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London, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

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are to givo f' 's' notice in writil . such In.
tention to the issioners, who are to _Len:flint) the
level on which :ch house, building drain is to be
built or made; and any house or -building taken down
within twelve feet of the ground is to be deemed a re-
:ilding. Power is given to the Commissioners to de-
molish any house, building, or drain, erected or made
contrary to their directions, or without such notice being
sent as above. Penalty on making or altering sewers or
drains without Commissioners' leave, 101.

Commissioners may build so much of the private
drains as lies under the street, iiud recover the costs
from the owners to make the internal drainage of the
house at owner's cost.

All gulley holes, gratings, or other openings of sewers,
are to be trapped so as to prevent the effluvia from the
sewer exhaling therefrom ; and any one sweeping,
raking, or placing any soil, dirt, into any sewer, or
over any sewer grate, liable to a penalty of 51
Commissioners empowered to enter upon premises and
to inspect by their officers, and call upon the owners or
occupiers of any house or building to repair, cleanse, and
put in good order ell drains, privies_ and cesspools, and
to enforce the same being done under their directions,
under penalties ; also upon medical certificate or other
complaint in writing, to zumtnun offenders before them ;
to enter upon premises and enforce the abatement of any
nuisances arising from the filthy and unwholesome con-
dition of any dwelling- house or other building, or of the
accumulation of any offensive matter, reface, dung, or
offal ; or of any foul or offensive drain, privy, or cess-
pool ; or any insufficient drainage, whereby any nuisance
shall arise ; and to recover the expenses incurred frem
the owner or occupier.
Commissioners to arrange with the Commissioners of
Sewers in the county as to any alteration required ia
the form or level of existing sewers, or the construction
of new sewers, for the purpose of mutually draining is
the most effective manner ; and if any dispute or dif-
ference arise therefrom, the Lords of the Committee of
her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade are to decide and
determine the same ; and in the event of the City Com-
missioners refusing or neglecting within a reasonable
time to do any works so required by the said Lords, tlio
County Commissioners may enter and do the same.
Any works which under this Act arc required to be
done by owner, or occupier, or other persons, not being
so done by them may be done by the Commissioners, who,
are empowered to recover the costs.

Any gas company permitting or conveying any wash-
ings or foul or offensive refuse of gas to run into any
sewer shall forfeit the sum of 2001. a day.
Commissioners empowered to appoint one or more
legally qualified medical practitioners of skill and expe-
rience to inspect and report periodically upon the sani-
tary condition of the City, to ascertain the existence of
diseases, more especially epidemics, and to point out the
existence of any nuisance or other causes injuriously af-
fecting health; also as to most efficient modes of venti-
lating churches, chapels, schools, lodging-houses, and
other public edifices; to be called the " Medical Officer
of Health," and to pay them such salaries as they
think fit.
Commissioners empowered to appoint scavengers to
cleanse and water the streets, and to coil, ct refuse from
the houses, and to cleanse and empty privies and cess-
pools when required, who are to do such works under
penalty; all such refuse being vested in the Commis-
sioners, exc: ption being made of " the refuse of any
trade, manufacture, or business, or any building mate-
rials," which the scavengers are to remove if required
by owner or occupier of any house or land, upon pay-
ment by the owner or occupier; and in case of refusal
or neglect to pay, the justice to award the amount,
which maybe distrained fur.
Dung not to be allowed to remain on any premises
more than fourteen days, or more than seven-days after
a quantity exceeding one cubic yard is collected, on pain
of becoming the property of the Commissioners after
twenty-four hours' notice to remove the same; excepting
stable dung in a stable-yard, in a pit or keep properly
prepared for the purpose.
Stagnant water in cellars, yards, &c., or soil running
over privies, cesspools, &c., penalty on owner or occupier
40. a day; the Commissioners empowered to abate the
sem°, and recover costs i❑ a summary way.
Commissioners empowered to appoint one or mere in-
spector of nuisances, to inquire into and report all cases
of nuisances, neglect of scavengers, &c., whose duties are
for the preservation of due order and cleanliness. Com-
missioners also authorised to provide, if they think fit,
place for the deceased poor previous to their interment,
and to regulate, on report of the medical officer of health,
all common lodging-houses.
All existing slaughter-houses are to be registered and
regulated under direction of the Commissioners, and no
new slaughter-houses or knackers to be allowed in the
City.
Full power given to the Commissioners and their
officers to enter any land, house, or premises to carry
into execution the purposes of this Act; and to cause
the erection of privies, water-closets, cisterns for water,
ash-pits, &c. &c. in any premises, under penalties; and
to regulate offensive trades, as candle houses, soap-
houses, &c.

No grave hereafter to be used in the City for inter-
ment which shall not leave five feet clear of soil above

the coffin; and any sexton offending, to be suspended
from his office, and made liable to a penalty of 201. Pri-
vate vaults and catacombs excepted under certain limi-
tations.
Persons causing offensive smells, or carrying offensive
matter in the strews, made liable to eert:iin penalties.
Commissioners empowered to light the public streets,
and all public lamps vested in them; and persons da-
maging them made liable to certain penalties, or to make
satisfaction for the same.

