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Title: [To all PERSONS concerned in BUILDING.]

Description: To all PERSONS concerned in BUILDING.

BUILDER'S ACT September 21,1772. WHEREAS an Act was made and passed in the last Session of Parliament, instituted, "An Act for the better Regulation of Buildings and Party-Walls within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Liberties thereof, and other the Parishes of St, Mary le Bonne and Paddington, St. Pancras, and St. Luke at Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, and for the better preventing of Mischiefs by Fire within the said Cities, Liberties, Parishes, Precincts, and Places, and for amending and reducing the Laws relating thereto into one Act, and for other Purposes:"

And whereas it is, amongst other Things, in the said Act enacted, "That from and after the 24th Day of June 1772, in all Buildings to be built within the Limits of the said Act, the Rules, Directions, and Restrictions therein prescribed, shall be duly observed by all Persons therein concerned, and that no House or other Building shall thereafter be erected, but such as shall be pursuant to such Rules and Orders of Building as are therein particularly appointed."

And whereas the Builders who solicited for and obtained the said Act, have appointed a Committee to carry the same effectually into Execution, and to proceed against such Persons as have or may offend against the same.

And whereas the said Committee have Reasons to believe, that many Persons offen |through Ignorance of the Law;

They did therefore order, at a Meeting held this Day, that an Abstract of the Rules, Directions, and Restrictions contained in the said Act, be printed in the daily News-Papers, for the Information of all Persons concerned therein, which Abstract is as follows:

"And be it further enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if the Front or Rear Wall of any House or other Building for Habitation, which from and after the said 24th Day of June 1772, shall be erected or built within the Limits aforesaid, shall be built, made, or carried up, otherwise than with Brick or Stone, or Brick and Stone together (except as therein is excepted); or if any such Front Wall shall not be built and carried up from the Foundation of such House or other Building, to the full Height of 18 Inches above the Gutter; or if any such Wall shall not be coped with Stone, Tile, or Brick; or if any such House, or other Building, which shall be erected, shall not have such Party-Wall and Walls, Flank or Side Walls wholly of Brick or Stone, or of Brick and Stone together (except as therein excepted); or if any such Party- Wall, Flank or Side Wall of every House or Building, the Expense of building and finishing of which shall not exceed 120 l. shall be two Bricks and an Half's Length thick in the cellar or lowest Story, and two Bricks Length thick from thence upwards tot the Garret Floor, and from the Garret Floor upwards one Brick and an Half's Length, and shall be carried up 18 Inches above the Roof or Gutters adjoining thereto; and in every House or Tenement the Expence of building and finishing of which shall not exceed 120 l. the Walls shall be carried up to a like Heighth, but may be a Half a Brick's Length less in Thickness than the above; or if any Bricks other than good, found, hard, well- burnt Bricks, shall be laid, put into, or used in any such Party-Wall, Flank or Side Wall; or if any Timber (other than Girders, Binding and Trimming Joists, and Templets under them, and other than necessary found square Bond Timbers; or if any Timber of the Roof (except the Purloins and Kirbs thereof, and Gutter-Plates) shall be laid into any Party-Wall, Flank or Side Wall as aforesaid; or if any Girder, or Binding or Trimming Joist shall be laid into any Party-Wall, more than nine Inches; or if the Ends of any Girders, Binding or Trimming Joists, in any adjoining House or other Buildings, shall meet or be laid opposite to each other; or if the Sides of any Girders, or Binding or Trimming Joists, in any adjoining House or other Building, shall not be of the full Distance of nine Inches from each other; or if there shall not be five Inches in Breadth, at the least, of solid Brick Work left between the Ends of all and every Lentils, Wall Plates, or Bond Timbers; or if any Bow Window, or other Projection, shall be built, made, set up, or affixed to, against, or before any House or other Building fronting to any Street, Lane, or Place, except for the Convenience of a Shop or Shops only; or if any Bow Window, or other Projection, for the Convenience of a Shop or Shops, shall project or extend forward more than five Inches from the Upright of the House or Building, to the Front of the Stall Board in any Street, Lane, or Place, not being 32 Feet wide, or more than 10 Inches from such Upright, to the Front of the Stall-Board in any Street, Lane or Place, which shall be more than 32 Feet wide, or shall be higher than the Top of the Ground Story, or Story next above the Level of the Street, Lane, or Place of the House or other Building, to or against or before which the same shall be made or placed; or if any Roof over any such Projection shall be higher than the Sill of the one Pair of Stairs Window of such last-mentioned House or Building; or if any Timber Building, Erection, or Projection whatever, other than Door Cases, Window Frames, Shutters, Story Posts, Breast Summer Fronts to the Ground Floor Story, and Cornice to the Breast Summer Fronts, shall be built or erected in the Front or Rear, or on the Top of any House or Building; or if any Persons or Persons who shall build against any Party Wall, or End or Side Wall, shall make any Indent of more than four Inches for inserting any Partition-Wall and Jambs of Chimnies therein, or shall make in any adjoining Front Wall an Indent more or deeper than four Inches for the better adjoining of the Front Walls between House and House, or shall cut into any other Part of any such Wall to any greater Depth than five Inches for the laying of Stone Steps into the same, or more than four Inches for laying Stairs or Steps of Wood; or if any Cornice or Projection of Wood, except to Shops, having Breast-Summer Fronts, and to Frontispieces of Doors, and such Bow Windows as are thereby authorised to be made, shall be put or sofferedin any Front or Rear Wall of any House or other Building already built or hereafter to be built within the Limits aforesaid, or other Wall fronting to any Street, Lane, or Place; or if the Jamb or Back of any Chimney to be built within the Limits aforesaid, shall not be at least one Brick and an Half or 13 Inches thick in the Cellar or lowest Story, and one Brick or nine Inches to the upper Story; or if any With within the Inside of any Chimney shall be less than four Inches thick; or if any Funnel in any such Chimney shall not be plaistered or pargetted within and without, or if the Flue of every Chimney on the Outside of every Party-Wall next to any vacant Ground shall not be Lime-whited from the Bottom to the Roof of the House or Building; or if any Chimney hereafter to be built within the Limits aforesaid shall not be turned or arched under the Hearth with Brick, except in the lowest Story; or if any Timber shall lie or be placed nearer than five Inches to any Chimney, Funnel, or Fire-Place; or if any Mantle between the Jambs of the Chimney shall not be arched over with Brick, or set upon an Iron Bar or Iron Bars; or if any Wood or Wainscot shall be placed or affixed to the Front of the Jamb or Mantle nearer than five Inches from the Inside of such Jamb or Mantle; or if any Stove, Boiler, Copper, or Oven shall be set up, placed, or hung, otherwise than with Brick or Stone, or both; or if, for or on any Account or Pretence whatever, any Party-Wall, or End or Side Wall whatever, shall be cut into or wounded (except as is therein excepted); or if any Door-Case, Window, Window-Frame, Lentil, Breast-Summer, Story Post Plate, or Timber (all necessary Bond Timber as aforesaid excepted) shall be fixed, set up, or put into any Party-Wall, or End or Side-Wall, except where two or more Houses or other Buildings shall be laid together, and used and occupied as one House or Building; then and in every or any such Case, the Master or Head Builder, Master Bricklayer, or Master Workman, or other Person causing such Building to be erected and built, shall for every Offence or Default as aforesaid, forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds, one Moiety thereof to be paid to the Overseer or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish, Precinct, or Place wherein the Offence was committed, for the Use of such Poor only; and the other Moiety thereof to the Person or Persons suing for the same; and the like Penalty of Fifty Pounds for every nine Months that such Defects and Irregularities shall continue."

