Acts.

Lighting and Watching Act was formerly adopted for a parish, or part
of a parish, by the inhabitants in vestry, who elected lighting
inspectors, of whom one-third went out of office in every year. The
inspectors took the necessary steps for having the parish lighted (the
provisions as to watching having been obsolete for many years), and
the expenses of lighting were raised by the overseers upon an order
issued to them by the inspectors. The owners and occupiers of houses,
buildings and property, other than land, pay a rate in the L three
times greater than that at which the owners and occupiers of land are
rated and pay for the purposes of the act. Now this act, like the
other adoptive acts, can only be adopted by the parish meeting, and
where adopted for part only of a parish, must be adopted by a parish
meeting held for that part. After the adoption of the act it is
carried into execution by the parish council, if there is one, and if
not, by the parish meeting, and the expenses are raised in the same
manner as heretofore. The Baths and Washhouses Acts have already been
referred to in dealing with district councils, and it is sufficient to
say that they are now adopted and administered in a rural parish in
the manner pointed out with reference to the Lighting and Watching
Act. The same may be said of the Burial Acts, but these are
sufficiently important to require special notice. These acts contain
provisions whereby burials may be prohibited in urban districts, and
churchyards or burial grounds already existing may be closed when
full. Formerly, when the acts had been adopted by the vestry, it was
necessary to appoint a burial board to carry the acts into execution
and provide and manage burial grounds. Now, in a rural parish which is
coextensive with an area for which the acts have been adopted, the
burial board is abolished and the acts are administered by the parish
council; and the acts cannot be adopted in a rural parish save by the
parish meeting. If the area under a burial board in 1894 was partly in
a rural parish and partly in an urban district, the burial board was
superseded, and the powers of the board are exercised by a joint
committee appointed partly by the urban district council and partly by
the parish council, or parish meeting, as the case may be. In a rural
parish where there is no parish council, though the acts are adop