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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
preparation and carrying into effect of such scheme were one of the general, purposes of that Act:
Provided that a11 lands on which any buildings have been erected or provided by the Corporation in pursuance of any scheme under this section shall far a period of twenty-five years from the date of the scheme be appropriated for the purpose of dwellings and every conveyance demise or lease of such lands and buildings shall be endorsed with notice of this enactment :
Provided also that the Local Government Board may at any time dispense with all or any of the requirements of this sub-section subject to such conditions (if any) as they may see fit.
(8.) The Corporation shall pay to the Local Government Board a sum to be fixed by that Board in respect of the preparation and issue of any Provisional Order in pursuance of this section and any expenses incurred by that Board in relation to any inquiries under this section including the expenses of any witnesses summoned by the inspector holding the inquiry and a sum to be fixed by that Board not exceeding three guineas a day for the services of such inspector.
(9.) For the purposes of this section the expression " labouring class" includes mechanics artisans labourers and others working; for
wages hawkers costermongers persons not working for wages but working at some trade or handicraft without employing others except members of their own family and persons other than domestic servants whose income does not exceed an average of thirty shillings a week and the families of any of such persons who may be residing with them.
49.-(1.) The Corporation may for any of the purposes of this Act (in addition to lands which they are authorised to acquire and hold under the other powers of this Act) from time to time by agreement acquire in fee either by purchase or by way of exchange or otherwise any land not exceeding in the whole ten acres and any easement right or privilege therein thereunder thereover or thereupon (not being an easement right or privilege of water in which other than the parties to the agreement have an interest) which shall be deemed necessary by the Corporation but the Corporation shall not deal with such lands so as to create a nuisance or permit such land to be so dealt with.
(2.) The consideration for any such acquisition may be either money or land or a mixed consideration of money and land and on any exchange the Corporation may give or take any money for equality of exchange.
50. Persons empowered by the Lands Clauses Acts to sell and convey or release lands may if they think fit subject to the provisions
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