ANNO QUADRAGESIMO TERTIO
GEORGII III. Regis.
CAP. XI.
An Act for amending, altering, and enlarging the Powers of an Act, passed in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for forming and keeping in Repair the Streets, and other publick Passages and Places within a certain District in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, called Hans Town, and for otherwise improving the same.
[24th March 1803.]
Whereas by an Act, made in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, instituled, An Act for forming and keeping in Repair the Streets, and other publick Passages and Places, within a certain District in the Parish of Saint Luke, in the County of Middlesex, called Hans Town, and for otherwise improving the same, certain Powers were given and granted to the Commissioners of the said District for the several Purposes in the said recited Act mentioned and contained: And whereas the Commissioners of the said District, acting under the said Act, have proceeded in the Execution thereof to the great Benefit of the said District, and of the Publick at large; but that, in order more effectually to carry the Purposes of the said Act into Execution, it is expedient that the Powers thereof should be amended, altered, and enlarged: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the Commencement of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of the said District to nominate and appoint any Person or Persons, and to purchase any Number of Carts and Horses for the Purpose of cleansing the Streets, and other publick Passages and Places within the Limits of the said District, and of carrying away the Dust, Dirt, Cinders, or Ashes from any House or Houses, or other Premises within the same, or to contract with any Person or Persons for so doing.
Contractors to bring proper Carriages into the Streets,
and to give Notice of their Approach.
II. And be it further enacted, That the Person or Persons employed by or contracting with the said Commissioners for cleansing the said Streets, and other publick Passages and Places as aforesaid, or those employed under such Contractor or Contractors, shall Twice in every Week or oftener, bring or cause to be brought Carts or other proper Carriages into all the Streets, and other publick Passages and Places as aforesaid, where such Carts or Carriages can pass, and at or before their Approach, by sound of Bell, or with an audible and distinct Voice, give Notice to the Inhabitants of their coming, and give the like Notice in every Court, Alley, or Place into which the said Carts or Carriages cannot pass.
Penalty on Persons collecting Dust, etc.
who are not authorized to do so.
III. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons other than the Person or Persons so employed by or contracting with the said Commissioners for cleansing the Streets, and other publick Passages and Places, under their Direction, or those employed under such Contractor or Contractors, shall, on any Pretence whatsoever, go about to collect or gather, or shall ask for, receive, or carry away any Dust, Dirt, Cinders, or Ashes, from any House or other Premises within the Limits aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for any Justice of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex, upon Complaint to him made, to grant a Warrant to bring before him such Offender or Offenders, at the Time and Place as in such Warrant shall be specified, or for any Person or Persons who shall see such Offence committed to seize, and also for any other Person or Persons to assist in seizing the Offender or Offenders, together with the Horses, Asses, Cattle, Carts, Trucks, Wheelbarrows, or other Carriages or Implements made use of for carrying away the same, and by the Authority of this Act, and without any other Warrant to convey him, her, or them before such Justice, and such Justice shall, and he is hereby authorized and required, to examine upon Oath, the Person or Persons apprehending such Offender or Offenders, or any Witness or Witnesses who shall appear to give Information touching such Offence; and if the Party or Parties shall be convicted of going about to collect or gather, asking for, receiving, or carrying away any Dust, Dirt, Cinders, or Ashes from any House or other Premises within the Limits aforesaid, not being the Person or Persons so employed by or contracting with the said Commissioners, or acting under his or then Authority, he, she or they shall respectively, for the First Offence, forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Shillings, for the Second Offence the Sum of Twenty Shillings, and for the Third and every subsequent Offence the sum of Forty Shillings; and One Moiety of every such Penalty shall be paid to the Informer or Informers, or to the Person or Persons who shall apprehend the Offender or Offender, and the other Moiety to the Purposes of the said recited Act and this Act; and if such Offender or Offenders shall not immediately on Conviction pay the said Penalty or Penalties, such Justice is hereby required to direct such Horses, Asses, Cattle, Carts, Trucks, Wheelbarrows, or other Carriages or Implements which shall have been so seized, to be appraised and sold, and after deducting out of the Monies to arise by such Sale the Penalty or Penalties incurred, together with the reasonable Charges and Expences of such Distress and Sale, the Overplus thereof shall be returned to the Party or Parties whose Horses or other Things shall be appraised and sold; and in case there shall have been no such Seizure as aforesaid, or if the Horses, Asses, Cattle, or other Things which shall be so appraised and sold, shall not produce a sufficient Sum of Money to pay the said Penalty or Penalties Charges and Expences, then if such Offender or Offenders shall not immediately upon Conviction pay the said Penalty or Penalties, or such Part or Parts of the said Penalty or Penalties, Charges and Expences, which shall remain over and above the Produce of the Horses, Assess Cattle, and other Things so seized and sold, then such Justice is hereby required to commit such Offender or Offenders to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for the said County of Middlesex, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Term not exceeding Thirty Days, nor less than Ten Days, unless such Penalty or Penalties, or such Part or Parts thereof as aforesaid, shall be sooner paid and satisfied.