Act for the improvement of the city of Edinburgh, and constructing new, and widening, altering, improving and diverting existing streets in the said city ; and for other purposes. 31st May 1867, 30 & 31 Victoriae, Cap. 44. With the incorporated clauses, notes, arrangement of sections, and analytical index.

Date:: 1867

Credit: Act for the improvement of the city of Edinburgh, and constructing new, and widening, altering, improving and diverting existing streets in the said city ; and for other purposes. 31st May 1867, 30 & 31 Victoriae, Cap. 44. With the incorporated clauses, notes, arrangement of sections, and analytical index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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that the said new and substituted Market cannot be completed before the said First of March, Eighteen hundred and sixty- seven : Therefore the said parties hereto have agreed as follows:—Prinio; The Company shall be bound, and hereby bind themselves immediately to bank up the portion south of their Railway of the road which led from Canal Street to Physic Gardens, delineated and coloured brown on the plan signed as relative hereto, and to clear the ground of the west boundary wall of said portion of road so to be levelled, and clear the whole area of all erections, and level it up to the surface of the present Fruit and Vegetable Market, and pro- perly metal the same. Secundo; That the Company shall also fence in on the east side the said portion of road so to be added to the Market, and erect a retaining wall on the south side of the same. Tertio; That instead of the segment (not exceeding Twelve feet at its greatest breadth) which by Article Eleventh of the said Deed of Agreement the Company under- took to give off the circular corner of the station ground ad- joining the present cab entrance at Market Street, for the purpose of being added to and improving the line of Market Street, the Company agree and undertake to give off for the foresaid purpose a triangular piece of ground (eighteen feet at its greatest breadth) extending westwards along Market Street from the said cab entrance, as delineated and coloured green on the plan subscribed with reference hereto, and the Company shall be bound to^ erect a retaining wall along the north side of the said strip, and to fill up or embank to the level of Market Street the space between the said retaining wall and the present line of said street, all at the sight and to the satisfaction of the City Architect for the time ; and the said retaining wall shall be constructed, and embankment formed, and the strip added to Market Street in no event later than the First day of March, Eighteen hundred and sixty- eight. Quarto; The Town Council agree to allow the booths on the south side of the Market to be removed, and the area occupied by them shall be causewayed by the Company, and the old materials of the said booths, as well as the old material of the west wall of the foresaid portion of road, shall remain the property of the Town Council. Quinto; In consideration of the stipulations hereinbefore undertaken by the Company, the

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