INDEX TO VOLUME XIII

ABBEY, Westminster, see “ Westminster Abbey ” Academicians, Mr. Buskin’s review of, 268 Acadeniy, Royal, see “ Royal Academy”

Accidents : sec “ Building Accidents ”

Aebievements of Labour and Thought, 69 Acoustics, 359 Adelaide, 530

Adclphi Theatre : artistic enthnsiasm, 345 Admiralty, barracks and the ; see “ Barracks ”

Air, atmospheric, movement of in tubes, 406 Aldham parish church, 358 All Saints’ Church, Kensington-park, 486 Aldershot, the camp at, 172, 238 American: bookselling establishment, 455; news, 101 ; patents, receut, 178, 468, 533, 637 Antiquaries, society of, “Restorations” and, 250 Antiquities: London, 176; Roman, in Surrey, &c. 100

Antwerp : 135, 181 ; cathedral, size of, 176 Aqueduct of Roque- Favour, 45, 53 Aqueducts, 63

Arboreal records of buildings, 286 Archaeological Association, British, congress of, — Newport, Carisbrook, Netley, 409 Archffiological congresses, 358 Archaeological Institute at Shrewsbury, 393 Archaeological meetings, 569 Archaeological Society : Somereet, 426; Surrey, 323; Sussex, 844

Architect: of St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 53 ; of the East-India House, 449, — see also “ Holland ” Architects and surveyors, prizes for, 569 Architects’ Benevolent Society, 117 Architects : Bills, — Kendall, &c. v. King, 106 ; busts, in Crystal Palace, ramble amongst, 25 Architects’ charges, 310, 564 ; and Bridgewater Church, 261, 269, 297 ; Taylor v. Newington, 345

Architects’ drawings, — to whom do they belong, 382 Architects, education of, 585 Architects, English, in Paris Exhibition, 149, 161 Architects, living, abuse of works by, 10, 45 Architects, Royal Institute of, — see “Institute” Architects, supply of quantities by, 407,479, 489 Architectural and archaeological congresses, 358 Architectural and archaeological societv, Liverpool, 498, 577

Architectural and art literature in Germany, 81 Architectural Association, 359 ; conversazione, 483 Architectural Association, Glasgow, 626 Architectural classes at University College, London, 835

Architectural diploma question : see “ Diploma” Architectural : doings, review of, 483 ; drawings for Paris Exhibition, 81 ; education and examination at Berlin, 562

Architectoral Exhibition, sec under “ Exhibition” Architectural foliage, on form, light, and shade in, 620

Architectural Institute of Scotland: a layman on architecture, 625; architecture of Paris, 637 Architectural Museum, Westminster, 226, 287, 382, 485, 613 ; conversazione, — art-workmen, 309,

330

Architectural Publication Society, 246 Architectural room at Royal Academy, 220, 229 Architectural Scamper in Flanders and Brabant, 98, 135, 181. 245

Architectural Society : Cambridge, 118 ; Lincoln Diocesan, 477 ; Liverpool, 577 ; Northampton, 261 ; Oxford, 106, 118 ; Worcester, 489 ; York- shire, 441, 542

Architecture : a layman on, 625 ; a poem, 33 ; and building, inventions in and aid to knowledge of, 289 ; and public improvements : Companion to Almanac, 581 ; and the public, 68 ; awards in, at Paris Exhibition, 580 ; and diSusion of know- ledge of, 358 ; eclecticism in, 116 ; heraldry in its

connection with, 518, 540; in Paris Exposition of 1855, considerations on objects connected with, COO; Italian, remarks on, with a view to an advance, 314 ; Louis Quatorze style of, and points affecting treatment of interiors, 145 ; Mr. Tite on present condition and future prospects of, 549 ; mediteval, see “ Medimval ; ” modem imita- tive, 605 ; nineteenth century, — Paris seen with London eyes, 604 ; of England and France during seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,a comparative view of, 61, 85 ; of Pregothic age in Germany, or Romanesque development of Rhine and Central Europe, 254^ 279 ; of the future, — Liverpool Architectural Society', 577; official, 266; on originality of design in, 177 : present condition and future prospects of, 195, 207, 232 ; present position of, 15 ; revision of in connection with use- ful arts, 208.

Architecture, Scottish Exhibition of arts and manu- factures connected with, see under “ Exhibition ” Architecture, the history of, leaders, &c. on, Gl, 85, 145, 169

Architecture, the modem or recent histo^ of, 169, 363, 397 ; the era of many beginnings, 313 ; works of H. Holland, James Wyatt, and others, 423, 446 (see also “Holland”), 459; progress of revivalism in England and Germany, 469, — in France, England, and Germany, 494, — in Ger- many, 517; Nash aud Schinkell, — education of architects, 585

Art ; and Industry, 633 ; Christian, 292, 316, 338 ; contributions for widows, &c. of officers, 153 ; early, Giotto and, 589 ; education, — infant gardens, 457 ; literature in Germany, 81 ; road books to, 141 ; schools of, provincial, 489, — see also “ Schools ; ” science and, department of, see “ Department”

Art-Union ofLondon : 131 ; illustrations, 143 ; annual meeting of, 194 ; pictures purchased by, 231, 310 ; Exhibition, 378

Art-workmen, — Architectural Museum, 309, 330

Artist-w'orkracn, a chance for, 297 Artistic: enthusiasm, — Adelphi theatre, 345 ; metal- work, 551, 575 ; olio, 250 Artists, Society of, see “ Society ”

Arts : connected with architecture, see under “ Exhi- bition fine, see “ Fine Arts the, war and then, 6 ; useful, revision of architecture in connection with, 208

Assessment, county and parochial, 74 Association, British, see “ British Association ”

Atlas iron-works, fall of, 233 Audley, shops at, 378 Australasia, bank of, London, 78 Australian news, 77, 126, 153, 530,613 Awards in architecture at the Paris Exhibition, 580 Aylmer de Valence, tomb of, in Westminster Abbey, 309

BABYLON, the mounds of, 66

Balmoral, the seat of H. M. the Queen, 17

Banbury swimming-baths, 538

Bank of Australasia, Threadueedle-strect, London, 78

Bargate, Southampton, 496

Barracks: and the Admiinlty, 154; competition, 490, 546; portable, or emigrants’ huts, 154; the Panopticon principle for, 202 Bath: Percy Chapel, 74 ; the fountain for, 627 Baths and washhouses, model, at Whitechapel, 167 Baths, swimming circular, Banbury, 538 Bnyswater, Christ Church, Craven-hill, 30 Beam supported by props, to find strength of, 309 Beams : cast-iron, new formula for, 466 ; wrought- iron, 226, 237, 251 Beaufort-row, Chelsea, remains of, 514 Bedford-sqnare, 349

Beer, action of on lead pipes in supply, 465, 542

Belgi'avia, 257

Bell, the great, of St. Paul’s, 94, 117, 130 Bcllc-isle factories, Islington, 431, 474 Bcllot, memorial to Lieutenant, 533 Bells : and bell machinery, on some alterations in, 159; church, cautions on, 513; stories of, 452 ; tenors and, in'general, 545 Benevolent Society, Architects’, 117 Berlin: architectural education and examination at, 562 ; central’archivcs at, — science of statistics, 322 Bermondsey — dust — condition of suburbs, 183 Birmingham : and its progress, 687 ; uud Midland Institute competition, 405, 565 ; iron roof of joint railway station at, 64 ; Town-hall decoration,. 402

Blackfriars, 520

Bloomsbury-square, 349

Board of Works, Metropolitan, 626

Boiler explosion, 269

Bombay water-supply, 558

Books, pamphlets, engravings, &c. — reviews and notices of : Arago’s Meteorological Essays, 419 ; Architectural Publication Society’s volume, 383 ; Arnott on Smokeless Fireplace, 382 ; Beattie on Bartlett, 558; Blashfield on Term-cotta, 287; Brewer’s Atlas, 547 ; Burchett’s Geometry, 534 ; Bum on Isometrical Drawing, 503 ; Chambers on Improved Dwellings, 370 ; Companion to Almanac, 581 ; Delaborde’s Athens, 509 ; Denison on Gothic Architecture, 227; Engravings and Illustrations, 09, 250 ; Flourens on Human Longevity, 321 ; Gour- lay on Trinity College Church, Effiuburgh. 119; Hassell ou Food and its Adulterations, 123 ; Hay on Harmonic Law in Design, 298 ; Herring on Paper- making, 395 ; HookerandArnott’sBritishFlora, 299 ; Hooker’s Himalaya, 638 ; Hooker’s Kew Museum Guide, 298; Hopkins on the Or^an, 624 ; Hughes’s Reading Lessons, 615 ; Illustrations and Prints, 69, 250,637 ; Johnson’s Atlas, 323; Johnston’s Diction- ary of Geography, 323 ; Kemp’s Phasis of Matter, 431; Knight’s Knowledge is Power, 5 ; Knight’s Metropolis Local Management Act, 510 ; Koenig’s Luther, 595 ; Lance on a Diploma in Arcliitectnre, 573; Lardner on Electric Telegraph, 94 ; Laxton’s Examples of Building Construction, 407 ; Liiidley’s Horticulture, 263 ; Lithography made Easy, 131 ; Mcason’s Railway Guides, 588; Meliora, 158; Milner’s Crimea, 347 ; Muirhead on Waft, 37 ; Murray on Retaining Walls, 583 ; Murray’s Handbook for Portugal, 503; Pamphlet on the Poor, 19 ; Pfeiffer’s Journey Round the World, 638; Potter on Schools of Art, 570; Reports- on Cholera in St. James’s, Westminster, 493 ; Rimbault’s History of the Organ, 624 ; Road- books to Art, 141 ; St. John on the Louvre, 311 i Several, on Patents, 290; Smith on Metro- polis Local Management Act, 547 ; Smith on Nuisances Removal Act, 547 ; Snow on Cholera,. 49 ; Street’s Brick and Marble in Middle Ages, 421 ; Symond’s on Irish Fisheries, 407 ; Tego- horski’a Russia, 214; Timbs’s Curiosities of Lon- don, 73 ; Tinkler’s Architectural Sketches in Italy, 299 ; Tomlinson’s Useful Arts, 323 ; Variorum, — see under “ Notices of Books,” in weekly numbers ; Views of Crystal Palace, 83; Weaver on Village Architecture, 155 ; Wheeler’s Homes for the People, 370 ; Womum’s Catalogue of Marlborough House Library, 287 Boring Machinery, Earth, 267 Bow-street, a morning at, — social evils — sanitary efforts— “ Meliora,” 157

Brabant, on architectural scamper in, 98, 135, 181, 245

Brechin steeple, outline of, 154 Brick: house at Treport, 174 ; making, new patents for improvements in, 50 Bricks, colour in, 419

Bridge, railway suspension, at Niagara falls, 177

INDEX TO VOLUME XIII.

Bridgewater Ckurch and aicliitect’s ckarges, 261, 2G9, 298 Brighton, 637

Bristol, Bntli-road bridge at, 310 British Archaiological Association, sec " Arebteo- logical ”

British Association at Glasgow, 464 British Institution, 62

British Museum Library, growth of, — new riding- room in quadrangle, 133

Bronze casting for colossal Washington monument, 524

Brussels. 181

Buckingham Gate, Duchy of Cornwall office, 626 Buckingham Palace and its improvements, 297 Buenos Ayres gas works, 595 Builder (The), illustrations of reviewed, 69 Builder, what makes a, 532 Builders and their tenders, 142 Builders’ Benevolent Institution (ball, 82), 262, 359, 498, 515 (dinner, 632). 594 Builders: charge for preparation of tenders, 71; Metropolis Local Management Act and, 529 ; responsibilities, — Ellis t>. Peters, 130; sham, — Scott V, Greatorex, 406 Builders’ Society, 340

Building accidents : 82 ; danger to life from ruinous condition of buildings, 106 ; fall of Atlas iron works, Borougli-road, 233 ; fall of arches at Lam- beth water-works, 274 ; fall of comice at Wood- street, Cheapside, 294 ; full of house at Islington, 82, 93

'Building: church, hints on, 23; inventions in aud aids to knowledge of, 289; jubilee, for Sunday School Union, 51

Building materials, chemistry of, 436,447, 460, 472, 482, 605

Building news, &c, from Ireland, passim Building, patents relating to, 557, 595 Building Societies, Freehold Land and, 294 Buildings Bill, see under “ Buildings’ Act ”

Buildings : colour in construction of, 377 ; old, 238 ; ruinous, danger from, 106 ; ruinous, under Metro- politan Buildings Act, — costs of hoarding, 124 Buildings Act : Slelropolitau, 82; new, 394; Board of Examiners for district surveyors, 626 ; dismis- sal of a district surveyor under the Act, 173 ; district surveyors, Board of Examiuers for, 626 ; district surveyors, duties of, — noxious trades and cellar dwellings, 15 ; district surveyors, duties of, 369 : doings at the Metropolitan Buildings-office, 33, 51 ; hoards nnder, 167 ; proceedings in district of Lewisham, 186, 203, 394; proceedings under, 467 J review and progress of Bill to amend the Laws relating to-Biiildings in the Metropolis, 205, 221, 230, 2-il, 258, 304, 337, 354, — discussion at Institute of Architects, 277 ; ruinous buildings under Metropolitan, — costs of hoarding, 124; sup- plement to the Builder, containing the Metro- politan Buildings Act, see No. for 25th August; surveyors, district, see “District Surveyors-,’’ the referees of metropolitan buildings and the registrar, 102

Buildings Act of 1855, Metropolitan, 533; see also Supplement to Builder of 2oth August Burial boards, 261

CAMBRIDGE; Architectural Society, 118; con- duit, 402

Camp: sec “Aldershot” aud "Shomcliffe” Campanile, Trinity Colleg-;, Dublin, 233 Canada : 247 ; Grand Trunk Railway of, 262 ; pro- gress in, — T'oronto, 530 ; woodwork, 449 Canoubury Chapel, Islington, 522 Canterbni-y: Clergy Orphan Schools, 162; St. Mil- dred’s Schools, 146 Capital and skill, labour and, 5 Carisbrook, 409

Carlton Club-house, Pall-mall. 282, 330 Carpenter, the late Jlr. C. R. architect, 165 Cash advances for the poor, 232, 274 Castle (The) and the church, 57 ; Alnwick, 033 Cathedral : Antwerp, size of, 170 ; Chichester, wood- work, 603; Worcester, works at, 489; Chapter- house, Salisbury, 53 • Cattle-market, New Metropolitan, 286 Cellar dwellings, metropolitan, 15, 57 Cellars, metropolitan, 378 Cement : for wood aud mclal, 682 ; real, 545 Cemetery ; City of London, 578 ; Highgatc, educa- tion iu, 130 ; Paddington, 402 ; Uxbridge, 540 Cemetery-chapel, Rochdale, 294 Cemeteries; metropolitan, 81 ; new, 226 Cesspools, 493

Chain-cable testing-machine, 418 Chaucel of Hythe Church, 114 Chancery-lane, new buildings at junction of with Fleet-street, 389

•Chapel: Caoonbury, 522; cemetery, Rochdale, 294; Percy, at Bath,' 74; Regent’s-'park, 210, 247 ! Spahelds, 532

Chapter -house at Salisbury, 53 Charges, architects’, see “ Architects’ Charges ” Charter-house (The), 63, 116 Chelsea, Beaufort-row, 514 Chemistry of Building Materials, 435, 447, 460, 472, 482, 505

Cliichestcr Cathedral, woodwork, 603

Chirk Castle, decorations of, 449

Cholera in St. James’s, Westminster, report on, 493

Christ Church, Cravcn-hiU, Bayswater, 30

Christian art, 292, 316, 338

Christ’s Hospital, 15

Church : Aldham parish, 358 ; French Independent at St. llelier, 564; Holy Trinity, Upper Tooting, 346 ; new Swiss Protestant, St. Wles’s, 106 ; of All Saints, Kensington-park, 486 ; St. Alban’s Abbey, a visit to, 217; St. Mary Magdalen’s, Munster- square, Regent’s-park, 354 ; St. Philip’s the Evan- gelist, at Islington, 453; Spoffortb, see “ Spof- forth;” temporary irou, at Kensington, 508 ; Top- cliffc, 502 ; Waltiiam Abbey, Essex, 414 Church-bells, see “Bells”

Church-building, hints on, 23 Church-building News,— seecach weekly Number Chureb restoration, 178 ; in Sussex, 634 Church, the castle and the, — a description, 57 Churches: galleries in, 178; missionary, 105;

weathercocks and vanes of London, 122 Civic structures, construction as applied to, 352 Civil Engineers, Institution of, 35, 45, 53, 569 ; aqueducts, 53 ; aqueduct of Roque Favour; 45 ; coals, 129; flow of water through pipes and orifices, 81, 88 j iron roof of joint railway station at Bir- mingham, 64 ; Lan'dore Viaduct, 267 ; Metropo- litau Sewers Commission and, 142, 167 ; subjects for essays, 593 ; the management of, 626 ; wrought iron beams, 226, 237, 251

Civil Engineers of Ireland, Institution of, 35 ; exces- sive cost of railways, 286 Clergy Orphan Schools, Canterbury, 162 Cloisters, Westminster, 197 Clubhouse, Carlton, 282, 330 Coals, 129

Coinage, our, — the penny, 609 ; the syrabols on the penny, 546, 569

College ; Exeter Diocesan Training,- 42 ; proposed Welliugton, near Sandhurst, 406 Colleges of Loudon, 184 Cologne, 485

Colonies, progress in the, 580 ; sec also “ Australian News,” “ Canada,” &c.

Colour: in Bricks, 419 ; in construction, 377 Colourists by instinct, — a reply, 21 Colt’s revolver factory, 153 Combe-down stone, measurement of, 570 Combustion, spontaneous, 358, 370 Commercial Travellers’ Schools, Pinner, 531 Competition : barracks, 490 ; Birmingham and 3Iid- laud Institute, see “ Binningham designs, the barrack, see “ Barracks Hartlepool market, 558 Competitions, 81, 118, 130, 153, 162, 176, 190,

203, 209, 225, 233, 251, 261, 276, 286, 298,

310, 317, 345, 359, 382, 395, 405, 418, 442,

454

Concert-room, St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 594 Condoit, Cambridge, 462 Congresses, architectural and archmological, 358 Coustantiuople : early Christian niouumeuts of, — Sta. Sophia’s, 121 ; Sta. Sophia’s, on the mosaics and other decoratious of, 133, 148 Construction: as applied to civic structures, 362; of buildings, colour in, 377 Contracts, 177

Copyisni, originality versus, 111 Cork, a note from, 602 Corner shops, 560

Cornice, fall of, at Wood-street, Cheapside, 294

Cornwall, Dueby of, office of, 526

Cottager’s room, 405

Coventry, water iu, 10

Crewe Hall, some account of, 508, 521

Crimea, huts for, 443

Crj’pt : at Merchant Tailors’ Hall, Thrcadncedle- street, 302 ; below Chaptcr-lymse, Westminster Abbey, 66 ; of St. Peter’s Church, Oxford, 606 Ciystal Palace, Sydenham: 269, 367; a ramble amongst the busts of architects in, 25 ; as an educator, 526, 568, 612; fountain in, 258 Cubitt, late Mr, Thomas, 629

DAMPNESS, slate footing to prevent, 63 Deals, standard of, 426

Decoration : and furniture, a system for, 160 ; errors in, and in furnishing, 86 ; of Birmingham Town- hall, 402 ; of Guildhall, 694 Decoratious ; dinner -tabic, 77, 94 ; of Chirk Castle, 449 ; of Sta. Sophia, — see “ Sta. Sophia’s ” Department of science and art : second report of, 431 ; schools of design in connection with, 454 Design: in architecture, originality of, 177; schools of in coDucction >vith department of art, 454

Designing medimval ornaments with reference to natural kingdom, 205

Designs: at Gore House, 329; of Board of Ord- nance, 378

Dinner-table obstructives, 77, 94 Diploma question, architectu^ : 412, 588, 598, 622 ; a college for architectural diplomas, 478 ; a diploma society, 582 ; discussion on diploma question at Institute of Architects, 597 ; essay by M. Lance on, 573 ; objections, 699

Dirt and misery question, — neighbourhood of Queen’s prison, 385 : see also under “ Sanitary Question” Disease, defective structural and economic arrange- ments, and, — Snow on cholera, 49 Diseases, preventible, — ^Epidemiological Society, 153 Disinfeetauts and detoxicaUts, use of in Crimea, 286 District surveyors : see under “ Buddings Act ”

Dock, commercial, new, Rotherhithe, 387, 322 Domes, construction of, 13

Door, early iron work of, at S. Jean des Choni Abbey Church, 590

Downlng-strect improvements and public buildings, 149, 382

Dj'aiuage : Act, house, 359 ; house, cheap, and effi- cient, 448

Drainage, iffoin, of metropolis; 125,443; ohservaiioni - on plans for, 26 ; review of pilaus for, now under consideration, 38 ; the large tunnel question, 561 ; the Thames and, 361: see also “Metropolitan Drainage,” &c.

Drainage question, 'The, involving health, happiness, and economy, 680

Drainage, town, is it bencflcial, — Sunderland, 570, 578

Drains : and death, 493; deep and shallow, — drain- ing Richmond-park, 454 Drawing board, to make, 249 Drawing; meelmnioal, on a' system of teaching, 166 Drawings, architects’, to whom do they belong, 382 Drawings, architectural, for Paris Exhibition, 81 Dresden, new museum aud picture gallery at, 479, 552

“Driers,” and improvement of house painters’ work, 337 : see also under “ Painters ”

Drury-lane; theatre and egress, 601; Wild-court, 380

Duchy of Cornwall, office of, 526 Dudley, model dwellings, 498 Dundee, new publie buildings at, 118 Dust-hol 177, 183

Dwellings: cellar, 15, 57; for the poor (improved) at Lambeth, 490 ; for poor, proposal for improving in St. Giles’s, &c. 297 ; improvement of, — Wild- court, 380 ; model at Dudley, 498

EARTH-BORING machinery, 267 Eastbourne, 433

East-India House, the architect of, 449 ; see also “ Holland”

Ecclesiological Society, 238 Eclecticism in architecture, 116 Electricity at Panopticon, 262 Enfield, engineering works at, 594 Engiuceriug t patents, new, 595 ; works at Enfield, 594

Engineers, civil, see under “ Civil ”

England, recent history of architecture in, see under “ Architecture ”

English architects in Paris Exhibition, 149, 161 Engravings and illustrations, 69, 260 Epidemical causes, fuugoiJul aud excretal matters as, 352

Epidemiological Society, — preventible diseases, 153 Epidemics aud overcrowding, 590 Evans’s hotel, Covent-gardeu, new music-hall at, 622 Exeter diocesan Training College, 42 Exetcr-hall, egress from, 484 Exhibitors, British, in Paris, medals to, 564 Exhibition, architectural : 405, 538 ; an appeal for, 502; and Vanbrugh club, 214; coftversasione at, 65 ; iuventious and manufactures at, 683 ; its prospects, 599 ; opening conversazione aud works at, 617 ; the coming, 561 ; works at, 630 Exhibition, Art-Union of London, 878 Exhibition at Glasgow, 172 Exhibition commissioners of 1851, land of, 268 Exhibition, International, at Paris ; 172, 231, 242, 253, 265, 569; architectural drawings foi’, 81; awards in architecture at, 680 ; English architects is, 149, 161; fine arts in, 242; Marlborough House students and, 203 ; medals to British in, 654; objects in considered, 600; review of works of fine art (ardiitccture, &c.) in, 301 ; strictures in 481 : see also under “ Paris ”

Exhibition, I'ine Art, at Newcastle, 653 ■ Exhibition of Society of Artists, 152 ' Exhibition, Photographic, 45 Exhibition, Royal Academy, 219, 230; architectui'al room at, 220

Exhibition, Scottish, of arts and mimufiiclares con- nected with architectui’e, 22, 172

INDEX TO VOLUME XITI,

FARM, Walls Court, near Bristol, 340, 366 Fine Art: Eiliibitiou at Newcastle, 563; works of, arcliitectare, &c. in Paris Exhibition, 301 Pine arts in English society, thoughts on, 143 Fireproof floors, 606 Fixtures, — Elliot and Bishop, 11 Flanders, an architectural scamper in, 98, 135, 181, 245

Fleet-street, No. 21, 474 Fleet valley, 398, 546 Floors, fireproof, 606

Foliage, architectural, on form, light, and shade in, 620

Food and its adulteration, — the science of sham, 123 Foreign intelligence, 524, 542, 564, 618, 634 •Forest, Waltham, 609 Form in architectural foliage, 620 Fortificatiou of Isle of Wight, 577 Fountain: for Bath, 627 j in Crystal Palace, Syden- ham, 258

France, recent history of architecture in, see under “ Architecture”

Free library for City of London, 545 Freehold land and building societies, 294 French Independent Church at St. Helier, 554 Furnishing and decoration, errors in, 86 Fomiturc and decoration, a system for, 160

GALLERIES in churches, 178 Gallery: new, at Dresden; see "Dresden;” West- field, near Ryde, 46?

