Section 71 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847 enacts that “All doors, gates and bars put up after the passing of the special Act within the limits thereof, and which open upon any street, shall be hung or placed so as not to open outwards, except when in the case of public buildings the commissioners allow such doors, gates or bars to be otherwise hung or placed; and if (except as aforesaid) any such door, gate or bar be hung or placed so as to open outwards on any street, the occupier of such house, building, yard or land shall, within eight days after notice from the commissioners to that effect, cause the same to be altered so as not to open outwards; and in case he neglect so to do the commissioners may make such alteration, and the expenses of such alteration shall be paid to the commissioners by such occupier, and shall be recoverable from him as damages, and he shall in addition be liable to a penalty not exceeding 40_s._” Section 72 of the same Act further enacts, “If any such door, gate or bar was before the passing of the special Act hung so as to open outwards upon any street, the commissioners may alter the same so that no part thereof when open shall project over any public way.” It is naturally necessary that doors or gates of all public buildings should hang so as to open outwards, so as to give a free and easy exit in case of panic, many serious accidents having arisen from a want of this precaution; but with regard to private premises the case is altogether different, and if doors and gates were allowed to open outwards, they would soon become a dangerous and intolerable nuisance. It will be seen that there are two courses to be pursued in connection with this offence. The first is where the door, gate or bar has been placed before the passing of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act in 1847, in which case the “commissioners may alter the same, so that no part thereof when open shall project over any public way.” This duty of course rests with the town surveyor, and in many cases it is not easy of execution, as structural difficulties may have to be encountered and overcome. In the second case, where the door, gate or bar has been placed since the passing of the Act in 1847, certain penalties are incurred by the occupier or owner, and the commissioners may also alter the door, gate or bar at his expense. The following specimen form of notice to be served in connection with a case of this description may be of use: ____________ TOWN SURVEYOR’S OFFICE. SIR, I beg leave to give you notice that        of the premises in your occupation opens outwards, and when open, projects into the street called or known as                . I have therefore to require that you will be good enough to have such          altered so that it shall not open outwards into the said street, within eight days next after your receipt of this notice.