CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 414

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to the judgment of the Law Officers of the Crown, whether such appeal would have afforded

Such

me

- any redress in the premises?

are the absolute powers of the inprior Court in question -

the constetection of which you cannot have been informed of ohen

you

you caused it to be intimated to me that I should not have: "sclued" upon it.

Being altogether ignorant of the representations made to

• you regard.

- ing the substantial construction of the Building destroyed, I beg have with all respect to allege as follows.

Frist. The three tinements destroyed stood within

my own compound, dela chest from all other Buildings whatsoever, and all fire connection was thus cut off.

Lecondly. They

wer commenced and scared as high as the

feist say, at a time when there was no Building Ordinance ~

amongst

от

: our Local Laws and at a time when I had oro scale

Rind to guide

me.

-specification of any kind to

Yet, that in the absence of all control of law; I scared Buildings of a solid

and substantial construction, the following perallel will suffaintly she Scale of construction required by the Metropolitan Building Act 1855 for Houses of dimensions Corresponding tomy texencents destroyed. (See feist schedule of the Act. Table 2. Divium 8)

Metropolitan Specification_

Malls of upper Story of Second Story Basement Hory

to

8/1⁄2 inches

8/2

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