during the 19th century several bodies, which came to be known as 'boards of tynwald', were created to exercise functions under democratic control. these included the board of education (1872), highway board (1874), asylums board (1888), government property trustees (1891) and local government board (1894). however, although direct taxation was levied by tynwald, the boards' freedom of action before the 1960s was limited by the lieutenant governor's control of the island's budget and his power to appoint certain of their members.