"Arbitrators."

"Oath."

"Street."

"Drain."

"Sewer.

"Parish."

"Union."

"Guardians."

"Managers of the Poor."

The Clerk, &c. "

145.

Act to continue in

man, and all powers given to two Justices may be exercised by one
Stipendiary or Police Magistrate acting in any Police Court: the
word "Arbitrators" shall include a single arbitrator; and the words
"Arbitrators" and Arbitrator" shall include an umpire: the
word "Oath" shall mean and include an affirmation in the case of 5
Quakers, and a declaration in the case of persons allowed by law
to make a declaration in lieu of an oath: the word "Street" shall
apply to and include any highway (not being a turnpike-road), and
any road, bridge (not being a county bridge), lane, footway, square,
court, alley, passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, and the parts 10
of
any such highway, road, bridge, lane, footway, square, court,
alley or passage within the limits of the Commission: the word
"drain" shall mean and include any drain of and used for the
drainage of one building only or premises within the same curtilage,
and made merely for the purpose of communicating with a cesspool 15
or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which
the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by
different persons is conveyed: the word "sewer" shall mean and
include sewers and drains of every description, except drains to
which the word "drain" interpreted as aforesaid applies the word 20
parish" shall mean and include any liberty, township, precinct or
place maintaining its own poor, or any part of a parish for which a
separate poor-rate may be made: the word "union" shall mean and
include any number of parishes, and parts of parishes or places, united
under the provisions of any general or local Act of Parliament for 25
the relief of the poor; and the word "Guardians" shall mean the
Board of Guardians, Visitors, Directors or other persons appointed
for managing the poor of such union: the expression " managers of
the poor" shall mean and include any Directors, Trustees, Guardians,
Vestrymen or other officers appointed to act in the ordering or relief 30
of the poor from the poor-rate in a parish under any local Act of
Parliament; and the expressions "the Clerk,"
""the Treasurer,"
"the Surveyor," "the Collector," shall mean the persons respectively
appointed or authorized by the Commissioners to execute the offices
of clerk, treasurer, surveyor and collector.

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And be it Enacted, That this Act shall continue in force for force for Two Years Two Years next after the passing thereof, and thence to the End of

the then next Session of Parliament.

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULES

TO WHICH THE FOREGOING ACT REFERS.

Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers.

day of

SCHEDULE (A.)

An assessment to the District Sewers' Rate for the [name the district] made at a Court of Sewers holden this

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by virtue of an Act passed in the [here insert the title of this Act.]

By virtue of an Act passed in the year of the reign of Queen Victoria, intituled [here insert the title of this Act], the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, in consideration of the sum of

Commissioners by A. B. of

paid to the Treasurer of the said for the purposes of the said Act,

do grant and assign unto the said A. B., his executors, administrators and assigns, all the monies arising and to arise from the several rates [or, the District Sewers Rate for the [here name the district or districts] as the case may be, or such other rate or rates as shall be agreed to be mortgaged, sufficiently describing the same], by the said Act authorized to be made; to hold to the said A. B., his executors, administrators and assigns, from the day of the date hereof, until the said sum of with interest, at the rate

.of

per centum per annum for the same shall be fully paid and satisfied; and it

is hereby declared that the said principal sum shall be repaid on the
and that in the meantime the interest thereof shall be paid on the

day of

and the

day of

in every year. In witness whereof the said Commissioners have hereunto set their seal, this day of One thousand eight hundred and

SCHEDULE (C.)

day of

FORM OF TRANSFER OF MORTGAGE.

I, A. B., of of

in consideration of the sum

Pounds paid to me by C. D.,

of

, bearing date the

day of

do hereby transfer to the said C. D., his executors, administrators and assigns, a certain mortgage, number and made by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers to

for securing the sum of

and interest, [or, if such transfer

be by indorsement on the mortgage, insert, instead of the words after "assigns,” the within security], and all my property, right and interest in and to the money thereby secured, and in and to the monies thereby assigned. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this One thousand eight hundred

and

day of

County of

to wit.

