London Streets, etc. Act 1690

XII. New Sewers subject to the Commission of Sewers.

23 H. 8. c. 5.

And whereas many new Sewers Sincks and Vaults have beene made in the Parishes within the City and Liberty of Westminster and other the Parishes aforesaid by the Commissioners appointed by the said recited Act which since the Expiration thereof are much neglected and noisome to the Inhabitants because of some doubt whether such new Sewers are within the Jurisdiction of the Laws of Sewers Bee it therefore enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That all new Sewers at any time since the twelfth yeare of the Raigne of the said late King Charles the Second made in any of the said Parishes shall be henceforth subject to the Commission of Sewers and to the Laws and Statuts made for Sewers as fully to all intents and purposes as if such Sewers Sincks and Vaults had beene expressly mentioned in the said [X1 Statute] of Sewers to be under the Survey of the said Commissioners And the Commissioners of Sewers for the time being within the Limitts of their respective Commissions shall have power and authority by vertue of this Act to alter amend cleanse and scowre any such new Sewers Sincks and Vaults and to order and direct the makeing of any other new Vaults and Sewers and to cutt into any Draine or Sewer already made and to alter or take away any Nusances in the same and to alter or take away any Crosse Gutter or Channells in all or any of the Streets and Lanes in the Parishes aforesaid

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Statutes O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]