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"interfering with, or improperly using the same, or any such
" water-supply, apparatus, pipe, or work, he shall be liable to
" a fine not exceeding five pounds."
Sec. 16 calls upon every Sanitary Authority to make bye-laws
for certain purposes, including the prevention of nuisances arising
from snow, ice, salt, dust, ashes, &c., &c., or other matter or thing
in any street. This section is founded upon Michael Angelo
Taylor's Act, as well as the Metropolitan Police Act, and the
Metropolis Management A(ft. I find that the only Whitechapel
street named in the Police Act, wherein refuse must not be
collected between 10 a m. and 7 p.m., is Whitechapel High Street,
up to Church Lane. A penalty not exceeding forty shillings is
incurred by infringing this clause.
Sec. 18 states: "Where it is proved to the satisfaction of a
"Petty Sessional Court that any locality, premises, or place, are
" or is, unfit for the keeping of any animal, the Court may by
" summary order prohibit the using thereof for that purpose for the
" future."
Sec. 19 deals with offensive trades, with the addition of the
words " or horses "after" slaughterer of cattle." Sub-Section 2
has a saving clause as regards the business of soap-boiler:
" Provided that this enactment shall not render any person liable
" to a fine for establishing anew with the sandlion of the County
"Council, or carrying on, the business of soap-boiler, if and as
" long as that business is a business in which tallow or any animal
"fat or oil, other than olein, is not used by admixture with alkali
" for the production of soap." The County Council are to give
their sanction, after giving notice in the usual way, " and by
" causing a copy of the notice to be affixed in a conspicuous
" part of the said premises," so that objections may be heard and
considered.
Sec. 20, which deals with the licensing of cowhouses and
slaughterhouses, is enlarged so as to include a "slaughterer of
horses, or knacker," as well as a slaughterer of cattle or dairyman
as of old.
The following sub-sedlion (5) is altogether new: " Where a
" Committee of the County Council determine to refuse, or to
" recommend the Council to refuse, the renewal of any license