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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![64] V. Tower Hamlets District. A similar Account of Attendances for the Year 1833. DATE- Number. Amount. DATE. Number. Amount. £. s. £. s. Jan. 15 Committee 7 1 8 Aug. 24 Committee 6 1 4 18 Ditto and Court 40 8 - 27 Ditto and Court 18 3 12 Feb. 12 Ditto - ditto 23 4 12 Oct. 4 Ditto - ditto 25 5 — 26 Committee 7 1 8 18 Ditto - ditto- 28 5 12 March 1 Ditto 7 1 8 Nov. 16 Committee 6 1 4 5 Ditto and Court 23 4 12 !9 Ditto and Court 22 4 8 19 Committee 8 1 12 Dec. *7 Ditto - ditto 18 3 12 26 Ditto and Court 21 4 4 April 16 Committee 7 1 8 83 12 19 Ditto and Court 33 6 12 May 7 Ditto - ditto *7 3 8 14 Committee 7 1 8 Amount paid - - - £. 195 10 21 Ditto and Court 20 4 - 83 12 June 11 Ditto - ditto 20 4 _. July 5 Ditto - ditto 20 4 — Difference - - - £. 111 18 19 Ditto - ditto 35 7 John William Unwin, Clerk. 5.—Presentment for Making Rates. Spitalfields and Wrapping Level. Notice is hereby given, that a jury of Sewers, chosen from the county of Middlesex, duly sworn at a Court of Sewers for the Tower Hamlets, (excluding St. Katharine’s and Blackwall Marsh,) holden on the 15th day of July 1831, at the office of Sewers, Great Alie- street, to inquire, for our Sovereign Lord the King, of the defects of the walls, ditches, sewers, and other defences against the waters in the Spitalfields and Wapping Level, within the limits aforesaid, Did, at a Court of Sewers for the limits aforesaid, holden on the 26th day'of August in the present year, deliver into Court their presentment, upon oath, and thereby did then and there present the several owners and occupiers of lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises in the several parishes of St. John at Hackney, St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, Christ Church, St. Mary, Whitechapel, the hamlets of Mile End Old Town and Mile End New Town; the parishes of St. George, St. John of Wapping, St. Paul Shadwell, the hamlet of Ratcliff, the parishes of St. Ann, St. Leonard, Bromley, and All Saints, Poplar, in the Spitalfields and Wapping Level, as receiving benefit, or avoiding damage, by the support, maintenance, reparation, reformation and amendment of the sewers of the said level within the limits of the said Tower Hamlets; and notice is hereby further given, that the Commissioners, at an adjourned Court of Sewers, to be holden for the limits aforesaid, on Friday the 23d day of September now next ensuing, at one o’clock in the afternoon precisely, at the Office of Sewers aforesaid, will make a rate for defraying the charges and expenses of the support, maintenance, reparation, reformation and amendment of the sewers of the said level, the works done and to be done in, upon, and about the same, and the incidental expenses of the commission, charging all persons who are presented by the said jury, as receiving benefit or avoiding damage by the support, maintenance, reparation, reformation and amendment of the sewers of the said level* and whose names are respectively mentioned and contained in certain schedules to the said presentment an¬ nexed, at which time and place any person or persons who may be so advised may appear and traverse the said presentment, or any part thereof. Dated this 26th day of August 1831, John William Unwin, Office of Sewers, • \ Clerk to the said Commissioners. Great Alie-street, Goodman’s Fields. J 6.—(In Chancery)—JUDGMENT of the Vice-Chancellor in the Cause Leach and Others against Sir Daniel Williams and Others, delivered at Lincoln’s-Inn Hall, on Tuesday the 30th July 1822. Vice-Chancellor.—There are some facts here that admit of no dispute. It admits of no dispute, for no one has ventured to deny it; and it appears on the presentments of three several juries that, in consequence of the great increase of buildings in the Commercial Jload and the neighbourhood of the Docks, that the actually existing drains are insufficient](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30459205_0264.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
