The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1848.

dean f y Ikea met be done by the eemanksioners, who Si'
d to recover the ems.
empowered to recover the eels..
Lay Is. sompany permainlng or conveying any wuhings
or find or effusive refuse of rsa Into any sewer shall
forfeit the sea N 2001, ada .
Comaissionn eapet to appoint ass or more legally
qualified medicel practitioners of skill and expenses, to in-
spect and report periodically upon the sanitary condition of
the city, to ascertain the existences( diens a, more espeeially
epidemics, and to point out the aziresse of any nuisance or
other calms iajuriously affecting health; also se to mast if&
dent modem of Tenth/Sag eburieltim chapels, schools, led :ing
hinny, and abet public dikes; to be galled "The Medical
Officer of Health,' sail to pay them mash salaries ea they
think at.
Commissioners empowered to appoint scavengers to cleanse
and moat r the streets, sad to elo.t refuse tram the bonne,
and to eleen,e and empty privies and mono Is whin re-
quired, who are to do suck works order penalty ; all such
r•tives being vested in the commistioners, tension being
made thee refuse of any trade. manatecture or
beelines, or say building materials," which tha
mamengers are to remove if required by owner
or occupier of any house or land, upon payment by the
owner or occupier ; and, in eveof refine! or neglect to pay,
the justice to award the amount, which may be &strained
fur. Dung not to be allowed to remain on any premises
more then 14 days, or more than 7 days after a quantity
eneeding i•ne rano yard is collected, on pain of hemming
the property of the commimiot en alter 24 hours' node.: to
remove elm same ; excepting stable dung in a stable yard,
in a pit or keep properly prepared for the purple's.
pregnant enter in cellars, yinds, &c., or moil running over
proe 5,
.ces.pools, &c., penalty on owner or occupier 40.. a
day ; and consmismonent empowered to abate the same, and
recover cosh in a susaniaty way.
Cousmininen empowered to appoint one or more in-
spector of enhances, to inquire into and report ell cases of
ouisonce, neglect of scavengers, when duties are for
the preservation of dui order and &manliness. Commis.
sionen also anthorind to provide, if they think tit, Owes
tor the deceased poor previous to interment and to regulate,
an report to the medical officer of health, ace common iodg.
ing-houses.
Xleai.ting slaughter.hooses are to be registered sod re-
gulated under direction of the somoneeioners and no new
slaughter-houses or knackers to be allowed in the City.
Full power given to the oommisakwiera and their Winn to
enter any lead, house, or premises, to carry into execution
Use purposes of this act; sad to muse the erection of privies,
water•elents, cisterns for water, ash-pits, &c , in my pre-
=Mrs, under penalties ; sad to regulate offensive trades, as
eanditabunies, soap-houses, to.
No grave hereafter to be used in the city for interment
which shell not leave five feet clear of soil above the coffin ;
and any notes offending, to he a= from him Whew,
and mode !kW to a peoalty of 201 vaults and cata-
combs emoted Maar metals limitations.
Persons oaring ollesedve moans, or carrying offensive
matter in the moos% made Ilablo to motota penalties.
V.romiwioners empowered to Lila the public ',wets, and
all pubic leaps voted is them ; and pinion damning them
made hebie to coma penalties, or to make satisiaction for
the same. • _

Pavements mad other materials vested in the commission-
en, act power given them to pairs the streets and alter their
lamb, and alter the mains and pipes m they shall think best,
incepting court; &a, of which the freehold is rented la Me
owuor 01 adjoitang property, in which case each owner is to
pave and repair them.
No waste surface water from houses to be allowed to flow
over the loot pavement; bat the owner or occupier to
make unuergrouod drains to any the came into
tar channels. No vaults or cellars under the streets to be
made without consent of the commissioners. New a'reeta
to be paved by the 124111111k11. men upon payment of one•third
the cost Hy the owner. Persons damaging the pavements
mad s liable to penalties. Pavements not to be taken up
without consent of the comms,ionen, on penalty of 10s. a
square foot; and three months' notice in writing to be given
to the commiulanns of any line of main or pipes intended
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to be laid, ee altered, ai4r certain penaldr. Sad comair
Users to superintind all . soh works, and Julien empowered
to settle all disputes therein.
Cormarioners empowered to alter and ix the rinse el
streets, to order the nuserriag of houses, *O., with penalties
on persoas :bliterating w altering the same. Also to water
the street, dig Wf He. and erect pump, as they shall ere it.
and off: public dust bins and cleanse tooter iys. Crude.
sionen are also empowered to prevent buiklines projecting
over the line of street hem being rebuilt in such line ; ale,
to set back and remove various existing projections and ot.-
structions, upon compensation being made; sad to cause all
ruinous and dangerous houses, to., to be repined. The
licensing and regulating of hoards hereafter placed under the
power ut the comminieness. Existing carets receiving
tees from hoards to be compensated for the Ire by the
Coln t of Common Council, frees whose decision an appeal is
allowed to the Quarter fierier. o.her Oilcan murrain
am under Ws act by lees of office, to be compeo-
rd e
teny caesarian. with appeal to übitration under the
Land. Classes Ant, 1846.
Usaathorised persons entering the sewers, or wilfully ia•
junag and disarranging say gully, trap, Itc, hare to a
penalty of 40e.
Commiedesers empowered to Wm their precept to the al•
derman or hie deputy and the major pert of we common
councilmen of each ward, to make a sewer rate not to eared
4d. in the posed, mid a consolidated rat* not to exceed laid.
in the pound, in thu year. The local authorities to make
this rase within tosizteen days from the date of the order.
(Tree rates are to be made and collected in much the same
way as the polies raw; but of this the directions In detail
will in due course be sent to the local authorities.) Cro-
wbars.* empowered to borrow money on the rates, with
various provision( be repayment and warily of the leader,
ffe. The jurisdietioa ot this act includes all the libertie.,
prairie, and places within the City of London and liberties
thereof.