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20.—In streets in which at the site of any such proposed crossing there is no such kerbing as in the last preceding section mentioned the crossing over the channel shall be such suitable single wheel there is no bridge as shall leave a free passage for the water underneath the same and shall be of such materials form length size strength and fall as shall have been respectively appointed by some regulation in that behalf and the Surface of such crossing so far as the footway extends shall be so made good by paving macadamising gravelling or otherwise that the necessary traffic by animals or vehicles over the same shall not cause any damage thereto but that such crossing shall be as sound and commodious for the passage of persons using the footway as the other portions of such footway adjoining such crossing.

21.—No person making any crossing shall be deemed guilty of an offence by reason only of some departure in making such crossing from the notice or specification relating thereto unless the officer of the council appointed as hereinbefore provided to inspect the making of the crossings shall have reported in writing such departure to the council within three days after the same shall have occurred and unless such person being served by the council within three days after such report with a notice so to do shall for the space of seven clear days after such notice have failed to correct or supply such departure....

22.—If any crossing shall have been made in any respect contrary to this sub-division or any regulation in force hereunder it shall be lawful for the council if they shall see fit to cause the same to be altered so as to conform to this sub-division and to such regulation respectively and to recover in manner in this Act elsewhere provided the expenses of such alteration from the owner of the land to which such crossing shall lead but they shall not so recover in those cases of departure from the notice or specification which the council or their officer might respectively have given notice of or reported but failed to give notice of or report respectively in manner and within the time provided in the preceding sections thereof.

23.—If any private street shall meet at an angle the footway of any public street and there shall be no crossing upon and across such footway and the channel adjacent thereto from such private street to such public street it shall be lawful for the council if they shall see fit to make in accordance with any regulation in force in that behalf a crossing upon and over such footway and channel of the description hereinbefore provided with respect to other crossings and to recover from the owner of each of the tenements abutting on such private street such portion of the expenses of such making as shall bear to the whole of such expenses the same proportion as the rateable value of all the tenements so abutting.

24.—If any crossing across or over any footway or channel to any land or way appurtenant thereto or to any private street shall have been made before the coming into operation of this sub-division in the borough but shall in any respect not be in accordance with any regulation made hereunder the council may if they shall see fit cause the same to be altered so as to conform to such regulation and if such crossing shall have been made contrary to any by-law in force at the time of making the same the council may recover the expenses of such alteration in manner in the last two preceding sections mentioned according as one or the other may be applicable to the case.

25.—If any crossing shall be out of repair and the person liable hereunder to maintain or repair the same shall for seven days after notice from the council to that effect neglect properly and completely to repair the same he shall forfeit for every day that such crossing shall remain so unrepaired a sum of forty shillings and the council may if they shall see fit effect such repair and recover the same from such persons before any justice.

26.—It shall be lawful for the council from time to time to make regulations for all or any of the purposes following that is to say—

For regulating the width depression and inclination of crossings across or over footways and channels and the materials for making and constructing the same the mode of laying and bedding such materials the length width size strength and fall of bridge crossings and the said inclination and fall either absolutely or with relation to the levels inclination or fall of the footway or channel or otherwise in like manner.

5.—Deposit or discharge of Rubbish Liquid, etc. on Streets, etc.

27.—Every person who causes to run from any manufactory or any establishment for the boiling or preparing of any animal matter or any brewery slaughterhouse butcher’s shop or any dunghill or other receptacle or from any inn into or upon any street public or private or any footway or channel and every occupier of any land or premises who causes or permits to run from such land or premises into or upon any such street footway or channel any offensive liquid or matter shall for every day during which any such liquid or matter shall so run forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

28.—Every person who unless where authorised by or under some Act now or hereafter to be in force shall cause any sludge made in the process of washing earth for gold or otherwise to flow or run into or upon any street public or private or any footway or channel shall for every day during which any such sludge shall flow or run forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.