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County Councils.
[49 VICT.]
A.D. 1884.
funds of
24. On and after the appointed day all debts and liabilities of Property and the quarter sessions or of the clerk of the peace incurred for the purposes of the county shall become debts and liabilities of the county council, and shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be defrayed by them out of the like funds out of which they would 5 have been defrayed if this Act had not passed.
county council.
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All receipts of the county council from whatever source shall be carried to the county fund, and all payments on behalf of the council shall be made out of that fund.
If the county fund is insufficient to meet the sums payable 10 thereout, the amount shall be raised by means of a county rate and contributions from boroughs not assessed to the county rate.
The expenses of the county council shall be divided into two classes, general expenses and special expenses.
The general expenses shall be paid out of a rate assessed upon 15 all parts of the county except the electoral divisions constituted by quarter session boroughs. The special expenses shall be paid out of sumns raised in a portion only of such county or out of sums raised by a rate assessed on all parts of the county except the electoral divisions constituted by quarter session boroughs and by 20 proportionate contributions from those boroughs.
All property held by the county shall according to the circum- stances be considered to belong to the county fund or to the special fund.
The exponses of the establishment and officers of the county council, 25 and all expenses incurred for the common benefit of the county, all expenses not directed by any Act to be special expenses, and all sums directed by this Act or any other Act to be paid out of the county fund or county rate without any direction as to their being special expenses, shall be general expenses,
A county council shall prepare annually an estimate of the receipts and expenses of the county fund, and of the sums required to be raised as general expenses or as special expenses during the ensuing year, and shall cause such estimate to be made public for the information of the inhabitants of their county.
The county council shall keep such accounts of the county fund as will prevent any sums properly payable as special expensos being paid as general expenses and any sums properly payable as general expenses being paid as special expenses.
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25. The county council may, with the consent of the Local 40 Government Board, borrow, on the security of the county fund,
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