District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, or any Part of fuch Pavement, is in a State dangerous to Paffengers, or fo very defective as to occafion serious Inconvenience to Paffengers and Carriages, then and in every fuch Cafe it fhall and may be lawful to and for fuch One Perfon alone, or for such Two Perfons jointly, to prepare a Notice, figned with his or their respective Hand or Hands, fetting forth the Number of his or their respective Dwelling House or Dwelling Houses, and the Street or public Place, or Streets or public Places wherein fuch Dwelling Houfe or Dwelling Houses is or are fituate, and describing the Part of the Pavements of any Street or public Place which he or they confider to be then dangerous to Paffengers, or fo very defective as to occafion ferious Inconvenience to Paffengers and Carriages, and alfo requiring the Reparation thereof, and to addrefs fuch Notice to any Perfon being a Surveyor for the Time being of the Pavements of and within the parochial or other District wherein the Part of any Street or public Place fhall be fituate, the Pavement whereof shall then be dangerous to Paffengers, or so very defective as aforefaid, and to give such Notice to any fuch Surveyor, or to leave the fame for him at the Dwelling House or Office within fuch parochial or other District, inscribed on the Boards to be from Time to Time set up by the Commiffioners or Truftees or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements of and within fuch parochial or other District, pursuant to the Directions of this A&t.

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VII. And be it further enacted, That every Per- Surveyors or fon from Time to Time hereafter being the Surveyor Commiffionof the Pavements of any parochial or other District ers fhall caufe fuch dangerwithin the Jurifdiction of this Act, to whom shall be given or for whom shall be left a Notice, figned tive Pavement and prepared as before directed, of the dangerous to be reor very defective State as aforefaid, of any Part of paired. the Pavement of any Street or public Place in the parochial or other District in and for which he fhall

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the Pavements of fuch parochial or other District; and if fuch Part of the Pavement described in fuch Notice, or any Part thereof, shall really be in a State dangerous to Paffengers, or so very defective as to occafion serious Inconvenience to Paffengers and Carriages, then fuch Commiffioners or Trustees or other Persons fhall then and there direct the effectual Reparation of fuch Part of the Pavements mentioned in the faid Notice as may be dangerous to Paffengers, or fo very defective as aforefaid, and fhall cause the fame and every Part thereof to be fo effectually repaired at their Cofts and Charges, within Twenty-eight Days then next, if the Charges of and about fo effectually repairing the fame will not in their Judgment exceed the Sum of Fifty Pounds, and within Six Weeks then next if the Charges of and about fo effectually repairing the fame will in their Judgment exceed the faid Sum of Fifty Pounds.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That if at any Time or Times hereafter the Pavement of any Street or public Place within the Jurifdiction of this Act, being in a State dangerous to Paffengers, or fo very defective as to occafion ferious Inconvenience to Paffengers and Carriages, whereof a Notice, prepared and figned as herein-before is directed, fhall have been given to or left for any Perfon being a Surveyor of the Pavements of the parochial or other District wherein the Pavement fo dangerous to Paffengers, or fo very defective as aforefaid, may be fituate, fhall not be fufficiently repaired within the Times herein-before appointed for the Reparation thereof, (that is to fay) within Three Days from the Day whereon the faid Notice fhall have been given or left as aforefaid, if the Cofts and Charges of and about fuch Repair would not exceed the Sum of Two Pounds, and within Seven Days from the Day whereon the faid Notice fhall have been given or left as aforefaid, if the Cofts and Charges of and about fuch Repair would not exceed the

