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[49 VICT.]

County Councils.

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Powers and

duties of

miles of visitors.

visitors and

71. Every committee of visitors of a lunatic asylum, and all A.D. 1886. visitors of a lunatic asylum appointed by a county council under this Act, shall have the same powers and duties as the committee of visitors, or the visitors in whose stead they are appointed; and 5 all the provisions of the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1858, and the Acts amending the same applicable to and in relation to committees of visitors, and visitors appointed by the justices of a county, and their officers shall, with any necessary modifications, apply to and in relation to committees of visitors and visitors appointed by a county 10 council and their officers under this Act.

8 & 9 Vict.

104. . 114.

16 & 17 Vict. 6. 96. 25 & 26 Vic te

72. The provision of the Acts ruthorising quarter sessions to appoint a committee of justices to visit asylums, and authorising such committee to visit them, shall extend to all asylums manageri by the county council in like manner as to any other asylum, and 15 the said said provisions shall, for the purposes of such visitation, e. 111. so. 14

extend to all parts of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex.

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As to Coroners.

73. On and after the

a coroner shall continue to Continuance make before the sheriff of the county a declaration duly to execute of declaration 20 his office.

by coroner.

parts of

coroners.

74. Whereas by the Coroners Act of 1848, that is to say, the Act Provisions as of the session of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her to detached present Majesty, chapter twelve, intituled "An Act for the more counties convenient holding of coroners inquests," it is enacted that for the 20 regarda 25 purpose of holding coroners inquests, every detached part of a county See 7 & 8 shall be deemed to be within the county by which it is wholly Vict. c. 92. surrounded, or where it is partly surrounded by two or more counties within the county with which it has the longest common boundary:

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And whereas by the Detached Parts of Counties Act of 1844, that is to say, the Act of the session of the seventh and eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-one, intituled "An Act to annex detached parts of counties to the counties in which they are situated," it is enacted that every part of a county which is detached from the main body of such county shall be considered for all purposes (except coroners inquests under the said Coroners Act of 1843) as forming part of that county of

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