In addition Poplar ratepayers were charged a precept to pay for the London County Council, Metropolitan Police, Metropolitan Asylums Board and the Metropolitan Water Board.

It was the records of these bodies and similar groups such as the London School Board and Metropolitan Asylums Board that would form the nucleus of the London County Record offices holdings which were based at County Hall on the south bank of the River Thames.

The Hospital records range from County Asylums like Hanwell Asylum and Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum to major teaching hospitals like Guys Hospital and St Thomas ' Hospital and specialist hospitals like Moorfields Eye Hospital and Queen Charlotte's Hospital, right down to much smaller local hospitals.

As well as the archives of the London County Council, Middlesex County Council, Greater London Council, Inner London Education Authority and the London Residuary Body, the LMA also hold records of their 19th and 20th century predecessors such as the Metropolitan Board of Works, Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, London School Board and the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

SECOND – Patients in limited circumstances, but in a position in life to render them unsuitable for admission into County Asylums, who shall be received at such reduced rates of payment as the Committee, upon consideration of the circumstances of each case, may determine ; and some even gratuitously ,-preference being given to recent and curable cases, to which the gratuitous Patients are to be wholly confined.

The Lunacy / Lunatics Act 1845 ( 8 & 9 Vict., c. 100 ) and the County Asylums Act 1845 formed mental health law in England and Wales from 1845 to 1890.

Prior to the Lunacy Act lunacy legislation in England was enshrined in the County Asylums Act of 1808, which established institutions for poor and for criminally-insane mentally ill people.

The first asylum owing to the County Asylums Act opened at Northampton in 1811.

The Lunacy Act of 1845 was passed through Parliament simultaneously with the 1845 County Asylums Act.

The Lunacy Act established the Lunacy Commission and the County Asylums Act set forth most of the provisions as to what was to be monitored within the asylums and helped establish the public network of the county asylums.

Both of these versions were actually repealed by the 1853 County Asylums Act.

; Assaulting an officer of the court: This offence is created by section 14 ( 1 )( b ) of the County Courts Act 1984.

The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.

When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).

So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

They were replaced by democratically-elected County Councils by the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898.

Tipperary remained a county palatine until the passing of the County Palatine of Tipperary Act 1715, with different officials and procedures from other counties.

Under the Local Government Provisional Order Confirmation Act 1976, part of the urban area of Drogheda, which lay in County Meath, was transferred to County Louth on 1 January 1977.

The London Passenger Transport Act 1933 removed responsibility for of tram route from the London County Council, three county boroughs and a number of other local authorities in the Greater London area.

This came under the jurisdiction of the County Palatine of Durham until the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844.

Michigan, led by the young and hot-headed Mason, responded with the passage of the Pains and Penalties Act just six days after Lucas County was formed ; the act made it a criminal offense for Ohioans to carry out governmental actions in the Strip, under penalty of a fine up to $ 1, 000 and / or up to five years imprisonment at hard labor.

* December 1 – Under the County and Borough Police Act, in any county or area of England and Wales where a police force has not already been established, the Justices of the Peace must from this date take steps to create one according to nationally defined standards.

In Alberta, the county used to be a type of municipal status ; but this was changed to " municipal district " under the Municipal Government Act, when the County Act was repealed in the mid-1990s, at which time they were also permitted to retain the usage of county in their official names.

Substantial reorganisations under that Act resulted in the 1989 shake-up, which covered the country in ( non-overlapping ) cities and districts and abolished all the counties except for the Chatham Islands County, which survived under that name for a further 6 years but then became a " Territory " under the " Chatham Islands Council ".

In 1889 he became an Alderman on the Caernarfonshire County Council which had been created by the Local Government Act 1888.

His attacks on the government's Education Act, which provided that County Councils would fund church schools, helped reunite the Liberals.

His successful amendment that the County need only fund those schools where the buildings were in good repair served to make the Act a dead letter in Wales, where the Counties were able to show that most Church of England schools were in poor repair.

In 1974 it lost its status as the smallest county borough in England, after the Local Government Act 1972, and came under the control of Kent County Council.

The rise in population of the surrounding districts helped lead to the Act of Consolidation of 1854 which extended the city of Philadelphia to include all of Philadelphia County.

In s. 2 of the Act each council formed for a county is allocated the respective English and Welsh descriptions of " County Council " or " Cyngor Sir ", each council formed for a County Borough is allocated the respective descriptions of " County Borough Council " or " Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol "; in all cases the shorter alternative forms " Council " or " Cyngor " can be used.

Faulkner traces, in his vast and overpowering saga of Yoknapatawpha County, the gradual changes which seep into the South, building layer upon layer of minute, subtle innovation which eventually tend largely to hide the Old Way.

In Maryland the Harford County Board of Education had prepared a desegregation plan which the Court approved but which a plaintiff had challenged ; ;

Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.

In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.

The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.

`` This is one of the major items in the Fulton County general assistance program '', the jury said, but the State Welfare Department `` has seen fit to distribute these funds through the welfare departments of all the counties in the state with the exception of Fulton County, which receives none of this money.

County Supervisor Weldon R. Sheets, who is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, today called for an end to paper ballots in those counties in the state which still use them.

There also were reports of a collection at the County Line Elementary School, 3505o Dequindre, which has been attended this year by four of the Kowalski children including Christine.

New car sales in Dallas County during March showed slight signs of recovering from the doldrums which have characterized sales this year.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, e.g., Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama celebration is Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

The navigation of the Tallapoosa River –- which has its source in Paulding County, Georgia, and is about long -– is prevented by shoals and a fall at Tallassee, a few miles north of its junction with the Coosa.

The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) includes all of Washtenaw County, which had a population of 344, 791 as of 2010.

Omari obtained a fake United States ID card from All Services Plus in Passaic County, New Jersey, which was in the business of selling fake documents, including another to Khalid al-Mihdhar.

# He is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, which covers the east parts of the County of Kent.

Abergavenny is the home of Abergavenny Thursdays F. C., which was formed in 1927, and is currently a member of the Gwent County League Division 3.

Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.

In the eighth episode of season 8, named " Manhattan Hillbillies ," Granny tells the police officer in Central Park that her family comes from Taney County ( which is in southwest Missouri ).

On July 12, 1985, in conjunction with a credit card fraud investigation, the Middlesex County, NJ Sheriff's department raided and seized The Private Sector BBS, which was the official BBS for grey hat hacker quarterly 2600 Magazine at the time.

The name " Quinte " is derived from " Kente ", which was the name of an early French Catholic mission located on the south shore of what is now Prince Edward County.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

While living in Hall County, Texas they also played at ' ranch dances ' which were popular in both North Texas and eastern New Mexico.