United Kingdom House of Lords Decisions

The main object of this Order was the extension of the Burgh of Perth by including therein a part of the County. The only objectors who appeared to oppose the Order were the two proprietors of Woodlands and Cleeve, small estates extending respectively to about 93 and 32 acres, which were included, Woodlands wholly and Cleeve partly, in the area proposed to be taken in from the county, and whose main ground of objection was that the transfer would entail an additional burden on them in the matter of rates.

The only other purposes of the Order which call for mention were—(1) to make the burgh a county of a city, with power to the Crown to appoint a Lieutenant and a separate Commission of the Peace, and (2) to give powers which would extend the control presently exercised by the burgh over persons within its own limits dealing in milk, to such persons outside who sent milk into the burgh for consumption; and further to provide that all dead meat sent into the burgh should pass through the burgh slaughterhouse, for purposes of inspection by an official.

In the matter of erection of the burgh into a county of a city, a report was submitted by the Secretary for Scotland disapproving of the proposal, and on the other matters of milk supply and dead meat a report was put in by the Local Government Board also disapproving on the ground that these proposals went outside the general statute law, and were contrary to the accepted principle that the local authority of each district should alone be responsible for the administration of the Public Health Acts within its own district.