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should belong, or the Commissioners or persons who were or
might be liable to repair the streets or ways over the same
Arches respectively, and such covenants and conditions should
and might be enforced by them as if they were grantors of the
reversion of the premises therein respectively comprised, and
the same Arches should be kept in repair in pursuance of such
covenants, or by and at the expense of the said respective
Wards or Parishes to which the same should respectively
belong, or of the Commissioners or persons liable to repair the
pavements of the stroets or ways over the same Arches
respectively.
Section 16 provided that nothing in the Act contained
should extend or be construed to extend to vest tho right and
property of the pavement, stones, bricks and materials, which
were already or should thereafter be laid down upon or over
the said Arches, or any or either of them thereinbefore directed
to be sold or demised or leased, as aforesaid, in the purchaser
or purchasers, or the lessee or lessees of the said Arches respectively
; but that tho right and property of such pavements,
stones, bricks and materials so laid, or thereafter to bo laid, as
aforesaid, should belong to and bo the property of the respective
Wards or Parishes to which tho same should respectively belong,
or other the Commissioners or persons liable to repair the
same, in the same manner as things of a like description in
other parts of the said Wards or Parishes respectively were
then vested by law.
Section 16 required the rents and purchase moneys to be
applied for the purposes of the Acts.
By Section 18 the said Mayor, &c., were authorised and
required to leave a clear and open space of ground opposite to
the east end of St. Saviour's Church, and between tho said
Church and the Southern Approach to the Bridge of not less
than 130 feet in width, in equal distance from the choir of the
said Church, for the purpose of leaving from the said approach
an uninterrupted view of the said Church; and the section
provided that it should not be lawful for the said Mayor, &c.,
to grant any building lease, or to sell or otherwise dispose of
any portion of such space of ground for any of the purposes of
the said Acts, or for any other purposes whatsoever; but that
the same should be, and should be used as, a public way, and
also as an approach to the said Church, except such part as was
consecrated ground, for the purposes of burial; and that no
erection or building should at any time thereafter be erected
or set up on the said space of 130 feet, or any part thereof.
By an Act passed on the 22nd May, 1834 (4th Will. IV.,
c. 14) intituled "An Act for extending the Approaches to
London Bridge, and amending the Acts relating thereto," the
said Mayor, Aldermen, &c., were authorised and empowered to