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or deposit of an injurious cliaracter may be ordered to be carried 
away. The parish authorities may appoint an inspector of 
nuisances, and the guardians of unions may at any time employ 
one of their medical officers to make inquiry and report upon 
the sanitary state of their union or parish, or any part thereof, 
and upon any nuisance being ascertained, the owner or occupier 
of the premises may be summoned before two justices, and an 
order made — which order may extend to structural works, in 
which case there is a power of appeal to the justices. Moreover, 
any inhabitant of any place may complain of the existence of a 
nuisance, and justices in petty sessions may make an order in 
relation thereto in the same way as they may on the complaint of 
a recognised local authority. Any sewer authority once con- 
stituted has the same powers under the Public Health Act and 
the Local Government Acts, in conjunction with the Sanitary 
Act, in relation to the supply of water that any local board has 
within its district, and the costs of any works are made payable by 
the owners of property, and are recoverable in the same way 
before two justices. Sewer authorities have power to construct 
such sewers as they may think necessary for keeping their dis- 
trict properly cleansed and drained ; and as respects all sewers 
constructed by them, they have .ill tlie powers that local boards 
have in respect of sewers constructed under the Public Health 
Act, 1848, the 30th section of the Local Government Act, 1858, 
and the 4th section of the Local Government (Amendment) 
Act, 1861, subject, however, to certain provisions of the Local 
Government Act, 1858. Sewer authorities under the Sewage 
Utilisation Acts may provide any works and do any acts for the 
purpose of receiving, storing, disinfecting, or distributing sewage ; 
they may also, in furtherance of the utilisation of their sewage 
without, as well as within, their district, purchase or lease lands, 
contract with any company or person for the sale of the sewage 
of their district, or the distribution over any land ; and further, 
they may contract for the purchase, or take on lease any lands or 
buildings, or apparatus, for the purpose of receiving, storing, dis- 
infecting, or distributing sewage. All these powers, however, 
must be exerted in a manner by which no nuisance can be 
created, and with the proviso that no sewage or filthy matter 
shall be conveyed by the sewers into any watercourse or stream 
until such sewage is freed from all excrementitious or obnoxious 
matter, such as would affect or deteriorate the purity and quality 
of the water. Many other provisions for control and entry on 
premises are contained in these various Acts. Means are given 
for the payment of expenses incurred by sewer authorities in 
the performance of their duties, and for borrowing any money 
required for the purpose, which, in ordinary cases, must be repaid 
