Section VII Charges of cleansing, &c.

Streets, how raised.; Election of Scavengers.; Persons elected, and confirmed by Justices of Peace, refusing to serve; Penalty £10.; Other Persons chosen and refusing, the like Penalty.; Penalties paid to Surveyor of Highways.; How levied.; Distress.; Imprisonment.

And for the better raising and levying of Monyes to defray the Charges and pay the Wages of the said Scavengers Rakers and other Officers imployed in cleansing of the Streets and other Places aforesaid and carrying away the said Ashes Dirt Filth and Soile Bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That within the Parishes of Saint Anne and Saint James within the Liberty of Westminster the Scavengers Rakers and such like Officers shall be chosen as by the said respective Acts is directed and appointed And the Rates Taxes and Assessments for Scavengers Rakers and such like Officers Wages for cleansing the Streets shall be rated taxed and assessed raised and paid by the Parishioners and Inhabitants of those respective Parishes according to the Custome and Usage of the said City where it is not otherwise in the said Acts provided and enacted And the Receivers of all such Moneys shall be accountable in such manner as they now are by the said Acts or otherwise by the Law in case there is noe Provision for the same thereby appointed And all new Messuages Tenements and Houses now or at any time hereafter built and erected within the Limitts and Parishes aforesaid shall be likewise rated taxed and assessed and shall pay proportionable with others And in all other X1Parishes and Places aforesaid upon every Munday or Tuesday in Easter Weeke the Constables Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poore and Surveyours of the Highwayes of every of the said Parishes and Places respectively or the greater number of them giveing Notice unto or calling together such other ancient Inhabitants of their respective Parishes as according to the Custome of the said Parishes or Places are usually present at the Election of Parish Officers they or the greater number of them present shall make choice of and shall nominate and appoint two or more able persons that are Tradesmen of their Parish to be Scavengers for the Streets Lanes and Alleys and other open Passages of each Ward and Division within their said Parish for the yeare then next ensueing and untill others be chosen and setled in their Places which persons soe chosen and being approved and confirmed under the Hand of any two Justices of the Peace within their respective Limitts and Jurisdictions shall within seven dayes after their Election and Confirmation and Notice thereof take that Office and Duty upon them upon paine to forfeit ten pounds for every Refuser respectively and in case of refusall by any person or persons soe chosen and confirmed then other able persons shall be chosen and confirmed in manner aforesaid within seven dayes after such Refusall in the place of him or them which shall soe refuse And the person or persons soe chosen and confirmed and haveing Notice thereof shall undergoe the like paine of ten pounds in case of Refusall or not takeing upon him or them the said Office or Duty within seven dayes after he or they shall be chosen and confirmed and have Notice thereof as aforesaid The said Penalties to be paid to the Surveyors of the Highwayes of the place and disposed of and imployed by them for and towards the mending and repairing of the Highwayes and Streets of the same Parish Ward or Division and to be levyed by Distresse and Sale of the Goods and Chattells of the Offenders by Warrant under the Hand and Scale of any one Justice of Peace of any of the Places aforesaid to be directed to the Constables or other Officers of the same Parish or any two or more of them rendering the Overplus to the Partie (reasonable Charges for the Distresse onely to be deducted) And in default of Distresse or Nonpayment within six dayes after Demand thereof or Notice left in Writeing at the House or Dwelling place of the Offender by the said Constables or Officers respectively the said Offender to be committed to the Common Gaole of the said County City or Place respectively by the Warrant of any such Justice under his Hand and Seale there to remaine without Baile or Mainprize untill Payment be thereof made as aforesaid And soe in like manner for every person or persons neglecting or refuseing the same