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Rotherhithe 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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"(1) The Local Government Board may, on the application of the council of any
"municipal borough, including a county borough, or of any other urban
"district, make an order conferring on thai council or tome other
"representative body within the borough or district all or any of the
"following malum, namely, the appointment of overseers and assistant
"overseers, the revocation of appointment of awiatant overseers, any powers,
"dutice, or liabilities of overseers, and any powers, duties, or liabilities of a
"parish council, and applying with the necessary modifications the provisions
"of this Act with reference thereto."
"of this Act with reference thereto."
"(3.) Any order under this section may provide for its operation extending either to
"the whole or to specified parts of the srea of the borough or urban district
"and may make such provisions as seem neceaaary for carrying the order
"sanitary authority were the council of that dialect.''
And whereas We, the Local Government Board, have received an application from the
Vestry of the said Parish of Rotherhis the, being a Sanitary Authority within the Administrative
County of Loudon, for the issue of an Order conferring on the said Vestry the appointment of
Overseers:
NOW THEREFORE, in purslane of the powers given to Us by the Statues in that
behalf, We Order as follows:—
Article I.—We hereby transfer to the Vestry of the said Pariah of Botherhitbe the power
and duty of appointing Oversees for the Parish.
Article II.—Soectiese 5 of the Act shall, export as for as relates to the power of appointing
and reverting the appointment of as Assistant Overseers, apply to the said Parish, subject to the
following modifications : ???:-
(1) Reference to such Parish and to the Vestry shall be demand to be silatituted in the
said Section for Reference to a Ravel Parish and to a Parish Council respectively.