(Signature)                               (Address) Witness and receiver           . Received by accountant        188 . Surface repaired        188 . At a cost of         . _Borough of_         .              188 . To Mr. This is to certify that you have paid a deposit of five shillings, and that you are hereby permitted to take up the footway or roadway and make excavations in            for the purpose of          on the undertaking you have given to light, watch and fence the place during the progress of the works, to temporarily make good the surface of the footway or roadway, to remove all rubbish, and to execute and complete the work to the satisfaction of the borough surveyor; also that you will pay the balance if the surface repairs should cost more than the aforesaid sum of five shillings. ______________________________ _Borough Surveyor._ NOTE.--If the surface repairs should cost less than the deposited sum, the balance will be returned to you by the accountant, who will notify you of the fact. Notice must be given to the Building Inspector when the work is ready for inspection, and no drainage work must be covered up until it has been examined by the Inspector. It may be well to add to this authority to break up the streets, the following words-- “This authority may be revoked at any time if found necessary, and it does not in any way relieve the person to whom it is granted from any liabilities he may incur in respect of accidents from anything done in pursuance thereof.” In some towns the following custom prevails in regard to this question. The person desirous of opening the street for the execution of any work has to apply to the surveyor for a licence, and at the same time deposit a sum sufficient to cover the expense of the work, such sum being estimated and fixed by the surveyor. The corporation then supply one labourer whilst the job is in hand, who, whilst working, takes care that the soil is properly rammed and the surface made good; a mason is also supplied to make any drainage or sewer connections. The deposit is kept for about 3 months, and the cost of the labourer and mason, and of any subsequent making good the surface of the street, is then deducted, and the balance returned to the person who made the deposit. This arrangement seems an excellent plan, and is said to work remarkably well where it is in vogue, but whether it is strictly legal is open to considerable question. [125] Or gas or electricity, as the case may be. [126] These words apply only to the manner of doing the work, not to alternative ways of doing it. (_Vide_ ‘Fitzgerald’s Public Health and Local Government Act, 1875,’ 3rd edition, p. 45.) [127] In the “Electric Lighting Act 1882,” the words “proceed to” have been inserted before the word open, which is an obvious improvement.