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Rules and directions prescribed and made for the pitching and levelling the streets and lanes of the city of London, and liberties, for the more easie and convenient current and conveyance away of the waters thereof; concluded and agreed on by the commissioners and surveyors hereunto authorized and appointed, viz..

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Corporate Author:	Corporation of London. Commissioners of Sewers
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[London] : Printed for N. Brooke, stationer, at the Angel in Gresham-Colledge, in the second court-yard leading from Bishopsgate street, 1667.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Drainage > England > Early works to 1800. Sanitary engineering > England > Early works to 1800. Sewerage > Law and legislation > England > London > Early works to 1800. Public works > Law and legislation > England > London > Early works to 1800. Broadsides > England > London > 17th century.
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