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Execution of minor Works by Overseers, &c.
As to Construction of Sewers, Wells, Pumps, &c. for Parishes, &c. with less than 2,000 Inhabitants, and in which this Act is not otherwise applied.
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L. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear to a Majority of not less than Three Fifths of the rated Inhabitants of any Parish or Place containing less than Two thousand Inhabitants on the then last Census, in which this Act shall not have been applied by Order in Council or Provisional Order as aforesaid, assembled at a Public Meeting to be called as is herein-after provided, that it would contribute to the Health and Convenience of the Inhabitants that any Pond, Pool, open Ditch, Sewer, Drain, or Place containing or used for the Collection of any Drainage, Filth, Water, Matter, or Thing of an offensive Nature, or likely to be prejudicial to Health, should be drained, cleansed, covered, or filled up, or that a Sewer should be made or improved, a Well dug, or a Pump provided, for the public Use of Inhabitants, the Churchwardens and Overseers of such Parish or Place shall procure a Plan and an Estimate of the Cost of executing such Works, or any of them, and shall lay the same before another public Meeting of such rated Inhabitants, to be called as is herein-after provided; and if the same shall be approved and sanctioned by a Majority of the rated Inhabitants assembled at such last-mentioned Meeting, such Churchwardens and Overseers shall cause the Works in respect of which such Estimate shall have been made and sanctioned as aforesaid to be executed, and shall pay the Cost thereof out of the Poor Rates of such Parish or Place: Provided always, that Notice of every such Meeting shall be given by such Churchwardens and Overseers as is by this Act directed to be given by Superintending Inspectors, before proceeding upon Inquiries previously to the Application of this Act, and every such Notice shall also contain a Statement of the Works proposed or intended to be submitted for Consideration and Approval.
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