It compensated
those with encroachments of over 30 years. It assessed inhabitants
of such streets 16d. per square yard from the front of their
building to the center of the street. Women continued to empty
their pails and pans outside their doors and did their washing on
stools in the streets. There was a penalty of 5d. for throwing
filth in front of one's house, and 20d. for throwing it elsewhere
in the streets. Scavengers and rakers could lodge their coal
ashes, dust, dirt, and other filth in such vacant public places as
the commission deemed convenient for accommodating country carts
returning otherwise empty after their loads were sold.
However, this system did not work because people would not pay
their assessments. So there was a return to the former system of
requiring citizens to sweep and clean the streets in front of
their buildings twice a week and keep the filth until a scavenger
or raker came. The penalty for not doing so was 3s.4d., later
raised to 10s. Any one throwing coal ashes, dust, dirt, rubbish,
or dung onto the streets or lanes incurred a fine of 5s. There was
a fine of 20s. for hooping or washing any pipes or barrels in any
lane or open passage or repairing coaches, sawing wood, or
chiseling stones in the streets. Pigs kept in or about one's house
had to be forfeited.
One way that people traveled was to be carried in sedan chairs
held up by two horizontal poles with one man at the front ends and
another man in back.
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