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fufficient Manner, to the Satisfaction of the Surveyor or Surveyors of the Pavements for the Time being to the Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements in such parochial or other District, or shall keep up or cause to be kept up and continued any fuch Inclosure for any Time which fhall be longer than fhall be abfolutely neceffary in the Opinion of the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, or of their Surveyor or Surveyors of Pavements for the Time being, or shall not, when thereunto required by such Surveyor or Surveyors, or either of them, well and fufficiently fence or inclofe any fuch Hole or Holes, or Area or Areas, or Space or Spaces, opened or left open, and intended for an Area or Areas, Foundation or Foundations, or for any other Purpose whatsoever, in the Front of or behind or on the Side of fuch vacant Ground, House, or other Tenement or Building, in and adjoining to any fuch Street or public Place formed or to be formed or forming, within Six Hours after he or they shall be required fo to do by the faid Surveyor or Surveyors of Pavement, and in the Manner and with fuch Materials as he or they fhall direct, and to his or their Satisfaction, then and in every or any fuch Cafe he or they fo offending fhall forfeit and pay for every fuch Offence, and for every fuch Refufal or Neglect, any Sum not being lefs than Forty Shillings nor exceeding Five Pounds, to be recovered in the fame Manner in which other Penalties are hereinafter directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act.

LXXII. And be it further enacted, That it shall Encroachand may be lawful to and for the faid Commiffioners ments and Projections or Trustees or other Perfons having the Control of to be reguthe Pavements of the Streets and public Places in lated. any parochial or other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, and for their Surveyor or Surveyors of Pavements, from Time to Time and at all Times hereafter, to regulate or remove, in fuch Manner as

he or they shall from Time to Time judge proper, all Signs, Sign Irons, Sign Pofts, and other Posts, Sheds, Penthouses, Spouts, Gutters, Steps, Stairs, Cellar Doors, Bow and other Windows projecting over any Part of either of the Footways or Carriageways of any of the faid Streets or public Places, Window Shutters, Stumps, Shades, Rails, Pales, Palisades, Porches, Bulks, Shew Glaffes and Shew Boards, Pools, Ceffpools, Cisterns and Refervoirs for Water, and all other or any fixed or moveable Projections, on Hinges or otherwife, from the Fronts or Sides of any House or Houses or other Buildings, and now affixed or belonging to, or which shall be hereafter affixed or belonging to any Houfe or Houfes or other Buildings in or abutting upon or contiguous to any Streets or public Places in any parochial or other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, or to the Owner or Owners or Occupier or Occupiers of any fuch Houses or other Buildings, and which in the Judgment of the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, or of their Surveyor or Surveyors of Pavements for the Time being, then do or may obftruct the Circulation of Light and Air, or are inconvenient or incommodious to any Paffengers along the Carriage or Footways of any of the faid Streets or public Places of or within the Jurifdiction of this Act, or any Part thereof, or to any Inhabitants of fuch parochial or other Diftrict; and that the fame, and all the Roofs, Cornices, Eaves, and Penthouses of or belonging to fuch Houses or Buildings refpectively, and all Water Pipes or Trunks affixed or belonging or to be affixed or belonging to any fuch Houses or other Buildings respectively, fhall from Time to Time and at all Times be regulated, removed, placed, and altered by the Owner or Owners or Occupier or Occupiers of fuch Houses or other Buildings refpectively, as in the Judgment of the Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, or their Surveyor or Surveyors of the

Pavements for the Time being, fhall be neceffary or defirable for the public Convenience; and that in case any Person or Perfons owning or occupying any Houfe or Houfes or other Buildings in or abutting upon or contiguous to any Streets or public Places in any parochial or other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, on being required by any Notice figned by any Three or more Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements in the parochial or other Diftrict within which the faid Houfe or Houses or Buildings may be fituate, or by their Surveyor or Surveyors of Pavements for the Time being, given to or left for fuch Perfon or Perfons, or any of them, in or at or upon the faid House or Houses or other Buildings or any of them, or at his or their usual or last known Place or Places of Abode, fhall not from Time to Time and at all Times immediately either entirely remove or alter, to the Satisfaction of the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements in any fuch parochial or other District, or of their Surveyor or Surveyors of the Pavements for the Time being, any Signs, Sign Irons, Sign Pofts and other Posts, Sheds, Penthouses, Spouts, Gutters, Steps, Stairs, Cellar Doors, Bow and other Windows, Window Shutters, Stumps, Shades, Sun Blinds, Awnings, Rails, Pales, Palisades, Porches, Bulks, Shew Glaffes and Shew Boards, Pools, Ceffpools, Cifterns and Reservoirs, or other Things then fastened or affixed, or belonging to or connected with any fuch House or Houses or other Buildings, and all other fixed or moveable Projections or Things projecting from the Fronts or Sides of, or added or appendant or belonging to any House or Houses or other Buildings, or to the Owner or Owners or Occupier or Occupiers of any fuch House or Houses or other Buildings, over any Footways or Carriageways of any Streets or public Places within the Jurifdiction of this Act, or any Part, or any

