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Metropolis, and the Respondents, the Vestry of St. Matthew,
Bethnal Green, are the successors of the "Commissioners' Trustees
or other persons having the control of the pavements "mentioned
in the earlier Act. By section 72 of that statute it was enacted
that it shall and may bo lawful for Commissioners or Trustees, or
other persons having the control of the pavements of the streets
and public places, in any parochial or other district within the
jurisdiction of the Act, and for their Surveyor or Surveyors "from
time to time and at all times hereafter to regulate or remove, in
such manner as ho or they shall from time to time judge proper,
all signs, sign-posts or other posts—projecting over any part of
either of the footways or carriageways, or any of tho side streets
or public places—and all other or any fixed or movable projections
from the fronts or sides of any house or houses or other buildings
in or abutting upon any streets and land, in the judgment of the
said Commissioners, Trustees, or any person having control of the
pavements, or their Surveyor, are inconvenient or incommodious
to passengers along the carriage or footways," and a penalty of
not less than forty shillings nor exceeding five pounds is imposed
on any owner or occupier who does not " immediately remove"
any such projection to the satisfaction of the Commissioners,
Trustees, or persons having the control of the pavements, after a
notice from them so to do. Section 119 of the later Act onacts
that if any sign, sign-post, "or any other projection or obstruction
placed or made against or in front of any house or building after
the commencement of this Act, shall bo an annoyance in consequence
of the same projecting into or being made in or endangering or
rendering less commodious the passage along any street in their
parish or district, it shall be lawful for the Vestry or District
Board to give notice in writing to the owner or occupier of such
houses or building to remove such projection or obstruction, or to
alter the same in such manner as the Vestry or Board think fit,
and such owner or occupier shall, within 11 days after the service
of such notice upon him, remove any projection or obstruction or
alter the same in the manner directed by the Vestry or Board, and