| Description | St. Helens Borough Improvement Act, 1869: an Act to dissolve the local boards of the districts of Sutton and Parr, and to repeal the St. Helens Improvement Act, 1855, and to constitute the Corporation of the St. Helens borough the Local Authority for the improving and governing of the borough; to enable the Corporation to extend their Waterworks, and to purchase the undertakings of the St. Helens Waterworks Company and the St. Helens Gas Company. Covers: repeal of previous Acts; gas; new streets and street improvements; bridges; dwelling houses and new buildings; cellar dwellings; sewers; scavenging; nuisances; markets and fairs; slaughter-houses; weighing and measuring; tolls and their recovery; pounds and impounding; town hall; public clocks; baths, washhouses and bathing places; parks; libraries, museums, and schools of science and art; police; offences; hackney carriages and porters' carts; public houses, coffee houses and places of public entertainment; brokers; fire; acquisition and sale of lands; highways rates, water rent, borough fund and rates; borrowing money; execution of works; settlement of disputes; quarter sessions and legal proceedings; appointment of officers. |