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)
XLV. And be it further enacted, That no Action or Suit shall be
commenced against any Person or Persons for any thing done by such Person
or Persons in or about the Execution of this Act, until the Expiration of
One Calendar Month next after a Notice in Writing, fully and explicitly
stating the Cause or Causes of Action, and the Name or Names, and Place
or Places of Abode of the intended Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, and of his or
their Attorney or Agent, shall have been delivered to or left at the
usual Place of Abode of the intended Defendant or Defendants; and no such
Action or Suit shall be commenced after a Tender of sufficient Amends
shall have been made, either to the Party aggrieved or (on his or their
Behalf) to the Attorney or Agent named in such Notice, nor after the
Expiration of Six Calendar Months next after the Fact committed, and the
Venue in every such Action or Suit shall be laid in the County where the
Cause of Action shall have arisen and not elsewhere; and the Defendant or
Defendants may at his or their Election plead specially or the General
Issue, and at the Trial thereof give this Act and the special Matter in
Evidence; and if the Matter or Thing complained of shall appear to have
been done under the Authority of this Act, or if any such Action or Suit
shall be brought contrary to the foregoing Restrictions and Limitations,
or any of them, then the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants;
and upon such Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall be
nonsuited, or discontinue his, her, or their Action, after the Defendant
or Defendants shall have appeared, or if upon Demurrer Judgment shall be
given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, then the Defendant or
Defendants shall have Treble Costs, and have such Remedy for the Recovery
thereof as any Defendant may have for the Recovery of Costs in any Case
by Law.
XLVI. And be it further enacted, That no Person who shall be an Occupier
of any House, Building, or Tenement within the Jurisdiction of this Act,
and shall be charged in respect thereof towards any of the Rates to be
made by virtue of this Act, shall be liable or charged in respect of the
same Premises to or with any general Rate or Rates for paving, lighting,
or watching the Town or Parish of _Kensington_ or any Part thereof, or to
or with any Rate for or towards paving, lighting, or watching any
particular Street, Road, or Place; any Law or Usage to the contrary
notwithstanding.
XLVII. Provided always, and be it further enacted. That nothing herein
contained shall extend to authorize the said Trustees to expend any Money
which shall be raised under the Authority of this Act in or about the
first laying out, forming, paving, or gravelling any of the Footways or
Carriageways on the East, West, or North Sides of _Brompton Square_, or
in or about the first enclosing, forming, or planting any Part of the
Area of the said Square.
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