The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-04 00:00:00

THE PARISHES AND THE STREETS.

Mr. Finlaison, of Old-square, Lincoln's-inn,
states that the duty of removing all ice and snow is, by
the " Metropolis Local Management Act " (18th and
19th Vic., cap. 120, see. 125), thrown upon the vestries
of the parishes comprised in schedule A.—viz :--13t.
Marylebone, St. Pancras, Lambeth, St. George's, Hanover.
square, St. Mary, Islington, St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
Paddington, St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, St. Mary, New.
*ton, Surrey, Camberwell, St. James, Westminster, St.
James and St. John, Clerkenwell (one parish), Chelsea,
St. Mary Abbot, Kensington, St. Luke, Middlesex, St.
George the Martyr, Southwark, Bermondsey, St. George.
in-the-East, St. Martin-in-the-fields, Hamlet of Mile-end
Old Town, Woolwich, Rotherhithe, Sit John, Hemp.
stead. The duty is also thrown on the parishes in all
other cases (roughly comprising all parishes between
Hammersmith and Woolwich, and between Bat.
terse& or Penge and !Stoke Newington) upon the
district boards mentioned in schedule B. The City is, of
bourse, subject to its own regulation. Any vestry or die.
trict board neglecting or refusing to remove ice or snow
when required, or any scavenger so neglecting,if he has eon.
trusted to remove it, will be liable to a penalty of U. foreach
offence. The Important qualification of the scavenge's' 11$.
bility points out the vestry or district board as the
proper object of attack. The proceedings are
of the simplest kind. " The person desirous of
enforcing the law bee only to write to the vestry
or district board (aa the case may be) requiring it to have
the snow removed from his street ; the neglect or non-com-
pliance with this request will constitute the offence.
Proceedings are taken by summons before any
police magistrate of the district, but let the prose.
tutor on applying for the summons be fur'
niched with a copy of the Act, as he will probably be
amazed at the ignorance of the 'abject displayed by the
local Dogberry. The 'caries and district boards can be
sued as corporations. I have only to add that a short time
ago, having been set at defiance by the vestry and scaven•
gem of my parish, I was induced to take the trouble to
enforce the law in a similar case, very much to the asto.
nishment of those worthies. The result has been that I
have ever since been promptly and efficiently served, and
I would suggest that if one in every hundred of your
readers would do the same there would soon be an end to
a state of things which, as you justly remark, exposes our
local institutions to the merited contempt of all Europa*

WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.)

FRIDAY, J•NUART 4, 8 A.Y.

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