Avoid numbering from right to left, and take care to allot sufficient numbers to vacant spaces which may eventually be built upon, and to do this the length of frontage may be divided into such lengths as (in the surveyor’s judgment) will represent the new frontages. In any case it is better to have too many numbers in a street than too few, and large premises, and any public or other buildings which may be removed, and other buildings substituted should have numbers allotted to them, although it will not be necessary to serve the notices to have them affixed. Most large shops prefer to have more than one number, although I have heard the rather far-fetched contention urged, that more than one number means extra rating. Considerable care must be exercised to ensure that no separate premises are passed over in allotting the numbers, often only a door or side passage denoting the existence of another claimant for a number. Nothing looks worse in a freshly numbered street than to see such numbers as 37A or 96¹⁄₂ placed upon premises that should have had a distinct numeral, and thus showing that they must have been left out. The manner in which streets are numbered is generally as follows: The town surveyor or one of his assistants walks through the street, and with a piece of chalk legibly marks each house with its correct number, taking care to observe the precautions I have enumerated; having done this throughout its entire length, these numbers must be entered in a book with the name of the occupier written opposite to the number. Upon returning to the office the surveyor must then fill up and serve the necessary notice upon each of these occupiers, the following being given as a specimen of such notice: _Urban Sanitary Authority for the_           . TOWN SURVEYOR’S OFFICE,      188 . ____________ I beg leave to give you notice, that the Town Council of       , as the Urban Sanitary Authority, have approved of the number        for the house in your occupation, in       . You are therefore required, within one week from the date of this notice [to obliterate the present number, and][124] to mark the said house with the number so approved of, and to renew the same from time to time in the case of its becoming obliterated. A penalty of 40_s._ will be incurred in the event of default in compliance with this notice. I am, Your obedient Servant, _________________________ _Town Surveyor_. _To_ __________________ _No._ __________________ In the event of the old number with which any premises were marked not being obliterated by the occupier, the following notice may be served: _Urban Sanitary Authority for the_               . TOWN SURVEYOR’S OFFICE,      188 . ________________