The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL SANITARY,

AMENDMENT OF LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTs 9TH AND 10TH
VICTORIA, CHAPTER 127 ; STH AND 6TH VICTORIA,
CHAPTER 106; STH 'VICTORIA, CHAPTER 44;—DIVING
FURTHER POWERS TO COUNCIL IN RESPECT OF THE
MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF STREETS AND ROADS,
AND TO COUNCIL AND OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR SANI-
TARY PURPOSES—PROVIDING FOR SEWERAGE OF OUT-
LYING TOWNSHIPS BY OWNERS OF LANDS—ALTERATION
OF RATES—OWNERS TO BE LIABLE FOR RATES—POWER
TO RAISE MONEY—POWERS TO TAKE OR DISPOSE OF
LANDS—RECOVERY OF COSTS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
11 intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session
for an Act or Acts to repeal, alter, amend, enlarge, and extend
certain of the provisions of the several Acts of Parliament
following, or some of them,—that is to say, an Act passed in
the session of Parliament held in the ninth and tenth years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Aa for the
" improvement of the Se.werage and Drainage of the Borough
" of Liv.erpool, and for making further provisions for the Sa-
" natory regulation of the said Borough ; " an Act passed in
the session of Parliament held in the fifth and sixth years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled; " An Act for the
" improvement, good government, and Police regulation of
" the Borough of Liverpool ; " and an Act passed in the fifth
year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act
for the promotion of the Health of the inhabitants of the
" Borough of Liverpool, and the better regulation of Buildings
" in the said Borough."
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
Council of the borough of Liverpool to appoint Committees,
and to confer upon any Committee appointed by them the
power of carrying out the provisions of the said recited and
intended Acts or any of them.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to make
further provision for the effectual sewerage and drainage
of the borough of Liverpool, and of houses and buildings
therein, and for vesting in the mayor, aldermen, and bur-
gesses of the borough of Liverpool, all public streets, courts,
roads, and highways, and all sewers, drains, and other buildings
and works erected or made for the purposes of sewerage or
drainage, within the limits of the said Acts, and for providing
that the same and all other streets. courts, and places, sewers
and drains whatsoever, within the limits aforesaid, shall be
under the management and control of the Council of the said
Borough.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter,
enlarge, and extend the powers of the said Council touching
the laying out and construction, levelling, paving, severing,
draining, raising, lowering, and altering the surface of streets,
courts, roads, and other places, and touching the prevention or
removal, re-building, or repair of projections, encroachments,
obstructions, arches, vaults, cellars, and ruinous or danger-
ous edifices, within the said limits, and to extend the liability
of owners of land, and of persons laying out or making or

constructing streets, courts, or passages within tne sant limits
so as to secure the more effectual sewering, 'draining, paving,
and flagging of the same, and to enable the Council to regulate
the laying out of land for the purposes of buitdiing, and the
buildings to be placed thereon, and the width, line, direction,
and course of streets, courts, passages, and other places, and to
alter and extend the powers and liabilities of the Council in
relation to the altering or stopping of any street or thorough-
fare within the said limits, and to authorize the Council to
alter, stop, or fill up any sewers, drains, cesspools, or other
works in connexion therewith.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter,
extend, and enlarge the powers of the said Council with re-
spect to the cleansing of streets, courts, and other places
within the limits aforesaid, and the prevention or removal of
nuisances, and to provide more effectually for draining, filling-
up, or cleansing all stagnant pools, ditches, and other recepta-
cles for offensive matter, and for preventing the accumulation
of dung, dust, ashes, or other substances of u noxious descrip-
tion within the said limits, and for the removal thereof, and
for the regulation, suppression, abatement, or removal of
slaughter-houses, knackers'-yards, marine•stores, and all other
places of the like kind, and to extend the powers of the said
Council for seizing and preventing the sale of unsound or un-
wholesome meat, or provisions of any klnd, and to
-prevent the

slaughtering of diseased animals, unlit for human food, in any
licensed or registered slaughter-house, and to confer additional
powers upon the said Council for regulating or suppressing all
manner of trades, employments, or practices, the exercise of
which may he in any way prejudicial to the health of the in-
habitants of the said borough ; and to make further provision
for the prevention of nuisance from smoke.
And it is also proposed to enable the said Council to
compel the construction of privies, water-closets, or urinals,
and the conversion of privies into water-closets.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to provide
for the regulation of interments of the dead within the said
borough.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter,
extend, and enlarge the powers of the said Council with respect
to lodging-houses, cellars, and all places used for habitation,
and for regulating the number of persons to be accommodated
therein, and to provide for the licensing and better regulation
thereof, and for the discontinuance, as soon as practicable, of
the use of cells rs as places of habitation.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter, extend,
and enlarge the powers, duties, and authorities of the Medical
Officer oilealth, appointed or to be appointed under the pro-
visions of the said Acts, or any of them touching the matters
aforesaid, or otherwise in respect of the sanitary condition of
the said borough.
And it is also proposed by the said intended. Act to authorize
the said Council to make bye-laws, rules, and regulations,
touching all or any of the matters herein contained, and other-
wise for improving the sanitary condition of; the said borough,
to extinguish all existing rights of taking tolls or charges for
the maintenance or use of any road, and all other rights and
privileges in any manner relating to any road, street, court,
sewer, drain, cellar, building, or other place, erection, matter,
or thing aforesaid, which would in any manner impede or
interfere with the carrying out the objects and purposes of the
said intended Act, and to confer other rights and privileges.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorize
the purchase, sale, leasing, letting, or sub-letting, of lands or
buildings, by or to the Mayor, Aldermen,.and Burgesses of the
Borough of Liverpool, for the purposes of the said recited Acts,
or any of them, or of the said intended Act, and to enable the
said Council to recover any penalties, damages, costs, or
monies, by summary proceedings.
And it is further proposed by such intended Act to repeal or
alter the provisions of the first-mentioned Act, relating to the
sewer-rates, authorized to be levied in the said Act, and with
respect to the Districts of the Townships of Everton and Kirk-
dale, and of such parts of the Township of West Derby and of
the extra-parochial place of Toxtetli-park, respectively, as are
situate within the Borough of Liverpool, and to exempt the
sewer-rates of such districts, respectively, from being charge-
able with the making qfsewers, other than main or outlet
sewers, within such districts respectively, and to provide for
the making of sewers, other than main or outlet sewers, within
such districts respectively by the owners of lands therein ; and
also with regard to all or any of the rates authorized to be levied
by the said Council, to alter the same and the application
thereof; and to levy other rates, and to regulate the mode of
ascertaining the annual value of property for the purposes of
such rates, and giving further and additional powers in relation
o appeals against such rates or any of them ; and to provide
that all rates laid under the provisions of the said recited Acts,
or any of them, or of the said intended Act, shall be charged
upon and payable by the owners instead of the occupiers of
property within the said borough ; and to alter, amend, extend,
and enlarge the powers of the said Council for the recovery of
rates, and of all moneys payable to the said Council under or
by virtue of the said recited Acts, or any of them, or of the said
intended Act, and further to enable the said Council to take
up at interest on the credit of the said rates, or any of them,
such sums of money as they may require for the purposes of
the said recited Acts, or any of them, or of the said intended
Act, and from time to time to pay off and reborrow the same.
And it is also proposed by such intended Act to vary and
extinguish all or any existing rights and privileges which would
in any manner impede or interfere with the objects aforesaid,
or any of them, and also to confer other rights and privileges.
Dated this Ninth day of November, 1849.
WM. SEIUTTLEWORTII, Town Clerk,
Liverpool.