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Sum of Ten Pounds, and within Twenty-eight Days from the Day whereon the faid Notice fhall have been given or left as aforefaid, if the Costs and Charges of and about fuch Repair would not exceed the Sum of Fifty Pounds, and within Six Weeks next after the said Notice shall have been given or left as aforefaid, if the Cofts and Charges of and about such Repair would exceed the Sum of Fifty Pounds, then it fhall and may be lawful to and for the Perfon or Perfons by whom any Notice figned as herein-before is directed fhall have been given or left as aforefaid, to apply and complain to any Two Justices of the Peace acting for the City, Borough, or County wherein the Pavement of the Street or public Place described in the Notice fo given or left as aforefaid fhall be fituate, and that upon Proof upon Oath, by One or more credible Witness or Witneffes, that a Notice, prepared and figned as herein-before is directed, had been given to or left for a Perfon appointed and notified to be a Surveyor of the Pavements of such parochial or other District wherein the Pavement described in fuch Notice may be fituate, and according to the Directions of this Act, and that the Part of the Pavements in any Street or public Place described in fuch Notice, and being in a State dangerous to Passengers, or so very defective as to occafion serious Inconvenience to Paffengers and Carriages, had not been fufficiently repaired within the Time herein-before limited by this Act, according to the Cofts and Charges which must be incurred in and about fuch Reparation; then fuch Justices of the Peace, by a Summons under their Hands, fhall require the said Perfon, being appointed and notified to be a Surveyor of the Pavements for the parochial or other District wherein the Pavement of any Street or public Place dangerous to Paffengers, or fo very defective as aforefaid, fhall be fituate, to or for whom the faid Notice, prepared and figned as aforefaid, fhall have been given or left, according to the Directions of this Aa, to

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appear before them the faid Juftices, at a Place and Time to be mentioned in fuch Summons (and the Time being Twenty-four Hours at the leaft after the faid Summons fhall have been given to the faid Surveyor, or fhall have been left for him at his Dwelling-house or Office within the parochial or other District the Pavement whereof he shall be appointed to furvey, infcribed on the Boards herein before directed to be fet up in every parochial and other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act), and then and there to show Cause why the Pavement defcribed in the faid Notice hath not been fufficiently repaired according to fuch Notice, within the Times herein-before by this Act limited, according to the Expence which must be incurred in and about fuch Repair; and that if the faid Surveyor, or fome Perfon authorized by him, fhall not attend before the faid Juftices at the Time and Place mentioned in fuch Summons, or if he or fuch other Perfon authorized by him fhall then and there attend, and fhall not fhow to them the faid Justices a fufficient Cause or fufficient Caufes why the said Pavement described in the said Notice given to or left for the faid Surveyor as herein-before is directed, and every Part thereof, hath not been fufficiently repaired according to fuch Notice, then and upon Proof upon Oath by Two or more credible Witneffes that the Pavement described in the faid Notice is then dangerous to Paffengers, or so very defective as aforefaid, and that the fame is fituate within the parochial or other District for which the said Surveyor fhall have been appointed and notified as appointed to act, it shall and may be lawful to and for the faid Justices, by Order under their Hands and Seals, to order and direct that the faid Surveyor fhall pay to the Perfon or Persons by whom the faid Notice fhall have been figned as aforesaid, fuch Sum of Money as he or they shall have legally expended for the Cofts and Charges of fuch Summons and Order, and which faid Sum of Money

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Money fo by the faid Justices ordered to be paid by the said Surveyor fhall and may be recovered in the fame Manner in which any other Forfeitures and Penalties are herein-after directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act; and the faid Juftices fhall also then and there, by an Order under their Hands and Seals, order the faid Surveyor to fufficiently repair or cause to be repaired all the Pavement defcribed in the faid Notice being in a State dangerous to Paffengers, or fo very defective as aforefaid, and being in the parochial or other District wherein he the faid Surveyor fhall have been appointed to act as Surveyor of the Pavement, within Three Days then next if the Cofts and Charges of and about fuch Repair will not exceed the Sum of Two Pounds, and within Seven Days then next if the Costs and Charges of and about the faid Repair will not exceed the Sum of Ten Pounds, and within Twenty-eight Days then next if the Cofts and Charges of and about fuch Repair will exceed the Sum of Ten Pounds but will not exceed the Sum of Fifty Pounds, and within Six Weeks then next if the Cofts and Charges of and about fuch Repair will exceed the Sum of Fifty Pounds; and the faid Order of the faid Two Juftices of the Peace, within Twenty-four Hours after the fame shall be made, fhall be given to the faid Surveyor, or left for him at his Dwelling-houfe or Office within the Parish or, other District the Pavement whereof he shall be appointed to furvey, infcribed on the faid Boards herein-before directed to be fet up, and shall be obeyed and performed by him; and he the faid Surveyor fhall fufficiently repair the faid Pavements, or cause the fame to be fufficiently repaired, within the Time to be directed by the faid Order, at the Cofts and Charges of the Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements of that parochial or other Distric wherein the Pavements fhall be fituate which by fuch Order fhall be fo ordered to be repaired; but

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