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Gap. jS. Every owner of any building within the limits 

 of this aft, who may think it necefTary to repair or rebuild 

 the party wall between his and the adjoining premifes, is to 

 give three months notice in writing to the owner of the ad- 

 joining building, appointing a furvey to be made of the faid 

 wall, and naming two furveyors or able workmen on his 

 part, and requiring the other party alia to name two fur- 

 veyors to meet at an appointed place, to view and certify 

 the (late of the wall. But if the owner of the adjoining 

 premifes fliall negledl to appoint two furveyors on his pai t, 

 according to notice, tiien the two furveyors firft named, to- 

 gether with two other furveyors, to be named by the party 

 giving notice, may, within fix days after the time appoint- 

 ed in the notice, view the party wall, and certify in writing 

 under their hands to the court of mayor aud aldermen, or to 

 the jullices of the peace in their next quarter or general fef- 

 fions as the cafe may be, the condition of the party wall, 

 and whether the fame, or any part thereof, ought to be re- 

 paired or pulled down and rebuilt ; and, in cate the major 

 part of the furveyors appointed ihall not, within the fpace 

 of a month from the appointment, fign the certificate, then 

 it (liall be lawful for any one or more of the jullices of the 

 peace for London or Weftminllcr, or the county of Middle- 

 fex or Surry, as the cafe may be, to appoint one other fur- 

 veyor to be added to the furveyors before appointed, all or 

 the major part of whom are to meet, and view the party 

 wall ; and in cafe the major part of them (hall certify the wall 

 to be decayed or ruinous, and not fufBclcntly fccure from 

 fire, then, within three days from the making fuch certifi- 

 cate, a copy of it is to be delivered to the owner of the ad- 

 joining building, or affixed to the door if it is unoccupied, 

 and alfo filed with the clerk of the peace in the city, coun- 

 ty, or liberty, where fuch wall is fituate ; and the laft men- 

 tioned owners may appeal from the certificate to the next 

 general or quarter feffions, when the jullices are to fummon 

 before them one or more of the furveyors, and examine the 

 matter upon oath, and thereupon make fuch orders as they 

 thinkjull. 



Cap. 41. The perfon at whofe expence a party wall is 

 built, (hall be reimburfed by the owner of the adjoining pre- 

 mifes who makes ufe of the wall, a part of the expence in 

 the following proportion. If the adjoining building be of 

 the fame, or a fuperior clafs to the building belonging to 

 the perfon at whofe expence the party wall was conltrufted, 

 the owner of fuch adjoining building (hall pay one moiety of 

 the expence of fo much of the party wall as he (hall make 

 ufe of: but if the adjoining building be of an inferior 

 rate, the owner (hall pay a fum equal to a moiety of the ex- 

 pence of building a party wall, as required by the aft for 

 fuck clafs of building. 



Cap. 46. Door and window frames are to be fet in re- 

 veals and recelTes, at lead four inches from the front of the 

 building, except the door cafes of warehoufes. Cap. 48. 

 Every coping, cornice, fafcia, window dreffing, portico, 

 balcony, balluftrade, or other external decoration, or pro- 

 jeftion whatever, is required to be made externally of brick, 

 ftone, burnt clay, or artificial (lone, ftucco, lead, or iron, 

 except the cornices and drefllngs to (liop windows, or the 

 covered ways to any building. No water is to be fulFered 

 to drip next to any public way from the roof of any build- 

 ing, except from the roofs of porticos or other entrances, 

 but to be conveyed by metal pipes, or wooden trunks, or 

 brick or (lone funnels into drains or ri.'fervoir3. 



Cap. 49. No bow window or other projeftion (hall be 

 built next to any public llreet, fo as to extend beyond the 

 general line of the fronts of the houfes in the faid (Ireets, 

 except fuch projeftions as are necelTary for copings, cor- 



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nices, fafcias, door and window diedings, or tor open por- 

 ticos, (leps, or iron pallifadcs ; and alio, except (hop win- 

 dows, which are allowed in llrcets 30 feet wide or more, to 

 projcft ten inches from the line of building, and five inches 

 in Itrcets of lefs width. 



