____________________ _Surveyor of the said Urban Sanitary Authority._ A. The name and description of the owner or occupier, or the names, &c., of both should be here inserted. B. Building, wall, or anything affixed thereon. Before closing this chapter upon “Obstructions in Streets” I give the following clause from the “Towns Improvement Clauses Act,” which comes after two other sections of the same Act principally dealing with building materials, rubbish, or holes in streets, and although in this clause the word “building” is used, the section cannot be taken as referring to dangerous buildings, although it may undoubtedly be used where it is required on account of waste land, &c., being left in an unprotected and dangerous state:-- “If any building or hole or any other place near any street be, for want of sufficient repair, protection or inclosure, dangerous to the passengers along such street, the commissioners shall cause the same to be repaired, protected or inclosed so as to prevent danger therefrom; and the expense of such repair, protection or inclosure shall be repaid to the commissioners by the owner of the premises so repaired, protected or inclosed, and shall be recoverable from him as damages” (10 & 11 Vic. c. 34, s. 83). I have purposely omitted any reference to temporary obstructions in the streets, which are naturally subjects for the interference of the police, but I think I have enumerated all those which require the attention of the town surveyor. [131] _Vide_ 10 & 11 Vic. c. 34, s. 67. [132] _Vide_ Fitzgerald’s ‘Public Health and Local Government Act 1875,’ 3rd edition, p. 166. [133] _Vide_ 10 & 11 Vic. c. 34, s. 68. [134] _Ibid._ ss. 69 and 70. [135] Or _Owners_, see s. 160, 38 & 39 Vic. c. 55. [136] _Vide_ Fitzgerald’s ‘Public Health and Local Government Act 1875,’ 3rd edition, p. 174. [137] Or owner, see 38 & 39 Vic. c. 55, s. 160. [138] Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, s. 70. [139] Or owner. [140] _Vide_ ‘Fitzgerald’s Public Health and Local Government Act 1875,’ 3rd edition, p. 175. [141] Care must be taken that the mode of construction “directed by the commissioners” authorises this part of the notice. [142] In the City of London these patent lights have been fixed in the pavement round the whole of the frontage of Mansion House Buildings, at the corner of Queen Victoria Street, and also over the whole of the pavements in Draper’s Gardens, besides many other equally crowded thoroughfares, without the least inconvenience being experienced. [143] In the Act the words used are “shoot” and “trough.” [144] These words must be omitted if there is no special Improvement Act. [145] _Vide_ p. 176. [146] Sir Fred. Parnell in his celebrated work upon roads has the following paragraph upon this subject:--