Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXX. Scotland. Statistics and other documents relating specially to Scotland.
- Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXX. Scotland. Statistics and other documents relating specially to Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The Parish Council adminsters the following Acts in the various parishes or parts of Powers parishes specified:— Duties. Poor Law and Vaccination Acts: in every parish, whether rural, or burghal, or partly rural and partly burghal. Registration of Births, c&c. Acts: (1) in every rural parish, (2) in every parish containing a Police Burgh, and (3) in the rural portion of a parish containing a Royal or Parliamentary Burgh. Burial Grounds Act: (1) in every rural parish, (2) in every parish containing a Police Burgh, or a Koyal Burgh that is not also a Parliamentary Burgh, and (3) if the Sheriff so determine, in the rural portion of a parish containing a Parliamentary Burgh. Public Libraries Act: in every rural parish if the Act be adopted by the parish. (In this case the Parish Council acts through a Libraries Committee consisting one-half of Parish Councillors and one-half of householders). Local Government {Scotland) Act, 1894: [viz:—(Part IV.) the provision of buildings, recreation grounds and allotments; the maintenance of Public Ways (not being highways) and Rights of Way ; and (Part VI.) certain duties in relation to water supply, drainage, lighting and scavenging of villages]: in every rural parish. Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1894 {Part V.): in any parish the trustees of a parish trust held for the benefit of the inhabitants of the parish may transfer the administration of the property to the Parish Council, or, if that is not done, the Parish Council is entitled to nominate additional trustees to act along with the trustees of the property. Where a parish is wholly or partly within a burgh the functions under the PubHc Libraries Acts and under the Local Government Act, 1894, do not fall within the purview of the Parish Council but are, roughly speaking, allocated as follows :— (1) In the burghal portion of the parish they are exercised by the Town Council of the burgh. (2) In the rural (landward) portion of the parish they are exercised by a Committee of the Parish Council called the Landward Committee. Parish Councils have power to levy rates for purposes of Poor Relief, Vaccination, Finance Registration of Births, etc., Burial Grounds, Public Libraries, and Part IV. of the Local Government Act, 1894. They also levy and collect the Education Rate on behalf of the School Board and, in a few counties, the Valuation of Lands Rate on behalf of the County Council. The rates are levied one-half on owners and one-half on occupiers. Parish Councils may borrow money for the erection of poorhouses under the Poor Law Act, the provision of burial grounds, and public libraries under their respective Acts, and the provision of buildings for their own use, allotments, etc., under Part IV, of the Local Government Act, 1894. Landward Committees. Landward Committees exist only in parishes partly burghal and partly landward (rural) and their jurisdiction extends only over the landward portion of the parish. Where the population of the landward (rural) portion of a parish does not exceed 100 a Landward Committee need not be appointed unless the Local Government Board so orders it on the application of not fewer than five parish electors residing within such landward portion. The Landward Committee is composed of persons elected by the parish electors residing in the landward (rural) portion of the parish. This portion of the parish forms a separate electoral area or areas, and is entitled to a certain representation on the Parish Council. Where, however, the number of representatives is less than five the Local Government Board have power to increase the number of persons to be elected by the electors of the landward (rural) area by such number as may be necessary for the transaction of the business of a Landward Committee. Where the numbers have been thus increased the Landward Committee appoints from their own number the requisite number of parish councillors to which the landward (rural) portion of the parish may be entitled. The Landward Committee is elected for the same period as the Parish Council. 429.—XXX. T 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24400099_0155.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
