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7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 84, see. 55.
"And now for the purpose of making provision concerning
Businesses offensive or noxious, be it enacted, with regard to
the following Businesses that is to say,—
Blood-boiler, Soap-boiler, Bone-boiler,
Tallow-melter, Fellmonger, Tripe-boiler,
Slauohterer of Cattle, Sheep, or Horses,
and any other like Business offensive or noxious, so far as
relates to the erection of buildings in the neighbourhood of
any such business, and so far as relates to the carrying on of
any such business in the neighbourhood of any public way, or
of other buildings of the First or Dwelling-house Class. That
it shall not be lawful hereafter to erect any buildings of the
first or Dwelling-house class nearer to than Fifty feet from any
building which shall be in use for any such offensive or noxous
business; but if a building already existing within Fifty feet be
hereafter burnt pulled down, or destroyed by tempest, such
building may be rebuilt; and that it shall not be lawful for any
person to establish or newly carry on any such business either
in any building, or vault, or in the open air, at a less distanco
than Forty feet from any public way, or than Fifty feet from
any other such buildings as the First or Dwelling-house class;
and that if any such business be now carried on in any situation
within such distances, then, from the expiration of the period
of Thirty years next after the framing of this Act, it shall cease
to be lawful to continue to carry on such business in such
situation, save as hereinafter provided; and that if any person
erect any building in the neighbourhood of any such
business contrary to this act, then, on conviction thereof beforo
Two Justices he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Fifty Pouuds
for every day during which such building shall remain near to
such otfensive or noxious business; or if any person establish
anew any such business, or carry on any such business contrary
to this Act, then, on conviction thereof before Two Justices,
such person is hereby made liable to forfeit for every day
during which such business shall be carried on, a sum not
exceeding Fifty Pounds, as the said Justices shall determine."
The rest of the clause relates to Costs, and mode of
enforcing the penalty.
The Building Act subsequently passed in 1855, 18 and