Pavements and other materials vested in the Com•
missioners, and power given them to pave the streets
and alter their levels, and alter the mains and pipes as
they shall think best, excepting courts, &c., of which
the freehold is vested in the owner of the adjoining pro-
perty, in which case such owner is to pave and repair
them.

No waste surface water from houses to be allowed to
flow over the foot-pavement; but the owner or occupier
to make underground drains to carry the same into the
channels.

No vaults cr cellars under the streets to be made with-
out consent of the Commissioners.
New streets to be paved by the Commissioners, upon
payment of one-third the cost by the owner.
Persons damaging the pavements made liable to
penalties.
Pavements not to be taken up without consent of the
Commissioners, ou penalty of 40s. a square toot; and
three months' notice in writing to be given to the Com-
missioners of any line of main or pipes intended to be
laid, or altered, under certain penalties, and Commis-
sioners to superintend all such works, and justices era-
powered to settle all disputes therein.
Commissioners empowered to alter and fix the names
of streets, to order the numbering of houses, &c , with
penalties on persons obliterating or altering the same.
Also to water the streets, dig wells, and erect pumps,
as they shall see fit, and affix public dust bins and
cleanse footways,
Commissioners are also empowered to prevent build-
ings projecting over the line of street from being rebuilt
in such line ; alio to set back and remove various exist-

ing projections and obstructions, upon compensation
being made ; and to cau,c all ruinous and dangerous
houses, &c., to be repaired.
The licensing and regulating of hoards hereafter
placed under the power 01 the Commissioners.
Existing officers receiving lees from hoards to be com-
pensated for the loss by the Court of Common Council,
from whose decision an appeal is allotted to the Quarter
Sessions.
Other officers sustaining damage under this Act, by
loss of office, &c., to be compensated by Commissioners,
swoiitihd antlB4s.
Unauthorised persons entering the sewers, or wilfully
appeal
Act,to arbitration under the Land Clauses Con-
any gully, trap, &c., wilful y
injuring
penalty
of o
and
4dis.sarranging
Commissioners empowered to issue their precept to
the Alderman or his deputy, and the major part of the
Common Councilmen of each ward, to make a sewer
rate, not to exceed 4d. in the pound, and a consolidated
rate not to exceed is. 6d. in the pound, in the year.
The local authorities to make this rate within fourteen
days from the date of the order. (These rates are to b.
made and collected in much the same way as the police
rate; but of this the directions in detail will in due
course be sent to the local authorities.)
Commissioners empowered to borrow money on the
rates., with various inwrioiona lor ccrayrucni
of the lender, &c.
The jurisdiction of this Act includes all the liberties,
precincts, and places within the city of London and
Liberties thereof.

" JOSEPH DAN,
"Sewers-office, Guildhall, September, 1848."

MILDRED VERNON ; A TALE or PAEISIAN LIFE
IN THE LAST DAYS of THE MONARCHY.-It is said
aegPhpieu:
petleieniscirteetsdiesbionttne:n3listaniieedglenttri
ne dg providing
that this new work displays such a picture of society in
France as will astonish no less than amuse the reader.
Its delineations of character, however, are not, we under-
stand, confined to the French people. English visitors
and residents in Paris forma most conspicuous feature in
a co that all the principal
thethe sdtoertyail;s, ainsdthwehaetiricsesmusrte
circumstance
add to the piquancy of
characters, from the monarch downwards, arqreported to
be drawn from existing personages.—Evening Paper.
DINNER. TO THE POLICE IN THE BOW-STREET
STATION SOUSE.-- On Saturday evening, Bow-street
h‘ewas
constableschanged ientt o
thea banquet neqt uv
division.
nn g. - hAa I l,
muchthe
u rspPleucsi a l
couldC
dCgomveenntt-goafrdtheen,
larger sum than necessary had been colllslteniectohttelediedloebLettttethheleyer
a dinner for the
given tothethse
eaxntrda.duhty and police of the
fi
nSatc acknowledgment '' Ise'
ex-
cessive toil which the force has
(pi
iavriissiho n o,
on several occasions
within the last few months undergone. The feast was
of the most substantial kind, roast beef and plum-
pudding ad libitum, Messrs. frost and Denison, two local
publicans, supplying
churchwardens, several of the other local authorities,
and Mr. Pearce, sthe superintendent of the division, were
present.
LYDNEY.—GOVERNMENT SURVEY OF THE SEVERN.
—Doubts having been entertained how far the important
survey which is now being carried
on by the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, on the river Severn, may
extend upwards, a letter bus been addressed by the chair-
man of the Severn and Wye Railway .Company, from
Lydney, to the Secret:a7, H. G. Ward, Esq., 2$l.P , who
has replied thereto iu a very satisfartory manner, as fol-
lows:—" Admiralty, August 20, 1848.—Sir, in reply to
your letter of the 4th inst., requesting that the survey of
1 the British Channel, now in pr.( greys, may be extendtd
as tar as Lydney, I am command, d by my Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that Atyk
Severn must eventually be surveyed au far as GlouceaOir,
and Lydney will then be one of the ',first ports taken in
hand. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, IL G.
WARD.—Joseph Cookson, Esq., Lydney."—lieriford
Times.