Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847

XCII Dust Boxes to be erected by Commissioners.

The Commissioners, if they think fit so to do, may cause any Number of movable or fixed Dust Boxes or other Conveniences, wherein Dust and Ashes may be deposited until removed and carried away, to be provided and placed in such of the Streets as they shall judge necessary, and may require the Occupiers of Houses or Tenements within such Streets to cause all their Dust and Ashes to be deposited daily in the said Dust Boxes or other Conveniences ; and every Person who after such Dust Boxes or Conveniences have been so provided shall deposit or cause or permit to be deposited any Ashes or Dust in any Part of any Street, except in some of the said Dust Boxes or other Conveniences, and every Person who shall lay or cause to be laid any Dirt, Dung, or other Filth in any Part of any Street, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Ten Shillings.