Resolved, That this Committee will meet on Monday the 5th Day of October next, at Six in the Evening, at the Sun Tavern in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and will then and there receive Notice in Writing of any Offences committed against the said Act, or that any such Notices may be sent from Time to Time to the Clerk. By Order of the Committee, No. 338, Oxford-Street. LUKE NESON, Clerk.

JB_094_466.xml

Title: [29 Jan y 1808 Appeals that]

Description: 29 Jan y 1808

Appeals

that when to the delay produced without any arrear came to be added the delay produced by an arrear /and that a quantity/, destined to unlimited increase, every thing which before was as it should be became /was destined to become/ better and better still ad infinitum; and the fund of reward waiting to be poured into the lap of official merit had no longer any bounds.

Under these circumstances, the thing desireable in the first place was /before all things was/that on this ground nothing should be done: but surprising this situation of undisturbed reform untenable, then came the next point of policy, that whatsoever came to be done under the notion of reducing the delay should be as much as possible in demonstration, as little as possible in effect.

Hereupon came the plan devised by Your Lordship learned reformer: a plan of which /[...?]//on the subject of which/, considering the consideration of the state of elegance[?] in which it lies for the present, renders it happily unnecessary for me to expatiate /to particular at present/.

But from what I have had occasion already, your Lordship can not but perceive /understand/, that in my humble view of the matter, it was on the ground here in question not merely an exemplification of the sort of doing nothing, but a very considerable improvement on that agreable and useful art.

JB_806_055.xml

Title: [31 July 1815 Jug. True Ch 2]

Description: 31 July 1815

Jug. True

Ch 2 Zacharias

5

When he had recovered his speech then it must have been—then for the first time if at all that the matter of this vision was made known to them. It consisted in a visit from an Angel, between whom and the priest a conversation had been passing, all the time the people had been close by, sniffing up the incense. Though between them and the Angel there was nothing but a wall, and that not without apertures, or the smell of the incense could not have reached them, no one of them either saw the heavenly messenger or so much as heard his voice. But if to any persons these particulars were ever made known, they were not unless by accident—and in this or that instance the same persons by whom his speechlessness, and the general fact of his having seen a vision, were made known in dumb show, as above. For it was not ‘until the day that these things,’ were to have ‘been performed were, ... performed’ +

JB footnote: ‘ + p.2’. i.e. the birth of this old woman's son, that according to the Angel, Zacharias was to be ‘able to speak’—and of course the word of the Angel would in this particular receive as punctual an accomplishment as in any other.

Accordingly, when, the promised child being born, the time came for the performing on it the ceremony of circumcision, and therefore bestowing on it a name, then it was that the fathers ‘mouth was opened.’ ║

JB footnote: ‘ ║p.4’. ‘His tongue was loosed, and he spake and praised God. And fear came in all that dwelt round about them.’