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County Councils.
[49 VICT.]
A.D. 1886.
41 & 42 Vict. 6. 7.
Power to appoint
coroners.
(2.) On and after the appointed day the county council may also by a provisional scheme, declare that any main road or part of a main road within its county shall become an ordinary highway, repairable by the inhabitants of the parish in which it is situate ; and on such scheme coming into operation the road or part of a road referred to in the scheme shall become an ordinary highway, repairable by such inhabitants.
(8.) Every road in any county which, in pursuance of this Act or the Highways and Locomotives Amendment Act, 1878, may, by operation of law or by declaration become a main road, shall be 10 wholly maintained and repaired by or at the expense of the county council of the county in which such road is situate and the county council shall for that purpose have the same powers and authorities and be subject to the same duties and obligations as a highway board, and may further exercise any powers vested in such council 15 for the purpose of the maintenance and repair of bridges.
This section shall not apply to any part of a county to which the Act passed in the session of the twenty-third and twenty- fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty- eight, intituled “An Act for the better management and control 20 of the highways in South Wales," extends, and shall not apply to the Isle of Wight.]
17. (1) Whenever on or after the appointed day a vacancy occurs in any county in the office of a coroner who was elected to that office by a writ de coronatore eligendo, the successors of such 25 coroner shall be elected by the county council of that county, and a writ for such election shall be issued aceordinaly.
(2) If a county council required by any such writ to elect a coroner fails to make such election within three months after the vacancy has taken place which the council is required to fill, a coroner to 80 fill such vacancy shall be appointed as respects any place within the jurisdiction of the Duchy of Lancaster by the Chancellor of that Duchy, and as respects every other place by the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
(3) In a county divided into districts a coroner elected by the 35 county council shall be elected to a particular district, and shall be deemed, for the purposes of the Acts relating to such coroner, to have been elected by the electors of that district.
(4) A person shall not after the passing of this Act be elected or appointed to the office of coroner, whether by such election as 40 aforesaid, or otherwise, unless at the time of being so elected or appointed he is qualified as follows; that is to say,
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