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and the slope of every footpath towards the curb must be half an inch to
every foot of width, if the footpath be unpaved, or not less than a quarter
of an inch to every foot of width, if the footpath be paved.
7. In this Bye Law the word " Street" shall be interpreted to apply to and
include any highway (except the carriage-way of any turnpike-road), and
any road, public bridge (not being a county bridge), lane, footway, square,
court, alley, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not; and a part of any
such highway, road, bridge, lane, footway, square, court, alley, or passage.
8. In case of any breach of the regulations contained in this Bye Law,
the offender shall be liable for each offence to a penalty of Forty Shillings;
and in case of a continuing offence to a further penalty of Twenty Shillings
for each day after notice thereof from the Metropolitan Board of "Works.
METROPOLITAN BOARD PRECEPTS.
To the Board of Works for the Lewisham District, in the Counties
of Kent and Surrey.
By virtue of an Act passed in the 19th year of Queen Victoria, intituled
" An Act for the Better Local Management of the Metropolis."
The Metropolitan Board of Works do issue their Precept, under their
Common Seal, to you the said Board of Works of the said Lewisham
District, and do hereby require you to pay to the Bank of London, Threadneedle
Street, in the City of London, Treasurer and Banker of the said
Board, on or before the 30th day of May now next ensuing, the sum of
£10,628 7s., being the amount of the several and respective sums of
money hereunder set down and expressed opposite to and against the
several parishes and parts within your District, hereinafter mentioned,
which said several sums ought, in the judgment of the said Board, to be
charged upon the said several parishes and parts respectively for defraying
the expenses of the said Board in the execution of the said Act, and which
they the said Board did, on the 3rd day of March, 1857, ascertain and
assess upon the said several parishes and parts, for such purpose under and
in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act in that behalf.
Names of Parishes and Parts.
Sums.
£ s. d.
£ s. d.
Lewisham.—The whole of the Parish 501 15 7
That part of the said Parish ot Lewisham within the
said Lewisham District which was at and immediately
before the determination and expiration of
the Metropolitan Sewers Act, 1848, included in
the Greenwich separate Sewerage District . . .
1,701 16 6
That part of the said Parish of Lewisham within the
said Lewisham District which was at and immediately
before the determination and expiration of
the Metropolitan Sewers Act, 1848, included in
the Ravensbourne separate Sewerage District
8,289 12 4
Hamlet or Penge.— The whole Hamlet
10,493 4 5
135 2 7
£10,628 7 0
By Order of the Board,
E. H. WOOLRYCH,
Dated this 13th day of March, 1857. Clerk to the Board.