Pipes to be habitants. Strength and Material to be approved of by the Undertakers, or, in case of Dispute, to be settled in England or Ireland by laid by the InTwo Justices, and in Scotland by the Sheriff, or in either Case by the Inspector to be appointed as aforesaid: Provided always, that every such Owner or Occupier shall, before he begins to lay any such Pipe, give to the Undertakers Fourteen Days Notice of his Intention to do so. tion with the XLIX. Before any Pipe is made to communicate with the Communica Pipes of the Undertakers, the Person intending to lay such Pipe Pipes of the shall give Two Days Notice to the Undertakers of the Day and Undertakers Hour when such Pipe is intended to be made to communicate to be made with the Pipes of the Undertakers; and every such Pipe shall under the Superintendence be so made to communicate under the Superintendence and of their Suraccording to the Directions of the Surveyor or other Officer veyor. appointed for that Purpose by the Undertakers, unless such Surveyor or Officer fail to attend at the Time mentioned in the said Notice; and in case of any Dispute as to the Manner in As to the which such Pipe shall be so made to communicate, it shall in settling of Disputes. England or Ireland be settled by Two Justices, and in Scotland by the Sheriff, or in either Case by the Inspector to be appointed as aforesaid. L. The Bore of any such Pipe as last aforesaid shall not Bore of Service exceed the prescribed Limits, and where no Limit shall be Pipes. prescribed it shall not exceed Half an Inch, except with the Consent of the Undertakers. LI. Any Person who shall have laid down any Pipe or other Service Pipes Works, or who shall have become the Proprietor thereof, may after giving may be removed remove the same, after having first given Six Days Notice in Notice of the Writing to the Undertakers of his Intention so to do, and of same. the Time of such proposed Removal, and every such Person shall make Compensation to the Undertakers for any Injury or Damage to their Pipes or Works which may be caused by such Removal; and every Person who shall remove any such Pipe Penalty on or other Works without giving such Notice as aforesaid shall removing Pipes forfeit to the Undertakers a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds, over and above the Damage which he may be found liable to pay in any Action at Law, at the Suit of the Undertakers, for the Damage done to their Pipes or Works. without Notice. break up Pave LII. Any such Owner or Occupier may open or break up so Power to Inmuch of the Pavement of any Street as shall be between the habitants to Pipe of the Undertakers, and his House, Building, or Premises, ments, giving and any Sewer or Drain therein, for any such Purpose as afore- Notice of the said, doing as little Damage as may be, and making Compensa- same. tion for any Damage done in the Execution of any such Work: Provided always, that every such Owner or Occupier desiring to break up the Pavement of any Street, or any Sewer or Drain therein, shall be subject to the same Necessity of giving previous Notice, and shall be subject to the same Control, Restriction, and Obligations in and during the Time of breaking up the same, and also reinstating the same, and to the same Penalties for any Delay in regard thereto, as the Undertakers are subject to by virtue of this or the special Act. LIII. Every Owners or Occupiers enti tled to demand a Supply of Water for do mestic Pur poses. Protection of Persons using the Water to provide Cisterns and Cocks. Penalty for Penalty for suffering Cistern, &c. to be out of repair. Undertakers may repair Cisterns, &c, LIII. Every Owner and Occupier of any Dwelling House or Part of a Dwelling House within the Limits of the special Act shall, when he has laid such Communication Pipes as aforesaid, and paid or tendered the Water Rate payable in respect thereof, according to the Provisions of this and the special Act, be entitled to demand and receive from the Undertakers a sufficient Supply of Water for his domestic Purposes. And with respect to Waste or Misuse of the Water supplied by the Undertakers, be it enacted as follows: LIV. If by the special Act it be provided that the Water to be supplied by the Undertakers need not be constantly laid on under Pressure, every Person supplied with Water shall, when required by the Undertakers, provide a proper Cistern to hold the Water with which he shall be so supplied with a Ball and Stop Cock in the Pipe bringing the Water from the Works of the Undertakers to such Cistern, and shall keep such Cistern, Ball and Stop Cock, in good Repair, so as effectually to prevent the Water from running to waste; and in case any such Person shall, when required by the Undertakers, neglect to provide such Cistern, Ball or Stop Cock, or to keep the same in good Repair, the Undertakers may cut off the Pipe or turn off the Water from the Premises of such Person until such Cistern and Ball and Stop Cock shall be provided or repaired, as the Case may require. LV. Every Person supplied with Water by the Undertakers who