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25 NOVEMBER, 1891.
183
Your Committee are of opinion, that it is not advisable to
plant trees on the Waste referred to.
(4) That your Committee considered the reference of your
Board of the 14th October last, in relation to the hanging of
sign boards, &c., over the footpaths in the Hamlet, and beg
to report:
(a) That by section 119 of the Metropolis Management
Act, 1855, if (among other things) any lamp, lamp post,
lamp iron, sign, sign post, sign iron, or any other projection
or obstruction placed or made against or in front
of any house or building after the commencement of
that Act, should be an annoyance in consequence of
the same projecting into or being made in or endangering
or rendering less commodious the passage
along any street, the Vestry may give notice in writing
to the owner or occupier, to remove such projection or
obstruction, or to alter the same in such manner as the
Vestry may think fit, and such owner or occupier is
within 14 days to so remove or alter as directed by the
Vestry, and in case of his refusal or neglect so to do he
is liable to a forfeit not exceeding £5, and a further
sum of 40/- for every day, during which the projection
or obstruction continues, after expiration of 14 days
from the time when he may be convicted.
(b) That by the Metropolis Police Act, sec. 60 (7) every
person who in any street or public place within the
Metropolitan Police District, shall expose anything for
sale, upon, or so as to hang over any carriage way or
footway, or on the outside of any house or shop, or who
shall set up or continue any pole, blind, awning line, or
any other projection from any window, parapet, or other
part of any house, shop, or other building, so as to cause
any annoyance or obstruction in any thorougfare, is liable
to a Denaltv of not more than 40/-
Signed
Rowland Hirst.
John T. Calton.
W. A. Kemp.
J. Loftus.
Moved by Mr. Hirst seconded by Mr. Cook and resolved
—That the Report be received.
Resolved—That it be considered seriatim.
contract for york paving.
Moved by Mr. Hirst seconded by Mr. Calton and resolved
—That that part of the Report be adopted and it was resolved
accordingly.