Streets (London) Act 1696

IV. Recital of 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 8. §20.; The said Clause to be put in Execution.

And whereas by the said Act made in the Second Yeare of the Reigne of his now Majesty and the late Queen Mary intituled An Act for paving and cleansing the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out Parishes in the County of Middlesex and in the Borough of Southwark and other Places within the weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surrey and for regulateing the Marketts therein mentioned the breeding feeding and keeping any sort of Swine within the Backsides of paved Streets of the said Cities Boroughs or Parishes where the Houses are contiguous is prohibited on paine of forfeiting all such Swine which neverthelesse hath not prevented the same but that the Inhabitants of the said Citys and Burrough are still much annoyed and the Health and Lives of many Families endangered by the unwholesome Savour of such Swine which are still in great Numbers kept within the Backsides of several paved Streets of the said Cities and Borough For remedy whereof be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Act and the Clause therein against the breeding feeding and keeping of Swine shall be from and after the said Tenth Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety seven effectually putt in execution against all Persons whatsoever who shall presume to breed feed or keep any manner of Swine within any Part of the Houses or Backsides of the paved Streets or Lanes of the said Cities Borough or Parishes so farr as the contiguous Buildings of them or any of them shall extend or within the space of Fifty Yards thereof.