ed by them, were empowered
to fix the price by agreement, with the respective proprietors, or
otherwise by a jury in the usual manner. With regard to party-walls, the
act ordains, that the proprietor of either adjoining house may compel
the proprietor of the other to agree to its being pulled down and
rebuilt, and pay a moiety of the expense even though it should not
be necessary to pull down or rebuild either of their houses: that all
party-walls shall be at least two bricks and a half in thickness in the
cellar, and two bricks thick upwards to the top of the garret-floor. It
enacts, that if any decayed house belongs to several proprietors,
any one of them, who is desirous to rebuild, may oblige the others to
concur, and join with him in the expense, or purchase their shares at a
price to be fixed by a jury. If any house should hereafter be presented
by any inquest or grand jury in London, as being in a ruinous condition,
the court of mayor and aldermen is, by this act, empowered to pull it
down at the expense of the ground landlords. As to damaged pavements,
not sufficiently repaired by the proprietors of the water-works, any
justice of the peace in London is vested with power, upon their refusing
or delaying to make it good, to cause it to be effectually relaid with
good materials at their expense.]

[Footnote 538: Note 4 I, p. 538. The following declaration made to the
chiefs of the opposition will render the memory of the late prince of
Wales dear to latest posterity:--

His royal highness has authorized lord T. and sir F. D. to give the most
positive assurances to the gentlemen in the opposition, of his upright
intentions; that he is thoroughly convinced of the distresses and
calamities that have befallen, and every day are more likely to befal
this country; and therefore invites all well wishers to this country and
its constitution to coalesce and unite with him, and upon the following
principle only.--

His royal highness promises, and will declare it openly, that it is his
intention totally to abolish any distinctions for the future of parties;
and as far as lies in his power, and as soon as it does lie in his
power, to take away for ever all proscription from any set of men
whatever who are friends to the constitution; and therefore will promote
for the present, and when it is in his power will immediately grant,--

First, A bill to empower all gentlemen to act as justices of the peace,
paying land-tax f