shall suffer any such Cistern, Pipe, Ball or Stop Cock to be out of repair, so that the Water supplied to him by the Undertakers shall be wasted, shall forfeit to the Undertakers for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds. LVI. The Undertakers may repair any such Cistern, Pipe, Ball or Stop Cock, so as to prevent any such Waste of Water, and recover the and the Expences of such Repair shall be repaid to them by the Person so allowing the same to be out of repair, and may be received as Damages. Expences. Power to Sur veyor employed by Undertakers to enter Houses to inspect, &c. Penalty for allowing Per sons to use the Undertakers Water. LVII. The Surveyor, or any other Person acting under the Authority of the Undertakers, may, between the Hours of Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon and Four of the Clock in the Afternoon, enter into any House or Premises supplied with Water by virtue of this or the special Act in order to examine if there be any Waste or Misuse of such Water; and if such Surveyor or other Person at any such Time be refused Admittance into such Dwelling House or Premises for the Purpose aforesaid, or be prevented from making such Examination as aforesaid, the Undertakers may turn off the Water supplied by them from such House or other Premises. LVIII. Every Owner or Occupier of any Tenement supplied with Water under this or the special Act who shall supply to any other Person or wilfully permit him to take any such Water from any Cistern or Pipe in such Tenement, unless for the Purpose of extinguishing any Fire, or unless he be a Person supplied with Water by the Undertakers, and the Pipes belonging to to him be, without his Default, out of repair, shall forfeit to the Undertakers for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds. Protection of dertakers Water LIX. Every Person who, not having agreed to be supplied Penalty for with Water by the Undertakers, shall take any Water from taking the Unany Reservoir, Watercourse, or Conduit belonging to the Un- without Agreedertakers, or any Pipe leading to any such Reservoir, Water- ment. course, or Conduit, or from any Cistern or other like Place containing Water belonging to the Undertakers, other than such as may have been provided for the gratuitous Use of the Public, shall forfeit to the Undertakers for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds. Valves, &c. LX. Every Person who shall wilfully or carelessly break, Penalty for injure, or open any Lock, Cock, Valve, Pipe, Work, or Engine destroying belonging to the Undertakers, or shall flush or draw off the Water from the Reservoirs or other Works of the Undertakers, or shall do any other wilful Act whereby such Water shall be wasted, shall forfeit to the Undertakers for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds. And with respect to the Provision for guarding against fouling the Water of the Undertakers, be it enacted as follows: LXI. Every Person who shall commit any of the Offences next herein-after enumerated shall for every such Offence forfeit to the Undertakers a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds; (that is to say,) Every Person who shall bathe in any Stream, Reservoir, And every such Person shall forfeit a further Sum of Twenty Fouling the Penalties for causing the Undertakers to Water of the be fouled, &c. Substances pro LXII. Every Person making or supplying Gas within the Penalty for Limits of the special Act who shall at any Time cause or suffer permitting to be brought or to flow into any Stream, Reservoir, Aque- duced in makduct, or Waterworks belonging to the Undertakers, or into any ing Gas to flow Drain communicating therewith, any Washing or other Sub- into the Understance which shall be produced in making or supplying Gas, or who takers Works. Fouling the Penalty to be sued for within Six Months. Daily Penalty during the Continuance of the Offence. Penalty on Gas Water to be fouled. Power to exa to ascertain Cause of Water being fouled. who shall wilfully do any Act connected with the making or supplying of Gas whereby the Water in any such Stream, Reservoir, Aqueduct, or Waterworks shall be fouled, shall forfeit to the Undertakers for every such Offence the Sum of Two hundred Pounds; and such Penalty shall be recovered, with full Costs of Suit, in any of the Superior Courts; but such Penalty shall not be recoverable unless it be sued for during the Continuance of the Offence, or within Six Months after it has ceased. LXIII. In addition to the said Penalty of Two hundred Pounds, and whether such Penalty have been recovered or not, the Person making or supplying Gas as aforesaid shall forfeit to the Undertakers the Sum of Twenty Pounds, to be recovered in like Manner for each Day during which such Washing or Substance shall be brought or shall flow as aforesaid, or during which the Act shall continue by which such Water is fouled, after the Expiration in either Case of Twenty-four Hours from the Time when Notice of the Offence has been served on such Person by the Undertakers. LXIV. Whenever the Water supplied