At a cost of .
Borough of .
188.
To Mr.
This is to certify that you have paid a deposit of five shillings, and that you are hereby permitted to take up the footway or roadway and make excavations in for the purpose of on the undertaking you have given to light, watch and fence the place during the progress of the works, to temporarily make good the surface of the footway or roadway, to remove all rubbish, and to execute and complete the work to the satisfaction of the borough surveyor; also that you will pay the balance if the surface repairs should cost more than the aforesaid sum of five shillings.
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Borough Surveyor.
Note.—If the surface repairs should cost less than the deposited sum, the balance will be returned to you by the accountant, who will notify you of the fact.
Notice must be given to the Building Inspector when the work is ready for inspection, and no drainage work must be covered up until it has been examined by the Inspector.
It may be well to add to this authority to break up the streets, the following words—
“This authority may be revoked at any time if found necessary, and it does not in any way relieve the person to whom it is granted from any liabilities he may incur in respect of accidents from anything done in pursuance thereof.”