The Metropolis Local Management Acts

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If owners fail, vestry, &c., to cause the work to be
done at their expense

$2. Power for vestries and district boards to authorize

inspection of drains, privies, and cesspools

83. Penalty on persons improperly making or altering drains

81. Where no default found expenses to be paid by vestry

or board

85. Vestry or district board to cause drains, &c., to be put

into proper condition, &c, where necessary

86. Vestry and district board to cause offensive ditches

drains, &c., to be cleansed or covered.-Where works

interfere with any ancient mill, &c., compensation to

be made, or rights therein purchased

87. Power to vestries and district boards to fill up ditches

by the side of roads, and substitute pipes

88. Power to vestries and district boards to provide public

conveniences

89. Vestries and district boards may transfer their powers

as to sewerage to the metropolitan board of works

90. All powers relating to paving, &c., to be vested in ves-

tries and in district boards

91. Saving as to baths and wash-houses, metropolitan

burials, markets, and Charitable Trusts Acts

92. Expenses incurred under existing powers relating to

paving, &c., to be deemed expenses incurred in exe-

cution of this Act

93. As to the transfer of property

94. Existing contracts, &c., to remain valid

95. Existing commissioners, &c., under local Acts con-

tinued in office until commencement of this Act

96. Powers and duties of surveyors of highways, and pro-

perty vested in them, transferred to vestries and

district boards

97. Provision as to rates already made in parishes men-

tioned in schedule (A.)

98. Vestry or district board to cause streets to be paved

99. Owners possessing freehold of courts, &c. to pave the

same -

100. Owner of courts to drain them, and keep the pave-

ment, &c., in repair.-Penalty on owners for neglect

101. Vaults and cellars under streets not to be made with-

out the consent of the vestry or board

102. Vaults, &c., under streets to be repaired by owners or

occupiers

103. Provisions as to the occupation of underground rooms

as dwellings

104. Power to district surveyors to enter underground rooms

and cellars.-If admission refused, justice may issue

an order

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105. Provisions for paving new streets
106. Vestry or board may declare their intention of repair-
ing any street, not being a highway.-Proviso

107. Act not to authorize the making any thoroughfare with-

out the consent of the proprietor of the estate

108. Vestries and district boards may place fences, &c., to

footways

109. Notice to be given by companies to vestries and dis-

trict boards when pavement, &c., is required to be

taken up

110. Streets not to be broken up, except under the super-
intendence of vestry or board.-Streets broken up to
be reinstated without delay

111. Penalty on persons taking up pavements neglecting to

reinstate them, and to place lights during the night-

time to prevent accidents

112. Vestry or district board to direct pavements injured by
water or gas pipes to be repaired by company.-Pen-
alty for neglect

113. Company opening the ground to repair a pipe dis-
covered to belong to another company, to give notice
to such company, and to be reimbursed expenses

114. Power to vestry or district board to reinstate pave-

ment, and charge the expenses to the parties

115. Power for vestry or district board to contract with

company for restoring pavements

117. Vestry or district board to cause footways to be cleansed

118. Vestries and district boards may appoint and pay cross-

ing sweepers

119. Owners, &c., to remove future projections, on notice

from vestry or district board.-Penalty for neglect

120. Vestry or district board may remove existing projec-

tions, and make compensation for the same

121. Hoards to be erected during repairs.-Penalty on not

erecting hoards

122. No hoard to be erected without licence from vestry or

district board

123. If hoard be erected or materials be deposited in any

manner otherwise than to the satisfaction of the ves-

try or district board, the same may be removed

124. Providing against accidents in laying out new streets,

&c.

