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<FIGDESC>arms</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>By the Mayor.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>To the Alderman of the Ward of <GAP DESC="blank"> </HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas according to the directions of a late Ordinance made, among&s;t other things, for reforming the great defects in &s;treets and pavements, Scavengers have been lately cho&s;en within the &s;everal Pari&s;hes of your Ward, and accordingly &s;worn to execute that office: To the end there|fore that the &s;aid &s;everall Scavingers within your Ward may diligently apply them&s;elves to the execution of their office, and that none may pre|tend ignorance of their duty; The&s;e are to de&s;ire you that you cau&s;e &s;peedy notice to be given by &s;ending of copies of this Precept to the &s;everall Scavengers of the Pari&s;hes within your Ward, that they forthwith under the penalties mentioned in the &s;aid Or|dinance &s;peedily take an exact view of all the &s;treets and lanes within their re&s;pe|ctive Pari&s;hes, and thereupon con&s;ider what defects are within their re&s;pective Pari&s;hes by defective Pavements, or by the Channels and Water-cour&s;es not having a good current, and what nu&s;ances are committed by &s;uffering Lay&s;tals, heaps of dirt and filth to lie in any Streets or Allies, and whether the &s;aid Mi&s;chiefs are occa&s;i|oned by the neglect of any particular per&s;ons, and by them proper to be remedied, or whether the &s;ame abu&s;es or any of them be fit for the whole Pari&s;h to contribute to the amendment of; and in that ca&s;e what reparations will be needful to be made, and what &s;umme of money will be nece&s;&s;ary to be rai&s;ed for amending the &s;ame. And that the &s;aid Scavengers do after &s;uch view give publick notice (if the &s;ame have not been already done) to the Pari&s;honers to meet for the making of an A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement (if need require) by a pound rate upon all occupiers of Hou&s;es, Lands, or other hereditaments according to the true yearly value thereof, and upon dead goods, commodities, or &s;tock in Trade, of every Pari&s;honer rated to the poor; rating twenty &s;hillings goods to twenty pounds <HI>per Ann.</HI> land, &s;o as all the rates together exceed not in one year <HI>12. d. per pound,</HI> according to the directions of the &s;aid Ordinance. Which rate being &s;o from time to time made and collected, is to be laid out for the publick charge of clean&s;ing and carrying away the &s;oyl and filth, and for making the watercour&s;es and channels &s;o that the current may free|ly pa&s;&s;e, and not to make any rate or disbur&s;e any money for the reforming of defective pavements, but that the &s;ame are expected to be duly, and from time to time repaired by particular per&s;ons, who according to the Law and cu&s;tom of this City are to repair the &s;ame upon pain of incurring &s;uch fines and penalties as by Law are to be inflicted upon the offenders. And that the &s;aid &s;everall Scavengers do take notice that at the time afore&s;aid, or at &s;ome other convenient time before the next publick Se&s;&s;ions to be kept for this City, they do not fail to &s;ummon the Inhabitants of their &s;everall Pari&s;hes to meet together, who according to the fourteenth Article of the &s;aid Ordinance, are to make and &s;et down &s;uch Rules and Orders as the &s;aid Pari&s;honers &s;o met &s;hall think meet for the particulars aforementioned, or in any thing tending to the reformation of the premi&s;&s;es; which Orders together with the Rates aforementioned are to be by the re&s;pective Scavengers delivered to me in writing before the fir&s;t day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> next, to the intent the &s;ame may be pre&s;ented at the next publick Se&s;&s;ions for the Peace to be holden for this City, that thereupon &s;uch proceedings may be had as &s;hall be ju&s;t. And hereof fail you not.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated</HI> <DATE><HI>the eight and twentieth day of June 1654.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sadler.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed by <HI>James Fle&s;her,</HI> Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON.</P>
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