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<HEAD>ACT Anent the clean&s;ing of the Streets, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred</HI></P>
<P>FOra&s;much, as the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">, and Council of this City, have <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> for clean&s;ing the City, whole Streets, Vennels and Clo&s;&s;es thereof, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Muck, Fuil&yogh;ie, and Excrements; who is therby obliged to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> all the Muck, Fuil&yogh;ie, and Excre|ments <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> down in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and Clo&s;&s;es each Week-day before <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Clock in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> the Council, con&s;idering, that notwith|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> a moderat way, for pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Excrements, and A&s;hes, over the Windows and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> upon the Streets, Vennels, and Clo&s;&s;es within the City, to prevent the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> thereof, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;mell therein; yet the&s;e endeavours have hitherto <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> albeit they have puni&s;hed the per&s;ons guilty by Impri&s;onment, and otherwayes. The&s;e are therefore to di&s;charge all the Families within this Ci|ty, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Filth, Excrements, A&s;hes, or foul Water, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Window, or <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, in any place upon the High-&s;treets, Clo&s;&s;es, or Vennels within the City, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> or right, under the Penalty of Thirty <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Ma&s;ters, or Mi&s;tri&s;&s;es of any <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, in any of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> within the Bounds fore&s;aid where the a|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> shall be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> their <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> off the Family that &s;hall be guilty of the abu&s;e and the Ma&s;ters of these Families are to retain their Servants Fees till <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">: Which Fines is to be exacted <HI>toties quoties,</HI> as they &s;hall be found guilty, but favour; and are to be di&s;po&s;ed of, the one half for the u&s;e of the Poor, and the other half to the Di&s;coverer that &s;hall be appointed by the Coun|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> the &s;ight of the Magi&s;trats; and the per&s;ons found guilty are to be Impri|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> plea&s;ure. And <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, the Council hereby <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and Di&s;charges all Per&s;ons within this Ci|ty to lay down any Muck, Ful&yogh;ie, Excrements, or A&s;hes, upon any part of the Streets, Vennels, or Clo&s;&s;es within the &s;ame, after Eight Hours in the Morning, till Eight Hours at Night in the Winter time, and Ten Hours at Night in the Sum|mer time, upon any Week day, e&s;pecially upon the <HI>Saturday,</HI> and from Eight Hours in the Morning that day, till <HI>Monday</HI> Morning, they are to lay down no Muck, Fuil&yogh;ie, Excrements, nor A&s;hes, which mu&s;t be laid down upon the Streets in the places app<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ed before <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> in the Morning; certifying &s;uch per&s;ons that &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> this Statu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> and Ordinance, they &s;hall be lyable in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> fore&s;aid, which to be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> from them, and applyed in man|ner fore&s;aid, and their per&s;on are to be puni&s;hed at the will of the Magi&s;trats.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extracted by me, <HI>JO: RICHARDSONE.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh.</HI> Printed by the H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, City and College, 1685.</P>
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