OMISSION. APPLICATION OF THE SCOTCH SHARE OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DUTIES. N.B.-This should have appeared on page 114. Section 2. Out of the Scotch share of the local taxation (Customs and Excise) duties paid to the local taxation (Scotland) account on account of any financial year : (i.) The sum of forty thousand pounds shall be applied for such purposes of police superannuation in Scotland as hereinafter mentioned : (ii.) A sum not exceeding forty thousand pounds shall be applied in relief from the payment of school fees in the State-aided Schools in Scotland of children in the compulsory standards of the Scotch Code, and shall be distributed in such manner and in accordance with such conditions as may be set forth for the present financial year in a minute of the Scotch Education Department to be forthwith laid before Parliament, and in every year subsequent to the present year in the Scotch Education Code annually submitted to Parliament; and (iii.) The residue shall, until Parliament otherwise determines, be diminished by any charge, or increased by any credit, pursuant to the provisions of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) (Pleuro Pneumonia) Act, 1890, and distributed by the Secretary for Scotland (a) To the amount of fifteen thousand pounds as a contribution to the cost of medical officers and sanitary inspectors appointed under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, or under the Local Gove should be entitled to use the Library during the continuance of the agreement. In Sub-section 2 the concluding sentence is new. Sub-section 3 is new. Section 17. The Department of Science and Art replaces the Privy Council on Education. Section 18. Note that the control of the Vestry over the expenses in a Parish is revived. 66 The provisions in the corresponding Section of the repealed Acts limiting the amount to be "paid" or not repeated. expended" are Section 22, Sub-section 3. The words "or expend" after the word "levy" are omitted. Sub-section 6 is a revival of Section 11 of the Act of 1887, which had been repealed. Section 24. The provision that any dispute shall be adjusted by an arbitrator appointed by the Local Government Board is new. Section 25. This was inserted during the passage of the Bill through Parliament. The incorporation of the Companies Clauses Act. Section 26. The Act of 1890 provided that all references to Vestries should be construed as references to the voters. The words in the Bill" or enrolled as burgesses" are omitted. Section 29. This is new. [NOTE.-For a fuller explanation of the Amendments reference should in each case be made to the particular Section.] PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT, 1893. Section 2. Adoption of Act in Urban District to be by resolution of Urban Authority. Section 4. Urban Districts may be combined. OMISSION. APPLICATION OF THE SCOTCH SHARE OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DUTIES. N.B.-This should have appeared on page 114. Section 2. Out of the Scotch share of the local taxation (Customs and Excise) duties paid to the local taxation (Scotland) account on account of any financial year : (i.) The sum of forty thousand pounds shall be applied for such purposes of police superannuation in Scotland as hereinafter mentioned : (ii.) A sum not exceeding forty thousand pounds shall be applied in relief from the payment of school fees in the State-aided Schools in Scotland of children in the compulsory standards of the Scotch Code, and shall be distributed in such manner and in accordance with such conditions as may be set forth for the present financial year in a minute of the Scotch Education Department to be forthwith laid before Parliament, and in every year subsequent to the present year in the Scotch Education Code annually submitted to Parliament; and (iii.) The residue shall, until Parliament otherwise determines, be diminished by any charge, or increased by any credit, pursuant to the provisions of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) (Pleuro Pneumonia) Act, 1890, and distributed by the Secretary for Scotland (a) To the amount of fifteen thousand pounds as a contribution to the cost of medical officers and sanitary inspectors appointed under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, or under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, as the case may be, in such manner and according to such scale and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary for Scotland; (b) And, subject as aforesaid, among the County Councils of Counties and Town Councils acting as such or as Police Commissioners of Burghs and Police Commissioners of Police Burghs, in Scotland, in proportion to the respective valuations of such Counties and Burghs and Police Burghs as such valuations shall be ascertained by the Secretary for Scotland at the date of such distribution, the share falling to such Councils and Commis sioners respectively to be applied to the relief of local rates levied by them respectively, in such manner as they may determine. Provided, nevertheless, that the Council of any such County or Burgh and the Commissioners of any such Police Burgh may contribute any sum received by such Council or Commissioners (as the case may be) in respect of the said residue or any part of that sum for the purpose of Technical Education within the meaning of the Technical Schools (Scotland) Act, 1887, and may make that contribution over and above any sum that may be paid out of any school fund under that Act, whether or not any such sum has been paid out of such fund. |