City of Cork (Improvement) Act 1777

Bricks not burned within 2 English statute miles from the Exchange,

penalty 101. by civil bill,

to prosecutor and workhouse.

XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no bricks shall be burned, or any clamp of bricks be set to be burned, within two miles English statute measure, to be computed from the exchange of the said city of Cork; and in case any person or persons shall burn or cause to be burned any bricks, or shall set on fire any clamp of bricks, or any clay shaped or tempered for bricks, within two miles English statute measure, to be computed as aforesaid, the person or persons so offending for every such offence shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds, to be recovered by civil bill at the assizes, to be held for the county of said city, by the first person that shall sue for the same; one moiety of the said sum of ten pounds to go to the governors of the workhouse of the city for the use of the said workhouse; and the other moiety of the said sum of ten pounds to go to the person so suing for the same.