Report from Select Committee on Metropolis Sewers : with minutes of evidence, and an appendix.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Metropolis Sewers.
- Date:
- [1834]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report from Select Committee on Metropolis Sewers : with minutes of evidence, and an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![16] II. Westminster and part of Middlesex District. 7.—SIZE of Small Sewers. AT a Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the County of Middlesex, 17th December 1824; Ordered, That when any small sewers, less than the ordinary size, shall be allowed, they shall be built according to the following representation; viz. of the Sewer. with a current of not less than one-eighth of an inch to each foot in length, (excepting where it shall be ordered otherwise by the Commissioners); and that such sewers be built with good, hard, sound and well-burnt stock bricks, to be laid in well-compounded mortar, made of good strong stone lime and clean river sand, and to be in every respect of the best work¬ manship, having the bricks in each arch well bonded together, and the bricks of the arch at the bottom of the sewer laid close and even on the upper surface. „ , „ „ By order of the Court, Sewer’s Office, ^ J No. 1, Greek-street, Soho-square.J John Houseman, Clerk. 8.—INSPECTION of New Sewers. AT a Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the County of Middlesex, 18 November 1825; Ordered, That whenever leave shall be given in future for building a sewer less than 100 feet in length, that 20 feet only shall be built, and be left uncovered with earth, both at the top and sides, until inspected by the Commissioners’ surveyor, who, on approval thereof, is authorized to allow a further length of 20 feet to be built, subject to a similar inspection and approval; and so on progressively, until the whole length mentioned in the petition shall be completed. And that, whenever the length of a sewer to be built shall be 100 feet or more, the same shall be built in lengths of only 50 feet each, subject to a similar inspection and approval. By order of the Court, • John Houseman, Clerk. 9.—Regulations in regard to the laying of Drains from private Premises into the Public Sewers. That no drains shall be laid into a public sewer, without a special leave for that purpose from the Commissioners. That when such leave shall be obtained, the opening into the sewer shall be made, and the drain built, for a length of three feet from the sewer, according to a plan and section approved by the Commissioners; the whole to be done by a workman to be employed by the Commissioners, and paid by the party requiring the drain, at the prices under¬ mentioned : For cutting through the springing wall of a sewer, putting in a cemented brick ring, and soundly underpinning; the wall round the same, the sum of 10 s. Qd. for each opening. For building a length of 3 feet 4 inches of g-inch barrel drain, with proper York keel stone, sound stock bricks and blue lias lime mortar, the sum of 10 s. for each such length of drain. ror the same length of 12-inch barrel drain, 12s. 6d. The digging to be done at the expense of the party requiring the drain; and notice to be given at the office of the Commissioners when the excavation shall have been made, in order that an officer may attend, and that a workman may be sent to do the required works. That](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30459205_0216.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
