sing of a resolution for the adoption of the Act, petition the Secretary of State for the exclusion from the operation of the whole or part of any place where such resolution has been passed as aforesaid, and the Secretary of State may make order on such petition. Any owner or ratepayer who disputes the validity of the vote of adoption, may, within 14 days, appeal against such adoption to the Secretary of State. When the Act is adopted notice is to be given to the Secretary of State by the person who summoned the meeting, and a copy of the notice is to be published for 3 weeks in a newspaper circulated in the district, and affixed on the places used to affix public notices. The act is to be in force at the end of two months after its adoption; or, in the event of an appeal, from the time appointed in the order made by the Secretary of State. But powers under the Act for purposes already provided for by local Acts do not come into force until the local acts have been dealt with by provisional order as hereinafter described.
Constitution of Local Boards. The Act is to be carried into execution by local boards, such local boards will be in Corporate boroughs, the Town Council; in other places the elected Improvement Commissioners, where such Commissioners exist; and where they do not, Local Board qualified as described in the Act, and elected by owners and ratepayers, by voting papers according to the scale of voting already described (which is the Public Health Act 1848). The Secretary of State may divide districts into wards for the election of local boards when petitioned on resolution of owners and ratepayers. Adjoining districts may unite on such conditions as their local boards may determine upon, with the sanction of one of Her Majesty’s Secretaries of State. Local boards may, with the consent of adjacent local boards, or of the owners and ratepayers of adjacent places, execute in adjacent districts or places all the works they are empowered to execute in their own district on such terms as may be agreed upon by them with the adjacent local board or adjacent local authority for purposes of the Nuisances Removal Act of 1835.
Powers of Local Boards. Local Boards will have all the powers of local boards of health, under the Public Health Act of 1848, as modified or altered by the Local Government Act, with the additional powers of the Local Government Act. These include those relating to sewage, drainage, lighting and water supply, scavenging and cleansing; for the regulation of new streets and roads, the laying out of new streets and widening and improving old ones; powers given by the Towns Police Clauses Act with respect to obstructions; to dangerous and ruinous buildings; to precautions to the construction and repairs of sewers, streets and houses; to the supply of water; to the pre-
