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)
aforesaid from being drained, conducted, or conveyed, or from running or
flowing in manner aforesaid, and also cause any such other Annoyance,
Act, or Thing as aforesaid to be discontinued, then and in every such
Case the said Trustees, Gas Light Company, or other Person or Persons so
offending shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds for each and
every Day such Washings or other Liquids, or other Matters or Things,
shall be so drained, conducted, or conveyed, or caused or suffered to run
or flow in manner aforesaid, or such other Annoyance, Act, or Thing shall
be so done or caused to be done as aforesaid; and such last-mentioned
Penalty shall and may be levied and recovered in the same Manner as any
other Penalty or Forfeiture which shall be incurred under the Provisions
contained in this Act may be levied or recovered, and shall be paid to
the Informer or Informers, or to the Person or Persons who in the
Judgment of the Justice or Justices before whom the Conviction shall take
place shall have sustained any Annoyance, Injury, or Damage by the Act,
Matter, or Thing in respect whereof such Penalty or Forfeiture shall be
inflicted.
XVII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said
Trustees from Time to Time to appoint so many able-boded Men to act as
Watchmen, and to patrol, watch, and guard the said Square, and all other
Places within the Jurisdiction of this Act, during such Hours and at such
Wages as the said Trustees shall think proper, and to provide suitable
Arms and Clothing for such Watchmen, and also to provide and set up
Watchboxes for their Reception at such Places as the said Trustees shall
think necessary; and also to provide a proper Watchhouse or Place for the
safe Custody of such Persons as may be apprehended by such Watchmen while
on Duty; and that such Watchmen shall act as Constables during the Hours
appointed for their watching, and shall have, exercise, and enjoy all
such and the like Powers and Authorities, Privileges and Immunities, as
any Constable may have and enjoy by Law; and every Person who shall
assault or resist, or promote or encourage the assaulting or resisting,
any such Watchman in the Execution of his Duty, and also every Victualler
who shall harbour or entertain any Watchman during any Part of the Time
appointed for his being on Duty, shall for every such Offence forfeit and
pay a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds; and in case and as often as any such
Watchman shall misbehave himself or neglect his Duty, he shall forfeit
and pay a Sum not exceeding Two Pounds.
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