Cap. 53. No (lack of warehoufes (hjll contain more than 

 35 fquares of building on the ground plan, except fuch 

 warehoufes are divided by one or more party walls into di- 

 vifions of not more than 35 fq\iarcs each, and any commu- 

 nications made through the party walls arc to have door 

 cafes and fills of (lone, and iron doors. Stables are only to 

 contain 25 fquares in one divifion, with the fame regula- 

 tions. 



Cap. 55. If any building of the firft, fecond, third, or 

 fourth rates, (except the mns of court or charcery, the 

 royal exchange, companies halls, and except warehoufes 

 and dwelling houfes, let at a rack rent for not more than 2; 

 pounds by the year) (hall be converted uito two or more dwell- 

 ing houfes, wovk-lTiops, llables, or other bnildiPL's which 

 (hall be in diftinft tenures on the ground floor, tlieii each fuch 

 tenement fnall be confidered as a fcparate build:Lig, and be 

 divided by party walls. 



Cap. 5y. No iron, tin, copper, or otiier pipe or funnel 

 for conveying fmokc or lleam, is allowed to be n: front of- 

 any building next to a public ilreet, nor in the in!'i,le of any 

 building nearer than 14 mches, to any timber or utlier com- 

 bullible materia!. 



Cap. 62. The mayor and aldermen of the ctv nf Lon- 

 don, and the jullices uf the peace for the countv of jMiddle-- 

 ftx, Surry, the city of Weftmlnfter, and the liberty of the 

 tower of London, are empowered to appoint furveyors to 

 fee the rules and regulations of this aft properly complied 

 with : and cap. 63. before any building is begun to be ereft- 

 ed, the mafttr workman is bound to give 24 hours notice 

 thereof to the furveyor of the diftrift, in which the building 

 is, who is to attend and view the building, and enforce tht; 

 obfervance of the aft. The fees to be paid by the builder to 

 the furveyor are, for a building of the firil rate 3I. los., 

 and for an alteration or addition to the fame il. 153. ; for a 

 building of the fecond rate 3I. 3s., and for an alteration il. 

 103.; for the third rate 2I. los., and ll. js. ; and for the 

 fourth rate il. is., and i_5 (hillings. 



Building, Ship. See Ship. 



BUILT, in Sea Language, is an epithet applied to (hip?, 

 denoting their peculiar form and ilrufture, and difiinguilh- 

 ing fome from others of a different clafs or nation. Thut. 

 we ufe frigate-^K/'//, galley-^a;7/, &c. Englilh-Z-a://, French- 

 buUl, &c. 



BUILTH, or Buallt, in Geography, is a market town 

 of Brecknock(hire, Wales, finely fituated on the banks of ■ 

 the river Wye, over which there is a handfomc (lone bridge. . 

 According to fome antiquaries, here was the Roman (tation 

 which Ptolemy calls BuUeum Silurum. Several intrcnch- 

 ments are dill remaining in the vicinity of the town, and 

 fome Roman bricks, infcr^bed LEG: II. have been found: 

 here. The Chronicle of Caradoc relates, that the Danes, 

 in 893, who had been vanquKhed and hara(red by Alfred, 

 fled to this part of the country, and, among other devada- 

 tions, nearly demohdied the town of Buiitb. It was, how. 

 ever, again rebuilt and fortified with a ftrong cadle, and again 

 fuffercd a nearly fimilar fate, in 12 17, by Reynald de Brufe, . 

 who then broke off his alliance with Llewelyn ap Jorwerth, 

 and united with Henry III. In 1221 he was beficged in this 

 fortrefs by a party of WeKh lords ; but Henry, to whom he 

 had remained condant, came with an army and raifed the 

 fiege. About 1256, we find this fortrefs in the poilcffion of ; 

 Rhys Eychan, whom Llewelyn ap Gruffydd defeated and . 



forced 



