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Public Libraries Act may, from and after the said day, be transferred to the said Vestry;
and not so as to make the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1894, as to borrowing
by Parish Councils applicable to the said Vestry.
Article II.—The following provisions of the Local Government Act, 1894, shall, for the
purposes of Article I. hereof, apply to the said Parish:—
Section 67;
Sub-sections (1), (4), and (7) of Section 81, subject to the modifications that in subsections
(1) and (7) the Vestry of the Parish shall be deemed to be referred to instead of
any parish council or district council; that the words in sub-section (1) "and for the purposes
of this section the body appointing a surveyor of highways shall be deemed to be
a highway authority and any paid surveyor to be an officer of that body," shall be omitted
therefrom; and that the words "officer, vestry clerk, and assistant overseer" in subsection
(4) shall be deemed to refer to the officers of any of the Authorities referred to in
Article I.' hereof;
Sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 85, subject to the substitution of the date abovementioned
for "the appointed day";
Sub-section (1) of Section 86; and
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Sections 87 and 88.
Article III.—The provisions of the Baths and Wash-houses Acts and the Public Libraries
Act with respect to the Audit of the Accounts of the Authorities under the said Acts
and of the Accounts of the Officers of such Authorities shall not apply to the said Parish,
but the Accounts of the Vestry of the said Parish, acting as the Authority for the execution
of such Acts, and of the Officers of such Vestry acting as such Authority, shall be audited in
like manner and subject to the like incidents and consequences as the other Accounts of
the said Vestry and of their Officers.
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this Twentyfourth
day of March, in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
HENRY CHAPLIN,
President.
H. C. Monro,
Assistant Secretary.