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Surveyor Drains when Notice to be given to repair them. other Persons having the Control of the Pavements (a) or to the Surveyor and Surveyors of the Pavements of each parochial or other District, beneath the Surface of the Streets or public Places wherein the Mains or Pipes of such Company, or any of them, shall be laid, or there shall be any common or public Drains or Sewers within the Jurisdiction of such Commissioners of Sewers of his, their, and every of their Christian and Surnames and Place or Places of Abode, and of the Company or Commissioners of Sewers by whom he or they is or are, or hath or have been so appointed or employed, and also of the Place which is appointed as the Office or Counting-house of the said Company or Commissioners of Sewers; and that in case any such Person or Persons shall neglect to give such Notice within the respective Times aforesaid, every such Person or Persons so offending in either of the said Cases shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Pounds, to be recovered in the same Manner in which other Penalties and Forfeitures are hereafter directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act. XV. When and so often as it shall appear to any Person appointed to act as a Surveyor of Pavements in any parochial or other District within the Jurisdiction of this Act, that any Pipe or Pipes, Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing belonging to any Water or Gas Light Company, or that any public Sewer beneath the Surface of the Pavement of any Street or public Place within such parochial or other District, be broken or damaged, it shall be lawful for such Surveyor, and he is hereby required to give immediate Notice, signed by himself, to the Company or Commissioners of Sewers to whom it may appear to him that such Pipe or Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing, or Sewer, doth or may belong, by either giving such Notice to a Clerk or Secretary, or to a Turncock of such Company, or to a Clerk or Secretary of such Commissioners of Sewers, or to some or one of them, or by leaving the same at the Place or Places of Abode of some or one of them, or at the Office or Counting-house of such Company or Commissioners of Sewers and shall require that such Pipe, Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing, or Sewer, be examined, and, if needful, that such Pipe, Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing be repaired, altered, amended, or renewed, and such Sewer be repaired by such Company, or Commissioners of Sewers; and that within Forty-eight Hours after such Notice shall be so given or left as aforesaid, the said Company or Commissioners of Sewers, to or for (a) Now Borough Councils outside City of London, and Common Council within. See note (a), p. 1. 57 Geo. 3. Cap. 29. whom, or to or for whose Officer or Servant such Notice shall have been given or left as aforesaid, shall cause to be taken up the Pavement of the Street or public Place beneath which the Pipe, Stopcock, Plug, or other defective Thing, or Sewer, shall be, and shall cause the Ground to be opened, and shall also cause the said Pipe, Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing to be substantially repaired, altered, amended, or renewed, or the said Sewer to be examined, and, if necessary, to be substantially repaired, and the Ground properly filled in with hard Rubbish or other good Materials, and rammed down, within Forty-eight Hours next after such Notice shall be given or left as aforesaid, or with all convenient Expedition, in the Judgment of the Commissioners, Trustees, or other Persons having the Control of the Pavements (a) in the parochial or other District wherein such Pavement, Street, or public Place shall be situate, and to their Satisfaction, or the Satisfaction of any Three or more of them; and also within Twelve Hours after such Pipe, Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing shall be so substantially repaired, altered, amended, or renewed, or such Sewer shall be so substantially repaired, and the Ground above the same shall be so filled in and rammed down, the said Company or Commissioners of Sewers shall cause Notice thereof, signed by the Clerk or Secretary to such Company or Commissioners of Sewers, to be given to the said Surveyor of Pavements, or to the Pavior or Paviors or other Persons then employed or appointed by the Commissioners or Trustees, or other Persons having the Control of the Pavements (a) in such parochial or other District, to pave and repair the Pavements within such parochial or other District, as the said Commissioners or Trustees or other Persons (a) for the Time being may from Time to Time direct, that such Examination, and, if necessary, such Reparation, Alteration, Amendment, or Renewal, hath been made pursuant to such Notice of the Surveyor of Pavements, and that the Ground hath been refilled and rammed down, that the Pavement in such Street or public Place may be forthwith relaid in the Manner directed by this Act; and in case the Water or Gas Company, or Commissioners of Sewers, to or for whom such Notice of the Surveyor of Pavements shall have been given or left as aforesaid, and to whom such Pipe, Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing, or Sewer, referred to in such Notice shall belong, shall neglect to cause the same to be repaired, altered or of to the amended, or renewed, as the Case may be, and the Ground Pavior; (a) Now Borough Councils outside City of London, and Common Council within. See note (a), p. 1. Penalty on Company to Pipes belong for not repairing them, and giving whom the Notice there 57 Geo. 3, Cap. 29. Rubbish and removed. to be filled in and rammed down to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners, Trustees, or other Persons having the Control of the Pavements (a) in such parochial or other District, or any Three or more of them, within the Time herein-before limited and appointed for those Purposes, or shall neglect to give or cause to be given Notice thereof as aforesaid to the said Surveyor of the Pavements, or to the Pavior or Paviors, or other Persons employed or appointed by the Commissioners or Trustees, or other Persons having the Control of the Pavements (a) in such parochial or other District, to pave and repair the Pavement within such parochial or other District; then the said Company or Commissioners of Sewers shall for the first Neglect and Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds, and for the second Neglect and Offence sha!! forfeit and shall pay the Sum of Eight Pounds, and for the third and every subsequent Neglect and Offence shall forfeit and shall pay the Sum of Ten Pounds, to be recovered in the same Manner in which other Penalties and Forfeitures are directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act. [XVI. And if such Request should not be made to the proper Parties, subsequent Information shall be given to them. See now City of London Sewers Act, 1848, s. 140, pp. 96, 97, and Metropolis Management Act, 1855, s. 113. p. 119.] (b) [XVII. Repairs and Works by Companies, &c., to be executed with all convenient Expedition. See now City of London Sewers Act, 1848, ss. 136, 138, pp. 94, 95, and Metropolis Management Act, 1855, ss. 110, 111, pp. 117, 118.] (b) XVIII. All Dirt, Gravel, Filth, Rubbish, and other Things, which at any Time or Times after the passing of this Act, shall be placed, collected, or occasioned by or by means of any Water or Gas Light Company, or Commissioners of Sewers, or of any Repairs or other Works executed and performed or intended to be executed and performed by their Officers or Servants, or by their Orders or Directions, or on their Account, in any Streets or public Places in any parochial or other District within the Jurisdiction of this Act, by the taking up of the Pavement of such Streets or public Places, or any of them, or by opening the Ground beneath the Surface of such Streets or public Places, or by the Execution of the Works of any Water or Gas Light Company or otherwise, or which shall be in anywise consequent thereon or incidental thereto, in the Judgment of the Commissioners or Trustees or other Persons having the Control of the Pavements of the (a) Now Borough Councils outside City of London, and Common Council within. See note (a), p. 1. (b) See note (a) to ss. 11, 12, p. 2. Streets and public Places in any such parochial or other District, (a) or any Three or more of them, shall be from Time to Time and at all Times collected and removed and carried away, by or at the Costs and Charges of such Company or Commissioners of Sewers, with all practicable Expedition, and to the Satisfaction of such Commissioners or Trustees or other Persons having the Control of the Pavements (a) in such parochial or other District, or any Three or more of them; and that such Company or Commissioners of Sewers shall especially so do whenever they shall be required so to do by any Notice. from such Commissioners or Trustees or other Persons having the Control of the Pavements (a) in such parochial or other District, or any Three of them, or from any Surveyor of the Pavements appointed by them, signed by them or him, and given to such Company or Commissioners of Sewers, or left for them at the Dwelling House or Place of Abode of any Secretary or Clerk or Turncock employed by such Company or Commissioners of Sewers, or at any Office or Counting House of such Company, or of any Clerk or Secretary to any such Commissioners of Sewers; and that in case any such Company or Commissioners of Sewers shall neglect to collect, carry away, and remove, or cause to be collected, carried away, and removed, from all and every such Streets and public Places, all such Dirt, Gravel, Filth, Rubbish, and other Things whatsoever, within Twenty-four Hours after any such Notice shall be from Time to Time given or left as aforesaid, to the Satisfaction of such Commissioners or Trustees, or other Persons (a) by whom any such Notice shall be signed, then the said Company or Commissioners of Sewers shall for every such Neglect and Offence forfeit and shall pay the Sum of Five Pounds, to be recovered and applied in the same Manner in which other Penalties and Forfeitures are herein-after directed to be recovered and applied by virtue of this Act. [XIX. Bars, Watchmen, and other Securities are to be provided during Repairs of Pavements, to prevent Accidents. See now City of London Sewers Act, 1848, ss. 136, 138, pp. 94, 95, and Metropolis Management Act, 1855, ss. 110, 111, pp. 117, 118.] (b) 57 Geo. 3, Cap. 29. may be XX. In case at any Time or Times hereafter any Breaches in pavement in any Streets or public Places in any parochial the Pavement or other District within the Jurisdiction of this Act shall, by the breaking or falling-in or Decav of any Sewer or Drain, Cesspool or Watercourse, or any Pipe or Pipes, (a) Now Borough Councils outside City of London, and Common Council within. See note (a), p. 1. (b) See note (a) to ss. 11, 12, p. 2. inclosed. Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing, become broken or irregular so as to be dangerous or hazardous to Passengers or Carriages, it shall and may be lawful to and for any Surveyor of the Pavements for any such parochial or other District to cause and direct such Part of the Pavements of any Streets or public Places as he shall deem so dangerous or hazardous to be forthwith inclosed, in such Manner, by such Persons, and with such Materials as he may direct, and as may be needful to prevent such Danger and Hazard to Passengers or Carriages; and that the Costs and Charges incurred thereabouts shall be ascertained and determined by him, and shall be paid and discharged by the Commissioners of Sewers, Water or Gas Company, or other Person or Persons to whom the Sewer or Drain, Cesspool or Watercourse, Pipe or Pipes, Stopcock, Plug, or other Thing so broken, fallen in, or decayed, and by the Breach, Falling-in, or Decay whereof such Breach or Irregularity of the Pavements as aforesaid may have been occasioned, and shall and may be certified to them or him, and be paid by them or him within the Time, and shall and may be recovered from them or him in such and the same Manner as is by this Act directed, limited, and authorized as to any Monies to become due from any Persons whomsoever for the Costs and Charges of repairing or paving or repaving any Pavements of any Streets or public Places by the Commissioners or Trustees or other Person having the Control of the Pavements (a) in any Streets or public Places in any parochial or other District within the Jurisdiction of this Act. XXI. No Water Company whose Mains or Pipes shall be laid beneath the Surface of any Street or public Place in any parochial or other District within the Jurisdiction of this Act, shall place or set up, or cause to be placed or set up, any Stand Cock or Pump, or other Instrument, Machine, or Thing, for the Supply of Water in Times of Frost or otherwise, in any public Street or Place within the Jurisdiction of this Act, which shall be furnished. with any other than a Metal Cock and Spout, to be to the Satisfaction of the Survevor of the Pavements for such parochial or other District for the Time being; and that any Water Company who shall set up or cause to be set up any other Stand Cock, Pump, or other Instrument, Machine, or Thing, furnished with any other than a Metal Cock and Spout, in any Street or public Place, and which shall not be to the Satisfaction of the Surveyor of the (a) Now Borough Councils outside City of London, and Common Council within. See note (a), p. I. |