The said Persons may impose a Tax on Houses for the said Purpose.; In Default of Payment; Distress.; All other Commissioners suspended as to the said City and Liberties for Seven Years, &c.
And be it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the numbers and places for all coo[m]mon Sewers Draines and Vaults and the order and manner of paveing and pitching the Streets and Lanes within the said Citty and Liberties thereof shall be designed and sett out by such and soe many persons as the said Maior Aldermen and Coo[m]monalty in Coo[m]mon Councill assembled shall from time to time authorize and appoint under their Coo[m]mon Seale or the more part of them, which said persons soe authorized and appointed or any seaven or more of them together with the said Surveyours or some or one of them within his or their Precinct respectively shall at their meeteing have power and authority to order and direct the makeing of any new Vaults Drains and Sewers, or to cutt into any Draine or Sewer already made, and for the altering inlargeing amending cleansing and scouring of any old Vaults Sinks or Coo[m]mon Sewers, For the better effecting whereof it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said persons soe authorized and appointed as aforesaid or any seaven or more of them at their said meeting to impose any reasonable Taxe upon all Houses within the said Citty and Libertyes thereof in proportion to the benefitt they shall receive thereby for and towards the new makeing cutting altering inlargeing amending cleansing and scouring all and singular the said Vaults Draines Sewers pavements and pitching aforesaid : And in defaulte of payment of the said summes soe to be charged it shall and may be lawfull [X1to and] for the said persons soe authorized as aforesaid or any seaven or more of them by Order and Warrant under their hands and seales to leavy the said summe and summes of moneyes soe assessed by Distresse and sale of the goods of the party chargeable therewith and refuseing or negclecting to pay the same rendering the overplus (if any be) And that all other Coo[m]mis?ers whatsoever be altogether suspended to intermedle in the premisses within the said Citty and Liberties thereof for the space of seaven yeares next, and for soe long after untill the said intended buildings shall be fully finished Any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]