Act for the improvement of the city of Edinburgh, and constructing new, and widening, altering, improving and diverting existing streets in the said city ; and for other purposes. 31st May 1867, 30 & 31 Victoriae, Cap. 44. With the incorporated clauses, notes, arrangement of sections, and analytical index.

Date:
1867
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Credit: Act for the improvement of the city of Edinburgh, and constructing new, and widening, altering, improving and diverting existing streets in the said city ; and for other purposes. 31st May 1867, 30 & 31 Victoriae, Cap. 44. With the incorporated clauses, notes, arrangement of sections, and analytical index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    the sight and to the satisfaction of the suvveyor or other officer of the said road trustees respectively ; and upon such operations being so executed, and the soil so beat in, the said road trustees respectively shall cause their surveyor to relay the portions of the roadway or causeway of such roads or streets that may have been broken or taken up by the contractor or other person employed by the trustees, with the same kinds of causeway or other materials as were previously on such streets, and at such rates per superficial yard of dressed work, mashed rubble, common rubble, and metal, including the maintenance thereof for twelve months, as may be agreed on by the said road trustees and the trus- tees, or as, on the application of the parties, may be fixed by the sheriff; and on the re-laying or re-causewaying of such roads or streets being completed, the trustees shall make pay ment of the expense so agreed on or fixed to the said road trustees respectively or their respective treasurers for the time ; and further, the trustees shall free and relieve the said road trustees respectively, and their respective officers, of all injury, loss, or damage which maybe occasioned to any of the roads or streets before-mentioned, or may be sustained by any person, company, or corporation, by, or in consequence of, the operations on such roads or streets by the trustees, or the con- tractor or other person employed by them to execute the same. 23. If any existing street be widened, altered, improved, orRemoving diverted under the authority of this Act, so as to render neces- relay- . . . . iDg water- sary the removal or i-elaying of the mains and pipes in such pipes. street belonging to the Edinburgh Water Company, such mains and pipes shall be removed and relaid by the said Company in the widened, altered, improved, or diverted line of such street, and in such position as the engineer of the said Company for the time being shall determine, and the expense of removing and relaying such mains and pipes, and reasonable compensation for damage done to such mains or pipes in the lifting, removing, or relaying thereof, shall be paid by the trustees to the said Company ; and in case of difference between the said Company and the trustees, with respect to the amount of such com- pensation, the same shall be fixed and determined by an arbiter