Gas : 70, 154, 500 ; for the million, versus Russian tallow, 614; iu Rome, 418; in sewers, 514; works, Buenos Ayres, 595 Gavin, Dr. sanitaiy commissioner at Balaclava, 226 Gateway of Knostliorp Hall, 255 Geerts, the late Mr. Charles, sculptor, 297 German, pre-Gotbie : see under "Architecture” Germany : architectural and art-literature in, 81 ;

architectural revivalism in, see " Architecture ”• Ghent, 135

Glasgow : and how to pave it, 419 ; Architectural Association, 626 ; British Association at, 454 ; its progress and its exhibition, 172 GIms, a street of, — metropolitan communication: 281 ; Mr. Gje’s plan for, 603

Glass: painted, on the employment of, 241, 256; roofing, and how to get good of it, 225 ; stained, 378, 418, 466, 556, 570, 613 Gold, 614

Gore House, designs at, 320

Graham, the late Mr. J. G. architect, 166

Grammar school, see " School ”

Gravedigger (The), 140 Graves, London, Young Mortality among, 87 Greeks, sculpture of the, 537 Green, late Mr. A. J. 620 Gregan, late Mr. J. E. architect, 223 Greyfriars Monastery, in Christ Church-yard, re- mains of, 619

Griffith, late Mr. J. W. 620 Giotto and early art, 689 Guildford, a trip to, 325 Guildhall, decoiation of, 594

HALL, St. George’s; see under "St. George’s” Haaburg, new Hotel de Yille and Senate-House at, 105

Hand- railway, 130 Harbour works, Shorebam, 118 Hardening stone, 380 Hartlepool market competition, 558 Health Bill : Institute of Architects and, 117 ; manu- factures under, 105 ; provincial towns, 82, 89 " Henry VIIT.” at Princess’s Theatre, 237 Heraldry in its connection with architecture, 518, 540

Highgate Cemetery, education in, 130 Hittorff, M. pi’esentation of royal medal to, 181 Hoarding, cost of, 124 Hoards under Buildings Act, 167 Holland, the architect, 423, 437, 449, 459 Holy Trinity Church, Upper Tooting, 346 Hospital, Christ’s, 15

Hospital, City of Loudon, for Diseases of Chest, 186 Hotel de Viile (new) and Senate-house at Hamburg, 105

House: brick, at Treport, 174 ; building, London, — comer shops, 550 ; Drainage Act, 359 ; drainage, cheap and efficient, 448

House-painters’ work -. contributions towards improve- ment of, 109, 193, 373 ; notes on nse of turpentine in, 243; on "driers” and improvement of, 337 ; to make rancid oil sweet in, 339 Houses (our), interiors of, — residence of Mr. S.

Rogers, 445 Hurstmonceaux, 433

Huts: emigrants’, or portable banneks, 154; for the Crimea, 443, 634

Hydraulic limes and hardening stone, 380 Hythc Church, chancel of, 114

ILLUSTRATIONS: and prints, 69, 250; Art-Union of London, 143 ; of the Builder reviewed, 69 Improvements: in each county, — united operations for England, 627 ; public, 581 Industrial Museum, plan for an, 286 Industry, opening of new branches of, 141 Infant-gardens, 457 Inscriptions, military tombs and, 101 Institute: Archaeological, see " Archreological ;”

architectural, of Scotland, see “Architectural” Institute of Architects, Royal : 68, 257, 615; dis- cussion at, on construction of domes and tomb of Mohammed, Beejapore, 13 ; award of medals, 100 ; and the Health Bill, 117; presentation of royal medal to M. Hittorff by, 181 ; general meeting of, 222 ; annual report of, 231 ; discussion as to pro- posed Metropolitan Buildings Bill, 377 ; discussion on “The Diploma,” 597 Institute (Royal) of Architects in Ireland, 94 Institution : British, — see under “ British ; ” Builders’ Benevolent, — see under “ Builders ; ” National, see under " National ; ” of Civil Engineers, see under " Civil ”

Interiors : of our houses, something as to,— residence of Mr. S. Rogers, 445 ; points affecting treatment of, 145

Inventions: at Architectural Exhibition, 583; in archilccture and building, — aid to knowledge of them, 289

Ipswich grammar-school, the rod in, 94 Ireland, building and other news from, fossim Irish lunatic asylums, commission of inquiry into erection of, 403

Iron : cast and wrought, 490 ; cast, beams, new formula for, 466; church, temporary, at Kensing- ton, 508; industry of United States, 112 ; roof of joint railway station, Birmingham, 64; trade, 226, 490 ; work, early, — door of Abbey Church of S. Jeau-des-Choux, 590; works, — smoke nuisance, 478 ; wrought, ‘beams, 226, 237, 251, — hinges, Notre Dame, Paris, 634; (wrought) work, 350 Isle of Wight, fortification of, 577 Islington: Cauonbury Chapd, 522; Chnrch of St. Philip Evangelist, 453 ; fall of house at, 8?, 93 ; infant poor establishment, 106 : see also under " Belle-isle ”

Italian architecture, remarks on with view to an ad- vance, 314

JERUSALEM: literary society of, 131; mosque of Omar at, a visit to, 434 Jubilee building of Sunday-school union, 51

KENSINGTON: park. All Saints’ Church, 486;

St. Paul’s temporary iron church, 508 Kentish ragstone, 58, 70 Kuosthorp Hall, Yorkshire, gateway of, 255

LABOUR : and thought, achievements of, 69 ; capital, and skill, 5 ; question (the), 185 Lambeth : improved dwellings in, 490 ; wnterworks, fall of arches at, 274

Lance, M. on diploma in architecture, 573 Landore viaduct, South Wales Railway, 267 Lawrence, late Alderman, 577 Lead: a coating for, 533 ; cracks in, 406; pipes in supply of water and beer, 465, — action of beer on, 5-42, — action of water on, 557 Lectures ; for villages, 473 ; Signor Monti’s, 344 Leominster, old town-hall, 263 Lewisham district, proceedings in) 186, 203, 394 Libraries for villages, 473 Library, free, for city of London, 545 Liege : 245 ; city of, and works relating to public utility of London, 292

Light : and air, obstruction of, action for, Merchant Tailors’ Company Tniscott, 627 ; and shade in architectural foliage, 620 Limited liability in partnership, .Yet for, 405 Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, 477 Lineal measure, standard to test, 11 Limes, hydraulic, and hardening stone, 380 Literary Society of Jerusalem, 131 Lithographs by photography, 479 Liverpool Architectural and Archajological Society :

498 ; the architecture of the future, 577 Liverpool, St. Georgc’s-hall : a critical account of, 1 ; and assize courts, a critical review of, 3, 26 ; con- cert-room, 594; the architect of, 53 ; the founda- tion stone of, 23 ; the sculpture at, 126, 165, 325 Lizard Serpentine, 334 Lodging-houses for operatives, 632 London; a new synagogue in, 30; antiquities, 176 ; Art-Union, see “ Art-Union Bank of Australasia, Threadneedle-street, 78, 97 ; cemetery, 678 ; Char- ter-house. 116 ; churches, weathercocks, and vanes, 122 ; drainage and condition of Thames, 361, — see also under “ Drainage free library, 545 ; graves, Y'oung Mortality among, 87 ; hospital for diseases of chest, 186 ; housebuilding, — corner shops, 659 ; in

seventeenth century, 213 ; new buildings in Thread- needle-street, — increased value of land in London, 78, 97 ; No. 21, Fleet-street, 474; old, memorials of, 285 ; old, the substructure of, — Fleet-valley, 546 ; poor, pictures among, — Wild-court, 405 ; poor, water supply of, 531 ; “ roughs,” — a worditt season, 590 ; schools and colleges of, 184 ; " squares,” 400 ; street architecture, — new build- ing at junction of Chaucei'y-lanc and Fleet-street, 3^ ; streets, what may be done for, 585 ; suburbs of, condition of — dust : Bermondsey, 183 ; sugges- tions for. 454 ; traps peculiar to, 452 ; value of landiu, 126; old wall of, 118, 221, 269,— Lud- gatc-hil], 118, — remains of near site of Block Friars’ Monastery, 98 ; works relating to public utility of, — city of Liege, 292 : see also under " Metropolis ” and “ Metropolitan ”

London’s history, slips of, — Blackfriars — MTiite- frivrs, 520

lioselcy, a trip to, 325

Louis Quatorze style and points affecting treatment of interiors, 145

Louvre (Paris) and Palais Royal,— K>n constructions in progress between, 76 Ludgate-hill, London-wall, 118 Ludlow national schools, 438 Lunatic asylums, Irish, 402

MAIDEN -LANE and valley of Fleet, — how Wfi improve, 398 Malines, 245 Manchester, 441

Manufactures : at architectural exhibition, 583 ; exhi- bition of connected with architecture,— see “ Exhi- bition ”

Marble in Middle Ages, 421 Margate new pier, 450

Market : Cattle, New Metropolitan, 286 ; competi- tion, Hartlepool, 558

Marlborough house students and Paris Exhibition, 203

Masters and workmen; 395, 454; notice to leave work, 153; Westminster County Cou't, 501: see also “ Labour Question,” and " Workmen” Measure, lineal, standard to test, 11'

Medal (Royal) for architecture, presentation of to M. Hittorff, 181

Medals : award of, at Architectural Institute, 100 ; to British Exhibitors in Paris. 554 Mediseval : architecture, progressive changes in orna- ment in successive styles of, 385, 399 , ornaments, designing of, with reference to natural kingdom, 205 ; Paris, see “Paris ”

Melbourne, Australia : advices from, 77, 530 ; descrip- tion of, 154

Memorial to Lieut. Bellot, 533 Memorials, 514

Merchant Tailors’ Company v. Trnscott, — action for obstruction of light and air in Loudon, 627 Metal : and wood, cement for, 682; work, artistic, 551, 575

Metropolis, local management of: 137 ; Bill for, 153 } Act, 510, 629, 547: the Metropolitan Board of Works, 626, 633

Metropolis : noxious trades and cellar dwellings iu, 15,57; population and food of, 73 ; underground ' rooms and cellars in, 378 Metropolitan : Commission of Sewers, sec " Sewers cemeteries, 81 ; communications, 298, — street of glass, 281, — Mr. Gye’s plan for a glass street, 603 ; drainage question, 443, — see alsounder “Dininage;” main sewer, plau for realising funds for, 334 ; mems. 321 ; mile-posts, 328 ; new cattle-market, 286 ; park, — see " Victoria-pqrk thoroughfare, a leading, 467 ; turnpikes, 93 Middle Ages, brick and marble in, 421 Mile-posts, metropolitan, 318 Military tombs and inscriptions, 101 Mining surveyors’ charges, — Bray p. Read and Lcale, 335

Miscellanea ; see numerous paragraphs in eacli weekly Number

Missionary ebnrebes, 105

Monastery, Grey Friars’, in Christ Church-yard, remains of, 619 Monti’s lectures, 344

Monument, colossal Washington, bronze casting for, 524

Monuments, early Christian, at Coustantiuople, — Sta. Sophia, 121

Mosaics and other decorations of Sta. Sophia, CoQ- stantinople, 133, 148 Mosque of Omar, a visit to, 434 Muhammed, tomb of, at Beejapore, 13 Museum; architectural, see “Architectural;” British, see “ British Museum industrial, plan for, 288; new, at Dresden, opening of, 479, 652; Oxford University, 292 Museiuns, working class, 227 Music; hall, new, at Covent-garden, 622; scenery and, 69

INDEX TO VOLUME XIII.

NANTWICH, some account of, 508, 521 Nash, the architect, 685 National Institution, Portland Gallery, 120 Nctley, 409

New River Waterworks, 233 Newark, St. Mary M.agdalcnc’s, restoration of, 202 Newcastle, Fine Art Eihibition at. 553 Newcastlc-under-Lyine School of Art, 570 Newport, 400

Niagara Falls, railway suspension-bridge at, 177 Nicholson, recollections of Peter, 610 Normandy, 320

Northampton, Architectural Society of, 201 Notre Dame, Paris, 537 ; wrought-iron hinges, 634 Noxious trades aud cellar dwellings iu metropolis, 15, 57

Nuisances Act, operation of, 637

OBIT. Carpenter, C. R. architect, 165 ; Cubitt, the late Mr. Thomas, 029 ; Gavin, Dr. sanitary com- missioner, 226 ; Geerts, Charles, sculptor, 297 ; Graham, .1. G. architect, 166 ; Green, Arthur John, 020; Gregan, J. E. architect, 222; Griffith, J. W. 620 ; Lawrence, Aldennau, 577 ; Papworth, George, architect, 150; Rattec James, ecclesias- tical carver, 190; Tarouilly, M. architect, 556; Wilson, Edward James, architect, F.S.A. 4 Obstruction of light and air in London, action for, — Merchant Tailors’ Company eersus Truscott, 627 Office of Duchy of Comwdl, 620 Oil, rancid, to make sweet, 359 Old buildings, 238 Olio, an artistic, 250 Omar, mosque of, a visit to, 434 Ordnance, Board of, designs of, 37S Organ (The), history of, 624

Originality : of design in architecture, 177 ; versus copyism. 111

Ornament, on the progressive changes in, in the successive styles of nicdijcval architecture, 385, 399 Ornaments, mcditeval, the desiguiug of with reference to natural kingdom, 205 Orphan Schools (Clergy), at Canterburj’, 162 Over-crowding, epidemics and, 590 Oxford: Architectural Society, 106, 118; St. Peter’s- in-thc-East, 309 ; University Jluseum, 292

P.kDDlNGTON Cemetery, 402 Paint : a new, 466 ; or wash for outside walls, 443 ; zinc, 369

Painters’ (House) \vork : contributions towards im- provement of, 109, 193,373; “driers,” 337; to make rancid oil sweet in, 359 ; use of turpentine in, 243

Painters in Water-colours, New Society of, 197 Painters in Water-colours, Society of, 207 Pointers, sec “Colourists”

Painted glass, on the employment of, 241, 256 Palace: Buckingham, see “Buckingham;” Crystal, sec "Crystal;” of fine arts. Paris, 242, — see also under “ Exhibition”

Palais Royal, Paris, constructions iu progress be- tween, and Louvre, 76 Panopticon, electricity and chemistry at, 262 Panopticon principle for barracks, 202 Papworth, late Mr. George, architect, 150 Paris : 453 ; account of expenses of journey to and back, with detention at Lille, 374; ancient, — Ste. Chapellc and its restoration, 505 ; during Great Exhibition, 416, 428 ; Exhibition, see under “Ex- hibition ;” Mairic of third arrondissement, — de- velopment of a new style, 89 ; medifeval, — Sainte Chapellc, Notre Dame, 537 : on the constnictious in execution between Louvre and Palais Royal, 76 ; Palace of Fine Arts, 2 1'2; seen with London eyes, — nineteenth century architecture, 604; strictures in, 481 ; the architecture of, 637 ; visitors in, 514 Park: Richmond, draining, 454; St. James’s, see "St. James”

Parks, The, 436

Partnerships, Act for limited liability in, 406 Patents : 490; English, relating to building, 557 : new engineering aud building, 595 ; new, for im- provements in brick-making, 50 ; recent American, 178, 468, 533 Pavements, incised, 304 Penny (The), 509, 546, 669 Penrith, sanitary works in, 405 Percy Chapel, Bath, 74 Pevensey, 433 Photographic Exhibition, 45 Photography, lithographs by, 479 Picture gallery at Dresden, see “ Dresden ”

Pictures among the London poor, — Wild-court, 405 Pictures purchased by Art-Union of London, 231, 310 Pier, Margate new, 450 Pinner, commercial travellers’ schools, 631 Pipes: and orifices, flow of water through, 81, 88; leaden, in supply of water aud beer, 465, 542, 557 ; slate and asphalte, 437 ; water, to prevent burst- ing of by frost, 202

Pile driving, 326 Plank roads, 17

Polychrome : 364 ; some objections to considered, 538 Poor: cash advances for, 232, 274; dwellings for, proposal for improving in St. Giles’s, &c. 297 ; London, — " roughs,” — a word in season, 590 ; London, water supply of, 631 Population and food of metropolis, 73 Portland Gallery, National Institution, 129 Portraits of Shakspearc, on some presumed, 296 Potichumanie, 310 Pozzuoli, temple of Scrapis at, 490 Prcgothic German architectavc, 254, 279 Princess’s Theatre, “ Henry the Eighth ” at, 237 Prizes for architects and surveyors, 569 Provincial news, — see each weekly Number Pulpit, Regent’s Park Chapel, 247 I’umping of water from pits and mines, 9

(QUANTITIES, the supply of by architects, 467, 479, 489

Queen’s prison, — the dirt aud miseiy question, 385

RAGSTONE, Kentish, 58, 70 **

Railway ; a hand, 130 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 262 ; matters, 190, 406. 467, 501, 547 ; South Wales, Landore viaduct on, 267 ; station, roof of joint, at Birmingham, 64 ; suspeosion-bridge at Niagara Falls, 177 ; traverser, Mr. Watson’s, 42 Railways : excessive cost of, 286 ; in the United States, 45, 101

Rancid oil, to make sweet, 369

Rattcc, late Mr. James, ecclesiastical carver, 190

Reading-rooms for villages, 473

Red Lion-squaie, 349

Regent’s-park : chapel, London, 210, 247; St.

Jlary Magdalen’s, Munstcr-square, 351 Renaissance, on the future, 633 Restoration: church, 178; versus destruction, 514;

what arc wc to do ? 613 "Restorations” and Society of Antiquaries, 250 Riehmoml-park, draining, 454 Road books to art, 141 Road making, 131

Roads: plank, 17 ; maintenance of new, 682 Rochdale Cemetery Chapel, 294 Rochester, 93

Rogers, Jlr. S. residence of, 445 Roman antiquities in Surrey aud adjoining counties, 100

Romanesque arehitcctnrc of Rhine and central Europe, 254, 279 Rome, gas in, 418 Romney marsh, 594

Roof: gardens, 437 ; iron, joint railway stations at Binningham, 64

Roofing, glass, and how to get good of it, 225 Roque-Favour, aqueduct of, 43 Rose windows, Assisi, 494

Rotherthithe : and its nuisance, 251 ; Commercial docks at, 322, 387

" Roughs,” London, — n word in season, 590 Royal Academieaus, Mr. lluskin’s review of, 2GS Royol Academy : exhibition, 219, 230; architectural room at, 220, 229 ; medals, 612 Royal Institute of Architects, sec “ Institute ” lloval medal for architcctai'c, presentation of to M. Hittorff, 181

Rush-park, county Dublin, 150

Russcll-square, 349

Rydc, W’estfield gallery, near, 407

ST. ALBAN’S Abbey Church, a visit to, 217, 251 St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, — see " Liverpool ”

St. Giles’s and St. George’s, Bloomsbury, proposal for improving dwellings of poor in, 297 St. Giles’s, New Swiss Protestant Church, 106 St. Helier, French Independent Church, 554 St. James’s-park, 425, 466

St. James’s, Westminster ; report on cholera out- break in, 493 ; what has been done in, 509 St.John’s, Southwark, and St. Olave’s, new grammar- school of, 564

St. Mary hlagdalen’s, Mnnater-squarc, Regeut’s-park, 354; sedilia, 375

St. Mary Magdalene’s, Newark, restoration of, 202 St. Mary’s, Taunton, tower of, 405 St. Mildred’s Schools, CanterbiiiT, 146 St. Olave’s and St. John’s, Southwark, new grammar- school of, 664

St. Paul’s temporarj’ iron church, Kensington, 508 St. Paul’s, great bell of, 94, 117, 130 St. Peter’s, Oxford, 309 ; crypt of, 606 St. Philip the Evangelist, church of, at Islington, 453

Sainte Chapellc, Paris, and its restoration, 605, 537 Salt, or saltpetre, in walls, 334, 657 Salisbury Cathedral Chapter-house, 53 Sandhurst, proposed WcUington College near, 406 Sanitary ciTorts — social evils — a morning at Bow- street — “ Meliorn," 157

Sanitary question : 328 ; dirt and misery, 385 ; epi- demics and overcrowding, 590 ; fungoidal and excrctal matters as epidemical causes, 352 ; human longevity, 321 ; Maiden-lane and Valley of Fleet,— how wc inaprove, 397 ; pictures among London poor,— Wild-comt, 405 ; practical view of, 21 : sec also “Drainage,” “Graves,” “Health,”

“ Stnictural Airangements,” S:c.

Sanitary works in Penrith, 405 Sta. Sophia’s, Constantinople, 121, 133, 148 Scenery : and music, 69 ; and the stage, 177, 237, 345: see also “ Sights and Scenery ”

Schinkel, 583

School, new Grammar, of St. Olave’s and St. John’s, Southwark, 564

School of art: Newcastle-under-Lyme, 570; Shef- field, 557 : Worcester, 593 School Union (Sunday), jixbilce building of, 51 Schools : clergy orphan, (Canterbury, 102 ; commercial travellers’. Pinner, 631 ; Ludlow national, 438 ; of * art, provincial, 489, — see also under “Design;”

of London, 184; St. Mildred’s, Canterbury, 146 Science and art, department of, see “Department” Scottish Architectural Institute, see “ Architec- tural ”

Scottish Architectural Exhibition, see under "Exhi- bition ”

Scraps from an old scrap-book, 344 Screw in steamers, introducer of, 202 Sculpture : of St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 126, 165, 225 ; of the Greeks, — Sheffield new school of art, 557

Sedilia, St. Mary’s, Mnnster-square, 375 Senate house, new, at Hamburg, 105 Scrapis, temple of, at Pozzuoli, 490 Serpentine, Lizard, 334 Sewage question, sec “ Drainage ”

Sewer, metropolitan main, plan for realizing funds for, 334

Sewers, gas in, 514

Sewers, Metropolitan Commission of ; 356 ; and their engineer, 545 ; Institution of Civil Eugineers and, 142, 167 ; policy of new, 22 Shakspearc, ou some of the presumed portraits of. 296

Sham builders, — Scott v. Greatorex, 406 Sham, the science of, 123

Sheffield: 345; new school of art, 537; theatre, 501

Shops : at Andley, Cheshire, 378; corner, 550 Shoreham harbour works, 118 Shornclifi'e : camp at., 542 ; workmen at, 418 Sights and scenery, 10 ; sec also “ Scenery,”

“ Theatres,” &c.