FORM OF ORDER TO PERMIT EXECUTION OF WORKS BY OWNERS. WHEREAS Complaint hath been made to me, E. F., Esquire, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in and for [the county, or, by A. B., owner, within the meaning of an Act year of the reign of Queen VICTORIA, intituled, [here insert the title of this Act], of certain premises, to wit, a house [as the case may be], situate in

jurisdiction,] of passed in the

street [as the case may be], in the parish of

in the said [county, &c.], that C. D., the occupier of the said premises, doth prevent the said A. B. from carrying into effect the provisions of the said Act in this, to wit, that he the said C. D. doth prevent the said A. B. from [here describe the works generally according to circumstances]: And whereas the said C. D. having been duly summoned to answer the said complaint, and not having shown sufficient cause against the same, and it appearing to me that the said works are necessary for the purpose of enabling the said A. B. to carry into effect the provisions of the said Act, I do hereby order that the said C. D. do permit the said A. B. to execute the same in the manner required by the said Act.

day of

Given under my hand and seal this
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and

E. F.

(L. S.)

SCHEDULE

Metropolitan Το
Commission

of Sewers.

SCHEDULE (E.)

FORM OF WARRANT OF DISTRESS.

one of the Collectors of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, and to all Constables and Peace Officers.

THESE are to require you or any of you forthwith to levy the sum of Pounds, due from A. B., of and also the sum of Pounds, the costs of proceeding to obtain this warrant, and the costs, charges and expenses of taking, keeping, removing, appraising and selling the distress, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said A. B., (such goods and chattels being kept for the space of five days before the same are sold), rendering to the said A. B. the overplus (if any) on demand; and if no sufficient distress can be found of the goods and chattels of the said A. B., then you are to certify the same to us, together with this warrant, to the end such further proceedings may be had therein as to the law doth appertain.

Given under the seal of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, this
day of
One thousand eight hundred and

(L. s.)

SCHEDULE (F.)

ACTS TO BE REPEALED.

HOLBORN AND FINSBURY.

18 Geo. 3, c. 66. An Act for making proper Drains and Sewers for the purpose of carrying off the Water from the Prebendal Estate of Halliwell and Finsbury, in the Suburbs of the City of London, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

54 Geo. 3, c. 219. An Act to amend an Act made in the eighteenth year of his present Majesty, for making Drains and Sewers for carrring off the Water from the Prebendal Estate of Halliwell and Finsbury, in the Suburbs of the City of London, and for other Purposes therein mentioned; and to extend some of the Provisions thereof to Part of the Holborn Division in the County of Middlesex.

WESTMINSTER AND PART OF MIDDLESEX.

47 Geo. 3, s. 1, c. 7. An Act to enlarge the Powers and extend the Jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and Part of the County of Middlesex.

52 Geo. 3, c. 48. An Act for empowering the Commissioners of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and Part of the County of Middlesex, to purchase a Messuage and Premises for holding their Meetings and for enlarging the Powers of the said Commissioners.

7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 23. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and Part of the County of Middlesex, to purchase certain Premises situate at the Corner of Sun-court in Curzon-street, in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover-square, in the said City and Liberty, and for other Purposes relating

thereto.

10 & 11 Vict. c. 70. An Act to explain and amend the Laws of Sewers relating to the City and Liberty of Westminster, and Part of the County of Middlesex.

SURREY, EAST MOULDSEY TO RAVENSBORNE.

49 Geo. 3, c. 183. An Act for making new Sewers and Drains, and amending the present Sewers and Drains in certain Districts under the Jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Sewers, for the Limits extending from East Mouldsey in Surrey, to Ravensborne in Kent, and for other Purposes relating to the Execution of the Commission of Sewers for the said Limits.

50 Geo. 3, c. 144. An Act for amending, enlarging and extending the Powers of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, relating to the Execution of the Commission of Sewers for the Limits from East Mouldsey in Surrey, to Ravensborne in Kent.

53 Geo. 3, c. 79. An Act for amending, enlarging and extending the Powers of two several Acts passed in the forty-ninth and fiftieth years of his present Majesty, relating to the Execution of the Commission of Sewers, for the Limits extending from East Mouldsey in Surrey, to Ravensborne in Kent.

10 & 11 Vict., c. 217. An Act to facilitate the effectual Drainage of certain Districts within the Commission of Sewers for the

Limits

extending

from East Mouldsey in Surrey,]