ing, within Three Days after fuch Notice fhall be given or left as aforefaid, at his or their own Charges; and in cafe he or they shall refuse or neglect fo to do pursuant to fuch Notice, he or they fhall forfeit and pay for every such Offence a Sum not being lefs than Ten Shillings nor exceeding Twenty Shillings for each and every Day after the Expiration of the faid Term of Three Days, after fuch Notice fhall be given or left, during which he or they fhall fo refuse or neglect; and that every fuch Penalty fhall be recovered in the fame Manner as other Penalties are herein-after directed to be recovered by virtue of this A&t.

LXXVII. And be it further enacted, That it fhall Streets may and may be lawful to and for the faid Commiffioners be watered. or Trustees, or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements of any parochial or other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, from Time to Time and at any Time hereafter to cause all or any of the Streets and other public Places within their respective Jurifdiction to be watered, and to be fo watered either by any Perfon or Perfons employed by them, or by any other Perfons engaging to execute the fame by public Contract or private Agreement, for fuch Prices and for fuch Time, and in fuch Manner and on fuch Terms, as they fhall think proper and approve; and alfo may cause any Well or Wells to be dug or funk, and any Pump or Pumps to be made and erected, in fuch Places (not being a Vault, Cellar, or other Building, under any of the said Streets or other public Places), and allo to cause any Pump or Pumps now ftanding, or which shall hereafter be erected for the Purposes of watering the fame, from Time to Time to be removed, altered, or repaired; and may purchase and repair Carts and Horfes and Pipes and other Implements, and may employ any Carters, Workmen, and Servants, and may rent or erect any Stables or other Buildings neceffary for the Purpose of keeping fuch Carts and Implements and Horfes, and may

do

Expences of watering Streets may

be defrayed by fpecial Rates;

do or cause to be done all other Matters and Things which they may deem neceffary for that Purpose; and the Charges and Expences thereof fhall be paid out of the Monies received for and towards the paving and repairing the Pavements of fuch parochial or other District, either exclufively or jointly with, for, or towards any other Objects or Purposes, or out of any Monies to be raised and produced by the Rates or Affeffments herein-after authorized to be made for that Purpose; and that it may be lawful to and for the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons as aforefaid, at any Meeting or Meetings from Time to Time in each and every Year, to make and fign fuch further and additional Rates or Affeffments upon all and every Person and Persons who do or fhall inhabit, hold, occupy, be in Poffeffion of, or enjoy any enjoy any Meffuages, Tenements, Lands, Grounds, Coach-houses, Stable, Cellars, Vaults, Houses, Shops, Warehouses, or other Buildings or Hereditaments whatsoever, within any fuch Street or public Place which shall be watered by virtue of this Act, as may, in the Opinion of the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons as aforefaid present at fuch Meeting, be fufficient for defraying the Charges and Expences of finking fuch Wells, and erecting and repairing fuch Pumps, and watering fuch Streets and public Places respectively, and all other Charges and Expences relating or incidental thereto; so that in any one Year fuch further additional Rate or Affeffment fhall not exceed the Sum of Sixpence in the Pound upon or according to the full Annual Rents or Value of fuch Hereditaments refpectively; and that every fuch Rate and Affeffment fhall specify the Period for which it is made, and fhall be demanded and collected from the ufual Quarter Day preceding the to be paid to Time of making and figning the fame; and that all and every fuch Rates or Affeffments, if fo made and figned, fhall be paid, by the Person and Perfons liable to the Payment thereof, to the Collector

the Collector

of the Paving

Rates ;

or

in the fame

Manner as

Paving Rates.

or Collectors or other Perfon or Perfons appointed or from Time to Time to be appointed to collect the Rates or Affeffments made or to be made for or towards the Expences of paving and repairing the Pavements of the Streets and public Places within fuch parochial or other District, either exclusively or jointly with, for, or towards any other Objects or Purposes; and alfo, that all fuch Rates or Affeff- and to be ments shall be recovered and levied of and from fuch accounted for Perfon or Perfons, and fhall be accounted for and and enforced paid over to fuch Person and Perfons, in fuch and the like Form and Manner, with fuch Powers of Distress, and according to fuch Rules, Methods, and Directions, as are mentioned and appointed in and by this Act, or by any local Act or Acts of Parliament relating to fuch parochial or other Diftrict, relating to collecting, receiving, recovering, levying, accounting for, and applying the several Rates and Affeffments made and to be made for and towards the Expences of paving or repairing the Pavement of any Streets or public Places within fuch parochial or other District, either exclusively or jointly with or for or towards any other Objects or Purposes as aforefaid.