Skill, labour, capital aud, 5 Slabs, incised, 304

Slate footing to prevent dampness, 53 Smithfidd: club, testimonial from, 614; memorials of, 109 ; what to do with, 171 Smoke: back, down-draughts and, 105 ; nuisance in the country, — iron-works, 478 Society: of Antiquaries, see “Antiquaries;” of Artists, exhibition of, 152; of Painters, see “Painters ”

Somerset Archtcological Society, 426 Southampton, the bar-gate, — town defences, 496 Southwark, new grammar-school of St. Olave’s and St. John’s, 564

Spafields Chapel, Clerkcnwell, 532 Spofforth Church, shorteniug, 468, 479 Spofforth Church and TopciifTe Church, 502 “Squares” of London, 400 Stained glass, 178, 378. 418, 466, 556, 570, 613 Standard : of deals, 426 ; to test lineal measure, 11 Statistics, the science of, 63; central archives at Berlin, 322 Statues at large, 400 Steeple, Brechin, outline of, 154 Stone: Combe-down, measurement of, 570 ; harden- ing, 380 ; the decay of, 10

Street: architecture, London, 389; of glass and metropolitan communication, 281, — Mr. Gye’s plan for, 603 ; watering, 141 Streets : London, what may be done for, 585 ; names of, 453

Structural arrangements, defective, and disease,— Snow on cholera, 49

Style: development of a new, 89; hints on, 259*, Louis Qnatorze, 145

Styles of architecture, mediaeval, changes in ornament in, 385, 399

Sunderland, — Is towm-di-ainagc beneficial? 570, 578 Surveyors, district, see under “Buildings Act ” Sunday School Union, jubilee building of, 61 Surrey : Archtcological Society, 323 ; Roman anti- quities iu, 100

Surveyors’ charges ; 359 ; Poland v. Tebbutt, 369 ;

Bray v. Read and Leale (mining), 335 Surveyors, prizes for, 669 Surveys, trigonometrical, 533 Suspension-bridge, railway, at Niagara falls, 177

INDEX TO VOLUME XIII.

Sutton-placc, a trip to, 325

Sussex Axchceological Society, 314

Swiss Protestant Church, St. Giles’s (new), 100

Synagogue, a new, in London, 30

Sydney, 530

TAROUILLY, late M. architect, 550 Taunton, tower of St. Mary’s, 403 Temple-garden, 592, 626 Temple of Serapis, Pozznoli, 490 Tenders : builders and their, 142, — charge for pre- paration of, 71

Thames, present condition of — and London drainage, 361

Thames, Father, some memorials of, 375, 387, 410, 429, 470, 533

Theatre: Adelphi, — artistic enthusiasm, 345; Shef- I field, 501

I Theatres : See. egress from, 484, 501 ; ventilation of, \ 594

[ Tlieatrical, 167 : see also *' Sights and Scenery ”

J Thoroughfare, a leading, 467 I Tlireadneedle-street, new buildings in, 78, 97, — in- I creased value of land in Loudon, 97

ITinrbcr: and chain-cable testing -machine, 418 ; pre- servation of, 45 Timbers, insufficient, 130 Tiptree-haU, 365

I Tomb ; of Aylmer de Valence, Westminster Abbey, j 309; of Muhammed, Beejapore, — construction of I domes, — discussion at Institute of Architects, 13

[ Tombs and iiicriptions, military, 101 Tooting (I'^ppcr) Holy Trinity Church, 346 Topeliffe Church, 502 Toronto, 530

Tower of St. Mary’s, Taunton, 405

Town: defences, 496; drainage, is it beneficial?

Sunderland, 570, 578 Trades, noxious, 15 Training College, Exeter Diocesan, 42 Travellers’ (Commercial) Schools, Pinner, 531 Traverser (Railway), Mr. Watson’s, 42 Treport, brick house at, 174

Trigonometrical surveys, 533 |

Tubes, movement of air in, 406

Tunnel controversy, — drainage of London, 561

Turnpikes, metropolitan, 93

Turpentine, use of, in house-painters’ work, 243

UXTTED STATES : and Canada, 247 ; iron in- dustry of, 112 ; railway progress in, 45, 101 University : College, London, architectural classes at, 335 ; museum, Oxford, 292 Uxbridge cemetery, 546

VANBRUGH Club and Architectural Exhibition, 214 Vanes and weathercocks of London churches, 122 Ventilation : arrangements for, 414 ; of theatres, 594 Viaduct, Landore, on South Wales Railway, 207 Victoria, news from, see “Australian News” Victoria-park, 203

Villages, — libraries, lectures, and reading-rooms for, 473

Violin, build and history of, 364

WAGES: late, — drunken workmen, 525; with stop- pages, 137

"Wall, Old London, 221, 269 Wall’s-conrt Farm, near Bristol, 340, 366 Walls : saltpetre, &c. on, 334, 557 ; wash for out- side, 443

Waltham : Abbey Church, Essex, 414 ; Forest, 609 IVar : and then the arts, 6 ; appliances, passim V’ash for outside walls, 443 Washhouses, model, Whitechapel, 167 Washington monument, bronze casting for, 524 Water ; action of on lead, 465, 533, 557 ; cesspools, drains, and death, — report on cholera outbreak in St. James’s, W’estminster, 493 Water-colours, new society of painters in, 197 Water-colours, society of painters in, 207 Water : flow of through pipes and orifices, SI, 88 ; in Coventry, 10; leaden pipes in supply of, 465, 557 ; pipes to prevent bursting of by frost, 202 ; pumping of from pits and mines, 9 ; supply, Bom- bay, 558 ; supply, coating for lead in, 533 ; sup- ply of London poor, 531 ; supply to towns, on the

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present state of our knowledge of, 532 ; tower, Worthing, 419

Water-works, 638 ; Great Yarmouth, 262 ; Lambeth, fall of arches at, 274 ; new river, 233 "Watt and his mechanical inventions, — Mr. Muirhead’s book, 37

eathcrcocks and vanes of London churches, 122 Wellington College, near Sandhurst, proposed, 406 "Westfield Gallery, near Ryde, 467 Westminster : Abbey, crypt below Chapter-house at, 66 ; Abbey, tomb of Aylmer de Valence in, 309, — cloisters — Mind-harbours, 197 ; County Court : masters and men, 601 ; hall, dimensions of, 214; St. James’s, sec “ St. James’s”

Whitechapel, model baths and washhouses, 167 Whitefriars, 520

Wild-court, Drury-lanc : improvement of dwellings, 380; pictures among London poor, 405 "^'ilson, late Edward James, architect, 4 Windows : a new effect in, 514 ; rose, Assisi, 494, 630 ; stained glass, 178: see also “ Glass ”

Wood and metal, cement for, 582 Wood-street, fall of cornice at, 294 Woodwork: Canada, 449 ; Chichester Cathedi’al, 603 Woolwich Royal arsenal, 620 Worcester : Ai'chitectural Society, 4S9 ; cathedral, works at, 489 ; schools of art, 593 Working class: lodgings, 632; museums, 227 Workmen, art, — comersazione at Architectural Museum, 309, 330 Workmen, artist, a chance for, 297 Workmen : drunken, — late wages, 525 ; masters and, 395 ; the, at Shomcliffc, 418 : see also under “ Masters and Men,” “ "IVages,” See.

"W’orks, abuse of, by living architects, 10, 43 Worthing, water-tower, 419 Wrought-irou : beams, 22G, 237. 231 ; work, 330 Wyatt, James, works of, 423, 446, 459

YARMOUTH (Groat) waterworks, opening of. 262 Yorkshire Architectural Society, meeting of, 441, 542 Young Mortality amongst the London graves, 87

ZINC paint, 369

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ABBEY Church, St. Alhan’s; Ground Plan and Sketches

of, 218

Abbey Church, Walthaia ; Interior, 416 All Saints’ Chunh, Kensioston-park, 487; Clerestory ■Window of Samo, showing Mosaic Work, 486 Ancient Ironwork, Notre Bame, Paris, 634 Assisi, Windows, in Church of San Rufiuo, 4fl6; Windows firom, 631 , .r, • • 1 T

Assurance Company’s OfBces, London andProviucial Law life, Fleet-street, 476

Dog in Thames, 411

Bank of, Threadneedle-street, London, 79

BAILIFF'S House, Wall's-Court Farm, near Bristol, 367

Balmoral Castle, 19 ; Ground Plan of Same, 18

Banbury Swimming Baths, with Private Baths attached, Tiew and Plan, 639 „ . ^ t >

Bank of Australasia, Threadneedle-street, London,— Mr. P. 0. Hardwick, Architect, 79 “ intist Chapel, Regent' s-park. Vestibule of, 211 ; Plan of

Baptist cni chapel, i

Bath, Percy Chapel, with Ground flan oi same, /o Baths, Banbury Swimming and Private,— View and Plan,

639

Bayswater, Christ Church, Craven-hiD, 31 Beejaporo, Gol Goomua at, 14 Bermondsey, Sketches in, 183 Birmingham and Midland Institute, 667 ; Plan of Principal Floor of Same, 660

Birmingham, Interior of Great Central Station at, 687 Birmingham, GilloU's Steel Pen Manufactory, 688 Birmingham Town-hall, 687

Brick Architecture, Windows and other specimens of from Mantua. 422. 426, 437

British Museum, New Reading-room in Quadrangle of, 139 i Plan, 138 , ,

Building, New, corner of Chancery-lane, London, 391;

Window, Two-pair Story of Same, at large, 390 Building, — see also “ House”

Buildings, New, in Throodneedle-atreet, Loudon, 103

CABLES, Machine for Testing, 418

Campanile, New. Triuity College, Dublin,— Mr. Lanyon, Architect, 236

Campanile, Palazzo Dei Signori, Verona, -427 Campanile, S. Andrea, Mantua, 427 Canonbury Chapel, Islington,— View and Plan, 523 Canterbury, Clergy Orphan Schools, 163 ; Plan, 162 Canterburv, St. Mildred's Schools, 147 Carlton Club Honse, Pall-mall, 283 ; Plan of Same, 283 j Garden Front, 331 ; Section of Front Wall of Same, 330 Castle, Balmoral,- Mr. William Smith, Architect, 19;

Ground Flan of same, 18 Castle, Pevensey, Sussex, Plan of, 434 Cathedral, Woodwork, Chichester, 603 Cemetery Chapel, ^iscopal, Rochdale, 295 Cemetery Chapels, Paddington, 403 ; Plan of Same, 402 Cemete^, City of London, at Dford, Episcopal Chapel ii 679 ; Plan of Cemetery, 678 Chancel of Hythe Church, 116

Door of Abbey Church of St. Jean-dca-Choui fEarly Ironwork), 691

Dublin, Trinity College, new Campanile, 236 Duchy of Cornwall, OiBoe of, 637 ; Flan of First-floor of Same, 626

Dwellings, Model, Dudley, — Mr. Wigginton, Architect, 499 Dwellings, see also “ Houses”

I Old London, Wall, and various correlative Sketches, 239 }

numerous Dlustrations of, 271 ; lichind Ludgate-hill, OL Orphan Schools, Clergy, at Canterbury, 163; Plan of Same, 102

Oxford, St. Peter’s Church, Crypt of, 607 Oxford University Museum, Ground Plan of, 291; View, 319 ; Ironwork in Central Court, 318

ing College t Paris, P]

'Ian of Palace of Fiue

FARM, Walls Court, on Estate of Duke of Beaufort, near Bristol,— Mr. George Godwin, Architect, 343; Plan of Same, 343; Residence and bailiff’s House, 3C7 Fountain in Nave of Crystal Palace, 269 French Congregational Church at St. Helier, 654 ; Interior of .Same, 666

Froebel's System of Teaching Children, 468

GATEWAY of Knosthorp-hall, Yorkshire, 255 Gateway, St. Bartholomew's, Smitbtleld, 171 Gillott's Steel-peu Manufactory, Birmingham, 6S Gol Goomuz, Beejapore, 14 Grey liars’, Newgate-atreet, Vestiges of, 619

HALL, Merchant Tailors’, London, Crypt of, with Plan and Corbel, 303

Hall, Music (New), at Covent-garden,- Mr. W. F. Hill, Architect, 6M

Hall, St. George’s, Liverpool, — the late Mr. H. L. Elmes, Architect, 7 ; Ground-plan of the Edifice, 2 ; a Compart- ment in, 68,— the late Mr. Elmes end Professor Cockerell, Architects, 65 ; the Pediment of, 127

Holy Trini^ District Church, Upper Tooting, 3-46 ■” '■ ' City of London, for Diaoeses of Chest,— Mr.

iospital,

F. W. Orriish, Architect, 187 Honse at Corner of Chancery-lane, London,— Mr. Knowles, Architect, 391 ; Window, in Same, 390

House, Bailiff's, Walls Court Farm, 367 House-building, London,— Comer Shops, 661 House, see also ” Building,” ” Club-house,” " Dwellings, ’■ “Mansion,” “Residence"

Houses in Bermondsey, 183

Uonaes, new, Threadneedle-street, London,— Mr. Henry Curri^ and Mr. John Shaw, Architects, 103 Hythe Church, Chancel of, 116; Sedilia and Piscina

, inleB,3L.

Institute, the Birmingham and Midland, — Mr. E. M. Barry, Architect, 667; Plan of principal Floor of Same,

PADDINGTON, Cemetery Chapels, -403; Plan of Same,.

Palace of the Fine Arts, Paris Universal Exhibition, Plaa of, 243

Palazzo dei Signori, Verona, Campanile of, 427 Paris, Mairie of tMrd Arrondissement in, 91 ; Doorway of Same, 90

Paris, Notre Dame, Ancient Ironwork, 634 Paris, Sainte Chapelle, 611 ; Interior of, 643 Paris Universal Exhibition, Plan of Palace of Fiue Arta for, 2-43

Pavements, incised,- various Examples, 307 Pediment, St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 127

Pevensey C

Pier, Margate, 451 ; Cluster of Piles in Same, -450 Piles, Cluster of, at Margate Pier, -450 Pipes, bursting of, by Frost, Diagram to Article o: Piseina, Hythe Churoh, 114 Pulpit, Eegeut’s-park Chapel, 247

READINQ-room, Now, in Quadrangle of Britieh Museum, Mr. Sydney Smirke, A. R. A. Architect, 139 ; Plan of Same, 138

Regent's-park Chapel, Plan of, 210; View of Vestibule, 211 : Pulpit of, 2-47

Regent’s-park, St. Ma^ Magdalen's Church, Munster* square, 366; Plan of ^ame, 354 ; Sedilia, Ac. 376 Residence, Wall’s Court Farm, near Bristol, 367 Residence, see also “ House ”

Rochdale Cemetery Chapel, Episcopal, 296

Chancery-lane, London, New Building, Corner of, 391; ’ "■ ■ '"----1, at large, 390

Window, 'iWvo-pair Story of Same, „ .

Chapel, Baptist, Regent’s-park, — Mr. John Thomas, Architect, — Vestibule, 211 ; Plan of Chapel, 310 Chapel, Canonbury, Islington, — Messrs. Haberahon, Architects, — View and Plan, 623 Chapel, Episcopal, in Cemetery of City of London, Ilford, —Mr. William Haywood, Architect, 679; Plan ofCeme*

tery, 678

Chapel, Episcopal, Rochdale Cemetery,— Mr, |R. M. Smith, Architect, 295

Chapel, Percy, at Bath, with Ground Plan of Same, 76 Chapel, Hegenl's-park, Pulpit of, 247 Chapels, Paddington Cemetery, — Mr. T. Little, Architect, 403; Uan of Same, 402

Chapter House, Westminster, Crypt of, 67 ; Plan of Crypt, 198 ; Entrance to Chapter House, 199 Chichester Cathedral Woodwork, 603 Christ Church, Craven-hill, Bayswater, 31 Church, Abbey, St. Alban's, Ground Plan and Sketches of.

218

Church, Christ, Craven-hitl, Bayswater,— Messrs. F. and H. Francis, Architects, 31

Church, French Congregational, St. Helier, — Messrs. Poulton and Woodman, Architects, 654; Interior of Same, 565

Church, Now District of Holy Trinity. Upper Tooting, 346 Church of All Saints, Kensington-park, — Mr. W, White, Architect, -487; Clerestory Window of Some, shovi-ing Mosaic Work, 486

Church of St. Mary Magdalen, Munster-aquare, Regent’s- park, — the late Mr. Carpenter, Architect, 366; Plan of Same, 364; Sedilia, &o. 376

Church, St. Paul’s Temporary (Iron), at Kensington, — Two Uews, Exterior and Interior, 607 Church Vanes and Wcnther-eocka, London, 123 Church, Waltham Abbey, — Interior, 416 City of London Hospital for Diseases of Chest, 187 City ofLondon, see also “ Londou”

Clerestorv Window of Church of All Saints, Kensington- park, snowing Mosaic Work, 488 Clergy Orphan Schools, Canterbury, 163; Plan of Same, 162

Clnb-honse, Carlton, Pall-mall, — Mr. Sydn^ Smirke, Architect, 283; Plan of Same, 282 ; Garden Eroat, 331; Section of Front Wall of Same, 330 College, Dublin Trinity, — now Campanile, 236 College, Exeter Diocesan Training, — Mr. Hayward, Architect, 43 ; Plane of Same, 42 Conduit, the Cambridge,— Mr. 6. H. Hills, Architect, 463 Corbel in Crypt of Merchant Tailors' Hall, London, 303 Comer-sbopa, 551

Cornwall. Duchy of, OflSee of, Pimlico, 627 ; PlanofPirat- floor of Same, 526

Covent-garden, New Music-hall at, 623

Crypt in Chapter-house, Westminster, 67 ; Plan of Same,

Iron Church, 8t.Patil’8,Kenaington,— two Views, Exterior and Interior, 507

Ironwork: Ancient, Notre Dame, Paris, 634; Early,— Door of Abbey Church of St. Jean-des-Choux, 691 Islington, Canonbury Chapel,— View and Plan, 623

8. Andrea, Mantua, Campanile, -427 St. Bartholomew's, Bnuthfield, part of Cloisters, 171; Gateway, 171

St. George's-hsll, Liverpool ; Ground-plan of the Edifice, 3; Interior, 7; Plan of Upper Floor, 27; a Compart- ment in, 66 ; Pediment of, 127 St. Helier, French Congregational Church, 654; Interior of Same, 666

St. Jean-des-Choux, Early Iron work. Door of, 691

JERSEY, St. Heller's, French Congregational Church at, 664 ; Interior of Same, 656

Jubilee, Building of Sunday School Union, to be erected in Old Bailey, London, 61

KENSINGTON-PARK, Church of All Saints, -487 ; Clere- story Window of Same, showing Mosaic Work, -486 Kensington, St. Paul's temporary Iron Church, — two Views, Exterior and Interior, 607 Kennre-park, with Plan and Details, 161 ; see also under “ Mansion ”

Knosthorp Hall, Yorkshire, Gateway of, 265

LIVERPOOL, St. George’s Hall, Interior of, 7 ; Ground- plan of the Edifice, 2 ; Plan of Upper Floor, 27 ; a com- partment in, 66 ; Pediment of, 12'7 London and Provincial Law Life Assurance Company’s Offices, Fleet-street, 476

London and the Thames, — Plan ofLondon in 1771, with Plan of North Margin of Thames, showing Encroach- ments, 471 : see also under “Tbames”

London Cemetery, Ilford, Plan of, 678 ; View of Episcopal Chapel in, 679

London Church Vanes and Weathercocks, 123

London City Hospital for Diseases of Chest, 187

London House-building,— Corner Shops, 661

London, old Wall of, and various correlative Sketches, 223 ;

nuraerona Uluetrations of, 271 ; behind Ludgate-hill, 99 London, old, Substructure of, 646 London, Plan of in 1771, 471 Ludlow National-Schools, 439 ; Plan of Same, 438

MACHINE for Teating Timber and Cables, 418 Mairie of Third Arrondissement in Paris, — M. A. Gerard, Architect, 91 ; Doorway of Same, 90 Mansion, Kenure-park, erected for Sir Roger Palmer, Bart. — Mr. George Papworlh, R.H.A. Architect, — with Plan and Det^s, 161

Mantua; Campanile from 8. Andrea, -^7 ; Windows and other Specimens of Brick Architecture in, 422, 425, 427 Manufactory, Gillott's Steel-pen, at Birmingham, 688 Margate Pier, 451 ; Cluater of Piles in Same, 460 Merchant Tailors’ Hall, London,— Crypt, with Plan and Corbel, 303

Model Dwellings, Dudley, 499

Mosaic Work of Clerestory Window of All Saints* Church, Keneington-park, 4S6

Munster-sqnare, Regent’e-park, St. Mary Magdalen’* Church, 365 ; Plan of Same, 3M; Sedilia, &c. 376 Museum, British, see “British Museum”

Museum, Proposed Oxford University,- Messrs. Deane end Woodward, Architects,— Orouna Plan of, 291 ; View of, 319 ; Ironwork in Central Court of Same, 318 Music Hall, new, Covent-garden, 623

Corbel, 303 Crypt of 81. Peter’s Church, Oxford, < Crystal Palace Nave, Fountain in, 269

DIOCESAN Training College, Exeter, 49; Plans of Same,

park, 355 ; Plan of Same, 354 ; Sedilia, &

St. Mildred's Schools, Canterbury, 147 St. Paul’s temporary Iron Church at Kensington; two Views, exterior and interior, 607 St. Peter's Church, Oxford, Crypt of, 607 Sainte Chapelle, Paris, 611 ; Interior of, 643 School Union, Sunday, Jubilee Building of, to be erected in Old Bailey, London, 61

Schools, Clergy, Orj’han, Canterbury, — Mr. P. C. Hard- wick, Architect, 163 ; Plan of Same, 162 Schools, Ludlow National,— Mr, T. Nicholson, Architect, 430 ; Plan of Same, 438

Schools, St. Mildred’s, Canterbury, — Mr. Joseph Mes- senger, Architect, 147 Sedilia, Hythe Church, 114

Sedilia, St. Mary Magdalen's, Munster-aquare, Regent’s- park, 376

Sewer, Mouth of at London-bridge, — Londoners embark- ing for Fresh Air, 362

Shops at Audley, Cheshire,- Mr. W. White, Architect, 379 Shops, Corner, 651 Sketches in Bermondsey, 183

Smitbfield, 8t. Bartholomew's Gateway, 171; Part of Cloisters, 171

•ation. Great Central, at Birmingham, Interior of, 687 Substructure of Old London, 646

Sunday School Union, Jubilee Building of, to he erected in old Bailey, London, 51 Swimming-bath, Banbury, — View and Plan, 639

THAMES (The) and its Tributaries,— Londoners embark- ing for Fresh Air at London-bridge, 3C‘2 ; a Dog in, 411 Thames, London and the, — Plan of London in 1771, with Plan of North Margin of Thames, showing encroach- ments, 471

Teaching Children, Froebel’s System of, 458 Tbroadneedle-street, Bank of Australasia in, 79 Threadneedle-street, New Houses in, 103 Timber and Cables, Machines for testing, 418 Tooting (Upper) New District Church of Holy Trinity,

Town-hall, Birmingham, 687

Training College, Exeter Diocesan, 43 ; Plans of Same, -12

Treport, in France, House at, 176

Triuity College, Dublin, New Campanile, 236

VANES of London Churches, 123 Verona, Campanile Palazzo Dei Signori, 427 VestibiBe of Regent's^ark Baptist Chapel, 211 Vestiges of the Grey ifcars, Newgate-streot, 019

NATIONAL Schools, Lndlow, 439 ; Plan of Same, 438 Nowgate-street, Vestiges of the Grey Friars, 619 Notre Dame, Paris, Ancient Ironwork, 634

OFFICE of Duchy of Cornwall, Pimlico,- Mr. James Pennethorne, Architect, 627, — Plan of First-floor of Same, 626

Offices, London and Provincial Law Life Assurance Com- pany's, Fleet-street,- Mr. John Shew, Architect, 476 Old London, Substructure of, 646

WALL of Old London, and various correlative Sketches, 223 ; numerous Illustrations, 271 ; behind Ludgate- hill, 99

Walls Court Farm, near Bristol, 343 ; Plan of Same, 342 ;

Residence and Bailiff’s House, 387 W^tham Abbey Church, — Interior, 415 ■Weathercocks ofLondon Churches, 123 Westminster, Crypt in Chapter- House, 67 ; Plan of, 198 Westminster Chapter-House, Entrance to, 199 Window, Clerestory, of All Saints' Church, Kensington- park, showing Mosaic Work, 486 Window, two-pair Story, in Building at Corner of Chan- eeiy-lane, 390 Windows from Assisi, 631 ■Windows in Church of San Ruflno, Assisi, 493 Windows, Mantua, and other Specimens of Brick Archi- tecture, 422. 426, 427 Woodwork, Chichester Cathedral, 603

THE METBOPOLITAW BUILDm& ACT, 1855.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Construction of Buildings in the Metropolis and its NeighbourhooJ.

