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3 . No Barrow, Cart or Stall shall be placed or stand in any street or public
way -within 4ft. (measured along the length of any such street or public way) of
another barrow, cart or stall, which space of 4ft. shall be kept so as to enable
passengers to pass and repass between the road and the footway.
4. All Costermongers, street hawkers and itinerant traders, shall, when
requested to do so by any inhabitant, remove their barrows, carts and stalls from
before the house of such inhabitant, in order to enable him to load or unload any
vehicle at his door.
5.—No Barrow, Cart or Stall shall be placed or stand, either wholly or in
part, on any street crossing.
6.—Costermongers, street hawkers and itinerant traders, and their barrows,
carts, and stalla, will be liable to be removed from any street and public way in
which they create an obstruction to the traffic, or where they are an annoyance to
the inhabitants.
7.—Costermongers, street hawkers and itinerant traders may have awnings over
their stalls, but such awnings shall not exceed 6ft. in height from the footpath in
front of the stall, and 9ft. in length and 3ft. 6in. in width, nor project in front at
the top of the awning more than 1ft.
8.—Coffee stalls shall not be permitted to come into the streets before 2 a.m., nor
remain after 7.30 a.m.
9.—In Betiinal Green Road, Hackney Road, Cambridge Road, and Green
Street, no stall or barrow shall be placed within 3ft. of the point of junction with
any side street, and no stall or barrow shall be placed in any side street leading out
of any of the four before-mentioned main thoroughfares within 3ft. of the line of
frontage of the house or building in the main thoroughfare at its junction with the
side street.
10.—In such cases as shall be deemed reasonable, Btalls shall be required to have
wheels.
11.—Shopkeepers shall be allowed a stall-board of 18in. outside their shop
fronts, and shall not place goods, nor have any projection on the pavement to a
greater extent than that width.
12.—Awnings or Sun-blinds shall not be at the lowest point less than 6ft. 6in.
from the footways.
Under no Circumstances will shopkeepers be allowed to hang any goods
whatever on the Awnings or Sun-blinds.
Copies of the Regulations, and notices of the time when they
were to come into operation, were given to the shop-keepers and
costermongers.
The Regulations were to come into force on the 1st of June, but
the time was afterwards extended to the 15th August.
The Streets Regulations Committee brought up a Report,
recommending that a Street-keeper be appointed to carry out the
regulations, and to report any infractions of the law, with reference
to the use of footways and carriageways, and, under the directions