125. Vestries and district boards to appoint scavengers

126. Penalty for obstructing scavengers in performance of

their duty

127. Refuse collected to be vested in vestry or district board,

who may dispose of the same towards defraying their

expenses

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128. Owners or occupiers to pay scavengers for removal of

129. Dispute as to what is refuse of trade, &c., to be deter-

mined by justices -

130. Vestries and district boards to cause streets to be

lighted

131. No slaughter-house to be licensed under the 14 & 15

Vict. c. 61, without notice to vestry or district

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132. Vestries and district boards to appoint medical officers

of health

133. Appointment of inspectors of nuisances
134. Vestries and district boards to be the local authorities
to execute the Nuisances Removal Acts

135. Main sewers vested in the metropolitan board of works,

and power to such board to make sewers

136. Before works for intercepting the sewage are com-

menced, plans, &c., to be submitted to commissioners

of works

137. Metropolitan board may declare sewers to be main

sewers, and take under their jurisdiction sewerage

matters under jurisdiction of vestries and district

boards

138. Metropolitan board to make orders for controlling ves-

tries and district boards in construction of sewers,

&c.

139. Metropolitan board may direct appointments to be

made for two parishes or districts jointly

140. Or may place a street in different parishes under the

management of one vestry, or part of a parish under

the management of vestry of adjoining parish -

141. Metropolitan board to regulate naming of streets and

numbering of houses

142. Register to be kept of alterations in names of streets

143. Buildings not to be brought beyond line of street

144. Power to metropolitan board to make improvements - 104

Determination of Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.

145. Powers of metropolitan commissioners of sewers to

146. Actions, &c., not to abate, but to continue for or

against metropolitan board of works

147. Rates made by metropolitan commissioners of sewers

to be recoverable under this Act

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148. Property vested in metropolitan commissioners of

sewers (except sewers transferred to vestries and dis-

trict boards) &c., transferred to the metropolitan board

of works

Auxiliary Powers common to the Metropolitan Board of

Works, and to Vestries and District Boards.

149. Power to boards and vestries to enter into contracts for
carrying Act into execution.-Power to compound
for penalties in respect of breach of contracts

150. Power to boards and vestries to purchase lands, &c.,

for the purposes of this Act

151. Certain provisions of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18, Lands Clauses

Act incorporated with this Act

152. Lands not to be taken compulsorily, except by metro.

politan board with consent of secretary of state

153. Previous notice to be given

154. Power to dispose of lands or property not wanted

155. Owners of land may on sale reserve a right of pre-

emption

156. Penalty for withholding property transferred to metro-

politan board or any vestry or district board

157. Regulations as to breaking up turnpike roads

Provisions for defraying Expenses of Vestries and District

Boards.

158. How sums to be raised by vestries and district boards

for defraying their expenses

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159. Vestries and boards may exempt parts not benefited by

expenditure from payment

160. Provisions for cases where a part of a parish is placed

under the management of the vestry or board of ad-

joining parish or district

161. Overseers to collect the rate in the same manner as the

poor rate

162. Public buildings and void spaces now rateable (except
churches and burial grounds) to continue rateable

163. Certain land to be rated to the sewers rate at one-fourth

part of its annual value -

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164. Existing exemptions in respect of sewers rate to be

'allowed

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165. Existing exemptions of land from lighting rates to be

allowed

166. Overseers, on nonpayment of the rate, shall be dis-

trained upon; and in default of sufficient distress the

arrears may be levied on the parish

167. Provision for cases where the vestry of any parish in

Schedule (A.) make the poor rate

168. Special persons may be appointed to levy rates in cer-

tain cases

169. Provision for deduction by tenants of sewers rate

Provisions for defraying Expenses of Metropolitan Board.

170. Sums to be assessed upon the city and other parts of

the metropolis by metropolitan board for defraying

expenses

171. Power to metropolitan board, or any one authorized

by them, to inspect rates made for county or part of

county within the metropolis

172. Payment to be obtained from the city and from

parishes by precepts to the chamberlain of the city

and to vestries and district boards -

173. Payment of sums assessed upon the city

174. Payment by vestries and district boards of sums assessed

by metropolitan board

175. Provision for assessing and levying rates in places where
there is no poor rate.-Mode of making the assess-
ment.-Allowance to assessors
176. Places in Schedule (C.) not now under rating for
sewers not to be rated except for intercepting sewers

177. When assessment is made, notice thereof to be given,

and all persons included in the assessment to have

liberty to inspect it, &c.-Penalty for refusing in-

spection

178. As to the collection of the rate charged in such assess-

ment