Victoria, Cap.\^^. August, 1855.]

Whereas it is expedient that the laws relating to buildings in the Metropolis and its neighbourhood should be amended : Be it therefore enacted by tlie Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as fol- lows] (that is to say,)

PREI.IMINARY.

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Metropolitan Building Act, 1855.”

Comtnencement of Act.

' 2. This Act shall, except in cases where it is other- wise expressly provided, come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Interpretation of certain Terms in this Act.

3. In the construction of this Act (if not incon- sistent with the context) the following terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them } (that is to say,)

“The Treasury” sliall mean the Commissioners of her Majesty’s Treasury :

“ Public building ” sliall mean every building used as a churcli, chapel, or other place of public worship ; also every building used for purposes of public instruction ; also every building used as a college, public hall, hosiutal, tlieatre, public con- cert room, public ball room, public lecture room, public exhibition room, or for any other public pur- poses :

“External wall” shall apply to every outer wall or vertical enclosure of any building not being a party wall :

“ Party wall ” shall apply to every wall used or built in order to be used as a separation of any building from any other building, with a view'to the same being occupied by different persons:

“Cro.sawall” shall apply to every wall used or built in order to be used as a separation of one part of any building from another part of the same build- ing, such building being wholly in one occupation :

“ Party structure” shall include party walls, and also partitions, arches, floors, and other structures separating buildings, stories, or rooms which belong to difl’ereiit owners, or which are approached by dis- tinct staircases or separate entrances from without :

The “ area ” of every building shall be deemed to be the superficies of a horizDiital tection of such (building made at the point of its greatest surface, including the external walls and such portion of the party walls as belong to the building, but excluding any attached bui ding the height of which does not exceed the height of the ground story : ^

“The base of the wall” shall mean the course immediately above tiie footings : i

“ Owner” shall apply to every person in posses- [ sion or receipt either of the whole or of any part of the rents or profits of any land or tenement, nr in the occupation of such land or tenement other llian as a tenant from year to year or for any less term, or as a tenant at will :

“ Builder ” shall apply to and include the master- builder or other person employed to execute or who actually executes any work upon any building :

“ District surveyor” shall mean every such sur- veyor who is appointed in pursuance of this Act, or whose ap|K)intment is hereby confirmed, and shall include any deputy or assistant surveyor appointed under this Act :

In all cases in which the name of an officer having local jurisdiction in respect of his office is referred to without mention of the locality to which the jurisdic- tion extends, such reference is to be understood to indicate the officer having juri^diclion in tiiat place within which is situate the building or other subject- matter or any part thereof to which such reference applies :

“ Person ” shall include “ a body corporate.”

LIMITS OK ACT.

Act to ea:tend to all Places within Limits defined by 18 19 Viet. c. 120.

4. This Act shall extend to all places within the limits of the Metropolis, as defined by an Act passed in thepresentsession nf Parliament, intituled An Act for the better local Manayemeni of the Metropolis. and to all other places to which such last-meiitioncd Act may be extended, unless such places are, in making such extension, expressly excepted from the operation of this Act ; but nothing herein contained shall affect the exercise of any powers vested by any Act of Parliament in tlie Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London for the time being.

Division of Act.

5. This Act shall be divided info five parts : —

(1.) Tlie first part relating to the regulation and

supervision of buildings :

(2.) The second pait relating to dangerous struc- tures :

(3.) The third part relating to party structures :

(4.) The fourth part relating to miscellaneous provisions :

(5.) The fifth part relating to the repeal of former Acts, and to temporary provisions.

PAET I.

REGULATION AND SUPERVISION OF BUILDINGS.

Buildings, herein named exempt f7'om Opera- tion of Part I. of this Act.

0. Tlie following buildings and works shall be exempt from the operation of the first part of this Act: —

Bridges, piers, jetties, embankment walls, retain- ing walls, and wharf or quay walls :

Her Majesty’s royal palaces, and any building in the possession of her Majesty, her heirs and suc- cessors, or employed for lier Majesty's use or service :

Common gaols, prisons, houses of correction, and places of confinement under the inspection of the Inspectors of Prisons, and Bethlehem Hospital, and the House of Occupations adjoining :

The Mansion House, Guildhall, and Royal Ex- cliange of the city of London :

The offices and buildings of tlie Governor and Company of the Bank of England already erected, and wliich now form the edifice called “ The Bank of England," and any offices and buildings hereafter to be erected for the use of the said Governor and Company, either on the site of, or in addition to, and in connexion with the said edifice :

The buildings of tlie British Museum :

Tile offices and buildings of the Honourable East- India Company already erected, and any offices or buildings hereafter to be erected, for the use of the said Company, on the site of, or in addition to, such existing offices and buildings :

Greenwich Hospital, and the buildings in the parish of Greoiwich vested in the Commissioners of Greenwich Ilospital for the purposes of tlie said hospital :

All county lunatic asylums, sessions houses, and other public buildings belonging to or occupied by the justices of the peace of the county or city in which the same are situated :

The erections and buildings authorized by an Act passed in tlie ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, for the purposes j of a market in Covent Garden ; \

The Cattle ilai'kot, with its appurtenances, erected i in pursuance of tlie Metropolitan Cattle Market .\ct, 18.51 : j

The buildings belonging to any canal, dock, or ' railway company, and used for the purposes of such canal, dock, or railway, under the provisions of any Act of Parliament :

All buildings, not e.xceeding in height thirty feet, as measured from the footings of tiie walls, and not j exceeding in extent one hundred and twenty-five ' thousand cubic feet, and not being public buildings, wholly in one occupation, and distant at least eight feet from the nearest street or alley, whether public or private, and at the least thirty feet from the nearest buildings and from the ground of any adjoining owner :

All buildings not exceeding in extent two hundred and sixteen thousand cubic feet, and not being public buildings, and distant at least thirty feet from the nearest street or alley, whether public or private, and at the least sixty feet from tlie nearest buildings and from the ground of an adjoining owner :

All party fence-walls and greenhouses, so far as regards the necessary woodworker the sashes, doors, and frames :

Openings made into walls or flues for the purpose of inserting therein ventilating valves, of a superficial extent not greater than forty square inches, if sucii valves are not nearer tlian twelve inches to any timber or other combustible material.

Application of Act, except Exemptions before 7nentio7ied.

7. With the exemptions hei-einbei’ore mentioned, this Act shall apjily to all new buildings j and when- ever mention is herein made of any building, it shall, unless the contrary appears from the context, be deemed to imply a new building.

Building, wlie>i deemed to be 7ieu'.

8. A building shall be deemed to be new wlionover the enclosing walls thereof have not been curried

' higher than tlie footings previously to the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six : any other building sliall he deemed to be an old building.

Alterations of and Additioyis to old Buildings.

9. Any alteration, addition, or other work made nr done for any purpose, except that of necessary repair not affecting the construction of any external or party wall, in, to, or upon any old building, or in, to, or upon any new building after the roof has been

covered in, shall, to the extent of such alteratisPi addition, or work, be subject to the regulations of this Act; and whenever mention is hereinafter r»ade of any alteration, addition, or work in, to, orupot» any building, it shall, unless the contrary appears from the context, be deemed to imply an alteration^ addition, or work to which this Act applies.

Rebuilding old Buildings.

10. Whenever any old building has been take’* down to an extent exceeding one half of such building, such half to be me.asurcd in cubic feet, the rebuilding thereof shall be deemed to be thw erection of a new building ; and every portion of such old building tliat is not in conformity with the regulations of this Act shall be forthwith takccc down.

Division of old Buildings separated by irnregvJaT Partitions.

11. Whenever any old buildings are separated by- timber or other partitions not in conformity wilK this Act. then, if such partitions are removed to the extent of one half thereof, such buildings shall as- respects the separation tliereof be deemed to be^ new buildings, and be forthwith divided from eftcb- other in the manner directed by this Act.

WALLS.

SU'ucture and Thichfiess of WaUs.

12. Walls shall be constructed of such substances, and of such thickness, and in such manner as arc? mentioned in the first schedule annexed hereto.

RECESSES AND OPENINGS.

Rules as to Recesses and Openi/igs.

13. The following rules shall be observed will* respect to recesses and openings in walls ;

Recesses and cpeniiigs may be made io exteroa} walls, provided,

First, that tlie backs of such recesses are not of less thickness than eight and a half inches ; and.

Second, tliat the area of such recesses and open-- ings do not, taken togetlier, exceed one haif of the whole area of the wall in which they are made :

Recesses may be made in party walls, provided' that.

First, the backs of such recesses are not of less thicknes.s than thirteen inches; and

Second, that every recess so formed is arched over, and that the area of such recesses do not, taken alto- gether. exceed one half of tlie whole area of the wali of the story in which they are made; and

Third, that such recesses do not come within one- foot of the inner face of the external walls.

But no opening .shall be made in any party wall except in accordance with the rules of this Act :

The word area, as used in this section, shall mean- the area of the vertical face, or elevation, of tUc wall, pier, or recess to which it refers.

MISCELLANEOUS.

j4s to Timber i/i Exteriial Walls.

14. Loophole frames may be fixed within one inch and a half of the face of any external wall; but all' other woodwork fi.ved in any external wall, except, bressummers and story posts under the same, and frames of doors and windows of shops on thcgroundl story of any building, shall be set back four inchess- at the least from the external face of such wall.

Rules as to Bressumme7's.

15. The following roles shall be observed wftli respect to bressummers and timbers: —

First, every bressummer must liave a bearing in- the direction of its length of four inches at the least at each end, upon a sufficient pier of brick or stone, or upon a timber or iron story post fixed on a solid' foundation, in aiUlition to its bearing ujion any party- wall ; and the ends of such bressummer sliall not be- placed nearer to the centreline of the party walls-’ than four and a half inches :

Second, no bond timber or wood plate shall be built into any party wall, and the ends of any beam- or joist bearing on such walls shall be at the least four and a hall' inches distant from the centreline- of the party walls :

Third, every bressummer bearing upon any party wall must be borne by a templet or corbel of ^one- or iron tailed through at least half the thickness of such wall, and ofthe full breadth of tiie bressummer-

Ihight and T/iichtiess of Parapets to External Walts.

IG. If any gutter, any jiart of which is Formed of ' combustible materials, adjoins an external wall, thei). such wall must be carried up so as to form a parapet one foot at the least above the highest part of such- gutter, and the thickness of the parapet so carried, up must be at the least eight and a half inches,.

I reckoned from the level of the under side of the gutter plate.

Height of Party WaUs above Roof.

17. Every party w all shall be carried up above the-r roof flat or gutter of the highest building adjoiniDg^ thereto, to such height as will give a distance ofi fifteen inches measured at right angles to the slope

METEOPOLITAN BUILDING ACT.

I Supplement to

of tlie roof, or fiffccn inches above the highest part of any Bat or gutter, as tiie case may be ; and every party wall shall be carried ii|) above any turret, dormer, lantern light, or oilier erection of combus- tible materials fixed upon the roof or fiat of any building within four feet from such party wall, and shall extend at the !e.nst twelve inches higher and wider on each side than such erection ; and every party wall shall ho carried up above any part of any roof opposite thereto, and within four feet from such party wall.

As fo C/inses in Party Walls.

18. In a party wall no chase shall be made wider than fourteen indies, nor more than four and a half inches deep from the face of the wall, nor so as to leave less than eight and a half inches in thickness at the back or oiiposite side thereof, and no chase may be made within a distance of seven feet from any other chase on the same side of the wall.

As lo Construction of Roofs.

10. The roofs of buildings shall he coustructed as follows ; that is to say,

First, the fiat, gutter, and roof of every building, and every turret, dormer, lantern light, skylight, or other erection placed on the flat or roof thereof, shall be externally covered with slates, tiles, metal, or other incouibnslible materials, except the doors, door frames, windows, and window I'rnraes of such dormers, turrets, lantern lights, skylights, or other erections.

Second, the plane of the surface of the roof of a warehouse or other building, used either wholly or in part for purposes of trade or manufacture, shall not incline from the external or party walls upwards at a greater angle thau forty-seven degrees with the horizon.

Rules as to Chimnies and Flues.

20. The following rules shall be observed as to chimnies and fiues ; —

First, chimnies built on corbels of brick, stone, or other incombustible materials, may be introduced above the level of the ceiling of the ground story if the work so corbelled out does not project from the wall more than the thickness of the wall, but all other chimnies shall be built on solid foundations, and with footings similar to the footings of the wall against which they are built.

Second, chimnies and fiues having proper doors of not less than six inches square may be constructed at any angle, but in every other chimney or flue the angles shall be constructed of an ohtusenesa of not less than one hundred and thirty degrees, and shall be properly rounded.

Third, an arch of brick or stone or a bar of wrought iron must be built over the opening of every chimney to support the breast thereof, and if tho breast projects more tlian four and a half inches from the face of the wall, and the jamb on either side is of less width than seventeen and a half inches, the abutments must be tied in by an iron bar or bars turned up and down at the ends and built into the jambs for at least eight and a half inches on each side :

Fourth, the inside of every flue, and the back or outside, unless forming part of the outer face of an external wall, must be rendered, pargeted, or lined with fireproof pijiing:

Fifth, the jambs of every chimney must at the least bo eight and a half iuches wide on each sido of the opening thereof :

Sixth, tho breast of every chimney, and the front, withe, partition, and back of every flue, must at the least be four indies in thickness ;

Seventh, the back of every chimney opening, from the hearth up to the heiglit of twelve inwhes above the mantel, must at the least bo eight and a lialf indies thick if in a party wall, or four and a half inches thick if not in a party wall :

Eiglith, the thickness of the upper side of every flue, when its course makes, with the horizon, an angle of less than forty-five degrees, must be at tho least eight and a lialf indies :

Ninth, every chimney shaft shall be carried up in brick or stone work all round, at the least four inches thick, to a height of not less tiian tliree feet above the roof, flat, or gutter adjoining thereto, measured at the highest point in the line of junction with such roof, flat, or gutter :

Tenth, the brickwork or stonework of any chimney shaft, excepting tliat of the furnace of auy steam- engine, brewery, distillery or iiianufaetory, shall not be built liiglier above the roof, fl-it, or gutter adjoin- ing thereto, measured from the highest point in the line of junction with such roof, fl,it, or gutter, than a height equal to six times the least width of such chimney shaft at llic level of suc-h highest point in the line of junction, unless such chimney shaft is built with and bonded to anotlicr diimiioy shaft not in the same line witli the first, or otherwise rendered secure :

Klevpnth, there shall be laid, level with the floor of every story, before the opening of every chimney, a slab of stone, slute, or other incombustible sub- stance, at the least twelve iiirhcs longer than iho width of such opening, and at the least eighteen inches wide in front of tiie breast thereof :

Twelfth, on every floor, except the lowe.st floor, such slab sliull be laid wholly upon stone or iron bearers, or upom brick trimmers ; hut on tho lowest floor it may be bedded on the solid ground :

Thirteenth, the hearth or slab of every chimney shall be bedded wholly on brick, stone, or other in-

combustible substance, and shall be solid for a thickness of seven inches at the least beneath the upper surface of such hearth or slab :

Fourteenth, no flue shall be built against any party structure, unless a withe is properly secured thereto, at the least four inches in thickness :

Fifteenth, no chimney breast or shaft built with or in any party wall shall be cut away, unless the dis- trict surveyor certifies that it can be done without injuriously afFecting the stability of any building:

Sixteenth, no chimney shaft, jamb, breast, or flue shall be cut into, except for the purpose of repair or doing some one or more of the following things :

Of letting in, or removing, or altering flues, pipes, or funnels for the conveyance of smoko, hot air, or steam, or of letting in, removing, or altering smoke jacks :

Of forming openings for soot doors, such open- ings to bo fitted with a close iron door and frame :

Of making openings for the insertion of ventilat- ing valves, subject to the following restriction, That no opening shall be made imarer than twelve inches to any timber or combustible substance :

Seventeenth, no timber or woodwork shall be placed,

In any wall or chimney breast nearer than twelve inches to the inside of any flue or chimney opening ;

Under any chimney opening within eighteen inches from the upper surface of the hearth of such chimney opening ;

Within two inches from the face of the brickwork or stonework about any chimney or flue, where the substance of such brickwork or stonework is less than eight and a half inches thick, unless the face of such brickwork or stonework is rendered ;

And no wooden plugs shall be driven nearer than six inches to the inside of any flue or chimney open- ing, nor any iron holdfast or other iron fasteuiug nearer tlian two inches thereto.

Rules as to close Fires and Pipes for conveying Vapour, Sfc.

21. The following rules shall be observed as to close fires, and pipes for conveying heated vapour or water ; that is to say,

First, the floor under every oven or stove used for the purpose of trade or manufacture, and the floor around the same for a space of eighteen inches, shall be formed of materials of an incombustible and non-conducting nature :

Second, no pipe for conveying smoke, heated air, steam, or hot water shall be fixed against any building on the face next to any street, alley, mews, or public way ;

Third, no pipe for conveying heated air or steam shall be fixed nearer than six inches to any com- bustible materials :

Fourth, no pipe for conveying liot water shall bo jdaced nearer than three inches to any combustible materials ;

Fifth, no pipe for conveying smoke or other pro- ducts of combustion shall be fixed nearer than nine inches to any combustible material :

And if any person fails in complying with the rules of this section, he shall for each otfenco incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered before a ju.sticeof the peace.

Rules as lo Accesses and Stairs in certain Buildings.

22. The following rules shall be observed with respect to accesses and stairs :

In every public building, and in every other building containing more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand cubic feet, and used as a dwelling house for separate families, the floors of tho lobbies, corridors, passages, and landings, and also tbe flights of stairs, shall be of stone or other fire-proof material, aud carried by supports of a fire-proof materjai.

Rule.s as to habitahle Rooms.

23. The following rules shall be observed with respect to habitable rooms in any building j that is to -say,

First, every habitable room hereafter constructed in any building, except rooms in the roof thereof, and cellars, and underground rooms, shall be in every part at the least seven feet in height from the floor to tho ceiling ;

Second, every habitable room hereafter con- structed in the roof of every building shall be at the least seven feet in heiglit from the floor to tbe ceiling, throughout not less than one half tho area of such room :

Third, 'cellars and underground rooms shall be constructed in manner directed by the said Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis :

And whosoever knowingly sutlers uny room that is not constructed in coiifoniiity with this section to be inliabilcd shall, in addition to any other liabilities he may be subject to under this Act, incur a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for every day during which such room is inhabited ; and any room in which any person passes the night shall be deemed to be inhabited within the meaning of this Act.

As to Party Arches over public Ways.

21. Every party arch, and every arch or floor over any imblic way, or any passage leading to premises in other occuiiation, sliall be formed of brick, stone, or other incombustible niaferials : If an arch of brick or stone is used, it shall, in cases where its span does not exceed nine feet, be of the thickness of four and a half inches at the least, but when its spun e.xceeda nine feet, be of the thickness of eight

and a half inches at the least : If an arch or floor of iron or other incombustible material is used, it shall be constructed in such manner as may be approved by the district surveyor.

As to Arches under public Ways.

25. Every arch under any public way shall be formed of brick, stone, or other incombustible mate- rials : If an arch of brick or stone is used, it shall, in cases where its span does not evoeed ten feet, be of tlie thickness of eight and a haif inches at the least ; where its span does not exceed fifteen feet, it shall be of the thickness of thirteen inches at least ; and where its span exceeds fifteen feet, it shall be of such thickness as may be apprcvcd by the district sur- veyor: If an arch or other construction of iron or other incombustible material is used, it shall be con- structed in such manner as may be approved by the district surveyor.

Rules as to Projections.

25. The following rules shall be observed as to projections :

First, every coping, cornice, facia, window dressing, portico, balcony, verandah, balustrade, and architec- tural projection or decoration whatsoever, and also the eaves or cornices to any overhanging roof, except the cornices and dressings to the window fronts of shops, and e.xcept the eaves and cornices to detached and semi-detached dwelling houses distant at least fifteen feet from any other building, and from the ground of any adjoining owner, shall, unless the Metropolitan Board otherwise permit, be of brick, tile, stone, artificial stone, slate, cement, or other fire-proof material :

j Second, in streets or alleys of a less width than thirty feet, any shop front may project beyond the ex- ternal wall of the building to which it belongs for five inches and no more, and any cornice of any such shop front may project thirteen inches and no more ; and in any street or alley of a width greater than thirty feet, any shop front may project ten inches and no more, and the cornice may project for eighteen inches from the external walls, but no more :

Third, no part of the wordwork of any shop front shall be fixed nearer than four and a half inches from the line of junction of any adjoining premises, unless a pier or corbel of stone, brick, or other fire-proof material, four and a half inches wide at the least, is built or fixed next to such adjoining premises as high as such woodwork is fixed, and projects an inch at the least in front of the face thereof :

Fourth, the roof, flat, or gutter of every building, and every balcony, verandah, shop front, or other projection, must be so arranged and constructed, and so supplied with gutters and pipes, as to prevent the water therefrom from dropping upon or running over any public way :

Fifth, except in so far as is permitted by this sec- tion in the case of shop fronts, and with the excep- tion of water pipes and their appurtenances, copings, cornices, facias, window dressings, and other like architectural decorations, no projection from any building shall extend beyond the general line of fronts in any street, except with the permission of llio Metropolitan Board of Works hereinafter men- tioned.

Rules as to the Separation of Buildings, and Limitalion of their Areas.

