Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Appointed Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855: 1860-1Lahee, Charles
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Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Appointed Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855: 1860-1
Lahee, Charles
Chelsea (London, England) -- History -- 19th century; Chelsea (London, England) -- Politics and government
_streets_ within their parish or word_ “_street_” _any or part of
district to be well and any highway_, _road_, _bridge_,
sufficiently lighted, and for _lane_, _footway_, _square_,
that purpose shall maintain, or _court_, _alley_, _passage_,
set up and maintain, a sufficient _whether a thoroughfare or not_.
number of lamps in every such
street, and shall cause the same _There should be some limit to
to be lighted with gas or the obligation to light_.
otherwise, and to continue
lighted at and during such times
as such vestry or board may think
fit, necessary, or proper; and
public lamps, and the lamp posts
and lamp irons and fittings
thereof, to be provided by any
vestry or district board, shall
vest in such vestry or board.
CCII. The Metropolitan Board of _The attention of the
Works and every district board Metropolitan Board has been drawn
and vestry respectively may from to their powers under this
time to time make, alter and section_, _and they have passed
repeal bye laws for all or any of the following resolution upon the
the purposes following; (that is subject_, _in that_ “_it is not
to say), for regulating the practicable for this Board to lay
business and proceedings at their down any uniform body of
meetings and of committees regulations for regulating the
appointed by them, the plans and levels of sites for
appointment and removal of their buildings and for the
officers and servants, and the construction of house drainage_,
duties, conduct, and remuneration _properly adapted to the peculiar
of such officers and servants; circumstances of each district_;
_and the said Metropolitan Board _and that the Vestry of Chelsea
may also from time to time make_, be so informed._”
_alter_, _and repeal bye laws for
regulating the plans_, _level_, _No doubt uniformity is
_width_, _surface inclination_, desirable_; _but regulation of
_and the material of the pavement some kind_, _for the guidance of
and roadway of new streets and the officers_, _is necessary_.
roads_, _and the plans and level
of sites for building_, _and for _The power of making such bye
regulating the dimensions_, laws should lie in the body for
_form_, _and mode of whom its exercise is
construction_, _and the keeping_, practicable_.
_cleansing_, _and repairing of
the pipes_, _drains_, _and other
means of communicating with
sewers_, _and the traps and
apparatus connected therewith_;
_for the emptying_, _cleansing_,
_closing and filling up of
cesspools and privies_; _and for
other works of cleansing_, _and
of removing and disposing of
refuse_, _and for regulating the
form of appeal and mode of
proceeding thereon_; _and
generally for carrying into
effect the purposes of this Act_:
and every such board and vestry
may thereby impose such
reasonable penalties as they
think fit, not exceeding forty
shillings, for each breach of
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