Excerpt from The Law Relating to Parish Councils Being the Local Government Act, 1894: Together With an Introduction and Statues Relating to Parish and District Councils, Circulars and Orders of the Local Government Board, Notes, Index, &C The Local Government Act, 1894, effects two main purposes. In the first place it establishes an entirely new system of parish government in rural districts by means of parish councils and parish meetings. Secondly it reforms, without however very extensively affecting their functions, certain existing local authorities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.