27. Tho following rules shall be observed as to the separation of buildings, and limitation of their areas :

First, every building shall be separated by ex- ternal or party wails from any adjoining building ;

Second, separate sets of chambers or rooms tenanted by diil’ercnt persons shall, if contained in a building exceeding three thousand six hundred square feet in area, be deemed to be separate buildings, and be divided accordingly, so far as tliev adjoin vertically by party walls, and so far as they adjoin horizontally by party arches or fire- proof floors ;

Third, if any building in one occupation is divided into two or more tenements, each having a separate entrance and staircase, or a separate entrance from without, every such tenement shall be deemed to be n seiinrate building for the purposes of this Act :

Fourth, every warehouse, or other building used either wholly or in part fur tho purposes of trade or manufacture, containing more than two hundred and sixteen thousand cubic feet, shall be divided by party walls in such manner that the contents of each division thereof shall not exceed the above-men- tioned number of cubic feet.

Rules as fo uniting Buildings.

28. Tlie following rules shall be observed as to uniting buildings :

First, no buildings shall be united unless they are wholly in the same occupation;

Second, no buildings shall be united, if when so united they will, considered as one building only, be in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act :

Third, no opening shall be made in any party wall dividing buildings, whicli, if taken together, would contain more than two hundred and si.xteeu thousand cubic feet, except under the following conditions:

Sucli opening shall not exceed in width seven feet or in height eight feet :

Such opening shall have the floor, jambs, and head formed of brick, stone, or iron, and be closed by two wrought iron doors, each one fourth of an inch thick in tbe panel, at a distance from each

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otlier of the full, tliidcoess of the wall, fitted to re- bated frames, without woodwork of any kind :

Fourth, whenever any buildings which have been united cease to be in the same occupation, any open- ings made in the party walls dividing the same shall be stopped up with brick or stone work of the full thickness of the wall itself, and properly bonded therewith.

As to Open Spaces near Dwelling Houses.

29. Every building used or intended to be used as a dwelling house, unless all the rooms can be lighted and ventilated from a street or alley adjoining, shall have in the rear or on the side thereof an open space exclusively belonging thereto of the e.xtent at least of one hundred square feet.

Conslruction of Public Buildings.

30. Notwithstanding anything herein contained, every public building, including the walls, roofs, floors, galleries, and staircases, shall be constructed in such manner as may be approved by the district surveyor, or, in the event of disagreement, may be determined by the Metropolitan Board; and save in so far as respects the rules of construction, every public building shall throughout this Act be deemed to be included in tlie term building, and be subject to all the provisions of this Act, in the same manner as if it were a building erected for a purpose other than a public purpose.

DISTRICT SURVEYORS.

Buildings to he supervised hy District Surveyors.

31. With the exemptions hereinbefore mentioned, every building, and every work done to, in, or upon any building, shall be subject to the supervision of the district surveyor appoioted to the district in which the building is situate.

Power to Metropolitan Board of Works established under 13 19 Vicl. c. 120.

32. The following things may be done by the Metropolitan Board of Works, established by tlie said Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis, by order, at their discretion ; that is to sa\^

Virst, they may alter the limits of any district, or unite any two or more districts together, and in any such case place such altered district under the super- vision of any e.\isting or of any future district sur- veyor, with power from time to time to alter any district so made, and do all such matters and things as are necessary for carrying into effect the power hereby given :

Second, they may dismiss any existing district surveyor, with the consent of one of her Majesty’s principal secretaries of state; they may suspend any such surveyor as last aforesaid ; they may dismiss or suspend any future distri(T surveyor; and in case of any suspension or during any vacancy they may appoint a temporary substitute ;

Third, whenever any vacancy occurs in the office of any existing or future district surveyor, tlicy may appoint another qualified person in his place :

Fourth, they may pay such amount of compensa- tion as they think fit to any district surveyor who may be deprived of his office, in pursuance of the power hereby given of altering the limits of districts :

But, subject to the provisions lierein contained, the several places wliich, at the lime when this Act comes into operation, arc constituted districts, under an Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighty-four, and intituled An Act for regulating the Construction and Use of Buildings in the J\Ietropolis and Us Neighboiirhood, for the purposes of that Act, shall continue to be districts for the purposes of this Act, and the several persons who, at the time when this .\ct comes into operation, are district surveyors under the provisions of the said Act, shall continue to be district surveyors under this Act.

Examination by Institute of British Architects.

33. The Institute of British Architects may from

time to time cause to be examined, by such persons and in such manner as they thiuk fit, all candidates presenting themselves for tlie purpose of being examined a- to tlieir competency to perform the duties of district surveyor, and shall grant certificates of competency to the candidates found deserving of the same; and no person who has not already filled the office of district surveyor, or has not already ob- tained a certificate of competency, in pursuance of the said Act of the eighth year of tlie reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighty-four, shall be quali- fied to be appointed to that office, unless he has re- ceived a certificate of competency from the said Institute of Architects, or iiasbeeci examined

in such other manner as the said Metropolitan Board may direct, and been found competent in such examination.

District Surveyor to have and maintain an Office.

34. Every district surveyor shall liave and main- tain an office at his own expense in such part of his district as may be approved by the Metropolitan Board of Works.

District Surveyor may appoint Deputy tcith consent.

35. If any district surveyor is prevented by illness, infirmity, or any other unavoidable circumstance from attending to the duties of liis office, he may. with the consent of tlio Metropolitan Board of Works, ap- point some other person as his deputy to perform all his duties for such time as be may be prevented from executing them.

Assistant Surveyor may be appointed on Emergency.

36. If at any time it appears to the Metropolitan Board of Works that, on account of the pressure of business in any district, or any other account, the surveyor of that district cannot discharge his duties promptly and efficiently, then such Board may direct any other district surveyor to assist the surveyor of such district in the performance of bis duties, or appoint some other person to give such assistance, and such assistant surveyor shall be entitled to re- ceive all fees payable in respect of the services per- formed by him.

District Surveyor not to act in case of TFor^-s under his professional Superintendence.

37. If any building is executed, or any work done to, in, or upon any building, by or under tlie super- intendence of any district surveyor acting profes- sionally or on his own private account, it shall not be lawful for such surveyor to survey any such building for the purpose of this Act. or to act as district surveyor in respect thereof or in any matter connected therewith, but it shall be his duty to give notice thereof to the said Metropolitan Board, who shall then ajipoint some other district surveyor to act iu respect of such matter.

NOTICES TO DISTRICT SURVEYORS.

Notices to he gieen to District Surveyor by Builder.

33. Two days before the following acts or event, that is to say.

Two days before any building, or any work to, in, or upon any building is commenced, and also, if the progress of any such building or work is alter the commencement thereof suspended for any period exceeding three mouths, two days before sucli building or work is resumed, and also if during the progress of any such building or work the builder employed thereon is changed, then two days before any new builder enters upon the continuance of such building or work, it shall he the duty of the builder engaged in building or rebuilding such building, or in executing such work, or in continuing such building or work, to give to the district surveyor notice in writing stating the situation, area, and height, and intended use of the building or buildings about to be commenced, or to, in, or upon which any work is to be done, and the number of such buildings if more than one. and also the particulars of any such proposed work, and stating also his own name and address, hut any works to, in, or upon the same building that are in progress at the same time may be included in one notice.

District Surveyor to cause Pules of this Act to be observed.

39. Every district surveyor shall, upon the receipt of any such notice as aforesaid, and also upon any work affected by the rules of this Act, but in respect of which no notice has been given, being observed by or made known to him, and also from time to time during the progress of any works affected by the rules and directions of this Act, as often as may be necessary for seimring the due observance of sucli rules, survey any building or work hereby placed under their supervision, and cause all the rules of this Act to be duly observed.

Notice to be Evidence of intended Tf’or^.?.

40. Every notice given in pursuance of this Act shall be deemed, in any question relative to any building or work, to be prima facie evidence as against such builder of the nature of the building or work proposed to be built or done.

Penalty on Builders neglecting to give Notice.

41. If any builder neglects to give notice in any of tiie cases aforesaid, or executes any works of whicli he is hereby required to give notice before giving the same, or liaving given due notice of any works executes the same before the expiration of two days from the time of giving such notice, such builder shall for every such offence incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered before a justice of the peace.

District Surveyor may enter and inspect Buildings affiected by this Act— Penalty for Refusal.

42. At all reasonable times during the progress of any building or work affected by this Act, it shall be law'ful for the district surveyor to enter and inspect such building or work ; and if any person refuses to admit such surveyor to inspect such building or work, or refuses or neglects to afford such surveyor all reasonable assistance in such inspection, in every such case the offender shall incur for each offence a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered before a justice of the peace.

District Surveyor may enter Buildings to ascertain as to exempted Buildings.

43. The district surveyor may at all reasonable times enter any premises, with the exception of buildings hereinbefore exempted byname, for the purpose of ascertaining whether any buildings erected in such premises are in such a situation or possess such characteristics as are hereinbefore re- quired in order to exempt them from the operation of this .\ct, and lie may do all such things as are necessary for the above purpose; and if any person refuses to admit such surveyor to enter such pre- mises or to inspect any such building, or neglects to afford to him all reasonable assistance in such inspec- tion, in every such case the offender shall incur for

I each offence a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, j to be recovered before a justice of the peace.

I7i case of Emergency, Works may be cotmnenced without Notice.

44. If by reason of any emergency any act or work is required to be done immediately, or before notice can be given as aforesaid, then it shall be lawful to do the act or work so re<iuired to be done, upon con- dition that before the expiration of twenty-four hours after such actor work has been begun, notice thereof is given to the district surveyor.

PROCEEDINGS RV DISTRICT SURVEYORS IN CASE OF IRREGULARITY.

Notice by District Surveyor incase of Irregularity.

45. In the following cases, that is to say, —

If, in erecting any building or in doing any work to, in, or upon any building, anything is done con- trary to any of the rules of this Act, or anything required by this Act is omitted to be done; or

in cases where due notice has not been "iven, —

If the district surveyor, on surveying or inspecting any building or work, finds that the same is so far advanced that he cannot ascertain whether anything has been done contrary to the rules of this Act, or whether anything required by the rules of this Act has been omitted to be done ;

In every such case the district surveyor shall give to the builder engaged in erecting such building, or in doing such work, notice in writing requiring such builder, within forty-eight hours from the flute of such notice, to cause anything done contrary to the rules of this Act to be amended, or to do anything required to be done by this Act, but which has been omitted to be done, or to cause so much of any building or work as prevents such district surveyor from ascertaining whether anything has been done or omitted to be done as aforesaid to be to a suffi- cient extent cut into, laid open, or pulled down.

On Non-compliance with Notice, Justice to smnmon

Builder, and make Order to comply with Requi- sition.

46. If the builder to whom sucli notice is given makes default in complying with the requisition tiiereof within such period of forty-eight hours, the district surveyor may cause complaint of such non- compliance to be made before a justice of the peace, and such justice shall thereupon issue a summons rpqniring the builder so in default to appear before him ; and if upon his appearance, or in his absence, upon due proof of the service of such summons, it appears to such justice that the requisitions made by such notice or any of them are authorized by this Act, lie shall make an order on such builder com- manding him to comply with the requisitions of such notice, or any of such requisitions that may in his opinion be authorized by this Act, within a lime to be named in such order.

Penally on Non-compliance wilh Order of Justice-

47. if sucli order is not complied with, tlie builder on whom it is made shall incur a penalty not exceed- ing twenty pounds a day, to be recovered before R justice of tlie peace, during every day of the con- tinuance of such noncompliance, and in addition thereto the district surveyor mav, if he thinks fit, proceed with a siifRcieut number of workmen to enter upon the premises, and do all such things as may be necessary for enforcing tlie requisitions of such nofice, and for bringing any building or work into conformity with the rules of this Act, and all expenses incurred by him in so doing and in any such proceedings as aforesaid, may be recovered from the builder on whom such order was made, in a summary manner, before a justice of the peace, or may be recovered from the owner of tlie premises in the same manner in which expenses incurreil by the Commissioner.^ hereinafter named in respect of dangerous buildings are hereinafter directed to be recovered from any owner ; and if tiic owner cannot be found, or if, on demand, he refuses or neglects to pay the aforesaid expenses, the district surveyor shall have the same power of taking and selling the building in respect of wliich the order is made, and of applying the proceeds as is thereby given to the Commissioners.

Penalty on ITorA/ncn. S,’c. doing anything contrary to Rules of Act.

48. If any workman, labourer, servant, or other person employed in or about any building, wilfully, and without the privity or consent of the person causing such work to be done, does any tiling in or about such building contrary to the rules of this Act, he sliall for each such offeuce incur a penalty nut exceeding fifty shillings.

FEES OF DISTRICT SURVEYORS.

Payments to District Surveyors in respect of Matters hi First Part of Second Schedule.

49. There shall be paid to the district surveyors, in respect of the several matters specified in the first part of the second schedule hereto, the fees therein specified, or such other fees, not exceeding the amounts therein specified, as may from time to time be directed by the Metropolitan Board of Works ; but one fee only shall be chargeable with respect to any such works done in, to, or upon any building as arein pursuance oftlie provisions herein- before contained included in one notice; and if in consf(|ueiice of any redui;tion being made by the said Merropolitaii Board in the amount of the said scheduled fees the income of any existing district surveyor is diminished, the Metropolitan Board shall grant to him compensation in respect of such diminution.

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3IelrojiolUan Board may appoint upecial Fees for Services not prorhled for.

50. If any .special service is required to be per- formed by the district surveyor under tlie first part.

Ibis Act, for winch no fee is specified in the said %r.bovIulc. the Metropolitan Hoard of Works may ««yW such fee to be paid for such service ns lliey think, fit, and the district surveyor shall have the £&me remedy for recovering such special fee as if the same were expressly ti.imed in the said schedule.

Periotls when Svi'v<’yors entitled to Fees.

51. At the expiration of tiie following (icriods, Ihat is to say,

Of one month after the roof of any building sur- ^■eyed by any district surveyor under this Act has fceen covered in.

Of fourteen days after the completion of any such iwork as is by this Act placed under the supervision .uf the district surveyor.

Of fourteen days after any special service in re- ispect of any building lias been performed,

The district surveyor bIihII be entitled to receive "Cne amount of fees due to him from the builder employed in erecting such building, or in doing such tvork, or in doing any matter in respect of wliich any special service has been performed by the surveyor, from the owner or occupier of the building so •erected or in respect of wliich such work has been done or service |>errnrnied; and if any such builder,

• owner, or occupier refuses to pay the same, sucli •fees nsay be recovered in a summary manner before a justice of the peace, upon its being shown to tlie eatisfaction of such justice that a proper bill specify- tng the amount of such fees was delivered to such fenilder, ownt'r, or occupier, or sent to him in a registered letter addressed to his last known resi- «>eacc.

nETURNS DV DISTRICT SURVEYORS.

J)Lstrici Surveyor to 77iake tnontfily Returns to Metropolitan Board of

52. Every district surveyor shall, within seven days after the first day of every month, make a re- turn to the Metropolitan Board of Works, in such cianiicr as they may appoint, of all notices and com- j>laints received by him relative to the business of his district, and the results thereof, and of all matters Ijrought by liim before .niiy justice of the peace, and of all the several works supervised and special ser- vices performed by him in tiie e.xercise of his office within the previous moiitli, and of all fees charged ■or received in respect thereof, and specify in such return tlie description and locality of every building built» rebuilt, enlarged, or altered, or on which any work lias been done under his supervision, with the particular nature of every woik in respect of which iXTiy fee has been charged or received.

Return duly signed to be a Certificate that B'oris are agreeable to Act.

53. Every such return shall be .signed by such i«urveyor, and shall be deemed to be a certificate “that all the works enumerated therein as completed Slave been done in all respects agreeably to tliis Act, according to the best of his knowledge and belief, <ind that they have been duly surveyed hy him. RuperiKtending Architect to audit Accounts of

Fees charged by District Swveyors, and to re- port in case of Excess.

54. The officer hereinafter mentioned as the Superintending Architect of Metropolitan Buildings, •cir such otlier officer as the Metropolitan Board of Works appoint, shall from time to time examine the aaid montiily returns made by the district surveyors ; ■uind ill case any fees therein specified appear to such -officer to be unauthorized by this Act, or to exceed :4n amount the rates hereby made payable, or in case .niiy such account ajipears to be in any respect fraudulent or untrue, he shall make liia report in writing to that effect to the Metropolitan Board of Works, who shall thereupon take such steps in the .maU^^r as tlicy deem c.xpcdient.

POWERS OK METROPOI.IT.IN BOARD OF WORKS. ■Power for Metropolitan Board of Works to modify Rules.

55. The Metropolitan Board of Works may, by •order, made with the consent of lier Majesty in filouncil, alter, in such manner as they may think fit, the rules for the regulation of the thickness of

-walls contained in the first schedule hereto. Sttildings to which Rules of Act are inapplicable.

56. Whenever any buiMcr is desirous of erecting any iron building, or any oilier building to which 4;he rules of tliis Act are inapplicable, lie sliall make an application to the Metropolitan Board of Works, .stating .such desire, and setting out a jilan of tlie .proposed building, with such iiarticiilars os to the construction tliercof as may be rifpiiri'd by the said Boards and the latter, if satisfied witii such plan and particulars, ahull signify their a])proval of tlie same, and tlicreupon sueh building may be eon- stnictod according to such plan and particulars ; but it shall not be lawful for such Board to auUiorize any warehouse or other building, used either wholly tit ia part for tlie purposes of trade or manufacture, Jto be erected of greater dimensions tlian two iiuodred and si.xtecn tbousaud cubic feet, unless it is divided by party walls in manner hereinbefore required.

Pouw}' of Meiropolilan Board to make General Rules.

purpose of regulating the proceedings of such appli- cants ns aforesaid, from time to time issue such general rules as to the time and manner of making such applications, as to the plans to be presented, as to the expenses to be incurred, and ns to any other matter or thing connected therewith, as they may think fit.

Approval of Board how signified.

58. The approval by the Metropolitan Board of Works of any plniis or piirticulars, in pursuance of tlie foregoing provisions, shall be signified by writing under the hand of tlic Superintending Architect of Metropolitan Buildings, und countersigned by the Oliairmnn of sucli Board, or by any other officer appointed by tlie Board.

Board to issue Forms of Notices.

.59. The said Metropolitan Board may from time to time prepare or sanction forms of the various notices required by this Act, and may from time to time make such alterations tlierein as they deem requisite; and they shall cause every such form to be sealed with the seal of the Board, or marked with some other distinguishing mark ; and any notice made in a form sanctioned by the Board shall in ail proceedings be held sufficient in law.

Expenses of Orders to be borne by Bitiiders. _

GO. All expenses incurred in and about the obtain- ing such approval of the iletropolitan Board of Works as aforesaid, shall be paid by tlie builder to tlie said Superiiitcncling Architect, or to such other person as the said Board may appoint, and in default of pay- ment may be recovered in a summary manner. District Surveyor to see Plans carried into

execulioti.

Gl. A cojiy of any plans and particulars, approved by the Metropolitan Board of Works, shall be fur- nished to the surveyor within whoso district the building to which such plans and particulars relate i.s situate, and thereupon it shall be the duty of sueh district surveyor to ascertain tlwt the same is built ill accordance with the said plans and particulars. Power to MetropoUtati Board to appoint Snperin tending Architect and Clerks.

62. The Metropolitan Board of Works may, for the purpose of aiding in tlie execution of this .A.ct, appoint some fit person, to be called tlie " Hnperin- tending Architect of Metropolitan Buildings,’’ toge- tlicrwiih sueh number af clerks as they tliink fit ; such architect and clerks shall be removable by the said Metropolitan Board, and shall perform such duties as the said Board direct ; but it shall not be lawful for any Superintending Architect to practise as an architect, or to follow any other occupation. Superintending Architect may appoint Deputy, with Consent.

G3. If theSuperinteiuling.-Vrchitectis prevented by illness, infirmity, or any other unavoidable circum- stance, from attending to the duties of his office, he may, with tlie consent of tiie Metropolitan Board of Works, apjioint some other person as his deputy, to perform all his duties for such time as he may be temporarily prevented from executing them.

Salaries to Architecls and Clerks.

G4. There shall be paid to such Superintending Architect and'clerks such salaries as the said Metro- politan Board may from time to time direct.

EXTENSES.

Pov>er of Metropolitan Board to pay Salaries.

65. The said Metropolitan Board may at any time hereafter, by order, cause such fi.ved salary as they may determine to be paid to any district surveyor by way of remuneration instead of fees, provided the amount of such remuneration be not less than the amount of the average of the fees for the last three years; and thereupon such surveyor shall pay all fees received by him under tliis Act into the hands of the said Superintending Architect.

Monies received by Superintending Architect to

be paid to the Meiropolilan Board.

66. All monies received by the Superintending Architect in pursuance of this Act shall be accounted for and paid by him into the hands of the treasurer of tlie said Metropolitan Board, at such time and in such manner as the said Board may direct. Meh-opolitan Board tnay pay Salaries out of Rates.

67. The said Metropolitan Board may at any time hereafter provide, cither wholly or partially, for the payment of salaries to the district surveyors, or to any of them, out of the rates leviable by such Board, in pursuance of the said Act for the better Local Management of the Metroiiolis, and may thereupon abolish or reduce any fees hereby made payable to the district surveyors.

Expe^tses, how borne.

68. All expenses of carrying info execution this Act, not hereby otherwise provided for, sball be deemed to be expenses incurred by the said Metro- politan Board in the execution of the said Act for llie better Local Management of the Metropolis, and sliall be raised and paid accordingly.

PART II.

da>:gerous structures.

Survey to be made of dange^'ons Structures.

8 Viet. c. 84, s. 40.

69. Whenever it is made known to the Commis-

sinners hereinafter named that any structure (in-

£7- The said Metropolitan Board may, for the i cKuding in such expression any building, wall, or

other structure, and anything affixed to or pro- jecting from any building, wall, or other structure) is in a dangerous state, such Commissioneri shall require a survey of such structure to be made by the district surveyor, or by some other competent surveyor, and it shall also be the duty nf the district surveyor to make known to the said Commissioners any information he may receive with respect to any structure being in such state as aforesaid.

Definition of" Commissioners." _

0. In cases where any such structure is situate within the city of Loi\don or the liberties thereof, hereinafter included under the expression “ the city of l.ondon," the expression “ the Commissioners ’’ shall mean "the Commissioners of .Sewers of the city of Londoii;” but when such structure is situate elsewhere it shall mean “the Commissioners of Police of tlie Metropolis,’’ or such one of them as may bo authorized by one of her Majesty’s principal secre- taries of state to act in the matter of this Act.

Surveyor, on completion of Survey, to give Certificate.

71. Upon the completion of his survey the surveyor employed shall certify to the said Commissioners his opinion as to the state of any such structure as afore- said.

Proceedings to be taken m resjiect of Certificate.

72. If such certificate is to tlie effect that such structure is not in a dangerous state, no further pro- ceedings shall be had in respect thereof, but if it is to tlie effect that the same is in a dangerous state, the Commissioners shall cause the same to he shored up, or otherwise secured, and a proper hoard or fence to be put up for the protection of passengers, and shall cause notice in writing to be given to the owrier or occupier of such structure requiring him forthwith to take down, secure, or repair tlie same, as the case requires.

On Non-compliance with Notice, .Tuslice to summon Owner, 6|-c., and make Order to comply with Reiiuisilion.

