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Streets.
Encroachments or nuisances altered or removed;
on neglect for 31 days, sheriff may employ workmen, and levy the charge.
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LXI. And whereas many encroachments are made, and nuisances erected in the several streets and lanes in the said city of Waterford, and suburbs thereof, to the great annoyance of the inhabitants thereof: be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the twenty ninth day of September aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said mayor or sheriffs of the said city of Waterford for the time being, to remove all encroachments or nuisances in making doors or stairs of cellars projecting into the streets or lanes, by delivering an order in writing to the respective tenants and occupiers of the respective houses and cellars, setting forth and directing in what manner all such doors, stairs, and passages that are encroachments or nuisances in such streets or lanes shall be altered, or in what manner set back, or to remove all encroachments or nuisances of shop windows, window-shutters, frames, pent-houses, sheds, or standings in and upon such streets or lanes; and in cafe the chief tenant or occupier of such cellars, and the owners and occupiers of such houses, shops, and cellars, shall refuse or neglect to comply with such directions of the mayor or sheriffs, or refuse to remove, or cause to be removed, all such encroachments and nuisances for the space of thirty one days after such order as aforesaid, in such case it shall and may be then lawful for the mayor or sheriffs of the said city, to employ workmen, and to alter, remove, or take away the same, and to compel the said tenants, occupiers or owners to pay all the charges thereof, by distress and sale of their goods, to be levied by warrant under the hand and seal of the said mayor.
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