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)
XVIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said
Trustees from Time to Time to cause the Name of the said Square, and of
any other Street or Place within the Jurisdiction of this Act, to be
painted or otherwise described in a conspicuous Part of any House or
Building within such Square, Street, or Place respectively; and also from
Time to Time to cause all the Houses, Buildings, and Tenements within the
Jurisdiction of this Act to be distinguished by Numbers, to be painted or
affixed upon the Entrance Doors thereof respectively; and if any Person
or Persons shall alter or wilfully deface or remove any such Name or
Number, or any Part thereof, or if any Person or Persons for the Time
being chargeable with the Rates which shall be made in pursuance of this
Act in respect of any House, Building, or Tenement of which the Number
shall be so altered, defaced, or removed, shall not perfectly reinstate
such Number within Seven Days next after such Person or Persons
respectively shall be required so to do by a Notice from the said
Trustees or their Clerk, every such Person shall for every such Offence
forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds.
XIX. And be it further enacted, That proper Gates shall be erected and
at all Times kept up and preserved by the said Trustees, across the
Footways and Carriageways at the Entrance to _Brompton Square_ next the
Turn-pike Road, so as to inclose and keep the same Footways and
Carriageways (such footways and Carriageways not being now public
Highways) private, as far as may be consistent with the general
Convenience of the Occupiers of Houses in the said Square; and which said
Gates shall be kept closed during such Hours between Ten of the Clock at
Night and Seven of the Clock in the Morning, as the said Trustees shall
direct, and during those Hours a Key or Keys thereof shall be left in the
Charge of the Watchman or Watchmen on Duty in the said Square.
XX. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall contract
with or employ some Person or Persons to cleanse the Carriageways, and
take away the Dust, Cinders, Ashes, and Rubbish (not being Rubbish
arising from Building or Repairs) from the Houses of the Inhabitants
within the Jurisdiction of this Act; and if any Person or Persons (not
being duly authorized by the said Trustees, and not acting under or on
behalf of a Person so authorized) shall go about to collect or gather, or
shall ask for, receive, or carry away any Dust, Cinders, or Ashes from
any House, Building, or Place within the Jurisdiction of this Act, every
Person so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay a Sum
not exceeding Ten Pounds.
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