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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 98

Penalty for obstructing scavengers.

98. The commissioners may from time to time fix the hours within which only it
shall be lawful to empty privies or remove offensive matter within the limits
of the special Act; and when the commissioners have fixed such hours, and
given public notice thereof, every person who within the limits of the special
Act empties or begins to empty any privy, or removes along any thoroughfare
within the said limits any offensive matter, at any time except within the
hours so fixed, and also every person who at any time, whether such hours have
been fixed by the commissioners or not, uses for any such purpose any cart or
carriage not having a covering proper for preventing the escape of the
contents of such cart, or of the stench thereof, or who wilfully slops or
spills any such offensive matter in the removal thereof, or who does not
carefully sweep and clean every place in which any such offensive matter has
been placed, or unavoidably slopped or spilled, shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding [#2]; and in default of the apprehension of the actual offender
the driver or person having the care of the cart or carriage employed for any
such purpose shall be deemed to be the offender.

And with respect to the prevention of nuisances:

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