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Power to compel paving, &c. of private Streets.
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LXIX. And be it enacted, That in case any present or future Street, or any Part thereof, (not being a Highway,) be not sewered, levelled, paved, flagged, and channelled to the Satisfaction of the Local Board of Health, such Board may, by Notice in Writing to the respective Owners or Occupiers of the Premises fronting, adjoining, or abutting upon such Parts thereof as may require to be sewered, levelled, paved, flagged, or channelled, require them to sewer, level, pave, flag, or channel the same within a Time to be specified in such Notice; and if such Notice be not complied with, the said Local Board may, if they shall think fit, execute the Works mentioned or referred to therein; and the Expenses incurred by them in so doing shall be paid by the Owners in default, according to the Frontage of their respective Premises, and in such Proportion as shall be settled by the Surveyor, or in case of Dispute as shall be settled by Arbitration (having regard to all the Circumstances of the Case) in the Manner provided by this Act; and such Expenses may be recovered from the last-mentioned Owners in a summary Manner, or the same may be declared by Order of the said Local Board to be Private Improvement Expenses, and be recoverable as such in the Manner herein-after provided.
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