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Building materials, &c. on carriage or footways, unless inclosed, removed in 2 days after notice,
penalty 10s.
sold, if not claimed and payment in 5 days
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XXI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons shall at any time or times hereafter set or place, or cause to be set or placed, in any of the carriage ways or foot ways within the limits aforesaid any casks, package, timber, stones, wheels, bricks, lime, sand, mortar, or wood, or any other material or thing whatsoever for the purposes of making mortar, or of building any house, shop, ware-house, coach-house, stable, or tenement, or for any other purpose (unless the same shall be inclosed in a paling or erection, as herein after is directed) and shall not remove the same within the space of two days next after notice to him or her given for that purpose, or left at the premises where the same shall be, or if empty or unoccupied, or in building, stuck against the wall thereof by any one of such commissioners as aforesaid, or by any person or persons by five or more of them appointed for that purpose; every person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten shillings, and any one of such commissioners, or any person or persons so appointed by them, may seize or cause to be seized such cask, package, timber, stones, wheels, bricks, lime, sand, mortar, wood, or other materials or things (not being inclosed as aforesaid) and take or remove, or cause the same to be taken or removed, to the store yard or place for keeping materials for the works of the division, wherein such seizure shall be made, there to be kept and detained until the owner or owners thereof, or his, her, or their known servant or servants Shall and do pay to the persons, in whose custody the same shall be, the said penalty, together with the charges of removing the same; and in case the same shall not be claimed, and the said penalty and charges paid, within the space of five days next after such seizure thereof, then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, or any five or more of them, to order the same to be appraised and sold, and the money arising therefrom shall be applied to the purposes of this act.
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