The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

T. JAMES'S (WESTMINSTE [O.-AMEND-
MENT of EXISTING AC TS.—F URTIIER POWERS FOR
PAVING, LIGHTING, and GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS;
OBTAINING and SUPPLYING WATER.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION Is intended to be made
to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing Session, by the Commissioners
for Paving and Improving the parish of St. James's, Westminster,
for leave to bring in a BILL to alter, amend, sxtend, and enlarge,
and if need be, to repeal, re-enact, and consolidate all or some of the
powers and provisions of an Act (local and personal) passed in the
fifth year of the reign of his Majesty William IV., chap. IS, so far
as such powers and provisions extead or apply to the said Commis-
sioners, or the district placed under their management, jurisdiction,
and control, and which district embraces the greater part of the said
parish of St. James within the liberty of Westminster, the south side
of Coventry-street, in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and
the east side of Princes-street, in the parish of St. Ann, Westminster
all in the county of Middlesex.

And it is intended to conic; upon the said Commissioners better and
more ample powers for effectually paving, lighting, cleansin:, water-
ing, regulating, controlling, and managing the several streets, squares,
passages, and places within their said district, and for removing and
preventing nuisances, annoyances, obstructions, projections, and en-
croachments therein, and also to confer upon the said Commissioners
such other similar general powers for improving the sanitary condi-
tion of the inhabitants of their said district as Parliament shall think
necessary or expedient.
And it is also intended to apply for powers to enable the said
Commissioners to sink, bore, make, and maintain an Artesian well,
with all usual and proper works and appliances connected there-
with, for the purpose of taking and obtaining therefrom a supply of
water for cleansing and watering the streets and places within the
said district of the said Commissioners, and also for the private use
of the inhabitants' premises and public companies within the said
district, and the other streets, squares, and places hereinafter named ;
such well and works to be situate at or near the north-west end
of Dufour's-place, Broad-street, Golden-square, in the said parish of
St. James.

And it is intended to enable the said Commissioners to supply with
water the inhabitants of, and premises within, the said parish of St.
James, including Golden-square, St. James's-square, Regent-street,
Waterloo-place, and Pall-mill, or such parts thereof respectively as
are in that parish, and the said south side of Coventry-street, in the
parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and the said cast side of Princes-
street, In the parish of St. Ann, Westminster; and for that pur-
pose to break up the streets within the said parish of St. James"
as aforesaid, and the sides of the said two streets, and to lay there-
in main pipes, service-cocks, plugs, boxes, and other necessary
apparatus. _ _ _

And also to enable the said Commissioners to stop up all roads and
works which it may be necessary to stop up, or interfere with .for
the purpose of making and maintaining the said well and works, and
also to;construct and maintain steam-engines, force-pumps, and other
necessary buildings, erections, and works within the sail{ parish of
St. James ; also to apply for powers to purchase, by compulsion or
otherwise, all lands and houses required for: the purposes of the un-
dertaking, and to alter, vary, or extinguish all rights or privileges in
any manner connected with or incident to such lauds and houses re-
spectively, which can in any manner Impede or interfere with the
execution of the aforesaid purposes.

And it is intended to apply for powers to enable the said Commis-
sioners to levy tolls, assessments, rates, and duties for such supply of
water, and for other the aforesaid purposes, and to alter the existing
rates or duties now levied or raised by tie said Commissioners, and
to confer, vary, and extinguish exemptions from the payment of all
or some of such tells, assessments, rates, and duties, and to confer,
vary, and extinguish other rights and privileges, and to extinguish
the rights and privileges of any Water Works Company under letters
patent, charter, or Act of Parliament, whether for the exclusive
supply of any district with water or otherwise.

And it is also intended to obtain powers for the said Commissioners
to raise motley on security of the tolls, rates, assessments, or duties,
and of their lands, hous,ts, and works ; and also to enable the raid
Commissioners to contract and agree with any compaay, or persons
supplying water to the inhabitants, and with the ammissioners of
Sewers, or other public body, or any persons requiring large quanti-
ties of water for the supply of such companies, bodies, or persons with
water in bulk.

And in order to carry cut the objects and purposes aforesaid, or
some of them, it is intended (if found necessary) to alter, amend,
and repeal some of the powers and provisions of the Act relating to
St. James's-square, 12th Geo. 1., chap. 25 ; that relating to Golden-
square, 7th and Bth Geo. IV., chap. 44 ; and the following Acts
relating to other streets in Westminster-sth Geo. IV., chap. 100 ;
6th Geo. IV., chap. 38 ; 7th Geo. IV., chap. 78 ; 9th Gee. IV., chaps.
64 and 70; and the Metropolitan eneral Paving Act, 57th Geo.
111., chap. 29.

And notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and sec-
tions, describing the situation and level of the whole of the work,
and the lands in or through which it is to be made and maintained,
with books of reference thereto, and a copy of this notice as published
in the "London Gazette," will, on or before the 30th day of November
instant, be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the county •f
Middlesex, at Clerkenwell ; and copies of so much of the said plans
and sections and books of reference as relate to each parish from, in,
through, or into which the work will be made and maintained, with
a copy of the Gazette notice, will, on or before the said 30th day of
November, be deposited with the parish clerk of such parish, at his
residence.

Dated this 12th day of November, 1849.
WRIGHT, SMITH, and SHEPHERD, 15, Golden-square.