d or
approaches for a distance of 300 ft. on each side of the bridge. Of
the powers vested in the county authority under the Highway Act 1878,
the most important are those relating to main roads, which are
specially noticed hereafter; (ix.) the tables of fees to be taken by
and the costs to be allowed to any inspector, analyst or person
holding any office in the county other than the clerk of the peace and
the clerks of the justices; (x.) the appointment, removal and
determination of salaries of the county treasurer, the county
surveyor, the public analysts, any officer under the Explosives Act
1875, and any officers whose remuneration is paid out of the county
rate, other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks of the
justices; (xi.) the salary of any coroner whose salary is payable out
of the county rate, the fees, allowances and disbursements allowed to
be paid by any such coroner, and the division of the county into
coroners' districts and the assignments of such districts; (xii.) the
division of the county into polling districts for the purposes of
parliamentary elections, the appointment of the places of election,
the places of holding courts for the revision of the lists of voters,
and the costs of, and other matters to be done for the registration of
parliamentary voters; (xiii.) the execution as local authority of the
acts relating to contagious diseases of animals, to destructive
insects, to fish conservancy, to wild birds, to weights and measures,
and to gas meters, and of the Local Stamp Act 1869; (xiv.) any matters
arising under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886. Under this act compensation
is payable out of the police rate to any person whose property has
been injured, stolen or destroyed by rioters; (xv.) the registration
of rules of scientific societies, the registration of charitable
gifts, the certifying and recording of places of religious worship,
the confirmation and record of the rules of loan societies. These
duties are imposed under various statutes.

In addition to the business of quarter sessions thus transferred,
there was also transferred to the county council certain business of
the justices of the county out of session, that is to say, in petty or
special sessions. This business consists of the licensing of houses or
places for the public performance of stage plays, and the execution,
as local authority, of the Explosives