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13 & 14 G. 3. C. 22. s. 26. the fines therein for not cleansing the foot way increased,
fines half to prosecutor.
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XV. And whereas by the said act the owner or occupier of every house is required once in every day, as therein set forth, to escape, sweep, and cleanse, or cause to be scraped, swept, and cleansed, the footway all along the front of their respective houses or tenements, or in default thereof shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of one shilling: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the owner or occupier of any house, who shall offend by neglect or otherwise in the premisses, as set forth in the said act, shall forfeit and pay the following sums, that is to say, for the first offence one shilling; for the second two shillings; for the third three shillings; for the fourth four shillings; and for the fifth five shillings; and the said fine of five shillings for every time he shall after so offend; to be recovered in the same manner as all or any of the penalties and forfeitures by the said act imposed are made recoverable: and it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, or any seven or more of them, to give and apply said fines, as also all other fines levied by virtue of this and the said former act, or any part of them, (not exceeding one half of the sum so levied) to the person or persons who shall inform and prosecute to the recovery of such fine any such offender or offenders, and the residue of the said fine or fines towards the purposes of the said act.
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