Town and Borough of Carnarvon - to wit:
We the undersigned Grand Jurors for the Town and Borough of Carnarvon in the County of Carnarvon and the Liberties and Precincts of the same beg leave respectfully to inform and represent to the Mayor Deputy Mayor and Bailiffs of the said Town and Borough that we have since the Court at which we were appointed and sworn for the present year had several Meetings and pursued many inquiries which formed the subject of the charge then delivered to us and relative to the state of the Town, Streets Courts Roads and other Public places therein, and we feel much pleasure in reporting that by the exertions made in pursuance of our former suggestions and also by our personal inspection and direction to the scavengers and the exertions of the Borough Officers that various minor nuisances have been abated and removed and the general appearance of the Town, Streets Courts and public places has been considerably improved But inasmuch as several others are in defiance of all remonstrances kept on and continued and inasmuch as our finding formal presentments in the nature of Indictments with order upon pain owing to that very antiquated mode of proceeding would in all probability lead to expensive difficult and protracted litigation we have thought it more conducive to general convenience and more likely to cause all nuisances which are at present a source of great disgrace to the Town and which owing to the rapid increase in number of inhabitants and the great influx of Visitors during the Summer Months, will if not timely abated present infectious diseases and cause strangers to abstain from making Carnarvon a place of summer resort, To be effectually removed and abated We beg leave to recommend that this more modern speedy and effectual proceedings by Indictment should be adopted; and we particularly beg leave to call the attention of the court to a considerable number of Pigsties Dunghills and obstructions which from time to time have been the subject of fruitless and unavailing representations and remonstrance at Tan y Bont now become one of the greatest thoroughfares in the Town, as well as to all other Pigsties Dunghills Obstructions and Nuisances which so greatly interfere with public health and comfort. We also in like manner beg leave to call the attention of the Court to the Malting and Candle Houses from which noxious and unhealthy vapours and stenches continually issue.
We also in like manner beg leave to call the attention of the Court to the very dangerous state of Segontium Terrace and the Path leading from thence on to the Pont Seiont Road, owing to the state of which not long since a Person fell over and lost his life.
We also in like manner beg leave to call the attention of the Court to a Pit near Crown Street that is from the putrid and stagnant Matter with which it is filled a very offensive nuisance.
And also to the present state of the Cadnant River from the Mill downwards which in consequence of the accumulation of Gravel in its Bed and other causes does not afford a free passage to the Water so that when there is a flood the road from Turf Square by Gardd yr Afon becomes impassable and several of the Houses contigious thereto become inundated.
We likewise beg leave to call the attention of the court and which we find has more than once before been done by our Predecessors to two Encroachments made on Morfa Seiont, one near the Mill and the other at Lledwigan Bach, for each of which we conceive an acknowledgement ought either to be extracted or proceedings taken against the Encroachers - And also to very numerous Acts of Trespass committed on Morfa Seiont and the adjacent Corporate Property by raising Houses cutting and carrying away sods and digging and making ditches for which we recommend that compensation be immediately insisted upon or that Proceedings be adopted against the Offenders.
We also with a view of continuing to the Corporation as heretofore the undoubted right and controul to and over all the soil and freehold of all the Public Streets within the Town beg leave to recommend that payment be insisted upon for all Cellars and other projections into or under any of the same not already paid for and in default of payment that such Cellars or projections be either filled up or removed or proceedings taken against the Parties who have dug or made the same.
We also most earnestly beg leave to call the serious attention of the Court and more especially of the Mayor as Constable of the Castle and Preserver of the Rights of his Majesty and the Public within the Borough to the present state of the Town Ditches upon which within the last few years several Houses and other Buildings have by different Individuals been erected and by which a manifest incroachment has been made on his Majesty's Rights and the Public Property within the Borough to the great disfigurement of the ancient walls of the Town and to the serious injury and inconvenience of the public at large and we beg leave respectfully to recommend that such steps as may be deemed most advisable may be pursued so as to investigate the assumed rights of Individuals now received thereon, and such as will have the most effectual tendency to restore to the public the full benefit and enjoyment of what was so wrongfully and recently been converted to private use.
We also beg leave to recommend to the Court that a public perambulation of the Town liberties should take place and an ocular Survey made thereof and deposited with the Muniments of the Town.
