The Board of every road district is authorised from time to time, as it thiuks fit, to make and levy general rates on all rateable property within its district for carrying into effect the general purposes of this Act ; but the total amount of such rates made for any one year shall not exceed three farthings in the pound on the rateable value. Part v. of the Bill refers to the powers and duties of Boards. It first deals with the making of bye-laws, and provides that the Board of every district may from time to time make, alter, or repeal bye laws for the good government of the district in respect to tho following matters : — (1) To repeal any bye-law for the time being in force ; (2) to regulate the meet ings, proceedings, and general conduct of the business of the Board ; (3) to regulate the duties, duration and conditions of service, and the salaries or other re muneration of officers and servants of the Board ; (4) when the whole of " The Counties Act, 1876," is not in force, or when the operation of such Act is sus pended in the County in which the district of a Board is situate, then bye-laws may be made for any purpose whatsoever for which, by "The Counties Act, 1876," the Council of the County in which the road district is situate could have made bye laws, including the altering or repealing of any existing bye-laws made by the Council of such County previous to the suspension of the operation of the said Act, but so that no bye-laws made under this sub-section shall operate beyond the road district of the Board making the same ; (5) for any other purposes for which the Board is empowered to make bye-laws under this or any other Act. A copy of the "Gazette" containing any bye-law is to be received in all Courts as evidence of the same having been doly made as by this Bill provided, unless the contrary be proved. 