The Cheltenham improvement act, 1852, with notes by S. Pruen

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notice; accoutrements; falsely assuming to be con-
stables ; watch-houses ; duties; apprehension power ;
neglect of duty; recognizance ; its form; assaulting con-
stables; harbouring constables ; harbouring disorderly
persons; cock-pits -

- 67 87
WATER SUPPLY:
Sections from Public Health Act : waterworks ; compulsory

service ; public cisterns; wasting water, penalty for;
fouling water, penalty for

- 68

Washhouses and baths, power to provide under 9 and 10 Vic.

c. 74, and 10 and 11 Vic. c 61. .

- 69 96

PLEASURE GROUNDS.

Section from Public Health Act :

- 70 96

PUBLIC SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.

Sections from Public Health Act; slaughter-houses registry;

inspection; butcher's nuisances; regulation of new offen-

sive trades -

- 71 97

NUISANCES.

Sections from Public Health Act: power to make bye-laws;

as to removal of dust; refuse repository ; public neces-

saries ; filthy ditches ; swine; unwholesome houses - 72 98

Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act: time for con-

veying offensive matter ; justices' order to abate nui-

sances; prosecutions for nuisances ; general law as to

nuisance saved

- 73 101

BUILDINGS REGULATION.

Construction of houses for prevention of fire - - 74 104

CELLAR DWELLINGS.

Sections from Public Health Act: cellar dwellings - 75 105

FIRES AND SMOKE.

Sections from Town Police Clauses Act: setting chimney on

fire; accidental fires; fire engines; use beyond borough 76 106

Section from Towns Improvement Clauses Act; factories, &c.

to consume their own smoke - - - 77 108

VENTILATION.

Sections from Towns Improvement Clauses Act: plans of

places for public meetings to be approved by Commis-

sioners ; appeal to quarter sessions

- 78 108

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HACKNEY CARRIAGES.

for hire

there of persons for overcharharge

Sections from Town Police Clauses Act: Commissioners to

license and regulate hackney coaches, wheel chairs, &c.;
distances; contents of license; registry; duration of
license; notice to be given of change of abode; penalty
for plying for hire without obtaining a license; revoca-
tion of license; number of persons carried ; penalty for
refusing to carry or to drive, and for overcharging ;
recovery; discretionary distance; deposit; overcharge
recovered with penalty; taking up strangers; no person
to drive without proprietor's consent; driver misbehaving;
attendance at public resorts ; carriage unattended; re-
covery from proprietor ; obstructing driver ; compensa-
tion to driver; penalty for refusing to pay fare ; penalty

for damaging carriage; bye-laws - -

79 110

Fees for licences - -

80 119

Act not to prevent use of private carriages or chairs - 81 119

Penalties to go to borough fund

82 120

MARKETS AND FAIRS.

Fairs not to be held in streets ; exception of fairs for sale of

horses, &c. -

83 120

Power of sale and purchase of markets, tolls, &c. - - 84 121

Powers vested in Commissioners in event of purchase of mar-

kets; to take tolls; to remove markets and establish

others -

85 122

No markets to be held in other places than those appointed - 86 123

Tolls to be taken, Schedule C.

87 123

Commissioners may reduce tolls and restore them

88 123

Notice of alteration of tolls-

89 123

Tolls payable every day of the week

90 124

When they shall be paid, and by whom

. 91 124

Recovery of tolls -

• 92 124

Commissioners may provide a public weighing machine - 93 125
Profits of markets, &c. to go to borough fund . · 94 126

PUBLIC CLOCKS.

Section from Towns Improvement Clauses Act - - 95 126

BURIALS.

Section from Public Health Act: dead-houses -

96 126

No interments in the churches or churchyards except Saint

Mary, Trinity, and Saint Peter -

• 97 126

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Regulations as to interments

- 98 127

Superintendence of places of interment

- 99 127

Power for Commissioners to close burial-grounds with appro-

bation of General Board of Health

· 100 128

Penalty for interment contrary to Act -

- 101 128

Power of substitution

· 102 128

Power of Commissioners to fill up graves

- 103 128

Provision for new cemetery when required

· 104 129

Sections from Cemetery Clauses Act: as to consecrated part

and chapel; bodies not to be removed; consecrated
ground deemed in Cheltenham parish ; Bishop's powers ;
wilful damage ; nuisances ; Dissenters and chapel ; grave
diggers ; solemnities; no burial under chapel ; sale of
graves, &c.; plan and entry; form and register of grants
and of assignments; probates; right to be exclusive;

improper burials; tablets and inscriptions - - 105 129

Application of payments for burial

- 106 135

Power for Commissioners to accept gift of land for cemetery

for Dissenters

- 107 136

New cemeteries to be subject to any general law

. 108 126

Saving ecclesiastical laws and rights -

- 109 137

RATES.

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