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
History
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
up, remove, demolish, or
interfere with any sewer or part _tide valve_, _flap_, _side
of a sewer vested in the entrance_.
Metropolitan Board of Works, or
in any vestry or district board,
without the previous permission
in writing of such board or
vestry, or who shall wilfully
damage any sewer, bank, defence,
wall, penstock, grating, work or
thing vested in the Metropolitan
Board, or any vestry or district
board, or do any act by which the
drainage of the metropolis, or of
any parish or district or of any
part or parts thereof, may be
obstructed or injured, shall for
every such offence forfeit and
pay to the said Metropolitan
Board of Works, or to the vestry
or district board in which the
same may be vested, for every
such offence, a sum not exceeding
twenty pounds, and shall also pay
to such board or vestry all the
expenses of repairing, restoring,
reinstating, or amending any
sewer or other work or thing so
taken up, removed, demolished,
damaged, or interfered with.
LVIII. The 217th section of the _To be altered so as to give
first recited Act is hereby vestries and district boards
repealed, and in lieu thereof be power to make improvement rates_.
it enacted, that it shall be C. of Wks. M.B. Vol. 2. Fo.
lawful for any vestry or district 51.
board, at their discretion, to
require the payment of any costs
or expenses which the owner of
any premises may be liable to pay
under the said recited Act or
this Act, either from such owner
or from any person who then or at
any time thereafter occupies such
premises; and the owner shall
allow such occupier to deduct the
sums of money which he so pays
out of the rent from time to time
becoming due in respect of the
said premises, as if the same had
been actually paid to such owner
as part of such rent.
LXI. The 234th section of the _Penalties under Nuisances’
first recited Act is hereby Removal Act to be made payable to
repealed, and in lieu thereof be vestries and district boards_.
it enacted, that all penalties or C. of Wks. M.B. Vol. 2. Fo.
forfeitures payable or receivable 51.
under the said first recited Act,
or this Act, shall go and be paid
in manner hereinafter mentioned,
anything contained in the Act of
the 2nd and 3rd Vict., c. 71, or
in any other Act or Acts to the
contrary notwithstanding, that is
to say, one half shall go to the
informer, and the remainder shall
go to the vestry or district
board of the parish or district
in which the offence was
committed, or to the Metropolitan
Board of Works in case the injury
shall have been sustained by or
the offence committed in respect
of that board, or if such vestry
or district board or the
Metropolitan Board of Works be
the informers, then the whole of
the penalty recovered shall go to
them respectively, and all sums
which shall go to or be
recovered, by any board or vestry
on account of any penalty or
forfeiture, shall be paid to
their treasurer or otherwise into
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account