Metropolis Management Act 1855

CXXV Vestries and District Boards, to appoint Seavengers.

It shall be lawful for every Vestry and District Board and they are hereby required to appoint and employ a sufficient Number of Persons, or to contract with any Company or Persons, for the sweeping and cleansing of the several Streets within their Parish or District, and for collecting and removing all Dirt, Ashes, Rubbish, Ice, Snow, and Filth, and for the cleansing out and emptying of Privies and Cesspools, Sewers and Drains, in or under Houses and Places within their Parish or District; and such Company or Persons are herein-after referred to as Scavengers; and such Scavengers or their Servants shall, on such Days and at such Hours and in such Manner as the Vestry or District Board shall from Time to Time appoint, sufficiently execute and perform all such Works and Duties as they respectively are employed or contract to execute or perform; and if any such Company or Person fail in any respect properly to execute and perform such Works and Duties such Company or Person shall for every such Offence forfeit a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds.