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[49 VICT.]

County Councils.

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recoverable under any Act relating to the customs, excise, or post A.D. 1896. office, or to trade or navigation, or any branch of Her Majesty's revenue, shall be recovered for and adjudged to be paid to the treasurer of the county, and shall be by him carried to the credit of 5 the county or special fund, according as the expenses are paid out

of the county or special fund, and be applied as part thereof.

A county council shall have the same power of making byelaws in relation to the county as the council of a borough have under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, of making byelaws in 10 relation to the borough, and sections twenty-three and twenty-four of the said Act shall apply accordingly, as if they were herein re-enacted, with the substitution of "county" for "borough," and of "county hall” for “town hall.”

22. A county council may from time to time make such byelaws Byelaws. 15 as to thom seem meet for the good rule and government of the county and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances not already punishable in a summary manner by virtue of any Act in force throughout the county, and may thereby appoint such fines, not exceeding in any case five pounds, as they deem necessary for 20 the prevention and suppression of offences against the same.

Such byelaws shall be subject to disallowance in like manner as the byelaws of the council of a borough made under section twenty- three of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and sections twenty-three and twenty-four of that Act, and any enactments 23 amending or affecting the same shall, so far as they are consistent

with this Act, extend to any such byelaws.

Property Funds and Expenses of County Council.

23. On and after the appointed day all such property as belongs Transfer of to or is vested in quarter sessions, or would but for this Act have county pro-

perty. 30 belonged to or been vested in the quarter sessions of the county, or in the clerk of the peace for the purposes of the county, shall pass to and vest in the council of the county, subject to all debts and liabilities affecting the same, shall be held by the county council for the purposes for which the property so transferred was 35 held by the quarter sessions or clerk, so far as such purposes are not modified by this Act, and subject also to this provision, that so far as may be required for all purposes of the business reserved to the justices, the justices shall have the same right of user and enjoyment of the said property as they would have had if this Act 40 had not passed.

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