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31. No person shall execute or begin
    or continue to execute any such work as
    in the last preceding section mentioned
    without having given to the Board such
    notice as therein provided, or until the
    expiration of forty-eight hours after
    giving the same, and every person
    offending against the provisions of this
    section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
    five pounds for every day upon which he
    shall so offend.

32. It shall be lawful for the Board,
    having received any such notice as aforesaid, to grant if it shall seem fit to them
    to the person having given such notice,
    upon payment by him of the sum of five
    shillings, a license in the appointed form
    under the hand of the Chairman of the
    Board authorizing such person to construct such stage and scaffolding as the
    proper officer of the Board to be appointed
    in that behalf shall require or permit, and
    to deposit building and other materials and
    building rubbish upon or across in each
    of the cases aforesaid so much of the footway adjoining or in front of the site of
    the intended work, and so much of the
    street adjoining such footway and to keep
    and continue the said stage scaffolding
    and materials or rubbish so constructed
    or deposited respectively for such time
    respectively as shall seem fit to the said
    Board and be specified in the said license,
    and the Board may if it shall seem fit
    renew such license or grant a fresh
    license to such person from time to time,
    and such person may thereupon from
    time to time do the said acts according to
    the tenor of such license.

33. Every person who shall intend to
    build or take down, or cause to be built
    or taken down any building or other
    structure whether over or under ground,
    or to alter or repair or cause to be altered
    or repaired the outward part of any such
    structure within in any of the cases aforesaid ten feet of any street or footway, or
    who shall have a license for constructing
    any stage or scaffolding, or depositing any
    building or other materials or building
    rubbish upon or across any footway or
    street shall, before beginning to execute
    such work or to do such act cause to be
    put up so as to separate from the street
    and from the remainder (if any) of the
    footway so much of the premises where
    the work is to be executed as fronts the
    site of such work and the area upon
    which according to the license such stage
    or scaffolding is to be constructed or such
    materials or rubbish are to be deposited,
    such sufficient hoards or fences together
    with such convenient platform or handrail if there be room enough to serve as
    a footway for passengers outside of such
    hoard or fence as shall be respectively
    approved by such officer as the Board
    shall have appointed in that behalf, and
    shall continue such hoard or fence with
    standing and in good condition to the
    satisfaction of such officer during the
    time limited as aforesaid in the said
    license or the last renewal thereof, and
    for such longer time as the public safety
    or convenience requires, and shall in all
    cases in which it is necessary in order to
    prevent accidents cause the same to be
    sufficiently lighted from sunset to sunrise
    and shall remove such hoard fence platform and handrail and make good the
    footway and street within a reasonable
    time after the provisions of this section
    have been fulfilled.

34. Every person who executes, or
    begins or continues to execute any such
    work as in the last section mentioned, or
    who being licensed thereto constructs or
    begins or continues to construct any such
    stage or scaffolding or deposits or keeps
    deposited any such material or rubbish
    upon or across any footway or street
    without having in any of the cases aforesaid put up such hoard or fence or such
    platform with such handrail as aforesaid
    or continuing the same respectively standing and in good condition as aforesaid
    during the time aforesaid, or without
    keeping the said hoard fence platform or
    rail and each part thereof respectively
    while the same are standing sufficiently
    lighted from sunset to sunrise, or without
    removing the same within such reasonable time as aforesaid, or without making
    good the footway and street after such
    removal, shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and
    a further penalty not exceeding forty
    shillings for every day while such default
    is continued.

35. Every person licensed as herein
    mentioned to construct any stage or
    scaffolding, or to deposit any material or
    rubbish, shall remove within a reasonable
    time after the time limited as aforesaid
    in such license or in the last renewal
    thereof all such stage scaffolding materials and rubbish, and shall make good
    the footway and street, and if any such
    person shall fail in any such case to comply with this section he shall forfeit a
    sum not exceeding five pounds, and a
    further penalty not exceeding forty shillings
    for every day while such default is continued.

36. Nothing herein contained shall render
    it lawful to construct any stage or
    scaffolding, or to deposit any materials or
    rubbish, or to put up any hoarding or
    fence platform or handrail as aforesaid,
    or all or any of them so that the
    same shall extend or be across or over or
    upon any street further from the inner
    edge of the footway than one-third of the
    whole breadth of such street, or in any
    case so as to render the street exclusive
    of the footways impassable for carriages
    or so as to obstruct the channel.

37. If any person who ought under
    this subdivision to remove any matter or