73. If the owner or occupier to whom notice is given ns last aforesaid fails to comply, as speedily as the nature of the case permits, with the requisition of such notice, the said Commissioners may make complaint tliereof before a justice of tlie peace ; and it sball be lawful for such justice to order the owner, or on liU default the occupier, of any such structure to take down, repair, or otherwise secure, to the satisfaction of the surveyor who made such survey as aforesaid, or of such otiier surveyor as the said Commissioners may ajipoint, such structure or such part tliereof as appears to him to be in a dangerous state, within a time to be fixed by such justice ; and in case the same is not taken down, repaired, or otherwise secured within the time so limited, the said Commissioners may with all convenient speed cause all or so much of sucli structure as is in a dan- gerous condition to bo taken down, repaired, or otherwise secured, in such manner as may be requi- site ; and all expenses incurred by the said Commis- sioners in respect of any dangerous structure by virtue of the second part of this Act shall be paid by the owner of .such structure, but without prejudice to his right to recover the same from any lessee or other person liable to the expenses of repairs.

If Owner canttol be /o?t»d, Co7nmissio>iers may sell

struclui-e, giving the Surplus to Ow7ie7-, 6cc.

74. If such owner cannot be found, or if, on de- mand, he refuses or neglects to pay the aforesaid c.xpenses, the said Commissioners, after giving three months’ notice of their intention to do so, by posting a printed or written notice in a conspicuous place oti the structure in respect of which or of part of which they have incurred expense, or on the land whereon it stands, may sell such strucluro, and tiiey shall, after deducting from the proceeds of such sale the amount of all expenses incurred by them, restore the surplus (if any) to the owner.

Payments by or to the Commissioners, how made.

75. All payments hereby directed to be made by or to the Commissioners shall, in the cases of pay- ments in respect of any structure situate within the city of Eondon, be made by or to the Chamberlain of Iho City, out of or to the consolidated rate made by the Commissioners of Sewers, and in the coses of payments in respect of any structure situate elsewhere within the limits of this Act be made by or to the Receiver of Metropolitan Police, in the same manner in which payments are made by or to such chamber- lain and receiver respectively in the ordinary course of their business ; but no Commissioner or other officer shall be liable in respect of any loss that may be sustained by any person in consequence of the exercise by the said Commissioners of the powers hereby given them, unless such loss hn|ipens through the wilful default of such Commissioner or other officer.

Surplus, hoiu to be applied if no Demaixd 7nade for it.

76. In cases where any surplus is hereby made payable to any owner, if no demiinc] for the same is made by any person entitled thereto within one year, then the same shall be paid into the Bank of England, in the name and with tlio privity of the Accountant- General of the Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account there to the credit of the owner (de- scribing him , so far as the Com missioners can) . subject to the control of the Court, and to be paid out to the owner on liis applying by petition, and proving his title thereto.

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Fees io District Surveyor.

7". There shall be paid to the district surveyor, or to such other surveyor os aforesaid, in respect of his services under the second part of this Act, such fees, not exceeding the amounts specified in the second part of the second schedule hereto, as may from time to time be directed by the said Metropolitan Board.

Metropolitan Board may appoint special Fees for Services not provided for.

78. If any special service is required to be per- formed by the district surveyor, or by such other surveyor a.s aforesaid, under the second part of this Act, for which no fee is specified in the said sche- dule, the said Metropolitan Board may order such fee to be paid for such service as they think fit.

Fees to be deemed Part of Expenses.

79. All fees paid to the district surveyor, or to such other surveyor as aforesaid, by virtue of the second part of this Act, shall be deemed to be ex- penses incurred by the said Commissioners in the matter of the dangerous structure in respect of which such fees are paid, and shall be recoverable by them from the owner accordingly.

Justice of Peace may cause Inmates io be removed from dangerous Structures.

80. In cases where a structure has been certified by a district surveyor, or such other surveyor as oforesaid, to be dangerous to its inmates, a justice of the peace may, if satisfied of the correctness of such certificate, upon the application of the said Commissioners, by order under his hand direct any inmates of such structure to be removed therefrom by a constable or other peace-officer, and if they have no other abode be may require tliem to be re- ceived into the workhouse established for the recep- tion of the poor of the place in which such structure is situate.

Powers of Commissioners io appoint Officers.

81. Subject to the approval of one of her Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, the said Commissioners may appoint such persons at such salaries, and make such regulations, as they think fit for carrying into execution the second part of this Act; and all ex- penses incurred by them not liereby otherwise pro- vided for shall, in the case of expenses incurred by the said Commissioners of Police, be deemed to be expenses incurred by them in respect of the police force of which they are Commissioners, and be pay- able accordingly ; and all expenses incurred by the .viid Commissioners of Sewers shall be paid out of the said consolidated rate.

PART III.

PARTY STRUCTURES.

TRELI-MINARY.

Definition of Building Owner and ^Ir^oiain^ Owner.

82. In the construction of the following provisions relating to party structures, such one of the owners of the premises separated by or adjoining to any party structure as is desirous of executing any work j« respect to such party structure shall be called the building owner, and the owner of the other premises shall be called the adjoining owner.

RIGHTS OF BUILDING AND ADJOINING OWNERS.

nights of Building Owner.

83. The building owner shall have the following rights in relation to party structures ; that is to say,

(1.) A right to make good or repair any party structure that is defective or out of repair :

(2.) A right to pull down and rebuild any party structure tliat is so far defective or out of repair as to make it necessary or desirable to pull down the same :

(3.) A right to pull down any timber or other partition that divides any buildings, and is not con- formable with the regulations of this Act, and to build instead a party wall conformable thereto :

(4.) In the case of buildings having rooms or stories the property of different owners intermixed, a right to pull down such of the said rooms or stories or any part thereof as are not built in conformity with this Act, and to rebuild the same in conformity with this Act ;

{5.j In the case of buildings connected by arches or communications over public ways or over pas- sages belonging to other persons, a right to pul! down such of the said buildings, arches, or commu- nications, or any part thereof, as are not built in conformity with tins Act, and to rebuild the same in conformity with this Act :

(G.) A right to raise any party structure permitted by this Act to be raised, or any external wall built against such party structure, upon condition of making good oil damage occasioned thereby to the adjoining premises or to the internal finishings and decorations thereof, and of carrying up to the re- quisite height all flues and chimney stacks belonging to the adjoining owner on or against sucli party structure or external wall :

(7.) A right to pull down any party structure that is of insufficient strength for any building intended to be built, and to rebuild the same of sufficient strength for the above purpose, upon condition of making good all damage oco.a8ioned thereby to the adjoining premises, or to the internal finishings and decorations tliereof :

(8.) A right to cut into any party structure upon

condition of making good all damage occasioned to the adjoining premises by such operation :

(9.) A right to cut away any footing or any chim- ney breasts, jambs, or flues projecting from any party wall, in order to erect an external wall against such party wall, or for any other purpose, upon condition of making good all damage occasioned to tlic adjoining premises by such operation :

(10.) A right to cut away or take down such parts of any wall or building of an adjoining owner as may be necessary in consequence of such wall or building overhanging the ground of the building owner, in order t.o erect an upright wall against the same, on condition of making good any damage sus- tained by the wall or building by reason of such cutting away or taking down :

(11.) A right to perform any other necessary works incident to the connexion of party structure with tlie premises adjoining thereto:

But the above rights shall be subject to this quali- fication, that any building which has been erected previously tothe time of this Act coming into opera- tion shall be deemed to be conformable wiih the provisions of this Act if it is conformable with the provisions of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of his late Majesty King George the Third, chapter seventy-eight, or with the provisions of the said Act of the eighth year of her present Majesty, chapter eighty-four.

Rights of Adjoining Owner.

84. Whenever the building owner proposes to exercise any of the foregoing rights with respect to party structures, the adjoining owner may require the building owner to build on any such party struc- ture certain chimney jambs, breasts, or flues, or certain piers or recesses, or any other like works for the convenience of such adjoining owner; and it shall be the duty of the building owner to comply with such requisition in all cases where the execu- tion of the required works will not be injurious to the building owner, or cause to liim unnecessary inconvenience or unnecessary delay in the exercise of his right; and any difference that arises between any building owner and adjoining owner in re.spect of the execution of sucli works as aforesaid shall be determined in manner in which differences between building owners and adjoining owners are herein- after directed to be determined.

Rules as to Exercise of Rights by Building and Adjoining Owners.

85. The following rules shall be observed with respect to the exercise by building owners and ad- joining owners of their respective rights : —

(1.) No building owner shall, except with the consent of the adjoining owner, or in cases where any party structure is dangerous, in which cases the provisions hereby made as to dangerous structures shall apply, exercise any right hereby given in re- spect of any party structure, unless he has given at the least three months’ previous notice to the adjoin- ing owner by delivering the same to him personally, or by sending it by post in a registered letter ad- dressed to such owner at his last known place of abode :

(2.) The notice so given shall be in writing or printed, and shall state the nature of the proposed work, and the time at which such work is proposed to be commenced :

(3.) No building owner shall exercise any right hereby given to him in such manner or at such time as to cause unnecessary inconvenience to the adjoin- ing owner :

(4.) Upon the receipt of such notice the adjoin- ing owner may require the building owner to build or may himself build on any such party structure any works to the construction of which he is herein- before mentioned to be entitled :

(5.) Any requisition so made by an adjoining owner shall be in writing or printed, and sh.all be delivered personally to the building owner within one month after the date of the notice being given by him, or be sent by post in a registered letter addressed to him at his last known place of resi- dence: It shall specify the works required by the adjoining owner for his convenience, and shall, if necessary, be accompanied with explanatory plans and drawings :

(6.) If either owner does not, within fourteen days after the delivery to him of any notice or requi- sition, express his consent thereto, he shall be consi- dered as having dissented therefrom, and thereupon a difference shall be deemed to have arisen between the building owner and the adjoining owner :

(7.) In all cases not hereby specially provided for where a difference arises between a building owner and adjoining owner in respect of any matter arising under this Ant, unless both parlies concur in the appointment of one surveyor they shall each appoint a surveyor, and the tw’o surveyors so appointed shall select a third surveyor, and such one surveyor or three surveyors, or any two of them, shall settle any matter in dispute between such building and adjoin- ing owner, with power by his or their award to deter- mine the right to do, and the time and manner of doing any work, and generally any other matter arising out of or incidental to sucli difference ; but any time so appointed for doing any work shall not commence until after the expiration of such period of three months, as is hereinbefore mentioned :

(8.) Any award given by such one surveyor, or by such three surveyors, or any two of them, shall be conclusive, and shall not be questioned in any court, with this exception, that either of the parties to the

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difference may appeal therefrom to the County Court within fourteen days from the date of the delivery of any such award as aforesaid, and such County Court may,subject as hereinafter mentioned, rescind, or modify the award so given in such manner as it thinks just :

(9.) If either party to the difference makes default in appointing a surveyor for ten days after notice has been given to him by the other party in manner aforesaid to make such appaintment, the party giving the notice may make the appointment in the place of the party so making default :

(10.) The costs incurred in obtaining any such award as aforesaid shall bo paid by such party as such one surveyor, or three surveyors, or any two of them, may determine :

(11.) If the appellant from any such award as aforesaid, on appearing before the County Court, declares his unwillingness to have the matter decided by such Court, and proves to the satisfaction of the judge of such Court that in the event of the matter being decided against liim, he will be liable to pay a sura, exclusive of costs, exceeding fifty pounds, and give security, to be approved by such judge, duly to prosecute his appeal and to abide the event thereof, all proceedings in the County Court shall thereupon be stayed; and it sliall be lawful for such appellant to bring an action in one of her Majesty’s superior courts of law at Westminster against the other party to the difference ; and the plaintiff in such action shall deliver to the defendants an issue or issues whereby the matters in difference between them may be tried ; and else form of such issue or issues, in case of dispute, or in case of the non- appearance of the defendant, shall be settled by the Court in which the action is brought ; and such action shall be prosecuted and issue or issues tried in the same manner and subject to the same incidents in and subject to which actions are prosecuted and issues tried in other cases within the jurisdiction of such Court, or as near thereto as circumstances admit :

(12.) If tlie parlies to any such action agree as to the facts, a special case may be stated for the opinion of any such Superior Court as aforesaid, and any case so stated may be brought before the Court in like manner, and subject to the same incidents in and subject to which other special cases are brought before such Court, or as near thereto as circum- stances admit; and any costs that may have been incurred in the County Court by the parties to such action as is mentioned in this section, shall be deemed to be costs incurred iu such action, and be payable accordingly.

Power for Building Owner to make Entry on Pre- mises to effect iroriis — Penalty on Persons ob- structing.

8G. Whenever any building owner has become entitled, in pursuance of this Act, to execute any work, it shall be lawful for him, liis servants, agents, or workmen, at all usual times of working, to enter on any premises, for the purpose of executing and to execute such work, removing any furniture, or doing any other tiling that may be necessary, and if such premises are closed, he or they may, accom- panied by a constable or otlicr officer of the peace, break open any doors in order to such entry; and any owner or other person tliat hinders or obstructs any workman employed for any of the purposes aforesaid, or wilfully damages or injures the said work, shall incur for every such offence a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, to be recovered before a ju.stice of the peace.

Security to be given by Building Owner, if required by Adjoining Owner.

87. Any adjoining owner may, if he thinks fit, by notice in writing given by himself or his agent, re- quire the building owner, before commencing any work which he may be authorized by this Act to execute, to give such security as may be agreed upon, or in case of difference may be settled by the judge of the County Court, fur the payment of all such costs and compensation in respect of such work as may be payable by such building owner. Rules as to Expenses in respect of Party Structure.

88. The following rules shall be observed as to expenses in respect of any party structure; (that is to say,)

As to expenses to be borne jointly by the building owner and adjoining owner :

(1.) If any party structure is defective or out of repair the expense of making good or repairing the same shall be borne by tlie building owner and adjoining owner in due proportion, regard being had to the use that each owner makes of such structure :

(2.) If any party structure is pulled down and rebuilt by reason of its being so far defective or out of repair us to make it necessary or desirable to pull down the same, tbe expense of such pulling down and rebuilding shall be borne by the building owner and adjoining owner in due proportion, regard being had to the use that each owner makes of such structure :

(3.) If any timber or other partition dividing any building is pulled down, in exercise of the right hereinbefore vested in a building owner, and a party structure built instead thereof, the expense of building such party structure, and also of building any additional jinrty structures that may be required by reason of such partition having been pulled down, shall be borne by the building owner and adjoining

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owner in due proportion, rCRard bring bad to the use that each owner makes of siieh party structure, and to the thickness required to the respective buildings parted thereby :

(4.) If any room or stories, or any part of rooms or storie.a, the property of difl'erent owners, and intermixed in any building, are pulled down in pur- suance of the riglit hereinbefore vested in any building owner, and rebuilt in conformity with this Act, the expense of such pulling down and rebuild- iog shall he borne by the building owner and adjoining owner in due proportion, regard being had to the use that each owner makes of such rooms or stories ;

(5.) If any arches or communications, or any parts thcreoL are pulled down in pursuance of the right hcreinhefore vested in any building owner, and rebuilt in conformity with this Act. the expense of sucli pulling down and rebuilding shall be borne by the building owner and adjoining owner in due proportion, regard being had to the use that each owner makes of such arches or communications :

As to expenses to be borne by building owner:

(6.) If any party structure or exteniul wall built og^st the same is raised in pursuance of the power horciiihcfore vested in any building owner, the ex- pense of raising the same, and of making good all such damage, and of carrying up to the reijuisitc height all such flues and chimnies as are herein- before required lo be made good and carried up, shall be borne by the building owner t

(7.) If any party structure which is of proper ma- terials and sound, or not so far defective or out of repair as to make it necessary or desirable to pull down the same, is pulled down and rebuilt by the building owner, the expense of pulling down and re- bnilding the same, and of making good all such damage as is hereinbefore required to be made good, sball be borne by the building owner :

(8.) If any party structure is cut into by the building owner, the expense of cutting into the same, and of making good any damage hereinbefore required to be made good, shall be homo by such building owner :

(9.) If any footing, chimney breast, jambs, or floor is cut away in pursuance of the powers herein- before vested in any building owner, the expense of such cutting away, and of making good any damage hereinbefore required to be made good, shall be borne by the building owner.

Aceouni of Expenspn oflVorfcs to he delivered to Adjoiniuo f>irner within One Month.

89. Within one month after the completion of any work which any building owner is by tliis Act au- thorized or required to execute, and the expense of •which is in whole or in part to bo borne by an ad- joining owner, such building owner shall deliver to the adjoining owner an account in writing of the ex- pense of the work, specifying any deduction to which such adjoining owner or other person may be entitled in respect of old materials, or in other respects; and every such work as aforesaid shall be estimated and valued at fair average rates and prices, according to tlie nature of the work and the locality, and the market price of materials and labour at the time.

Adjoininfj Ou'ncr ■mnij appeal aijainst Account.

90. At any time within one month after the de- livery of such account, the atijoining owner, if dis- satisfied therewith, may declare his dissatisfaction to the party delivering the same, by notice in writing given by himself or his agent, and specifying his objectionsthereto ; and upon such notice having been given, a dilTorence simll be deemed to have arisen between the parties, aiul such diiference shall be de- termined in roanner liereinhefure provided for tho determination of difTerences between building and adjoining owners.

Building Owner may recover, if no Appeal made.

91. If within such period of one month as afore- said the party receiving such account does not de- clare in manner aforesaid his dissatisfaction there- with, he sliall be deemed to have accepted the same,' and shall pay the same, on demand, to the party delivering the account, and if he fails to do so the amount so due may be recovered as a debt.

Penalty on Belay of Payment by Adjoininy Owner.

92. \Vliere tho adjoining owner is liable to contri- bute to tlie expenses of building any party struc- ture, until such contribution is paid llie building owner at whose exjitmse the same was built sliall stand possessed of the sole property in such struc- ture.

As to Expensex incurred on Requisilion of Adjoining Owner.

93. Where any building owner has incurred any expenses on the requisition of an adjoining owner, the adjoining owner making such requisition shall be liable for all such expenses, and in default of payment the same may be recovered from him as a debt.

Penalty on Dnilding Owner failing to execute l■el|Hi^cd iro?'/t-s.

94. Wliere any building owner is, by the third part of this Act, liable to inuke good any damage he may occasion to the property of tlie adjoining owner by any works authorized to be executed by him, or to do any other thing upon condition of doing which his right to execute such works is hereby limited to arise, and such building owner fails within a reason- able time to make good such damage, or to do such

thing, he shall incur a penalty, to be recovered be- fore a justice of the peace, not exceeding twenty pounds for each day during which such failure continues.

Consent, hoio given on behalf of Persons under Disability.

95. Where, in pursuance of this Act, any consent is required to ho given, any notice to be served, or any other thing to be doneSy, on, or to any owner under disability, such consent may be given, such notice may be served, and such thing may be done by, on, or to the following persons, on behalf of such persons under disability ; that is to say,

liy, on, or to a husband, on behalf of his wife :

By, on, or to a trustee, on behalf of bis cestui que trust :

By, on, or to a guardian or committee, on behalf of an infant, idiot, or lunatic.

Consent, how given on behalf of Persons not to be found.

96. Where any consent is required to be given or any other thing to be done by any owner in pur- suance of this .\ct, if there is no owner capable of giving such consent or of doing such thing, and no person empowered by (his Act to give such consent or to do such tiling on behalf of such owner, or if any owner so capable, or any person so empowered, cannot be found, tbejudge of the County Court shall have power to give such consent or do or cause to be done such thing on behalf of such owner, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as he may think fit, having regard alike to the nature and pur- pose of the subject-matter in respect of vfhich such consent is to be given, and to the fair claims of tho parties on whose behalf such consent is to be given ; and such judge shall have power to dispense with tho service of any notice which would otherwise be required to be served.

PAET IV.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

Payment of Expenses by Owners.

97. Where it is hereby declared that expenses are to be borne by the owner of any premises (including in the term "owner” tho adjoining and building owner respectively), the following rules shall be observed with respect to the payment of such expenses :

(1.) The owner immediately entitled in posse-ssion to such premises, or tlie occupier thereof, shall in the first instance pay such expenses, with this limi- tation. that no occupier shall be liable to pay any sum exceeding in amount the rent due or that will thereafter accrue due from him in respect of such premises during the period of his occupancy :

(2.) If there are more owners than one, every owner shall bo liable to contribute to such e-xpenses in proportion to his interest;

(3.) If any difference arises as to the amount of contribution, such difference sball be decided by arbitnition, to be conducted in manner directed by the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845; and for that purpose the clauses of the said Act with respect to the settlement of disputes by arbi- tration shall be incorpor.itod with this Act:

(4.) If .some of the owners liable to contribution cannot be found, the deficiency so arising shall be divided amongst the parties that can be found :

(5.) Any occupier of premises who has paid any c.vpetises under this Act may deduct the amount so paid from any rent payable by him to any owner of the same premises; and any owner of premises who has paid more than his due proportion of any ex- penses may deduct the amount so overpaid from any rent that may be payable by him to any other owner of the same premises :

(6.) If default is made by any owner or occupier in payment of any expenses hereby made payable by him in th* first instance, or if default is made by any owner in payment of any otlier expenses or monies due from him by way of contribution or otherwise in pursuance of this Act, then in addition to any other remedies hereby provided, such expenses and monies, if arising in respect of any matter within the provisions of the third port of this Act, may be recovered as a debt in due course of law, but if arising in respect of any other matter under this Act may be recovered in a summary manner. Rules as to Service of Notices, Summonses, and Orders.

98. The following rules shall be observed with respect to the giving or service of any notice, sum- mons, or order directed to be given or served under this Act in cases not hereinbefore provided for :

(1.) A notice, summons, or order may in all cases be served personally :

(2.) A notice, summons, or order may be served on any builder by leaving the same or sending it in a registered letter addressed to liim at his place of address as stated by him to tho district surveyor, or by putting up such notice, summons, or order on a conspicuous part of the building or premises to which the same relates :

(3.) A notice, summons, or order may be served on the owner or occupier of any premises by leaving the same with tho noeupicr of such premises, or with some inmate of his abode, or if there is no occupier, by putting up such notice, summons, or order on a conspicuous part of the building or premises to which the same relates ; and it shall not be necessary to

name the owner or occupier of such premises ; nevertheless, when the owner of any such premises and his residence, or that of his agent, are known to the party by whom or on whose behalf any notice, summons, or order is intended to be served, it shall bo the duty of such party to send every such notice, summons, or order by the post in a registered letter addressed to the residence or last known residence of such owner or of his agent :

(4.) A notice, summons, or order may be served on any district surveyor by leaving the same at his office.

As to things authorized to be done by a County Court— \\ 12 Viet. c. lx.xi.

99. Whenever anything is hereby authorized to be done by a County Court ir may be done as fol- lows ; that is to say. if such thing arises iii respect of any structure or other subject matter situate within tho city of London or the liberties thereof, by the Sheriffs Court established by a local Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of her Majesty, chapter seventy-one, intituled An Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts and Demands wiihtn the City of London or the Liberties thereof, and if such thing arises in respect of any structure (pother subject matter situate elsewhere, by the County Court having jurisdiction within the district in which such structure or other subject matter is situate.

Manner of Delei'minivo Diffe>-ences. _

100. Ill cases where jurisdiction is hereby given to a County Court, such Court m.iv from time to time make such order in respect ''I matters bo brought before it as it may think fit, w itli power to settle tho time and manner of executing :iny work, or of doing any other thing, and to put I'n- parties to the caae upon such terms as re^pect^ ihe execution of the work as it thinks fit: it pIkhI also h^e power to award or refuse costs accoitiuig to circumstanccs> and to settle the amount there f.

