Acts of 30° & 43° Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans Town — John Shaqi
Acts of 30° & 43° Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans TownGreat Britain
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Acts of 30° & 43° Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans Town
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Chelsea (London, England) -- History
III. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons other than
the Person or Persons so employed by or contracting with the said
Commissioners for cleansing the Streets, and other publick Passages and
Places, under their Direction, or those employed under such Contractor or
Contractors, shall, on any Pretence whatsoever, go about to collect or
gather, or shall ask for, receive, or carry away any Dust, Dirt, Cinders,
or Ashes, from any House or other Premises within the Limits aforesaid,
it shall and may be lawful to and for any Justice of the Peace for the
said County of _Middlesex_, upon Complaint to him made, to grant a
Warrant to bring before him such Offender or Offenders, at the Time and
Place as in such Warrant shall be specified, or for any Person or Persons
who shall see such Offence committed to seize, and also for any other
Person or Persons to assist in seizing the Offender or Offenders,
together with the Horses, Asses, Cattle, Carts, Trucks, Wheelbarrows, or
other Carriages or Implements made use of for carrying away the same, and
by the Authority of this Act, and without any other Warrant to convey
him, her, or them before such Justice, and such Justice shall, and he is
hereby authorized and required, to examine upon Oath, the Person or
Persons apprehending such Offender or Offenders, or any Witness or
Witnesses who shall appear to give Information touching such Offence; and
if the Party or Parties shall be convicted of going about to collect or
gather, asking for, receiving, or carrying away any Dust, Dirt, Cinders,
or Ashes from any House or other Premises within the Limits aforesaid,
not being the Person or Persons so employed by or contracting with the
said Commissioners, or acting under his or then Authority, he, she or
they shall respectively, for the First Offence, forfeit and pay the Sum
of Ten Shillings, for the Second Offence the Sum of Twenty Shillings, and
for the Third and every subsequent Offence the sum of Forty Shillings;
and One Moiety of every such Penalty shall be paid to the Informer or
Informers, or to the Person or Persons who shall apprehend the Offender
or Offender, and the other Moiety to the Purposes of the said recited Act
and this Act; and if such Offender or Offenders shall not immediately on
Conviction pay the said Penalty or Penalties, such Justice is hereby
required to direct such Horses, Asses, Cattle, Carts, Trucks,
Wheelbarrows, or other Carriages or Implements which shall have been so
seized, to be appraised and sold, and after deducting out of the Monies
to arise by such Sale the Penalty or Penalties incurred, together with
the reasonable Charges and Expences of such Distress and Sale, the
Overplus thereof shall be returned to the Party or Parties whose Horses
or other Things shall be appraised and sold; and in case there shall have
been no such Seizure as aforesaid, or if the Horses, Asses, Cattle, or
other Things which shall be so appraised and sold, shall not produce a
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