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Night soil not taken away before 11 at night or after 5 in the morning,
nor cast into streets, &c.
any one may take offender to the watch house,
conveyed before a mad gistrate,
to bridewell not above 1 month, nor under 2 days,
9 commissioners to order reward not above 2 cs. nor under 5s.
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XXV. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons shall empty any bog-house or bog-houses, or take away any night soil from any house or houses within any of the said five divisions, or the said two divisions hereby added, before the hour of eleven o’clock in the night, or shall continue to take away such soil after the hour of five in the morning, or if any person or persons shall put or cast any such soil, or wilfully or negligently permit the same to turn out of any car, cart, tub, pail, or otherwise into any of the streets, lanes quays, bridges, squares, courts, alleys, or places in the said divisions, then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful to and for any constable, beadle, or watchman (and the, and each and every of them, is hereby required and injoined so to do) and to and for every or any other person or persons whomsoever, to apprehend the person or persons so offending, and to carry him, her, or them to the watch-house in the parish, wherein such offender shall be so taken up (the constable or keeper whereof respectively are hereby required to take such offender or offenders into custody) and thereafter, as soon as conveniently may be, to convey him, her, or them before one or more of the justices of the peace for the said city, who upon said offence or offences respectively being proved before him upon oath or oaths of the person or persons apprehending or others (which oath such justice or justices is and are hereby required and empowered to administer) shall and may commit such offender or offenders to the bridewell of the said city for any time not exceeding one month, nor left than two days, there to be kept to hard labour; and the said commissioners, or any nine or more of them, are hereby authorized to order any sum not exceeding twenty shillings, nor less than five shillings, to be paid out of the said rates, to be raised by virtue of this and the said former act, to the person or persons by whom the said offender or offenders shall be so detected, apprehended, and conveyed to such watch-house as aforesaid, as a reward for his or their trouble.
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