by the Undertakers shall be fouled by the Gas of any Person making or supplying Gas within the Limits of the special Act, such Person shall forfeit to the Undertakers for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, and a further Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds for each Day during which the Offence shall continue after the Expiration of Twenty-four Hours from the Service of Notice of such Offence. LXV. For the Purpose of ascertaining whether the Water mine Gas Pipes, of the Undertakers be fouled by the Gas of any Person making or supplying Gas within the Limits of the special Act, the Undertakers may dig up the Ground, and examine the Pipes, Conduits, and Works of the Persons making or supplying Gas; provided that before proceeding so to dig and examine the Undertakers shall give Twenty-four Hours Notice in Writing to the Person so making or supplying Gas of the Time at which such digging and Examination is intended to take place, and they shall give the like Notice to the Persons having the Control or Management of the Pavements or Place where such digging shall take place, and they shall be subject to the like Obligation of reinstating the Road and Pavement, and to the same Penalties for Delay, or any Nonfeasance or Misfeasance, therein as herein-before provided with respect to Roads and Pavements broken up by them for laying their Pipes. The Expences to abide the Result of the LXVI. If upon such Examination it appear that such Water has been fouled by any Gas belonging to such Person, the Expences of the digging, Examination, and the Repair of Street or Place disturbed in any such Examination shall be paid by the Person making or supplying Gas; but if upon such Examination it appear that the Water has not been fouled by the Gas of such Person, then the Undertakers shall pay all the Expences of the Examination and Repair, and also make good to to the said Person any Injury which may be occasioned to his Works by such Examination. Fouling the LXVII. The Amount of the Expences of every such Exa- How Expence mination and Repair, and any Injury done to the Undertakers, to be ascershall, in case of any Dispute about the same, together with the tained. Costs of ascertaining and recovering the same, be ascertained and recovered in the same Manner as Damages for the ascertaining and Recovery whereof no special Provision is made aro directed to be ascertained and recovered. And with respect to the Payment and Recovery of the Water Rates, be it enacted as follows: Water Rates. Rates to be payable according to the annual Value of LXVIII. The Water Rates, except as herein-after and in the special Act mentioned, shall be paid by and be recoverable from the Person requiring, receiving, or using the Supply of Water, and shall be payable according to the annual Value of the Premises. the Tenement supplied with Water, and if any Dispute arise as to such Value the same shall be determined by Two Justices. plied by One LXIX. When several Houses or Parts of Houses in the Where several separate Occupation of several Persons are supplied by one Houses supcommon Pipe, the several Owners or Occupiers of such Houses Pipe, each to or Parts of Houses shall be liable to the Payment of the same pay. Rates for the Supply of Water as they would have been liable to if each of such several Houses or Parts of Houses had been supplied with Water from the Works of the Undertakers by a separate Pipe. LXX. The Rates shall be paid in advance by equal quar- Rates to be terly Payments, in England or Ireland, at Christmas Day, Lady paid quarterly. Day, Midsummer Day, and Michaelmas Day, and in Scotland at Martinmas, Candlemas, Whitsuntide, and Lammas, and the first Payment shall be made at the Time when the Pipe by which the Water is supplied is made to communicate with the Pipes of the Undertakers, or at the Time when the Agreement to take Water from the Undertakers is made. continue Use LXXI. The Occupier of any Dwelling House or Part of a Parties giving Dwelling House liable to the Payment of any Water Rate who Notice to disshall give Notice of his Intention to discontinue the Use of the of Water, or Water supplied by the Undertakers, or who shall remove from removing, to his Dwelling between any Two quarterly Days of Payment, pay to the next shall pay the Water Rate in respect of such Dwelling House or Part of a Dwelling House for the Quarter ending on the quarterly Day of Payment next after his quitting the same or giving such Notice. Day. exceeding 101. LXXII. The Owners of all Dwelling Houses or Parts of Owners of Dwelling Houses occupied as separate Tenements, the annual Houses not Value of which Houses or Tenements shall not exceed the Sum Rent to be of Ten Pounds, shall be liable to the Payment of the Rates liable to Water instead of the Occupiers thereof; and the Powers and Provi- Rates. sions herein or in the special Act contained for the Recovery of Rates from Occupiers shall be construed to apply to the Owners of such Houses and Tenements; and the Person receiving the Rents of any such House or Tenement as aforesaid from |