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in covered Carts.

of them, and the Roofs, Cornices, Eaves and Penthouses, Waterpipes or Trunks, affixed or to be affixed, or belonging or to belong unto or connected with any of fuch Houfes or Buildings respectively; then and in every fuch Cafe any and every fuch Perfon or Perfons refufing or neglecting immediately fo to do, to the Satisfaction of the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, or of their Surveyor or Surveyors of the Pavements for the Time being, fhall for every fuch Offence, and upon every fuch Refufal or Neglect, forfeit and pay a Sum not being less than Forty Shillings nor exceeding Five Pounds, and which may be recovered in the fame. Manner in which other Penalties are herein-after directed to be recovered by virtue of this A&t.

LXXIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Perfon or Perfons at any Time or Times hereafter fhall drive or cause to be driven any Cart or other Carriage with any Soap Lees, Night Soil, Ammoniacal Liquor, Slop, Filth, or Channel Mire or Dirt therein, through or in any of the Streets or other public Places in any parochial or other District within the Jurisdiction of this Act, without fuch Cart or other Carriage having a proper Covering or Boards, called Flash Boards, to prevent the fame from flopping or spilling in any of the said Streets or other public Places; or fhall at any Time or Times hereafter drive or caufe to be driven any Cart or other Carriage with any Soap Lees, Night Soil, or Ammoniacal Liquor therein, through or in any of the Streets or public Places in any parochial or other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, between the Hours of Six of the Clock in the Morning and Eight of the Clock in the Evening of any Day; or fhall fill any fuch covered Cart or other Carriage, so as to turn over or caft any Soap Lees, Night Soil, Ammoniacal Liquor, Slop, Mire, or Channel Dirt or Filth, in or upon any of the faid Streets or other public Places; it shall and may be lawful for any

Perfon

Perfon or Perfons whomfoever to feize and apprehend and to affift in feizing and apprehending the Offender or Offenders, and by the Authority of this Act, and without any other Warrant or Authority, to convey him or them before fome Juftice of the Peace for the City, Borough, or County wherein fuch parochial or other District shall be situate; and which Juftice is hereby authorized and required to hear Evidence and determine upon fuch Offence; and every Person so offending shall for every fuch Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds, to be recovered in the fame Manner as other Penalties are herein-after directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act: Provided always, that in case the Perfon or Perfons fo offending cannot be apprehended, then the Owner or Owners of fuch Cart or Carriage in which fuch Soap Lees, Night Soil, Ammoniacal Liquor, Slop, Filth, Mire, or Channel Dirt fhall be put or placed, and also the Employer or Employers of the Perfon or Persons so offending, shall be liable to and fhall forfeit and pay fuch Penalty as aforefaid, to be recovered as aforefaid.

finable.

LXXIV. And be it further enacted, That if any Certain Person or Perfons at any Time or Times hereafter Nuisances fhall empty or begin to empty any Bog-house or Boghouses, or to take away any Night Soil from any House or Houses or Premises within the Streets or other public Places in any parochial or other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, or fhall come with Carts or Carriages for that Purpose (fave and except between the Hours of Twelve of the Clock in the Night and Five of the Clock in the Morning from Lady-day to Michaelmas in every Year, and between Twelve of the Clock at Night and Six of the Clock in the Morning from Michaelmas to Lady-day in every Year); or if any Perfon or Perfons fhall put or caft or caufe to be put or caft out of any Cart or Tub or otherwise any Night Soil in or near any of the Streets or other public Places in any parochial or other District within the Jurifdiction

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