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of members of their own body for the exercise of any powers which in
their opinion can properly be exercised by such committees. Such
committees do not, however, hold office beyond the next annual meeting
of the council, and their acts must be submitted to the council for
their approval. If they are appointed for any purposes of the Public
Health or Highway Acts, the council may authorize them to institute
any proceedings or do any act which the council might have instituted
or done, other than the raising of any loan or the making of any rate
or contract. A rural district council may delegate their entire powers
in any parish to a parochial committee. Such committee may consist
wholly of members of their own body or of members of the parish
council, or partly of members of both. Such a committee may be subject
to any regulations and restrictions imposed upon it by the rural
district council.

Public Health Acts.

In dealing with the powers and duties of district councils it will be
convenient to treat of these first as they arise under the Public
Health Acts, and afterwards as they arise under other statutes. In so
far as such powers and duties are common to urban and rural district
councils alike they will be referred to as appertaining to district
councils. When reference is made to any power or duty of an urban
council it is to be understood that the rural council have no such
power or duty unless conferred or imposed upon them by order of the
Local Government Board. And it must be borne in mind that in a borough
the borough council is the urban district council.

Sewerage and drainage.

The district council are required to cause to be made such sewers as
may be necessary for effectually draining their district. This duty
may be enforced by the Local Government Board on complaint made to
them that the council have failed in performing it, and in the case of
a rural district by the county council on complaint of the parish
council. All sewers, whether made by the council, by their
predecessors, or by private persons, vest in the district council,
that is to say, become their property, with some exceptions, of which
the principal is sewers made by a person for his own profit. The owner
or occupier of any premises is entitled as of right to cause his drain
to be connected with any sewer, on condition only of his giving notice