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Grates, cellars, or other encroachments to be closed or removed.
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57. It shall be lawful for such commissioners, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to cause any penthouse, bow window, sign or sign post, or irons or fences, or grates, or any cellar or other underground apartment, or any stairs or opening into such apartment, or any other thing, encroaching upon or projecting into any street, lane, square, or passage, which may seem dangerous to passengers, to be removed, altered, closed up, or grated over, or otherwise sufficiently secured; and for such purposes it shall be lawful for such commissioners to require any alteration to be made, in such manner as they may deem fit, and within such time as they shall appoint, by written order, signifying their desire in such respect, and subscribed by the chairman and clerk of the commissioners for the time being, issued and expressed to be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at a meeting of such commissioners, and delivered to the occupier of the premises causing such encroachment, if the same be occupie, and if not occupie, then and in such case to the owner of such premises, if resident within the same city, town corporate, borough, or town, and if not resident within the same, and if the premises be unoccupied, then and in such case affixed on some part of the same premises; and if any such alteration shall not be made, done, or performed, agreeably to such order, within the time therein specified, it shall be lawful for such commissioners to cause the same to be made, done, and performed, and to levy the expences thereof, together with the costs of distress, upon any goods and chattels found upon such premises, or upon the goods and chattels of the owner wheresoever found; and every such distress shall be made in like manner as by this Act is directed in the case of distress for assessments remaining unpaid, and with and subject to the like powers and regulations.
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