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[49 VICT.]

County Councils.

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of their number whose duty it shall be to visit the workhouse and A.D. 1886. report on the maintenance of the parties therein.

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15. All powers vested in the assessment committee of the Powers of guardians, shall be transferred to and vested in the county council, council as 5 and shall be exercised in each electoral division by the statutory regar

valuation of committee for such division under this Act, subject nevertheless

property for to the supervision of the county council, and to such regulations rates and and directions, either general or special, as the county council may from time totime make or give, and for the purpose of giving effect to such transfer and of better securing uniformity in the valuation of the rateable property throughout the county the following provisions shall have effect:

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82 & 38 Vict. o. 67.

25 & 26 Vict.

e. 108.

1. The Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869 (inclusive of such portions of the Union Assessment Committee Act, 1862, and Union Assessment Committee Act, 1864, as are incorporated 27 & 28 Vict. therewith) and the enactments amending the same (which Act, & 38. portions and enactments are in this Act referred to as the Valuation Acts) shall apply to every part of each county (inclusive of any county of a city or county of a town, which for the purposes of this Act forms part of such county) in like manner as if the same were herein re-enacted with the sub- stitution of such county for the metropolis, and of the county council or statutory committee (as the case requires) for the assessment committee, and with the further modifications herein-after mentioned, and such other modifications as are necessary for adapting Act to the enactments of this Act.

(a.) The following sections of the Valuation Metropolis Act,

1869, shall not apply, that is to say :-

Section five (relating to the election of the assessment

committee);

Section eighteen (relating to the holding of special

session to hear appeals);

Sections twenty-three to twenty-nine, both inclusive (relating to the justices in general assessment sessions);

Section fifty (relating to the expenses of the assessment committee and the clerk of the managers of the metropolitan asylum district);

Sections fifty-nine and sixty (relating to parishes where there are no overseers or where the vestry or guardians are the overseers);

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