board Scotland Sheriff streets taxation taxes tion Town Council union valuation vestries vote whole
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Página 124 - Every one knows that the first reform needed is to consolidate all rates and to have one demand note for all rates, and a single authority for levying the rate and distributing the proceeds among such other authorities as have power to call for contributions.
Página 246 - Nevertheless, we do not find any argument on which the course pursued with regard to other Towns could be justified, which would not apply with the same force to London, unless the magnitude of the change in this case should be considered as converting that which would otherwise be only a practical difficulty into an objection of principle.
Página 263 - Now it is quite hopeless to induce persons of a high class, either socially or intellectually, to take a share of local administration in a corner by piece-meal, as members of a Paving Board or a Drainage Commission.
Página 312 - With regard to the administration of justice and police within the towns, we propose that the whole work and business of watching the town shall be placed completely under the control of the council. Then, with respect to another part of this measure, which refers to what I consider a part of the police of the town, and a part which has often led to very great abuses — I mean the power of granting alehouse licenses — it is proposed that this power shall not be...
Página 68 - The authority which is most conversant with principles should be supreme over principles, while that which is most competent in details should have the details left to it.
Página 45 - ... 1872, which purports to consolidate previous enactments, has really done no more than incorporate them by reference ; and the official digests of statutes relating to Sanitary Authorities, urban and rural, which have been compiled since that Act, are copious enough to fill two moderate-sized volumes. A certain degree of diversity, it is true, must be ascribed to natural and inevitable causes, which no legislation could have eliminated, and which it is no part of sound policy to ignore. The Dock...
Página 35 - ... year 1873 ; and the last report of the Local Government Board shows that twenty-six were added in the course of that year. Very ample sanitary powers, together with the exclusive management of highways, were conferred on these boards, originally called boards of health, by the Public Health Act of 1848. The Central Department was to fix a certain number of substantial householders to compose each local board ; but the members were to be elected by the ratepayers, on the principle of multiple...