Form of Proceedings in Co^iniy Court.

101. Proceedings in any County Court, in respect of any matter arising under this .Act, shall be con- ducted in the same manner as proceedings are con- ducted in any case within the ordinary jurisdiction of such Court, or as near thereto as circumstances permit; and orders made by the judge, of any such court, may be enforced by execution, committal, or otherwise, in a similar manner to that in which tuo orders of such Court are ordinarily enforced.

Appeal from Decision of County Court.

102. If either party, in any case over which juris- diction is hereby given to a County Court, feels ag- grieved with the decision of such Court in respect of any point of law, or the admission or rejection of any evidence, he may appeal therefrom in the same manner, and upon the same terms, in and upon which he might have appealed from the decision of such Court in anv case within the orilinary jurisdic- tion of such Court, or as near thereto .as circum- stances permit; but no such appeal shall be allowed unless the value of the matter in difference between the parties exceeds fifty pounds ; and the opinion of the judge before whom the case is tried as to such value shall ho conclusive.

Recovery of Penalties.

103. All penalties under this Act, and all fees, monies, costs, or expenses by this Act directed to be recovered in a summary maimer, may be recovered in manner directed by an Act passed in the eleventh and twelftli years of tho reign of her pr^-ent Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter forty-three, intituled An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions within England and Wales tvith respect to szvnmury Convictions and Orders; and whenever anything is hereby au- thorized or required to be done by or before a justice of the peace, it may be done as follow > : that_ is to say, if such thing arises in respect of any miilding or wall situate within tho city of London, by or before one or more justice or justices of tiie_ peace for the said city, or by any metropolitan police magistrate, and if such thing arises in respect of any building or wall situate elsewhere within the limits of this Act, by or before any metropolitan police magistrate.

Application of Penalties.

101. Any justice of the peace in any case over which jurisdiction i.s hereby given to him may make such order as to the costs of any proceedings of which he has cognizance as he thinks just; he may also direct the whole or any part of any penalty- imposed by him under this Act to be applied in or towards pavment of the costs of the proceedings ; and, subject to such direction, all penalties shall be paid into the hands of the treasurer of the said Metropolitan Board, to be applied in such manner as the said Board thinks fit.

Provisions as to Limitation of Time when due

Notice has not been given.

105. In cases where any building has been erected or work done without due notice being given to the district surveyor, the district surveyor may, nt any- time within one month after he has discovered that i such building has been erected or work done, enter 1 the premises for the purpose of seeing that the I regulations of this Act have been complied with, and ' the time during which tho district surveyor may take ! any proceeding, or do anything authorized or I required by this Act to he done by him, in respect ' of such building or work, shall begin to run from : the date of his discovering that such building has I been erected or work done.

The Buildeb.]

arETROPOLlTAN BUILDINa ACT.

Power to Appeal to Superior Courts.

106. Ill every case, except in respect of fees of a district surveyor, in which jurisdiction is herein- before given to a justice of the peace, if eitlier party to any such case is dissatisfied with the determination of the justice so convicting, in respect of any point of law, or of the adniis-iion or rejection of any evidence, such party may, upon giving notice within seven days to the -'(her party of his intention to appeal, appeal therefrom to any of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster ; subject to tliis restriction, that no such appeal shall be made by any district surveyor except with the consent of the justice before whom the case is tried, and that no such appeal shall be made by any other party to the case except upon giving such security for costs, and, if the case requires it, in addition thereto, such undertaking in respect of desisting in the meantime from any works complained of, or in respect of any other matter or thing arising in the case, as the justice thinks fit.

Form of Appeal.

107. Any appeal so made shall be in the form of a special case, to be agreed on by both parties, or, if the parties cannot agree, to be settled by the justice from whose decision the appeal is made; and such case shall be transmitted by the appellant to the Rule department of the blaster’s office in the court in which the appeal is to be brought, and be beard in manner provided ,by the practice of such court.

Notice of Action.

108. No writ or process shall be sued out against any district surveyor or other person for anything done or intended to be done under the provisions of this Act until the expiration of one month next after notice in writing has been delivered to him, or left at his office or usual place of abode, stating the cause of action, and die name and place of abode of the intended plaintiff, and of his attorney or agent in the cause; and upon the trial of any such action the plaintiff shall not be permitted to go into evi- dence of any cause of action which is not stated in such last-mentioned notice ; and unless such notice is proved, the jury shall find for the defendant ; and every such action shall be brought or commenced within six months next after the accrual of the cause of action, and not afterwards, and shall be laid and tried in the county or place where the cause of action occurred, and not elsewhere ; and the defendant shall be at liberty to plead the general issue, and give this Act and all special matter in evidence thereunder.

PAET V.

REPEAL OF FORMER ACTS AND TEMPO- RARY PROVISIONS.

REPEAL.

Repeal of^ P TTc/. c. 84, except ss. 54 to 63, and

0 10 Viet. c. 5.

109. From and after the commencement of this Act, the following Acts, that is to say, an Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighty-four, and intituled An Act for regu- lating the Construction and the Use of Buildings in the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood, with the exception of the sections relating to dangerous and noxious businesses, and numbered respectively fifty- four, fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty- nine, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, and sixty-three, and an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter five, and intituled An Act to amend an Act for regulating the. Construc- tion and Use of Buildings in the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood, are throughout the limits of this Act and elsewhere hereby repealed, subject to the following provisions ; that is to say.

First, that such repeal shall not affect any pro- ceedings authorized to be taken by the said Acts or either of them in respect of any act, omission, penalty, matter, or thing, and pending before tlie official referees or any other tribunal at the time of the commencement of this Act:

Second, that in cases where any act, omission, or thing has occurred previously to the time of the commencement of this Act, in respect of which, if this Act had not passed, proceedings might have been taken under the said Acts or either of them, then proceedings in respect of such act, omission, or thing may be bad under this Act in manner follow- ing ; that is to say, if the matter in question is any- thing relating to the riglits of building and adjoining •owners in respect of party structures, proceedings may be had in the County Court, but if the matter in question relates to the recovery of any penalty or to any other thing, proceedings may be bad before any justice of the peace:

Third, that so much of the Act of the fourteenth year of King George the Third, chapter seventy- eight, as was excepted from the operation of the said Act of the eighth year of her present Majesty, chapter eighty-four, (that is to say,) the sections numbered respectively seventy-four, seven ty-five, seventy-six, seventy-seven, seventy-eight, eighty, eighty-ono, eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty -four, eighty-five, and eighty-si.x, shall continue in full force.

As to Contracts made preriouslg to passing of Act.

110. Any contract made previously to the passing of this Act for the erection of a new building shall

be carried into effect in the same manner as if this Act bad been passed at the time of the making thereof, and the necessary deviations from the terms of such contract may be made accordingly ; and if any dispute arises in respect of any loss sustained by any party to such contract by reason of such necessary deviation, such dispute shall be deter- mined by the County Court; and whenever any costs or expenses have been paid by any owner in pursuance of this Act, then as to any structure lield under any lease or agreement made previously to the commencement of this Act it shall be lawful for such owner to recover the same from the persons hitherto liable by law, or by such existing lease or contract, to maintain or repair the structure in respect of which such costs and expenses have been incurred.

Liabilities under Contract between Landlord and Tenant not to be affected.

111. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them.

As to Iron Buildings constructed before this Act comes i?ito operation.

112. In cases where any iron building has been constructed or is in the progress of construction pre- viously to the time at which this Act comes into operation, and doubts are entertained whether such building is permitted by law, any person interested in such building may make an application to the Commissioners of Works and Buildings, to signify their approval of such building ; and the Commis- sioners of Works and Buildings, upon being satis- fied of the stability of such building, may approve of the same, and upon such approval being given such building shall be deemed to have been constructed in manner permitted by law, and this section shall come into operation immediately after the passing of this Act.

Compensation to Official Referees and Registrar.

113. The official referees and registrar of metro- politan buildings may, within six months from the time at which this Act comes into operation, apply to the Commissioners of her Majesty’s Treasury for compensation in respect of the loss they have sus- tained by reason of the abolition of tlieir offices ; and tlie Commissioners shall t >ke any such application into consideration, andaward s ach compensation, either by way of a gross sum or annual payment, as they think just, having regard to the nature of the office, the time during which the applicant has held the same, and generally to the special circumstances of each case ; and any compensation so given shall be paid out of monies to be provided by Parliament ; and such compensation, when made by annual payment, shall be subject to this proviso, that if any such official referee or registrar is at any time thereafter appointed to any public office in respect of which he receives a salary, the payment of the compensation awarded to him under this Act shall be suspended so long as be receives such salary, if the amount thereof is greater than such compensation, or if not shall be diminished by the amount of such salary.

Compensation to Clerics in Office of Melropolitan Buildings.

114. Any person, except the said official referees and registrar, who at the time when this Act comes into operation is employed in the Office of Metro- politan Buildings may within six months from such time apply to the Metropolitan Board of Works for employment, and such Board shall thereupon take such application into consideration, and they shall either employ the applicant at a salary not less in amount than that which he enjoyed when in the said Office of Metropolitan Buildings, or at a less salary awarding to him compensation in respect of such diminution of salary, or they shall awai-d to him such compensation, if any, as they, or in the event of the applicant feeling aggrieved with their decision, as the Commissioners of the Treasury, think just, having regard to the nature of the office, the time during which it has been held by the applicant, and generally to the special circum.stances of the case; and any expenses incurred by the said Board in carrying into effect this section shall be deemed to be expenses incurred in the execution of the said Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis, and be raised accordingly; nevertheless, if any such clerk or servant as aforesaid at any time thereafter is appointed to any public office, or to any office under the said Metropolitan Board, in respect of which he receives a salary, the payment of the com- pensation awarded to him under this Act shall be suspended so long as he receives such salary, if the amount thereof is greater than the amount of such compensation, or if not shall be diminished by the amount of such salary; but, notwithstanding any- thing herein contained, the Metropolitan Board may, in the event of their employing any person mentioned in this section, dismiss him, willi the consent of the Treasury.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PRELIMINARY.

Structure of Buildhigs.

1. Every building shall be enclosed with walls constructed of brick, stone, or other hard and in- combustible substances, and the foundations shall rest on the solid ground, or upon concrete, or upon other solid substructure.

Co}istructio7i of Walls of Brick, Stone, S(c.

2. Every wall constructed of brick, stone, or other similar substances, shall be properly bonded and solidly put together with mortar or cement, and no part of such wall shall overhang any part underneath it, and all return walls shall be properly bonded together.

Extra Thickne.ss of certain Stone Walls,

3. The thickness of every stone wall in which the beds of the masonry are not laid horizontally shall be one third greater than the thickness jirescribed for stone walls in the rules hereinafter contained.

Thickness of Walls.

•1. The thickness of every wall as hereinafter de- termined, shall be the minimum thickness.

Height of Story.

5. The height of every topmost story shall be measured from the level of its floor up to the under side of the tie of the roof, or up to iialf the vertical height of the rafters, when the roof has no tie ; and the height of every other story shall be the clear height of such story exclusive of the thickness of the floor.

Height of External and Party Walls.

6. The iieight of every external and party wall shall be measured from the base of the wall to the level of the top of the topmost story.

Length of Walls.

7. Walls are deemed to be divided into distinct lengths by return walls, and tlie length of every wall is measured from the centre of one return wall to the centre'of another; provided that such return walls are external, party, or cross walls of the thickness hereinafter required, and bonded into the walls so deemed to be divided.

Foolmgs of iraWj.

8. The projection of the bottom of the footing of every wall, on each side of the wall, shall he at least equal to one half of the thickness of the wall at its base; and the diminution of the footing of every wall shall be formed in regular offsets, and the height from the bottom of such footing to the base of the wall shall be at the least equal to one half of the thickness of the wall at its base.

PART I.

RULES FOR THE WALLS OF DWELLING HOUSES.

Thickness of IValls of Dwelling Houses.

1. The external and party walls of dwelling houses shall be made throughout the diflcrciit stories of the tliickness shown in the following table, arranged according to the heights and lengths of the walls, and calculated for walls up to one hundred feet in height, and supposed to be built of bricks not less than eight and a lialf inches and not more than nine and a half indies in length, tlie heights of the stories being subject to the condition hereinafter given.

2. TABLE. [For Table, SEE 8.]

Explanation of Tables.

3. In using the above table the height of the wall is to be reckoned on the first vertical column on the loft hand of the table, and tlie length of the wall on the corresponding horizontal column. The thickness of the wall in each story is given in inches, and be- gins with the wall from the base upwards.

Qualification in case of certain Walls.

4. If any external or party wall, measured from centre to centre, is not more than twenty. five feet distant from any other external or party wall to which it is tied by the beams of any floor or floors, other than the ground floor, or the floor of any story formed in the roof, the length of such wall is not to be taken into consideration, and the thickness of the wall will be found in the second vertical column in the above table.

Condition in respect of Stories exceeding a certain Height.

5. If any story e.xceeds in height sixteen times the thickness prescribed for the walls of such story in the above table, the thickness of each external and party wall throughout such story shall be increased to one sixteenth part of the height of the story; but any such additional thickness may be confined to piers properly distributed, of which the collective widths amount to one fourth part of the length of the wall.

Restriction m case of certain Stories.

6. No story enclosed with walls less than thirteen inches in thickness shall be more than ten feet in height.

Thickness of Walls built of Materials other than such Bricks as aforesaid.

7. The thickness of any wall of a dwelling house, if built of materials other than such bricks as afore- said, shall be deemed to be sufficient if made of the

j thickness required by the above tables, or of such I less thickness as may be approved by the Metro- politan Board, with this exception, that in the case of walls built of stone in which the beds of the ma- sonry are not laid horizontally, no diminution shall be allowed in the thickness required by the fore- going rules for such last-mentioned walls.

Rule as to Buildings not being Public Buildings or Buildings of the Warehouse Ctoss.

8. All buildings, excepting public buildings, and such buildings as are hereinafter defined to be build- ings of the warehouse class, shall, as respects the

' thickness of their walls, be subject to the rules I given for dwelhng houses.

METllOPOLITAN BUILDING ACT.

PART 11.

RULES FOR THE WALLS OF BUILDINGS OF THE WAREHOUSE CLASS.

Definition of Warehouse Class.

1. The warehouse class shall comprise all ware- tousesj manufactories, breweries, and distilleries.

Thickness at Base.

2. Tbc external and party walls of buildings of the warehouse class shall at the base be made of the thickness shown in the adjoining table [Part II-]. calculated for walls up to one hundred feet in height, and supposed to be built of bricks not less than eight and a half inches and not more tlian nine and a half inches in length.

3. TABLE. [5'ec 2nd TAni-it, next column.']

Explanation of Table.

4. The above table is to be used in the same man- ner ns the table previously given for the walls of dwelling houses, and is subject to the same quali- fications and conditions respecting walls not more than tsventy-five feet distant from each other.

Thickness at Top of Walls and through Inter- mediate Space.

5. The thickness of the walls of buildings of the warehouse class at the toji. aiid for sixteen feet below the top, shall be thirteen inches; and the intermediiite parts of the wall between the base and such sixteen feet below the top sliall be built solid throughout the space between straight lines drawn on each side of the wall, and joining tlie thickness at the base to the thickness at sixteen feet below the top, as above determined ; iievertiieless in walls not exceeding tliirty feet in height the walls of the top- most story may be eight inches and a lialf thick. Condition in respect of Stories exceeding a certain

Height.

C. If in any story of n building of the wnreliouse class the thickness of the wait, ns determined by the rules hereinbefore given, is less than one fourteenth part of the height of such story, tlic thickness of the wall shall be increased to one fourteenth part of the height of tlie story ; but any such addi- tional thickness may be confined to piers properly distributed, of uhicli tlie cnliective widths amount to one fourth part of the length of tlie wall.

Thickness of Walls built of Materials other than such Brick.'! as aforesaid.

7. The thickness of any wall of a building of the warehouse class, if built of materials other than such bricks as afore.said, shall be deemed to be sufficient if made of the fliicknoss required by the above tables, or of sucli less tliii-kness as may be approveti by the Metropolitan Board, with this exception, that in (he case of wails built of stone in which the beds of the masonry aro not laid horizontally no diminution shall be allowed in the thickness required by tlie foregoing rules fur such last-mentioned walls.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Cross ITalls.

1. The thickness of a cross wall shall be two thirds of the thickne.ss hereinbefore required for an external or party wall of the same ilimensions, and belonging to the same class of buildings, but never less tlian eight and a half inches, and no wall sub- dividing any building shall lie deemed to be a cross wall unless it ia carried up two thirds of the height of the external or parly walls, and unless the re- cesses and openings therein do not exceed one half of the vertical surface of the wall in each story.

Extra Thickness of certain Stone Walls.

2. The thickness of every stone wall in which flie beds of the masonry are not laid horizontally shall be one third greater than the thickness prescribed in the rules aforesaid.

3. Biiililings to which the preceding rules are in- applicable- veipiire the sjiecial sanction of the Metro- politan Board of Works.

SECOND SCHEDULE. ^ FEES PAYABLE TO DISTRICT SUR- VEYORS.

PART I.

Fees for New Buildings.

For every building not exceeding mur hun- dred square feet in area, and not more than s. <1. two stories in height .. .. .. 30 0

For every additional story . . . . . . 0 0

For every additional square of 100 feet or frac- tion of such square .. .. .. .. 2 G

But no fee shall exceed ten pounds.

And for every building not exceeding four hun- dred square feet in area, and of one story only in hciglit, the fees shall be . . .. .. 15 0

Fees for Additions or Alterations.

For every addition or alteration made to any building after the roof thereof has been covered in, the foe shall be lualf of the fee charged in tiie case of n new building.

For inspecting the arches or stone floors over or under public ways .. .. .. 10 0

For inspecting the formation of openings in

party walls . . . . . . . . . . 10 0

PART II.

For inspecting dangerous structures, by direc- tionoftheCommissionersof Police orSewers 20 0 N.B. — \n this Schedule “ area” shall include the area of any attached building.

TABLE REFERRED TO UNDER PART I.
1.	II.	m.	IV.
Ileigfit up to	Length up to 45 Feet.	Length up to 80 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	Two Storie*. 211 inches. Three Stories, 17i inches. Remainder, 13 inches.	Two Stories, 26 inches. Two Stories, 214 inches. Two Stories, 174 inches. Remainder, IS inches.	One Story, 30 inches. Two Stories, 26 inches. Two Stories, 214 inches. Two Stories, 174 inches. Remainder, 13 inches.
Heigfit up to	Length up to 45 Feet.	Length up to 70 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	Two Stories, 21^ inches. Two Stories, 17i inches. Kernaindcr, 13 inches.	One Story, 26 inclies. Two Stones, 2l4 inches. Two Stories, 174 inches. Remainder, 13 inches.	One Store, 30 inches. Two Stories, 26 irches. One Story, 214 inches. Two Stories, 174 inches. Remainder, 13 inches.
Hcifflit up to 80 I''cet.	Length up to 40 Feet.	Length up to 60 Feet.	Lengtli unlimitctL
One §tory, 2H inches. Two Stories, 174 inches. Remainder, 13 inches.	Two Stories, 2 1 4 inches. Two Stories, 174 inches. Rema.nder, 1 3 inches.	One Story, 26 inches. Two Stories, 214 inches. Two Stories, 174 inches. Rcmaindi.r, 13 inciies.
Hcirht up to	Length iiii to 40 Feet.	Length up to 65 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	Two Stories, 174 inches. Remainder, 13 Inches.	One Story, 2l4 inches. Two Stories, 174 inches. Remainder, 13 inches.	One Story, 26 inches. TwoStories, 214 inches. One Story, 174 inches. Remainder, 13iuches.
Ildelit up to 6o I-'eet.	Length up tn 30 Feet.	Length up to 50 Feet.	Length unlimited.
One Story, 174 inchrs. Remainder, 13 ir.clies.	Two Stories, 174 inches. Remainder, 13 inches.	One Story, 214 inches. TwoStories, 174 inches. Remainder, 13 inches.
He'gV t up to SO Feet.	Length up to 30 Feet.	Length up to 45 Feet,	Lengtli unlimited.
Wall heWv the Topmost Story, 13 inches. Topmost Story, 81 inches. Remainder, 84 inclics.	One Story, 174 inciies. Rest of Wa-l below Topmost Story. 13 inches. Topmost Story, 84 inches. Remainder, Bj inches.	One Story, 214 inches. One Story, 174 inclies. Remainder, 13 inches.
He'irl't up to 40 Feet.	Length uj) to 35 Feet.	Length unlimited.
Wail below Two Topmost Stories. 1 3 inclies. Two Topmost Stories, 84 inches. Remainder, 84 inches.	One Story, 174 inches. Rest of Wall below Topmost Story, 13 inches. Topmost Story, 84 iiieties. Reminder, b4 inclies.
Heietif up to	Length up to 3.5 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	Wall helow Two Topmost Stories, 13 inches Two Topmost Stories, 81 inclics. Remainder, ej inches.	Wall below Topmost Story, 13 inches. Topmost Story, 84 inches. Remainder, ej inches.
Ileiirlit up to	Length up to 30 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	From Base to top of Wall, Sj inches.	Wall below Topmost Story, 13 inches. Topmost Story, 84 inches. Remainder, 84 inches.
TABLE REFERRED TO UNDER PART 11.
I.	11.	HI.	IV.
Height up to	Length up to 55 Feet.	Lengtli up to 70 Feet.	].cngth unlimited.
	Base, 25 inches.	Base, 30 inches.	Base, 34 inches.
Height up to DO Feet.	Length up to 6i) Feet.	Length up to 70 Feet.	Length nulimited.
Base, 26 inches.	Base, 30 inches.	Base, 34 inches.
Height up to	Length up to 45 Feet.	Length up to 60 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	Base, 214 inches.	Base, 26 inches.	Base, 3‘J inclies.
Height up to	Length up to 30 Feet.	Length up to 45 Feet.	Length unlimited.
,0 1. a.	Base, 174 inches.	Base, 214 inches.	Base, 26 inclies.
Hciglit up to (ij Feet.	Length iqi to 35 Feet.	Length up to .50 Feet.	Length unlimited.
Base, 174 inches.	Base, 214 inches.	Base, 26 inches.
Height up to	Length up to 40 Feet.	Lengtli lip to 70 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	Base, 174 inches.	Base, 214 inches.	Base, 26 inches.
Height up to	Length up to 30 Feet.	Length up to 60 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	Base, 13 inches.	Base, 174 inches.	Base, 214 inches.
Height up to	Lengtli up to 45 Feet.	Length unlimited.
	Base, 13 inches.	Base, 174 inches.
Height up to 25 r'cet.	Length unliniited. Base, 13 inches.

CONTENTS.

A Critical Account of St. George’s Hall. I.ircrpool

A Critical Review of St. George's Hall and the Assize Courts,

Liverpool .

Edward James WiL'on, Architect, F.8.A

Labour, Capita’, and Sldll

Provincial News . .

War and then the Arts

On the Pumping of Water from Pits and Mines

Church-Ruilding News

Rights and Scenery

The Decay of Stone

The Abuse of Works by Living Architects

Water in Coventry

Standard to test Lineal Measure

Fi.stures; Elliot and Bishop

Notices of Books : Variorum

Miscellanea

ADVERTISEMENTS.

