V.
Tenants may deduct the Expence out of Rent; Proviso for Agreements.
And whereas by the Custome of the said City the Landlords of all such Houses or Lands as are next adjoyning to any of the publick Streets or Lanes of the said City and lett at a Rack Rent are liable to repaire and amend the pitching before their respective Houses and Lands to the Middle of the Street or Lane Be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for any such Tenant haveing repaired or amended the pitching in the Street or Lane before his House or Lands in Manner aforesaid to abate and defalke out of his or her Rent the reasonable and necessary Charges thereof which every such Landlord is hereby required to allow Provided alwaies that it shall not extend to make void or alter any Covenant or Agreement betweene any Landlord and Tenant for or concerning the Repaire of the pitching of the said Streets or Lanes