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Special Commissioners (Earl Derby, Messrs. Shaw-Lefevre, 

 Wharton, Mowatt and Henley) have been appointed, who, by 

 themselves or with the aid of a skilled deputy or deputies, will 

 undertake the comphcated task of apportioning Burnley's share 

 of liability on main roads, prisons, lunatic asylums, and other 

 accounts towards the County generally, and also the County's 

 obligations towards the New County Municipality. Since the 

 balance of advantage remains largely with Burnley I may be the 

 more easily forgiven for drawing attention to a conspicuous " fly 

 in the ointment,"— Burnley men will be stiU liable to serve on 

 juries, both at the Preston Sessions and during the Assizes, 

 That part of the Burnley Union situated outside the Municipal 

 Borough will be placed largely under the control of the County 

 Council. To that Council outer Burnley wiU send five represen- 

 tatives, distributed — in all likelihood —as follows : — Colne and 

 Marsden and Trawden Local Board Districts, one ; Nelson Local 

 Board District one ; Padiham and Hapten and Brierfield Local 

 Board Districts, one ; the Eural Districts will be divided into two 

 Electoral divisions, named respectively Barrowford and BriercUflfe, 

 but covering an immense area, the whole of nineteen and a por- 

 tion of four other Townships. The above five County Councillors 

 will share with one hundred others, authority over the whole of 

 Lancashire, with the exception of the Municipalities of Manches- 

 ter, Salford, Liverpool, Blackburn, Bolton, Bury, Burnley, 

 Barrow, Preston, St. Helen's, Oldham, Eochdale, Wigan, and 

 Stockport. The Lancashire County Councillors — to be elected 

 during January next — will retire on the 1st of November, 1891. 

 Of the County Aldermen, about one-half will retire on the 7th of 

 November, 1892, and the other half on the same date in the year 

 1894. The Council will not be at once invested with full powers. 

 The Members wiU first act as a Provisional Council. They will 

 meet for such purposes as the election of Chairman and Alder- 

 men and for making the needful arrangements with Quarter 

 Sessions for bringing the Act into operation. It will not be until 

 the 1st of April, 1889 — a date of ominous import — that the 

 County Councillors will begin to exercise their full powers and 

 duties. At the risk of repetition it will be necessary here to 

 rehearse the main outlines of the full powers and duties of the 

 Lancashire County Council. With them will rest the making, 

 assessing, and levying of County, Police, Hundred, and all other 

 Bates, and the application and expenditure thereof, and the 

 preparation and revision of the basis or standard for the County 

 Bate ; the borrowing of money, and the passing of the accounts 

 of and the discharge of the County Treasurer. They will have 

 to build and maintain shire halls, county haUs, assize courts, 

 judges lodgings, lock-up houses, justices' rooms, police stations, 

 and county buildings, works, and property. They will be res- 