The ARCHITECTDRAl EXHIEITION,

and Collection of Potents. Manufseturc®. Ac. oonneoted with Ardiiteoturc, is NOW OPEN at the Galleries of Hie Society of British Artists. Suff dk.street, Pall-mall Eu»t, Admission, Is. ; .•■cason Tickets, f.^r atudenis and others desiring to come fre- <iuently, 23. (id. ; Catalogues. 6d.

JAS. FEKGDRSON. F.R,A.B.1,, j. . JAS. EDMEsTON, Juii. ]

COMPETITIONS.

Oxford university museum.—

Architects who have sent iu DE.S I GNR in CO.M PETITION fortheONFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUJI.are informed that their designs are packed up, and in the care of the Regi-trar of the Univeriity. by whom thev will be sent, on application, to such addressee 08 tlieauth'iTs of the respective mottoes mav enclose to “ The Secretary of the Museum Delegacy, 16, Et. (Jiles-strcct.

0.x ford.”— Jon. 9, 1855.

The wattord corn-exchange

COMPANY are desiio’is of receiving DESIGNS fur their Intended EXCHANGE BUILDINGS and APPROACH thereto. The plans to be drawn to on uniform scale of ouc-tciith of an inch to the foot. The perspectives must not be coloured. TIic cost of the outlay not to esceed 1,0001. The architect whose desigu shall be considered as the hest will be employed to carry nut the works at the usual commission of 5i. per cent. The author of the second be-t plan in the opinion of the provisional directors will be awarded the sum of Ten Guineas. The plans to become the pro- perty of the provisional director^. No allowsuco will be made whatever to any other competitor. The drawings to be scut in with the name and address of the author, and bo delivered to Hie Pecretary, Mr. J. SEDGWICK. Solicitor. Watford, on or before the ist FEBRUARY, 1865 j from whom all necetsary iuformatiou may be obtained on application.

TO ARCHITECTS.

The directors of the Bridg- north PUUhIC BUILDINGS and SIARKETS CQ-.f- PANT, are desirous of receiviug DESIGNS and ESTIM.ITES for the ERECTION of PUBLIC BUILDINGS, to include accommo- dot'on for the butchers, fish, vegetable, poultry, butter, aud other markets, a large room for lectures, and music, reading-room, aud room* for the sittiug of the magistrates. A premium of 20/. will he given for the most approved design, and 10/. for the next liest (the 20/. not to be paid for the most approved plan, if the person draw- ing that plan should be employed as architect in the erection of thehiiildingsl. The drawings and estim.xtes rau-t he delivered at tlic Office of Mr. GORDON, Solicitor, Bridgnorth, the Secretary, on or before TEN o’clock a.m. on SATURDAY, the 3rd day i-f FEBRUARY next, from wliom apian aud seoti>.n of the intended Bite may he obtained, together with any particulars that may be reiulrcd upon payment of five shillings.

A LL Persons desirous of furnishing' Proposals

.n. forll EATING the" BRDEN TESTIMONIAL CHURCH.”

CONTRACTS.

Estimates wanted. — Stirling

PUUR-UOUSE. — The Parochial Board of tlie Psriih of tlirliug liaviDg resolved to ercetaPOOR-IlOUsE, INFIR.MARY. and Asylum, according to plans and specifications thereof, pre- pared hy J, W. and J, Hay, of Liverpool. Architect', and ap- proved of by the Boa-d of Supervision, ESTIMATES for ilxe various departments of the proposed building ere required. These rnav either he given in. in oue otter for the whole, or by the diflerent offerers for their respective departments of the work. If e»tiinated for as awhole, then the prices for the difll-rent depart- ments must he separately stated. Plans and specifioations may be seen at the Council-room, Stirling, or at the Offices of Messrs. J. W. and J. HAY. Liverpool, on aud alter M<*NDAY, the 25th enrreut. A competent Surveyor has measured out the quantities, copies of which may be had at the Offices of Messrs. HAY, on pay- ment of five shillings. Sealed otters, marked “Tender fur Stirling Poor-house,” and O'ldressed P, O. MORIBON, Esq. Chairman of Board. Stirling, must be lodged ou orliefore theaith J.AN UaHY. 1855. The Board do not bind themselves to accept ll.e lowest estimate. P. Q. MORISON, Chairman.

BUrUng, December 19, 185i

TVTOTICE to BUILDERS.— The Commaiulhig

J. 1 Royal Entrinc.T of the Dover District hereby gives Notice that sealed TENDERS will he received at the Oninaiwe offloe Palltnall, London, on or before the l-llh day of JANUARY, IS-W. from Persons desirous of CONTRACTING with the Ilorvourable Board of drdnance for the folloAving WORKS at DOVER CASTLE, vii. FITTING UP the CLIFF CA-'^EMATES as R-ABRACK9. including the Construction of Ablution Rooms, Privies, and UrinaU, and the Improvement of the Ventilation Shafts. Plans aud specifications of the works may !>• seen, and forms of Tender obtained, at Die Rovat Engineer Office. Dover, between the hours of TI-'N aud FOllR o’clock, from the 28th DECEMBER. 1R.5I, to th» 13lh JANUARY, 1853. Snndavs ex- cepted. Tbeparty whose Tender may be accepted for the work' tvll! he required to enter into a bond, with two eligible securities, jointly and pcparatcly, to be bound under o penalty of l.flOO/, for the due performance of the contract. Tenders for the above works to be addrepsed to the ’’ Secretary to the Board of Drdnance. Ordnance Office, Pall-mall, London,” aud eudorsed •’ Tender for Works at Dover Ca'tlc.”

N.ll. The Board of Ordnance reserve to (hcmselves the rkht of Ajectinc the whole oraiiy of the Teadent.

TO BUILDERS.

QEAJjED TENDEHS for BUILDING

kj BARKAfKs and STABLES for Kojail Artillery, to be ereclcd at Devouport : with separate Tender* for the Asphalte ork. will be received nt the Ordnance Office. Pall-mall, London, on or before MONDAY', the 8th JANUARY nc-Xt. at Noon addrc.wed to the Scoretarv to the Board of Ordnance, and endorsed “Tender for Artillery Barracks, Devonport,” on the left-hand corner of the envelope. The Royal Artillery Barrncki comprise a building containing sis officers’ quarter* and servants’ rooms ; a range of stables with harness-room*, artillcrj-.stores. ablution- rooms, with lutemai staircases, and soldiers’ rooms over the wliolc range; infirmary statics and yard ; forage-barn for hay. straw, and com ; forge, slioeiug-ahed, pharmacy, aud cooking-house ; guard-house aud cells ; orderly-rooui and workshops ; privies, dung aud ash pits ; enclosure-walls, pstes, side-door*, roads, parades, drama.— Plaus. terms, aud condition.s. with specifications, and addeuda thereto, mar be seen, forms of Tender and all neces- sary informntiou obtained, at t'lc Royal Engineer Office, Devon- port, between the hours of NINE ‘and FnUR o’clock, from TUESDAY, the lllih iust. to S.ATURDAY, the Olh of JANUARY next. Sundays and Ghristmas-day excepted.

Royal Engineer Office. Devonport. I3tli Dee. 18.54.

TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS.

EALED TENDERS for the following

SERVICES at Bull Point, viz.

1. jjuiiiiiiiK Cottages fora Foreman aud Sixteen Labourers ;

2. Building a Cook-house aud Wash-house for the Crews of the

two Powder Vessels, with Privy aud Urinal ;

3. Building au Office for the Ordnance Storekeeper ;

4 Building a Oiill Watch-house and a Shed for Waggons ;

5. Building a Warder’s Lodge aud a Shoe-house :

0. Biiildingm Engine-house;

7. Building a Boat-house ;

8. Rtmovinc (he pre-cut Wooden Filling and Examining-house

at Kevhain to Bull Point ;

For SPECIFIC SUMS, will be received at the Ordnance OBice, Pall-mall. ILnndon. on or before the 27th of JANUARY, 1356. Detailed Bpeoiflciitions of the above eight scr.Mces. and every requisite information, may be, obtained af. the Royal Engineer Office. Bull Point, daily {.Sunday* excepted), he- tweeo tlie houru of TEN aud FOUR o'clock, from the ath J ANUAUY' next to the ‘J5th JANUARY, both days inclusive.

RoyalEneinterOffices, Devonport. ISth December, 1854

TO BUILDERS.

RENDERS will be received by the Iloiiourablo

Ordnance, at their Office. Pall-mall. L mdon, ou MONDAY', the 8lh of JANUARY, 185.5. from such persons as may he w-illing to undertake the ERECTION of a GUN aud (.AKRIAGE SII ED.at Hilsea Barrac'ss, in the county of Houts. The plans, specifications, aud condiHnus of contract for the abnvc works may he Fcen. nnd every inforraalton obtained, on aprdica- tiouto Mr. KIRTON. Clerk of IV ork*. after the 28th iiist. at this Office, between the hours of TEN and FOUR ca-li day (Sundays excepted). Tenders to be endorsed *' Tender for the Erection of a Gun aud Carnage Shed, at Hilsea Barracks, ciuntv of Hants.” Royal Lngmeer Orrice, PorUmoutli. S-lud Dec. 185 1.

TO RUILDEKH.

r;j.LOUCESTEIlSHIIlE FREEHOLD

VJ LAND aud HOUSE SOCIETY.— The Kxecutiv* Com- mittee are prci.ared to receive TENDERS for ERECTING and completely finishing a block of EIGHT COTTAGES, upon the PaiDswick-road estate, near Gloucester. Also for Two Pairs of Semi- defaohed Cottages on the same estate. Drawings aud specifications of the above, together with the couditioiis of contract, and form or Tender, may be feoii at the olhcesof the Surveyors, Mcs.srs RIE1>- LAM> and MABERLY, ClarCTcc-street, Uloucesier, on and after WEDNESD.AY, JANUARY 3rd, 385.5. Tcuders. according to form, are to be .tent in to the Purveyors’ Offices, addrp«-cd to the Committee, on or before FOUR o'clock p.m. on MONDAY. JANU.AllV 15th. 1855. The works m IV be Tendered for iu three separate estimates. By order of the Committee.

. L , T JAMES Dawes, Seeretarj-.

e, King-strcct, Dec. 29. 1851.

'T'O NURSERYMEN, GARDENERS, and

A OTHERS.— Pi-riions desirous of giving in TENDERS for the FORMING. MAKING, and CO .rPL^TING the WALKS and CARRIAGE DRIVES, aud for the LEVELLING. DRAI.V.

ground f r the DONCASTER CEMETERY (about seven seres nnd a half), mav see the plan and specification, at Mr. ALEX YNDER’S Office, in Saint George's. gate, I/oncaster, from MOND.AY, the 8th, to JIONDAY. the 15th day of JANU.ARY, 18.55. The Temiers, endorsed “Tender for making the Roads and Walk*, and for T.evelling. Draining, aud 1 lautiiig the Doncaster Cemetery Ground.” to be addressed under of'iJ AN UARY *1855° Commissioners, on or before the 20th day

\yiNDSOR UNION.— To SURITIYORS

\ '^I|, VALUERS.-Tbe Board of Guardians of tlio

Windsor Untou will be re.ady ,it llicir .Ylottine. to be held at t'.o BUARD-RiidM of the said Union, situate at Old Wiiid-or Berks, at half.past TEN o’clock iu the forenoon of TUESDAY, the nth day of JANUARY next, to receive TENDERS from R’ld VALUATION of tho n LAND3. and other HEREDITAMENTS liable to

POOK-R.ATES id th« palish of Egliam, Surrey, rccovding to their annual value. _ fho form of coiitrauts for the due p.rformBncc of the work (which the person wh.o^e Tender may be accented will be required to execute), may be seen nt my Office, at Wiiid-ow, until the day of meeting, and at the II •.ird-rooin on that day. The parish coiitairiH upwards of 7,4M acres, aiiJ [the population is tthnut 4600. riie Board of Guardians do nut pledge themselves to accept the lowest or oiiv other Temler.

GRGKGB HENRY LONG. Clerkof tho Union.

VV imlstr, 2t>th December. 18.5t.

TO RU1LPF,U3 AND OTHERP

CONTRACT required to FINISH FOUR

tVt. CARCASES, with additions, ''n the neighbourhood of further particulars, apply to Mr. CHAPl'l.LL, AuctloneBr. Ac. 3. <'ity-terraee. Cilyrosd.

■VrOTICE.— The BURIAL BOARD fur

-Uv the PARISH of PORTSE.Y are prepared io rci-eive TENDERS for DRAINING the new BURIAL GROUND, and for Forming the ROADS, paths. &o. Theplausand Bpiciti- cations, may br seen at Ihe Uflice of .Mr. C. B. SMITH. Siirvevor Huewi-slrec'. Purlsea. on aud after Fliin.iY'. the Dflth instiint, of whom further particulars may lie ubtaiiivd. Teiideis, sealed and en-hw cd.“ Jhirinl-gimiivl Tender ” to be sent

ofJANU.ARY nest I lit Board do not bind tiiemscivcs tuaocci t

the lowest ur auy TEN DER.-By order of the Board.

19, 9t- George’s square, P. rtsea, December 23!Ve*i4'’^*^’ *''*'*'’

a every dav oi tho

TO SCAY'ENGRRA

Manor of Southwark ■ or clink

LIBERTY.- Notice is hereby given. tl..at the Coiniuis- sioners of Pavements of tlic Clink Liberty, iu the parish i.i St baviour, houthw irk, will hold a General Me-tine at their I'.o,,; mittcc-room. l.mcrsoii-street, Soutiiwark on WEDNE.-'DW h... 37th day of JANUARY' iii.d, nt SIX o’clock in the eveii’iiiV- n' CLEANSING thcBTREEt'-. ‘".‘A f CLLIt 1 .Y'sAOLS, ainl other pliiccs 'except Uniou-strcio withm the said Liberty, on three alternate ■' ■'-« lo nnd Uoioii-strcet. within the said Lil'crty week icxoei.t Sunday), under o-mtract for thre the 29th day of JANUARY' iust. witli power f.ir toe Cominin” aioners to determine the same at the end of the first or scci,u-I year at their optiou. Tlie person confractiug U cutitled to all tin- dust and “ske*. as provi.lcd by the Act of P.arliaineut of .-.-nd Gerrgo tlie Thirl. Tlie dr.incht contract may he seen by applviug at .nic ofiicc of Mr HOWE, burveyor, /o. hi. Kep^I.rre ^*! Bridge street. Soutliiyarlc, or at Ihe office of tlie Clerk, at whic'i places all nccesoury lofurmatl m may be obtained. Tli- pvrtun wishing to contract will have to execute a contract in n'-cnnl-oce with such draught contract, and he .and two mretiea will als i I -- required to execute a bond ijolnt and *everall in the penal sum uf am/, conditioued for the performance of siicii coiitrrict. -\U persons de'imus of c.intracling, must send Proposals sc Red i:p and endorsed • Scavengers’ Coueract,” addressed to the Commis- sioaers, and to be delivered nt the Commitlee-room Emersou- Btreet. by pv before SI.X o’clock iuthceveuiug of the saracd.av.

Proposals noininafe two responsible person-, js lh» m’ist l-c iu attendam- • r,t

the CommitieoHooin. at holf-pnst PlX.wlicu the lenders will he opened. 1 he contracter will be required to p.av fiir the staroT.s of such coutrset and bond. The Cummi-Bioners do not bind tli--m selves to .accept the lowest or auy other teudcr.-Daied this flr-t cay of January, 1*55.— By order of the Corouii-sioncrs

GEtJKGE HULMER, Clerk, 2'5. Bridte-treet. SonthwnrV,

CAINT PxVNCRAS BURIAL BOARD —

^ to ROAD C iNTRACTOUS and oTH RHS.-Tlie Buri-1 Board oflhe above parish are d-sirous of CoN riMt’TINil f.ir Of OARSE SCREENED

^ -Making, to he delivered as may he directed

on the rr ads of the Cemetery ci the said pari&Ii, at Fiuchlev. at per .\ard. Each person tendering, to send in as a specimen <.n- load to the Cemetery, before YIGN0AY. the l,5-!i instant. H the material he intends to snpply, for wliich he will be paid at such price as the tender selected sliaU specify. Tenders S'-nJcI to he “t Ihe Vc-'r..

hall, did St. Fa'ier.is-ro.ad. before TWii o’clock iu t'lc afterno ,n of MUNDAY. tiie 2i'Qd JANUARY Insf. at whioli time th' Board will meet to n>-*ko their dcciaion. The Board will not be hound to accept the lowest, or auy of the tenders, xinlesi satU- fled therewith.

By Order of the Boa-d.

Biin.l limrd o/»„, 81. P.ncr.,'

Old St. I'nnor.as-road. Jan. 1, 1855.

pRYSTAL ILVLACE DECOHATIVB

I^INTING.-Meusrs. liEENsE.V aul ?i A,, , Decorators to his Majesty the Kin.T of

Hanover, and executors of tlie B.izantino Court, Ac, Crystal Faidce, Sydeiiliara, most resp. clfullv beg to invite thei.ob'litr nui gentry to tlu-ir NEW-ARRANGED Slli>\V-Kd<'MS. with various specimens of interior decorations for ohurcUvs, private and public buildings.— Apply at. 53. I'all-mail, from Nme till Five 0 clock, bhow fiooma, urmmd-iloor.

TilFOETANT NOTICE to ARCHITECTS,

i BUILDERS, audOTllERS.-CHARI-ES KoSoTTI, I.ook- iug-gIa.s,H Manufacturer. Interior Decomtor. aud General IL.ii o lurui.-her, be;<s mo.'t respectfully to inform the above, that, Irotn the extent oI his trade, lie is eauldcd to ofl'er pecuniary atlvun- tages both la quality aud price. Designs inaiie or carried out m anyexteut. Au exteusivo ass, rtment always on hand. E-tiina'cN free of charge.— Plate-glass for glazing purposes, at 393 and 393. Usford-Btreet. '

THE BUILDER.

THE PATENT GALVANIZED IRON.

TUPPER AND CARR’S PATENT GALVANIZED IRON IS THE ONLY ARTICLE

that has stood tile test of time.

Several Roofs in JJoolwicA and Deptford Doclpards, er sated in 18-13, are as perfect as on the dap they were pul np.

^'^Th'e PATENT GALVANIZED IRON la to be bod ONLY of TCPPEU and CABU, the Manufacturers and Patentees, at their Warehouses »ud Works,— TfMSIT^n-^T

3. Mansion Hotiso-place, and Lirnebouse LUN UDM.

Nob, 6 and 10, Berklov-sireet BIBMINGHAM,

Where also are kept iu Stock COMMON. BEST, and ClIAHCOAL (Black) SHEETS. OAS-TUBING. and TIN-PLATES.

^ IKON ROOFING FIXED IN TOWN OR COUNTRY.

Jron-platc icorkiny in all Us branches; also Smith’s Ih'ork and Castiuys.

Pull particulars. Lists of Prices, I)ra*ini», Estimates, ic, can be obtained at TUPPER and CARR’S L NDON OFFICE.

3, MANSION HOUSE-PLACE, CITY,

Where it is retjuested all Letters may be addressed.

N,B.-AN ALLOWANCE TO THE TRADE.

STEVENS AND SON,

ENGINEERS,

lEON AND BRASS TOUNDEES AND MANDTACTDBEBS i

CONTRACTORS

ERECTION OR ALTER.VTION OF GAS-WORKS FROM TWENTY LIGHTS UPW'ARDS,

with BiilldlnRi. Maine. Meien, Bcrvice-Pipea, Lorap-Poets. Lampi, and GasfiMlRga

-WATERWORKS EOR THE SUPPLY OE TOWNS,

WITH BUILDINGS, STEAM-ENGINES, PUMPS, MAINS, SERVICES, &o,

* • ® (jaa Cooking Bloees and Ruugos on the most luiproteu pnnoipics.

GAS-FITTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES,

GA« CHANDELIERS OF ALL OR TO TWO HUNDRED LIGHTS.

IMPROVED REGISTERING TURNSTIT.ES FOR TOLL-BRIDGES, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC GARDENS, BATHS AND WASHHOUSES, &c.

These TumstiUs hare been lelected for tlie Entrances of the Great Exhibition, New York.

PATBNTEHS OF THE SEMAPHORE RAILWAY SIGNAL.

Sto.l.for communlcOoD b.»«o Ou.ra .nd Drlv.t. Ml,., ''''7;!“"'“^

DARLINGTON WORKS, 16 to 19. SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON^

■ATENT. GALVANIZED IRON.

(IMPROVED PROCESS.) o'OBN SYMONDS and CO.

WORKS.— GU.S8.HOUBE YARD, opposite the principal Entrance V> the London Doolcs.

GALVANIZED SHEET-IRON aud WIRE of every description, in-vier in all rospo^ to that produced by any other process,’ JHE TODGHNEBS-AND MALLEABILITY of the Iron being

preserved.

Estimates irivan for IRON ROOFS. Cornii?atcd Sheds. Houses, Telegraph-Wire, Submarine Cables. WIRE-ROPB, Fencing. &o.

Koofs fixed complete-

UPPER aiitl CARP, Contractors aud

MamifaotiiTcrs of all sorts of IRON HOOFING.

PLAIN, COBRDOATED, PAINTED, or GALVANIZED. Estimates and Dranlogs furnished on application. Experienced Workmen sent to all- parts of the Country. M-ANsluN-HODSE PL.ACE, and, LIMEHUUSE. LONDON;

PEUKHEY-iSTREgr. BlRMflNOHAM.

Builders, Contractors, Carpenters, and

otlieia are invited to inspeot the stock of NAILS. TOOLS, BRASS. AND GENERAL IRONMONGERY at PFEIL and STEDALL’S,

Nos. 8 and 6, BUOAD-STREET. BLOOMSBURY. Theprioes will be found the lowest, and the stock one of the largest in the trade, A price list sent on application.

ALVANIZING WORKS. — SKATEE’S

PATENT GALVANIZED IRON (Superior Process),— - ■■ ' Commercial-road, Limehouse,

PATERSON’S PATENT GAS COOKING APPARATUS.

Maybe seen by applying to the i’alenlce.

A. PATERSON,

53, VICTORIA-STREET,

WESTMINSTER,

Otwhom LICENSES may be had for makioB them.

On reference to the plate, it will be seen that Toasting can he earned on 1 the open fire, if reijuircd ; thereby rei dcTing this apparatus tlie musi. cun

tact aud etlicieut of auy that has j' eeu brought out.

THEY ARE WANUFACTCllED BY

T, W'ALLER and CO.

W orks at the B^ent’s-oanal-hasin. Commsrolal-r Loudun.— J. SKAIPE supplies this Metal in Bliects, plain and corrugated, of all sires and gauges ;

- -ery gauge, oiid WiM Netting^of all_ descriji_tii‘"«- <•'

•e of

Rain-water, Screwed Gas and ^at-- ,..r — . ----r ■■ i-pana, Hatlis, Buckets. &c. wholesale, retail, aui. .u.

1,.. ., Jusoription of Ship's Ironwork GalvanUed: Drek-spikea, nails, fta kept ready Gulvauited. Estimates and drawings given for roofs and buildings fixed complete.— J. SKAIPE is also Agent for Morewood and Rogers’s Patent Galvanized Tinned Iron, both flat and corrugated ; also for Morewood and Rogers’s Patent Gal- viiiiized Tinned Iron Tiles, fur exportation ; and Plumbin Zinc. Portable