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A.D. 1928. of Health and subject as aforesaid the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1889 shall apply to such reference and determination.

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3.-(1) The Minister of Health may direct any inquiries Inquiries by to be held by his inspectors which he may deem necessary with reference to the purposes of this Order and such inspectors 5 shall for the purposes of any inquiry have all such powers as they have for the purposes of inquiries directed by the Minister under the Public Health Act 1875.

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(2) When the Minister of Health causes any such inquiry to be held with reference to any of the purposes of this Order 10 the costs incurred by the Minister in relation to that inquiry (including such sum not exceeding five guineas a day as the Minister may determine for the services of any inspector engaged in the inquiry) shall be paid by the Swansea Corporation and the Minister may certify the amount of the costs so incurred and any 15 sum so certified and directed by the Minister to be paid by the Swansea Corporation shall be a debt due to the Crown from the Swansea Corporation.

4. This Order may be cited as the Swansea Order 1928.

It is agreed this Twenty-second day of November One thousand nine hundred and ten between the VISITING COMMITTEES FOR THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF SWANSEA and the COUNTY BOROUGH OF MERTHYR TYDFIL that the said county boroughs shall henceforth be united for the purposes of the 25 Lunacy Act 1890 and that an asylum for the reception of lunatics with all necessary buildings courts yards and outlets shall be immediately provided on a site in or near to the County Borough of Swansea and properly fitted up and accommodated for the purposes mentioned in the said Act and

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1. That the necessary expenses attending the providing building furnishing and fitting up of the said asylum including the cost of the purchase of land shall be defrayed by the said county boroughs so united in the following proportions such proportions being fixed according to the probable extent of the accommoda- 35 tion required for the lunatics of the contracting county boroughs (that is to say) :—

The County Borough of Swansea two-thirds of the said

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The County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil one-third of the 40

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2. That the necessary expenses of repairs to the buildings A.D. 1928. and maintenance of the said asylum shall be paid by the councils of the said county boroughs quarterly and shall be borne by the said county boroughs in proportions to be ascertained in the 5 manner following:-The number of pauper lunatics in the institution shall be ascertained on the thirty-first day of March the thirtieth day of June the thirtieth day of September and the thirty-first day of December in every year. The number of pauper lunatics of the County Borough of Swansea shall be 10 ascertained and also the number of those of the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil. The proportion of these expenses incurred in respect of any quarter and payable by the County Borough of Swansea shall be a sum calculated by multiplying the total of such expenses for that quarter by the number of pauper 15 lunatics of the County Borough of Swansea ascertained on the date ending that quarter (as being in the institution on that date) and dividing the result by the total number of pauper lunatics of the said county boroughs (in the institution on that date). The proportion of these expenses incurred in respect 20 of any quarter and payable by the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil shall be a sum similarly calculated by multiplying the total of such expenses for that quarter by the number of pauper lunatics of the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil ascertained on the date ending that quarter (as being in the institution on 25 that date) and dividing the result by the total pauper lunatics of the said county boroughs in the institution on that date.

3. That the committee of visitors to superintend the building erection and management of the said asylum shall be appointed in the following proportions (that is to say) the Council of the 30 County Borough of Swansea shall appoint thirteen and the Council of the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil shall appoint twelve and the proportions in which the said committee of visitors are to be appointed as aforesaid may be from time to time varied with the consent in writing under the hands of the 35 greater number of visitors of the said boroughs and with the consent of the Commissioners in Lunacy.

4. That the sums received from any source other than the Guardians of the Swansea Union and the Guardians of the Merthyr Tydfil Union on account of the maintenance in the 40 asylum of pauper patients private patients and criminal patients shall be apportioned between the said county boroughs in proportion to the number of pauper lunatics from time to time in the institution such number being ascertained as provided in Clause 2 of this Agreement.

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5. Should either of the contracting councils use for the lunatics of their county boroughs a larger proportion of the accommodation in the asylum than is represented by the proportions in which the expenses are defrayed in pursuance of

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A.D. 1928. Clause 1 of this Agreement the contracting council using such accommodation shall pay to the other contracting council for and in respect of such user such sum and in such manner as may be agreed between the contracting councils and in case of dispute the matter shall be referred to the Secretary of State 5 whose decision shall be final.

6. And it is hereby further agreed in accordance with the provisions of Section 267 of the Lunacy Act 1890 that in the event of the dissolution of this Agreement the visiting committee shall divide the real and personal property held for the purposes 10 of the said Agreement between the contracting councils in the proportion in which they are respectively interested therein and for this purpose a valuation of the assets shall be made and a sum of money of such amount and to be raised by either of the said councils in such proportions as the committee with 15 the consent of a Secretary of State approve may be awarded to either of the said councils instead of a share or part of a share in such property.

In Witness whereof we the undersigned being the majority of each of the Committees appointed by the said councils 20 respectively do on behalf of the said councils set our hands and seals this twenty-second day of November One thousand nine hundred and ten.

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Secretaries of State.)

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health
this Eighteenth day of May One thousand nine hundred
and twenty-eight.

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