Acts For Lighting, Paving, And Improving The Streets of Carlisle
| In the 44th of George III, A.D. 1804, an act of
Parliament was passed, for lighting the streets, lanes, and other public passages and
places within the city of Carlisle, and for paving the footpaths, and otherwise improving
the said city and suburbs, and commissioners appointed for putting it into execution. The
mayor, aldermen, and councillors, for the time being, are now commissioners of this act.
The commissioners may act as justices of the peace for enforcing the powers and
authorities granted by this act, and they may sue and be sued in the names of their clerk
or treasurer. In order to raise money for the purposes of this act, the commissioners are
empowered to appoint assessors and collectors, to levy a yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly
rate or rates upon the occupiers of property in the city and suburbs, so as not to exceed one
shilling per annum in the pound on the improved yearly rentals, "save and
except" a special rate which was made to defray the expense of removing the walls of
the citadel, which formerly crossed the south-end of English-street, and obstructed the
road into Botcher-gate. The commissioners have power to widen, raise, lower, alter, or
repair the footpaths, at the expense of the owners or occupiers of the houses in the
streets where such alterations may be necessary. And all the footpaths are to be swept
every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, between the hours of eight and ten o'clock in the
morning, by the occupiers, on pain of forfeiting not more than 5s. nor less than 1s. Fines
are also levied on persons who commit nuisances or drive any sort of carriages on the
footpaths. Several of the powers conferred by this act are also possessed by the
commissioners of the police act. Mr. William Jackson is treasurer under the act, and the
clerk to the corporation committee acts as clerk to the commissioners.
Mannix & Whellan, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland, 1847
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29 April 2008
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