Local Government Acts.
3B orders, but the proceedings, preparatory to the issue of the order, have not yet terminated:— A petition from the Town Commissioners of Bangor, praying to be separated from the Rural Sanitary District of Newtownards, and constituted an Urban Sanitary District.
A petition from the Town Commissioners of Killamey, praying to be separated from the Rural Sanitary District of Killarney Union, and constituted an Urban Sanitary District.
A petition from the Town Commissioners of Parsonstown, prayiug to be separated from the Rural Sanitary District of Parsonstown Union, and constituted an Urban Sanitary District.
A petition from the Town Commissioners of Thurles, praying to be separated from the Rural Sanitary District of Thurles Union, and constituted an Urban Sanitary District.
Petitions were also received from the Town Commissioners of Ballina, praying to be separated from the Rural Sanitary District of Ballina Union, and constituted an Urban Sanitary District; and from the Town Commissioners of Banbridge, praying to be separated from the Rural Sanitary District of Banbiidge Union ; but in both these cases, objections were made by persons affected by the proposal—and a local inquiry having, in each case, been held as required by the 214th section of the Public Health Act, 1878, wc felt it right to refuse to make the order sought.
We approved the adoption of the provisions of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, in the town of Arklow, on the 8th July, 1878, and issued the necessary orders and directions dividing the town into two wards, and fixing the number of Commissioners to be elected at fifteen.
Bye-laws for regulating Hackney Carriages, Fares, and Licences have been submitted to and approved by us, by the Town Com¬ missioners of Ballymena, and by the Town Commissioners of Bray ; also, relating to Piers, Harbour and Boat Fares, by the Township Commissioners of Dalkey; for regulating Markets, by the Town Commissioners of Wexford; and for cleansing Foot¬ paths, by the Town Commissioners of Portadown.
Orders have been made ana gazetted prohibiting further inter¬ ments, subject to certain exceptions, in the Capuchin Garden Burial-ground, in the city of Dublin, and in the Burial-ground attached to the Abbey Church, in St.
Francis-street, in the parish of St.
Nicholas, in the town of Galway.
We have also issued Licences under the 1 Oth section of the Burial-grounds Act, and the 168th section of the Public Health Act, 1878, in certain individual cases, authorizing, when the cir¬ cumstances appeared to warrant it, interments in the following Burial-grounds, which had been ordered to be closed, viz.,
Cruagh, Whitechurch, Templeogue, and Monkstown, in the county of Dublin; St.
Mark, in the city of Dublin; Parsonstown Old Church Yard, in the town of Parsonstown; Killeely, in the county of the city of Limerick, and in the Burial-ground attached to the Abbey Church, Galway.
