Metropolis Management Act 1855

CV Provisions for paving new Streets.

In ease the Owners of the Houses forming the greater Part of any new Street laid out or made or hereafter to be laid out or made, which is not paved to the Satisfaction of the Vestry or District Board of the Parish or District in which such Street is situate, be desirous of having the same paved, as herein-after mentioned, or if such Vestry or Board deem it necessary or expedient that the same should be so paved, then and ill either of such Cases such Vestry or Board shall well and sufficiently pave the same, either throughout the whole Breadth of the Carriageway and Footpaths thereof, or any Part of such Breadth, and from Time to Time keep such Pavement in good and sufficient Repair ; and the Owners of the Houses forming such Street shall, on Demand, pay to such Vestry or Board the Amount of the estimated Expenses of providing and laying such Pavement (such Amount to be determined by the Surveyor for the Time being of the Vestry or Board) ; and in case such estimated Expenses exceed the actual Expenses of such paving, then the Difference between such estimated Expenses and such actual Expenses shall be repaid by the said Vestry or Board to the Owners of Houses by whom the said Sum of Money has been paid ; and in case the said estimated Expenses be less than the actual Expenses of such paving, then the Owners of the said Houses shall, on Demand, pay to the said Vestry or Board such further Sum of Money as, together with the Sum already paid, amounts to such actual Expenses.