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Session Laws, 1812
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LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

139

empowered to contract on the best terms for the per-
formance of the said work, and charge, levy, assess
and collect the cost and expense of the work equally
per foot in front of each lot.

1812.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any
street, lane or alley is to be levelled or paved across
any other street, lane or alley, the cost and expense
that may be incurred by levelling or paving any such
street lane or alley, shall be levied, assessed & collect-
ed for that work, equally per foot, to the middle of each
square of the paved street lane or alley, as also to
the middle of the squares of any street lane or alley
not paved.

Streets &c.
crossing oth-
ers — how to be
paved &c.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where holes
or breaches shall break into any pavement, the same
shall be repaired by the owners of property opposite
to such hole or breach to the middle of each street
lane or alley, and if the same is not done after notifi-
cation thereof within such time as the commissioners
may require, the commissioners shall have it done
and charge and collect the expense thereof to the
owners of property as aforesaid for such repairs, and
all other incidental expenses.

Holes and
breaches —
how to be re-
paired.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any
person or persons do or shall throw out or deposit
any rubish or filth on any street lane or alley, and
suffer the same to remain to the annoyance of the
neighbours, or shall dig holes in any street lane or
alley without permission from the commissioners,
any person or persons thus offending, being convicted
thereof, shall forfeit and pay a fine of ten dollars for
every such offence if the commissioners think pro-
per; and also if any person or persons. shall throw
out and depost any carrion in any street lane or alley,
being convicted thereof shall forfeit and pay a line
of twenty dollars for every such offence; which fines
and forfeitures shall be recoverable by the commis-
sioners, before any justice of the peace.

Rubish, and
filth, &c.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any
person or persons will suffer their lots of ground, or
the street, lane or alley in front of the lots of ground
to lie low, where water will gather and become
stagnant, such person -or persons being first notified
on complaint of any one of the residents in its vicin-
ity, and the same shall not be filled up within such
time as the commissioners may direct, the commis-
sioners shall then contract on. the best terms for
filling up the same, and charge, levy and collect the
expense thereof from the person or persons holding

Streets and
adjacent lots
shall be filled
up.



 

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