At the same time the policy of dealing with houses unfit for habitation singly or in small groups by compelling owners to improve them has been pursued by a certain number of local authorities.
The Small Dwellings Acquisition Act of 1899, which has not previously been mentioned, was intended to facilitate the building or purchase of small houses by their tenants by means of loans advanced by local authorities.
The Shaftesbury Act had in view the provision by local authorities of good lodging-houses for the better class of artisans, and particularly of single persons, male and female, though families were also contemplated.
All these arguments furnish reasons whylocal authorities in England and Ireland should follow Scotland in giving Public Library Committees a complete or partial delegation of powers under the Public Libraries Acts.
This Act was afterwards to some extent modified by “An Act to facilitate the transfer of Schools for Science and Art to Local Authorities,” 54 & 55 Vict.
A digest of the powers conferred onlocal authorities by those various Acts appears in Section 4 of this Manual.
Mr. Parnell's change of front would, he thought, have limited the proposals to the establishment of County Councils, with certain powers for the acquisition of land by Local Authorities.
I am quite with you on the subject of the acquisition of land by local authorities, and also on free education, which seem to be your two sine qua nons.
Local authorities should be empowered to levy no higher rate of taxation than is absolutely required for practical efficiency under ordinary circumstances.
The ready answer to all such applications by local authoritieswill be to refer them to their own citizens for a decision of the question.
The act, while stipulating for the consent of local authorities to the granting of provisional orders, gives the Board of Trade power in exceptional cases to dispense with the consent, but this power has been used very sparingly.
Welsh members refused to vote as a protest against the use of closure on the Education (Local Authorities Defaults) Bill.
An instruction would be moved to divide the Bill into two parts, one containing the provisions relative to the new taxation and the National Debt, the other those relating to the new grants to local authorities.
This would unfortunately mean the abandonment for the current year of the temporary grants on the new basis to local authorities.
Nothing was said in this Act about the consent of local authorities, or about limited tenure, or about expropriation upon scrap-iron terms.
And the conditions imposed by local authorities as the price of their consent loaded the capital account of electric tramway undertakings with items which had no direct concern with the tramway.
Newsholme says: “Women could help forward the care of maternity and infants by getting themselves voted on to Local Authorities, and by bringing pertinacious pressure to bear on members of Local Authorities.
The regulations under which these grants will be paid, together with forms of application for grants, have already been distributed to local authorities.
Eleventh: thorough inspection and certification by local authorities of all houses and "dwellings" inhabited by the poor.
If local authorities cannot do it, then the State must step in and help them, for it must be done.
But oftener still they are purchased by local authorities at great public cost, or by philanthropic trusts.
Fabian Society; it was intended for Labour members of local authorities, but anybody could join on payment of the annual subscription of 2s.
By choosing this date we secured a large number of delegates from Trade Unions, and these were reinforced by numerous delegates from Vestries and other local authorities, altogether numbering about 400.
Before 1888 large grants of money had been made annually to local authorities in aid of local taxation.
The powers of local authorities may be increased, and those authorities may be urged to more energetic use of them.
Judges, the legal advisers to parties in litigation, clerks to local authorities, and others, ought to have in compendious form before them the whole Statute Law on a subject under discussion.
Adequate powers should be given to local authorities, and pressure put upon them, if needed, to ensure that such powers are exercised.
Lastly, and applying to all these--multiplicity of local authorities, and the want of sufficient powers in such authorities to deal with these evils.
But wholly new, and of very great importance, were the appointments which the new local authorities had to make for their districts of a Medical Officer of Health, and of one or more Inspectors of Nuisances to help him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "local authorities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
