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would not be empowered to enforce a disallowance or sarolarge, the substitute for this being a pub- lished Report with regard to any items which considered to be illegal.
The objection to this plan is that it puts the counties on a different footing from the boroughs, which at present appoint their own Auditors. On the other hand, by very general consent it is admitted that the borough system has largely failed, and that borough audits are extremely inadequate. It has to be considered whether the opposition which this proposal will certainly meet with is worth facing, in order, if possible, to maintain that economy of administration in the new County Councils which has hitherto characterized Quarter Sessions.
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It would be impossible within reasonable com- pass to enumerate or to discuss the powers which might be transferred from the Local Government Board to the County Council. It will be sufficient if the principles on which such transference is to take place be adequately considered and deter- mined. The following are the suggestions I should make :-
1. As already stated, I think that such powers as it is necessary for the Local Government Board to possess for the purpose of a complete control of the Poor Law system should be retained.
2. No power should be transferred from the Local Government Board involving the sanction of loans.
3. No power should be given to the county authority which may produce a conflict of juris- diction between them and the Local Government Board.
4. The management of Provisional Orders, and all powers connected therewith, should be left to the Local Government Board.
5. The existing system of audit, though it may be perhaps modified so as to produce less friction than it has hitherto done, should be left essentially as it is.
6. All powers given under the Public Health Act to the Local Government Board for dealing
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