We also beg leave to state to the court that we have the making of a full and correct Rental of the Property of the Borough under our consideration But the various inquiries which we have found it necessary to institute have not at yet been brought to a close However we hope to be able to complete the same without much further delay Given under our Hands this Second day of January One thousand eight hundred and Thirty two
Wm Lloyd Roberts - Foreman
Thos Stanley
John Jones
William Parry
Richard Williams
William Foulkes
Wm. Titherton
John Russom
John Roberts
Jno Woodyatt
David Jones
J. Powell
L. C. Jones
Wm G. Thomas
Hugh Hughes
John Jones
The Gwynedd Archives Service Ref. is XD1/910
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Town and Borough of Carnarvon - to wit:
We the undersigned Grand Jurors for the Town and Borough of Carnarvon in the County of Carnarvon and the Liberties and Precincts of the same beg leave respectfully to inform and represent to the Mayor Deputy Mayor and Bailiffs of the said Town and Borough that we have since the Court at which we were appointed and sworn for the present year had several Meetings and pursued many inquiries which formed the subject of the charge then delivered to us and relative to the state of the Town, Streets Courts Roads and other Public places therein, and we feel much pleasure in reporting that by the exertions made in pursuance of our former suggestions and also by our personal inspection and direction to the scavengers and the exertions of the Borough Officers that various minor nuisances have been abated and removed and the general appearance of the Town, Streets Courts and public places has been considerably improved But inasmuch as several others are in defiance of all remonstrances kept on and continued and inasmuch as our finding formal presentments in the nature of Indictments with order upon pain owing to that very antiquated mode of proceeding would in all probability lead to expensive difficult and protracted litigation we have thought it more conducive to general convenience and more likely to cause all nuisances which are at present a source of great disgrace to the Town and which owing to the rapid increase in number of inhabitants and the great influx of Visitors during the Summer Months, will if not timely abated present infectious diseases and cause strangers to abstain from making Carnarvon a place of summer resort, To be effectually removed and abated We beg leave to recommend that this more modern speedy and effectual proceedings by Indictment should be adopted; and we particularly beg leave to call the attention of the court to a considerable number of Pigsties Dunghills and obstructions which from time to time have been the subject of fruitless and unavailing representations and remonstrance at Tan y Bont now become one of the greatest thoroughfares in the Town, as well as to all other Pigsties Dunghills Obstructions and Nuisances which so greatly interfere with public health and comfort. We also in like manner beg leave to call the attention of the Court to the Malting and Candle Houses from which noxious and unhealthy vapours and stenches continually issue.
We also in like manner beg leave to call the attention of the Court to the very dangerous state of Segontium Terrace and the Path leading from thence on to the Pont Seiont Road, owing to the state of which not long since a Person fell over and lost his life.
We also in like manner beg leave to call the attention of the Court to a Pit near Crown Street that is from the putrid and stagnant Matter with which it is filled a very offensive nuisance.
And also to the present state of the Cadnant River from the Mill downwards which in consequence of the accumulation of Gravel in its Bed and other causes does not afford a free passage to the Water so that when there is a flood the road from Turf Square by Gardd yr Afon becomes impassable and several of the Houses contigious thereto become inundated.
We likewise beg leave to call the attention of the court and which we find has more than once before been done by our Predecessors to two Encroachments made on Morfa Seiont, one near the Mill and the other at Lledwigan Bach, for each of which we conceive an acknowledgement ought either to be extracted or proceedings taken against the Encroachers - And also to very numerous Acts of Trespass committed on Morfa Seiont and the adjacent Corporate Property by raising Houses cutting and carrying away sods and digging and making ditches for which we recommend that compensation be immediately insisted upon or that Proceedings be adopted against the Offenders.
We also with a view of continuing to the Corporation as heretofore the undoubted right and controul to and over all the soil and freehold of all the Public Streets within the Town beg leave to recommend that payment be insisted upon for all Cellars and other projections into or under any of the same not already paid for and in default of payment that such Cellars or projections be either filled up or removed or proceedings taken against the Parties who have dug or made the same.
We also most earnestly beg leave to call the serious attention of the Court and more especially of the Mayor as Constable of the Castle and Preserver of the Rights of his Majesty and the Public within the Borough to the present state of the Town Ditches upon which within the last few years several Houses and other Buildings have by different Individuals been erected and by which a manifest incroachment has been made on his Majesty's Rights and the Public Property within the Borough to the great disfigurement of the ancient walls of the Town and to the serious injury and inconvenience of the public at large and we beg leave respectfully to recommend that such steps as may be deemed most advisable may be pursued so as to investigate the assumed rights of Individuals now received thereon, and such as will have the most effectual tendency to restore to the public the full benefit and enjoyment of what was so wrongfully and recently been converted to private use.
We also beg leave to recommend to the Court that a public perambulation of the Town liberties should take place and an ocular Survey made thereof and deposited with the Muniments of the Town.
We also beg leave to state to the court that we have the making of a full and correct Rental of the Property of the Borough under our consideration But the various inquiries which we have found it necessary to institute have not at yet been brought to a close However we hope to be able to complete the same without much further delay Given under our Hands this Second day of January One thousand eight hundred and Thirty two
Wm Lloyd Roberts - Foreman
Thos Stanley
John Jones
William Parry
Richard Williams
William Foulkes
Wm. Titherton
John Russom
John Roberts
Jno Woodyatt
David Jones
J. Powell
L. C. Jones
Wm G. Thomas
Hugh Hughes
John Jones