# London Streets, etc. Act 1690, Section VI: Justice of Peace may order new Streets, &c. to be paved.


Certificate to Quarter Sessions.; Inhabitants, &c. thereupon to pave in front, &c.; Penalty 40s. per Perch per Week.; Ancient Streets paved as formerly.
And whereas there are in the Parishes aforesaid many new Streets and Wayes made which are fitt and convenient to be paved with Stones but for want of good Order therein are almost unpassable to Passengers Bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid. That it shall and may be lawfull for any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the Place or Division where any new Streets or Wayes are or shall be made from time to time to view and inspect the same and if upon such View they shall judge them fitt to be paved or otherwise amended to certifie the same under their Hands to the Justices of the Peace at the next respective Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the Place where such Streets or Wayes are or shall be made who are hereby respectively thereupon authorized and required to take such Order for the paveing or otherwise amending the same as they shall thinke fitt And all and every person and persons Owners and Inhabitants of all and every the Houses new built or hereafter to be built or adjoyning to any new Streets or Wayes adjudged to be paved or amended shall and are hereby required according to their severall and respective Interests therein by Order of such Justices at their Session and by a time in such Order limitted pave with Stone or Gravell or otherwise amend all the Ground that doth or shall lye in Front before every Dwellinghouse or other Buildings in such Streets and Wayes extended to the midle of the Way that doth or shall lye before the same And every person offending herein or that shall not from time to time repaire and amend his or her proportion of the Pavements in such Streets and Ways where they shall be paved shall forfeit forty shillings for every such Offence or Default for every Perch and after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity and the like Sum[m]e for every Weeke till the same be paved or amended and repaired and when paved or amended the like Summe as those that shall not pave and repaire open Streets Lanes and Allyes now paved by vertue of this Act Provided alwayes That such antient Streets Lanes and Alleys within the said places or any of them as by Custome and Usage have beene repaired and paved by any other Order or in any other Manner shall be hereafter repaired paved and maintained in such sort and manner and by such person and persons as have heretofore used to repaire pave and maintaine the same under the Penalties aforesaid any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/2/8/section/VI (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/london-streets-etc-act-1690/section-VI
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