An Act to Provide for the Paving, Gravelling, Lighting, and Watching Certain Footways and Carriageways in and Near Brompton Square: In the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington, in the County of Middlesex and to Provide for the Maintenance of a Garden and Shrubbery in the Said Square.Anonymous
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An Act to Provide for the Paving, Gravelling, Lighting, and Watching Certain Footways and Carriageways in and Near Brompton Square: In the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington, in the County of Middlesex and to Provide for the Maintenance of a Garden and Shrubbery in the Said Square.
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Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc.; Kensington (London, England)
X. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said
Trustees from Time to Time to cause such Lamp Posts, Lamp Irons, and
Lamps to be set up in or about the Footways and Carriageways within the
Jurisdiction of this Act, or upon or against the Walls or Palisadoes of
or belonging to any adjoining or contiguous House or Building, as they
shall deem necessary for lighting the said Footways and Carriageways, and
to cause such Lamps to be lighted with Oil or Gas during such Hours and
Seasons as they shall from Time to Time deem necessary or proper; and if
any Person or Persons shall extinguish the Light in any such Lamp whilst
the same ought to be kept burning, every such Person shall for every such
Offence forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds: Provided always,
that if any Damage shall be occasioned to any Building or Wall, or to any
Rails or Palisadoes, by the affixing, setting up, taking down, altering,
or repairing any such Lamp or Lamp Iron, or the Fastenings thereof, the
said Trustees shall immediately cause such Injury or Damage to be well
and sufficiently repaired, and the Expence thereof shall be paid out of
any Money which shall be raised under the Authority of this Act: Provided
also, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said Trustees to
cause any Pipe or Pipes for the Conveyance of Gas to be affixed or
continued upon or against any House or Building, except it be with the
Consent of the Occupier of such House or Building.
XI. And be it further enacted, That all Pipes and other Conduits to be
laid or used for the Conveyance of Gas in, under, through, along, across,
or round the said Square called _Brompton Square_, or any other Place
within the Jurisdiction of this Act, shall be laid at the greatest
practicable Distance from any Water Pipe now or for the Time being laid
down for the Conveyance of Water under, through, along, across, or round
the said Square, or any such other Place as aforesaid, except in Cases
where it shall be unavoidably necessary to lay the Gas Pipes across any
of the Water Pipes, in which Case the Gas Pipes shall be laid over and
above the Water Pipes at the greatest practicable Distance therefrom, and
shall form therewith a Right Angle, and in that Case the Gas Pipes so
crossing the Water Pipes shall be at the least Six Feet in Length, so
that no Joint of any such Gas Pipe shall be nearer to any Part of any
such Water Pipes than Three Feet at the least; and in laying down the Gas
Pipes, the said Trustees, or the Company, Contractor, or other Person or
Persons supplying Gas or laying down Pipes for the Conveyance thereof,
shall in no Case join Two or more Pipes together previously to their
being laid in the Trench, but shall lay each Pipe as nearly as may be in
its Place in the Trench, and shall in such Trench properly form the
Jointing with the other Pipes to be added thereto with proper and
sufficient Material, and shall also make and keep all and every such
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