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may incommode the inhabitants, in such manner and form, and
at such time or times, as the said special commissioners shall
direct and appoint, which said persons, so agreed with and
employed, shall take upon themselves the office and duty of
scavengers, pursuant to their respective agreements, under the
penalty of five pounds for every neglect or refusal ; and if any
such scavenger shall neglect or refuse to carry off and remove all
and every part of the mud, mire, dirt, and other filth, found in
the streets, lanes and alleys aforesaid, agreeable to his contract
with said special commissioners, he shall forfeit any pay any
sum not exceeding twenty-five shillings, for every such offence.
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SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants and oc-
cupiers of the houses and lots, and the sextons, porters, or other
keepers of churches, meeting-houses, or other public buildings
or burying-grounds, fronting the paved streets, lanes and alleys,
within the said town, shall rake and sweep into the cart- way
the dirt, soil, and other filth, to be found on the brick pavements
or footway before their respective houses, lots, dwellings, or
public buildings, or cause the same to be done, once at least in
every week ; that is to say, on every Friday, when the snow or
ice on the said pavements or foot-way does not prevent, that it
may be removed by the said scavengers on the same day or the
day following, under the penalty of any sum not exceeding five
shillings for eveiy neglect or refusal.
SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That no person or persons
whatsoever shall cast or lay, or cause to be cast or laid, any
shavings, ashes, dung, or other filth or annoyance, on any
pavements within the said town, under the penalty of any sum
not exceeding twenty shillings for every such offence ; but every
such person or persons, having such shavings, ashes, dung, or
other filth, shall keep the same in some other place, until the
scavenger shall attend with his cart to carry off the same, which
he is hereby enjoined to do once in every week at least, if re-
quired, at the door of every such person, under the penalty of
five shillings for every such neglect or refusal ; Provided always,
that every such person, having such mud, dung, ashes or other
filth, so to be carried off, shall pay to every such scavenger, for
all such filth, and no other, as shall be occasioned by, or arise
from, his particular trade, business, or occupation, and is not in-
cident to common house-keeping, at such rate as shall be from
time to time settled and ascertained by the special commis-
sioners, unless he, she or they, shall choose to carry off the
same at his, her or their own expense, in another manner.
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Inhabitants
to remove
dirt, &c.
Shavings,
&c. not to
be laid on
pavements,
&C.
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SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall, after the publication of this act, cast or throw down, out
of any cart, wagon, or other carriage, any rubbish, dirt or earth,
in any public street, lane or alley, of the town of Baltimore, save
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Penalty for
throwing
down rub-
bish, &€.
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