CHAP.
XII.
His Power
for clearing
the Streets.
Inhabitants
to grub and
clear their
Lots from
Underwood.
Penalty for
barking or
cutting down,
&c. Trees on
the Common:
Such Waste to
be enquired
into.
Power of the
Commissioners
to
Lease out the
Marsh. |
Thirty Shillings Current Money: And the said Overseer is hereby
impowered,
at such Time as he, or the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them,
shall appoint, to summons all the Male Taxable Inhabitants of said Town,
to
be employed in Clearing the Streets, and other Public Ground thereof, as
the said Commissioners or Overseer shall direct; and to make Bridges and
Causeways in the said Streets, where they may, by the said Commissioners
or
Overseer, be deemed necessary; and that the said Taxable Inhabitants shall
be
obliged to attend the Summons of the said Overseer, and to work n the said
Streets and Ground, or to send a labouring Person in their Stead, on the
Penalty of Five Shillings Current Money for every such Day's Neglect or
Refusal, or in Proportion for such Time or Part of the Day as they shall
neglect
or refuse to Attend and Work as aforesaid; and that the said Taxables shall
provide and bring necessary Tools for the said Work: Also that a
Note or
Advertisement put up by the said Overseer at the Market-house of said Town,
and at the Public Warehouse, five Days before the Day appointed for the
Meeting of the said Taxables, shall be deemed sufficient Notice and Summons
to the Inhabitants aforesaid.
III. And whereas many
Persons have built, and are now building, in said
Town, and clear no more Ground than where their Houses stand, whereby the
rest of their Lot becomes a Thicket, unserviceable for Pasturage, also
inconvenient
and unwholesome to all the Inhabitants; Be
it further Enacted, by
the Authority aforesaid, That all Persons living or inhabiting on any
Lot in
said Town, shall within Six Months, from and after the End of this present
Session of Assembly, grub and clear the Ground of the said Lot, or such
part
thereof as they occupy, or to them belong, from all Underwood, Grubs and
Bushes, on the Penalty of Thirty Shillings Current Money, to be forfeited
and paid by the Occupyer of such House or Lot; and in proportion to the
Owners or Occupyers of Half Lots: And of the said Occupyer of Inhabitant
be a Tenant, it shall be lawful for him to discount the Charge thereof
from
the Rent agreed to be paid for such House or Lot, so as the same exceed
not
Twenty Shillings for one whole Lot; and also, that any Person hereafter
building on any Lot in said Town so as to save the same, shall within Three
Months after the building thereon, grub and clear the said Lot as aforesaid,
on the Penalty aforesaid, to be applied by the said Commissioners in clearing
the said lot, and the Overplus, of any, in clearing the Public Squares
of said
Town.
IV. And for
the better Preservation of the Wood and Timber standing or
growing on the Common, for a constant Supply of Firewood for the Inhabitants,
and the public Uses of said Town; Be it also
Enacted, That no Person
or Persons, shall presume to bark any Tree or Trees within the Bounds
of said Common, nor to make or burn any Coal or Brick-Kilns with the
Wood thereof, nor cut down, or haul any Trees or Logs, for the erecting
or building of private Houses, or such like, on the Penalty of Twenty Shillings
Current Money for each Tree, so barked, or cut down as aforesaid:
And the said Commissioners are hereby impowered to enquire into such, or
other Waste made of the said Wood and Timber, and to make such Rules
and Orders from Time to Time, as may seem to them necessary to prevent
the same.
V. And be it
further Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid are hereby
impowered to Rent or Lease a Marsh lying on the East Part of the Common
aforesaid, or any part thereof, for any Term, not exceeding Twenty-one
Years, to such person or Persons as will undertake too dyke, drain, and
turn
the same into good Meadow, on such Rents and Conditions as shall be agreed
on with the said Commissioners; the Lessee giving sufficient Security for
the
due performance thereof: The Rents or Profits arising therefrom to
be paid
to the said Commissioners, to be applied to the public Use of said Town. |