Three

fame to be

LXXVIII. Provided always, and be it further But Rates enacted, That the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, not to be or other Perfons as aforefaid, may not rate or affefs made until the Inhabitants or Occupiers of any Houfes, Here- fourths of the ditaments, or Premises, or other rateable Property Inhabitants of within any Street or public Place in any parochial or any Street other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, requeft the with any fuch further or additional Rate or Affeff- watered. ment, unless a Majority of the Inhabitants or Occupiers of fuch Houses, Hereditaments, and Premises, and other rateable Property (such Majority not being less than Three-fourths of fuch Inhabitants or Occupiers within fuch Streets or public Places), fhall at the fame or at fome previous Time have fignified and expreffed their Wish and Confent in Writing that fuch Street or public Place fhould be

watered,

Courts may be ftopped up with the

of Two or

watered, and fhall have figned their Names to fuch Writing, and delivered or caufed the fame to be delivered to the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or fuch other Perfons as aforefaid, or to their Clerk or Clerks for the Time being.

LXXIX. And whereas there are in certain parochial or other Districts within the Jurifdiction of this

Approbation Act certain Courts, Alleys, and Places which, without Inconvenience to the Public, might be difmore Juftices, continued and stopped up, and which, from their and with the private and confined Situation, and by being Harthe Owners of bours or Receptacles for Filth and Rubbish, are

Confent of

contiguous Property.

noisome and offenfive; be it therefore further enacted, That if upon the View of any Two or more of His Majesty's Juftices of the Peace for the City, Borough, or County wherein fuch Court, Alley, or Place may be fituate, it fhall to them appear that any fuch Court, Alley, or Place is become unneceffary, and may, without Inconvenience to the Public, or to the Owners of Houses or Tenements adjoining thereto, be discontinued and stopped up, then and in fuch Case it shall and may be lawful to and for fuch Justices, by and with the Consent of the Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements of the Streets and public Places in fuch parochial or other District, testified by Writing under the Hand of the Clerk or Clerks to fuch Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid for the Time being, and by and with the Confent of the Owner and Owners of the Houses, Lands, or Tenements adjoining to Four Parts in Five in the Length of any fuch Court, Alley, or Place, teftified by Writing under his, her, or their Hand or Hands, at any Special Seffion to be holden for that Purpose, by Order under the Hands and Seals of fuch Justices, to discontinue and stop up any and every fuch Court, Alley, or Place; and all fuch Courts, Alleys, and Places, or fuch Proportion thereof as may adjoin to the Houses or Tenements of fuch Perfon who fhall have fo confented, fhall be difcon

discontinued and stopped up accordingly, fubject to Appeal, as herein-after is mentioned: Provided always, that nothing herein contained fhall extend or be conftrued to extend fo as to authorize the discontinuing or stopping up any Court, Alley, or Place, or any Part or Parts thereof, whereby or in confequence whereof any House, Tenement, or Land fhall be fo inclosed (unless with fuch. Consent as aforefaid) that the Owner or Owners thereof shall be prevented from paffing freely to and repaffing freely from fuch House, Tenement, or Land.

with Confent

LXXX. And be it further enacted, That for the Streets may Improvement of the Streets and public Places in the be widened parochial or other Districts within the Jurifdiction of and improved this Act, and for the public Advantage, it shall and of Owners. may be lawful to and for the Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements of any parochial or other District, from Time to Time and at all Times hereafter to alter, widen, turn, or extend any of the Streets or other public Places within any fuch parochial or other District (except Turnpike Roads), and to lengthen and continue or open the fame from the Sides or Ends of any Streets or public Places within any parochial or other District, into any other Street or public Place within fuch or any other parochial or other District, and to raise, level, lower, drain, ballaft, gravel, or pave fuch new Part or Parts of any fuch Streets or public Places fo altered, widened, extended, opened, or lengthened as aforefaid; and that if any Houses, Walls, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, or any Part thereof, fhall be adjudged by the said Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid to project into, obftruct, or prevent them from fo altering, turning, widening, extending, lengthening, continuing, or opening the faid Streets or public Places within the faid parochial or other District, and that the Poffeffion, Occupation, and Purchase of fuch Houses, Walls, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments will be ne

ceffary