§ With respect to districts other than burghs, all charges and expenses incurred by or devolving on the local authority in executing this Act or ally of the Acts hereby repealed, and not recovered as hereinbefore or after provided, may be defrayed out of an assessment (in this Act referred to as the public health general assessment) to be levied by the local authority upon all lands and heritages within the district, or in the case of counties not divided into districts, within the county, in the like manner as, but as a separate assessment from, the assessment hereinafter mentioned in this section; that is to say, the said assessment shall 1325 be assessed, levied, and recovered in like milliner and under like powers as—
§ The assessment for the maintenance of roads under the provisons of the Bowls and Bridges (Scotland) Act 1878. or where there is no such assessment, by an assessment levied in such ma niter as en assessment might have been levied for the maintenance of roads.
§ Nothing contained in this Act shall affect or prejudice the provisions of the Agricultural its tee, Congested Districts and. Burgh Land Tax Belief (Scotland) Act 1896.
§ Leave out "or after" leave out "such" ["such manner"] and insert "like."—(Lord Advocate).
§ At end, insert "under that Act."—(Mr. Caldwell.)
§ Clause 136,—